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My Thoughts on Working For Freeposted by Andrea | 03/1/2012
I've been working for myself for almost 5 years now — and it definitely hasn't always been easy, or even always enjoyable. There were many, many days when I wondered why I was working so hard for "nothing" — and I often thought about returning to the corporate world, just because working for myself was really overwhelming and stressful at times.
However, I'm so glad I stuck with it and fought through those difficult months {and years} of long hours and hardly any pay… because now I'm doing what I love, working from home, AND actually making money 🙂
Yes, I make money doing my job and I suspect that you also make money at your job — after all, that's what a job is!
Should I Work For Free?
While I'm certainly NOT against volunteering, charitable giving, bartering, or offering free/discounted services when the opportunity presents itself; I often have to remind myself and others that this is MY JOB, and I can't work for free!
You would never expect a plumber, electrician, web-designer, or accountant to work for free; so why should I be expected to work for free just because I'm a stay-at-home-mom who "sits at my computer all day"?
Maybe I have a more flexible work schedule than most traditional jobs, maybe my daily commute is shorter, and maybe my office dress code allows PJ's until noon — but this is still my job. I've worked REALLY hard and have made tons of sacrifices to get where I am today. I have goals and dreams too — and I'm not going to reach them by always working for free!
Yet I'm always amazed at how many people expect me to work for free!
I frequently get emails with 3 or 4 images of someone's room/closet, the dimensions of their space, and a novel-length message describing what their issues are and how they would like their space to function. The emails conclude by asking me to reply with a few design ideas, links to organizing products I would recommend, and any other advice I am willing to give them — all for free of course!
I get just as many requests asking me to donate my services for certain organizations, speak for different groups of people, write for other websites, and train people to become professional organizers… all out of the goodness of my heart. And while I am generally a pretty nice person, I just can't do that all for free.
I've even been asked to put advertisements on my blog… for free! Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't the whole concept of advertising to PAY someone else to promote your products? Yeah, I don't do that for free either 🙂
In these situations, I usually just send a quick email explaining that although I would love to help them with their requests, I'm extremely busy and can't always offer my services for free. I make sure to direct them to any blog posts that might be helpful for their situation… and I also provide links to my services and my advertising information.
Sometimes these people become clients, sometimes I never hear from them again, and sometimes they respond back saying how offended they are that I would ever think to charge them for my advice and my time!
After all, I'm JUST a stay-at-home-mom who sits at my computer all day long!
If you work from home, you know as well as I do that there are many pros AND cons of this type of work — especially once you throw kids into the mix!
And just like most jobs… it's just not worth all the time and hassle to do it for free — at least not for me!
I suspect I'm not the only work-from-home-person who has run into these issues before!
And while I sometimes feel rude, money-hungry, or like I'm a horrible person when I explain that I can't work for free; I just have to remind myself that this is my job!
I love getting a great deal as much as the next person, but I also feel like my services have value and shouldn't just be "given away" for free — at least not all the time!
Finding Balance
Now before you leave thinking bad thoughts about me, let me reassure you that I definitely DO donate lots of my time, my services, and my money to people and organizations I have a personal connection with or causes I feel strongly about.
I also happily respond to tons of emails and comments each month with helpful information for readers looking to start up a blog, start an organizing business, or just with general questions {seriously, LOTS of emails!} I don't mind doing this at all because I know how many questions I had when I first started my blog and my business… and I still go to other more experienced bloggers with my own questions.
I have no problem being helpful or providing information, I just don't understand why some people expect me to give up hours and hours of my time for free — like I have nothing better to do.
Yes, I love my job… yes I love being helpful… but no, I can't work for free!
What are your thoughts on working for free?
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Debbie @ Deliciously Inspired11/11/2013
I think you are spot on and appreciate your post. It gives me a lot to think on. I have found it amazing that I offer so many free resources and yet the ebook of recipes at a nominal price I created from my blog doesn't seem to move much. Still learning – thanks for your insight.
Crystal @ Blissful Homemaking03/23/2012
Blogging is VERY time consuming. Especially when you are trying to make a business out of it. I own several websites, trying to get my focus on how to get rolling in this business. I have also received some rude emails, specifically from a company who wanted to do a giveaway. They asked me to do seriously like 12 things for one little item to a reader and then insulted me saying "we're not asking you to do much to get this free $5 product!!". It would have taken me about 2 hours to do everything for this little $5 item that I would not personally get either, only for 1 reader.
You are completely justified in your feelings. I was appalled when you said people replied back to you after you told them you could not help them for free!
I totally get what you are saying. As a photographer I really have paid some dues by doing freebies (which I didn't mind…at first). Then it became apparent that folks wanted me to do their photography work because it was professionally done & they thought for free. However, after I started handing them business cards and I told them to call me that I'd give them a good price, I wouldn't hear from them. I'd see later they'd hire someone else they knew. I realized then how badly photographers can be treated when first getting their business going. Some people were using me as long as they could get it done for free, if not, they'd revert to paying someone they knew or find someone else that would do it for free. I've stopped almost all freebies now except when I need some modeling work done (my model gets free shots), some work for charitable organizations and I also do mission photojournalism for free. If you don't get paid you are a charity.
I am not a blogger or online business owner. I'm a professional musician. Even though I don't play in a major orchestra, I still freelance and offer my services for churches, colleges, venues, etc. however, most of my work is home. On the pro level, there is usually a rehearsal and one concert. However, music can be tough and I will have to spend hours upon hours practicing. Not to mention, I make my own reeds (I'm an oboist). Pay is not great but you would be surprised how many people want me to put in all of these hours for free. Driving hours to rehearsals, practicing to keep my reputation at bay, making reeds throughout it all, spending time away from family, etc…for free! It seems that a lot of people have forgotten its not high school band anymore and expect you to come work because you enjoy it. I do enjoy it but when your child is with your husband whos been on a factory floor all day eating yet another pbj for dinner, I expect money in return.
Minerva Reply:
June 29th, 2012 at 10:25 am
I am right with you… I am a professional harpist and requests to play for free drive me nuts. Do people even know how many years it has taken me to become a qualified musician? Or how many hours it takes to prepare for the average gig?
This doesn't mean that I don't play for free… I gladly donate my services to my church (because it is MY CHURCH), and I have played for friends' weddings as a gift (a $200 value!), but I don't give away services to just anyone.
Sarah @ Sarah's Deals03/03/2012
You hit it exactly on. I think the biggest challenge in this for bloggers is that our sites and the information we post is free to read and some people tend to equate that to not having a value related to our time.
Blogging starts as a hobby for many, becomes a job for some and a career that we love for those of us that are blessed to view it that way. If someone is a hobby blogger, they get the love of a hobby out of it as a scrapbooker would creating a new page. For those that focus on it as a job and make money, but have lost their passion for it, it's a chore. For the blessed few, we do what we love and get paid to do it, but just because we love our "job" doesn't mean there's less value to it.
Um…it's your job, one gets paid for a job, therefore you should in no way feel bad about not wanting to work for free. Now, if say your Mom asks for help organizing a closet that's one thing but emails from people for free advise..nope, no way. And I am a stay at home Mom who currently does not have a pay check kind of job (but is hoping to have something part time next school year) so I am not saying this as someone in the same position as you regarding working. Plus, you have a baby that requires a lot of your time and attention. When you have time to work it should be for a paycheck that helps support your family. There is a lot of organizing advise for free right here on your web site. People can look around all they need on their own for ideas.
Ann,you must be one of the people that ask for free work..lol No one is entitled to get work done for free ever.
Stacey Reply:
April 1st, 2012 at 6:27 pm
I actually appreciated Ann's comment, and I am not one who ask for free work. (I doubt she is, either.)
While I agree that no one is *entitled* to get work done for free, hopefully we understand that at times we are called to share our gifts with grace and love. Granted, that does not mean we do all freebies, therefore undermining our livelihoods. However, I think we must be careful to not cross a line where we expect to be compensated for everything we ever do.
