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		<title>A Guide To Software To Learn Foreign Languages</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the increase in global awareness due to technology and the Internet learning to speak just makes sense. But with the cost and the amount of effort required how should you go about it? Youhave the options of total immersion, taking classes, language learning software and a mentor. Given the heavy time and fiscal investment [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the increase in global awareness due to technology and the Internet learning to speak just makes sense. But with the cost and the amount of effort required how should you go about it? Youhave the options of total immersion, taking classes, language learning software and a mentor. Given the heavy time and fiscal investment required by the other selections we will concentrate on language learning software. The benefits of learning a foreign language with language learning software includes convenience, lower cash and time investment and the level of interactivity. This article will target the benefits to be derived from using language learning software to master a foreign language. Let&#8217;s start with the convenience element. . .</p>
<p>Ease Of Use <br />Using software to learn a foreign language can be particularly good for those that do not have plenty of free time to devote to learning. With the software you fundamentally have an electronic mentor at your beck and call. The technology present in the majority of these offerings even enables you to practice your dictation and accent. This means in those weird times during the moment when you have some free time you can use it to put some more time behind your language goals. This is a major advantage as compared to the other forms of learning mentioned here. Other advantages of using foreign language software include a much lower entry cost in money and time. . . </p>
<p>Cheaper Time And Money Investment <br />Using language learning software among the decisions given in this article is by a large margin the least expensive choice. Given that an immersion program if youhave the cash and time to do it is going to cost at least $10k after you take under consideration everything required to get you to a foreign country and then set up to be over there long enough to get benefit from it. Taking classes is going to cost somewhere around $50-$60 a credit hour and you&#8217;re going to want at least a hundred hours of time in so you can see that cost right there. If youare able to discover a mentor for say half of the class room costs itwill still require the same quantity of time. These are the reasons why a $250 or less piece of software given the choices just sounds correct. Especially if you consider that for the most part you are getting the same instructional benefits. Leading to the final benefit of usability. . .</p>
<p>Usability <br />The majority of the software on the marketfor language learning comes with interactive audio lessons, illustrated grammar lessons, word building games and even speech recognition software for pronunciation. The more advanced software offerings even come complete with an interactive forum where you can interact with a specific language&#8217;s mavens and fellow students for any questions you&#8217;ll have. </p>
<p>In this article we have concentrated on the benefits of using language learning software. We looked at the benefits of increased convenience, lower cash and time investment and usability. We didn&#8217;t spend a lot of time looking into the advanced features found on some software offerings like speech recognition.  we think with the benefits we have stated here that you ought to have more then enough info to make a well informed decision.</p>
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		<title>Easiest Way To Apply For A Scholarship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education expenses are at an all time high and will keep on increasing. Paying college fees becomes a financial burden on students and their parents.
