Friday, October 24, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
microsoft is taking over the world and the way I know how to get online
Microsoft continues to inundate my computer reactions by trying to take over the world. You can't get online anymore with out their help. Monopoly wielding area of life this computer thing. Just think about it , you cannot access a google search page or yahoo for that matter without the aid of some software made by microsoft.Is this not true?
I mean igoogle or yahoo's version etc all try and do the same thing, who is the best? AOL of course
I mean igoogle or yahoo's version etc all try and do the same thing, who is the best? AOL of course
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Asbestos not to touch it and Mesothelioma
Features Of Asbestos Siding
By Wade RobinsThis article talks extensively about the use of asbestos as a siding matrial. It talks of all the ill-effects of asbestos and urges users to be extremely careful while installing them. If you are not confident of installing and maintaining the asbestos yourself, seek professional help, before you suffer from respiratory diseases.
Asbestos Sliding is a very common home building tool. This tool has been there since the 1930's. In all likelihood, you or your friends have asbestos sliding for your homes. Many home owners, which comprise professionals, developers and planners, have used Asbestos Siding as an integral part of their respective homes. The increase in number of people who use this tool is astounding, especially after all the difficulties and challenges the competitive asbestos industry faced.
Sales of Asbestos Siding sky rocketed between 1930 and 1970. A vast number of people all around the world have considered this as a viable option as it was cheap and it increased the durability of their homes greatly. Sometime in the 1970's, researchers found out that asbestos siding had many ill-effects and was the main cause for respiratory disorders like Asbestosis, a condition where the lungs get scarred; Lung Cancer; Mesothelioma, a cancer of the chest lining and the abdominal cavity and other such deadly diseases. Soon after this discovery, sales of asbestos siding plummeted. After some time, its sale completely stopped.
Asbestos Siding - Is it right for your house?
Few people still consider asbestos siding as a viable option even today, despite its adverse effects on human health. The main reason for this is that it is more durable than any of its counterparts. Also, it is a fire-proof material. It is known that a few Cruise liners use asbestos walls to ensure that in case a fire does start somewhere, it doesn't spread too much, before it is extinguished by the crew members. In the recent past, a shipping disaster was averted due to the use of asbestos in its walls which retarded the spread of flames. Another advantage that asbestos siding has is that it increases the strength of the building material in which it is used. Asbestos has a mesh like structure, which improve the elasticity of the wall. In simple terms, if pushed, it will stretch more before it breaks. Also, unlike its counterparts, asbestos doesn't need an expensive paint to cover it. A simple coat of latex paint will seal its harmful contents and make it look soothing to the eyes. The asbestos can be removed just as easily and there will leave no trace behind. The only important point is that one needs to be careful while removing it, to make sure that the fibers do not come in contact with air, in which case it will pose a health hazard. For more info see http://www.homesidingreview.com/Comparing_Prices_On_Vinyl_Siding on vinyl siding retailers.
Asbestos Siding - Is it Safe?
One advice that I would give to the readers is that in case you already have asbestos siding installed in your homes, have a professional come and run a thorough check on it to know whether you need any repairs or replacements rather than tearing it down yourselves. This should reduce the risk factor associated with it. There are many professional who run these tests, and in case you want to go for a cheaper alternative, there are many asbestos removing groups which remove the asbestos siding for free. In case you are wondering how they will earn money from it, they are brokers who will sell it to developers in need of asbestos for a cheaper price.
About the Author: You can also find more info on house siding types and buy vinyl siding. Homesidingreview.com is a comprehensive resource to know more about home siding review.
Source: www.isnare.com
Permanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=174197&ca=Home+Management
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Very Expensive keywords
Some very expensive keywords that I stumbled across lately so I don't know if these words are valuable to you as a blogger or not but the keywords over $10 are
refinancing $33
loans > $10
thanks
refinancing $33
loans > $10
thanks
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Text Book Buy Back
If you need to get the most money for your hard used college text books go to the following
If you are looking to buy cheap used or new textbooks also this is the place
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Recyclables
They stole the baseball fields electric wires and recycled them at amigos or canco or neither in san berdoo. That is when we needed to have a valid picture id from then on out when we recycle and the cops hang out down there now too because levitz got their whole air conditioning unit stolen off their roof and it probably paid nicely.
You would think that the owners of the recylcle shops should be more accountable for this blatant thievery. Don't you think?
Dial 1800nobills for slate & leoni, my two cats name well slate got ran over but leoni is still hanging tight. California lawyers and every citizen of the valley of smoke in the inland empire either have at one point recycled aluminum, recycyling copper, brass whatever they can. Copper wire and even fence post, gutter rails, man-hole covers everything is now recycled but are replaced by the trash truck of s.b city maintenance. Waste management subdivision of the law.
You would think that the owners of the recylcle shops should be more accountable for this blatant thievery. Don't you think?
Dial 1800nobills for slate & leoni, my two cats name well slate got ran over but leoni is still hanging tight. California lawyers and every citizen of the valley of smoke in the inland empire either have at one point recycled aluminum, recycyling copper, brass whatever they can. Copper wire and even fence post, gutter rails, man-hole covers everything is now recycled but are replaced by the trash truck of s.b city maintenance. Waste management subdivision of the law.
Highway 18 skateboarding all the way baby!
Highway 18 is no big thing. By westside san berdoo california where smog is the dew of the skateboard morning. 138 highway 18 interchange a.k.a. "The Bridge", imagine skateboarding down highway 18 some 23 miles straight or not down to san bernardino. GO GuYs!
Then come and play at the skate park here at blair park san bernardino and get your car towed away at edgehill village by code 4 towing, they really ollie!
Then come and play at the skate park here at blair park san bernardino and get your car towed away at edgehill village by code 4 towing, they really ollie!
California penal code
(a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that district
attorneys prosecute violent sex crimes under statutes that provide
sentencing under a "one strike," "three strikes" or habitual sex
offender statute instead of engaging in plea bargaining over those
offenses.
(2) Plea bargaining in any case in which the indictment or
information charges any serious felony, any felony in which it is
alleged that a firearm was personally used by the defendant, or any
offense of driving while under the influence of alcohol, drugs,
narcotics, or any other intoxicating substance, or any combination
thereof, is prohibited, unless there is insufficient evidence to
prove the people's case, or testimony of a material witness cannot be
obtained, or a reduction or dismissal would not result in a
substantial change in sentence.
(3) If the indictment or information charges the defendant with a
violent sex crime, as listed in subdivision (c) of Section 667.61,
that could be prosecuted under Sections 269, 288.7, subdivisions (b)
through (i) of Section 667, Section 667.61, or 667.71, plea
bargaining is prohibited unless there is insufficient evidence to
prove the people's case, or testimony of a material witness cannot be
obtained, or a reduction or dismissal would not result in a
substantial change in sentence. At the time of presenting the
agreement to the court, the district attorney shall state on the
record why a sentence under one of those sections was not sought.
(b) As used in this section "plea bargaining" means any
bargaining, negotiation, or discussion between a criminal defendant,
or his or her counsel, and a prosecuting attorney or judge, whereby
the defendant agrees to plead guilty or nolo contendere, in exchange
for any promises, commitments, concessions, assurances, or
consideration by the prosecuting attorney or judge relating to any
charge against the defendant or to the sentencing of the defendant.
(c) As used in this section, "serious felony" means any of the
following:
(1) Murder or voluntary manslaughter; (2) mayhem; (3) rape; (4)
sodomy by force, violence, duress, menace, threat of great bodily
injury, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim
or another person; (5) oral copulation by force, violence, duress,
menace, threat of great bodily injury, or fear of immediate and
unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person; (6) lewd or
lascivious act on a child under 14 years of age; (7) any felony
punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison for life; (8)
any felony in which the defendant personally inflicts great bodily
injury on any person, other than an accomplice, or any felony in
which the defendant personally uses a firearm; (9) attempted murder;
(10) assault with intent to commit rape or robbery; (11) assault with
a deadly weapon or instrument on a peace officer; (12) assault by a
life prisoner on a noninmate; (13) assault with a deadly weapon by an
inmate; (14) arson; (15) exploding a destructive device or any
explosive with intent to injure; (16) exploding a destructive device
or any explosive causing bodily injury, great bodily injury, or
mayhem; (17) exploding a destructive device or any explosive with
intent to murder; (18) any burglary of the first degree; (19) robbery
or bank robbery; (20) kidnapping; (21) holding of a hostage by a
person confined in a state prison; (22) attempt to commit a felony
punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison for life;
(23) any felony in which the defendant personally used a dangerous or
deadly weapon; (24) selling, furnishing, administering, giving, or
offering to sell, furnish, administer, or give to a minor any heroin,
cocaine, phencyclidine (PCP), or any methamphetamine-related drug,
as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 11055 of
the Health and Safety Code, or any of the precursors of
methamphetamines, as described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1)
of subdivision (f) of Section 11055 or subdivision (a) of Section
11100 of the Health and Safety Code; (25) any violation of
subdivision (a) of Section 289 where the act is accomplished against
the victim's will by force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of
immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person;
(26) grand theft involving a firearm; (27) carjacking; (28) any
felony offense, which would also constitute a felony violation of
Section 186.22; (29) assault with the intent to commit mayhem, rape,
sodomy, or oral copulation, in violation of Section 220; (30)
throwing acid or flammable substances, in violation of Section 244;
(31) assault with a deadly weapon, firearm, machinegun, assault
weapon, or semiautomatic firearm or assault on a peace officer or
firefighter, in violation of Section 245; (32) assault with a deadly
weapon against a public transit employee, custodial officer, or
school employee, in violation of Sections 245.2, 245.3, or 245.5;
(33) discharge of a firearm at an inhabited dwelling, vehicle, or
aircraft, in violation of Section 246; (34) commission of rape or
sexual penetration in concert with another person, in violation of
Section 264.1; (35) continuous sexual abuse of a child, in violation
of Section 288.5; (36) shooting from a vehicle, in violation of
subdivision (c) or (d) of Section 12034; (37) intimidation of victims
or witnesses, in violation of Section 136.1; (38) criminal threats,
in violation of Section 422; (39) any attempt to commit a crime
listed in this subdivision other than an assault; (40) any violation
of Section 12022.53; (41) a violation of subdivision (b) or (c) of
Section 11418; and (42) any conspiracy to commit an offense described
in this subdivision.
(d) As used in this section, "bank robbery" means to take or
attempt to take, by force or violence, or by intimidation from the
person or presence of another any property or money or any other
thing of value belonging to, or in the care, custody, control,
management, or possession of, any bank, credit union, or any savings
and loan association.
As used in this subdivision, the following terms have the
following meanings:
(1) "Bank" means any member of the Federal Reserve System, and any
bank, banking association, trust company, savings bank, or other
banking institution organized or operating under the laws of the
United States, and any bank the deposits of which are insured by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
(2) "Savings and loan association" means any federal savings and
loan association and any "insured institution" as defined in Section
401 of the National Housing Act, as amended, and any federal credit
union as defined in Section 2 of the Federal Credit Union Act.
(3) "Credit union" means any federal credit union and any
state-chartered credit union the accounts of which are insured by the
Administrator of the National Credit Union administration.
(e) The provisions of this section shall not be amended by the
Legislature except by statute passed in each house by rollcall vote
entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership concurring, or
by a statute that becomes effective only when approved by the
electors.
attorneys prosecute violent sex crimes under statutes that provide
sentencing under a "one strike," "three strikes" or habitual sex
offender statute instead of engaging in plea bargaining over those
offenses.
(2) Plea bargaining in any case in which the indictment or
information charges any serious felony, any felony in which it is
alleged that a firearm was personally used by the defendant, or any
offense of driving while under the influence of alcohol, drugs,
narcotics, or any other intoxicating substance, or any combination
thereof, is prohibited, unless there is insufficient evidence to
prove the people's case, or testimony of a material witness cannot be
obtained, or a reduction or dismissal would not result in a
substantial change in sentence.
(3) If the indictment or information charges the defendant with a
violent sex crime, as listed in subdivision (c) of Section 667.61,
that could be prosecuted under Sections 269, 288.7, subdivisions (b)
through (i) of Section 667, Section 667.61, or 667.71, plea
bargaining is prohibited unless there is insufficient evidence to
prove the people's case, or testimony of a material witness cannot be
obtained, or a reduction or dismissal would not result in a
substantial change in sentence. At the time of presenting the
agreement to the court, the district attorney shall state on the
record why a sentence under one of those sections was not sought.
(b) As used in this section "plea bargaining" means any
bargaining, negotiation, or discussion between a criminal defendant,
or his or her counsel, and a prosecuting attorney or judge, whereby
the defendant agrees to plead guilty or nolo contendere, in exchange
for any promises, commitments, concessions, assurances, or
consideration by the prosecuting attorney or judge relating to any
charge against the defendant or to the sentencing of the defendant.
(c) As used in this section, "serious felony" means any of the
following:
(1) Murder or voluntary manslaughter; (2) mayhem; (3) rape; (4)
sodomy by force, violence, duress, menace, threat of great bodily
injury, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim
or another person; (5) oral copulation by force, violence, duress,
menace, threat of great bodily injury, or fear of immediate and
unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person; (6) lewd or
lascivious act on a child under 14 years of age; (7) any felony
punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison for life; (8)
any felony in which the defendant personally inflicts great bodily
injury on any person, other than an accomplice, or any felony in
which the defendant personally uses a firearm; (9) attempted murder;
(10) assault with intent to commit rape or robbery; (11) assault with
a deadly weapon or instrument on a peace officer; (12) assault by a
life prisoner on a noninmate; (13) assault with a deadly weapon by an
inmate; (14) arson; (15) exploding a destructive device or any
explosive with intent to injure; (16) exploding a destructive device
or any explosive causing bodily injury, great bodily injury, or
mayhem; (17) exploding a destructive device or any explosive with
intent to murder; (18) any burglary of the first degree; (19) robbery
or bank robbery; (20) kidnapping; (21) holding of a hostage by a
person confined in a state prison; (22) attempt to commit a felony
punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison for life;
(23) any felony in which the defendant personally used a dangerous or
deadly weapon; (24) selling, furnishing, administering, giving, or
offering to sell, furnish, administer, or give to a minor any heroin,
cocaine, phencyclidine (PCP), or any methamphetamine-related drug,
as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 11055 of
the Health and Safety Code, or any of the precursors of
methamphetamines, as described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1)
of subdivision (f) of Section 11055 or subdivision (a) of Section
11100 of the Health and Safety Code; (25) any violation of
subdivision (a) of Section 289 where the act is accomplished against
the victim's will by force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of
immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person;
(26) grand theft involving a firearm; (27) carjacking; (28) any
felony offense, which would also constitute a felony violation of
Section 186.22; (29) assault with the intent to commit mayhem, rape,
sodomy, or oral copulation, in violation of Section 220; (30)
throwing acid or flammable substances, in violation of Section 244;
(31) assault with a deadly weapon, firearm, machinegun, assault
weapon, or semiautomatic firearm or assault on a peace officer or
firefighter, in violation of Section 245; (32) assault with a deadly
weapon against a public transit employee, custodial officer, or
school employee, in violation of Sections 245.2, 245.3, or 245.5;
(33) discharge of a firearm at an inhabited dwelling, vehicle, or
aircraft, in violation of Section 246; (34) commission of rape or
sexual penetration in concert with another person, in violation of
Section 264.1; (35) continuous sexual abuse of a child, in violation
of Section 288.5; (36) shooting from a vehicle, in violation of
subdivision (c) or (d) of Section 12034; (37) intimidation of victims
or witnesses, in violation of Section 136.1; (38) criminal threats,
in violation of Section 422; (39) any attempt to commit a crime
listed in this subdivision other than an assault; (40) any violation
of Section 12022.53; (41) a violation of subdivision (b) or (c) of
Section 11418; and (42) any conspiracy to commit an offense described
in this subdivision.
(d) As used in this section, "bank robbery" means to take or
attempt to take, by force or violence, or by intimidation from the
person or presence of another any property or money or any other
thing of value belonging to, or in the care, custody, control,
management, or possession of, any bank, credit union, or any savings
and loan association.
