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DENVER (AP) - The Earth's shadow will creep across the moon's surface early Tuesday, slowly eclipsing it and turning it shades of orange and red. The total lunar eclipse, the second this year, will be visible in North and South America, especially in the West. People in the Pacific islands, eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand also will be able to view it if skies are clear.
People in Europe, Africa or the Middle East, who had the best view of the last total lunar eclipse in March, won't see this one because the moon will have set when the eclipse begins at 4:51 a.m. EDT. It will take an hour to reach full eclipse stage.
An eclipse occurs when Earth passes between the sun and the moon, blocking the sun's light. It's rare because the moon is usually either above or below the plane of Earth's orbit.
Since the Earth is bigger than the moon, the process of the Earth's shadow taking a bigger and bigger "bite" out of the moon, totally eclipsing it before the shadow recedes, lasts about 3 1/2 hours, said Doug Duncan, director of the University of Colorado's Fiske Planetarium. The total eclipse phase, in which the moon has an orange or reddish glow, lasts about 1 1/2 hours.
The full eclipse will be visible across the United States, but East Coast viewers will only have about a half-hour to see it before the sun begins to rise and the moon sets. Skywatchers in the West will get the full show.
In eastern Asia, the moon will rise in various stages of eclipse.
During the full eclipse, the moon won't be completely dark because some light still reaches it around the edges of the Earth. The light is refracted as it passes through our atmosphere, scattering blue light - which is why the sky is blue - but sending reddish light onto the moon.
"When someone asks why is it (the moon) red, you can say because the sky is blue," Duncan said. The next total lunar eclipse occurs Feb. 21, 2008, and will be visible from the Americas, Europe and Asia.
| Archive - August 2007 Penetrating The Darkness...Wisdom Of The OwlPosted Aug-31-07 20:16:34 PDT
Penetrating The Darkness For as long as humankind has recognized animals as teachers, wise men and women have recognized traits worthy of respect in both wild and domestic creatures. The cultural and spiritual significance of certain animals transcends geographical boundaries, unifying disparate peoples. Not so the majestic and mysterious owl, which has over many millennia served as the focal point of numerous contradictory beliefs. Though owls have been regarded with awe and fascination, they have also inadvertently served as agents of fear. Since owls are nocturnal, human-owl encounters tended to occur at night and likely when the bird was swooping silently down to earth to grapple with prey. Yet even as some shied away from the owl, calling it an agent of darkness, others recognized the depths of awareness in beautiful owl’s eyes. With their keen eyesight, they can glance into the soul to discern meaning and motive, and they are totems of truth. Unlike our distant forebears, we may never encounter an owl in the wild, but we can nonetheless internalize the wisdom of the owl by attuning ourselves to its most venerable qualities. Fully integrating the medicine of the owl into spiritual existence is a matter of considering how we might open ourselves more fully to the wisdom that can be found in the larger universe. There is indeed darkness both inside the self and outside the self, but like the owl you can transcend it by drawing nourishment from the insights you receive when you penetrate it. What Do You Think? © 2004-07 Daily OM - All Rights Reserved
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No Hard Edges...Creating Space In The BodyPosted Aug-31-07 09:11:26 PDT
No Hard Edges Our minds and bodies are interconnected, and the condition of one affects the condition of the other. This is why meditation is such a powerful tool for healing the body, as powerful as physical therapies. When our minds are cluttered with thoughts, information, and plans, our bodies respond by trying to take action. When the body has a clear directive from the mind, it knows what to do, but a cluttered, unfocused mind creates a confused, tense body. Our muscles tighten up, our breath shortens, and we find ourselves feeling constricted without necessarily knowing why. A meditation teacher pointed out that if you put a cow in a small pen, she acts up and pushes against the boundaries, whereas if you provide her with a large, open space, she will peacefully graze in one spot. In the same way, our thoughts settle down peacefully if we provide them with enough space, and our bodies follow suit. As we see our thoughts come and go, we begin to breathe deeper and more easily, finding that our body is more open to the breath as it relaxes along with the mind. In this way, the space we recognize through meditation creates space in our bodies, allowing for a feeling of lightness and rightness with the world. What Do You Think? © 2004-07 Daily OM - All Rights Reserved
Britney Spears Loaded...Documents Reveal Mega $Cash$Posted Aug-30-07 20:06:44 PDT Updated Aug-30-07 20:21:09 PDT Britney Spears Loaded... Documents Reveal Mega $$ Cash $$ TMZ has obtained documents from the Britney/K-Fed hearing last Monday, where it was revealed the popwreck rakes in an average of $737,868 a month.