Sometimes we chose not to give of our time in the areas where we earn our livings (I know many who work with students at school M – F who choose not to volunteer in Children's Ministry at church because they feel a need to have a break from teaching…however they DO serve somewhere). Sadly, I've seen quite a few people get so caught up in "making a living" that they choose to step back from serving or volunteering anywhere.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying professionals should all volunteer their services whenever asked (I agree with those posters who feel violated when asked to organize, photograph or provide other services for free, just because they asked), and I'm also not saying that professionals never volunteer or serve. I do agree with, Ann, however, that we are a community, a body, and that Christians are called to use their gifts to help, encourage and bless each other. 🙂
Part of the difficulty is because we live in community. As a community (especially a Christian community) we are to be the arms, eyes, feet, or brain of those who have other gifts and talents (are another part of the body). We are to share with each other and help each other. The difficulty comes in drawing a line between protecting your time and you business. As an educator, I expect parents to periodically ask me questions about their children's struggles in school. (Even when their children do not attend my school.) My techie husband knows that those of us who are techie illiterate will ask him questions about our computers and programs. I hope my pastor doesn't mind when I ask him about an interpretation of a certain Bible passage. The key is to to be up front and honest with each other. I can choose to answer the question or I can tell them that I could give their child an assessment at a later time for a fee. My husband can choose to spend time at a friend's house setting up their computer or he can tell them that he's a little busy right now but can either recommend a small business to help them or he could set up a time in a few weeks. He may even suggest that if it takes more than an hour of his time, he'd like to be compensated at such and such a rate. A musician could suggest that I go to a certain store to seek the music I'm looking for or they could tell me that they'll look into it for me for a flat fee. Sometimes we will choose one way. Other times we will choose another. The boundaries need to be set by us and we need to take less offense if others ask us for help. If we do not make it clear from the beginning that we would like to be compensated for this (as opposed to just helping a s apart of this person's community) then the misunderstanding is ours. If they choose to be offended by our request, that is their problem, not ours. Personally, we do not charge to help family with computer issues, work projects, tutoring/educational advice. If we found someone was taking advantage of this, we might change our mind but that is the choice we have made. (And we love it when they help us in return for no charge!)
Wow! This really hit home! I have made soap and chocolate party favors for quite some time. And there are a couple of friends and family who expect me to do it for only the cost of the supplies. Just this week I received a phone call from one person who I have done favors for a number of times without compensation for my time. She said she would pay me after they are done, just save her the receipts! I felt so abused when she said this, but after reading your post I feel my time is downright violated!! I am certainly not just saving her the receipts!! My time will no longer be abused! Thank you for giving me the validity to stand up for my time!!
sheena Reply:
March 6th, 2012 at 1:46 am
I totally agree with you there but sometimes all it takes especially with friends and family is standing up nicely and saying that you work hard and it is time consuming. It would be nice to get a little more back if they are really your friends they would understand though I have found it can be hard to get family to understand cause well you know family what cha gonna do.
Kim Whiteside03/01/2012
I am actually amazed and grateful for all the FREE advice and instruction you are already giving me. I have been cleaning, organizing and tossing closet contents with a vengeance in the 6-8 weeks since I discovered your blog. The results are amazingly helpful in a number of ways. I have useful things and supplies I forgot I had. I believe I am running my home in a more efficient way than ever before. Thank you for having the heart of a teacher. I think you should send me a bill. I appreciate your generosity with your knowledge!
Stephanie Reply:
March 2nd, 2012 at 8:08 am
I agree completely with Kim!
We have a friend who offered to help us for free with a project in our house. He has put in almost 30 hours of work into it already. We are refusing to let him walk away with no compensation.
One thing I have to remember is to always look out for the other person. Yes I want the best deal, but do I get it at that persons expense? Is that being selfish or loving. We need to learn it is not always about "me" but about others around us.
My motto is, I don't want to be taken advantage of, so why would I think someone else wants to be?
Thanks for all the free help you offer to us on this blog!
Ann Reply:
March 3rd, 2012 at 8:49 am
And if you are financially unable to compensate that friend monetarily, offering your services/talents to him in exchange (for free) would also be a fair compensation which would let him know how much you value his gift to you. Excellent point!
Sorry, I know this is off the topic, but I just noticed your blog is not listed in my Google reader anymore, is the Google Friend Connect gone, or maybe I'm just blind?
Anyways, thanks so much for your blog. I enjoy reading it very much. 🙂
Sarah @ Sarah's Deals Reply:
March 3rd, 2012 at 12:36 am
Google Friend Connect went away for any blogs that are not hosted by blogger this month.
If you dont already have one, perhaps when you're not feeling perturbed at the audacity of some people, write a form letter saying that you would love to assist them with their current project, and your fees are such & such and you estimate their project would take an estimated time of X hours/days/weeks. Also, attach a standard contract and tell them you would be happy to address their project after they sign it & start payments, however you do these things. Im ignorant of your process.. lol but something to that effect.
Im pretty handy with a camera, and I've done several weddings.. for free of course, since they were friends.. but I will never do it again. I tell them, I can be your friend at your wedding, or I can be your photographer.. pick which one you want. I'll give them a better deal than if they hired a stranger, but it wont be for free.
Dont be apologetic either, just state in black & white, what is black & white. Some people will always try to take advantage, and others simply are clueless. We dont have to judge them, we just have to set them right, nicely & kindly. 😉
Heidi Reply:
March 2nd, 2012 at 5:22 pm
I completely agree. Having a contract or agreement makes for a less awkward situation as well. That way people have clear expectations up front.
Rachel Reply:
March 5th, 2012 at 8:31 am
Kim, I know exactly what you are saying. I have taken online classes, studied independently, purchased professional equipment including Photoshop CS4, learned, learned, learned & practiced, practiced, practiced. When I shoot an event, I may spend hours editing the images and others are clueless as to the time and money I spent on my photography. Still, they try to get it for free or dirt cheap . I suspect I've even been included in certain events just so I'll shoot it. I've learned to leave the camera at home. I really appreciated your comment about coming as a friend or photographer.
I don't work from home, but wish I did. I can just imagine that people try to get as much as they can for free. Not sure where they get the idea from, maybe because you have a blog and you are great at providing information about organization, so they think they can just ask you for anything??
Stick to your guns and do what you think is right.
Liz C03/01/2012
I try to guard my freebie time *very* carefully, so I can make enough money with paid projects to support doing freebies when I feel so inspired. Finding that balance is tough. It took awhile for me to learn to *not* be offended, but to just let the other person know that I could do X, Y, or Z for them, and the cost would be in this range. The end. If they protest, I smile and say, "I'm sure you'll find another option that will work for you, then," and just don't get offended. I'm not obligated to take on projects, period. I LOVE that flexibility!
I know of a lawyer who got tired of friends and others asking him legal questions at parties that he started sending invoices for his advice after the party. When he got phone calls complaining about the invoice, he calmly explained that he was at the party to enjoy himself and the company of friends and family but as they had asked him a work related question he belived that they took his advice as serious and as such he had billed them according to his schedule of fees. He had studied hard to become a lawyer and would not belittle his professionalism.
The friends soon relised that if they wanted advice that they were to make an appointment like everyone else and let him enjoy his family and social time.
You just need to be firm, polite and consistant with your replies and remember you are doing what is best for you and your family. (Sometimes easier said than done I know :P)
Perhaps you can prepare a form response to any requests with a copy of your fee schedule outlining your services and your hourly rate, flat fee, etc.? (This will save you lots of time…which means money!)
I'm baffled how people think you're providing endless free services….your blog alone is an amazing freebie!
I understand where you're coming from, Andrea. I'm a freelance book publicist and have worked in book PR for over a decade, including 8 years as a freelancer. I work from home so that I can be with my three kids.
Many authors are wonderful but it floors me when an author contacts me for help publicizing their book and when asked if they have a budget, they say they either have no money or they ask about some odd payment method, such as a percentage of sales (that they're selling door to door–yikes). I'm not sure if these people expect me to work for nothing/peanuts or if they truly don't get the reality of hiring someone. I love to help authors spread their messages but I also am an experienced professional and need to be compensated accordingly. So do you.
I remember when I was growing up and my dad, who owned his own CPA firm, would get cornered by particular people at church with tax questions. He's a very generous person but it drove him nuts.
Nicole Elliott03/01/2012
As a fellow WAHM I *totally* understand–and completely agree with you 🙂
Ugh, yes!! Though I myself am a SAHM who isn't doing any work-at-home stuff currently, my husband is a "computer geek" who loves messing around with HTML and building computers and such…but he has a full time (50+ hours a week) job which doesn't leave him much time for a side business OR puttering about with computers….yet EVERYONE and their brother call my husband whenever they are having computer issues!!
