Amid security fears on the subcontinent, the second Indian Premier League will take place in South Africa. The fixtures scheduled for IPL2 coincided with the 2009 Indian general election, and as such, security forces were unable to cover cricket matches.

The IPL is a 220 format cricket tournament and due to the large amounts of money involved, it attracts many of today’s players. The first tournament was held in 2008 and received a mixed reception – many loved the opportunity to see some of the best cricketers in the world play together – but the tournament coincided with other leagues around the world, as well as fixtures international, which means that some players were prohibited by their clubs and countries from joining. One such country was England, who would not let their centrally contracted players go, and as a result there was only one English representative, Dimitri Mascarenhas of Hampshire, in India.

This year, the English Cricket Board has been more lenient, allowing its players to join the league as long as they put their country first. This turned out to be a happy compromise and Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff soon grabbed the headlines by becoming the most expensive players at auction, both for $1.5 million. Flintoff was signed by Chennai Super Kings while Pietersen went to Bangalore Royal Challengers. Mascarenhas will return to the Rajasthan Royals, last season’s winners, while his English compatriots Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood, Ravi Bopara and Graham Napier will be in South Africa.

The inaugural tournament was won by Mascarenhas’ team and much of this is due to Shane Warne’s captaincy and coaching. The final came down to the last ball: with the scores level, Sohail Tanvir hit the winning run to win the match, although much of the credit must go to Yusuf Pathan for taking three wickets and a half-century in the match.

With the announcement that South Africa will host this year’s tournament, which is still called the Indian Premier League despite its new location, cricket fans have booked flights to Cape Town to watch the opening matches: the first is Flintoff’s Chennai Super Kings against Napier’s Mumbai Indians. before two more Englishmen (Mascarenhas and Pietersen) meet in the second game of the day. All the players hope to end their tour in Johannesburg, where the final will take place; everyone, that is, except the English Test players, who must be back in London before the final to take on the West Indies.

How depressingly gray would a world be where everything is governed by a set of universal rules that rigorously shape everything? Isn’t it better if we hit back with a chance to confound the tweed-clad straight brigade and weave some exotic odds into life that really don’t approve? It is precisely this change that inspires even the most sober of us to risk a couple of pounds. But the art of successful competition is not just creating a game that has a real chance of success for the buy-in, but one that allows us to lose that buy-in without significantly damaging our current lifestyle. Placing bets on soccer matches using various tips and tactics helps us achieve this motive.

In this article, we will discuss the top tips and tactics that help us get the most out of our money. Soccer betting is not like other traditional casino games. Those games are games of chance in which the house always has a built-in edge. Soccer betting is different in the sense that you can choose which games to bet on and which games to check. By only betting on games that have a positive expected return and passing the games that have a negative expected return, the soccer betting enthusiast can turn the tables at the sportsbook and put themselves in a position to always have the upper hand.

Basic knowledge of sports handicap is required.

Soccer betting requires a basic knowledge of sports handicap. You need to understand what is involved in determining the spread and how to come to an informed guess about the outcome of the game. Handicap in soccer is part science and part art. The best soccer tipsters not only know how to analyze statistics, they also have an instinct gained from years of experience. To acquire these skills and instincts, the bettor needs to handicap himself using picks and recommendations from other bettors as a simple starting point.

Disability has to do with the acquisition and use of correct information

Disability has to do with the acquisition and use of correct information. You are trying to predict the future. You do this by looking at what happened in the past, which is where statistics are useful, and by looking at the current situation, which is where breaking news is critical.

However, one must always remember that even the best tipsters are rarely correct more than 58% of the time. Our goal should be to win more than 50% of the bets.

As we all know, in 2006, the Miami Heat won the next four games again against the Dallas Mavericks, after being down 0-2 in the NBA Finals, we were all very impressed and happy for them and their championship. The following year, the Heat are 44-38 in the regular season, nothing horrible, but then get swept by the Bulls in the first round. Question marks appear on the heads. The following season, Shaq is traded for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks and the Heat only win 15 games of the season. What happened! What happened was that they weren’t prepared when they went into the next season, they got older, injuries struck, and they weren’t prepared when the teams around them were growing in talent. Now this is the example that the Celtics should feed from and not make the same mistakes.