K-Fed's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, claims in a declaration filed last Monday that Britney "is clearly the 'monied party' in this case." Kaplan is asking Brit to front $50K for expenses in connection with the custody hearing, claiming his bill will be in excess of $40,000. The documents reveal K-Fed is receiving $20K a month for spousal support but the payments end on November 15. As we first reported last Monday, the documents reveal that the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services is investigating Spears for allegedly neglecting her kids. The allegations -- poor dental hygiene, as well as poor eating and sleeping habits. The portions of the documents relating to DCFS have been totally redacted. The heavily redacted docs include the names of the people who have been or are being subpoenaed in K-Fed's move to grab 70/30 custody -- Alli Sims, Promises Treatment Center, Dr. Betty Wyman (Brit's designated sober companion), Larry Rudolph (Spears' former manager), Daimon Shippen (former bodyguard), Shannon Funk (former assistant) and Christine Hallet (former nanny). __________________________________________________ New Britney Spears Songs?? TMZ has obtained two songs purportedly by Britney Spears. Are they or aren't they?? What do you Think???
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August 2007 Officers Of The Month...Great Job!Posted Aug-30-07 10:13:19 PDT August 2007 Officers Of The Month
Corporal Philip Crosby and Patrolman Christopher Denton of the Fayetteville (AR) Police Department
In the early morning hours of March 21, 2007, an SUV driven by 33-year-old Sean Barnes failed to negotiate a turn and the vehicle struck a culvert on the side of the road. The SUV immediately became airborne and out of control. It finally came to rest approximately 300 feet from the road in an upright position and immediately caught fire. They managed to create an opening large enough to reach in and grab Mr. Barnes. As the hot flames and thick, black smoke licked their faces, both officers managed to extract Mr. Barnes from the SUV, which was now fully engulfed. The officers' heroics also captured nationwide attention, as the rescue was captured by a mobile vehicle recorder mounted on the dash of their patrol vehicle. Click The Link To: Read More About Their Heroic Story & Watch The Officers Save Mr. Barnes
Present In The Progression...Letting Life UnfoldPosted Aug-30-07 09:51:16 PDT
Present In The Progression Our lives are guided by natural rhythms that are particular to each of us and cannot be altered by force of will alone. Life itself is a journey made up of processes and events that manifest before us only to be swept away when time marches on. Whether we envision ourselves creating a career, building a family, or developing the self, we instinctively know when the time has come for us to realize our dreams because all that is involved comes together harmoniously. When the time is right, the passage of destiny cannot be blocked. Yet as desperate as we are to touch these beautiful futures we have imagined, we cannot grow if we are not fully present in the evolutionary experience. The present can be challenging, uncomfortable, and tedious, but life unfolds as it will, and the universe will wait patiently as we make our way into the unknown. There are lessons we can learn during those moments that seem immaterial or insignificant that we cannot learn at any other time. Appreciating these takes patience, however, because human beings tend to focus on the fulfillment of expectations rather than the simple joys of being. Quelling your urge to rush will enable you to witness yourself learning, changing, and becoming stronger. There is so much to see and do in between the events and processes that we deem definitive. If you are patient enough to take pleasure in your existence's unfolding, the journey from one pinnacle to the next will seem to take no time at all. What Do You Think? © 2004-07 Daily OM - All Rights Reserved
Ten Years After...Why Diana Princess Of Wales MatteredPosted Aug-29-07 16:48:52 PDT Ten Years After... Why Diana Princess Of Wales Mattered
