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Ryan Lee Interview – Create Huge Recurring Income From The Internet
Ryan Lee Interview…
Ryan Lee Interview – Creating Huge Recurring Income Online
Ryan Lee has a really cool revenue model which allows him to earn money day after day from work he did months and even years ago.
After this interview my head was buzzing just with the new ideas and the money I could be making.
I have just started to implement some of Ryan's tips and advice so that I can work now and in the Summer, still be earning from it so that I can be down the beach with no finacial worries at all. Recently, Ryan put together the first and only 3 day super-summit dedicated entirely to the topic of creating "continuity income". Some people call it residual income or recurring revenue or passive income. Instead of trying to sell products one at a time, "continuity income" brings you guaranteed money month after month He used every contact he had to bring in A-List presenters and guest panelists to open up and share their secrets…
Last year I got to spend some time with him over in LA, along side Yanik Silver and others. Here is actually a picture of us:
We really were not faking it, that night rocked! Although the transcription of the interview below, you must listen to it, I have had it professional edited and it rocks! Just click the play button at the top or start reading now.
Well the first thing I want to really mention is you have got this new website called Ozworth, and I think definitely my readers would be interested in hearing more about that, because it's a sevenminute speed coaching, I hear.
Right. I find the best coaches in the world, whether it's teaching how to make more money, save time, organize, marketing, success, self improvement, we just spend exactly seven minutes in a real intense speed coaching program. I find that in seven minutes, I just get the meat of the content, really, really good stuffall practical useable strategies. And it's all free.
I interview them so people can listen to all this online.
Michael: Oh really? Great. So you can check that out. That's ozworth.com, definitly worth signing up for if you enjoy success storys and interviews like this one!
You're pretty much known as the continuity king. You've got, as I mentioned, over 50 active recurring revenue programs. Would you like to share with us how you achieved this and how we can do it ourselves?
Sure. The thing is with recurring revenue there are so many different types of programs you can create. When people think of recurring revenue and continuity programs, as we like to call them in marketing, and they think of it online, they automatically think of membership sites. And they think of these big huge sites with discussion forums and thousands of members and content. And they just get overwhelmed. Obviously that's one way you can create it, with these full-blown membership sites. I have a couple of those and that's how I first got started. But there are also a lot of other opportunities.
There's also what I like to call micro-membership sites, where the content is released on time intervals. So every week or every month or whenever you plan your lessons the content is delivered to them automatically. The easiest way to do it is by email.
There are also continuity programs that are offline. Instead of delivering the content online, every month you could send out a newsletter, an actual print newsletter. Remember that, where you actually go to the mailbox and open the mail? So a print newsletter, an audio CD of the month, a DVD of the month, I have those kinds of programs as well.
The key is just finding a topic that first obviously you are passionate about and a topic you want to continue to write about and really delve deep into, just as you're doing with success interviews. This is something you're really interested in and it comes across. So that's number one.
And number two is figuring out what it is about your market. What are their biggest wants? What are their biggest desires? What keeps them up at night? Then you figure out a way to solve their problem and put it and this is an important step put it in the format that they want to consume information.
So just ask them. They may want it delivered as a print newsletter. They may want it as an online membership site. They may want it delivered as an audio CD. Or maybe your audience wants it as a DVD. So you have to ask them.
And then just take action. It's really not hard to do. All the tools are done for you. When I first started back in 1998, there wasn't software like Member Gate available. I hired a college student to do all this stuff for me and it was a nightmare. That's nothing against college students.
But I remember there was a technical issue and I called him up and his roommate answered the phone. He was like, "Dude, he's not here." I'm like, "OK. I think I need a professional solution." So that's it. That's kind of the formula.
Can recurring revenue programs be included in blogging and other platforms?
Absolutely. Blogging really lends itself well to it. I know you write and you do a lot of programs for bloggers. Think about it like this. You can take your content, and without even creating new content, you can create recurring revenue. So let's say on your blog you do these interviews. And maybe the interviews you publish are all free, so people could just listen to them online with a Flash Player.
But if they want to maybe have the mp3 downloadable version and the transcript PDF files, maybe you could just take those specific things and then put it on a hidden page, a password protected area of your blog, and call it the Michael Dunlap VIP area.
And then you offer that format and charge maybe $5, $10, or $20 a month, whatever the market will bear. You can do some research with it. But that's an easy way.
People want coaching. They want more access to the "guru," so you can easily turn your platform into monthly group coaching where maybe every month you do a telephone seminar for your lists. They pay $29.95 a month and they get access to this teleseminar with live guests. And maybe you give them access to the program on audio CD as well and you ship it to them. There are a lot of ways to turn your blog into recurring revenue.
Another easy way is just to create a separate forum, like a private coaching forum where they can ask questions and you can charge access to that. People want to have a connection. They want to feel like they belong, so there are a lot of ways to turn your blog into a recurring avenue.
That's some really good advice. I think I'm going to take some of that myself and work out a few ideas. Thanks for that. So you're going to be actually holding your own summit for building continuity programs and recurring revenue. Would you like to tell us more about that?
Michael, I'm glad you asked. I would love to tell you about it! [laughter]
It's going to be, depending on when people listen to this, it's going to be May 15th17th in Stanford, Connecticut. It's three days of nothing but the type of information I'm talking about now, building your continuity program. It's going to be myself, and I have some really incredible guests. Mark Victor Hansen, who is the author of all of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books. So you might want to listen to somebody who has sold over 130 million different products.
Then we have Robert Joiner, who is considered the godfather of Internet marketing and my first mentor. He's the first guy who created ebooks and squeeze pages. He never speaks and He's flying all the way from New Zealand to the US to speak at this event.
Then we have Russell Brunson. He's like a wonder kid. He's like 28 years old. I don't even know how many millions He's making with continuity programs.
Matt Baystack is going to teach how he had over 14,000 people paying $30 a month and he got them all within a week. So there are some really incredible things.
Andrew Lock is going to be talking about pimping your Internet television show and then backend the continuity program, similar to blogging. So there will be a lot of really cool topics. And it's three days. The information is all at continuitysummit.com.
Should we be going out to sites with banner ads and Google AdSense or should continuity be the thing we think about first?
That's a great question. I don't want to try to skirt around it and say it depends, but it really does depend on how serious you are about your business and the kind of traffic you are getting. Personally I think it's much easier to monetize it on the backend with your own products and with continuity than it is with AdSense. You know as well as I do, to make any decent money with AdSense well, decent has different definitions for different people. You might think $100 a month is great, where with me, if it's not bringing in $50,000 a month I would be disappointed.
So there are definitions. But, look, if you want to make a couple hundred bucks a month, then yeah, you'll probably find it with AdSense and some affiliate programs. But if you want to make big money, the six figures a year, the six figures a month…
I saw recently on your blog, I think you had a list of the top bloggers and what they are earning per month. With my recurring revenue programs through my blog, I earn more than all of them and I don't have one ad. I don't do AdSense at all.
So I would definitely figure out ways to monetize with your own program, because think about it like this: that is the beauty of continuity. With AdSense, you are only as good as your last day.
So let's say yesterday you had 50,000 visitors and you made $100. Great. But tomorrow you are starting at square one again. But if you have continuity, let's say out of all the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that visit your site, 1% of the hundred thousand people join your continuity.
So 1% percent of 100,000 Michael, come on. I'm going to quiz you right now. What is 1% of 100,000 people?
1,000 people. So 1,000 people paying you… Let's say you have a really good program. You include transcripts and mp3s. You do a coaching call and you include some cool bonuses. Let's say you get 1,000 people to pay you $30 a month or $29.99 a month. Right there, every month, you are going to be doing $30,000 a month. Plus you can still do upsells and crosssales, and backend, and backend affiliate programs. But that is $30,000 a month every month as opposed to, "Oh man. What am I going to make this month with AdSense?" That's the power of it.
That's why some of these bloggers are doing well, but they could be doing so much better. It's amazing to me how much money they are leaving on the table, some of these bloggers with the audience they are getting. It's mind boggling. Millions and millions of dollars. And you mentioned before, where I met you at Yanik's, even Yanik told me during our conversation, that he estimates he has lost at least $4 million by not doing this stuff that I'm talking about earlier.
Wow, yeah. From that, I think everyone is going to realize that they need to take their monetization in a completely different way, because a lot of them… I speak to a guy quite often, and he's doing nearly a million visitors a month to his web design related website. And he's only pulling in about $4,000 a month.
Oh, my God.
I'll just throw up in my bathroom.
If you take a million visitors a month, if you're only doing $4, 000… You have to try to not make money to only get $4,000. You have to try.
I've been… Well, I'm not reading, I've been watching your blog. You've been doing a lot of video blogging. Why do you see video blogging? Do you think it's better than writing out your posters yourself, or what's the benefit to doing video?
I found it works well for me and the big reason is it allows you to connect on a really personal level with the people reading your stuff. Because what I see is, look, even when you look at your list of the top popular blogs, most of them have to more with the techy world. The Tech Crunch and those type sites. Life Hacker, so it's a little bit more of the techy stuff. But there's also a lot of people who want to create blogs on softer topics. Whether it's parenting or raising your pets or cooking, so I think that personal interaction is just going to separate you from your competition.
Because most people, to be honest, are either too lazy to create a video, which is just… I think it's easier to create a video than to write a whole fivepage blog post. Because it takes two minutes to create a video and to upload it to YouTube and copy and paste it on your site.
So it allows you to connect and people feel like they know you. I have people now who come to my events and they say, "I'm so happy you started video blogging, because before I only saw you through the email and I didn't really get a sense of you." And now they feel like they know me. And with me, my personality is people tend to relate to that.
Look, if you're the most boring stiff in the world and you're like, "Hello, my name is Don."
You might not want to blog. And maybe you're a better writer, and that's fine. But if you have any type of personality and energy and passion, then I think it's best that you do video. And maybe you don't do it every day like I do, but maybe once a week do a video blog, but have a little personal story, have a sense of humor with it and let people connect and get to know you, because they're going to be much more loyal and you hook them in.
You started back in '98, I believe, and you've obviously made a lot of mistakes yourself, so have I. But what do you think, apart from the monetizing a site without recurring revenues, apart from that, what's the big mistake everyone is making right now?
There are a couple of big mistakes. One is, there's no differentiation in the marketplace, meaning they're copying everyone else's site. They're using someone let's say the fitness industry, teaching people how to lose weight. They find every other site and they make it look exactly the same. It doesn't stand out. And on a related note, there's no big hook. That's a huge mistake, is people create these products and they are a carbon copy of everything else and there's nothing outstanding about it. There's no hook. You've got to have a hook. You've got to have a reason, what people are going to buy online.
The other thing and I could spend probably three hours talking about mistakes. Some other big mistakes are not looking at things from your customer's perspective. They look at it from, OK, I want to make $100,000 this year. And they just look at it from: how can I make the most amount of money?
Instead of saying, OK, here's this client. Here's what they really need and here's what they want. How can I create a product that's really good that I'm going to build this longterm business, this longterm relationship with them, instead of trying to just suck as much money out of them as possible?
When you look at it from that perspective, and treat each client and customer with respect, then every person, every email you send, is an actual human being on the other end of it. It's not just, hey, I have 10,000 people, I have 50,000 people. It's each person gets an email and reads it.
And I have on my list, my Dad reads every one of my emails, my sister, all of my friends, so it kind of makes me think twice before I send an email. Like is this right? Should I be saying this? But if you think of it like that, if you think of, OK, your Mom is reading every one of your emails. Or your Dad or your sister or friends, would you still send that email?
And if no, why not? And how can you change it so that you feel comfortable sending it to everyone? So those are a couple of big mistakes.
Other things are not spending enough time learning about the right way to write sales copy. And I'm not talking about overthetop, his blood dripping money with it. I'm not talking about really overthetopcrazy copy. I'm just talking about writing, talking about benefits, giving people…
Here's another reason, another big problem too, is they don't give people a reason to buy right now. They just say buy it. There's no reason to act now, whether it's limited number or whether it's special bonuses.
So those are some of the big mistakes. Oh, another one is not taking action and not working fast. There's no speed. They suffer from paralysis by analysis. They overanalyze everything. You talk about a website and they're like, "I've got to write a business plan and go raise money," and blah, blah, blah. It's like just take action. If you have an idea, just get it out there . Get something out there.
Start the process, because once you get out there and you start making your first dollar, you're going to gain momentum and you're going to start taking that momentum with you. So just take action and act quickly. If you have an idea, act on it right away. Don't over analyze.
Yeah, I tell all of my readers that on so many occasions. That's brilliant advice. And what you said about your family and your friends reading your emails. My dad and my mum usually read all of my emails I send to my list and so I always make sure it's all clear for them and there's nothing bad in there. So that's good.
