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PHILADELPHIA - The story behind Two Locals Brewing Company all started with a love for beer and Mengistu Koilor’s brother Richard asking a question.
"He one day looked at me and said ‘hey why don’t we try making some beer’, and I laughed," said Mengistu, the co-founder of Two Locals Brewing Company.
Well, that question quickly became less of a joke and more of an actual goal.
Richard got a home brew kit and, just like that, he was busy crafting up beers.
"He made an Irish red ale and let me try it. It tasted good, I was like ‘wow you made beer, okay’", said Mengistu.
From there, they began a weekend operation, crafting and serving some great brews.
"Sometimes Saturday and Sunday at my house, in my kitchen, until my wife said enough get out of my kitchen with this, take that in the backyard. We moved to the backyard at my house and sometimes we would brew at his place," said Mengistu.
What started out as friends and family tasting the beer became those in the community.
The beer was such a success that they started their business, Two Locals Brewing Company, in 2018.
Partnering with other local breweries to serve their beer as the looked for a permanent home.
"Taught us how to brew at a larger scale outside of just home brewing but also how to run the business," said Mengistu.
All things that helped prepare them for January 31st of this year, when they opened their new brewery in University City, becoming the first Black-owned brewery in Philly.
"It’s surreal, but it’s hard to sit back and appreciate the moment, what it means," said Mengistu.
With that being said, they do understand the impact they have on the city they love and the beer industry.
"We want our people to look at us and be proud of us, know that even if you’re looking to do something in a space that you’re not represented in, you can make it happen," said Mengistu.
The brothers say they are hoping members of the community will give their beers and food a try, especially those within the black community.


Sprint is eating everyone's dust.
The nation's third-largest wireless carrier by subscriber base sank to the bottom of a survey conducted by Consumer Reports over cell phone service. Sprint scored "dismal marks" in value, voice, text messaging, and 4G reliability, according to Consumer Reports' survey released Thursday. Sprint ranked No. 2 behind Verizon Wireless a year ago.
It's the latest headache for a carrier that is going through a long and painful transformation of its network. Sprint is in the middle of upgrading its network to allow for better and faster service, but the transition has been rough on customers. As a result, many have left the carrier in the last few years.
"While the findings in the Consumer Reports' survey are disappointing, they're not necessarily surprising," said a Sprint representative. "We've asked customers during the past year to 'pardon our dust' as we build out and upgrade our network."
Sprint is hoping the rate of customer attrition will fade once the network improves. To drum up interest for its next-generation network, the company last month demonstrated Sprint Spark, its enhanced LTE network. The company said in areas where the coverage has improved, the customer satisfaction has moved up accordingly.
Verizon Wireless was once again the top-rated carrier, though Verizon recently conceded that it was facing pressures in big cities such as New York and San Francisco.
AT&T and T-Mobile scored "ho-hum" results, Consumer Reports said, but AT&T was the lone carrier to get a top rating for 4G reliability.
AT&T has been making a lot of noise about offering both the fastest and most reliable network in the nation, while T-Mobile has quickly built out its 4G LTE network to pair with its HSPA+ network.
As with previous years, smaller carriers ranked higher, with niche provider Consumer Cellular scoring best in cell phone satisfaction despite running on the same network as AT&T.
The survey also found that many customers are overpaying for their data, with 38 percent of users surveyed using half or less than half of their monthly allotment. While AT&T and Verizon have capped their data plans, Sprint and T-Mobile still offer unlimited data plans.


On Thursday the 26th of October Phoenix FM was present at the Craol Achievements Award ceremony in Athlone. Phoenix FM was nominated for ‘Irish Language Category – GOLD’ award for the show Aon Scéal and the ‘Social Benefit – News and Current Affairs’ award for the D15 Today show. Phoenix FM amazingly won both of these awards!
The ‘Irish Language Category – GOLD’ award was accepted by Gráinne Ui Chaomhanaigh who is the presenter of the winning show Aon Scéal, mentioned along with the award is Keith Bannister the editor of Aon Scéal.
The ‘Social Benefit – News and Current Affairs’ award was accepted by Seán Coogan and Carmelle Keane on behalf of all our amazing volunteers who worked tirelessly to make D15 Today the award winning show that it is.
Both of these awards also received the ‘Standout Submission’ award in these categories, ensuring that Phoenix FM brought home a fifth of the available ‘Standout Submission’ awards.
