Kinect Sports

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I just got finished playing all of the sports in Kinect Sports and here is my evaluation:

1. Track & Field: This area includes a variety of different activities that work well with the basic body movements the Kinect can control. These include running , jumping, and throwing things (javelins & discus). I think young and old would both have fun with this! This may actually be my favorite activity in this game.

2. Bowling: Not as much control as Wi Sports bowling?but it is actually feels more like bowling when you can just stick your hand out to pick up the ball and then swing your arm to bowl. No controller to hold on to or push buttons. Once again this is an activity that would appeal to both young and old. Personally, I still like the bowling in Wii Sports better because of the more precise control.

3. Boxing: I like this better than the Wii Sports Boxing?but there is still some lag time and I just don?t get the feel that all my moves are translating accurately. Plus, like an earlier reveiwer indicated it seems like punching wildly is actually a winning approach in this game. I do like how you can just hold your arms up to block?this felt very natural. I?m waiting for the Kick Boxing version because when you kick your legs in this activity your avatar kicks its legs?but they don?t seem to translate to ?hits? in the game.

4. Beach Volleyball: This one will take some time to master. It can get a bit confusing because there are several different techniques involved?jumping, hitting, and blocking. If you?re tall?make sure you don?t have a ceiling fan above you?or at least make sure it?s not on!

5. Table Tennis: Once again it was fun to play without a controller in my hand but I felt there were a few times when the intensity of my hits were not reflected in what actually happened on screen. For example, when an opportunity comes up for a ?smash? the game announces it and then actually does it regardless of whether I swung harder or not.

6. Soccer: Fun and interesting. You don?t have to run around the field yourself. Your player magically appears where the ball is kicked to. Simple body movements control your kicks and blocks. Gray directional lines on the screen show the directionally options when kicking and your location when blocking.

Throughout the games the Kinect takes photos and short videos of your movements. These are played at the end of each game. The images are saved so you can share them with others. This feature will appeal to some and not to others. For example, I find the images of my son interesting and humorous?but I need to find out how to erase the images of me!

Adding a second player was extremely easy. If I wanted to join my son all I had to do was step in front of the TV and the Kinect added me to the in-play game. The graphics are also much better than the Wii! Kinect Sports looked great on a 40? HDTV. We don?t even play the Wii on this TV because of how bad it looks.

Bottom line: If you have an XBOX already?adding the Kinect and Kinect Sports really adds a nice dimension to your video game experience. If you have young kids or older folks that have trouble remembering what buttons to push on a remote?it doesn?t get any easier than the Kinect.

P.S. It is a neat and strange sensation to be standing in front of your TV and the avatar on the screen is doing the same movements that you are. You can sway, move your arms and legs, and dance, and the avatar mimics it. This alone makes for good entertainment!

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IndyLights ? Rusty Mitchell, Horses, and Horsepower : Open Paddock

Posted by Doug Patterson on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 ? Leave a Comment?

A curious thing crossed my virtual desk here at OpenPaddock this week, a press release. ?no, that?s not especially unusual, but its content sure was. Normally, teams and drivers issue a release previewing their thoughts and expectations for the upcoming event, but this was a bit more than the simple ?we hope to roll off the transport fast and win? type of hype and blase quotes. This was a nice little background piece on Rusty Mitchell, with whom we spoke prior to his running the Firestone Freedom 100 back in May. If you missed that episode of Inside the Helmet, download it from iTunes or listen to it here.

Since our conversation back in May, when he had only a two-race deal with Team E Racing, Rusty has secured additional funding and raced at Loudon, NH and at the Baltimore Grand Prix. He?s also slated to race at the Kentucky Speedway this coming weekend. Below is a piece connecting the equestrian passion of the Mitchell family in Texas, the passion for horses and equestrian pursuits for which Kentucky is famous, and the passion for motorsports. They?re not as different as you might imagine. I hope you enjoy reading this piece as much as I did.

SPARTA, Ky., Sept. 27 ? Both horses and horsepower will be in the spotlight in Kentucky this weekend.

Kentucky Speedway, which will host Firestone Indy Lights as part of the Kentucky Indy 300 this weekend, is centrally located in the middle of horse country in Sparta. Louisville, home of Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby, is about 50 miles east. Lexington, which has a plethora of Thoroughbred horse farms and the Kentucky Horse Park, is about 50 miles west.

