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In many situations, being spontaneous is encouraged. However if you want to have a great romantic evening, planning is essential. Creating a "plan-list" can actually spark intimacy if it's done correctly.

Here are some things you can include on your "plan-list".

1. Candles. Candles are what I call a "visual aphrodisiac." Just imagine your partner coming home from work and she sees candles on the table (with food already prepared), on the bedroom dresser, by the bubble bath tub, or all three. She can become instantly excited. which may put her in the mood for a little intimacy.

2. Soft music. If you add soft music to your list, it can benefit you well. It does not matter what type of music you use (classical, R&B, Jazz, etc), as long as it's soft, it will fulfill its purpose...to assist in a romantic evening.

3. Food. If you know how to cook, preparing food could be of great benefit for you as well as your partner. If you do not know how to cook, then hire someone who does. Some meals you should exclude are hamburgers, chips, or beer. These types of food can actually ruin the mood. You could prepare foods such as seafood, chicken, and steak. These types of food are what I call "Food for Seduction."

The above ideas are just some things you may want to include when you plan a romantic evening. You may also think of more things to add to your list. Creativity is always appreciated.

Positive affirmations are those bits of positive thoughts, ideas, and statements, which are consistently repeated to yourself over a period of time, to implant them in your mind as a future source of inspiration for achieving personal growth and happiness. When you embed these positive thoughts into your subconscious mind, youll be guided and assisted by those bits of positive information, in a preset direction to achieve future goals. Most of us are born with negative attitudes and undesirable traits, and in the course of time, we may also develop additional negative aspects as a result of the environment around us. By using positive affirmations, you can get rid of those negative thoughts and perceptions and replace them with positive traits and other beneficial parameters.

Positive affirmations help us in many ways like:

1. We can be our own guide to instruct our mind and body to act in a predefined manner. This helps us to control our own destiny and life.
2. We can also break all obstacles and barriers, which are standing between us and our future goals.
3. By positive affirmations, we can easily focus on our goals and achieve the impossible.
4. Positive affirmations also make us better persons and empower us with a better personality, which is socially acceptable.
5. We can also overcome fear of failure; instead ensure mental toughness to achieve our goals.

Though positive affirmations may not give you all that you wanted in your life, you can still create a favorable ambience, in which you can find fresh opportunities to get success in life. Though you can not become a super human being, you can still be confident, authoritative, self sustaining, and socially responsible. Another added bonus is your ability to lead a life of good habits and nice mannerisms.

There are many methods by which we can write our own positive affirmations:

1. Always create a text of positive affirmations, which is directly related to your problems.
2. Use these scripts regularly to embed them into your subconscious mind. Preferably it must be a part of your life in the future.
3. Create a handy script note of all positive affirmations you want to talk to yourself. Carry that list with you wherever you go.
4. Start and end your day with those positive affirmations; it is always better to recite them whenever you find time.
5. Let your positive affirmations be simple and straight, with simple but powerful words.
6. Never use negative words in your positive affirmations.
7. Be personal and add a tinge of emotions to your positive affirmations. Being emotional helps you to achieve your goals in a quick time.
8. Visualize the outcome, as you recite your lines of positive affirmation. Act as if you have already reached your goals.

Whatever you do, never stop reciting those beautiful words of positive affirmations; this may help you even, if you do not have any goals to achieve in the future. There are countless ways of taking the control of your life, but positive affirmations are perhaps the most authentic method to create a good person out of you.

If you think that youre aroused by the mere idea of swinging, just wait until you jump in. Reading doesnt do swinging justice at allonly feeling and touching make for truly believing.

As you probably already know, soft swinging is the first attempt at swinging for many couples and interested folks. Heck, you may have already tried soft swinging without even realizing it.

You had a few too many drinks, got a little friendly with someones husband. And you knew darn well that it wasnt about love or being unfaithful to your partner, it was about animal lust.

Maybe he smelled just right or she was wearing something that displayed her best assets

If It Should Happen Spontaneously

The lights are low. Maybe youre at a party with your partner and youve become separated for a moment. Youre still fully aware of where the other is, but you just let a moment take you. Youve probably already talked about the possibility at this point.

So go on. Lets see where the sexual tension might lead.

A little touch here, a stroke there. It can even be as simple as a long, slow kiss. You close your eyes and disappear in the moment.

And what if you catch your husband or partner out of the corner of your eye?

Its incredibly erotic to see your partner with someone else, even if its innocent to begin with. Just to see hands that have touched you running down someone elses skin can be a turn on by itself.

Watching can be the perfect way to begin in soft swinging. Its a great way to seduce your self into getting into the action.

Perhaps you just needed a little motivation to get started.

And What If You Plan It Out?

Of course, you may have already decided that something might be happening on a particular evening. Youve sat and talked for a while, when the conversation turns to sex.

But planning doesnt make it any less hot or exciting.

Maybe it starts with just a massage of the shoulders or a move into anothers personal space.

Now is your chance to go for it. Dont be shy; you know that the other one wants it.

You can go back to your high school days and just make out, or you can take it further with blatant groping and stroking. Explore this new person, what do they feel like? What makes them different from your partner?

