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Kids love to play Croquet and other outdoor yard games. The other day I was applying for a job. I was on my fourth interview with the company and was wondering how I might make a good impression. On my resume the interviewer saw that I sold Croquet Sets and other yard games online. I was worried what she might think of that. Suddenly she got very excited and said, “My little boy loves to play croquet. He asks me to go play it with him almost everyday!” Well, from there the interview went very smooth and it was very comfortable, but more importantly, kids love to play croquet and other outdoor yard games.

So often these days, kids are sitting around the house playing computer games or watching television, eating junk food and getting fat and lazy. Why not find something better for them to do, something that is constructive, makes them be social and interact with their friends or whoever else might be playing. Help them to do something active, something outdoors that is both safe and fun. Croquet sets or other yard games are the perfect solution to the next generation wasting their lives away. It is something they can do often, at their own volition, and at no expense after the croquet or yard game sets are initially purchased. It is something they can do again and again.

I remember, my family had a croquet set when I was a kid. I do not remember ever playing, but only vaguely. I remember hitting the balls around with the clubs, though, and just playing around with the croquet equipment. As a kid it was fun to hit the balls around with my club. Later in Junior High and High School, one of my friends had a croquet set, and we used to go to his place to play often.

Croquet and other outdoor games are also fun for adults and can be a time when parents can spend some healthy, constructive, quality time with their children, family, or friends. One thing every family needs is some healthy, constructive, and uplifting recreational activities to do together as a family. It can facilitate a constructive and healthy lifestyle for everyone in the family and give a chance for parents to have a good influence on their children.

I played croquet in someone’s backyard over the summer, and several children were playing as well. Few of them had ever played before, so I had to teach them. They all enjoyed it though; hitting the croquet balls around with their clubs and hitting each others’ croquet balls with their own croquet balls to knock others out of the course. We played poison croquet, so the first person to go through the last wicket and hit the pole at the end became poison, and could eliminate the other players by hitting their croquet balls with the poison ball. They all had a good time even though I beat them all.

So, do something good for your kids, and get them a kids croquet set to play with. Help them to get outside the house, to stop watching TV and playing video games and getting fat on the couch. Find them something constructive to do. Kids love to play croquet and other outdoor games and would be very excited if they had their own set to play with at their convenience.

Reprogramming the Overweight Mind: 7 Steps to Taking Control of Your Subconscious has become the definitive book for behavior change. It is the ultimate self help book because all of the documents necessary to perform a clinical study are contained within an included Audio/Data CD. When psychologists, physicians, or psychiatrists ask me to prove my book is the definitive document for behavior change, I am happy to accommodate.

Since its introduction into psychiatric care in 1990 Burris MIND/FITNESS has established itself as the only clinically proven process for behavior change and has been endorsed by all psychologists, physicians, and psychiatrists who have evaluated it.

7 Steps to Taking Full Control of all Behaviors, not just Weight Loss, Diet, Health, Fitness, & Eating Disorders

Step 1 – The Emotional Checklist Burris MIND/FITNESS is based on the reality that all behavior is emotionally driven. The Emotional Checklist establishes a baseline by which you can measure your results from day to day, week to week, month to month or year to year.

Step 2 – Subconscious Perspective & Empowering Questions On the first page of the program process you will literally put your subconscious on paper and discover what brings about a behavior at the deepest level of the subconscious. It is imperative that you know what the subconscious is doing because the subconscious mind runs approximately four times faster than the conscious mind and right now you have virtually no idea what the subconscious is doing. All responses from the Subconscious Perspective are turned into Empowering Questions.

Step 3 – Subconscious Self-Image If you set a goal that has to do with a change of your physical image without restructuring the image in your subconscious, your chances of success are at best remote. It is like wearing clothes that do not fit, you are never comfortable. This discomfort will lead you back to where you began. There will never be a more important image you have in your subconscious mind or a more important image that you will need to change than the image you have of yourself right now.

Step 4 – The Stop & Replace System This is the most powerful part of the program. The Stop and Replace System will allow you to make an assault on any subconscious programming you wish to change and make dramatic changes in your emotional state and behavior. All the elements from the first three pages of the program are used on this page to help you Recognize, Access and Change subconscious programming that simply does not work.

