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Need ideas/donations for my awesome charity

jeephawk
middleofnowhere said:
If you boil it down, it sounds like he will provide the service but wants to be paid. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays my wife goes to the food bank, loads up her truck and distributions food to a number of families.

She doesn't ask to be paid. At the food bank they are all volunteers. Most of the food comes from Publix, Costco, Walmart and a few others. No one is getting paid. They do it because they want to.

Many years ago I got involved in a homeless feeding program. After a while I came to discover the money we were donating, I was giving $400.00 a month, was mostly being pocketed by the Priest who was running it. Food he said was being bought was actually donated.
Here's the thing, was he feeding people, yes. But he was also inriching himself.

One on one charity is a good way to help people. You can't help everyone but can make a small difference in the lives of a few. As far as the tattoo thing. It seems like the cost of a 2 inch cover up tattoo is not really that expensive.

Where is the money going that would be donated? It seems to the tattoo artist for his services. That's not charity, it's a revenue stream.
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Volunteers all over this great land do all sorts of things, but it's also the case that many services that are needed are subsidized in some way by charitable contributions - it's not a homogeneous landscape.

You're still making assumptions about what it takes to do this work - you don't know, so why make criticisms out of ignorance of the facts?

It very well may be that the artist (or maybe others as well) would have some expenses defrayed by contributions - the point is filling the gap from what he or others may be willing to simply do as you put it "one on one" and what it takes to reach more affected individuals, which you minimized and frankly marginalized in your previous post. No doubt contributors may want information about how the money is spent - whomever is raising the money would certainly be up front about it, no reason to jump to conclusions because you had a bad experience - you can always find a tale about a charity that didn't do what it should have been doing.

His question is about how to raise money as I see it, not about having people pick apart what he's doing in terms of his motives - not really fair or relevant.
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Left handed chalk - for left eye dominant players

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8onthebreak said:
For those of you who are left eye dominant and play right handed…read on. There is hope.

I’ll start with “WHY”. My Fargo rating has dropped from 603 to 587 in the past year despite my exhaustive increase in practicing. I recently met with an eye doctor and explained that the balls look dark and blurry at the other end of the table. I said I want to be able to see like a could 30 years ago. After checking everything out, he said, it’s not your eyes.
So I started researching “AIMING” Thinking it has to be an aiming problem. I landed on the topic of eye dominance which led me to “center vision” topic, and I realized that I am left eye dominant and I play right handed…so I suspected that I was not putting my eyes over the cue correctly.

Now that I have corrected my stance, I can see the balls clear and I now have “tone” when I’m down on a shot. It’s a lock. I’m back! Haven’t had that in years.

The problem: I find that it’s very awkward to get my head over the cue correctly, it feels like I have to stretch my neck uncomfortably to get my head across the cue, and I can feel it pulling on muscles in my neck and on my right side of my abdomen. I see why I “default” to bad posture/head eye alignment because it’s so uncomfortable to get in correct position. I can see that I’m going to have to make conscious effort to check myself on every shot that I’m in alignment…so I needed to somehow work it into my pre-shot routine to try to remind myself, so I have named the chalk “left handed chalk”.

Now, before every shot, I grab some left handed chalk, and the chalk reminds me of my need for alignment, this also means that I now chalk before EVERY shot. WIN-WIN.

I feel like being left eye dominant and playing right handed is a disadvantage, It’s an un-natural posture. I haven’t had “tone” on cut shots it seems, for years. It feels great to be able to see the balls again. If this can help someone struggling with the same thing, then it was worth posting. Just grab you some left-handed chalk and it’s a lock!

Credit to AZ community for threads helping me find “center vision” …something I didn’t even know existed!
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I once read they being left eye dominant and right handed was an advantage. Especially in hitting a baseball. Seems it would be an advantage in pool as well.
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Tim Padgett sneaky Pete price check

Jimmy_Betmore
If I had this and was trying to sell it, assuming it's super straight and there are no noticeable dings in the finish or shaft, I'd probably price it around $300 to gauge interest. If it sells immediately, great. If I have to entertain offers, so be it.

For the "it's just a Dufferin" crowd. It's a Dufferin donor/blank that's had a butt cap, a joint collar, a shaft collar, a pin, and an upgraded shaft added to it. People would be tripping over one another to buy that cue for $300 if Dennis Searing had so much as breathed on it.
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Another ball spotter idea but with a twist

nataddrho
I’m still mentally drained and I don’t want to start another project yet. But I thought of a unique case that comes up when I am practicing.

I have a carom table and play 3C and 1C usually. I should be doing drills with sticker dots, but a lot of times I just play to relax and still learn a lot from trying to make points in an open format. If I miss a shot I like to move the balls back to where they were and try again. My memory is pretty good so I can get close but not precisely.

I thought it would be a neat idea to combine a small camera with a laser pointer display, so that it automatically places laser dots EXACTLY where the three balls were, all hands free. Like a “mulligan”. The software would analyze the previous shot frames and match them to table locations with the laser dots using stepper motors or a galvo motor setup. You would mount it on the ceiling or on a tripod.

I think this is unnecessary but then again sometimes I get very close to a point and I want to try the shot again exactly and I can’t set it up the same way. And I can’t tell if the idea has any value.

If you think it could be worthy of a prototype let me know your comments and I can finish designing it in my head. I am thinking of a way to make it cheaper than a LED projector system.
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Need ideas/donations for my awesome charity

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jeephawk said:
Whoa there.

