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I've been looking at doing a bit of freelancing on the side but looking at eLance and rentacoder, what the hell? All the projects I found were ridiculous. Someone wanted a design + build for a site "with the functionality of okcupid.com" for $500. Even worse, there were bids at this price!
This one's fun: https://www.elance.com/j/wesite-online-sudoku/30865576/?backurl=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWxhbmNlLmNvbS9yL2pvYnMvcS1waHA= $200 - $300 for a semi-complex site and wants someone to work for 6 months?
At first I thought people were just unrealistic but a lot of these are getting proposals!
How does anyone make money working for these kinds of projects? Even the ones with slightly more realistic pricing had proposals at the very low end.
I agree with you TomB. Although I have no realistic coding experience, it seems that this has been an issue for years. I have in the past been pretty much into blogging, minor website building etc and have made minor pocket change. I believe it takes a few years to break into the biz of making major bank or a majority of people move to working for corporations to make a substantial paycheck and do moonlighting jobs via web forums etc.
I think the bids you see come from shops located where the price is actually great pay according to their standard of living. In USD, I often see projects that I would quote at 3 - 10K with requests for 500 like you said. Crazy, but that's enough to pay them a nice payday, especially because they'll use "off-the-shelves" parts like WordPress or other packages that are 80% built and just need some customization and more configuration than anything.
My recommendation is to make some projects of your own and find work with word of mouth and direct promotion. I am still able to charge 3 - 4 figure numbers for different types of websites because I handle everything for the client. A-Z, the cheap elance projects are great for you and me, where we can bill 3K for a site and have someone build it for 400 or less for example. But word of mouth will get you what you are worth. Also, even though you are "global" just by virtue of being online, focus on your local market. I litterally pitch to stores and businesses that I visit or are close by and it seems to work a little better than trying to get someone who is across the world, to buy my website.
Find the value add that you can bring to a client and then the "feature" loaded and cheap projects don't have a leg to stand on. i.e. support, great hosting, updates, etc.
I was speaking to an experienced business man recently who assured me that neither he nor anyone he knows would ever consider cheap work like that—where the service provider is probably on the other side of the world and living in goodness knows what circumstances. So you can safely leave clients of that sort with their cheap services, and focus on people who are serious about their business. There are plenty of them around. As ziggydigee said, focus on local clients, with whom you can develop a trusting, face-to-face relationship.
I meant 4 - 5 I think. My projects run from 3K to 25K and as 2lpstong said, the face-to-face goes a long way. Also, don't be afraid to turn down people that want to cut your prices too low. To setup your prices, honestly evaluate your work and see who else does that kind of work in your area. The more people you find, the better your work has to be in order to charge more, or about the same. Find their deficiencies and build upon those and then you can start charging more. Make every client happy, and never underestimate their network. Stay in touch with them.
Also when setting up pricing or negotiating, have a "first time" discount set somewhere on your site or somewhere so you can offer that right-off the bat. It shows seriousness and intent to do business. And you start the negotiation process. I offer 10 - 20%. Then if they want more or they say my bid is too high I ask them what they are willing to pay. If I like their budget, then I might come down to it and eliminate certain features from the quote and re-bid. This way, they stay under budget and you give them the best number of features they can afford. If their budget is really low, then I may offer them yet another less feature-rich option, or tell them that I can't have them as a client. Have a network of other people that you can refer them to that might do work for that price.
I totally agree with going local and making connections. However, I do have a full time job. I'm not looking to freelance full time just for some extra work on the side but the money there... I'd be better off working in a bar or something!
Perhaps it's just the people who use those sites... the people posting the work mostly have either little understanding of how long things take or simply want things done very cheap. If it was as simple as people bidding too low then it wouldn't be as much of an issue.
I did actually get some very profitable work from RentAcoder several years ago. It was an excellent client who understood what he wanted, was reasonable in his expectations, and was prepared to pay a good price for the work.
But this was very much an exception. I've often perused the work on offer at RentACoder since then (or vWorker, as they now call themselves), and I've seen nothing remotely as good. The vast majority of it consists of a vague spec, with no clear indication of what is required, and a maximum price that is ridiculously low.
A particularly bad experience I had was with a legal practice. They wanted all bidders to sign a non-disclosure agreement before even seeing the spec, and insisted that the signature had two witnesses. I went to quite a lot of trouble to do that. But after I sent back the signed document, I never heard another word from them.
My advice would be to avoid any kind of mass-market intermediary service when looking for freelance work. Rely on your own circle of contacts and associates, or look for requests from individual clients that you can talk to face to face.
But this was very much an exception. I've often perused the work on offer at RentACoder since then (or vWorker, as they now call themselves), and I've seen nothing remotely as good. The vast majority of it consists of a vague spec, with no clear indication of what is required, and a maximum price that is ridiculously low.
A particularly bad experience I had was with a legal practice. They wanted all bidders to sign a non-disclosure agreement before even seeing the spec, and insisted that the signature had two witnesses. I went to quite a lot of trouble to do that. But after I sent back the signed document, I never heard another word from them.
My advice would be to avoid any kind of mass-market intermediary service when looking for freelance work. Rely on your own circle of contacts and associates, or look for requests from individual clients that you can talk to face to face.
Exactly, so these are not the clients you want, you shouldn't look for work there. Too hard to compete at those prices (as stated) Bet bet is word of mouth. A full time job doesn't prevent you from treating this like a business, just have to do less than a full time business. Still maintain a schedule, establish prices and find the local customers or dedicated people that might just need a little bit of education to understand your pricing.
