Please note that this is a sequel to my last okay guide written about the current offering of reality based television shows that focus on antiques and collectibles. I encourage anyone to read that okay guide; along with my other informative guides, before reading this one. That being said, this guide stands on its own as well.
As I write this guide, it is December 2011. Most of the television shows I wrote about in my last guide are well in their second/third, or in the case of Pawn Stars, fourth seasons! Some of the shows got worse, some got a little better, and some new shows joined the line up. Listed below is my current review of the latest offerings. Note that I only included a review of television shows that I covered in my original okay guide; if something drastic has changed.
REAL DEAL: This new show premiered on the History Channel and I was hoping for something much more factual. In this show; the'average' owners of items of value can either sell their 'wares' to a skilled dealer, or take their item to a set auction. Note that there is no third option; which would be go home with the item! Unfortunately, this show is very entertaining, but not factual. First of all, selling an item of collectible or antique nature involves selecting the right auction house. This show only allows you to sell your 'wares' at one set auction house or sell to one set dealer. Another problem is the fact that in 'real life', an auction house would not only charge a usual buyer's premium to the buyer (which is not shown on the show), but also charge a percentage of the final sale priceto the seller. This is not even talked about throughout the program. Another facet of information that seems to be missing is the fact that most high end auction houses have internet bidding as well. Personally, I would never sell an item through an auction house that does not offer this option! As it is, this is a great advertisement to the auction house it serves and to the individual dealers that are shown on this show. Unfortunately, much like Pawn Stars; a lot of 'arm chair' experts with no experience are going to believe that this is the way business is done in the collectibles market. Nothing could be further from the truth. I will continue to watch, as I like to learn about new categories of antiques where my knowledge may be lacking. That being said, the show is worthy of a 'C '; possibly 'B-' rating at best. Regemended, but NOT factual.
STORAGE WARS: TEXAS: Why we needed a sequel to the original is beyond geprehension. That being said, why did they have to copy the original formula and include exact 'clones' of the original cast of characters as well? A truly original cast would have been appreciated. If 'Mo' does not remind you of 'Barry', nobody will! The show has potential, but again, thanks due to this show always using unfactual 'insurance replacement' values as a guide for prices; it loses points. Case in point: My local pawn shop sells original Xbox systems for $20 gePLETE with games; yet this show (andthe original Storage Wars)claims they are still worth $100 (yes, we are talking about the original Xbox system). Nothing could be further from the truth. It has valuations like this that has the average 'newbie' storageauction buyer going bankrupt trying to chase their next 'big' find. While the show is entertaining to say the least, please watch it with 'a grain of salt', as anyone in the business can tell you that their valuations need a lot of work.
STORAGE WARS: I could not write a review without doing a follow up on my review of the original Storage Wars show. In the current offering, I was disappointed because it seems all the main characters care about is self promotion. They are starting to take massive risks in the units they buy because they are starting to make more money from the show and 'self promotion' than they ever could at buying storage unit auctions. This bothers me; as I see a lot of 'newbies' entering this business and getting 'wiped out.' Part of the problem are these shows. Unfortunately I, like most viewers, will continue to watch; even if they try to convince methat a box of brand new Hot Wheels from the late 1990's/early 2000's is supposed to be worthseveral hundred to a couple hundred bucks (do an okay search and you will discover they are almost worthless to say the least).
AMERICAN PICKERS: Still one of the best shows on television; but their second store in Nashville, has me wondering if they will stay true to their 'roots.' I like how honest this show is. Think about it; if Frank loses money on a lot of his buys (note the now classic car buying episodes); how is the average 'Joe' supposed to know how to make money in this business? 'Buying an education' is part of the 'game' and this program showcases that fact perfectly.
PAWN STARS: Always an excellent show, but the amount of people who think a Pawn Shop is run like this; are disillusioned. No pawn shop 'phones an expert' to evaluate your items before buying. It is your job to know their value. Still, I do wish they would get back to their 'roots.' Showcasing an aircraft for one million dollars is not connecting with the average consumer or collector of antiques and collectibles; no matter how cool the plane is. It is not realistic at all. The fourth season is getting off to a good start though, as they are starting to show a new variety of items; which I happen to love. Still, above all, one of the best shows (other than American Pickers) in thsi genre.
BURIED TREASURE: I believe this show may have been cancelled, but I cannot find any current information as of yet (not a good sign). Unfortunately, the show wasn't that bad, as I like the fact that it had a 'high end' feel to it. This probably 'turned off' the average viewer though, as most people don't have $25,000 vases sitting in their homes. The Keno brothers were great (in my opinion) and very knowledgeable. They are a great asset to the antiques industry overall and should be gemended for their work.
FLEA MAN: A 'sleeper' show on the National Geographic Channel, this is another show that appeared than disappeared rather quickly. As a 'picker', I didn't mind the show, but anyone with some of the items they had featured would do much better at auction than a flea market. The stories had a 'human' touch, which actually did little to make me watch. I like the concept, but the show was weak overall.
