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I decided to start writing about chasing the dream. That dream of making a decent living with the craft of photography. Did I just get your attention? Probably because most of us who are not doing this just as a hobby are trying to make a living in a very saturated industry.
I heard this quote the other day." If your business is costing you money it is a hobby not a business, is this true? What about the cost of a start-up? What about the cost of education, equipment, marketing, etc for any new business? I think that you should expect it is going to cost you a lot of money to get to the point of making photography a business. It is also going to cost you a tremendous amount of time in practice and education. Photography is not like a franchise, this is a craft that will most likely take years to perfect. I am going on my 6th year of full-time education and daily practice trying to master my vision. I will not even say what this all has cost me, just incase my husband reads this someday.
Another suggestion I hear is that if there is no competition there is no market. Really? So we need to do what everyone else is doing if we want to make a living? I had to sit with that for a bit. I suppose that is true if you want to be a commodity but if you're an artist, you want to run and run fast from becoming a commodity.
I feel fear when I think about my vision for my business because I want to focus my photography on draft horses. Which for a business plan in the so-called "real world" would falter due to it is such a small niche part of the market. Then I watched a podcast on TWIP about this guy Don Kamarechka who has poured himself into snowflake photography and is now attempting to publish a fabulous book. This got me thinking. How big could the snow flake market be? But he is now known as the expert in snowflakes. Who could imagine that for a market?
The world does not need more of what we have already have. We need new stories, visions, art, products, and perspectives.
It is so easy to walk down the path that is well-worn and mapped out. But to follow the path your heart is calling you to follow takes courage, dedication and the wiliness to not listen to the masses. I believe you are experiencing such a calling when you feel fear at the very thought of doing what you have been called to do. Fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of status and reputation. When you feel these fears it is a good sign that you are on to something and you need to take serious look at this because there is something here that is designed with you in mind. It is also a path that you can choose to follow or pass up it is completely up to you but if you pass up the inspiration it will move on to someone else and you will have missed the opportunity. I am sure you can recall such a situation.
Will I be able to pay my bills and live a comfortable life by following my heart? I have no idea, but you can follow along with me as I share with you this dream and vision and the challenges I am sure to face.
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He describes Tom Cruise as 'a dog for work', but Lee Child is no slouch himself. He has published a book per year since his award-winning debut, Killing Floor, in 1997, thus creating an iconic character of contemporary fiction. His latest, Never Go Back, is the 18th novel about the hulking loner, Jack Reacher, the ex-military policeman who prowls the highways and byways of America, talking soft and carrying a big stick as he faces down the bad guys.
Reacher sales are in excess of 40m: Child is aware how long Reacher has been on the road, and how implausible his journey becomes with each story. "Technically, I'm probably better at it than I was when I started out, so it won't be for a lack of ability," he says when I ask how long he can continue with Reacher. "But, yeah, I am somewhat floored by the absurdity of it all by now — I mean, how many books can you write about the same guy? And that's something that's on my mind, at the moment. I do not want to be the guy who sticks around one year too long."
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We meet in Derry, where Child is appearing at Killer Books, a crime-writing festival held as part of the City of Culture 2013 celebrations. He is forthright, and shares Reacher's impressive physical presence, laconic sense of humour and reluctance to suffer fools gladly.
That reluctance came to the fore last year, when Cruise played the lead role in the movie, Jack Reacher, despite protests from fans that Cruise simply wasn't tall enough.
"We all knew — Tom included — that he didn't look like Reacher as he's written in the books," he says, "but we gambled he could nail the internals and the intangibles of the character, and I think he succeeded 100%. I got to know him a little bit, over the months, and what struck me was two things: he's a trooper, who works like a dog, and he has an unbelievable instinct for story."
Child made his storytelling bones as Jim Grant, working as a presentation director for Granada TV from 1977 to 1995, on shows such as Brideshead Revisited, and Prime Suspect. "It was real fun to be back on a set," he says of his cameo as a desk sergeant in Jack Reacher, and it won't be his last. "The team that put the first movie together did so because they're Reacher fans, simple as that," he says. "So their desire is to make lots of them. Will the money men agree? Probably, because the financials on the first were respectable. And, yes, I'm going to insist on a 'Hitchcock' every time."
Made redundant from Granada in 1995, Grant turned to writing thrillers to pay the mortgage, choosing the pen-name Child, because it placed him on the bookshelves between Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie.
"I've always been in showbiz," he says, "so a pseudonym is not a new thing for me. Over the years, I've had five or six different names I've worked under. I was contracted to Granada for a long time, so if I wanted to do anything else, moonlighting, I had to do it under a pseudonym. So this is perfectly normal for me. People ask why I chose to use a pen-name, and it's actually the other way around — as in, why wouldn't I? It frees you up. It's not quite you, and therefore the praise doesn't quite turn your head and the criticism doesn't really hurt."
The praise has been effusive , and includes a plethora of awards, but Child takes exception to the criticism of the crime/thriller genre. "One of the things that the genre gets criticised for is the writing," he says. "I mean, you'll get a review that says, 'This is not great writing, but it's a hell of a page-turner.' And I think that that is, objectively, a very stupid comment. Because if a book is a page-turner, then why is it a page-turner? I think every writer, deliberately or instinctively, writes to a certain style, so that the story is propulsive, like a sprung rhythm, always moving forward. So the technique is actually the best part of it. And it's extremely efficient, purposeful writing that produces that kind of result."
The latest novel, Never Go Back, has a tongue-in-cheek title. For the past four books, since 2010's 61 Hours, Reacher has been making his way back from the wild west to Washington DC to meet Susan Turner, whom he knows only from his dealings on the phone. Turner holds Reacher's former position with the military police. Things do not go to plan.
Four books after he first imagined her, Turner also arrived on the page differently to how Child had originally perceived her.
"Yeah, and part of the reason is that she had a different name in the first draft of that book, where we first meet her. Then, there was a charity auction, where someone could 'buy' their name into one of my stories, and the character's name changed to Susan Turner.
"And that's a kind of plain name, so that did have an effect on how I saw her.
"The interesting thing about Susan, for me, is how easily she dismisses Reacher," he says, "which I think is good for him. And I think that's good for me, as a writer, as well, because I think the biggest possible mistake you can make with a series is to fall in love with your character. To always let him have his own way.
"I'm perfectly happy for people to say 'no' to Reacher, or that he occasionally fails, or gets disappointed. That's fine. I mean, maybe readers are going to think, 'How can any woman turn Reacher down?' But I'm like, 'screw it, turn him down'. That's life. Even for Reacher."
I ask about the British tabloid quote that Child writes his books while high as a kite. "I've never written high," he says. "Actually, what bothered me about that piece was how it made me sound — I mean, what a half-hearted drug fiend I am. I only smoke weed five nights a week, and take the weekend off. No, they got it backwards. I'll have a smoke in the evenings, sure, which relaxes me, and it also helps to unwind plot points in the story. It's a great clarifier. But I don't write while I'm stoned, because the writing's never any good."
So how does he write? Is he a meticulous plotter, micro-managing the story right to the end before he starts typing his first line? "For me, it's completely organic," he says. "The new one, which is due next year, I'm about a fifth of the way through it and I still have no idea of what it's about, what's going to happen or what the issue is, nothing like that. The upside to not having a plan is that I'm as keen as the reader to find out what will happen next. For me, it's always exciting. I end a chapter, and it's not an artifice, not really — I'm like, 'Wow, what's happening now'?"
