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Freelancers Without Borders : The Dark Side
This Article Discusses Problems With Freelancing Platforms, Issues Created by Freelancers, Ethics and Value of The Freelancing Work
Freelancing on one hand promises and indeed provides great outcomes, as an outsourcing platform using online freelancing websites can help you solve difficult tasks at a reasonably affordable prices and timing, and of course there is the possibility of being able to hire talents and skills from all around the world. In this sense the freelancing platforms provide great merits. Yet, in this article, I will not talk about any of the merits rather I will focus on issues and problems, and list several freelancing jobs that I sincerely do not like.Academic Article Outsourcing: First of all, freelancing platforms let people create job postings that are perhaps not illegal, but could never be legal either; i.e. the gray zone tasks. One particular task group that makes me reflect is the outsourcing of academic articles. Basically, you could hire a Ph.D. from an underdeveloped country, and occasionally from developed ones as well, to write your academic articles. This way, you can climb the academic ladders without actually creating any academic outcome yourself. This is wrong in so many levels, yet there are so many requests in the freelancing platforms therefore I believe the fact that freelancing platforms are utilized to hire doctors to write your academic articles is a good example to highlight the academic issues.Ph.D. Thesis Outsourcing: Taking the gray-zone task of writing academic articles further, you could commission your whole Ph.D. thesis online. Freelancing systems make it easy to hide your motives and identity; as long as you could pay, you could get any service such as this one, which I think the possibility of having your Ph.D. thesis outsourced is not only not ethical but also illegal. By allowing people the ability to post such jobs, I would dare to say that the freelancing platforms are indeed providing a way for crime. But of course, any service which is non-moderated could be easily abused, yet, given their profits I must urge freelance platform owners to have a no gray-zone tasks policy. University Application Outsourcing: Continuing with the academy oriented issues; writing university applications is a tough task. Thus, there exists many freelancers who would write it for you; simply post your announcement and dozens will bid. This also shows the dark nature of veteran freelancers; as long as you give them money and as long as they know how to do it, there is literally nothing that could stop them; ethics will not stop them, laws will not stop them, the freelancing platform will not stop freelancers to undertake such tasks either; because each illegal task undertaken is more profitable; i.e. to post a NDA enabled job, you pay more.Buying Votes: Another gray-zone task (a task that looks illegal, but not necessary so due to the gaps in the law; but definitely not ethical), is the purchasing of votes, likes and scores. Basically, you can buy votes; Imagine you take part in a design competition open to public voting. Buy 10.000 votes, and you could be the best designer (also this explains why I am against public-voting design competitions). The price is affordable. Do you need to show off with twitter fans? Buy fans. Need Facebook likes? Buy likes. Most of the gray-zone tasks offered require freelancers to sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreements), so nobody will know that you did so. The reason I mention the vote-buying is because it is indeed a very common practice, with so many vendors offering the service through the freelancing platforms.Outsourcing Books: This is a case where you would hire a ghostwriter; i.e. someone, more likely to be an underpaid freelancer will write a book for you, and you will publish it under own name without any attribution or thanks to the freelancer, afterwards you will be attending parties as a proud writer, enjoying drinks and discuss your latest successful book. Well, this is indeed a common practice in the book industry but still, it feels wrong to me, especially when you outsource the whole book writing without any attention or involvement in the matter. There are many freelancers to whom you can outsource books, or at least book chapters, however the problem mainly is for academic book outsourcing; because for some fiction, it is not an issue to hire a ghostwriter; you input your thoughts, and ask someone to fill in the gaps. When you outsource academic writing, someone else is doing the whole job for you; and you would gain academic credits for the publication, and you would not make the research required to write the book so it defeats the purpose of academic writing.Outsourcing Your Own Job: You have perhaps read it in the news , a guy was getting paid 300 k per year, and he outsourced all his job to an Indian company for 85k. He was caught thanks to his unusual workplace behavior; checking funny videos of cats and dogs the whole day without doing anything useful to the company. With so many freelancing platforms available you too can do the same, and hope to get fired one day. The only thing you get / improve by outsourcing your own job, is outsourcing jobs. If you are a manager, that is a great skill, however if you are a worker, you are simply wasting resources of those who hired you to get good results. Altering Search Engine Results: The very best SEO experts, say that the best way to get better rankings is through good content, freelancers disagree; they could help you spam the search engines with duplicate content, real but irrelevant thus fake links, do some blasting with their proprietary software. My belief is that not only it would not work, but it would be more likely to harm the actual rankings, especially if they are caught, yet the SEO tasks are very common in the freelancing market-space where anyone is an expert ready to take your money.Using Machine Translation: Happened to me, can happen to others; one good think about freelancer platforms is you find people from all around the world, and thus they are indeed native speakers, and if you are searching for a translator, you could find a native speaking bilingual translator. That is great for people who want to have their webpages translated but who do not have access to affordable translators, however in a certain percentage of cases, you would not receive what you are hoping for; instead of getting a well-made, proof-read native translation, you could be served by machine translation, and it could be really hard to tell the difference from natural translation, especially if you do not have any clue how the other language is constructed or read. In this case, the money you pay is just a big waste, but if you would also consider other costs, such as potential legal issues, loss of marketing, the issue is more than serious. No Invoice: Companies now the importance of getting an invoice for what they do, the invoice amount and the potential tax are discounted from the amount to be paid to the state. However, there is no single freelancer that will issue you an invoice; their job is black, in sense the income freelancers generate is not registered anywhere, thus all the payments you do to freelancers shall be done from your personal account, and thus when compared to regular companies they cost more because their costs cannot be deducted from the expenses nor included in the balance sheet.Abandonment: Imagine you ask someone to do a task for you, you pay the escrow and the guy disappears. This is how working with freelancers sound like; they disappear. Especially, if you pay the money in advance, they surely disappear. The reason they disappear is simple; in most cases they do not read what they are bidding for; i.e. you carefully post your task details with all requirements, but in the end you receive bids from freelancers who do not read your brief but make their bids based on your payment-range, afterwards freelancers who won your bids have a quick look and if the project is going to take a lot of time or relatively difficult for them, instead of apologizing and saying that they cannot do the task, the freelancers would simply decide to cease contact. Reliability is really low since there is not any fees for costs for this bad behavior and the freelance platforms do not care, indeed it is better for them if the freelancer disappears without completing the task, this way you are required to pay arbitrage fees and any payment you did to post the project is foregone.Copyrights and Legal Issues: I am not talking about the rights to the works done, you got them. The important issue is the blatant copyright infringements done by the freelancers themselves. Most freelancers will make use of copyright-infringing material as a daily basis; this happens especially for web pages, copywriting and similar situations where third party content could be implanted or used within the designs or projects. The reason why the freelancers steal content is simple; it is faster and easier, and furthermore any costs incurred due to legal cases do not affect the freelancers; people will sue you not some freelancer you do not know the name of, therefore the cost of stealing is zero for the freelancer and any design or project that could potentially include others' images is a potential legal thread to companies who are considering to have their creative works outsourced. Also, it is a common thing to see that the freelancers themselves steal ideas from each-other especially during creative contests. No Commitment: In most cases, except a few trustworthy ones, most of the freelancers do not care about your cause, your business or your reputation. For the freelancer, the only thing important is the money at stake at that moment. Repeat business is not important, since experienced freelancers usually do not expect someone to hire them twice because of the low-quality work done that is almost below expectations. It is also important that since there is no commitment, you could expect the project you ordered to be sold to other parties at one tenth the fee you paid it for; i.e. imagine you ordered a unique software from a freelancer to make your business unique and efficient, paid 10k. The same freelancer will sell the same software to your competitors for less than 1k, likewise for any similar project, since the initial investment is paid by you, expect your competitors to have the same solution cheaper if you work with freelancers. Expensive: You might be lured by the low-costs of freelancing, but in reality freelancers are the most expensive workers out there. How come, you might ask, the answer is simple; in many cases jobs completed by the freelancers are so low quality such that