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Is your stuff worth thousands on eBay?
I sold a little plastic baseball guy for a startling sum. Are you sitting on a gold mine?
Bob Feller funded my Roth IRA. Part of it, anyway. One of the items I got from my divorce's community-property split in 2006 was a Hartland Figurine of the Cleveland Indians legend.
I always meant to put it on eBay. The closest I got was taking the box out of a closet and setting it on the couch to remind myself to sell it. That was probably two years ago.
Last month, I finally put the statuette up for online auction -- and it sold for an amount that frankly startled me.
That little piece of molded plastic earned me $1,200. Yes, I said $1,200.
At left is a picture I snapped of ol' Bob to use with the eBay listing. The statuette is extremely rare. It's estimated that only 25 were produced. A Bob Feller Hartland previously sold for $1,875 on eBay, but that one was in a mint-condition box. The one I had wasn't.
Even so . . . Twelve. Hundred. Dollars. I might have gotten even more, but I self-limited by making $1,200 the "buy it now" price. Rookie error.
Extra cash comes in handy
Take a minute to look through your own belongings. Have something you've outgrown, no longer collect or can just plain live without? Somebody else might want it.
Toys and collectibles sell well, but just about anything goes on eBay. Skim through current listings and you'll see auctions of everything from bat guano to bronzed baby shoes.
- Your stuff may not be as valuable as you think; compare it with current and completed listings on eBay.
- Factor in the fees you'll pay to eBay and PayPal, as well as your shipping costs.
- Remember that your item might not sell right away, so decide whether relisting would be worth it.
You probably won't get rich. But the extra cash can be used to pay down debt, build an emergency fund, buy something you need or want, or help pay for a trip.
Selling stuff is also a good way to de-clutter. Not only is one-fifth of this year's Roth IRA now taken care of, I no longer have to share a couch with Bob Feller.
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Before buying or selling anything, do a search and find out they are not the best deal in town; eBay fees (often 15% and more) are added to every cent you are paid. That $1200 dollars mentioned above is more like $1000 and change after you get soaked for listing fees, selling fees, PayPay fees, and shipping fees. Go to their discussion boards, and study what you are up against. Rule of thumb is don't sell anything worth more than what you are willing to loose...
I used to sell on eBay and made money. Sold two Ping golf balls for $220. I liked them because they were colorful. Their color brought me lots of green.
A $2 box of car books I aquired from an estate auction brought me $1500.
Haven't sold for years and am leery of selling again. You have listing fees, selling fees, forced to deal with Paypal that takes a cut and a payment cut from the shipping fee. The seller can't leave anything other than Positive Feedback so a buyer can use feedback extortion as a lever. You know, "give me a few dollars back or I'll give you negative feedback."
Selling on eBay used to be fun..... no longer.
When you sold your figurine Ms. Freedman, I'm sure you noticed that you essentially must use eBay-owned Paypal as your payment processor to sell on eBay. But are you aware that a buyer has up to 45 days to file a claim through Paypal claiming that an item is "significantly not as described"? eBay almost always sides with the buyer, forces the seller to refund, and the buyer is supposed to return the item... but there is nothing stopping them from sending back a damaged item, or even a box of rocks or a brick. So the seller is then out both the item and the money, and to top it off, this buyer could also leave a negative comment on the seller's public feedback profile. The feedback and ratings are used by eBay to determine whether a seller receives a discount on fees, where the seller's items will rank in search results, etc. And sellers are no longer allowed to leave negative feedback for buyers, so you wouldn't even be able to warn others that the "buyer" is a scammer.
As someone previously commented, a good rule of thumb is to never sell something on eBay that you cannot afford to lose. But there are a few other things people should know in order to protect themselves. Paypal sometimes holds sellers' money up to 21 days... new sellers are often subjected to this, as well as people selling in what eBay deems a "high risk" category, or for other reasons they come up with seemingly on a whim (Paypal also earns interest on this held money, incidentally).
One other very important thing... always send packages to buyers using USPS delivery confirmation (or whatever tracking is offered by other carriers). On items selling for more than $250, you must require signature confirmation. Otherwise a buyer can file a claim with Paypal saying they didn't receive their item, and get a full refund.
And for anyone that is looking to make some extra cash selling their unwanted items, there are some promising ecommerce websites springing up on the internet. Just do a Google search for "eBay alternatives".
My master plan right now is to list a few things on other sites, just to get a feel for what else is out there. I'm also selling off most of my inventory and moving away from eBay. Their customer service is a joke.
And, what I've noticed no one talking about. PayPal finally gave in to the government pressure and is reporting your earnings each year. Check the info. You'll be paying taxes on that $1200 next tax season. Fun yet?
eBay does have the most market presence, but at the rate they're driving the company into the ground.....it's not got the presence and clout it used to.
If, after all that, you still want to give it a go, make sure to put "worry" on the list hoping your buyer isn't a con artist, or claims 2 weeks from now they never got the item even if the Delivery Confirmation shows it was delivered.
Good luck with that.
