The Poker Nightcap

You will find that decorating your dining room or kitchen with linen, lace, vinyl, spandex or laminate tablecloths can be an enjoyable experience. A tablecloth provides attitude to the decor of any room, patio or outdoor deck. They also protect a table from scratches and/or dents whether the table be made of glass, wood or another material.

Looking through magazines is a great help in getting ways to decorate with tablecloths. Stylish home interiors – kitchens, living rooms and hearths are often shown with tablecloths.

Whimsical garden theme tablecloths showing an abundance of Birds and Butterflies are as stylish today as they were in the past. Logos or initials can be digitally printed onto tablecloths and used for the home as well as special events.

There are many terrific colors, styles and materials to select from when you shop for the perfect table cover. You will also discover a stunning selection of intricately designed lace tablecloths such as Poly Cove, Vienna and Lucerne.

As you purchase tablecloths you should also purchase table napkins and place mats that coordinate with it. This allows you can match the table linens you plan to use with the tablecloths to that of its fabric and color. Helpful Hint. Store table linens in sets — the tablecloth, table napkins, and place mats used together should be kept together.

If you are on a limited budget consider buying table linens at a wholesale store. Better yet, shop via the internet for tablecloths. Online retailers and internet wholesalers offer great prices on everything from tablecloths for the home to restaurant and banquet tablecloths. Internet wholesalers also have a larger variety of fabrics, colors and size to choose from as opposed to what you will find at a local shop.

Remembering to keep the budget in mind while you are shopping will let you get the most for your money, create a stunning table setting and have money for more things besides. The perfect tablecloth is not hard to find. You can accent a table with flair because there are so many fabrics and colors to select from.

Well it is hard to stay in style in the world of neckties. Too stuffy and you look silly. Too silly and you look like you are a fool or former class clown. If you are a salesman you need many ties in your car so that you can change them to fit the mood and ambiance of your clientele. If you are selling to an industrial firm and you look too slick, they are liable to kick your rear end out the door. If you walk into a large corporation with a tie, which mocks the dress code you will certainly not get the sale. What a dilemma indeed. But there is a better way, a new technology, which will change all this. You ask how?

The “Holographic Neck Tie” will solve all your problems. How does it work? Well, glad you are interested. The Windsor knot is standard, but the knot is a projector device, which clips onto your shirt at the top, like those clip-on ties. A fishing line sized string hangs down and is fastened to a lower level button. The line is made of carbon nanotech fiber material and will not break and it guides the Holographic tie replica image to enlarge or contract as needed while walking, sitting or standing up. Each Holographic tie has 24 images to choose from and you can also purchase other theme cartridges to put in the back if you wish to purchase them from the HNT Corporation. Think on this in 2006.

“Lance Winslow” – Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

When the subject is changed, he’s in a better, more relaxed mood. The guilty wants the subject changed; the innocent always wants a further exchange of information.

• He does not become indignant when falsely accused. While he is being accused the liar will remain fairly expressionless. The liar is more concerned with how he is going to respond than
he is with the accusation itself.

• He uses such phrases as “To tell you the truth,” “To be perfectly honest,” and “Why would I lie to you?”

• He has an answer to your question down pat, such as giving precise detail to an event occurring two months ago.

• He stalls by asking you to repeat the question or by answering your question with a question.

“Where did you hear that?” “Could you be more specific?” or even repeating your question back to you, at an attempt at sounding incredulous. For example, “Did I sell you a puppy with
a heart condition? Is that what you’re asking me?”

• What he’s saying sounds implausible, such as “During the past ten years, I have never used a specific racial epithet.”

• He offers a preamble to his statement starting with “I don’t want you to think that…” Often that’s exactly what he wants you to think. Whenever someone makes a point of telling you what they’re not doing, you can be sure it’s exactly what they are doing. Such as, “Not to hurt your feelings, but…”

• He implies through a form of denial. You hear, “He’s having marital problems, but it has nothing to do with his wife’s new job.” What’s the first thing you ask? “What does his wife
do?” Suddenly you’re in the exact conversation that is “supposed” to have no bearing on the facts.