The college fund can not completely help them to pay for the college expenses. This reason should not be told to restrain students from going to college. There are different types [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Education expenses are at an all time high and will keep on increasing. Paying college fees becomes a financial burden on students and their parents.</p>
<p>The college fund can not completely help them to pay for the college expenses. This reason should not be told to restrain students from going to college. There are different types of students&#8217; loans available which students and their parents can take up. Until you graduate, you do not have to pay it back. Many students today opt for such loans.</p>
<p>But these students loan have a fixed period, after which you will have to pay back the loan along with interest. When you do not want to pay back any loan, apply for scholarships because you get money, which you do not have to return back.</p>
<p>Various types of scholarships are available for the deserving students.</p>
<p>Different scholarships carry different amount for students which may start at $500 can go up to the total tuition fee amount. Don&#8217;t think that only brilliant students and good sportsman get those scholarships. Not only aspiring rocket scientist or a high school star football or basket ball player gets those scholarships.</p>
<p>Various other scholarships are offered to other students. Because the students are not aware of the presence of scholarships or because they think better students than them are available for the scholarships, they do not apply for such scholarships. Due to lack of applications from students, many scholarships offering thousands of dollars are wasted every year.</p>
<p>You do not need an excellent GPA to get a scholarship. Different scholarships such as minority scholarships, scholarships for women, scholarships for students are available for students willing to try for different careers. Fields like nursing, mathematics etc. attracts very few students and so organizations, universities, corporations and governments try to attract students by offering various scholarships.</p>
<p>You will only get a scholarship if you apply for it. Only students who apply for scholarships will get it, not those who do not apply. Always remember the quote &#8220;try try again&#8221; and always apply for various scholarships even though the best student of your class has also applied for it.</p>
<p>James Scholaris<br />
Get more facts concerning  graduate scholarships and how to apply for scholarships.</p>
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		<title>Literacy Development</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A broad definition of literacy is having the ability to communicate and make some type of meaning using different socially contextual symbols and signs. Improving your communication aptitude happens the more you use what you know from your own experiences and resources in writing, speaking, reading and listening, in order to make yourself understood. This [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A broad definition of literacy is having the ability to communicate and make some type of meaning using different socially contextual symbols and signs. Improving your communication aptitude happens the more you use what you know from your own experiences and resources in writing, speaking, reading and listening, in order to make yourself understood. This language development is quite possibly the most important avenue in the quest to improve reading skills.</p>
<p>Experts tell us that a person&#8217;s past experiences or problems are unable to be separated from the acquisition of newer words in a literacy program. In other words, each person brings with them a new group of experiences that is based on their background, which influences their interpretation of texts. This information that they have already learned must be in some way connected with the new information in order for new learning to happen. Children from a different culture may not have the necessary prior knowledge needed in order to teach them new vocabulary meanings that are different from their own cultural contexts. For instance, a person raised in a more vegetarian culture is likely unable to understand terms such as rare, medium and well done as a reference to the cooking of meat.</p>
<p>Children need examples and support in order to learn to use and apply new literacy skills. As the child begins using these skills independently, the teacher should gradually relinquish this literacy control, but should still coach the child when needed in order for them to become more confident.</p>
<p>Teaching someone is much easier when you can show them how literacy will actually add value or meaning to their life. What a child brings to a learning experience does affect the outcome, so their enthusiasm, curiosity and desire to learn will help to improve reading skills and writing skills. For instance, the simple act of letter writing to a loved one will give the endeavor a more personal value, instead of just writing a generic letter in a friendly format. The connection between what they are being taught and its significance as being useful must be obvious to a child in order to ensure continued learning.</p>