Picture Courtsey of MARK LENNIHAN/AP Once upon a time there was a little girl who learned she had been expected to be a boy. So intent were her parents on having a son that she had to wait a week after her birth to receive a name, the Honorable Diana Frances Spencer. Two older sisters and the brother who eventually arrived had royal godparents, but her father and mother picked commoners — rich ones, certainly, but untitled nevertheless — to swear their faith for her at the baptismal font. Her first memory was of plastic, a warm synthetic smell touched off by sunlight on her stroller. She also remembered visits to the churchyard grave of the child her parents conceived just before her, a boy who lived barely 10 hours. Had he survived, she often wondered, would she have existed? Or would her mother, having produced a male heir, have left her husband for another man sooner than she actually did, breaking up the family before Diana could be born? She wished she were her oldest sister, the firstborn, the star of the family: smart, extroverted, unafraid to greet their hated stepmother with an insolent burp. At nine, Diana would bravely declare that she would marry only once — and only for love — and never, never divorce. But even as she said that, she stared out, as she would often do, from beneath her bangs, never quite looking anyone in the eye. For her parents, once in love, were no longer. Once upon another time this little girl would grow up and fall in love and marry a prince and grow so happy for such a splendid moment that the whole world paused to marvel and rejoice with her, falling in love with Diana in love. The sunshine of her shy smile outshone royalty. she became the most famous woman on earth. But she learned quickly that though she had become a princess and borne her husband an heir, she could never truly become his queen. And when she died, suddenly, the day after the 36th anniversary of her christening, the world, still in love, stopped for a very long moment to grieve. Why did so many mourn her so, and why do they mourn her still? Was it because the feats and foibles of British royalty have always been such an integral part of the world's story — and because Diana acted out the latest chapters in Britain's thousand-year-old soap opera with such compelling charisma, with such a facility for manipulation and melodrama? Was it just that: the flawed heroine vanishes, and we are bereft of narrative? Or was it because her unexpected end gave emotional resonance to the profuse and sometimes conflicting details of her intensely scrutinized life, uncovering omens through tragic retrospective, inchoate but nevertheless consoling proofs of destiny and meaning? Or perhaps all of that is not quite the heart of the grieving. Perhaps the mourning was over something simple yet profound, something cosmic yet common... What cannot be denied is that in the beginning there was majesty, that fascinating natural resource of her homeland, a country celebrated by its greatest bard as "this England ... this teeming womb of royal kings, fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth." Still, majesty is a concept that requires re-enchantment every generation or so — and in this time the spell was Diana. Her mother-in-law, the Queen, had once worked the magic. Elizabeth had continued the task thrust upon her father, purging the dynasty of the scandal that had threatened to ruin it, brought on by her irresponsible playboy of an uncle, who shirked duty and gave up the throne for a forbidden marriage. Elizabeth furthered the reconstruction of the Windsors by making the clan work, making it the inspiring exemplar of ideal family life, albeit one adorned with crowns and tiaras. Elizabeth would serve. She would persevere. She would be dutiful. She would obey. And then came Diana, the girl chosen to refresh the line, to bear its heirs, to be the new smiling face of the family. Despite the stately filigree Elizabeth had embroidered onto the Windsor facade, Diana found the dynasty dysfunctional, uncertain of its work, in truth more a firm than a family. Diana tried to serve. she tried to persevere. She tried to be dutiful. But in the end, she would not obey. This disastrous turn of events nevertheless failed to dissipate popular fascination with the British royals. Indeed, it intrigued the world even more. For was this not to be expected of the line that had leavened history with domestic dramas both delicious and dolorous? Henry VIII and his six wives; the rivalry of a Virgin Queen and her all too lusty Scots cousin; the madness of George III and the cupidity of his sons; Victoria and the brood she produced to rival the Hapsburgs, marrying, marrying,marrying all over Europe. Diana's catastrophic dalliance with the Windsors reverberated with history. It seemed as if the marriage and bitter divorce of Charles and Diana were inevitable evolutionary steps in the centuries-long intercourse between the Spencers and the Crown. For not only did the Spencers trace their descent from the same kings the Windsors claimed as ancestors, but in the 17th century alone, four of Diana's forebears were royal mistresses: Charles II was linked to three Spencer women, his brother James II to one. In the 18th century, Georgiana Spencer, the daughter of the first Earl of Spencer, scandalized the country not only with her many infidelities