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eNewsletter - Community Outreach
Cancer Institute Supports National Wear Red Day
Cancer Institute employees showed their support for women's heart health and the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women National Wear Red Day on February 6. With about eight million women in the United States currently living with heart disease, it is safe to say that almost everyone knows a woman in their life - a mother, friend, sister, grandmother, aunt—who has been affected. If you have questions about heart disease, prevention and risk factors, join a live web chat on abc27.com on March 9 from 1-2 p.m., and have your questions answered by Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute specialists.
Representing Cancer Institute administration and the Division of Hematology/Oncology are from left to right: Colleen Kelley, Rachel Rank, Lorna Lausch
Representing the Division of Radiation Oncology are from left to right (back row): Patricia Verdon, Salena Herbinko, Amy Dailey, Brandy Krause, Elizabeth Liebert, Kami Keller; (front row): Debbie Donnald, Eugenia Bartolome, Amy Aurand, Donna Rhoads.
Northern Appalachia Cancer Network Recognized as Part of Penn State's 2015 Community Engagement Classification
When the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected Penn State for its 2015 Community Engagement Classification, they took into account programs that demonstrated "alignment among campus mission, culture, leadership, resources and practices that support dynamic and noteworthy engagement". A variety of community engagement efforts from around the state, country and world were included in the university's application, including the Northern Appalachia Cancer Network (NACN), a community-academic partnership that aims to reduce the incidence and death rate of cancer in Appalachian Pennsylvania and New York. Led by Eugene J. Lengerich, VMD, MS, the NACN is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and guided by a by a 29-member advisory committee with representatives from eight county-based cancer coalitions, cancer survivors, rural health care providers, and state and regional professional organizations in Pennsylvania and the southern tier of New York.
The NACN was established 21 years ago to reduce the cancer burden of medically underserved Appalachian residents through a community-based participatory approach that develops and tests community- and clinic-based strategies to empower residents, coalitions and providers with culturally appropriate, evidence-based interventions. It is a wonderful example of community-academic partnership that has connected faculty and students to our affiliated members. Both researchers and community partners continue to benefit through this alliance.
Both NACN community partners and public health science students were a tremendous help with the NCI-funded Faith Based Initiative to Promote Health in Appalachia study through the Appalachia Community Cancer Network (ACCN). (The NACN is a part of the ACCN, a five university research collaborative that includes Penn State, Ohio State, University of Kentucky, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia University.) In this study, community partners identified church sites in rural communities. They also served as local expert speakers for the church-based education programs. When additional staff was needed to collect baseline data, Dr. Lengerich recruited Penn State Public Health Science students and ACCN trainees (post-graduates) to assist. The experience helped them gain real life research experience helping participants understand the informed consent process, taking biometric measurements and collecting surveys.
Another excellent example of the community and internal benefits of engagement was the New STEPS (Strength Through Education, Physical fitness and Support) for Breast Health pilot study funded by the Pittsburgh Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Community partners helped identify local program leaders along with nine intervention sites in six counties. Since the program was adapted from the successful osteoporosis prevention StrongWomen program offered by Penn State College of Agriculture's Cooperative Extension, Extension leaders along with a nurse from Penn State Hershey Breast Health Center were asked to adapt the program and trained local program leaders. The data analysis for pilot studies was completed by 2013 MPH graduate, Nancy Gallant mentored by Dr. Lengerich. After completing her analysis, Ms. Gallant presented a poster at a national health disparities conference and co-authored a manuscript based on the results entitled, Adaptation of an Evidence-Based Intervention for Appalachian Women: New STEPS (Strength Through Education, Physical fitness and Support) for Breast Health in the Journal of Cancer Education . Ms. Gallant is currently a Doctoral Student at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
The best engagement ideas blossom from community passion. In 2014, Crawford Health Improvement Coalition (CHIC) sought ways to break down the barriers to colon cancer screening. They asked for help to identify funding to educate the public about colorectal cancer and screening. Earlier that year, they pledged to help the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable reach their goal of 80% screened for colorectal cancer by 2018.
With big ideas to make colon cancer education fun, CHIC thought a giant inflatable walk-through colon may be just what was needed to get people's attention. They asked for some technical assistance from a trusted academic partner at Penn State. Penn State Research Project Manager, Marcy Bencivenga, assisted the coalition in writing a grant demonstrating the needs in mostly rural eastern Crawford County, an area with many of the characteristic cancer health disparities existing within Appalachia (low income, high poverty rates, high unemployment, and high percentages of persons without health insurance, an older population with poorer health status than the rest of the country and higher rates of premature cancer mortality due to late stage diagnosis).
Timing is everything. With many coalition members having completed training in the low-literacy training in 2013 and new Understanding Colon Cancer materials made available through the Outreach Core of the ACCN, CHIC was competitive when applying for a small grant available through the Pennsylvania Department of Health Colorectal Cancer Control Program. With less than $6,000, they were able to turn their passion into reality.
Two nurse educators offered Understanding Colon Cancer at three senior centers, a YWCA and a worksite followed by barriers counseling. The barriers counseling was modeled after a pilot study conducted by Brenda Kluhsman, PhD, associate professor at Penn State. With the grant funding, CHIC was able host the eye-catching giant inflatable walk-through colon to the Titusville Relay for Life event. Using small group tours, coalition members were able to visually show the progression of colon cancer from undetected polyps to metastatic disease and discuss other colon conditions that can raise risk for cancer. Both education programs focused on the importance of early detection. The overarching message was "Talk to your doctor about what screening test is best for you".
According to CHIC coordinator Dawn Mosbacher, RN, "This was a great team effort. Members of the coalition and the community members really came together to make this happen." Additional support from Penn State helped immensely. "Marcy was the link to many important pieces of this project, including locating tested surveys and talking points, which greatly contributed to the success of the project. She helped find a reasonably priced giant walk through colon which created public curiosity and made education fun. The giant colon really got people talking about colon cancer. The resources provided by the NACN greatly contributed to the success of the project."


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Canadian Mosque Says "No Offense Intended"
From this source:
Canada mosque criticized for Western, Jewish slursRead the rest.
DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)
A Canadian mosque that has asked workplaces to accept a strict dress code for Muslim women is now under criticism for publicizing slurs against Jews and western societies as well as warning members against integration, Canadian paper the Star reported.
The Khalid Bin al-Walid Mosque has served as the religious authority for eight Somali women who filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against the delivery service UPS claiming that the company dress code violated their religious freedom.
The Toronto mosque, founded in 1990, serves about 10,000 people and is known for preaching strict adherence to Islamic Sharia law.
The mosque website refers to non-Muslim Westerners as "wicked", "corrupt" and "our clear enemies."
The website's Questions and Answer section where Muslims can ask, which allows Muslims to ask questions regarding their religion but has come under attack recently for some of the replies, according to the Star.
"Is it permissible for women to wear high heeled-shoes?" one reader asked, to which the reply was no. "It involves resembling the Disbelieving Women or the wicked women. It has its origin among the Jewish women," read the explanation.
The site reportedly went on to say that once (a Muslim woman) becomes introduced to the wickedness of Western ideology and concepts ... (she) becomes fixated on trying to appear and act like her "role models" of corruption....
The Q and A section was no longer available on the site at the time of publication and several attempts by AlArabiya.net to reach representatives of the mosque for clarification were unsuccessful.
Hmmmm....The web site was changed. Now, where have I heard THAT before?
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Hey this is great another new place to post :getdown:
Well i guess I will ask the obvious question what are your guys favorite recipes for duck?
My self I like to cook them on the grill the a beer can in the cavity like you do chicken (but when I cook it I use those Jack Dannels smoking chips). In my option it takes away some to that gammy taste and add a lot of good flavor.


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What is recession? : A reprise : Discussion Paper No 95
Layton, Allan P. & Banerji, Anirvan (2001) What is recession? : A reprise : Discussion Paper No 95. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)
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This paper draws its title from a paper written over 30 years ago by Geoffrey H. Moore (1967). Why the need for a reprise? First, there would appear currently to be somewhat diverging views – particularly in Australia – as to what properly constitutes a recession. Second, largely as a result of this, in Australia and many other countries other than the US, there is no single widely-accepted business cycle chronology for the country in question. This paper will argue that in addition to an output dimension, there are other important dimensions to aggregate economic activity which need to be taken into account in determining the business cycle, viz., income, sales and employment. As such, our perspective would seem to be at odds with the apparent position taken by other recent Australian commentators on this issue who argue that GDP is all that is needed to represent Australia's business cycle. We will also argue strongly against using the currently popular 'two negative quarterly growth rate' rule in dating the onset of a recession.