You start off, "Dear Readers, first I made sure I had my good breakfast this morning, right, Mom?"
I have one of your books, "Millionaire Workout," and it's sold out right now, isn't it? I just wanted to ask a question about that, because it's about not just making money online, but your lifestyle and your health and stuff. Do you want to speak a little bit about that, quickly if you don't mind?
Sure. The "Millionaire Workout" is a program that I put together because it basically teaches you how to make money online, but also take care of your health and your well being, because the two are connected. You can't reach your highest level of success unless you are healthy too. You ask anyone on the deathbed, or anyone who's rich, they'll say you're nothing without your health. And it's true. And it doesn't take a lot. It's really simple choices with what you are eating. Instead of having coffee and donut for breakfast, have a higher fiber cereal or some egg whites, just simple choices, and just get active. I'm a big fan of highintensity workouts. My workouts take 10 to 15 minutes, tops. And that's it.
But you really have to take care of your health, because you're never going to reach that highest level of success, because there's also all the physiological benefits. There's reduced stress, there's improved energy, there's better concentration, and you're going to see your business grow as you get healthier as well as take care of yourself. So that's a brief overview.
Michael: Brilliant. And will you be selling that book again?
I might be. We do have some copies still in the warehouse, but I'm holding them for my event, I was going to give people copies of them.
We might do an updated one of them.
So you've done a book, you've done a load of products, what would you say to other Internet marketers, considering they have this following and they want to make their own product. What would you say to them?
There's so many different types of products you can create. If you're going to create your first product, probably the easiest one is an ebook, because it's just a… And when you think of ebooks, you don't have to think of starting right actually physically writing 100 or 150 pages. It could be something as simple as "Interviewing an Expert." Like if you interviewed my about recurring revenue for an hour, and then got it transcribed and now had the mp3, all of the sudden you have a digital product. You have the mp3 and the PDF file. And that's a program and you can sell that as an "ebook." So it doesn't have to be starting from scratch. But that's the easiest way to get started with a digital product.
Another way to get started quickly is to do a live event. Whether it's a telephone seminar and have it recorded, or do an inperson event, invite some friends. Rent a space, a conference room or a hotel room and hire a videographer to record it. And now all of the sudden, if you do an eight hour seminar, you have eight hours of content and footage.
And that could be a five, six, a seven DVD series that you can sell, depending on your topic, for $100 bucks to $1,000 bucks or more. So, creating product is easy, it's just that you've got to have that idea and you've just got to get started. Before I created my first product, which was really like a telephone seminar, for about two years I contemplated what kind of product. Is it audio, is it going to be cassette? Is it going to be a seminar?
At that time, it was cassettes and video tapes. No one was doing DVDs and CDs. So just think of the product, whether it's an ebook or a seminar, and just get it done, like now.
By the time you finish listening to this, get it done.
All right, that's good. Yeah, I like that. OK, so you mentioned you make money pretty much while you sleep now, because you've got recurring payments and you're healthy. So is that the Internet lifestyle for you or what is the Internet lifestyle?
Well, for me, it's all about freedom. I'm married, we have three little kids, a fiveandahalf, threeandahalf, and oneandahalf, all little girls. And we're actually expecting our fourth child in a few months. So for me, it's a question of being able to be home every day. I have an office outside of the house, because I cannot get anything done with an office in the house. I tried, and it lasted a day. So being able to be home every day at 5:00 and have dinner, and I haven't set the alarm clock in years. We wake up when our youngest one, a yearandahalf, she usually wakes up at 6:00. That's our alarm clock. But every morning I give them I make them lunch, I give them baths, and being able to spend all that time with them. And we just got back from a vacation, we spent a week in Florida and we went on a cruise. That to me is living the Internet lifestyle.
It might be different for someone else. Maybe for you it's hanging out with your friends, you're going out, or for someone else it could be maybe they're a musician and they just want to play music, so this is going to supplement their lifestyle. I'm not here to judge. Whatever is your priority and your life, that's what the Internet lifestyle is, but it's giving you the freedom.
It's not having the boss, and asking permission, say, "Oh, can I have off this week?" I've done that. I did that for about eight years, and I could never do that again. So it's just freedom, freedom to do what you want.
To finish off this interview, I've got a few quickfire questions for you, just to get to know you a little bit more. OK, so first one is, who do you look up to? Who do you model yourself on?
That's a great question. Someone who I've always admired and look up to, but not in well, I guess in a business, is my father. We talk every day on the phone. So I just admire… He's just a great person. Everyone loves my dad and he's just showed me how to live a really good, honorable life. So in terms of just living a good life, he's someone I definitely look up to. In terms of business, that's a really tough question, because a lot of the guys who I kind of model myself after, I'm friends with. So it's weird to kind of look at it that way.
Yeah, but there are some… One of just the greatest guys in the world, we mentioned him already before, is Yanik. Yanik Silver, I've known him for years, one of my good friends. And he's just a guy who does everything ethically, legitimately, honestly. There are some guys who are well known gurus who, I think they're smart in business, but they have no balance in life. And they're divorced three times, they have no relationships with their families, they're miserable, they're cranky, and it's like, do I really look up to them? Do I want to model my life after them? No. Maybe my business, not my life, though.
So my next question is, how many hours do you actually work in a day?
Depends on the day. Like today, after this interview I get my massage.
I get a massage every week. And it's not just a wimpy, froufrou massage, it's like deep tissue, which is just so good for your body. But I won't even get into that. Here's my schedule now. I get in the office about 8:00 in the morning. I work on my big projects, I don't even check email. And I work until usually like 11:00 getting the really big stuff done. Check email, have lunch, and then in the afternoon, I've already done my big stuff. So, sometimes I'll get a massage. I usually go to the gym each day at 3:30 or 4:00. Or, I'll go to the bookstore and do some reading or watching marketing videos, so I probably put a good six, seven hours in.
Maybe, sometimes three hours. I like to usually see a movie once a week, too. I just get out of the office and I'll go for a couple of hours just to see… I love movies. Again, that's the Internet lifestyle, freedom. It's being able to go to a movie at 2:00 in the afternoon and not look like a serial killer.
There's a lot of cool things. And then I coach. Later today at 4:30, I coach my kindergarteners soccer team. So some days I'll put four hours in, some days I'll put seven. If it's a big launch, I'll put more hours in, yeah.
If the incident had not existed, what do you reckon you'd be doing right now?
I'd probably be doing what I was doing before. My first career was as a recreational therapist and a gym teacher.
I would still be working with kids either as a gym teacher or working in the Children's Hospital and doing some fitness training, and I still love to do that kind of stuff. So I would be doing that. But, I still had the entrepreneurial itch, so I definitely still have my parttime business. I was actually, before the Internet came around, back in '93, '94, the business I was looking to start was going to be a print newsletter. So it's kind of funny that even 15 years later, I'm still doing a print newsletter. So, I probably would have done something like that as well, but I definitely would have been working with kids or in the school system.
All right, that's good. OK, what do you like best about the Internet?
The amount of people you can connect with. Making all of these connections. Interacting with people that I never could have met before. Before the Internet, you're still relatively young, so you probably don't remember really much before the Internet. But you had your group of friends and you went out and you had a circle of friends. But now, the fact that I can send an email and reach 200,000 people is just amazing. And the amount of research you can do. If I want to look up hotel reservations or we want to go on vacation, you could just click a button and see the rooms and see pictures of hotels. In the past, you'd have to look in the yellow pages and call information and ask for brochures and it would take two weeks to get there.
And if I wanted to go to a movie, you'd have to call up or open the newspaper. It's just so convenient and it's hard to imagine life without the Internet now. And obviously, what it has done for me and my family, it's just given me, like we said before, the Internet lifestyle. It's just been incredible.
My last question here is what do you like least about the Internet?
What do I like least? Obviously, the predators. The people who prey on… Whether it's they prey on children or they prey on people who are innocent. And the scammers. There are so many legitimate ways to make money online, and to have to do something unethical or illegal or scam people, I just don't get it. So that really gets me crazy. And the other thing is you have to be careful, because it could become addictive. You don't realize how many times you check your email. So it definitely has an addictive nature to it, and just the shady stuff gets me a little annoyed. But the positives more than make up for those negatives.
All right, that's great. I really appreciate having you on today, Ryan. Is there anything that you'd like to share with us, personal business, future plans, goals or anything?
Yeah, I've got some really cool stuff happening. If you want to learn more about me and the stuff I'm doing, definitely check out my blog. It's just my name, RyanLee.com.
So, go to RyanLee.com – I've got some cool things I'm working on, some new products. I've got the seminar, and just trying to simplify life, and focus, and spend more time with my growing family. And continue to do more interviews with Michael Dunlop.
Brilliant. Thanks very much, Ryan. It's been a pleasure to have you here today.
It's been my pleasure, and best of luck and keep doing what you're doing.
A really interesting interview, the idea of premium users although nothing new really makes sense and is something I'll be looking into.
Cheers Ryan & Michael, liking the option for audio.
Just listening now, awesome intro man!
Huge interview, but a great read and listen none-the-less.
Great interview, Michael. This is probably my favorite interview so far!
An eye opener interview, knowing you can stretch your current content into various revenue streams is very encouraging and will now consider the suggested formats. Michael, what do you use to record your telephone interviews?
Awesome, awesome interview. I learned a lot from this one.
Thanks for sharing that with us.
More power to you!!!
Hi Michael,
Thanks for having me as your guest. You're doing an incredible job here and I was more than happy to contribute!
Best of luck to everyone here.
This is great. Great audio and thanks for sharing the pictures too.
An eye opener for me and hopefully many others.
Great interview Michael…Ryan was the first guy I ever studied…he has made a huge difference in my business…thanks guys.
Alex, I had to interview him for you, I knew you would love this one! Glad its opened your eyes up to new things and I am sure you will own it this year!
Thanx, a very nice interview 😉
Hey, where did you get that social sites bar there on the top of this page??? Looks really cool, I'd like to get this for my site too.
Another great interview, thanks!
Ryan Lee is an amazing Internet Entrepreneur — I first saw him speak at Yanik Silvers Underground seminar in 2006 – he blew the whole place away with amazing insights and knowledge. One "guru" to follow for sure
Great Interview — Gold Dust!
~ Barry
Wow, what an amazing interview. This is a true inspreation.
Co-founder of
Michael , You are are truly amazing! I love to read your interviews!
Mike, once again, your top quality interviews have shown me insight into JUST WHAT is possible on the internet! I have a successful business of my own, but am always looking for ways of how to improve on what is there already. Ryan Lee seems like a very knowledgable guy and it was very useful listening to his ideas of how to monetize online traffic flows. Keep up the good work mate.
I only skimmed the interview, as I am reading a novel 🙂 But he looks to be a really interesting guy!
Once again Michael a great itnerview. a good insight also
Great interview. Quite inspiring.
Incredible interview. Looking forward to the next!
Wow. That's gold right there. ill be taking a few things I've learnt from this and will implement them as soon as possible.
Really enjoyed it too. Great interview Michael.
Great interview, and really gave me lots of ideas on how to make some more cash from my audience.
Thanks Michael and Ryan
Wow Michael, as usual another great interview. Ryan's opened my eyes with just what's possible. The crazy thing about making money online is that the more you learn about it, the more you realise you still have to learn, and it's not the type of business that stays the the same. New methods and markets are opening up and changing all the time. I'm glad you have the energy to keep bringing us info Michael!
Glad it helped Dominique, you got to keep testing new things. I would be a lot richer if I learnt that soon.
Thanks, will be bringing you more!
Nice interview and a very worthwhile tip on getting interviews with other bloggers. You can ask. Email is ftre. The worst they can do is just ignore you … if that happens, most of us can bear up under the strain 😉
Most, however, won't ignore you if you don't waste their time. In your very first email just state who you are, link to your blog so they can see what you are about, and tell them why you think what they have to say is valuable.
I get emails all the time from folks who take three or more back and forth emails to ask for what they want … and often written in the tone of "I'm sure you wouldn't want to help poor little me".
Frankly, if you write your message that way, I probably don't care much about helping. But if you treat yourself as a worthy blogging colleague … no BS mind you, just self respect … then I will respect you back and try my darnedest to help, no matter if you are a 'big name' or a 'little guy'.
Good to see you guys having fun. Missed you at mastermind. Dean is such a bore. HA!
Great interview.
No doubt this is one of the better ways to make money online: to create your own products and consistently trying to selling them. This is a serious way to make big money IN THE LONG RUN.
Juan Bielsa
A very eye opening interview indeed. I am currently working on some projects relateted to recurring income. A very timlely information.
Thanks bro!
Great Interview! If you want to see more from Ryan, check out his show called DotCom Lifestyle at http://gotbiz.tv
That was some interview. I have been thinking a lot lately about setting up a continuity program and you have given me some cool ideas.
Thanks so much. Love your blog.
Sandra x
This was such a brilliant interview Michael.
Ryan sounds like a great guy – I've listened to this interview quite a number of times now.
Great interview thank you
Another excellent interview, can't wait to meet Ryan Lee – thats where I first saw you Michael!
Good stuff!
I think the main point I took away from this interview is that creating a product is easy and we just need to take action and do it!
What to go Ryan!
You nailed it again. Hey how tall are you?
(Look kinda short in the first photo (smile).
Very good points about using video and connecting on a more personal basis.