As used in this subdivision, the following terms have the
following meanings:
(1) "Bank" means any member of the Federal Reserve System, and any
bank, banking association, trust company, savings bank, or other
banking institution organized or operating under the laws of the
United States, and any bank the deposits of which are insured by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
(2) "Savings and loan association" means any federal savings and
loan association and any "insured institution" as defined in Section
401 of the National Housing Act, as amended, and any federal credit
union as defined in Section 2 of the Federal Credit Union Act.
(3) "Credit union" means any federal credit union and any
state-chartered credit union the accounts of which are insured by the
Administrator of the National Credit Union administration.
(e) The provisions of this section shall not be amended by the
Legislature except by statute passed in each house by rollcall vote
entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership concurring, or
by a statute that becomes effective only when approved by the
electors.
Monday, July 21, 2008
The History Channel ain't the word of God!
So many people watch tv as if it were the holy bible. They believe every word they hear. If you are one of those people that think that the History Channel is the word of God then please stop! It is not, and it is only one sided view and very biased. You should take the things said on TV with a grain of salt. It may be true but until you get two or 3 other people saying the exact same thing....don't believe it!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Why are all the good women already spoken for?
There are no good women left in my town. None go to church and if they do they are already spoken for. Married that is. This chupacabra selection that remains leaves me high and dry, and blue for that matter. I need more quality women in my diet. Can someone please help?
It should be illegal for Women, Elderly, and Handicapped to drive vehicles!
Have you seen them on Sunday? These drivers should be banned from the public streets. Serious though. Over half the people killing other people are from such demographs and Im wondering who let the dogs out and said it was cool for them to drive. I mean come on, for safety's sake please stay at home!
Neutering or spaying your animals is just not natural!
I have allowed my cats that I never wanted in the first place to bear me 4 litters of kittens, they all have extra claws and are polydactyl short hairs. I can't stand to see that cone around their head, and if God said unto man, " be fruitful and multiply, then WTF about the other intelligent creatures. Its like saying abortion is ok either way, which it is not!
Clamato and Budweiser?
Have you tried the new beer, now out from Budweiser? Sparks taste nasty and will get you sick but this new beer from Bud tastes great... It is just a little more spicy and $1 more expensive! I would recommend this beer to all my friends, stay clear of sparks, camo, arrogant bastard. Just my thoughts on the matter! Clamato tastes great in its own right. This combo is perfect... good job Budweiser team!
Why do you buy bottled water?
I refuse to buy water. Who gave anybody the right to sale something that comes from the sky or earth or ocean? For that matter fruit should be free too, but buying water which should be free to all without price just as milk and honey ought to be free too. What has this conumer nation turned ourselves into?
Have the police ever accidentally lost your possessions during a typical routine cop checkup?
My license is now gone thanks to a police officer who when taking it back to his patrol car, accidentally slipped out of his hands and into his console. Thanks alot officer, I don't want to have to need to get another. The DMV sucks as it is!
Stamps.com ripped me off
Stamps.com used their bull crap tactics to get me to pay for their crappy service, all for a measley $5 free postage promise offer! They lured me into their clutches then stuck me for a lot of misc fees. I can't believe our Great US postal service would even associate with such fraudulent activities. The usps is not oscar mayer weiners buy 2 get 5 free. It is no such thing. Stamps.com ripped me off, and that is my story and I will back it up. They are rip off artists just like any marketing scam would be. Do not become a member of their fraudulent practices, nor lured by any incentive they may give you. I am reporting them also to the better business bureau and I hope our beloved USPS doesn't get duped by the scammers. Stamps.com sucks. Period!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Viral Inviter VS TrafficXplode 2.0 Review
Viral Inviter VS TrafficXplode 2.0 Review
If you have been around in the internet marketing world long enough you probably have heard of Mike Filsaime’s Viral Friends Generator. What it does is basically bribe the visitors to tell their friends about the site. In the early days, the interface of the VFG is just a few simple text boxes where visitors can type in their friend’s email addresses plus a simple submit button. This creates a win-win situation for both the site owner and the visitors. The site owner gets more traffic, the visitors get a free gift (something of value), everyone happy. However, things usually don’t turn out the way we plan; often time the site owners run into a problem where visitors do not type in valid email addresses so visitors get free gift but site owners get nothing.
There is also the unsettled discussion on where to best place the tell-a-friend page would be on a page. After opt-in? After sign up? After log out? The list goes on and on. In the early days, the tell-a-friend script doesn’t give you much flexibility on location of the tell-a-friend page plus the restriction for the kind of website that the tell-a-friend script can be used with. Those days you only see marketing sites use this kind of tool and most of the time you will find tell-a-friend script after opt-in pages or sign up pages. So, folks in the internet marketing niche kind of got used to it after a while so the tell-a-friend script later became “invisible” to the visitors.
Recently, web 2.0 has been very big. One social site started to implement similar idea to the tell-a-friend script where members are given a chance to invite their friends to come join the social site. And here is the trick, users can just login to their email accounts and invites friends on their contact list through simple web interface. And now almost all of the social network sites use the same trick. The “trick” is responsible for the viral growth of those social network sites.
So now, the tell-a-friend script follows the social network industry. Nowadays, the email contacts importer is a basic requirement for every tell-a-friend script on the market, it comes down to the question of how many email clients does the script support. Often time, the promotion material will say something like “grow your site like Myspace and Facebook” but we all know that this kind of statement is a cliché.
In this Web 2.0 world, these are the basic requirements that every tell-a-friend system should have
Other things to consider when it comes to picking the right tell-a-friend system is whether or not you need to install the script on your server. Often times the tell-a-friend script is offered in PHP/MySQL platform, so those who are running a windows server won’t be able to take advantage of the script. It also applies to those who use cheap a shared hosting account because the provider usually doesn’t allow certain scripts to run or the provider might ban the account due to excessive use of the server resource by running those scripts. And another thing about shared hosting is the bandwidth issue. So, there are advantages and disadvantages when it comes to installing your own script.
There are two latest tell-a-friend systems that will be available very soon, Viral Inviter by Norman Freeman and TrafficXplode 2.0 by Jaratvit R. So let’s take a look at how these two compare
Viral Inviter
If you have been around in the internet marketing world long enough you probably have heard of Mike Filsaime’s Viral Friends Generator. What it does is basically bribe the visitors to tell their friends about the site. In the early days, the interface of the VFG is just a few simple text boxes where visitors can type in their friend’s email addresses plus a simple submit button. This creates a win-win situation for both the site owner and the visitors. The site owner gets more traffic, the visitors get a free gift (something of value), everyone happy. However, things usually don’t turn out the way we plan; often time the site owners run into a problem where visitors do not type in valid email addresses so visitors get free gift but site owners get nothing.
There is also the unsettled discussion on where to best place the tell-a-friend page would be on a page. After opt-in? After sign up? After log out? The list goes on and on. In the early days, the tell-a-friend script doesn’t give you much flexibility on location of the tell-a-friend page plus the restriction for the kind of website that the tell-a-friend script can be used with. Those days you only see marketing sites use this kind of tool and most of the time you will find tell-a-friend script after opt-in pages or sign up pages. So, folks in the internet marketing niche kind of got used to it after a while so the tell-a-friend script later became “invisible” to the visitors.
Recently, web 2.0 has been very big. One social site started to implement similar idea to the tell-a-friend script where members are given a chance to invite their friends to come join the social site. And here is the trick, users can just login to their email accounts and invites friends on their contact list through simple web interface. And now almost all of the social network sites use the same trick. The “trick” is responsible for the viral growth of those social network sites.
So now, the tell-a-friend script follows the social network industry. Nowadays, the email contacts importer is a basic requirement for every tell-a-friend script on the market, it comes down to the question of how many email clients does the script support. Often time, the promotion material will say something like “grow your site like Myspace and Facebook” but we all know that this kind of statement is a cliché.
In this Web 2.0 world, these are the basic requirements that every tell-a-friend system should have
· Support as many email clients as possible including popular clients such as
Gmail, Yahoo, Msn and AOL.
· Integrate flawlessly with any kind of
website, regular site, e-commerce, marketing, blog, forum, mini-site and etc.
· Customizable look and feel
· Automatic gift rewarding system
· Scalability : the ability to use tell-a-friend system on several sites
· Reliability : the deliverability of the emails that are sent by
visitors
· Extra features such as statistics, tracking
Other things to consider when it comes to picking the right tell-a-friend system is whether or not you need to install the script on your server. Often times the tell-a-friend script is offered in PHP/MySQL platform, so those who are running a windows server won’t be able to take advantage of the script. It also applies to those who use cheap a shared hosting account because the provider usually doesn’t allow certain scripts to run or the provider might ban the account due to excessive use of the server resource by running those scripts. And another thing about shared hosting is the bandwidth issue. So, there are advantages and disadvantages when it comes to installing your own script.
There are two latest tell-a-friend systems that will be available very soon, Viral Inviter by Norman Freeman and TrafficXplode 2.0 by Jaratvit R. So let’s take a look at how these two compare
Viral Inviter
Number of email clients support: 37
Integrates with all kind of sites – checked
Customizable look and feel – checked
Automatic gift rewarding system – checked
Scalability: per-server-license
Reliability: SMTP-based email engine
Extra features: Self-promoting; Auto include affiliate link of the current visitor in the invitation messages.
Fee: one-time
TrafficXplode 2.0
Number of email clients support: around 20
Integrate with all kind of sites - checked
Customizable look and feel – checked
Automatic gift rewarding system – checked
Scalability: unlimited
Reliability: built on top of industrial standard autoresponder software
Extra features:
· Social Network friends importer from Myspace, Facebook, Orkut, Friendster and
Hi5
· For social friends, messages are sent using internal message
system of each network
· Multi-level gift assignment, reward gifts
according to the number of invitations sent (user defined)
· Full statistics such as gift page impressions, click through rate, email
open rates
· Web-based tell-a-friend page management
So it’s up to you to decide which solution is right for you.
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Donate a car keyword discussion
Donate a car.
Today I wanted to take a look at the meanings of each of the highest paying adsense keywords, and investigate a little further into why these keywords might be costing advertisers this much and why is it worth the money they are spending, and how we the common bloggers of the world benefit from this knowledge.
Our first keyword, donate a car comes to plate with a batting average of around 450 with 12 home runs and 155 runs batted in. It has 4 stolen bases and is a user friendly keyword.
Why is the key term “donate a car” such a high paying keyword?
To “donate a car” can be broken down into its constituent parts. This is a 3 word combo phrase with the negligible
paying an average of $ but ranging anywhere from $ to $ depending on how many other advertisers are using that keyword in their campaigns.
Donate your used cars
Today I wanted to take a look at the meanings of each of the highest paying adsense keywords, and investigate a little further into why these keywords might be costing advertisers this much and why is it worth the money they are spending, and how we the common bloggers of the world benefit from this knowledge.
Our first keyword, donate a car comes to plate with a batting average of around 450 with 12 home runs and 155 runs batted in. It has 4 stolen bases and is a user friendly keyword.
Why is the key term “donate a car” such a high paying keyword?
To “donate a car” can be broken down into its constituent parts. This is a 3 word combo phrase with the negligible
paying an average of $ but ranging anywhere from $ to $ depending on how many other advertisers are using that keyword in their campaigns.
Donate your used cars
IRS help is all around us
IRS help
Today I wanted to take a look at the meanings of each of the highest paying adsense keywords, and investigate a little further into why these keywords might be costing advertisers this much and why is it worth the money they are spending, and how we the common bloggers of the world benefit from this knowledge.
Our first keyword, IRS help comes to plate with a batting average of around 450 with 12 home runs and 155 runs batted in. It has 4 stolen bases and is a user friendly keyword.
Why is the key term “irs help” such a high paying keyword?
The key phrase “irs help” can be broken down into its constituent parts. This is a 2 word combo phrase with the first word acronym for the Internal Revenue Service a department o the US government, and the word help, which means to seek assistance, advice on what most Americans perceive as help. It seems that a lot of people have this notion about their IRS history is broke and they want to fix it. That is why the keywords are very profitable. It is easy to provide the needed services to “fix” their tax returns.
It’s tax season, most normal citizens, a huge portion of the total population of the U.S. is obliged to do their taxes each year, and with the increasing number of people, even in America, who use the internet for their business transactions or banking, then it is safe to assume that this keyword will be profitable for a longer amount of time than seasonal keywords or flash in the pan type teletubbie, monchichi, or cabbage patch style keywords and phrases.
This is almost a sure market that will continue to exist in the future and represents a good all-around long shelf life keyword. People need IRS help mainly around tax season, but that has historically changed every so often. With so much tax software like, turbo tax and tax act, offering a quick and speedy return for auto submitting their info, and doing it in less time, people are filing their tax returns more and more online. And the numbers for next year I’m pretty sure they will keep increasing.
Since these software companies charge a fair price I suppose for what one could do for themselves at least as good or better for a price tag of $19.99 or deluxe packages going fo $29.99, there are other tax software companies willing to do the same work for less money. We all can be glad that at least this sector will be highly competitive driving our prices down. Many people know that taxes are an obligation to our civic duty in exchange for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and are willing to spend anywhere from $9.99 to $99.00 to get their taxes done for them. That is a lot of carefully took records of any financial transactions coming in and out.
So it easy to see why then IRS help would be a profitable keywords for even probably some time to come.
IRS help pays $48.27 per click gets an average 4.5 clicks per day and cost on average $217 per day making it a profitable adsense word. Somebody would be wise to use IRS help as their keyword in their adsense campaigns.
This is the end of my adsense keyword “Donate your used cars” article.
P.S. I did my 2007 tax return through tax-act this year and they were fine except that when it came to my Economic Stimulus Payment and since I chose to auto deduct the tax softwares fee from my tax return money, they sent me a check instead of direct deposit as I was paid with before. Since my number is very late in the 90’s I won’t be getting stimulated until July… dang…
IRS help
Today I wanted to take a look at the meanings of each of the highest paying adsense keywords, and investigate a little further into why these keywords might be costing advertisers this much and why is it worth the money they are spending, and how we the common bloggers of the world benefit from this knowledge.
Our first keyword, IRS help comes to plate with a batting average of around 450 with 12 home runs and 155 runs batted in. It has 4 stolen bases and is a user friendly keyword.
Why is the key term “irs help” such a high paying keyword?
The key phrase “irs help” can be broken down into its constituent parts. This is a 2 word combo phrase with the first word acronym for the Internal Revenue Service a department o the US government, and the word help, which means to seek assistance, advice on what most Americans perceive as help. It seems that a lot of people have this notion about their IRS history is broke and they want to fix it. That is why the keywords are very profitable. It is easy to provide the needed services to “fix” their tax returns.
It’s tax season, most normal citizens, a huge portion of the total population of the U.S. is obliged to do their taxes each year, and with the increasing number of people, even in America, who use the internet for their business transactions or banking, then it is safe to assume that this keyword will be profitable for a longer amount of time than seasonal keywords or flash in the pan type teletubbie, monchichi, or cabbage patch style keywords and phrases.
This is almost a sure market that will continue to exist in the future and represents a good all-around long shelf life keyword. People need IRS help mainly around tax season, but that has historically changed every so often. With so much tax software like, turbo tax and tax act, offering a quick and speedy return for auto submitting their info, and doing it in less time, people are filing their tax returns more and more online. And the numbers for next year I’m pretty sure they will keep increasing.
Since these software companies charge a fair price I suppose for what one could do for themselves at least as good or better for a price tag of $19.99 or deluxe packages going fo $29.99, there are other tax software companies willing to do the same work for less money. We all can be glad that at least this sector will be highly competitive driving our prices down. Many people know that taxes are an obligation to our civic duty in exchange for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and are willing to spend anywhere from $9.99 to $99.00 to get their taxes done for them. That is a lot of carefully took records of any financial transactions coming in and out.
So it easy to see why then IRS help would be a profitable keywords for even probably some time to come.
IRS help pays $48.27 per click gets an average 4.5 clicks per day and cost on average $217 per day making it a profitable adsense word. Somebody would be wise to use IRS help as their keyword in their adsense campaigns.
This is the end of my adsense keyword “Donate your used cars” article.