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Rafael Nadal managed to overcome a foot injury and prove why he is the top seeded defending champ as he beat Juan Martin del Potro 7-6 (6), 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 in a duel that finally came to rest just a few minutes after 9 p.m. Nadal was visibly in pain and asked for a timeout after he had hurt his left foot prior to the game's first tie breaker. A trainer was seen spraying and taping the foot and later Nadal fell 3-0 behind in the tiebreaker set and was visibly limping between the points, but he managed to save a set pot at just 6-5 down and managed the tiebreaker while in his fourth set when Del Potro mistakenly double faulted. Football lines
According to Nadal he first thought that he had broken his foot in a match which was though and he had worried that he would not be fit for the quarterfinal against Mardy Fish who had beat Tomas Berdych the 2010 runners up by 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-4.
Nadal said "For a moment at the end of the first set, I thought that I had to retire," "I didn't know what's going on. After that, the pain goes a little bit down and finally I was ready to play."
Nadal did say that he would need to get an MRI done on his foot and so he wasn't 100 percent sure exactly how fit he will be when the quarterfinal starts on Wednesday against 10th seeded player fish. Basketball odds
Nadal said "I'm worried, for sure. I'm going to do the MRI. We'll see what's going on. Tomorrow, we will see," "I cannot predict the future."
Del Potro who won the second set against Nadal had a medical timeout of his own after he slipped and fell at baseline at a 2-2 in the third. He was on the ground for many seconds, and was sheen grabbing his left hip. After a few minutes of locker room treatment Del Potro came back and didn't appear to be badly injured. Betting lines
In addition to Nadal three other players Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer had advanced into the quarterfinals. Djokovic is a person who could replace Nadal as the champion of the world by reaching and winning the final, he beat Michael Llodra from France 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.


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Cafe Aroma
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Visit the only "shrine" dedicated to Casey Abrams!
In Cafe Aroma of Idyllwild, California, visitors can lounge on the couch and eat breakfast, lunch or dinner seated within a modern-day "shrine" dedicated to musician Casey Abrams of American Idol fame. Restauranteur/chef Frank Ferro (seated on the right) provides a cozy niche in his cafe for visitors and fans to enjoy paintings and other artwork illustrating the rising star and his moment in the spotlight on one of America's favorite TV shows. Abrams is a part-time resident of Idyllwild and has made several appearances at Cafe Aroma. Artists such as Colin Garth Smith (seated on the left) provided many of the paintings for Cafe Aroma's "Casey Abrams Jazz Lounge." If you're a fan of Abrams visiting the southern California area, make your reservation for "the couch" at Cafe Aroma, where you can dine on a rich assortment of Mediterranean-inspired dishes, fine wines, and an extensive beer list. Prices are moderate, dress is casual, and the vibe is pure jazz.
Have you been here? Share a tip or a photo with fellow travelers.


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What is Gowanus Open Studios 2014 (GOS 2014)?
320 artist studios and arts venues will be open to the public on Saturday, October 18, and Sunday, October 19, from noon to 6pm. Get a sneak preview on the Directory of Artists. Additional special events take place during the weekend.
For one weekend each year, artists working in the former factories, warehouses and studio buildings in Gowanus invite the public to visit their studios, see their work, and talk about their process. This year 320 artists are preparing to welcom over 5,000 visitors into their studios.
How does it work?
Visitors create their own self-guided tours during this FREE event. Our website will feature all participating artists with samples of their art (Click here for the Directory of Artists and Map of Studios). Visitors can select artists to visit by perusing this directory and/or pick up a map at one of our designated map distribution locations, or printing out their own map at home. Balloons and signs will identify each open studio building. Everyone is welcome.
In addition to the daytime self-guided tour of the studios (Saturday and Sunday from noon-6pm), we also offer several evening performances of music and dance to showcase the many forms of art-making in the Gowanus neighborhood. (Click here for this year's special events.)
GOS is made possible by volunteers, artists, and community members working together.
Where is Gowanus?
Gowanus is the neighborhood in Brooklyn surrounding the Gowanus Canal. We are bordered by Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Park Slope, and Sunset Park.
By subway, we are easy to find:
- F and G trains at Bergen, Carroll, Smith-9th Street, and 4th Avenue.
- R train at 4th Ave-9th Street Station and Union Street Station.
Who Comes to Gowanus Open Studios?
Art lovers and art curious, young and old, from Gowanus and Park Slope and Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens and Queens and Manhattan and Westchester and New Jersey and around the world.
Why Participate?
Artists love to show their work, get immediate feedback, and meet their audience.
Visitors love to meet artists, see a wide variety of art mediums and styles, get a glimpse of the creative process, and explore the evolving Gowanus neighborhood.
Local businesses love to show their support of our thriving art community, and to attract visitors to their restaurants and shops.
Visitors! Plan your visit! Click here to preview the work of artists who are opening their studios. You will be able to mark your favorites and plan an itinerary around Gowanus. This Directory of Artists has been sponsored by ArtsicleOpen. Browse the artists and get a preview of their work!
Visitors! Check our Tips for Visitors to help you get in the Open Studios Frame of Mind!
Business Owners! Click here to learn how to become a Sponsor of GOS 2014.
Artists! Click here to Learn More and Register for GOS 2014.
How is GOS 2014 funded?
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! To our much loved and appreciated sponsors. Please support these organizations and businesses and let them know how much you appreciate their support of Gowanus Open Studios and artists and the arts! They make this year's event possible.
What is Arts Gowanus?
GOS 2014 is presented by Arts Gowanus, a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization made up of artists and arts organizations working to support each other, strengthen connections to our community, and to ensure the Gowanus neighborhood continues to be a thriving and creative community of art-makers and art-appreciators.


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After the big success and turnout of the first meet back in December, we had to plan a spring meet. It will be held at the Harley Davidson shop. The Harley shop is closed sunday's, and as long as we keep ourselves under moderate control, we should be good to go.
Date: Sunday, April 15
Place: Hannum's Harley Davidson
Routes 1 and 202
Chadds Ford, PA 19317
Time: 11am
Here are the pics from the winter meet
We had about 60+ cars come out
Hope to see more this time
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Jessie Jay – Teen Cutie
Released: May 17, 2016
Jessie Jay is a super hot, ultra skinny Russian babe. She has tiny perky tits with big hard nipples that beg to be licked and sucked. Her wet bald pussy is a sight to behold when she peels open her soft lips to reveal those rosy pink insides!


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Turk Testifies on Behalf of Video Remix Artists
Posted by Jenna Ray on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012
On Thursday, October 25, the United States Register of Copyrights released its recommendations to the Library of Congress regarding exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). One of these recommendations is for renewal and expansion of the noncommercial remix exemption requested by the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) in 2009. Tisha Turk, associate professor of English, testified earlier this year on behalf of the OTW, along with Francesca Coppa, professor of English at Muhlenberg College, and Rebecca Tushnet, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.
The 2012 decision broadened the previous exemption request by allowing for the taking of short excerpts from DVDs as well as online streaming and downloading services in the creation of new noncommercial works. Turk believes this ruling is significant in that it increases the number of tools citizens have to comment on their culture. Quoting Coppa by noting that "in some ways, 'we are all vidders now,'" Turk maintains that having the right to reproduce video is culturally and politically important.
"We live in a multimedia world. If we're going to comment on these things, we might as well do it in a multimedia way."
Arguing that creators of noncommercial remix videos and fan vids have a technical need for DVDs as source material, Turk testified in the capacity of a fan vidder. As a scholar, she is currently examining fan vids as a form of feminist speech. Given that her research on writing and argumentation has dealt with reinterpretations of various texts, Turk believes the transition from studying print literature to video remixes was a logical one to make.
"They're arguments, multimedia arguments made in the same language as the things they're commenting on. Vids are aesthetic objects that have a critical function. For me, making the jump was not a huge one. The medium is different, but not the kind of work."


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Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists
Katrina Forrester writes:
: In Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists, Eveline Lubbers, an academic, activist journalist and researcher with the organisations SpinWatch and Buro Jansen & Janssen, focuses on what she calls 'grey intelligence', the informal networks of co-operation between corporate interests and state agencies that are now central to the surveillance of dissent in Western European democracies. She suggests that the problem with spying on activists is that they are part of 'civil society groups' that exist to 'promote democracy'. There are good strategic reasons to make this argument and it's clear why Lubbers makes it: the Association of Chief Police Officers' National Domestic Extremism Unit – a more recent incarnation of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, set up in 1999, and the National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit, set up in 2004 – has labelled dozens of NGOs and left-wing groups 'domestic extremists'.


