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Q & A with Phillip Crawshaw
May 17, 2016
Why do you dance?
Dance is not only physically demanding, but incorporating the emotion and spirit of the dance is challenging, yet so rewarding. Although I love to talk, words never come easy to me. Dance allows me to communicate through my body. I have tried stepping away from dance a few times, but I have always returned to dance. Sometimes being away from something, you realize how much love and passion you have for it.
If you hadn't been a dancer, what would you be doing?
I was getting my Master's Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling before I gave that all up to dance. So a part of me would say I would have continued down that road. But I also would have loved to do something with architecture design.
What other exercise/physical training do you spend time with besides dance classes? How does that help?
I go to gym and do the usual light cardio and weight lifting. When the weather is nice, I love to walk along the canal through Butler. Doing this helps with stamina and strength for partnering.
What types of costumes are easiest to dance in? Describe your favorite costume you've ever danced in. Describe the most challenging/why.
I love a simple dance short and a non-restrictive shirt or tank-top. My favorite costume would be all of the Carmina Burana costumes. I love the look and how they feel, but also the history of all of the previous dancers who wore the same pieces. The most challenging would actually be one of the Indian costumes that I have danced in, as it had so many details and layers to every single piece.
What inspires you when you're creating choreography? What is the biggest challenge for you in that process?
The music and even the dancers I am setting choreography on inspire me. The biggest challenge is actually picking out music. I spent close to four hours once, selecting just one song for my students.
What is your favorite part of teaching dance? What's the biggest challenge? Where do you teach?
I love passing on the knowledge and passion of dance. Since I did not start my training until college, I am always learning and I love to pass that on to the next generation of dancers. My favorite part of teaching is seeing the "lightbulb" moment when something finally clicks with a student. The biggest challenge is not nit-picking when there are many things to correct. There will always be things to fix, but fixing the major problems first is always necessary. I push my students to do a self-evaluation periodically in my class as to learn how to correct themselves without me going to every single student. I teach at Wishes Dance Studio in Fishers and choreograph show choirs in Indiana and Ohio.
What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
I love sweets and I love bread—combine those two in any way . . . yum!
What one piece of advice would you give a student who wants to dance professionally?
Never give up and never stop learning. Try new things and soak in as much knowledge from as many people as you can.


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Sun executives say new Java systems and pricing structures, detailed Tuesday at the SunNetwork user conference, are an attempt to end integration nightmares and licensing and pricing confusion.
SAN FRANCISCO -- In its new campaign to "recall cost and complexity," Sun Microsystems Inc. opened its 2003 SunNetwork user conference with the unveiling of six new Java-bundled systems and a simplified per-employee, per-year pricing structure. Leading the six-pack is Sun Java Enterprise System, an integrated network services architecture in one box, with a price tag of $100 per employee, per year.
Essentially, Sun has put its 225 software products into six boxes, each an integrated system. "This is a radical simplification," said Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president for Sun's software group, during the event's opening presentation. With integrated, one-product, one-DVD packages and per-employee pricing, Sun intends to end integration nightmares, licensing hassles and pricing confusion.
Sun's campaign to recall cost and complexity harkens to California's recall election, said Scott McNealy, Sun CEO. Like the election, it's a result of user dissatisfaction. Customers have been telling Sun that IT system cost and complexity is driving them crazy. Sun responded to that feedback by creating integrated systems packages and a new pricing model, he said.
Buying system components and integrating them is not cost-effective or productive, McNealy said. He asked: "Do you really need to have a unique instance of a data center?" Instead, move to a utility model, where a service provider such as Sun builds, tests and either hosts or delivers a system. "Get gift-wrapped software," he said.
The computer industry has done its users a disservice by making computing too complex. It's so complex, he said, that the school system considers it necessary to teach his third-grade son about programming. "People are so geeky about their computers because we have forced them to be," he said.
Sun's new pricing strategy is designed to right another wrong, said McNealy. "The world has been a little disappointed in our industry," he said. "We're overcharging."
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Schwartz admitted that he can't even figure out the industry's pricing model. "You can't keep track of what your business is costing you today," he said. Also, as a business grows, its IT systems cost more and more. "Where's the economies of scale in that?" he asked.
The Sun Java Enterprise System's $100 per-user, per-year pricing covers Sun's services for migration and deployment, training and support. In addition, "we will not charge a penny more if you deploy it to all of your customers," Schwartz said. "This is a revolution in how we think about software."
Four of the software system packages will be available later this year, and two are in the final stages of development. The new Java systems and their pricing are:
-- The six-pack's flagship bundle, Sun Java Enterprise System, runs on Solaris, Solaris X86 and Linux. It ties together Sun's network identity, portal, communications, messaging, Web and application servers.
-- Sun's desktop initiative, Project Mad Hatter, has been realized in Sun Java Desktop System. A suite of client applications, it's promised to be virus-free and interoperable; it will run on x86 and SPARC-based hardware, and with Solaris or Linux operating systems. The package includes Sun's new StarOffice 7 office suite, as well security authentication via Sun's Java Card smart card. Priced at $100 per desktop, it can also be added to Java Enterprise System for $50 per employee, per year.
-- N1 is a new operator's platform for virtualization and provisioning services for storage, servers and blade servers. Also, the new N1 CenterRun 4.0 application virtualization and provisioning software enables simple deployment of shared services. Pricing wasn't announced.
-- Sun packaged its developers' tools in Java Studio Enterprise, which contains an Integrated Development Environment, the full Sun Java Enterprise System runtime and other tools. It's priced at $5 per employee as an add-on to the Sun Java Enterprise System.
-- Sun Java Mobility System, which is in development, is a platform for services delivery to Java-enabled mobile devices. More than 200 million such devices are being used today in phones, handhelds and other portable devices.
-- Sun's Java Cards are in use today, but when Sun Java Card System comes out, it will offer an integrated platform for authenticating services for secure e-commerce and service delivery to Java Cards everywhere. More than 500 million Java Cards are in use today by customers of such businesses as Target and Starbucks.
The new bundles and pricing will help users stop thinking about components and their assembly, McNealy said. It will help IT shops become information management shops, which will in turn increase the IT shops' productivity and lower costs. "You don't have to invent, build, own and operate your computer system," he concluded.

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The stunning Liverpool striker has revealed blasts from his past. It's not clear whether he is in regret over his decisions as we shall leave you with that to ponder but the reds man is surely cleaning up his bones from the closet.
At age 15, the youngster was approached by the red devils who offered him a chance to join them at the theater of dreams only for him to turn them down.
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A new documentary depicting the events of the Ballymurphy killings "does not tell the whole story" and leaves out vital context surrounding the shootings, it has been claimed.
The film 'Massacre at Ballymurphy', screened on Channel 4 at the weekend, contains personal stories from relatives of the 10 people shot dead in west Belfast by members of the Parachute Regiment between August 9-11, 1971.
A Catholic priest and a mother-of-eight were among those killed during the three days of violence. An eleventh man died of a heart attack following an alleged violent confrontation with troops in the west Belfast estate.
But journalist and author Malachi O'Doherty said the film offers "very little contextualisation" in terms of the paramilitary organisations that were active in the area during that time.
In a heated exchange with filmmaker Callum Macrea on Radio Ulster today, Mr O'Doherty said: "In terms of the events in Ballymurphy, we know there was significant IRA activity in the area on those days.
"Leaving out the whole context of the major gun battles taking place in Ballymurphy at that time was remiss and overlooked an important element of the story.
"The absence in the film of a credible account of what the IRA were doing at the time will be seen in retrospect as a hole in it."
While Mr Macrea acknowledged he had not ruled out the possibility that armed paramilitaries were present at the time of the killings, the film maker said he has found no credible evidence to suggest a gun battle had taken place between the British Army and Provisional IRA.