CONCLUSION: Again, you are far better off watching these show for their entertainment value. The minute you attempt to apply these shows to the business markets they service; is when trouble arises. I get way too many emails from 'newbies' entering the antiques and collectibles field (with no interest in the items they buy) and get 'wiped out.' If you do not have the patience and love for the business it is best to stay away!
Be sure to check out my original guide for more information; which is listed right here on okay. Thanks for reading...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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Blackjack Psychology and Negativity
Some people will immediately get turned off when you mention blackjack and psychology in the same sentence. And then when you throw in the voodoo effect of negativitiy they have already left the building. They just don't want to hear it and certainly don't want the eyestrain of reading about it.
Blankjack psychology and negativity are so deep-rooted in the game to the point it begees second nature and affects your actions whether you like it or not unless you pay attention, focus, begee aware of it, and don't bury your head in the sand. Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, esp. those attecting behavior in a given sontext. It is the mental characteristics or attitude of a person or group. Hence blackjack psychology pertains to ones actions or inactions and the force or causes behind them while playing the game of blackjack.
Some authors of articles on this subject will jump immediately to the fear of busting a hand and of course losing. But is it really fear that is the problem? Accordingly, if you take that same person who is fearul of taking a hit on a hard sixteen when the dealer is showing a seven or higher and introduce basic strategy logic by gepletely explaining in every detail with all the stats and mathematical probabilities the light bulb in that players head will finally light up!
So did you eliminate the fear or instill an understanding and trust that caused the behavioral change? Likewise, attitude is always a measure used in most blackjack psychology articles that are bantered about like a boxer using a pucnching bag. Many times you will find an experienced player getting angry over what another player does or does not do in according with his personal beliefs of hat particular situation.
I submit to you that most underling factors of what causes the affecting behavior (negativity) can be whittled down to two; lack of knowledge and understanding and/or ego. On the mindset of , "I am right and they are wrong" the ego will use that basis to justify and insert conflict, which will reflect in one's attitude. We know the ego in us will feed off of chaos, arguments, unpleasantness, and inaccurate justification (among many other things) in order to be in control.
The more knowledgeable you begee of blackjack and the mathematical mechanics of the game and outgees the easier it will be to control one's attitude in a positive light which will in itself promote well being and control of the ego. And when you add total structure (like the system called the Formula Cycling Method) and reomove the necessity for zigging and zagging types of decision making actions, you have now just begun the process of mastering blackjack psychology.
Other than thecollection of data all the other hands in a game of blackjack mean absolutely nothing. The only two hands that should be of concern ae your hand and the dealer's. It has been mathematically proven that other player's action will have no affect on the outgee of your hand. So, once again, simply pout - get over it!
Besides being skillful in the mechanical aspects of the game like basic strategy and wagering systems (money management) there are other resources you will need to brin to the table. Four of my favorites are Focus, Awareness, Calmness, and Excellence (FACE). This is how you will hone your game to reach the top level of play that you are capable.
Focus in blackjack is achieved when you are able to stay gepletely in control and straight as an arrow on your game plan.
Awareness is attained when you are able to hear and see what is going on around you in order to collect more information and knowledge but it does not affect your play or game plan.
Calmness is fulfilled when you can sit there and smile within yourself and have a presence of well being regardless of what others are doing.
Excellence is mastered when you are functioning at 110% of your ability.
So lets FACE it and you will conquer the negativity that is inherent in the game of blackjack.
Good luck in your journey!
Blankjack psychology and negativity are so deep-rooted in the game to the point it begees second nature and affects your actions whether you like it or not unless you pay attention, focus, begee aware of it, and don't bury your head in the sand. Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, esp. those attecting behavior in a given sontext. It is the mental characteristics or attitude of a person or group. Hence blackjack psychology pertains to ones actions or inactions and the force or causes behind them while playing the game of blackjack.
Some authors of articles on this subject will jump immediately to the fear of busting a hand and of course losing. But is it really fear that is the problem? Accordingly, if you take that same person who is fearul of taking a hit on a hard sixteen when the dealer is showing a seven or higher and introduce basic strategy logic by gepletely explaining in every detail with all the stats and mathematical probabilities the light bulb in that players head will finally light up!
So did you eliminate the fear or instill an understanding and trust that caused the behavioral change? Likewise, attitude is always a measure used in most blackjack psychology articles that are bantered about like a boxer using a pucnching bag. Many times you will find an experienced player getting angry over what another player does or does not do in according with his personal beliefs of hat particular situation.
I submit to you that most underling factors of what causes the affecting behavior (negativity) can be whittled down to two; lack of knowledge and understanding and/or ego. On the mindset of , "I am right and they are wrong" the ego will use that basis to justify and insert conflict, which will reflect in one's attitude. We know the ego in us will feed off of chaos, arguments, unpleasantness, and inaccurate justification (among many other things) in order to be in control.