My mom even called us one night at almost 11pm when we were already sound asleep (DH gets up for work at 5am) and I answered the phone, heart pounding cause I thought something was seriously wrong for her to be calling at that hour. No, she was just having a hard time accessing her email and she was freaking about some program my sis had downloaded (not even a virus)!!
It gets pretty annoying when half of our precious little time as a family gets eaten up by people asking for help for free…and my husband has a hard time asking people for money for his help!!
Michele OJ03/01/2012
Hello Andrea,
I love your post. Actually I love your whole website, blogg and posts you put up on a daily basis.
I'm running in to this problem all the time.
I planned a whole wedding for a friend before (for free)
I organized and managed a open house for a Tupperware consultant, to gain more business (for free)
and many many more things.
My recent free work was: Organizing, cleaning and rearranging a bath- and bedroom for a family member. It took me a whole week. Turned out awesome and great, and I received $4 for it. (guess I can't say it was for free)
Everytime this happens I tell myself, never ever again!!!
You are doing the right thing, and I'm still learning. Thank you for this post.
You are doing a great job. 😉
Michele OJ
Ann Reply:
March 2nd, 2012 at 7:04 am
Sometimes at the beginning of a new venture, we need to choose to "give away" our time and services in order to get the word out and to gain the experience that we need so that we can use that experience as a reference. However, once a business is established, it is important to set boundaries and specify them at the beginning so everyone knows what to expect.
Andrea Reply:
March 2nd, 2012 at 7:39 am
Ann, I couldn't agree more! Yes, there are most definitely times when start-up businesses MUST give things away for free… I did that too. However, that can make the situation even worse after the business becomes more established b/c those same people might still expect the freebie service {believe me, I know from experience!} I suppose it's all just a balancing act 🙂
I get this ALL THE TIME in my line of work. I am a professional church musician. I have a BA, MA, and almost-completed DMA (writing the dissertation as we speak). People think that music is my "hobby", that I do it "for fun", and wouldn't it be so nice if I just volunteered my "gifts" for the church.
This is my vocation (not my hobby), it is often fun (but many times not), and it's a skill that I've honed through many years of education and practice (not a gift).
I hear ya, Andrea.
I hired Andrea for a phone consultation for a space problem in my business. I have struggled for years with this issue. Within one hour my problem was solved. I am so happy. It was the best money I ever spent in my business. I have tried hiring others and it became overdone, expensive and of little use. Andrea is brilliant. I am so thankful she is persevering through the ups and downs of her business and new motherhood.
I think you are very kind to answer the people that want free advice with links to posts and services. I would probably just delete their email.
Annette {Simple Mom}03/01/2012
It's sad that someone would be offended to you saying no. All I can think is that someone felt like they were your friend bc they have read so much about you in the blog?? I don't know.
this one is close to my heart especially right now. In addition to being a SAHM and working part-time for my husbands business, I take in all kinds of sewing jobs. If I had a dollar for the amount of times I receive a look of "what your really going to charge me for something you love to do?" Its shocking and sadly my mind goes to that place of "if its so easy – you do it!" There are a few people I gladly trade my expertise with theirs instead of $$$. I think the part that grates me the most is when a client assumes I won't charge, or someone might know how to sew a pillow therefore they can construct or fit a wedding dress – again my mind goes to "if its so easy – you do it." Something similar happens to my husband with his music just because he plays at a professional level it is assumed he'll play for nothing at their little get together…. grrr
like I said a topic close to my heart at the moment
Andrea Reply:
March 1st, 2012 at 2:01 pm
yes sarah, I can see how that would be frustrating! sewing is one of those things that people think, "oh, she can just quick do that for me" — for free! And music is another tough one… because music is always viewed as a "hobby".
I think people are so used to thinking that a JOB is something you don't enjoy… well some of us are just lucky enough to have jobs that we do enjoy!
Truffles Magazine03/01/2012
First of all your entitled to family time and free time to yourself. Second, it can be hard working from home because people do not really get the concept, I am waiting for the day when people realize how productive it can be. Volunteering is a choice one that you should initiate, SOL is a very big piece of your at home business (I think many bloggers, are blogging for fun and so they have a hard time comprehending it being your livelihood). When people reach out to you firmly remind them that SOL & its services is your family business and that you can't provide free services, plain and simple – as far as ridiculous questions (like free advertising – you can't stop these emails from flooding your inbox so just respond with the link to the advertising page & prices).
Just remember your a service business NOT a not-for profit and people often need to be reminded of this.
Ann Reply:
March 2nd, 2012 at 6:59 am
I am laughing right now. I could not figure out what SOL was (in the comment above) because in our house it has a completely different meaning. Duh! Simple Organized Living not S*** Out of Luck!
At one point my my life I was simply unable to get the courage up to tell people I charge. I finally burnt myself out with all the free consultation and quit. Not a great solution but it was what it was at that time. Now, I would speak up and tell them what I charge.
I agree with you Andria. This is a business and with all your experience and knowledge which is invalueable it shouldn't come free and people shouldn't expect this.
You absolutely should NOT feel bad about telling people you don't work for free. I am also a WAHM and just like you, I actually WORK for a living.
I could write a huge comment post here agreeing with all of your points and about how frustrating it is when people think that because someone works at home, they are just "playing," but I need to get back to my own job! LOL
Never, ever, ever feel bad about charging for your services, whether it is advice or physically clamoring around in someone's closet. Your services and advice are absolutely just like a plumber or lawyer or any other service professional who charges for their knowledge. If folks get angry over that, that's on them, not on you.
So, can you come over for coffee and take a look at my closet! BAHAHAHAHAHAHA, actually this cracked me up, my husband has a professional job (not a doctor, but close) in the medical career and people will ask him random questions or even call on the weekends or evenings and ask a question even when he is not their provider……..I can hear his end of the conversation and it is sooo funny……….no matter what job you have, everyone wants to get what you have to offer for free……
Deb Reply:
March 1st, 2012 at 10:11 am
meant to say medical field… 😉
Loved this. So true …
Julie @ The family CEO03/01/2012
Great post! I think we have an especially hard time with this as women. And as bloggers, many of us started out as hobbyists so we have to train ourselves to think in a new way.I like Shelly's point that if we respect what we're doing others will too.
Andrea Reply:
March 1st, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Yup, for some reason we let ourselves feel guilty if we don't volunteer and give our skills away for free. I know a few male bloggers and they have told me they hardly ever get these requests — so it really is just women!
Janet Reply:
March 1st, 2012 at 11:30 pm
I loved this post and I have just started working from home writing content and blogging. I have already been taken advantage of re: time and effort.
But to hear that men hardly ever get asked – its absurd!
I also work from home as a content manager for a website, and people think I do nothing all day but surf the web. I don't understand why working from home is hard to understand. It is exactly the same as if I go into the office and did my job, except my office is in my apartment. I work a solid 8 hours. And just like any other job, if I do my job I expect to get paid for those hours.
I completely agree with your requests. It is rude for people to get upset when you say you honestly don't have the time. PLUS you have a little one now. Don't feel undervalued or pressured by people. There will always be people who bring negativity and feel like they deserve something they didn't earn. Just focus on your family and all the blessings you have. Don't let people's rudeness get you down.
Tiffany @ No Ordinary Homestead03/01/2012
There is a major difference between deciding to volunteer yourself and people just expecting you to give your time up for free. I've been working at home since 2006 and a WAHM for 3 years now. My time working and with my family is worth a lot to me…and I let people know that. If you blog professionally or have another business on the side, no one should ever make you feel like they deserve your advice (which most ppl pay for) for free!
I get emails from people all the time regarding my blog, who clearly never bother to look at the advertising page. They offer nothing or a few bucks to promote their site & products — and I know there are bloggers out there who do it. But I value my blog, my readers and what I've built in the last 6 years too much to just pimp it out to anyone.
I think that if you feel the cause is worthwhile and it speaks to you, then by all means work something out pro bono. But if it's just a company trying to use your fame to hawk their wares, let them know that you do actually charge for those services and aren't willing to give them a free ride. There's no shame in that at all!
I know exactly what you mean! This year, I'm living in Spain while my husband is playing pro basketball over here, and I've been giving private English lessons and tutoring. I haven't been asked to give a lesson for free, but I feel bad a lot of times charging people just for me to talk with them in English – Its so easy for me! But my husband reminds me that it is my time, my inconvenience (I go to their houses), sometimes I have to pay for travel to get to their houses, so I try to remember that I could be doing other things with my time, and I shouldn't feel bad for charging because this is my job!
