“Oh boy, I get to sit in the waiting room for a while!”

“Hey look, let’s get in this line - it’s the longest! Don’t worry, the ice cream won’t melt.”

“I think I’ll take this route. There’s a good traffic jam coming up!”

When was the last time you heard comments like these? Never? Well, they just may be the wave of the very near future. There’s a new thing in town. It’s called the Apple iPhone 3g. And it is ready to turn our everyday routines upside down.

In the past, iPhone games were nothing to get excited about. The best games could be found on the Internet and in the gaming consoles like the Playstation or the Game Cube. Iphone games lagged behind due to slower Internet connections, no flash capabilities, and limited choices to control the game activities.

Then the Apple iPhone 3g showed up. Now you have high speed Internet connection, better control capabilities, and the advantage of third party applications. Suddenly, the gaming world was included. Now, some of the biggest game producers in the world are vying for the chance to be the maker of the next biggest game sensation to hit the planet - with their latest iPhone games!

The latest and greatest iPhone game, scheduled to be released in September 2008, is called Spore. Already it is one of the most anticipated new games. Spore is a creation game. You invent a life form, and develop it from its initial spore into a full blown creature. Soon, you will be able to take it throughout the universe, going where no man has gone before, and conquering other worlds. To help generate excitement about the upcoming game, the producers released a free Creature Creator software. It was an instant hit! Folks all over the world began inventing new creatures and showing their creations throughout the Net.

Another popular iPhone game, Super Monkey Ball, is a maze game where you tilt the world around the character trying to make it through the maze. You don’t control the character; you control the scene around him to see if you can keep him from certain destruction. Other iPhone games that are getting people excited are Enigmo, a 3-D puzzle game, and Crash Bandicot Nitro Kart 3D, a racing game. Even World of Warcraft is jumping on the new iPhone games craze. They have recently released a World of Warcraft application that allows you to check your stats and share your World of Warcraft characters with your friends.

So gaming technology has finally caught up with the iPhone. You’ll discover variety and excitement in the iPhone games. Plus they will get better and even more exciting as the competition for the best iPhone game heats up.

Go ahead and put a few games onto your iPhone, and you, too, can discover how much fun standing in line at the grocery store can be!

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Earvin Johnson Jr., better known to us as “Magic” Johnson was born in 1959 in Lansing, Michigan. He started playing basketball seriously while a student at Everett High School in Lansing, MI and played at Michigan State as well - however, he was drafted by the LA Lakers in 1979. The son of a General Motors worker and a school custodian, Johnson was born into a large family and discovered his love of basketball as a child. Johnson claims that he even slept with his basketball!

Johnson became known as “Magic” while still playing on his high school basketball team. A reporter covering a game could find no other way to convey the skill with which Johnson played. After graduating from high school, Johnson chose to attend Michigan State in East Lansing, MI in order to stay close to home. While in college, Johnson played on the school team, the well known Spartans. While a Spartan, Johnson led the team to a 25-5 record and a Big Ten conference title in his first year! His record the following year was no less impressive; the Spartans defeated Larry Bird’s Indiana State team to capture the national title in one of the most closely watched NCAA games ever.

Opting the pro route, Johnson joined the 1979 draft, where the Lakers picked him up. With a new coach in hand in Jack McKinney and a new owner (Dr. Jerry Buss), the fans couldn’t wait to see one of the best college players in their Lakers uniform. Players from all teams saw the Magic of Johnson and although the NBA rookie of the year went to Larry Bird, the Lakers won the NBA Championship in 1979 with a 60-22 record. When coach McKinney was replaced by Paul Westhead the following year, Magic’s numbers matched his college efforts at 18 ppg, 7.7 rpg, and 73 apg. Proudly, he was the first rookie to start in an NBA All-Star Game-something that hadn’t been done in eleven years!

The 1980 NBA finals saw another amazing performance from Johnson against the Philadelphia 76ers. Johnson scored 42 points, 15 boards, 7 assists and 3 steals in the series. Magic became the first rookie ever to win the MVP award in the finals. Magic was modest as usual about his achievement: “I just wanted to do whatever the (Lakers) needed to do to win. I was having fun.” However, the next year would see Johnson sidelined for 45 games due to torn cartilage in his knee.

