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Smart Way to Increase Traffic

It is very important to know where your traffic to your Web site is
coming from. Is it through a Search Engine, or through the promotion of
your URL in an ad or a newsletter?

This information will give you another clue as to your visitors’
mindsets when they arrive to read your Web site’s content. Why? Because
“ad traffic” is tougher to persuade than customers who arrive via
Search Engines.

Why? Why is ad traffic tougher? Because if people find you via an ad,
they know they’ve been “pitched.” And they know another pitch is
coming. So they feel that you are using their time.
But if they find you via Search Engines, that’s another story…
They were looking for you! They found you via a keyword search, so they are targeted.

Search Engines are, by far, the #1 way that surfers find Web sites. If they cannot find your site, it does not exist.
One more important point…

Finding a site through a Search Engine is more credible than
visiting a site due to advertising. It is the offline equivalent of
reading editorial content in a newspaper, as opposed to an ad.
So, how to tell Search Engine about your site? How to make it indexed?
One of the very workable and easy way - to write articles - get
published. Write articles for publication on other websites. The author
profile will link to your site. And the Search Engine will find this
link and index. The search Engine will know about you.

But where to post? It may take long term, - you can say. There also is an easy
way. Make this process automatic. There are many advertising tools. 1 of them is
Blogs Auto Filler - look at http://nezabudka.oksima.biz.
Using this program you can post hundreds of articles after one click.
The sites to post can be found by the program.
You can easy make your site
searchable by search engines saving your own time. Make your site
indexed by Search Engines and invite people to visit your site.

I
use this software myself and… How did you come to this site? I think
you found it in the Search Engine ;). As many other people do. Hope you
find it useful and will come again. So, Blogs Auto Filler is good choice for fast advertising.

And also you may be interested in good keywords for you site - there is another good free tool - keyword generator. It is located at http://keyword-generator.oksima.biz. It generates up to 100 relevant keywords for your advertising. Also available a paid version of keyword generator which generates more than 2000 relevant keywords. In addition I can tell that when I bought Blogs Auto Filler I got a free bonus - Fake Referrals script.

I wonder why do I need it until I visited http://fake-referrals.oksima.biz site. This tool is being sold separately from Blogs Auto Filler and it costs just $35. I tried instructions, which I found on the site and I was very glad that I got it for free :). It is very powerful tool to make your site listed in search engines without any reciprocal linking or something like that.

Use eBay as Cheap Traffic!

Did you know that according to alexa, www.eBay.com is ranked number 8 out of over 36 billion sites on the web? (36,000,000,000!). On average, it recieves 40 million hits daily, and of that, it’s average user views 17 pages. That’s impressive! What’s also great, is that most listings get at least 50 very targeted views. If you can get listed on eBay’s “The Pulse” (most popular internet auctions) you are guaranteed at least 5,000 visitors to that listing, and many of them will click through to your site, affiliate link, whatever makes you money.

Your probably thinking, big deal, it’s almost like a ppc. What you probably don’t realize is that you have COMPLETE control on the content of your ad (err…listing?). Two to three sentences not cut out to describe your site accurately? Then don’t bother with Overture or Adwords, (Or kanoodle, goclick, etc etc) as they only offer you a few senteces.

The price of a listing that can potentially garner you over 1,000 visitors? About THREE DOLLARS!. What PPC campaign can offer you such bulk, targeted visitors with such minimal cost and effort? Not any that I can think of! Another great thing, is that your listing doesn’t cost more or less based on your keywords! No more spending upwards of 2 dollars (overture expenses anyone?) for keywords such as “Make Money” or “Real Estate Profits”, or even upwards of 7 dollars for keywords such as “Website Promotion.” Simply amazing….

The only pitfall of this is that you must have an actual product to bid on. Many simply don’t think too hard about this, and try to sell an email or sales letter, or something of no real value, just so they can justify their listing on eBay. What you SHOULD do however (if you own your own product, this is harder to do with an affiliate link) is sell your own product!

Simply modify and copy your sales letter as your listing. EBay is notorious for quick shoppers who are very irrational when buying things. Candy wrappers selling for over 100$ sound odd to you? Not on ebay. Some eBay bidders actually make it a habit to buy and collect this stupid crap, and resell it all as a “Greatest Hits of eBay” collection. Now that’s smart thinking! You want to take that a step further? Write an ebook about eBay mystery auction, and strange auction in general, or a guide on how to think of such crazy idea’s and sell that very product on eBay!