Know what you mean. I have a full time job as well and was looking to branch out to some freelance work. Started looking around the "freelance" sites if it can even be called that. Anyway, long story short I just gave up. I make a steady pay check so no need to whore myself out <snip>under the most vaguest of requirements, absurd dead lines and what would seem like mostly difficult "clients". I don't think using those "freelance" sites is the way to go.
Indeed. It does seem bizarre that those sites aren't really worth it. However, how does someone build up word of mouth starting from a position of zero clients? Where do I look first?
The unreasonable price is caused by the fiercer competition. If you don't do it, someone else will take your place, it is also reality.Low price could heip you win customers at first, and if you do your job well, you'll be paid more in the future.
Or, the client will be accustomed to paying the low price, and will resist you attempt to be paid more in the future.
You might have to start off by doing something in exchange for links to your website or for credits about being the webmaster. Sometimes one of these is enough to have something to show, but 2 - 4 would be better. Non-profits are always in need of sites, you can easily whip something out in WordPress, oooh and aaaah them, wow them and be done with it, setup a nice little about this site page, describing your glorious and grandiose efforts and how someone might contact you to get a website "just like theirs"
If you keep everyone happy along the way, this takes no time.
That's one of many channels to start with. If you really can't get anyone else to pay you, exchange a site for a service. Calculate what you want to do on the site and how much you'd charge in cash, add about 30% and convert that to products or services and ask for barter deals on craigslist or forums. Expect about a 90% failure rate, but the 10% is worth it sometimes. BE SURE to establish an actual $dollar amount to your project and how you expect their services or products to add up to the total amount for you to be compensated. I've used this quite a bit with great results one-on-one with local businesses.
I hate to say it but such services are designed and created for second-world countries (e.g. Asia) and are not really created for the modern world. I live in a country were our cost of living highly outweighs that of many modern countries, including the States, so settling of such services would only really fuel more economic problems.
Most of those bids are from the developing world, and not from developed countries. Realistically only somebody who's learning would place a bid in there. Let me illustrate, I've just sent a proposal today for a CMS website. I included cloud hosting, SSL, hosting, domain registration and annual support. All that on it's exceeded the 300 USD yearly.
Now a custom website is anything from 1.500 EUR upwards. I tell my clients that there is no two ways about it. Recently I have had clients sending my power-point slides wanting them converting into a website. I never back down and always explain to them that this is not a possibility.
I CMS website needs to have support, needs to be hosted by me for that support, needs to have SSL for it's login pages and as an added extra might need cloud hosting and GZipping for performance issues. Clients need to value this support in order to ensure they don't have problems.
It's possible to make a job freelancing, but even though 'cheap' jobs often deliver sub-quality products. The cheaper deals are never the ideal deal.
Avoid the online market initially. Look at the your 'real' world. Try going out of your comfort zone and going to exhibitions and conferences, mingle with individuals. Don't advertise, as this hardly works, focus more on real world connections. Now online could also work, but you have to stay away from cloud-sourcing websites like this, unless you're doing it as an added extra. Build relationships on-line.
From experience I already have people I work with online, respect your connections and learn to handle your clients properly so they are profitable to you without disappointing them.
Yep, but you're the boss, so just let them know you gave them a discount. Ultimately you are in-charge of what you do,which seams to be the case if you work for yourself like I do.
I recently turned down a client because he demanded very cheap work and even told me that he can get it done from India for half the price. On that note I informed the person that I don't live in India and it's not fair to compare what I do to somebody in India. I then asked him to explore those offshore avenues in India. Now professionally it might have not been the best thing to do, but in light of the negotiation methods carried out, I really don't feel it was going to be a good working relationship.
The work in India is cheap, but the product always reflect's this. I've worked with many many people, and from all the people I worked with were, people from the US are better in such services. I've found people in the developing world to be seriously over-pricing for their cost of living and delivering sub-standard work whilst suffering issues with communication. Some might have the talent, but the language barrier makes work a lot more difficult.
Nothing new under the sun. These projects and bids were present 7 years ago when I was using freelance sites and they didn't go anywhere. The bids you see don't tell half the story. The real negotiation goes on privately almost always so you're best off not paying any attention to them whatsoever. If you're interested in a project, make contact with the buyer and make your proposition. Whether you get the job and how much you get paid depends on your ability to sell your service, not on the public bids. My average winning bid used to be on average ~10x the next highest bid.
If you want Freedom and $$$ then start your own business.
I also second what Ralph said above.
When people ask me to freelance, the very first question I ask is 'What is your budget'. If they say '$500 - $800' I always politely say you can find many people and places around the world that will do this for you and you may hit the budget you want, however I will not work for this.
When they inevitably ask why? I say,
I have invested the last 10 years in web development, and 19 running a business. I don't believe that giving people a site that won't help them make ROI is not even worth spending your budget. Your budget does not allow for high quality design, content, targeting markets effectively or functionality. I have helped many other business to make money or ROI from their websites. They trusted that I am an expert in this field and have paid for my services accordingly.
Then they say,
" But you haven't even listened to what we want yet". I say, "There is no need to, because if this is your budget I respect that you understand why you have it, and am not going to try to influence or up-sell. You should look for somebody else. I will rarely get these types of customers that ever agree to a reasonable budget, so I don't waste their/my time. Sometimes these same people come back a year or so later and ask what a reasonable budget would be for me to work on it. They then describe the nightmare they experienced for their small budget.
Most of my business now comes from the clients that understand the value/expertise of a Web expert and they influence their friends and associates, so more referrals start to grow. With these clients we never have this same sort of conversation. When I say what's your budget they give a number where we have to decide which areas we put the most effort into to wisely spend their money; they have reasonable or above reasonable budgetary expectations; so finding the right type of clients is key.
