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So you saw the World Series of Poker on ESPN the other day, and you told yourself it looked boring and wasn’t for you, and then two hours later you were still on the couch yelling at the screen about pre-flops and the river.

And now you want to play. Trouble is, the adrenaline has worn off from watching some schlub win half a million dollars with an A-2 bluff, and you realize you have no idea how the game works. Texas Holdem? Might as well be a Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Western. The river? Wasn’t that a Meryl Streep flick? Finding the nut? Are wesquirrels?!

It doesn’t have to be this way. There is skill involved in poker, no matter what your friends say, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get the basics under your belt. Hopefully these tips will give you the confidence you need to hit the felt and pile up a chip stack of your own. Not $500,000, of course, but a little something to get started.

First up, you have to remember that poker never plays out like it does in the movies. Matt Damon and Edward Norton made Holdem look fast and easy in Rounders, but that’s not how it works in the real world. Rule one is you don’t have to play every hand. If the hand you’re dealt (called the pocket cards) stinks, don’t be afraid to throw it away (that’s called “folding”). If you’re still having trouble, try playing only those hands that contain high cards at first, and folding the rest. Veteran players at the table will grumble at your cautiousness, but you might find your chip stack staying high and healthy this way, at least at first. Playing more doesn’t always mean winning more.

Next up, where are you sitting? Online poker and live events both feature round, oval affairs, and how you play a hand is influenced by the seat you’re in. This has nothing to do with the comfort of your backside, and everything to do with the Dealer. Where are they? (hint: find the seat with the “button” in front of it, which says “Dealer”) How many seats away? If there are a high number of seats, you can happily consider yourself in the “Late Position,” meaning you have the luxury of watching your opponents’ actions before making your own. If there are a small number of seats, you’re in the “Early Position”, and will be forced to act before most of your opponents. As you become more aware of your poker playing style, you’ll find that either position has its strengths and weaknesses.

OK, so you’re seated now. Take a look at those two facedown cards the Dealer tossed your way. Take a peek. Memorize what they are, because nothing says “newbie” like a someone who checks their cards ten times a hand, and look for part 2 of this tips and tricks beginner’s primer around the Net sometime soon.

Until next time!

After you have induced a state of hypnotic self-relaxation concentrate on your specific sexual problem, assuming you have one. Ask yourself a series of questions. In answering them during your self-analysis stage of auto-hypnosis, try to develop some understanding of your particular sexual maladjustment. You will surprise yourself as to how much self-insight you can gain in this way, which will enable you to find solution to your problem.

When a psychiatrists succeeds in getting his patient to develop insight into his own problem (referred to as “insight therapy) he has practically achieved half the cure. For example, if you are aware of having a faulty attitude about sex because of some negative beliefs or habits, tell yourself that you can and will develop a more positive attitude. If you are living in the past, tormenting yourself with guilt feelings because of some past sexual wrongdoing, accept the self hypnotic suggestion that you are going to close the door to the past, forgive yourself and devote your efforts toward making a better future sexual adjustments.

Some of the questions to ask yourself:

Do I have guilt feelings about past sexual experience, which is interfering with my ability to enjoy sexual relationship with my wife or husband?
Is sexual disharmony the root cause of my marital unhappiness?
As a wife I am I assuming my sexual responsibility as a woman by not frustrating the sexual ego of my husband?
As a husband do I give my wife the love and tenderness she needs to make her more responsive sexually?
What can I do to bring about an improvement in my sexual relationship with my husband or wife
Am I willing to consult a specialist for the remedy of a sexual problem particularly when all efforts at self-help have failed?

Here are the 10 positive suggestions, men and women, which I recommend that you repeat to yourself again -again -and again. The repetition of an idea or thought conditions you to the successful acceptance and application of what you need and to believe. You will be rewarded with sex happiness – essential to good physical and emotional health.

Positive Suggestions For Women:

1. I’m always enjoying my sexual life and having complete sexual fulfillment with my husband.
2. I’m making my love relationship a reciprocal one, realizing that the mutual giving of love is the secret of sex harmony.
3. I’m convinced that a happy sexual life is essential for a happy married life
4. I’m always making my husband a sexually satisfied person
5. I’m reminding myself that four-fifths of all divorces are caused by sexual incompatibility. With my happy love life, I’m convinced my marriage will last forever.

Positive Suggestions for Men:

1. I’m convinced that attitude is all-important to understanding and correcting my sexual problem.
2. I’m developing positive attitude and feelings. And the more sex I have the more I enjoy it.
3. I’m becoming more and more sexually literate by reading a authoritative manuals, improve my lovemaking technique and increase my capacity for sex satisfaction

4. I’m always positively discussing sexual matters with my wife.
5. I’m intelligent enough to seek competent professional help If I suffer from some deep-seated sexual problem, which I cannot resolve myself,

Remind yourself that you are a better lover than you think you are. Don’t be obsessed with the idea that you don’t have the ability to love. Learn to experience the emotion of love within yourself. You will soon discover that you will want to and can love someone else. Self love (the normal type) should precede man woman love.

Pradeep Agarwal is a renowned Hypnosis & NLP guru with career spanning two and half decades He is also a much sought after speaker and peak performance consultant for organizations and sport teams. Visit Hypnosis Global for free 6 part mini course to learn Self Hypnosis and Personal Transformation.