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Montana's wolf hunters hung up their bows last Saturday as archery season closed and rifle season began. Five years after the federal government dropped Montana's wolves from the Endangered Species List and the state took over management, officials are still trying to trim the state's growing wolf population. This year, each hunter can bag five wolves, up from last year's maximum of three. In addition, out-of-state hunters can get a wolf license for $50, down from the $350 fee at this time last year. Plus, hunters will have an additional month to stake out these clever, adaptable predators. Montana's changes come amidst a contentious national conversation about whether gray wolves everywhere should come off the Endangered Species List.
However, opponents argue that, while wolf populations have indeed improved since the mid-20th century, their range and numbers are still not big enough to maintain healthy genetic diversity. And states managing wolves plan to reduce current populations even further through hunting, trapping and agency culls (although they can't let numbers drop below a federally required minimum). Conservationists say the delisting proposal sets a dangerous precedent for the ESA by calling it good on wolves when they may still need federal protection. "The Fish and Wildlife Service is essentially saying that this is the best that wolves can do, and it's not even close," John Vucetich, a forest scientist at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, told Nature.
In Montana, the minimum federally required number is 150 individuals, including 15 breeding pairs. Since the state took over wolf management, it has increased the access for wolf hunters through a longer season and larger bag counts. And each year, the numbers of hunters and the reported kills have also increased. Still, wolf populations are growing faster than state managers would like. The most recent count in Montana, conducted at the end of 2012, estimated at least 625.
As wolf populations in the state have increased in recent decades, so have wolf conflicts with humans and livestock. For the 2011 hunting season, Montana FWP set a state-wide maximum of 220 wolf kills, a number that managers thought would strike a balance between maintaining a healthy population and reducing those conflicts. But by the end of the season, which had already been extended by a month and a half, hunters and trappers had taken 166 wolves — only 75 percent of the total managers had hoped to remove. For the 2012-2013 season, hunters and trappers reported 225 wolf kills.
With wolf counts continuing to grow in the Northern Rockies, the FWS says its work with the gray wolf is done. "Of course, the gray wolf is not everywhere it once was, nor can it be; think Denver, or Minneapolis, or Salt Lake City, or even the now grain- and livestock-dominated American Plains," FWS Director Dan Ashe wrote in a blog post in June. Ashe sees current wolf populations as a mark of success and reason enough to delist in all states: "We can work conservation miracles, because we have. The gray wolf is proof."
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All the parts from two large advent speakers except the enclosures. Steel frame woofers (excellent foam) $25 each. Orange fried egg (steel plate) tweeters $25 each. Crossovers w/solen caps. $25 each. Shipping extra. I'm in Northern NJ
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Rules pretty much go out the window for sure.
It also depends on how confident you are with what your doing.
I generally clear coat my base color when possiable. This provides a solvent resistant barrier for future paint work against bleeds and color mix issues,changes,mistakes.
I will shoot a coat of binder over something if it's going to sit awhile and just scuff it with a gray pad and continue on with the work later. This gives me a scratch for paint as well as a cover coat over light AB work so's it doesen't screw it up from scuffing directly on it.You can always apply some adhesion promoter like Dupont 222 if your in doubt.
This is not the "average" paint work and no way would I do a complete panel or vehicle for that matter "out" of it's window.
mrclean is right,
heres what i have done with no problems.
when you spray that coat of clear I was supposed to spray weeks ago, i over reduce the clear just a tiny bit, or mix accordingly with the slowest reducer i got. then, i make my first coat a nice light piss coat. what ever you want to call it. just put the clear on very lightly so that it acclimates with the pervious coats, but doesnt "shock" them. let it tack up, and the proceed as normal. i make the next coat a little heavier, then the 3rd what ever
this process may not be needed, but id rather be safe than sorry.
|im going to tell you right now that when you are custom painting all that 24 hour window crap goes completely out the window. even if you shoot intercoat clear on it you still have the window since its nothing more than clear base. i will sometimes have things sit here in basecoat for 2 weeks before the graphics go on. or a month while its being airbrushed. if you are doing a graphics job where the background gets shot first then go ahead and clear it then sand it down and do the graphics. this doesn't always happen though. sometimes the background color gets sprayed last. for the most part dont worry about it. you not going to have any kind of adhesion problem. the clear sticks fine.
|PPG's midcoat is DBC500, it works ok, but it would be best to put regular clear down, so it depends on what your doing,, if you use the 500, it's not activated so if you get anything harsh on it it can wash off, such as reducer or thinner, but if your just taping and spraying you shall be good..
Get some intercoat to cover the base for when you lay down graphics... PPG sells some as does HOK... I use the hok sg-100... works fine..
Or you can spray a coat of clear if you want to wait until the next day to do any tape outs... You can over reduce clear and cut drying time down some or use and accelerator
basecoat, graphics, clear, how do you get around the timing while doing the graphics?
I'm doing a motorcycle tank and fenders for a friend. Using PPG Deltron paint system. After the DBC basecoat goes on you have 24 hours to clear. How do you guys get around this if you have more than 24 hours worth of graphics to put on?
My paint supplier suggested one coat of clear onto the basecoat before the graphics, then the graphics, then the rest of the clear. Make sense?
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Teachers, Authors, Speakers, Writers And Experts!
Copy My Blogging System To Sell Your Online Course. Follow My Step-By-Step Blueprint, Updated For 2017
If you have not done so already, please read the first part of this two part article series on business outsourcing here – When Is The Right Time To Begin Outsourcing?.
In the previous article I discussed the importance of understanding your strategy for outsourcing and how it is important that you comprehend the sequence of tasks to complete, starting with the action that serves to eliminate the immediate constraint.
Despite clarity about what and when to outsource, it all means little if you don't have the cash to do so.
The one major problem that faces new start-up businesses, especially small enterprises launched by solo entrepreneurs, is a lack of cash flow. This problem is broader than just your business as the need for money impacts where you live and how you live as well. How you pay the rent, pay for food and live an enjoyable life is dictated by how much money you have and if your business is intended to be your income source, until it produces cash you're in trouble.
As a catch-22 situation, many entrepreneurs must take jobs to generate "living" money, which drastically reduces the amount of time available to work on the business. How can you turn your new start-up into an income stream if you are too busy working a job to pay the bills that you can never work on your business?
Unfortunately there is no easy answer to this question and every person faces a unique situation. I don't have a one-solution-fits-all proposal for you, but what I can do is explain how I made money during the times when my business was not able to support me.
This blog recently hit it's four year anniversary. That means that most of you reading this are probably not familiar with the early years of my writing here, where I was literally chronicling the growth and changes to my business, which were a lot more dynamic back then.
The reason why the changes were more significant during the early stages of my business was precisely because I didn't have great cash flow. When you are not making stable money you are more inclined to try new things, jumping from opportunity to opportunity.
My activities from the late nineties right up to about 2005 were all over the place, however there were a few constants because even though I was playing with online business ideas, I needed at least a semi-reliable income stream to live off.
It was my third year of university and although I was still living at home, so my expenses were limited, I wanted a job. I found out my campus library had these amazingly well paying computer help desk jobs ($18 an hour was big time for me back then), and I eventually landed a part time job there.
That part time job at the help desk would become an income stream I relied upon for many years. Although I left the job to travel, I came back to it and used it as the foundation for moving out of my family home and renting for the first time. I also relied on the income from that job to pay for the very first requirements an Internet entrepreneur has – a connection to the Internet and a place to host your website.
I often say with pride that I never had a full time job – and I didn't – but that's not because I never had the opportunity. There were plenty of chances within the university to upgrade my casual and part time jobs into full time roles.
Upon graduation I watched most of my friends move on to lucrative, full-time salaried positions in big firms, as I continued to live off my 10 to 25 hours per week of casual work. I didn't have amazing grades, but I was certainly in a position to go through the graduate recruitment process and seek a job because I had my degree – the piece of paper that opens doors to "real world" occupations.
The reasons I never took a full time job were many, but the key point was that I knew I wanted to run my own business and be my own boss, I just wasn't sure how that would work out. In order to figure it out you need time, so I was content to keep casual work while I figured what business would be my ticket to independence.
I was prepared, even if I struggled with it emotionally many times because I have a nasty habit of comparing myself to my peers, to only work a job for as many hours as I needed to and say no to any extra work that might hinder my chances of starting a successful business.
You might have a family, or commitments that demand more than 15 hours a week of casual labor income, but I expect you probably can downsize in some shape or form, or find ways to get more work done in less time (working your job from home for a few days for example). Maybe work four days instead of five or start work earlier so you can finish earlier and have the late afternoons and evenings to work on your business.
Whatever is the case, you need to find a balance between making a living from a job that is just enough to keep you going, leaving the rest of the time available to build your business or, as was my case, experiment with business ideas until something worked.