Everyone i scomplaining about the Ebay fees. Well, you have to take into the account all the
exposure you get on ebay. AND...they let you list 50 auction style items for free each month!
If you think you're not makin enough on ebay start the auction with what you want to get for the
item and if it goes up then good for you. At least you got what you think you deserve for it. Hey, ebay has to make money...after all they are our avenue to sell. Take your stuff to a flea market and sell it and see what you get...you practically have to give it away.
Although it has changed over the years and is less attractive and fair to small-medium size sellers than it used to be, I think eBay is still a great place to make a little money selling. That said, I'd like to see some of the eBay alternatives grow and be more like the friendly and fun place to sell eBay used to be.
eBay is great for selling collectibles because there's no other easy way to reach the pool of potential buyers, especially for something you have no clue how to find buyers otherwise.
Sure they have their fees, but so do auction houses (try finding one that will take your item on commissions charged by eBay) and then the audience is usually limited to those who go to the sale or find out about it through the much lower traffic website.
There aren't that many bad-apple buyers as other posters here lead you to believe. In fact I've found the collectibles category to be very clean - buyers usually are bonafide, pay promptly and don't play games with the seller. I suppose there is a lower batting average in other categories.
The best advice given here is seaching ended auctions to find the market value of your item. It may very well not be worth your time. I have a record collection which I have a feeling is not valuable. I have a few other things that I do believe have more potential.
The biggest thing with selling on eBay is *time*. It's very time consuming to do sales there. BTDT. Most people gravely underestimate it. I have a whole shelving unit devoted to stuff I'll eBay *someday*. It's still full! Many of us may be simply better off giving the stuff away after doing some basic market value research.
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With SisterLura's permission, I am posting this to ask all of you to join me in surrounding her with your loving and healing daily prayers and energies. Like all of us, Lura is a firm believer in the miraculous power of prayer and group healing energy.
Since her fall in early January, her condition has worsened and she is in continuous severe pain in her back and all down her left leg. She will be seeing her doctor later this month, who has promised to diligently explore avenues other than back surgery, which Lura really and truly does not want.
And God bless her, through all this miserable pain, she still retains her great sense of humor!
So Lura, dear friend, I continue to send loving and healing energies to provide what you most need right now in healing for your highest good. Feel the warmth of our love surrounding you and may it assist in easing your pain more and more in each moment.
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Of course I join in sending you healing energy and prayers. I had no idea you were still in so much pain and am truly sorry to hear this. You are such a joy to have on this site---please feel better, my friend!!
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Dear Lura I am so sorry to hear of your back problem. My thoughts and prayers are headed your way right now. I had back surgery 20 something years ago and it went so well I was up and walking 4 yrs after surgery. I had the easiest surgery there is L5 removed and I was alot younger. LOL There is so much they can do now besides surgery though. Try and take it easy until you see your Dr. and know all our prayers are for you.
Thank you so much ...
Oh, wow, I'm humbled! Thank you all -- I've been hesitant to bring this up publicly because I hate attention to self and i stupidly & wrongly believed that "I" could handle it myself. What a joke!
For those who don't know, I tripped over a telephone cord in my office on January 2nd and crashed head first into a concrete wall. Landed on my stomach and scrunched my back all up. Cracked 3 ribs ... which HAVE healed nicely ... and have compression fractures on L4 & L5, plus lesser fractures along the whole lumbar area and both hips. Such an innocent accident!! A telephone cord and one mis-step and *BAM!!* thousands of dollars in subsequent health care and God knows how much agony could have been avoided if I'd just picked the cord up off the floor and secured it behind the desk!
I now feel qualified to be the poster child for cell phones.
Anyway, I now admit I need prayers, healing energy, any positive thoughts you all can send my way, PLEASE. I know that this will ease up in time, but I've never experienced paralysis of limbs before -- it's scary. I'm learning so much from this. I even feel that I can understand Sean's (and so many others) struggles better because of my own pain now. I do believe that good DOES come from suffering .... but the journey cannot be made alone.
Thank you all so much for being here for me. It means the world to me.
You are so loved by many here, Lura.
including me...
Be well, my friend.
To borrow your words, "Oh wow." I am soooo sorry about your accident. It must have been a terrible fall, and scary. And now you are in pain with some paralysis. That just will NOT do! You have been so busy cheering everyone else on, I had no idea you were injured. You have kept up quite a brave front.
I am joining with the loving energies here to wish you a speedy recovery. I know it has already been awhile. I wish you had let us know sooner. Anyway, I am sending you love and light and healing energy to get you thru this time. I hope it is the shortest possible. You are such a sweet person. I hate to think of you in any kind of pain.... Get well, dear Lura. Love, C.
Good going Peg! So glad you were able to talk Sister Lura into some group help here!
Being the humble, private person that she is, I suggested this to her a little while ago and she was still just a little too shy about it. But, she has been suffering through this for long enough and I think it is time to bring in the assistance of the great energy workers you have here and the BIG PRAYERS!!