Step 5 – The Heart of MIND/FITNESS The Heart of MIND/FITNESS consists of your Love, Health, Wealth, and Self Image. Once you understand how to take control of your emotional state and behavior, it is necessary that you use these skills on a daily basis. The way you process information can be dramatically changed in a short period of time, simply by consistently implementing The Heart of MIND/FITNESS.

Step 6 – Food & Fitness Planner Getting consistent control of your emotional state includes consistent control of what you eat, drink, and the type and amount of exercise you get. It is important to plan your food and fitness schedule because the process of an unconscious assault on the body with food, alcohol, or drugs can start a day or even days before you indulge in a behavior that will throw you completely off course and out of control. Planning your food and fitness schedule is a big part of reprogramming these behaviors, and you need to plan them until it becomes automatic.

Step 7 – The Trance-Formation The most powerful guided meditation you will ever experience is on an Audio/Data CD that is included with the book. The dialogue used during the meditation is specific to you based on the first six steps of the program. What you say to yourself is more important than anything anyone will ever say to you or about you. Once you have learned the dialogue of the induction, you can use this to put yourself in a relaxed state that will allow you greater control over all your subconscious processes.

Regardless of weather your health goal is a change in diet for weight loss, an increase in your fitness program or to take control of an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. In the end the question you need to ask yourself is…Am I completely happy with the mind running itself or do I need to take control of it? If your answer is I need to take control of it, then Burris MIND/FITNESS is the answer.

Read or download and post the first two chapters of the book on your web site, listen to the first track of the Audio/Data CD or become a Certified Burris MIND/FITNESS Life Coach by going to http://KellyBurris.com. Kelly Burris has spent the last 20 years in the development of Burris MIND/FITNESS and is the author of the new self help book Reprogramming the Overweight Mind: 7 Steps to Taking Control of Your Subconscious.

On the start line, you were so confident that day, you believed no one could race with you. On the track, racing felt effortless and smooth. You were in the flow on every jump, bump, and turn. Your rhythm was perfect in the whoops. Every section of the track was executed just as you saw in your mind. Your mind was so immersed into racing each section–one at a time–that you were oblivious to other racers. Today you were not checking to see who was behind you. Your motorcycle responded with ease to every thoughtit felt like an extension of you. The feeling of being in complete control of yourself and your emotions was awesome. It was so fun to race the track just as you have envisioned in your mind. Only after the moto did you realize that you raced the moto of your life and found an elusive state of peak performance called “the zone”.

Nothing is more exciting for athletes than performing in the zone. The zone is a peak performance state in which the mental, physical, and strategic parts of racing come together at once. When racing in the zone and going fast with ease, motocross is fun, immensely satisfying, and feels second nature. To get into a zone state, you must be focused on the task, very self-confident, race with trust and composure, and be decisive with your race plan. In this article, I will discuss the mindset of racers when in the peak performance zone.

“You can have a good bike and have all

the talent in the world, but if you don’t

believe in yourself and know that you can

win, you will have a hard time at the races.”

–Ricky Carmichael

Confidence is the first mental tool to entering the zone. You cannot race your best without a high level of self-confidence. You know the confident typethe James Stewarts of the Motocross world who have a total conviction and belief in their ability. Most racer’s confidence comes from success and winning, but how will you get onto the podium if you do not first believe you can win? Too many racers doubt their ability to race up front right at the wrong time. I teach racers to take responsibility for their confidence by fueling their confidence and teaching them how to battle those malicious doubts that pop into a racer’s mind at the wrong time.

“I try to visualize the entire race beforehand.

As the actual races gets closer at hand,

I start to focus more specifically on the start.”

–Rick Johnson

The second mental tool to getting into the zone is your ability focus the mind in the present moment, the so-called here and now. Most racers can concentrate, but may not focus on the right areas. Racing the track one section at a time and not getting ahead of yourself is the foundation of a zone focus. You can’t make yourself get in the zone, but you can train your mind to focus on the right areas so you are dialed in when the gate drops. In addition, coping with distractions are part of racing. The racer who learns how to ignore the distractions and focus on the task will beat most racers who get distracted.

The third mental tool to entering the zone is a racer’s ability to get into a “flow” on race day. Ricky Carmichael has a great work ethic and trains hard, but to win he must be able to rely on his training and get into a rhythm on race day. Some racers ruin their rhythm by trying too hard or forcing it on race day. The ability to perform effortlessly and trust your instincts is the foundation for getting into a zone state. My motocross students call this feeling as being “in the flow,” “in a rhythm,” “just reacting,” or “automatic.” You must be able to trust your practice and ability on race day do you can “just do it” and react to the track.