• He uses humor or sarcasm to defuse your concerns, rather than responding seriously.

• He offers you a “better” alternative to your request when he is unable to give you what you originally asked for. Before you accept someone at his word that he has something better to offer, first see whether he has what you originally asked for. If he doesn’t, then you shouldn’t believe him.

• All of his facts relating to numbers are the same or multiples of one another. Watch out when facts, figures, and information have unusual similarities.

• There is evidence of involuntary responses that are anxiety based. Anxiety causes many things. His breather may appear as a deep, audible inhaling in an attempt to control hisbreathing to calm himself. Swallowing becomes difficult; he may clear his throat. His ability to focus on something is often diminished, unable to pay attention to what’s going on.

• He uses an obvious fact to support a dubious action. For example, let’s say that a guard is standing watch over a restricted area. It’s his job to check ID’s of those who enter. “I’m not sure you have authorization,” he says to a man attempting access. “I’m not surprised,” answered the man, “only a few people are aware of my clearance level. My work here is not supposed to be known by everyone.”

• He casually tells you something that deserves more attention.

• He exclaims his displeasure at the actions of another who has done something similar so that you will not suspect him. For instance, if he is trying to throw you off track of his
embezzlement scheme, he may openly chastise another employee for “borrowing” some office supplies for personal use at home. Your impression is that he is moral person who objects to something as minor as stealing office supplies. Certainly he cannot be responsible for a large-scale embezzlement scheme.

• He may casually tell you something that should deserve more attention. “Oh by the way, I’ve got to go out of town next weekend on business.” If he doesn’t usually travel for work on the weekends, then you would expect her to make a point of how unusual the trip is. Her downplaying the trip makes it suspicious. When something out of the ordinary happens and the person doesn’t draw attention to it, it means that he is trying to draw attention away from it. Another tactic is running off a long list of items in the hope that one will remain unnoticed.

• If he lies about one thing, everything he says is questionable.

• His story is so wild that you almost don’t believe it. But you do, because if he wanted to lie, you think that he would have come up with something more plausible.

Joseph owns and operates a Hypnosis website that helps to make life better for people thru hypnotism.

He can be found at: http://www.hypnoadvance.com, the place for Hypnosis Therapy Information Download

There are no rules, but you do have to know them
(Myles Downie – Author, “Effective Coaching”)

I am somewhat puzzled by the sense that coaching has a value, yet we don’t know what that value is and we don’t know how to measure it.

Is this is a bad thing or not?

Style has no value and cannot be measured but it makes the owner more attractive.

Are we trying to make our organisations more attractive by providing coaching or are we trying to make our organisations more effective.

If the latter we have to be able to demonstrate a return on investment, if the former we don’t.

I am just a little uncomfortable with the idea that we appear to be using coaching without any sense of why we are doing it. There is a vague feeling that it adds value to an individual’s performance but at the same time not enough value to make a measurable difference.

From an aesthetic point of view this may mean that the value, like style, cannot be measured in the conventional sense, but from the point of view of the accountant or engineer, if the added value cannot be measured there can be only one conclusion.

There has been no value added.

If this is the case then it becomes difficult to justify the investment of resources into something that provides no return.

Since most businesses are not run by aesthetes we have to ask why we persist with a strategy that provides no measurable return.

Coaching is a familiar word which we accept without further qualification because we believe we know what it means.

The context in which this word is familiar is the sports pavilion, not the business arena in which we are now using it.

So what is coaching?

We have a fairly sophisticated idea already of the work of the sports coach.

The Coach takes a naive athlete and allows that athlete to realise the full potential of his or her body.
The athlete is already fit and strong, the Coach provides the focus, technique and energy to an already prepared body which allows the Athlete to improve.

This idea translates very effectively to the business arena in which the business Leader / Manager, with Coaching, is guided and supported to a new focus, a new understanding of personal effectiveness and real power.

The above repeats the familiar analogy of the Athlete who with Coaching is able to reach his full potential.

The model however falls short of the needs of the professional tradesman who finds himself in a position of authority with no Management or Leadership tools.