you need to re-do the task once again to fix it, in summary you are paying money for nothing, plus you lose time since now you need to fix something that does not work, so you will be most likely to do the job yourself or find a professional, in any case you lose time and money and thus freelancing is expensive. Dummy Bids: As I told earlier, a significant portion of expert freelancers will bid on your project without reading the very brief you have spent hours to write to be clear about what you want, how you want etc. Of course afterwards placing dummy bids, if they win the bid the freelancers will start arguing with you or start bargaining for money or they might just disappear and cease communication. When this happens, you lose money since it costs a lot to post a bid, and it also costs to go to arbitrage or dispute when someone does not deliver what is promised.Fake Ratings: Do never believe to the freelancers' ratings; expert freelance outsources know the concept of retaliation, feedback retaliation is giving negative feedback and scoring people low who gave them initially negative feedbacks and low scores, so expert freelance outsourcers give five-star ratings to all freelancers regardless of how the job is done, and it makes sense: if you give a freelancer low score because he does not deliver results or simply disappear, regardless of the consequences, she will give you a low score, and thus your chances of hiring better freelancers decreases. Since the rating system does not work, it is best to not to believe in them at all. Deadline Failures: Freelancers do not care your deadlines and will often make sure that you miss them, they will always need more time, and will always have problems; no internet, no electricity, illness or any other cause you could imagine that results a force majeure that you cannot control. Given this, never hire a freelancer for a job that really needs to be completed on time, you will not only loose time, but also money, your actual clients or managers will also consider you as unprofessional as well. Since I had told earlier, freelancers cannot be motivated and cannot be made to work fast; for most cases they will get tons of jobs for cheap prices so that they will always be busy to do your work.Platform fees: You might consider hiring a freelancer is easy, but it is more often not, you will spent a lot of time learning the poorly built freelance platforms, the etiquette and the street language to work with them. But the most important costs are the platform fees that you are expected to pay for simple things such as posting the brief, highlighting brief, arbitrage, dispute, enabling NDA, and similar functionality. While posting the brief should be paid for, requesting money for arbitrage and disputes, and further requesting a percentage from the job budget are shady work models that the freelancers already accept.Unpleasant: Working with a random freelancer is usually an unpleasant experience since most of the freelancers do not have proper education and lacks common principles including ethics. If you are not a street vendor yourself, you will have hard time communicating with freelancers; they will not respect you, your work, your budget, your deadlines and will not do the work completely or they will not read your brief. Seems harsh but true in most cases, but sometimes you will get harassment and worse you will get blackmailed, so beware. To be frank and sincere, working with some freelancers could on the other hand be a good experience, especially in cases where the freelancer is enthusiastic about the work; expect outstanding job deliveries at a great price, but this is a rare case.I have already talked about many negative factors about freelancers, their ethics, and the way they do business. However, there exist a lot of good freelancers with superior skills, ethics, high intelligence and good knowledge of what they are doing, and these people are the bright sight of freelancing; they make the whole system work by delivering what they promised within a timely manner and with great professionalism. To find them, you need to pass from the dark rainy streets of freelancing, but once you find them you can expect return jobs with great results. I think most of the issues regarding freelancing could be fixed by improving the freelancing platforms themselves, and hope a better future of easier, reliable and trustable freelancing for all.Exerpt:Freelancing on one hand promises and indeed provides great outcomes, as an outsourcing platform using online freelancing websites can help you solve difficult tasks at a reasonably affordable prices and timing, and of course there is the possibility of being able to hire talents and skills from all around the world. In this sense the freelancing platforms provide great merits. Yet, in this article, I will not talk about any of the merits rather I will focus on issues and problems, and list seve..
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Cardiff and Aston Villa played out a goalless draw at Cardiff City Stadium which does far more good for the visitors' hopes of Premier League survival than their hosts.
Cardiff dominated the opening half and struck the woodwork through Fraizer Campbell and a deflected Craig Noone shot, but could not find the net.
Villa offered no threat during the opening 45 minutes but could have taken all three points had Leandro Bacuna and Gabriel Agbonlahor shown better composure in front of goal.
Ultimately this was a game Cardiff needed to win, and one Villa were happy enough to avoid losing, and there is no question this result will be more warmly welcomed by Paul Lambert than Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Villa climb five points clear of the drop zone, but Cardiff remain 19th with just two wins from their last 17 league games.
They will also have to do without Craig Bellamy for their critical upcoming encounter with Hull after player and club "reluctantly" accepted a violent conduct charge and three-match ban from the Football Association for striking Swansea midfielder Jonathan de Guzman in Saturday's south Wales derby defeat.
Solskjaer was brave in his selection on the night, with Campbell, Noone, Wilfried Zaha, Kenwyne Jones and Jordon Mutch all starting, but there was never any real flow to their play, with Zaha and Jones worryingly ineffectual.
Yet what chances there were during a first half devoid of any genuine quality fell to the home side.
After a dull opening, enlivened only by a hopeful, and off-target Fabien Delph strike, the game briefly sprung to life in the 14th minute as Cardiff struck the woodwork twice within a matter of seconds.
Zaha played in Campbell, but Brad Guzan did brilliantly to get a hand to the strike and push it onto the far post and away to Noone, the winger cut in and Guzan was beaten when his shot looped up off Ashley Westwood and onto the crossbar.
Ron Vlaar had to be alert to block a Campbell effort from close range after Jones had wrestled clear of Nathan Baker, and Vlaar had to clear from Campbell once more when his horribly sliced clearance had played the striker onside.
Zaha had the ball in the back of the net at the other end, but was a long way offside when Steven Caulker's header fell to him in the six-yard box.
Mutch did not last much longer as he limped off holding a hamstring, with Magnus Wolff Eikrem his replacement, before Villa had penalty appeals turned away after Kevin Theophile-Catherine had handled while heading clear under pressure from Benteke.
Villa, doubtless with some harsh words from Lambert ringing in their ears, started the second period brightly and Cardiff skipper Caulker blocked a goalbound Benteke header from another pinpoint Albrighton centre.
The hosts were soon back on the front foot with Campbell getting the better of Vlaar, thanks to a touch off his arm, but failed to work Guzan with his shot from the edge of the area.
Bacuna was similarly wasteful at the other end as Agbonlahor's intelligent turn and through ball went unrewarded thanks to a scuffed effort from the full-back.
Jones headed directly at Guzan from Theophile-Catherine's cross, while Benteke curiously opted to try and pull the ball back across goal when Bacuna's pass had split the Cardiff defence and played him in on goal.
As the game finally opened up Marshall was called upon to make his first save of the night as he stuck out a left-hand to keep out a Delph shot which had taken a wicked deflection off Gary Medel.
But arguably the best chance of all fell to Agbonlahor in the dying minutes. Albrighton's pass and Benteke's flick found the striker free in front of goal, only for him to delay his shot long enough for Theophile-Catherine to make a crucial block.
And then, with seconds remaining, Marshall pulled off a stunning save in stoppage time to deny Andreas Weimann as preserve Cardiff's point. The goalkeeper changed direction in mid air to save Cardiff.
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My dog, Doolittle weighs 95 pounds, maybe more now. He is a Standard Poodle (the big kind). He doesn't sport one of those fancy haircuts; that just wouldn't be Doolittle.
They say Standard Poodles weigh between 45 and 70 pounds. Therefore, mine is kind of larger than he is supposed to be. He is not fat; this is not for lack of trying.
Doolittle's demeanor is about as sweet as a dog's could be, but he gets into things when left unattended. Boredom is probably the cause of it.
Recently, Doolittle found the Easter candy stash. He probably thought it was intended for him. Big League Chew bubblegum, Swedish fish, Reese's peanut butter eggs and marshmallow Peeps. He ate it all-enough for three older children.
I've never been a fan of those yellow marshmallow Peeps, but I guess that didn't rub off on my dog. He ate two or three packages. We forgot how many we bought.
No, I don't want my dog to get sick or die. He is just an addict. He did not eat the boxes the Peeps came in; I can't say that for the wrapping on the Reese's peanut butter eggs.
Life goes on, I suppose. My older brother always liked those marshmallow Peeps, maybe Doolittle got this hankering for those yellow sugar coated marshmallow chickens from him.
Maybe Doolittle weighs more than 95 pounds now. Marshmallow Peeps are only 12 calories each; I think the peanut butter eggs and bubble gum are probably more than that.
There were a couple of scientists who once did a study on marshmallow Peeps to determine what they could survive. The company that makes them claims the yellow chicks have a shelf life of 2 years. Honestly, I think Peeps would last longer than that.
These two scientists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, found in their research that Peeps will not dissolve in water. Moreover, the scientists found that not even sulfuric acid would dissolve the sugar crusted chickens.