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"Of course the IRA were active in the area at that time. The British Army describe clearly a major gun battle, there were reports of 700 rounds of ammunition being fired at soldiers in one case.
"There were reports that the army fought a two-hour gun battle with as many as 20 gunmen. They talked about wiping out a hard core IRA unit.
"I have been looking into this for four years. There is not a shred of credible evidence that I can find – and I have looked hard – to say that any of that is true.
"Even though I can't find the evidence I don't rule it out and I specifically acknowledge it is possible."
The film maker also claimed his film was a balance to a "false narrative" of the Troubles.
He added: "The official narrative that is widely held in Great Britain is that Protestants and Catholics were at each others throats, the Provisional IRA was an incredibly dangerous force and the British Army was sent as the patsies in the middle to restore peace. It is simply not true.
"When I tell people that the PIRA did not exist until several months after the British Army arrived in Northern Ireland, they are astonished.
"There is an entirely false narrative. My film is the balance to the official narrative, which is fundamentally wrong."
Mr O'Doherty said he believed there had been "substantial IRA activity" in the Ballymurphy area at the time of the killings, that the IRA had fired on the Army, and that "trigger-happy Paratroopers had shot at people that they spotted in open ground".
He added: "I do not believe you can tell the story of those events in such a way as to ignore the paramilitary activity."
When asked by Stephen Nolan if he believed those killed in Ballymurphy were innocent civilians, Mr O'Doherty replied: "I am inclined to believe they were all innocent civilians, I know nothing that would suggest otherwise.
"I agree that there is a lot to be said about the conduct of the Parachute Regiment. Whoever decided to put them into a residential area was a lunatic. It was a daft thing to do."
Soldiers have long been held responsible for the killings at Ballymurphy, but the accepted narrative became clouded earlier this year when former UVF members came forward to claim their organisation was also involved.
The shootings took place as the Army moved in to republican strongholds to arrest IRA suspects in the wake of the introduction by the Stormont administration of the controversial policy of internment without trial.
A new inquest into the Ballymurphy killings is set to start on November 12.
The fresh inquest into the shootings, had been due to formally open on September 10.
The new date for the inquest emerged during a preliminary hearing, sitting at Belfast High Court before Presiding Coroner Siohban Keegan, on Monday and comes after years of preliminary inquiries.
Counsel for the coroner said it will initially hear statements from the families of those killed before moving to hear evidence in the case.
He said they hope to start hearing evidence from military witnesses early next year.
Around 100 supporters gathered outside Belfast High Court on Monday in solidarity with the Ballymurphy families before the hearing.


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Rio de Janeiro - Emmanuel men's swimming freshmen Alex Sobers (Bridgetown, Barbados) represented his home country of Barbados in the 2016 Rio Olympics. The incoming freshmen competed in the men's 400m freestyle on Saturday August 6th, finishing 44th overall in a time of 3:59.97.
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I took a distribution of $10,000 from my traditional IRA last year. At my request, the custodian withheld 10% ($1,000) for federal taxes. 60-days later, I rolled over $7,000. In January of this year, I received a 1099-R for the entire $10,000, showing the withholding of $1,000.
Is this reporting correct? I thought the 1099-R should show only $3,000, since I rolled over $7,000.
Answer provided by Appleby Retirement Consulting Inc. Appleby Retirement Consulting Inc provides Consulting, Coaching and Content on IRAs and other retirement plans to Financial, Tax and Legal professionals.
Yes. That reporting is correct. According to the IRS tax reporting requirements, the Form 1099-R must reflect the entire distribution amount, even if (all or a portion of) it is properly rolled over within the 60-day period. The question then becomes, "How do you let the IRS know that only $3,000 is taxable?" The answer lies in your IRS Form 1040 (tax return). Here's what you need to do:
- Input $10,000 on line 15a of your Form 1040. This must reflect the entire distribution amount, which in this case is $10,000
- Input $3,000 on line 15b. This shows how much of the amount on line 15a is taxable
Enter 'Rollover" next to line 15b
Since taxes were withheld from your distribution, attach a copy of your 1099-R to your tax return
(Note: different versions of Form 1040 require the data to be inputted on different lines. For instance, for Line 1040A, the line number is 11, not 15).
You should receive a copy of IRS Form 5498 from your custodian, showing the rollover contribution of $7,000 being made to your IRA. Keep it for your records, along with a copy of your tax return.
The IRS will also receive the information that is provided on your Form 5498, which will provide the confirmation they need that the $7,000 must be excluded from your income for last year.
5498 Notes:
- If you completed the rollover last year, the Form 5498 should be mailed to you by May 31 of this year
- If you completed the rollover this year (which is possible if the 60-day period ended in this year) the Form 5498 should be mailed to you by May 31 of next year
- Check with your IRA custodian to ensure they treated the deposit as a rollover contribution, and if not, make sure corrections are made before the 5498 is issued.
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SCOTT CITY � When the Scott City Invitational volleyball tournament got underway with pool play Saturday morning, the coach of the host Lady Beavers, Jordan Shay, was hoping for another chance to meet up with the Dodge City Lady Red Demons.
The teams had met just two days prior at the Garden City quadrangular where Dodge City had to rally from a 7-1 third-set deficit and hand the Lady Beavers a tough 25-21 setback to claim the match.
Shay got her wish at their home tournament as the Lady Beavers and Lady Red Demons, both finishing second in respective pool play, won their semifinal matches against Oakley and Holcomb to set up the wished-for rematch.
And just like Thursday, Shay's squad battled the taller, powerful Class 6A Red Demons on near-even terms but eventually fell in the championship match, 25-15, 21-25, 25-13.
"The number one thing for our girls is that we're still a little bit intimidated by them," Shay said of Dodge City. "We talked about that in the huddle afterward. They've got some really good hitters but the fact is I think we can play with them."
In the first set of the best 2-of-3 match, Dodge City jumped on the Lady Beavers early and rolled to a relatively easy 25-15 victory. The Lady Demons were up 7-1 early and never were threatened.
In a repeat from Thursday, Scott City won the second set 25-21 by staying on near-even terms with Dodge City. Never trailing by more than one point, the Beavers eventually took the lead for good at 15-14. A 20-16 advantage was trimmed to 20-19 but Shay's squad reeled off four unanswered points, getting a tip by Emily Hess, and two blocks of attempted kills by Dodge's outstanding senior A'zlynn Thompson. The final point came when Thompson was called for a bottom lift.
"I think that kind of showed that we can play with them," Shay said of the second set. "We took that from them, but we couldn't keep that up in the third."
Dodge City jumped out to another early commanding lead and never was challenged, leading by scores of 7-3, 16-4 and 20-11 to keep the Lady Beavers from any sustained rallies.
"We've talked about that all year," Shay said of getting behind. "It's really hard to come back when we dig a hole and get down by a lot of points, especially in rally scoring. Their hitters are just too good to overcome that."
Still, the first-year coach at Scott City had plenty of reason to be pleased in watching her team improve to 20-12.
"I think the highlight of the day was beating Oakley in the semifinals," Shay said. "That's the third time we've beat them this year and they always play us well. We played awesome against them. We were blocking and hitting and doing all the things that we needed to do. That was a great game for us."
Holcomb, which had won its pool earlier, fell to Dodge City in its semifinal match and then came back to defeat Oakley for third place.
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Fantasy Sport was a first online Fantasy Sports application in Czechia. Launched in 2013, it brought a new form of sport related entertainment to the czech web. Fantasy Sport at http://fantasy.sport.cz was launched in cooperation with Seznam a.s., the biggest media and online house in Czechia (think czech google).