Equestrian sports and motorsports have a lot in common, and sometimes equestrians and racers are members of the same family. Those family members often find life is a constant balancing act, since there?s only so much free time in any given week, only so many weekends in a year, and only so much money to spend.

That?s the way it?s been for Mike and Gayle Mitchell of Midland, Texas throughout their 30-year marriage. The females in the family have gravitated to equestrian pursuits, while the men are focused on motorsports.

The Mitchells? only son, Rusty, 28, is a rookie in Firestone Indy Lights, the final step on the Mazda Road to Indy before the major leagues of the IZOD IndyCar Series. He will make his first start at Kentucky Speedway this Sunday at noon in Team E Racing?s No. 17, a bright blue car that is sponsored by Motorola and Petro Communications.

He?s following in his father?s footsteps, as Mike Mitchell has been involved in drag racing, stock car racing, SCCA racing and even IndyCar racing on the side for years. In the past he was an electronics engineer and a rear tire changer for team owner Jim Hall of Chaparral fame and also Davis Racing, working with drivers like Gil de Ferran, Gaulter Salles and Arnd Meier.

This weekend Mike Mitchell will be high on top of Kentucky Speedway?s main grandstand, spotting for his son.

His wife will be with their daughter at a collegiate rodeo.

Gayle Mitchell has owned horses for years, using them primarily for pleasure riding and some barrel racing. The family currently has five Quarter horses and one Paint.

Rusty?s sister, Michelle Mitchell, 21, is a four-time world champion in open pole bending with the American Paint Horse Association. She is currently on a rodeo scholarship at West Texas A&M University, where she competes in barrel racing, breakaway roping, team roping and goat tying. She?s studying equine business industry (genetics and reproduction) in college with an eye towards a career in the horse breeding industry, and she plans to go pro and compete in the Women?s Pro Rodeo Association next summer.

Rusty said his mom put him on a horse for the first time when he was 3 or 4 years old.

?Horses never really were my thing, but they were always around and I rode a lot with my mom,? he said.

?I was hoping he would take an interest in my horses, but he was always more interested in cars,? his mother concurred. ?He would carry Matchbox race cars in his pocket and ?drive? them round the saddle while we rode.

?He would also play with his toy race cars out in the horse pens,? she added. ?I recently found one while I was cleaning stalls. It made me tear up, remembering him playing out there, building race tracks in the dirt and playing for hours.?

Her son?s Matchbox cars eventually gave way to go-karts, and he?s been moving through the ranks of formula car racing ever since.

It?s not surprising that having two children in two different and very demanding semi-pro sports makes for some hectic schedules and some interesting family conversations.

?We insisted that both of our kids get degrees in something they can make a living at before hitting the pro circuits,? Gayle Mitchell said. ?Rusty and Michelle are both extremely competitive, and thrive on perfection within their sports.

?It?s interesting to listen to them when we get together for holidays,? she added. ?They?ll compare car racing and barrel racing ? rating down, apex of corner, acceleration going into a turn and coming out, when to kick or change gears ? in a way, barrel-horse racing and race cars are a lot alike.?

After a full season in Star Mazda last year Rusty Mitchell has been doing a limited schedule in Firestone Indy Lights this year with Team E Racing, a top team owned by Neil Enerson that is based in the Tampa Bay, Fla., area. Sunday?s race at Kentucky Speedway will only be Mitchell?s fifth Firestone Indy Lights race ever, but Team E Racing has an excellent record on oval tracks and Mitchell himself has never finished outside of the top 10 in his six previous oval-track starts.

Mitchell got his first look at Kentucky Speedway?s 1.5-mile, D-shaped oval at a private test last Thursday, during which he completed 118 laps.

?It?s fun; it?s big and it?s quick,? Mitchell said afterwards. ?It?s definitely more line-dependent than you would think, especially with the dogleg on the frontstretch. For ovals that I?ve been on before it?s a mix between Chicagoland Speedway and Iowa Speedway; it?s kind of right in between both of them.?

Kentucky Speedway?s turns carry 14 degrees of banking. The track is 70 feet wide. Although everything is new to Mitchell, the track has added seats since Firestone Indy Lights last visited here, and the pit lane is now closer to the main grandstand.