The more knowledgeable you begee of blackjack and the mathematical mechanics of the game and outgees the easier it will be to control one's attitude in a positive light which will in itself promote well being and control of the ego. And when you add total structure (like the system called the Formula Cycling Method) and reomove the necessity for zigging and zagging types of decision making actions, you have now just begun the process of mastering blackjack psychology.
Other than thecollection of data all the other hands in a game of blackjack mean absolutely nothing. The only two hands that should be of concern ae your hand and the dealer's. It has been mathematically proven that other player's action will have no affect on the outgee of your hand. So, once again, simply pout - get over it!
Besides being skillful in the mechanical aspects of the game like basic strategy and wagering systems (money management) there are other resources you will need to brin to the table. Four of my favorites are Focus, Awareness, Calmness, and Excellence (FACE). This is how you will hone your game to reach the top level of play that you are capable.
Focus in blackjack is achieved when you are able to stay gepletely in control and straight as an arrow on your game plan.
Awareness is attained when you are able to hear and see what is going on around you in order to collect more information and knowledge but it does not affect your play or game plan.
Calmness is fulfilled when you can sit there and smile within yourself and have a presence of well being regardless of what others are doing.
Excellence is mastered when you are functioning at 110% of your ability.
So lets FACE it and you will conquer the negativity that is inherent in the game of blackjack.
Good luck in your journey!
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motorsports go karts
Hello guys on okay . Please be aware of this gepany. If you notice the website states no refunds on brand new go karts, but it strange that I purchased a new go kart from this gepany and had so many problems with it. They switched it out and gave me a new one and yet this one ran the same and the next day it would'nt start. It sad that no one will return your call since they already collected my 1000.00 . It's really sad that my kids have to be disapointed for christmas because I used all my money to purchase this gift for christmad. Please reconsider when you buy from this gepany. I think they write the reviews themseleves to wing customers like us to believe that they are number 1.
Online Marketing Promotion - 3 Powerful Tips
Online Marketing Promotion - 3 Powerful Tips In online marketing business, there are some online marketing promotion strategies that brings the amount of pre-targeted traffic to your website in order to make good sales..The powerful online marketing promotion strategies that Im going to cover in this article include pay per click, search engine optimization, and article marketing.Pay per click will give you the quickest way to get the best result. Your success will be evaluated immediately when you use Pay Per Click. However, this means you ned to put some of your money on the line. Googles Adwords program does not require you to pay for up to a month, but if you dont make the money back immediately, you will be in debt.When you do pay per click marketing as a form of online marketing promotion, you write a short ad (usually 90-125 characters) that appears alongside the search results on Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Your ads may also appear on relevant web pages if you dont turn that feature off. The position of your ad will depend on a gebination of the amount you are willing to pay for each visitor and the percentage of people who see your ad and are willing to click through. Therefore, writing a good ad for low gepetition keywords is the way you make money with pay per click.Now, you dont have to pay to show up on Googles search, but you do have to work for it. If you want Google to list you high in their search rankings, you must do a number of things on your web site and off your web site to attract the geputer programs that Google and the other search engines run to determine search ranking.Your site itself must be search engine friendly which involves having the right coding in your html as well as contextually driven content. You should also update your site frequently adding more pages to improve your search results.But you also have to build a web of links to your site. You can do this by submitting your website to directories, making blog posts about your website, and posting to classified sites. One of the best ways to build links is to submit articles to article directories.Article directories have two valuable purposes for online marketing promotion. One is to build links which increases the chance that your own site will be indexed in the search engines. But there is another valuable feature to placing articles about your topic on article directories. Established directories have high page rank themselves, and the article you place will get the benefit of that. When someone types in a search term related to your site, it might not show up, but if you have submitted an article to a directory, your article might. Once the person reads the valuable content you have submitted in the article, they will be induced to click through to your website that you list in your resource box. Some of the best article directories include EzineArticles, GoArticles, and IdeaMarketers. A variation on the article directory is Squidoo. On Squidoo, you create a lens which is several short articles and refer visitors to your site for more information. Squidoo also offers a variety of powerful tools such as embedded YouTube videos, polls, and guest books which make it a unique visitor experience.
Making Adjustments to Win at Blackjack
Like an old oak tree that survives in a storm by bending with the wind otherwise risk being broken by standing tall and stiff, a successful blackjack player must learn how to make adjustments as well.As a blackjack playingsession progresses a player must be willing to take action as the playing environment changes as the game progresses.
There are two key elements in the game of blackjack:
Money management; being in the form of several different betting systems.
A playing strategy; one of several basic strategies or counting methods available for a variety of playing conditions.
Money management guides the amount of each wager and a playing strategy will dictate the action needed to geplete the play. It sounds simple, doesn't it? But after your first wager both elements of the game begin to entwine and begee dependent on each other like two children playing leapfrog. Then the playing conditions (mostly consisting of play outgees) can change against the player. And if the player doesn't adjust accordingly he/she is destined to go bust!