There's absolutely nothing wrong with working for free as long as that is your decision. I found that it was more difficult to gain respect from others when I worked at home. Having the flexibility worked well for my family, but others continued to see me as a stay at home mom available to help them out with childcare or errands. I think people look at blogging as a hobby, something you can do whenever the mood strikes. It's up to you to keep the professionalism of your job in the forefront. Be careful to make sure you always respect what you are doing, and that will rub off on people.


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Annnnnd… It's the middle of the month already. Whoops.
A few weeks ago, I came up with the grand idea of marinating a brisket in gochujang – a Korean red chili paste. It had been a while since I had done a brisket. I also thought I'd be fancy and get the Choice Angus cut from restaurant depot that cost somewhere around 20 cents more than the "regular" kind. Angus breed cows are supposedly certified to a certain degree of marbledness, but I haven't really been able to tell all that much.
Gochujang is a condiment that features heavily in Korean barbecue. It is made out of red chili, glutinous rice, fermented soybeans and salt. I happened to have some on hand from an earlier cookout where I bought some Korean short ribs and other meat from H Mart. I had attempted to write a post on it, but it was spectacularly uneventful (which is what happens when you don't prepare your own meat).
Gochujang is also very, very red. Or orange. Or whatever color it is. I had some doubts whether it would actually marinade anything since it is rather pasty – usually watery marinades penetrate the meat better. To keep it from being too salty, I went with a ratio of 2:1 for pepper to salt.
I had gotten a bit of late start to seasoning and trimming overnight; I got back from a movie (Magnificent 7, in case you were wondering) around 12 and then got finished with the meat around 1 in the morning. An unfortunate consequence was that I had to get up around 5 or 6, leaving me with around 4-5 hours of sleep. In general, I was bit annoyed with the shape of the brisket. The flat muscle in some areas looked too thin and the point was very… pointy. Much to my frustration, I had some difficulty in squeezing the brisket on the elevated rack that usually use. I removed it entirely.
I ended up wrapping it around 2, a bit earlier than I would have preferred. Usually I like to let the brisket to start getting out of the stall before wrapping. I also ended up taking it a bit off earlier than usual – maybe right around 200 and didn't let it rest as long as usual (two hours instead of four.)
As a result, I thought the flat ended up kind of dry. I attempted to eat a bit of the end and it tasted like the bizarre love child of bacon and beef jerky. I wasn't too sure if the marinade had anything to do with that; there were also just too many different factors going on this time around for me to pinpoint exactly why it turned out the way it did. Nobody else seemed to mind however. (Though I suppose that should be the correct response whenever one is presented with free meat). The point was fine.
As I suspected, the gochujang doesn't really add all that much flavor. There was a bit more spice, but with the sauce, pickles and onions that we use for sandwiches, that flavor tends to get blocked out. For it to penetrate the meat more effectively, I think the paste would have to be mixed with some water to form an actual marinade in which I could submerge an entire 14-pound brisket.
Anyways, I guess you can't win them all. The one lesson from this particular cook is to be more careful when choosing the shape of your brisket and to improve timing a bit.
This is neither here nor there, but I've noticed that part of the gasket that installed on the Weber has started falling off. I originally pasted it on to improve the seal between the lid and grill. Turns out that having it come off isn't necessarily a bad thing. Because only a portion of it has fallen off, it has essentially become a second vent that is closer to grate level – this means that I can increase the amount of air/smoke being let out and allow it to circulate more. I think the seal might have been a little too effective before, making it hard to increase heat by limiting the amount of smoke going out the top. In recent cooks, it has become more evident when I open the bottom vents – you can see a direct increase in smoke coming out from the top and sides.
In other news, there's now a lemoncat Instagram! You can follow me at lemoncatbbq.

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- Design and architect elegant, scalable solutions
- Be an active member of one of our self-empowered Scrum teams producing software according to Agile principles
- Write clean, tested (we like TDD!), elegant code that fits well with our high hybris standards and quality requirements
- Use Java Enterprise (BigData, Scalable, Tomcat), Spring Framework (Core, MVC, Integration, Batch) and Web Services (SOAP, REST) in your everyday job
- Take our platform to the Cloud with PaaS and SaaS models
- Lead younger colleagues by supporting them in their work and being a role model they can follow
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Subscription service dramatically reduces cost and network complexities for small and medium enterprises and hotels with AI-driven proactive network monitoring and self-healing for a low monthly fee
October 12, 2016 – CAMPBELL, Calif. – (BUSINESS WIRE) – KodaCloud Inc., the first company to offer enterprise customers with Cloud Service Wi-Fi powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), today announced it has come out of stealth and has reached two milestone achievements after just a few months of commercial service:
1. KodaCloud's AI-powered Cloud Service Wi-Fi is now managing over 500 Wi-Fi access points
2. The signing of its 100th Managed Services Partner (MSP) to bring KodaCloud's unique service to market
KodaCloud's disruptive services model requires no investments in equipment or software licenses by customers or managed services partners and is already commercially available. Research firm Dell'Oro estimates the market for cloud managed Wi-Fi to reach $1+ Billion by 2020.
"KodaCloud is speeding up the industry's move from buy, own and manage to Network as-a Service (NaaS) model for enterprise customers," said Bernard Herscovici, founder and CEO of KodaCloud Inc. "We are very pleased with the support we are receiving from the MSP community and the positive feedback from enterprise customers after just a few months of commercial service."
KodaCloud's service consists of a network of Wi-Fi Access Points (AP) that are shipped directly to customer location(s), without the need for a customer to buy equipment or a partner to manage an inventory or shipments. With the use of web-based dashboard, or the use of a smartphone app, a customer or partner can install and activate a Wi-Fi business network in minutes with AP-to-cloud activation using existing LAN and Internet. Without the need to buy equipment or software licenses, and for the cost of most vendors' maintenance contracts, KodaCloud delivers and manages Wi-Fi networks for a low monthly fee. MSPs benefit from unprecedented profit margins with KodaCloud's recurring revenue model and customer-direct shipments.
"The key value of KodaCloud's disruptive service is that customers and partners do not have to carry the burden of buying and managing equipment and inventory," said Iain Gillott, president and founder of iGR. "Rather than simply monitoring network status from the cloud, KodaCloud actually manages the network in real time. Customers and partners use the KodaCloud app to monitor their network and take action as necessary, direct from their smartphone or mobile device."
KodaCloud's service monitors, learns, adapts and automatically acts to adjust interference parameters in all customer networks using learning and real-time calculations with contextual information in real time, when and where needed without the active involvement of a network IT person. The patented AI service reduces or removes the need for dedicated IT teams to constantly monitor or manage network interference, or respond to network alerts that identify a problem without a solution.
"The cloud service delivers on its promise," said Scott Minke and Kyle Vorwerk, founding partners at iTrust IT, LLC. "With KodaCloud, iTrust IT has improved the ability to deliver better customer service, more rapidly and profitably, to both our existing as well as new clients, across a number of different verticals – without making investments into our own cloud or Network Operating Center (NOC)."
Service Overview
- No hardware or software license to buy and free software updates
- 24/7 Wi-Fi Monitoring and automatic network troubleshooting
- No Wi-Fi expertise, certification or tools needed
- KodaCloud replaces or updates the network access points as needed
- View or manage an entire Wi-Fi network from a smartphone or Web Portal
Ecosystem Benefits from Cloud Service Wi-Fi
- SMB, hotels and multi-location enterprises benefit from an affordable monthly Wi-Fi network-as-a service which reduces cost and network complexities. With KodaCloud, a customer's network received regular software and feature updates free-of-charge.
- Managed Services Partners (MSP) benefit from recurring monthly revenue, even after a customer's network is up and running. With KodaCloud, there's no need to carry a large inventory of access points and MSP benefit from KodaCloud-to-customer direct shipments, and unprecedented margins.
- KodaCloud is a service partner to enterprise customers and MSPs. KodaCloud's business is about growing recurring monthly revenues with great service and innovations.
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"For big ideas to become a reality, a proven and experienced team makes a big difference," said Louis Toth, managing director. "We've invested in this team before and believe KodaCloud has the ability to change how enterprise networks are built and managed."
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"KodaCloud is addressing the intersection of wireless, cloud and enterprise services markets," said Tomas Valis, partner. "The combined growth opportunity is tremendous."