All of his working life he has been using his skill with familiar tools, (that he was introduced to during his apprenticeship), to produce results for which he is paid.
His promotion to a Managerial position now puts him in a place where he is not allowed to use his old familiar tools.
He is placed in this position and expected to produce results in terms of performance, without the training or experience to indicate how he might go about it.

The equivalent situation is the man on the street who finds himself being Coached by an athlete. He doesn’t even speak the same language.
“What has diet got to do with it, what do you mean go for a run? what’s wrong with the bus, cross training? do you mean learn how to get angry, don’t call me overweight!”

There is no reason why the second man cannot become as motivated and effective as the first but it is apparent that some extra work is required to get to the same level.

In terms of the Athletic relationship the sports Coach would not normally entertain the man who came off the street.
Before he could get into a pure Coaching scenario there would have to be an enormous investment in time and effort to get John Doe to a level where his performance could be attributed to Coaching rather than an increased fitness level.

Business Coaches on the other hand don’t often find themselves with the luxury of being able to pick and choose the people or the level to which they are pre-trained before they meet them.

The Business Coach accepts whomsoever is encountered and is prepared to take on the man in the street with the same enthusiasm and the same end in mind as the Business Athlete.

For the Business Athlete the coach is starting with a person already trained and fit, he has the tools he requires and the value added comes from the softer, guidance, facilative and support skills of the Coach.

The man in the street, at the opposite end of the spectrum cannot respond to the softer skills because he has not even begun to learn the language that would allow him to appreciate the concepts.

At the base level there is a man who first wants to know what empowerment means before he can consider the relevance of the concept and begin to think about a strategy to implement it in the workplace.

The word Coaching and the initial narrow definition of the word does not cover the teaching, training and mentoring which has to occur first to prepare John Doe for the one to one Coaching relationship.

Without the groundwork, the preparation and education, we cannot get to that one to one relationship.

The Business Coach expands his offer to the client by including these hard skills.

By transferring those (Hard) skills to the clients, through teaching or training, the coach adds immediate value, at the same time preparing the coachee for the subsequent one to one coaching relationship (The Softer Skills) that will aid the clients progress to the next level of performance.

The two groups of skills;

The Harder Skills :

Predominantly for the man without a formal business education (Non Athlete)
• Teaching,
• Training,
• Mentoring.

The Soft Skills :
Predominantly for the business athlete
• Guiding.
• Facilitation.
• Support.

In a practical situation there will always be an overlap between the two groups but by ensuring that the hard skills are in place first the Business Coach can fine tune their use and measure the return created by the coaching intervention.

Where these hard skills are not in place, or have been neglected, it will be very difficult for the coach or the client to discern a return on their investment.

Peter A Hunter.
Author-Breaking the Mould
http://www.breakingthemould.co.uk

If you have ever experienced or learned something which you then knew was instinctively right – you will never have forgotten it.
Peter Hunter learned something years ago which, regrettably, most of us have still yet to learn.
When we do – once we have understood the simplicity of his book ‘Breaking the Mould’ – it will transform our lives forever!
Vic Baxter – Business Workout.

Essence Magazine’s annual music festival is in New Orleans through July 3 and has slated performers, speakers and seminars as part of its 35th anniversary celebration. The Thirty-ninth annual Montreux Jazz Festival takes place at the foot of the Swiss Alps this year in Montreux from July 1-16 and spans a wide musical spectrum. Screenwriter Steve Kaire has sold or optioned eight projects to the major studios including Warners, Columbia, United Artists and Interscope. On July 2 he discusses “High Concept: Creating and Selling to Hollywood” at Alameda Writers Group Meeting in Glendale. Writing the One-Hour Dramatic Teleplay is the focus of a one-day workshop meeting on UCLA campus July 6 in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Area Emmy Nominations covering Broadcast and Cable Previews are set to be announced July 7 in Los Angeles. Meet Margaret Emory, talent agent for Dulcina Eisen Associates and the columnist for “Ask an Agent” in Back Stage newspaper, in an evening that includes interactive on-camera demonstrations, on July 7 in New York. “Battle for the HeArt Creative Roadshow,” making stops in several cities, examines the role the Web is playing as both a change and transformation agent during a stop in Chicago on July 7.

