"It's regarded not only as a hobby in England, but a legitimate art form, " Woods said.
Ken Desrosiers, of bigpumpkins.com, said growing giant vegetables had been gaining popularity as a "competitive hobby" in the past few years.
He was born into a very poor family and fell into astronomy as a hobby back in the late 19th century.
As a hobby project in 1999, Dries Buytaert created an open source version of a message board, which he called Drupal.
"I am pleased to find that they are at least willing to take and investigate further rather than make assumptions and going off on maybe their personal belief on snakes and maybe the reptile hobby keeping in general, " he said.
The way to succeed in a hobby loss case is to play the bad guy in the feel good sports movie.
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This is probably the key thing that differentiates winners from losers in hobby loss cases.
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His other problem, which is common in hobby loss cases was not having a business plan.
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What others might describe as an art or a skill or even a hobby, is in Japan a way to follow.
Although, they have not racked up the truly impressive record of Amway IBOs for losing in Tax Court, people who race cars have not done too well lately in hobby loss cases.
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In the U.S., analyzing party platforms is an arcane hobby, like talking in Klingon--generally understood to be pointless, and ignored outside a tiny group of enthusiasts.
With so many of us engaging in gaming as a hobby, it is now beginning to alter the world in ways that many never saw coming.
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Now Hershman performs as principal bassoonist in local orchestras as a hobby -- and he teaches high school photography in Federal Way, Washington, as his profession.
Derner, who created the plane spotting site NYCAviation.com in 2003, said the hobby is growing more popular as more people are lured in by the magic of flying machines.
He practiced sharp-shooting as a hobby at a shooting range in Finland, police said.
The diversion into media, however, means Salmon gives the hobby argument short shrift, in our view.
Charles Darwin, by contrast, found a lead for his theory of natural selection in the whimsical hobby of pigeon fancying, where the birds showed an enormous variety of form and behaviour.
So consumed by his hobby is he that early in his 18-year marriage to former freelance science writer Carol Foote, the couple decided that Mandel needed an agreement restricting his stargazing time.
"Our ability to broaden our product and distribution base will enable us to mitigate to some extent any short term weakness in our traditional hobby sectors, " said Hornby chief executive Frank Martin.
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Fantasy football was played offline for years until the advent of the Internet rocket-launched it in the late 1990s from a niche hobby to a multimillion-dollar industry reaching 30 million online players last year in the United States and Canada.
That means scrambling files to keep them safe from prying eyes will no longer be a hobby reserved for bearded conspiracy theorists in basements.
Real estate billionaire Stephen Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins, has a new hobby that he hopes will bring in some extra cash.
Insect collecting is an old enough hobby for evolution to be seen in action, by comparing the cabinets of the past with those of the present.
And in the meantime he's been spending his days on a hobby that periodically stuns the computer security world: seeking out cracks in the source code of Apple's iPhone, a device with more software restrictions than practically any computer on the market, and utterly obliterating its defenses against hackers.
Steve Evans, who revived brewing in Dowlais after a gap of more than 25 years, said the company's Hobby Horse beer would be the only Welsh ale on sale in Australia.
While some people have golf, art collecting or photography as a hobby, Binger's joy is in giving.
Finding a hobby, or any activity to engage in together, is another strategy.
In January 1975, Bill Gates saw a headline in Popular Electronics for a hobby kit that would change his life.
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Gillette's hobby is to visit pool halls solo in dangerous neighborhoods and, with no cash in his pocket, challenge desperados to big-dollar games.
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