Voyager Capital
"KodaCloud's recurring revenue services model is a spark of innovation in a market that's dominated by one-time equipment selling," said Bill McAleer, partner. "KodaCloud's Cloud Service Wi-Fi push the boundaries of enterprise networking and is disrupting existing business models."
About KodaCloud Inc.
KodaCloud, formerly Art2Wave, is the first company to offer enterprise customers with Cloud Service Wi-Fi that's powered by patented Artificial Intelligence (AI). KodaCloud is a privately held company with Series A investments from Comcast Ventures, Celtic House Venture Partners and Voyager Capital. KodaCloud is based in Silicon Valley, California with offices in Ottawa, Canada. Find out more at www.kodacloud.wpengine.com and follow the company on Twitter @KodaCloud and on LinkedIn. ©2016 KodaCloud Inc. (trademark pending).
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THe Perfect Spot
written by Ellen Emerson White and illustrated by Robert J. Blake
In search of the perfect spot for Dad to paint and his son to look for the sphinx caterpillar and the cricket frog, a father and son walk on trails, climb hills, and cross glens in their search.
Dad learns to "chill out." This is the first book I wrote that achieved critical acclaim and maybe my all time favorite.
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Remove any bias you might have about Gotye's mega overplayed hit "Somebody That I Used To Know". Gotye's performance is fresh and unassuming, full of complex sounds and inspiring melodies. Here, he performs at the Santa Barbara Bowl, September 2012.
Rainbow Girls
Sassy, talented, determined and fun. Some bands need encouragement in front of the camera. Not Rainbow Girls. Here, In the studio moments before running to the stage at MuddFest 2012, September 2012 in Santa Barbara.
Fitz & The Tantrums
How it must feel to stand above thousands of adoring faces!
Michael Fitzpatrick at Outside Lands, August 2012, at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
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Authentic. The real deal. Satisfying. Their performance spoke simply.
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Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne is an ´amazing make-believe game that will take you to the Elves, Druids, Witches world and the most dangerous evil shadows!'.
In this campaign, you will return to Azeroth, where you will go on facing new dangerous events.
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne offers in this launch ´novelties´ that will delight the fans of this fabulous Warcraft saga. You will enjoy new combat units that will arise with new knowledge and spells that will make your fighting more dynamic, you will be able to have neutral heroes enlisted, sharing their experience with your team. You will also be able to have a new hero for each existing race enlisted. Moreover, the player will be able to create tents with new devices for the improvement of the team´.
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne will take you to a world of action full of imagination and magic, where you will have the chance to show your mental abilities.


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Inspirational crystal quote of the day:"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good morning everyone and happy middle of the week. Yes, it is still a bit on the chilly, chill, chill side of the thermometer at a brisk 44 degrees but things are warming up a smidgen and as far as I'm concerned, that is muy bueno. The sun is out and slinking closer to the horizon and there is more than a bit of an off-shore-to-side-shore wind ruffling the waters feathers. As for surf.... gee, after watching both spots for exactly 22 minutes while sipping my coffee and listening to Miles Davis it is one of the rare mornings where nothing, and I mean NOTHING resembling a wave came through. Hey, it's a clear day and a SUP tour could be in your near future. Any changes that may arise today I'll be sure to report them right here.
CHANNEL: Draining lagoon, not a wave to be seen and the Pelican just moseying on through on his Janitor special doing his morning exercise paddle .
PATCH: Choppy, sloppy and not much else. Sorry.
RIP Steve "Steve-O" McAlpin - who passed away Monday after a fire destroyed his home. Long-time Bodega Bay resident and Sonoma County surfer. Steve loved Bolinas and especially the Patch. He will be missed by everyone.
Respect the Beach.
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WINTER HOURS are now in effect. We are now open daily from 10am - 5pm from NOVEMBER through APRIL.
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The collection: Pacific Islands
The Pacific collection contains items from many different island groups.
This collection numbers approximately 2000 items from Australia, New Zealand and many of the Pacific island groups such as Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti and Easter Island.
Significant items include a Tahitian mourner's costume, which was acquired on the 2nd Breadfruit Voyage by Lt. Francis Godolphin Bond, who served on the HMS Providence in 1792. There are also items that relate to the voyages of Captains Cook and Vancouver. An early piece of Cook Island bark cloth is likely to be 18th century in date.
Other important maritime journeys include that of the cruiser HMS Mildura to Vanuatu in 1897, which was commanded by Henry Leah. Also, the Melanesian mission ship to the Solomon Islands, Southern Cross, in 1912.
Contemporary material that reflect the traditions, even changes, of modern day island culture include several dance crests from Uvol, New Britain, which were made in 1987 for a community festival that is held every 25 years and commemorates generational change.
Genealogy was made by artist Rosanna Raymond in 2007 and highlights how barkcloth is relevant to Polynesian islanders today. These bark-patched trousers relate to the artist's ideas about her own mixed heritage. Rosanna refers to Genealogy as taonga, a Maori term given to items that are considered treasure.


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Can You Try Out for College Sports Teams?
Trying out for a sports team can be a positive experience that can enrich a student's college experience. In most cases, it is best to make inquiries with the athletic department about trying out for a particular team when you have not been recruited to play. You might be given an opportunity to make the team in one sport but not another.
Major College Sports
It can be very difficult to get a fair opportunity to show your skills for a major college. If you have not been recruited and are not a scholarship player but you want to walk on in a major team sport like football, basketball or baseball, you need to speak with the coach before you show up. For example, if you played high school football and have a dream of playing college football for a school that might be eligible to play for the national championship, you will have to convince the coaches that you are worthy of even showing up for practice. Arrange a meeting and come equipped with a videotape of your high school play and a letter of recommendation from a previous coach. This might get you consideration, but it will be up to the coach to say whether you should show up. Even if you have played before, you might have a chance only to make the team's practice squad and have very little chance to play in games.
Non-Revenue-Producing Sports
Football, basketball and baseball are considered revenue-producing sports. Other sports like golf, tennis, soccer and volleyball offer scholarships but also might offer other athletes a legitimate chance to make the team in a tryout situation. For example, if you are a golfer and have ability, you can make a team with a strong showing in tryouts and then earn a scholarship or partial scholarship, according to College Scholarships.org.
Non-Division 1
If you are going to a non-division 1 school, you will have a chance to try out and might be able to earn a partial scholarship or grant. According to College Athletic Scholarships.net, Division III and NAIA colleges have scholarship money available. The number of Division III athletes nearly doubled between 1982 and 1987. Small college teams have more players on their rosters than major college teams. Lindsey Wilson, an NAIA program in Kentucky, had 33 players on its men's basketball roster in 2011. That's more than twice as many as most Division 1 programs.
Top Walk-Ons
Once in a while, a player can go from from being a walk-on who succeeds in a tryout to one of the top players in the game. This was the case for Clay Matthews, who walked on at USC, earned a spot on the team and ultimately was drafted by the Green Bay Packers, where he became one of the most productive players on the Packers' defensive team. Safety Jim Leonhard was a walk-on at Wisconsin, excelled in the secondary and made the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent. He became a starter for the Jets.
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The Principles
The principles of Jesus are layered within his specific cultural context but also offer timeless personal and social organizing application. His life and actions embody each of the following practical actions.
Turn the Other Cheek
Jesus introduces this principle while addressing the Roman oppression of the Jews of his time. The teaching is not concerned primarily with surrendering to personal injury. Instead it is a nonviolent way to reverse personal shame caused by the oppression of power systems (the state and abusive culture it reflects). The principle is an act of resistance that turns the tables on power structures of insult and shame. By going the extra mile, stripping naked from your tunic when an oppressor demands your outer coat, and offering your other cheek when slapped to know your social place, you refuse to acknowledge the power of evil and thus let it collapse under the weight of its shame.
Turn the other cheek is about not repaying evil with violence. It is about stopping the generational cycles of vengeance that plague communities not imitating Jesus. If it applies to the evil of oppressive structures, how much more does it apply to our common neighbors' nonviolent vices? Do not repay their ___ evil (drug use, consensual sex work, greed, racial hate, etc.) with violence.
Using defensive force to protect victims against actual violent crimes (theft, fraud, child abuse, assault, or attempts thereof) is not violence. Defensive force to protect victims from physical violence is a morally consistent understanding of true law and order that honors victims by protecting them from aggression. In contrast, any use of a law to violently stop nonviolent behaviors, no matter how sinful they may be, only creates a cycle of more violence, family dissolution, and antisocial resentment.