Since sport betting in the form of skill games (like FanDuel or Draftkings) was illegal in Czechia at the time, the game runned as a free service being monetized by advertising deals with interested parties.
The game became instantly very popular with multiple czech sites copying its design and trying to run a similar service. Fun fact about that period is that some sites even copied the game design flaws, which were later removed by Allodium but remained in the other games.
As a market leader, the game had over 150 000 registered users, having as much as 60 000 playing start rounds of certain events.
The game featured football, ice hockey and formula 1 championships. All major leagues of czech, european and american football (soccer) or ice hockey were included.
Every week players would create a new lineup from scratch, so the game was basically a daily fantasy on a weekly basis. This was very different from the drafting concept of american websites. Only short sport events like championships etc. had a special feature, which copied the roster from one playing round into the next one. This was used when the round was only one day long in order to minimize churn. Fun fact is that one of the highest ever ranking lineups was a lineup created week before made by player who didn't have a time to create a new one. This has happened in the course of one World Ice Hockey Championships event.
One of the very interesting events was Fantasy Elections in 2013. This was organized with the help of server Novinky.cz from Seznam.cz media house. Players would create a fantasy political party of 11 representatives. Things like preference votes and others were automatically loaded from the websites of Czech Statistics Office. Almost 70 000 people joined and played the game before the elections.
Fantasy Sports at Sport.cz are now discontinued and Allodium moved on to providing Fantasy Sports systems to other companies.
Since the whole game is basically a complicated website with no need for thick client, the game was implemented in Ruby on Rails. This very mature framework enabled a fast development cycle and a high quality web development cycle. The whole system run on a containerized solution on a our custom made blade. Read more about the technical solution at its product page Fantasy Sports Solution.


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Tuesday 27 January 2009
January 21, 2009
New Kosovo Security Force Launched, Belgrade Wary
Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia less than a year ago, has inducted its own security force -- a key step toward building its own army. But the move has angered Belgrade, which still considers Kosovo to be a province of Serbia.
January 19, 2009
RFE/RL Asks: What Does The World Want From Obama?
RFE/RL's correspondents across its broadcast region asked local politicians, foreign-policy experts, and civil-society activists a fundamental question about their hopes for the incoming U.S. president: For the good of your country, what would you like to see U.S. President Barack Obama do during his administration?
December 31, 2008
2008 Through The RFE/RL Prism
As part of our look back at 2008, we asked broadcasters, editors, and correspondents representing the 20 countries and 28 languages in which RFE/RL broadcasts to vote on what they thought were the top news events of the year. With a few exceptions, their choices reflect challenges that will only get tougher in 2009.
December 27, 2008
Kosovo, Karadzic Dominate Restive Year In Balkans
Past and present are deeply intertwined in the Balkans. But in 2008, the region appeared to look in a new direction -- the future. With independence in Kosovo and the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the region seemed ready to shrug off the weight of history. But is it?
December 23, 2008
Thaci Says Kosovo Backs EU Mission, Not Six-Point Plan
The deployment of the European Union's rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, known as EULEX, has run into difficulties. A six-point compromise plan put forward by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon saved the mission, but weakened the EULEX mandate in Serbian-majority regions in the north. Kosovo has said the six-point plan threatens its sovereignty by diluting its central institutions.


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Show Summary
To be successful as a real estate investor over the long haul, it's critical to realize that you are a business owner, and it's not a hobby. The only way to treat your business as a business is through automation and systematization. In this episode of the FlipNerd.com Flip Show, Zack Childress, automation expert, shares not only his story of implementing automation into his real estate investing business…but tips on how others (YOU!) can do the same! We can't talk about the separation of "business" vs. "hobby" enough…so don't miss this show!
Highlights of this show
- Meet Zack Childress, multi-talented real estate investor, mentor, and business automation expert.
- Learn from Zack's advice on how to define processes, systematize and automate your business.
- Join our discussion on virtual real estate investing.
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Mike: Welcome to the FlipNerd.com Podcast. This is your host Mike Hambright. And on this show I will introduce you to VIP's in the real estate investing industry. As well as other interesting entrepreneurs who's stories and experiences can help you take your business to the next level. We have three new shows each week which are available in the iTunes store or by visiting FlipNerd.com. So without further adieu let's get started.
Hey it's Mike Hambright with FlipNerd.com. Welcome back for another exciting VIP interview where I interview some of the most successful real estate investing experts and entrepreneurs in our industry to help you learn and grow. Today I am joined by Zack Childress. He's a real estate entrepreneur, author, speaker, mentor and much more. Zack wears a lot of hats just like a lot of the rest of us. And he's a systems and automation's expert that teaches others what he uses in his very own business. So today we're going to talk about analyzing where you are in the life cycle of your business and only from that point to start looking at ways that you can automate and maybe start to remove yourself from some aspects of your business. None of us got into real estate investing to be a slave to our own business or job and automation is important for you to be able to take it to the next level. Before we get started with Zack though let's take moment to recognized our featured sponsors.
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Hey Zack, welcome to the show.
Zack: Hey, thanks for having me.
Mike: Yeah, yeah. So glad you're here. You know I talk a lot about, I mentor a large group of people, and we talk all the time about how to treat your business like a business and not a job because most of us left the job for a reason. And so automation is really important and I know you're the master at that. You've got a lot of things to share with us today. Before we get started though why don't you tell us about yourself and kind of at what point you started to realize or understand how important it was to kind of automate your business?
Zack: Well that is the day, as I say, the awakening happens. But I started like most everybody. I've gotten a couple of courses off the TV. That never really inspired me into do anything. But I had moved to California. A guy from Alabama moved to California. I didn't know what I was doing. I ended up at a seminar. That's how it happened. And they started talking about all the different ways to invest without money and without credit. And I thought, "Lord this is it for me." And it was. It was. Twelve years ago, that's how it started and I jumped in. I mean I jumped in face first into this thing because I realized that for me to make this work this had to be it for me. Like there couldn't be a plan B. I had to make this plan A and the only plan. And I jumped in full force. Now this is in the Bay Area of California where I started all this. Vallejo, Sassoon, Fairfield, Vacaville, Walnut Creek, Concord, Brentwood. That whole area there.
Mike: Where all the cheap real estates at.
Zack: Yeah, right. Yeah the only cheap real estate I got into was when I went to Sacramento and started doing it. And then cheap there was like a quarter of a million dollars. But it's where it happened for me. My first year out was really a big moment for me in my life because within six months of doing this business I literally was able to walk away from my job. I was like, "You know what? I don't want to do this anymore. You guys can have this. I'm going to go build my own business." Now I'll tell everybody the same thing. It was the scariest, but also the most exhilarating moment of my life. It really was because here I had left the comfort, as they so-call call it of Corporate America, which is the shackles of you get benefits. And I was taking that journey to doing it on my own. And I look back 12 years from now and I think to myself, "Wow what a great decision I made in my life." Because even though we sometimes see things so fearful and we see things as so cloudy cause we just don't know everything yet. For most people in life they never push forward. Because they don't see the clear picture.
Well, I realized a long time ago the reason you can't see that clear picture is because you haven't started that journey yet. You haven't figured it out. And as long as you stay back and you never move forward it's always going to be cloudy because we have to fight through the clouds. And that's what I did. I faced it head on. Now here's the beauty of the whole thing. I jumped into this thing like I've been investing for 20 years. I didn't know how to do anything small. I figured if I'm going to do it, let's do it big. And I remember I went out and I started recruiting people from my local REAs. And I would tell them, "Hey look, if you'll come work with me I'll give you half of every deal I do." And I thought, "Well that's the way to go."