The scientists need to know that the Peeps could not escape my 95+ pound big poodle. I don't suppose they tried very hard to get away from him. Based on the carpet in my basement, Doolittle ate too many of them. It was either that or he decided that he couldn't keep the bubble gum down.
Enough about the chickens, have you heard about the Louisiana cow?
There is a young man in Slidell, Louisiana who wanted to go on a "student ambassador" trip to England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. It is a 19 day trip and it is going to cost the boy about $8,000 to go.
Being one of six children, the young man knew that he was going to have the raise the money for his trip on his own. Bake sales and carwashes can only bring in so much when you are working alone.
A farmer offered the boy a cow to help out. What did the young man do with the cow? He decided to raffle it off. The venture sounds logical to me. As a matter of fact, for a 14 year-old, it sounds brilliant.
The boy is selling tickets for $10 a pop and hopes to sell a thousand. That would more than cover the cost of his trip and perhaps give him a little spending money.
You know what happens with stories like this.
I understand that there are folks that do not eat meat and feel none of us should eat meat. They can have their opinions, this is America. However, they should leave this young entrepreneur alone and let him raffle his cow.
These folks sent the young man a nasty letter about mistreating cows and animals in general. They also sent him pictures of nice looking women in lettuce bikinis.
I guess that is supposed to make us want to eat lettuce, instead of cows.
The young man is not telling anyone what to do with the cow should they win the raffle. In other words, he's not telling them to eat it. However, this is America, if they want to eat it, I think they still can.
On the other hand, if these lettuce bikini wearing ladies would like to come to my house and meet my dog…
He will eat lettuce, he ate an orange that had been sliced and left on the table this morning.
Me on the other hand, I would like a pear with a little mayonnaise with grated cheese and a half of maraschino cherry on the top (on a bed of lettuce). Perhaps the ladies would share some of their lettuce with me.
I love pear salad.
Did you know the company that makes those yellow marshmallow chickens puts out enough of them each year to circle the earth twice?
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The Dango Shop (だんご屋, Dango-ya, Literally meaning: Dumpling Shop) is a popular, well-known shop in Konohagakure that's famous for its dango. Anko Mitarashi, who has the sweetest tooth in the village, visits this shop often.[1]
Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki stopped here for tea, on Kisame's suggestion, when they came to Konoha to hunt for Naruto Uzumaki, but had to flee since Kakashi Hatake was supposed to meet up with Sasuke Uchiha here.[2]
The shop serves many other desserts that use dango in them, such as anmitsu, a popular Japanese dessert that is served in a bowl consisting of red bean paste, small cubes of agar jelly, and pieces of fruit served with syrup, as seen when Sakura Haruno went there and ate anmitsu.[3]
The shop's sign is in a form of a stick with white-coloured dango run through it. The hiragana for dango (だんご) is painted red (sometimes blue) on them. The inside of the shop is simple with wooden tables, rectangular-shaped lights, and menus that hang all over the walls for customers to look at.
- The most frequently shown dango in the series is hanami dango, the pink, white, and green dango associated with the hanami in Japan.


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The state of Oregon wants more information on children. State education leaders are working on a student database that would track kids from before they enter kindergarten through college. The database is turning into one of the thornier parts of Oregon's education overhaul.
Oregon has lots of data on students already.
Steve Langford, the information technology director in the Beaverton schools, said K-12 data starts when students register.
"As students are enrolled in districts across the state, enrollment records are created, and a lot of that information comes from parents. It is keyed in by different staff at many different schools," Langford said.
That information goes from districts to the state. It becomes part of official reports. It's shared with federal officials, and forms the basis for academic research. But it's not always accurate.
Kris Alman, a Beaverton-area mom, obtained her son's electronic record and found it identified him as having essentially dropped out of school, as early as the fourth grade. Now, he's in high school.
Alman: "I looked at this and I'm thinking, 'Wait a minute, there's no way!'"
Alman said officials she's met with share her view that inaccuracies are part of the system. She said that's a bad sign for the planned longitudinal database.
But state officials say knitting together a longitudinal system to track kids is a high priority. It's called for in Oregon's waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law. The state won a $10 million federal grant to build it. And it's one of six deliverables the state's new chief education officer, Rudy Crew, has to pursue.
After a speech last fall to a room full of college professors, Crew underscored the need for improvements on the data front.
"I just don't see yet the orchestration or the organization of the data work, and the data shop, if you will, that we need for the seamless data points that all of us would like to see available," he said. "So I'm kind of reserving judgment until I see more about that."
Now, the state's databases are split into silos, with little interaction. Colleges have information on their students. Early childhood programs have data on little kids.
Peter Tromba in the Eugene School District says having information in the K-12 system from early on would be an improvement over the current situation.
"So, we're looking at eighth, or ninth, or tenth graders and having a good idea at that grade whether we have to do more to help them make it," Tromba said. "The key with a longitudinal data system is that we'll be able to ask and answer those questions for kids who are younger."
But including information from before kindergarten is a sensitive topic. That was the message from the Oregon Education Investment Board's teacher rep, Hana Vaandering, at their meeting last October.
"We're talking about – in the early childhood - tracking children from the time they're born, and I think that's a conversation with Oregonians that they're understanding exactly what we're doing before we do it," Vaandering said.
Tracking information at a student level is old hat in the K-12 system.
Again, Steve Langford in Beaverton: "The student has a state student ID, and we must send that data, so that they can be counted."
But that's not the case for kids before they enter kindergarten. The early childhood data system is geared more toward evaluating programs than tracking progress of individual kids, according the state's early learning director, Jada Rupley.
"I think as we look at tracking progress, to make sure that we have improvement, that we have outcomes, we have to be very careful about what it is we need to know," Rupley said.
She said her current data system is based on kids in a handful of specific early learning programs. "But we also have a major population of children who are in our childcare providers, and in our homes."
Governor John Kitzhaber wants to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars this year on a study to determine the best way to build the statewide longitudinal database.
The cost of building that database will be many times higher, consultant Rick Ganderson said in remarks to the Oregon Education Investment Board.
"So if you include this year, it's a total of $50 million," Ganderson said.
The governor's budget proposes $10 million in borrowing to start building that database in 2014.
And Chief Education Officer Rudy Crew said there's no question the system will be built.
"Oh, yes, it's not about whether," Crew said. "In my mind, it's never been about whether."
Crew imagines a system where teachers would have student-level data, principals could analyze groups of students, and information could move easily between schools and other institutions.
"There'd be all kinds of data that would be allowed to migrate, if you will, from the, if you will, K-12 system to the community college," Crew said. "So you'd be able to see from high schools how students are able to make that transition."
But some say it's just that ability to move data around that raises security concerns, particularly when it comes to social security numbers.
For example, the Oregon University System gathers social security numbers from students. State education officials want to be able to link to those numbers. They're planning a separate database with an added layer of protection for that.
But any connection to Social Security information worries Lisa Shultz, a former school board member in Beaverton.
"Child identify theft is a problem," Shultz said. "To create this database puts these children at risk."
District-level officials, like Peter Tromba in Eugene, argue for limited use of any clearly identifiable information on an individual student.
"So the state has no reason to know the name or the student identification number of any student in our district to give us some feedback on how our schools are doing," Tromba said. "They need to know individual student growth. The school does need to know that."
State education officials say any unique student information would be kept in the database that the state's setting up with extra security. Officials like Rudy Crew say privacy and security issues can be worked out over the next year.
In the end, advocates like Lisa Shultz wonder if the millions of dollars budgeted to collect and analyze information is really that helpful.
Shultz said at a certain point, you have to focus on solutions. "So it's sort of like a person who wants to lose weight – you can get on the scale every single day, but if you don't go on the exercise program, if you don't eat well, if you don't develop healthy habits, what good does it do you, to get on the scale every day?"
But while some parent advocates, like Shultz, suggest the database may be a waste of money, some local school officials are worried the state will fail in the other direction. They agree the need for good data is real, but worry the state may not spend enough tocreate a truly accurate and secure system.


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When did you decide to be a writer?
I wrote my first book when I was twelve. I have no idea what happened to it and that's probably for the best for everyone. I starting writing my first book as an adult the year my baby went to Kindergarten. So I'll pick that as my 'deciding' date.
At what point did you stop juggling suggestions and critiques and trust yourself (as a writer)?