Although it was never enough to live off, I did establish a cash-cow income source online, my very first successful project. I've talked about it a lot on this blog before, so I won't go into too much detail, but the income source was a community website called MTGParadise.com, a site dedicated to the tournament playing scene in Australia of the Magic: The Gathering card game.
This site, started as a hobby that acted very much as my learning tool for how to create websites, after several years emerged as a dominant website in its niche. Eventually, thanks to a thriving forum community who traded cars and a reliable cadre of volunteer writers, the site developed a stable audience. I then tested the waters attracting sponsors and even started an email newsletter – my first "list".
I made anywhere from $300 to $1,000 a month from the site, but the income fluctuated dramatically. Even after starting a small retail store selling cards from the website, the income never reached a point where I knew each month I would make a certain amount, and after I got hit with credit card fraud wiping out all the money I had made online and all my savings, I realized I would need my part time job for a lot longer (I almost made the decision to take a full time job after the credit card fraud incident, but upped my casual hours instead).
After recovering from the credit card fraud I went on to start more business projects and eventually started BetterEdit.com, the editing and proofreading service that I consider my first real successful business. However long before BetterEdit became a cash flow source stable enough to live off it had to go through a growth stage.
BetterEdit, much like MTGParadise was not a stable income source for a long time. Some months were amazing, netting several thousand dollars, but then during summer when no students required editing services the income could drop to next to nothing. I was still dependent on my part time job, even though the money I had coming from my web projects was increasing.
It was one day while catching a train to the city that I had the idea of selling MTGParadise.com. Although the sale did not occur to many months later, I walked away with $13,500, which was about how much I was earning per year at the time from my part time job. You can read more about this time and selling my first website in part four of my business timeline.
Although I lost my reliable cash cow income source, I did gain enough money to live off for a year, assuming I didn't change lifestyle habits. This gave me a little security and also taught me what was possible selling website assets, which would become something I did on a regular basis over the next few years.
I did take advantage of a government funded support service for small businesses, which I discovered was available thanks to a tip off from my father's friend who was on the scheme. This is not something I want to stress as key for success as you may not have something similar in your area and in fact what I received in support in Australia several years ago is dramatically different today – and no doubt much harder to get.
The program I benefited from is called the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme, and after completing an application process that included writing a business plan and attending a panel interview, I qualified for a full 12 month's worth of income support
This income – about $200 a week when I received it – was certainly helpful and became another dependable income stream, although with the knowledge it would end in 12 months you don't want to make decisions based on the money coming forever. The idea is to use the breathing room the money provides to grow your business so it can replace that income, and then some, within the 12 months.
I didn't make any dramatic changes as a result of qualifying for the support, but combined with my part time job and growing online income, my cash flow was good.
At this stage I probably should have begun some outsourcing, at the very least have someone else handle website creation and maintenance for me, but I didn't. I was, and still am in many ways, addicted to saving money and preferred to work harder and watch my bank balance inch up slowly, rather than work smarter and get leverage from the money I had by using it to hire help.
What did start to happen was a narrowing of my business focus. By this point with my magic community gone and BetterEdit becoming reliable (the income was stabilizing at least an average of $2,000 a month), I didn't need my part time job anymore. I was also starting to grasp how people made money online and felt I had a future in Internet business.
Eventually I would discontinue many projects, including an offline English school, community websites focused on trading items and social activism, I would frequently start pay per click marketing projects after being lured by new information products, but would shortly after give up and focus back again on BetterEdit.
A long story short, this focus meant my cash flow became more stable, my business grew and I started investing money in assets that didn't take much time – I purchased new cash-cow income source websites.
Better late than never, I finally recruited help. I was still uncomfortable with the idea after doing the numbers, but I saw that I had the cash flow to pay people and at least cover my basics, even if my business stopped growing, which I did not expect to happen as I had no intentions of stopping to market it.
I hired a customer support person, I began relying on contractors for website design, installation and maintenance, had other people edit and create my sales copy, and hired a manager of my website investment portfolio.
This did not happen all at once of course, but with each contractor I brought on, although I took a hit in my profit margin to pay the fees, my business growth skyrocketed because I was able to get more done of what I was good at.
Cash flow was crucial at every stage of this process as I used the money the business was making to hire people to either take a job away from me or complete a crucial component of a new project. This in turn led to injections of new cash flow sources, and although you are never comfortable with the process due the variables involved (managing people in particular), with practice you start to experience the benefits and become comfortable with spending money to make money.
My story illustrates that it is far from straight forward to grow a business and establish your first income streams so you can begin reinvesting cash into outsourcing. Most of my projects lost money or made no money and took a lot of my time. The small handful that did work, paved the way for the situation I am in today, making several hundred thousand dollars a year online.
I relied upon juggling various small sources of income until something showed it had enough of an upside potential that I could slowly start selling off or quitting other projects to focus on just the one or two enterprises that worked.
During the very early days the fuel to grew my business and sustain my life was a part time job, which eventually became unnecessary as capital injections from selling assets and long term savings meant I could handle the potential exposure to any downturn in business cash flow.
In short, because I was willing to work a lot and save whatever I could thanks to stubborn patience (not recommended), I eventually got there.
This is not the path I recommend you copy exactly, but there are some very powerful lessons to be learned from my story, in particular –
Do you have any websites or assets you could sell?
What you want of course is a real business with real scale and big profits, but not every project is going to get there. If something is making money but it's not the big dream you want to follow, let the site carry you forward and create some freedoms and use that time to work on the next project (or of course sell it – see the previous point).
As I stated earlier, there is no one size fits all solution to the problem of cash flow. I've study and experienced enough in the business world to know that no matter what industry you are in, cash flow is always going to be critical to everything you do – and that's the case from day one.
Outsourcing becomes an option once cash flow reaches a point where it can cover the cost of outsourcing without creating a critical deficit in your life (e.g. can't pay rent) or business (e.g. can't pay for Internet access). The rest of your business life will involve using cash to reinvest in other people in order to create more cash, and so on, until one day you sell your business or you retire and let other people run it for you.
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Cashing In On Outsourcing
Excellent post.When I started my online business a few years ago it was a "hobby".I worked on it when I wasn´t working my day job.The business took off once I quit my day job and had the chance to work full-time from home.The income was really low for some time, but this motivated me to work.
As always practically useful information. I think the thing that gave me the most solace is the fact that you struggled with some of the same stuff I have struggled with:
a) Opportunism and jumping from opportunity to opportunity and having to force myself to focus.
b) That most projects didn't succeed and you kept on going.
So as always, cheers Yaro.
Wow, this is exactly what I needed. I started your Blog Mastermind program in August and started a new blog in September at http://www.thefreebieguy.net (as you probably already know). I just started monetizing this month and I've made over $2000 already. So once again "THANK YOU YARO".
That being said, I've been seriously thinking about outsourcing. Actually, I just spoke to the first person that I'm training now as customer support. It's moving a little slowly, but I'm anxious to see what the difference will be.
I also have other people that are interested in helping me out, so I'm going to be doing some serious evaluation and re-evaluation over the next week or so to see exactly what help I need and how I will be paying.
Outsourcing is definitely essential to online success (in my opinion), because online success is not just a measure of how much money you make, but how much money you can make while on vacation, lol. It's good to have the freedom to do other things while still making "residual income".
Thank you for this article. Seeing the sequence you followed will definitely help me out. Keep these articles coming 🙂
Hmm…I think my only option at this point would be to sell a website. I'm a single mom and going back to work would be silly since I would basically be spending all my income on child care. However, along with my issues about sharing my workload with others (in case they get it wrong) I also have issues of letting go of something I worked so hard on. I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and do it though. Thanks for the motivation and kick in the butt!
There is one thing I did fail to mention in this article – self employment.
Not quite the same as having a job, but working for yourself as a freelancer when you bill by the hour is another way to establish cash flow. It has similar issues as getting a job in that you don't want to trap yourself into taking per-hour work and have no time to do any business building activities beyond client work
Yes, this can be a huge trap, especially when earning premium rates by making oneself "available" to clients. Might as well be employed rather than self-employed.
Consulting is odd in the sense that one sells one's time by the hour: work an hour, get paid an hour. This really sucks when you don't feel like working. Most salaried positions allow some "smoothing" but semi-passive revenue from products, advertising, etc. is much more appealing.
I think self-employment and freelance work is a decent way to go about it, especially if you need some urgent cash in the beginning. But it doesn't offer you the benefits of a long-term money-making business structure. It's a nice suggestion in this case though.
Cassie, letting go is really hard.