P.S. I did my 2007 tax return through tax-act this year and they were fine except that when it came to my Economic Stimulus Payment and since I chose to auto deduct the tax softwares fee from my tax return money, they sent me a check instead of direct deposit as I was paid with before. Since my number is very late in the 90’s I won’t be getting stimulated until July… dang…
IRS help
Irs help and if that keyword helps anybody
IRS help
Today I wanted to take a look at the meanings of each of the highest paying adsense keywords, and investigate a little further into why these keywords might be costing advertisers this much and why is it worth the money they are spending, and how we the common bloggers of the world benefit from this knowledge.
Our first keyword, IRS help comes to plate with a batting average of around 450 with 12 home runs and 155 runs batted in. It has 4 stolen bases and is a user friendly keyword.
Why is the key term “irs help” such a high paying keyword?
The key phrase “irs help” can be broken down into its constituent parts. This is a 2 word combo phrase with the first word acronym for the Internal Revenue Service a department o the US government, and the word help, which means to seek assistance, advice on what most Americans perceive as help. It seems that a lot of people have this notion about their IRS history is broke and they want to fix it. That is why the keywords are very profitable. It is easy to provide the needed services to “fix” their tax returns.
It’s tax season, most normal citizens, a huge portion of the total population of the U.S. is obliged to do their taxes each year, and with the increasing number of people, even in America, who use the internet for their business transactions or banking, then it is safe to assume that this keyword will be profitable for a longer amount of time than seasonal keywords or flash in the pan type teletubbie, monchichi, or cabbage patch style keywords and phrases.
This is almost a sure market that will continue to exist in the future and represents a good all-around long shelf life keyword. People need IRS help mainly around tax season, but that has historically changed every so often. With so much tax software like, turbo tax and tax act, offering a quick and speedy return for auto submitting their info, and doing it in less time, people are filing their tax returns more and more online. And the numbers for next year I’m pretty sure they will keep increasing.
Since these software companies charge a fair price I suppose for what one could do for themselves at least as good or better for a price tag of $19.99 or deluxe packages going fo $29.99, there are other tax software companies willing to do the same work for less money. We all can be glad that at least this sector will be highly competitive driving our prices down. Many people know that taxes are an obligation to our civic duty in exchange for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and are willing to spend anywhere from $9.99 to $99.00 to get their taxes done for them. That is a lot of carefully took records of any financial transactions coming in and out.
So it easy to see why then IRS help would be a profitable keywords for even probably some time to come.
IRS help pays $48.27 per click gets an average 4.5 clicks per day and cost on average $217 per day making it a profitable adsense word. Somebody would be wise to use IRS help as their keyword in their adsense campaigns.
This is the end of my adsense keyword “Donate your used cars” article.
P.S. I did my 2007 tax return through tax-act this year and they were fine except that when it came to my Economic Stimulus Payment and since I chose to auto deduct the tax softwares fee from my tax return money, they sent me a check instead of direct deposit as I was paid with before. Since my number is very late in the 90’s I won’t be getting stimulated until July… dang…
IRS help
If you want updated info on your economic stimulus status go to
http://irs.gov
Today I wanted to take a look at the meanings of each of the highest paying adsense keywords, and investigate a little further into why these keywords might be costing advertisers this much and why is it worth the money they are spending, and how we the common bloggers of the world benefit from this knowledge.
Our first keyword, IRS help comes to plate with a batting average of around 450 with 12 home runs and 155 runs batted in. It has 4 stolen bases and is a user friendly keyword.
Why is the key term “irs help” such a high paying keyword?
The key phrase “irs help” can be broken down into its constituent parts. This is a 2 word combo phrase with the first word acronym for the Internal Revenue Service a department o the US government, and the word help, which means to seek assistance, advice on what most Americans perceive as help. It seems that a lot of people have this notion about their IRS history is broke and they want to fix it. That is why the keywords are very profitable. It is easy to provide the needed services to “fix” their tax returns.
It’s tax season, most normal citizens, a huge portion of the total population of the U.S. is obliged to do their taxes each year, and with the increasing number of people, even in America, who use the internet for their business transactions or banking, then it is safe to assume that this keyword will be profitable for a longer amount of time than seasonal keywords or flash in the pan type teletubbie, monchichi, or cabbage patch style keywords and phrases.
This is almost a sure market that will continue to exist in the future and represents a good all-around long shelf life keyword. People need IRS help mainly around tax season, but that has historically changed every so often. With so much tax software like, turbo tax and tax act, offering a quick and speedy return for auto submitting their info, and doing it in less time, people are filing their tax returns more and more online. And the numbers for next year I’m pretty sure they will keep increasing.
Since these software companies charge a fair price I suppose for what one could do for themselves at least as good or better for a price tag of $19.99 or deluxe packages going fo $29.99, there are other tax software companies willing to do the same work for less money. We all can be glad that at least this sector will be highly competitive driving our prices down. Many people know that taxes are an obligation to our civic duty in exchange for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and are willing to spend anywhere from $9.99 to $99.00 to get their taxes done for them. That is a lot of carefully took records of any financial transactions coming in and out.
So it easy to see why then IRS help would be a profitable keywords for even probably some time to come.
IRS help pays $48.27 per click gets an average 4.5 clicks per day and cost on average $217 per day making it a profitable adsense word. Somebody would be wise to use IRS help as their keyword in their adsense campaigns.
This is the end of my adsense keyword “Donate your used cars” article.
P.S. I did my 2007 tax return through tax-act this year and they were fine except that when it came to my Economic Stimulus Payment and since I chose to auto deduct the tax softwares fee from my tax return money, they sent me a check instead of direct deposit as I was paid with before. Since my number is very late in the 90’s I won’t be getting stimulated until July… dang…
IRS help
If you want updated info on your economic stimulus status go to
http://irs.gov
Friday, May 30, 2008
About Content Management
Today I wanted to take a look at the meanings of each of the highest paying adsense keywords, and investigate a little further into why these keywords might be costing advertisers this much and why is it worth the money they are spending, and how we the common bloggers of the world benefit from this knowledge.
Our first keyword, content management comes to plate with a batting average of around 500 with 39 home runs and 315 runs batted in. It has 12 stolen bases and is a well behaved keyword.
What is content management and why is it such a high paying keyword?
Content management can be broken down into its constituent parts. It is made up of the words content, and management. Content is defined as, all that is contained in something Management is the act, art, or manner of managing, or handling, controlling, directing etc. Putting the meaning of the two words content and management together we come up with the definition of ‘content management’ –
Content mangagement is paying an average of $ but ranging anywhere from $ to $ depending on how many other advertisers are using that keyword in their campaigns.
Today's keywords can also be seen in the following combinations
Our first keyword, content management comes to plate with a batting average of around 500 with 39 home runs and 315 runs batted in. It has 12 stolen bases and is a well behaved keyword.
What is content management and why is it such a high paying keyword?
Content management can be broken down into its constituent parts. It is made up of the words content, and management. Content is defined as, all that is contained in something Management is the act, art, or manner of managing, or handling, controlling, directing etc. Putting the meaning of the two words content and management together we come up with the definition of ‘content management’ –
Content mangagement is paying an average of $ but ranging anywhere from $ to $ depending on how many other advertisers are using that keyword in their campaigns.
Today's keywords can also be seen in the following combinations
Friday, May 23, 2008
platinum rolex
Recycling platinum at the expense of a desperate man. This is a platinum rolex yachtmaster watch with saphire crystal awesome watch. But with platinum at such a high price this poor watch may never get used! The same goes for any car 
Monday, May 19, 2008
Run your car on Water? Ride a bike?
What should we do about the outrageously High Gas Prices we find ourselves having to pay for if we want to use a car to travel along the roadside. There are not enough people anywhere in the world sharing their secrets for getting good gas mileage. Until now. I found where these people were hiding. All gathered in the name of cheaper gas prices and better fuel efficiency. Bottom line was, these people are sick of the outrageously high gas prices and wanted to do something about it.
There are some who have gotten a hold on their miles per gallon epidemic. Some claim they get really good gas mileage. Would you believe even up to 100 miles to the gallon. That would mean that you could go from L.A. to phoenix by car on well you do the math.
Of all the quick to remedy the gas price situation schemes with hydrogen bomb converter style apparatuses and other fancy doodads, I can finally say this is something that will help keep money in your pocket. The fuel efficient system Water4Gas saves you money the whole way through. There are other Hydrogen on Demand type fuel systems and several types of hybrid cars available all over the place but none, that I know of, have the same money saving features and energy efficient benefits as does Ozzie Freedom’s Water4Gas.
They have over delivered by creating an amazing
Device, Water4gas, that helps ease your worries about the price of gasoline. The fact that gasoline cost more than $4 a gallon won’t hurt you as bad when you know how much more power you will receive and how many miles to the gallon you will be able to drive.
Water4 Gas is good for your car. Using HHO power that is even stronger, providing more power to your car and reduces CO2 emissions and makes your engine run quieter. There are no ill side effects of using this Hydrogen on demand system other than a little extra water being produced. With this system your engine will love you. It is like having the power of the Sun take those high gas price blues away. By getting Water4Gas you will even be able to make it an IRS tax write off.
Learn all about hybrids and making your vehicles fuel efficient should be of primary importance to all facing the terribly high gas price. A small investment in this package you will reap many many rewards. Simple yet effective use of modern technology that nobody is hiding anymore. They spill the complete beans. You just blam! Setup your device, and start saving money on gasoline now. They’ve made everything associated with the Water4Gas system package project really cool and beneficial.
Ozzie Freedom’s Water4Gas is a "Complete" Package:
* Stop wasting $1000’s of dollars on gas
* Environmentally friendlier, green and clean
* IRS Refund support
* Available Worldwide
* Small simple setup and preparation
* Empowering Bonuses
Ozzie Freedom has created his Water4gas package in such a way that anyone can start using it. It works
with just a few small components. Even my Grandma could get her Nash Rambler more fuel efficient using the package.
No need to learn about any new technology, this stuff has been around for awhile. They added some really awesome bonuses along with the package as well for free.
As a direct result of the water4gas system, I am really satisfied with all the benefits I received but especially it has given me a way to fight against the tyranny of extremely outrageously high gas prices.
This is definitely a "Must Have." The price is very reasonable. A small investment will be saving you $1000’s down the line. It comes with about 5 awesome free gifts, about how to save even more on gas prices. If you get this package, the water4gas system, it's like putting a stop to the money draining out of your pockets when you have to pay for gas. It is like installing and having your own gas station right inside your car.
Get water4gas and see what other people have to say.
Click Here!
There are some who have gotten a hold on their miles per gallon epidemic. Some claim they get really good gas mileage. Would you believe even up to 100 miles to the gallon. That would mean that you could go from L.A. to phoenix by car on well you do the math.
Of all the quick to remedy the gas price situation schemes with hydrogen bomb converter style apparatuses and other fancy doodads, I can finally say this is something that will help keep money in your pocket. The fuel efficient system Water4Gas saves you money the whole way through. There are other Hydrogen on Demand type fuel systems and several types of hybrid cars available all over the place but none, that I know of, have the same money saving features and energy efficient benefits as does Ozzie Freedom’s Water4Gas.
They have over delivered by creating an amazing
Device, Water4gas, that helps ease your worries about the price of gasoline. The fact that gasoline cost more than $4 a gallon won’t hurt you as bad when you know how much more power you will receive and how many miles to the gallon you will be able to drive.
Water4 Gas is good for your car. Using HHO power that is even stronger, providing more power to your car and reduces CO2 emissions and makes your engine run quieter. There are no ill side effects of using this Hydrogen on demand system other than a little extra water being produced. With this system your engine will love you. It is like having the power of the Sun take those high gas price blues away. By getting Water4Gas you will even be able to make it an IRS tax write off.
Learn all about hybrids and making your vehicles fuel efficient should be of primary importance to all facing the terribly high gas price. A small investment in this package you will reap many many rewards. Simple yet effective use of modern technology that nobody is hiding anymore. They spill the complete beans. You just blam! Setup your device, and start saving money on gasoline now. They’ve made everything associated with the Water4Gas system package project really cool and beneficial.
Shows how to set up a basic Hydrogen on Demand Fuel system,
so that you can stop throwing away tons of your hard earned cash daily,
needlessly throwing money away on inefficient fossil fuel methods. Fight back
against the high gas price tyranny! These water4gas systems are easily
prepared, with step by step instructions, including all parts and can be used in
many regions and is well documented in multiple languages. They even have peer
support groups.
Ozzie Freedom’s Water4Gas is a "Complete" Package:
* Stop wasting $1000’s of dollars on gas
* Environmentally friendlier, green and clean
* IRS Refund support
* Available Worldwide
* Small simple setup and preparation
* Empowering Bonuses
Ozzie Freedom has created his Water4gas package in such a way that anyone can start using it. It works
with just a few small components. Even my Grandma could get her Nash Rambler more fuel efficient using the package.
No need to learn about any new technology, this stuff has been around for awhile. They added some really awesome bonuses along with the package as well for free.
As a direct result of the water4gas system, I am really satisfied with all the benefits I received but especially it has given me a way to fight against the tyranny of extremely outrageously high gas prices.
This is definitely a "Must Have." The price is very reasonable. A small investment will be saving you $1000’s down the line. It comes with about 5 awesome free gifts, about how to save even more on gas prices. If you get this package, the water4gas system, it's like putting a stop to the money draining out of your pockets when you have to pay for gas. It is like installing and having your own gas station right inside your car.
Get water4gas and see what other people have to say.
Click Here!
online auction spare me the scams please, light on the onion
#1 Tip To Avoid Regretting Purchases You Make At Online Auctions
Do you remember Yul Brenner and his "Whatever you do.... DON"T SMOKE" commercials"? Well if there was a similar tip that I would want to say to the whole world in so many words to all new members of online auction sites, and to anyone who, in their own natural enthusiasm and desire for an item and had the chance to say it, it would be this.
* In this article I have replaced all inferences to the most famous of online auctions with the imaginary online auction site P-buy. Thanks in advance for
1. DO NOT MAKE A BID UNTIL YOU CHECK THE SHIPPING COSTS!
Let me put it another way, if you want to avoid regretting your purchase, the first thing to make sure of is the cost of shipping. I reiterate for the sake of Clarity of the intent of my guide and message the following:
DO NOT BID ON ANY ITEM, UNTIL, YOU BEHOLD WITH YOUR EYES THE COST OF SHIPPING!
That is the #1 tip to avoid regretting your purchases on P-buy. Make sure to look at the shipping costs and do research for what would be considered a reasonable rate for the shipping of your prospective items.
This tip is so important that it should be requisite for all new future members of P-buy to read before signing the dotted line understand the concept of "Caveat Empore" or "Buyer Beware". It should not be proclaimed throughout the entire P-buy kingdom, coming forth not as an omen or prophecy; nor should this be divined neither from the Oracle at Delphi, nor from the wise sayings of King Solomon and re-iterated in his proverbs, but should be understood that as a new member of P-buy there are inherent dangers to membership. It is called in some places, the hornswaggle.
The agreement a bidder/consumer/customer/buyer signs electronically. P-buy should relay the message "Buyers Beware" so thoroughly on their home page that we would be able to say, “Caveat Empore”, in 4 different languages as easy as we can say our own Alphabet.
If I haven't already said this it warrants a replay: Buyer Beware The statement doesn't mention. My warning is to all classes of buyers, many of whom, like myself, may harbor, (no doubt, as of this reading), regrets about a purchase or purchases which they have fallen prey to the Hungry Dollar P-buy Selling Wolf Bandits in the guise of our most endearing and trusted household name, donning Grandmother's apron and hood, that, as sellers, are ever diligent in their efforts to secure their lucre that a little dishonesty can pull the wool over the eyes of their potential customer, thereby getting their sell. They finely tune their listings, and use every device, technique, method, story, picture, html, FORTRAN, Cobol, verbiage, photo bait and switch, whatever it takes to get $5 extra dollars from the American Democratic principles laid down by the forefathers of our great nation. P-buy should make every effort to protect these types of scams from occurring.
P-buy has been doing, as good a job, as can be expected from the evil few that really want me to be miserable after making a stupid buyers mistake. Avoid pain in the future, whatever you do… Always, always look both ways before you cross the street, making sure to wear clean underwear. A human mistake I made and it cost me $6 dollars. Yes a whopping $6 dollars I still feel to this day that the item was misrepresented, and the item that I got was a harsh reality of a grand illusion that I had just taken part of.