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TLDR – All ICO's which raised funds between December – February of 2018 are probably royally screwed if they didn't cash out promptly.
During the run up to last year and into the beginning of this year, the positivity for ETH and all ICO's was spectacular. Every ICO, good or terrible was raising loads of ETH all with the expectation that the ETH party train would keep on chugging higher. A common question I would ask founders was "how much are you going to cash out?" The reasonable answer would have been 60-80%, with a little ETH left over to cover any crypto related costs and pay for random things. The resounding answer, however, was "are you crazy? We're going to keep the ETH, it's going to double in value and Kaching!! We'll give lambos to the entire staff as bonuses!"
Here is what those founders real did. They made a bet, a gamble, and a very risky one on price movements of an extremely volatile asset. During one of the greatest bull runs of any asset class ever, they decided to put the safety of their future operations and growth potential, as well as investor returns. Essentially they made a semi leveraged Forex trade against the USD or EUR, choosing instead to short it when it has been experiencing one of its greatest strength rallies over the past year.
Now, it's crypto winter, ETH is plunging towards 200, BTC is regaining dominance and many, many ICO's are starting to have treasury issues. Take for example this Trustnodes article which showed how more than 100,000 ETH had been dumped by ICO's in the past month.
Around $40 million worth of eth has been liquidated in the past month with nearly 100,000 eth sold by projects that raised funds through an Initial Coin Offering (ICO).
Data by Santiment, which tracks a number of ICOs, shows a project called Atonomi sold 12,000 eth, 9,000 of it on July 26th.
Atonomi made the right decision and cashed out (hopefully) just a few days after the end of their TGE. Their token holders on the other hand were not so lucky, they (including me) were dumped on hard post launch.
Rumors are now starting to go around that other big name ICO's who raised capital six months ago are now having cash flow issues.
I have a few suspects which could be the project Ran is alluding to, but nothing concrete yet.
There are no good outcomes here. The companies which decided to take a risk and bet on ETH are now seeing their runways cut from 3-4 years down to less than 1. Without further injections of cash, many are bound to fail. I would expect in the latter part of this year to see the first wave of ICO's begin to shutter and declare bankruptcy. Think Bitconnect, but on a much, much larger scale. Viable projects with sound ideas may simply shut down over night, leaving the bagholders to dump as fast as possible as the token tends towards zero.
I'll be spending the next few weeks getting in touch with these projects and inquiring about the health of their finances. I hope this will help identify which ICO's are suffering and have a larger chance of failing, versus those who had the insight to cash out and focus on developing.