Just could be there are a lot more individuals affected by this than you seem to assume and no, simply providing a free service to anyone as a small business isn't automatically any kind of write off, and this wouldn't be, absent the IRS allowing tax deductibility for a nonprofit. Kind of an uninformed comment. There isn't an unlimited amount of time in a week to try and make a living at what someone does they can simply provide a lot of time, incur a lot of costs for charitable causes, regardless of you telling them they should.

He said he is connected with a group and if you look it up they provide all sorts of services including help with employment or reintegration and so forth as necessary. This gentleman is offering a needed service within the context of what he knows how to do and his area of expertise.
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If you boil it down, it sounds like he will provide the service but wants to be paid. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays my wife goes to the food bank, loads up her truck and distributions food to a number of families.

She doesn't ask to be paid. At the food bank they are all volunteers. Most of the food comes from Publix, Costco, Walmart and a few others. No one is getting paid. They do it because they want to.

Many years ago I got involved in a homeless feeding program. After a while I came to discover the money we were donating, I was giving $400.00 a month, was mostly being pocketed by the Priest who was running it. Food he said was being bought was actually donated.
Here's the thing, was he feeding people, yes. But he was also inriching himself.

One on one charity is a good way to help people. You can't help everyone but can make a small difference in the lives of a few. As far as the tattoo thing. It seems like the cost of a 2 inch cover up tattoo is not really that expensive.

Where is the money going that would be donated? It seems to the tattoo artist for his services. That's not charity, it's a revenue stream.
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Review of the O.B. Spotter, The ULTIMATE Billiard Practice Machine.

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There are devices like this to place a golf ball on the rubber tee at driving ranges. You dump your basket of balls in the hopper, and they feed individually to an arm like the one pictured, and when you lower that arm with your club, the ball rolls down the ramp to the hole, which positions it on the tee. They're kinda cool, but I prefer having to set up each drive (or tee shot) individually.

Is there a YouTube clip showing the OP's machine?
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From "aim by feel" to "aim at a point"

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heater451 said:
That is what I was referring to, without listing them. Plus, once I start thinking about cuts outside of the 1/2-ball, then I also start questioning whether the contact/impact point is still an aim point--but the aim/shot line is parallel to the centerline of the cue ball, which then leads to the "equal distance"/"overlap" aiming systems....even typing this reply out has my head running!
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if i asked you to hit the edge of a silver dollar that was over hanging the rail nose edge
you would aim it in a way so the cue ball contact point would hit the silver dollar
so you are aiming to make the contact points collide
not focusing specifically on the thru the center of the cue ball aim line
i hope i explained that ok
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Custom and High End Cues on the Decline?

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i have not read most of the replies
but i too think the number of people who appreciate a fine custom cue is among the older generation who's days are numbered
the younger generation see the current pro's using production cues for the most part
only natural for them to want to emulate that
i sold off my collection several years ago and have no regrets
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Left handed chalk - for left eye dominant players

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For those of you who are left eye dominant and play right handed…read on. There is hope.

I’ll start with “WHY”. My Fargo rating has dropped from 603 to 587 in the past year despite my exhaustive increase in practicing. I recently met with an eye doctor and explained that the balls look dark and blurry at the other end of the table. I said I want to be able to see like a could 30 years ago. After checking everything out, he said, it’s not your eyes.
So I started researching “AIMING” Thinking it has to be an aiming problem. I landed on the topic of eye dominance which led me to “center vision” topic, and I realized that I am left eye dominant and I play right handed…so I suspected that I was not putting my eyes over the cue correctly.

Now that I have corrected my stance, I can see the balls clear and I now have “tone” when I’m down on a shot. It’s a lock. I’m back! Haven’t had that in years.

The problem: I find that it’s very awkward to get my head over the cue correctly, it feels like I have to stretch my neck uncomfortably to get my head across the cue, and I can feel it pulling on muscles in my neck and on my right side of my abdomen. I see why I “default” to bad posture/head eye alignment because it’s so uncomfortable to get in correct position. I can see that I’m going to have to make conscious effort to check myself on every shot that I’m in alignment…so I needed to somehow work it into my pre-shot routine to try to remind myself, so I have named the chalk “left handed chalk”.

Now, before every shot, I grab some left handed chalk, and the chalk reminds me of my need for alignment, this also means that I now chalk before EVERY shot. WIN-WIN.

I feel like being left eye dominant and playing right handed is a disadvantage, It’s an un-natural posture. I haven’t had “tone” on cut shots it seems, for years. It feels great to be able to see the balls again. If this can help someone struggling with the same thing, then it was worth posting. Just grab you some left-handed chalk and it’s a lock!

Credit to AZ community for threads helping me find “center vision” …something I didn’t even know existed!
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Dominguez vs Guama race to 50 for 80+ per side

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AZB missed day 1?
10 ball called pocket with very tight pocket table with 2 wonky pockets
Oscar down 8 to 1...wins 11 straight
Finishes day one 25 to 21

Playing for 180 in the middle
This is what pool should be played for....something big

Oscar proving what Oscar does. No nerves, won't miss because of pressure. Can the bottom 3 who are on team USA do this?

On Dunnski Dungeon free live stream. Think they start 6pm EST.

I would not be surprised if Guama got a lead at some point. Still advantage Oscar because he is the better player, plays tighter safes/kicks better on a table that even these guys haven't ran out more than a couple racks.
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