Drug cartels, greedy businessmen, racial bullies, violent pimps can all be systematically defeated as their desires for power devours itself when we allow it to collapse under the weight of competitive market pressures coupled with a lawful order that brings to the light of justice those who initiate theft and assault.
Drop the First Stone
Humans tend to act against their better nature when considering whether to use violence in a crowd. This applies to voting and jury decisions that use violent force against nonviolent behaviors. Jesus confronted a crowd ready to stone a woman caught in the nonviolent act of adultery. Adultery causes much more social decay and unrest than heroin or selling raw milk, actions we criminalize today. Jesus knew the woman's life was sacred and must be seen as such by the persons succumbing to a crowd mentality. Just like the modern voter who secretly casts his ballot, every member of that crowd was blind to the personal responsibility of the violence they were about to initiate.
Jesus dismantled the crowd-mind that obfuscates our personal responsibility for violence by stirring each man to question, who among us will cast the first stone? This immediately drew attention to the stone each one held in their hand. It was much easier for them to cast the stone in the safe anonymity of the crowd. But by calling each person out of the group haze, Jesus reversed their knee jerk imitation of violence into an imitation of nonviolence. Each person, starting with the older men, threw down their stones and walked away.
We must realize as Christians in the voting booth and jury box that we are responsible for the stone in our hand—no matter how many people appear to be joining us in violent aggression against a nonviolent person. When we recognize the violence we are hiring politicians to carry out on our behalf with regulations against nonviolent vices, we can drop our stone in the jury box or voting booth. Such brave imitation of Jesus will cause others around us to imitate our nonviolence.
Take Up Your Cross
Jesus said "Take up your cross" to follow him. That means for Christians we don't get to crucify others for nonviolent acts we find self-harming, reckless, or shameful. We must sacrifice the fear of our neighbors' freedoms rather than sacrifice our neighbors by criminalizing vices we do not like. Expanding on the "turn the other cheek" principle, "taking up your cross" also means being willing to suffer persecution from ruling authorities.
We must be above reproach by obeying all laws, unjust or just. The only exception is for laws that would require us to personally participate in violence against our neighbors.
Get Behind Me Satan
The Apostle Peter sees that Jesus's ministry is striking a chord with the Jewish people, especially the marginalized and exploited. He knows there is a growing popular movement that could fulfill the people's longing for a violent revolt against their corrupt leaders. When Peter hears Jesus say he will be handed over and murdered by the authorities, he insists that it never be. Jesus rebukes him with the retort, "Get behind me, Satan!"
The Hebrew word for Satan is "Accuser." Think a blood-thirsty, lying, antagonistic prosecutor. Jesus is saying Peter's resistance to the nonviolent self-sacrifice is a temptation for power. Peter is accusing him of having the same worldly, power-makes-right, violence-based ethic with which Peter struggles. If Jesus gives into the temptation, Peter will be locked in the same old scandal of two well-meaning violence-affirming revolutionaries trying to outdo each other in power and dominance. Jesus says this way is not the way of God.
We see oppression, economic injustice, poverty, illness, and corruption all around us. We must tell political movements whether from establishment politicians or revolutionary activists to "Get behind me, Satan" when they tempt us with the use of violence to balance the scale of justice.
"Just this one law, to get revenge on their history of sins," the temptation whispers. But we must get behind it in our personal and community lives.
Walk on Water
One of the most ecstatic Gospel stories is of Jesus walking on water in the midst of a storm. Jesus's act is subversive political theater as he uses the Sea of Tiberius—named after the Roman emperor ruling the Jews—as his carpet.
Jesus tells Peter to get out of the boat and walk with him. Peter begins to obey but looks down at the raging waters and sinks. Jesus saves him from drowning.
Many Christians hear the teachings of Jesus and conclude that since they themselves are not Jesus they will not attempt to imitate them. They promise try here and there but do not fully imitate his life in everything they do. They make excuses like, "I'm not Jesus. He forgives. I don't."
In the context of the raging storm, such passive followers will not even get out of the boat. They are more content to stay fearfully in the boat in awe of Jesus not interested in mastering the storm as he does. In this way, they make Jesus an object: a ticket into a social status, ideology, or after-life destination.
The storm of our society can be daunting. The suffering and confusion and strife can feel overwhelming as we see it rage around us. But all we must do is imitate Jesus. The stormy water can be our carpet. Duty is ours. Results are in God's hands.
We need to see Jesus as the subject, the message, of our life, not an object we can attain for superiority and comfort.
Dying by the Sword
Peter takes out a sword and stabs the High Priest's chief servant. Notice that the servant is a mirror of Peter. Peter is the chief follower of his own priest Jesus. As the real High Priest, Jesus washes the feet of his followers and refuses to imitate the violence-based domination of the official High Priest of his community.
By trying to kill the High Priest's servant, he is losing his own soul. Stabbing his rival, Peter imitates the very evil notion of power about to murder Jesus. The text notes he slices the servant's ear. In resisting evil with violence, Peter demonstrates that he cannot hear Jesus's way of life. His mirror, the High Priest's chief servant, physically embodies this lack of faith with the loss of an ear.
Jesus tells Peter those who live by the sword die by the sword.
This warning does not mean we cannot use measured force to subdue a man assaulting an elderly lady down the street. By extension, we can still create laws against violence.
Jesus is saying that the Kingdom of God succeeds through nonviolent mercy not violent revenge. This applies to the way we treat our neighbors victimized by chaotic regulations against nonviolent behaviors. It also applies to those in the state and allied-corporate power. We cannot defeat systems of evil by imitating their violent ways and means. Only joyful, nonviolent love can overcome the world.


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Shira Anthony was a professional opera singer in her last incarnation, performing roles in such operas as Tosca, i Pagliacci, and La Traviata, among others. She's given up TV for evenings spent with her laptop, and she never goes anywhere without a pile of unread M/M romance on her Kindle. You can hear Shira singing "Vissi d'arte" from Puccini's Tosca by clicking here: Shira's Singing
Shira loves a great happily-ever-after and never writes a story without one. She's happy to write what her muse tells her, whether it's fantasy, sci fi, paranormal, or contemporary romance. She particularly loves writing series, because she thinks of her characters as old friends and she wants to visit them even after their stories are told.
In real life, Shira sang professionally for 14 years, and she currently works as a public sector attorney advocating for children. She's happy to have made writing her second full-time job, even if it means she rarely has time to watch TV or go to the movies. Shira writes about the things she knows and loves, whether it's music and musicians, the ocean, or the places she's lived or traveled to. She spent her middle school years living in France, and tries to visit as often as she can.
Shira and her husband spend as many weekends as they can aboard their 36' catamaran sailboat, Land's Zen, at the Carolina Coast. Not only has sailing inspired her to write about pirates and mermen, her sailboat is her favorite place to write. And although the only mermen she's found to date are in her own imagination, she keeps a sharp lookout for them when she's on the water.


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Some of you may have been asking, "Is SOHOSTORY still in business?" It's a fair question for you to ask, since it's been fairly quiet over here.
The answer is, "yes."
For the last two months, I stepped away from photography to do non-photo related contract work. I only had time to do a few portrait shoots on the weekends and documented Rolff's story. Otherwise, I was on hiatus.
Although I was not initially expecting it to, the contract work changed the pace of my life. I went from working all day and evening on my time to the typical 9-to-5 job on the company's time. This was not easy, but it was a "forced" opportunity for me to step away from my business - it gave me the chance to reflect on every aspect of my personal and professional life.
I also recently wrote a short photo essay about slowing down. I had to pause and think about my life.
Looking back at how I had been running my business, I now see how tangled it was. I made an excuse that I was a creative and let myself too loose, just like all the cables in the photo. I was like a firefighter - I went where there was fire, rather than creating my own. As a creative, I should have be creating, not waiting to alter what had already been created.
Also, the experience of sharing Rolff's story reminded me why I had started SOHOSTORY in the first place. I have been called to be a storyteller, to tell stories that have yet to be told, and to tell those that glorify the One who deserves it. When it all began, I was scared and had many sleepless nights, so I took the safe and easy route. I took all the jobs that paid my bills and ignored others that could have really meant something. Even my photographs were not me - they were simply pretty pictures that did not say much of anything. My mantra became, "fake it til I make it." And honestly, I just did not want to be vulnerable and didn't know how to deal with it.
I had to refocus myself.