But keep it cool right now because youre just starting, just teasing really at this point. You want to keep everyone excited and anxious for the next time.

Your hearts are racing and your minds are anxious for the next time.

But go slow. Wanting more from the swinging experience is a good thing and you want to make sure that youre completely comfortable before moving up the action.

And the best part of slow swinging is that you get to go home with a partner that is just ready to finish off anything that has already been started.

Kansas City Chiefs running back Priest Holmes will travel to Miami this week to meet with a neurosurgeon in Miami. Still hoping that he could return on the field this season, he will undergo another evaluation for the severe head and neck trauma that has sidelined him for more than a year.

The 33-year-old Holmes has been placed on the NFL's physically unable to perform list (PUP) since August. Time is running for Holmes if he wants to play this season. Indeed even though the deadline to activate a player is on the 12th week, any player on the PUP list must begin practicing by Nov. 7, which is next Tuesday, to be eligible to return for this season according to league rules. This rule is made to in order to allow a player to return to practice leaving his team a three-week window in which he can be evaluated him. Then after the three week, the team must activate the player must be activated or place him on the physically unable to perform list for the balance of the season. With such tight schedule, Holmes still not cleared to play, has very small chance to be allowed to play again, at least this season. Team president Carl Peterson also shares this analysis explaining that he does not count on Holmes for this season.

During last season, Holmes stayed at his hometown of San Antonio, far away from the team, so that he would not be a distraction. Right after his injury in 2005, some experts even claimed that he would not be able to come back. . He has not played since suffering severe neck and head trauma in a head-to-head collision with San Diego linebacker Shawne Merriman last Oct. 30. Then during the first two months of the season, some report stated that his state of conditioning and his workout regiment yielded good results, enough to allow him to be back. Eventually the team announced that Holmes had to pass further exams.

Over the last two seasons, Holmes played in only 15 games. In 2004, he was badly injured on his hip injury in 2004, which could have ended his career. And then last year, he had a head-and-neck trauma. For the most of his injuries, he has been treated by Dr. Robert Watkins, who is a renowned Los Angeles-based specialist. Watkins has already warned Holmes about the potential long-term ramifications of another back or neck injury. Therefore Holmes is prepared to abide by the various specialists' verdict on his football future.

Knowledge is Power! And this statement could not be more true when it comes to selling on eBay. As explained in my book "eBay Marketing Wholesale SourcePak", being successful on eBay all depends on being in the right place, at the right time, with the right product. For example, did you know one of the most popular categories on eBay for buying and selling is the Antiques Category. That's right! People flock to eBay to locate treasures from the past. But what if we could know exactly what they are looking for? Just what kind of Antiques? Well I can help! Below you will find the Top Ten Picks of Antique Categories (at the time of this writing) as per eBay.

10 - Lace and Crochet Trim

9 - Medical Antiques

8 - Wood Picture Frames

7 - Knobs and Handles

6 - Linen Samplers

5 - Mixed Material: Picture Frames

4 - Roman Antiquities

3 - Silver Napkin Rings

2 - Locks and Keys

And the Number 1 Antique Category for "Hot Items" is...

Weathervanes and Lightning Rods.

There you have it! The Top Ten Picks of Antique Categories where potential bidders are surfing to find all those treasures from times gone by. If you sell Antiques on eBay, finding items that fit into one or more of the above categories will see your number of bids increase substantially. Always remember to do your research before listing any item for auction. Know what categories are "Hot!" Do a price analysis of your product. Know what the item costs you and what you can potentially sell it for. Then sit back and watch the bidding heat up!

Happy Selling!

Joe Clare

Having a healthy sex life is an important part to a healthy relationship. When both parties are truly enjoying themselves, it's quite easy to develop a very sexual bond between the two of you. But when a guy has trouble making his girlfriend orgasm, it can have a devastating impact on his relationship.

So if you find yourself having difficulty in this area and secretly wonder how to make your girlfriend orgasm, then this article is for you!

As you read on, I'll reveal four simple techniques that'll give your girlfriend powerful orgasms.

Step 1- Train yourself to go longer

Making your girlfriend orgasm starts with how you *treat yourself* before the actual encounter. We all know that guys masturbate (probably more frequently then we'd like to admit), so if you feel the urge to masturbate, don't fight it. In fact, giving in to these urges will probably help your next session.

When you feel the urge to *take care of business*, make sure you have a lengthy session. If you do this often, you'll train yourself to go for a long time before climaxing.

Step 2- Make her feel like the most important person in the world

If you want to make your girlfriend orgasm, you have to get into the habit of letting her know how much she means to you. When your next sexual session begins, tell her how much you're attracted to her and what you love about her. If you say these statements with a strong level of confidence, she'll love it and start to be really turned on!

By taking the time to set up your sexual encounter, you'll discover it's pretty easy to turn her on simply by using the power of your voice.

Step 3- Take your time and give her foreplay

Another explosive way to make your girlfriend orgasm is to make sure you give her enough foreplay. Keep talking to her in a commanding voice and let her know that you're in control. After you do this, start kissing her all over and exploring her body.