You can probably understand why you should consider eBay one of the most unique prospects on the internet. It’s like the search engines USED to be, where you are guaranteed hits and visitors no matter what the field, and where being outrageous pays off. Maybe you should check out eBay a little more…

Chris Everson

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Best Laptops Now Mass Market

In my point of view gaming notebooks have lost their once maintained niche title. I recall when they were not so available. The shipments were in no terms very good but they did give great cash on each unit than others. I guess most people would concur they always desired a laptop for gaming however it was just out of reach for the majority. They the the newest technology and basically the best laptop computers. I think we all got excited about them but the masses would never buy laptop computers that were so pricey. Things appear as it they are set to change though because now the gaming laptops market has attracted the attention of larger companies.

These laptops have a particular price range and these brands know they do not have to be price aggressively here. At the moment the profit margins on the majority of laptops are so thin that this constitutes as a great chance to roll back the gross margins. Persuading people to buy laptop computers is sort of effortless for larger manufacturers. I am trying to think what the the reaction from smaller resellers will be. I am already witnessing some price reductions. Now customers will have much more choice it makes it hard for the small companies. Consumers just feel much more at ease making a major purchase from a familiar name. The laptops are surprisingly very good as well. I reckon this will still be the ray of hope for smaller retailers though. I seriously doubt buyers would prefer to have a similar configuration as everyone else in this kind of sector. These prospects have the technical know how and would conclude which laptops are best. In the majority of scenario’s the performance is far more important than the looks for certain types of customers.

This is amazing news from a buyers perspective. In the end, the costs will be brought down even more causing the newest technology to be a choice that we can afford. I predict even industry analysts would have a tough time observing where the market is going. Prices will be held high as a result of the continuous manufacture of new portables. Strong Competition generally pushes companies to do more and give increased value so that appears promising.

Pretty Girls Russian Brides: A Smart Way to Build an Online Relationship

Pretty girls Russian brides are being searched by thousands of Western men. Online and offline. In this article, you’ll discover a smart way to build your online relationship leading to marriage with a Russian woman.

Usually you can’t preplan marriage. In the beginning, you aren’t able to say if the given friendship leads to marriage or not. It usually happens in the course of time. Men and women date for many reasons, marriage is not the only one. People may marry their dates later if they find each other compatible.

The conventional procedure includes several steps:

  • make friend with the girl;
  • live together for a couple of years;
  • marry.
    By the way, the longer two people live together before marriage, the less chance for the partners of ever getting married, several studies have discovered.

    Meanwhile, our cyber time is bringing new relationship tendencies into life. It’s more and more acceptable to think about marriage first and then look for a suitable person.

    Here come dating services and online singles sites. Or, as an example, online services introducing pretty girls Russian brides. You target Russian ladies looking for American men who want to marry and it is up to you and her to develop a relationship or not.

    Nowadays, there are several ways to check if you are on the right track.
    Let’s assume you begin dating a Russianwoman. How can you know the woman is compatible if you have never met her? Just judging by photo only? It is like walking up to a person at a party and asking them to marry you. You see, it is far more complicated. But you aren’t in a hurry, are you? Please, be patient.

    The wise decision is: carry out much learning, any possible contact with the Russian woman and compromise. Write hundreds of emails or letters… Make tens of phone calls…Provide at least one visit to her…
    You may feel after some time of correspondence that the woman is the one. You may begin discussing marriage and family life together as well. It’s not an exaggeration. There are couples who decide to get married during their correspondence. The personal meeting only checks if the people have made the correct choice.

    Building an Internet relationship through phone calls and writing letters or emails for some time is much more exciting way to fall in love than meeting a future partner at a party.
    You feel magic of love and your feeling is much more pure than one based on physical contact. The moment you meet, touch and kiss is inexpressibly wonderful, precious, one to be remembered for life. The moment capable of exciting your senses unlike anything you’ve felt before….

    Tanya Bilk, M.A., a published author who reveals the secrets to Russian women. Here are your Free Russian Woman Secrets
    Meet educated, finest Russian women, pretty girls Russian at
    e-RussianWoman.com Have fun. Find a friend. Date. Marry.