<p>A child&#8217;s social location and cultural experience can include ethnic, gender, religious and the socioeconomic differences, all of which can influence interpretation of learning experiences. Shared writing and reading experiences, classroom discussions and similar activities support literacy development. A child constructs meaning from their every day language and experiences that they encounter, so a more stimulating interactive environment will enhance their learning. Encouraging conversation and collaboration among many diverse groups, as well as social learning context being created that allows for diverse views to become shared and explored, will help to further along their understanding of different cultural viewpoints. Children, and even their parents, need to feel empowered and realize the relevance of the education being received.</p>
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		<title>Affordable Activities After School</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the cost of education rising faster than salaries, many families simply can&#8217;t afford the expense of activities after school. Consequently, we&#8217;re seeing more children being babysat by television and a disturbing rise in the number of kids getting into trouble during those unsupervised hours between school letting out and parents getting home from work. [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the cost of education rising faster than salaries, many families simply can&#8217;t afford the expense of activities after school. Consequently, we&#8217;re seeing more children being babysat by television and a disturbing rise in the number of kids getting into trouble during those unsupervised hours between school letting out and parents getting home from work. To curtail this trend, many community groups are offering low cost, after-school activities for kids, which are designed to keep them entertained and productive until their parents can pick them up. In this article, we&#8217;ll look at some of these programs and where you can find them in your community.</p>
<p>The benefits of activities after school are immeasurable. Getting your children involved in sports is an excellent way to teach them cooperation and teamwork, but the cost of fees, uniforms and equipment, and travel can be substantial. To reduce costs, buy used equipment and look for off season sales. As well, consider a course offered by a community center instead of league play, and talk to other parents about sharing travel costs. If you have a child who shows special aptitude and ability, then look into scholarship or sponsorship options.</p>
<p>For music lovers, there are also many ways to cut costs. Instead of purchasing a new, expensive instrument that your child may lose interest in, consider renting or look into your school&#8217;s leasing program. Some music stores subsidize school art programs by providing leases that you can pay for on a monthly basis. This pay-as-you-go method is ideal for a child who is learning an instrument for the first time. If you find that they don&#8217;t enjoy it, you simply discontinue the lease. Many music and second-hand stores also offer used equipment and sheet music at discounted prices.</p>
<p>Membership fees and tuition make up a large portion of the cost of extra-curricular activities. If one-on-one lessons are too expensive for your family, then there are more affordable alternatives. Organizations like the Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of America, Scouts, YMCA, YWCA, and Little Leagues offer inexpensive membership fees and activities at a very low cost.</p>
<p>If you are looking for activities after school for younger children, check out your local church, community center or library for play classes with small fees. Some offer kids crafts or other programs for free and they are fun and well supervised. For older kids, volunteering their time for a worthy charity or organization is an excellent option. Community run programs are always looking for volunteers and the activity looks great on college applications.</p>
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		<title>Gap Year Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may want to take a gap year, but worry that while you&#8217;re away from your regular studies you might lose your edge. If you&#8217;re away from school for long enough, perhaps you&#8217;ll need so much time to get back into the educational groove that you&#8217;ll fall behind. But there may be a way around [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may want to take a gap year, but worry that while you&#8217;re away from your regular studies you might lose your edge. If you&#8217;re away from school for long enough, perhaps you&#8217;ll need so much time to get back into the educational groove that you&#8217;ll fall behind. But there may be a way around this, by engaging in some sort of study while you&#8217;re taking the year off. You can feed your soul, learning things that focus on your own interests and desires, yet be fully ready to be a formal student again once you return home.</p>
<p>There are multitudes of possibilities, some of them involving volunteer programs in which to participate. For example, if you&#8217;re interested in working with animals, then you could spend a few months at a koala sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia. Then you might fly over to Thailand to help with an aid organization. Or perhaps you&#8217;d prefer to enroll in a short art and design program in Ghana, or further your art studies in Italy. Many of the gap year websites like www.gapyear.com have links to programs like these. Some also include discussion forums where people post information about these opportunities while others share tips and information from experiences they&#8217;ve already gained from their own gap year travel and work.</p>