Testing is a luxury in Firestone Indy Lights, so Team E tried to get a great deal done last week. Engineer Daryl Bear, chief mechanic Dave Metcalf, mechanic Harv Sweezie and the rest of the pit crew concentrated on fine-tuning the car?s initial set-up, as it must go fast by itself during time trials at 5:15 p.m. Saturday and get a good starting position before it has to go fast in a draft during Sunday?s race.

?We just tried to get the most speed we could out of the car,? Mitchell explained last Thursday after the test. ?The track was dirty and we cut two tires down, but it was great to get to test instead of seeing the track for the first time on race weekend. I?m excited to be coming back here next week because I?m comfortable in the car now. We?ll just try to fine-tune our set-up and get some more speed out of it on race weekend. Team E is always good on ovals, so I?m really looking forward to racing at Kentucky Speedway.?

Sunday?s race will be televised live on VERSUS.

Additional information can be found on the team?s Web site at TeamERacing.com, Mitchell?s Web site at RustyMitchellRacing.com and the series? Web site at indycar.com/fil. Fans can also find behind-the-scenes info and special giveaways on Team E Racing?s Facebook page.

Leave a comment below or submit your own article for all to read.

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7-year sentence sought for Ukraine's Tymoshenko (AP)

KIEV, Ukraine ? A spokeswoman for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko says prosecutors have asked the judge in her abuse-of-office trial to sentence her to seven years in prison.

The spokeswoman, Natasha Lysova, says prosecutor Liliya Frolova also asked the judge on Tuesday to fine the country's top opposition leader 1.5 billion hryvna ($190,000 or euro140,000) for the alleged damages she caused and to make her ineligible to occupy government posts for three years.

Prosecutors could not immediately be reached for comment.

Tymoshenko stands accused of exceeding her authority when signing a gas import contract with Russia in 2009.

She says the trial is an effort by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to bar her from upcoming elections.

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Small Businesses Learn ... - Relationships and Communication

Small businesses not used to intercultural communication, can easily find dealing with international prospects challenging. It is sometimes hard to figure out exactly how your sales message has been received. You may have difficulty understanding what your international prospect needs to hear from you.

Just like with your own local leads, some of international prospects can appear to be ready to make the sale, some are hesitant and some just do not appear to be interested. With international clients, it is often not easy to interpret their reactions. How do you know if you should step up your sales pitch, slow down or if it would be better to pass the ball to one of your colleagues who is a different gender than you are?

Often you naturally realize that you need to do a little more adjusting in your communication style to fit your international prospect. This is especially true when your client is not following you, or appears to want to be someplace else in your sales process. The result is that you may appear less professional than you would want.

Destabilizing situations can arise.

Things can even become comical. Or worse, you can have a frustrated prospect losing patience with you and moving on. Your international clients like to feel understood

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Open your high power listening antennas and proceed slowly. Ask your prospect simple questions to confirm what he needs to have addressed. Adjust your communication accordingly. If your prospect appears excited about your product or service, reconfirm this a few times. This will give him the time to assimilate things more deeply.

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Sometimes international prospects require a little more personal attention in the beginning. Creating a multicultural relationship requires time and effort for both parties.
The extra time can well be worth the investment. International prospects can become very loyal long term customers if they are happy with your products and services. Good international clients will often provide you with much more word of mouth advertising than your local clients.

When you think you have mastered the international communication skills to handle your international prospects, remember to set up a systematic case study and referral strategy.

At the time of sale when your international prospects actually become your clients, gently initiate conversation about your company?s Case Study plan. Talk to them, ask what they are hoping to get out of your product, if they have had any specific problems they are hoping to solve with your product,

And then tell your new international client that you have a company plan where you follow up with clients at the appropriate time to see how they liked the product. Ask if you could do that with their company. Who should you call?

International clients will often be happy for such communication. This will also show them you are very interested in serving them even if they are located far away.

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Posted by admin on September 25th, 2011

Obtaining a Health Net group insurance quote isn?t difficult, and understanding how quotes are compiled can be helpful in choosing a health care policy. Because healthcare policies and plans are continually adjusting available coverage and services, a group health insurance quote is only temporary in terms of sharing how much it will cost to insure a group with insurance. Additionally, insurance providers operate in a competitive industry and costs fluctuate among them. When requesting a group health insurance quote be aware of when quoted costs will expire.