Joining in sending my heartfelt prayers of healing, love and light! xoxo
My dear Sister Lura, at this moment I feel so intwined with your earnest plea of assistance. How you must know where we have been, you have come to now. And the energies mesh in a wonderful display of connection and deliverance, one to another, cojoining in the embrace of our love for one another. May we all be healed within this embrace. How beautiful is that. Your lovely energy always fragrances us on in each day. And today, you will feel our energies surrounding you and giving you the support that you always give to us. You will know that you are supported in your attempts to be the best that you can be. You will feel the energies uplifting you in an amazing display of which you can remark upon as being the most significant that you have ever experienced. This is the day of your knowing that we are all one in accordance with all that we perceive in this day.
Now the gentle rest comes upon us so that we can absorb the blessings that are being bestowed upon us by our "mere" Belief Becomes. Life is indeed good. And it is done.
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As top managers dash around to quench small fires, they risk taking their eye off the ball.
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It's almost impossible to take a bite out of Apple's (AAPL) success right now -- nothing seems able to stop iPhone sales or quench the insatiable demand for the new iPads. That said, there's a lot of nibbling around the edges, and while none of the salvos being fired are likely to do serious damage to the Apple brand name or franchise, there is, on the margins, the risk that Apple's management might take their eye off the ball as they dash around trying to quench small fires.
The latest of these is Wednesday's news that the U.S. Justice department has sued Apple and five of the biggest publishing firms in the United States, alleging that they conspired together to drive up the prices of electronic books above what one senior publisher apparently referred to as "the wretched $9.99 price point."
Three of the publishers have already settled the case, no doubt to the jubilation of both avid e-book buyers and Amazon (AMZN), whose Kindle sales growth rates have undoubtedly been curbed as e-book prices jumped from $10 to $13 and even $15 and boycott movements were launched. Apple has denied any wrongdoing.
The news gave Amazon's shares a 99-cent boost Wednesday to just under $188, and put an even smaller dent in Apple's stock price, which fell less than half a percentage point to $626. Barnes & Noble (BKS) shares lost far more ground, dropping 1.6% to $11.63. The Nook-maker is likely to be hardest-hit by this apparent victory for archrival Amazon.
Even if the Justice Department makes its case, or prods Apple into a settlement, the penalties are likely to be small on a relative basis, given Apple's fortress-like balance sheet and its mountain of cash.
Similarly, if the profit margin on Apple's sales of e-books to iPad owners falls a few -- or even several -- percentage points, that isn't going to move the dial nearly as much as would a problem in one of its core businesses. When it comes to e-books, Apple's goal is certainly to maximize its own revenues, but however unpleasant a forced reduction in those might be, it's not going to threaten the company's future earnings prospects dramatically.
The same can likely be said for Apple's efforts to improve conditions for workers in China. Mike Daisey, the monologist who aired his take on Apple's factories on the radio show "This American Life," may have had to confess that he was lying when he claimed to have witnessed abuses such as the use of underage workers. But the truth remains that Apple's main contract manufacturer, Foxconn, isn't as pure as the driven snow when it comes to labor practices.
That's why it pledged to crack down on excessive amounts of worker overtime, to upgrade their housing and hire new workers to ensure that they can meet demand without requiring extreme working conditions. But higher wages for a larger number of Foxconn workers, again, is not going to deliver a major blow to Apple's ability to generate gargantuan earnings and cash flow.
The steady drumbeat of issues does present a larger threat, though. When you're the star of the show -- like Apple unquestionably is these days -- the scrutiny doesn't let up. Apple's managers will have to both deal with these issues and, at the same time, prevent them from growing into serious distractions. At some point something is bound to go wrong. Maybe one of those problems becomes a real threat to Apple's core businesses.
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Kennewick, WA - On Monday, August 27 two members of the Tri-Cities Fever received an award from the Kennewick School District (KSD). All IFL First Team defensive back, Lionell Singleton and linebacker Brandon Wilson were presented with the Kennewick School District Outstanding Partner of the Year award.
This award is given to an individual who has shown dedication to the students and staff of the Kennewick School District through work, volunteerism, contributions, or other means while maintaining a good rapport with staff, students and parents.
Their award was given as a result of the program that they developed at Eastgate Elementary School called The Next Level of Academics and Athletics.
Lorraine Cooper, KSD Director of Communications and Public Relations, is quoted in her presentation as saying "The concept was simple: Have Eastgate's latchkey kids come to the school's gym right after school and provide them tutoring and mentoring. Students would have a safe place to go for help with homework as well as be active and gain skills in athletics. For a nominal charge of just one dollar per week, their after school mentorship program was offered on three afternoons each week. As the program gained in popularity, Lionell and Brandon recruited volunteers from their football team and the Cathedral of Joy church to help out as the program grew."
"The students love it and them. A case in point, one day Lionell and Brandon thought it would be fun to visit the school during recess. Little did they realize how attached the kids had become to them. Because walking out onto the playground, the kids literally did attach themselves to them. They quickly found out what any playground para-ed could tell you. Moving with 50 or more kids surrounding you is WAY more difficult than cutting through a few 250 pound linebackers!"
