Without question, one of the real "perks" of being a part of Las Vegas night casino entertainment team is being able to test out new casino-style games in advance of their subsequent debut onto the casino gaming scene at a later date. Our company has always been a pioneer in the Las Vegas night casino party rental industry when it comes to having these new casino games available for their clients to enjoy, before anyone else in the Southern California entertainment market. With that in mind, it should go without saying that, when a new game DOES make it's way onto the casino gaming scene, it's up to US to put it through it's paces.

You ALL know where this is going: It's "Story Time" once again. Hey, that's why we're consider the "propaganda ministry" around here. (Grin) OK, so, here's one for the books.....

It's late 2008, time for another family adventure. (I'd call it a "vacation," but, when it comes to MY family, "adventure" is a much better term. You'll see.) It's decided by my dearest wife that it's time to forget the casino party industry for one weekend, scoop up the kids, hop in the car, and head to a city in central California called Solvang, a word that i'm guessing is Danish for "bakery swap meet." OK, I think to myself, the good wife needs a getaway to have some fun, do some shopping, and find out what an Aebleskiver is. (Don't ask. The only thing I can cook is microwaveable foods.)

So, off we go: up Highway 101, past Cachuma Lake, and, lo and behold, there it is. Hold on to your Aebleskivers, I can't believe it: It's a little Dutch town right here in California. Quaint, nice, friendly people, great food (I highly recommend the Solvang Restaurant), lots of places to see and visit.

I mean, LOTS of places: Including one more that I didn't know existed..... It seems that, just up the road from "Aebleskiver Alley," there's this brand new, bright and shiny building that stands out like a sore thumb. And, when I saw the name on this non-Solvang-looking monstrosity, it immediately caught my eye. You couldn't miss it.

"Chumash Indian Casino and Spa."

We drove right by this huge casino on our way into Solvang, and when my wife saw me looking at this marvel of casino engineering, she KNEW that the Chumash Indian tribe was going to be an unplanned part of her vacation. (Told you it would end up being an adventure. It just wouldn't be right if we didn't have a lil' adventure.)

Now, when I was in school, if you were to poll every history teacher that ever tried to interest me in the fine art of historical studies, they'd all tell you that everything I know about history would fit into a small paper cup. Over the years, i've improved my historical knowledge ever so slightly, especially in the area of American history, but I have to admit that American Indian history has slipped many a shot by this goalie.

"Do me a favor," my wife immediately blurts out, as we're passing this Chumash Casino. "Don't go investigating that place until we're on our way out of town, after our vacation." It's a deal, I say. So, after all of us have had our fill of every Danish pastry this side of Solvang, it's time. Vacation over, time to check out the "Chumash Indian Casino and Spa."

Now, I may not know a whole lot about the Chumash tribe, but I DO know the law when it comes to both the casino party industry AND California casinos in general. NO KIDS. Wifey's not interested in seeing this place, anyway. The only gambling she's ever done was marrying me, and since she's lost her only "wager," she's not looking to recoup her losses. She'll stay with the kids in the comfort of the covered patio outside the entrance to this place, and tells me, "go do your thing."

So, inside I go. Yep, pretty nice place. It is new, clean, and has the game roster you'd expect would be present in a California Indian-based casino: No Roulette, no Craps (not even card craps), PLENTY of slots, and when it comes to the table games, it's pretty much the usual suspects (BJ, Caribbean, 3CP), excepting for one.

Four Card Poker.

Now, I remember receiving the memo from the Shuffle-master corporation in regards to their newest creation, but I hadn't seen this game implemented onto a casino floor. OK, let's see how this works, I say to myself. Pull up a chair, let's take this game for a spin. Well, after about 30 minutes, here's what we found out about "Four Card Poker," courtesy of yours truly --

--Two initial bets are available: The Ante and the Aces Up.

--All players get five cards each and the dealer gets six cards. (This part i'm not too thrilled about, but since there's no vigorish involved in regards to winning bets, the house has to have SOME advantage.) One of the dealer cards is placed face up, and five face down.

--Players making the Ante bet must decide to fold or raise.

--If the player folds he forfeits all bets.

--If player raises, then he must raise at least the amount of the Ante and at most, three times the Ante.

--Players then keep their best four cards and discard one.

--Following is the ranking of hands from lowest to highest: high card, pair, two pair, straight, flush, three of a kind, straight flush, four of a kind.

--After all decisions have been made the dealer will turn over his cards and select the best four out of six.