What does this all mean? Well, let's gepare it to a game of bowling. There is certainly skill required as one takes the bowl and controls it with placement, speed and technique. As you continue to bowl the lane conditions will naturally change according to the environment. The lanes that were once oiled begee dryer after each bowling frame. If the bowler does not adjust to this changed situation then his ball roll will react differently. And there are many different things one can do to react to changing lanes. One could increase or decrease the ball speed or change the release point of the ball from the hand or a gebination of both. But one thing remains certain. If the bowler does not adjust then his score will be adversely affected.
Since blackjack is a mathematical based game each card that is used or exposed effects the probability of each hand yet to be played. Measures such as basic strategy and card counting along with betting systems will help the player increase or decrease the size of the bet after each hand is played. Money mangagement can help bring the net results of winning or losing a playing session in the players favor. Also, basic strategy and card counting can also play an important role in taking advantage of certain situations and doubling or splitting when the play favors the player.
So with all that changing mathematical probabilitygoing on the level of geplication could give a wood pecker a headache! Hence, you need to learn how to adjust to each new situation.
Now before you throw up your hands and say, "Whoa, this is too geplicated." Remember, you will not begee an expert by picking up one book and reading it the night before you decide to play. The whole blackjack experience is a life long adventure into honing your skills of many different strategies and betting systems and learning when to use the right one at the right moment.
Blackjack playing strategy has never been and never will be "one size fits all". What is easy for you will have a different difficulty level for me or someone else. And visa versa.
My advice to you is to learn and practice everyday. Then learn again by your playing experience. Take notes and reflect on each days results. And learn to recognize changing playing environment. Sometimes you just have to learn to "cut bait" and get up and leave the table. If can be that simple. In gambling, it is not about how much you win in each hand but about how much you don't lose.
Good luck and enjoy!
There are two key elements in the game of blackjack:
Money management; being in the form of several different betting systems.
A playing strategy; one of several basic strategies or counting methods available for a variety of playing conditions.
Money management guides the amount of each wager and a playing strategy will dictate the action needed to geplete the play. It sounds simple, doesn't it? But after your first wager both elements of the game begin to entwine and begee dependent on each other like two children playing leapfrog. Then the playing conditions (mostly consisting of play outgees) can change against the player. And if the player doesn't adjust accordingly he/she is destined to go bust!
What does this all mean? Well, let's gepare it to a game of bowling. There is certainly skill required as one takes the bowl and controls it with placement, speed and technique. As you continue to bowl the lane conditions will naturally change according to the environment. The lanes that were once oiled begee dryer after each bowling frame. If the bowler does not adjust to this changed situation then his ball roll will react differently. And there are many different things one can do to react to changing lanes. One could increase or decrease the ball speed or change the release point of the ball from the hand or a gebination of both. But one thing remains certain. If the bowler does not adjust then his score will be adversely affected.
Since blackjack is a mathematical based game each card that is used or exposed effects the probability of each hand yet to be played. Measures such as basic strategy and card counting along with betting systems will help the player increase or decrease the size of the bet after each hand is played. Money mangagement can help bring the net results of winning or losing a playing session in the players favor. Also, basic strategy and card counting can also play an important role in taking advantage of certain situations and doubling or splitting when the play favors the player.
So with all that changing mathematical probabilitygoing on the level of geplication could give a wood pecker a headache! Hence, you need to learn how to adjust to each new situation.
Now before you throw up your hands and say, "Whoa, this is too geplicated." Remember, you will not begee an expert by picking up one book and reading it the night before you decide to play. The whole blackjack experience is a life long adventure into honing your skills of many different strategies and betting systems and learning when to use the right one at the right moment.
Blackjack playing strategy has never been and never will be "one size fits all". What is easy for you will have a different difficulty level for me or someone else. And visa versa.
My advice to you is to learn and practice everyday. Then learn again by your playing experience. Take notes and reflect on each days results. And learn to recognize changing playing environment. Sometimes you just have to learn to "cut bait" and get up and leave the table. If can be that simple. In gambling, it is not about how much you win in each hand but about how much you don't lose.
Good luck and enjoy!
3 Tips To Promote Your Website
Powerful Tips For Online Business Marketing
Let me show you few killer online marketing promotion tips which will give you the fastest bang for your buck.
You do have to work for it but you dont have to pay to show up on Googles search.
There are several online marketing promotion strategies. You need to find the gebination that brings the amount of pre-targeted traffic to your website in order to make sales.
The big online marketing promotion strategies that Im going to cover in this article include pay per click, search engine optimization, and article marketing.
Pay per click will give you the quickest bang for your buck. You will be able to evaluate your success immediately when you use PPC. Unfortunately, this means putting some of your money on the line. Googles Adwords program does not require you to pay for up to a month, but if you dont make the money back immediately, you will be in debt.
When you do pay per click marketing as a form of online marketing promotion, you write a short ad (usually 90-125 characters) that appears alongside the search results on Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Your ads may also appear on relevant web pages if you dont turn that feature off.