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On the concluding few days of the Milarepa sessions, His Holiness Karmapa emphasized that we have to integrate view, meditation and action; they cannot be separated.
Whichever way we do it, we have to raise awareness of loving kindness coming first from someone who loved us, whether this was our mother or someone else. Arouse unbearable compassion contemplating this kindness, he said, a true compassion in the heart. Starting from this person, extend it out. Then think that all beings could have been like this at some time in our past lives. Remember:
- Our mother really cared for us or we would have died.
- Many people remember their past lives; therefore the consciousness of a child must have had a consciousness before.
- Train the mind at seeing this reality: that all beings have been our mothers.
We all meditated on this together.
In the evening a Milarepa tsok puja was held at Tergar Monastery with attendance limited to those who had completed the full ngondro – that is, one hundred thousand of each of the four foundations under a Kagyu master. The room was filled with monks and nuns and perhaps two hundred and fifty lay people, mostly Western. At the centre of the shrine was a delicate painting in watercolour like a Chinese scroll in the unmistaken Karma Gadri style of HH Karmapa; and on a screen next to it was a projection of the 10th Karmapa's painting, Milarepa sitting in a cave in a more Tibetan style, surrounded by birds and wild animals.
The Guru Yoga Tsok aroused memories of a six month retreat I had done in the early 80's in the seclusion of Sherablling's pine forest; so the blessing of this event was even more profound. We were told to eat the tsok in the room only and not to take it outside. As I bit into the torma, I could taste the distinctly bitter flavour of dutsi (blessed medicine).
To conclude the feast, a choir of young Tibetan nuns chanted praises moving rhythmically towards the shrine, followed by a group of Taiwanese girls singing in high voices. It seemed quite innovative for the strict Tibetan tradition and wonderfully theatrical.
The essence of the feast was a present HH Karmapa had prepared for us from his limitless buddha heart. He had made copies, he said, of his painting as a special blessing for us, together with a very small piece of Milarepa's robe which would protect us from the lower realms for seven lifetimes and inspire us to practice. He asked us to see him as Milarepa as we took the painting and it would be sure to increase our connection with the great yogi. On the painting, he had written: renunciation, devotion, non –distraction, and signed it.
As we lined up for the blessing the chant of Milarepa's guru yoga filled the shrineroom: Je Mila Shepa Dorje La Sol Wa Dep So. I noticed quite a few glistening faces.
May this story inspire all who read it to complete the ngondro and receive the blessing of Karmapa.
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Virgin Mobile USA, one of the smaller mobile carriers here in the USA, has just announced that they will finally roll out the HTC One V to the masses in this part of the world. Back in February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, HTC announced a trio of smartphones from the HTC One Series, and they are the high end HTC One X, the HTC One S, and the HTC One V. The HTC One X is the flagship device, while the HTC One S delivers performance and style in a single device, with the HTC One V being a working man's phone – without sacrificing on decent performance and looks, of course.
Available for $199.99 a pop with a 2-year contract, the HTC One V's strong point would be its camera that boasts HTC ImageSense which is said to deliver improvements in all parts of the camera, including the lens, sensor and software. These enhancements will work together to deliver fast image capture, beautiful photos even under conditions that are deem to be photo unfriendly (low light, no light and bright backlight), alongside Video Pic which allows you to shoot still images while recording 720p HD video simultaneously.
Your ears will also benefot from authentic sound with Beats by Dr. Dre Audio. At least it comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as the operating system of choice, accompanied by a 3.7″ display, a 1GHz processor, and a 5-megapixel camera. [Press Release]
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Temple Hospital Murder, Michael Vick Injury Update, LeSean McCoy, Phillies, and Terror Hysteria
The Omelette Tuesday October 5, 2010
Man Robbed and Murdered Outside Temple University Hospital
A man in his 60's was robbed and assaulted outside Temple University hospital last night. The woman is described as a dark-skinned woman, who is pregnant. Authorities allege that after he was assaulted by the female he hit his head on the pavement. It's pretty sad when individuals aren't even safe outside of a hospital in the city at this point.
Andy Reid Non-Committal on Michael Vick's Status
Andy Reid wouldn't committ to saying Michael Vick would be out this Sunday due to a rib cartilage injury. Vick did say he expects to be out one to two games. LeSean McCoy on the other hand will may not be out afterall with a broken rib.
Phillies Off Today, Practicing Tomorrow
The Phillies rested up today and will hit the practice field tomorrow in preparation for Game One of the NLDS against the Reds on Wednesday. Roy Halladay will go up against Edinson Volquez - weather permitting.
Terror Hysteria in Europe
There is a serious terror threat throughout Europe as officials warn an attack upon Americans by Al Queda is extremely likely in the coming days. Americans are being warned to not linger in crowded areas overseas.


