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The Complete Guide to Selling on eBay & Scaling to $1,200+ in Monthly Sales with No Current Inventory
I am a passionate eBay reseller. It all began with a passion for entrepreneurship and an obsession with colored glass.
In other words, I've always been a collector with a mind toward selling: setting up lemonade stands and peddling anything I thought would make money around the neighborhood, from pieces of broken colored glass to scenic pictures I had torn from outdated calendars –– wheeling around my little wagon and actually making a few pennies.
But as is the case with so many, my childhood passions didn't' take root in my adult life –– and I ended up at the typical 9-5. I was stuck there –– for years.
Then, 3 years ago, I made a decision to alter the course of my life. I opened up an antique booth in one of the many antique malls in my area –– and, while working my day job, I became a small-time entrepreneur.
But the days were long and hard. After 8 hours as a medical transcriptionist, I transitioned to moving furniture and goods to the booth on weekends and evenings. And little was going to change.
I was making extra cash, but not enough to turn my side project into a full-time focus.
I was running myself ragged trying to work full-time and keep up my booth –– and doing an insane amount of research, too, to keep sales up. That's when I ran across hundreds of articles about online selling –– and seriously began to consider it.
I had no online experience. I didn't know much about the selling world. But I did know one thing: I wanted to be an entrepreneur, and a booth at an antique mall wasn't going to cut it.
So, I set up an eBay shop.
Still working my 9-5 job, I phased out my antique booth inventory –– which went up for sale in my eBay store. After a short few months, I was making enough money to retire early from my day job and concentrate my efforts solely on eBay.
Today, I am retired technically –– but am a profitable eBay seller. I have finally turned my obsession with collection into an online store –– using eBay as my catalyst and continuing to grow month over month.
For others out there looking to start an online store, but with little online selling experience, I recommend eBay as your starting point.
You don't need any current inventory. You don't need any design or online selling skills. What you need is passion, a willingness to learn and a few tried-and-true tips.
Here's how you get started selling on eBay for complete online selling beginners.
Who is Selling on eBay For?
New sellers are always asking, "What sells on eBay?"
A more important consideration should be, "What should I sell on eBay?"
Veteran sellers are always trying to find the best selling products. After all, many of them –– like you may soon be doing –– started their eBay journey by selling things around the house, not really giving much thought as to what will bring the most profit.
While that might be a good way to get your feet wet, that isn't what will turn your eBay store into a real business.
So how do you turn your desire into dollars?
It is important to explore your motivation.
There are many reasons people turn to eBay as a source of income. While some dabble in selling just to get rid of clutter or to make a little extra cash, others may actively pursue eBay as a primary source of income.
Circumstances and motivations differ greatly from individual to individual. If you've lost your job or been hit with unforeseen expenses, your motivation and strategy will be much different than that of an upcoming entrepreneur.
Overall, there are 2 main motivations and circumstances for selling on eBay:
- You may be interested in only pursuing eBay as a hobby and are content to make a few bucks here and there or as a means to supplement your income part-time while remaining in a full-time career that you love.
- Or maybe your entrepreneurial spirit is calling you to break free of the 9-5 scene of working for someone else. Perhaps you are fortunate enough to be able to sell on eBay full-time but not sure what step to take next.
In any case, eBay affords you the opportunity to realize your dreams –– just how far you take your dream is up to you.
The 2 Perspectives to Selling on eBay
There is the entrepreneur who is motivated by making money in a clinical sense, who is content drop-shipping or selling products purchased wholesale.
While this is rewarding, there is another type of entrepreneur who loves the thrill of hunting for treasures to resell.
Both perspectives are valid methods for a profitable and fulfilling enterprise. Whichever attitude you happen to have, the same basic principles for success apply.
An eBay business requires the same serious mindset as it does to open a brick-and-mortar store. After all, you actually own your own business.
Success depends on your commitment to:
- Sound business practices
- Dedication to great customer service
- Self-discipline
- Consistency
- Keeping your passion fresh
While there is tremendous potential for success and financial independence, I should caution you, if your heart's not in it, you could quickly burn out and fail.
What I'm trying to say is eBay isn't just a business venture and certainly not a "get rich quick" proposition. It's a lifestyle.
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What Sells on eBay
Many things sell on eBay –– from vintage pencils to the latest Apple product.
Collectors are more than willing to pay a pretty penny for what is rare and/or desirable and meaningful to them. The latest fashion and technical trends will always be big sellers.
So, where do we start?
I sell a variety of items in my eBay store, but there are those who specialize in a niche and do quite well. That is a choice for you to make.
I personally think it is fun, interesting and more profitable to sell a variety of things. If you limit your inventory, you will need to sell in quantities that make it a worthwhile enterprise.
There is not a simple "one size fits all" answer to the question of what to sell, but we will explore the many factors to consider so you will know where to start.
Your financial situation
If you're strapped for cash, you may not be in a position to just go out to buy a huge inventory for resell. You may need to start slow and see what resources you already have, such as what you have around the house to sell. Or, just ask friends and relatives if they have unwanted clothes or items that they want to get rid of.
Even with limited resources and a slow start, if you are willing to think outside the box and mentally position yourself for success, you can succeed.
Items to sell on eBay with little to no investment:
- Clothes
- Household goods
- Collectibles
- Electronics
Items to sell on eBay with a little investment:
On the other hand, maybe you have money to invest and you are ready to make your mark selling on eBay, and you just want to know what you can buy to make the most money.
Again, this is not one size fits all.
I am assuming, if you are reading this, that you are pursuing eBay as a profitable venture long-term, not just a way to purge your closet. With that premise and being totally foreign to the world of reselling, my advice is to first search out valuable (good-selling) products connected to your interests or area of expertise.
Begin by thinking about your own life –– your interests, your hobbies, your daily activities.
- Are you mechanically inclined?
- Handy around the house?
- Artsy?
- Do you read?
- Do you attend sporting events or engage in sports?
- Love music?
- Are you a good cook?
- What do you enjoy?
You may be asking, what does this have to do with selling on eBay?
Well, if you are passionate about or just knowledgeable about a particular area of interest, this could serve you well and launch your eBay business. We'll dive into why that is here in a bit.
Profit Margins
The more products you have available to sell, the more you will sell, but you will need to decide how much profit margin (money invested on an item versus how much you will pocket after fees) will suit your needs and goals.
A successful profit margin is an individual determination that only you can make for yourself. Inevitably, you will become pickier with your purchases and upgrade strategically, investing more money for greater profit margins.
How you strategize will be determined by your own circumstances and goals. As you become more experienced with brands and profit-making products, you will evolve into a more savvy and discriminate reseller.
How do you become adept at finding a money-maker when you see it? By broadening your knowledge –– and that means RESEARCH and LEARN.
If you have no interest in learning about what sells in the marketplace, the eBay lifestyle may not be the right fit for you. What sells fabulously this year may not next year.
By investing your time researching, you will lessen the risk of walking past a gold mine when you are out sourcing for items to sell on eBay, and you will know what to avoid. Be passionate and open to learning.
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The Best eBay Research Tool for Your Highest Margins
The type of items you sell is as unique as there are individuals selling online.
To get an idea of what types of products are selling, try the eBay research tool I have created: ProductGenie. The tool has a 7-day free trial and is only $8/month after that.
ProductGenie gives you an accurate picture of the brands and types of items that are selling on eBay, culled from eBay's sold items in each category over a relatively short period of time so you can see trends as well as see what is selling now.
Here's a step-by-step guide on how to use the tool for eBay product research.
After logging in to ProductGenie you will be presented with a straightforward left navigation which contains 4 different features:
- Most Recent Sales
- Top Brands
- Fastest Selling
- Keyword Research
Keyword Research
Let's start with Keyword Research to first show you how to find products to sell even if you have no idea where to start.