I know building up customers can be hard. Join your local Chamber of Commerce, Provide advise to business that you frequent; especially about their website/ twitter / facebook, and let them know if they are interested you have some available time to contract your services. Point businesses to your username on Sitepoint or other social sites so they understand that you are confident in yourself and don't have anything to hide. Make sure you have a well updated LinkedIn account and portfolio.
Just because one freelances it is still a business and needs attention to details and marketing efforts, plus the advertised skills.
Ye, completely agreed! In fact I feel that freelancing is how much successful businesses should start off as. It's not what you do, but your connection to those customers.
Me too! Tired of finding freelancing jobs. Its also getting difficult to find sites providing freelancing jobs.
yes, m completely agree with you. but you can starting with low price bid once you have many clients. then you get paid high in future..My friends make good money via elance, they working with elance with 3 years.


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After a basic white bread is mastered, this recipe is a great next step in the art of bread baking. Here you'll use the Quick Mixing Method, where the dry yeast and the dry ingredients are mixed together before the warm liquid is added. This time-saver will help in the assembly of this more complex recipe.
- 1 tablespoon sugar
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- 3/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup dark molasses
- 1 tablespoon instant coffee
- 1 tablespoon butter
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- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 package (1/4 ounces) active dry yeast
- 1-1/4 cups whole wheat flour, divided
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- 1 cup water
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- 1. DARK DOUGH: In a bowl, mix the sugar, salt, yeast and 1 cup all-purpose flour. Heat water, molasses, coffee and butter to 120°-130°; add to flour mixture. Beat with an electric mixer at medium. Add 3/4 cup rye flour and beat 2 minutes. Stir in 1/2 cup all-purpose flour and remaining rye flour. Knead for 6-8 minutes, working in the remaining all-purpose flour. Place dough in a greased bowl. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 2 hours.
- 2. LIGHT DOUGH: In a bowl, combine salt, yeast, 1 cup whole wheat flour and 1/2 cup all-purpose flour. Set aside. Heat water, honey and butter to 120°-130°; add to flour mixture. Beat 2 minutes at medium, adding remaining whole wheat flour. Mix well. Stir in 1 cup all-purpose flour and oats. Knead, working in remaining flour if necessary. Place dough in a greased bowl and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
- 3. Punch doughs down; let rest 15 minutes. Roll Light dough into a 16-in. x 9-in. rectangle. Roll Dark dough into a 16-in. x 8-in. rectangle and place on top of Light dough. Roll jell-roll style, beginning with long side. Pinch to seal. Place seam side down on greased baking sheet. Cover; let rise till doubled, 45-60 minutes. Bake 40 minutes at 350°. Cool on wire rack. Yield: 1 loaf.
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thanks all. It will very likely be separates and tailoring. I was fine with this until I tried on a dress the other day that looked, well, Killer!! on my other than the sausage arms. made me mad. maybe I'll go see if they have a larger size and have it taken in.
"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."Wisdom of Confucius
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That is an awesome dress. Probably flattering on just about every shape.
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JAMES Bond legend Sir Roger Moore stops off in Wirral later this year for a look back at his career as part of a national tour.
The star - who in a career spanning more than 60 years, has appeared in cult 60s TV series The Saint and The Persuaders, several Hollywood blockbusters and played Ian Fleming's superspy for 12 years - is at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton for An Evening With Sir Roger Moore on Sunday, October 5.
The show is hosted by Gareth Owen, who has interviewed Roger and worked with the actor on his autobiography My Word Is My Bond, Bond On Bond and Roger's latest book: Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown – due for release this September.
In his latest collection of true stories from his stellar career, Roger lifts the lid on the movie business, from Hollywood to Pinewood.
He will also talk about his work as an ambassador for international aid charity UNICEF.
The show also includes a chance for members of the audiences to quiz the star.
Speaking to the Globe from his home in Monaco, the 86-year-old said this morning: "It's my first time in Wirral and the show will be a chance to talk about various aspects of my rather privileged life and I will also answer questions from the audience."
He joked: "Because of the affects of old age and Alzheimers' I may end up wandering all over the place, so guiding me through the show will be Gareth Owen, who has worked with me for about 15 years.
"There will be some questions I won't answer; for example, 'who was your favourite Bond Girl?'- that's only because there could be ex-Bond Girls in the audience and I wouldn't want to offend them if it wasn't them."
Rumours have over the years, suggested that the star once lived in Gayton. This is something he dismisses.
He said: "I've never been to Wirral before. In fact, people have over the years seen my white Volvo outside a house and thought I was living there. It's happened at a number of places."
He joked: "Mind you, seeing my white Volvo outside a house would probably be a warning to anyone not to move into the road."
Looking back on his career, the London-born son of a policeman said: "When I started out in films, I never thought I'd get as far as I did. I never thought about the future, just lived for the day.
"I enjoyed all of the roles; but most of them have not been very different. It's been a privilege to have had a career in film."
Chester-born Daniel Craig, who was educated at Hilbre School in West Kirby, has played Bond for the last three films.
On Craig's casting, Sir Roger said: "I think he's terrific. He's the best Bond. He looks like he could kill someone. I look like I could love somebody to death."
On his proudest achievement, he said: "My work for UNICEF was the most important thing. It's real life, trying to make a difference.
"I know that I've been able to make a difference to people's lives by fundraising. Our problems are pebbles by comparison to those in other countries."
On his legacy, he ended: "I don't want to be remembered, because I haven't gone anywhere. I'll hang around until the end and wait for someone else to switch the lights off."
Tickets for his show at the Floral Pavilion are from the box office on 0151 666 0000.