Next thing you know I had a house. I had a four bedroom house. Three of the rooms I had cleaned out, put lawn chair furniture in there and had the old tomato vine voice over IP system back then. And I had them all in these rooms. Just calling. Calling. Calling. And I had 12 people working out of my house at that point, all being paid commission, solely on deals that got closed. And that was how I went from working a job making $40,000 a year to making almost $900,000 my first year out.
Mike: Wow. Wow. That's awesome.
Zack: Because of leveraging. That was when I realized systems.
Mike: Yeah. So before you left your job what did you do?
Zack: I was what they refer to as a business developer. Really what I did was I sold lumber to contractors. So I drove around The Bay in a little yellow truck and met with contractors and sold them doors, windows, moldings, faucets, hangers, lumber, beams, whatever they needed to build a house. I had no clue that that was going to have such an influence on the direction I was going. Right? Because the company I worked for sent me to estimating school. And blueprint reading school. I just thought, "Okay it's going to make me better at what I do." I didn't realize, fast forward, now I can look at a blue print to build a house and say, "Okay, here's all the materials I need." So it benefited me.
Mike: What do you think influenced you to kind of go big out of the gate? To like just have that vision? A lot of people obviously start on their own and their doing everything. So you kind of had the opposite. What influenced that?
Zack: You know I've been like that my whole life. Even when I got in, when I moved to California, I got into that company. It was called Meeks Lumber. They gave me a territory that was doing really small numbers and they said, "Go out and sell lumber." Well I remember I went home that night and what they told me to do was call all the contractors. Well I had a different approach. I said, "Well if I call all these contractors I'm going to be nickle and dimeing myself slowly up." So I went down to the building departments and I pulled a list of all the building permits that were pulled for like 5 million, 10 million, 3 million $2 million. And I went straight to the biggest builders there were. And those were the guys that I went and built relationships with. And so in one year I took a half a million dollar a year territory to $3 million and then it went to $7 million. So I've done it my whole life.
Mike: Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome.
Zack: So I'm just, I'm wired that way. It's like okay I can either do this slow or I can go right to the top. Here's what I know when you go right to the top. If you succeed, you succeed big. If you fail, you fall hard.
Mike: But fast. I mean who in real estate, there's so many people that fail and usually failure more often than not means that you never got started, for a lot of people.
Zack: That's true.
Mike: So it's like well if you're going to fail why not fail fast? Not necessarily fail big. Like you get wiped out and decimated financially.
Zack: No, no. Not at all.
Mike: But if you're going to fail who wouldn't want to just fail fast and get it over with?
Zack: Mike, I say this and this is important. Through my journey and I've had the beauty like yourself to talk and hang out with highly successful people. And what I've learned is this, is they do one thing different from the average person and what that is is the speed in which they implement what they learn. It's a very small little gap but that speed of implementation is done for a reason. And it's because they know not everything they try will work. So they would rather get it started now to know if it's going to succeed or fail so that they can either move it out of their life and start something else or put everything they've got into it because it will succeed.
And I was taught that years ago from my Godfather on the golf course. He used to have me drive him around while he drank and hit golf balls. And he used to share that with me. And maybe that had a big influence on the way that I am with business today. You know I want to go all for it. If it works, great. If it doesn't, I'll try something else.
Mike: Yeah. That's great. So talk a little bit about, I mean it's really that kind of same attitude that started to feed into the automation side. Like in order to go big, in order to think big, you've got to think beyond your own capabilities and capacity, right?
Zack: Well, and that's a good point. And that's where like years ago I came up with the PSA formula. P plus S equals A. And that what actually kind of unfolded in my own journey because as I was growing massively and growing big and got into an office and had all these people, I thought, oh look at me. I'm a big business owner. I've got staff. I've got things going on. We're doing sometimes 10, 12 deals a month. Sometimes we were doing 14, 15 deals a month. I was like, "This is amazing. Look at all of this." Well then I woke up one day and I realized I didn't have a business. The business had me. Right? It controlled me. Because if I didn't go in I couldn't do anything. And this was along my journey.
I call it the four tiers of investing because I started as a tier one investor, which was wholesaling. Going out contracting properties, selling that contract for an assignment fee. And then I moved into a tier two which was the lease options. You're only controlling properties for cash flow without ever buying the property. And then moved into tier three which was fix and flip. So I had all three of these going on at one time. Tier one, two, and three because ultimately I wanted to be a tier four, which was passive investing. But I just wasn't there yet my first year out. But when I was running all three of these different tiers you know, one side of you is excited because you finally left your job. You're independent. You're making money. But then one day you're having this aha moment. For me it was two and a half years into it. Two and a half years into this thing I wanted to go on a 30 day vacation and I couldn't because here I built this business. We're doing millions of dollars a year. But if I leave there's no one here to manage, run the business.
Mike: It all stops, yeah.
Zack: It all stops. And that was a gut blow for me. It actually it really pissed me off to be honest with you, because I had this awakening moment in my life that this whole concept of owning a business was not what I had. And that was when I sat back and I started realizing, "Well why are franchises so successful?" Like what you're talking about. And what makes them highly efficient? And that was when I realized that everybody in my office they were all coming to me for answers. How do I do this? How do I do this? What do I do here, Zack? How is this? How is this?
Even though it made my ego feel good it did nothing for my lifestyle. Right? You know my ego was running the business when I should of let go of that ego a long time ago and just focused on the lifestyle that I wanted. Which meant letting control go. Putting processes in place which is the P for the PSA formula. The process. Looking at every single component of my business and defining what is the process that makes that process work. What is the A to Z step to that? Not the A to Z to the whole business which is what I was looking at because that was what was in my head. It wasn't what was in their heads. But what was each component? Like, how did we do direct mail for out of state owners? What was that process? How did we do direct mail for instate landlords? What was that process? I'm talking 186 processes is what I came up with.
Mike: Wow.
Zack: Yeah. So that was where I said, "Okay now I have an SOP. Standard Operating Procedure to my business. At that point was when I realized that I was moving forward with a business plan, was at that point. But that would of never of happened if I wouldn't of wanted to go on that vacation and realized I couldn't because it made me reestablish my business. Then what I realized is just because I have the process doesn't mean that I'm out of the whole equation.
And that's where I realized that every process has to be systemized because one person could take the process and deliver it one way, where another person could take it and deliver it a whole other way. And if it wasn't systemized. And here's how I define this and one of my mentors said this to me. He said, "Zack, you know that your business processes are systemized when you can walk in and fire everybody that day and hire a whole new group of people tomorrow. And they can step in and run the business." And I thought, "That's a great point."
Mike: Yeah.
Zack: Right. I need those types of systems in place that literally checks and balances. When somebody does something it's logged. So if they don't come in the next day another person can step in and follow the system and just keep running everything organically in an essence. And so I did. That was what I focused on. Process. Systemize. Process. Systemize. Process. Systemize. And then that's when automation stepped in. That's the A to the formula.
And this was right about the time I bought a software company out in the Bay Area of California. And one of the guys that I got with the company was an analyst as they call them. But really what he did was he went in and looked at companies and he said, "Okay you can get rid of these 20 people and build this software." Well I inherited him with the company. And so I had him come up to Vallejo, which is where my first office was, and had him look at what we were doing. And that's when he started laying down automation. And let me say this, if it wasn't for the automation, there's no way I would of gone from where I was to where I am today as fast as I did. Without a shadow of a doubt. It wouldn't of never happened.
Mike: Yeah.
Zack: Like for instance, I had two girls in my office. I paid them $35,000 a year. Two girls, 70 grand a year I paid these two girls to literally come into my office every single day, stand in front of a fax machine and send offers all day long. Monday through Friday. That was their job. That's what I paid them to do. Well obviously he came in and he was like, "Whoa. Whoa. We can build software to do this."