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Let's sing "Happy Birthday," eat cake, and sip tea in honor of Judith at Lavender Cottage who will celebrate her birthday this Monday, January 23rd, and Bernideen at Bernideen's Tea Time Blog has a birthday today. Lifting my teacup to two lovely blogging sisters! Hope your birthdays are extra special!


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Interior Design Ideas That Can Improve Lifestyle – The interior design that started as an art has now become an expanding field of study and is even considered a branch of science that comes under the Home Sciences. Interior design is a very complicated art form. This basically involves aesthetics and pleasures that can spoil the eye. A little furniture here, some of the decorations there and soothing shade colors can illuminate a house and make it look appealing to the eyes and the senses. One can make some serious modifications and can go in for newer furniture and paint, or just be content with something as simple as shifting furniture regularly and decorating the house with items that are generally available and cheap and still provide a fresh look to the place. Let's look at some general interior design ideas.
The first rule of interior decoration
From the bathroom to the kitchen, is that the place should be soothing and interesting to look at at the same time. Both of these are accomplished with paint colors, rugs, furniture, lighting, curtains and other furniture colors. Color is an integral part of Interior decoration. Generally, the preferred color comes from a person's personality. People who are passionate and bubbly generally prefer shades of vibrant and vibrant colors, while minded and reserved people tend to prefer pastel and monotonous colors or dull colors. At the same time, the color scheme of the place should be suitable and easy to see. According to surveys and research, hard colors have been found to reduce the production capability of employees in the industry and the soothing colors have been found to improve efficiency.
The second rule of Interior decoration is aesthetic
Aesthetics as a word used in this context means a sense of beauty and simplicity. Basically, a roomy, sunlit house inhabited with fine furniture can be considered aesthetic and a dark and dreary house with messy furnishings would be considered unrealistic. Aesthetics in terms of Interior decoration will imply that the items used for decoration bring a sense of beauty and simplicity. This can either be a well-placed flower pot or well-placed furniture, but it should be good to look at and should add value to the existing settings. Making the most of the architecture of the building is also an integral part.
Collect some design tips
Do not fix on one tip but a collection of decorating tips that will surely make a place that has an aesthetic value. Many suggest spacious room arrangements. When decorating the place, there should be enough room to allow free movement from any point in the room to another point. In addition, the place should appear as comfortable and comfortable. For this effect, many sources suggest the use of clever lighting that creates the appropriate shadows and illuminates areas that seem to increase space. The space angle should not be left empty. Plants or simple shrubs or embellishments can strengthen the aesthetic intelligence of the room. Furniture should also provide enough storage space and tables and drawers can be used to store useful items and thus also can provide additional space for storing other items.
Another valuable tip is to apply themes regularly and modify the room according to the theme. It helps provide changes in decoration and maintains a permanent interest in decorating the room. We hope that using some of these interior decorating ideas you will transform your home or workplace into a beautiful place.


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(Note to self: Never argue with this guy.)
In the first sentence of his review [Bozo] asserts "Moderation … is an essential political virtue and a quintessentially conservative virtue." This is the way forward for conservatism, he insists. At no time does he define "moderation" or any governing principles, other than to misapply moderation as prudence, when prudence is, in fact, about judgment. . . .
For the neo-Statist (or neo-Conservative), the problem is particularly acute when applied to international relations for he usually promotes a hawkish and interventionist foreign policy. If prudence is moderation per se, then how does [Bozo] square this circle? Is bombing Iran's nuclear sites, even as a last resort, a moderate or an immoderate act? Obviously, the question makes no sense. The test is whether it is prudent.
Thus, those, like [Bozo], who promote moderation (not prudence) as a principle, are actually promoting a tactic or process without any core.
Read the whole thing. Try not to slip on Bozo's entrails that Levin leaves scattered on the floor.
Note that Levin distinguishes himself from the neo-conservatives. One of the idiotic misfortunes of the Bush era was that the Left picked up the term "neocon" as shorthand for "Jewish hawk," with conspiratorial overtones of "stooge for the Zionist lobby." This was both unfair and inaccurate.
As my old friends know, I tend to roll more toward the paleo side of the neo/paleo divide, with a wide streak of libertarianism ("From My Cold Dead Hands!") and am also a hillbilly Bible-thumping Calvinist, if not a theocrat.
My position on the Iraq war was nuanced, as the liberals would say. Unlike Kerry, I was against the war before I was for it. Basically, from 2002 until the war started, I was very skeptical toward arguments for the invasion and conquest of Mesopotamia. However, the time for arguing ended when the first shot was fired. My attititude about war is, "If you're in it, win it."
No nation ever benefitted from losing a war. Military defeat tends to demoralize a nation and, if repeated, can result in absolute decadence. (Cf. France.)
A Peace Through Strength approach to foreign affairs doesn't make you a warmonger, an imperialist, or a "neocon." I could write a book about this, but I'm on deadline for the Spectator, so just read Mark Levin's article — and remind me never to pick a fight with him.


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One of so many interesting behind-the-scenes figures of early rock & roll, pianist and arranger Ernie Freeman played on numerous early rock and R&B sessions in the '50s. He worked on dates for the L.A. indies Specialty, Modern, and Aladdin, as well as white artists such as Duane Eddy, Johnny Burnette, the Crickets, Bobby Vee, and Buddy Knox; his most memorable session appearance was probably on the Platters' "The Great Pretender," to which he contributed the stuttering piano riffs. Freeman also put out many instrumental records of his own, mostly for Imperial, and usually in a generic rocked-up jump R&B sort of style. "Jivin' Around" and "Lost Dreams" were R&B hits for him in 1956, but he got his sole crossover pop smash with a cover of Bill Justis' "Raunchy" in 1957, which made number four.
It was a strange situation: Justis' original hit number two, and a pop-oriented cover by Billy Vaughan also made number ten, leading to an incredible happenstance in December 1957 whereby three versions of "Raunchy" were in the Top Ten at the same time. Freeman's cover copied Justis' fairly closely, and wasn't quite as good; it's almost always Justis' original that is played on oldies radio today. Freeman was unable to make the Top 40 again, although he had minor hits with "Indian Love Call," "Theme from 'The Dark at the Top of the Stairs'," and a cover of Chubby Checker's "The Twist"; he also recorded in the easy listening style under the pseudonym Sir Chauncey, sneaking into the bottom of the Top 100 with "Beautiful Obsession." His own career continued through the 1960s, and he worked with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr. at Reprise, winning a Grammy Award in 1966 for the string arrangement on Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night." Freeman won a second Grammy for arranging in 1970 for Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and he continued working until the late '70s. He died from a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles in May 1981; Ernie Freeman was 58 years old. ~ Richie Unterberger~ Rovi