I paid close to $8 for $1.89 worth of value in the item in question. It even makes one feel bad about the choice but only later when it’s too late to back out of the deal. A seller that offers no return policy needs to be asked why they do not offer a return policy. But before even looking at whether the seller even offers a return of goods policy check the price of the shipping.
Here is my bad experience with one bad apple at P-buy. (Told in all my naivety as an P-buy-er who has already sold and bought items on P-buy) Boy what a sucker I am, I thought to myself as my blood boiled from the shock I received after getting my auction item. The item was a Sacagawea Dollar being sold at $0.99 cent. A measly dollar for a Sacagawea Gold Sparkling Coin and a super prize bonus of untold value awaiting my PayPal completed transaction, or the offered bonus which was stated as being an uncirculated coin.
With promises of grandeur I quickly jumped to the bidding button and laid down my amazing $0.99 bid." So I kept thinking to myself, Boy what a good boy am I...Didn't I do well… Look Mom... No Hands! I am such a good a smart shopper…Etc. And I got all excited because I was seemingly getting a superior deal. Gee...what a good boy am I… NOT… Due to a lack of bad experiences on P-buy I Hastily jumped on the bidders stump and said boy let me tell you what.
I guess you didn’t know it, but I'm a coin collector too; and, if you care to bid on my item I'll give you an uncirculated coin too. I fell for it jumped on the band wagon and bid the only bid for this item in which this seller floods P-buy with pages of her swaggle. With 2175 successful sells, you got to give this seller their due. After all this is America and it is the land of opportunity. I was almost converted to the dark-side in thinking; wow this seller is smart for being able to rip me off like that. If just I wasn't as stupid I wouldn't have fell for it. I believe P-buy’s incredible growth as a company has done a very good job in all sectors of its being. Hats off to P-buy for succeeding. For making improvements to their site, in spite of the enormity, and complexity of their tasks. Nobody is Perfect, Even Monkeys Fall from Trees. We can cut P-buy a little slack for the enormity of their enterprise.
I have no qualms with P-buy at all, and it just seems to improve day by day in every way. P-buy is such an amazingly dynamic place and provides bountifully and continues to be helpful to an ever improving and changing customer/consumer/buyer experience. P-buy can't be held responsible for buyers not being careful. "Caveat Empore" or "Buyer Beware" should at least ring forth into my head each time I open the My P-buy page or right before I put the numbers in the box for my bid price and before I input any digits of my credit card, again it wouldn't hurt to put a pop up right in my face, yeah a dirty little popup reminding me of that Phrase "Caveat Empore" I would even at that point welcome such an unwelcome pop-up for reminding me that as a buyer I need to be forewarned, I need to beware less I regret making a purchase on P-buy .
Not looking at the shipping price before bidding on an item is a no-no. If you want to avoid regretting a purchase you make on P-buy, follow my #1 Tip and you will fare much better. You will avoid regretting things later on down the line. It is so easy to get enraptured in a fabulous looking offer that at the peak, the apex of my rapture about finding such a golden treasure of an item to bid on, only after patting myself on the back for what seems to be superific deal of my lifetime, offer, or prize that I totally forgot to look at the #1 tip on how to avoid regretting my purchases on P-buy. That is, if you allow me to repeat it again
DO NOT BID ON AN ITEM UNTIL YOU HAVE BEHELD WITH YOUR EYES THE SHIPPING COSTS!
I am positive I am not alone in when I complain but little about how I have been hornswaggled by the wicked witch of the shipping north and how on top of being burned for shipping costs I was also scammed out of an item I thought I was going to receive and the difference between it and the item I actually received.
I would like to end this little guide, lense, article of mine by saying thank you to all the honest people that anonymously or knowingly work hard to make P-buy a really safe and cool place to hang out, have fun, shop, or just dream about stuff.
Do you remember Yul Brenner and his "Whatever you do.... DON"T SMOKE" commercials"? Well if there was a similar tip that I would want to say to the whole world in so many words to all new members of online auction sites, and to anyone who, in their own natural enthusiasm and desire for an item and had the chance to say it, it would be this.
* In this article I have replaced all inferences to the most famous of online auctions with the imaginary online auction site P-buy. Thanks in advance for
1. DO NOT MAKE A BID UNTIL YOU CHECK THE SHIPPING COSTS!
Let me put it another way, if you want to avoid regretting your purchase, the first thing to make sure of is the cost of shipping. I reiterate for the sake of Clarity of the intent of my guide and message the following:
DO NOT BID ON ANY ITEM, UNTIL, YOU BEHOLD WITH YOUR EYES THE COST OF SHIPPING!
That is the #1 tip to avoid regretting your purchases on P-buy. Make sure to look at the shipping costs and do research for what would be considered a reasonable rate for the shipping of your prospective items.
This tip is so important that it should be requisite for all new future members of P-buy to read before signing the dotted line understand the concept of "Caveat Empore" or "Buyer Beware". It should not be proclaimed throughout the entire P-buy kingdom, coming forth not as an omen or prophecy; nor should this be divined neither from the Oracle at Delphi, nor from the wise sayings of King Solomon and re-iterated in his proverbs, but should be understood that as a new member of P-buy there are inherent dangers to membership. It is called in some places, the hornswaggle.
The agreement a bidder/consumer/customer/buyer signs electronically. P-buy should relay the message "Buyers Beware" so thoroughly on their home page that we would be able to say, “Caveat Empore”, in 4 different languages as easy as we can say our own Alphabet.
If I haven't already said this it warrants a replay: Buyer Beware The statement doesn't mention. My warning is to all classes of buyers, many of whom, like myself, may harbor, (no doubt, as of this reading), regrets about a purchase or purchases which they have fallen prey to the Hungry Dollar P-buy Selling Wolf Bandits in the guise of our most endearing and trusted household name, donning Grandmother's apron and hood, that, as sellers, are ever diligent in their efforts to secure their lucre that a little dishonesty can pull the wool over the eyes of their potential customer, thereby getting their sell. They finely tune their listings, and use every device, technique, method, story, picture, html, FORTRAN, Cobol, verbiage, photo bait and switch, whatever it takes to get $5 extra dollars from the American Democratic principles laid down by the forefathers of our great nation. P-buy should make every effort to protect these types of scams from occurring.
P-buy has been doing, as good a job, as can be expected from the evil few that really want me to be miserable after making a stupid buyers mistake. Avoid pain in the future, whatever you do… Always, always look both ways before you cross the street, making sure to wear clean underwear. A human mistake I made and it cost me $6 dollars. Yes a whopping $6 dollars I still feel to this day that the item was misrepresented, and the item that I got was a harsh reality of a grand illusion that I had just taken part of.
I paid close to $8 for $1.89 worth of value in the item in question. It even makes one feel bad about the choice but only later when it’s too late to back out of the deal. A seller that offers no return policy needs to be asked why they do not offer a return policy. But before even looking at whether the seller even offers a return of goods policy check the price of the shipping.
Here is my bad experience with one bad apple at P-buy. (Told in all my naivety as an P-buy-er who has already sold and bought items on P-buy) Boy what a sucker I am, I thought to myself as my blood boiled from the shock I received after getting my auction item. The item was a Sacagawea Dollar being sold at $0.99 cent. A measly dollar for a Sacagawea Gold Sparkling Coin and a super prize bonus of untold value awaiting my PayPal completed transaction, or the offered bonus which was stated as being an uncirculated coin.
With promises of grandeur I quickly jumped to the bidding button and laid down my amazing $0.99 bid." So I kept thinking to myself, Boy what a good boy am I...Didn't I do well… Look Mom... No Hands! I am such a good a smart shopper…Etc. And I got all excited because I was seemingly getting a superior deal. Gee...what a good boy am I… NOT… Due to a lack of bad experiences on P-buy I Hastily jumped on the bidders stump and said boy let me tell you what.
I guess you didn’t know it, but I'm a coin collector too; and, if you care to bid on my item I'll give you an uncirculated coin too. I fell for it jumped on the band wagon and bid the only bid for this item in which this seller floods P-buy with pages of her swaggle. With 2175 successful sells, you got to give this seller their due. After all this is America and it is the land of opportunity. I was almost converted to the dark-side in thinking; wow this seller is smart for being able to rip me off like that. If just I wasn't as stupid I wouldn't have fell for it. I believe P-buy’s incredible growth as a company has done a very good job in all sectors of its being. Hats off to P-buy for succeeding. For making improvements to their site, in spite of the enormity, and complexity of their tasks. Nobody is Perfect, Even Monkeys Fall from Trees. We can cut P-buy a little slack for the enormity of their enterprise.
I have no qualms with P-buy at all, and it just seems to improve day by day in every way. P-buy is such an amazingly dynamic place and provides bountifully and continues to be helpful to an ever improving and changing customer/consumer/buyer experience. P-buy can't be held responsible for buyers not being careful. "Caveat Empore" or "Buyer Beware" should at least ring forth into my head each time I open the My P-buy page or right before I put the numbers in the box for my bid price and before I input any digits of my credit card, again it wouldn't hurt to put a pop up right in my face, yeah a dirty little popup reminding me of that Phrase "Caveat Empore" I would even at that point welcome such an unwelcome pop-up for reminding me that as a buyer I need to be forewarned, I need to beware less I regret making a purchase on P-buy .
Not looking at the shipping price before bidding on an item is a no-no. If you want to avoid regretting a purchase you make on P-buy, follow my #1 Tip and you will fare much better. You will avoid regretting things later on down the line. It is so easy to get enraptured in a fabulous looking offer that at the peak, the apex of my rapture about finding such a golden treasure of an item to bid on, only after patting myself on the back for what seems to be superific deal of my lifetime, offer, or prize that I totally forgot to look at the #1 tip on how to avoid regretting my purchases on P-buy. That is, if you allow me to repeat it again
DO NOT BID ON AN ITEM UNTIL YOU HAVE BEHELD WITH YOUR EYES THE SHIPPING COSTS!
I am positive I am not alone in when I complain but little about how I have been hornswaggled by the wicked witch of the shipping north and how on top of being burned for shipping costs I was also scammed out of an item I thought I was going to receive and the difference between it and the item I actually received.
I would like to end this little guide, lense, article of mine by saying thank you to all the honest people that anonymously or knowingly work hard to make P-buy a really safe and cool place to hang out, have fun, shop, or just dream about stuff.
interesting but true hanashi story tha happened in fukuoka Japan
A lot of people have come across something in their lives that has a tendency to highly influence our actions, wants, and desires. Some things outright possess us. Johnny is in to baseball cards and won't quit until he gets that 97' Donruss platinum press proof signature card of Mark MacGwire, and Derek won't stop playing guitar until his fingers hurt, or Chrysalis records affords him a recording contract. When other things rather than our goals and worthy pursuits, take us away from what we really should be doing, we find ourselves akin to what James Joyce in his Araby would call, "...a creature driven and derided by vanity...". Because we give these our infatuations, adorations, admirations a lot of attention, we lose track of where we are, who we are, and what we are doing. We could term a "confused adoration" or obsession with someone an infatuation. In Araby we see how this obsession, or romantic adoration (infatuation) has a way of controlling the main character's (whom no name is given) actions, ideas, and thoughts as he progresses through the story. In reading Araby, we can see how his intense adoration for a one Mangan's sister, takes over his world. It takes over his attitude toward school, the things which he should be doing and seems to compel to the sudden realization(epiphany) that he has been on the wrong track for the wrong reasons.
From a distance, the young man (the main character of Araby) has a youthful crush on Mangan's sister after scoping her out through the eyes of pious rendering. The story is set in the early 1900's in Dublin Ireland. A time at which every proper person feels it necessary for some sort of church and state. We find out that his house used to belong to a priest, now deceased.The imagery we get about the neighborhood, in which they live, is a very serene, not so post- Victorian Dublin, Ireland. Joyce is very descriptive in giving the setting. I particularly like the way he describes the way the boys play ,"We played 'till our bodies glowed. Have you ever played football after school, when the air is cold and stingy? You work up a sweat and your body seems to glow with the hot perspiration inside your coat, when you take it off your body sort of glows. The young mans aunt has a concern about the Freemasons causing a ruckus at dearly beloved Catholic church. No good Irish man could be without his Catholicism. So to begin the tale, we find the tone of the story to be somewhat, religious. As the story progresses, we come to see how the young man becomes overtaken with his adoration for Mangan's sister.
The young man tells us the way in which he first sees her. The narrator in first person tells us that she would call for her brother to come to tea. "I stood by the railings looking at her." So to begin with, he does a lot of looking. The young man describes her, "Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side."In the early 1900's it was still a big thing to see a girls petticoat. That petticoat, idealized in the young mans mind, repeating over and over in his mind mental images of this girl, could be seen as one way the author Joyce found to perpetuate his infatuation.
As far as character is concerned, the young man is rather round. We know a lot of a little bit, everything but his name.We are given details that he is young, in school and that he lives with his aunt and uncle. You ever notice other stories in which the main characters live with their aunts and uncles. Like uncle Owen and Aunt Em for Luke Skywalker in Star Wars or Dorothy's uncle Oz (just kidding). I wanted to ask ,' Where is his real mother and father? Will these details given by the narrator perpetuate the mood in which we see his infatuation?'
We know nothing of his relatives, and Mangan's sister would appear to be somewhat flat. But as we analyze her character with a little post thought, we come to find out many things which the author only implies. I would say with careful thought she is a rather complex character affecting the whole gamut of this short story.We know that she has a white neck and a really sexy petticoat and other minute details. It doesn't really matter that we know a lot about the girl. What we do know is our young man is 'head over heels' about her, and it affects his thoughts and deeds.What we should do, is find out how this adoration is affecting him.We also know that when the young man and Mangan's sister first talk, they discuss a fair, entitled Araby, that is going to take place soon and whether or not he is going. The young man now finds the impetus that drives his infatuation. When she tells him that she cannot go due to obligations concerning a retreat at her convent, he unwittingly obliges himself to bring her something back. Since she is involved in nunnery, we could possibly label her as a good girl, but due to the young man's extreme idealism, to him, she might be viewed as a sort of Madonna, a woman that is near perfect.
From this point on, the young man determines to bring her something from the fair, thus, perpetuating another meeting with his most adored. (Perhaps the only type of women that were around in his town were nunnish.) The young man views her almost as a religious artifact, her image was his chalice, and every where the young man went, he imagined that he "...bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes." Everything seems colored with this religious tone. It even seems as if he prayed to her. "I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: "O Love! O Love!" many times." His idealized sweetheart, the girl he so much adored, was his holy Grail. "Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance." No matter what pressing matters were at hand, no matter how much distractions he might have had, he stayed true to his adoration keeping her image with him through the day.
His mind was occupied constantly with this 'confused adoration'. I feel the theme of Araby is a theme of extreme adoration or infatuation and the way in which it has an affect on our well being, on our actions and even how we think and act towards others. Are we driven by our obsessions, or do we drive them. The next few paragraphs will be on incidents that occur in the story that can show us how this overwhelming adoration, unquelled had affected him. It really affected him, and vanity could certainly drive and deride us, if we are not careful.
We can see how a his preoccupation to thoughts on her led his teacher to suspect that he might be beginning to idle. Even other people notice the changes brought about by his infatuation. He didn't have much motivation to do anything, that didn't concern Mangan's sister. He only wanted to see her again, he had been given the chance to impress her with vanity by bringing her something cool back from the fair.James Joyce's use of diction in the following excerpt helps illustrate how the young man felt about anything that didn't have to do with her, " I chafed against the work of school." Did he get a rug burn or something? This is probably just another way of saying that he felt his school work was getting in the way. Getting in the way between that which he desired and that which was tedious.When we are obsessed with something or someone, we don't appreciate things getting in the way of our adoration. He says, "... I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days... and could not call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life's which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play ugly monotonous child's play." See cause being in love with somebody is serious adults business right?
If there is a point to be made, it is that usually our obsessions and infatuations take over and control us , not that we have any control over or possibly could control our obsessions. Other than that which we adore things seem monotonous. Everything is more boring, and more dull than that which we adore. It just isn't as interesting. "Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand." Just her name was, if he heard it, "...was like a summons to all my (his) foolish blood ." Just her name and the name Araby were powerful influences over him. If someone so much as mentioned the word Araby it jostled his imagination of the exotic, "...it cast an Eastern enchantment over me." Even he recognizes that this infatuation controls and influences the stupid or foolish things which he might do for the cause of romantic obsession.