Phoenix FM are also finalists for the ‘Not-for-Profit Organisation of the Year’ award in the Fingal Business Awards 2023 taking place in November. This award is to honour a nonprofit organisation that has made a significant positive impact on the community through its mission and initiatives.
Gráinne Ui Chaomhanaigh is also in the running for a couple of awards at An tOireachtas awards in Kerry.
Phoenix FM would like to thank all their volunteers and staff for helping to make Phoenix FM the award winning community radio station that it has become.
The Croal Achievement Awards were sponsored and supported by Coimisiún na Meán.
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Making threats is not free speech. The student should have to go to Warrick Education Center. They are not affiliated with the school corporation. He may not be allowed to go to any EVSC school because of the threat made towards Castle High School. Also, from my understanding the kid and his mom are from Alabama and what is his standing at his former middle or junior high school there? The EVSC will have to take a look at it. Otherwise, he may have to go all the way to South Spencer. That will be funny if he had to because the mom will have to drive him there every day and pick him up every day and that is a drive. Maybe then the mother will get fed up with her son's antics and then punish him. He should be punished. Maybe he was talking out of his a.., but who knows? You have to take threats seriously this day and age.
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In this video from a recent event at the National Constitution Center, former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou and others share their lessons learned in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings.More than three years after uprisings first swept Tunisia, the greater Middle East, and North Africa, the region has witnessed unprecedented public mobilizations in the name of personal liberty, citizen empowerment, and human rights. Driven by the voices of the people in the streets, many states have seized this historic moment to take sharp turns towards democracy.
Yet, as recent events have shown, establishing a durable constitution and building healthy democratic institutions is a challenging, complex and collective journey, fraught with political and personal risk. Leading comparative constitutionalist David Fontana, Papandreou and Tunisian human rights activist Amira Yahyaoui shared their outlook for the future of a region in transition.
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As usual, expecting consistency of thought from New Albany's city council is tantamount to believing the Cubs will win the World Series, or that Lucy won't yank back the football at the last second, leaving Charlie Brown (and the city) in the mud.
Last fall, Dan Coffey became an overnight paragon of localism, suggesting that two-way street conversions begin immediately so as to offset the traffic complications of the Sherman Minton closure. Now, he denounces sound barriers on grounds of them costing too much for a project he ostensibly opposes. Contrast Coffey's somersault with fellow westender Shirley Baird's principled grasp of the tolling paradigm.
Meanwhile, as ever hoodwinked by his desperate need to be seen frolicking at the respectable adults' cafeteria table, Bob Caesar claims to grasp tolling's toll, but nonetheless suckles at Kerry Stemler's teat to advocate finishing something, anything, however monstrous, and in spite of how adverse or costly it is. Caesar is able and eager to "lead" by calculating future property taxes to the last digit in order to defeat a bid to redevelop a rotting building a block away from his shop, and cares not at all to do the math on the Ohio River Bridges Project's fifty-year drain.
Also inexplicable is Scott Blair's bizarrely jesuitical position: The ORBP is not the council's brief to address, and yet he addresses it nonetheless, by voting "no." Wasn't this instance precisely one befitting the classic abstention? Note that Blair said it was not the council's place, but simultaneously, still took a side on the resolution.
One thing's for sure. This council now has openly opted for One Southern Indiana's "if tolling rape is inevitable, pass the lube" party line, and accordingly, it's now time for everyone in town to press the council as to how it intends to address our streets in preparation for the onslaught of diverted traffic. Are we to enhance our reputation as a drive-through ramp to elsewhere, or commence ordering the grid for the benefit of those actually living and investing here?
Ah, but forgive me for jumping the gun.
First and foremost, might this council attempt a definition as to what actually IS its proper bailiwick in the life of the city?
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MUNSTER rugby secured a much needed bonus point win over Edinburgh at Musgrave Park tonight. The final scoreline of 27-19 does not tell the full story in what was a weird game. Munster led 20-13 at the break thanks to tries from Conway, Zebo and Scannell.
However, a full forty minutes without a score from the men in red, saw Edinburgh eek their way back into the game, getting the score as close to 20-19.
The bonus point try came from Francis Saili, who barrelled over from 5 metres out to the delight of a sold out Musgrave Park.