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I do a whole load of training these days, both as part of my day-job and my freelance work, so have picked up a few small tricks along the way. There's nothing earth-shattering here - but if you run training or teach infolit classes, you may find some of these useful.
Here's the short, visual version - then I go into each one in a bit more detail below.
Session structure
1. Start with something practical. Sometimes there is, unavoidably, a bunch of theory or conceptual stuff you have to get through. But if that's the case, if at all possible make this second on your itinerary for the day / hour - and start off with something practical. Diving in with something for people to DO wakes everyone up, and grounds the whole workshop in something tangible rather than abstract. It also makes everyone into active participants early on.
2. Allow time to recharge. A full-day workshop should have coffee-breaks etc built-in, but even a 1hr workshop can be quite overwhelming. Just building in a 3 minute gap for participants to switch-off, chat to each other, relax, will help them focus for the second half of the session and raise the energy level all round. A break 10 minutes in to a 1hr session works brilliantly - surprisingly better then, than half-way through the session or later.
3. Sum up via a Random Slide Challenge (also known as Battle Decks). I love a random slide challenge. Here's how it works:
- You create a short simple slide-deck which summarises the session you've just run (I normally create two decks of 5 slides each)
- You get participants to deliver the presentation (so in my case, two volunteers)
- The volunteers have never seen the slides before, which is part of the fun - so they see each slide for the first time at the same moment the audience does, and have to improvise their presentation based on that
- You move the slides along after 15 seconds per slide, so the whole thing takes only just over a minute per presentation
You have to give them the best possible chance of knowing which part of the session each slide is getting at! If you look at slide 41 onwards of the deck embedded here, you'll see an example of a random-slide challenge set of slides.
This works well for two reasons - firstly it is often hilarious. People in the audience shout-out if they pick up on what the slide is about before the presenters, and basically it leaves everyone on a high at the end of the session. Feedback forms at both the British Library, where I've done this on training courses, and for my infolit classes at York, often point towards this as being one of the delegates' favourite parts. The other reason it works is it's often a surpisingly great summary of the session. People say the exact kinds of things I would have said if I was summarising myself, but it has more impact because it's another voice (and, with students, it's one of their peers). Try it! The only thing is, you need a plan B for if you get no volunteers, which once happened to me. Prizes help ensure this doesn't happen...
4. Close after the questions. It's good to end any training or teaching session with a call to action - a clear message as to where participants can go from here. This can be somewhat muddied by a Q&A session (which can of course throw up anything), so build in time for questions just before the end, and leave yourself the last 5 minutes to close the session with something direct and meaningful.
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5. Use Padlet on your tablet to remember who's who. Padlet is a great tool that can be used in all sorts of ways. You create an online wall, onto which you and anyone else who has the URL can post notes. Anyone can double-click anywhere to add a sort of virtual post-it. Then they can put in their name as the title, and a note, or a URL - links to pics or videos become embedded objects on the wall. I use it to crowd-source people's ideas in training sessions - like you'd use a flipchart, except everyone can go back and look at the URL after the session, and it becomes a sort of archive for everyone to learn from oneanother.
Anyway, depending on the session I'll go round at the start and ask people to introduce themselves, and say what they want to get out of the day / hour. This is very useful in and of itself, as you can tailor things accordingly. I'll type it into Padlet on the big presenting screen as I go, so we can all refer back to it later in the day and see if we did what we said we'd do! But the really useful thing is, you can choose exactly where your notes go on the screen - so I put the notes in a way which corresponds to the physical layout in the room and where people are sitting, like in the example below. Then when I take it off the big-screen to put my slides up, I put the Padlet wall on my ipad screen - this means I've got everyone's names in the right place for easy reference so I can remember who's who!
(I feel like I didn't explain that very well. Does that make sense? The example below should clear it up.)
6. Skip ahead in the presentation, on your tablet. I like to have my slides or prezi open on my ipad so I can see what's coming. This is particularly handy if you're joint-teaching with somone - while they're speaking, you can recap what you're supposed to be saying next. A massive part of successful teaching and presenting, for me, is feeling in control - and this helps.
7. Hand out the handouts. It's tempting to feel more organised by distributing the handouts, if you use them, before people arrive. Placing one by each PC or on every table. But if the group is of 20 or less, hand them round yourself; it's a great opportunity to meet each person individually and make eye-contact which, however brief, makes the communication easier and fuller for the session proper.
8. Use screengrabs to make exercises easy to find. It's amazing how often people lose their place in a handout. When you get to an excercise in the handout, put a screengrab of the slide that's on the big-screen at the time you're introducing the excercise - it makes it quick and easy for people to know exactly where they should be.
9. Use a free PBworks wiki to store materials for delegates. For all sorts of reasons, it's good to have materials online. Particularly if your session is link-heavy, store a digital copy of the hand-out on a free wiki (PBworks for example) so delegates can access them that way and just click on URLs rather than typing them in. Put the PowerPoint on there too - this means you'll have a copy of your presentation and hand-outs even if your USB stick falls out of your pocket and your printer breaks…
10. Send the presentation round afterwards with an email. A follow-up email is useful for reinforcing key messages, and making sure people have access to the presentation materials. Don't rely on people (students especially) tracking it down for themselves; follow up directly, ensuring they have a copy of the presentation AND your contact details. If there are issues around attachment filesizes, upload your slides to Slideshare and your hand-out to Scribd, and include links instead.
As always, I'd welcome comments - add your own tips below and help make this post more useful!


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Newly minted President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump and Vice President Mike Pence and wife Karen Pence will make the traditional inaugural ball rounds Friday evening. On the docket: two inaugural balls, "Freedom" and "Liberty" at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, and a third, the Armed Services Ball, which will take place at the National Building Museum.
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Royal Canin Persian Adult
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So coupled with really stinking at this blogging thing, our summer was amazing and fun, and tons of family time to recharge, rest and relax...hello two weeks at the beach!!!, BUT it was also a completely transforming summer due to my husband switching jobs in July. He's been working from home for the last year and a half and we got really good at tag teaming between work and juggling kids--or just making sure they all survived. :) Now he's gone (it really does seem like he's seriously left us) and we are adjusting to a new type of routine. One that doesn't allow me to sneak up to my office for a couple of hours to work. So, blah, blah, blah...I was shooting a ton over the summer, but the office time was put on hold. Now that school is back in for all 3, I'm really trying to catch up.
This adorable FOURTH boy was just the sweetest. I could have kept going and going and going with him and when he came to see me again last week, I seriously didn't want to let him go. I'm so excited to dust off this blog with his newborn images, and hopefully this will not be the last post for months...we shall see.


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On the off chance that you moved before offering your home, you may be gone out costing you twofold home loan installments. Here are some home arranging tips to encourage you.
Home arranging has demonstrated to offer houses in less time and for more cash.
As per a report by the Christian Science Monitor, organized homes offer for 7.4 percent increasingly and twice as quick. Many home organizing administrations will outfit your empty house with their furniture and charge you a month to month expense, with costs running from $1,000 to $10,000 every month.
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Kentucky by the numbers: 399
Foreign-owned companies operate 399 facilities, defined as those with 10 or more employees, and employ nearly 77,000 people in Kentucky, according to reports issued this month by the state Cabinet for Economic Development.