Group health insurance is normally employer-sponsored. this means that the employer takes responsibility for payment on a portion of health care expenses and its employees assume financial obligations for the remaining part. this balance between the employer and employee works toward making group health insurance coverage more affordable for all parties involved. beyond cost-effectiveness, there are other advantages to employer sponsored plans.

Enrolling in an employer-sponsored plan guarantees coverage for all employees who sign-up regardless of any pre-existing health care conditions. The insurance provider cannot increase group health insurance rates for individuals who match this criteria, which makes an employer-sponsored plan an excellent choice employees in this situation. this insurance clause is as a ?group-of-one? and it enables all employees within an organization the ability to purchase insurance through their employer.

With insurance plans, the larger the employer, the more negotiating power they have over their rates and benefits. The reason behind this is that plan participant risk is spread across many members of the group versus a smaller business that may be more expensive to insure due to one employee?s illness. this flexibility is what allows employers to offer multiple health insurance plan options, as well as supplemental benefits, such as vision, dental and disability.

Employer-sponsored group health plans are a wonderful way to ensure that you and your family have medical coverage at an affordable price. Without proper coverage, healthcare costs can be detrimental to a family?s finances. an average cost for a three-day hospital can run anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000 to cover medications, tests, food, staff salaries and more. Electing to enroll in a group health insurance plan is essential to avoid facing bankruptcy or other financial hardship.

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Car bomb kills 15, wounds dozens in southern Iraq (Reuters)

HAMZA, Iraq (Reuters) ? A car bomb targeting a popular restaurant killed 15 people and wounded dozens more in the southern Iraqi town of al-Hamza on Wednesday, police and hospital sources said.

Elsewhere, two Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded when a bomb attached to a military bus exploded at an army base in Habaniya, around 85 km (50 miles) west of Baghdad, army sources said.

Bombings and killings occur on a daily basis in Iraq more than eight years after the U.S.-led invasion but violence has dropped from the peak of sectarian fighting in 2006-07.

The U.S. military is expected to fully withdraw by December 31 although Iraqi politicians are trying to decide whether to ask Washington to leave some troops beyond 2011 to continue to train its army and police.

The first incident occurred outside the Ehsan tourist restaurant, a popular rest-stop by a main highway for people traveling through al-Hamza, located just south of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad.

"I was in the kitchen when suddenly I heard a blast. I heard loud screams, and the sound of people running. I left the kitchen and went outside to see people covered in blood, lying on the ground," said Tahsin Mahmoud, a worker in the restaurant's kitchen. "It took a long time for Iraqi security forces to reach the scene."

A Reuters reporter at the site said the entire front of the restaurant was destroyed, with shattered glass on the floor and blood stains covering food, chairs and tables inside the place.

"A powerful blast shook the restaurant. All I could see was smoke and shattered glass everywhere. I covered my face and hid. A few minutes later, I ran outside and saw cars ablaze," said Mehdi Mohammed, a waiter at the restaurant.

A source in Hilla's main hospital put the toll at 15 people killed and 46 wounded while a police source at Iraq's provincial joint security center said 15 people were dead and another 50 wounded. Deputy Health Minister Khamis al-Saad put the toll at eight killed and 36 wounded.

Iraqi officials often give conflicting tolls.

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Officials said they suspected al Qaeda insurgents had carried out the attack. "Terrorist groups of al Qaeda are standing behind this cowardly crime. We have formed a team to investigate," said Haider al-Zanbour, chairman of the security committee in Babel Council.

The United States military said one of its explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams conducted a post-explosion analysis at the scene of the incident in Hamza.

An Iraqi army source reporting the bombing in Habaniya said: "The soldiers finished their academic training and a bus took them to have breakfast at the restaurant in the base. When the bus reached the restaurant it exploded."

Army sources had initially said 15 soldiers had been killed and 20 others wounded, but said later that the toll was less.

Assaults on Iraq's army and police have been rising as they prepare to take sole responsibility for security ahead of an expected full withdrawal of U.S. troops.

Iraq became a battlefield for al Qaeda after the 2003 invasion although its numbers have shrunk since 2006-07, when Sunni Muslim tribal chiefs joined forces with the U.S. military.

But Sunni insurgents and Shi'ite Muslim militia are still capable of carrying out lethal attacks.

Gunmen killed 22 Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims in an ambush south of the town of Rutba, which lies along the main highway between Baghdad and Jordan, on Monday. Officials blamed the attack on al Qaeda.