Munster now head into next Saturday’s clash with the Scarlets in sixth spot, with Champions Cup qualification in their own hands.
6th – Rory Scannell TRY 5-0 Converted by Johnny Holland
15th – Tovey Penalty 7-3 to Munster
19th – Tovey TRY 10-7 with the convert
22nd – Johnny Holland penalty – 10-10
28th – Zebo TRY 15-10 Convert from J Holland missed
35th – Conway TRY 20-10 Convert missed J Holland
38th – Tovey penalty – 20-13
43rd – Tovey penalty – 20-16 to Munster
77th – Saili TRY – 27-19 to Munster Convert by Holland
FINAL SCORE 27-19 to Munster.
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Fed Opens New Houston Branch Building
HOUSTON—Three years after breaking ground on its new headquarters, the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas officially opened today at 1801 Allen Parkway.
Keynote speaker was Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who said, “We, in what may seem like distant Washington, highly regard the work that goes on here. Your efforts contribute directly to the Fed’s reputation as a credible, efficient central bank that can be depended upon, not just daily, but in times of crisis as well.”
The building was dedicated to Houstonian and former Federal Reserve Governor Edward “Mike” Kelley.
The 280,000-square-foot building occupies 9 acres, previously occupied by Jefferson Davis Hospital. The Branch was constructed at a cost of $95 million.
No taxpayer funds were used to build the facility. Construction of Federal Reserve Bank buildings and their branches is funded with income the Fed earns from interest on Treasury securities, fees paid by financial institutions for Fed services and interest on loans made to commercial banks.
The Allen Parkway building will house 220 employees and contain a major currency operation for receiving and distributing cash and coins to financial institutions throughout southeast Texas. Additional functions in the building include banking supervision, economic research, economic education, community affairs, personnel and purchasing.
“This building will allow us to expand currency operations as well as enhance security,” said Robert Smith III, senior vice president in charge of the Houston Branch. “Considering Houston is the fourth largest city in the nation and Texas is the second most populous state, this branch will be a great asset in serving the growing financial and economic needs of this area.”
Design architect Michael Graves of Princeton, N.J., and Houston-based architectural firm Pierce Goodwin Alexander and Linville designed the building. Linbeck Construction Co. supervised construction.
The Federal Reserve established the Houston Branch in 1919. The branch had been located at 1701 San Jacinto since 1958.
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By Jabu Matsebula | 2020-11-20
MAPHIVENI: IN the last push to rid the country of new HIV infections, a new drive to put everyone that is HIV positive under treatment will be launched in the next few weeks.
The move follows evidence that the country has scored major successes in its battle to eliminate a virus that has held the country to ransom for the past 40 years.
“We’ve hit the snake. It’s paralysed,” declared Khanya Mabuza. “But it’s not yet dead. We must crush it’s head.” Mabuza is National Executive Director of the National Emergency Response Council on HIV&AIDS which has been tasked with leading the national response since 1992.
Widespread introduction of Ante Retroviral Treatment (ART) over 10 years ago has shown that people on treatment have benefitted from high suppression of the virus in their bodies to a point where it is not only undetectable but their health returns to normal and the danger of infecting others is drastically reduced.
Currently 95 per cent of HIV+ people who know their status are now on treatment. High priority is to get that remaining 5 per cent onto treatment by 2022.
“We are going all out to find HIV wherever it is. We need to place everyone that is HIV positive on treatment at the same time promote HIV prevention awareness to ensure protections of the large majority of the population that is HIV negative, especially young girls. We’re fanning out and taking the HIV campaign where people are. We will be visiting imiphakatsi (community administrative centres) armed with the data that shows us exactly where the problems are”.
Speaking at the launch of the first of a series of the 2020 World AIDS Day (WAD) campaigns at Maphiveni on the outskirts of the vital north Lubombo sugarcane district, Mabuza highlighted the 2022 target of eliminating HIV&AIDS as a public health threat as an urgent task.
He told the gathering of community members that was joined by government leaders, health activists and members of parliament from the surrounding Tinkhundla that Eswatini has finally cornered the virus after decades of sustained investment in the HIV response.
A United Nations finding in July, confirmed that the kingdom that holds the record for the world’s highest HIV prevalence rates had scored a 95-95-95 success rate 10 years ahead of schedule. By getting 95 per cent of HIV positive people to know their status and get on treatment as well as to achieve viral load suppression 95 per cent of those on treatment while preventing HIV transmission of HIV from mother to child by 95 per cent means the country is close achieving a world record of eliminating the virus.