Here is what I am doing: for every task I eventually want to outsource (e.g., bookkeeping, accounting), I make myself learn enough of that task to perform "due diligence" on the contracted work. That way, I know where all the shortcuts are, which corners can be cut, and I learn enough of the vocabulary to be able to talk the language. Once I have enough revenue to farm out accounting, I will be able to easily review the Quickbooks file that the contractor prepares.
I am already doing this with application programming (c, c++ computer languages) and web sites because I am a pretty good programmer, and I know when a subcontractor makes mistakes, when those mistakes matter and when they don't matter.
I hadn't realized that I had been outsourcing since the beginning — I've been using stock photos.
I knew that my own personal photo collection wasn't big enough or varied enough to support the blog. Nor were many of my own photos as dramatic as I wanted. So I signed onto iStockphoto. And then I went around joking that I'd bought stock photos instead of fall clothes, although I'm conveniently back in my "fat clothes" (uh oh.)
But, seriously, I've had many readers email me to tell me how they "love the pretty horse pictures." So, the stock photos have been a worthy investment. .
Thanks for sharing your story Yaro. It was so encouraging for me as a young entrepreneur. I really like your thoughts about getting the part time job to make enough to live on, but then working hard on your business with your spare time. That's exactly what I'm doing with my company Nectar http://tastynectar.com
This is why I love your blog! You actually provide useful content with practical implications. I need to focus on the fewer projects step as I always seem to be trying to spread myself around way too many new projects!
TOM there is a lot to learn from this man – What i learn from Yaro is how to get some loyal readers for my blog.
Thanks for sharing your journey. It's both helpful and encouraging to see people overcome and press through rough situations. I love the say NO TO FULL TIME WORK! Well, I have to because of Graduate school but I was working a part-time job at Jared for about three months. I left it because of school- I really moved on because I wanted to purse with more energy my blogging journey. 🙂
Great article Yaro! Bootstrapping is the lifeblood of any budding business and even though at times seems difficult, gives us the experience and mindset for success.
As the old saying goes if it was so simple, everyone would do it and, frankly, I'd rather not have THAT much competition thank you very much 🙂
Within the internet business and marketing community, this is definitely a top 5 blog post. Too many people advocate jumping directly in to outsourcing, without any regard at all to cash flow. Yaro, this post alone establishes some major credibility for you in my mind. Where I am at: just left a very lucrative consultant gig to focus on building a better business, and looking for subsistence-level cash flow now. No more career level "positions!"
Great post. Unfortunately for some of us, we caught the entrepreneurial vision later in life and a full-time job is a necessity with 5 mouths to feed. Over the last year I've finally found my ticket out of corporate American and anticipate I will be able to securely walk away within the year. Lots of plates spinning right now, but I've never been more excited about the future!
Very inspirational and well put together Yaro. I had a very similar begining as you… feared full time jobs since I was a child and that helped me tremendously in life. Others don't understand why full time jobs are such an evil thing 😉
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Completely agree with the comments about cash flow at the start. Often finding small sources of income and combining them is much easier than one big one to start off with.
This is one of the best and most pragmatic bits of advice I've seen. As a serial starter of businesses I know how have and unpredictable it is. Also everyone forgets how long these things take, There are very few overnight successes.
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Wow! What a post!! Very inspiring and informative about the need for good cash management.
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As everyone else has said, hugely inspiring. It is good to read about someone's journey into making a living for themselves and the stumbling blocks they have encountered along the way.
Awesome post as usual. One of the things I like about internet business is that you can generate an income from scratch. I started my largest blog without investing anything but my time and, today, it makes six figures for me every year. So, you can start a cash flow from scratch.
That's the great thing about the internet. Just curious, how long did it take you to build up that particular blog?
Wow, excellent post. I think that your idea of piecing together some smaller cash flows that may only be semi-permanent in order to finance living expenses and even some outsourcing is an excellent idea. It is definitely something I am going to try to incorporate into funding my various projects.
I also liked how you started broader and narrowed your prospects down as you were able to see which ones appealed to you more, both on the basis of profitability and your interests. I feel a lot of entrepreneurs operate this way, where they have a lot of ideas and as they experiment them, some will slowly fall off while others will prove worthy of further time/monetary devotion.
Thanks for all of the insight!
Yaro, another fantastic blog post. Thank you.
For me outsourcing is absolutely crucial, I don't think I would get by without it. From day 1 of my online businesses I have had to outsource as I don't have technical knowledge to be able to do it myself, (a blessing I feel) This leaves me free to do the important stuff, the revenue generation stuff which at the end of the day, is why we are in business.
How much time does it take a non expert to stuff around with photoshop or web design/programming that could be far better spent generating traffic for your site, or monetizing the traffic you have. Calling advertisers, producing products etc.
This is where it is at people, you need to be spending 80%+ of your time on revenue generation, perhaps even more when you are starting out and that for me is why I think outsourcing is critical from day one of your business.
Now, I am as big a fan of bootstrapping as anyone, but for me that just doesn't mean doing it myself, use a smaller "one man band" for your outsourcing to start with rather than a large company, it can be done more cost effectively. Find a way!
Best of luck
Hi Yaro
Great article, but what I also wanted to mention is that you have white space where your Blog Rush Widget used to be. I am sure you know, but Blog Rush halted that service. Just thought I would remind you to change out the widget and utliize the space.
Hey Carl – yep, I see the whitespace. I have a new design coming out soon so I'm just letting this one sit until the new one is ready.
@ Yaro
Did you start MTGParadise.com, from scratch, like you did with BetterEdit.com ?
Also you said "…eventually started BetterEdit.com, the editing and proofreading service that I consider my first real successful business."
How many other businesses have you run. What income barrier would you have to pass for a business not to be a failure? Assuming you had created those other businesses, the ones that weren't so great as BetterEdit, did you sell those, abandon them, or sell them?
Sorry for the questions just a little curious.
Love the post BTW. 😀
Yes I did start MTGParadise.com from scratch…really from scratch – it was hosted on the free 5MB space I got with my ISP, which then went under and before that it was a Geocities site. Eventually I got a domain name for it and proper hosting, but it was a huge learning experience that most never go through nowadays.
I consider BetterEdit a "real" business because it wasn't me doing all the work for an hourly fee, it was scalable and made more than "spare change" money.
Most of the businesses I started where websites that never took off, although the English school I ran was certainly an attempt at a real business – I even rented an office – that never got cash flow positive, so I closed it down after 9 months.
Cash Flow for all business whether big or small has to with lots of planning – a good business and marketing plan is what does. Are you offering service that is seasonal? Have a good customer-followup and offering services not affected by seasons or times can help establish an "unwavering" cashflow.
Quite true Sam…many times we forget the planning stage because we have so many other things we've been focusing on.
Hey Yaro,
Your life story never fail to inspire me. This post included some helpful tips for entrepreneurs and I really believe that working for ourselves instead of working for others is the right way to gain unlimited freedom.
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Thank you so much for this two-part series. I feel so relieved to know that my recent struggles to start an internet business are somewhat normal — with all the project hopping, doubts, and needing the part-time job to stay afloat. Keep up the excellent work.
Great post … It is definitely hard to focus with everything being thrown at me. However, I have been on a kick to narrow focus and remain CONSISTENT. Hope to be able to delegate tasks soon!
Thanks again,
Great post! I've had one full-time job in the past, because I wanted to experience what it was like and then decide if it was for me or not. Immediately after the first month, I knew that a full-time job was not the lifestyle I wanted.
The idea of being my own boss sounded great, because everything would be under my control. I make what I put in instead of some "lucrative" salary. And an online business really offered the type of flexbility and lifestyle I enjoyed.
This is a really good post, and it hit the nail on so many aspects on starting a new business. Yaro, where abouts are you in Australia? I live in Melbourne.
Great post –
I agree outsourcing items is very important and will help you be more successful in the long run. Currently I am focusing on the cash flow and then once it hits a certain level will begin outsourcing a few items.
Great post! So much to read and think about to increase online earnings. Going to have to read through it again and apply some ideas to my online plans I think.
Great article. It provides a good overview of how you've got to be where you are today.
I'm at the start of my blogging journey, but I have a vision in mind that I'm determined to achieve. I hope to one day have little involvement in my current business (day job) and focus on blogging and consulting. Articles like this help me to see that it's possible.
Great article! My business, parts of it, are worthwhile and expanding. The blogging aspect is just getting beginning and I'm putting a lot of effort into it. From the beginning I have been using outsourcers to help in some capacity. I think it was beneficial and starting early was a good move.
Thanks for all your great information. I've recommended your stuff on my blog.
I pooled up 500 $ initially thru my blogging and then go for all necessary stuff like premium themes, SEO tools, and Ad Network Software. I made those initial first $ 500 with sheer hardwork. Now am blogging equiped with these tool and enjoying doing blogging with these things. As you says – its very hard to make money only thru blogging but i finds myself lucky enough to do so in no time.