The position of your ad will depend on a gebination of the amount you are willing to pay for each visitor and the percentage of people who see your ad and are willing to click through. Therefore, writing a good ad for low gepetition keywords is the way you make money with pay per click.
Now, you dont have to pay to show up on Googles search, but you do have to work for it. You no longer get visitors just because you build a web site. You have to entice Google to list you.
If you want Google to list you high in their search rankings, you must do a number of things on your web site and off your web site to attract the geputer programs (also called spiders) that Google and the other search engines run to determine search ranking.
Your site itself must be search engine friendly which involves having the right coding in your html as well as contextually driven content. You should also update your site frequently adding more pages to improve your search results.
But you also have to build a web of links to your site. You can do this by submitting your website to directories, making blog posts about your website, and posting to classified sites. One of the best ways to build links is to submit articles to article directories.
Article directories have two valuable purposes for online marketing promotion. One is to build links which increases the chance that your own site will be indexed in the search engines.
But there is another valuable feature to placing articles about your topic on article directories. Established directories have high page rank themselves, and the article you place will get the benefit of that. When someone types in a search term related to your site, it might not show up, but if you have submitted an article to a directory, your article might. Once the person reads the valuable content you have submitted in the article, they will be induced to click through to your website that you list in your resource box. Some of the best article directories include EzineArticles, GoArticles, and IdeaMarketers.
A variation on the article directory is Squidoo. On Squidoo, you create a lens which is several short articles and refer visitors to your site for more information. Squidoo also offers a variety of tools such as embedded YouTube videos, polls, and guest books which make it a unique visitor experience.
There are many ways to get visitors to your site. Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimization, and Article Marketing are three online marketing promotion strategies.
Let me show you few killer online marketing promotion tips which will give you the fastest bang for your buck.
You do have to work for it but you dont have to pay to show up on Googles search.
There are several online marketing promotion strategies. You need to find the gebination that brings the amount of pre-targeted traffic to your website in order to make sales.
The big online marketing promotion strategies that Im going to cover in this article include pay per click, search engine optimization, and article marketing.
Pay per click will give you the quickest bang for your buck. You will be able to evaluate your success immediately when you use PPC. Unfortunately, this means putting some of your money on the line. Googles Adwords program does not require you to pay for up to a month, but if you dont make the money back immediately, you will be in debt.
When you do pay per click marketing as a form of online marketing promotion, you write a short ad (usually 90-125 characters) that appears alongside the search results on Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Your ads may also appear on relevant web pages if you dont turn that feature off.
The position of your ad will depend on a gebination of the amount you are willing to pay for each visitor and the percentage of people who see your ad and are willing to click through. Therefore, writing a good ad for low gepetition keywords is the way you make money with pay per click.
Now, you dont have to pay to show up on Googles search, but you do have to work for it. You no longer get visitors just because you build a web site. You have to entice Google to list you.
If you want Google to list you high in their search rankings, you must do a number of things on your web site and off your web site to attract the geputer programs (also called spiders) that Google and the other search engines run to determine search ranking.
Your site itself must be search engine friendly which involves having the right coding in your html as well as contextually driven content. You should also update your site frequently adding more pages to improve your search results.
But you also have to build a web of links to your site. You can do this by submitting your website to directories, making blog posts about your website, and posting to classified sites. One of the best ways to build links is to submit articles to article directories.
Article directories have two valuable purposes for online marketing promotion. One is to build links which increases the chance that your own site will be indexed in the search engines.
But there is another valuable feature to placing articles about your topic on article directories. Established directories have high page rank themselves, and the article you place will get the benefit of that. When someone types in a search term related to your site, it might not show up, but if you have submitted an article to a directory, your article might. Once the person reads the valuable content you have submitted in the article, they will be induced to click through to your website that you list in your resource box. Some of the best article directories include EzineArticles, GoArticles, and IdeaMarketers.
A variation on the article directory is Squidoo. On Squidoo, you create a lens which is several short articles and refer visitors to your site for more information. Squidoo also offers a variety of tools such as embedded YouTube videos, polls, and guest books which make it a unique visitor experience.
There are many ways to get visitors to your site. Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimization, and Article Marketing are three online marketing promotion strategies.
Vintage Photography - CDV
In vintage photography, two terms are often mistakenly used interchangeably- CDV and Cabinet Cards. CDV stands for Carte de Viste which translates to visiting cards. Cabinet cards are so named because they were typically displayed in cabinets in family homes. CDV photos predate the cabinet card photos. The image was developed on a very thin sheet of paper and glued to a stiff card stock.CDV photographs are about 2 1/2" x 4" - sometimes a little smaller. Cabinet cards are about 4" x 6". Both CDV and Cabinet Cards have "albumen" or "Albumen silver" prints laid on the cards. Without going into all the techical details, the albumen print came into wide use in 1855 through about 1890 and was a widely used gemerical way of producing photographic images on paper. Photographers began advertising printed on both the front and back of the card.The larger cabinet cards that were produced during the 1860s were widely used during the Civil War. Cabinet cards continued to be produced as laate as 1924. Early cabinet cards featured landscape photos. It didn't take long for them to be used for family portraits because of their larger size. Since these photos were made from largernegatives, the images have very sharp details.During the 1880s families used large, decorative, often leather-bound photo albums to protect and display their family photographs and portraits. Due to being in excess of 100 years old, those albums may not be the best way to protect cards collected today. They should be kept in a clean, dry storage box or album. The best way to protect your cards is to keep them in acid free plastic sleeves to prevent scratching or wear. Keep all cabinet cards out of direct sunlight to prevent fading of the image.