The Celtics have a dominant team, which defeated the LA Lakers in the final 4 games to 2. After a few weeks of celebration, he went back to work. When the season returns, it will not be the same image. They’ll be a year older, have to avoid injuries, especially Ray Allen, who averaged 17.4 and has been there as a late shooter, and has been hit hard by injuries as his career progresses. Rajon Rondo is showing more skill as he continues his career, but he’s still that young point guard who can’t create good shots for his team. There the bench is the main factor this summer. They need to strengthen their bench going into this season. James Posey was a big factor off the bench in the regular season and finals. But unfortunately for the Celtics, Posey wanted a raise in his salary that the Celtics couldn’t give him because of the salary cap. Also, Eddie House is looking at other teams, which will really hurt his team if he decides to move. Now the Celtics have lost their biggest factor off the bench, who played great SF and could shoot the ball and irritate the opponent with his defense, and possibly lose their best guard off the bench. The only player they’ve brought to the team so far is Patrick O’bryant from the Warriors, who hasn’t shown much skill at anything so far in his career. Also, Sam Casell is now entering his 16th season and is really showing his age, and he won’t be a major factor off the bench anymore. The same goes for PJ Brown. So now the Celtics have to rely on free agency and trades, but you can almost take free agents off the roster because almost everyone who could afford is taken. I would have liked to see Minnesota’s Craig Smith join the Celtics, but since James Posey’s decision was so late, it eliminated most options. Hopefully, the Celtics can get some small trades to get another forward and guard to fill in the holes on the bench and try to make him stronger.

As of right now, the Celtics are still my favorite in the East, but they’re close. The 76ers brought in Elton Brand so they had a dominant low post with Miller and Iguodala in the backcourt. We have the Magic who seem to get stronger every season and always making good plays. The Raptors got Jermaine O’Neal who, if he’s healthy, will give the Raptors a great low post game with plenty of space with shooters like Bargnani, Kapono and Parker. And also the Pistons, which I’m surprised they haven’t made a move on yet, but they can still give any team trouble. But for now, the Celtics are barely at the top of my list, and if they strengthen their bench, Boston fans may be looking at another championship.

Starting a new Martial Art like Kickboxing can be very difficult. The problem is that there are many types of instructors and styles and each style and instructor is different. Now… don’t let that scare you. I am going to show you the rules that always apply to kickboxing.

The 5 best golden rules for kickboxing.

The golden rules are very special rules that a person should always remember and not forget. They are really important and useful guides to keep us on track and in the right direction.

Whatever task you undertake, whatever goal you aspire to, there will be golden rules to show you how to do it, you just have to find them.

Let me share my top 5 golden rules for Kickboxing.

• Rule #1, “Always keep your hands up.” The reason you’d want to do this is so you don’t get hit in the face. Remember, you can only take so many shots to the head and face before finishing like Mike Tyson… It’s up to you to interpret that comment.

•Rule #2, “Always keep a firm stance.” I like to refer to being in your warrior stance (ie the stances in which you are always prepared to fight). So… even if you move forward, backward, side to side, you always maintain a strong/warlike stance. It’s like a tripod, move the legs to separate them, to join them or to remove one leg, you don’t have a strong structure anymore.

•Rule #3, “Use common sense.” This is something you practice in your daily life; whether it be at school, at work or simply in what you do on a daily basis. Remember… the fact that you are practicing Martial Arts does not mean that this basic principle changes. An example of this would be, if someone has their hands down, instead of using a special technique… just punch them.

•Rule #4, “Train in Martial Arts regularly.” This includes punching pads, shadow boxing, heavy bag work combinations, and most importantly sparring. Sparring is important because all the training in the world won’t help unless you put your skills into real world practice.

•Rule #5, “Always practice emptiness.” To explain this rule, I would like to quote one of my favorite warriors.