  • Health: Positive Attitudes, Affirmations, & Actions for Overcoming Your Health Challenges

    Health Challenges like Diabetes, HIV, Heart Disease (mainly heart attacks), Stroke/CVA, COPD/Emphysema/Chronic Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Alzheimers, Kidney Disease, Septicemia/Systemic Infection, Liver Disease/Cirrhosis are diseases and disorders that require all the tools of heaven and earth to fight. Below are some poistive thinking techniques that are alternative medicine and alternative healing for your mind.

    Beginning your healing journey:

    1. Separate YOUR identity from the disease’s identity.

    2. You are a person, who is having a disease “experience.”
    3. Recognize that an “experience” comes and goes!

    4. Your Disease/disorder “experience” is your life’s reset button! Learn from it.

    5. Disease may be in your physical body, however, it is NOT in your Soul or spiritual body!!!

    Your health challenge is a diagnosis. Although it affects your life, it is NOT necessarily a life sentence. Rather than fearfully accepting your diagnosis, do research! Knowledge is empowering.

    Health Affirmations: A spiritual healing is different from a physical healing!! Your goal is integration and the balance of both to create allover well being and health. Talk to your cells, your blood, your organs, your bones, etc, they are live entities!!!!! You are the commander of YOUR body! Take charge and command your cells to be healthy. You do not have to accept and enable what’s happening to them. You may command the cells in your body that are here to serve your Soul!

    Cancel, Cancel, Cancel, Next, Positive!: Remember thoughts have ripple effects. To stop every negative thought and action in your environment whether you think it, say it, or are in the field of someone else who says or does something negative.

    POSITIVE PEOPLE ONLY!!! YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! You can erode all of the positive energy that you have generated by being in negative circumstances. Do not repeat negative thoughts and actions or be in the presence of negative energies (ie “downer” individuals, no matter where, caregivers, friends, stores, phone calls, emails etc).

    NEVER EVER OWN YOUR DISORDER & make it a part of your being!
    Anger: at your disease circumstances lowers the energy that you use to heal yourself. Positive energy creates more healing energy.

    Fear management:

    Fear is a wonderful barometer, as long as you use it to take care of yourself, to listen to your intuition, and to be vigilant about your health care. Don’t dwell on your negatives. The Bible does not say,
    “count thy negatives.” When you are afraid or depressed, count your positives.

    Counting positives repels depression, and redirects you mentally, and raises your energy. Keep mentally and physically busy.
    Remember when you lay down at night, you are NOT alone. You may be physically alone, however the entire Universe and all of your Guardians are right there with you AT ALL TIMES! That’s a HUGE crowd that cares and will always be there for you!!!

    When you have a new diagnosis of your “experience”, what do YOU believe and buy into?

    UNTIL the Universe presents a tangible, don’t kill yourself off with fearful “what ifs”.

    LIVE!! Do your research. IF you ever have another confrontation, THEN and ONLY then do you address that with energy. Never give your life force energy to what fearfully “might be” UNTIL and UNLESS it IS! Otherwise YOU will manifest the energy thought form INTO your body!!!

    Create a positive energy turnarounds to your negative statements.

    “I just can’t do this anymore,” add “at this time” or, “In a few minutes I will be better.”

    “I’m trying”. Trying is for trying on shoes or clothes or new restaurants. You must DO this!
    YOUR life depends on it!

    “I’m just not getting any better,” add “YET.” You never know what can happen in the next minute, a new medical procedure or treatment may be released.

    “I don’t have any hope left.” AS long as there is a God/ the Universe/ your Higher Power, and you believe and have faith in that Higher Power, there is HOPE!!! And POSSIBILITY! Even if you don’t feel you have hope, hope is still there. Hope IS the human spirit.

    “I’m doing the best I can”….add “up to this point!!!” Reach into the depths of your Soul’s reserves, and DO more !!! YOUR life depends on it!

    “I don’t really believe in all this “stuff” I’m doing.” What do you want your Higher Power to do with your duplicity?
    You are in charge of choosing your exit points. Take charge of your life Literally!!!!

    and “I’ll do it later. I’m tired”
    There is NO later…….If you wait too long, you may be with your Higher Power.
    Take charge of your life, it’s the only one you’ve got!
    Denial drains and lowers your life force energy. Use your life force energy to heal your body.

    Keep a Daily Thankful Diary, a HAPPY BOOK:

    This exercise will create a positive mindset, and give you strength thru the ups and downs. Take pictures, and narrate your journey. Your “story” will help others.