but also with her affair with the Prince of Wales, who may have been the father of one of her children. The same pathetic prince, after being abandoned by Georgiana, would pursue her sister Henrietta, who spurned him amid a comic seduction. In this century, a Prince of Wales again paid court to a Diana forebear: Lady Cynthia Hamilton, who chose instead to become the wife of the seventh Earl of Spencer and thus Diana's grandmother. The prince eventually turned to the American divorcee Wallis Simpson — and had to give up his throne for the woman he loved. What if Lady Cynthia had married the prince? The more cogent question is: Should not her decision have served as warning to her granddaughter to avoid a royal marriage? History and its omens hovered around the marriage of Charles and Diana like uninvited guests bearing ill tidings. Tradition called for a wedding in Westminster Abbey. But Charles did not want to marry in Westminster, preferring St. Paul's Cathedral. He pointed out that a royal marriage had once been celebrated in the old St. Paul's: in the 16th century, Arthur, Prince of Wales, had married his Spanish bride Catherine there. It was an acceptable precedent — but an unfortunate one. Arthur died before the marriage was consummated, and Catherine, a prize because she was the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, was eventually wed to the new English heir, becoming the unhappy first of Henry VIII's six wives. As for Diana, she wanted to avoid Westminster for reasons of personal history: her parents were married there in 1954. At that wedding, the Bishop of Norwich told the couple, "You are making an addition to the hoe life of your country on which, above all others, our national life depends." It turned out to be a blessing without efficacy. Indeed, the opposite was visited upon the Spencers. Diana wanted no part of that unintended curse. And so Charles and Diana were married in St. Paul's — in the end, a futile dodge. The personal history of Diana before the Windsors was, of course, a premonition of the life of Diana the princess. In 1982, the year after the royal wedding, the journalist Penny Junor was almost apologetic about writing the biography of a 20-year-old "who has spent 19 of those years in almost total obscurity." What kind of life could possibly be told? And yet the details she related then possess a fatalistic glow now, hinting at the troubled Diana who would emerge over the next 15 years. While admiring of its subject, Junor's book nevertheless draws attention to Diana's imperfect virtues. "Diana was a compulsive washer," Junor wrote matter-of-factly, before cataloging how, in boarding school, Diana would not let a day go by without bathing, no matter how late it was, sneaking into the bathroom after lights were out even though it was strictly forbidden by the school, which allowed the girls to shower only three times a week. "She also had a compulsion for washing clothes" — and did more washing than any other student at school When she had time to visit her sisters, Diana would do their laundry too. After her marriage, she would write to an ex-nanny saying, "I do get annoyed at not being able to do my washing and general ironing." At nine years old, she was dusting the nursery to keep a less than thorough nanny out of trouble when her father came to check the room. Goodness may explain some of this fastidiousness. But only some. After all, this girl became the woman who admitted to bulimia and a regular program of colonic irrigation. The child Diana, like the adult princess, had a capacity for drama and a penchant to seek comeuppance — locking a hated nanny in a room where she would not be discovered till evening, throwing the underclothes of an au pair onto the roof of the house and watching with glee as the items were rescued. She was an indifferent student: she froze at exams, was terrible at French, even did badly at needlework. But her limitations would serve her well. A penchant for popular culture and romance novels cultivated what many would later praise as her "common touch," her ability to talk to ordinary people about things they cared about. In school she was recognized as a do-gooder and received seldom-awarded prizes for helpfulness. As a teenager, she learned quickly that loving children was not the same as being able to care for them. She took her training as a kindergarten teacher very seriously. She was aware of how things failed to work — even things inspired by love. The infidelities and disappointments that befell her family were proof enough. Her mother lost custody of her children because the court saw fit to punish her for adultery. Her father chose to marry a woman his children detested. Diana knew what it was like to be six