“Don’t try to blast your way around the track.

Find a nice pace and stay with it. Relax. When

you are nervous, your arms tend to pump up.”

-Jeremy McGrath

In pressure situations or in national events, the tendency is to tighten up, try too hard, and not trust you ability. Focusing too much on clutch release or body position for example upsets the natural rhythm and flow of riding because you are consciously forcing it and not letting it happen. This bogs down timing and throws off your natural rhythm. The purpose of practice is to make it feel reflexive when you perform on the track. When you race, let your instincts, built on a ton of practice, take over.

The fourth mental tool is composure. When performing in the zone, racers feel very much in control of themselves and thus their performance. Sports require a balanced emotional level. The key is to be excited to race but not over excited, intense but not too intense, ready to race, but not overanxious to race, and feel challenged but not anxious. Feeling pumped and excited can help you race better, but fear and anxiety ruin your mindset. I help my students find the balance between feeling excited and being over excited.

“Only race because you love it. Race

because you can express yourself. Race

because it’s the most fun thing you can do!”

–Rick Johnson

Lastly, you have to have fun with your racing to get into the zone. How could racing not be fun you ask? One way is if you put too much pressure on yourself to win or get on the podium. Another way is if you feel expectations from others such as your parents or manufacturers to win. These can cause fear, trying too hard, doubt, and tension, all mental breakdowns that will prevent you from entering the zone. Approach each moto like a fun game because you love the feeling of hitting that jump just right or hauling around a corner and you will be more likely to find your flow on race day.

About The Author

Dr. Patrick J. Cohn is a master mental game coach who works with athletes of all levels including amateur and professionals. Visit Peaksports.com to gain access to over 500 exclusive mental game articles, audio programs, and interviews with athletes and coaches to enhance your athletic potential: www.peaksports.com/membership or call 888-742-7225.

Best:

Lakers @ Clippers: The Clippers had the advantage the last time these two California teams played each other. While the Lakers still might not be as good as the Clippers, the Clips have fallen badly enough to make it a game again. They lead the NBA in rebounding, something that the Lakers will have to somehow overtake them in to win this game. Predicted Score: LA Clippers win 105-102


Runner-up:

Spurs @ Suns: The Suns have faced a plethora of tough teams in the last week and now face the best in the West. If Tony Parker really is the all-star that his stats say he is, then he’ll show it against Steve Nash. He should defend Nash better than he did in the playoffs last year. Predicted Score: San Antonio wins 101-99


Blowout:

Jazz @ Pistons: This game could go could either the way of a squeaker or a blowout. The Jazz play very similarly to Detroit and have been a better road team than at home. When these two met up last year the score finished in the 60’s. Detroit may have vastly improved their scoring, but Utah really hasn’t. With Detroit’s loss total still in single digits, you have to give them the benefit of the doubt. Predicted Score: Detroit wins 99-83

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A golfer elbow injury has got to be one of the most dreaded injuries on any golf course.

And it is not too difficult to figure out why. To begin with a ‘golfer’ elbow injury will usually take a long time to heal properly and quite often recurs shortly after a golfer gets back to the course. Golfer elbow injury is very similar to tennis elbow, which tennis players equally dread.

It is the sort of injury where a doctor will prescribe total rest well away from the course. For many a keen golfer, this may be even more punishment than the nagging, and often sharp pain from the ‘golfer’ elbow injury.

The reason why a golfer elbow injury takes so long to heal and in some cases may never really go away, is because it is the sort of injury that involves a joint. Usually injuries on joints are troublesome.

One of the reasons is that it is difficult to rest a joint completely and one ends up using the muscles whenever they make any slight movement.

Therefore any advice or tips to help reduce the risk of ‘golfer’ elbow is extremely important to any golfer.

Stretch exercises designed for golf specific muscles or muscles that are used while playing golf can help a great deal in strengthening and conditioning the muscles involved.

By strengthening golf specific muscles a golfer ends up putting much less pressure on the tendons that join the muscles to the bones around the elbow area. This greatly reduces the risk of this injury in golfers.

Warm up exercises before getting into a round of golf and a warm down as well, at the end of your game, also help tremendously in reducing the risk of golfer elbow injury.

Warm ups ensure that the pressures involved in playing the game are not exerted on cold muscles, which usually dramatically increases the chances of all sorts of injury and not just the ‘golfer’ elbow.