Mike: Yeah.
Zack: I was like, "Really?" And that's how the PSA formula came to be. And that's when we started automating all these systems. We started automating processes. Now let's be clear. Automation is thrown around very loosely in our industry. You can have an automated lifestyle but there has to be some physical components that handle the communication back and forth. But let me say this, there is a ton that we can automate. But there still has to be checks and balances from human nature to make sure that those processes are being taking cared of.
Mike: Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So talk a little bit about I guess one question that a lot of people have is, well let's kind of go through. We said we're going to talk about where you are in your life cycle, your kind of business life cycle. So talk about, give some examples that people, based on where they're at, some of the things they might consider trying to automate or systemize.
Zack: Great point because you know most people they start off in real estate with one or two ideas in their mind. The first idea is I just want to make money now. Right? Like I got to pay my mortgage. I got car payments coming up. The kids got to go to school. I need money now. The second one is the person who steps in and says, "You know what? I'm ready for retirement. I need to start building some long term wealth now." That's really what we run into the majority of the time, is those two types of people. And the heavy end is the person who needs money now. That's typically about 80% of who we see in the market place. For that person, when they're getting started out, we always say, "Your life cycle is at tier one investor." That is your life cycle starting off. But it's very important that you understand that as a tier one investor in that life cycle to get to a tier four investor you can't get stuck in tier one, which is what I did for two and a half years.
The next thing you know you're in it. You're doing it and you get stuck there. So you have to be able to remove yourself very efficiently by automating as many components as you can, which is the day to day monotony. The task management. Using virtual assistants. That's an outsource process that we do classify as automation because you're not doing the work. There are other things that we can automate, especially as a wholesaler, like task of deliverables. There's a great software out there. It's free. You can put it on your computer and it's called, TimeDoctor.com And Time Doctor will allow people to start to manage their task job efficiently without thinking about it constantly. So it just keeps them on track of what's going on.
You know some other things is like technology and I know there's all types of technology out there. But when we're automating for a wholesaler, it's lead generation. We have to automate lead generation through landing pages and lead services online so that they're not spending, because if we wanted to sit here and talk about every way to find a lead we could probably, between me and you Mike, we could probably come up with 75 to 100 different ways to find leads. And we don't need all of them to find one lead a month.
But the point is a lot of those requires manual labor. A lot of those require manual labor to go out source leads. Now if they're going to do direct mail that's fine. But what happens when the direct mail starts coming back in? They need to start automating some of the monotony. Like the in-bound calls. Like a call center in place with a script, pre-established for them. So that they're only dealing with the most highly motivated people. Another thing that we like to automate is our offering process. One of the biggest things we do is automate our offering process. So we built software that will literally send out 7,000 offers in 2 minutes and 58 seconds.
Mike: Wow and is that particularly for MLS type deals?
Zack: It's anything. It's anything. Anything we can load into it. We can establish an offer process with built in follow up sequences and cover letters and all types of stuff. And the reason that we do that is because there's two fold when it come lead gen, right? You have private leads and you have public leads. Private leads are the leads we have to go out there and get. Public leads are the leads that are on MLS. We can export all those out and make offers to them. But here's the equation. There's two ways to target these lead gens right? There's the old traditional way which says, "I'm going to look at a lead. I'm going to drive my car over to the house. I'm going to go look at the house. I'm going to come back. I'm going to research that whole thing. And then I'm going to make an offer." Nothing wrong with that.
But when we introduce automation it's the speed of implementation in which we can yank the low lying fruit out of the market the fastest. So where that persons focusing on that one deal I've already made 3,000 offers. And so what that means is am I get 3,000 accepted? No. I'm not. I mean they're too low. You know what I mean? I'm only pulling the low lying fruit out of the market which then let's say I can make 30, $40,000 off of that low lying fruit. Well now I just created my marketing budget to go into that market and explode my marketing campaign now to then pull in the traditional leads, the ones I have to spend time researching.
So these are just some automated processes. Like we're a big believer in automating the REO leads because I can't stand getting on the phone with agents half the time. So I'd rather just click some buttons and pull REO leads right from the Banks vault, with buyers and lead generation and direct mail management. All of these types of technology and management with lead pages and auto responders. You start pushing all that together. You start to create more of a systemized automative process that allows that tier one wholesaler to then manage his business. Not be consumed by it but to manage it from a distance. And say, "Okay. This looks like a deal. That looks like a deal." And just deal with the flow process.
Mike: Yeah.
Zack: And that's what we're ultimately trying to get all of our students to do.
Mike: Yeah. Yeah. So talk a little bit about how people go from new or doing low volume to being able to implement some of the things you're talking about here, because as I know and you know it takes a long time to learn those things and get them in place for the average person. And so how do they start to move in that direction? What are the kind of the baby steps they need to take?
Zack: Good question, because baby steps for me is when we look at the, there's three forms of income all businesses have to have. And this is where I try to help everybody understand. Form one is what we refer to as A Capital. A Capital is start up capital. Every business needs start up capital. Even new investors, because why? Because what you just said. It takes time and efficiency to build all these tools and systems in place. So you've got to have start up capital. That capital is either to invest in yourself, your business, your education, or whatever to get you off the ground.
But then they've got to have a second form of capital which gives them the ability to do what I just said. And that's called stabilizing capital. And that is consistent income coming in every single month whether they do a wholesale deal or not. Now that income is typically thought of as passive investing. Tier four investing. Buy a rental, have cash flow. But the new person starting out doesn't have the ability to go buy rentals. So we classify that from tier two. Where start up capital comes from tier one. Stabilizing capital comes from tier two which is lease sandwich lease options. Wrap mortgages. Subject two's. Contract for deeds. Contract for land. Being in Texas, you guys have to deal with subject two's over there because you can't do lease options. But all over the other rest of the country we can do sandwich lease options. This allows us to control property without ever buying it, to sustain the cash flow off of it. So if I can build 10 of these and let's say I'm making $300 off of each one.
Now I've got $3,000 a month coming into my business consistently, every single month that I can now spend in a budget for systems, tools, platforms, things like that. So as a new investor they've got to move from tier one to tier two as fast as possible. And how do they do that? Marketing. Marketing. They got to do one deal. Do another deal and keep marketing. And the best advice that I can tell the new person is this, is that when they get a lead that is 95% leverage, meaning it's worth 100 and it's 95. Don't throw it in the trash can. That is your tier two lead. That is how you build the cash flow. You can sandwich that deal because no one else wants it. And you can abstain the cash flow.
That's exactly how I built my business. I went from wholesaling to tier two, to where I built up almost $20,000 a month in cash flow for houses I never bought. And that $20,000 a month is what I exploded into my business for hiring people, moving into an office space, buying systems and tools and processes, and so forth. But it's taking the new investor from doing one or two wholesale deals to then moving their knowledge base into how to control properties to create cash flow.
Mike: Okay. Awesome. Awesome. Can you talk a little bit about in terms of where to automate around what people like or don't like in terms of the components of their job? Their business. Their business. Not their job. Their business.
Zack: That's right. I was going to say, "Well it's not a job." It's an adventure if anything. We said this earlier, it's a great opportunity. You know that's a great question because I don't, and I don't want to sound like an attorney here. But I don't know if there's actually one answer that would answer that for everyone because we have to look at it from a SWOTT point of view, right? Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and trends.
And one of the biggest things I always tell people is to find your weaknesses. What is it your weak at and can you partner with someone? Or is there a system or tool that will overcome that weakness? Now I will tell you this from all the students I've worked with over the years and it's been a lot. One of the things that always frustrates me the most is the student that wants to do this business so bad that they're afraid to pick this thing up right here and call people.