years old and unable to explain to her friends why her mother was no longer around, how even her most courageous front could snap in a fit of anger. She knew what it was to be caught crying in secret. But she wanted to get family right. And when, one day, her prince came, she believed she had her opportunity, risked all, stumbled into the very nightmare she had sought to escape — and lost. "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." that declaration comes down to us from the magisterial heights of Tolstoy. But it is a false one. The happy family is a protean myth, shifting shape with the fashion of the times. The reality is that every unhappy family is alike. And, alas, unhappy families abound, trapped in cycles of aspiration and disappointment, of love and loss. The most augustly unhappy family in the world thus becomes a spectacular mirror for us all. That is what is at the heart of our grief: simpler and yet more profound than a fascination with splendor; cosmic and yet as close to us as our parents, our brothers, our sisters, our children. In the ruins of Diana's life, we see the shadows and anxieties of the lives we are trying to build together — as husbands, as wives, as sons, as daughters. We shudder over our sorrow for Diana as if we were caught in paroxysms of self-pity. In embarrassment, we deny. In truth, we recognize. Gerard Manley Hopkins voiced the emotion perfectly: Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed...What heart heard of, ghost guessed ...It is the plight we were born for. It is ourselves we mourn for. Diana's Death: The Investigation Continues - Ten years after, questions still surround the accident that took the princess' life. A history of the aftermath This story was first published in a limited-edition commemorative special issue of TIME in 1998. Source: www.time.com
PowerWheelerChris aka PWGoombah...Whatever!Posted Aug-29-07 10:12:45 PDT Updated Aug-29-07 16:18:54 PDT PowerWheelerChris aka PWGoombah...Whatever! So PWC...You criticize and insult us...Simply because we do not agree with you or your "beliefs"...That is what your ignorant posts have boiled down to... You called all of the comments posted on your last post "unintelligent"...Your thought process is NOT the only right way to think...Here is a famous quote designed especially for you PWC... “Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make, that is so aggravating...But it ain't so...It's the sickening grammar they use” - Mark Twain You are only hurting yourself...Stop being such a closed minded individual...Stop insulting people who are undeserving of your negativity... Here Are The Ignorant Things, That You Said Yesterday... pwgoombah (120) This is what happens when Bush wanted to be the smartest person in his motorcade. An innocent officer dies because the drivers of his motorcade had a lower IQ than Bubblehead! Aug-28-07 12:38:47 PDT pwgoombah (120) This is actually the 2nd time this has happened. It also happened once in HI. Does the feds even rquire the motorcade drivers to have a valid drivers license? Aug-28-07 12:55:12 PDT pwgoombah (120) A death during the line of duty pursing a suspect is a death with honor, weather the cop gets injured or killed by gunshot or in a car chase. When a cop dies from crsihing into a curb - that to me is a empty death. I know it is not a popular opinion but his death has no honor to it - it was a costly misake. So many people can drive a motorcycle without hiting a curb and kill themselves. Aug-28-07 13:03:24 PDT pwgoombah (120) Why wasn't he properly trained to ride that motorcycle? Aug-28-07 13:06:54 PDT pwgoombah (120) What high rate of speed? I had to wait for 30 minutes to cross a bloody street as Bubblhead went by. I yelled at his car I didn't vote for you! They drive slow just to annoy Americans. Did you know at the end of every motorcade is an ambulance? Do you know why? That is how Cheny gets around with Bush - after all he is the brains of the White House. Aug-28-07 13:15:28 PDT pwgoombah (120) police officer Germaine Casey should have shopped eBay If he only searched eBay before he went to work today! Deleted Entry: http://blogs.ebay.com/pwgoombah/entry/police-officer-Germaine-Casey-should-have-shopped-eBay/_W0QQcommentsyncidZ244874016QQidZ244873016 Posted Aug-28-07 13:17:53 PDT pwgoombah (120) Where is your sense of hunor? Aug-28-07 13:21:25 PDT _________________________________________________
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Divine Feminine Force...ShaktiPosted Aug-29-07 08:47:05 PDT