"Brandon and Lionell's partnership with Eastgate now extends to its families as well. They have helped, along with members of the Cathedral of Joy, to initiate a home makeover program for Eastgate families and they've given away hundreds of TC Fever tickets to the kids and their families to attend the games."
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propaedeuticSyllabification: pro·pae·deu·tic
Pronunciation: /ˌprōpēˈd(y)o͞odik /
(Of an area of study) serving as a preliminary instruction or as an introduction to further study.
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- His lectures and then his writings became highly significant propaedeutic resources, and many of his collections were taken up by the University botanical garden and then later by the Fitzwilliam Museum.
- In this example, primarily for propaedeutic reasons, Fergie's performance is problematised.
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An introduction to a subject or area of study.
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- Logic, sometimes called philosophia rationales, forms the introduction or propaedeutic to both.
- This support of the fabrication of the transcendent in its different modes, all of which, according to Diotima, come under the same propaedeutic: love of beauty.
- His reading thus provides us with a propaedeutic to the memorial potential of art after Auschwitz.
late 18th century: from pro-2 'before' + Greek paideutikos 'of or for teaching', suggested by Greek propaideuein 'teach beforehand'.
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The William J. Mottola Athletics Hall of Fame at Maine Maritime will introduce the 2012 class of inductees at a ceremony September 29 in the Delano Auditorium. This year's inductees include football alumni Steve Tardif, from the graduating class of 2000, and women's basketball alumni Alyssa Burns, Michelle Gott, and Julia Knights, all from the graduating class of 2007.
Tardif had an extremely successful football career at the academy. He still holds fourteen records at the school including most career rushing yards (6,099), most rushing yards in a single game (352), and most career all-purpose yards (7,968). He has also been honored as a two-time Hewlett-Packard All American and four-time first team All-New England Football Conference selection.
"Football had always been part of my life from a young man," said Tardif. "MMA gave me the opportunity to get a great education along with being able to continue to play football at the college level."
Since graduating from MMA, Tardif has traveled the world working as a Lead Field Engineer for General Electric. During his travels he met his wife in Russia and currently lives with her and her daughter in Saco, Maine.
"Being honored as one of the great football players at MMA along with all the other inductees would only cap my great experience at MMA," said Tardif.
Michelle Gott, Julia Knights, and Alyssa Burns were teammates on the Mariner's Women's Basketball team, coached by Craig Dagan.
"It was honestly a great honor," said Dagan, "you couldn't ask for three better women to coach."
"They helped transcend women's sports around here," Dagan added, "they helped bring women's basketball in to the lime light… they made it cool to be a woman at MMA."
Michelle Miles (Gott) is the owner of sixteen MMA women's basketball records. She is the program's all-time points leader (1,600) and holds most of the program's three-point records. Miles was named to the North Atlantic Conference first team three times and the seconds team once. She went to the NAC All-Tournament three times and was voted the tournament's Most Valuable Player once.
"Shelly's tough," said Dagan, MMA's Woman's Basketball Coach, "she was our enforcer. She was tough; no one messed with her on the court."
Since graduation, Miles has worked for her family owned business, Gott's Disposal, is a real estate broker for Margo Stanley Real Estate and owns Miles Motorsports and Miles Lawn Care with her husband Ricky. She has two children, Cooper and Bentley.
Miles attributes much of her success since leaving MMA to her coaches and teammates.
"The coaches and the other players in the program definitely helped make me who I am today," said Miles, "we had a great group of people when I played and I couldn't have asked for anything more."
"They were all very supportive in my personal life, school life and basketball life we all spent a lot of time together in four years between traveling, classes, practices and extras it would be hard not to take something away with that I learned a lot from all of them, they helped me be a better listener, team mate, friend and an overall better person," Miles added.
Burns' achievements include being crowned three times as the NAC "Player of the year" and was named to the NAC first team three times, Maine Woman's Basketball Coaches Association second team All-State twice, MWBCA first team All-State once and as a senior was named a WBCA Honorable Mention All American. She stills holds ten Mariner records.
"Alyssa was quiet," said Dagan, "she didn't say much but when the lights came on no one worked harder."
Knights was an extremely successful player for the Mariners. She is the only player for MMA to have ever scored more than 1,000 points and have more than 1,000 rebounds. Her freshman year she was named the NAC "co-Player of the Year." She was selected for the NAC first team three times, the second team once, the MWBCA second team All-State, and was a member of the NAC All-Tournament team four times.
"Julia was our glue, our emotional leader," said Dagan.
When asked about how Gott, Knights, and Burns worked together as a team, coach Dagan complimented their unselfishness and compared them to the likes of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen; "They were our big three."
The induction ceremony for the four alumni is scheduled to be held during homecoming activities in Delano Auditorium at 10:30.


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Lexus struck it big with the Royal Wedding when it was announced that Prince Albert of Monaco would be riding in an LS 600H for the royal affair. The experience must have been exquisite for the Prince because Lexus has created a Landaulet version of the hybrid for him to ride in with his future wife, Miss Charlene Wittstock, during their very own wedding.