Well, honestly I think I still listen to suggestions and critiques. I do trust myself as a writer, as far as my story goes, but I am always interested in how a book strikes someone else. I was very blessed to have a fantastic critique group I met through ACFW, the American Christian Fiction Writers. So their opinion was valuable to me.
Are you a disciplined writer or do you just write when you feel like it?
I'm very disciplined. It's the only area of my life where I've shown one speck of self-discipline as a matter of fact. (we can talk for a while about dieting at this point if you want to!)
I write 1000 words a day, often more but never less. I've just come off a week traveling with a book signing tour and I didn't get much writing done and I've very aware of that and it chafes. But I'm home now and back to work.
What kind of activities to you like to do that help you relax and step away from your deadlines for a bit?
I'm pretty good about deadlines. I've been fortunate to not be pressed by them. I just turned in a book that has a deadline of January 1st, 2011. I do have galleys to edit right now due the end of the week so there are always those. My relaxing activities are crossword puzzles and reading books. Yes, I know, I noticed, all sedentary. Like it would kill me to take a walk once in a while. I'm going to start. I promise. Maybe tomorrow.
What is your favorite novel and what made it special?
My absolute favorite novel of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird. That is so obvious that I shouldn't even write it. But what I love about it is the mix of humor and drama. Such a terribly, bitterly ugly subject seen through the eyes of a child who doesn't really understand one bit what's going on. But we get it. I think it's brilliant.
How do you think reading the work of others helps you as a writer?
I thinking reading great books is a better way to learn writing that most 'How To' writing books. Mostly I read for fun, but if I want to do a fire in one of my books, I've got a stack (a BIG stack) of books and I'll think through them until I remember a fire, then I'll drag that book out. Study the words an author used for hot and smoke and burn. It makes for a really powerful thesaurus.
Tell us a little about your latest release:
My latest release is The Husband Tree. Belle Tanner buries her third worthless husband and makes a vow over his shallow grave. She's learned her lesson. No more men.
Silas Harden just lost his second ranch because of a woman. The first deserted him when times got tough. Now he's had to quit the whole state of New Mexico to avoid a trumped-up shotgun wedding and the noose of matrimony. He's learned his lesson. No more women.
Belle needs hired hands to move a cattle herd late in the season and there's no one around but seemingly aimless Silas. She hires him reluctantly.
Silas signed on, glad for the work, though worried about a woman doing such a thing as hiring drovers, only to find out he's the lone man going with five woman, including a baby still in diapers. After the cattle drive is over, he might as well shoot himself to speed up the process of being embarrassed to death.
Where did you get your inspiration for The Husband Tree?
You know when I look at the final product, the finished book, a lot of times I just wonder what in the world I was thinking when I started it. I love really strong women. I love a woman who doesn't NEED a man but chooses to join her life with a man out of respect and love rather than necessity. The four daughters, well, I have four daughters so that's almost too easy. The rest is rooted in comedy and conflict. A woman who just says whatever is on her mind and everyone can accept it and go along or get run over. Then bring in a man strong enough to handle that.
Which character is most like you?
I don't see any of them being like me. In fact, I think my really mouthy strong characters are how I WISH I was, because I'm crazy non-confrontational and I'm the peacemaker in my family and I'm someone who watches her mouth about anything that people could take exception to. And for the most part, I think being the voice of reason is a pretty good thing. Nothing like Belle Tanner. But all that sass and in-your-face attitude makes for a pretty stressful life outside fiction.
Who is your favorite character and why?
Definitely Belle. I just love her. In fact she may be my favorite character of all time. I just had a blast making her as strong and mouthy as possible, without one speck of concern how anyone else feels about her opinions. Then in comes Silas. A man who could take it, handle Belle and love her, not in spite of her strength but because of it.
Did you know how The Husband Tree would turn out? Were you surprised by any of the plot twists or characters?
I start a book with no end in mind besides 'happily ever after'. I'm very seat of the pants. I keep trying to learn to plot and plan, and I can do it, but sometimes I get a better idea while I writing along and I abandon my plot without a backward glance when that happens.
What is the main thing you hope readers remember from this story?
I hope they had fun. If they learn something, too, that's fantastic, but fundamentally, I hope they had a good time going along on the cattle drive with Belle and Silas. I also hope they got to liking Wade Sawyer a little better because that very troubled soul from Montana Rose is the hero of book through of the Montana Marriages series, Wildflower Bride.
What kinds of things have you done to market this book? Have you found anything that works particularly well?
I do as much as I can and then let it go. I always think the very best thing I can do to market a book is to write the very best book I know how to write. That's my very most important job. Beyond that I like doing this blog interviews. In case you haven't noticed, it's all done with WRITING. I can handle that. I do book signings and they're fun but usually, because I live far from everyone, they're long drives. I've gotten to really know a few of the area book store owners though and they're great people. I try and stay in contact with the area newspapers and I can make my way into them sometimes.
Tell us what new projects you're working on.
Next up is Wildflower Bride, coming in May, Wade Sawyer finally gets his happy ending.
A white woman, raised by the Indians has yet to meet a white man she doesn't pull her knife on. . .including Wade Sawyer, who is determined to marry her.
She doesn't really need saving, but Wade doesn't let that stop him. And she hasn't actually cut him yet so he thinks she'd coming around.
Wade's been trying to rescue women who are doing fine on their own since Cassie Dawson didn't need saving in Montana Rose. Now he's picked the toughest woman he's ever met to protect.
Glowing Sun might end up marrying him out of pure respect for his persistence. . .she can't get rid of him anyway.
And while Glowing Sun is trying to adjust to a different world, Cassie Dawson is taking lessons on how to be tough from Belle Tanner.
Red may not survive.
Do you have any parting words of advice?
Thanks for having me on, Lisa. If anyone would like to be kept up to date on my releases they can sign up for my newsletter here: My Newsletter
And I'll make you a promise—Not only will I NOT sell your information, I probably won't even get my act together enough to actually send you a newsletter, so it's not like signing up will flood your inbox.
Want more? Be sure to stop by The Borrowed Book for an excerpt from The Husband Tree by Mary Connealy.


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Wade returns for Heat, but comes off bench
MIAMI (AP) For the first time in more than six years, Dwyane Wade is a Miami Heat reserve.
Wade checked into Sunday's game against the San Antonio Spurs with 4:41 left in the first quarter, after missing the previous four Miami contests to rest his oft-ailing knees.
The last time Wade – who was voted into the All-Star Game as a starter again this season – was a reserve was Jan. 6, 2008 against Memphis. His next 483 appearances with the Heat, including playoffs, had been as a starter.
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Ray Allen started in Wade's place.
Wade came off the bench five times as a rookie in 2003-04, once in 2006-07 and twice in 2007-08. He's started 687 times for Miami, plus all 132 of his playoff appearances.


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Irish entrepreneur, Brendan Sheehan, has created an innovative and unique spin for people who want to get in touch with their Irish roots. The site is IrishHomestays.com.
Sheehan is the Managing Director of Irish Home Stays, a business that provides a one of a kind experience for children 12-16 years of age who are looking to learn and experience the beauty of Ireland.
The company has many years of experience hosting students from all over the world and educating them about the history, mythology, language and cuisine of Ireland.
Their goal is to have the child learn about how the country was first founded and the fun and diverse world of Irish Mythology, understand and speak basic Irish lingo, as well as be able to prepare authentic Irish cuisine, by the time their stay is over.
"We are the only IRISH owned dedicated company providing Cultural Homestay programs of this kind," reads the company's website.
The program offers a new form of vacation in which children will stay in a rural environment with Irish families—who have received Garda (Irish Police) Clearance—and experience everything from educational two-hours a day courses, to visits to some of Ireland's most popular destinations.
There is a core group of 20 families and the students are placed into a family that is specifically tailored to fit the child's wants and needs. The program promises student safety in a "cocooned environment" which means they will be under an adult's supervision at all times.
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Sheehan describes the experience as something that will enrich the student's knowledge of the country and provide a sort of link and connection for those students who are aware of their Irish decent.
"If you come to Ireland feeling Irish we want you to leave knowing you now truly are," Sheehan said in an interview with Irish Central.
The program is open to all people, not just for those with an Irish connection. Sheehan's ultimate goal is to bring more tourism from America and other parts of the world to the Emerald Isle, so that others can experience all that Ireland has to offer.
