April 16, 2008
Poker is a game which lends itself to a lot of questions. How do
I do this? What are the rules for this? Which hand is better?
Why should I do this? When should I bluff? How much should I
bluff?
Pacific Poker
has recognised this and created a FAQ
section devoted to answering every one of these questions.
Each of the five sections have a series of sub-sections.
Any question related to poker you have is answered and if it
isn’t customer support will look after you.
Mike Herea, promotions department manager for Pacific Poker has
been stunned by how popular the the FAQ section has been.
“This is for the players especially the newer ones as their
grasp of poker isn’t as high. When you are learning poker all
you have is questions so here are all the answers.”
Pacific Poker
has always prided itself on having the best customer support in
the business and this only confirms it.
“All we want to do is look after our players and make sure they
are provided.”
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Hello, my name is Jill and I’m a work-at-home-aholic.
All my life, I’ve worked in offices or restaurants or other
places far from home. Now, for the first time, I am
telecommuting. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I hate it. Here is
my diary:
Week one: Bliss. Peace. Self-contained, self-sufficient. I have
all I need right here in my home. I never again have to run for
the 6:30 a.m. bus. I never have to return to the cube farm. This
is the day I’ve been dreaming of. Did I mention the quiet? No
interruptions. The cat is beside me and the only sounds in the
room are purring and keyboard tapping. Sigh.
Week two: What is happening? Why won’t anybody help me? Am I
invisible? My PC crashes every hour. The techno- wizards back at
the office keep ignoring my panic-stricken e-mails. I’ve scoured
the web for an answer. I’ve gone on the message boards and
picked the brains of complete strangers. And still the crashing
continues. The cat cannot help. The mailman cannot help. The
noisy guy in the apartment upstairs cannot help. I am ALL alone.
Week three: Today, for the first time, I fell victim to
work-at-home sloth. Wrote all day in my bra and fat-day sweat
pants. Didn’t wash my hair. Brushed teeth at 5 pm. Who cares?
I’m self-contained. Self-sufficient. Nearly invisible.
Week four: Just found out the boss gave the new guy at the
office a few of my responsibilities. Great! It takes some work
off my plate. Kind of odd, though. Did the supervisor forget
that that was my area? Didn’t he like the way I was doing it? Is
everybody in the office talking about me, criticizing me, now
that I’m not there?
They’re jealous, that’s what it is. They probably think I’m
sleeping in, getting my nails done, watching the soaps on
company time. They say being alone too much can make you
paranoid. But I’m not, really I’m not. Say… you haven’t heard
any rumors, have you?
Week five: The annual office party was last night. I found out
about it this morning. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say.
It’s okay. I don’t like steak and lobster and dancing anyway.
Week six: Telecommuting has its ups and downs, but it has
convinced me to go it alone… to sever the ties with bi-weekly
paychecks, daily headaches and humiliations. It’s given me the
hankering to start my own home-based business. And, yes, I am
terrified. But like the book says - feel the fear and do it
anyway.
However, first I have to find the guts to hand in this letter of
resignation and do it with grace and class. Without
recriminations or fear. Wish me luck.
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If you don’t have enough time to workout circuit training can be the right routine for you.
Example One
The following circuit training routine should be performed by training the upper body on Monday and Friday and then training the lower body on Tuesday and Thursday.
Which includes using various machines at your local gym while training for less than 20 minutes.
Example Two
On Monday and Friday use all the machines for training the upper body. And then on Tuesday and Thursday use all the machines for training the lower body .
While taking one minute to rest while still remembering to do one complete circuit.
About the Author
This article was provided by Boea Fitness
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When I lived in the North End of Boston, in the nineteen eighties and nineties, I hung around a neighborhood bar from time to time, called The Corner Café. It was located on Prince Street near the corner of Salem Street. And it was indeed a neighborhood place. The owner, Richie Longo, was a neighborhood kid who grew up on Prince Street and duly attended Saint Leonard’s Schoolas his first generation Italian-American parents hadalong with all the other neighborhood kids.