    Write 3 things that you are thankful for each morning, afternoon, and before you go to bed.

    Make this your Happy Book. DO NOT NEGLECT THIS BOOK!…..
    Non-healing: “I don’t have time to write this, I can’t write this”, then dictate to a friend!

    “I don’t have anything to be thankful for” …….. try being alive?

    “Time Outs” are OK:
    If you are truly Soul weary, take a time out. However, LIMIT the timeframe of your time out to a morning, an afternoon, or ONLY one day. Just tell your family and caregivers, that you want some time “off” to rest. When you are refreshed and ready to go, start taking charge of your thoughts words and actions again. This is not a time to take a long time out. Your life depends on it!

    Sleep:
    Sleep allows your body to recalibrate your life force energy. Don’t be ashamed to sleep. Sleep is healing!

    And last but NOT least,
    Perspective: There is ALWAYS someone who is worse off than you………….and although you may not be happy with your current situation, they would be GLAD to trade place with you and your situation!

    Choose to “Experience” your Health Challenge, Believe YOU Are, and BE the Survivor!

    You are invited to download our free pamphlet with excerpts from this book. We hope this will help you with your healing journey.
    Positive Attitudes, Affirmations & Actions for Overcoming Your Health Challenges” ISBN#: 978-0-9766370-3-5 - at http://www.brentatwater.com/
    or http://www.brentenergywork.com/BOOK Disease.htm

    Feel Free to reprint this article in it’s original format with the disclaimer.

    CONTACT INFORMATION:

    Brent Atwater

    Atlanta, GA 1.404.242.9022 USA

    NC Office: 1.910.692.5206 USA

    email: Brent@BrentAtwater.com

    Disclaimer: There are no guarantees about the healing properties of these suggestions. We can only state that positive results have been documented for individual clients and research in this area continues. Ms Atwater is not a medical doctor or associated with any branch of medicine. Ms Atwater works in Alternative, Integrative and Complementary Medicine. She offers her opinions based on her intuition, which is not a substitute for medical procedures or treatments. Always consult a physician or health care provider concerning any medical problem or condition before undertaking any diet, health related or lifestyle change program.

    Brent Atwater - EzineArticles Expert Author

    Brent Atwater: Medical Intuitive, Distance Healer: Her global Medical Intuitive & Distance Healing has been studied by & or documented at Duke, the ARE, & for pets by the NCSU’s Veterinary school. ARTIST: An artist (30+), Brent is a pioneer in healing art by scientifically documenting the Healing benefits of Paintings that Heal. Her art was featured on “PBS”. At 16, the NC Museum of Art chose her painting for their permanent collection. In 1987 she founded Just Plain Love Charitable Trust to benefit children & other causes. AUTHOR: Just Plain Love Children’s Healing Books. The books are translated into plays performed in children’s healthcare facilities turning illness negatives into positives. “Cancer Kids, God’s Special Children”, & “Positive Attitudes, Affirmations, & Actions for Overcoming Your Health Challenges” These books are holistic, alternative medicine & alternative healing for your mind. MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER:On TV & radio shows, Brent’s motto is “I want my art & books to DO good, as well as BE good!!!” Brent attended Wake Forest Law School and is a minister.

    Website Design — The Daunting Task of Choosing an ISP

    One of the most often asked questions that I receive from clients, others in the throes of having and/or designing a website and even other designers/developers is, “How do I choose an ISP (Internet Server Provider)?” Your ISP is important because this is the company that hosts your website — in other words, provides the location on the Internet where your website lives and resides. If you do a search for “website hosting” you will find 4,600,000 links, and there are close to that many possible hosts.

    Consider your purpose and needs.

    • If it is a personal site for friends and family, then the uptime, size and complexity of features are not as important. You can even use the free personal site that comes with your Internet connection. Some of these include advertisements (like Yahoo), but for a small fee, you can usually have the ads removed.
    • If, however, your website portrays your business, you want to make sure that the host chosen is up and running at least 99.9% of the time. When visitors to your site get the “this page cannot be displayed” message, they seldom return and form the opinion that you and/or your company are not professional.
    • If you have a large, complex website or plan to have your website grow into one, then you will want to choose a plan with the features that are important to you — or that can be easily upgraded in the future.

    Decide what features are most important to you and your website.