Of those, Japanese firms account for 155 facilities and 39,632 employees. Companies based in Western Europe own 182 facilities that employ 27,204 Kentuckians. Mexican companies operate 11 facilities with 622 employees, and South American companies operate four facilities that employ 666.


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Hethwood Foundation
750 Hethwood Blvd., NW #100H,Fax (540) 552-2830
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Hethwood Residents - As a service to you, Hethwood offers you a space in each monthly newsletter (as space permits) to place your classified ads, FREE OF CHARGE! Just turn your ad in at the Hethwood office prior to the 13th of the month, to be placed in the following month's newsletter. Click here to submit your ad! For more information, call the office at (540) 552-5252 or email us firstname.lastname@example.com.
Arthur Cennamo
ABR GRI Licensed Realtor
Authentic Brazilian Parrilla style open fire grill
Open for dinner with awesome bar selections.
Baby Sitting and Childcare
Responsible 13 year old, 8th grader looking for babysitting opportunity.
Erika Gresh 230-8500, Emily Mertes 553-5494, Lauren Jaeger 320-2781, Emily Gresh 808-5572, Carolyn Montgomery 540-552-0267
Black Desk with Hutch & Chair
Almost new, very good condition asking $150
Blacksburg Sports Club Lunch
Each Wednesday there is a coach or sports individual who speaks for about a half hour after which there is time for questions.
Call Jeffrey for Yard Work!
Mowing, raking, mulching,
Trimming, seeding, brush clearing.
Donation-based Yoga classes at 915 Hethwood Blvd (Hethwood Food Lion Plaza)
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Experienced Teacher for Italian Lessons
All ages & all levels.
Frigidaire Washer and Dryer
For sale: 4-year old washer and dryer by Frigidaire — $800
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Come out to the Hethwood Market on Monday nights for BBQ. Tuesdays & Wednesdays for a take out dinner, and Thursdays for pork ribs.
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Swahili at Edinburgh
Swahili since 2012
The first ever accredited Swahili courses at the University of Edinburgh was run through the School of Social and Political Science (SPS) in the 2013/14 academic year, available to postgraduate students. The aim of these courses was to provide a contemporary, interactive, stimulating and effective introduction to the Swahili language. Teaching was based on a newly-designed curriculum and an innovative approach to learning that seeks to link the language to 21st century East African themes, such as music, literature, social media and the environment.
The courses proved so successful that it ran again in the 2014/15 academic year. In both these years, we have seen students make exceptional progress in a very short space of time, to the extent that each has been able to read newspaper articles, create complex compositions, perform interviews with native speakers and confidently make presentations in Swahili after only 20 weeks of study.
2015 also saw the first ever Swahili Summer School, run through Edinburgh Global, in which ten students travelled to Butiama (Tanzania), to learn Swahili in the family home of the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. The experiences of the students has been recorded in a blog, which can be accessed here.
This year, we have now launched courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level and are excited to now be able to offer Swahili to all students at the University. More details on the individual courses can be found on this website, on drps, or by contacting Teresa Poeta.
Why Study Swahili?
Learning Swahili should be considered a crucial step for anyone seeking to travel to East Africa for research, volunteering, work or travel, as knowledge of the language will enable you to engage positively with those from the region, better understand your environment and acquire a different perspective on local issues. Swahili can provide an excellent insight into the links between language, culture and history and a linguistic basis from which to explore other Bantu languages, which share similar grammatical and lexical features. Of course, in an increasingly competitive job market, learning a language like Swahili will also do not harm at all to your CV!
Why Edinburgh?
The Swahili courses at the University of Edinburgh will help you progress at a fast pace, while also teaching you about contemporary issues, figures and various aspects of East African culture. Each course will teach you over five hundred items of vocabulary and taking both will help you to understand the vast majority of Swahili grammar. Furthermore, you will learn much about East African culture, important cultural and historical figures and a variety of contemporary issues ranging from the China-Tanzania relationship to the music industry and mobile banking. You will even get the opportunity in the second semester to learn how to cook a variety of East African dishes, including ugali, maandazi and chapati.
Finally, our courses ensure that you get sufficient practice not only in reading and writing, but speaking and listening too. You will have weekly conversation classes with native speakers, as well as having the opportunity to participate in an optional weekly two-hour language corner with members of the East African community and other students interested in the language.


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Welcome to Greenacres
The Golf Centre moved into new premises in 2008 which comprises a luxury reception area, locker rooms and a members area.
The reception area offers casual seating to relax after your game of golf with coffee/tea, soft drinks, confectionery and a selection of baps (bacon, burger or hot dog) available
The Greenacres course, opened in 1996, has been developed over the years making this a challenging 18 hole Par 70, 6031 yards course. We have also built 'Lislea Course', a 9 hole Par 3 course. This is available to all members of Greenacres.
With a membership of the centre you can:
- Pre-book tee-off times on 18 hole 'Greenacres' course up to a week in advance
- Play the 9 hole 'Lislea' course'
- Play the FootGolf
- Sign up to 3 visitors at reduced rates on Greenacres course
- Reduction on trolley and buggy hire and on driving range cards.
Adult Full (7 day) - £650
Adult 5 day (Mon-Fri) - £440
Adult Female (7 day) - £440
Joint (7 Day) - £930
Senior Citizen 7 Day (Over 70) - £475
Senior Citizen Female (Over 70) - £335
Young Adult 18-22 yrs - £280
Young Adult 23-28 yrs - £440
Juvenile (Under 18) - £100
Membership payment can be made by cash, cheque or credit card or spread the cost with monthly Direct Debit. Get in touch for further details.
An integral part of the centre is the 'Greenacres Golf Club' with Saturday competitions and teams in the various local competitions.
PLEASE NOTE: The Golf Centre membership fees quoted above does not include membership of the Golf Club. The Golf Club membership fee has to be paid directly to them and can not be made by credit card.


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Possible Solutions
Popping/Cracking Noise
- Contraction and expansion of the inside walls of the refrigerator may cause a popping or cracking noise, especially as the refrigerator cools down for the first time or defrosts.
- This is part of normal operation.
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In the event you need service, please call 1-800-JENN-AIR (536-6247) to arrange for an authorized servicer to perform repairs.


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Sometimes when you realize you need a new hat or mittens--It's going to be freezing tomorrow and I'm going hiking! It's my best friend's birthday and I don't have a gift!--you need it NOW! This is the book you can turn to again and again for just the right pattern, knowing that every project in it can be completed in a matter of minutes or hours. Designed for maximum style in minimum time, the knits in this book were created with busy knitters in mind.
From twisty mitts to a family hat, a cozy alpaca scarf to cozy ribbed leg warmers, and a cable pattern that can be adapted to make wrist warmers, mitts, a headband, or a hat, you will have a quick pattern for every knitted essential in just this one book.
Candi Derr is a craft book editor for Stackpole Books and the author of Knit a Vintage Christmas. When she is not working on craft books, she dabbles in a variety of fiber arts, including knitting, spinning, rug hooking, and crocheting. She resides in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.


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Antler Stud Earrings
Naturally-shed white-tailed deer antler was carefully selected to create this simple stud earring. The antler is sliced and sanded to create small smooth discs which are then reunited with its neighbour. The posts and backs are sterling silver-plated as well as nickel-free and lead-free (example pictured below).
