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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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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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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"It's regarded not only as a hobby in England, but a legitimate art form, " Woods said.
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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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.
"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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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.
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.
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.
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.
In January 1975, Bill Gates saw a headline in Popular Electronics for a hobby kit that would change his life.
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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.
Episodes that normally count as rather important, such as the Polish shipyard strikes in 1980, pass in a blur, whereas hobby-horses such as the decline of British universities get an energetic ride.
Picture the person who, in midcareer, picks up a hobby like flying small airplanes, learns its rules and regulations and ponies up half a million dollars for a new plane.
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.
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.
In backing the overall changes, Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, highlighted what would not be changing.
The internet has also become a games platform in its own right, making the hobby truly sociable by electronically linking gamers the world over.
With experience in various industrial settings, and a hobby of repairing cars, she landed a job filling vehicles with fluids just before they drive off the assembly line.
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.
Guests seated next to each other should have something in common, whether it is a hobby or home state, to spark conversation at the beginning. (Ms. Fierro typically introduces seatmates to each other at casual cocktails before dinner.) While she says she enjoys intellectual conversation at the table, she's wary of heated debates.
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He played the publicity game with aplomb, convincing interviewers that he had been in rather more fistfights than he had, and that his hobby was knife-throwing. (It was painting.) He bought a horse farm in Vermont and a mansion in Bel-Air.
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.
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