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A Bird's Eye ViewMath brain teasers require computations to solve.
Jack sat in his father's office, atop a bookcase by the wide, floor-to-ceiling window. His father's employer had built this skyscraper right on the shoreline of the lake, directly across which stood the tallest tree in the state. Jack's view was spectacular, and, as he looked across the 866 ft. wide lake, he noticed something which he found interesting. When he gazed at the highest point on the tree, his line of sight was at a 30 degree incline above horizontal. When looking at the base of the tree, where it met the water at the far edge of the lake, he was looking at a 30 degree declination.
How tall is the tree?
Bonus: Later, after querying his father, he found out that the first floor of the office building was at ground level, and every subsequent floor was exactly 12 ft. above the one below. What floor is his father's office on?
HintDraw a triangle from Jack's eyes, to both the base and the peak of the tree. Make a second triangle from the tree base to the bottom of the building, then up to Jack again.
AnswerThe tree is 1000 ft. tall.
Start by picturing a triangle formed by Jack's line of sight to the base of the tree, the lake's surface, and the building. Since the tree and building are at the lake's edge, they're level with each other and the triangle is a right triangle. The angle at the base of the tree is 30 degrees. Using trigonometric functions, we can find the unknown lengths of the triangle. The line of sight is the hypotenuse of the triangle. The height of the building where Jack sits is the side opposite the 30 degree angle. The length across the lake, 866 ft., is the adjacent side.
Cosine = adjacent/hypotenuse
Tangent = opposite/adjacent
Cos(30)= 0.8660 = 866/hypotenuse Jack's line of sight is 1000 ft.
Tan(30)= 0.5774 = opposite/866 -> Jack's height is 500 ft.
Now, we turn our attention to the triangle formed by the tree and both of Jack's lines of sight. We can see that it's an equilateral triangle, consisting of three 60 degree angles, and therefore all sides are equal. Thus the tree is 1000 ft. high.
Bonus: Jack's height was 500 ft. The largest whole multiples of twelve to divide evenly into that is 492(41x12), placing the office on the 42nd floor (41 above the first floor). Jack's perch atop the bookcase put his eyes eight feet above the floor, rounding out 500 ft.
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Pico projectors – miniaturised projectors that are the size of a cellphone or can even fit inside a handset -have failed to meet the projections of analysts.
Last year, they predicted 2m-3m units would be shipped in 2009, but it now appears that only around 250,000 units will ship this year.
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Alton Brown — Pounding on Asphaltby FN Dish Editor in View All Posts, October 23rd, 2008
Alton Brown and his lovely wife, DeAnna, braved a sunny but cold NYC morning the other day, not far from the Food Network offices. The couple was walking briskly while squeaking in some speed window shopping in the process. They headed up from the quaint West Village into the Meatpacking District, which is home to more than a few high-end retailers and boutiques from Diane von Furstenberg to Catherine Malandrino and Stella McCartney.
It was clear that many of the passers-by were also serious Iron Chef fans. Alton and DeAnna got more than their fair share of rubbernecking tourists, curious stares and whiplash glances. Even in jaded New York City, it's hard not to be star struck sometimes…
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A PUB that was severely damaged when a kitchen fire blazed out of control is bouncing back with a weekend of celebrations planned.
Staff at the Camp House Inn in Grimley were devastated after a blaze left their newly refurbished kitchen black and burnt last Saturday.
But Jo Wainwright-Scarrot, assistant manager and daughter of landlord Jim Wainwright, said the recent setback won't put a stop to celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the Wainwright family at the pub.
"It was terrible. The fire started in the fryer and quickly got out of control. A member of staff had only left briefly to get a drink but the fire spread quickly," she said.
"My dad was in a neighbouring room asleep and he woke up to the smell of smoke which was thick above his head. My dad has to use crutches to walk so he had to crawl out on his hands and knees.
"Dad was okay and no one was hurt so we are thankful for that. We had only just had the kitchen refurbished after February's floods so we were devastated. Our customers have been amazing though — one customer, Roy 'Butch' Munslow, tried to put the fire out with Leslie Williams, our barmaid. After the fire service left customers were grabbing mops and buckets and helping us clear up. Roy was back in for a drink an hour later."
Despite this, Mrs Wainwright-Scarrot said the team is ready to bounce back with a weekend of celebrations starting from Friday, August 15.
"We are celebrating 75 years of holding the lease to the pub. On Friday we are having a pig roast from 6pm with music from the Woo Town Hillbillies and the Delray Rockets," she said.
"On Saturday we have yet to finalise what we're doing but I'm sure it will involve more music and food, and on Sunday we are having a relaxing day with a barbecue, an ice-cream seller and music from Claire Boswell from 4pm.
"In traditional Wainwright spirit we'll fight on and not let the recent setbacks stop us celebrating."


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Description: Walkers up to 36 months and their caregiver are invited for stories, fingerplays, songs, and bubbles. Pre-registration for this popular program is required. Mondays through May 13 other than February 18 and May 27.


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McLEAN, Va. - The people who bring you The Greatest Show on Earth will be taking Spiderman, Hulk, Thor and the Fantastic Four on a worldwide road show.
Feld Entertainment Inc., which produces the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, along with shows such as Disney on Ice, is announcing a partnership Wednesday with Marvel Entertainment to produce a live arena show.
Marvel Entertainment was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009.
Feld CEO Kenneth Feld tells The Associated Press he expects the show to open in July 2014.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Feld says production costs will likely exceed $10 million.
The Marvel partnership is one of several deals Virginia-based Feld Entertainment has made in recent years to expand its appeal to older kids, especially boys. The company also produces motor sports and monster truck shows.