“When you look at the calendar you realise that 2022 is actually only months away. We are therefore in the last mile”
“This ‘Last Mile’ will be very hard work. That is why some of us cannot sleep at night,” he said. “That is why we are appealing to community leaders, to members of Parliament, the United Nation, representatives of business and other national leaders to hear our strategies and lend us their support in ensuring that everyone knows their status and that those that need, are put on treatment.
The ‘Last Mile’ campaign is informed by data which enables HIV response teams to target areas of concern.
“We now know where the problems are, Mabuza said. “For instance, Lubombo is not doing well especially in rate of new infections among the 15-45 year age group. We know how many people are HIV positive in each region. In Manzini for instance there are 71 953 HIV positive people. There are 40,593 HIV positive people in Lubombo, but we are concerned that many of them are not on treatment. We even know for instance that in Lubombo at least 2 000 people who know their status are not on treatment. ”
Risk of HIV Transmission With Undetectable Viral Load by Transmission Category
Transmission Category Risk for People Who Keep an Undetectable
Sex (oral, anal, or vaginal) Effectively no risk
Pregnancy, labor, and delivery one per cent or less†
Sharing syringes or other drug injection equipment unknown, but likely reduced risk.
Breastfeeding Substantially reduces, but does not eliminate risk.
But Shiselweni is doing extremely well. “This is one region that is we must praise. They have only 298 HIV+ people who know their status but not on treatment. They will hit the 100 per cent target without a problem.”
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31, 2006 Latimes.com today announced the availability of its RSS (Really Simple Syndication) service, Los Angeles Times NewsPoint. The free service is used by latimes.com readers to customize personal news feeds and additional online content for automatic delivery to their desktops.
Los Angeles Times NewsPoint was created jointly with Consenda, a Swiss-American media software developer specializing in online content delivery.
Los Angeles Times NewsPoint enables users to aggregate news headlines and editor-recommended content from latimes.com, as well as RSS feeds from other websites and blogs. When new updates are posted in the feeds they have specified, the service alerts users and streams the latest headlines in a desktop ticker. It comes pre-loaded with the most popular sections of latimes.com, latimes.com blogs, as well as the video feed from Los Angeles-area WB affiliate and latimes.com partner, KTLA.
“Working with Consenda, we are able to offer our readers the convenience of being able to aggregate the information that most interests them and then have it delivered effortlessly to their desktops,” said Rob Barrett, general manager of latimes.com.
“With so much information out there, receiving a good recommendation from a trusted source has become as important as using a quality search engine. We are delighted to be working with latimes.com given that their unique coverage, particularly of Southern California and the entertainment industry, provides an excellent context to introduce mainstream users to the speed and convenience of feed-based updates and recommendations,” said Xavier Ferguson, CEO of Consenda.
Los Angeles Times NewsPoint can be downloaded from www.latimes.com/newspoint.
Latimes.com has 5.2 million unique visitors monthly, posts more than 3,000 articles every day, and offers 50,000 pages of continuously updated content. The site’s Entertainment News section delivers all the latest industry intelligence from Hollywood and is home to the popular Kinsey Gram Morning Briefing and Channel Island TV industry blog. Calendarlive.com, part of the latimes.com family of sites, offers a range of feature coverage, film and TV reviews, and Southern California’s most comprehensive event listings. The Envelope, launched in 2005, is the entertainment industry insiders’ destination for comprehensive awards coverage.
Consenda is a media software company that has developed a software system for the recommendation and delivery of online content. Licensed exclusively to online media companies, the NewsPoint platform enables the desktop delivery of RSS-formatted content and is exclusively focused on the needs of commercial publishers and the mass audience. With business operations in Switzerland and New York, Consenda provides the bridge between online content aggregation technologies and the media companies that are most challenged by the existence of these technologies. The company’s mission is to help commercial publishers develop practical and effective media strategies to monetize their content aggregation initiatives. For more information, visit www.consenda.com.


Since time immemorial, inventors and scientists have tried to create things that would make our lives easier. Many of these inventions have become common items we use these days.
While there have been a lot of failed inventions, there are also ‘failed’ inventions that became accidental discoveries! A number of these have actually changed the world.