Brendan Sheehan, originally from Co. Limerick, was first inspired to start the business in 1993 when his uncle, New York Police Officer Daniel Sheehan, first planted the seed by warmly welcoming Brendan and showing him around New York and giving him an experience he will never forget.
"My uncle is my inspiration for this business," Sheehan said. "My visit to NY in '93 shaped me fundamentally and opened my mind to what I could do with my life and I want to repay my uncle by doing the same for his children when they visit Ireland."
From there, Sheehan realized that through the start of Irish Home Stays, not only could he give back to his uncle, but also to the entire community. He wanted to start a business that will help educate his three children and create a future for them, and something that will not only become a valuable business but also a business that will help others.
He has built the idea from scratch, started the website and jumpstarted the company in less than a year. Sheehan hopes that by next spring his program attracts more students so that he can share with them the vast amounts of knowledge, love and admiration he has for his country.
There are different packages available suited for every student depending on their likes. They can choose how long to stay, where to stay and which activities they would like to do for entertainment during their visit, through the website.
The price includes all meals, room and board as well as all cultural activities and a ten percent reduction is offered for people affiliated with the armed forces and police departments.
For more information, visit IrishHomestays.com.


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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Retrieving Empty Spinners From Magnets
6 comments:
- Unknown said...
It is also possible to eject them by simply increasing the air flow
- May 26, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- Glenn Facey said...
Thank you for your comment. The air flow is insufficient in our labs to ejct an empty spinner.
- May 26, 2010 at 2:26 PM
I had the same problem with a Varian Mercury Plus 300 and it was impossible to eject the rotor even increasing the air flow
- May 26, 2010 at 11:53 PM
Try a wooden dowel rod with duct tape (sticky side out) wrapped around one end of the rod. It's worked for me in the past and hasn't left any residue in the bore or probe.
- May 31, 2010 at 6:40 PM
Hello, Glenn.
We don't have a good machine shop in our institute, so guys from our lab built an alternative device. It consists of a wooden stick with a plastic tube glued to it's end. We used an empty tube from anti-flu pills (like this one http://www.farmshop.ru/imgprod/f02730_full.jpg). This tube ideally fits inside bruker spinners and allows to extract them easily without applying any extra force. Also, it doesn't require any machinery =) I can make some photos, if you like.
- June 3, 2010 at 3:25 PM
Let me suggest simple way.
You can put on "Lift ON" button, wait some seconds and bend air hose (at the top of magnet, left side for Bruker) and wait 3-5 second for making pressure. Quickly straightening the hose,
the spinner will take off like bullet from air gun. Of course, you need some experience to catch it :-).
Best regards, Igor Ushakov
- August 25, 2010 at 2:08 AM


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Charmaine Lindsay — Supervisor, Reference & Outreach of the City of Toronto Archives — has sent me a notice that the Canadian Necrology Database Index at the University of Toronto Library is now online.
The majority of records in the Canadian Necrology database index obituaries for distinguished Canadians whose death notices appeared in newspapers such as the Globe and Mail, Toronto Daily Star, Gazette, and Mail and Empire between 1934 and 1977.
There are 20,000 such records.
The second set of records in Canadian Necrology contains death information for over 4,000 early inhabitants of Toronto and the surrounding areas, between 1853 and 1920. This collection is the result of a lifetime hobby of William Henry Pearson (1831-1920).
Beginning in 1853 and until his own death in 1920, Pearson maintained a ledger where he recorded the deaths of friends, acquaintances, and prominent members of Toronto society.
The site gives a short, yet very good history of the two men who put together the two record databases - William Henry Pearson and William Stewart Wallace — and how the obituaries were used to compile the database.
The database gives the name of the person, his/her sex, the age at death, the cause of death, the occupation, and the residence.
It also will tell you which record group the person was found and the record ID.
A bibliography of sources is included, as well as a related links page.
They have included a page of "Diversions" at the end of the website in which you are asked to identify the person in the photo because they have as yet been identified.
The informaiton can be found at http://link.library.utoronto.ca/necrology/index.cfm


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KENNEBUNK – The Kennebunk High School Building Committee presented two plans to the RSU 21 Board of Directors Monday night, offering a glimpse into the debates to come as the board makes its decision on the plan it will take to voters in November.
KENNEBUNK – The Kennebunk High School Building Committee presented two plans to the RSU 21 Board of Directors Monday night, offering a glimpse into the debates to come as the board makes its decision on the plan it will take to voters in November.
While the committee presented a plan called A1, which meets the $42 million project scope set by the board in March, Chairman Jason Gallant said the group unanimously voted not to support that plan because of its "inherent inefficiencies and functional deficiencies." Instead, the committee supports plan B1.1, currently priced at $43.68 million, which was described as a more efficient and compact plan better meeting needs.
Monday's meeting was the first time the RSU board has seen the committee's most recent iterations of renovations for KHS, since setting the $42 million charge. The board voted in March to give the building committees for all three renovation projects a target of bringing forward revised plans at a target cost of $55 million - $42 million for KHS, $9 million for M.L. Day and $4 million for Consolidated. The projects, as currently being discussed, are estimated at $58.6 million.
"I want people to feel that we have heard you and we are continuing to work on this to get it as close to the numbers as we can," said Chairman Maureen King of the $55 million target. "Those were numbers that were pulled out of thin air and I'm not sure how close we're going to get, but we'll do our best."
The $55 million target set by the board, and its coverage in local press was a point of contention Monday night, with board members saying the figure was selected arbitrarily to give the building committees a scope. Board member Bob Domine said the $55 million figure was "written about in the paper and then became the third tablet from Moses."
"We're not done yet," King said. "We still have quite a bit of time before we have to put a number on a warrant."
The district has received approval for a construction manager to oversee all three projects, who should be in place in late August. That person will work to finalize the project budget, getting it as low as possible, King said.
"One of the reasons we are excited about the construction management process is that they will help us work on those numbers and I do think we will see some change," she said. "We're continuing to work this budget."
The focus, said Interim Superintendent Kevin Crowley, should not be on a number, but rather on the right project. In March, the board voted 7-5 in support of the $55 million target cost, but that same night also discussed a target of $59 million, Crowley said.
"It's more important that we get this right than that we hit a number," he said. "It's unfortunate that $55 million was out there, but that same night, $59 million was out there. The vote was only 7-5. So there was a split board at that number."
Board member Jeff Cole said there is no doubt that there are needs and wants at each of the three facilities or of the amount of time and passion the committees have put into the plans.
"At the end of the day, it gets down to what's the capacity of a community to afford an investment of a certain size," he said. "We saw resounding defeat at $75 million. Right now we are approaching $60 million."
Monday night's discussion, said Tim Hussey, chairman of the Facilities Committee, "is the beginning of the debates for the board." Hussey said he envisions a motion before the board during its Aug. 4 meeting "for a number," though he said that "doesn't mean it's the final number."
The $55 million was an arbitrary number, Hussey said, and the $75 million failed plan was the "bottom number that we felt we all needed."
"So now it's our job to say 'what is the number that the voters will approve?'" Hussey said. "Now we have seen what we get for that $55 million. We also have seen what we can get for $58.6 million, which are the recommendations that have come out of the committees."
Kennebunkport resident Chris Perry told the board members that they have to grapple with the question of whether they want to bring forward a $55 million plan, as has been the target set by the board, or if they want to "get involved with budget creep."
"My personal suggestion to the board is that $55 million for a bond issue is a number that was created very much in an off-hand basis. It was not a scientifically devised number, but it was a suggestion that was made and it was latched on to as being something to work with and something to move forward with," he said. "There is nothing certain that $55 million will pass. Every cent that you get above $55 million is one step closer to being sure that it won't pass. My encouragement is to take it and stick with what got printed in the press and what got pulled out of thin air at one point in time."


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A Texan poultry farmer had about 500 hens, but no rooster, and he wanted chicks. So he went down the road to the next farmer and asked if he had a rooster that he would sell. The other farmer said " Yep, I"ve got this great rooster named Kenny. He"ll service every chicken youve got, no problem". Kenny the rooster costs 3000 dollars". It was a lot of money but the farmer decided he"d be worth it. So he bought Kenny.The farmer took Kenny home and set him down in the barnyard , but first he gave the rooster a pep talk, " I want you to pace yourself now. You"ve got a lot of chickens to service here, and you cost me a lot of money. Consequently, I'll need you to do a good job. So take your time and have some fun", the farmer said with a chuckle.