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White Mountain Scarf
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Supporting stitch charts are also included for each pattern
Pattern includes: (4 scarf patterns) Blue Ridge Mountain, Elk Mountain, Rocky Mountain and White Mountain.
Skill Level: Intermediate
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
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The star Sirius appears in Surat an-Najm (meaning "star"). The double stars that comprise Sirius approach each other with their axes in a bow-shape once every 49.9 years. This astronomical phenomenon is indicated in the verses Surat an-Najm 9 and 49.
When certain concepts mentioned in the Qur'an are studied in the light of 21st century scientific discoveries we find ourselves imparted with yet more miracles of the Qur'an. One of these is the star Sirius, mentioned in Surat an-Najm 49:
… it is He Who is the Lord of Sirius. (Qur'an, 53: 49)
The fact that the Arabic word "shiaara," the equivalent of the star Sirius, appears only in Surat an-Najm, meaning only "star," 49 is particularly striking. Because, considering the irregularity in the movement of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, as their starting point, scientists discovered that it was actually a double star. Sirius is actually a set of two stars, known as Sirius A and Sirius B. The larger of these is Sirius A, which is also the closer to the Earth and the brightest star that can be seen with the naked eye. Sirius B, however, cannot be seen without a telescope.
The Sirius double stars orbit in ellipses about one another. The orbital period of Sirius A & B about their common centre of gravity is 49.9 years. This scientific data is today accepted with one accord by the departments of astronomy at Harvard, Ottawa and Leicester Universities.51
This information is reported as follows in various sources:
Sirius, the brightest star, is actually a twin star … Its orbit lasts 49.9 years. (Exposes Astronomiques, La troisième loi de KEPLER, http://www.astrosurf.com/eratosthene/HTML/exposetheoastro.htm)
As is known, the stars Sirius-A and Sirius-B orbit each other in a double bow every 49.9 years. (http://www.dharma.com.tr/dkm/article.php?sid=87)
The point requiring attention here is the double, bow-shaped orbit of the two stars around one another.
However, this scientific fact, the accuracy of which was only realised in the late 20thcentury, was miraculously indicated in the Qur'an 1,400 years ago. When verses 49 and 9 of Surat an-Najm are read together, this miracle becomes apparent:
… it is He Who is the Lord of Sirius, (Qur'an, 53: 49)
He was two bow-lengths away or even closer. (Qur'an, 53:9)
The description in Surat an-Najm 9 may also describe how these two stars approach one another in their orbits. (Allah knows best.) This scientific fact, that nobody could have known at the time of the revelation of the Qur'an, once again proves that the Qur'an is the Word of Almighty Allah.
[He is] the Originator of the heavens and earth. When He decides on something, He just says to it, "Be!" and it is.
(Qur'an, 2:117)
51. www.star.le.ac.uk/astrosoc/whatsup/stars.html (Leicester edu dept of Physics & astronomy); www.site.uottawa.ca:4321/astronomy/index.html#Sirius (University of Ottowa); and
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~hrs/ay45/Fall2002/ChapterIVPart2.pdf (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)


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POLITCALLY minded children from St Mary's Primary School were given the chance to voice their opinions at the Somerset Children's Parliament.
The children presented their idea, 'Hydrate to Educate', which was based on drinking more water to keep your brain active and ready to learn.
The project involved the children interviewing pupils, parents and staff, leading assemblies and introducing the school to a Fluid Intake Matrix to help everyone understand the importance of staying hydrated.
Seven other schools competed against the future leaders at St Mary's School, but they impressed the judges so much that the Bridgwater children were declared the winners.
The dedicated and convincing debaters from St Mary's received the top prize, which is a trip to the Eden Project in Cornwall.


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Sandwich billed as 'foot long' is only 11 inches
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AN international fast food company has apologised after The Press found customers were being shortchanged by their meal deals.
"Foot-long" sandwiches were bought from three Subway outlets in York – in Pavement, Clifford Street and Feasegate – and from the Gowthorpe shop in Selby.
While the sandwiches from the Selby shop, and the outlets in Clifford Street and Pavement all measured the full 12 inches, the sandwich from the Feasegate store was a full inch short, measuring only 11 inches.
A spokeswoman for Subway said: "For 47 years, customer satisfaction has been our top priority.
"We regret any instance where we did not fully deliver on our promise to our customers.
"We freshly bake our bread throughout the day in our more than 38,000 restaurants in 100 countries worldwide, and we have redoubled our efforts to ensure consistency and correct length in every sandwich we serve.
"Our commitment remains steadfast to ensure that every Subway Foot-long sandwich is 12 inches at each location worldwide."
Recently, an online media frenzy was caused after Matt Corby posted a photo of a foot-long sandwich he had bought from his local Subway in Australia, next to a measuring tape which showed it was only 11 inches long, and asking the company to respond.
The image, which spread on Facebook and Twitter, received thousands of "likes" and re-tweets from around the world, with many customers posting their own, similar pictures.
The company responded to Mr Corby's picture, informing him the bread was "not baked to our standards".
As of last week, there were three lawsuits pending against Subway in America, seeking more than five million dollars, or about £3.2 million, on the grounds of false advertising.
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HOUSTON - A University of Houston student has been credited with discovering a suspicious device on campus that police said turned out to be a hoax.
University of Houston police said the student was looking for items to include in an art project when he discovered the device in a wooded area near the intersections of Martin Luther King Jr., Calhoun, and Wheeler.
Police said Houston Fire Department bomb squad technicians were called to the scene and determined the suspicious device was a hoax device.