About The Author: Mike Pedersen is the featured expert for Golf Magazine’s GolfOnline.com site, one of the top golf performance experts in the country, author and founder of several cutting-edge online golf fitness sites. Take a look at his just released golf fitness dvds and manual at his golf swing tips site – Perform Better Golf.

When you are just about to start to play cricket it is not always straightforward to decide what you should purchase. If you go into a sports equipment high street retail shop & ask them what you need, you will finish up getting lots of equipment that you don’t need. Hence, it is worthwhile to work out what you require prior to you going shopping. That way you are more likely to get what you require, instead of what the store landlord advises you need.

Below, is essentially an inclusive cricket equipment inventory, you don’t need all the items on this list, as lots of clubs will provide you kit especially at junior level:

Cricket whites, cricket bats, balls, helmets, gloves, batting (wicket keeping) inner gloves, wicket keeping gloves, batting pads, wicket keeping pads, box, chest pad, arm guard, inner thigh pad, cricket boots (bowling boots; batting boots), box (groin guard), stumps and bails.

For most of the sports games you will ever take part in you will require your own set of whites. Cricket whites contain white cricket trousers & a cricket shirt. Ensure that you get a proper set of cricket trousers & also a nice white cricket shirt and jumper as it can quickly turn cold if you are standing out on the pitch for a considerably long time in particular if you are playing in England (the start and end of the cricket season are the coldest). Find a wide selection of cricket items today at Sportswear-Equipment.com.

If you can not hire kit from your club the other most important items of equipment are a cricket bat and box. A descent cricket bat is crucial if you hope to score tons of runs and is a very special piece of equipment, spend several hours choosing your bat, if possible you would be advised to go to a sports shop & pick one up before you buy so you know how it feels to hit with. (Once you know what you want you can often purchase bats on the Internet considerably cheaper). You need a good box to defend your groin from the ball, as getting hit down below’ is tremendously painful, so investing in a good box before you start is a defiant must – you can’t play cricket without one.

Many people think the Internet and the web are the same thing. In fact, the Internet is simply a global network of computers – the web runs on top of the Internet, and makes it useful for us. So how does the web work?

The Invention of the Web

The web was invented by a man named Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 – that’s 20 years after the start of the Internet. People had been trying to work out effective ways of sending information around on the Internet for a while at that point (email was invented in 1971, for example), but there hadn’t been any systems that had really harnessed the net’s potential.

The web changed everything. Berners-Lee’s big idea was to apply the idea of links to the Internet: the web would be a mass of pages that you could move between by clicking on links. He came up with a format for these pages (HTML), and wrote the first web browser to view them with, as well as the first web server for sending them to other people’s web browsers.

Links might not seem like much now, but at the time they were revolutionary. Imagine what the web would be like if you had to keep typing long addresses every time you wanted to move from one page to the next, or using long numbered menu systems that work differently from one site to the next. Without the web, having Internet access would be pretty useless.

Servers and Browsers

Any time you use a web browser (like Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox), you’re using the web. How? Well, it works like this:

1. You open your web browser, and it goes to your home page. >From there, you can click links to other websites, or to other parts of the same website. If your home page is a search engine, then you can type in a search and click links in the search results. If you know the address of a site you want to go to, you can type it in, and then click more links from there to keep going.

2. Each time you click a link, your browser looks at two things about it: the name of the web server it links to, and the name of the page it links to on that server. For example, the address ‘http://www.example.com/mypage.html’ tells the web browser to get the page called mypage.html from the server at www.example.com, using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). This server is a real computer, connected to the Internet, that has the page you want to read stored on its hard disk.

3. To find out where this server is, your web browser looks it up using DNS (Domain Name System), which turns the text address into a number. This IP (Internet Protocol) address consists of four numbers between 0 and 255 – it looks like a phone number. The Internet is set up to make it easy to find a server anywhere in the world once you know its IP address, and it can easily find the quickest route from your ISP (Internet Service Provider) to the server, and establish communication. This whole process, from DNS lookup to connection, will often take much less than a second.

4. Your web browser then sends an HTTP request to that web server, and the web server responds by sending back the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) code for that page. Your web browser turns this code into a page that you can view. From there, you can click more links to start the process over again.

Of course, all this is quite simplified: modern browsers and servers send around much more than HTML code. You can use the web to download anything now, from pictures to programs, but it all works in basically the same way.