Kenny seemed to understand, so the farmer pointed toward the hen house and Kenny took off like a shot. WHAM! Kenny nailed every hen in the hen house three or four times, and the farmer was really shocked. After that the farmer heard a commotion in the duck pen and, sure enough, Kenny is in there. Later the farmer saw Kenny after a flock of geese down by the lake. WHAM! once again he got all the geese.
By sunset he saw Kenny out in the fields chasing quail and pheasants. The farmer was distraught and worried that his expensive rooster wouldn't last 24 hours. Sure enough the farmer went to bed and woke up the next morning to find Kenny on his back out in the middle of the yard, mouth open, tongue hanging out and both feet sticking up in the air.Buzzards were, by now circling overhead.
The farmer saddened by the loss of such a colourful and expensive bird shook his head and said " Oh Kenny I told you to pace yourself, I tried to get you to slow down, now look what you've done to yourself"
Kenny opened one eye, nodded towards the buzzards circling in the sky and said "Shhhh, they're getting closer."


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Here we go into 2014 our 24th year online and our 26th year publishing DTG Magazine. Creative inspiration is what jogs you off your stagnent creative block. See some of these and join us each week for another creative discovery tour ... here we go: Best of 2013: Top Tips, Insights, and Tricks Here's the typography daily blog 3D Type Sculptures + Animation Professionals vs. Amateurs The Design Federation Painting Supersized
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Well, we cannot seem to discover much about the background of this site, or its owner, but they've got some swell stuff for anyone who likes type and typography.
The site is the work of Mirko Humbert, a 4-year graphic & web designer from Switzerland.
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See how she got to interpret one of her illustrations into a huge format ... Elizabeth writes : This was the first mural I've ever completed (or begun for that matter!). So I jumped in the only way I knew how, with gridding off my design. From there I just began to fill in with pre-determined, and pre-mixed colors I purchased at Home Depot. I used primarily Behr paint (the best in my opinion, worth the extra price). I bought 8 different colors in all, and mixed an addition 5 or 6.
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Conservation ActionsThis species is currently listed in CITES Appendix II.
Since November 2000, the subspecies T. p. poliocephalus and its habitat on Cat Ba have been the subject of the Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project (implemented by the Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations, ZSCSP), which has been focused on the improvement of protection status for the subspecies and its habitat, and has initiated two important programs. The first is a langur sanctuary located inside Cat Ba National Park and a "buffer zone" of the World Heritage Site "Halong Bay". Thirty-five percent of the remaining population lives in the sanctuary. The second is a langur-guarding program that is meant to protect 35% of the population that exists outside of the national park. This program puts the subpopulations and their ranges under the control of local people that patrol the ranges and offer community conservation education. The most important steps in the recovery of this subspecies now are continued protection from poaching and encroachment, a reduction in the habitat fragmentation and subpopulation isolation, and an increase in reproductive output and genetic health of the entire population, suggesting the need for translocation (Stenke and Chu Xuan Canh 2004).
The largest populations of T. p. leucocephalus are expected to recover under proper conservation of their Nong Guan and Nong Lin limestone habitats (Wang and Tong 2004). Nong Guan and Nong Lin are now being included in a larger proposed national-level nature reserve called Chongzuo Eco-Park, a special nature reserve for the white-headed langur (381 km2) with a population of about 250 individuals (Nadler 2003). However, considering the precarious status of the populations of this subspecies, reliable information is desperately needed about the precise effects of habitat degradation on its activity and survival (Li and Rogers 2005).
There are currently no specimens of T. p. leucocephalus in captivity; a small number of T. p. poliocephalus are reported in the collection of the Endangered Primate Rescue Center, Cuc Phuong National Park, Viet Nam (Nadler 1999).
Location InformationThis species is known only from northern Viet Nam and adjacent southern China.
T. p. poliocephalus
Confined to Cat Ba Island, in Ha Long Bay off the northeastern cost of Viet Nam. There it is further restricted to about a 100 km2 area of occupancy, mostly inside Cat Ba National Park (Stenke and Chu Xuan Canh 2004). It ranges from 70-100 m in elevation (Le and Campbell 1994) and possibly from 0 to 200 m.
T. p. leucocephalus
Occurs in south China (southwestern Guangxi province), in isolated areas from the Shiwan Dushan north to the Zuo River, specifically in the karst hills of Gang Nature Reserve, Fushui Nature Reserve, Chongzuo Nature Reserve, and Longrui Nature Reserve.
Population InformationThe current total population of T. p. poliocephalus as of August 2006 is 64 individuals (Stenke pers. comm.), down from an estimated 100 individuals in 2000 (Nadler and Long 2000), but apparently an increase from the all-time low (less than 60 individuals) in the interim period. These animals are fragmented into seven isolated subpopulations; average group size is low, at 3.7 individuals, and there are 3-4 all-female groups, which are consequently non-reproductive (Stenke and Chu Xuan Canh 2004).
As of 2003, T. p. leucocephalus totaled about 700-800 individuals remaining in the wild, 250 of which live in Nong Gang, a maximum of 350 individuals live in Nong Lin. Also as of 2003, the population had begun to grow after a period of human-induced decline (Wang and Tong 2004). A survey conducted in Fusui Rare and Precious Animal Nature Reserve between September 1996 and April 1997, found a 24% decline in the population density over the past 10 years, with a current population of less than 150 langurs (Li et al. 2003).
ThreatsPoaching, both for meat and traditional "medicine", has been recognized as the most severe threat to Cat Ba langurs, and the reason for the precipitous decline in their population over the past couple of decades. Reproductively valuable males were often the most common victims due to their behaviour (Stenke and Chu Xuan Canh 2004). Habitat disturbance and fragmentation resulting from the growing human population on Cat Ba Island (due in part to the country's designation of the island as a new tourism centre for northern Viet Nam), and rampant fires due to honey collectors (Nadler and Long 2000) are also threats. Tourism in the inadequately managed Cat Ba National Park has direct effects on langur natural history, such as the disturbance to habitat and perhaps behaviour caused by things like nightly spotlighting trips in speed boats around the karst archipelago where these monkeys live. The small size and fragmented nature of the remaining Cat Ba langur population means that the subspecies is at risk of inbreeding effects (or intrinsic effects to avoid inbreeding by not breeding at all), extremely limited mate-choice due to the small number of males per group, and the chance of a natural or human disaster causing total or effective extinction.
In China, clearing of land with fire, burning of agricultural residue and burning charcoal often leads to uncontrolled fires that escape into adjacent karst landscapes. The white-headed Langur is surrounded in some areas by subsistence agriculture, such that much of the habitat is fragmented (Li and Rogers 2005). Tree cutting for firewood has caused further degradation to the remaining habitat (Li and Rogers 2005). Along with habitat destruction, poaching has been the primary cause of the most recent decline in the population (Wang and Tong 2004). There is some evidence that breeding is hindered in degraded habitats.
IUCN Red List Account LinkPlease click here to see the species' IUCN Red List Account page.
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Did you know that the number 5 is the first safe prime? A safe prime is a prime number that can be expressed as 2p+1, where p is also a prime.
To celebrate Cody's Five-Year Anniversary, write a function to determine if a positive integer n is a safe prime in which the prime p (such that n=2p+1) is also a safe prime.
isextrasafe(5) = false % because 5=2*2+1 and 2 is not a safe prime isextrasafe(23) = true % because 23=2*11+1 and 11 is also a safe prime (11=2*5+1)
15 = 2*7+1 and 7 = 2*3+1 so 15 should be a safe prime. Am I missing something?
An (extra) safe prime number itself must be a prime number. Here, 15 is not a prime, so it is not (extra) safe prime
For case 8, x = 719;
which will lead to 44, not prime, the result should be false, but it's true now.
Am I right?
danteliujie, x = 719 does not lead to 44.
Test #5 x = 15;
15 = 2*7 + 1
7 = 2*3 + 1
3 is a prime number. therefore 7 is a safe prime. AND 15 is an extra safe prime. Or is there anything wrong with the equations above?
Lol. Forgot that 15 is not even a prime number.
This code would incorrectly identify x = 59 as an extra-safe prime (which it's not).