--The player's hand shall be compared to the dealer's hand, the higher hand winning.

--If the dealer's hand is higher the player shall lose the Ante and Raise.

--If the player's hand is higher or equal then the Ante and Raise shall pay one to one.

--If the player has at least a three of a kind he shall also be paid a Bonus, regardless of the value of the dealer's hand. (I love that part of the game.)

Careful mathematical evaluation of this game called "Four Card Poker" seems to suggest the house edge comes out to about 3.89% using a normal payout table (there are more than one, depending on where you might play), and can dip to about 3.15%, using what might be called "basic strategy," something discussed in Blackjack play ad nauseum. We'll break down this, and other games, in subsequent blogs, trust me.

Our review of this new game? Well, at 3.9%, it's not a game that'll eat you alive. Heck, Roulette's house edge is around 5.2%, so, as far as new casino games on the market, Four Card Poker seems to be pretty fair. We'll give Four Card Poker a B+ rating to start.

We'd give it an "A+," except for two little problems. One, I lost $60 at the Chumash Casino testing out the game. GREAT rush of cards for the dealer. Oh, and, Two? I played for about 30 minutes, which, when you're stuck with MY kids, must seem like 30 days. Wifey's grade of Four Card Poker? Let's just say that I kinda knew what it would be, when I exited the casino a half-hour after entering and an Aebleskiver went whizzing my by head.

Moral of the story? If you visit the Chumash Indian Casino and Spa, take a shot at Four Card Poker. If you're a lover of new casino card games, I think you'll like it. Oh, and disarm all family members of Danish pastry before entering the Casino. I KNOW you'll like THAT.

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One of the most popular and controversial topics in education is the use of public school rankings. Generally speaking, parents love them and teachers hate them. Makes sense. Teachers are judged, criticized, and sometimes rewarded or punished on the basis of public school rankings. For those teachers already in challenging, inner-city environments, public schools rankings tend to offer little but added stress.

Parents, on the other hand, see public school rankings as a concrete way to judge and evaluate potential schools and current teachers. For parents moving to a new area, public school rankings are an anchor to reality; a way to make the difficult decision of where to live or not live. But the issue of public school rankings really goes deeper. I think it lies in the inherent mistrust between parents in low income areas and school systems in general.

Public School Rankings in the Inner-City

Let's face it, affluent families rarely have to worry about the schools their children attend. I know that even upper middle class families can't always afford private schools, but they tend to live in areas where the public schools excel. Affluent and educated parents help to create better schools, so they are less likely to be involved in schools affected by the dismal low public school rankings that the majority of inner city schools struggle with.

What's different in an inner city school? Of course, the majority of inner-city residents live there because they don't have the education and money to be able to choose to live somewhere else. Yes, there are exceptions, but I never met anyone who voluntarily lived in the projects when I taught at a project based inner-city school. What I did run into were a lot of parents who were uncomfortable, disdainful, and mistrusting of teachers and schools in general.

How to Raise Public School Rankings in Inner-City Schools

Some of the stereotypes of inner-city life are sadly based in reality. These kids are more likely to have parents who are in prison, use drugs, or are unable to be actively involved parents. If we really want to start raising public school rankings in the inner-city, we need to start with the parents. There are a lot of hard working, but poorly educated parents who truly want their children to succeed in school. Working two job, being financially strapped, and not having the academic background to help their children succeed are some of the most common struggles for this population of parents.

By offering parent education programs to these people in our inner-city, we can take the first important step to raising public school rankings where they are needed most. Classes on finances, reading to your child, or basic parenting classes can all have a real impact on public school rankings. Even if no one under 18 is in the room.

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The UCLA Law School is a prestigious educational institution that has been around since 1949. It is considered rather new, but is still in the upper tier of the rankings for national schools. The US News ranks this school at number 15 while the Gourman Report has it at 13, and its educational ranking is at 14. The Princeton Review gave this school their highest ranking by placing them 96 out of 100 when compared to other law schools in America.

There is a student to faculty ratio of 11.6, which has helped provide the quality of the educational experience along with the outstanding staff. For the year 2010, the 25th to 75th percentile of its students that are attending have LSAT scores of 164 to 169 while the GPA was 3.49 to 3.87. While these might be slightly lower than Yale and Harvard, they still overlap some.

This school offers the standard Juris Doctor degree along with many specialties. The specialty degrees include Business Law and Policy, Public Interest Law, Entertainment Law, Law and Philosophy, and Critical Race Studies. For those of you that desire to become a law professor, there is the Doctor of Juridical Science that is offered.