This feature has a very simple search form. Just type in a product niche you somewhat like or are passionate about.
Let's say, for example, you really enjoying playing and watching tennis. You know a decent enough amount of information about the sport in general and a little about the value of some tennis racquets. Start off searching for a keyword phrase at the highest level to see what type of products are in demand for your product niche –– in this case, tennis.
Go to the Keyword Research page by clicking on the left navigation tab named Keyword Research.
Here's a step-by-step walk-through.
- Once the screen pulls up you will be presented with an input field that asks you to 'Enter Keyword Phrase.'
- Enter the word 'tennis' into the input field (without the quotes) and click the green SEARCH button.
- The search will return a list of the top 25 results in a table with 3 columns: Related Keywords, Monthly Search Volume and Cost per Click (CPC).
- The Related Keywords are all keywords that relate to your search term 'tennis.'
The first thing you will want to do is to look for something I refer to as 'buying keywords' or products people would buy related to a niche. In this example, we have a list of 25 keywords that relate to the search phrase 'tennis'. The buying keywords I see in the list below are 'tennis shoes,' 'tennis racquet,' 'nike tennis shoes,' 'tennis ball.'
Now you can take these buying terms and enter each, one at a time, into the keyword research tool to get more related keywords.
This is not a list of keywords in eBay, but rather an exhaustive list of popular keyword phrases searched on Google. Monthly search volume is an estimate of how many times a keyword phrase was searched for in Google each month. The cost per click is also a fairly accurate estimate of what advertisers pay for a click in Google Advertising for the keyword.
If a keyword phrase has a high CPC, that means it is making someone money, hence the high competition cost.
Here is the list returned from the Keyword Search for 'tennis':
Continue this process until you have all the 'buying keyword phrases' you want related to the desired product niche you have chosen. This is a great way to find potential new products to sell or to find initial products to sell when you are first starting out on eBay.
Pro Tip
Not only will the Keyword Research feature help you find products to sell, but it can also help you discover new 'keywords' to put in your eBay product title and/or description.
If you find a couple of very popular keywords that relate to the item you are going to sell, then that means more users may find your product if you include that extra keyword phrase in your item somewhere.
Be sure to use relevant keywords. Don't try and include a keyword just because they happen to be popular. This may actually hurt your sales by drowning out the main product information.
Most Recent Sales
The Most Recent Sales tab will show you what is currently selling in each eBay category over the past 4 weeks (approximately).
To get the most recently sold items, simply click the SHOW PRODUCTS green button.
In this case, I want to continue with the 'tennis' theme. Here's a step-by-step.
- For the category, select 'Sporting Goods' and type 'tennis' into the Enter Keyword Phrase field. This is shown in Picture 1 below. The Category and Location are the only required fields, but this example shows you how to continue research for products based on a specific niche or keyword.
- Click the SHOW PRODUCTS button and the search returns 5 columns of data: Item, Quantity Sold (based on snapshot of data returned), Price, Listing Type and Sold Date. This is shown in Picture 2 below.
Picture 1: Most Recent Sales form
Picture 2: Most Recent Sales results
In the picture above, you can see that the search results show the most recently sold items that have the word 'tennis' in the title.
This shows what people are buying on eBay over the past few weeks and will give you an idea of products you can sell yourself.
You can also do a general category search in the ProductGenie eBay research tool just to see what is selling in each eBay category over the past few weeks.
Simply go to the Most Recent Sales tab, Select Category and click the SHOW PRODUCTS green button.
This is a great way to get product ideas even when you don't know what to search for.
Fastest Selling Products
This feature shows which products sell the fastest. This is done by taking the snapshot of each day's data and calculating which products are sold the fastest based on when they were listed to the sold date.
The results show 3 columns: Product, Speed of Sale (from the time it was listed to when it sold), Listing Type (auction, fixed price, etc).
Top Brands on eBay
This feature lets you see the top selling brands over a period of a few weeks.
Over time the Top Brands change. You can stay ahead of of the competition here by viewing the top selling eBay brands in each category for actual sold items.
Studying all of this information will give you a snapshot view and understanding of what to sell on eBay best –– as well as help you stay ahead of the competition for upcoming trending products.
You can, of course, jockey between this research tool and eBay as you go further in depth.
Pro Tip
Remember to compare the actual selling price of any one product. It is this price that dictates the market and not asking prices.
Where to Buy Products for Resell
There are 3 different ways to find items to sell on eBay.
- Treasure hunt for them
- Work with wholesalers and dropshippers
- Create your own product
Tactic #1 and #2 are the most used by successful eBay sellers, so those are the ones we'll cover today.
Treasure hunting for your eBay products
Sourcing (finding items to resell) has never been easier than it is today. The U.S., for instance, is a land of abundance and there is no shortage of items for resell.
Because there is such abundance, people are decluttering or replacing what they have daily. If not, there wouldn't be thrift shops galore or flea markets and yard sales and the like.
The products are out there, you just have to make the effort to capitalize on it. Surprisingly, many things sell for good money that you may think are worthless.
There is a buyer for almost everything! Anything from old pencils to high-end shoes are sold on eBay.
Unless you are buying wholesale and/or dropshipping, you will want to know where to source for the best deals. Here are a few questions to ask yourself before you begin:
- Have you ever had a yard sale?
- Have you ever been to one?
- Do you hunt for bargains at the grocery store?
- Are you a treasure hunter?
- Do you like flea markets or antique malls?
- What do you know about auctions?
- Are you a collector and already have knowledge in a niche that could help you find items of value?
If you love hunting for treasures or bargains, you already have a leg up in the world of reselling.
Finding other people's great products
There is plethora of great finds at:
- Yard sales
- Auctions
- Flea markets
- Thrift shops
- Facebook groups
- Offer Up
- Craigslist
- Consignment shops
- Clearance racks at pharmacies or retail stores
- Even dumpsters can be a treasure trove for the more adventurous
Finding products at home (for free!)
Resellers new to eBay often begin with what they have available in their homes –– items they no longer need or want.
Cleaning out your closets, kitchen cabinets, attics and garages can uncover stuff that someone else thinks is amazing and is willing to pay for. Free stuff is the best, don't you think? It's a path to build a clear, legitimate profit from your home. So don't be afraid to ask your family, friends and neighbors for things they want to get rid of.
Products in your area (that no one else has)
Another factor to consider is the availability of particular products in your area of the country. Allow that to serve you well.
You might live in an area of the country where clothes are manufactured or distributed, thereby making those types of items plentiful throughout thrift shops and the like.
I live in a military town where related items are easily found.
College towns likewise will offer items that are commonplace there but will be coveted by buyers without that access. Take advantage of what is around you if there is a market for what you have readily available.
Dropshipping or Wholesale Items
The type of products you are interested in selling will determine how you obtain them.
For example, if you want to sell used tennis racquets, then you may have to get them from places such as Craigslist or apps such as Letgo, 5miles, etc.
You may be able to find a manufacturer that will allow you to sell their product new, but you will need to have a business, as they cannot sell directly to individuals for wholesale/dropship prices.
For my one of my dropshipping businesses I sell futons, and I have partnered with a few dropship-friendly manufacturers. I set up an LLC business just for that.
Dropshipping and buying wholesale are a great way to get products to sell, but there is a lot more involved than reselling used goods. More manufacturers than you would think are willing to work with small companies that dropship their products.
A little note about name brands
Not all brands are created equal, and it might surprise you that not all widely known brands sell for the most profit. There are recognizable brands of clothing that do sell consistently, but not for the kind of money you would expect.
The more you study, the more you will know what sells well and what doesn't. Also, cycles come and go where hot items become so saturated on the selling platforms that they no longer bring top dollar.