<p>Once you decide on the direction you want to take, whether it&#8217;s explicit courses of study or volunteering, you&#8217;ll need to investigate the programs you find in your research. First of all, you might need a few extra qualifications. For example, some animal work requires certain types of training, while some is more &#8220;grunt work&#8221; and the learning is all on the job. You&#8217;ll also need to check the track record of the organizations themselves that offer these gap work jobs. This is when communication with previous high school graduates who have opted for these programs is invaluable.</p>
<p>You may decide to study the Mandarin language in China, take art courses in Italy, or volunteer in Africa. With the wide range of educational opportunities that are open to you during your gap year, you don&#8217;t have to worry that you&#8217;re going to lose your mental edge. While you are learning things that feed your soul and engage your greatest interests, you will be keeping your mind active, so that you can return to your regular studies without having lost a single step.</p>
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		<title>Job Seeker Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The median time a job seeker spends looking for a job has increased from 3.6 months to 4.4 months from the second to third quarter of 2008. In fact, it&#8217;s not unusual to hear of perfectly qualified individuals remaining out-of-work for six months. Additionally, in the third quarter of 2008, 13.4% of job seekers relocated [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The median time a job seeker spends looking for a job has increased from 3.6 months to 4.4 months from the second to third quarter of 2008. In fact, it&#8217;s not unusual to hear of perfectly qualified individuals remaining out-of-work for six months. Additionally, in the third quarter of 2008, 13.4% of job seekers relocated to find work (which is up from 8.9% in the first quarter). Despite these grim statistics, one recruiter reminds us that &#8220;All too often, job seekers allow themselves to get mired in the doom and gloom of a failing job market. However, if they can remember to approach a job search with a mindset of &#8216;all I need is a single job offer&#8217; then they will undoubtedly be successful. Once the glamour of the summer internship and college experience has worn off and it&#8217;s time to get a job, it&#8217;s time to have a realistic assessment of your skills.</p>
<p>First, do you have the education? The conventional wisdom was always that this meant a four-year degree at minimum. While college assistance is invaluable at providing networking contacts and possible internship opportunities, today&#8217;s job seeker doesn&#8217;t necessarily need to spend all their pennies on the college experience. &#8220;Most of the jobs for tomorrow don&#8217;t require a baccalaureate degree,&#8221; states Michael D. Moye, president of Lanier Technical College, &#8220;but they do require training beyond high school. You&#8217;d be amazed at the skill sets needed in today&#8217;s industries.&#8221; Technical schools range from two-month certificates to two-year associate&#8217;s degrees and provide more hands-on training than traditional universities. Air traffic controller, glazier, auto installer, refinery operator, customer service representative, sales rep, longshoreman, lineman, pipe fitter and truck driver are just a few jobs that require just a high school education or GED.</p>
<p>Next, you need to ask yourself if you have experience. What matters most to an employer examining a job seeker&#8217;s record is that the individual knows what it&#8217;s like to work on a team, as well as individually. They want you to have a track record of interacting with clients, accomplishing tasks and working under pressure. It seems like a catch-22, doesn&#8217;t it? &#8220;How do I get experience if I have no experience,&#8221; you may ask? Internship opportunities are an ideal place to start. Many are unpaid and offer only college credit, but if you&#8217;re looking in the accounting, consulting, insurance, consumer goods, hospitality, engineering or science fields, then you&#8217;ll likely find a paid internship to help you acquire the skills you need. Typically, when you finish your interning, the company will ask you to stay and all your problems will be solved! For a list of the best internships, check out Business Week&#8217;s list of &#8220;Top 50 Internships.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard back from your latest job seeker resume/cover letter blitz, do not despair. Instead, take this time to ramp up your portfolio, refine the wording of your resume and tailor your cover letters. Sometimes there are obvious mistakes you&#8217;re missing. It helps to have a second opinion on your work. Ask yourself the following questions. Am I writing my resume with active verbs and specific, quantitative results? Am I using keywords that might be searchable by a computer database for my industry? Did I include all titles, dates and phone numbers? Is my resume a single page? The best way to help job providers know you better is with a detailed, polite cover letter that lets them know who you are and why you&#8217;re a good fit for their company. If you&#8217;re struggling, most communities have centers where you can get help developing your portfolio to make yourself more marketable.</p>