“To die as a warrior means to have crossed swords and to have won or lost without any consideration of winning. (Miymoto Musashi).”

It is up to you to understand that meaning.

You can trust and also believe in my top 5 golden rules for kickboxing. They have been tested over time and can be applied no matter what instructor or style you study with. Follow them carefully and then your ultimate success will probably be assured and your greatest satisfaction.

Of many ways, The game epitomizes the raw-bones tenacity of the American spirit that fueled the Western movement from the Mississippi River in the 19th century. Life on the frontier was harsh, dangerous, and full of risk—pioneers literally gambled with their lives every day. Whether to survive in the Wild West or to win at poker, a man had to be skilled at what he did and count on lady luck smiling on him. He had to keep a close eye on his opponents and sometimes trick his way out of a situation. The results of his actions could be very profitable or he could lose everything, sometimes even his life. Draw poker then was a natural choice for men from the American West who were used to risking everything.

The game was the result of an evolutionary process that began when poker took shape in the United States in the early 19th century. When and where it was first played is the subject of ongoing debate among historians, as is the game’s origins. Various postulations attribute the game’s lineage to a French game called “poque” or possibly a German game known as “pochspiel”. British historians claim that the game was a direct descendant of the English card game “brag”. Other researchers claim that poker evolved from a sixteenth-century Persian card game called “as nas” that was played with a deck of twenty-five cards containing five suites and had rules similar to five-card poker. Since exact documentation of poker’s early history is impossible, determining its start will likely remain a mystery.

Poker is believed to have started in the United States sometime in the early 19th century, possibly in the saloons of New Orleans. From there it spread up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers through commercial steamboat traffic. Then, as wagon trains and railroads pushed the frontier west, poker continued to gain popularity among early adventurers. An English actor, Joseph Crowell, recorded seeing poker played on riverboats in his 1829 diary and later in his 1844 book, Thirty years passed between the players of England and America. A reformed player by the name of Jonathan H. Green wrote about early poker in his book, Exhibition of the arts and miseries of the game which was published in 1843. Both men described an early version of poker played with a deck of twenty cards (AKQJ-10). Each of the four players was dealt five cards and bets were placed on these five original cards with no draws or discards. When the betting ended, the owner of the best hand won the pot, in the order of one pair, two pair, treble, full house (one pair and one treble), and four of a kind. Due to the limits of a twenty card deck, there was only one round of betting before the winning hand was declared and this made bluffing a much more difficult maneuver.

As the game evolved it moved to a thirty two card deck and eventually to the standard fifty two card “French deck”. Sometime in the mid-1830s, straights and flushes were introduced as winning hands. A few years later draw poker was born and began to make the rounds in card rooms in the west. The first mention of draw poker appeared in the American edition of Bohn’s New Games Manual in 1850. In that same year, jokers were introduced to the game of poker.

With these improvements, draw poker and another version called stud poker became the card games of choice among soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. Originally called “stallion horse” poker, the game was played around campfires between battles and was a close rival to draw poker in popularity. Both versions are conducive to bluffing, but in stud poker, drawing or discarding is not allowed. Rather, some of the cards are dealt face down and some face up to the player so that everyone at the table knows some of the cards each player has. Betting occurs after each new face-up card is dealt and after the last face-down card is dealt. The first mention of stud poker appeared in the American Hoyle of 1864.

In draw poker, all the cards are dealt face down to the players and once all the cards have been dealt, there is a round of betting. Players can then discard any number of cards and receive the same number of cards from the dealer. When all players have completed their hands, there is another round of betting before the winner is declared. Later, in 1870, jackpot poker was introduced in an attempt to prevent players with bad hands from being dragged into a pot that was unwinnable. In this version, players were required to have jacks or higher to open betting. If a player did not have the minimum to play, he had to fold and lose his ante.