Mike: Yeah.
Zack: They're terrified of this. And for instance I've got a student in Texas. It's in Killeen, Texas. Do you know where Killeen is?
Mike: Yep. Absolutely. Okay her name is Dee and I mean just the most wonderful lady you'll ever meet. But she was so afraid to talk to people. She just didn't want to do cold calling, right? And I said, "Well Dee, if you won't call people then how are we going to get leads to you?" Unless we build a front end automated system. She said, "If they'll call me I'm happy." So literally we spent the week building a direct mail process, driving them into a landing page that took them to a call center, that the call center pre-screened them, and then put them on her expecting a call from her.
So now she didn't feel like she was cold calling. We automated that process. The first week out she got a deal. It was a house worth about 40,000. She's texting me. I'll never forget this. I'm at a seminar and I'm teaching. And she's texting me. She's like, "Oh my gosh. It worked. What am I supposed to do?" So when that night came I said, "Well offer them $5,000." Well she was like, "They're never going to accept that." I said, "Just offer it." Five grand. They accepted it. And then now she's in the groove. She's now in to a four plex. Doing other deals. Because what it was it wasn't that she was broken. Like you said we just had to figure out what she was weak at and build a process around that weakness to put her back in control.
Mike: Yeah. Yeah.
Zack: And that's consulting is all that is. And you know as well as I do every person is different. Now the problems may be the same. The solutions may be the same but every individual sees their problem as a mountain. It's the biggest mountain that they've incurred in their life.
Where to us it's just a little stutter. Like no, no, no. That's no problem. Let's just do this, this, and this and we'll get around it. But everybody is different and what I always say is this. Is what you think is a mountain is only a mountain because you haven't gotten the education enough to understand how to get around it, over it, or through it. And that's really ultimately coming from just being in this business, doing something everyday to keep this business running. Educating yourself. Read a book. Watch a video. Hang out with Flip Nerds. Learn something that's going on here to keep your business moving forward.
Mike: Yeah and a lot of it is just the confidence of seeing it happen once. And then you're like, "Oh that's it? Okay. I don't have to worry about that anymore."
Zack: You know I'll never forget my very first wholesale deal. Twelve years ago, maybe a little longer now, I made $2,500 on a wholesale deal that I did in Sacramento, California. And Mike, you would of thought I made a million dollars. I mean you would of. I remember driving home holding that check in my hand. It's funny I got a check right here that I just did another wholesale deal. But I had that check in my hand and I was driving home and I'm thinking to myself, "It worked." Like, "It worked. I can't believe it worked." And I think that's what most people need to overcome. Is the fact that their struggling to make it work. When in reality it works already. It's just some of the things they're doing is wrong.
And I always say this too to new people. And Mike, you might connect with this as well, is this sooner they stop chasing the money and start chasing the business, it will come. It will come. It absolutely will come. And that was another advice from one of my mentors, many mentors I've had in my life, that said to me he said, "Zack, you've got to stop chasing the money, because here's the thing. Every time you chase this dollar bill right here, and this dollar bill doesn't work for you, you've got to start all over again. But when you build the business, you build the processes and the systems. These things come in every single month."
Mike: Right. Right.
Zack: And he goes, "And the problem with that is most people want everything right now." And when you're building a business that's not how it works.
Mike: That's right. Well Zack, if folks want to learn more about the great stuff you're doing I know you have a couple different content pieces out there, where should they go?
Zack: Absolutely. We have a site called REISuccessAcademy.com. And you can just do a forward slash free gift. That's for you guys from the Flip Nerd family. That's free gift. We've got a bunch of free stuff over there for you. So that's REISuccessAcademy.com/freegift. And if you just want to see what I do every week with article writing and blog posts and what's going on in the market instead of putting free gift in just do /blog. B-L-O-G. And you can see what we're all about.
Mike: We'll have those links down below the video here too, so. Well Zack, thanks for sharing your lessons. I think as you and I both know automation is key. Even as I sit here people can't see my whole room but I'm in my office and I have a team of people that are right on the other side of this wall doing things that means that I don't have to do them. So having a team is really critical. Unless you want to be enslaved in a job for the rest of your life.
Zack: That's very true.
Mike: Well hey, thanks so much for joining today. And I appreciate your time my friend.
Zack: Sounds good man.
Mike: All right. I'll talk to you soon.
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Congratulations to Jed Fleming and Julia Powell-Davies who both had podium finishes in the Australian Sprint Championships held on Oct 2nd in South Australia. Top 10 finishes were also achieved by Mikayla Cooper, Jack Wickham, Ben Poortenaar, Charlie Cooper and Zali McComb.
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BGR owner Mark Bucher developed these with his vegetarian wife in mind. Molasses and barbecue sauce give them a savory, deep flavor and also help caramelize their edges when they are pan-fried. Baking them before frying helps them hold together and prevent a mushy interior. (After baking, you can also grill these over direct heat, if desired.)
Make Ahead: The baked patties can be wrapped in plastic wrap, sealed in plastic freezer bags and refrigerated for up to a week or frozen for up to six months. Thaw them thoroughly before pan-frying. The sweet potato can be roasted and the brown rice and black beans cooked and refrigerated for up to 5 days or frozen for up to six months.
Servings: 12
- 1 small (6 ounces) sweet potato
- 2 cups cooked brown rice
- 1 cup cooked black beans, homemade or no-salt-added canned, rinsed and drained
- 1/4 cup dark molasses
- 1/4 cup barbecue sauce of your choice, plus more for glazing if desired
- 2 tablespoons honey
- One 14-ounce package sausage-style soy protein, such as Gimme Lean beef-style
- Kosher or sea salt
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 12 hamburger buns
- Condiments and accompaniments of your choice
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
Use a fork or sharp knife to prick the potato in several places. Place it on a piece of aluminum foil and bake until the potato is tender and can be easily squeezed, 40 to 60 minutes. (Alternatively, to speed up the process, the pricked potato can be microwaved on HIGH for 1 minute, then transferred to the oven and baked until tender, 20 to 35 minutes.) Let the potato cool, then squeeze out the flesh into a large bowl and discard the skin.
Reduce the oven temperature to 375 degrees.
Add the brown rice, black beans, molasses, barbecue sauce and honey to the bowl, and stir to thoroughly combine. Pull off small pieces of the soy protein, add it to the bowl and mash it up as you mix it in. Taste, and add salt if needed.
Spray 2 large baking sheets with nonstick cooking spray. Form the vegetable mixture into 12 patties, about 5 inches across and 1/2 inch thick, placing them on the baking sheets.
Bake the patties until they feel firm to the touch and are just barely browning on the edges, about 25 minutes. Let them cool to room temperature.
Pour the vegetable oil into a large skillet. When the oil starts to shimmer, carefully add as many patties as you intend to eat, working in batches if necessary and being careful not to overcrowd them. Fry them until crisp and browned, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer them to a cooling rack set over a plate, and blot them dry on top with paper towels.
Brush with more barbecue sauce before serving, if desired. Serve them on the buns with your favorite condiments and accompaniments.
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Adapted by Joe Yonan from a recipe by Mark Bucher.
Tested by Randy Richter.
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This dish was a masterpiece, both visually and gastronomically.
It comprises of three separate and completely different components, that when brought together make for the perfect and most amazing eating experience.
For the lamb kofta, the spices are key. Make sure to toast and pound the fennel and cumin seeds.
The tahini sauce is very simple: just dilute it into a pourable sauce in water.
The delight lies in the pomegranate-chili jam. It's not sweet, it's not salt, and it's a bomb in combination with the kofta.
Juices of the hot kofta meld and mingle together with the tahini sauce and pomegranate jam that just calls to be spooned over your food!