I enjoyed reading your history with cash flow here.
I reached the six-figure mark with my blogs and websites this year, and I'm kind of shocked that I'm still doing all my own writing. I've hired folks, of course, to redesign my sites and install techy doohickeys and such, but I've been reluctant to give up content creation.
I've finally decided that rather than worrying whether to invest my money in stocks, commodities, real estate, or what, it'd make the most sense to funnel it back into my sites, by hiring writers to blog for me and expand the amount of content being produced every day. I'll still produce content, since writing has always been my passion (much more so than business!), but outsourcing to double or triple the amount of content my already profitable sites put out is going to be my main goal for 2009, and I'm looking forward to seeing where this can get me.
Thanks for all the business-minded posts, as they help get me thinking in that direction. 😉
Great article.. Totally agree with you.. Especially on the Outsourcing which really saved me lots of time.
Great tips! The most difficult phase is the initial phase, especially when it comes to the finances. It's very important to keep your finances in good order when starting.
TOM there is a lot to learn from this man – What i learn from Yaro is how to get some loyal readers for my blog.
Wow… this post was extremely long
The main thing that must be done is to try to keep your head out of debt throughout the start-up, and therefore have enough funds available
TOM there is a lot to learn from this man – What i learn from Yaro is how to get some loyal readers for my blog.
Wow, great article. I've been working on shoe-string for a while now. Going back and forth between 9-5's and the economy is beating us down in the US now (and worldwide), so things are getting rougher.
It's always just as inspirational as it is helpful to get these kind of tips.
hi.. I was thinking to start my own business, as who doesn't wants to be its own boss, but was very confused as from where and how to start. I was not aware about the pros and cons of starting business. But your this article will prove a good help to me.
Wow, where have you been all my life?
I myself have been jumping from opportunity to opportunity, usually not finishing any of them.
Now I want to concentrate on a major project, for which a development budget of about $50,000 is needed, but cash flow is limited to 0. Your article helped me realize that I may need to spend some time working on some of those small projects first, to generate some form of income, while trying to get the parts of my big project, that will generate a cash flow, up and running myself, or with "cheap" help.
A friend of mine pointed me to the fact that, in fact, I'm already a millionaire, taking my knowledge and experience into account. I now only have to do what I do best, to translate that into real cash. And that, I and I alone can do!
I decided to reanimate one of my blogs with better response average, Exploring Suriname.
Wish me luck, and thanks for the great article. Look forward to me as a subscriber, and to a post in my blog about this site/article.
You have a lot of precision in language. That's a great strength.
As you pointed out, there's a lot of power in knowing the work to be done — including the sequence of tasks. In the project management world, this is the work breakdown structure (WBS). If you make something a project and break down the work, it's your best move for figuring out your risks, the right people, the right moves, the right bottlenecks … etc.
Wow, never worked a full-time job that is pretty incredible. I really like that idea, after college I might try to take that into consideration because it seems that you are doing pretty well for yourself.
good post
I love how you were persistent in your desire to succeed as a business owner Yaro!
Amazing that you never had to take a full time job, but yes finding a balance between any job requirements in order to make a living and growing a business is key. It's not easy by any stretch of the imagination but it is possible and you've proven it can be done. Great job!
I really admire your stubborn patience, Yaro. Wish you could just say you recommend it coz I am the same in term of stubbornness =) Anyway, it's a very inspiring life story and it opens my eyes more to the use of outsourcing (I watched your recent webinar about outsourcing). All the best for you, Yaro!
Thank you for having the strength to post the good with the bad that you learned on your journey thus far. So many people want to sugar coat the positives and fail to recognize the catch 22 issues that arise with most business start ups causing many to fail.
As a work at home mother, I have often found myself angered with "how to" posts on business start ups – as a been there done that mentality – I find most people create guides telling others how to do something they have never done.
It is easy to read from your post that your speaking from experience, it is shares like this that are appreciated the most.
You have to do what you have to do in order to create cash flow. Many business ventures are going to require risk, so you want to make sure you have plenty of money to supplement bills in case the venture does not work.
Great article!
Great information Yaro. This was instrumental in us kicking off our business. With such a new and innovative concept towards health and wellness that could reach anyone, anywhere, we needed all the help we could get when it came to our initial cash flow. Thanks once again.
I love how you were persistent in your desire to succeed as a business owner Yaro!
I just took on a consulting gig to make some money to support my future business.. and although its not "full-time" Its close and I can see how you can loose yourself in another job and forget your dreams.
13,5 for a part tine job…I hear that…I remember when I was making 18K a year in the early 90's working 60-70 hours a week (6 days a week) in retail. I would never go back to that.
BTW How many hours would you say you put in per week on your business to earn the income you earn?
Truly insiring to read your story. Im very simular to you, i have a main job but tried to devote time to my other businesses. Juggling all three is not easy, having a family with children, main job and trying to find time for any other small business.
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An odd plumbing question
So I went to our rental house last Saturday and replaced the bathroom vanity, sink, and faucet, but had 1 shut off valve with a very slight leak. Of course, I had the wrong shut off valves, so I couldn't change it then.
I went back tonight, shut off the water main, removed both shut off valves under the bathroom sink, installed 2 new shut off valves, reattached the hoses, and turned the main back on. Then I went back upstairs, opened both shut off valves, and everything seemed fine. Until I turned on the faucet, that is. I had no water coming out of the faucet that is only 4 days old. I removed the hoses from the faucet, and have good water flow out of both (closed the shut off's, removed the hoses from the faucet and put in a bucket, then turned the valves on) that is steady and strong.
I also noticed that with the cold water hose off of the faucet, when I opened the hot water shut off valve, water came out of the cold water inlet. I did not try that in reverse, but I would assume it would do the same thing if the hot water hose was removed from the faucet and the cold water valve was turned on.
So my question is, what would cause a new faucet to do this, after replacing the shut off valves? The water flow from the faucet was perfect before I shut off the water to replace the valves. Could it be something caused by a pocket of air that flowed through as the water was turned back on? It is a cheap faucet, fit for a rental house, but aren't they all basically the same internally?
I'm planning on just going to buy another one and install it tomorrow, but if it's a simple fix I wouldn't mind saving the time and the cash. It is a rental, after all.
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A Farrelly brothers comedy about a set of conjoined twins? Let's face it - this could have been a one-joke movie that became stale after ten minutes. That was certainly my fear when I first heard of it. But I'm happy to report its much more than that.
The reason? Well the script is pretty good. Lots of surprisingly subtle lines as well as the belly laughs (of which there are many). But essentially the reason why it works is down to the two leads. Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear turn in really great performances.
They are certainly funny, and deliver the lines and the physical comedy in a way which makes you feel that they had a terrific time doing so. But what really makes the difference is that there is also a real warmth in their performances.
You feel that these 2 guys on screen really could be brothers. Its not about the script. Its the way they speak to each other, and look at each other that captures perfectly the relationship that can exist between close siblings. Their moments of irritability and anger (in some hilarious scenes they actually resort to fisticuffs) never last long, and you sense a real friendship and love. But don't worry - its all done in a very gentle, low-key way that never drowns out the next laugh.
The quality of the other characters varies, and for me the romantic element was the weakest part of the whole thing. But there's undoubtedly a lot of fun in the Hollywood in-jokes and the typical Farrelly humour keeps it rolling along at a nice pace.
As I always say about this sort of film, its not going to win any Oscars or find its way into any time capsule of 'culturally significant works of art'. But its funny, warm and in its own way quite thought-provoking. Watching it made me suddenly realise that its becoming quite unusual to see a film in which you actually 'like' the characters! Go and see it. It'll cheer you up.
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Filled with humour and pathos.
To anyone who loves to observe the eccentricities of the human condition, this film is a real gem.
Other reviewers have rightly pointed out that very little actually happens: it's just an English couple on a camping trip in the 1970s. But that analysis is to ignore the genius at work in the writing, and the acting of the two leads. Every frame, every line, every gesture is filled with humour and pathos - if you're prepared to look for it.
Roger Sloman and Alison Steadman are just sublime in their portrayal of the new-age suburban middle class couple. We scorn them, we pity them, we recognise them and we like them (albeit we wouldn't want to spend much time with them).
For me, the other characters - though necessary for the 'plot,' are less well-drawn. But the two leads are on screen so constantly it barely matters.
There's not much else to say, really. You just have to watch it. A warning though: once discovered, this is the sort of film you want to watch again and again. The dilemma is how you strike the balance between savouring it regularly without getting to know it too well.... I think the important thing is to use your discretion.
The Forgotten Ones (2009)
Pointless. Why Did They Bother?