The regular patrons at the time, were neighborhood people too; all of whom seemed to have nicknames. (although, the nicknames were useful for identification purposes). There was Joe the Lawyer, who wasn’t a lawyer at all, but worked as an insurance investigator. Then there was John the Lawyer, who was a stockbroker, and John the Lawyer, who really was a lawyer with an office across the street. And I was always confused about Mary the Nurse, whose nickname seemed unnecessary; she was indeed a nurse, but she was the only regular named Mary.
Then there were the rest of the regulars: mostly young men ,who fancied themselves to be wise guys. Their conversations were peppered with phrases like ‘fuggeddaboudit,’ and ‘ba-da-bing!’ And they often talked about ‘needing to see this guy,’ or ‘having to take care of that thing.’ But despite the fact that they revered Robert DiNiro, and may have harbored dreams of being known by a nickname like “extreme unction,” the most serious crime any of them may ever have committed was betting on the Red Sox late in September.
When these local heros weren’t talking about ‘this guy,’ or ‘that thing,’ though, the conversation tended to stray toward food; often, toward Chicken Scarpariello. This was a hot dishliterally, and figurativelyduring my years in Boston. And the folks often debated the qualities of one preparation over another. The talk often centered around the merits of Cantina d’Italia’s recipe, that included sausage, over Felicia’s, that didn’t. Sausage or not, though, Chicken Scarpariello is the kind of dish that would please any wise guy because it encourages eating with a fork in one hand an a torn-off piece of crusty bread in the other; the latter, used for sopping up the sauce, and for punctuating various exclamations of ‘fuggeddaboudit,’ or ‘ba-da-bing.’
The short version of the history of Chicken Scarpariello, ’shoemaker’s-style’, is that it was named for the humble fellow who cobbled together the ingredients for the dish from his meager pantry. How it became a wise guy favorite is more obscure, and very likely lost to history. But I suggest that when you serve Chicken Scarpariello at home, the dinner table conversation will become animated and rise a decibel or two above normal. And will you and your fellow diners enjoy it? Fuggeddaboudit.
Skip’s Chicken Scarpariello
Chicken, Shoemaker’s-Style
Excerpted from my second cookbook, “Almost Italian.”
Ingredients:
2 3 Lb. Frying chicken cut into 8 pieces
4 Tbs. Olive oil
4 Cloves garlic, peeled, and sliced thinly
1 Cup dry white wine (Pinot Grigio or Verdicchio are popular choices)
6 - 8 hot cherry peppers, cored, seeded, and coarsely chopped
1 14 oz. Can chicken broth (preferably low sodium)
4 Tbs. Flat-leaf Italian parsley
2 Tbs. Unsalted butter
Juice of 1 lemon
Salt & freshly ground black pepper
Six Links sweet Italian sausage, cut into 1 in. chunks (optional)
4 Tbs. Flat-leaf Italian parsley
Preparation:
Season the chicken pieces on all sides with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Heat a large sauté pan over medium-high heat, then add the olive oil. Add the garlic and sauté for about 1 minute, being careful not to let the garlic burn.
Add the chicken pieces to the sauté pan without crowding. Do this step in batches if necessary. Cook the chicken pieces, turning occasionally, until they’re golden brown all over; about 10 minutes. Remove the chicken pieces from the pan and reserve on a plate, covering them with aluminum foil.
Raise the heat to high, and add the wine. Boil, stirring with a wooden spoon to loosen any bits of chicken that may have caramelized on the bottom of the pan, for about 2 minutes. Add the cherry peppers, chicken broth, parsley, and butter. Allow the mixture to return to the boil, then stir in the lemon juice. Taste for seasoning and add salt and pepper as necessary.
Lower the heat to the simmer, return the chicken to the pan, and simmer, covered, for about 15 minutes. For a real wise guy presentation, add the sausage at this point too.
To Serve
Remove the chicken (and optional sausage) pieces to a platter, cover with the sauce and garnish with the parsley. Serve with plenty of Italian bread for sopping up the sauce.