Rolff's story was shared at a time when I was most vulnerable and lost about why I had entered the world of storytelling. Even though I was scared and fearful, I felt compelled to share. I thought no one would ever see it, but I was ok with that. I wasn't trying to build traffic on my website. The story just had to be told. To my surprise, the story was shared by many and donations for the family flooded in. It was amazing to see how Rolff's life had touched so many people's hearts and the love of God was shared throughout the community.
With this experience, I am slowly learning to embrace my vulnerability. This is possible because I have a loving wife who keeps me grounded. Without her, none of this would even exist. Also, I am so grateful to be surrounded by people, like my colleagues at WELD, who constantly remind me to do so. SOHOSTORY will continue to take beautiful portraits, headshots, and event photos, but the main focus will be to share stories.
Take 10 minutes and watch this video from TED. It's by Brené Brown, called "The power of vulnerability."


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JTH Lighting Alliance
With key partnerships and talent, JTH Lighting Alliance aims to be an industry leader providing cutting-edge solutions.
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For nearly 30 years, JTH Lighting Alliance has been a leading national independent manufacturer's representative servicing clients – including architects, engineers, lighting and interior designers, lighting showrooms, electrical distributors and contractors – in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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ATLANTA – Strong performances from Tyaunna Marshall, Alex Montgomery, and Metra Walthour powered the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (7-4) to a 69-53 win over the 21/22 ranked rival Georgia Lady Bulldogs (6-2) in front of 5,015 fans at Alexander Memorial Coliseum Sunday afternoon. The 16-point margin was the Jackets largest win ever over the in-state rivals.
"The reason we had the opportunity to win the game was because we took care of the ball and played with a lot of poise," head coach MaChelle Joseph said. "When they made a run or made a big play, we didn't let it bother us. We just came back and made shots, made defensive stops. This is a team that is getting better. When more people are scoring, we're a way better basketball team. After these next two weeks, being able to work Danielle Hamilton-Carter more into the mix, I think we're going to be an even better basketball team when we come back in two weeks."
True freshman Ty Marshall led the Jackets with 20 points, her sixth game in double figures this season and second game breaking 20 points, both coming against ranked opponents. She added four assists and two steals as well.
"I just came in to the season accepting my role," Marshall said. "Coach said my role is to play defense and attack, and I've been playing my role the best I can."
Senior guard Alex Montgomery had 18 points and three assists. She led the Jackets from long-range, connecting on 3-of-5 three-pointers, and has scored at least 16 points in three straight games.
Metra Walthour was the third Jacket to get double digit points, contributing with 16 and adding four steals, five assists, and zero turnovers.
"Coach always says that we're a better team when we have more scoring from the outside," Walthour said. "There are a lot of teams that want to double down on Alex. I just came into the year knowing that I needed to step up and hit shots, and help my team in scoring. It's proven when we [guards] score better, we're a better team. We're just trying to step up and help Alex out."
Georgia Tech held a four point lead at halftime, leading 35-31, and managed to extend their lead by outscoring Georgia 34-22 in the second half to get the victory. Tech improved to 5-1 on the season when taking an advantage into intermission.
Georgia Tech made five straight shots from the field–all of them layups or from close in–and knocked down three free throws to stretch it from 37-36 to 50-39 with just over 13 minutes remaining. The Lady Bulldogs went 1-of-5 during that stretch, turned it over four times
The Lady Bulldogs dominated on the boards, outrebounding Tech 50-29, including 26 offensive rebounds, and is only the second time this season that Tech has been outrebounded. Georgia was led by forward Porsha Phillips, who had a game-high 15 rebounds. Sasha Goodlett pulled down six boards to lead Tech.
The Jackets blocked a season-high seven shots Sunday. Goodlett had a season-high three blocks, and Walthour added two. Tech was successful in pushing the pace of the game. The Jackets had 13 fast break points to Georgia's 2, and held a 17-6 margin in points off of turnovers.
The announced attendance of 5,015 was the fifth largest crowd in Tech Women's history at Alexander Memorial. Two of the top five highest attended games have come against UGA.
The victory was Tech's first over a ranked opponent in over a year, with the last such win coming on March 1, 2009 over 22/19 Virginia.
Georgia Tech takes a break for exams over the next two weeks, and returns to action December 21 at Portland State.


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First there was the rogue reporter, then the rogue executive, and by last Thursday, an entire rogue newspaper.
Even that, though, seems to have been subsumed by a new strategy on the part of News International, after warnings emerged that some senior executives knew about a 2007 internal inquiry that concluded hacking was more widespread than the activities commissioned by the jailed former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman.
The intent of the plan seems pretty clear: to insulate NI's chief executive, Rebekah Brooks – whose closeness to Rupert Murdoch was underlined by an all-smiles dinner trip in front of the cameras in London on Sunday night – but above all to protect Murdoch's son James, the News Corp chairman in Europe, and the man marked out as the heir to Rupert, at a business that for all its size is a family firm in which the patriarch has done deal after deal to protect his personal control.
But the risks of the strategy are considerable – pitting executive against executive at an organisation already in a state of civil war and full of journalists dismayed by the sudden closure of the News of the World.
It may look like a new development, but the new strategy has it roots as far back as January. Brooks has gradually been building a team loyal to her – starting with the arrival of Will Lewis, the former Daily Telegraph editor, as her deputy last September. It was Lewis who "had the ear of key people" and began to argue that the company should concede that hacking was more widespread than the old rogue reporter defence that had held since 2007.
The approach began to take shape in January with the suspension and then dismissal of the News of the World's assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson.
Lewis also stiffened up his team with the appointment of the former Chelsea FC spin doctor Simon Greenberg – a close personal friend – at the beginning of the year.
Meanwhile, tensions within News International had been brewing throughout 2011. Relationships deteriorated between Brooks and her team and Colin Myler, the News of the World editor, and the paper's chief lawyer, Tom Crone, both of whom were no longer involved in internal inquiries relating to phone hacking.
A different lawyer, Jeff Palker, sits with Lewis and Greenberg on News International's management and standards committee, whose job it is to deal with the hacking allegations, the police criminal inquiry into phone hacking and the range of civil actions that beset the UK arm of Murdoch's News Corp.
Until last week that body reported to Brooks, but in the wake of the Milly Dowler hacking allegations, which date back to Brooks's editorship of the News of the World, she is no longer at the head of the committee, which would in theory be investigating her.
Despite that setback, the new power group felt emboldened to break with the previous regime as they discovered the existence of the 2007 inquiry and emails that appeared to show evidence that £130,000 worth of payments were made to police officers in the middle of the last decade, in order partly to buy phone numbers of members of Buckingham Palace staff that may in turn provide the details needed to hack into their phones.
Information about payments to police emerged last week – as revealed by Lewis's longtime friend and former colleague, the BBC's business editor, Robert Peston.
Over the weekend, more information emerged from Wapping, suggesting that knowledge of the 2007 inquiry was more widespread, and in so doing suggesting other executives have questions to answer about what they knew, including Myler and Crone, and in particular the former News International executive chairman Les Hinton, who was Brooks's boss and on-the-ground adviser during the time she edited both the Sun and the News of the World.
Hinton remained tight-lipped yesterday, declining to comment. But the new power group's manoeuvre increases the possibility that any under-pressure executive could brief against those currently in the driving seat.
Meanwhile, there remains endless speculation as to why Rupert Murdoch is so keen to protect Brooks. Those close to Brooks say simply that she is focused on the clean-up operation, but the argument advanced by outsiders is that she is effectively a "firebreak".
If she were to resign now, attention would rapidly move to James Murdoch, and in particular his role in signing off a £700,000 settlement payment in the Gordon Taylor phone-hacking case in 2008; her presence gives public anger and external criticism a focus that helps protect the eventual succession.
Others at News International are clearly unhappy with the new briefing strategy, whose risks were underlined yesterday when the Metropolitan police said: "It is our belief that information that has appeared in the media today is part of a deliberate campaign to undermine the investigation into the alleged payments by corrupt journalists to corrupt police officers and divert attention from elsewhere."
But those pointing with satisfaction to the Met's rebuke know that for the moment it is not they who are driving the company's response to the hacking crisis, which seems determined to protect those currently in charge with an eye to the company's long-term future.


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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Why India will face more terrorist attacks?
3 comments:
- Srivats said...