As you move through this adventure, you will begin to learn what consistently sells for you. When something sells fast for me, I will look for that item again and again.
5 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid
Even the best of us make mistakes, so don't expect perfection, and don't beat yourself up if and when mistakes happen.
Experience is the greatest teacher, but I have devised a list of potential rookie mistakes to avoid –– just so you'll be prepared!
Buying too much product and getting overwhelmed.
A reseller's greatest pleasure is shopping for treasures, and while it is tempting to go out and buy up a load of merchandise for resell, remember that the listing process takes time and effort too.
It is important to avoid becoming overwhelmed. After the fun part of shopping and sourcing is behind you, now you've got to actually prepare your item, take pictures, research the value if you haven't already, come up with the best title and description, determine the best shipping method, log its location for retrieval and store your item.
Seems a bit daunting when you have piles of items to process. Of course, there is a learning curve, and with experience you come to know what sells for you and what doesn't.
It's just that in the beginning, it is easy to get pulled into the treasure hunting aspect. Although a gung-ho attitude is fine, I would suggest you moderate your impulse to go out and source above your capacity to follow through to completion to avoid early burn-out.
Listening to naysayers.
If your family and friends don't understand or support you in this venture, get connected with positive, like-minded people. With social media today, it is easy to connect with other eBay sellers in your community or even in an online community who will lift you up and who you might be able to network with by exchanging ideas and expertise.
Beware of social media drama, however. Wasting time listening to negativism, complaints, conspiracy theories and getting sucked into a victim mentality is to be avoided.
Not having the proper supplies.
Gather the necessary supplies to aid you with your listings. To create great listings, you will need some or all of the following supplies:
- Camera or phone with camera
- Cheap white and black poster boards or professional backdrops to use for backgrounds in pictures
- A well-lit area in which to take pictures (preferably daylight or good supplemental lighting)
- Shipping boxes
- Poly mailers or envelopes (size dependent on items)
- Shipping tape
- Scissors
- Notebook or computer spreadsheet.
- If you sell clothes, you will need measuring tape for measurements.
- If you sell breakables, you will need bubble wrap and/or other protective fillers.
Another must-have item if you plan to grow your business is a scale to weigh your packages so that you can charge the correct shipping fee. If you are not planning to go full throttle, you will have to be content with paying full post office prices and having them weighed.
Not having a routine.
Good habits make for good results. Make goals that are attainable and sustainable.
Of course, you will need to pace yourself and create a schedule that is feasible to avoid burn-out or paralysis. If you have lost your job or if you have just retired from a job it is especially important to set up a schedule. It is easy to fall into bad habits without structure.
When you are not in the workforce any longer for whatever reason, it is not uncommon to fall into a stagnant or even depressed state, even when the day job stressors are eliminated, or maybe because the stressors are gone.
This newfound time may cause an empty void –– one that must be filled with new goals, and, of course, a workable routine.
Not being patient with yourself.
Don't compare yourself with other sellers, but be willing to learn from others. What makes sense for one eBayer may not work for you. What type of business model you want to have is an individual decision. You will grow your business to the scale for which you set your sights –– but be patient, as it takes time.
16 Tips to Get Started Right, Right Now
Sourcing, listing, shipping, customer service and keeping up with inventory have their own challenges.
Here are a few tips:
- Off load what doesn't sell: It is likely that at some point in time, you will come across an item that just won't sell. It happens! While some things are expected to stay in your inventory for a lengthy time, such as a rare, uncommon, or specialty items waiting for the right customer, some others just need to be taken down and donated or sold in a yard sale. Donations can be used as tax credits.
- Optimize your listing for search: Make sure you title your listing so that potential buyers can find what they are looking for. Do not use superfluous adjectives (such as beautiful), commas, dashes or other punctuation that is not going to be searched for. Try to use all spaces allowed by eBay in your title using only relevant search terms to maximize your chances of being found by anyone searching for your particular item.
- Check your spelling: Listings that have misspelled search terms simply may not be found. Item descriptions should look professional and enticing –– so watch for misspellings within your listing as well.
- Fill in as many Item Specifics as you can: Potential customers looking for specific items will be routed to your listings with those fields completed. Think of these like long-tail keywords on Google.
- Listings must include good photos: If you want your listings to stand out from the rest, great pictures are essential. Having good lighting will show off your item, but another important aspect is capturing the subject matter without background distractions (such as the bathroom toilet or table clutter). Take the time to crop your photos if you must. If feasible, take all 12 photos that eBay offers free.
- Disclose any flaws or issues with an item within the Condition portion of your listing as well as in the Item Description. Failing to do so most likely will result in a return and negative feedback.
- Give great customer service: Keep emotions in check when dealing with disgruntled buyers or sarcastic messages from potential buyers. Successful business owners offer excellent customer service, and you, as an eBay business owner, should adopt the same high standards. When a customer is dissatisfied, be courteous and as helpful as you can be to resolve any issues. There will always be the occasional disgruntled, angry, unhappy person out there who will cross your path. Don't take it personally! Communicate with your buyer to resolve any issues in a professional manner and do your best to rectify any problems. If there is no pleasing the buyer, don't argue, just stop communicating and ask eBay to step in to help resolve issues. Be professional and to the point with eBay, offering the pertinent information, and not whining and complaining about an unreasonable buyer. More than likely you will come out a winner. And if not, just chalk it up a battle lost in the greater war and move on.
- Get acquainted with shipping methods and pricing: The weight and size of an item will determine the correct shipping method. eBay will allow you to compare the rates and methods when it is time to ship, but it is wise to learn beforehand so you can list properly and ship out correctly. You do not want to miscalculate the shipping costs, which can hurt your buyer or you. Keep an updated chart of USPS as well as FedEx shipping rates handy and stay abreast of rate changes, as they inevitably will change.
- Ship on time: This is crucial to maintain good standing with eBay and with your buyers.
- Offer international shipping: A good percentage of sales are international sales and should not be overlooked. eBay offers an easy way to do this through their Global Shipping Program (GSP).
- Ship the correct item: Check items that are going out to make sure you are shipping to the correct person. Shipping mistakes can be prevented by taking the time to organize your workspace and method. Remember, unhappy customer = negative feedback!
- Excellent customer service will guarantee good feedback: Your eBay rating and its subsequent benefits are dependent on getting good feedback from your customers. Many eBay shoppers decide whether to buy from a seller based on the number of positive feedbacks. Remembering to give feedback when you purchase on eBay (and you should) may encourage a seller to return the favor. This is a great way to boost your presence on eBay in the beginning and show potential customers that you have experience.
- Have an inventory system: You may think in the beginning you don't need an organized system for your items, but if you plan on growing your business, it is wise to start out with a workable method to retrieve your items and thus prevent pulling your hair out down the road. You will be glad you did! BigCommerce is one of the only ecommerce platforms to allow for this. You can buy one of their cheapest plans to start out, manage inventory on their backend and push products to eBay through their free Channel Manager. All analytics and sales will be tracked, as well as inventory. This also allows you to easily expand your eBay sales to your own storefront in the future as you grow.
- Know your rights (and the rules!): Intellectual property rights such as trademark, copyright and/or other legal rights are respected by eBay, and known as the Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program. An owner of such a right may inform eBay of an infraction and have your listing removed if indeed there is validity in their claim. eBay will contact you and give you the opportunity to email the owner if you have questions or concerns. Be aware that if too many trademark infractions occur, you will risk having your account suspended. eBay's program helps to protect its buyers and sellers from transactions involving counterfeit or unauthorized items. Familiarize yourself with the companies who participate in this program as outlined on eBay's website. A couple of prohibited terms that come to mind that most of us consider commonplace are "Velcro" and "Onesie." Although items that have Velcro fasteners and one-piece baby clothes and adult PJs are allowed to be sold, the trademarked search terms CANNOT be used in your title.