Professional and commercial media produced in Florida is previewed in “Best of Florida, Made in Florida” running July 8-10 in Downtown Fort Lauderdale. At the July 9 “No Budget Film Workshop” in Los Angeles, attendees can learn how filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, Joe Carnahan, Darren Aronofsky, Marc Forster, and Tim Story launched careers with no-budget films. Youth culture experts and thought leaders from apparel and entertainment to music, gaming and publishing tackle marketing and selling to teenagers in a July 12 session titled “What Teens Want” taking place July 12 in New York City. This year the American Black Film Festival is introducing a new networking event – ABFF Soap Box, a two-day event designed to highlight festival participants careers and projects – when it opens up a four day session, July 13-17 in Miami. After a welcoming cocktail party, classes, panels, chat sessions, and pitch sessions form “How to Beat the Odds in Hollywood – 12 Steps to an Independent Film” with sessions running July 14-17 in Las Vegas. At the Songwriters Guild of America Week, opening July 17 in Nashville, needs of both the songwriter and performing songwriter are addressed through educational workshops and networking opportunities for both. At the Diversity Film TV Market happening in Washington DC, attend business and industry-related seminars, meet and discuss potential sales and acquisitions from July 21-24. Henry Mancini Summer Music Festival showcases the works of new, competing artists taking place July 23 to August 12 in Culver City. National Association of Broadcasters Management Development Seminar for TV Executives will be held July 24-29 in Evanston. KidFest opens July 25 in Winter Park and includes a Young Filmmakers’ Academy and screenings of unusual and classic children’s films until July 29. Songwriters in the round can discuss and perform their songs in a casual setting at a BMI Acoustic Series on July 27 in New York City.

Dealmaking, through personal contact, dinners, programs, as well as online networking leading up to the event, is what the Mobile Entertainment Summit is seeking to achieve for its guests during its two day session starting July 27 in Universal City. The Writer’s Road Map: Directions For Getting Your Book in Print, happens on July 28 in Tampa. “The Pitch Pit” is a featured event at the NATPE Third Annual TV Producers’ Boot Camp, July 28 and 29 in West Hollywood. HypeFest is dedicated to showcasing compelling and entertaining short films, commercials, music videos and promos and includes a screenplay competition amidst festivities with an awards show and nightly networking parties, July 29-31 in Hollywood. Fade In: Magazine sponsors its 9th Annual Hollywood Pitch Festival running July 30-31 in West Hollywood. NashCamp Songwriting Week is a Songwriting camp staffed by Nashville songwriters and Music Row professionals taking place on Cumberland Furnace Plantation from July 31 to August 5.

The above events are only a sampling of what is listed. Many of the events above have a submission process for indie and/or performing artists to take part in. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page at http://www.actorschecklist.com/news.html.

About the Author

The events mentioned here are only a sampling of what is listed. Many of the items in the article have a submission process for indie and/or performing artists to take part in. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page at http://www.actorschecklist.com/news.html.

State Minimums

• Bodily Injury Liability: $10,000/$20,000 Limit
• Property Damage Liability: $10,000 Limit

Florida is a no-fault state. The specifics for a no-fault system are not the same by state, but basically, how it works is that the auto insurance firm will cover damages irrespective of fault. Altercations over who is answerable are decreased with this system, but at the same time, people give up some of their rights to sue the other parties involved.

To aid payment for the expenses made from an automobile accident, Personal Injury Protection (PIP) is included in your auto insurance policy. In Florida, all motorists are required to cover PIP insurance policy of $10,000 to compensate a single person caught up in the accident and $20,000 for everyone involved in the auto accident.

Underinsured Driver auto insurance coverage is for times when you get into an accident with a motorist who does not have a Florida auto insurance policy.This auto insurance coverage is elective, but can help decrease costs if you are in an accident with an uninsured and/or underinsured motorist.

In 2003, the average rate in the U.S. was $914,while the usual Floridian layed out $1,104. There are lots of motorists that wrongly assume that they have no control in decreasing their rates.