In the early days of automobiles, ordinary glass was used on windshields but that had obvious dangers during accidents.
French chemist Édouard Bénédictus accidentally discovered safety glass now being used in vehicles. He was doing on an experiment using liquid plastic known as plastic cellulose nitrate. The liquid had evaporated from a flask, creating a thin film inside.
When Bénédictus accidentally knocked the flask off his desk, he was surprised when it did not shatter. The ‘eureka’ moment led to Bénédictus filing the first patent for safety glass.
In 1942, Eastman-Kodak Laboratories researcher Dr. Harry Coover felt frustrated over the substance he tried to create for a new precision gun sight he was planning to build. He created cyanoacrylate but the material just stuck to everything it touched.
The frustrated inventor abandoned the material.
Six years later, Coover was working on a design for airplane canopies when he was stuck with the same material, cyanoacrylate. This time, however, he realized its potential when he noticed that though it was useless in his previous experiments, it actually formed amazingly strong bonds to everything it touched.
He applied for a patent and by 1958, the material hit the shelves as super glue!
Wilson Greatbatch, an assistant professor at the University of Buffalo, was working on a gadget would record human heartbeat. He picked up the wrong resistor, however; this resulted in the gadget making a signal that sounded for 1.8ms before resting for 1s – just like a regular heartbeat!
Though at first he thought the experiment was a failure, the ‘failed’ gadget paved the way to the creation of the pacemaker.
Before Greatbatch’s accidental invention, pacemakers were the size of televisions and were obviously impossible to fit inside the patient’s chest.
While performing routine experiment involving cathode rays in 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen was surprised to see that a fluorescent cardboard located across the room was lighting up. This happened despite the fact that a thick screen was between the cardboard and the cathode emitter.
Deducing that light particles were passing through solid objects, he was able to create a machine that made a brilliant skeletal image of his wife’s hand.
It has become so commonly used that we often take Velcro for granted. But did you know that this useful invention was created after Swiss engineer George de Mestral noticed how burrs tend to attach to his socks and his dog’s fur while they were out on a hunting trip.
He’d end up spending several minutes just taking the burrs out.
Curious as to how the burrs work so well, he examined these under a microscope. After discovering the miniature hooks in the burrs that stuck to fabrics and furs but could still be taken out without doing much damage, he experimented with various materials until he came up with the nylon design.
The material even found a lot of use at NASA.


Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hubs #Video #Displays #Computing
BMOW (Big Mess o’ Wires) has a great article explaining getting high pixel rates through USB-C hubs. We’ve all experienced the hassles of trying to wire up monitors with some combination of HDMI, DisplayPort, Lightning, etc. along with Mac and PC compatibility.
Forget About HDMI
Lesson 1 is to focus on DisplayPort video connections, and forget about HDMI. You’ll never find a USB-C hub that offers better video capabilities through its HDMI port than through its DisplayPort, but you will find hubs that offer better DisplayPort resolution and refresh rates. I strongly suspect most hubs with an HDMI port are actually implemented internally as a DisplayPort, with an integrated DisplayPort to HDMI converter. This is because DisplayPort video can be carried more efficiently on the USB-C connection than HDMI for the same resolution and refresh rate.
The other method of supporting external monitors with zero dedicated lanes is DisplayLink. This technology compresses the video data on the host side, sends it over a USB 3.1 connection as generic data, and reconverts it to video on the other end using a special chip like the DL-6950. Conceptually it’s like a remote desktop connection for sharing your work computer’s screen when you’re logged in from home, except everything happens locally on your desktop.
DisplayLink is nice for squeezing high-resolution video over a lower-bandwidth connection like USB, or for supporting multiple high-res external monitors without Thunderbolt. But if you have any alternative, I think DisplayLink is best avoided.
What are the Options?
Putting all this knowledge together, we can group USB-C hubs into four categories based on how they treat video.
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.


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aliq10 got their new logo design by running a design contest:
Mom Life 24/7 Logo
Check out aliq10's Logo design contest…
We are a small t-shirt company focused on celebrating the love, devotion and effort that comes with being a mom.
Other color requirements
I'd like to explore the following colors: Purples: Imagination, spirituality, royalty and luxury Let designers make suggestions:
It all began with a design brief.
Designers across the globe delivered design magic.
aliq10 collaborated with designers to refine their ideas
99designs has great collaboration tools so you can pinpoint and capture your ideas
And then… they selected a winner!