- Do your research: How do you determine whether or not an item is worth selling and how much to sell it for? Obviously, you want to have as little investment in an item as possible and sell for the highest amount the market will allow. To get a good idea of how to price your item, you will need to do your research. Don't make the mistake of looking at just the items listed for sale. Anyone can place any price on any item, so to get an accurate and realistic amount to price for the item you are researching, you will need to search only those items that actually have sold. You will soon see a range of prices for which you can realistically expect to sell your item. To sell fast, price at the lower end of the previously sold items. If you are willing and able to wait a bit for your item to sell, you can price at the higher end of the spectrum.
- Grow a profitable eBay business: Be willing to do the research and open your mind to the many possibilities for profit. Become knowledgeable about the things that you like to sell first, but don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone to grow and expand as time goes on. Keep your eyes open for good finds and remember to check your list.
4 Steps to On-the-Go eBay Product Research
I enjoy spending a couple of hours a week just researching recently sold brands, then doing further research on a category or one or more brands that I am curious about. Here is how I do it:
- When I'm out sourcing (shopping for items to resell) and I see an item that I think is unusual or for some reason it causes me to take a second look, I will take out my phone and do a quick search for that item (either by brand or by general description).
- Then I can decide whether to purchase this item.
- Often, I just take pictures of items (especially the brand, model number, etc) that I will research later at home and add that to my list for future reference.
- If you are so inclined, you may do further searches on Google or go onto other selling platforms to find comparables, or you can learn from websites that provide history or other interesting and important details and facts about your search.
Valuable information is at your fingertips!
Final Word
I would like to stress how rewarding it can be to actually enjoy selling.
The element of sheer pleasure can be the catalyst of your success –– the impetus that keeps you motivated to do the work, the kind of work that doesn't feel like a job!
If you delight in learning, researching and treasure hunting, you can grow big and thrive in the eBay world. A successful eBay seller is a seller whose interests can be integrated into their business.
From experience, I can say I get super excited about shipping items out to buyers when it is an item that I have a fondness for, and there is nothing more boring to me than shipping out items that I know nothing about and have no interest in.
I know, I know –– it can also be exhilarating when an item sells for a heap of money –– even one you would never buy for yourself. However, it is important to note that shopping for, listing and shipping things that are thrilling and interesting to you has its own rewards.
On the other hand, to grow as an eBay seller, you must be willing to stretch outside your area of expertise, expand your knowledge, hone your skills and be motivated to prosper!
Selling on eBay requires work, but it doesn't have to be a job. Here's to making it your passion!
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Jamie Rees and the Crimson were 2-1-2 against ranked teams in 2010 (Gil Talbot).
The Game
The Harvard men's soccer team makes a trip to Queens, N.Y., for the first road game of the season, as the Crimson visits No. 25 St. John's Friday evening at 8 p.m.
The Crimson, which defeated Northeastern, 1-0, in the season opener Sunday, owns a 1-0 record, while the Red Storm stands at 2-1 this fall.
The Matchup
Friday's game will mark the first time Harvard and St. John's have met on the soccer field.
Follow From Home
Live statistics will be available for Friday night's game. In addition, live video will be available with a subscription.
Harvard Against Ranked Opponents
Prior to the matchup against No. 25 St. John's, the Crimson has yet to play a ranked opponent this season. In 2010, Harvard went 2-1-2 against ranked foes, defeating No. 13 Stanford and No. 18 Penn.
About Harvard
The Crimson outshot Northeastern, 12-9, and was even in corner kicks, 3-3, in the season opener. Brian Rogers scored the game's only goal at 82:51. Co-captain Tim Linden sent in a corner kick from the right side, and Rogers booted the ball into the back of the net, giving the Crimson its first win of the year.
Harms made three saves en route to the shutout, while Jamie Rees paced Harvard with three shots in the contest. Harms now has 17 shutouts in his career, two shy of tying Chris Johnson '06 for the all-time school record.
About St. John's
The Red Storm, which is ranked No. 25 in both the NSCAA and Soccer America polls, boasts a 2-1 record after earning consecutive road wins over No. 8 William & Mary, 3-0, and Boston University, 1-0.
Jack Bennett tallied the game-winning goal in both victories and paces St. John's with two goals and four points. Jimmy Mulligan has assisted on two goals, while Nick Matthews and Adrian L'Esperance have each found the back of the net on one occasion.
Rafael Diaz has started all three contests and is 2-1 with two
clean sheets, a 1.04 goals-against average and a .625 save
percentage. St. John's is outscoring teams, 4-3, outshooting the
opposition, 41-28, and has earned more corner kicks, 12-8.
Home Turf
With the 1-0 victory over Northeastern, Harvard now owns a 2-1 all-time record at the Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium.
Season Openers
Harvard has won four of its last five season openers, having defeated Rhode Island (2007), Stony Brook (2009), Stanford (2010), and now Northeastern (2011).
Up Next
The Crimson returns to Cambridge for back-to-back home games against Rhode Island Sept. 11 and Massachusetts Sept. 16. Harvard will face URI at Ohiri Field, while the game against the Minutemen will be held at the Soldiers Field Soccer/Lacrosse Stadium.


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The newforms-admin branch
This branch aims to integrate Django's admin site with the newforms library. Along the way, we'll take the opportunity to add extra customization hooks to the admin site, in preparation for a complete admin-site refactoring in the future.
We're aiming to get it merged into trunk by Jan. 31, 2007.
How to get the branch
svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/newforms-admin/
See our branch policy for full information on how to use a branch.
In no particular order, here are the goals of this branch. This list may expand as we get more ideas.
- Core goals
- Change the admin site to use newforms instead of automatic manipulators.
- Enable developers to declare custom widgets for particular fields in a model.
- Enable developers to declare custom admin-only validation for a model (i.e., validation logic that is applied only in the admin site, nowhere else).
- "Would be nice, and we're going to try our hardest to get this in" goals
- Give developers extra hooks into the admin-site functionality. (Yes, this is a broad goal. More examples are forthcoming.)
- Integrate some ideas from #2248: Remove
core=True, specify inline models in the model itself rather than in the related model, specify which fields should be displayed inline.
The django.contrib.formtools.preview.FormPreview application (not yet documented, but fully implemented) elegantly allows for fine-grained customization of the application by subclassing. A similar approach would be a great fit for the Django admin site: Write a class that subclasses a base class called
ModelAdmin and specify whichever customizations you need to make -- from the current basic admin options such as
list_display and
search_fields to full-on Python hooks, such as defining arbitrary Python code to run before or after a model object is saved via the admin.
We should keep in mind this future goal as we implement the newforms-admin branch. Although we don't have to implement all of this hooks for the time being, we should ensure this branch's changes are future-compatible with these plans.
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add_stage view function.
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ModelAdmin class instead of a
AdminOptions instance, and remove the
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ChangeList methods/functionality into
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ModelAdmin.add_view to use newforms.
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ModelAdmin.change_view to use newforms.
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class Admin is much more powerful. It doesn't feel like it should live in the model anymore.
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When we went to complain to the person in the Kiosk, we encountered a very belligerent clerk who basically tried to tell us he knew nothing about the price that was on the huge, lighted sign.
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Last week I noticed my right elbow was hurting, kind of like what one might call a "tennis elbow" only I haven't been playing tennis. I was puzzled over what I had done to injure myself. Plenty of times while working on projects I bruise or cut myself and don't even notice until later on. The adrenaline of working I guess.
But usually when I strain something, I know why. Case in point, pulling nails from a bazillion boards using a vise grips. My hands were in traction after that. I knew why.
I just couldn't think of what had caused this. Then it dawned on me... It was the garlic press! I had made garlic olio using a manual garlic press and pressed so much garlic that I gave myself garlic press elbow. Leave it to me to overexert myself cooking dinner.