The first recorded set of rules for playing draw poker arose when Robert C. Scheneck, United States Ambassador to Great Britain, introduced the game to members of Queen Victoria’s court at a party in 1872. Fascinated with the new game, the royals asked Scheneck to write down the rules of the game so they could play it after they returned to the United States. He complied and his handwritten rules of the game were then printed by the queen’s staff for future parties. Later, without the permission of him or the queen’s court, his rule set was published as a small booklet and sold to the masses. With right, A Flowery Path to Riches: The Game of Draw Poker as Taught to the English Aristocracy, the booklet was a great success with the British, who often referred to the game as “Scheneck poker”. Scheneck, who had served as a general under President Lincoln, was embarrassed by the public publication of his rules that he had been assured would be used privately by the queen’s court.

John W. Keller, an American, included Scheneck’s rules for draw poker in his own book, The draw poker game, published in 1887. In addition, he used a portion of a letter written by Scheneck to a political friend, Thomas L. Young; to describe how the ambassador had unexpectedly become part of the publication of the first set of rules for the game.

Keller’s book provided a more detailed description of the game’s rules and variations, as well as a section on progressive poker, which he described as “The latest development in draw poker…and no doubt owes its origin to the popularity of progressive euchre.” Contrary to Keller’s comments, progressive poker never caught the attention of American players and his game quickly disappeared from the gaming scene.

Throughout the book, Keller refers to a celebrated mathematician, “Dr. Pole,” who provided probability and odds for poker hands. At the end of the book, she summarizes Pole’s calculations in a series of probability tables, which have stood the test of time. According to Dr. Poe’s figures, there are a staggering 2,598,960 possible hands in draw poker.

Since Keller’s book was published in 1887, there have been a plethora of books in print on the subject of draw poker, but few have been as clear and concise on the rules and strategy of the game. His sage advice to “Study your opponents carefully, watch the game closely, be patient in adversity and calm in prosperity” seems to be in keeping with the old player adage to know “when to hold them and when to fold them.”

Poker timeline:

1839 – English comic actor Joseph Crowell wrote about a game of poker being played on the steamer Helen M, Gregor, bound for New Orleans. He described a game called poker played by four players using 20 cards (A, K, Q, J, 10) with a single round of betting: the highest hand wins. In his book Thirty years passed between the players of England and America (1844), Crowell said that the game had been invented by the American politician Henry Clay. The game was based on the British game Brag.

1834 – Jonathan H. Green, a professional gambler turned reformer, wrote about the “cheating game” called poker played on Mississippi River boats in his book titled, Exhibition of the Arts and Miseries of the Game.

1836 – J. Hildreth wrote about poker in his book, Rocky Mountain Dragon Campaigns.

1837 – Poker used a deck of 52 cards. Added stairs and colors.

1845 – Poker is mentioned for the first time in an American edition of Hoyle’s Games. (The Gold Standard for Card Game Rules) by Henry F. Anners.

1850 – First mention of draw poker in the American edition of New Bohn Games Manual.

1850 – Jokers are introduced to poker.

1861-1866 – During the Civil War, soldiers and others made stud and draw poker the most popular form of the game.

1864 – First mention of stud or “stud-horse” poker in the American Hoyle of 1864.

1872: Robert C. Scheneck, the American minister to Great Britain, introduced the game of poker to members of Queen Victoria’s court at a royal party. He was asked to write the rules of the game and eventually this was turned into a small booklet. The pamphlet was published without his permission and called, A Flowery Road to Riches: The Game of Draw Poker as Taught to the English Aristocracy. Scheneck had been a general in the army under President Lincoln.

1870 – Jackpot poker (jacks or better to open) is introduced to prevent players with a bad hand from being dragged into an unwinnable pot.

1875 – The joker (a European invention) was introduced to the game as a joker.

Today, Epson is a household name. Most people don’t realize that the company’s full name is Seiko Epson, and it is affiliated with a corporation that started out in the watch industry and is over a hundred years old.

Epson’s story begins with a Japanese businessman, Kintaro Hattori, who started K. Hattori & Co., a watchmaking company, in 1881 at the age of 21. Although he was young, he had already been in business as a jeweler for eight years.