When x = 5 and x = 7, return false, is it right?
Yes, x = 5 and x = 7 are safe primes, but not "extra" safe primes because their corresponding values for p (2 and 3, respectively) are not safe primes.
This solution would incorrectly identify x = 71 as an extra-safe prime (which it's not).
Good catch, yurenchu. I'm adding 71 to the test suite.
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Each of us brings something different to the partnership and like a winning basketball team (we are also five), each person knows their role and delivers when it counts. Each partner has a hot hand for a while, then cools down, then gets hot again.
The hottest hand at USV in the past few years belongs to Albert who has been killing it. Many of you know him from his blog called Continuations. I finally got around to watching AVC community member Rohan's interview with Albert and it captures much of what makes Albert so great to work with. So I am making Rohan's interview the video of the week:
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The Sanskrit word yoga stems from the verbal root yuj meaning "to yoke" or "to unite." Thus, in a spiritual context, yoga stands for "training" or "unitive discipline."
One of the aspects of yoga that can be confusing is how many forms of yoga are practiced. While they share common elements some focus more on postures and breathing exercises, whereas others have a greater focus on spirituality. Each emphasizes a particular path that comprises a certain set of beliefs, practices and rituals. Yoga forms constitute a ladder of sorts, from the "lowest" form of Hatha yoga, with its focus on physical postures and breathing techniques, to the "highest" form known as Raja, or "union by mental mastery."
Newer hybrids of yoga are also being introduced and embraced such as
Power yoga, Ace-yoga, or Bikram's yoga.
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The most popular forms of yoga are:
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Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love
Karma yoga ("the yoga of action") - the Yoga of Selfless Action
Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
Raja yoga- The Highest form of yoga
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Tuesday, June 9
You Don't Ignore a Craving for Thai Pineapple Fried Rice
Some blog posts are well thought out and take hours to prepare, while others just write themselves. Then there are the posts that result from cravings, which happened to me yesterday. I was leaving a comment on T. W.'s site, Culinary Types, where he had posted a mighty fine chicken fried rice recipe. I mentioned that I hadn't made fried rice in a long time and that I'd really love some pineapple fried rice.
I woke up at 5:30 am this morning, and before I even thought of coffee, I thought of fried rice. I knew I wouldn't make it to the end of the day without it. So by 7 am -- with a good coffee buzz going -- I was cooking white rice to chill for tonight's dinner. By 5 pm my Thai Pineapple Fried Rice was cooked and photographed to post tonight.
Though I'm not eating it for another hour or so, I had to sneak a couple spoonfuls during the photo session. (Come on, you do it too.) I was so pleased: the flavors of sweet pineapple, spicy ginger, and salty cashews mingle deliciously. I have no doubt that my fried rice craving will be satisfied tonight.
Thai Pineapple Fried Rice
Serves 4
Print recipe only here.
2 cups leftover cooked white rice
1 1/2 tablespoons canola oil
3 scallions, thinly sliced (reserve some of the green part for garnish)
1/2 large red bell pepper, diced
1 1/2-2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
1 small red or green chili (the more the seeds the hotter the flavor)
1 cup diced pineapple, preferably fresh
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 cup cashews (salted or unsalted)
1 tablespoon dark sesame oil, optional
In a wok or a large skillet over high heat, warm 1 1/2 tablespoons canola oil. Add the scallions, red bell pepper, ginger, and chili. Saute 1-2 minutes, or until lightly sizzling and fragrant.
Add cooked rice, stirring frequently, for 3-5 minutes. Add pineapple, soy sauce, and cashews; stir until well coated and heated through, about 2-3 minutes.
Sprinkle with the scallion greens, and, if desired, drizzle with sesame oil. Serve immediately.
You might also like:
Asian Noodle Salad with Tofu and Mango
Shrimp, Pineapple, and Kashi 7 Whole Grain Pilaf Salad
Gingery Sauteed Tat Soi with Tofu Steaks
Craving more fried rice? Try these:
Thai Pineapple Fried Rice from Kitchen Snippets
Pineapple Fried Rice and Shrimp Fried Rice from Simply Recipes
Prawn Fried Rice from The Perfect Pantry
Kimchi Fried Rice from 80 Breakfasts
53 comments:
- Heather said...
no ma'am, you certainly do not ignore a craving for pineapple fried rice! this looks so delicious!
- June 9, 2009 at 7:25 PM
- The Italian Dish said...
Gee, this would make a great meatless meal. It looks so refreshing. This would make a great side dish, too, for grilled chicken. My family is going to love this.
- June 9, 2009 at 7:38 PM
- Peter G | Souvlaki For The Soul said...
I agree Susan! You never ignore a craving for fried rice! This is so wonderful! Love the flavours.
- June 9, 2009 at 7:43 PM
- Manggy said...
I've no doubt as well! Love me Pineapple Fried rice too-- have you ever served it in a half-pineapple? Hee heee :)
- June 9, 2009 at 7:45 PM
- Rachel said...
And you got me craving for it now.
- June 9, 2009 at 8:24 PM
- Unknown said...
I really want this rice! Now I have to buy another pineapple.Yum!
- June 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM
- Jude said...
Looks like there's a lot of room for hot chiles because of the sweet pineapples. I'm thinking this would make a great side dish for pan-fried fish.
- June 9, 2009 at 8:38 PM
- Susan @ SGCC said...
That fried rice looks perfect, just perfect! This is one of my fave dishes when we go out for Thai food. Damn! Now I'm craving it too!
- June 9, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
That looks so good! I crave Thai food all the time ;-P...
- June 9, 2009 at 10:03 PM
- Sharon said...
What a yummy fried rice! I always sneak bites of food when I'm photographing!
- June 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM
- Parita said...
Oh i love thai pineapple fried rice, i had made this once..your post reminds me to make this again:)
- June 9, 2009 at 11:17 PM
- Finla said...
WOw one of the best rice i have seen for a while, love the pineapple inthem. My daughter would love this, bookmarking them.
- June 10, 2009 at 2:45 AM
- Anh said...
The fried rice is soo delicious! And I do understand your craving. I have been craving fried chicken wings for weeksssss!
- June 10, 2009 at 2:57 AM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Fried rice is one of the dishes I get cravings for, too. My favorite version has chunks of salmon, mushrooms, and green onions, with orange juice, oyster sauce and soy sauce for the flavorings. Sounds weird, I know, but it's truly delicious. Might just have to make some later today.... that's how cravings work!
- June 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM
- veron said...
This is one of my favorite fried rice!Looks fantastically yummy. We make this with a little shrimp paste back home.
- June 10, 2009 at 5:42 AM
- Ramona said...
Love the pictures. It looks good. We do love fried rice, but hubby hates pineapple.
- June 10, 2009 at 5:56 AM
- Katie @ goodLife {eats} said...
That looks heavenly! I sample when I'm photographing too.
- June 10, 2009 at 6:05 AM
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Gorgeous photo. Strange but pineapple is low on my list to enjoy when cooked (love it fresh). My husband on the other hand loves it cooked and fresh. Maybe I should do this just for him.
- June 10, 2009 at 6:16 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
heather-Nope, you sure don't. ;)
elaine-It makes chicken a little more exciting. Hope they like it!
peter-Thanks so much!
mark-No, I haven't done it. I have a fear of food "boats." ;)
rachel-It works that way. ;)
jude-I had mine with pan fried tilapia and Jeff had salmon. It's lovely with both.
susan-It's catchy!
rosa-Oh, thank you!
sharon-I knew I wasn't alone!
parita-Everybody needs a reminder now and again. :)
happycook-Let me know how you like it!
anh-Now I'm gonna be craving chicken wings!
lydia-It could become a chain of blog post cravings!
veron-That must add wonderful flavor.
ramona-I didn't know there were people who could hate pineapple. ;)
katie-Who can resist, right?
tanna-Father's Day is coming up....
- June 10, 2009 at 6:59 AM
- Culinary Wannabe said...
I was planning on serving Chinese food on Friday and was thinking I would scour the web for a fried rice recipe, and voila! Thanks! Can't wait to try this!
- June 10, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- Karen said...
This is the second yummy post for fried rice I've seen this morning and now I've got a craving!
- June 10, 2009 at 8:35 AM
- Zita said...
I couln't belive that I've never eat pineapple fried rice, love pineapple on my pizza why not on rice? And you cutting it in small bites rather than chunks make the fried rice looks so pretty and delicious :)
- June 10, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- Patsyk said...