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Funny. I did something similar recently. I couldn't figure out what I'd done to my left wrist. I thought I might of done something to it lifting weights. Then I figured it out. I'd stuffed a couple hundred envelopes at work and the repetative motion had strained it. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one suffering from odd, random physical injures.
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I got flyer folding back once - hurt like heck, but I felt funny telling people why I was hunched over in pain. . .
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"No work is
insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has
dignity and importance and should be undertaken with
painstaking excellence."
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Happy May Day!
What is May Day, you ask?
Today marks the mid-point between spring and summer,
which is hard to believe since these past few days
have been a little reminiscent of winter. In case
you are wondering, the converse is true six months
from today; November first is the halfway point
between fall and winter.
More importantly, in recent years, May 1 has been
marked as a day to celebrate and campaign for
workers' rights – commonly known as International
Workers' Day, or Labor Day. Over 80 countries
recognize this day with a public holiday.
All of us have been called to a particular vocation,
from teaching, accounting and farming to being a
stay at home parent and banking. Some of us are
nurses and doctors, lawyers and retail workers, food
service and administrative assistants, parenting and
engineers and mechanics. At some point in our lives,
we have all had to work. My first paycheck came from
my elementary school: not for my high marks in the
classroom, but from the summer I spent painting
classrooms and hallways.
I am fortunate enough to have found alignment in my
personal and professional vocations. It is a joy,
privilege, and immense gift to work among you as
Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.
Dorothy Day was right when she said, "You will know
your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You
will know. You will know when it's right."
But on a day like today, when protests and civil
unrest unfolds in countries across the world, I am
mindful of those who struggle not only to find work,
but in pursuit of fair compensation. I am mindful of
those who have lost their jobs and now find it hard
to make ends meet.
Fruit from last year's work in the Presbyterian
garden here in Lincoln, Illinois.
I am also mindful of those who have let their labors control their
lives. I am mindful of those who have forgotten that work is not a
purely private enterprise. The goal of work is not only to enable us
to get ahead; the purpose of work is to enable us to get more human
and to make our world more just.
On a day like today, we as God's people are reminded that we, in all
we do, especially with the particular work in which we are currently
engaged, are called to be co-laborers with God. Our call is not to
be workaholics, priding ourselves on the amount of time spent in the
office or the pile of work we do from the office in our home. No:
work, as a spiritual practice, is participation in God's ongoing
creativity. Work is therefore co-creative. Keeping a home that is
beautiful and ordered and nourishing and artistic is co-creative.
Working in a machine shop that makes gears for tractors is
co-creative. Working in an office that processes loan applications
for people who are themselves trying to make life more humane for
people is co-creative.
Participating with love in the world around us is co-creative.
Essentially, work is commitment to God's service. God the creator
goes on creating through us. Ultimately, a life spent serving God
must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given. This
means that we are unable to "opt out." If we refuse to act, if we
refuse to seek justice and equal opportunities for others, we are
not a neutral party. Instead, we participate in an unjust system
that denies the humanity of others. When what we do becomes more
about personal success at the expense of others, the result is our
own death. What was a privilege becomes a prison, not only for our
own hearts, but for those who can't find work of their own.
So on this May Day, may we not only give thanks for the work to
which we have been called, but also begin to think critically about
the way in which our labor perpetuates or liberates the service of
others. Most importantly, may we in the work we do bring our
communities together with labor to create a just community—a Beloved
In the words of Leslie Knope, "We need to remember what's important
in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't
matter, but work is third."
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Crte a GIF in There's a lot of things you can do with a GIF in , however I'm going to keep this simple and animate some text in a banner ad.
1) Getting Your Files in OrderFirst, open a New document — I set mine to a common banner ad size: 300 by 250 pixels
Note: Before I opened , I prepared a couple of JPG files that will compose the separate frames of the GIF. I made sure they were the same dimensions and put them into a folder together.
Now we can go to File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack. When the "Load Layers" window pops up, click Browse to select & open your files, and then click OK. This should import the files you selected as individual layers in your document. Rrrange the layers into the correct order, if necessary.
2) Open the Animation windowNow go to > Animation (or Window > Timeline if you have CS6).
3) Make your layers into Animation framesMaking sure all your layers are selected, click on the tab in the top right corner of the animation window, and select "Make Frames from Layers." Now all your frames will appr in the Animation window.
4) Edit the duration of your framesGo back to the button in the top right corner of the Animation window and from the drop-down menu click, "Select All Frames".
Now that all your frames are selected you can edit them with consistency. On ch frame is a "0 sec", click on any one of those black arrows and select any length of time on the list or click "Other" to customize your own preferred time lag. For this one, I'm going to set all the frames at 0.5 seconds except for the last one, which I'm going to set at 2 seconds.
5) Decide how many times you want the animation to loopIn the bottom right corner of the Animation Window, click on the "Select Looping Options" button. A drop down menu will appr and let you decide how many times you want to loop your animation. "3 times" is rsonable for typical banner ads. "Forever"… you should probably think more carefully about that; you're trying to attract a target audience, not torture them with an infinite loop of redundant information. Since this is a tutorial, I'm setting my banner ad time to "Forever".
After the animation loops 3 times, it will stop on the last frame in the Animation window, remain there and be a static . Make sure the stationary is the one you want you audience to see after the animation is done; here I want the audience to see the first frame so I selected Frame 1 and clicked the "Duplies Selected Frames" button in the Animation window. Now, drag the new frame you've just crted and make it the last frame in the sequence.
6) Save!Once you're happy with the frame order, timing and loop repetition, you need to click File> Save For Web & Devices. Set the file format to .gif and save!
When it's posted on the web, the animation will play. If you want to see it in action, drag the file into a browser window and revel your masterpiece.
This is a GIF at its most basic but lrning simple skills can eventually ld to more advanced work later! Now, onto making a gif from Flash.
Crte an animated GIF in Flash Flash, as well as , allows you to make animated GIFs — both programs have their pros and cons. Some recent trends indie that Flash is becoming obsolete, but a lot of customers on 99designs still prefer to buy animated Flash banners. That can be problematic because our site doesn't support Flash (except in the handover phase) — as a result designers need to upload GIF files to contests. In this section, I'm going to explain how to Export a Flash file as a .gif file so you can upload it to our contests.
1) Get your files togetherOpen Flash > File > New
Then click on Templates > Advertising > 300×250 Medium Rectangle > OK
Flash has a Pen tool just like Illustrator, so you have the ability to draw characters in Flash and animate them, however for the purposes of this tutorial, we're going to import an existing PNG file and animate it. We are going to work with 2 elements: the background and the fish.
For both files select: File > Import > Import to Library > Open
Both files will pop up in the Library Window; here my PNG file was converted to a symbol (which is the one you'll want to drag into the canvas).
Now that you have the files you want to work with, drag both from the Library window into your canvas and adjust the size and placement as needed — make sure you arrange them on separate layers.
2) Crte your animationNow decide how long you want your animation sequence to be. We've decided on 5 seconds of animation, or 120 frames.
Make sure the background layer is visible for the entire animation by selecting it, then right clicking on the 120 mark in the timeline and selecting "Insert Frame" from the drop-down menu.
Now, select the element you want to animate (the fish), go to the Timeline, right click on a frame at a later point in the timeline, and select "Insert frame" from the resulting drop-down menu.
Drag your element to wherever you want it to go next.
Right click on any frame in between the the two stages, and select "Crte Classic Tween" from the resulting drop-down menu. Play the resulting animation and you will see Mr. Goldfish move smoothly from the starting point to his new position.
Fish die if they stop moving so we're going to make him float up and down a couple more times to make the animation. We'll rept what we just did 2 more times every 30 frames: Right click > Insert frame > Right click > Crte Classic Tween.