Along the way, they met lots of talented designers…
We think contests are a super fun way to get design.
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We are a real estate brokerage specializing in high end residential properties and investment properties.
I have a blog that teaches people the ins & outs of affiliate marketing
Automated injector that replaces the standard syringe and existing meat injectors using a patented mechanism of action t
kids golfing clothing line logo that can incorporate Fore/4 in it. eg 4ore ft putt - 4 could inc a golf flag
We are a childrens golf clothing company


This picture was taken in November. Notice the water is at a normal level. In my next post, you can see the same picture and see how high the water is.
These are just grassy fields along the bike path we ride on. You'll notice in my most recent post the flooding that has taken place.
This is part of the bike path and it seems quite provincial.
This is what the Glan river usually looks like.


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10 ways to make money with body painting
Posted On June 30, 2021
Thinking of making a living (or at least a little extra money) doing body painting? Is it possible to make a living doing body painting? Yes, you can make a lot of money as a ‘professional’ body painter, and even children as young as twelve have made a lot of money (like $ 500- $ 400 in an afternoon) doing simple painting techniques like temporary airbrush tattoos at fairs and festivals.
It can be hard to believe that there are so many different ways to make money doing body painting. I know when I first discovered the art of body painting, I thought maybe you could earn some temporary money at a party or fair. But there are many, many more possibilities, as you will see.
Here are just 10 of the ways you could get paid to do body painting:
1. Do body painting at parties. It can be booked for a night or a day and receive an hourly payment or a flat rate for the event.
2. Paint partygoers before they go to a party or event. Themed or festive parties would be a good opportunity for this. Be sure to mention that you could paint their friends’ bodies too!
3. As a professional body painter for the theater. You could do a show at a discount to walk in the door and get some recognition, if you don’t already have a track record.
4. Travel with the circus as your “in-house” makeup artist.
5. Become the official body painter of a dance company. Again, you could work for a low fee or even free to get in the door.
6. Face painting alone opens up several opportunities: parties, festivals, fairs, and special events are possible places for you to set up a store. Just make sure (as with all of these options) that you are using suitable, non-allergenic paints intended for face painting only.
7. Special events such as graduations, celebrations, fundraisers, and reunions.
8. Sports events: painting fans with the colors and symbols of their team has a long tradition.
9. Festivals around the world. There are several festivals specifically for body painting around the world, but there are many more that would be a great place for body painting. Look up the festivals in your area and find out how to become a seller and what their requirements and rules are.
10. Teach others to paint the body. You could run a one-time workshop, give ongoing group classes, or even take a body painting course online (like I’m doing).
Hope this gives you some good ideas on how you could earn money as a body painting artist. Maybe you’ve even thought of some ways that I didn’t include … great! Pick a method, research what you need to do to get started, and go for it!
Here’s a secret clue … since you’re considering one of the possibilities above. Don’t choose what you think would make you more money … choose what you think you would do better and happier. You will always earn more by doing something you love to do, in the long run!


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Ting Guo reviews Jennifer Lin’s Shanghai Faithful
Legendary preacher and religious rebel Watchman Nee is often thought of simply as someone who denounced denominationalism as a sin and advocated a radical separation from Western missions. When viewed through the personal lens of his grand-niece Jennifer Lin, he becomes something very different: a fashionable young man who loved racecars, was a world-traveler, and collected Life Magazine and Reader’s Digest.
Jennifer Lin starts her book with a question: how did the Lin family become Christians? She begins with her great great-grandfather, who worked as a cook for a household of Anglican missionaries in Fuzhou, the affluent capital of Fujian province. Following the defeat of the Qing in the Opium Wars of the mid-19th century, Fuzhou became one of a handful of “treaty ports” where Westerners were given special privileges to trade and prosthelytize. The cook’s son — Lin’s great grandfather — proved particularly bright, and received a modern education that changed his life. He became a doctor, allowing his son, Lin Pu-chi — Lin’s grandfather — to attend St. John’s University in Shanghai. At St. John’s, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic of China who “stirred the hearts of the Chinese people like no one before” spoke to Lin Pu-chi’s class. “The basis of a democratic country is education,” the revolutionary said. “Give unto others what you have received,” Sun exhorted the students. “Let your light shine.”

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