    • Start by checking how much size is available. Depending upon how many graphics, scripting and content your pages consist of, most plans will provide sufficient space. For example, 250 MB should hold an average of 1,200 pages.
    • Will you need e-mail addresses (which I suggest, because every time you send an e-mail, your domain name appears)? Some plans offer unlimited e-mail addresses while others average around 20 to 40.
    • How about autoresponders? I love them because you can set up messages to be sent out when someone clicks a specific e-mail address. This is the way I handle my e-newsletter subscriptions. In these days of spam, if someone uses one of those e-mails who isn’t legitimate, they bounce back and I don’t add them to my distribution list. They are also handy for leaving an “out of the office” reply.
    • What about other features like databases, FrontPage extensions, forums, search engines, shopping carts, etc.? The list can be endless, but there are many features that you will never use — or, as you grow, will you?

    Choosing a host may be one of the most difficult choices you will make. The good news is that there are many good ones out there to replace the one that doesn’t work out.

    Chris King is a professional website creator / designer, storyteller, writer, free agent, and fitness instructor. You will find her business website at http://www.creativekeys.biz where you can sign up for her monthly Internet Tips E-zine. In addition visit Chris’ information website at http://www.creativekeys.net and her blog at http://www.curiositycubed.blogspot.com

    In the National Guard in a State of Meltdown?

    The National Guard in 2005 made up 40% of the forces in Iraq and by Spring of 2006 most of the active duty are on their second go around in Iraq. Some say that the National Guard is in a state of meltdown. In fact one General told Congress this when he stated in “24-months the wheels are coming off” and the liberal politicians are using this to condemn the Bush Administration and then going so far as to say that the Bush Administration cared more about their tax cuts then winning a “Democratic Middle East.”

    First the argument that the Bush Administration tax cuts are somehow connected to the Islamic Cleric incited opposition to a free Iraq or new democratic government there is completely without merit. Running a government especially the United States government in charge of the greatest civilization ever created in the history of mankind is not easy nor should the policies be linear. So that call it is truly irrelevant in every regard.

    Next, let us discuss the issues with the National Guard and how this might affect the strategic strike taking out two-thirds of the Iranian army, all military assets of value and all targets of underground nuclear weapons manufacturing.

    The National Guard army is not needed 4000 hour airstrike war on Iran and therefore any liberal who claims that we are overextended and therefore should not serve the political will of the entire world to rid Iran, the nation’s state which sponsors international terrorism, but its nuclear warheads and atomic bomb manufacturing is out of sync with reality and therefore their comments or of no value and cannot be considered by any free man of reason. I hope you will consider this in 2006.

    Lance Winslow - EzineArticles Expert Author

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    The Outstanding Advanced Hair Studio

    Hair loss, baldness, hair thinning is something that disturbs tonnes of men old and young. There are various options reasonable to you yourself currently, to help you yourself fix the Advanced Hair Studio is now one of these exact places. They have managed to help around 300000 clients round the UK and presently have 70 studios in twelve different parts of the world. If you need help with please visit Hair loss today.

    There are countless different sorts of hair loss treatment services achievable to clients all of which involve very different methods All of these are achievable to all customers after an appointment with a consultant. The procedures are Strand by Strand this is very extremely maintenance & builds the hair up slowly & progressively so not to make it so obvious, this acts as a hair replacement method as apposed to a hair regrowth method. Advanced Hair Laser Therapy is another option that you yourself could go for; this method is unbelievable and very specialised. AHS has effectively conducted clinical trials in a mix of the newest laser beam technology, an FDA approved re growth pharmaceutical, & a proven scalp & follicle treatment programme for hair loss. With this programme, you yourself will see a gigantic change within three months. The last technique that they offer is a home treatment, so this is something that the customer can actually do themselves in the comfort of there and the results are super. The home treatment programme combines the naturally occurring herb Sereonoa Repens range of products, with a handheld laser device & antioxidant treatment which helps to thicken, strengthen & repair your hair and scalp as well as promoting hair growth and reducing hair loss. Each

    A Personal Skincare Program for You

    Why is it that all of us cannot keep the skin we were born with. Well I’ve still got my skin but it has changed and, according to my mother, it has changed a lot. It would also need to have stretched a bit, well in my case stretched a lot. As we get older, things happen to our skin, like wrinkles. I have them but I am a man so I can get away with it. Unfortunately, ladies find it harder to get away with having a few wrinkles. As a man, I am not too bothered by a few wrinkles and as long as I keep my skin clean, I do not bother with it much and no one really notices. What we do notice though is skin on women, and because many men are somehow genetically programmed to be uncaring and insensitive about your skin, you spend a great deal of time and effort to make your skin look good.

