When it comes to dating (or even seducing) a woman, confidence is vital. Women often equate “self confidence” with the ability to be successful. While many men believe that women look for successful men because they’re likely to make more money, that’s simply not true.
While it’s a given, women actually look for successful men because they’re more likely to be satisfied. So you may be wondering what a man being satisfied has to do with anything. Let me explain. You see, women know that men who are satisfied with themselves are less likely to go out looking for someone to satisfy them and are more stable.
And in a relationship that means a man will be less likely to cheat, or change jobs frequently or get himself into any number of other compromising situations. Remember that most women are looking for a man who will be their partner as well as their lover.
Not only do they want a partner when it comes to things like companionship, decision-making and finances, but in the bedroom, as well. In order to effectively seduce a woman you must make her feel as though you’re both equals.
When it comes to confidence, it seems there are two kinds of people - those who have it and others who simply don’t. Although on the surface this may be true, everyone has the potential to be “self confident”, or motivated if you would like to call it.
Take heart in knowing that you’re a good person, smart, funny, good at your job, loving, considerate or whatever else you find to be positive character traits that you have. Be comforted to know that NOT all women are looking for a CEO or brain surgeon. They just want a man who’s confident with who he is, what he knows and what he has to offer to a relationship with them!
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Learn How to Play the Piano in 3 Steps
Many people want to learn a new instrument but few are willing to put up with the "learning curve" involved. You know what I mean, right? Those tireless days of practice, not seeing any improvement, waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel.
It doesn't have to be this hard. I've learned how to play the piano quickly and efficiently, and I know how you can do it, too.
Step #1: Learn the Alphabet
The alphabet? But I thought I was over that! The piano's alphabet is a little different. It goes from A to G, and includes sharps, flats, and natural notes. Do you know where the "C" note, for example, is located on the piano? You're never going to play the piano if you don't know what notes you're playing.
If you want to learn the piano's alphabet, here's a quick guide: the white notes are natural notes and the black notes are sharps and flats. The black note to the right of F, for example, is F-sharp...and it's G-flat, because it's to the left of G. You'll notice there is no "C-Sharp" and "E-Sharp."
Once you know your notes, learn how sheet music writes these notes. A note on the very bottom line of sheet music is an E - that should help you get started.
Step #2: Know your scales
One of the first things piano teachers teach you are your scales. They often approach it the wrong way, but it's a good place to start nonetheless. A traditional scale can start on the C note and go all the way up to the next C note (the keys on a piano repeat over and over). Since there are eight notes in a scale and you only have five fingers, you have to pair up your fingering. Learning this fingering will be essential to your future success.
Step #3: Learn what to do with your left hand
Tricks like the Alberti bass and knowing your tonics and dominants will give your left hand plenty of work to do - with as little practice as possible. Knowing how to play the left hand is crucial to making the piano sound great when you play it. When you're able to put the two together, you can make fuller, realer piano sounds that make you look like a professional because, look Ma! Two hands!
One article can't spell it all out for you. You need something that will give you a day-by-day guide and help you to learn piano. Piano teachers can be expensive, so do research online and find a good eBook.
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Trading Strategies in Forex, Stock and Futures Market
There are as many different trading strategies as there are traders. Generally they can be distinguished though by the time frame in which they take place. I suggest that every trader experiments with different strategies and then decide for himself what he is most comfortable with.
A) Longer term strategies (from a day trader perspective)
Investing: Investors buy shares of a certain company because they believe in its long-term growth perspective. They have little interest in most of the daily price movements and are looking to hold their shares for several years.
Swing trading: Swing trading means to hold stocks anywhere from one to five days and sometimes more. Swing traders try to take advantage of certain "key" situations in a stock price's movement. Such a situation would be a buy after a pullback into solid support during a longer term uptrend. Swing trading belongs to one of the easier to implement strategies and is excellent for people with small accounts.
B) Short term strategies
Momentum trading: A momentum trade usually lasts anywhere from 30 seconds to about 1 hour. Momentum trading is based on strong price movements and counter price movements often caused by news.
Breakout trading: breakouts (breakdowns) do occur in any time frame. Popular charts for breakout traders are 5 minute and 15 minute charts. The holding period is anywhere from a few seconds (breakout scalp) up to the end of the day. Breakout trading means to buy stock after it has broken out above a certain price. Vice versa for shorts.