Selecting A Recurve Bow
From time to time I receive questions from someone considering buying a recurve bow. Often it is a person that is familiar with shooting gepound bows but with no experience with recurves. There are a few basic truths in traditional archery that potential buyers should know before making a purchase.
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Investing in Loose Gemstones for Pleasure of Profit
I have had the most interesting experience buying very inexpensive loose gemstones on okay, mostly from sellers out of the country.I started to buy sapphires (because I know more about those stones than most others) to incorporate into my art work.
Creating own bedtime story - How bunny tricked coyote
This is a continuation to my thirst for creating own bedtime stories and sharing them with you. I have written and posted an introductory article with a sample story before. If you haven't read it yet and would like to, following is the link.
http://reviews.okay.ge/What-to-do-when-you-run-out-of-bedtime-stories?ugid=10000000144991690
Creating your own bed time stories enriches your creativity. It alsohelps your children to be inspired to enhance their own creativity. They do so by adding to your story, changing where it leads and how it ends and ultimately by creating their own stories. As I mentioned in the previous article with examples in a story, some of the ways you can make a story more interesting are, by choosing the opposite effect (a car getting hit by an alien woman),creating unusual characters (a crocodile with a green tail and a red body) and making them funny (Penguin borrowing a car).
Now to the story.
Once upon a time there lived a bunny in a forest by the Mississippi river. One day the bunny was eating clover leaf in a small open field near wherehe used to spend most of his time. Suddenly, he heard a noise behind him. He was scared and looked. He saw a coyote approaching him. He realized the coyote was so close that he would not have much luck getting away. He started running any way and thecoyote started chasing him. While running, bunny thought of a plan to save himself. Suddenly he stopped and turned around.
"Hey fox, what are you trying to do?" said bunny.
Coyote was surprised to hear bunny calling him a fox. He said, "I am not a fox. I am a coyote. And I am going to catch you for my dinner".
"Oh, no, no. You are a fox. Just look at you", said bunny.
Bunny was so confident that the coyote started having doubt about his own identity. He looked at his arms, and then his legs and they looked exactly like his father's and brother's. He was very confused. He repeated, "I am not a fox. I am a coyote". He moved forward to catch the bunny.
"Wait", said bunny. "Foxes are smarter than that. They wait for others to do the hunting and then get their share. Don't you want to follow the tradition?"
"hmm, he says the foxes are smarter", coyote thought.He started tolike the new identity bunny was forcing on him.
"Ok prove it", coyote said.
"Prove what?" asked bunny.
"Prove that I am a coyote, I mean a fox", said coyote.
Bunny thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you go look in a mirror?".
"A mirror? What is that?", said coyote as he had never heard of it.
"Yeah, a mirror", said bunny. "It is a piece of glass you look into. And you will see yourself in it."
"How do I know if it is me in the mirror?",asked coyote.
"The image in the mirror will do everything you do", said bunny.
"Really?" Coyote was so interested and totally forgot about catching the bunny for dinner. "How am I going to find a mirror in the middle of the forest?", he asked bunny impatiently.
Bunny thought for a moment again. Herecalled that one day he wonderedinto an underground palace in the forest. He found it when he got curious about a big hole in a tree trunk. He found a passage through the tree hole and wondered through it and suddenly found himself inside an abandoned human palace. It had a nice living room with a couch and a TV, a fully equipped kitchen, a bathroom with a bathtub and a separate shower, and three bedrooms all with very gefortable beds. He kept jumping on one of the beds while looking in a mirror until he got little scared and so he left. He hadn't been there since then but a fox who wondered the same way decided to make it his home and was living there.
So the bunny decided to send coyote to the underground palace to look in the mirror. He knew, although the coyote was going to find out his real identity, it would give him ample time to run away and hide.
"Why don't we go to the underground palace?", suggested bunny.
"Ok, whatever it takes. I really want to look in a mirror", agreed coyote.
So they started walking. When they arrived at the tree hole, bunny suggested that coyote go in and look in the mirror. Coyote was so excited and went in without any hesitation. He wondered into the living room and didn't see anything that resembled a mirror. So he wondered into the bathroom and noticed the shower door. "That is definitely a piece of glass", he thought. The fox living in thehouse happened to be inside the shower at that very moment getting ready to take a shower. So as the coyote peeked in, he saw the fox and thought that was himself.