Divine Feminine Force The divine feminine goes by many names in many spiritual traditions, but at the heart of nearly all of these, Shakti can found. Hinduism specifically recognized the dynamic and potent feminine power that exists in all beings and deified it in the form of a goddess. Shakti, however, is not merely a single deity, playing a single role in the lives of humankind. Rather, she represents the fundamental creative force that is the root of all creation in the universe. In art, Shakti has taken on the outward appearance of many goddesses, but her anthropomorphized form is far less significant than the essential form she takes within each of us. Shakti's presence in our lives can be experienced in a deep and personal way, but we must first reach out to her so that we can draw upon the vital animating energy that is her gift to us. There is no one motive that drives all beings to expend effort in the act of creation, which is precisely why Shakti can be the embodiment of power that is both constructive and destructive. Giving substance to inspiration helps to restore balance—sometimes by breaking matter or ideas down into their base components and sometimes by building them up into an object never before seen in the world. Shakti energy is intense yet multifaceted. It is simultaneously subtly illuminating and darkly fierce. There is a temptation among those touching the Shakti within themselves to ignore those elements of this powerful force that do not suit them. But to disregard this energy is to reject the fact that the elements of existence that are the most transformative and life-affirming are often those that are intensely challenging. If our aim is to become consciously balanced, we must accept the Shakti within as a unified whole rather than an amalgamation of isolated qualities. Shakti exists in all thought, feeling, and matter, which means that you need only act upon your creative impulses to connect with the feminine power that has been a part of you since the universe's conception. What Do You Think? © 2004-07 Daily OM - All Rights Reserved
Cop Dies After Crash In Bush Motorcade...So Sad :(Posted Aug-28-07 12:18:31 PDT Updated Aug-29-07 08:50:16 PDT Cop Dies After Crash in Bush Motorcade ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Aug. 28) - A police officer accompanying President Bush's motorcade was involved in a fatal motorcycle crash less than a year after an accident in Hawaii killed another officer accompanying the president. 'I Will Always Be Indebted'
Tina Larkin, The Daily Lobo/AP Rio Rancho, N.M., police officer Germaine Casey, here in 2004 while working for the University of New Mexico, died Monday when his motorcycle crashed as he rode in a motorcade for President Bush. Watch The Video: Cop Dies After Crash In Bush Motorcade - AOL News _________________________________________________ Rio Rancho Officer Germaine Casey, 40, crashed at the Albuquerque airport at a point where a road enters an underground parking garage, said Trish Hoffman, a spokeswoman for the Albuquerque Police Department. He was pronounced dead later Monday at an Albuquerque hospital. Bush called Casey's wife, Lisa, from his limousine on the way to the airport in Seattle to offer condolences, Stanzel said. The president issued a statement saying he was saddened by Casey's death and extraordinarily grateful for his protection. Copyright 2007 Reprinted With Permission Of The Associated Press.
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Recognizing Our Own Greatness...The Greatness In OthersPosted Aug-28-07 07:41:04 PDT
Recognizing Our Own Greatness A person who is said to possess greatness stands apart from others in some way, usually by the size or originality of their vision and their ability to manifest that vision. And yet those who recognize that greatness, whether they display it themselves or not, also have greatness within them; otherwise, they could not see it in another. In many ways, the achievements of one person always belong to many people for we accomplish nothing alone in this world. People who display greatness rely upon others who are able to see as they do, to listen, encourage, and support. Without those people who recognize greatness and move in to support it, even the greatest ideas, works of art, and political movements would remain unborn. We may feel called to dedicate ourselves to their vision, or we may be inspired to follow a path we forge ourselves. Either way, we cannot lose when we recognize that the greatness we see in others belongs also to us. Our recognition of this is a call to action that, if heeded, will inspire others to see in us the greatness they also possess. This creates a chain reaction of greatness unfolding itself endlessly into the future. What Do You Think? © 2004-07 Daily OM - All Rights Reserved
eBay's Newsletter Advice Ticks Off Sellers...Again!Posted Aug-27-07 18:42:40 PDT Updated Aug-27-07 18:44:39 PDT eBay's Newsletter Advice Ticks off Sellers...Duh!