Pullback trading: Pullback trading is the opposite of breakout trading. Pullback traders are looking for stock prices to pull back a significant enough amount (usually into support) in order for them to justify an entry (vice versa for shorts). Personally I am more of a breakout trader since I like the confirmation of the stock prices' movement that I get thru the breakout; although pullback trading often has the smaller stops though. The holding period is usually a few seconds up to an hour.
Scalping: Scalping describes "ultra short term" trading. Scalpers try to take advantage of very small price movements and sell their shares immediately when they have a big enough profit or the stock isn't moving in their direction or goes against them.
Cutting the spread: Cutting the spread can be seen as a scalping variety. Cutting the spread means to take advantage of the spread (the price difference between the bid and the ask price). It means to buy a stock on the bid side and to sell it immediately afterward on the ask side for a small profit. Since the decimalization of the markets this type of trading has certainly become much more difficult because spreads have gotten much smaller.
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Choosing The Best Travel Cot
At www.smileybaby.co.uk you’ll find a wide range of travel cots, from Graco to Baby Dan, Disney to Hauck. Now this is not an exhaustive list and there are many more available on the market, but this gives a balanced range of travel cots to suit your needs.
The key things you need to consider when buying a travel cot include:
1. The Purpose of the Travel Cot – are you planning to transport it with you across the world on a weekly basis or is it merely going to sit at a friends or family members house for the odd occasion that you stay with them?
2. How heavy is the travel cot that you’re considering? Again the first point of how frequently you’re going to transport the cot from A to B comes into play here, as you need to consider how easy the travel cot is to transport.
3. How solid / robust is the travel cot you’re considering. You need to consider the purpose of the cot, along with the weight to ensure that the travel cot is robust enough for your needs.
4. What size of room are you looking to use the travel cot in, this will impact your choice of going for a mini or full size travel cot.
5. Are you looking for style? Graco travel cot and Baby Dan Travel Cots are pitched at the more style conscious parent, although the Graco travel cots tend to be a bit heavier than most, and you’re paying a bit of a premium for the name.
6. Are you looking for pure functionality as well as value for money, if so then the Hauck travel cots are robust, functional and weigh in at about 10kg.
7. Are you looking for more of a themed travel cot, such as Disney Characters or the Pooh Family?
8. What accessories do you want with the travel cot, such as portable mobile, adjustable basinet, built in nightlight, built in music player? The list of accessories is endless.
The most important things you need to consider are; what is the purpose of the travel cot, what size are you looking for and how heavy is the travel cot.
Claudia Nicoll is a mother of two, Toby and Joel, as well as a keen fitness enthusiast.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
The Balance Between Beat Making, Creativity & Copyright Law
Let me say straight off the high hat that creativity & copyright law do not make instant bedfellows! Within beat rap there is a tendency to sample, which is both quick & easy, versus "copyright ownership" highly focused on what may constitute theft. The discussion can veer between litigation on the one hand and ignorance on the other. The basic problem is how to objectively measure how much of the remixed song "borrows" from the original.
One of the current stumbling blocks to licensing copyright (and thus incentive to copy without paying) is administrative overhead and cost. Recording licenses can be obtained at a flat fee normally ranging from $100 to over $10,000. This is countered by royalties to recording owners of between 0.5 cents and 3 cents per track sold. 15% of the original new work's musical composition copyright might be assigned to the original author, and if extensive looping and reuse is employed, up to 66% may be allocated.
Non paying sampling artists have two current defense strategies that they can deploy: de minimis and fair use. De minimis is the most commonly used defense as it claims that the re-use is basically trivial and therefore does not amount to infringement. The definition of "trivial use" is normally very vague and courts can resort to using ordinary lay listeners in an attempt to untangle the issue! Fair use on the other hand can employ open parody using the justification of "social purpose" based on intended criticism or commentary.
If you really want to circumnavigate the whole copyright issue and can read music AND you are feeling the funk then Public Domain Music may be worth a look. Who knows, maybe you get an IDEA from this? Any composition (not sound recording) copyrighted before 1922 in the USA may be used without limitation. Unfortunately there is no "international copyright" so you will have to delve into your local copyright laws if outside the US.
All of this of course distracts from the intended aim of being creative. Admittedly legality only really gets in the way of creativity when enough money is involved! If you sample Pink Floyd and then distribute it widely then the chances of litigation go up. Everything should be based on an idea (the thing that makes you go) in the first place. If you add sounds later that alter your original framework or concept then that's just the way things go!
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