Antler size: 22mm long x 17mm wide x 2mm thick
If you require a solid sterling silver post and back, request a custom order and we will find the right antler for your earrings!


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Bao accessories are made from handcrafted recycled and natural materials.
Cow Bone and Horn
The cow bone and horn is a byproduct of the beef industry. It is a beautiful way to ensure that such a sacrifice is honoured by not allowing anything to go to waste.
Krobo Beads
Glass beads made in Ghana from recycled glass. Glass is pounded into a powder and then set in a mould, coloured with ceramic pigment and fired into a new bead and hand painted.
Bogolan | Mudcloth
Hand spun and woven Malian cotton fabric dyed with fermented mud. Mud is collected from the bottoms of riverbeds and fermented for a year, and then the cotton is hand printed in various patterns.
Recycled Brass
All brass D rings and rings for bags, bangles and small brass effects are created from recycled brass bits such as keys, handles, wire and locks. These brass items are melted down and recast into a new bangle or rings and D rings.
Recycled Leather Jackets
We use second hand leather jackets to make our handbags. Each jacket is hand selected, carefully taken apart and reconstructed into a new bag.
The leather on these bags have a ton of character from its previous life as a jacket. No two jackets are the same. Sometimes we are able to get 2 or 3 bags from the same jacket, making a bag similar but never the same. We call them sister bags. We make a note on each bag description to indicate when it is a sister bag.
Vegetable Tanned Leather
Handles and straps are constructed from vegetable tanned leather for sturdiness. This leather is tanned naturally using vegetable matter. It darkens and ages becoming customized to the wearer.
Kazuri Beads
Kazuri means 'small beautiful thing' in Swahili, they are handcrafted and hand painted ceramic beads made in Kenya. Kazuri is dedicated to providing sustainable employment for single Kenyan mothers.
Indigo Fabric
Handwoven Malian cotton, pressed with starch to form the pattern, which is then dipped in an all natural indigo bath fifteen to twenty-seven times.
Dead Stock Leather
We also use dead stock leather. Dead stock leather is leather that is produced for a specific season, or even an overproduction of leather that would otherwise be discarded. We often feature dead stock leather in our tassels and on our recycled leather totes (coming soon). IMAGE COMING SOON.


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About Us
Ms Lindsay has many years of experience and has provided services to the legal community and to business owners, providing expert witness testimony in many Federal, State and other courts and Tribunals around Australia. Here are some example cases.
Forensis Accounting is led by Tamara Lindsay. Ms Lindsay has over 25 years experience as an accountant with the majority of these as a Chartered Accountant specialising in forensic accounting. Prior to establishing Forensis Accounting she was a partner in the Forensic Accounting division of a major Chartered Accounting firm.
Alex Wallace is a forensic accountant with expertise in damages quantification, modelling and legal writing. Alex strives to make complex accounting issues understandable for the clients of Forensis Accounting and the Court to assist in expediting resolution of complex disputes.
Ms Fran Grant is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years' experience. Ms Grant commenced her career with Coopers & Lybrand/PwC, working in Sydney and later in Basel, Switzerland. Between 2002 and 2007 Ms Grant worked for Energy Australia as Project Manager of its International Accounting Standards Implementation Project. Since 2007, Ms Grant has worked for Forensis Accounting preparing expert/court reports for dispute resolution, financial investigation and loss quantification matters.
Some commercial cases in which Ms Lindsay has given evidence:
The Bell Group Limited v a syndicate of 60+ banks
Heard in WA Supreme Court. Currently awaiting judgment. Ms Lindsay was briefed by Blake Dawson Waldron, acting for the Liquidator of the Bell Group Limited. The assignment involved the accounting and commercial interpretation of a number of restructuring proposals. Ms Lindsay prepared a very extensive report and gave evidence in the matter in 2004.
Club Hotels Operations Pty Limited v CHG Australia Pty Limited
NSW Supreme Court - accounting interpretation of warranted terms and critique of claim regarding a business acquisition. Ms Lindsay was briefed by Bruce Stewart Dimarco who acted for Club Hotels (the vendor).
Club Hotels Operations Pty Limited v CHG Australia Pty Limited
NSW Supreme Court - accounting interpretation of warranted terms and critique of claim regarding a business acquisition. Ms Lindsay was briefed by Bruce Stewart Dimarco who acted for Club Hotels (the vendor).
ACCC v Baxter Healthcare
Federal Court - price fixing matter. Ms Lindsay was briefed by the Australian Government Solicitor, acting for the ACCC.
Customs v Parker & Ors
NSW Supreme Court - investigation into the alleged non-payment of excise duty on alcohol importation and warehousing. Ms Lindsay was briefed by the Australian Government Solicitor, acting for Customs. Judgment was handed down on 8 May 2006, with a decision in favour of Customs. Ms Lindsay's report and evidence was commented on extensively in the judgment.
CGEA Transport Sydney Pty Ltd and Anor v Sydney City Council
NSW Land & Environment Court. Ms Lindsay was briefed by Piper Alderman who acted for CGEA (former owner of the Monorail in Sydney). The matter involved quantification of a reasonable payment for utilising "airspace" in CBD Sydney.
Adshel v JC Decaux
Federal Court - quantification of loss of profits from bus and tram shelter street advertising. Ms Lindsay acted for Adshel briefed by Freehills in Melbourne.
Globaltel v Worldcom
NSW Supreme Court - review of loss of profits claim. Ms Lindsay acted for Worldcom briefed by Baker & McKenzie. Investigation involved computer assisted analysis of telecommunications billing data - matter settled due, in part, to Ms Lindsay's analysis which showed no inaccuracy in the defendant's data.
Henley Arch v Clarendon Homes
Federal Court - Account of profits. Ms Lindsay acted for Clarendon briefed by Minter Ellison. Her role was to quantify an account of profits arising from an alleged infringement of copyright.
Thakral Operations & Ors ats Needlegrove Investments & Anor
Supreme Court of New South Wales (currently awaiting judgment) - this case involved the issue of relief from forfeiture of a sub-lease over premises allegedly operated as a restaurant/nightclub. Briefed by Blake Dawson Waldron in Sydney. Ms Lindsay's evidence related to the value of the sub-lease.
We have played a key role in forensic accounting for many years. Today Forensis Accounting provides a full complement of forensic accounting services.
We act in both the role of an independent expert and as a consulting forensic accountant. The former is a role in which our duty is to the Court. The latter is a role in which we can assist you in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the issues in dispute; the development of strategies to resolve the dispute; briefing the independent forensic expert; interpreting financial documents; formulating claims and supporting evidence.
Sample cases and judgments - read more


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Castrol Labcheck is a rapid and accurate oil analysis program that can reveal vital information about the condition and performance of engines, gearboxes, transmissions and associated equipment. The key to oil analysis is "trending".
After oil from an engine has been sampled several times, trends start to appear which can provide vastly more information than random one-off samples. It is a valuable aid to planned maintenance.


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There will be NO doomsday talk here.
I promise.
If you've landed on this blog post, it's very likely you've already paid a visit to Dr. Google and the WebMD Wizard.
While well intentioned, those guys can overwhelm very, very quickly. So, I want to let you know that this is a safe space and I promise to avoid any fear mongering or worst-case-scenario prophetising.
A new diagnosis of Parkinson's can be overwhelming, and I'm here to offer some practical, powerful information you can use to educate and empower yourself on this new, unfamiliar journey.