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by Sharon Flake
Autumn and Adonis have nothing in common and everything in common. Autumn is outgoing and has lots of friends. Adonis is shy and not so eager to connect with people. But even with their differences, the two have one thing in common--they're each dealing with a handicap. For Autumn, who has a learning disability, reading is a painful struggle that makes it hard to focus in class. But as her school's most aggressive team wrestler, Autumn can take down any problem. Adonis is confined to a wheelchair. He has no legs. He can't walk or dance. But he's a strong reader who loves books. Even so, Adonis has a secret he knows someone like Autumn can heal.
In time, Autumn and Adonis are forced to see that our greatest weaknesses can turn into the assets that forever change us and those we love. (description from Amazon.com)
I actually was not that fond of this book.
While I liked the fact that Autumn liked Adonis and didn't care at all that he's in a wheelchair, Adonis was pretty much a jerk through the whole book. Even when he comes to appreciate her for who she is, he still wants to keep it a secret that he likes her. No girl should have to settle for that.
I also had a hard time reading this book in Autumn's voice, because I kept correcting her speech in my head (example - she would say "I don't read good and teacher keep pushin'" and in my head I would read the sentence then replay it in my head as "I can't read that well and my teacher keeps pushing me to try harder."). It just became exhausting. Ugh.
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A Butterfly Garden Reading List
So I've been getting a lot of questions the past few months about the books mentioned in The Butterfly Garden, and whether or not there's a list of them anywhere.
Good news, now there is! There aren't as many as there used to be, because some of the sections with named books didn't make it through edits, but here are the books and stories that are named in the course of the story.
Edgar Allan Poe, collected poetry and prose (as in I quoted or referenced a substantial number of Poe titles that I didn't necessarily list out)
Charles Dickens- Oliver Twist
Sophocles- Antigone
Aristophanes- Lysistrata
Hans Christian Andersen- The Little Match Girl, The Steadfast Tin Soldier (both have been adapted and were also mentioned as ballets)
ETA Hoffman- The Nutcracker (also adapted by Tchaikovsky as a ballet)
Alexandre Dumas, pere- The Nutcracker (Seriously–he adapted Hoffman's work in 1845), The Count of Monte Cristo
Fyodor Dostoevsky- The Brothers Karamazov
William Shakespeare- Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Giacomo Puccini- Madame Butterfly
Happy reading!
Butterfly Garden Goodreads Giveaway!
I told you I'd be back with more exciting news.
So, those of you familiar with Goodreads are probably aware that they have giveaways running at all times, and there is now one open for 20 print copies of THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN.
That's right. 20 copies.
It is US only, but still. So far it's pretty good odds. If you have a Goodreads account, or want to sign up for one (it's free! and awesome!) you can enter to win here. The giveaway runs through the official release date of June 1st.
May the odds be ever in your favor!
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The wunderbar team at Thomas & Mercer put together another video where you can watch me be all awesome self-conscious and proud of my book. This video gives you a look at all six of May's Kindle First selections.
On a more serious note:
If you read THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN (or, really, ANY BOOK, mine or not) please take a few minutes to leave a review on some of the major sites. It could even be the exact same review copy/pasted across sites. It seems a silly thing, especially if you're someone who doesn't make your purchasing decisions off of what other people are saying, but it's astonishing how much the reviews help. They don't simply encourage (or dissuade) people who may be on the fence about reading a particular book.
The number of reviews on an item also influence the visibility of that item. The more reviews there are, the more that book, that author, gets seen.
Maybe it sounds silly, but it's really huge, and can make a difference not just in that one book's sales, but also in whether or not that author is able to sell more titles in the future.
The single best thing you can do if you want more books from an author is to talk about it. Leave a review. Leave reviews across multiple sites. Tell your friends, your family, your co-workers, the creepy guy at lunch who always asks you what you're reading in a tone that says you're supposed to be paying attention to him instead. (Hint: you're not, but imagine the reaction if you start gushing about certain kinds of books. I've done this. It's amazing.)
Also up there on the list of very helpful things are: A) buying the book, if you can, and B) borrow the book from a friend or the library if you can't buy it, followed by C) for the love of God, do not pirate the book. I get that it's free (but so's the library!) and easy (so's the library!) and don't involve human interaction (you can download e-books from the library online!), but piracy is a career-killer. If a book is stolen more than it's purchased, that author is going to have a very hard time getting another contract.
Plus it's, you know, illegal.
So if you love a book, hate a book, possess ambivalent opinions of a book, think a book makes a really fantastic coaster, talk about it. Please leave reviews, not just for me, but for all the books you read, just a few lines can help so much.
Just three more weeks to general release!
Want to Read Butterfly Garden Early?
Some of you can! If you have Amazon Prime or Kindle First in the US, UK, or Australia.
BUTTERFLY GARDEN was selected for the Kindle First program, so it is one of six titles offered a month ahead of publication date for anyone with subscriptions to Prime or First, AND it's offered at a free or reduced rate. Depending on which program you're in, you get it for free, or for just $1.99, which is a pretty awesome price for almost any ebook.
But for one you can't otherwise read for another month?
It's amazing!
So check it out! And if you do read it, please consider leaving a review on Amazon a/o Goodreads; you'd be surprised at how much they help authors, especially in the first weeks of a release.
Hope you enjoy, and if you don't get to read it now? Don't worry! June 1st is not that far away.
Oh, God. June 1st isn't that far away.


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Sure you know the feeling, you've just completed a massive "best~of" list and then immediately without fail you begin questioning yourself.. did I leave a song out? Should this one or that one be higher? Lower? Or these ten I adore all the same so how can I possibly truly rank them?
And so with this new series here's my quick criteria:
Songs will be presented in no particular order.
I must own the actual single or album, not an issue as I always support the artist(s).
No Family48 songs will be included, as this series is meant to hopefully turn you onto beloved songs which aren't of our currently collective awareness. I mean, I need not tell you how awesome this or that AKB48 song is as you already know.
The "360 or so" is a very loose number –).
~MY LITTLE LOVER "Mirai boribia"~
If George Martin is the fifth Beatle, then Kobayashi Takeshi is the fifth member of Mr.Children… and here to kick off my all-time J-Pop♥ favorites is Kobayashi Takeshi's brainchild of a group "MY LITTLE LOVER." Consider Kobayashi~san's group here as a parallel analogy of Komuro Tetsuya's inevitable leap from master producer to group member of his immensely popular group's TRF and GLOBE, both of which peaked with massive hits which remain embedded in the culture of the 90's scene. And likewise Kobayashi Takeshi's masterful producing/performing with Mr.Children throughout the years has amassed music of let's just say, epic proportions as well.
So sure I could've begun with MY LITTLE LOVERS debut "Evergreen" album with such mega~songs as "Man & Woman", however "Mirai boribia" from their "Topics" album is one of those most uniquely memorable songs which tugs at musicianship's heartstrings as this incredible song merges seamlessly the pop world with lounge styled jazz undertones all the while hinting with a touch of the avant-garde. Every aspect of this song breathes masterful arrangements and musicianship and not to be overwhelmed by any means are Akko's lovely and most unique vocals, here with profound delicacy and strength she builds to a most euphoric chorus for the ages. =)
MY LITTLE LOVER ARE: Akko (vocals), Fujii Kenji (Guitar) and Kobayashi Takeshi (Keyboards).


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17th September 2018 – Leader of the Opposition – Public Statement
My fellow Anguillans, I need to speak to you on serious issues that are confronting our nation at this time.
The recent announcement that CIBC First Caribbean International Bank will be closing its operations here in Anguilla is yet another symptom of our failing economy. The Chief Minister would have us believe that this is an isolated situation, a simple "business decision." Are we to believe that this banking institution would have made a conscious decision to open a branch here in Anguilla only to maintain five per cent of the overall market share? Furthermore, are we to believe the Chief Minister when he says in the House of Assembly that the government was informed about this decision on September 12th - the same day it was announced to the public - despite the fact that he apparently told the Anguillian that on Tuesday September 11th he had "a scheduled visit from some principals of the FCIB's regional office in Barbados about the closure of the Bank, having before been briefed on that possibility by Eastern Caribbean Central Bank officials"?
Whether or not the Chief Minister's statement in the House was misleading, does this not raise questions as to the ability of this government to maintain proper relations with such institutions?
Surely, with employees on the brink of losing their main source of income, one can safely deduce that officials from the bank would have provided ample notice to all stakeholders, including the government. What is even more appalling is the apparent callous attitude towards the bank's employees who by the Chief Minister's own statements, in the last sitting of the House of Assembly, are free to attend the next job fair. Perhaps he has in mind another of the job fairs where the unfortunate unemployed stand in line for hours on end, without shelter, some of them leaving before being interviewed to avoid getting sick and incurring medical bills they cannot afford. This from a leader who claims that "It's all about you"?
Ensuring that the bank complies with the labour laws of Anguilla in relation to the separation packages offered to employees is not only insufficient, but speaks to a complete disregard for the human suffering that will take place as a result of this situation. I call on the government to operate with humanity and decency by setting up a special committee to provide support to these employees and their families over a six month period as they seek to transition into alternative employment opportunities after January 2019. This should include income support, counselling, family services and possibly negotiating extended timelines for servicing their debts.
As our people continue to struggle under these strenuous economic conditions, the government now lauds the Anguilla Residency by Investment Programme as our saving grace. As Leader of the Opposition, I call on all Anguillians to remember that all that glitters is not gold; indeed the devil is in the details. The Chief Minister and Minister of Finance would have us believe that this Residency by Investment programme, including its retroactive fast track application period and relaxed application process, caters to individuals who already own investments and real estate on the island. While that may be true and what the Chief Minister intends, this programme will also be marketed internationally to attract investors from different countries. As is the case in other OECS countries, programmes of this kind are marketed heavily in the Middle East and to countries in Asia such as China. It is disingenuous at best to suggest that this programme will not have serious implications to our local business owners and our people specifically as it relates to the availability of lands to build homes and start families. In fact, at the last sitting of the House of Assembly, I specifically asked if lands were being ear marked to accommodate the real estate investment route of the Anguilla Residency by Investment Programme, where these lands were located, and the size in acres. Such limitations have been entrenched in similar citizenship by investment programmes in other OECS countries since they recognize the importance of mitigating the impact to their respective societies.
The Chief Minister insists that there will be no constraints or limitations on the lands to be included in the programme. Furthermore, when asked how many more public consultations will take place to discuss concerns raised by the people with a view to the possible modification of the proposals to allay those concerns, the Chief Minister stated – one. Sadly, the voice of the people continues to fall on deaf ears to a group of persons who are out of touch and out of ideas. While the Anguilla Residency by Investment Programme would bring much needed revenue to our economy, we must be cautious in its planning and implementation. While the government moves rapidly to get this done, I am about getting it done right – the future of our nation and our children is at stake.
Anguilla is in desperate need of a new dawn and a new direction. We must end this vicious cycle of entrusting the future of our country and our children to career politicians who only care about self-preservation. This self-preservation is achieved when we allow them to divide us based on family and party affiliation. I make a clarion call today for unity and for our citizens to become active participants in the decisions that affect their lives. I will continue to share this vision for One Anguilla, a nation which is built on love, unity, and active citizenship. Despite the many attacks waged against me, I will continue to stand for the rights of all Anguillians and to ensure that your interests are represented at all costs. This is my solemn duty.