Serves four
About the Author
Skip Lombardi is the author of two cookbooks: “La Cucina dei Poveri: Recipes from my Sicilian Grandparents,” and “Almost Italian: Recipes from America’s Little Italys.” Visit his Web site to learn more about his cookbooks. http://www.skiplombardi.com For comments or questions, e-mail at info@skiplombardi.com
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Mastercard International is targeting a 40 per cent growth for the financial year
2004-05. At present, it has 7 million debit cards and 5 million credit cards. …
People will always need credit cards; it seems the average person has about 4 cards in his pocket, a card for gas, a card for a major department store, a card for groceries, a card for jewelry, and a couple of cards as spares just in case cash is needed and in short supply.
Now if you have a website, ANY type of website, you can become an affiliate for one credit card company, or up to 100 credit card companies, for absolutely free!
To give you an example as to what is available:
You can feature more than 100 credit cards with several companies by just placing a simple link on your web page for free.
These companies will also help you set up your website.
Credit Cards offered are Visa. Mastercard and American Express.
Commissions to you when somebody fills out an appication range from $20 to $80 for an approval.
They provide affiliates with all credit card content, such as reviews, ratings, APRs, fees, etc. All information is provided FREE to affiliates to incorporate into their websites.
Some companies will actually supply you with access to a database which consistently updates any information that may change such as interest rates and terms and conditions.
There are at present numerous different types of cards the majority of which fall into 2 classifications:
Credit Cards based on good credit history.
Interest and transaction rates should be relatively low.
Credit Cards based on not so good credit history.
Interest and transaction rates will be relatively high.
It would be perfect as an affiliate to be able to offer both.
In order to convince people to subscribe to a certain credit card you can actually promote on your website various types of rewards offered by the credit card companies.
A prime example of rewards of course are airmiles.
“Get 15,000 miles free when you apply for this particular credit card.”
How about these rewards:
“0% intro APR for 15 months.”
“Instant approval”
“5% cash back”
“Free movie rentals”
“Bad Credit OK”
“Low Interest”
“Purchase and transfers at 0%”
“Free rewards program: Home, electronics, dining, travel and more”
” 5 points for every $1 spent at supermarkets, drugstores & gas stations:”
” Earn 1 point for every $1 on all other purchases”
” 0% APR on balance transfers for 12 months”
” No annual fee”
“auto rebate cards”
Faster Cards
There are now new cards , where cardmembers simply hold their card near a point-of-sale reader at a checkout, instead of swiping their card or handing it to a store employee.
As cardmembers hold their card with this feature near the point-of-sale reader, the reader will quickly emit a tone and light up to signal payment confirmation.
“We believe the innovative cards with this feature provide merchants and cardmembers with the increased speed and convenience they want at the point-of-sale,” said a senior vice president of a company’s credit card division. “With this feature, cardmembers can save time when making their everyday purchases.”
So you could use any of the above incentives to promote your affiliate credit card link and earn additional Internet Income.
J Shipper is very interested in distributing Credit Cards.
http://become-a-visa-mastercard-distributor.info
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The method know as three dimensional ultrasound is used when a woman is in early pregnancy, it provides 3d pictures of the fetus. Most of the time these images are captured and combined and animated to produce a “4d ultrasound scan”.
Three dimensional scanning works in the same way to the normal scanning methods except that the ultrasound pulses can be sent from multiple directions. The ultrasound waves are redirected back then captured to provide info to construct a 3-dimensional image in much the same way as 3d movies. 3 dimesional ultasound scanning was devised by olaf ramm abs stephen smith.
It is important to understand that sonologists around the world have always pictured 3d images of the body in their minds while doing 2d scans. However, until recently it was difficult to do this type of reconstruction on on info using ultrasound. With the advent of baby scans for the first time allowed us a peek into the brain of a sonologist and hence letting us view the images on the ultrasound machine.
The 3d/4d ultrasound image should utilize ultrasound energy following the same limits as conventional 2d ultrasound to create the 3d images. There is no data to suggest any harm due to 3d ultasound scanning, its use in non-medical situations needs to be undertaken with an understanding of the risks that exist.
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