1kg minced lamb
2 tsp cumin seeds, toasted and lightly crushed
2 tsp fennel seeds, toasted and lightly crushed
1 tsp ground allspice
1/3 cup parsley, chopped
1 medium onion, peeled and finely chopped
3 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
1 1/4 tsp salt
grinding black pepper
2/3 cup tahini paste
For the pomegranate jam:
1 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds
1/3 cup caster sugar
1 tsp salt
1/2 lemon, juice
¼ tsp dried chilli flakes
1 Tbsp pomegranate molasses
First make the jam. Put everything in a medium saucepan on a medium heat, add a pinch of salt and bring to a gentle simmer.
Cook for about 20 minutes, until the mix is jam-like in consistency, then set aside; once cooled, you may need to add a tablespoon or two of water to thin it down a little.
Put the lamb and spices in the mixer and, on a slow speed, work with a dough hook for about 15 minutes. Stir in the parsley, onion, garlic, a teaspoon and a quarter of salt and a grind of black pepper, cover and rest in the fridge for 10 minutes.
Roll the mix into 22 round and slightly flattened koftas (I make an indent with my thumb in the middle for even cooking) .
Mix the tahini a third cup water and a quarter-teaspoon of salt.
Whisk to a thick, pourable sauce – adjusting with a little more tahini or water to get the right consistency – then cover with clingfilm and set to one side.
Put a griddle pan on a high heat; when hot, griddle the koftas for about 5 minutes on the first side, then an additional 2-3 minutes on the other side so that both sides are well browned.
To serve, drizzle the warm koftas with the tahini sauce, then spoon a little jam on each and sprinkle with parsley leaves.
Serve at once with the remaining pom jam on the side.
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Forever Mac at Fat Daddy's in Mansfield
Mid-cities Macsters, come one, come all! We've got a magical evening of music planned, along with great food and drinks--all right near you, in Mansfield!
Forever Mac at Fat Daddy's in Mansfield
Mid-cities Macsters, come one, come all! We've got a magical evening of music planned, along with great food and drinks--all right near you, in Mansfield!
Forever Mac and Already Gone at House of Blues!
We are excited to share the stage with Houston's own fantastic Eagles tribute, Already Gone, on the mainstage at Dallas' House of Blues!
Forever Mac at Sounds of Lewisville
Forever Mac plays Lewisville's summer concert series, Sounds of Lewisville, at Wayne Ferguson Plaza! The Fool Hearts take the stage at 7, and we follow at 8 with the best of Fleetwood Mac!
Forever Mac plays Taste of Dallas!
Get ready to wow your tastebuds AND your eardrums--lots of incredible food to be sampled and bands to be heard this weekend! We'll be playing on the Taste Tribute Stage Sunday, June 24 at 2pm!
Get tickets for the event here: https://www.tasteofdallas.org/index.html
Forever Mac at Bronco's
It's been a minute--but we're headed back to Bronco's for a mid-cities evening of hits! Spread the word!
Forever Mac at Lee Harvey's
Dallas! This one's for you! We had a blast with y'all last time, and we want to see you again!
Forever Mac at Tolbert's
We're at one of our favorite haunts this Friday--Tolbert's in Grapevine! Playing all night long!!
Forever Mac at Tolbert's
Tolbert's Restaurant and Chili Parlour, 423 S Main St, Grapevine, Texas 76051
What's that you say? You had a great time with us last time we were at Tolbert's in September? Fantastic! We did, too, and we want to do it all over again! Come on out and let's dance and twirl the night away! Don't forget to come early to grab your table and order some of that great Tolbert's food!
Forever Mac at Bronco's!
Bronco's Sports Bar and Grill, 900 Airport Fwy #166, Hurst, Texas 76054
Forever Mac is back at Bronco's, and we'll be bringing those Fleetwood Mac tunes to you all night! Come claim a table and settle in, enjoying the friendly atmosphere, great food and drinks, and the music of the Mac!
Forever Mac's 2nd Annual Stevie Bash Is Back!
Stan's Lakeview Draft House, 4847 Main St, The Colony, Texas 75056
This is it, guys: The Stevie Soiree of the year! Bring your shawls, your chiffon, your tophats, your platform boots, and all the rest of your Stevie swag, and celebrate Halloween Stevie-style! Fun, music, prizes, twirling, singing, revelry, and just all kinds of Stevie-related nonsense will occur. Inspired by the decades-long NYC Night of 1,000 Stevies event. Join us for an early evening--we'll play from 6-10--and then head off to your next Halloween party! Please see our website's front page for details, or visit our Facebook page!
Forever Mac at The Shops at Willow Bend
The Shops at Willow Bend, 6121 W Park Blvd, Plano, Texas 75093
We're delighted to participate in the Concerts in the Courtyard series at the Shops at Willow Bend in Plano this year! We'll play from 6:30 to 8:30, and there'll be some great food available from food trucks the Dapper Doughnut and The Twin Tacos Food Truck! There'll also be wine and beer available, so come on out and unwind to great food and great tunes!
Forever Mac at South Street Arts Festival
An entire weekend of visual art, music, and great food and craft beer! Free admission! Bring the family, your friends, your dog, and have a great time in central DFW! We will take the stage at 1:30 on Saturday, October 14!
Forever Mac and Even It Up at Lava Cantina!
What better pairing is there than Fleetwood Mac/Stevie and Heart??? We agree! We always love pairing up with Even It Up, DFW's fabulous Heart tribute, and we are SO excited to play with them at the new and spectacular Lava Cantina! GIRLS ROCK!
Forever Mac and Desperado at Hat Tricks!
Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles are always a winning combination! We had SUCH a good time at Hat Tricks last time that we just had to do it again! The guys of Desperado always give an incredible Eagles show, and we are thrilled to play with them again!
Forever Mac at Tolbert's
Forever Mac returns to one of our favorite haunts for a magical evening of rock!
Forever Mac at Iron Horse Saloon w/Blue Bayou
We had an amazing time at the Iron Horse last year, and now we're back--this time with a special treat! Sharing the stage with us this time is a brand new tribute to the incredible Linda Ronstadt! We got a sneak peek, and trust us--you'll want to be here for this!
Bad Moon Rising, Forever Mac & Desperado
An evening to remember at a legendary theatre, with Forever Mac and Bad Moon Rising opening for Desperado (formerly known as Into the West). You will not want to miss it! Please contact us on our Facebook page for FREE tickets!
Forever Mac in Abilene!
Forever Mac is thrilled to be part of Kent's summer concert series! It's always a blast! ROAD TRIP!!!
Forever Mac's Halloween Steviefest at Keys Lounge
Grab your chiffon, lace, velvet and top hats and spend Oct 29 with us at Keys Lounge! This is going to be a HUGE party, with costume prizes and amazing activities throughout the night. DFW's First Annual Night of 1,000 Stevies is the agenda for this special event, and we hope you and your timeless finery will spend the evening with us! More details (and a special guest!) will follow!
Forever Mac Gets Groovy with Into the West at Hat Tricks!
We're gonna get a cool 70s vibe going with the incredible guys from Eagles tribute Into the West at Hat Tricks in Lewisville!


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Here's why 'American Idol' really did have the happiest ending
The American Idol grand finale aired Monday night, and it was full of surprises! Halfway through the night, Caleb Lee Hutchinson and Maddie Poppe were revealed as the top two finalists. Gabby Barrett's being eliminated wasn't the big surprise, however.