"At no time was there an actual threat to persons or property," said University of Houston police chief Ceaser Moore. "University of Houston police investigators are attempting to determine who created and placed the hoax device."
Police have not released any information about possible suspects.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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A FUNDRAISING cream tea attracted over 100 people and raised £300 towards returning Cradley Heath's oldest church back to its former glory.
The cash raised will boost Cradley Heath Baptist Church's fund to renovate the Grade 2 Listed building.
The church needs £30,000 to make safe the old plaster in the ceiling, and redecorate the imposing 1904 part of the building.
The members of Cradley Heath Baptist Church are grateful to the many friends and supporters, whose generosity means they are more than a quarter of the way towards the target.
Robert Higginson, organist and one of the church stewards, hopes that the repaired building can be used for other events.
He said: "During the last 20 years, quite a few of the church buildings in Cradley Heath have closed.
"There are many activities, compatible with this being a church building, for which the premises could be hired by other groups.
He added: For example, the main building could be used for classical or gospel music concerts.
"The cream tea raised more than £300, but the most important part of the day was that so many people came and made this such a vibrant event."
Halesowen and Rowley Regis MP James Morris was among the visitors to the church for the cream tea event last Saturday.
The church was the first of any denomination to be founded in Cradley Heath. Its first meeting was in December 1833, in Granger's Lane. Later, land was bought near the Four-Ways end of the High Street, and a meeting place was built.
And it is in the history books for appointing Britain's first recorded black West Indian pastor - reverend George Cousens, in 1837.
The Cradley Heath church was among seven places of worship across the West Midlands chosen to share a £585k windfall as part of the Repair Grants for Places of Worship scheme, which is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and administered by English Heritage.


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World Rowing U-23 Championships
PHILADELPHIA - Daren Frankel, ENG '13, was selected to the USA Under-23 Heavyweight team eariler this week and will compete in the men's eight at the World Rowing U-23 Championships in Linz, Austria, July 24-28.
Frankel, whorecently finished his four-year career as a member of the Penn heavyweights, was invited to the U.S. Rowing Under-23 National Team Selection Camp at Brown University. The camp selected the men's eight and four crews which will compete at the World Championships. The United States won three medals at the 2012 World Rowing Under-23 Championships, including gold in the men's eight and silver in the men's four with coxswain.
In his final season at Penn, Frankel consistently held the fifth seat for the Quakers Varsity Eight boat. Penn posted its best finish at EARC Sprints since 2007 with 10th-place row in the Varsity Eight and qualified for the IRA regatta where they won the Third Final.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Frankel is the first Penn heavyweight to compete in the U-23 World Championships since Neil McPeak, W'09, in 2009 inRacice, Czech Republic.
Frankel will also be joined by a trio of other Penn rowers at the World Under-23 Championships. Parker Lange (USA) and Jaques David (Australia) of the lightweights and Jenna Hebert (USA) of the women's rowing team will also be the Quakers, in addition to lightweights assistant Colin Farrell, who is coaching the men's lightweight 4- boat.


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To Fox News, Giving Undocumented Students An Affordable College Education Isn't Fair
Fox News continued its campaign [1] against undocumented immigrants getting an affordable college education, railing against a lawsuit in Georgia that asks the state's universities to grant in-state tuition to immigrants who are considered lawfully present under the deferred action program. To make its case, Fox cited the fallacy that their parents don't pay taxes, and argued that this was an issue "of fairness."
It's indisputable fact however that at least three-quarters of undocumented immigrants pay federal taxes and an even larger number pay state and local taxes. Moreover, reports show that the notion that undocumented students are somehow cheating Americans out of a college education is untrue.
As the Associated Press reported [2] on December 5, a group of undocumented students in Georgia filed a lawsuit against the state's university system stating that they should be granted in-state tuition as they are now lawfully present under the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. According to the Department of Homeland Security [3]:
An individual who has received deferred action is authorized by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to be present in the United States, and is therefore considered by DHS to be lawfully present during the period deferred action is in effect.
Discussing the lawsuit on Fox News' Hannity, host Sean Hannity dismissed Five co-host Bob Beckel's argument that undocumented immigrants have a right to an affordable college education, replying: "So laws don't matter in Obama-Beckel's world." Five co-host Andrea Tantaros added that she's "very sensitive to the immigrant community" because her father was an immigrant and that "you do feel sorry for the children that were brought here." She went on to say: "However, their parents, Sean, have not been paying taxes. They have not been on the books. Their parents broke the law. It's a crime." She concluded: "It's an issue of fairness."
In fact, the federal government has estimated [4] that about three-quarters of undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in federal payroll taxes each year. In a 2010 study [5], the Brookings Institution found that the "consensus of the economics literature is that the taxes paid by immigrants and their descendants exceed the benefits they receive--that on balance they are a net positive for the federal budget."
More importantly, undocumented immigrants pay local and state taxes. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Analysis found [6] that in 2010, undocumented immigrants paid nearly $11 billion in sales, property, and income taxes. Indeed, undocumented immigrants in Georgia paid [7] almost $360 million in taxes, the eighth-highest amount in the United States -- more [8] than many top U.S. businesses:
Contrary to Tantaros' claim, undocumented immigrants are subsidizing the in-state tuition rates of Georgia residents. But ironically, their undocumented children who have grown up in the state's public schools, cannot take part -- which is something that even Gov. Chris Christie, a Fox News darling [9], believes should be remedied [10].
Accordingly, the notion that by granting in-state tuition, undocumented immigrants have an unfair advantage over American students is wholly exaggerated. From Politico [11]:
Fifteen states have passed laws allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public colleges -- a huge incentive for lower-income kids looking for a financial break.