I know the urge is strong, but please don't run away.
In my physical therapy practice, I work daily with clients who are downright terrified after their diagnosis. They finally ended up in a neurologist's office with a few benign symptoms and their doctor's feedback went something like this:
"It looks like you have Parkinson's disease, which is a degenerative neurological disease. Take these medications, they'll help with the symptoms. There is no cure. Come back and see me in a few months."
… and that's it.
Talk about traumatic!
They frantically search for answers via the internet and come to me with a list of fears a mile long that - in order to respect my "no doomsday" clause - we'll leave unnamed for today.
"What can I expect?", they ask.
"How's this all going to play out?"
Here's the truth:
I don't know.
I don't have a crystal ball.
And neither does your physician.. or Dr. Google.. or the WebMD Wizard.
No one knows what's in store for your future, whether you have Parkinson's or not.
You can either look at this as terrifying - as "the enemy you don't know" - or you can look at this as empowering because, in the end, you still have the power to choose your path forward.
(And, I'm going to help layout how to do just that in today's post.)
Yes, it's true that Parkinson's is classified as a "degenerative neurological disease". And no, we do not have a cure for Parkinson's at this time.
However, that is all we know about Parkinson's as far as prognosis is concerned.
I've heard from thousands of people who've been diagnosed with Parkinson's and every single one of them is different.
You have a different background.
You have a different presentation.
You have a different support system.
You have so many different individual things going on that it's impossible to predict what your experience will be with Parkinson's.
On the other hand, we do have a lot of promising research developing that's beginning to shed some light on what can be done to prevent Parkinson's, prevent the worsening of symptoms, and the most effective treatment methods and techniques.
What we're going to focus on are the things that we do know that help you improve your symptoms now and maximize your longevity and your independence for the long run.
I'm going to share with you a lot of those things today, but I want to just encourage you to do two things.
These are the two most powerful things you can immediately after diagnosis:
#1. Educate Yourself
#2. Empower Yourself
These go hand in hand. The more you know about what you can do to be proactive right now to help yourself with your symptoms, the better your outcomes will be.
I will tell you this: The people who are invested in their own health as you are (because you're reading this post) are the ones that have the best outcomes.
When you were diagnosed, most likely you felt all the power left you. You were made to think that someone or something else holds the key to your diagnosis. I want you to know you can take the power back by educating yourself and being an advocate within your treatment plan.
I'm not going to sit here and say that Parkinson's isn't challenging. I'm not saying everything's coming up roses or that if you do all of these things, your Parkinson's symptoms will disappear.
That's not what I'm saying.
What I am saying is that you can do everything in your power to learn. If you're reading this, you've already started. The important thing is to educate and empower yourself every single day.
If you do that, then your tomorrow will be better than it would have been otherwise.
Here we go.
#1: Start Building Your "Parkinson's Plan of Attack"
There are 3 parts of a "Parkinson's Plan of Attack", and they all revolve around dopamine.
Part 1: MAXIMIZE the dopamine in your body
Dopamine is the brain chemical that's depleted in Parkinson's.The best way to maximize the amount of dopamine that you have left circulating in your system is exercise. Exercise enhances your brain's ability to utilize dopamine.
Part 2: PROTECT the dopamine-producing cells in your brain
Now more than ever before, you'll want to protect the dopamine-producing cells in your brain like gold - because they are! Here are some of the main "neuroprotective" strategies you can use: exercise (note the pattern here?), brain-boosting nutrition, avoiding toxins, managing your stress, and getting great sleep.
Part 3: SUPPLEMENT dopamine so you can function at an optimal level
This is typically done through your Parkinson's medications. By no means am I anti-medication. Medications should be used as a tool to bring you up to a point where you can function in your day-to-day activites, participate in the things you love, exercise, and maximize your quality of life. That's what we're here for, after all. I like to tackle the first 2 steps and then help my clients determine their proper supplemental dose of Parkinson's medication because often exercise, nutrition, hydration, and good sleep can dramatically decrease the amount of supplemental medication they need to be taking.
#2. Start Exercising - Now!
So, as you start to build your Parkinson's plan, you can see one of the most powerful things you can do is exercise.
Since exercise literally acts as medicine for the Parkinson's brain, you can now expect to exercise every single day.
This will just be a part of life now. In the same way that you wouldn't skip any vital medication, you should never skip your daily dose of exercise.
What should a Parkinson's exercise program look like, exactly?
I'm glad you asked.
I created a checklist which walks you through the 7 elements of an effective Parkinson's exercise program. These are the same elements I work on with my clients, and it's crucial your exercise program is Parkinson's specific so you're not wasting your time on a program that's failing you. Snag your checklist here:
7 Elements of a Highly Effective Parkinson's Exercise Program (Free PDF Download)
Even if it's just a walk or stretch on days that you're really super fatigued, you'll still need to be moving. Your brain is depending on it!
#3. Learn about the Brain-Gut Connection
The Brain-Gut Connection (ie. Brain-Gut Axis) is an exploding area of research for Parkinson's for a variety of reasons. As it turns out, your brain and your gut are intricately connected. As you're venturing into this new diagnosis of Parkinson's, shifting to eating in a way that's healthy for your gut is crucial as it impacts your brain health tremendously. I get dozens of questions each day on nutrition for Parkinson's, which is why I created a free four-part video series all about how to maximize your gut health. You can check it out here:
Special Note: "When should I consider starting Parkinson's medications?"
Part of this Parkinson's journey is deciding if and when you want to take Parkinson's medications. You may be wondering when to start, what they're for, their benefits or drawbacks, and so forth.
And I've talked ad nauseam about Parkinson's medications in the past, but here's what I want to encourage you to think about when you're considering your Parkinson's medication plan:
You are looking to balance your medication dosage with the impact on your quality of life. It's a balance between how well you function and how much medication do you take.
The ideal is that you'll be taking enough to manage your most problematic symptoms, but you're not overly medicated, and it can take a while to balance those out.
You can listen to the entire discussion I had around this topic via the video below:
Link to Video: Parkinson's Medication 101
#4. Begin to Heal Your Traumas by Exploring Your Self-Talk
The initial diagnosis can be really traumatic, and I think it's important to emphasize that the expectations that are set up for you now, in the early stages of your diagnosis, what you expect, you get.
And so if you're expecting to decline rapidly, because that's what someone told you, you're going to look for symptoms that you are, and it'll be self-fulfilling prophecy.
So what I want to do is come in and say, "If you empower yourself, tomorrow can be better than today."
I've seen that over and over, And a lot of my PT colleagues will tell you that as well. People at five years diagnosis may possibly move better and feel better than they did at diagnosis because they're caring for themselves better five years into a Parkinson's diagnosis than they ever did in their entire life.
So, I would love for you to read a blog post that I wrote:
A Letter to My Clients - Things I Wish I Could Have Told You on the Day You Were Diagnosed with Parkinson's
I want to encourage you to start exploring your self-talk, repeating thoughts, and explore reframing your beliefs around a Parkinson's diagnosis. Fear can be more of a limiting factor than a lot of the symptoms themselves.
#5. Build Your Team
When you begin to build your team, it will include a healthcare team and a support system.