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		<title>Plastic Wall Paneling To Make School  Doors And Walls  Safer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the school holidays, there is often a lot of work carried out on the buildings both inside and out.  Sometime the structure might need attending to or the interior might need to be redecorated.  Plastic wall paneling should be installed during your next stage of maintenance work to save you money in [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During the school holidays, there is often a lot of work carried out on the buildings both inside and out.  Sometime the structure might need attending to or the interior might need to be redecorated.  Plastic wall paneling should be installed during your next stage of maintenance work to save you money in the future.  This can reduce the amount of damage done to the actual walls and doors.  The result of this can be cheaper maintenance costs throughout the year and a safer environment for both pupils and teachers.</p>
<p>The gym and sports facilities are one area that will need attention.  School P.E consists of a number of different activities, some of which have a more damaging impact than others.  Games including dodge ball and indoor racket games can cause damage to the walls of the gym area.  Marks and dents are not uncommon but plastic wall panelling will protect against this. The risk of injury to those playing the sport is also reduced as sharp corners can be eliminated.</p>
<p>School corridors are one of the most heavily populated areas in any building.  Equal to the amount of people that walk along the corridors and through the doors are places like hospitals and busy office blocks. marks from shoes and bags as well as food are common on the lower half of corridor walls and doors.  Plastic wall panelling can be wiped clean with a damp cloth so there is no need to keep repainting over the marks that appear everyday.</p>
<p>Hands can be dirty even when they do not look it and this can leave dark marks on door handles as they are pushed open.  Again, plastic wall protectors do not need to be repainted as the dirt can be easily washed away.</p>
<p>Comparing the cost of installing plastic wall panelling with the cost of maintaining the school against marks, scratches and dents will prove that year on year plastic wall panels give you a better return on your investment.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[When buying preschool furniture, one must look for a few important things like value, safety, durability, desirability and functionality.  Children are not the cleanest of people so it is important that the furniture can be cleaned when covered in clay, paint and food. Safety features like curved instead of sharp edges need to be [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When buying preschool furniture, one must look for a few important things like value, safety, durability, desirability and functionality.  Children are not the cleanest of people so it is important that the furniture can be cleaned when covered in clay, paint and food. Safety features like curved instead of sharp edges need to be taken into account so the children remain safe. but don’t let safety ruin all the fun, you can find safe furniture in bright colours and playful patterns.</p>
<p>Try to spend as little as possible o the furniture as it is more than likely it will need replacing once a year if not more.  That said, the furniture should be reasonably durable to withstand the childhood onslaughts of spilled juice, splattered glue and crushed animal crackers.  install a wipe clean wall protector onto the lower half or all of your walls to protect them from spills, damage and mess.</p>
<p>Safety is essential, and can be a worry for preschool teachers.  Children are curious about everything as they start socialising.  Little fingers will try to fit themselves into every nook and crevice possible – that’s why buying preschool furniture with safety in mind is important. Solid pieces are better if you can get them as they are less likely to accidentally dismantle. The more flexible the furniture is, the better, as it has less chance to damage a child, a teacher or the walls.  Using plastics over wood or metal is better as they are less likely to damage someone or something.</p>
<p>Finally, when looking for preschool furniture, after considering the more serious aspect, look to find something that will be pleasing for the child, bright colours with large, inviting shapes are best, often interactive furniture would also further develop a child’s skills, for example a table that folds out into an art centre.  You also don’t want your preschool furniture to be a dour eyesore in a bright, joyful, preschool classroom setting.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We have heard from a number of employers that they are looking to hire more new college graduates to feed their &#8216;talent pipeline,&#8217;&#8221; comments Marilyn Mackes, executive director of the National Association of Colleges and Employers. &#8220;Employers are looking at new grads as their future leaders and want to groom them for those roles.&#8221; To [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We have heard from a number of employers that they are looking to hire more new college graduates to feed their &#8216;talent pipeline,&#8217;&#8221; comments Marilyn Mackes, executive director of the National Association of Colleges and Employers. &#8220;Employers are looking at new grads as their future leaders and want to groom them for those roles.&#8221; To do so, many companies have set up an internship program aimed at helping applicants acquire the skills they need to be prepared for the job. There is no shortage of internship opportunities, but you may want to focus your efforts on a program that will give you a well-rounded professional experience, rather than something that feels more like labor exploitation than on-the-job training.</p>