The Lexus LS 600h Landaulet will be a one-off coach built limousine equipped with a one-piece transparent polycarbonate roof. This roof took about 2,000 hours to be completed with the help of a French company that specializes in supplying similar components to the aerospace industry, such as helicopter windscreens and fighter jet canopies. The building process was extensive because a honeycomb structure and carbon fiber template was created first to validate the roof's shape and structural integrity and to ensure a perfect fit with tolerances of less than 1mm. Once the design was complete, robotic tools were used to produce the canopy and fit it to the Landaulet in a completely automated process. The final stage of the conversion, re-assembly, and finishing took a team of 10 specialists working with Lexus engineers more than two weeks to complete, to ensure the highest quality levels were achieved. The final product is a roof that is just 57 lbs and is fixed to the body through two intermediary parts which allow for a perfect view in and out of the car.
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16 U.S. Code § 832m - Sale of excess Federal power; fish and wildlife conservation within Federal Columbia River Power System; residential exchange; personnel flexibility
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(a) Definitions
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(1) Administrator
The term "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration.
(3) Excess Federal power
The term "excess Federal power" means such electric power that has become surplus to the firm contractual obligations of the Administrator under section 839c (f) of this title due to either—
(A) any reduction in the quantity of electric power that the Administrator is contractually required to supply under subsections (b) and (d) ofsection 839c of this title, due to the election by customers of the Bonneville Power Administration to purchase electric power from other suppliers, as compared to the quantity of electric power that the Administrator was contractually required to supply as of January 1, 1995; or
(b) Sale of excess Federal power
Notwithstanding section 837a of this title, subsections (a), (b), and (c) ofsection 837b of this title, and section 837f of this title, and section 839f (c) of this title, the Administrator may, as permitted by otherwise applicable law, sell or otherwise dispose of excess Federal power—
(1) outside the Pacific Northwest on a firm basis for a contract term of not to exceed 7 years, if the excess Federal power is first offered for a reasonable period of time and under the same essential rate, terms and conditions to those Pacific Northwest public body, cooperative and investor-owned utilities and those direct service industrial customers identified in subsection (b) or (d)(1)(A) ofsection 839c of this title; and
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(1) [1] Within 180 days of November 13, 1995, the Council shall review and report to Congress regarding the most appropriate governance structure to allow more effective regional control over efforts to conserve and enhance anadromous and resident fish and wildlife within the Federal Columbia River Power System.
(d) Corps of Engineers procurement
The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, acting through the North Pacific Division of the Corps of Engineers, is authorized to place orders for goods and services related to facilities for electric power generation and fish and wildlife mitigation associated with the Federal Columbia River Power System with and through the Administrator using the authorities available to the Administrator.
(e) Residential exchange
Notwithstanding the establishment, confirmation and approval of rates pursuant to section 839e of this title, and notwithstanding the provisions of section 839c (c) of this title, the cost benefits of eligible utilities' total purchase and exchange sales under section 839c (c)(1) of this title shall be $145,000,000 for fiscal year 1997, and the net benefits paid to each eligible electric utility shall be $145,000,000 multiplied by the percentage of the total of such net benefits paid by the Administrator to such utility for fiscal year 1995.
(f) Personnel flexibility
The Administrator may offer employees voluntary separation incentives as deemed necessary which shall not exceed $25,000. Recipients who accept employment with the United States within five years after separation shall repay the entire amount to the Bonneville Power Administration.
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Unless superseded by an Act of Congress, the authority provided by this section is expressly intended to extend beyond the fiscal year.
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Source(Pub. L. 104–46, title V, § 508,Nov. 13, 1995, 109 Stat. 419.)
Section was enacted as part of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1996, and not as part of the Bonneville Project Act of 1937 which comprises this chapter.
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Pub. L. 104–206, title V, § 511,Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3004, as amended by Pub. L. 106–377, § 1(a)(2) [title III], Oct. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 1441, 1441A–76, provided that: "The Administrator may offer employees voluntary separation incentives as deemed necessary which shall not exceed $25,000. Recipients who accept employment with the United States within five years after separation shall repay the entire amount to the Bonneville Power Administration. This authority shall expire January 1, 2003."
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Having been absent for most of the year, here's a little beauty that is the first of many to come to Newgrounds in the near future!
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This is very nice, Hania. :) I've just encountered your music today and I didn't realize you do instrumental score as well as those lovely vocals! I'll definitely have to keep digging through your audio submissions for lovely listens.
2:33 - 2:39 and onward is a really great escalation of the drama in this piece. It's like an additional determination that drives the song forward. Nice work, Hania~
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I walk along the shore... These memories threaten to over take me, as I cry...
Looking back I wish that things had turned out better than before... Please don't leave me...
These tears how I wish that they would show how deep my desire and sorrow is... I can hear that laughter and pain that I caused you...Please don't leave me...
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I came across an interesting post which covers a few interesting aspects of quality, teams, ideas and execution in software development.
Some interesting quotes:
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"If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.
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After working with Scrum for over 3 years I am finally a Certified Scrum Master. This title sounds a lot more important and heavy than it actually is, it basically means I sat through a 2 day course on basic Scrum stuff. It sure doesn't mean everyone who participated is now "certified" to lead a Scrum team successfully IMHO.