A marketing strategy can either make or break your business. As you know, there are many different aspects to a good marketing strategy. You may be wondering which marketing strategy is right for you. Also, how do you know which marketing strategy really works? The best marketing strategy is the one that gains profits. In this article, we will discuss the various aspects of a great market strategy.

The first marketing strategy you should look into is your website. Make sure your web design is eye catching and easy to maneuver. A marketing strategy you can add to this is to have attractive pictures or illustrations that get your customers attention. This is always an important marketing strategy.

A second marketing strategy is to promote you product. Any marketing strategy will tell you to get yourself noticed. Different aspects of this marketing strategy are to send out flyers, business cards, post cards, etc.

A third marketing strategy is to use an autoresponder. This automated form of a marketing strategy is commonly used. Using an autoresponder to send out advertisements of your product is fast and convenient. Everything is done by email.

Another marketing strategy is to use a slogan or logo. This is a great marketing strategy because it is a way for people to easily remember your business. If they remember or recognize you, they are likely to use your website.

Another powerful marketing strategy is to use an SEO (search engine optimization). Using this will attract more people to your sight. This is because when they do a search for a particular service or product, the SEO will make sure your site is listed at the top of the search results.

A very important marketing strategy is to have a great price for your products or services. This marketing strategy is an absolute must. If your prices are not great, you will never have any business. Try to show people why your prices are so great to entice them to make a purchase.

Finally, the last marketing strategy is to have good public relations. With good public relations, your business will prosper through word of mouth. Allow customers to submit feedback of your business. Place positive feedback and testimonials on your website. It makes your business look good and customers tend to prefer to use businesses that have positive feedback.

As you know you what a marketing strategy that will not leave you with empty pockets. In reality, any marketing strategy is going to cost you a little bit of money. But if you look in the right places and follow some good advice, your marketing strategy should leave you coming out on top.

Jay Moncliff is the founder of
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They’re everywhere! They come to your cubicle at work. They grab your attention as you exit the grocery store. They even knock on your door at home! You can’t escape them.

Thank Goodness! What amazing treats the world would miss out on if not for the industrious Girl Scouts selling their famous cookies!

Whether you order from the daughters of your co-workers, your neighbors, your own family members or total strangers, you’ll find that Girl Scout cookies are something to look forward to each year.

The Girl Scouts of America have been selling their delectable delights — arguably America’s favorite cookies — nationwide since 1936. The money from cookie sales makes up the majority of each troop’s operating revenue.

The most popular Girl Scout cookie? Thin Mints.

Other favorites include Caramel deLites (also known as Samoas) Peanut Butter Patties (Tagalongs), Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies (Do-Si-Dos), and Shortbread Cookies (Trefoils).

Some of the cookies have different names in different regions, because they are produced by different bakeries. But don’t worry about the names… regardless of what they’re called in your area, they are all delicious!

Two new cookies are being offered in some areas this year: Cartwheels, which are oatmeal and cinnamon; and Thanks-a-Lots, which are shortbread with chocolate on the bottom and the word “thank you” (in one of five languages) on the top.

The Girl Scout Cookies won’t be for sale for long, as the season is winding down. But here’s good news: the cookies freeze well. If you stock up now, you can be munching on them all year! And, of course, helping to support the Girl Scouts of America.

Why would anyone want to escape from that?

Bonnie Lowe is the cookie-crazy creator of Cookie-Crazy.com. Visit her site for free cookie recipes, articles, tips, critiques, resources and fun!

The tempo of the music begins to rise. Drums begin to throb. The bride and groom rise. Yet another ritual begins. Removing the garter from the bride’s usually hidden leg.

If she’s lucky, the garter will be removed with decorum and tossed among the bachelors waiting patiently nearby. If the wine and hard liquor has been flowing lavishly and abundantly for the past five hours, some sadistic youth will grab the groom, tie his hands behind his back with the tie which, a minute ago was around the groom’s neck, and force the groom to remove the garter by the only means available to him. His teeth.

While there’s a lot of grinding of guests’ teeth at this unpalatable bit of ribaldry, the action is pretty close to what would have happened couple of hundred years ago.

When it came to weddings in days gone by, guests viewed the bride and groom very much like today’s fans view their favourite movie stars. In “Singing in the Rain”, Gene Kelly had almost his shirt torn off him by frantic fanatical fans. This scene could very well represent what happened at some of those wild weddings of the past.

Trying to anticipate, the well to do bride and groom would come prepared. Their pockets might be filled with gold coins to throw at the more boisterous of the guests. There were also gifts of kid gloves for the more refined. The bride might even stick bits of ribbon, lace and flowers over her clothes for those guests who had a tendency to grab at anything that looked as if it could be detached with ease.

But when all that could be given was given, and the hordes still bayed for more, than the bride had better be nimble and quick with those garters, or else she might be disconcerted by the number of foreign hands crawling up her leg.

It was no use for the bride to appeal to them with, “Look, just take one, OK? I’d like to keep the other one as a memento of the wedding.” No. It was fling one garter as fast as she could, and remove the other one while the men scrambled for the first one.

By this time, running as fast as she could, she might reach the steps of the carriage. With one last mighty heave the other garter, like Atalanta’s golden apple, would sail through the air to slow down those insatiable guests, long enough for her to jump in the carriage and away.

And they talk about the good old days!

Vlady, an Australian Civil Marriage Celebrant, is an author of “The Complete Book of Australian Weddings”, “The Small Organsiation Handbook” and an ebook “Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle?” which you can see on her website http://www.vlady-celebrant.com