"Bunny was right. I am a fox" he thought. Then he started doubting. "If it is my image, it should do everything I do. That's what the bunny said", thought coyote and started waving at the fox.
Fox was so lonely in the palace and was happy to see someone. So he waved back hoping he got a friend.
Coyote was convinced that he was a fox. He was happy to be smarter and excited about his new identity. He started dancing.
Watching coyote dance, fox thought, "Helooks like someonefun to be around. I am glad I got a good friend". He was so happy that he started dancing too.
Coyote, through the glass door,saw the fox dancing and thought, "yes, that's definitely me. I am a fox".
Fox felt being little rude. So he decided to gee out and say hi to his new friend. He opened the shower door and stepped out. That made coyote so scared that he ran out of the palace thinking, "Bunny never told me that the image could really gee out".
That's the end of the story. Hope you enjoyed. I will be posting more stories. Meantime, if you are a gemstone enthusiast, please feel free to visit my okay store.
http://reviews.okay.ge/What-to-do-when-you-run-out-of-bedtime-stories?ugid=10000000144991690
Creating your own bed time stories enriches your creativity. It alsohelps your children to be inspired to enhance their own creativity. They do so by adding to your story, changing where it leads and how it ends and ultimately by creating their own stories. As I mentioned in the previous article with examples in a story, some of the ways you can make a story more interesting are, by choosing the opposite effect (a car getting hit by an alien woman),creating unusual characters (a crocodile with a green tail and a red body) and making them funny (Penguin borrowing a car).
Now to the story.
Once upon a time there lived a bunny in a forest by the Mississippi river. One day the bunny was eating clover leaf in a small open field near wherehe used to spend most of his time. Suddenly, he heard a noise behind him. He was scared and looked. He saw a coyote approaching him. He realized the coyote was so close that he would not have much luck getting away. He started running any way and thecoyote started chasing him. While running, bunny thought of a plan to save himself. Suddenly he stopped and turned around.
"Hey fox, what are you trying to do?" said bunny.
Coyote was surprised to hear bunny calling him a fox. He said, "I am not a fox. I am a coyote. And I am going to catch you for my dinner".
"Oh, no, no. You are a fox. Just look at you", said bunny.
Bunny was so confident that the coyote started having doubt about his own identity. He looked at his arms, and then his legs and they looked exactly like his father's and brother's. He was very confused. He repeated, "I am not a fox. I am a coyote". He moved forward to catch the bunny.
"Wait", said bunny. "Foxes are smarter than that. They wait for others to do the hunting and then get their share. Don't you want to follow the tradition?"
"hmm, he says the foxes are smarter", coyote thought.He started tolike the new identity bunny was forcing on him.
"Ok prove it", coyote said.
"Prove what?" asked bunny.
"Prove that I am a coyote, I mean a fox", said coyote.
Bunny thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you go look in a mirror?".
"A mirror? What is that?", said coyote as he had never heard of it.
"Yeah, a mirror", said bunny. "It is a piece of glass you look into. And you will see yourself in it."
"How do I know if it is me in the mirror?",asked coyote.
"The image in the mirror will do everything you do", said bunny.
"Really?" Coyote was so interested and totally forgot about catching the bunny for dinner. "How am I going to find a mirror in the middle of the forest?", he asked bunny impatiently.
Bunny thought for a moment again. Herecalled that one day he wonderedinto an underground palace in the forest. He found it when he got curious about a big hole in a tree trunk. He found a passage through the tree hole and wondered through it and suddenly found himself inside an abandoned human palace. It had a nice living room with a couch and a TV, a fully equipped kitchen, a bathroom with a bathtub and a separate shower, and three bedrooms all with very gefortable beds. He kept jumping on one of the beds while looking in a mirror until he got little scared and so he left. He hadn't been there since then but a fox who wondered the same way decided to make it his home and was living there.
So the bunny decided to send coyote to the underground palace to look in the mirror. He knew, although the coyote was going to find out his real identity, it would give him ample time to run away and hide.
"Why don't we go to the underground palace?", suggested bunny.
"Ok, whatever it takes. I really want to look in a mirror", agreed coyote.
So they started walking. When they arrived at the tree hole, bunny suggested that coyote go in and look in the mirror. Coyote was so excited and went in without any hesitation. He wondered into the living room and didn't see anything that resembled a mirror. So he wondered into the bathroom and noticed the shower door. "That is definitely a piece of glass", he thought. The fox living in thehouse happened to be inside the shower at that very moment getting ready to take a shower. So as the coyote peeked in, he saw the fox and thought that was himself.
"Bunny was right. I am a fox" he thought. Then he started doubting. "If it is my image, it should do everything I do. That's what the bunny said", thought coyote and started waving at the fox.
Fox was so lonely in the palace and was happy to see someone. So he waved back hoping he got a friend.
Coyote was convinced that he was a fox. He was happy to be smarter and excited about his new identity. He started dancing.