Johnson recovered from his injury and the Lakers came back in a big way for the 1981-1982 season. The Lakers handily won their division title and again took on the 76ers in the finals, with another win for the Lakers and another MVP award for Johnson. While Johnson took some heat for the comments he made about Lakers coach Paul Westhead (who was replaced by the now legendary Pat Riley and left himself for the Chicago Bulls), he never let the criticism get to him and his performance in the game was never less than astounding.

In 1984, Magic signed a $25 million dollar contract with the Lakers and they won three NBA titles in the following four years. In the 1986-87 season, he scored an astounding 38 points against Houston and 46 points against the Sacramento Kings-a career high. During this season, he also achieved a career-high average of 23.9 points per game- and Johnson was named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player of the Year. He would win this award again in 1989 and 1990.

Before the beginning of the 1991-1992 season, Johnson announced that he has been diagnosed with HIV and would retire from the game. He didn’t leave the game without making his exit in style, however - Johnson played in the 1991 All-Star game, winning the MVP award. However, he had found a new focus: outreach and educating the public about HIV/AIDS. Johnson received the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award from the NBA for his work in this field. Johnson also played on the US Olympic Basketball team in the 1992 Olympics, wrote a book on safe sex and started up philanthropic foundations. He also was an NBC sports commentator and served as head coach of the Lakers for part of the 1993-1994 season. And all of this was before he returned to the Lakers in 1996 where he played 32 more games before retiring from the game for good - unless he elects to make another comeback.

In his 13 season NBA career, Magic Johnson achieved an astounding 17,707 points ( a 19.5 point per game average), 6,559 rebounds and 10,141 assists. This is in addition to his 1,724 steals (Johnson holds the record for ninth most steals in an NBA career). Johnson was also invited to the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time team in 1997 and entered the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. Johnson remains as modest as ever and continues to focus on his philanthropic work, but he is indisputably a living legend in the game of basket ball. As one of his fiercest rivals and greatest admirers, Larry Bird says of Johnson: Magic is head-and-shoulders above everybody else. I’ve never seen anybody as good as him.

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Is mild way of convincing someone still works nowadays? Do you have past experiences that you once persuaded someone to take side on you or do favors for you? What I am referring to is NLP Hypnosis or Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hypnosis. NLP is used to attach an emotion out of the action of others or a reaction from others or simply yourself.

How this affects our lives. NLP can be a very powerful and effective instrument in convincing other people or person to do a positive emotion towards himself or to someone else. It has many kinds of ways which it can be used in a different time at advantage of the user. This NLP is so useful when we need to get the agreements done on our favor especially favoring some of our ideas or decisions and even opinions. You can just imagine if this method is applied when you visit a prospect client to buy your products. With the aid of this NLP, building a positive feelings or emotions towards this client, he will simply agree and purchased the product in just a tag on his shoulder.

The Hypnosis process is so delicate that every time you want to get positive reactions from others like getting a smile from others, you need to tag him on his shoulder. Or to close a deal from a client, you need to place your hand on his shoulder. NLP helps you achieve your goals like closing a deal as this method most likely maximize the high percentage of success. Using this method, it is barely noticeable to clients at all on what you have done with him. Moreover, this can be applied at to anybody too.

In certain emotions of others, we can simply attach to it when needed. One way to do it is snapping of the fingers to get these positive feelings and to gain back from the original feelings then snap your fingers again. This means that one can switch easily from one emotion to another. Like being in a sad emotion can be changed to a joyful state in just one snap of the fingers. You could imagine the advantages it gives to your life and it can even transform your life. This is really very interesting and brilliant method which can turn to be an asset to an individual if it is regularly used.

This can make your life see a difference. With the power in controlling or persuading others emotion to get into your own advantage without giving more energy, this is really amazing. You can try it and witness the difference by yourselves. For sure, the longer it is of used, the higher the possibility of mastering the craft. See how it can change your life significantly!

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