Over time, the Seikosha name was shortened to Seiko, and the company began to specialize in wristwatches. Epson was founded in 1961 to manufacture some of the components for Seiko watches.

In 1964, the company was awarded a contract to manufacture precise timers for the Olympic Games. The Olympic Committee required stopwatches that included small electronic printers so that the scorers could print the times of the athletes. The company developed a small electronic printer for use in timekeeping devices, called the “EP-101”.

The EP-101 was sold to the public in 1968, and the company developed an updated version in 1975. The second version was nicknamed “Son of EP”, which became “Epson”. The name was used when Seiko opened a US branch under the Epson America name that year.

With a hundred-year history of precision technology spanning watches, liquid crystal displays and printing innovation, it’s no wonder Epson has had such a profound effect on the technology industry, and the company is likely to continue to innovate until well into the 21st century.

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Greeting cards have gone from being a medium used through the postal mail to the free technology of the 21st century. The Internet has made the world a small place, being able to communicate with other people in different countries as if they were next door. Your computer, mouse, and a few clicks is all you need to be able to send greeting cards online. Best of all, many of these online greeting cards, called e-cards or e-greetings, can be found and sent for free. There are services that charge, but you can find quality websites that have really cool animated eCards that you can send for free.

What are some variations of online greeting cards that you can find on the internet?

electronic cards-

These online greeting cards can range from a simple picture or image that expresses a sentiment or has text that conveys a message. These eCards are also known as postcards.

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E-Greetings are another version of online greeting cards that you can send by choosing from a variety of music, poetry, graphic effects, personalized messages from you, and great animations. All you need to send these email greetings is a valid email and the recipient also has a valid email address.

You can send eCards and eGreetings from anywhere in the world and send them to all parts of the world.

What types of electronic cards are there?

Some of the most popular eCards people sent in 2009 are birthday eCards, free eCards, and funny eCards. These three categories are only a fraction of the type of eCards people can send, but they are by far the most popular eCards sent online. By far the most searched ecard online is “free ecards”. Once you find a good free eCard site, most people stick with it because they like something special about the site. It can be the animated ecards, rude ecards, funny ecards, love ecards or a personalized one that you can create.

What are the benefits of sending electronic cards?

Sending greeting cards online is free. This is the number one reason most people send eCards over the internet instead of mailing cards to the people they want to send a special greeting to.

Basketball is a popular sport and has taken the world by storm due to its athletic nature. Everyone can jump against a wall and practice on their own or with a small group of friends.

Basketball was originally invented by the Canadian coach named Dr. James Naismith. He was asked to create an activity to entertain the students of the YMCA Training College during the winter.

The inspiration for the game came from a children’s game called ‘duck on a rock’ which was played by throwing a rock at another rock on top of which was an object.

The first basketball game was played in 1892 with a football and two peach baskets suspended from the walls of the YMCA gym. After ten years, the open basket was designed. YMCA in Springfield Massachusetts is the home of basketball and it was through him that basketball spread across the US.

In 1929, the ball was redesigned to give it more ounces than a football. It also became lighter and larger. The National Basketball Association was formed in 1949 when the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League merged.

The most famous team in basketball history is the one that does not compete, the team called the Harlem Globetrotters is an exhibition team that entertains spectators with their skills.

College basketball really drew the most interest in the mid-20th century and made it possible for professional basketball to become the franchise it is today.

Basketball became very popular after World War II and the FIBA ​​World Championship was created in 1950. Originally created with 10 national teams, it grew to 26 in 2009 and is expected to grow even more. Argentina won the World Championship and the United States finally won the coveted trophy in 2002.

Korfball and Netball are derived from Basketball although the rules are changed in the case of male and female or mixed teams.

Bitcoin is reportedly entering forbidden territory as it creates a series of controversies between “high” society and savvy digital investors. These digital marketers are trying to earn their share of the billion-dollar-a-day digital pie, while corporate society seeks to slow the spiraling rise in value of what appears to be a “monetary threat.” Some of those who strive to exploit the poor and vulnerable do not have this as they attempt to inoculate the masses in an attempt to stamp out this growing “digital monster”.

