Encinitas, CA (ContentDesk) August 17, 2005 -- The football season is just around the corner and fans are ready to begin their season-long office pools. NetOfficePool, an online games company (http://www.NetOfficePool.com/), is offering seven exciting football contests that encourage sports fans to use NOP as their "office pool" destination. NetOfficePool is in its 6th year of offering easy to use, clean and powerful games to the serious player as well as the player who knows little about sports. A membership fee of $6.99 (or a discounted group fee) allows users to have access to all regular season football office pool games. NetOfficePool games were designed BY office pool players FOR office pool players.
NetOfficePool offers all the needed features and benefits users want to run an office pool. Create groups, join a group or just play solo ... NOP makes it easy."I have been using NetOfficePool to host my office pools for the last four years. They are great. The site is quick and they offer every type of office pool imaginable.
My group members just sign in, make their picks, talk a little smak on the group page and NOP does all the calculations," John Jensen, a NetOfficePool user, says. "Some of the things I like best about the site are they don't have any ads or popups, they don't spam me and I don't get bombarded with emails from them."NetOfficePool offers seven exciting games for the 2005-06 Football season:- Pro Football Pick'em- Pro Football Beat-The-Spread- Pro Football Knockout- NEW! Pro Football Rank'em- College Football Pick'em- College Football Beat-The-Spread- NEW! College Football Rank'em"Everything we have done with our game site is with our end-user in mind," Jim Carbaugh, a NetOfficePool founder, says. "We got into this business because we didn't see anyone doing a good job of offering a wide selection of great office pool games on the net. We have built a suite of office pool games with great features so that every office pool player (serious or not) has a pleasurable and hassle-free experience." NetOfficePool boldly adheres to these 8 principals: NO pop up adsNO downloadsNO selling of user infoNO adwareNO unsolisited emailsFREE DocLock's picksBEST customer serviceBEST office pools on the webEvery NetOfficePool game offers great features.- Private and Public Groups--Private groups encourage friends, family and co-workers to match skills with one another. Public groups allow players with similar interests to hook up and challenge each other.
Users can also play solo. - Group Page--each private or public group has its own Group Page. NetOfficePool does all the calculations?what player is winning each week, each player's season average, give the ability to view other player's picks and much more.- SmackBoard--allows player to interact and talk trash to fellow group members."Participating in sports pools adds that extra dimension of vicarious thrill to any sporting event," said John Fricke, sports anchor, ESPN Sports. "NetOfficePool offers the best executed games of its kind that I've seen. Players get involved with the game and each other in real time and they keep coming back for more."About NetOfficePoolNetOfficePool, founded in 1999 by three sales professionals, is a privately held online game company located in Encinitas, California.
Sports enthusiasts themselves, the founders are dedicated to providing the ultimate online participatory sports game. NetOfficePool is the very best in providing sports and entertainment contests to sports fans..
Cleaning Supplies for Your Swimming Pool
Thanks to quality cleaning accessories, keeping your swimming pool nice and clean is easier than ever. There are lots of tools to select from, such as skimmers, brushes, and vacuum heads. These tools make pool maintenance very easy, which means that you can spend less time cleaning and more time swimming.
The more specialized tools that you can use to clean your pool include leaf skimmers, leaf rakes, brushes, corner brushes, pool sweeps, grids and cartridges for the filter, motors and pumps, pool filters, etc. You need to get the majority of these accessories, especially if you have trees around your pool.
The biggest part to keeping your pool clean is to make sure that the care of your water is always up to date.
There are numerous water care products that you can purchase, such as balancing chemicals, sanitizes, chemicals to treat algae, stain treatment products, water testing kits, and saltwater systems. Usually, chlorine is used as a sanitizer,...
Cleaning Supplies for Your Swimming Pool
Come Vacation in Wet and Moldy Oregon, Says an Irreverent New Travel Website, theRealOregon.com
Creswell, Oregon (ContentDesk) May 18, 2006 -- Most travel-related sites you find on the web are filled with color photos of vacationers lounging by turquoise swimming pools or playing golf under clear blue skies.A new website launched this spring, theRealOregon.com offers its visitors black and white photos of rainy days, windswept beaches and the vast empty expanses of eastern Oregons sagebrush-filled high desert country.Were not here for folks whose idea of a great time is visiting the factory stores in the morning and sitting around by the hotel pool getting sunburned in the afternoon, says creator Bob Keefer, an award-winning newspaper writer who has lived in and written about Oregon for more than 20 years.Our visitors are much more likely to get up at dawn to go listen to birds sing in a desert marsh than they are to sit by a swimming pool. Theyd rather have dinner at a waterfront fishermans dive than sit and be uncomfortable at a four-star restaurant.TheRealOregon.com...
Come Vacation in Wet and Moldy Oregon, Says an Irreverent New Travel Website, theRealOregon.com
How Your Swimming Pool Could Get You Sued
Installing a backyard swimming pool can make those hot summers a lot more fun and relaxing, but could it get you into a lot of financial trouble too?
The short answer is: yes.
If you're not properly insured, and someone gets hurt in your pool, you are inviting law suits.
I know what you're thinking: my friends and family are the only ones who use my pool... they're not going to sue me if anything happens.
Guess again.
It's not necessarily that people love to sue or even want to.
They may have to.
With the high costs of medical expenses today, a family that suffers a serious injury (or--god forbid--a death) probably can't afford not to sue.
And if a person was injured at your pool in your backyard, guess who's technically at fault?
If someone gets hurt, don't be surprised by a lawsuit: expect it.
And don't think you can watch the pool every moment to make sure nothing...
The Luxury of a Bahama Vacation Villa
Bahamas vacation villas are the way to go if you are going all out for your vacation. Taking their places as some of the most exclusive private homes in the world, some villas sport up to six bedrooms on a fully-staffed estate. Many of the more upscale homes have been designed to evoke the style of Bahamian Great Houses from the colonial period, and f that first time visitors will not easily forget their striking architecture.
Some of these gorgeous homes start out around $425 per night, such as the Island Breeze home on the Grand Bahama island, which features three bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, and a private pool. For anyone looking to spend more than four digits per night, there are villas such as the Tilloo Pond in Abaco. This five bedroom, five bathroom beachfront home has spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean.
It is also very private, sitting on 11 acres of Tilloo Cay, a private island. Further, the villa has three small private...
The Luxury of a Bahama Vacation Villa
Playing live casino poker for the first time
The type of game and the stakes you are going to play for are the two first decisions you have to make before entering a live casino poker game. The minimum buy-ins in most live poker rooms are ten times the minimum bet, but a general rule of thumb is to never bring less than forty times the minimum bet to the table.This means that you should for a 2/5 game bring a minimum of $80 and for a 5/10 game bring at least $200. Poker chips are used as a replacement currencie for real money in live casino poker rooms.You buy the chips from the cashier in the back of the poker room before sitting down or a chip runner will bring the chips to you after you have sat down at the table of your choice.Most live casino poker rooms have a desk in front of the poker room with a Brush (casino employee) working behind it. You tell the Brush your name and what game or games you want to play.You will most likely be placed on a waiting list...
Playing live casino poker for the first time