If you want to adjust the timing of the stages in your animation, just drag around the black dots at the edges of the frames (a small white square will appr when you've successfully selected one).
Press Enter, or click the "Play" symbol to play your animation.
4) Test and edit your animationClick the Control tab > Test > Test and watch your cinematic masterpiece play in a pop-up window!
5) Export it into GIF formatFile > Publish Settings > Click the GIF checkbox > Change palette type to "Adaptive" > Max Colors "99999″ > Publish
If you simply exported your GIF without adjusting the "Publish Settings" you will end up with an extremely grainy, pixelated GIF. Doing this won't make your GIF super high in terms of resolution but it will improve it a lot. It won't be perfect, but it will be perfectly suitable for submitting to a GIF banner ad contest for purely presentation purposes. If you win, you can upload the actual Flash file to the handover page.
When you access your file on your computer, it will look something like this:
But when it's live online, it'll move like this:
Remember: 99designs' site doesn't support Flash, so submit your entries as GIFs instd.
Flash is a good program when it comes to animating vector shapes, but when it comes to photos and other types of s it doesn't support them quite as well. The GIF format itself only supports 256 colors, therefore you're guaranteed to lose color and resolution whenever you make a GIF.
However with the grt power to crte GIFs, you have an even grter responsibility to use it wisely, and not for making neon-flashing, seizure-inducing eyesores. If you can make GIFs at their most basic level, you're alrdy on your way to more advanced stuff, likemaking GIFs from viral s, or even crting cinemagraphs! The sky will never be the limit for you now because you have the power to literally crte a sky and animate it. ;)


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Vikas Khandelwal and Pankaj Sethi met as classmates nearly 16 years ago at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. As luck would have it, both ended up in Seattle, with Khandelwal joining Microsoft and Sethi working for a period at both Microsoft and Amazon.com. Over the years, the two friends have bounced around a number of ideas, mostly in the areas of e-commerce and home automation.
Now, they've finally settled on their idea. It's called Boxella, a new mobile app that is trying to make it dead simple to track product manuals, warranties and receipts. It's certainly a problem I've experienced, with a special drawer in our house with dozens of manuals for printers, vacuums, TVs, blenders and more. Like PaperKarma, the mobile app junk mail eliminator which we wrote about yesterday, Boxella allows users to snap a photo of a manual, and have it immediately added to their personal product dashboard.
We chatted with the founders, which are launching the app today in the Apple app store, for this installment of Startup Spotlight. Here's more:
Explain what you do so our parents can understand it: "Boxella helps you automatically track all your user manuals, warranties, receipts — any paperwork about the things you own — all in one place. Plus it alerts you about hard-to-track events like product recalls, warranty expirations or price drops on your recent purchases (so that you can get a refund). Our long-term vision is to make Boxella a hub for information and answers about your most valuable possessions — whether it is a question about things you own or the things you want to buy."
Inspiration hit us when: "Recently we had the experience of becoming new parents or homeowners. With each of these events, we realized that the amount of things we now owned suddenly skyrocketed — appliances, strollers, car seats, more electronics, etc. In this stage of life when time and money was most critical for us, we found ourselves shifting through ever-growing paper piles for receipts and instruction manuals. Vikas' wife would block out an hour each weekend just to track the new receipts and scour the net for price drops. In one instance, one of us lost about $200 when we took a Toshiba laptop to the repair shop two days after the warranty had expired — after procrastinating for over a month. Keeping track of these things wasn't rocket science but it was boring as hell, and took a lot of time. As passionate geeks, it struck us that this was the just the perfect technology problem for us to solve."
VC, Angel or Bootstrap: Bootstrap so far. Both of us had savings from several years of work at Microsoft and Amazon, and are lucky to have loving wives supporting us through this. Between the two of us and our part-time developer, we had enough horsepower to develop and market-test the alpha MVP with very little investment. Now that we have pilot-tested our alpha app with real users and have a clear idea of the market we are pursuing, we are beginning to look for seed funding."
Our 'secret sauce' is: "Simplicity of user experience and the large product information database we have assembled in a low-cost and scalable way. Its beautiful to see our users' eyes light up when they see their user manuals, warranties, service phone numbers auto-magically start appearing on their product dashboard and all they did was take a picture!"
The smartest move we've made so far: "The decision by both of us to quit our fantastic fulltime jobs to pursue this dream fulltime. We are having so much fun spending every waking hour thinking about this problem and building our company – we can't imagine being able to do this part-time.
The biggest mistake we've made so far: Targeting too much in the first release. We realized our mistake and re-focused the MVP on a set of core scenarios. As a result, we lost some time which would have helped us launch sooner.
Would you rather have Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg or Bezos in your corner: "Jobs. Our success will be driven by user experience. The essence of our service is that we will make our users' lives easier, give them peace of mind that somebody's got their back on tracking these products. If the user interface is not intuitive and easy enough, then users will never get to discover the tremendous value we deliver over time."
Our world domination strategy starts when: "We launch our version one app for iPhone and iPad today. We are starting small with the modest goals of tracking the products you own. Over time, you will realize that whenever you have a question about a high-value product, there will be no better place than Boxella to look for answers."
Rivals should fear us because: "We take no prisoners – just kidding. Fear us because our wives want to use our app and they have very exacting standards. Because we love what we are doing and are crazy enough to actually believe we will change the world. Because we have deep technical chops and experience needed to build the complex technology behind the simple user interface we present to our users."
We are truly unique because: "We have seen several competitors do piecemeal solutions – some track your warranties, some track your receipts, some help you find manuals, some do price tracking. We feel that they all miss the mark. Consumers really don't want to deal with these different aspects separately, they are looking for peace of mind that it is all taken care of with the least amount of work. Our solution achieves this."
The biggest hurdle we've overcome is: "Finding the right balance between tasks that our core Seattle team should handle and tasks that we could pass on to our offshore team while keeping a fast pace of development across the board."
What's the one piece of advice you'd give to other entrepreneurs just starting out: "This probably applies more to our Seattle based folks, many of whom are toying with the idea of being a part-time entrepreneur. Doing a startup is hard, needs a lot of effort and the odds are already stacked against you. By not giving your full time effort, you will handicap your efforts severely. In our personal experience, building our own product and company has been the most rewarding experience of our lives. Even though this has consumed every waking hour – we can't imagine doing this part time."


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The 2011 AAA Photo Contest is a showcase of anthropology at its best. Of the 93 photos submitted, AAA members selected their favorites in each of the four categories: Practice, People, Place and Process. You can view the top 20 photos in Anthropology News. Here on the AAA blog, we will feature several of the photos in a new blog series, Photo Friday.
Title: Hay un Comprador
Photo Courtesy of Ariela Zycherman
Contest Category: Process
Caption: Tsimane' men construct and load rafts, bi-monthly, to transport and sell plantains. Demand for plantains in the Beni region has impacted the growth of Tsimane' suppliers, as traders now regularly target Tsimane' agriculturalists by sending weekly messages over the radio, traveling up and down the river, and bringing large trucks to the central river port. Tsimane' now spend more time and area cultivating plantains for sale and household consumption. The development of the plantain industry has created a steadier cash flow for Tsimane', who are becoming increasingly more reliant on marketplace commodities as forest resources are depleted and interactions with outsiders are more frequent.
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Jupiter dominates this month's evening skies. It outshines all stars in the sky, so it's easy to find. Face south at dusk and look for the brightest thing there.
Mercury has emerged into the evening sky, and is visible at the beginning of this month. Look low in the southwest at dusk, right over the point of sunset. By mid-month, Mercury is again lost in the Sun's glare; it re-aligns with the sun (is at inferior conjunction) on Dec. 19.