Auto insurance rates in Florida can change between two people and one company to the other. To determine if you could be reducing your insurance costs, you must go over auto insurance rates on the web. You also may be eligible for special insurance programs that can help reduce your costs.

In 2007, average auto insurance rates saw their first lessening in about 8 years. 2007 had a .5% to 1% decrease in insurance rates from 2006. However, the following year in 2008, auto insurance costs were again increasing and continued to do so through the start of 2009.

Auto insurance sites help drivers get discounts on their insurance. These websites allow you to quickly and easily get auto insurance costs from lots of insurers. You possibly may be able to obtain reduce auto insurance rate quotes at another insurer and/or find that you’re entitled for special insurance rebates.

Searching for a way in funding a college degree may be challenging and may need time. These scholarships are not the same as a student loan in that the funds are a grant, and, do not have to be paid back. While exploring methods of funding your university degree, suss out the more unusual options, for instance lefthander scholarships.

Lefty Scholarships: — It may seem unusual to offer a grant based on being left-handed, but consider this: Bill Gates is a left hander, so is the president of the United States, Barack Obama. Raphael, Da Vinci, Sting not to mention Winston Churchill were also southpaws. Close to eleven percent of the population are left handed. Although in the past left-handers have gone through substantial discrimination, in modern times they are supposed to be gifted intellectually and more artistic. Stigmatization is now a thing of the past and lefthanders are no longer considered to be unusual, and may even have many qualities associated with the famous people identified previously.

Visit and take a look at our terrific resource for college scholarship help instructions!

There are numerous funds accessible specifically for left handed people if you know where to search. A Beckley Scholarship for a thousand dollars is available at Juniata College in Huntington, PA. Granted to scholars of Juniata College and instituted in 1979, this college fund has helped over forty left-handed scholars in their quest for advanced education.

Numerous scholarships do have requirements and limitations. These can be minimum grades or financial needs, but not always. Multiple applications will give you a better chance of graduating with a minimal level of debt. Clubs, hobby related groups and even community organisations can be a source of college scholarships. Scholarships for left handed students are not the only case; programs are available in other circumstances for example to the people from military families or if you have a disability. Most students have to spend a little time exploring university funding, of course the payoff will invariably be worth it. The debt generated by a university education may be diminished via such grants used alongside standard lending. Leave no stone unturned in exploring all accessible scholarships. The above-mentioned funding is not the only alternative — be imaginative! Try for everything you consider you are suitable for, you may keep your academic debt to a an absolute minimum, additionally you will be able to expect improved prospects when you eventually graduate.

Intelius, an online company that provides information to empower consumers and businesses, proves that it has developed the innovative technology and unique customer appeal to maintain its competitive edge over other companies in its specialty, based on the financial growth the company has recorded since its inception in 2003.

The Internet-based company Intellius is based in Bellevue, Washington, home to a thriving and competitive startup industry. The company is primarily an information provider – it offers concrete and relevant information to customers and businesses regarding criminal, personal or employment information and history that they could use to make significant decisions, whether for personal or business-related affairs. It provides an online-based background checks that have proven to be responsive to its clientele, now numbering over 6 million.

Founded in 2003, the company ranks 16th among the most trafficked directory Web sites in 2007, its visitor population soaring to 11.1 million, a 37% increase from the previous year. Because the ordinary American finds difficulty in accessing some public records such as professional licenses, names of present or past neighbors, it relies on Intelius to provide that information. Its clientele patronizes the reliable and accurate information it provides at real-time speed: criminal reports, census data, 30 year address lists, neighborhood demographic information, and employment records. To bridge the gaps among families and individuals, it also emerged with the most comprehensive people look-up service for those who would like to connect and reconnect with family and loved ones.

Naveen Jain, Founder and CEO of Intelius, remarks that the company is the best there is in its specialty, because no other firm offers information as comprehensively as it does. Relatively, Intellius is a young Internet business, but its innovative products and services have jumpstarted its financial performance that helped turn it into one of the fastest growing in the industry. It was recently cited by Deloitte & Touche Technology’s Fastest 500 companies after it posted a growth of 1566.27 percent from 2003 until 2008.