But while opponents have screamed about giving taxpayer subsidies to illegal immigrants, the actual programs themselves have fallen well short -- in some states only a couple dozen students have signed up, and at most a couple hundred have taken advantage of the laws. At the University of Connecticut -- a school of nearly 18,000 -- only 33 undocumented students use the law.
The trivial numbers for these programs counter critics' arguments that tons of immigrant students are cheating legal residents out of seats and states out of revenue.
"Some states wonder whether there will be an effect on the other students," said Tanya Broder, a senior attorney with the National Immigration Law Center. "And the state isn't really cheated out of revenue because the number of students affected is small. In each state, it's just a few dozen or a few hundred undocumented immigrant students."
Why are the numbers so small? Broder said socioeconomic and financial barriers still make it hard for undocumented students to attend college. Some of the states that allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition still bar the same students from qualifying for financial aid.
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The Princeton University Orchestra opens the spring semester with two concerts featuring three of the winners of the 2013 Concerto Competition on Friday evening, March 8 and Saturday evening, March 9 at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall. Led by Maestro Michael Pratt, Director of Princeton's Program in Musical Performance, and guest conductor Ruth Ochs, both performances begin at 7:30 pm. The program includes Bach's Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1086 performed by Paul von Autenried '16, Vivaldi's Bassoon Concerto in E Minor, RV 484 featuring Louisa Slosar '15, and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 performed by Jeff Li '13. In addition, the orchestra performs Wagner's Preludes to Acts I and III, Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. In the words of Maestro Pratt, "Wagner's Tristan is arguably the most passionate music ever written, and will be played with the white-hot intensity of first love by Princeton's amazing young orchestra." He adds: "The concert featuring the winners of the annual concerto competition is always one of our highlights. These brilliant students always amaze our audiences, playing at a dazzling level. That they do is all the more astounding considering that they are maintaining a demanding academic load as well.".
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Abrahams, Peter. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: AN ECHO FALLS MYSTERY. Like her idol, Sherlock Holmes, eighth-grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder mystery in her home town of Echo Falls.
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Stanley, Diane. THE MYSTERIOUS MATTER OF I.M. FINE. Noticing that a popular series of horror novels is having a bizarre effect on the behavior of its readers, Franny and Beamer set out to find the mysterious author.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. SAMMY KEYES AND THE SEARCH FOR SNAKE EYES. When thirteen-year-old Sammy finds herself with an abandoned baby on her hands, she sets out to find the young mother, who may belong to a gang, and accidentally jeopardizes her position on the softball team.
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Did you know race is a word that came into English in the 1500's via the French (1066 and all that), who took it from the Italian word razza (old Latin), meaning "breeding stock", which is possibly from the older Arabic ra meaning head (Hebrew 'rosh'). In the 1500's it even included different wine "races". By the 1600's it meant any family, tribe or nation with common characteristics, and by the 1774 it referred to distinct human groups. In Biology it refers to the classification of a sub species group. (Source Websters, Oxford, Wikipaedia, Online entymological dictionary)
Editorial Comment: Race is therefore not an evolutionary term since it predates Darwin, and even his evolutionist grandfather, Erasmus. So there are as many races of man as there are nations or tribes that can be distinguished. But racism as a concept doesn't appear until after Darwin in 1881. (ref. origin, skin, racial.)
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Thirty-seven years ago Roy Vallee was stocking shelves at a small electronics distribution company in Los Angeles. That small firm has grown up to become Avnet, Inc., a Fortune 500 firm located in Phoenix, Arizona. Avnet is one of the largest distributors of electronic parts, enterprise computing and storage products, and embedded subsystems in the world. And Roy Vallee is the CEO and chairman of the board. One morning recently, marketing professor Antony Peloso sat down with Mr. Vallee to talk about Avnet, his leadership style, and how to motivate employees — even in a far-flung global operation. Professor Peloso leads the Marketing Professional Sales and Relationship Management Initiative, which fosters strong relationships between students who are headed for careers in sales, marketing faculty members and corporate partners. The goal is to build professional sales capabilities and advance the profile and status of the sales function. And now let's hear what Mr. Vallee has to say about one the toughest jobs of leadership: motivating employees. (26:42)
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The MLAs vying for the Canberra Liberals leadership sat at opposite ends of two church pews at Monday's service to mark the start of the Legislative Assembly year.
The controversial service, which is a first for the ACT, was boycotted by more than half of the Legislative Assembly. But all Liberal MLAs attended.
The initially expected to come out of this Monday afternoon's party room ballot as the Liberals new leader, Opposition whip Alistair Coe, sat in the front row at St Paul's in Manuka with incumbent deputy Brendan Smyth. Speaker Vicki Dunne and new Brindabella MLA Andrew Wall sat on the same pew.
Across the aisle were education spokesman Steve Doszpot, Molonglo MLA Giulia Jones and outgoing opposition leader Zed Seselja. And at the end of the pew sat Mr Seselja's heir apparent as leader, Jeremy Hanson, with his wife, Fleur.
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— March 2003
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|Part 2: Adaro is one of the few great boats I've been aboard.
The forward master takes a page out of posterity, placing the shower (it's big) in the forepeak the way boats used to be laid out. Aft is a separate compartment for the starboard Headhunter MSD (with built-in hamper behind it) and port sink. Farther aft, the master berth is angled, and there's a desk/makeup table (with laptop outlet) and plasma TV to starboard. Next to the berth (on his side), a touch-screen controls the entertainment system and a cockpit security camera. Speaking of security, open the forward starboard hanging locker and twist the coat hook (paying attention, Mr. Bond?), and the vanity mirror opens to reveal a 12-gauge shotgun, AR-16, two 9mm pistols, and an ammo safe.