Venus remains a dazzling morning star. Face southeast at dawn, and you can't miss it.
Saturn is in the southeast at dawn, above the much brighter Venus.
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Mars is now lost in the sun's glare; it will remain invisible to us all winter as Earth passes around the far side of the sun from it.
Look for the enormous Summer Triangle in the night sky, consisting of the stars Deneb, Vega, and Altair, in the west. These stars were up all night long back in June and July, hence the name. The Great Square of Pegasus, not quite as bright as the Summer Triangle, is high in the south at dusk. The star in its upper left hand corner is also the head of Andromeda. Rising after Andromeda is Perseus, the hero that saved her life. Facing north, you'll see five stars in a distinct 'M' like shape—this is Cassiopeia, the Queen. Her stars are about as bright as those in the Big Dipper, and she is directly across the North Star from that Dipper. Taurus, the Bull rises in the northeast. Look for the Pleiades star cluster at the feet of Perseus. Dazzling Orion, the Hunter rises shortly after dusk (by month's end, it is already up at dusk). As Orion enters the evening sky, we transition from the relatively dim evening skies of autumn to the brilliant stars of winter.
Moon Phases in December 2010:
New Moon December 5, 11:36 a.m.
1st Quarter December 13, 7:58 a.m.
Full Moon December 21, 2:14 a.m.
Last Quarter December 27, 10:19 p.m.
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The full moon of early Tuesday, December 21, enters the Earth's shadow, causing a total lunar eclipse. This eclipse is visible in its entirety from all of North America, including Houston. The moon first encounters the Earth's shadow (umbra) at 12:32 a.m. This marks the beginning of the partial eclipse. The moon takes just over an hour, until 1:40 a.m., to enter the shadow. That is when totality begins. In this eclipse, the Moon does not quite cross the center of Earth's shadow but instead passes through the northern part of it. Even so, the moon takes 74 minutes to cross to the other side of the shadow, so totality lasts from 1:40 to 2:54 a.m. By 4:02 a.m., the moon has re-emerged from the shadow, and the eclipse is over. Remember, seeing a lunar eclipse requires no special equipment at all; anyone who sees the moon sees the eclipse. The only thing that could stop us from seeing this would be a cloudy night on December 20-21, 2010. The next total lunar eclipse we see here in Houston occurs just after midnight on April 15, 2014.
At 5:42 p.m. on Tuesday, December 21, the sun is overhead at the Tropic of Capricorn, the most southerly latitude where the sun can be overhead. This is therefore the winter solstice for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and the summer solstice for people south of the equator.
At Houston's latitude, the earliest sunset of the year occurs Thursday, December 2. Of course, days continue to shorten until the solstice, which makes sunset earlier and sunrise later. However, Earth is also accelerating as it approaches perihelion (closest approach to the sun) in early January. This causes sunrise, local noon, and sunset to occur slightly later each day. This close to the solstice, the second effect actually predominates, so sunset gets a little later during December even while the days are getting shorter. As you head out to ring in the New Year, notice that sunset on New Year's Eve is about 10 minutes later than it is now.
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The Geminid meteor shower peaks every year in mid-December, this year on the 14. This shower and the Perseids in August are the two most reliable showers of the year, producing about 1 or two meteors per minute. The Geminids are not as popular, though, because of colder nights (yes, sometimes even in Houston) and a greater chance of cloudy skies. Still, it's worth a look if the skies are clear. Unlike most meteor showers which are comet debris, the Geminids originate from an asteroid (3200 Phaethon. The shallower angle between this debris path and Earth's orbit means that Earth rotates us towards the debris field before midnight. We can thus observe meteors from late evening all the way until dawn. Meteors will seem to radiate from the constellation Gemini, hence the shower's name.


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Graziana from Erbe in cucina (Cooking with herbs) has sent Corn Patties with Coconut Sauce a combo from Indonesia. A combo very interesting and worth trying.
Friday, 12 March 2010
Graziana from Erbe in cucina (Cooking with herbs) has sent Corn Patties with Coconut Sauce a combo from Indonesia. A combo very interesting and worth trying.
36 comments:
- ~ Lopa said...
wow wow wow.... i have been just clicking on link and its like khazana !!
Loving it, i dont have to worry about what for everyday atleast for this month's menu now, i can just take all combos one by one !
Thanks for this :)
- 12 March 2010 at 17:09
- Pari said...
Thanks Lopa, for appreciating it.
- 12 March 2010 at 17:13
- srividhya Ravikumar said...
Thank you so much for posting my recipe.. Nice event
- 12 March 2010 at 17:40
- Cool Lassi(e) said...
Where are my entries? I sent 3 Indian breakfast combos.
- 12 March 2010 at 17:43
- Pari said...
Dear Cool Lassie, I checked my mail box again, I have not received your entries dear. If it's okay with u pls send it to email@example.com again. I will add in ur entries.
- 12 March 2010 at 18:02
- Prathibha said...
The round up is gr8 dear..lovely round up wid gr8 collection...congrats on the success of the event...glad 2 be a part of it..now enjoy ur vacation!!
- 12 March 2010 at 18:13
- Nandini said...
It's a superb round-up and I'm gonna try some of 'em!
- 12 March 2010 at 18:20
- Rachana Kothari said...
Wow!!! so many yummy recipes:)
- 12 March 2010 at 18:45
- Umm Razeen said...
A nice round up pari
- 12 March 2010 at 18:51
- Cool Lassi(e) said...
I resent the mail to the very same address. let me know if you received it. :)
- 12 March 2010 at 18:51
- Nithu Bala said...
Hi Pari, the round up so wonderful. I couldn't find my recipes here.. Let me know you received them..
- 12 March 2010 at 19:04
- sayantani said...
lovely round up with a personal touch. gonna save it for further use.
- 12 March 2010 at 19:16
- Pari said...
Dear Nithu, all entries that I have received were acknowledged. If u have received an acknowledgement from me, pls forward it to me, else I do not see ur entry in my mail box.
- 12 March 2010 at 19:54
- Padhu said...
Fantastic round up! Because of personal work I could not participate .
- 12 March 2010 at 20:20
- Smitha said...
Looks very delicios and appetizing...
Thanx a lot Pari!!!
- 12 March 2010 at 20:39
- nandini said...
wow oh!! this is great!!. So many recipes , this round up is a sure hit Pari!!. Good show!, Congratulations!.
- 12 March 2010 at 20:43
- Nithu Bala said...
Ok, thatz fine.I didn't get any reply mail from you..I sent on 9th..
- 12 March 2010 at 20:46
- Pari said...
Dear Nithu, I have checked again the 9th Feb and March as u did not mention which one, I am sorry I have not recd.
- 12 March 2010 at 20:58
- Sushma Mallya said...
wow thats an awesome round up pari...done so well...am so sorry i couldnt participate this time as i was a bit busy in other work, may be next time when u host it will surely be a part of it
- 12 March 2010 at 21:04
- Nithu Bala said...
Dear Pari, that is ok. I sent on 9th of this month. I have even fwd it to your mail today too..as the round up is already over, don't worry about that. Probably I guess, my mail might have gone to your junk.
- 12 March 2010 at 22:27
- Suparna said...
hi pari...The jist of ur round up says everything has it's perfect match!! isnt it? good one dear!
- 12 March 2010 at 23:31
- nivedita said...
Hi Pari,
Lovely round up! Perfect dishes to surprise the family and bring smile on their faces.
Thanks a lot!
- 12 March 2010 at 23:51
- N S said...
Congrats to you,excellent round up. Thank you for accepting my entry.
- 13 March 2010 at 00:20
- ruchikacooks said...
Superb round up Pari! combos are the best..
- 13 March 2010 at 02:35
- Panchpakwan said...