It looks amazing! I haven't had fried rice in quite awhile... now you are going to get me craving it, too!
- June 10, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- Laura said...
I am completely on board with anything that includes pineapple. Brings back good memories of eating that decadently mediocre type of sweet and sour pork when I was a child.
- June 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- The Duo Dishes said...
This has been ordered many times but never made at home. Shame! Now we shall have to make it.
- June 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM
- Christie Stump said...
Now I can't help but be craving Thai Pineapple Fried Rice! This looks awesome!
- June 10, 2009 at 11:55 AM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Well, I may have to return the craving! This looks delicious, and I think I've got little pineapple that needs using up! Maybe someday we can team up for a buffet!
- June 10, 2009 at 1:49 PM
- Kristen said...
I agree - you absolutley can't ignore a craving like this. I never even knew it existed and now I'm craving it!
- June 10, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- Abby said...
I LOVE fried rice. Cashews and pineapple is a new one to me. I think Cash would love to share (he's okay with nuts, I didn't wait to give him peanut butter - went with the idea that we're okay with it he probably is and keeping him away could lead to a problem; and he'd love pineapple! My niece adores it.)
- June 10, 2009 at 2:46 PM
- We Are Not Martha said...
Yummm. I LOVE pineapple in my fried rice! This recipe is definitely being bookmarked :) Can't wait to try it!
- June 10, 2009 at 2:54 PM
I'm definitely making this for my kids. They love pineapple! Thanks for a great recipe!
- June 10, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- Kimi @ The Nourishing Gourmet said...
I love this recipe for it's simplicity! I love pineapple anything too, my family would love this.
- June 10, 2009 at 5:50 PM
I am dying for some of this now. You have passed the fried rice craving on, and I have some leftover rice sitting in my fridge begging for this royal treatment. Looks divine.
- June 10, 2009 at 6:43 PM
- Soma said...
No you certainly cannot ignore a craving for something so beautiful! Wish I could have some of it now for my dinner.
- June 10, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Fried rice of any kind is one thing I can really get a craving for.
Great, now you've done it!
- June 10, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- Creative Classroom Core said...
This looks sooo tasty! Love the pineapple!
- June 10, 2009 at 8:20 PM
- Aparna Balasubramanian said...
I make fried rice on and off, but never with pineapple in it. Must try this one too.
- June 10, 2009 at 9:50 PM
- Cris said...
All my posts take so long to be written, I just wish I had more time :-) but yours are always so well written no matter how long it takes you to prepare them. This is an easy recipe huh, hum leftover rice and all ingredients that are easily found in the fridge... I think we're having this today...
- June 11, 2009 at 9:05 AM
- Erica from Cooking for Seven said...
I'll bet this would be really good with Thai coconut rice. Can't say that I've ever made fried rice, but this looks delicious. This definitely goes on my list of want-to-make.
Wonderful photos, btw.
- June 11, 2009 at 12:11 PM
- The Single Guy said...
Wow, that fried rice looks really fluffy. Great technique! And smart that you chilled the rice in advance. Very impressive!
- June 11, 2009 at 1:25 PM
Nope. I certainly would NOT ignore a craving for that. In fact one seems to be developing....
- June 11, 2009 at 5:12 PM
- nora@ffr said...
yummm!! love thai food.. but never had thai paneapple fried rice before, sounds really delicious
- June 11, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- Barbara GF said...
The heck with the spoonfuls, I would have eaten this for breakfast! Can't wait to make it, Susan.
- June 12, 2009 at 8:07 AM
- Justin said...
i was trying to decide between a recipe like this and a noodle recipe before I hit the market today. I went with the noodles, but looking at your photo, I think I made the wrong choice. yum.
- June 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- Juliana said...
Love rice with pineapple...and the one that you feature looks just fantastic...yummie! Would have some of it just right now. Nice pictures as well.
- June 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Diane Schuller said...
Oh those tofu cakes sound fabulous! I'm not keen on warm pineapple so, for me, these gingery tofu cakes sound yummy!
- June 12, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- Johanna GGG said...
yum - I love pineapple in fried rice - now you have me wanting to make it too - I have made so much rice lately I am kicking myself for not having leftovers I can use
- June 12, 2009 at 10:14 PM
- Deborah said...
I love recipes like that that just scream out for you to make them!
- June 14, 2009 at 8:43 PM
- Unknown said...
What a colourful fried rice! I like the pineapple in it!
- June 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
ashley-Don't you love when that happens?
karen-Now you've got to make it!
zita-I like them better smaller.
patsy-It's contagious!
laura-Mmm... I used to love sweet n sour pork whenever we ordered take-out.
tw-Ooh, an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet? I'm in!
christie-That's what I like to hear!
abby-You could just omit the nuts too if you're concerned.
wanm-Great! I hope you like it!
doudishes-And it's really easy!
carol-Hope your kids like it! Thanks.
kimi-It really is simple.
haleysuzanne-Perfect timing then!
soma-I wish the same for you! ;)
kate-Sorry. ;)
finsmom- Many thanks!
aparna-It's really good. Hope you give it a try!
cris-That is so kind of you to say. Many thanks.
erica-Thanks. I'm glad you liked the pics.
ben-Yeah, chilling it helps prevent it from clumping. Thanks!
oneparticularkitchen-That's how it starts. :)
nora-It's really delicious!
barbara-You're my kinda girl! ;)
justin-Ha! Next time then. :)
juliana-Oh, thank you so much!
diane-I love those tofu cakes. Hope you try them!
johanna-Just save some from the next batch!
deborah-I know!
kevin-Thank you!
- June 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Made this last night, it was delicious. Added 1/4 pound small shrimp and some raisins. 2 of us ate all of it.
- July 19, 2009 at 10:56 AM
- Rumela said...
I was made this for dinner tonight, and it was delicious! I was a little nervous it wouldn't have enough depth of flavor, but it turned out scrumptious. even my meat-loving husband liked it. I'm trying to do several meatless meals a week both for our health, so I really appreciate easy, thai pineapple fried rice meals. thank you for shearing your post.
- August 14, 2009 at 3:11 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
leo-Mmm... raisins sound wonderful! I'm so happy you both enjoyed it!
rumela-I was a vegetarian for many years, and though I eat meat now, I still have veg only meals several times a week too. So I'm thrilled to hear that you're doing it too, and that your meat-lovin' husband may be converted yet! ;)
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19 September, 2012
Cosmos Blocks
Isn't this fabric loverly? It is the new Cosmos Collection by Laura Gunn, produced by Michael Miller. Paired with her awesome Painter's Canvas.
I must admit that while I've always loved Laura's fabric and have purchased bits and pieces before, I've never used it. It is just so different from the rest of my stash that I felt unsure what to do with it. There is a clear painterly quality to the prints that set them apart. Not surprising considering Laura is an artist! So this time, when Laura sent me a charm pack of her latest collection, I decided to stop fighting my stash and use Laura's fabrics with Laura's fabric. And what a smart decision it was.
Such a simple quilt. The charms, in both the Painter's Canvas and Cosmos Collection, paired with big chunks of Painters' Canvas in vibrant colours. I think it is a rather modern bit of piecing that really does highlight Laura's fabrics. Admittedly, it felt kind of lazy to do something so simple. But I don't care. I love the big blocks of colour, the texture of all the prints, and the final result.
Once quilted, this one will also be destined for Camp Kindle through the 100 Quilts for Kids blog drive.
Laura graciously shared the charms with me. I purchased the additional Painter's Canvas from Hawthorne Threads.
Posted by Cheryl Arkison at 1:42 AM
Labels: 100 Quilts for Kids, fabric, quilts
5 comments:
- Suzanne said...
The painter's canvas has such wonderful texture to it. It's a great pair for Laura's charms.
- September 19, 2012 at 4:24 AM
- Katie @SwimBikeQuilt said...
Oh, it's beautiful!
- September 19, 2012 at 4:57 AM
- Carla said...
Lovely thing to be able to give a quilt. Blessings on you
- September 22, 2012 at 11:55 PM
- Victoria said...
Very pretty! I will have to look for her Painters' Canvas prints, I like that almost solid look.
- September 23, 2012 at 6:06 PM
- jeifner said...
It is great! Simple and clean and delightful.
- October 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM
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