The young man seems to be a dynamic character. In a way even before his epiphany, he admitted to himself the possibilities of repercussions for having such a confused 'adoration'. The young man observed, "What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening." The evening in question is their simple meeting, where he actually conversed with her (the Madonna). His adoration rendered him incapable of dealing with his daily routine. Not being able to concentrate at school only worsened his condition to be driven by vanity. He thought only on the promise of going and seeing an exotic, enchanting bazaar, and the promise of meeting and talking with her again in hopes that he might impress her with the trinket or the 'something' he was going to bring back for her.
Here is another point to ponder. Julie proposed it to me in our reading of the great works. It is something like this. When we idealize things (or humans), we think the best of them. We only see what we want to see, even if the thing (or human) isn't really what our mind pictures or desires. We all have a pair of rose colored glasses with which to perceive and view our world and the persons in it. We can view them however we want even though we may not know a single thing of truth concerning what kind of person they are. So I keep that in mind as I consider how the young man must have seen things.
In Araby, he didn't know too much about Mangan's sister, after all, they only talked that once, but to him she was top choice. The young man never ever got to tell her that he likes her. Instead, the plot becomes such that he was given an opportunity to show her that he liked her by bringing her soemething back from the bazaar.
His sole purpose was to show her his adoration. He probably wasn't even very familiar with such a bazaar, but simply because it was the main topic of their sole conversation prompted him to treat this as a very important matter. The young man asked his uncle about going to the bazaar, but his uncle didn't give him 10% assurance about it. This uncertainty, almost like a fear, the what if? the what if I don't go? complex syndrome. When his mind turned to uncertainty abut getting to the fair his heart missed a beat, an actual physical manifestation. He says, "The air was pitilessly raw and already my heart misgave me. He had to wait till his uncle got home in order to get the shillings and the florin to enter the bazaar. Just imagine how dreadfully impatient he was that night. His uncle seemed somewhat compassionate and caring, but not as so as the aunt. Upon seeing how badly he wanted to go to the bazaar, his aunt became his spokesperson for love. In her simple language she pleads for her nephews cause, saying energetically, "Can't you give him the money and let him go? You've kept him late enough as it is. " Have you ever seen someone want something or want to do something soooo bad, that you help them get it. Joyce represents here in a very few words a very human experience, a plea for someone's cause due to their overwhelming desire to possess it.
The young man's extreme idealism had turned him in. This bazaar wasn't the great, fantastic, enchanted, magical place he had envisioned it. It was a bit unruly. He even had trouble remembering why he had come. Isn't that ironic. He would have just about died to get to this bazaar, but now he was getting nearer to a keen insight into his character, the epiphany. He noticed how this whole affair had affected him and what position he lay in now. At a bunk bazaar, with some stupid wench flirting with some guys not even caring about the wares. He must of thought to himself, ' Is this all?' That is where he saw how he was driven and derided by vanity, the vain puffed up stuff. Costly apparel, looking good in the eyes of others. Fancy buggies and expensive petticoats. He must have thought how worthless, how vain. Nothing could have been so ordinary; there was nothing so important or stifling even to have come in the first place. He realized that he was the sole proprietor of his actions, he concluded that he was a lowly creature like a pig in its mire.
The sudden realization or insight into who this young man really was helps us to add another point to what we consider the them. It is true that he was infatuated with her, but the reason was was because of the vain things of the world, just to be showy, like hey look at me in my new silk socks and look at all this very cool, tres hip stuff that we can get at the bazaar, got to get it or you aren't cool. To be liked by her he would have to be somewhat vain. The girl flirting with the guys is one way Joyce shows vanity. It is hard for the young man to come to grips with what was really driving his infatuation. He sums the realization up in the very last sentence of Araby and also the quote I used first in this paper, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature, driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." The choice of words here makes me instantly think of a creature as being a lesser animal, but I particularly envisioned an owl. A creature driven by falsehood or deceit. Was he deceiving himself or was he being deceived?
I would like to share an experience of my own now. I don't know that vanity had anything to do with my derision but I really relate to Araby because I can see how our minds become overruled by infatuation. I lived in Fukuoka, Japan in 1990-1994 roughly and I met a girl who I really couldn't get off my mind. She was super, fantastic, the best looking girl I had ever seen. I didn't waste time using every method I could to further develop a relationship with this super, super fantastically gorgeous girl. Everything about her was awesome. I couldn't find a flaw. She was sophisticated, learned, cultured and she was an artist with extraordinary skill. Her name was Yayoi, a real rare name that translates to March in English. I thought it was cool to be called March because although in English we have names like April, August, Sunday, June, Mae etc. we didn't have a March. This added to my unfounded adoration.
I had managed to secure a date to go out to eat together one afternoon. We made a promise (yakusoku or appointment) the day before to meet at her house in Takamiya to the north of Fukuoka at 4:00 p.m. I was so head over heals in a dream about her, I couldn't wait for tomorrow to get here. I kept telling time Hurry up! Hurry up! I couldn't sleep fast enough. I kept waking up and it was still 3:18 or 4:20. When I really woke up later that morning, I decided to visit my other friend, Akiko.
In Japan they have a whole season of rain in August or July, where it rains every day, it is called Tsuyu, or simply translated the rainy season. A constant downpour of water. It rains big time, umbrellas and rain suits are pretty much useless. No kidding , non-stop rain 24 hours a day for about one month of every year. Many other Asian nations get to experience this rainy season too, but Japan is surrounded by water. That is the definition of an island. Every year during the rainy season, torrential storm currents oftentimes develop into massive taifu or typhoons, with great destructive potential. The houses windows are usually reinforced by wooden, aluminum, or steel panels to further aid against the potentially life threatening taifu that is coming to town. In California we have drop, duck and roll, fire drills, or earthquake drills all very potentially hazardous. The best way to describe a taifu is a tornado but coupled with a million gallons of water flying though Kansas at a million miles an hour. I had experienced two taifu before this incident. No big deal. We duct taped our windows because we didn't have the luxury of panel reinforcements, and we stay inside. Everything we want to keep we put indoors. Bikes, cows, cars whatever could just be strewn around. So I had no excuse for not knowing the power and affects of a taifu.
You would think that I would understand the necessity of giving respect to such an awesome force like mother nature's very own water powered tornado the taifu, but there was another force working inside of me that was even stronger than the taifu at work outside of me. I had become infatuated, what the Japanese term in a verb muchu ni naru or to become directly in the middle or center of a dream about her, maybe starry eyed would be a better translation.
I was at the other part of town in the south, about close to a 50 minutes bike ride to Takamiya my most important destination for that time in my life. Getting to meet her, spend time with her and getting to know her meant more to me than anything. happen at around 10:00 in the morning. Visiting another friend and she was in her own right a very beautiful princess herself. She would have been quite a catch. But to me she was my kindergarten friend. We played piano together. I had travelled by bicycle to her house and it just seemed like another one of those tsuyu days.
Even if I did wear a rain coat, Japan is so humid that my sweat creates rain inside my suit, in other words it was hard to stay dry. It was overcast, but I didn't look so bad. It didn't look like a taifu was headed our way and was going to hit our city, nobody had many anything to me before .As my other friend and I were playing around on her piano and looking at pictures a news warning on TV told us that we are now in a state of emergency blah , blah, blah. Prepare for the arrival of a taifu immediately they said. No one was to have activities outside, only that we should batten down the hatches quickly and get to somewhere safe fast. and get ready for some mighty swirling water wind.
I remember being stuck at her house wanting so badly to brave the taifu to get to my dream date. I tried everything to get to go. But they didn't have to persuade me for very long. A taifu is dangerous. Don't get stuck out ion one that is for sure, they might never find you or you might get hurt. My other friend's father cautioned me 'there will be no way to go anywhere now at all 'as he pointed to the grey sky and ominous looking things developing outside. I was torn between feelings. I felt meeting her was my sole purpose now in life. Nothing else mattered. Not the best piano music or anything. Missing that chance, I felt somehow deprived of all that is dear to me. My mind wanted to go ,but for safety's sake I was talked out of leaving Akiko's house eventually being persuaded by myself. It wouldn't even be possible. The winds were howling outside. Your hair blew up in your face like grass being blown in a field as the strong winds gave no mercy to civilization. as more important to die in a taifu in an attempt to make it 50 minutes away. In reality, not even the dumbest of fools would have attempted to ride their bike in a taifu. NOBODY! and to get to see her than it was to be safe get I told the dad if I really hurried on my bike a wouldn't be in danger. He knew far better than I did the destructive force of a taifu, you would be crazy to brave the taifu on a bike to get to He denied my pleading to take leave while even though I tried being super nice to him by emphasizing how good of a host he had been to me.
So there were my circumstances. I was so devastated. I had to face the fact that I couldn't meet her today. Nature prevented me from getting what I wanted and from getting where I wanted to go. Fate would have it that way. It sucked. I was miserable and I couldn't not show it even though I tried. Akiko's family tried cheering me up by saying that we could all have a picnic in their home and wait until the storm cleared then it would be safe to leave. I countered that remark to myself by saying, but I can't wait around until the storm clears, I have to see her now, at 4:00.
I really wanted that date. It was the only one I had. I had no insurance that I might get another. I asked, " How could the weather change so fast,; if I leave now, I could make it to my other date before the edge of the taifu even got to us." The fact was, that while I was playing with my other friend the taifu had already edged its way in. The winds were getting louder, and stronger. The news said the winds would get upward of 200 Kph. I took one last look outside Akiko's front door to see if all this stuff was true, thinking to myself maybe I could escape. (That would be disrespectful to Akiko's family who graciously hosted me and harbored me during that taifu. But my infatuation with Yayoi left me inconsiderate of others hospitality, and I became their sandtrap)I opened one of the doors, and as I did the my hand was still attached to the knob as it threw me around. I struggled to close it back up. I realized, I wouldn't even be able to hold my bike up let alone ride in it. The taifu was raging. From the edge of the taifu to the Eye of the taifu it took probably 3 hours. After that three hours we entered into the calmness of the Eye. I tried in vain again trying to get someone to believe that the storm is over. Its all calm now", I said "I can't hear the winds any more. No more winds." The mother taught me that in the center of the whirling taifu was the core and that their house was entering it now. For about 30 minutes it was really calm, but after it passed over, or by us then I could hear the winds. I thought... another three hours. So we ate our picnic, and I tried to make the best of my worst situation.
What a crazy fool I was. I wanted to see her so bad, I was gripping fists and biting my tongue, gnawing and gnashing my teeth in rebellion to this mother nature who had taken my happiness from me. I was in a bit of silent rage cursing mother nature and the taifu she rode in on, all the while asking in vain why couldn't the taifu have been any other day of the last 30yrs. Just perfect timing I guess. I had to learn from it. I didn't like the chiding. I wanted my freedom, to move about, but mother nature shoved it in my face and said nanny, nanny. My great natural powers indeed will stop a man. It did.
I gave up and decided it was useless to sit around thinking I could possibly leave in time to meet her. I resignedly called Yayoi to talk to her about it. She just said come and talk to her later and we can do it some other time. I WANTED TO GO NOW! I had become angry. Angry at wind angry at my captors (Akiko's family) Angry at everything. If I didn't learn anything else, this little episode in my life taught me patience, and it taught me that some things in life simply can't be overturned, or bypassed. The power of nature showed its full face to me that day, but I hated every second of it because of what it deprived me of.
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From a distance, the young man (the main character of Araby) has a youthful crush on Mangan's sister after scoping her out through the eyes of pious rendering. The story is set in the early 1900's in Dublin Ireland. A time at which every proper person feels it necessary for some sort of church and state. We find out that his house used to belong to a priest, now deceased.The imagery we get about the neighborhood, in which they live, is a very serene, not so post- Victorian Dublin, Ireland. Joyce is very descriptive in giving the setting. I particularly like the way he describes the way the boys play ,"We played 'till our bodies glowed. Have you ever played football after school, when the air is cold and stingy? You work up a sweat and your body seems to glow with the hot perspiration inside your coat, when you take it off your body sort of glows. The young mans aunt has a concern about the Freemasons causing a ruckus at dearly beloved Catholic church. No good Irish man could be without his Catholicism. So to begin the tale, we find the tone of the story to be somewhat, religious. As the story progresses, we come to see how the young man becomes overtaken with his adoration for Mangan's sister.
The young man tells us the way in which he first sees her. The narrator in first person tells us that she would call for her brother to come to tea. "I stood by the railings looking at her." So to begin with, he does a lot of looking. The young man describes her, "Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side."In the early 1900's it was still a big thing to see a girls petticoat. That petticoat, idealized in the young mans mind, repeating over and over in his mind mental images of this girl, could be seen as one way the author Joyce found to perpetuate his infatuation.
As far as character is concerned, the young man is rather round. We know a lot of a little bit, everything but his name.We are given details that he is young, in school and that he lives with his aunt and uncle. You ever notice other stories in which the main characters live with their aunts and uncles. Like uncle Owen and Aunt Em for Luke Skywalker in Star Wars or Dorothy's uncle Oz (just kidding). I wanted to ask ,' Where is his real mother and father? Will these details given by the narrator perpetuate the mood in which we see his infatuation?'
We know nothing of his relatives, and Mangan's sister would appear to be somewhat flat. But as we analyze her character with a little post thought, we come to find out many things which the author only implies. I would say with careful thought she is a rather complex character affecting the whole gamut of this short story.We know that she has a white neck and a really sexy petticoat and other minute details. It doesn't really matter that we know a lot about the girl. What we do know is our young man is 'head over heels' about her, and it affects his thoughts and deeds.What we should do, is find out how this adoration is affecting him.We also know that when the young man and Mangan's sister first talk, they discuss a fair, entitled Araby, that is going to take place soon and whether or not he is going. The young man now finds the impetus that drives his infatuation. When she tells him that she cannot go due to obligations concerning a retreat at her convent, he unwittingly obliges himself to bring her something back. Since she is involved in nunnery, we could possibly label her as a good girl, but due to the young man's extreme idealism, to him, she might be viewed as a sort of Madonna, a woman that is near perfect.
From this point on, the young man determines to bring her something from the fair, thus, perpetuating another meeting with his most adored. (Perhaps the only type of women that were around in his town were nunnish.) The young man views her almost as a religious artifact, her image was his chalice, and every where the young man went, he imagined that he "...bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes." Everything seems colored with this religious tone. It even seems as if he prayed to her. "I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: "O Love! O Love!" many times." His idealized sweetheart, the girl he so much adored, was his holy Grail. "Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance." No matter what pressing matters were at hand, no matter how much distractions he might have had, he stayed true to his adoration keeping her image with him through the day.
His mind was occupied constantly with this 'confused adoration'. I feel the theme of Araby is a theme of extreme adoration or infatuation and the way in which it has an affect on our well being, on our actions and even how we think and act towards others. Are we driven by our obsessions, or do we drive them. The next few paragraphs will be on incidents that occur in the story that can show us how this overwhelming adoration, unquelled had affected him. It really affected him, and vanity could certainly drive and deride us, if we are not careful.
We can see how a his preoccupation to thoughts on her led his teacher to suspect that he might be beginning to idle. Even other people notice the changes brought about by his infatuation. He didn't have much motivation to do anything, that didn't concern Mangan's sister. He only wanted to see her again, he had been given the chance to impress her with vanity by bringing her something cool back from the fair.James Joyce's use of diction in the following excerpt helps illustrate how the young man felt about anything that didn't have to do with her, " I chafed against the work of school." Did he get a rug burn or something? This is probably just another way of saying that he felt his school work was getting in the way. Getting in the way between that which he desired and that which was tedious.When we are obsessed with something or someone, we don't appreciate things getting in the way of our adoration. He says, "... I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days... and could not call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life's which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play ugly monotonous child's play." See cause being in love with somebody is serious adults business right?