<p>Gen-Y has arrived in the workplace with a new set of demands that are much different than their parents&#8217;. While mom and dad may have asked for health care benefits, golden retirement packages and steady pay raises, the next generation wants to enjoy every minute of their workplace. They want casual dress codes, fitness centers, swimming pools, games rooms, company lunches and rock climbing walls. Luckily, the Google internship program has all of these things and more! Google is one of those companies that, if you don&#8217;t score a summer internship with them, you can pretty much forget about securing one of the limited 2,200 entry level jobs (out of over a million applicants) for outsiders. Most employees are hired from within their internship pool. As a student intern studying psychology, art history, finance, marketing, sales, technology or computer science, you&#8217;ll be able to work as an IT Field Technician, Software Engineer or Operational Sales and Management intern, gaining real experience and job skills along the way.</p>
<p>For the creative filmmaker/animator minds, nothing beats the internship program at Pixar. You&#8217;ll have to spend your first two years assembling a demo reel to submit to the company, but in your junior year of college you&#8217;ll be eligible to apply for the internship opportunity to assist in the production of a feature film! Pixar&#8217;s interns work with technical directors and contribute as full members of their technical team! Students work in developing programs, modeling sets and props, shading and illustrating, manipulating lighting effects, dressing sets, storyboard layout, rigging characters for animation and rendering the final digital shots to scan onto film. Interested applicants must have some experience using Linux or UNIX, programming languages like C, C++ or scripting languages like Tcl, Sh, Python or Perl. They should have some familiarity using 3D graphic programs like Maya, XSI or Lightwave and education in computer science, math, engineering and art. If you make the cut, Pixar has an unforgettable and meaningful job internship for you.</p>
<p>Nike offers another excellent internship program with great perks. You&#8217;ll head to Beaverton, Oregon (near Portland) from June 19th to August 24th. If you &#8220;work hard and play hard,&#8221; you&#8217;ll fit right in here. Your paid internship will also give you access to world-class athletic facilities, merchandise discounts and free leadership programs. To apply, you must be a full-time college student in your junior or senior year of college (or a grad student) and you must have an overall GPA of 3.3 or higher. Your major must be in Business Disciplines, Engineering, Computer Science, Polymer Science, Design, Apparel or Liberal Arts. Interns will work on designing apparel, graphic design, footwear design, color design or materials design in a creative, fun and fast-paced environment. Nothing beats an internship opportunity like that!</p>
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		<title>Brief History of The Poker Chip</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The poker chip might not be quite as old and venerable as the game of poker itself, which could be about a century older, but this form of monetary token still goes back a fair distance in time. As far as anyone can ascertain, these chips had their origins in the United States, somewhere around [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The poker chip might not be quite as old and venerable as the game of poker itself, which could be about a century older, but this form of monetary token still goes back a fair distance in time. As far as anyone can ascertain, these chips had their origins in the United States, somewhere around the end of the 19th century. Before then, players used items like coins or gold nuggets to gamble with, until gradually those items were replaced with uniform poker chips.</p>
<p>However, it wasn&#8217;t simply a matter of every player or gambling establishment changing to a uniform type of poker chips right away. Even though chips eventually became the recognized medium of exchange in poker games, they came in literally hundreds of designs and very different materials. Some might have been made of bone or ivory, for example. A player&#8217;s custom poker chips could have been as diverse and unique as the player they belonged to. Yet with nothing being uniform, players could sneak their own chips into a game and end up wealthier at the end than their play might have warranted.</p>
<p>Casinos soon took the new chips of clay to another level, custom designing them so that any specific set of chips could only belong to one casino. Before long, each establishment developed its own particular mix of clay and ceramic materials for the chips, and began adding other identifying patterns on the finished product. Casino poker chips became as individualized and specialized as the separate casinos themselves. For about fifty years, straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, the casino-specific poker chip made from these patented formulas held sway.</p>
<p>Ironically though, as the game has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years, the poker chip has in some ways returned back to a more generic form. With the advent of chip sets for home use, creating individual sets with their own specific molds would be too expensive, so any individualization of these cheaper plastic sets is all done with surface decoration. As things stand now, there&#8217;s a branching in the history of poker chips, between home sets and the more custom designed and specialized casino chip. Where the history will go next is anyone&#8217;s guess.</p>
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