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If you're currently struggling with a drug addiction and want to overcome it, know that you have the power to make the changes necessary to lead a more productive, positive life. While there are numerous techniques you can employ to overcome substance abuse, you may find the following strategies particularly empowering:
1. Find The Right Addiction Treatment Facility.
The first step in recovering from substance abuse is enrolling in the right addiction treatment facility. Taking this step is important because it ensures that you will continually be surrounded by a professional team of drug addiction experts. These individuals will provide you with the diverse, customized services necessary to expedite and optimize your recovery process. Some of the services you may obtain within the addiction treatment recovery setting include:
- one-on-one counseling
- group counseling
- nutritional counseling
- mentorship services
Addiction treatment facilities such as the Dream Center for Recovery are pleased to offer clients a diverse set of customized, cutting edge services and support systems to help facilitate long-term recovery.
2. Learn More About Addiction.
Another technique you can implement to get on the road to recovery from drug addiction is learning more about substance abuse. This strategy is helpful because reading up on drug addiction can provide you with information and insights that empower you to move through the stages of recovery with greater speed and skill. The internet features a broad range of interesting articles and blog posts regarding substance abuse. For example, you can read articles about topics like putting the blame on addiction to learn more about whether addicts or treatment services are blamed when a treatment program fails.
3. Develop A Fitness Routine.
In addition to learning more about addiction, make sure that you develop a fitness routine. This strategy is empowering for those who are recovering from a drug addiction because regular exercise helps reverse the damage created by substance abuse. For example, working out regularly helps enhance the metabolism. This activity is empowering for former addicts because the use of illicit substances can impede your body's ability to use energy. Some of the other wonderful benefits that result from regular exercise include clearer thinking, better memory, faster cellular renewal, improved posture, and higher quality sleep.
There are several ways that you can begin making fitness an integral component of your life. One is by joining your local gym. Within this setting, you'll typically be able to find a wide range of wonderful fitness classes such as tae-bo, dance, and step aerobics. And in many cases, gyms will employ personal trainers who can develop personalized, cutting edge workout routines that enable you to meet any health or fitness goals that you have.
4. Optimize Your Diet.
Just as exercise can help reverse the physical damage created by drug addiction, optimizing your diet will have a life-giving, restorative effect. For example, eating a wide range of fruits and vegetables once your detoxification process is complete can help accelerate recovery and reduce withdrawal symptoms. However, knowing which foods to eat, whether you're eating too much or too little, and what nutritional requirements you need to meet can be difficult for individuals who do not have a background in nutrition. As such, it may be prudent for you to consult with a licensed nutritionist. This individual will typically be able to implement a customized meal plan on your behalf.
5. Invest In A Monthly Massage.
While recovering from drug addiction can be the most rewarding thing you ever do in your life, it can also be an incredibly stressful experience. For example, many recovers find it difficult to end unhealthy relationships and begin integrating themselves into new communities where drug use is not an integral component of the social experience. Because drug addiction can be stressful, it's important to access strategies that will help you cope with anxiety in a positive, life-giving way. One such strategy is attaining a monthly massage. In addition to fighting stress, massages help release toxins from the body. They also improve circulation, promote clearer skin, and lead to deeper sleep.
Don't Delay: Start Overcoming Your Drug Addiction Today!
If you're serious about overcoming drug addiction and leading a profoundly rewarding life, know that you have the power to do it. Some of the strategies that will enable you to move forward with your life include finding the right addiction treatment facility, learning more about addiction, and exercising regularly. You may also find it helpful to optimize your diet and invest in a monthly massage. Start making these behavioral changes immediately so you can lead the rewarding life you deserve.


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Seamless World 2.0
All that follows on this page is an in-depth explanation about Seamless 2.0 Links. This matters for World Builders and Engineers, but for the beginner, or for someone that just wants to get areas linked up quick and easy you can follow these simple steps:
1. Create Area1
2. Create Area2
3. Edit Area1
4. Open Editors > Area
5. Click Add
6. Select Area2 from the list
7. Click Edit Offset
8. Use the Move Tool to select Area2 and move it next to Area1
9. Click Edit Offset again to save the position
Seamless World 2.0 is a feature which allows world builders to link adjacent areas together and adjust their relative offsets.
- NOTE: Please make sure you understand the difference between a room and an area.
- NOTE: Transitioning from one seamless area to another in the HeroBlade will cause the blade to stutter as it updates all of the editor level panels for the new area. This can be greatly minimized by closing all open panels if you are concerned. And the stutter will not occur in the player's client.
In Seamless 2.0, the client renders linked areas simultaneously with the current active area. Seamless links are an inherent property of areas, and are edited via the Seamless Links pane of the Area panel. Movement between areas is determined automatically by the client, according to the position of the controlled character. Whereas in Seamless 1.0, characters rely on Proxied node.
Each area in the HeroEngine is a discrete unit of server simulation. Therefore, we do not recommend making a simple grid of areas larger than 256 by 256 meters if you plan to use Seamless 2.0 Links, unless you are confident in your team's ability to to predict the client to server communication and simulation you plan to do in a given area. A common mistake is also to simply layout a grid of areas and think about the world building later. If we expected you to that, then we'd just provide you with a huge grid of seamless areas in your default world. You should link areas together based on how your players are going to play your game, where they will travel, and where areas of heavy load and light load will be. You can use any shapes and sizes of areas, irregular connections, two areas seamless connected to the border of one area, etc. The last thing you want is to create a situation where you have 4 area corners right where a high amount of traffic will be. So think about your world first, seamless build it later.
You can also build larger areas first, and then cut them up and use the "Bring Instance Here" button to move sections of the large area into subdivided seamlessly linked areas at a later date.
Rendering of Linked Areas
By default, unless you are using specific room layouts, the client will render the entire linked area. This is because any room in a linked area with the same name as the currently active area will be rendered. But since all areas have an "Everywhere" room, there is no need to specifically setup additional rooms for Seamless 2.0 links.
Note that the "Show All" option in the Room Panel will render all rooms in the active area, but does not apply to linked areas.
Creating a Seamless Link Between Existing Areas
- Select the "Move" tool.
- Open the Seamless Links tab of the Area panel, and click "Add." This will pop up a filterable list of all areas known by the Organizer.
- After selecting the Area your camera will rotate to face the center of the newly imported area.
- The Selected Area is now linked to the current area, but you'll notice it is just arbitrarily placed in space.
- Click "Edit Offset". A blue bar will appear at the top of the view window denoting that you are now in "Edit Offset" mode.
- Select anything in the newly imported area. The easiest is to select the heightmap with the edge you wish to align to the current area.
- Click the Dim Other Checkbox in the Room Visibility Tab. (This will turn all linked areas blue and make them more easily distinguishable from the current area).
- Maneuver the newly linked area, using the move tool, to line up roughly with where you want it.
- If areas already have seamless links, then moving one will move all areas it's linked to. To disable this automatic movement, hold SHIFT while moving.
- Click "Edit Offset" again to finish placing the area. It's important to understand, that if you attempted to move anything in the newly imported area while NOT in edit offset mode, then you were actually editing the other area, not editing the "Offset" of that area to the current area.
- If there are gaps you can use the Stitch tool to stitch the two areas' heightmaps together.
- Now you're done. The link is now a bi-directional connection between the current area and the new area, and removing the link in either area will remove it from both.
Automatic Offsets
Seamless links do not have to be geometrically correct. The HeroEngine supports non-euclidean geometric relationships. This also means you can make an infinite loop of areas: the only rule is that you'll need more than 1 area before you can loop back to the start. So A > B > C > A works, while A > B > A does not, for obvious reasons of time imploding on itself...
Seamless cross-area editing
After returning to normal editing mode, node selection and all the usual node and terrain editing tools work seamlessly across areas.
Note there is always a single active area at any given time, displayed in the lower right context bar in HeroBlade and the second pane of the Area panel. Area-centric properties, such as environment schemes, path waypoints, terrain textures, and terrain dynamic details apply to the currently active area.
Any nodes you create belong to the active room in the active area.
Bring Instance Here
This button has nothing to do with moving areas, it's for bringing an object, or anything else, from one area, into the area you are currently editing. So if you are standing in area A, you can select a tree in area B, and click the "Bring Instance Here" button to reassign the tree to Area A. Instances are deleted from their original areas and recreated in the active area with the same ID number.
Seamless travel
Seamless travel is automatically determined by the client, as part of the code that determines which room should be active. Seamless transitions only happen while in character mode, and is based on the character's position, not the camera's.
Area instances are parallel across transitions. When the character is in instance 42 of SeamlessTutorial_1, he will be linked to instance 42 of SeamlessTutorial_2. If more flexible linkage is required, such as travelling between a common area and an instanced dungeon, a Seamless World 1.0 link is necessary, or any other custom script implemented solution.
HSL Callbacks
The following Seamless 2.0 callbacks belong to _BaseClientClassMethods:
_Area_SeamlessMove( fromArea as ID, fromInstance as ID, toArea as ID, toInstance as ID)
Called at the beginning of a seamless move before the new area has been activated and prior to reference frame adjustment. If you want to do additional steps when a character seamlessly transitions you would use the HE_Area_SeamlessMove override _Area_SeamlessMove Provides.
_Client_Seamless_Transition(newArea as ID, offset as Vector3)
Called when the client switches the active area, just prior to area activation.
_OnLinkedAreaSuspendPreload(areaNumber as ID)
Called when the bounding volume of a linked area falls outside the preload range (15% larger than the distance of the far clipping plane).
_OnLinkedAreaResumePreload(areaNumber as ID)
Called when preloading of a linked area begins or resumes.
_OnLinkedAreaStartRendering(areaNumber as ID)
Called when any room in the linked area begins rendering.
_OnLinkedAreaStopRendering(areaNumber as ID)
Called when there are no longer any rooms in the linked area which are rendering.
_OnLinkedAreaDiet(areaNumber as ID)
Called when a linked area's assets and instances are unloaded from memory as the result of a seamless transition away from the area that linked to it. A minimal amount of area data remains in memory.
Example: area A is linked to area B, and area B is linked to area C. While the player is in area B, areas A and C remain in memory. A few seconds after the player enters area C, area A will be "dieted."