If there is a point to be made, it is that usually our obsessions and infatuations take over and control us , not that we have any control over or possibly could control our obsessions. Other than that which we adore things seem monotonous. Everything is more boring, and more dull than that which we adore. It just isn't as interesting. "Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand." Just her name was, if he heard it, "...was like a summons to all my (his) foolish blood ." Just her name and the name Araby were powerful influences over him. If someone so much as mentioned the word Araby it jostled his imagination of the exotic, "...it cast an Eastern enchantment over me." Even he recognizes that this infatuation controls and influences the stupid or foolish things which he might do for the cause of romantic obsession.
The young man seems to be a dynamic character. In a way even before his epiphany, he admitted to himself the possibilities of repercussions for having such a confused 'adoration'. The young man observed, "What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening." The evening in question is their simple meeting, where he actually conversed with her (the Madonna). His adoration rendered him incapable of dealing with his daily routine. Not being able to concentrate at school only worsened his condition to be driven by vanity. He thought only on the promise of going and seeing an exotic, enchanting bazaar, and the promise of meeting and talking with her again in hopes that he might impress her with the trinket or the 'something' he was going to bring back for her.
Here is another point to ponder. Julie proposed it to me in our reading of the great works. It is something like this. When we idealize things (or humans), we think the best of them. We only see what we want to see, even if the thing (or human) isn't really what our mind pictures or desires. We all have a pair of rose colored glasses with which to perceive and view our world and the persons in it. We can view them however we want even though we may not know a single thing of truth concerning what kind of person they are. So I keep that in mind as I consider how the young man must have seen things.
In Araby, he didn't know too much about Mangan's sister, after all, they only talked that once, but to him she was top choice. The young man never ever got to tell her that he likes her. Instead, the plot becomes such that he was given an opportunity to show her that he liked her by bringing her soemething back from the bazaar.
His sole purpose was to show her his adoration. He probably wasn't even very familiar with such a bazaar, but simply because it was the main topic of their sole conversation prompted him to treat this as a very important matter. The young man asked his uncle about going to the bazaar, but his uncle didn't give him 10% assurance about it. This uncertainty, almost like a fear, the what if? the what if I don't go? complex syndrome. When his mind turned to uncertainty abut getting to the fair his heart missed a beat, an actual physical manifestation. He says, "The air was pitilessly raw and already my heart misgave me. He had to wait till his uncle got home in order to get the shillings and the florin to enter the bazaar. Just imagine how dreadfully impatient he was that night. His uncle seemed somewhat compassionate and caring, but not as so as the aunt. Upon seeing how badly he wanted to go to the bazaar, his aunt became his spokesperson for love. In her simple language she pleads for her nephews cause, saying energetically, "Can't you give him the money and let him go? You've kept him late enough as it is. " Have you ever seen someone want something or want to do something soooo bad, that you help them get it. Joyce represents here in a very few words a very human experience, a plea for someone's cause due to their overwhelming desire to possess it.
The young man's extreme idealism had turned him in. This bazaar wasn't the great, fantastic, enchanted, magical place he had envisioned it. It was a bit unruly. He even had trouble remembering why he had come. Isn't that ironic. He would have just about died to get to this bazaar, but now he was getting nearer to a keen insight into his character, the epiphany. He noticed how this whole affair had affected him and what position he lay in now. At a bunk bazaar, with some stupid wench flirting with some guys not even caring about the wares. He must of thought to himself, ' Is this all?' That is where he saw how he was driven and derided by vanity, the vain puffed up stuff. Costly apparel, looking good in the eyes of others. Fancy buggies and expensive petticoats. He must have thought how worthless, how vain. Nothing could have been so ordinary; there was nothing so important or stifling even to have come in the first place. He realized that he was the sole proprietor of his actions, he concluded that he was a lowly creature like a pig in its mire.
The sudden realization or insight into who this young man really was helps us to add another point to what we consider the them. It is true that he was infatuated with her, but the reason was was because of the vain things of the world, just to be showy, like hey look at me in my new silk socks and look at all this very cool, tres hip stuff that we can get at the bazaar, got to get it or you aren't cool. To be liked by her he would have to be somewhat vain. The girl flirting with the guys is one way Joyce shows vanity. It is hard for the young man to come to grips with what was really driving his infatuation. He sums the realization up in the very last sentence of Araby and also the quote I used first in this paper, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature, driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." The choice of words here makes me instantly think of a creature as being a lesser animal, but I particularly envisioned an owl. A creature driven by falsehood or deceit. Was he deceiving himself or was he being deceived?
I would like to share an experience of my own now. I don't know that vanity had anything to do with my derision but I really relate to Araby because I can see how our minds become overruled by infatuation. I lived in Fukuoka, Japan in 1990-1994 roughly and I met a girl who I really couldn't get off my mind. She was super, fantastic, the best looking girl I had ever seen. I didn't waste time using every method I could to further develop a relationship with this super, super fantastically gorgeous girl. Everything about her was awesome. I couldn't find a flaw. She was sophisticated, learned, cultured and she was an artist with extraordinary skill. Her name was Yayoi, a real rare name that translates to March in English. I thought it was cool to be called March because although in English we have names like April, August, Sunday, June, Mae etc. we didn't have a March. This added to my unfounded adoration.
I had managed to secure a date to go out to eat together one afternoon. We made a promise (yakusoku or appointment) the day before to meet at her house in Takamiya to the north of Fukuoka at 4:00 p.m. I was so head over heals in a dream about her, I couldn't wait for tomorrow to get here. I kept telling time Hurry up! Hurry up! I couldn't sleep fast enough. I kept waking up and it was still 3:18 or 4:20. When I really woke up later that morning, I decided to visit my other friend, Akiko.
In Japan they have a whole season of rain in August or July, where it rains every day, it is called Tsuyu, or simply translated the rainy season. A constant downpour of water. It rains big time, umbrellas and rain suits are pretty much useless. No kidding , non-stop rain 24 hours a day for about one month of every year. Many other Asian nations get to experience this rainy season too, but Japan is surrounded by water. That is the definition of an island. Every year during the rainy season, torrential storm currents oftentimes develop into massive taifu or typhoons, with great destructive potential. The houses windows are usually reinforced by wooden, aluminum, or steel panels to further aid against the potentially life threatening taifu that is coming to town. In California we have drop, duck and roll, fire drills, or earthquake drills all very potentially hazardous. The best way to describe a taifu is a tornado but coupled with a million gallons of water flying though Kansas at a million miles an hour. I had experienced two taifu before this incident. No big deal. We duct taped our windows because we didn't have the luxury of panel reinforcements, and we stay inside. Everything we want to keep we put indoors. Bikes, cows, cars whatever could just be strewn around. So I had no excuse for not knowing the power and affects of a taifu.
You would think that I would understand the necessity of giving respect to such an awesome force like mother nature's very own water powered tornado the taifu, but there was another force working inside of me that was even stronger than the taifu at work outside of me. I had become infatuated, what the Japanese term in a verb muchu ni naru or to become directly in the middle or center of a dream about her, maybe starry eyed would be a better translation.
I was at the other part of town in the south, about close to a 50 minutes bike ride to Takamiya my most important destination for that time in my life. Getting to meet her, spend time with her and getting to know her meant more to me than anything. happen at around 10:00 in the morning. Visiting another friend and she was in her own right a very beautiful princess herself. She would have been quite a catch. But to me she was my kindergarten friend. We played piano together. I had travelled by bicycle to her house and it just seemed like another one of those tsuyu days.
Even if I did wear a rain coat, Japan is so humid that my sweat creates rain inside my suit, in other words it was hard to stay dry. It was overcast, but I didn't look so bad. It didn't look like a taifu was headed our way and was going to hit our city, nobody had many anything to me before .As my other friend and I were playing around on her piano and looking at pictures a news warning on TV told us that we are now in a state of emergency blah , blah, blah. Prepare for the arrival of a taifu immediately they said. No one was to have activities outside, only that we should batten down the hatches quickly and get to somewhere safe fast. and get ready for some mighty swirling water wind.
I remember being stuck at her house wanting so badly to brave the taifu to get to my dream date. I tried everything to get to go. But they didn't have to persuade me for very long. A taifu is dangerous. Don't get stuck out ion one that is for sure, they might never find you or you might get hurt. My other friend's father cautioned me 'there will be no way to go anywhere now at all 'as he pointed to the grey sky and ominous looking things developing outside. I was torn between feelings. I felt meeting her was my sole purpose now in life. Nothing else mattered. Not the best piano music or anything. Missing that chance, I felt somehow deprived of all that is dear to me. My mind wanted to go ,but for safety's sake I was talked out of leaving Akiko's house eventually being persuaded by myself. It wouldn't even be possible. The winds were howling outside. Your hair blew up in your face like grass being blown in a field as the strong winds gave no mercy to civilization. as more important to die in a taifu in an attempt to make it 50 minutes away. In reality, not even the dumbest of fools would have attempted to ride their bike in a taifu. NOBODY! and to get to see her than it was to be safe get I told the dad if I really hurried on my bike a wouldn't be in danger. He knew far better than I did the destructive force of a taifu, you would be crazy to brave the taifu on a bike to get to He denied my pleading to take leave while even though I tried being super nice to him by emphasizing how good of a host he had been to me.
So there were my circumstances. I was so devastated. I had to face the fact that I couldn't meet her today. Nature prevented me from getting what I wanted and from getting where I wanted to go. Fate would have it that way. It sucked. I was miserable and I couldn't not show it even though I tried. Akiko's family tried cheering me up by saying that we could all have a picnic in their home and wait until the storm cleared then it would be safe to leave. I countered that remark to myself by saying, but I can't wait around until the storm clears, I have to see her now, at 4:00.
I really wanted that date. It was the only one I had. I had no insurance that I might get another. I asked, " How could the weather change so fast,; if I leave now, I could make it to my other date before the edge of the taifu even got to us." The fact was, that while I was playing with my other friend the taifu had already edged its way in. The winds were getting louder, and stronger. The news said the winds would get upward of 200 Kph. I took one last look outside Akiko's front door to see if all this stuff was true, thinking to myself maybe I could escape. (That would be disrespectful to Akiko's family who graciously hosted me and harbored me during that taifu. But my infatuation with Yayoi left me inconsiderate of others hospitality, and I became their sandtrap)I opened one of the doors, and as I did the my hand was still attached to the knob as it threw me around. I struggled to close it back up. I realized, I wouldn't even be able to hold my bike up let alone ride in it. The taifu was raging. From the edge of the taifu to the Eye of the taifu it took probably 3 hours. After that three hours we entered into the calmness of the Eye. I tried in vain again trying to get someone to believe that the storm is over. Its all calm now", I said "I can't hear the winds any more. No more winds." The mother taught me that in the center of the whirling taifu was the core and that their house was entering it now. For about 30 minutes it was really calm, but after it passed over, or by us then I could hear the winds. I thought... another three hours. So we ate our picnic, and I tried to make the best of my worst situation.
What a crazy fool I was. I wanted to see her so bad, I was gripping fists and biting my tongue, gnawing and gnashing my teeth in rebellion to this mother nature who had taken my happiness from me. I was in a bit of silent rage cursing mother nature and the taifu she rode in on, all the while asking in vain why couldn't the taifu have been any other day of the last 30yrs. Just perfect timing I guess. I had to learn from it. I didn't like the chiding. I wanted my freedom, to move about, but mother nature shoved it in my face and said nanny, nanny. My great natural powers indeed will stop a man. It did.
I gave up and decided it was useless to sit around thinking I could possibly leave in time to meet her. I resignedly called Yayoi to talk to her about it. She just said come and talk to her later and we can do it some other time. I WANTED TO GO NOW! I had become angry. Angry at wind angry at my captors (Akiko's family) Angry at everything. If I didn't learn anything else, this little episode in my life taught me patience, and it taught me that some things in life simply can't be overturned, or bypassed. The power of nature showed its full face to me that day, but I hated every second of it because of what it deprived me of.
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Sociology notes
A. Social sciences – not an exact science
1. Historical
2. Sociological-
a. relationships, topology classification of indiviuals or things
3. Political
4. Geographical
a. scale – national, local - locations
B. North American Cities - different perceptions of the city
1. socitey is becomging bimodal
2. city dwellers = root of civilization
3. tigris and euphrates
4. civilization began with 1st cities
5. cities = core
6. man appeared between 250-150,000 yrs ago
C. Autonomy vs district wide policy
D. Two paths in learning
a. ‘knowledge about ‘ – 1st hand experience subjective (personal and random) holistic, senses involved, connected with other components of its surroundings emotions.
b. “acquaitance with “ – objective learning – logic and reason stressed. Everything can be dissected into smaller parts for learning the scientific method
E. Saint- exupery book “ the Little Prince about boy who travels thorughout galaxy, grownups never understand anything, unimaginative. All knowledge is becoming more specialized, Specialization leads to tunnel vision where we lose sight of the whole.
F. Paradigm – points of view, Paradigm shift= shifts in points of view.
G. Central business district – cities are like tree rings, oldest rigns are closest to the center,
1. low income people live on more expenseive property
2. social income musical chairs.
3. THE FILTERING PROCESS
a. poor middle rich
b.
4. new - the word most used in advertising, a new this a new that =best
H. OSCAR LEWIS – poverty begets poverty, culture of poverty world can’t fight poverty
J. Gordon Childe – 1900-19500 - Urban Revolution
1. P . O . E. T.
a. Population – food surplus increases
b. Organization division of labor, need nobility to rule , need defense
c. Environment
d. Technology
2. Thesis on the origin of cities
3. urban archeologists CO14 dating
K. CIVIS – person living in the city
Civitas – the city’s sphere
URB –physical setting, buildings streets of a roman city
Mesopotamia – where civilization began
L. Urbaniziation – proportion of people living in cities
1. slow process
2. linked with industrialization
3. 1800 3% of worlds population lived in communities over 5000 people
4. now 50 % live in cities over 5000
5. Ist city to urbanize = Great Britain
M. United Nations standars of cities
1. Large cities >500,000
2. City >100,000
3. urban locality >20,000
4. rural locality< 20,000
5. Mega cities > 10 million
a. 26 mega cities on globe now
b. 21 mega cities are in less developed 3rd world countries
c. in future there will be 15 more mega cities
d.
N. True cities began in 3500 B.C. in mesopotamia
1. agriculture began 10,000 years ago
difference between urbanism and urbanization, urbanism deals with the behaviors of urban dwellers
O. 3 Theories on the origin of cities
1. Childes ‘ POET
2. Jane Jacobs Trade theory
a. Early cities began from trade
b. Obsidian used as barter tool cities were founded near resources
c. Origin point = caves were spiritual, river valleys caves, where water wsa
i. Cities provide protection
ii. Surplus of agricultural items
iii. Temples serve as graineries
iv. Accurate records for long term writing
v. Religion and warrior classes provide services
3. Mixed land uses
P. Thor Heyer Dahl –trans oceanic book KON TIKI Star charts south sea islanders used them , the polynesian rift
Q. Theories on urbanization – evolution of cities
1. Gideon Sjoberg said cities possess these
a. Animate energy sources / slaves –human power for rowing boats
b. Segregation based on wthnicity or occupation
c. Little functional land specialization
d. Believed war introduced civilization and cities
R. Diffusion of cities
1. City building eras
a. Greece- used the sea , colonized near by accessible for trad
b. Close knit cities founded through religion- religion = basis for citizenship and social organization
2. 1095 Pope Urban II calls for Holy wwar
3. Barn = the great hall- family room = barn
4. crusades brought new interest to foreign land s
5. new class of people arose the Burgeois or burghers = merchant dominated by non-christians
6. geto = jewish quarter in Venice
7. 1348-1350 The plague malaria – bad air
8. 1600 – 1700 the industrail city
a. new souces of power, and production, expansion of factory system
b. Great Britain had industry of wool and looms
c. Scientific agriculture Jethro Tull
d. Ireland potato famine
e. Age of reason britain want sto clear out subsistence farmers think about free trade
f. The industrial city 1600-1700
Q. Hippodamus of miletus
1. planner of colonial cities. Laid out city according to riligios and mystic coordinates
2. used a grid system of streets
3. Plato – ideal city = 5040 males
R. Important disticts in Greece
1. Acropolis – religious and political center, temples gods
2. Agora – marketplace
S. Rome – road builders, “ all roads lead to roam”
1.*castra – role of conquest in spreading of Roman cities is shown by variation of castra in places names
2.castra – military encampent
3. Lancaster, chester of manchester etc.
3. Not until 19th century did Europe see so big or so advanced technology as rome
4 No nation states – only medievil walled fortress, powerful lord
4. Rome fell because roads made it easy to attack them
5. Islamic became control fo the meditteranean
T. French Geographer Jean Gottmand coined term MEGALOPOLIS – a regional city
U. Exurb – non metropolitan counties within metropolis
Barstow is an exurb of L.A.