The facility at this educational institution has published over 48 books on the subject of law, 45 chapters, and over 150 legal journal articles since 2002.

Noted alumni from this school include Val Ackerman, Vincent Bugliosi, and Laurie L. Levenson. 94.9% of past graduates have obtained employment before graduating with their degree from the UCLA School.

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A video by the Free Congress Foundation. It should be noted that the agenda for the breakdown of western institutions, such as Christian values and the family unit, were not an exclusive of the Frankfurt School, or the radical communists. Nothing would be further from the truth since we find that these movements to radically alter society would never have succeeded in the West had they not been given, to this day, a free pass and billions of dollars worth in funding by the...über-capitalists. Via their massive foundations and institutions. It's well worth to go into the investigations by the Reece Congressional Committee, in the 1950s, where the investigators were told to their faces by high-ranking members of Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie Endowment, that indeed they were funding radical communism in the West and would continue to do so. The final objective, as was stated then, was to lead the masses into welcoming a socialist system, where they would be highly impoverished, and their lives would ultimately be totally managed by the state; as the state would itself be run by oligopolies and investment banks, society would be turned into a regimented slave plantation, where people would work orderly for their masters. Hence, communism at the bottom, fascism at the top. The findings of that committee were confirmed by many other investigations and events and, ultimately, they're all around us now, for everyone to see. You'd have to be blind, not to notice that nowadays ...



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Recently, I was in a conference with five people who constitute the movers and shakers of a company.

One of them asked me a lot of questions about selling, not because she doesn't know how to do it. In fact, she's quite effective.

Her concern is how can we teach others to do what seems to come so naturally to her?

For instance, how will trainees know when to abandon a prospect that is a long shot to turn into a customer? How will neophytes be able to sound natural, especially if they're using scripts?

My reply was simple: Don't worry; I'm not going hire natural, born salespeople.

There aren't that many of them, and we'd have to pay a ton to make the job attractive to them.

We're going to "make" salespeople; to manufacture them, from raw material, because we must, for the sake of economy and speed.

As a general principle, it is imprudent to try to clone "naturals," because many of them have very bad habits that shouldn't be imitated.

Consider Johnny Cash, the late, great country singer, and a true "natural" in his field. His atonality is legendary, but he was able to break with convention and make it work. He found an appreciative audience for his style, mistakes and all.

But it would be foolish to try to develop the next Johnny Cash.

People would probably pick up his worst habits and not even see his best.

"Made" sellers are selected because they have the capability of following a design created by others; they actually like using a mold, and being molded, while naturals abhor them, and break them at every turn.

A natural resists being guided and managed, and made sellers require it, and often are glad to accept it.

There are other differences, as well.

But natural salespeople have nothing to worry about. They'll always be in demand, if only because they're so rare!

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Article marketing rocks... it is very effective, cost efficient and stands the test of time as your articles will provide visitors and back links long into the future.

But there is a growing number of people who use their resource boxes in completely different ways. The first and larges group do what you would imagine is the most obvious way of writing their resource box. This involves writing an article based on the keywords that they are trying to rank for in Google and this is carried on into their resources box with their links based around the key words that they are targeting.

This is a tried and trusted method but it has one flaw and it is this-the article you write may very well rank on the first page of Google and your site could be ranking at number 11, on the next page of the search engine results. This means that your article, your work on somebody else's article directory, is keeping your site off the first page of Google.

The other minority body of opinion uses a different technique. They write articles not on the niche that they are trying to get their site ranked for, but in another niche altogether. This niche would be in a popular area with a lot of webmasters looking for content for their blogs.

By writing the article on a popular heavily searched topic you are more likely to get your article published in more locations and consequently your backlinks will be greater. Now these backlinks will be pointing to your blog thus increasing it's chances of ranking well... without the fear of your own article keeping you off the first page of results. Because remember your article is written on a completely different topic from the niche which your blog is in.

These are the two different approaches that you can adopt and maybe it is worth your while to try some articles using both approaches and see what works best for you. The latter minority method will give you a great number of backlinks but not so many click throughs and traffic as the topic of your article will be different from your resource box link.

The other more conventional method will give you backlinks (less of them) and traffic but depending on your niche you may find that the traffic numbers are small if the niche is a small niche which does not generate a huge amount of traffic such as weight loss or debt or making money online.

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