eBay has stirred up criticism with the latest issue of its newsletter for PowerSellers called PowerUp. The newsletter contained an article, "Sourcing for Profitability," which includes a tip called "Returns mean low risk." "When sourcing at retail, check the return policy before you buy. If items are returnable, you can always return the inventory if you find it doesn't sell at a good profit." Karen Dudnikov of Tabberone.com poked fun at eBay over the newsletter's advice in a parody article entitled, "Ebay Tells Sellers To Cheat Stores To Sell Merchandise On eBay!" The article states, "Retail stores are not in the business of consigning merchandise to eBay sellers." (http://tinyurl.com/ywl9up) Chris Dawson of the Tamebay blog also wrote about eBay's advice on retail returns, stating, "I'm not sure just why eBay would give this advice in the current climate of retailers scrutinising eBay." (http://tinyurl.com/2z7ydd) _________________________________________________ eBay Gives Some Sellers Deadbeat Protection Some Of The Time (Yeah Right!) eBay is trying to nudge sellers into using PayPal and get them to set "reasonable" shipping fees by offering them protection from deadbeat buyers. eBay said the Unpaid Item Protection Program is intended to give eligible PowerSellers extra protection when buyers don't pay. Currently, all sellers are refunded their Final Value Fees when they close an Unpaid Item dispute, and they also get an Insertion Fee credit if they re-list and sell the item the second time. Now, for listings starting August 1st through the remainder of 2007, eligible PowerSellers will also receive a refund for their listing Feature Fees when their listing meets the following conditions:
Please See eBay's Announcement For Details : www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200708011237402.html Sources: Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 1608 - August 27, 2007 - ISSN 1539-5065 and Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 1591 - August 02, 2007 - ISSN 1539-5065. Located @ www.auctionbytes.com
Translating Our Feelings...Are You Excited Or Scared?Posted Aug-27-07 13:03:02 PDT Updated Aug-27-07 13:03:45 PDT
Translating Our Feelings When new challenges and opportunities show up in our lives, we may diagnose ourselves as feeling scared when what we really feel is excited. Often we have not been taught how to welcome the thrill of a new opportunity, and so we opt to back off, indulging our anxiety instead of awakening our courage. One way to inspire ourselves to embrace the opportunities that come our way is to look more deeply into our feelings and see that butterflies in our stomach or a rapidly beating heart are not necessarily a sign that we are afraid. Those very same feelings can be translated as excitement, curiosity, passion, and even love. The more we cultivate our ability to move forward instead of backing off, the more we trust ourselves to be able to handle the new opportunity, whether it’s a new job, an exciting move, or a relationship. When we feel our fear, we can remind ourselves that maybe we are actually just excited. We can assure ourselves that this opportunity has come our way because we are meant to take it. I am excited to have the opportunity to do something I have never done before. As we do this, we will feel our energy shift from fear, which paralyzes, to excitement, which empowers us to direct all that energy in the service of moving forward, growing, and learning. What Do You Think? © 2004-07 Daily OM - All Rights Reserved
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Experiencing Nature By Night In the height of summertime's heat, we drift outdoors at dusk to refresh ourselves in the temperate air of evening. Cricket song and the glow of fireflies come together with ever-lengthening shadows to create a natural symphony of overlapping sensations that invigorate the body and gladden the soul. As the sun sets, the vivid colors of most flowers and leaves fade, becoming a dull grey, but moon gardens provide us with a space to appreciate Mother Nature's bounty long after the light of day has retreated. Designed to be enjoyed from dusk until the coming of the darkness, these gardens serve as a perfect complement to silvery moonlight, mild summer nights, and the spirit of rejuvenation. While creating a moon garden, remember to take each human sense into account. We appreciate the ghostly beauty of nighttime nature best when we can sit comfortably until our eyes have adjusted to the surrounding darkness. Bamboo and thick grasses make a comforting sound when bandied about by gentle nighttime breezes. In a moon garden, relaxation is a simple matter of attuning yourself to the stillness of evening and seeing, for the first time, the myriad shades of beauty that can be found in the darkness. What Do You Think? © 2004-07 Daily OM - All Rights Reserved
Total Lunar Eclipse To Occur On Tuesday...Posted Aug-26-07 09:16:36 PDT Updated Aug-26-07 09:24:12 PDT Total Lunar Eclipse To Occur On Tuesday...
Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe...WOW!Posted Aug-25-07 23:27:47 PDT Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe (Aug. 24) - Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's a giant expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.
Pictures Courtesy of NASA/AP Galaxies in deep space are captured in a photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005. Scient |