Since I am working with Scrum already for 3 years I was familiar with most topics and fortunately it seems we are not doing bad at all. To make the training a bit more valuable for me I would try to get some 1-on-1 time with Mike around the breaks, and ask him about Scrum Alliance related issues and ask his opinion on real life situations related to eBuddy.
When talking about the Scrum Alliance, I asked him if they were going to do something about the certification program. With all due respect, I would not trust our teams to many of the newly added Certified Scrum Masters. He agreed the name was badly chosen back in the day, but that it was legacy now, and they would announce a new name within a few weeks. He did share they were going to change the name of Certified Scrum Practitioner to Certified Scrum Professional. Obviously we ended up talking about Ken leaving the Scrum Alliance and Mike rejoining the Scrum Alliance. It seems Ken wanted to start a new certification program called Certified Scrum Developer (a 5 day course focussing on Scrum and Development practices like TDD, etc.) which could be taught by Ken himself only. Apparently this lead to Ken leaving the Scrum Alliance. I asked him what would happen in Ken with scrum.org and the Scrum Alliance would go their separate ways and he said that that would not make sense and that they were working very hard to keep everyone on board. Mike has had long heated phone calls with Ken in the past weeks but he thought they reached a break through. It seems Microsoft who was very much in favour of the Certified Scrum Developer program, will be working with Ken on this program and they confirmed to Mike that Ken was on board and this could all still be held under the umbrella of the Scrum Alliance. But like I mentioned before this will probably be announced in a few weeks.
I also brought up a few eBuddy specific practical situations, like how best to organize our teams when scaling up, going from 3 to 5 teams, and how to track value added to a product, with an open ended scope opposed to a more or less closed scoped project.
Here are a few new and old ideas I will bring up in a session with the teams to see if they make sense in our case:
October 23rd, 2009
Many people in the web 2.0 business are twitter users. Ok not all of them are very active, but they get the general idea. Let's face it #irc is quite web 1.0 and microblogging seems the perfect way to share information within your organization. So a lot of these companies started using yammer, instead of twitter since they didn't want their sometimes confidential internal communication to end up in the wrong hands.
Today I came across http://status.net an open source microblogging tool. Maybe you already heard about http://identi.ca an alternative to twitter which is based on the StatusNet software (formerly called laconi.ca). This software is open source and can be downloaded here. The software is based on php and mysql and has some dependencies on gd and curl.
In about 30 minutes the site was up and running. The documentation and especially the installation instructions were a bit outdated, so it was pretty much a trial and error thing. I had some issues getting gd and curl enabled for php and I struggled a bit with the fancy urls (e.g. http://status.net/nverdo/all in stead of a url with lots of parameters) required some changes to the AllowOveride attribute in apache. If you want to get an idea what can be configured your best bet is the config.sample.php. This file contains a lot of commented settings which you can experiment with.
So today some of the ebuddy team already started experimenting with our internal twitter like system. The idea is everyone can inform others of events, from a build going to staging or inform people of an issue. We can also integrate it with our continuous integration server (TeamCity) via jabber and our monitoring tools, so together with the 'human' updates everyone can subscribe to the information which is relevant to them. Like twitter it has search capability, and since updates have timestamps, this also provides an event log.
October 23rd, 2009
This is how all mobile device manufacturers should make their mobile OS's available.It was (less than) a 1 minute install to get it up and running. Ok it was easy since I already had VirtualBox, but compared to the nightmare called Maemo (still haven't got it up and running), it was a stroll in my own backyard.
It makes sense for device manufacturers to deliver proper tools for the development community, since they all have app stores they want to monetize. This is one of the reasons I think not many developers will jump on the maemo bandwagon just yet, their SDK right out sucks. Not like any developer would want to have their app in the Nokia OVI store anyway.
October 23rd, 2009
It can't beat the similar Wii vs Playstation ad though
October 21st, 2009
Off course you all remember the movie from the 80′s where the geeks overcome the jocks and take home the cheerleaders. But this then probably perceived as the unthinkable may just have become a reality. The social revolution which has really started to pickup in 2006, brought about many startups which have tried to take their share. But most prominent are quite obviously facebook and twitter.
The CEO's of these companies, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Suckerberg, don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for these guys, but just looking at them, they aren't exactly prototype highschool hunks.
I guess it comes as no surprise that so called nerds who are generally the shy types, not really fond of face to face social interaction, 'invented' other means of communication. The companies from Mark and Jack have changed our every day communication and social interaction in particular, but there are millions of 'nerds' out there (I consider myself one of them) who work for companies in this new communication space, some more successful than others, who keep contributing to the social revolution.
Twitter has probably been the most significant in changing online social interaction. In fact Facebook's homepage was recently changed to resemble a more twitter like stream, instead of their previous Wall format. An interesting concluding fact, twitter only just recently surpassed 5 billion total tweets, which is if you think about it quite minimal for a service which has influenced our online interaction already so much. BTW at my employer ebuddy.com we are not really impressed with 5 billion messages though


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The Dow jumps 175 points and is nearing its 2007 closing high as investors ignore the budget battles and focus on better economic reports. Health care is one of the top sectors this year.