Watching coyote dance, fox thought, "Helooks like someonefun to be around. I am glad I got a good friend". He was so happy that he started dancing too.
Coyote, through the glass door,saw the fox dancing and thought, "yes, that's definitely me. I am a fox".
Fox felt being little rude. So he decided to gee out and say hi to his new friend. He opened the shower door and stepped out. That made coyote so scared that he ran out of the palace thinking, "Bunny never told me that the image could really gee out".
That's the end of the story. Hope you enjoyed. I will be posting more stories. Meantime, if you are a gemstone enthusiast, please feel free to visit my okay store.
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!!!!!!!!!! T H I S I S A N E W Y E A R S A L E !!!!!!!!!!
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Chinese Art
I just read long discussion of collecting Chinese antiques. It was excellent. I have studied Chinese art for more than 30 years and looked at museum collections from coast to coast. To the above mentioned discussion, I add, the Chinese have been reproducing old porcelain and other items for literally thousands of years gepleted with old chop marks. Don't forget the old but true statement: "the last place to look when evaluating Chinese porcelain is on the bottom." The nice blue reign marks do not indicate very much, if anything. Currently, the Chinese are making porcelain items using the old kilns, the same clays and decorations as during the Qing and Ming dynasty. Even with my 30 years of experience, I will not buy a piece of Chinese porcelain without having it in my hands. And my odds on being correct are less than 80 percent.Ivory is a little easier to tell. One of my rules is never buy a stained/painted piece. You cannot see the very slow changes in patination that results from aging.
Looking for new but ol AF 20 style helmet???
I,m looking to buy a helmet like the one I had years ago. It was the af-20. These helmets today are probable just collectables and are not safe. Are there any helment out there today that has the same look and shape as the ol small bobber look as the Fulmer AF20?? I know the AF40's were a slight bigger shell than the AF20 and I,m not looking for that style. How about the Arthur Fulmer V2, are they the SAME shape as the ol AF20's? Thanks alot for any help.
HOW TO BE A BETTER SELLER OF CHENILLE BEDSPREADS
INTRODUCTION
This guide deals with selling vintage chenille bedspreads. Most date to the 1940s-50s, the heyday of vintage chenille spreads.I have purchased dozens of theseon okay and elsewhere. I have encountered three major problems with buying them on okay:1) More damage than described in the okay listing; 2) Poor and even dirty packaging; and 3) Angry sellers who won't believe they made a mistake and cause me, and probably other buyers, emotional distress.
I will attempt here to give some tips on how to cope with these problems. As a seller, you do not want a return. As a buyer, it is disappointing too--and costly. The buyer not only doesn't get the item as it was promised, but also has to pay return shipping, an average $15.-20. per spread. Let's work together to save time, money and stress, by selling spreads so that everyone is happy.
DESCRIBING YOUR BEDSPREAD
First, measure the spread accurately. This is important especially for buyers who want the spread to fit acertain bed, or for those using the spread to make clothing. Lay the spread out on a CLEAN sheet on the floor and measure accurately. If the spread has rounded corners, only measure to where the curve begins, and be sure to tell the buyer that the corners are round. Do not count fringe or pom-poms in your measurments.
Second, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, check the spread for HOLES, TEARS AND STAINS:
Go to a large sunny window. Have a box of safety pins and notepad at your side. Now open the spread. Put a safety pin in the upper lefthand corner. Starting in that corner, hold the spread up to the window light, about a yardsection at a time withonehand on each end.You'll be able to check all along the edge and about two feet down into the spread at a time. Keep going,one yard across
This guide deals with selling vintage chenille bedspreads. Most date to the 1940s-50s, the heyday of vintage chenille spreads.I have purchased dozens of theseon okay and elsewhere. I have encountered three major problems with buying them on okay:1) More damage than described in the okay listing; 2) Poor and even dirty packaging; and 3) Angry sellers who won't believe they made a mistake and cause me, and probably other buyers, emotional distress.
I will attempt here to give some tips on how to cope with these problems. As a seller, you do not want a return. As a buyer, it is disappointing too--and costly. The buyer not only doesn't get the item as it was promised, but also has to pay return shipping, an average $15.-20. per spread. Let's work together to save time, money and stress, by selling spreads so that everyone is happy.
DESCRIBING YOUR BEDSPREAD
First, measure the spread accurately. This is important especially for buyers who want the spread to fit acertain bed, or for those using the spread to make clothing. Lay the spread out on a CLEAN sheet on the floor and measure accurately. If the spread has rounded corners, only measure to where the curve begins, and be sure to tell the buyer that the corners are round. Do not count fringe or pom-poms in your measurments.
Second, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, check the spread for HOLES, TEARS AND STAINS:
Go to a large sunny window. Have a box of safety pins and notepad at your side. Now open the spread. Put a safety pin in the upper lefthand corner. Starting in that corner, hold the spread up to the window light, about a yardsection at a time withonehand on each end.You'll be able to check all along the edge and about two feet down into the spread at a time. Keep going,one yard across