Archive for December 20, 2007

What’s in Store for eBay? Outlook Hazy

Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on December 20th, 2007 at 3:08 am

Yesterday Bill Mulrenin made a post on his blog with this same title:

What’s in Store for eBay?  Outlook Hazy

In it he links to an article from Wired Magazine that briefly discusses the current state of affairs there.    While it obviously does not discuss our little hobby of Scout patch collecting, both the article and its comments are an interesting read.

Bill also links to a couple of articles from The New York Times about complaints from both buyers and sellers on eBay.

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George S. Patton


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UNC 88 — Nicholls State 78

Posted in Tarheel Basketball by John E. Pannell on December 20th, 2007 at 1:22 am

Old WellCarolina tonight played their first home game since November 20th.   It wasn’t the blowout some of us were hoping for but the Tar Heels did prevail for an 88-78 win over Nicholls State.  This was the first game in a holiday season homestand against what looks lik a group of “cream puff” teams.

Coach Williams was probably not too happy with this performance.   As posted on Yahoo! Sports, Aaron Beard, AP Sportswriter, says it well, “Hansbrough leads lethargic No. 1 Tar Heels past Nicholls State, 88-78“:

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"Mathematics has beauties of its own -- a symmetry and proportion in its results, a lack of superfluity, an exact adaptation of means to ends, which is exceedingly remarkable and to be found only in the works of the greatest beauty When this subject is properly ... presented, the mental emotion should be that of enjoyment of beauty, not that of repulsion from the ugly and the unpleasant."
In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Squared, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1972.
J. W. A. Young


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