If you read my reviews you'll see that I'm not one for hyperbole. But, all things considered, this really is one of the worst films I have ever seen.
A group of young rich Americans - who have various relationship issues between them - get on a yacht to sail off to a party. The boat sinks and they find themselves stranded on a mysterious island where they must battle to survive against a tribe of murdering sub-humans.
Yes it's all been done before, and there is NOTHING in this film that even attempts originality. But that's not the main problem. I can't tell you how bad it is. The relationships between the characters are poorly developed, the characters themselves are one-dimensional and unsympathetic, the acting is bottom-rate, the plot pointless, the direction annoying.
I usually try not to spoil in my reviews but this film is so bad I don't want you to waste your time seeing it, so I'll give you an example: One character is attacked by the creatures and dragged off into the jungle while he sleeps. He wakes to find his shin-bone broken and sticking out through his skin (he has noticed none of this as he slept). This kind of injury must surely be one of the most painful things possible, yet when he (eventually) notices it he winces as though he has been stung by a bee, then calmly ties the bone with a splint, gets up and starts walking around seemingly un-perturbed. Later we see him running.
Characters are seemingly killed off one by one, only to be seen again later being tortured by the creatures - and then killed anyway. As the plot rambles on, the tribe seems to have some kind of mysterious agenda, and it turns out they are selective in which humans they kill, but by the time we discover this there is only one human character left and she has no-one to talk to, so we don't get to know why.
Sometimes films are so bad they are actually funny, and they develop cult status. That won't happen to this one, because it doesn't even have any heart. Even if you like gore, the killings are not all that bloody so you'll be disappointed on that level too. Overall, by the time the closing credits roll it really is a relief, and you just wonder: why did they bother?
In all my IMDb reviews over the years, I have never given a move a '1' rating before. It seems there's a first time for everything!
I Know You Know (2008)
Set aside enough time to watch it twice!
The things I look for in a film are, first and foremost, good acting. I love how really authentic performances can drive a movie. Other things I look for are a good tight script, thoughtful direction and strong characters. Bearing all that in mind, I think this is a really fine film. I really enjoyed it.
I can't say very much about the plot, because it's the kind of film that would be very easy to spoil. In fact, be careful of any reviews you read - for that same reason. It's a fairly low-key film (don't look for car chases and explosions) but certainly not boring. The story is intriguing, and the two central performances keep you transfixed. It's about a young boy growing up in Wales, and focuses on his close relationship with his father, who is not all he seems.
Robert Carlyle is great as the Dad, but the heart of the film is the performance by young Aaron Fuller as the son. What a star this kid is going to be - his performance here is quite brilliant. The film is based on the true story of the director's early life and his relationship with his own father - and as such it is very moving, especially towards the end.
What I will say is that you might like to set aside enough time to watch this twice. Because after it had finished, I wanted to watch it all over again - right away. You may wish to do the same (you can do this easily because at 1hr 18mins the film doesn't outstay its welcome).
Black Water (2007)
Horror as it should be done
When I read the synopsis - 3 people lost in the wild battling against a huge crocodile - I wasn't exactly drawn in. It sounded like the typical yawn-movie horror formula of a bunch of people stalked by a monster - except in this case there are only three of them, so we wouldn't even get the macabre 'joy' of watching them get picked off one by one.
However, I watched it (couldn't sleep; nothing else to do) and it turned out to be much better than expected. The acting is great, the atmosphere tense and you really get that rare sense of a low budget winner.
Horror as it should be done. First-rate film-making. It's not perfect but it's well worth seeing. I give it a 7.
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1987)
Another frustrated fan leaps out of the closet!!
Like most of the other comments on this film, mine is not going to be a 'review'. People wanting to know what BTK is 'about' won't get much from the next few paragraphs. Rather, this is a personal tribute - a trip down memory lane and a celebration of a film that meant a lot to me in its time.
Because Yep. I'm another one! I was a teenage snooker addict of the 80s, greedily watching every shot broadcast (and so many were in those days) who couldn't believe my luck when this film came out. And I remember sitting up bleary-eyed to watch it on Channel 4 that late night sometime in 1986 or 87. I too taped it on my family's old VHS video recorder.... but I went a step further than most here and actually transferred it from there onto a maxell audio tape (yes, by sitting the tape recorder in front of the TV and remaining very quiet while it recorded!) so I could listen to it in my bedroom as well!
Well that video has long gone - but believe it or not I still have that audio tape.... somewhere. (not that I need to listen to it. The lyrics and sounds are seared into my memory, so many times did listen to it back then!) And yes, how fantastic it is to come on here and see so many good friends talking of their similar experience. Oh if only the internet had existed back then - we could all have found each other on some online fansite and become friends, rather than believing (universally it seems) that we were isolated; that we were alone in our devotion, that we were, perhaps, "The One"! Ah well. Perhaps it's best that it wasn't submerged in an internet community as films are today. It was frustrating not to be able to share our joy widely (untiol now). But there was something 'pure' about enjoying it alone. It was of its time.
It's been a long time to wait. But this board has proved that, to the small number of us who saw it in the mid 80s, this film will always remain a truly unforgettable little gem, with some of the most outrageously delicious dialogue I've ever heard: "This location is not capricious." Superb! :)
Vozvrashchenie (2003)
A film about people.
If you are someone who hates 'foreign' films or movies with subtitles, then don't read any further and go watch some other film. But you'll be missing something very special indeed.
This is a movie about two young brothers in Russia who are growing up without a father. Brought up by their mother and grandmother, the only male influence they have is their bond with each other. And then one day their father comes back, and it is decided that they will go with him on a fishing trip. The easy-going older boy is pleased to see his Dad and wants things to work out, but is nervous. The younger brother is more serious by nature, and resents the sudden intrusion. The father meanwhile seems to struggle with his paternal instinct. Off they go, with their fishing gear, and a trip that will change their lives.
No spoilers - but this is a film about people. About brothers. About the father-son thing. About loss, reconciliation, communication (lack of) and loyalty. But it is very watchable, and the story that plays out is very ordinary - at least until the end, perhaps. Any guy who grew up with a brother near the same age will find much to recognise here (I did). And I guess the same will be true of families in which an absent parent returned.
Not much is said - the script is quite minimalist. That's because guys in these kind of emotionally strained situations don't talk much! But the acting from all concerned is superb. They manage to convey so many thoughts, fears and emotions without too many words. The bleak direction is evocative and you actually feel cold at times watching this film, so have a blanket or a sweater handy! But it's hard to take your eyes off the screen, and you'll find yourself really caring.
The 16-year-old actor who played the older brother died in a drowning accident shortly after the film was made, giving added poignancy to his very nuanced performance.
The Edge (1997)
Just a damn good solid adventure story.
This film has it all. Great acting, stunning scenery, intrigue, tension, adventure, the odd twist, great action sequences, as well as beauty, and a beast! But above all, it is really just a great story. A good yarn, as my grandfather used to say. And you can't ask for more from a movie than that.
Anthony Hopkins is the paranoid rich guy with the beautiful young model wife (Elle MacPherson). Alec Baldwin is the laconic photographer who accompanies them to Alaska as part of a group doing a photo-shoot. Hopkins and Baldwin get lost in the wilderness with their friend (Harold Perrineau). The three soon become two (I won't spoil it by saying how) and the rest of the movie is about their battle to survive against all odds - and each other! I love "The Edge". Hopkins in particular turns in one of his great under-stated performances, and the film as a whole is as good a character study as you will find in modern Hollywood.
But as I say above, its best recommendation is that it is just a damn good story. A rollicking adventure that keeps you glued to the screen and really has you pinned to your seat at times. It won't win any awards for originality or artistry, but it doesn't make those kind of claims. It's just everything that the movies should be: a great film to just sit back and enjoy.
Bad Manners (1997)
Extraordinary - a little 'off the beat'
An ageing couple of academics are stuck in a stale marriage. Her old boyfriend comes to stay for a few days with his (much younger) girlfriend. Things are tense from the beginning. And then $50 goes missing.
This is an extraordinary film. I started watching it while working on my computer - so the movie was just on in the background - but gradually it pulled me in and I couldn't take my eyes off it.
The scenario it sets up could have gone in a number of different directions. At one point early on I had a horrible feeling it was going to be a standard sex flick about middle-aged adultery. Or, after the money goes missing, it might have moved too fast and forced us to watch a bunch of repressed characters suddenly turning to screaming and violence. But no - it's classier than that. What we get instead is a slow-burning exploration of character and relationships. And it isn't at all clear where it is going to go.
