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You’ve grown up watching situation comedies on television. You love “sitcoms.” Maybe you watched the character of Rob Petrie in “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and thought, “Wow, there are people who get paid to writer television comedy shows. And sitcom writing looks pretty easy!”

Plus, you know that you’re funny. Maybe you’ve had some funny essays appear in print. Perhaps you regularly contribute a humor column to a magazine. You write a funny blog. Or lots of people follow you on Twitter because of your amusing tweets.

But if you want to get a job as a TV sitcom writer, you can’t email a hit comedy show’s producers and say, “Hey, look at my funny tweets!”

You can’t ask them to check out your funny blog.

No, as a beginning sitcom writer your calling card needs to be a spec script. You also need to be able to show prospective employers a sitcom pilot.

Probably you already know that. Perhaps you’ve already said to yourself, “I should be writing a sitcom script. But you’re also asking, “Exactly how long is my sitcom script supposed to be?”

The length of your script really depends upon whether it’s a single camera show or a multi-camera show.

A single camera show is shot like a movie. M*A*S*H was shot as a single camera show. Sitcom scripts for single camera shows should run approximately 32 or 33 pages.

A multi-camera show is a television comedy that is filmed in front of a studio audience. “Seinfeld” was a multi-camera show. “Friends” was shot multi-camera style. “Cheers” was shot as a multi-camera show. If you’re writing a multi-camera show, you need to make it approximately 40 pages.

Before you begin writing your spec script, you absolutely need to know the whether that show is single camera or multi-camera. That knowledge will dictate how long your spec script will be.

If your multi-camera sitcom script is 42 or 43 pages long, that’s okay. If your single camera script is 34 or 35 pages, that’s okay. But don’t write a 60-page script.

Submitting a spec script that is much too long marks you as an amateur. It also indicates that you didn’t know enough to conduct even a minimal amount of professional research.

To recap….

Single Camera Shows: Aim for 32 pages.

Multi-Camera Shows: Your target is 40 pages.

The Poker Players Alliance, which is the biggest lobbying organization for online poker, recently unveiled a new iPhone application that costs just 99 cents.  Unlike many other poker-related iPhone programs, the application offered by the PPA has nothing to do with playing poker games or teaching people poker strategy.  Instead, this iPhone program was created with the intention of promoting internet poker worldwide, and convincing governments in countries such as the United States to pass favorable poker laws.

Some features of the PPA’s new iPhone app is that it alerts players about starting times for various poker tournaments, delivers messages from pro poker player Twitter accounts, and offers the latest poker news. You may even find some brilliant rakeback deals by using the iPhone program! A really important feature of the application is its ability to allow people to contact US Government Officials and in turn lobby for much better poker legislation.

To get this 99 cent application, you need to do a search for the Poker Players Alliance and complete the poker download once you find it.  While you’re downloading the poker software, you will notice that it’s only 2.1 MB, which really saves room on one’s iPhone.  When the download is finished, you will be able to browse through the various sections such as News, Tweets, Contact Congress, and the Poker Tournament Schedule.

The tournament schedule is especially important because you will be able to find out when different online and casino poker events take place.  This beats having to sift through every online poker room just to find out the information you need.  If you need help to learn how to play poker or find some poker training, you can look for other poker-related applications on the iPhone. This is a great way to find any potential online poker deals that could earn you a heap of cash.

If you are not yet in possession of an iPhone, then you can still enjoy Full Tilt Poker and Littlewoods Poker from the comfort of your home.  You never know you could win enough money to get your hands on an iPhone.

Opinions seem to vary greatly, even among health care professionals in the dental industry. Each often has his own favorite product or set of products.

If you take a simple device such as the perio-aid, you will find that different hygienists and even different dentists will give you slightly different and conflicting directions on how to use this tool.

Some attack the products that others recommend. That happened to me lately on twitter. I was quite shocked to see a dental hygienist attack products that she probably knew nothing about. Yet, when going to her profile, I found that she actually promoted a very specific product.

The majority of her tweets were about this product. I questioned her about whether she was working for the particular company that made this product. She said she did not. However, I find it very hard to believe that someone would spend so much of their personal time to promote a product if they were not being compensated for doing so.

This is the problem with marketing, you never know who is behind a particular marketing strategy or ploy. We live in such a commercialized era that it is a bit scary to think about sometimes. With many social media, you never know which profiles are real and which are made up – complete with convincing pictures!

We often hope that the professionals we trust are honest and forthright and perhaps we even assume that they are. I don’t want to say too much more about this issue. It is not limited to any profession or field. It spans the spectrum of industries and professionals. That is too bad for the consumer.

When I was a child I often dreamed of a world without commerce. It would really alter everything. For example, if the question of money were taken out of the equation, would your dental health be better protected and preserved.

As you might imagine, that was just an example, the same question could apply to any industry or profession. It would be nice if the professionals all agreed. When they don’t, whom does the consumer turn to for quality information that is not confusing?

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Disclaimer: This article is for information and entertainment purposes only. It does not intend to render advice, diagnosis or treatment. If you have or think you might have gum disease or any other health problem, visit your periodontist or physician for advice, diagnosis and treatment. The USFDA has not evaluated statements about products in this article.