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Scar Tissue around Daith Ear Piercing?
It's a bump on the opening of my Daith Piercing. It seems as though its growing, and nothing happens when i try poking it with a pin. I'm going to the doctor to get it checked out, but would taking out the piercing help? Any advice?


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Stitches & Cover Ups contains 12 tracks not available on the new Dead When I Found Her album Rag Doll Blues: three new tracks written for Rag Doll Blues and three cover versions of Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, and Phil Collins, plus six remixes. Remixers include ∆AIMON, Acretongue, Anklebiter, Kalte Farben, Chrysalide, and Clearsignals.
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The Chamber is pleased to announce the 2017 Business Breakfast Series.
In partnership with the Royal Canadian Legion, we will host a series of business information breakfasts on the fourth Tuesday morning of every month beginning April 25th, 2017.
The breakfasts will give us an opportunity to come together regularly to discuss current issues of interest to the Smiths Falls Business Community and to network with other businesses and organizations in the area, those you've met and those you haven't! Each month you will have the opportunity to hear from and interact with a different guest speaker on topics that will help you run your organization better. Same time, same place every month.
Members $15 Non-Members $20 Those not registered may not be fed $10 charge to attend without eating* – Introductory pricing. In order to cover expenses, this price may change in future months.
Doors open at 7:30 Runs till 9:00 a.m.
Please register one week before the event. The Legion requires exact numbers. We thank you for your understanding.
October Chamber Business Breakfast
Tuesday, October 24th, 2017, 7:30-9:00 a.m. – Business Breakfast at the Royal Canadian Legion
Essential Estate Planning Tips for Business Owners – Too often folks assume something will automatically fall into place when they pass away but if they own a business, this isn't always the case. Find out how you can ensure your business and your estate is taken care of and is passed to the person you want it to after you go.
Our Guest Speaker, Stephen Keiwan, has over 18 years' experience in the financial industry and eight years at Royal Bank specializing in advising and planning for life events.
More about Stephen:
. Married, two boys, avid Maple Leaf fan
· accredited and certified financial planner
· Over 18 years' experience in the financial industry with 8 years with Royal Bank
· He is a specialist in advising and planning for life events
· His attention to detail has served him well in advising and assisting hundreds of executors and clients with pre and post estate planning needs.
· Never one to look before leaping, he analyzes a situation from all angles before making a decision.
· His advice is well sought after and highly valued by not only clients, but from his bank colleagues as well.
November Chamber AGM Business Breakfast
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017, 7:30 a.m.
There will be NO December Chamber Business Breakfast – Come to the Christmas Social – We're curling!
Also happening in December – December 20th – Christmas Social
We thank our guest 2017 speakers:
Mike Fletcher – Highspin Consulting and Training
Annie Laurie – Parks Canada
Cheryl Brown – Tui Le Boat
Stephen Heckbert – Algonquin College Public Relations
Mayor Pankow – Mayor of Smiths Falls


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US Federal Government websites are subject to a unique set of regulations and compliance requirements. How well do they follow them and how well do they stack up against one another?
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The world of technology just loves to converge. An alarm clock? That needs a bacon fryer. A spoon? That needs a heater on the back to keep tea warm when stirring.
But the humble switch seemed pretty well taken care of. It went on, so did the lights. Off, and suddenly you couldn't see.
Now NKK Switches have released the OLED Smartswitch and SmartDisplay, as it believes the humble on / off-er needs an update.
Magic buttons
These programmable switches offer the chance to have video in your switch, so should you want to watch a few minutes of EastEnders before bed, don't turn on the TV…watch a switch.
OK, that's not really what they're meant for, instead you can programme a set of on off buttons with changeable function, and having video means a better explanation of what it does.
The OLED SmartSwitch and SmartDisplay feature a programmable and changeable OLED module with 65,536 colors in 16 bit mode, and 256 colors in 8 bit mode.
It probably costs more than a teeny LCD and is ultimately a bit high end for most people…but that doesn't stop it being valid, people.


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Belarusian Svetlana Kuznetsova has been named Mrs. Globe 2017 at the 20th edition of the prestigious beauty pageant.
Mrs. Globe took place on 1-12 December in China. The Belarusian was chosen among 68 contestants and awarded the title in the finals on 11 December.
Svetlana Kuznetsova has become the first representative of Belarus to ever fin the title.
Mrs. Globe 2017 is a new title in the collection of Svetlana who was named Miss Belarus 1998 (first Miss Belarus actually), Vice-Miss Europe 1999 and entered Top 15 in Miss World 2000.
Svetlana has three children and works as mathematics teacher. She began preparation for the contest almost half a year before. "I have started a diet, I am attending a dance class twice a week and learning English", she said in an interview in August.


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Bruce Vail is a Baltimore-based freelance writer with decades of experience covering labor and business stories for newspapers, magazines and new media. He was a reporter for Bloomberg BNA's Daily Labor Report, covering collective bargaining issues in a wide range of industries, and a maritime industry reporter and editor for the Journal of Commerce, serving both in the newspaper's New York City headquarters and in the Washington, D.C. bureau.
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On Friday, the owners of Hostess Brands — the company that makes widely recognized baked goods such as Twinkies and Wonder Bread — made good on a longstanding threat to close down operations, eliminating as many as 18,000 jobs.
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