You can heighten her emotional state by taking time in areas that are often ignored. Also the longer you delay the *main act*, the more worked up she'll get.

Step 4- Commence with the main event

While doing foreplay, you should ease into having sex with her. This is where it's important to take your time. What you should do is tease her and make her want it real bad. In addition, try altering your speeds between fast and slow. If you do your job right, she'll start going crazy, maybe even orgasm!

One final thing All women are different with the ways they achieve orgasm. So when you're having sex, try to listen to her breathing and reactions. If she seems really into something continue with that act and see where it goes.

Bottom line if you want to make your girlfriend orgasm, follow these four steps, If you make sure her needs come first, you'll discover that it's quite easy for her to climax.

A digital sports photography article would have been fairly brief as recently as a couple of years ago. In essence, it would have stated that digital cameras have unacceptable shutter lag, and cannot yet achieve the frame rates of their film cousins. End of story.

Well, that particular story has in fact ended. These days the focus is on digital cameras finally reaching the level of film cameras, and being widely used with great effect in digital sports photography. The aim nowadays is to point out the clear benefits offered by the digital route.

In fact, a number of excellent books have appeared on digital sports photography, confirming that this type of photography has finally become an acceptable mainstream digital activity.

In 'Digital Sports Photography', G. Newman Lowrance offers a wealth of information on the techniques and equipment you will need for successful digital sports photography - either as an aspiring professional, or taking shots at the local basketball game.

Lowrance has many years' experience of digital sports photography, and his pictures have been widely published in Official Super Bowl and Pro Bowl game magazines, NFL videos and calendars, NFL Insider Magazine, and elsewhere.

He doesn't hold back, and gives you a lot of information from some excellent sports photographers and editors. Issues such as color management, camera setup, and equipment options are covered. You will discover all the ins and outs of the unique techniques applied to shooting for baseball, football, basketball, ice hockey, soccer, and tennis.

Lowrance also uses his own experiences in digital sports photography, and gives true, autobiographical examples of how to get started and how to succeed as a professional.

His book features many eye-catching sports action photographs that will generate excitement and inspiration. The informative content will motivate you to become familiar with new aspects of the technology, stimulating a keen interest and involvement in this aspect of photography.

In short, 'Digital Sports Photography' will give you the help and guidance you need to make your photos stand out from the crowd!

Another book that illustrates how far digital sports photography has come, is 'Digital Sports Photography: Take Winning Shots Every Time', by Serge Timacheff and David Karlins.

This book helps you to take great shots by overcoming obstacles like rain and crowds, bad lighting, fast-moving athletes, flash limitations, and other challenges.

The authors give advice on how to shoot a wide range of sports: extreme, outdoor, indoor, competitive, recreational, and more. The book provides many full-color examples illustrating professional tips and techniques, and shows how to tackle skilled digital sports photography with any kind of digital camera, from point-and-shoot to SLR.

And the bottom line for many aspiring digital sports photographers is that this book will also teach you how to actually sell your images!

One of the advantages of digital sports photography highlighted, is that once you have the equipment, including enough batteries and memory cards, it doesn't cost anything to snap away at that baseball game...

For more information visit Best-Digital-Photography.com

The HIV virus is of two types, HIV1 and HIV2. When worldwide, people generally talk of HIV they refer to HIV1. The relatively uncommon HIV2 is concentrated in West Africa and is rarely found anywhere else. Although there is slight difference there is no cure for the HIV1 and HIV 2 and AIDS.

If we talk of similarities they are as follows-

Both the viruses are transmitted in a similar manner.
They are transmitted by sexual contact, through body fluids such as blood, tears and vaginal fluids.
It is also transmitted through breast milk from a mother to the child.
Within three to six months both HIV-1 and HIV-2 cause the body to produce antibodies. Both HIV1 and HIV2 can develop into AIDS.

When we talk about Differences they are as follows-
The persons who are infected with HIV2 develop immunodeficiency or a weak immune system more slowly and it is also milder.
People who are infected with HIV2 virus are less infectious in the early stages than those infected with HIV1.
It has been said that HIV-2 is less easily transmitted.
The period between the initial infection and illness is longer in case of HIV-2
As the virus progresses the infection of HIV2 increases.
Compared to HIV-1 mostly it is the HIV-2 that seems to be more infectious later in the course of the disease.
Mostly the cases of HIV-2 are reported in West Africa whereas the cases of HIV-1 are found worldwide.

Subtypes of HIV-1 The HIV-1 is classified into three groups. The major group that is M, the group M again has subtypes A, B, C, D, F, G, H, J and K, the outlier group O and the third is the new group N. It has been found out that more than 90% of the people with HIV-1 infection belong to the group M. Group N is extremely rare and group O is restricted to west-central Africa.

The treatment of HIV-1 and HIV-2 HIV-2 is more difficult to monitor than HIV-1 and the studies are still not clear towards the best treatment of HIV-2. There are some drugs that are used for treatment of HIV-1 but are not effective against HIV-2. Both the virus lead to the threatening disease AIDS.

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