Your main healthcare team:
Movement disorder specialist (Find one in your area here)
a Parkinson's trained physical therapist
psychologist or even a neuropsychologist on board, because getting a Parkinson's diagnosis can be really traumatic, and there are a lot of emotions that pop up, and I know we don't like to talk about emotions, and feelings, and we think that they can just be discarded. But the way that you feel and the emotions you have, and the thoughts you have around your diagnosis contribute to your symptoms and your overall health. So I always recommend having a psychologist on board, even if it's for one session or two, just to talk about your diagnosis is really, really, really valuable.
Nutritionist. (Your gut health and your brain health are directly connected. You want to have a nutritionist on board that is really familiar with neurological diagnosis so that they can help you prescribe some nutrient-dense eating programs to help you really heal and fuel your body with good powerful things.)
Functional medicine practitioner (helps you identify the origin of different symptoms, instead of simply prescribing medication to mask a symptom)
Your "fringe" healthcare team:
Urologist, deals with bladder
Social worker - finding resources
Speech therapist (if you're having trouble with cognition, or swallowing, or drooling, facial expression, voice projection)
A sleep specialist (>80% of people who've been diagnosed with Parkinson's have issues with sleep)
Sexologist or Sex Therapist (don't let the taboo-ness scare you - they're here to help you and your partner figure out how to make that relationship work with this new diagnosis, and symptoms, and feelings about it all)
#6. Find (or Grow) Your Tribe
Every one needs a tribe. I'm grateful that you're part of mine. It's a virtual tribe obviously, and so it's always great to connect with people one on one. So if you can find a support group or even just two or three people that you can meet with once a week to really get things off your chest, to share your life, if you know that there are people around you that you can count on no matter what, your health is so much better and your outcomes are so much better.
A great place to look for your tribe is at the local, non-profit level. There are plenty of support groups that you meet with once a week. It doesn't have to be sitting in a circle, sharing your feelings if you're not comfortable with that.
If you don't have anything nearby, I would love to invite you to be part of our community: The Invigorated Community.
We're a private Facebook group established exclusively for people who've been diagnosed with Parkinson's. We have such a supportive group, a lot of compassionate, enthusiastic wonderful people inside of our community, so hop in there, say hello. Let us know who you are, and we'll welcome you to our tribe without any strings attached ever.
Special Note: CarePartners and Parkinson's
As a care partner, you're a part of this too. You're the other half of this relationship and you have needs, too.
Be vocal. Be compassionate.
Finding that balance of give and take between the two of you will take a lot of communication.I encourage you, as a CarePartner, to educate yourself and empower yourself as much as your partner is about Parkinson's. It just may look a little bit different. Once you uncover what you need to move forward, be vocal. Ask for what you need. Be compassionate when you speak, and also when you listen. (Of course, this goes both ways!)
Ask for help. Build a tribe.
You need the people around you as much as the person that you care for does. You need people who are outside of your daily life to go to and express yourself individually in order to continue to be your own independent human being.
Maintain your interests and passions.
Bring those things back and share them with the person that you love. And that could even break up some of the isolation that you guys may be feelings.
(If you've been diagnosed with Parkinson's, it's okay to go do things without your care partner, and go have hobbies and bring them back together.)
Build a Plan… Together.
You're two different people in this relationship. I'm not a relationship therapist, but as a care partner, and a person diagnosed with Parkinson's, you all have to form that plan together. Sit down and be truthful and open with each others. Ask each other: What are your expectations? What are your goals? How do you feel? What do you need? Those lines of communication should be wide open, and also be super compassionate, because you guys are each other's best friend, and support system, so it goes both ways.
Give yourself permission to care for yourself.
If you're not taking care of yourself, you can't take care of anybody else, right?
So, what can you expect once you've been diagnosed with Parkinson's?
No one has a crystal ball. If someone's put a fearful image into your head about what to expect when it comes to a diagnosis of Parkinson's, I encourage you… invite you... to dump that thought, and start replacing it with empowering ones. You get what you expect. And so, if you're educating yourself and you're empowering yourself, tomorrow can be a better day than today is. Doing that consistently one day at a time, you'll realize there's something you can be doing every single day to help you improve your vitality, your independence, and your mobility for the long run.
So, take those small steps, gain momentum.
None of us can fully control what the future holds, but you have a lot more power than people may have been telling you. So I want to encourage you to use that.
If you found this helpful, I would appreciate if you shared it with someone you know.


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How to stop your phone being hacked
Smart phones create new risks but they can be avoided, as Ali Dehghantanha from the University of Salford explains.
If you've ever forgotten your phone or left it at home for the day, you will have realised just how much you use it. On average, we check our mobile phones about 110 times a day. Using them for just about everything, from summoning an Uber car and paying for our latest Amazon purchases, to receiving prescriptions and even tracking shares and trading on the stock market.
Unsecured mobile phones are among the top seven major causes of security breaches and your mobile number is all a hacker needs to start the attack. Using your number, hackers can send you a text message containing a malicious link, which when clicked allows them to read your texts, listen to your calls and even track your whereabouts.
Smartphones are valuable targets for hackers – more so than laptops or personal computers. This is because they can be used as a "pivot point" to attack heavily protected environments such as banks or critical national infrastructure. Hackers can redirect their malicious traffic through your phone and store collected data on it. This means that all forensics traces would point to you as the hacker rather than the real culprit.
On top of this, most phones are open to attack 24 hours a day, seven days a week, often with only limited security features in place. Combine this lack of security with the fact that most modern phones now contain more processing power than the computers that landed Apollo 11 on the moon, and it's not hard to see why they are a hacker's weapon of choice.
Under attack
The worst case scenario? You could wake up one morning to the police kicking down your door, investigating a sophisticated cyberattack with all the evidence pointing to you. Regardless of how ridiculous it may seem, in the absence of any cyber-monitoring or cyber-defence solution you would have a very hard time proving that you were not guilty. And it is not just hackers you need to worry about, even the US National Security Agency and the UK's GCHQ have secretly used innocent people's devices to cover their malicious activities.
In my career as a cyber forensics investigator, I have not only seen many of these cases but also scenarios where hackers have been hired by organisations to deliberately frame employees by planting material such as child pornography onto their work phones. The person in question is then accused, for example, of selling secret company information to competitors and when the legal team investigates their phone, they find the child pornography. It is a scary prospect.
Many people wrongly believe that their mobile service providers should deploy cyber-protection mechanisms for their users. But if you read the terms of service, you will clearly see that as the owner and user, it is solely your responsibility to protect yourself. Exactly in the same way that you protect your laptop when you surf the internet.
If you are reading this and you are yet to install at least an anti-virus application on your phone, stop reading immediately and install one – there are many good anti-virus applications that are completely free. You should also make sure to only install applications from well-known app markets such as Google Play or the Apple or Windows Stores. Never "jail break" or root your phone to install free apps unless you are a security expert and know what you are doing.
And it may sound like common sense, but do not click on the links you receive from unknown sources. It is also a good idea to have all your phone data encrypted and to install a logging or monitoring solution on your phone to have records of all activity. It could well turn out to be your "get out of jail free card" – just on the off chance anything were to happen.
Ali Dehghantanha is Lecturer in Cyber Security and Forensics at the University of Salford. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
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Bronco Beat
Source: Boise State defensive coordinator Marcel Yates headed to Arizona
Boise State defensive coordinator Marcel Yates has decided to take a position on the Arizona coaching staff, a source told the Idaho Statesman on Sunday.