U. Victor Gruen is known for malling (mauling) America
Edina Minnesota, Southgate
*how do we gauge the change in city
*existence of sprawl or spillover from central city across legal corporate boundaires
* functional interdependance between individuals and institutions, malls and people for example, employment
V. MSA metropolitan statistical area
1. county is basic unit of MSA
2. if a city fo 50,000 people exists then its entire county = 1MSA
3. adjacent coutines are added to MSA if they are interdependant S.B. Riversid MSA
4 advantages of MSA – county data usefull because it is unifrom FBI
4. disadvantages
a. large counties include large rural land
b. there are many adjacent counties with influence
5. Subunits of MSA
a. PMSA = largest
b. CMSA= Consolidated Metro statistical unit = bigger
c. Urbanized area = 1000 people / square mile
d. Census Tract – 4000 people stable
e. Census block – enclosed within 4 intersecting streets
W. Rise of sundbelt not due to southward movement of smokestack industires
1. sunbelt has new economic activites – aerospace welctronics real estate
2. sunbelt states colorado, nevad arizona are
a. business friendly , have lower wages and lower taxes lowere rates of unionization
3. Problems –
a. Lowere levels of quality housing
b. Traffic sprawling
c. Sewers problems infrastructure
d. Air condition is great factor in sunbelt expolsion
X. demographic transition describes shifts in birth rates and death rate due to rapid industrialization and urbanization
Population growth - Birth rate – Death rate = growth rate
1. Pre industry hi–hi = lo
2. Industrial hi-lo = hi
3. Post industry lo-lo=lo
ZPG = zero poulation growth
1. Historical
2. Sociological-
a. relationships, topology classification of indiviuals or things
3. Political
4. Geographical
a. scale – national, local - locations
B. North American Cities - different perceptions of the city
1. socitey is becomging bimodal
2. city dwellers = root of civilization
3. tigris and euphrates
4. civilization began with 1st cities
5. cities = core
6. man appeared between 250-150,000 yrs ago
C. Autonomy vs district wide policy
D. Two paths in learning
a. ‘knowledge about ‘ – 1st hand experience subjective (personal and random) holistic, senses involved, connected with other components of its surroundings emotions.
b. “acquaitance with “ – objective learning – logic and reason stressed. Everything can be dissected into smaller parts for learning the scientific method
E. Saint- exupery book “ the Little Prince about boy who travels thorughout galaxy, grownups never understand anything, unimaginative. All knowledge is becoming more specialized, Specialization leads to tunnel vision where we lose sight of the whole.
F. Paradigm – points of view, Paradigm shift= shifts in points of view.
G. Central business district – cities are like tree rings, oldest rigns are closest to the center,
1. low income people live on more expenseive property
2. social income musical chairs.
3. THE FILTERING PROCESS
a. poor middle rich
b.
4. new - the word most used in advertising, a new this a new that =best
H. OSCAR LEWIS – poverty begets poverty, culture of poverty world can’t fight poverty
J. Gordon Childe – 1900-19500 - Urban Revolution
1. P . O . E. T.
a. Population – food surplus increases
b. Organization division of labor, need nobility to rule , need defense
c. Environment
d. Technology
2. Thesis on the origin of cities
3. urban archeologists CO14 dating
K. CIVIS – person living in the city
Civitas – the city’s sphere
URB –physical setting, buildings streets of a roman city
Mesopotamia – where civilization began
L. Urbaniziation – proportion of people living in cities
1. slow process
2. linked with industrialization
3. 1800 3% of worlds population lived in communities over 5000 people
4. now 50 % live in cities over 5000
5. Ist city to urbanize = Great Britain
M. United Nations standars of cities
1. Large cities >500,000
2. City >100,000
3. urban locality >20,000
4. rural locality< 20,000
5. Mega cities > 10 million
a. 26 mega cities on globe now
b. 21 mega cities are in less developed 3rd world countries
c. in future there will be 15 more mega cities
d.
N. True cities began in 3500 B.C. in mesopotamia
1. agriculture began 10,000 years ago
difference between urbanism and urbanization, urbanism deals with the behaviors of urban dwellers
O. 3 Theories on the origin of cities
1. Childes ‘ POET
2. Jane Jacobs Trade theory
a. Early cities began from trade
b. Obsidian used as barter tool cities were founded near resources
c. Origin point = caves were spiritual, river valleys caves, where water wsa
i. Cities provide protection
ii. Surplus of agricultural items
iii. Temples serve as graineries
iv. Accurate records for long term writing
v. Religion and warrior classes provide services
3. Mixed land uses
P. Thor Heyer Dahl –trans oceanic book KON TIKI Star charts south sea islanders used them , the polynesian rift
Q. Theories on urbanization – evolution of cities
1. Gideon Sjoberg said cities possess these
a. Animate energy sources / slaves –human power for rowing boats
b. Segregation based on wthnicity or occupation
c. Little functional land specialization
d. Believed war introduced civilization and cities
R. Diffusion of cities
1. City building eras
a. Greece- used the sea , colonized near by accessible for trad
b. Close knit cities founded through religion- religion = basis for citizenship and social organization
2. 1095 Pope Urban II calls for Holy wwar
3. Barn = the great hall- family room = barn
4. crusades brought new interest to foreign land s
5. new class of people arose the Burgeois or burghers = merchant dominated by non-christians
6. geto = jewish quarter in Venice
7. 1348-1350 The plague malaria – bad air
8. 1600 – 1700 the industrail city
a. new souces of power, and production, expansion of factory system
b. Great Britain had industry of wool and looms
c. Scientific agriculture Jethro Tull
d. Ireland potato famine
e. Age of reason britain want sto clear out subsistence farmers think about free trade
f. The industrial city 1600-1700
Q. Hippodamus of miletus
1. planner of colonial cities. Laid out city according to riligios and mystic coordinates
2. used a grid system of streets
3. Plato – ideal city = 5040 males
R. Important disticts in Greece
1. Acropolis – religious and political center, temples gods
2. Agora – marketplace
S. Rome – road builders, “ all roads lead to roam”
1.*castra – role of conquest in spreading of Roman cities is shown by variation of castra in places names
2.castra – military encampent
3. Lancaster, chester of manchester etc.
3. Not until 19th century did Europe see so big or so advanced technology as rome
4 No nation states – only medievil walled fortress, powerful lord
4. Rome fell because roads made it easy to attack them
5. Islamic became control fo the meditteranean
T. French Geographer Jean Gottmand coined term MEGALOPOLIS – a regional city
U. Exurb – non metropolitan counties within metropolis
Barstow is an exurb of L.A.
U. Victor Gruen is known for malling (mauling) America
Edina Minnesota, Southgate
*how do we gauge the change in city
*existence of sprawl or spillover from central city across legal corporate boundaires
* functional interdependance between individuals and institutions, malls and people for example, employment
V. MSA metropolitan statistical area
1. county is basic unit of MSA
2. if a city fo 50,000 people exists then its entire county = 1MSA
3. adjacent coutines are added to MSA if they are interdependant S.B. Riversid MSA
4 advantages of MSA – county data usefull because it is unifrom FBI
4. disadvantages
a. large counties include large rural land
b. there are many adjacent counties with influence
5. Subunits of MSA
a. PMSA = largest
b. CMSA= Consolidated Metro statistical unit = bigger
c. Urbanized area = 1000 people / square mile
d. Census Tract – 4000 people stable
e. Census block – enclosed within 4 intersecting streets
W. Rise of sundbelt not due to southward movement of smokestack industires
1. sunbelt has new economic activites – aerospace welctronics real estate
2. sunbelt states colorado, nevad arizona are
a. business friendly , have lower wages and lower taxes lowere rates of unionization
3. Problems –
a. Lowere levels of quality housing
b. Traffic sprawling
c. Sewers problems infrastructure
d. Air condition is great factor in sunbelt expolsion
X. demographic transition describes shifts in birth rates and death rate due to rapid industrialization and urbanization
Population growth - Birth rate – Death rate = growth rate
1. Pre industry hi–hi = lo
2. Industrial hi-lo = hi
3. Post industry lo-lo=lo
ZPG = zero poulation growth
Music in the renaissance
In the renaissance, building from the previous generations of music and continuing in their paths to give each of the parts of music a more individualistic personality. That is to say, that each part of the four parts in the range of the vocal resulting in polyphony in contrast to the more homophonic texture of the baroque. From Monteverdi’s 8 books of madrigals we see a change from stile antico to stile moderno, which gave more emphasis to the text than to the music. This gave way to the idea that text was king from which sprung the ideas of single affect, which so pervaded the compositions of the 17th century that baroque music is easily distinguished. Pieces such as the , Marais’ painful look at a gall bladder operation, and certain Scarlatti works all demonstrate how music could be used to describe words, feelings, emotions. Emotions of the 17th century were known as affects.
Instrumental music of the 17th century was heavily influenced by vocal music. Froberger took lute music and transcribed it for harpsichord at a time when stile brise was popular and the fashionable ‘in’ music thing of the day was to play the harpsichord like a lute.
The echo effect found in Biagio Marini’s echo tunes from Willaert, Monteverdi, and Gabrielli’s use of St. Mark’s Cathedral the idea of choir against choirs or in other terms what we can call the echo effect, influenced much of the instrumental music of the 17th century.
Dancing is also, and has been since the foundation of human recreations, being an inseparable part of music gave way to comparisons in the suite style found so often in music of this period. The ouverture or opening being stately and pompous, with the lilted dotted eighths connected to a 16th note was followed by fugal imitative sections born from the ricecare of the old style. The musical form of the sonata developed from the divisive sections of the canzona becoming a cantata to be sounded. The concerto in the same vein, was born out of a desire to bring diverse factors,… together, a tutti.
Instrumental music of the 17th century was heavily influenced by vocal music. Froberger took lute music and transcribed it for harpsichord at a time when stile brise was popular and the fashionable ‘in’ music thing of the day was to play the harpsichord like a lute.
The echo effect found in Biagio Marini’s echo tunes from Willaert, Monteverdi, and Gabrielli’s use of St. Mark’s Cathedral the idea of choir against choirs or in other terms what we can call the echo effect, influenced much of the instrumental music of the 17th century.
Dancing is also, and has been since the foundation of human recreations, being an inseparable part of music gave way to comparisons in the suite style found so often in music of this period. The ouverture or opening being stately and pompous, with the lilted dotted eighths connected to a 16th note was followed by fugal imitative sections born from the ricecare of the old style. The musical form of the sonata developed from the divisive sections of the canzona becoming a cantata to be sounded. The concerto in the same vein, was born out of a desire to bring diverse factors,… together, a tutti.
hypothetical paper about Oedipus... poor guy
Brett McCluskey 5/21/03
The board’s proposal is preposterous! Banning Oedipus from the reading list(s) of our high schools (for any reason) is not only unconstitutional, but it would end up doing more harm to our youth, than good. It is erroneous to think that the ancient Greeks are irrelevant to contemporary American society. Let me remind the board of some of the important contributions given to the human race by the Greeks. Epic poetry, history and drama; philosophy in all its branches, from metaphysics to economics; mathematics and many of the natural sciences – all these begin with the Greeks. Such a decision to exclude Oedipus from required high school reading will have far reaching and dire consequences. Just imagine the catastrophic effects of excluding the like of the great men of ancient Greece. Without Archimedes and his ideas on fluid statics where would we be? Without Zeno and his paradoxes where would we be? Playwrights Euripides, Aeschylus, also wrote song. Music, also owes a great deal to theses two men. It was Boethius’s writings that Pope Gregory, Guido D’arezzo, Hucbald amongst many others who read their accounts of music thus transferring them to us.
If the board is considering banning Oedipus Rex from our schools, then we ought to consider banning the show “Cops”, from appearing on our TV’s. While we are at it, we might as well get rid of the Old and New Testament too. Finally, if the Greeks have nothing to do with modern day society then neither does the Jews. The board cannot possibly think that since the Oedipus plays deals with subjects such as incest, and self-mutilation, that it does not reflect the values of San Bernardino. I feel as if Socrates is on trial again. It would be better to propose the removal of the Maccabbees from the Catholic Liturgy.
How could the ideas of the Greeks be detrimental to our youths or to us in any way? Besides, I was under the impression and have taken for truth that we, civil America, lived in a land where all of its inhabitants presumably had the freedom of religion. I had also assumed that the aforementioned human race had freedom of the press. The ideas and philosophies of Greece have become our own. They have become one with the thoughts of modern day man. So much has the influences of ancient Greece been felt and have been integrated into modern day civil society that we take their omnipresent contributions for granted are so plays by Sophocles as well as other Greek writers, and philosophers show us catharsis, and filial piety.
Oedipus wants to know just one thing; he wants to know who he is. If you are banning the Oedipus plays because they contain too many references to the consultations with the oracles, then I still cannot see the point of banning it from the reading lists because it ‘may contain material unsuitable for children’. Consulting the oracles at Delphi is similar to consulting Madame Cleo and all of our friends at the ‘psychic friend’s network’.
The Oedipus plays do not undermine family values, instead attempts to portray them. Take for example Oedipus’s shows compassion for the fate of his own children. His sincere desire for his children to be looked after and cared for, once he became exiled, shows how much love a father in any situation can have for his children. Oedipus examines many of life’s common dilemmas. In wanting to know whom he was. Are not compassion and the seeking of the truth concepts that contemporary American society deem valuable?
The board’s proposal is preposterous! Banning Oedipus from the reading list(s) of our high schools (for any reason) is not only unconstitutional, but it would end up doing more harm to our youth, than good. It is erroneous to think that the ancient Greeks are irrelevant to contemporary American society. Let me remind the board of some of the important contributions given to the human race by the Greeks. Epic poetry, history and drama; philosophy in all its branches, from metaphysics to economics; mathematics and many of the natural sciences – all these begin with the Greeks. Such a decision to exclude Oedipus from required high school reading will have far reaching and dire consequences. Just imagine the catastrophic effects of excluding the like of the great men of ancient Greece. Without Archimedes and his ideas on fluid statics where would we be? Without Zeno and his paradoxes where would we be? Playwrights Euripides, Aeschylus, also wrote song. Music, also owes a great deal to theses two men. It was Boethius’s writings that Pope Gregory, Guido D’arezzo, Hucbald amongst many others who read their accounts of music thus transferring them to us.
If the board is considering banning Oedipus Rex from our schools, then we ought to consider banning the show “Cops”, from appearing on our TV’s. While we are at it, we might as well get rid of the Old and New Testament too. Finally, if the Greeks have nothing to do with modern day society then neither does the Jews. The board cannot possibly think that since the Oedipus plays deals with subjects such as incest, and self-mutilation, that it does not reflect the values of San Bernardino. I feel as if Socrates is on trial again. It would be better to propose the removal of the Maccabbees from the Catholic Liturgy.
How could the ideas of the Greeks be detrimental to our youths or to us in any way? Besides, I was under the impression and have taken for truth that we, civil America, lived in a land where all of its inhabitants presumably had the freedom of religion. I had also assumed that the aforementioned human race had freedom of the press. The ideas and philosophies of Greece have become our own. They have become one with the thoughts of modern day man. So much has the influences of ancient Greece been felt and have been integrated into modern day civil society that we take their omnipresent contributions for granted are so plays by Sophocles as well as other Greek writers, and philosophers show us catharsis, and filial piety.
Oedipus wants to know just one thing; he wants to know who he is. If you are banning the Oedipus plays because they contain too many references to the consultations with the oracles, then I still cannot see the point of banning it from the reading lists because it ‘may contain material unsuitable for children’. Consulting the oracles at Delphi is similar to consulting Madame Cleo and all of our friends at the ‘psychic friend’s network’.
The Oedipus plays do not undermine family values, instead attempts to portray them. Take for example Oedipus’s shows compassion for the fate of his own children. His sincere desire for his children to be looked after and cared for, once he became exiled, shows how much love a father in any situation can have for his children. Oedipus examines many of life’s common dilemmas. In wanting to know whom he was. Are not compassion and the seeking of the truth concepts that contemporary American society deem valuable?