    Why is it then that men can get away with wrinkles but women cannot? Is there anything you can do about it? If you adopt a skin care program then this should help to affect how your skin looks and more importantly it will affect how you feel as well, and that is very important. You have to remember that the skin is the largest organ in your body and so by adopting a skincare program you are looking after yourself.

    So what can you do about it? Well to start with after every shower even after you have dried yourself your skin is still damp and by applying moisturizer you are trapping moisture into your skin which is a great plus factor. Another one is to drink water and this hydration helps your skin as well. However, if you notice that even after this your skin is always dry and sometimes a little flakey, just visit your doctor to check things out. One other reason you should quickly visit is if there is a major change such as dark, (or lighter), skin patches and any changes or growth to moles you may have. Get these checked out just to make sure you have no problems.

    One thing to watch out for is the effect the sun has on your skin. The sun is at its fiercest when it is highest, which is generally at midday, so just take care. Applying a good sunscreen helps, and another thing to take into consideration is that elastin, which is a substance in your skin, breaks down under strong sunlight. This can cause the skin to sag so just be careful. It is a pity about the effects of sunlight on skin as most of us feel much happier when exposed to sunlight.

    Rather than buy every skincare product on the market there is a lot you can do to help your skin by developing your own personal skincare program.

    Healthy skin is helped by a healthy diet, and a healthy diet is usually a balanced diet containing fresh vegetables and fruit. Both of these have been found to contain antioxidants which can help your skin protect itself from day to day living. To get the best values from fruit and veg though it must be fresh or only lightly cooked.

    Another important factor in skincare is skin hydration and this is helped by drinking a sensibly amount of water. I have seen it suggested that 4 to 8 cups a day is sensible but if you are drinking bottled mineral water check the chemical makeup of the water as some are high in sodium which means high salt levels. Do not fall into the trap that drinking 4 to 8 cups of coffee a day, (which is mainly water after all), is as good for you. Coffee contains plenty of caffeine which helps the body to dispose of water. I had a great idea that I would drink beer instead of coffee as that is mainly water, but drinks containing alcohol, (including wine,) do not class as water either. It does not have to be bottled water either; tap water is fine as long as it is pure and clean. Not at bedtime though as drinking late at night means your body may retain this water causing your skin to stretch a little which is not something you want to happen.

    Your skin also stretches when you become overweight and after a diet, and loosing weight, you will need to exercise to tone your skin into shape again. A younger person has more flexible skin but when you are older your skin is not as flexible and it becomes harder to tone your skin after loosing weight. The answer is not to try and put on weight in the first place but that is not always easy especially as we get older. However please try to keep weight gain off your skin care program as the two do not go together.

    Whatever you decide to do, do some research and find out what will work best for you. One way of doing this is to talk to people selling skincare products in stores. Although their job is to try and sell you their product, they will still give you good advice. You could ask your friends as well, as some of them may be able to guide you in the right direction. Whatever you decide to do, good luck.

    Ric Wiley is an established writer and Internet author. His latest advice site about skincare can be found at http://www.skincare-today.info

    Playing Poker in a Bad Economy

    Simple question: Does online poker suffer when the economy is in the tank?

    I’ve always read that during an economic downturn, certain industries, understandably, suffer. In the States, the housing market collapsed in the wake of predatory lending and all that, and gas prices skyrocketed. Not a good mix. Travel suffered, tourism changed from a long distance affair to staying in your AC-pumped living room, and disposable income quickly became a cool thing to talk about in terms of what the “good ol’ days” had to offer.

    But what about card games, and especially that great game, poker?

    Turns out that poker, like many gambling games, actually see and uptick when times are touch financially. As people flock to fill that depressing void in their lives where their savings once was, they play poker not only as an escape, but as an ill-conceived way of producing a little more money.

    It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but then again when people are desperate they’ll try anything. It’s just a shame that many people turn to gambling, or the lottery or other games of chance, because the odds are always going to be stacked against them. There’s no easy fix.

    My fix? Try the movies!

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