Thayer Evans of Sports Illustrated reported on Twitter that Yates was expected to be the Wildcats' defensive coordinator.
Yates leaves after two years as the Broncos' defensive coordinator and less than a week after offensive coordinator Eliah Drinkwitz left the program for North Carolina State. Coach Bryan Harsin's original offensive coordinator, Mike Sanford, also left after one year.
Harsin didn't retain his defensive coordinator or half of his co-offensive coordinator duo from his first year as a head coach at Arkansas State.
Yates will be the third of nine full-time assistants to exit the staff this offseason. Defensive backs coach Julius Brown was let go. Brown has been replaced by Ashley Ambrose, according to a source, but that hire hasn't been announced.
The departures of Sanford and Yates cast a shadow over the program of Harsin. The three came to Boise for the 2014 season as alums in dream positions.
"It's the best school to coach at in college football," Sanford said in January 2014. "This has been a dream for me. This place really formed me. I think this place really has that destination feel for me as a football coach." Thirteen months later, he took an offensive coordinator job at Notre Dame but wasn't the primary playcaller.
"This is my second home. … It was real easy for me when I got the call from coach Harsin," Yates said in January 2014. "For me, it's all about my family. Having my wife from here … she already had our bags packed." Two years later, he's headed to Arizona.
To put the turnover in perspective, former Boise State coach Chris Petersen lost three coordinators in eight years and former Boise State coach Dan Hawkins lost one in five years. From 2002 to 2009 — the peak of the Broncos' success — the only coordinator to leave the staff was defensive coordinator Ron Collins, who followed Hawkins to Colorado.
The top internal candidate to replace Yates seems to be linebackers coach Andy Avalos, whose work as defensive line coach (2012-13) and linebackers coach (2014-15) has drawn raves. The only other returning defensive coach is defensive line coach Steve Caldwell, a career position coach.
Former Boise State defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox (2006-09) also is on the market.
The departures by Drinkwitz and Yates cost Boise State two of its best recruiters and both coordinators at a critical time for recruiting. Signing day is Feb. 3.
Yates' decision also adds to a long list of adversity for the Broncos program in the past 11 months.
Yates was the Broncos' cornerbacks coach from 2003 to 2005 and defensive backs coach from 2006 to 2011. He became the co-defensive coordinator at Texas A&M in 2012-13 and took a pay cut to return to his alma mater in 2014 as Harsin's defensive coordinator.
Yates received a three-year contract — a first for a Boise State assistant — after the 2014 season. He received $330,000 per year. He has a $75,000 buyout.
Boise State finished 12th in the nation in total defense this past season at 318.3 yards per game, bolstered by a complete shutdown of Northern Illinois in the Poinsettia Bowl, and 18th in scoring defense (20.2 points per game). The Huskies netted just 33 yards. His defense also allowed 31 and 37 points to triple-option teams New Mexico and Air Force in consecutive home losses in November.
In 2014, the Broncos were 49th in total defense (375.4 yards per game) and tied for 64th in scoring defense (26.8 points per game).
Boise State beat Arizona and coach Rich Rodriguez 38-30 in the 2014 Fiesta Bowl. The Wildcats generated 492 yards in that game but quarterback Anu Solomon was sacked eight times and intercepted twice. One interception was returned for a touchdown and one sack ended the game in the Broncos' red zone.
Arizona ranked 115th in total defense last season at 467.8 yards per game. Rodriguez decided not to retain coordinator Jeff Casteel and two other defensive assistants. The other defensive assistant left, forcing him to build an entirely new defensive staff. The Wildcats still need a defensive line coach.
January 18, 2016
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Here is the profile I wrote of Yates that published Aug. 10, 2014:
By Chadd Cripe
© 2014 Idaho Statesman
The obstacles kept coming.
Boise State defensive coordinator Marcel Yates kept dodging them.
He grew up in Los Angeles, where many kids - including his older brother, who was murdered - slip into a dangerous lifestyle.
He stutters when speaking in front of a group, an issue he calls his greatest challenge in life.
His first college - Pacific - scrapped its football program at the end of his first semester.
His athletic career was derailed by bad knees, which reduced him to a special teams role as a Boise State senior.
His first coaching job - at Montana State - offered so little compensation that he worked as a cab driver and bouncer on the side.
He got his first job at Boise State - as cornerbacks coach, in 2003 - only after the original hire backed out.
And he felt he needed to leave Boise State after nine years - for a co-coordinator post at Texas A&M - to prove he was a viable candidate to run his own defense.
All of that, and Yates is still just 36 as he takes the reins of the defense at his alma mater and in the program he helped boost to national prominence.
"Everybody has a challenge, " Yates said. "Everybody's story is their story for a reason. I was always taught by my parents to never feel sorry for yourself and understand that everybody is going to have an opportunity, and it's up to you to take advantage of that."
Yates certainly has.
This is the guy who went out for football for the first time as a high school junior to show his friends he could come back from knee surgery (he tore an anterior cruciate ligament playing basketball as a sophomore) - and then became a scholarship recruit.
The guy who was overlooked initially in 2003 because of his inexperience - then cranked out so many NFL players that they dubbed Boise State "DBU."
"I'm just so happy to see him get an opportunity to display his talent on a national level, " said John Rushing, a former Boise State graduate assistant and current Green Bay Packers assistant who is close with Yates. "I've seen him grow and see himself in that (coordinator) role. He's always had the talent to be in that role."
A brother's guidance
Yates lived in Boise for 13 years as a player and coach before he got this job in December. He met his wife as a Boise State student. Both of his kids - including Eric, a freshman walk-on cornerback for the Broncos - were born here.
His 6-year-old daughter, Kaybrie, responded to his hiring by drawing a picture of Buster Bronco.
"This is my second home, " he said.
His first was Los Angeles, the city he has mined so successfully for college football talent as a Boise State coach.
Like all good recruiters, he connects well with the players - a trait he traces to his days playing travel baseball, where the kids came from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. He also stared down the same temptations and perils that face the teenagers he pursues.
Yates steered clear of the trouble thanks to his parents, both of whom remained influential despite a divorce; an older brother who made poor choices but told him not to follow; and a passion for sports.
His brother, Tierney Yates, was eight years older and involved in illegal activity, Yates said. Tierney was killed in a double homicide May 5, 2007 - four months after one of Yates' biggest triumphs, the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.
A gang member pleaded guilty to two counts of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 30 years in prison, according to a Los Angeles Police Department report.
"(Tierney) and my parents kind of made sure I stayed on track, stayed out of the street, " Yates said. "So sports was my whole life.
"... He gave me the blueprint of what to do and what not to do, but as I got older it was up to me to do what I wanted. It just wasn't the lifestyle I wanted. Where some people look at the lifestyle a drug dealer may live or that a gang-banger may live and look at that as appealing, it wasn't appealing to me. Appealing to me was Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Jerry Rice, John Elway. That was more appealing to me."
He started playing baseball and basketball at 5. His mom tells him he'd still be playing baseball if he hadn't traded the sport for football.
"I loved baseball. It was probably my most natural sport, " Yates said. "... As I got older, it became long and boring. I needed action."
He played quarterback and defensive back on the football team at Pius X High and returned to the basketball court. He chose Pacific, in Stockton, Calif., over offers from Fresno State, Hawaii and Memphis.