"Sequestration? What's that?" investors seemed to be saying Wednesday.
Stocks surged higher for a second straight day. They recovered all of their losses from Monday, and the Dow Jones industrials ($INDU) closed within about 90 points of their all-time closing high set in 2007.
In fact, the sectors of the market that seem most vulnerable to spending cuts set to go into effect on Friday were among the market's leaders: health care and defense.
Health care is one of the top-performing sectors this year. The Health Select Sector SPDR (XLV) exchange-traded fund is up 8.95% this year, trailing only the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR (XLP) ETF, which is up 9.1%.
The sector's gains came as the Dow finished with a gain of 175 points to 14,075. That's 89 points below its highest close: 14,164.453, set on Oct. 9, 2007. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) was up 19 points to 1,516. It is within 49 points of its 2007 peak. The Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPX) had gained 33 points to 3,162. It's still 10% below its all-time high, set in March 2000.
The Dow has gained 291 points in the last two days, easily recovering all of its 216-point decline on Monday.
Thanks to the rally, the major averages are now higher for February. The Dow is up 1.6%, with the S&P 500 up 1.2% and the Nasdaq up 0.6%. For the first two months of 2013, the Dow is up 7.4%, while the S&P 500 is sporting a 6.3% gain and the Nasdaq is up 4.7%.
Several factors have pushed the market and health-care issues higher:
The Federal Reserve is keeping rates low
The central bank is definitely is not pulling back on its policy of quantitative easing. That's the policy of selling short-term Treasury and mortgage-backed securities to keep long-term interest rates low.
Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the policy forcefully on Tuesday and Wednesday, even as Republican critics decried the policy as hurting the economy and leaving it vulnerable to inflationary pressures.
Sequestration is baked into markets
Investors know that it will be some time before sequestration -- the automatic spending cuts required under the 2011 budget deal -- begin to take a real bite out of the economy.
A month at the least, and maybe longer.
The big action will come as the White House and Congress negotiate over a continuing budget resolution. There's a chance House Republicans will try to force a partial shutdown of the government and possibly a default on U.S. debt.
The economic data have been decent
Pending-home sales jumped in January more than forecast, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors on Wednesday.
That added to data showing a recovering housing sector -- even if the sector is nowhere near at real recovery yet.
Orders for U.S. durable goods, excluding transportation equipment, climbed in January by the most in a year, That fact presumes companies are planning to expand capacity as they look beyond the federal budget impasse.
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A lot of investors are buying into stocks out of fear they've missed the big rally that began in mid-November, says Alec Young, global equity strategist at Standard & Poor's Corp.
But they're a bit wary of going into more volatile sectors, like technology.
Health care works because it's relative stable: Everybody needs it. But Young added that health care is the "growthiest" of the S&P 500's four defensive sectors, which include telecommunications, utilities and consumer staples stocks. Health care includes biotechnology, medical equipment, health insurers, pharmaceutical makers and hospital operators.
The best performers in the 500 health care sector this year are Celgene (CELG), up 28.8%, and Boston Scientific (BSX), up 28.3%.
Wednesday's big gains were probably a big surprise to many investors. Many have been expecting the market to pull back from its recent highs if only the gains in 2013 have come so suddenly. On Feb. 27, 2012, the Dow was up 6.25%. In 2011, the gain for the blue chips was 5.6%.
The typical guess is that market is due a decline of 5% to 7% from current levels.
The rally was broad. Advancers were ahead of decliners 3-to-1 on the New York Stock Exchange and 2-to-1 on the Nasdaq.
But there was one noticeable laggard: Apple (AAPL), down $4.40 to $444.57. The price decline probably is a sign of unhappiness that Apple didn't offer shareholders a bigger dividend or stock buyback plan at Wednesday's annual meeting. The stock is down nearly 37% from its peak in September.
One shareholder at Wednesday's meeting complained to CEO Tim Cook about the stock price decline. "I don't like it either," Cook said. "The board doesn't like it. The management team doesn't like it."
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This market is up stricly on Bernanke, Pending home sales mean just that, pending. When they are actually closed then it counts. A lot of the excess inventory is being bought by investors for rental or Section 8 property. A lot of building starts right now are also investors building apartments because people no longer qualify or can't afford to purchase. The banks aren't loaning because they are taking Bernanke's printed money and pumping up commodities, not loaning it out.
The sequester is just a political game for show, just like gun control and immigration reform. Never mind who is behind the consumer prices going up, unemployment rising and wages stagnating the important things are what the compliciant lapdog news media tells you
Stocks surge because Bendover Bernanke is going to keep giving Wall Street and the Big banks welfare while he trades from the inside. Never mind the middle class is going broke, as long as Bendover keeps giving the Banks and Wall Street money to run up commodities and make a profit who cares.