Despite such obsession with details, the Johnsons never lost sight of Adaro's prime mission. Serious nontournament anglers whose favorite quarry is sails (although Karen also admits to a predilection for bottom fishing) and who venture as far as Isla Mujeres and Turks and Caicos to find them, they had wanted a clean, uncluttered cockpit. So there's concealed under-gunwale gaff, mop, and shore cord stowage (Jay eschewed the Glendinning) to either side, a four-foot-deep fishbox serviced by an Eskimo ice maker forward of the fighting chair, and an in-transom livewell with removable partition so it can hold either one or two species of baits. On the saloon bulkhead you'll see a bait-prep station and lots of drawers, but not one cabinet pull, only foot latches. There's a transom door but no gate, as both Ramsey and Jay feel it compromises transom integrity. A hatch abaft the chair leads to a large lazarette that's as finely finished as the saloons of a few production sportfishermen I've been aboard.
Indeed, besides the superb joinery, it was the finish in spaces not readily visible that impressed me. Every place I looked was not only finished but finished to yacht-level quality. Every drawer is varnished, and every interior space is Awlgripped. The same is true of the engine room, accessed via the cockpit, of which Jay says, "Aesthetically, I tried to create the same impression as the rest of the boat: clean and concealed." Hence there's a forward pump room that has two of everything ("If you see one, there's two," he says). There are even two air handlers here to quickly chill the adjacent engine room.
The engine room itself is spectacularly white and clean, but two things caught my attention. The battery boxes outboard of the 16V2000s look more like furniture than functionaries, and the duplex DDC Marine Diesel Fuel Processors (a.k.a. fuel-water separators) reside in nooks that are on each side, visible but out of the way.
Clean and concealed also describes the large bridge, with a helm well aft for a good view of the cockpit. A simple Palm Beach-style helm is supported by two pneumatic pods that raise to reveal an arsenal of electronics and the DDC-MTU monitors. Another pod in the PipeWelders' hardtop provides access to two VHFs, a seawater temperature gauge, and spotlight controls, while over the captain's pedestal seat is a compartment for the two electric teaser reels. Forward L-shape seats and bench seats offer seating for as many as 12, plus stowage for rods and other gear beneath.
The Johnsons' dreamboat includes a cold-molded hull using strips of standard marine and Okoume plywood, depending on the location. Divinycell is used for bulkheads and in doors and lids for lightness, while stringers are of Douglas fir with aluminum reinforcement in the way of the engines. Adaro's hull has a nine-degree deadrise aft and no lifting strakes or chines, just one full-length spray rail per side, which designer Glenn Haught says reduces turbulence and spray. She seemed not to miss the strakes a bit, planing quickly and without exceeding five degrees of running angle--surprising, since her two 1,000-gallon fuel tanks are abaft the engines. The flat waters of test day precluded judgment of her seakeeping, but I can tell you this 98,000-pounder is fast, having measured a 39-mph top speed with 800 gallons of fuel, nine adults, two children, and one crazy Jack Russell terrier aboard, and tabs up. With trim tabs deflected, I measured a remarkable top speed of 45.2 mph.
I can also say that Adaro is one of the few great boats I've been aboard, and credit for that goes to the collective energy, knowledge, and expertise of the Johnsons and Jarrett Bay. Adaro was 31⁄2 years abuilding because everybody wanted everything to be perfect and because everyone stretched themselves to the limit to accomplish it, and it shows--everywhere you look and in places you don't.
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Ah, Santa Barbara, Calif. — a welcome relief weather-wise after Oregon. The sun shone brightly for three days straight, and I could feel my fingers for the whole trip (which are essential for braking on a motorcycle). Craig Lewis, a local trawler who traded the high seas of Alaska for the area, refers to it as "cupcake cove," because the weather is nice and the fishing so good. As he would say, "No worries in this bay, right mate?"
I joined Craig to fish for halibut. I had no idea that California halibut were so large. They required a little more effort to fillet than the flounders I was used to as a kid. But once I got the hang of it, I took my catch back to Brophy Brothers for a cooking lesson. Brophy Brothers has been open for 25 years, and it's won the award for "Best Seafood in Town" for the past 22. So you know they know what they're talking about when it comes to seafood. Chef Lalo Aguilar showed me the best way to cook the fleshy halibut.
First, flour the fish. Then do a combined poaching/searing in a pan with butter, just 3 minutes per side. Add a little white wine, sherry, lemon, clam juice, capers and a bit more butter to start the sauce. Then just a little more flour to help thicken the sauce. Finish the whole dish in the oven.
And don't forget to celebrate with a couple shots of tequila (this was chef Lalo's favorite part). That's some flakey, fresh, melt-in-your-mouth fish — and so easy to do at home.
The other highlight of the trip was when I stopped at the Santa Barbara Shellfish Company for rock crabs. It's a totally under-appreciated variety of crab. They are used in Asian cuisine quite a bit, but for the rest of us, we tend to cook more with king or Dungeness crabs. Santa Barbara Shellfish Company is lined with beautiful tanks filled with crabs pulled in just hours ago. The owner and I had a blast comparing steaming notes. Our top tip for steaming crabs: Pour cold water over your crabs to stop the cooking (I also do the same with lobster). Oh, and for a perfect crack, use the back of your knife: Tap hard on the claws and the shell fragments first before cracking.
Overall, it was a great trip. Sadly, there was no time for surfing as it was on to San Diego for some sardines, sea urchins and spiny lobsters.
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