These seemingly corporate crooks continue to stifle how the less fortunate spend their money while trying to build financial cartels across the globe, but thanks to digital technology, Bitcoin has revolutionized money control in the 21st century!

The cons

Despite the growth of digital currencies like Bitcoins, it would behoove me not to reveal the cons of these virtual currencies. Due to the fact that your fingerprints are encrypted, they cannot be traced online. Although one gets the pleasure of privacy and security when trading, it provides another gateway to hide and make illicit transactions.

When this happens, drug dealers, terrorists, and other suspected culprits will continue to conduct their illicit trade undetected using Bitcoins.

The professionals

However, in the midst of monetary chaos, Bitcoins offer anyone tremendous investment opportunities and growth potential. No one controls virtual currency as it is accessible to the public in cyberspace and the value continues to rise while society stumbles over the rubble of inflation.

A common man in the streets can buy, save, trade, invest and increase his chances of financial success without the interference of government restrictions, controls and fiduciary regulations; hence spiraling inflations become a thing of the past.

Many truly believe that the number 1 problem in our society is establishing financial monopolies. When a corporation chooses to control currency, gold, and fuel, it uses its power to dictate how the money should be spent.

Regulations set by multiple large and wealthy corporations are only geared towards adding more wealth and power to their portfolio rather than benefiting borrowers seeking financial help. Also, those at the top try to drain the swamp so others can depend on them while they can become richer, but they can’t control the digital currency!

The brighter side of the coin

The time has come to open your eyes to the world and that is what Bitcoin is all about. Those trying to control the world are threatened by this Frankenstein, but I doubt they can stop it or call the shots. Currently, 1 Bitcoin is worth $844099.07 Jamaican dollars or $6895.80 US dollars. The cost of 1 Bitcoin in 2009 was 0.05 USD!

If you’re like most athletes, you’re looking for a simple solution. You are looking for a training that can simultaneously:

improve your speed

Increase your strength and power

Get skinny and mean

Raise your stamina levels

All without adding massive amounts of time to your already hectic exercise schedule.

And if you’re like most athletes, in search of that “perfect” workout, you’ve wasted precious time and money on the latest and greatest high-tech supplements, exercise equipment, training gadgets, and fad diets.

But, the truth is that the answer is not that difficult at all. It is something similar to this:

1. Find a hill.

2. Start at the bottom.

3. Run as fast as you can.

4. Walk down.

5.Repeat.

Do you think this seems too simple? Many people do. But if you need some convincing, take a look at what hill sprinting has done for these legends of the sport:

Football legend Walter Payton made hill sprinting his bread and butter… led to the NFL rushing record and Hall of Fame.

Another great gridiron player, Jerry Rice, ran legendary “make you throw up” hill sprints… and was still playing in the NFL at age 40.

Running back Marcus Allen… all he did was win the Heisman and become Super Bowl MVP with hill sprints.

Linebacker Junior Seau has played 17 years in the NFL and has made more than 1,200 tackles using sprints down hills … sometimes while carrying a teammate on his back.

Defensive end Simeon Rice remains relentless in the 4th quarter due to his speed training on hills … he has 119 sacks in 11 years to prove it.

Jets running back Curtis Martin, who rushed for 1,000 yards in each of his first 10 seasons and has more than 100 career touchdowns, regularly runs through the hills of Santa Monica, California, during the offseason.

Even Lance Armstrong, albeit on a bike, has made hill sprinting a staple of training that earned him 7 Tour de France titles.

And that’s not all… in addition to these incredible athletes, many people who need to stay in top shape run sprints on hills. From the strongmen of yesteryear to the police and fire departments, from the world’s elite military forces to Olympic sprinters, and from NBA stars to baseball’s greatest…everyone knows the secret power of this workout. Yes, the toughest of uphill sprints to stay strong, powerful and in top shape.

Give them a try and get ready for some serious results.