I won't over-praise it. The film drags at times, and as others have said its origins as a stage play are very obvious (there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that, except that it does show a slightly limited imagination). The acting is good, rather than top-notch, and personally I always find Saul Rubineck is one of those actors who plays the same character every time.
So it is not perfect. But if you're in the mood for something a little 'off the beat,' it's worth watching. Just don't expect to get any work done while it's on!
Becoming Jane (2007)
Fine performances from a host of great character actors
This is the story of how the young Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) lost her heart to a young Irishman Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy), and how the social complexities of the times impacted on their lives. It is filled with fine performances from a host of great character actors like Julie Walters and James Cromwell (as Jane's parents), Ian Richardson (as Lefroy's Uncle) and Maggie Smith (as the local wealthy Duchess).
Two shining minor performances to look out for: Jessica Ashworth as the pouting teenage girl who develops a crush on Lefroy and - more briefly - Helen McRory as novelist Mrs Ashworth, who is visited by Jane on a trip to London.
This is not the most original film ever made, but it is well-done, and worth watching for the performances and period detail.


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After more than 20 years, Uniontown woodworker 'still learning' his craft
The art of woodworking takes patience and craftsmanship, and Kebin Holbert of Uniontown has spent more than 20 years honing his craft.
Holbert is the February Artist of the Month. His work is being featured in the Law Library of the Fayette County Courthouse in Uniontown.
Exhibit director and assistant librarian Barbara Pasqua said that she approached Holbert asking him if he knew of any artists that she could approach about the exhhbit, not realizing that he did woodworking.
"I mentioned to Kebin if he knew of any artists and he said that he worked with wood," Pasqua said, adding that she wanted him to display some of his finished pieces as she had not featured a woodworker recently. "I try to find something different every month."
Holbert, who is employed in the IT department at the courthouse, started his hobby several years ago and enjoys the time that he can find to work with the wood.
"I started in the mid '80s" Holbert said. "I wanted to make a secretary desk for my son so I thought I'd give it a try."
Holbert completed the desk, which started him on the path to his new hobby.
The son of a carpenter, Holbert's natural talent is apparent in the detailing and crafted finished product that he creates.
Working with different wood grains, Holbert frequently opts for a finished product completed with clear coat, choosing to steer clear of stains.
"I enjoy working with cherry and walnut, oak and maple," Holbert said. "I work mainly with the domestic woods that can be purchased locally."
Setting up a woodworking area on his property, Holbert said that he has collected an impressive array of tools over the years and plans to continue his hobby.
"It's just something that I really enjoy doing," Holbert said, adding that he hopes to one day have more time to devote to his craft that he presently only spends a few hours each week perfecting. "I just wish that I had more time. I'm still learning, and I think that I will continue to learn for a long time."
Making items to be given as gifts or taking orders from friends and family members, Holbert has created several swings, steps, corner pieces, desks and cribs.
"The crib that I made has already been used for three grandchildren already," Holbert said. "I hope to see it passed down from generation to generation. That is what something like this is all about. Creating something that will be used in my family for many years to come."
Marilyn Forbes is a freelance writer.
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… you may find your Pagany books in the Religion section, instead of in the New Age section. Elysia over at Llewellyn has posted about "The Biggest Pagan News that No One is Talking About".
The BISAC code [the codes developed and maintained by the Book Industry Study Group] that used to be OCC036020 Body, Mind & Spirit / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism (a relatively recent addition on its own) is also now listed in Religion, as REL117000, or Religion / Paganism & Neo-Paganism. In addition, Wicca crossed over from OCC026000 Body, Mind & Spirit / Wicca and Witchcraft, to two separate BISAC codes. One remains in the occult section – OCC026000 is now simply Body, Mind & Spirit / Witchcraft. But Wicca itself is now REL118000, or Religion / Wicca.
This means that, in the eyes of the book selling industry, Paganism and Wicca (but not Witchcraft?) is now a religion. There is still no code anywhere for Druidry (which usually is categorized as Body, Mind & Spirit / Spirituality / Celtic) and no code for Heathenry or Asatru, which is lumped together with Paganism. Paganism will now be shelved with the more "respectable" books in Religion on Eckankar, Mysticism, Zoroastrianism (and even Demonology and Satanism), instead of the more New Agey books in Body, Mind & Spirit on Divine Feminine, Magick studies, Angels & spirit guides, Hermetism & Rosicrucianism, and Sacred Sexuality.


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Bad AA Diverter valve?
I have been trying to track down a possible vacuum leak. I have been getting a "idle speed implausible, air leakage" code. I clear it and it comes back in a day. I did several boost leak tests without finding anything. Today I did a smoke test with a home made smoke machine (glow plug and mineral oil). The only smoke leak I could find was one out of the back of the diverter valve, the port that vents to atmosphere. My understanding is that that is there to allow the diaphragm/spring to move up and down as necessary. If that is the case and I am getting smoke out of it, could the diaphragm be torn??? Any ideas would help.
Engine Code Idle speed implausible, air leakage
High idle - 1000rpm
Idle hangs once clutch is pressed, hangs at 1300 or so for about 2 seconds before seddling down to 1000rpm.
Set up
05 zhp
aa stage 2.5
I am about to change my Diverter Valve to a Tial Recir Q Valve. It will be the last thing that AA build/label on my car. (All been replace with better or higher quality parts)
Are you changing it as a preventative measure or changing it due to suspected failure?
As for your issues. I would hit up Viral hopefully he can help you. :)
Just a thought, might your diverter valve not be hooked up properly? I accidentally ran mine backwards for a little bit. Make sure your entry and exit from the valve is right
Have you pulled vacuum on the valve to see if it holds?
Mine does the same thing. Swap in a new recirc valve from AA...did the same thing.
I've been told that an exhaust leak with aftermarket headers can cause idle surge and weird idling. The claim was that exhaust air is pulled back up across the O2 sensors between pulses. I guess this is not an issue with the OEM manifolds since the cat is between the precat O2 sensors? I kept burning through gaskets so I just had some V-bands installed.
But my idle still surges a bit but not terrible. I still think the tune is not totally correct.
I plan to get Eurocharged to do my tune in the near future. Remote tuning was such a PIA.
This is AA's response to my guestion
"The BOV leak seems to be your biggest issue. Do you have the ability to test it with a vacuum pump, or have a local shop that could look the car over? The nipple on the other side should not have smoke coming out of it, and the diaphragm could be torn.
The MPG reading will be off because of the larger injectors that go along with the kit. Instantaneous MPG is calculated by using the injector duty cycle signal. This signal is going to be very different with larger injectors and will therefore register incorrectly."
I am going to test the valve this weekend using a hand held vacuum pump. If it is for sure bad, is there a rebuild kit for this? I would hate to spend a bunch of money on a new valve when I could just replace a molded piece of rubber......
Should ask active that question. As its there BOV.
Is your car an Auto?
You should look into running an Alpha-N tune so you do not have to recirculate, and to avoid these problems. Also, upgrade to a Tial Q blowoff valve.
Has anyone got Alpha-N right on an MS45 DME?
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Open forum scheduled for IASD school board candidates
Candidates for the Indiana Area School District board of directors will discuss the issues and their qualifications for the school board at a public forum next week at East Pike Elementary School.
The nonprofit group Indiana Foundation for Education has coordinated the program, which will be moderated by members of the League of Women Voters.
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"With such weighty issues as grade realignment, pension and health care costs, taxes and upcoming contract negotiations before the board, this election is clearly significant," a foundation news release noted.
Voters on Nov. 5 will select five people to serve on the school board.
Candidates Deborah Clawson, Julia Trimarchi Cuccaro, Diana Paccapaniccia (incumbent), Walter Schroth (incumbent) and John Uccellini are running for four-year terms on the board. John Barbor is running for a two-year term.
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As the Liverpool backroom continues to lick the wounds from its recent civil war, American business mogul Robert Kraft has publicly declared his interest in the English Premier League club. As Dubai International Capital hovers above the unsettled atmosphere at Anfield, waiting to buy out Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, Kraft tells Sky Sports News, "We haven't ruled [a takeover bid] out completely."
Kraft told the British broadcaster that he's met with Liverpool director David Moores, who was chairman prior to the club's takeover by Hicks and Gillett last
year. "I spent a lot of time with Mr. Moores and his group in Liverpool and we know something about building an opportunity," he said. "I want to be able to win whatever we do. But there are no
rules in terms of spending on players. We would never want to be in a business where we couldn't compete and right now some of the structure doesn't allow you to compete on a level playing
Kraft owns the Super Bowl-bound New England Patriots and the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. He is also founder, chairman and chief executive of the Kraft
Group, which owns the sports teams in addition to manufacturing and real estate development firms. "The fan base in Liverpool is a lot like the fan base of the Patriots when we bought them," Kraft