Music in the court of Louis the XIV
Like other rulers of nations, Loius XIV wanted a more united kip-[oooooooooooooooto rule over, that had as little threat of insurrection as possible. King Louis often used music and dance to his advantage. We see this from the fact that he required the members of his court to be skilled in both music and dancing. By keeping the nobility engaged in aesthetical endeavors such as dance and music, he also knew that this would keep at least his upper class from forming rebellious or non-loyal parties that detracted from his overall power as king.
Jean Baptiste Lully was in charge of all aspects of music while alive during the reign of Louis XIV. All of the composers within France were responsible for the strong heritage which they carried down from the many musical forefathers, carrying the tradition onward of Leonin and Perotin was no small feat. The composer’s works had to be inspected for content in regards to the French state. Lully himself was afforded more freedom in his own compositions due to his closeness to the king.
During the reign of Louis the 14th, the violin consort became most eminent. The king had in his personal orchestra exactly 24 violins. This in itself is proof as to the importance of music in French and this king’s sphere of influence. Upon the death of Lully, who died after accidentally stabbing his foot with his conductors stick which turned gangrenous. It was Michel Laland who succeeded Lully, and who also served the king being accountable for the music of the court.
The problem was to make French operas. To give French pride in their language. To use the recitative like the Italians, and make it their own. The recitatif. What the French did was to change meters occasionally to emphasize the text so that important syllables of important words came on te down beats correctly, thus the music changed meter accordingly 4/4 to ¾. Since Louis XIV himself was also a part of plays, dramas, skits etc, we can see how important he viewed music as pertaining to his kingdom and nobility.
Jean Baptiste Lully was in charge of all aspects of music while alive during the reign of Louis XIV. All of the composers within France were responsible for the strong heritage which they carried down from the many musical forefathers, carrying the tradition onward of Leonin and Perotin was no small feat. The composer’s works had to be inspected for content in regards to the French state. Lully himself was afforded more freedom in his own compositions due to his closeness to the king.
During the reign of Louis the 14th, the violin consort became most eminent. The king had in his personal orchestra exactly 24 violins. This in itself is proof as to the importance of music in French and this king’s sphere of influence. Upon the death of Lully, who died after accidentally stabbing his foot with his conductors stick which turned gangrenous. It was Michel Laland who succeeded Lully, and who also served the king being accountable for the music of the court.
The problem was to make French operas. To give French pride in their language. To use the recitative like the Italians, and make it their own. The recitatif. What the French did was to change meters occasionally to emphasize the text so that important syllables of important words came on te down beats correctly, thus the music changed meter accordingly 4/4 to ¾. Since Louis XIV himself was also a part of plays, dramas, skits etc, we can see how important he viewed music as pertaining to his kingdom and nobility.
Caveat emptor, being a smart auctioneer buddy
Warning!! Warning!! Caveat Empore! Caveat Empore! This Latin phrase for, “Buyer Beware! should be common knowledge to all, but it should absolutely be preached to newbie EBayers.. Newbie buyers are people who have as of yet any type of experiences buying or selling on Ebay. Now if there was one thing I would want to scream to all newbie Ebayers, it wouldn’t beDon’t Snipe it only blah blah blah and a ho ho hoo into your cereal which goes good with milk. But then again milk and cookies taste better cold, but hot enough to eat a pizza in the oven for your to enjoy this evening. How would you like this a total joy in cuisine for your entertaining and delightful satisfying meal. , but it might selling as of yet on this new medium called the EBay. have no experience bidding on EBay nor do they have any have just recently signed up to gain a new account on EBay has never experienced a winning bid. tells us to for some. Wisdom handed down through the ages even unto our posterity. Do you remember Yul Brenner and his, "Whatever you do,.... DON"T SMOKE!" commercials on t.v?. This strange nostalgic flashback to me is akin to making a bid on an item that is overpriced on shipping. You can tell bad shipping practices by always heeding tip #1 below. If there was a similar tip I would want to say to the whole world (or at least newcomers to EBay) to all new members of EBay and all others who in their own natural enthusiasm and desire for an item are more apt to get suckered or be lulled into a world where for a moment it seemed as the concept of how the item will be shipped is never questioned. The fact that we, the Ebay customers of the World, cannot know what the item will be sent in, or how it will be sent, and in what type of envelope, box, package will it be shipped to me in. .. and had the chance to say it, it would be this.
#1 TIP TO AVOID REGRETS ON YOUR PURCHASES ON EBAY
1. DO NOT MAKE A BID UNTIL YOU CHECK THE SHIPPING COSTS!
Let me put it another way, if you want to avoid regretting your purchase, the first thing to make sure of is the cost of shipping. Again for the sake of Clarity of the intent of my guide and message
1. DO NOT BID ON AN ITEM UNTIL YOU BEHOLD WITH YOUR EYES THE COST OF SHIPPING!
That is the #1 tip to avoid regretting your purchases on EBay. Make sure to look at the shipping costs and do research for what would be considered a reasonable rate for the shipping of your prospective items.
This tip is so important that it should be requisite for all new future members of EBay to read before signing the dotted line understand the concept of "Caveat Empore" or "Buyer Beware". It should be proclaimed throughout the entire E-bay kingdom, coming forth not as an omen or prophecy; nor should this be divined neither from the Oracle at Delphi, nor from the wise sayings of King Solomon and re-iterated in his proverbs, but should be understood that as a new member of EBay there are inherent dangers to membership. It is called in some places, the hornswaggle. The agreement a bidder/consumer/customer/buyer signs electronically EBay should relay the message of "Buyers Beware" so thoroughly that we can say it in 4 different languages as easy as we can say our own Alphabet. If I haven't already said this it warrants a replay: Buyer Beware The statement doesn't mention. My warning is to all classes of buyers, many of whom, like myself, may harbor, (no doubt, as of this reading), regrets about a purchase or purchases which they have fallen prey to the Hungry Dollar EBay Selling Wolf Bandits in the guise of our most endearing and trusted household name, donning Grandmother's apron and hood, that, as sellers, are ever diligent in their efforts to secure their lucre that a little dishonesty can pull the wool over the eyes of their potential customer, thereby getting their sell. They finely tune their listings, and use every device, technique, method, story, picture, html, FORTRAN, Cobol, verbiage, photo bait and switch, whatever it takes to get $5 extra dollars from the American Democratic principles laid down by the forefathers of our great nation. EBay should make every effort to protect these type of scams from going on and they have been doing as good as can be expected from the evil few that really want me to be miserable after making a stupid mistake. A human mistake which cost me $6 dollars. Yes a whopping $6 dollars I still feel to this day that the item was misrepresented, and the item that I got was a harsh reality of the grand illusion that I had just taken part of. I paid close to $8 for $1.89 worth of value in the item in question. It even makes one feel bad about the choice but only later when it’s too late to back out of the deal. A seller that offers no return policy needs to be asked why they do not offer a return policy. But before even looking at whether the seller even offers a return of goods policy check the price of the shipping. Here is my bad experience with one bad apple at EBay. Told in all my naivety of an Ebayer who has already sold and bought items on EBay. Boy what a sucker I am, I thought to myself as my blood boiled from the shock I received after getting my auction item. The item was a Sacagawea Dollar being sold at $0.99 cent. A measly dollar for a Sacagawea Gold Sparkling Coin and a super prize bonus of untold value awaiting my paypal completed transaction, or the offered bonus which was stated as being an uncirculated coin. With promises of grandeur I quickly jumped to the bidding button and laid down my amazing $0.99 bid." So I kept thinking to myself, …Boy what a good boy am I...Didn't I do well… Look Mom... No Hands! I am such a good a smart shopper…Etc. And I got all excited because I was seemingly getting a superior deal. Gee...what a good boy am I… NOT… Due to a lack of bad experiences on EBay I Hastily jumped on the bidders stump and said boy let me tell you what.. I guess you didn’t know it, but I'm a coin collector too; and, if you care to bid on my item I'll give you an uncirculated coin too. I fell for it jumped on the band wagon and bid the only bid for this item in which this seller floods EBay with pages of her swaggle. With 2175 successful sells, you got to give this seller their due. After all this is America and it is the land of opportunity. I was almost converted to the dark-side in thinking; wow this seller is smart for being able to rip me off like that. If just I wasn't as stupid I wouldn't have fell for it. I believe EBay in all it's incredible growth as a company has done a very good job in all sectors of its being. Hats off to EBay for succeeding in making improvements to their sight in spite of the enormity and complexity of the task. Nobody is Perfect, Even Monkeys Fall from Trees. We can cut EBay a little slack for the enormity of their enterprise. I have no qualms with EBay at all, and it just seems to improve day by day in every way. EBay is such an amazingly dynamic place and provides bountifully and continues to be helpful to an ever improving and changing customer/consumer/buyer experience. EBay can't be held responsible for buyers not being careful. "Caveat Empore" or "Buyer Beware" should at least ring forth into my head each time I open the My EBay page or right before I put the numbers in the box for my bid price and before I input any digits of my credit card, again it wouldn't hurt to put a pop up right in my face, yeah a dirty little popup reminding me of that Phrase "Caveat Empore" I would even at that point welcome such an unwelcome pop-up for reminding me that as a buyer I need to be forewarned, I need to beware less I regret making a purchase on EBay. Not looking at the shipping price before bidding on an item is a no-no. If you want to avoid regretting a purchase you make on EBay, follow my #1 Tip and you will fare much better. You will avoid regretting things later on down the line.
It is so easy to get enraptured in a fabulous looking offer that at the peak, the apex of my rapture about finding such a golden treasure, and only after patting myself on the back for what seems to be a super deal, offer, or prize that I totally forgot to look at the #1 tip on how to avoid regretting my purchase on EBay. That is, if you allow me to repeat it again
DO NOT BID ON AN ITEM UNTIL YOU HAVE BEHELD WITH YOUR EYES THE SHIPPING COSTS
I am positive I am not alone in when I complain but little about how I have been hornswaggled by the wicked witch of the shipping north and how on top of being burned for shipping costs I was also scammed out of an item I thought I was going to receive and the difference between it and the item I actually received.
I would like to end this little guide, lense, article of mine by saying thank you to all the honest people that anonymously or knowingly work hard to make EBay a really safe and cool place to hang out, have fun, shop, or just dream.
#1 TIP TO AVOID REGRETS ON YOUR PURCHASES ON EBAY
1. DO NOT MAKE A BID UNTIL YOU CHECK THE SHIPPING COSTS!
Let me put it another way, if you want to avoid regretting your purchase, the first thing to make sure of is the cost of shipping. Again for the sake of Clarity of the intent of my guide and message
1. DO NOT BID ON AN ITEM UNTIL YOU BEHOLD WITH YOUR EYES THE COST OF SHIPPING!
That is the #1 tip to avoid regretting your purchases on EBay. Make sure to look at the shipping costs and do research for what would be considered a reasonable rate for the shipping of your prospective items.
This tip is so important that it should be requisite for all new future members of EBay to read before signing the dotted line understand the concept of "Caveat Empore" or "Buyer Beware". It should be proclaimed throughout the entire E-bay kingdom, coming forth not as an omen or prophecy; nor should this be divined neither from the Oracle at Delphi, nor from the wise sayings of King Solomon and re-iterated in his proverbs, but should be understood that as a new member of EBay there are inherent dangers to membership. It is called in some places, the hornswaggle. The agreement a bidder/consumer/customer/buyer signs electronically EBay should relay the message of "Buyers Beware" so thoroughly that we can say it in 4 different languages as easy as we can say our own Alphabet. If I haven't already said this it warrants a replay: Buyer Beware The statement doesn't mention. My warning is to all classes of buyers, many of whom, like myself, may harbor, (no doubt, as of this reading), regrets about a purchase or purchases which they have fallen prey to the Hungry Dollar EBay Selling Wolf Bandits in the guise of our most endearing and trusted household name, donning Grandmother's apron and hood, that, as sellers, are ever diligent in their efforts to secure their lucre that a little dishonesty can pull the wool over the eyes of their potential customer, thereby getting their sell. They finely tune their listings, and use every device, technique, method, story, picture, html, FORTRAN, Cobol, verbiage, photo bait and switch, whatever it takes to get $5 extra dollars from the American Democratic principles laid down by the forefathers of our great nation. EBay should make every effort to protect these type of scams from going on and they have been doing as good as can be expected from the evil few that really want me to be miserable after making a stupid mistake. A human mistake which cost me $6 dollars. Yes a whopping $6 dollars I still feel to this day that the item was misrepresented, and the item that I got was a harsh reality of the grand illusion that I had just taken part of. I paid close to $8 for $1.89 worth of value in the item in question. It even makes one feel bad about the choice but only later when it’s too late to back out of the deal. A seller that offers no return policy needs to be asked why they do not offer a return policy. But before even looking at whether the seller even offers a return of goods policy check the price of the shipping. Here is my bad experience with one bad apple at EBay. Told in all my naivety of an Ebayer who has already sold and bought items on EBay. Boy what a sucker I am, I thought to myself as my blood boiled from the shock I received after getting my auction item. The item was a Sacagawea Dollar being sold at $0.99 cent. A measly dollar for a Sacagawea Gold Sparkling Coin and a super prize bonus of untold value awaiting my paypal completed transaction, or the offered bonus which was stated as being an uncirculated coin. With promises of grandeur I quickly jumped to the bidding button and laid down my amazing $0.99 bid." So I kept thinking to myself, …Boy what a good boy am I...Didn't I do well… Look Mom... No Hands! I am such a good a smart shopper…Etc. And I got all excited because I was seemingly getting a superior deal. Gee...what a good boy am I… NOT… Due to a lack of bad experiences on EBay I Hastily jumped on the bidders stump and said boy let me tell you what.. I guess you didn’t know it, but I'm a coin collector too; and, if you care to bid on my item I'll give you an uncirculated coin too. I fell for it jumped on the band wagon and bid the only bid for this item in which this seller floods EBay with pages of her swaggle. With 2175 successful sells, you got to give this seller their due. After all this is America and it is the land of opportunity. I was almost converted to the dark-side in thinking; wow this seller is smart for being able to rip me off like that. If just I wasn't as stupid I wouldn't have fell for it. I believe EBay in all it's incredible growth as a company has done a very good job in all sectors of its being. Hats off to EBay for succeeding in making improvements to their sight in spite of the enormity and complexity of the task. Nobody is Perfect, Even Monkeys Fall from Trees. We can cut EBay a little slack for the enormity of their enterprise. I have no qualms with EBay at all, and it just seems to improve day by day in every way. EBay is such an amazingly dynamic place and provides bountifully and continues to be helpful to an ever improving and changing customer/consumer/buyer experience. EBay can't be held responsible for buyers not being careful. "Caveat Empore" or "Buyer Beware" should at least ring forth into my head each time I open the My EBay page or right before I put the numbers in the box for my bid price and before I input any digits of my credit card, again it wouldn't hurt to put a pop up right in my face, yeah a dirty little popup reminding me of that Phrase "Caveat Empore" I would even at that point welcome such an unwelcome pop-up for reminding me that as a buyer I need to be forewarned, I need to beware less I regret making a purchase on EBay. Not looking at the shipping price before bidding on an item is a no-no. If you want to avoid regretting a purchase you make on EBay, follow my #1 Tip and you will fare much better. You will avoid regretting things later on down the line.
It is so easy to get enraptured in a fabulous looking offer that at the peak, the apex of my rapture about finding such a golden treasure, and only after patting myself on the back for what seems to be a super deal, offer, or prize that I totally forgot to look at the #1 tip on how to avoid regretting my purchase on EBay. That is, if you allow me to repeat it again
DO NOT BID ON AN ITEM UNTIL YOU HAVE BEHELD WITH YOUR EYES THE SHIPPING COSTS
I am positive I am not alone in when I complain but little about how I have been hornswaggled by the wicked witch of the shipping north and how on top of being burned for shipping costs I was also scammed out of an item I thought I was going to receive and the difference between it and the item I actually received.
I would like to end this little guide, lense, article of mine by saying thank you to all the honest people that anonymously or knowingly work hard to make EBay a really safe and cool place to hang out, have fun, shop, or just dream.
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