If something goes wrong somewhere in this process, then you’ll get an error: ‘the page cannot be displayed’, for example, usually means that the server’s name was wrong, or that it doesn’t have the page you wanted. You might also see errors saying that the server is currently too busy with other people’s requests to respond, or that the page you wanted has moved. In each case, the best thing to do is to follow the instructions on the error page, which usually means checking the address and trying again.

One of the most important things that you need to do when your baby becomes mobile is start the baby proofing. You will quickly learn that what ever you don’t want your baby to do, she will do. If you spend the entire day clearing the house, and you leave one litter piece pf paper on the floor, the baby will find it, and eat it. That is just how it goes, they spend all day face to face with the floor and there is know way you can match their little vacuumed cleaner instincts. For some reason babies seem to bent on self destruction, if there are some stairs, they will try to fall down them. If there is an eating animal, they will try to take their food and get eaten themselves, if there is an open outlet, they will stick her tiny fingers in it. And if there are pets watering dish, she will try to stick her face in it. It is inevitable that the baby will eventually get hurt in you house, no matter how much you try to baby proof the house, the fact is that the baby is going to get into stuff, and fall, and hurt themselves.

It was the best of picks, it was the worst of picks.

Wait, no. It was just the best of picks.

I had Washington State over UCLA getting six points at home last week, and things looked pretty sweet early in the fourth quarter, with the Cougars up 38-21. Then the Bruins went crazy and sent the game to OT. Did I mention I got six points? On my knees begging for a field goal, pleading against a push, the gambling gods rewarded me when the amazing Maurice Drew countered a Washington State field goal with a one-yard TD plunge. UCLA wins, Washington State covers, and I change underpants.

So why am I turning things around and taking UCLA this week?

I mean, hey, didn’t Oregon State, UCLA’s opponent this week, actually kind of crush Wazzou three weeks ago? If Washington State’s good enough to take the Bruins to OT, by the tenets of cyclical logic the Beavers should upset the Bruins outright this Saturday night in L.A., right? Well, wrong. I guess no one really believes that thought pattern. Following that logic, there’s probably some Six-Degrees-Of-Kevin-Bacon by which USC should lose to Montclair High School. But my point is: Oregon State is better than Washington State, UCLA struggled against Washington State, so shouldn’t Oregon State present an even bigger challenge?

Maybe. The dominant storyline in this game will be the return of QB Matt Moore to the Rose Bowl, where just a couple years ago he was fighting with Bruin QB Drew Olson to be UCLA’s quarterback. When Olson won the competition over his then-roommate, Moore transferred to Oregon State, where he’s throwing for nearly 300 a game under coach Mike Riley. He’ll have plenty of motivation, and plenty of crowd noise, in the 90,000-seat amphitheater.

The thing is: Washington State was just a terrific matchup against UCLA, because of RB Jerome Harrison, whose 260 yards against the Bruins last week put him over 1,000 for the season in only six games. UCLA’s run defense is, in a word, pitiful. As in: fourth-worst in the entire NCAA. And this is an undefeated team? Eesh. However, Oregon State makes its living through the air. Yvenson Bernard is a fine little back, but he’s neither as fast nor as quick as Harrison. I’m sure he’ll have a good game Saturday. I just don’t think he’s plastering 260 on the Bruins. And the fact is: UCLA’s pass defense is actually pretty good, giving up under 190 yards through the air per game. Of course, part of that is teams don’t need to throw against a run defense this bad, but again I say, running is not what the Beavers are set up to do.

The other side of the ball is a bigger mismatch. The Bruins like to throw, throw, and throw, mixing it up with third-best-back-in-the-greater-Los-Angeles-area Maurice Drew, who’s got 11 TDs already this season. UCLA averages nearly 275 yards per game through the air, and Oregon State is the second worst team in the nation defending the pass, allowing 331 ypg. That’s a recipe for disaster against Karl Dorrell’s fling-and-wing offense. I’m still not a believer that UCLA is anywhere near national-title-contender status, but this week represents a good matchup for them, and they’ve got a lot of haters after the lackluster win in Pullman. I’m taking UCLA (-9.5) over Oregon State, and expecting one heck of a high score. But the Bruins will get untracked early, Olson will outdo his former roommate, and Drew will score a few more times. U-C-L-A! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Christopher Harris is a documented member of The Professional Handicappers League. http://www.procappers.com