I think we should be happy that riots did not break out in mumbai. Sadly, its gonna take a few centuries more for a collective maturity to surface - the acts of a few should not be factored in for stereo typing.
Technically, we cannot blame these people. The press, the TV channels, and mass media - films, TV serials etc, should do their bit to educate the populace.
See, this country is going to the dogs slowly and the Prime Minister is busy telling George Bush that we love him. So apt!!! We deserve no better media and institutions. The charade of this pinup democracy is slowly showing it for what it is. I am surprised that you are surprised and angry at this as if this were new. There was a genocide of 2000 Muslims in that state in 2002 and nothing has come out of the investigations and you call such petty things as sowing the seeds of terrorism. If people in this poor country had taken up arms for such things, this country would not have existed till now.
Sample this:
Shah Rukh Khan, when asked about Narendra Modi: "Personally, he has never been hostile to me. I have never met him."
Soon, the chickens will break out of the roop and the soup party will be over.
- Robin said...
@ bhuvanesh,
yeah... Gujarat riots left a deep scar in our nation that can never be rectified.. Yeah! It was a genocide.. I believe that the riots is one of the reasons for the increased terrorist attacks in India...
But thanks to our democracy, we will still triumph over all our differences, genocides and any other thing done by fascists in the country...


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text: Share: Comments Print March 29, 2013 at 3:54 PM Democratic tracker still follows Rob McKenna in case of 2016 run Posted by Jim Brunner Ever since he lost the gubernatorial race last year, former state Attorney General Rob McKenna has downplayed the likelihood that he'll run again in four years. But the state Democratic Party is taking no chances. The party's designated "tracker," Zach Wurtz, is still shadowing McKenna at public appearances, looking to record him in hopes of capturing some damaging video that can be trotted out if the Republican decides to run for office again. Democratic tracker Zach 'the track' Wurtz. That may seem a little early — maybe even hyper-aggressive — but it's a reality of modern politics. Trackers point their cameras at opposition candidates as often as possible, trying to record their statements and slip-ups — or, even better, rattle them into saying something stupid. The most famous example of that tactic's success may still be Republican George Allen's infamous "macaca" outburst in 2006, which helped him lose his Senate seat. Though he never imploded like Allen, McKenna made at least one tracker-related mistake in the 2012 campaign, when he snapped at a young Democratic Party volunteer to "get a job" after she approached him on a Seattle sidewalk to ask his position on legislation requiring insurance companies to cover abortions. It was Wurtz who caught the moment on camera. Jaxon Ravens, executive director for the state Democratic Party, said McKenna has continued to keep his name "in the mix" by giving speeches at GOP conferences and dinners. "I definitely think he's a potential candidate in four years," he said. "If he wasn't speaking at all these events, we wouldn't be tracking him." Randy Pepple, who was McKenna's campaign manager last year, scoffed at the continued surveillance. "It's all about personal destruction. Of course that's what they're going to do," he said, slamming "unlimited union money" that funds such efforts. But the Republican National Committee has acknowledged begrudging admiration for the Democratic Party's tracking efforts and is calling for the GOP to catch up. The RNC's recent post-election autopsy report recommended that "well-funded conservative groups should seek to hire activists to track Democratic incumbents and candidates with video cameras constantly recording their every movement, utterance and action." Comments | More in homepage, Politics Northwest | Topics: Rob McKenna, tracker, Zach Wurtz


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Serverless is a new trend that says the focus of a software development should be in the business, in the code and not in the servers. The idea is the developers don't need to worry with the server side of things.
We will see a GraphQL serverless tool, Graphcool. It provides us a production-ready GraphQL backend to build our apps faster. It includes integration with various third-party services, authentication and more. Let's check it out!
We have other episodes where we talked about GraphQL, if you want to check those out:
Today, we will look at Graphcool and use its example with the Apollo client.
Let's create an account on their website, we can log in with Github. We will
create a new project called
MyPosts. This will be an app containing only an
image and a description for this image.
We will use their quickstart app they already have with Apollo. This is very similar to what we did in a previous episode.
So, let's clone this repo.
Let's install the dependencies:
yarn install
And run our app:
react-native run-ios
The app is really simple. It has two screens. The first screen is a list of posts with each image. The second screen is a screen to create a post, by passing the image URL and the post description.
Everything starts in the root component where we pass our endpoint API and we
call our
ListPage component.
const networkInterface = createNetworkInterface({
uri: "API_ENDPOINT"
const client = new ApolloClient({ networkInterface });
export default (
<ApolloProvider client={client}>
<ListPage />
In our ListPage component, we use the following query:
const allPostsQuery = gql`
query {
allPosts(orderBy: createdAt_DESC) {
And this query gets our
imageUrl and
description. The rest of the ListPage
component is just a list showing each Post and its image.
We don't have our schema yet. Let's create that!
We will need to create our schema. We will have a
Post type with
imageUrl and
description. We saw in previous episodes the bang (!) mark at the end means the
field is required.
type Post implements Node {
createdAt: DateTime!
description: String!
id: ID! @isUnique
imageUrl: String!
updatedAt: DateTime!
Doing this, we will have these pending changes:
Post: A new type with the name `Post` is created.
description: A new field with the name `description` and type `String!` is created.
imageUrl: A new field with the name `imageUrl` and type `String!` is created.
Let's apply our changes. We can see in our Graph View or just in this list, our new type Post.
Let's set up our app, by passing the Graph cool API URL to the root component. Now our app is connected with the back-end.
Graphcool has a playground where we can try things. It is using the following mutation to create our posts. Let's use this mutation and create a new Post:
mutation {
imageUrl: "https://dummyimage.com/600x400/000/fff"
description: "My Post from the Graphcool website"
) {
Once we run this mutation, we can refresh our app and see this new Post we have created in our app. This is cool!
We can also see what we have created in the Data tab.
Graphcool has some integration with Auth0, Algolia, and more. We can also write our own functions. We will write a function that posts to Slack via Slack's webhook.
Let's go to Functions, create a new function and our function will be a server side subscription. It will post to slack once we have a new Post.
On the inline code, we will put our code, it does a POST request to our slack, and we will pass the post description and image url.
const fetch = require('isomorphic-fetch')
const FormData =require('form-data')
module.exports = function (input, log) {
const url = 'YOUR_SLACK_WEB_HOOK_URL'
var description = input.data.Post.node.description
var imageUrl = input.data.Post.node.imageUrl
var payload = `{ "text": "${description}\n ${imageUrl}","channel": "#general"}`;
fetch(url, {
headers: {
'Content-Type': "application/json"
method: 'POST',
body: payload
And in the subscription query we need to pass description and imageUrl.
Let's save, that, open our slack and create a new Post in our App. Boom! It posts in our slack the description and the image we have posted!
We can do anything you want with these webhooks, here we show just one example with Slack.
Today we saw how to use a serverless tool that can help us quickly prototype a React Native app. It has nice integrations with third-party services and it gives us a production-ready GraphQL backend.


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We caught this little guy under a rock. When they feel threatened, they have a really cool defense mechanism where they will just drop their tail and run away while the tail, detached from the body, squirms around like crazy. Crazy diversion tactic. The human equivalent would be something along the lines of cutting our own hand off when surrounded by a street gang and then running away while the dismantled hand is flipping off the very confused enemies.
Okay back to McGill News. For this one they ran a story on the McGill Daily and asked me to get a shot of Joan Moses, the coordinating editor of the Daily. One of the images from this story ended up making the front page of the McGill website which was pretty cool.
These next shots were part of a story where professors and students of McGill picked their "favorite spots" on campus. Professor Watson (top), an economics professor, chose the Faculty Club restaurant, which is this ridiculously fancy looking restaurant hidden right on campus. Chandeliers and tuxedo-wearing waiters in an old mansion. Or maybe my memory is just over-glorifying this. I'll try to sneak back in there one day. Then there was Professor Friedman, in architecture, who chose the Redpath museum as his favorite location, notably because he appreciated the arching windows in the back.
I also had an assignment with McGill Faculty of Science Alumni Newsletter on our Bio lounge, but the story never went through, so I can't show you the picture now. Maybe next time. Aside from these assignments I've also had a few regular people/portrait shoots in Montreal, just like with Devin & Michela.
And a maternity shoot (this is Melanie, you may recognize her as the bride from one of my weddings!).
And then these guys, Architek Percussion, a cool all-percussionists band.
See? So I haven't been that lazy. I'll be back to a more regular posting schedule. So come back for more!