Before Hutchison and Poppe performed "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" together as the top two, Ryan Seacrest asked Hutchinson if there was a special significance to the number when he sings to Poppe. Hutchinson replied, "Well, you know, Maddie is like my best pal, and I've known her since the beginning of Hollywood week. She actually happens to be my girlfriend." The entire audience, including judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan, cheered, as everyone was pleasantly surprised by their secret romance. Hutchinson and Maddie's surprise announcement was the sweetest moment of the night, and it made their top two duet even more special. But while the two said it didn't really matter to them who won, only one could be the American Idol, and that winner is Maddie Poppe!
To mark her victory, Poppe gave an emotional performance of her new single "Going Going Gone" but struggled to finish because of her overwhelming happiness. Luckily, she had some help from her new friends (and boyfriend) as the top 10 and the judges joined her to celebrate on stage.
The American Idol season finale aired Monday at 9 p.m. on ABC. Watch clips and full episodes of American Idol for free on Yahoo View.
Check out Katy Perry labeling the first round of the final 'Idol' performances "a disaster":
Read more from Yahoo! Entertainment:
- Carrie Underwood returns to her old stomping grounds on 'American Idol'
- 'Idol' contestant flubs performance and is eliminated while also making TV history
- Twitter slams America for making bad decisions on live 'American Idol'
Tell us what you think! Hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, or leave your comments below. And check out our host, Kylie Mar, on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.


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To accompany research conducted by OnePoll to find the nation's biggest worries, we put together a playful calculator. The calculator adds up all of life's pressures to give you a 'weight of worry' to visualise the amount of worry you are carrying every day. Calculating the weight of stress on your shoulders it shows whether your worries are as light as a feather or as heavy as a grizzly bear.
The formula to work out the 'weight of worry' was put together by Professor Kinderman, an expert in mental health. Using the research conducted it found that the nation's average worry weight was a hefty 225kg.
LV= embedded the tool on their blog and promoted it through various channels as well as offering ways to help reduce your worry.


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Fevad has just completed an assessment of online sales in France in the first quarter of 2017. And again, they are upwards: + 14.2%.
In the first three months of this year, Internet sales reached € 20 billion, $ 2.5 billion more from last year. This growth was driven by a sharp increase in the number of transactions (+ 20.5% over the period), or 290 million transactions during the quarter. Over the past two years, the average quarterly growth in online transactions (products and services) has been 23%. Today, more than 36 million French command online, it's 1 million more than a year ago (Source: Médiamétrie). But it is mainly the frequency of purchase that continues to increase very significantly: + 13%. An online buyer now realizes on average more than 9 transactions per quarter against 7 two years ago. In total, nearly 650 euros were spent on average per buyer in the quarter. This trend is accompanied by a further decline in the average basket, which remains below the € 70 mark, down 5% (€ 69 vs. € 73 in the first quarter of 2016).
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October 15, 2017 – Nigerian Yahoo Fraudster Wiseman Oputa Jailed In Houston Texas After Pleading Guilty To $1.3Million Wire Fraud
Wiseman Oputa, a Nigerian Yahoo fraudster based in Texas has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment by a Federal Judge in Houston after he pleaded guilty to a $1.3million wire fraud in April.
25-year-old Oputa allegedly used different fake passports to open bank accounts in the Houston area.
The passports which had his pictures were registered with different names and identification.
He played his game by luring his online victims into sending money into those accounts.
Wiseman will face deportation when he leaves prison.


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The Unfinished Spelling Errors of Bolkien is a lovingly irreverent re-telling of The Lord of the Rings, interspersed with songs. The story sections tend to switch among pointing out the logical inconsistencies and plot holes of the story, highlighting the differences between the book and the movie, and sometimes just careering off the rails, depending on what is funniest at the time.
The show is performed by Martin Pearson: comedian, folk singer extraordinaire and all-around nerd.
Martin is a very funny satirical performer who has been amusing, even thrilling audiences around the globe for ages now, and if you haven't seen him live - you're missing out. He is a favourite at folk festivals all around Australia and on Friday 22nd June you can come to Humph Hall and find out why!
Bookings advised as new Council regulations limit audience to 50!
Martin tickles the funny bone. He has an ability to take current events and observations of everyday life, and turn them into side splitting comedy routines. He is also a fine singer & songwriter.Entry by donation ($25/$15).
Call or email Wayne (02) 9939 8802 to reserve your seat.
Humph Hall
85 Allambie Road
Allambie Heights
Formerly the Allambie Heights Uniting Church, Humph Hall is now the private home of Gial Leslie and Wayne Richmond.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
The Surprise 85th Birthday Party That Wasn't
13 comments:
- Teresa said...
Yum...the salad looks great and sounds like one that gets better after it has set in the fridge a day or so. I will have to try that. Your Thimbleberries quilt is coming along great and I look forward to seeing how you finish it up.
Poor Dad - y'all trying to age him before his time. I do the same to my mom..I have been telling folks she was 87, but she just turned 87 last week. Fortunately I did not give her a cake that said 88 - she would not think that funny.
Have a good first day back at work, for that matter a good second, third, fourth and fifth until the weekend arrives again.
- July 28, 2008 at 3:59 AM
- Caryn said...
Your salad looks yummy! I know a few husbands with the same sense of humor as yours - they would have been saying the same things about the "toes"! Good luck back at work. I stayed home Friday and it made the weekend so much longer. Today I get to do out of the office stuff so that will make Monday much better too!!!
- July 28, 2008 at 4:38 AM
- Marcie said...
I can't believe you got to the party a year early! Too funny! At least you got to go to a party and sounds like it was great. Your salad looks wonderful!
- July 28, 2008 at 6:09 AM
- MichelleB said...
That salad looks divine! I'm glad that you made it to the quilt shop. And your quilt is looking great!
- July 28, 2008 at 6:53 AM
- Winona said...
I love your sense of humor. I always smile when I read your blog. Glad someone could fix the cake. Wouldn't want your FIL too upset to eat any.LOL Your quilt is looking good.
- July 28, 2008 at 7:42 AM
- Thimbleanna said...
Oooh, that salad looks yummy! Glad it doesn't really contain any toes!
- July 28, 2008 at 7:44 AM
- Sandy said...
You were so right in adding some red to that 4th block. Can't wait to see the mini when it is all completed. Any the tomato salad looks very yummy.
- July 28, 2008 at 10:34 AM
- quiltmom said...
What a great tomato salad- it looks wonderful and tasty- I am going to have make it too.. The toes is a very funny line...
I am sure your sweat shop is going to be a busy place in the next while with your new project and the Thimbleberries quilt..
- July 28, 2008 at 11:21 AM
- Lorraine said...
......hmmm no getting around it I will be 55 this year....I am sure he had a wonderful time anyway! I am back to work tomorrow too.....had a fabulous few days off - three of them at a workshop which was great!! love the Thimbleberries quilt you are working on....don't work too hard.....i hope to get some stitching done today before I am back at work.......trying not to think too much about tomorrow tho!
- July 28, 2008 at 6:05 PM
- Red Geranium Cottage said...
That sald looks soooooo darn good. I could go for a bowl of that right about now!!!!!
When your over 80 who cares which birthday it is honestly?? LOL
Your quilt is turning out so pretty!!
- July 28, 2008 at 6:14 PM
- Barbie Jo said...
My Dads birthday was Friday, I kept telling everyone he was going to be 92. I stand corrected, by him, he is only 91!
Your BOA sure is looking pretty. I honestly don't know how you get it all done and blog everynight besides. Must be something good in that California water.
- July 28, 2008 at 7:22 PM
- Su Bee said...
That's hilarious - GrandPop is the only one with an intact memory! ROFL!
Man, your tomato salad is making me drool.....
- July 28, 2008 at 8:35 PM
- Vallen said...
Toe salads are always the best anyway. I am going to give hat tomaTOE salad a try this week. It looks divine.
- July 29, 2008 at 10:13 PM


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