Between the housing bubble and the speculation that created high gas prices the banks crashed the economy in 2008. It only took them five years to do it again. Obama reappointed him and the Senate confirmed him, its time for the President fire Bernanke and appoint someone else. Of course that won't happen because they all have their hands in the cookie jar.
If you took away the billions of dollars in fake money being pumped into supporting a fully manipulated stock market by Ben Bernanke then the stock market would look like the rest of the fundamentals -- terrible.
JC Penny is going belly up. Sears is going belly up. HP is in terrible shape. JP Morgan is laying off 4,000 people. In housing the numbers are all grossly distorted lies. And we are looking at a sequester in just 72-hours. And the DOW SOARS.
Does anybody see a dis-connect here?
The average American has absolutely no easy access to Ben Bernanke's virtual money -- only the banks and the stock market.The banks get these continuing bailouts for free, while the average American pays interest on free money. The stock market is a complete joke. The average American has been completely cutout from any benefits of the these bailouts. And the DOW SOARS.
Young people take heed! The politicians want to butcher Social Security. It'll be worse for you if the Chained CPI is implemented.
The politicians need to get serious about cutting spending. Relying on income from Social Security to pay for government programs is fraudulent. Cuts to Social Security benefits will increase the amount of money available for the government to spend on more programs that are frivolous and unnecessary.
Social Security does not add to the deficit. There has been an annual surplus every year since the early 1980's. There is almost 3 trillion dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund. The US government does not subsidize this Fund; but it does borrow from this fund. In order to increase the amount of money that the government can borrow from this fund, the government wants to cut benefits for retirees. Calculating cost-of-living increases using a Chained CPI will reduce monthly benefits for current and future Social Security beneficiaries.
Young peoples' future benefits will be more affected by the use of a Chained CPI than current beneficiaries. The Social Security wages accumulated each year are indexed for inflation; so, the total lifelong earnings for a young person will grow slower under a Chained CPI than under the current index. A person in their 20's and 30's will probably lose at least 15%-20% of accumulated wages by the time they are ready to retire.
Don't let the government make drastic cuts to Social Security; only minor changes are necessary to make it more solvent for future generations. Government debt resolution should not be put on the backs of current and future Social Security beneficiaries. The Social Security system is strong and should not be used as a "cash cow" by the US government.
I really have to wonder how much longer we'll have cheap easy access to money.
I'm just a middle class schmuck, but I'm inundated with credit card offers and balance transfer options on existing cards. I get at least 2 or 3 a week. All these offers are basically the same. They ask 3% up front (in the form of a balance transfer fee) in return for a 0% loan for one year. This translates to a 3% loan for one year.
In summary, banks are screaming to lend me money they borrowed at 0% and want to lend me at 3% (I have a decent credit rating because I'm careful with my money).
So, I conclude that the lower the interest rates, the high profit for banks. After all they borrow money at 0% (even your savings account pays 0% !) and get returns ranging from 3% (from me, the schmuck) to as much as 24.99% from those who don't pay their credit card balances off in full each month.
Banks need to do other things with this money borrowed at 0%. Like drive it into the stock market. You can see where this is going.
You can see why the Fed keeps interest rates at 0% for as long as it can.
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Stocks on Wall Street are mixed Thursday, with the Nasdaq in positive territory and the Dow and S&P down slightly.
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By early afternoon Thursday, the Dow was down 19.68, or 0.15%, to 13,055; the Nasdaq was up 10.87, or 0.36%, to 3,079.02; and the S&P 500 was down 1.47, or 0.11%, to 1,397.55.
The averages began the day lower but drifted during the morning hours, with all the major indices turning positive at one point. The market could not gather any upside momentum despite reports on jobs that lent credence to the improving employment story.
With the news flow slowing ahead of the long holiday weekend, investors may remain on the sideline, preferring to make their trades after tomorrow's monthly jobs report can be digested.
Economic events
Domestically, the Challenger Job Cuts report said planned staff reductions were down 8.8% versus the same period one year earlier. About 357,000 initial jobless claims were filed last week, versus the expected 355,000. Continuing jobless claims came in at 3.33 million, versus expectations for 3.35 million. Internationally, a report showed that Britain's factory output fell 1% in February from January and the Bank of England kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.50% and its asset purchase plans steady as well.
Company news
Among companies reporting earnings, advancers included Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) and Schnitzer Steel (SCHN), while Constellation Brands (STZ), A. Schulman (SHLM) and Ruby Tuesday (RT) declined.
Among retailers reporting March same-store sales, TJX (TJX) and Ross Stores (ROST) saw their shares move higher, while Costco's stock fell in spite of comp sales rising 6%.
Major movers
Notable gainers included Allos Therapeutics (ALTH), on news it will be acquired by Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (SPPI) for $1.82 per share plus one Contingent Value Right for an additional payment of 11 cents per share if certain milestones are hit, and Himax Technologies (HIMX), after raising its first-quarter earnings and revenue forecasts.
Noteworthy losers included Polycom (PLCM), after guiding toward first-quarter earnings below consensus expectations, and Parametric Technology (PMTC), following a downgrade at JPMorgan and guidance that also disappointed.
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