Hi Pari,
Lovely round up..so many recipes.. Gr8t job done..
- 13 March 2010 at 04:09
- jeyashrisuresh said...
thats a great round up pari.nice to know about differnt combos.
I didnt see my entry in this.Did u recive my mailsent on 9th march
- 13 March 2010 at 04:52
- Malaysian Delicacies said...
Wow..so many combos, a great event.
Thx for adding mine.Take care.
- 13 March 2010 at 05:38
- Lakshmi@Taste of Mysore said...
delicious round up of combos :) it is a feast to eyes to see appetising dishes at one place!
- 13 March 2010 at 07:31
- Khaugiri said...
Hey I got collection of combos!!! Will try all variety of chole bhature:)
- 13 March 2010 at 08:02
- Cham said...
Seeing the round-up make me gain weight! Wonderful job Pari :)
- 13 March 2010 at 08:24
- Cooking Foodie said...
wow nice round up... thanks. i loved seeing my entry! I am new to this...
- 13 March 2010 at 12:15
- PJ said...
awesome round up, Pari! so many delicious dishes.. you have done a perfect job of introducing each of the 80 some dishes and presenting them.
- 13 March 2010 at 21:32
- Siddhi S said...
wow awesome roundup pari...all the combo dishes are very tempting
- 15 March 2010 at 00:55
- Trish said...
Hey Pari,I had emailed you my entry..but i dont see it here..
Here's the link-
Lemme know if you want me to email it again.
- 16 March 2010 at 07:08
- Pari said...
Dear Trish, sorry I did not get it, can u pls email me again.
- 16 March 2010 at 14:26
- Trish said...
Hey Pari,emailed you again.I hope you get it this time..:) fingers crossed!
- 16 March 2010 at 16:48


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NORAD's Santa-Tracking Web Site Opens for 2006 Season
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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo., Nov. 17, 2006 - In advance of the holiday season and its 51st season of tracking Santa Claus on his annual journey around the world, the North American Aerospace Defense Command today activated its "NORAD Tracks Santa" Web site for 2006.
The U.S.-Canadian command's program began in 1955 when an errant phone call was made to NORAD's predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The call was from a local child who dialed a misprinted telephone number in a local newspaper advertisement.
The commander who answered the phone that night gave the youngster the information he requested - the whereabouts of Santa Claus - and thus the tradition of NORAD tracking Santa began.
The program has grown immensely since it was first presented on the Internet in 1998. Last year, the Web site received 912 million "hits" from 204 countries and territories. In addition, the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center, occupied by 550 volunteers on Christmas Eve, answered nearly 55,000 phone calls and nearly 98,240 e-mails from children around the world.
The Web site -- www.noradsanta.org --features the history of the program, information on how NORAD tracks Santa and interactive games. On Dec. 24, beginning at 2 a.m. Mountain Time, the Web site will feature a minute-by-minute update on Santa's travels around the world. All of this information is available English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
Island Web Studios, America Online, Akami, Analytical Graphics, Globelink Language and Cultural Services, Qwest Communications, Verizon, and Microsoft Virtual Earth help to make the program possible, NORAD officials said.
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I frequently get Moby confused with the monk character played by Hugh Jackman in Aronofsky's The Fountain. They both have shaved heads, they both hug trees, they both seem to live in bubbles. There is something drippy and artlessly strange about both of them. What is certain is that Moby would make a good space monk. You could see him moving quietly through the naves in a futuro-Gothic astromonastry, humming gospel-inflected plainchant to himself. Sitting in eerie repose as his bare cell hurtles through the stratosphere, pouring his devotion into a Protools-ready rosary. Perhaps he is also suitably corrupted: his quiet demeanour belying sins of the flesh with Natalie Portman, the earthly pleasures of celebrity.
But while Jackman's monk at least has both the excuse that he's dying, and that he's a visual character in a visual film, Moby as an artist has no such get out. His lack of real musical introspection, the way the world seems to fail to touch his music, the emptiness of its deliberation - all undercut the monk's mission. Moreover he seems to drip on forever. Ever since Play leaked through the doors and windows, sucking the air out of electronica, he's been floatily present. Inured by wealth Moby appears to thrive in different atmospheric conditions to the rest of us. His music solidly occupies the big burnished centre, but always dresses up in marginal costume. It speaks lightly of frontiers, but is ever moored in right-field. Like an expensive satellite tarnished with shit (everything in near-space is smeared in a thin film of human excrement) it sails through the corporatesphere with majestic indifference to art.
Now, firmly in his self-styled 'post-superstar' phase, Moby is shooting for contemporaneity issuing a release that befits the conditions of the industry. Destroyed was announced on his blog, and there will be no major label push. Accompanying the album is booklet of photography, possibly aerial shots of the earth taken by Moby before and after matins. An EP prefaces the album like illuminated script. The space monk it seems, is staking his claim to an authentic future, but what kind of future does this album hint at?
'The Broken Places' takes us to a retro-future 1996. Here everyone has forgotten what Boards of Canada sounded like, giving license for every electronica artist under the twin suns to rip them off again, and again, in eternal recurrence. A helixical offcut from Music Has the Right... spirals into our collapsing galaxy. A tiny synth part warbles like a prototype nano-bee, confused by wifi signals.
M83 is one of the major touchstones here, aided by the hand of engineer Ken Thomas who previous worked with the French duo. 'Be The One' is an aquatic take on the adrenalised synth-gaze of early period M83, a glassy wall of mass-synth, crashing like an exorbitantly extended wave. It bears M83's more recent cinematic nostalgia, with a shamelessly hopeless sense of pastiche - "wait for me" it cries while arriving years too late. A little known fact about the sea is that everything in it is covered with a thin layer of faeces. This is the drowned world, that Moby appraises from his bubble, watching us all die while taking suspiciously lazy notes.
'Sevastopol' and 'After' both carry a wan tribalism. In the year AM.450 (After Moby) we are all reduced to microcultural groups foraging for CDs. Moby leads us through the dark night, we come across servers, taller than the highest mountain, tributes to forgotten gods. Moby tells us his offerings were once used as a bed for a Top Gear segment where Jeremy Clarkson tortured a gypsy with a zip gun made from a car antenna. We cower, not understanding his words. The bit-crunch shuffle, as pale and droll as anything Thom Yorke ever mustered, sends us fleeing back to the water to drown ourselves.
There are myriad futures here, to tragic to enumerate in full. 'On The Day' is basically Bowie's 'Heroes' remixed by Yellowcard. The lyrics "she tried to count the ways, but found she couldn't count" foretell a future of innumerate women, just as we are all intellectually impoverished by Moby's output. The majority of the album is the future of all dinnerparties, the dinnerparty that never ends, a spooling aeon of trite politeness, as your dry android host projects his Facebook photos into your retina for eternity.
A couple of the trademarks are present. While most of his use of female vocals here are Eighties indie cinematic waifs, gospel appears on 'Lie Down in the Darkness' where big-lunged samples are covered in a predictable craqueleur. Disembodying black voices, outside of projects of Afro-futurism, has always been Moby's most suspect trick, and it seems he hasn't grown out of it. Moby's future is one where the ghost of Mahalia Jackson is kept in a museum cube, assisted and mastered by technology, we slot in a Facebook credit and her head appears delivering auto-minstrelry into our Euro-regional German vidphones, the brand name of which we can't be bothered to pronounce.
Perhaps in the future Moby will come across a non-derivative sound. He will be touched by the spark of divine understanding, and floating vigorously over to his Spacelab4000 will channel the alchemy of volatile, beautiful, truthful music. But he appears caught between two worlds, the celebrity hit-maker and the authentic artist, failing to bridge from one to the other. If Destroyed is the standard he is surely, as Einstein said of space divorced from time, doomed to fade away into mere shadows.
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