But he got a phone call during Christmas break after his redshirt season at Pacific. The program, he was told, would be disbanded. He could stay at the school on scholarship or transfer elsewhere.
His position coach was the son of former NFL General Manager Bobby Beathard, who was friends with then-Boise State coach Pokey Allen.
"That's how I trickled in (to Boise), " Yates said.
Injury-ravaged career
Yates arrived in Boise in 1996 and immediately started at free safety, playing through a torn ACL in his other knee. He missed most of the 1997 season with the knee injury and returned to a starting role in 1998. He mostly played free safety but also appeared at cornerback.
By his senior year in 1999, his knees were so bad that he couldn't play much. He made six tackles as a special-teamer. His left knee is bone on bone, he said.
"He played (safety) the way it's supposed to be played, " said Rushing, who was a graduate assistant in 1998-99. "You always wish you could see how far his career could have went if his body didn't give out on him."
That senior year was not a total loss, though. Yates became a mentor to the young defensive players - most notably safety Quintin Mikell, his roommate on the road and a future WAC Defensive Player of the Year and 11-year NFL player - and decided he wanted to coach.
"Quintin Mikell, in my opinion, owes a lot to Marcel Yates, " Rushing said. "Marcel helped teach Quintin a lot of the tricks of the trade."
Yates put out the word to everyone he knew - including a couple former Broncos who ended up on staff at Montana State, Pete Kwiatkowski and Joe O'Brien - that he wanted to coach. He graduated in 2000 and went home to Los Angeles. He worked in a group home with troubled youth.
Six months later, his friends at Montana State called to offer an entry-level position. He would be the assistant secondary coach under Rushing.
"I left L.A. in January to go to the snow of Bozeman, Mont., " he said.
There, Yates learned the basics of coaching.
And when he left the office in the offseason, he drove a cab and served as a bouncer at an American Legion hall that turned into a hip-hop club on Friday and Saturday nights.
" 'Taxicab Confessions' is a real show, " Yates said. "I wish I had a camera in my cab because it was some interesting situations. It was never a dull night."
Back to Boise
Rushing left after the 2002 season. Yates replaced him as the secondary coach.
But he also met with then-Boise State coach Dan Hawkins about the cornerbacks vacancy on the Broncos' staff. Hawkins told Yates he was the second choice. Tony Oden, now the Detroit Lions' defensive backs coach, accepted the job.
"He had a little more experience, " said Ron Collins, who was the Broncos' defensive coordinator from 2002 to 2005, "but we were very high on Marcel. He was young at the time."
Oden lasted about a month before taking a job closer to home at Eastern Michigan.
Yates was at work one day when he spotted then-Montana State coach Mike Kramer, who was waving as if to say goodbye while talking on the phone.
He handed the phone to Yates. The caller was Hawkins.
"He asked how soon could I be there, " Yates said. "I said, 'When is your next staff meeting?' "
Like his interest in coaching, Yates traces that job offer back to his senior year. Hawkins was the special teams coordinator.
"He called me a special-teams guru, " Yates said. "I spent a lot of time with Dan Hawkins my senior year. If it wasn't for that relationship, he probably wouldn't have hired me here in '03."
Yates distinguished himself with his personality and recruiting. He attracted the attention of bigger programs but stayed in Boise.
Collins remembers the recruitment of cornerback Orlando Scandrick, now of the Dallas Cowboys. Scandrick was heavily recruited but called Yates to say he wanted to play for him.
"He can just talk to you and you feel very comfortable around him, " Collins said. "He's a guy that you look at and say, 'Man, I want to hang out with that dude.' "
When Hawkins left for Colorado after the 2005 season, Yates chose to stay at Boise State with Chris Petersen and coach the entire secondary. His influence helped turn a decent defense into one that led the Broncos to two Fiesta Bowl wins and long stretches in the Top 10.
Yates served as defensive backs coach from 2006 to 2011 under coordinators Justin Wilcox, now at USC, and Kwiatkowski, now at Washington.
He developed future NFL players such as Gerald Alexander, Scandrick, Kyle Wilson, Jamar Taylor and Jeron Johnson.
"It's long overdue for him to get that position and that opportunity, " former Boise State safety Jason Robinson said. "A lot of people didn't really understand how impactful he was during the glory days. Coach Yates had a lot to do with the schematics of that defense."
Coordinator in the making
When Wilcox left after the 2009 season, Petersen promoted Kwiatkowski.
"He was the next guy in line, " Yates said. "I wasn't bitter. Coach K gave me my first job (at Montana State). He taught me a lot. We're very close."
But that left Yates' career at a standstill.
Other schools wanted to hire him as a defensive backs coach and recruiter hoping for a quick fix, but he didn't want to leave Boise for that.
Texas A&M one-upped those offers after the 2011 season. Coach Kevin Sumlin, who was in his first year, gave Yates a co-defensive coordinator title. Mark Snyder was the play caller, but the title would help get Yates into the mix for coordinator posts.
"If you come help me win in the (SEC), I will help you become a defensive coordinator, " Sumlin said, according to Yates.
The opportunity finally arrived when Petersen left for Washington and coach Bryan Harsin replaced him in December. Harsin and Yates played together and were on the Broncos' coaching staff together from 2003 to 2010.
Yates took a 15 percent pay cut because of the financial differences between the SEC and Mountain West.
"For me, " he said in January, "it's not about the conference or the team. It was time for me to do a certain job."
His hire was greeted merrily by fans, who hope his return will fix a Boise State defense that was woeful last year. But as Yates points out, Texas A&M didn't play well on that side of the ball last year, either.
He's still learning his way as a play caller - he made some mistakes in last week's scrimmage, he said - and trying to place his imprint on this group.
He doesn't feel pressure, he said, but he compared the nervous excitement he feels this preseason to the early portion of a game.
"The challenge is here, " Yates said. "The honeymoon period is over. Now the key is to keep the job and to go to the next level with this defense."
His scheme won't stray far from what the Broncos have run in recent years. His major influences are Kwiatkowski, Wilcox and Collins - although he also learned from Snyder at Texas A&M and will distribute the calls with his own style.
Those who know him expect an aggressive, physical, no-nonsense brand of defense.
"He's a very tough-minded guy and he wants tough guys on his defense, " said Collins, who is the linebackers coach at Ohio. "He had that mentality for the secondary, so I imagine that the whole defense is going to be like that."
Players say Yates brings fire and attitude to the Broncos' defense. Those are essential elements.
Execution is next - and that will determine Yates' success.
"He's going to take a special burden every weekend saying we're going to win this game on defense, " said Rushing, who is a defensive quality control assistant with the Packers. "Being a prideful person and a self-critical person, he's always going to take it on his own shoulders to make sure things are done right and make sure he has success."
Marcel Yates file (as of August 2014)
Age: 36
Hometown: Los Angeles
Playing career: Defensive back at Pacific (1995), which canceled its program, and Boise State (1996-99). He was sixth on the team in tackles in 1998 but played sparingly in 1999 because of injury.
Coaching career: Montana State assistant secondary (2001-02), Boise State cornerbacks (2003-05), Boise State defensive backs (2006-11), Texas A&M co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs (2012-13)
Education: Bachelor's degree in social science from Boise State (2000)
Family: Wife, Melanie; son, Eric (19); daughter, Kaybrie (6)
Did you know? Yates used to bowl in a league in Boise. He once held a 185-pin average.