In August, 45 police and 39 soldiers were killed in bombings and shootings, according to figures from the interior and defense ministries, while 155 civilians were killed, Iraqi Health Ministry statistics show.

(Reporting by Habib al-Zubaidi in Hamza and Fadhel al-Badrani in Falluja; Additional reporting by Aseel Kami in Baghdad; Writing by Serena Chaudhry; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Advertising Your Online Business: Taking The Next Steps | ATTKA ...

Content is king. Should you have a blog site or a webpage, you might have heard that again and again. The issue is that maintaining a web page with up-to-date and changing content is a costly and also time consuming prospect.

One thing to remember when adding content to your site is that the more you have, the better it is. More merchandise, more services, and more content are key. Even if you do not really sell a physical product then your website would obviously benefit from having an increase in traffic for various reasons.

The time taken to write specialist, high quality content for your website is a huge burden on resources and if you outsource it, it could would out very expensive. It doesn?t matter how much you like the service or product that you are writing about, when you are faced with writing about it every day, it can soon become boring.

By advertising your site, you can generate more traffic, and that allows you to generate more revenue. There are several ways of making money from your traffic, either through affiliate marketing or pay per click networks such as Google AdSense. It is a simple equation, you get more traffic, and you generate more revenue which allows you to generate more content, seek out better guest posters, and get more followers. The more contributors and traffic your site gets, the better the quality of information it produces. Your site grows as a resource on the web, bringing in more revenue and your site becomes a mainstay for its users.

One of the most common ways of trying to increase the amount of traffic that your website receives is to carry our a search engine optimisation campaign. This is a time consuming process that pays off in the long run, and as it is free, it is a process that sees a lot of competition from amateurs and professionals alike.

Writing articles and submitting them to popular directories or taking the time to participate in related forums are all great ways of increasing your traffic as well. Depending on your site, you may also be able to find other sites which will let you guest blog on their site in return for a link to your site.

For more product-driven websites, the use of advertising is manifold. You have the option of paying for your website to appear in the search engines under the sponsored links for certain search terms. This way when an user searches for a product that you sell they will see if advertised on your site. The most well known and popular network is Google Adwords.

For those of you who have a website which receives lots of traffic but is yet to make any money, there are a few avenues to look at including pay per click and affiliate marketing. Eventually, people will be leaving your website anyhow, and you can capitalize on the traffic that your website has attracted by having them leave via a sponsored link. From there it?s a repeating cycle; more advertising means more traffic and more revenue and better content, and so on. Your website should still be a good quality site and uphold its reputation as an authority website rather than a site just full of adverts.

Online Marketing company, iDMG, are able to boost the position of your web site for your selected phrases within Google, Yahoo and Bing so as to boost the number of visitors to your site. As well as SEO services, we provide a selection of additional services such as conversion rate optimisation and social media management.

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Japan's new PM suffers early blow as minister quits (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) ? Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's new government suffered a blow on Saturday after just eight days in office when the trade minister resigned over gaffes on the sensitive topic of radiation from the tsunami-hit Fukushima plant.

The resignation of Trade Minister Yoshio Hachiro, who handles the energy portfolio, will give opposition parties ammunition for attack as Noda strives to end the radiation crisis at the Fukushima plant while tackling a plethora of challenges from rebuilding after the March earthquake and tsunami to curbing huge public debt.

Hachiro submitted his resignation to Noda after reports that he joked with a reporter about radiation from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, Jiji news agency and other domestic media reported. It was his second remark seen as offensive to victims of the worst nuclear accident in 25 years.

Japanese media said Hachiro had attempted to rub up against a reporter saying "I'll give you radiation" after visiting the Fukushima plant on Thursday.

Opposition party leaders criticized the remark and said that they would press Noda himself over his responsibility for appointing Hachiro, NHK public TV reported.

Hachiro had already been rebuked by Noda and apologized on Friday for calling the deserted area near the plant a "town of death," a comment seen as offensive to disaster victims.

Noda, who took over as Japan's sixth prime minister in five years after predecessor Naoto Kan resigned, will face harsh questioning over his appointment of Hachiro and other novice ministers in a session of parliament expected to begin next week. Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa has already come under attack for calling himself an "amateur" in security matters.

Noda, who won a bruising battle to become head of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, has emphasized the need to restore fractured party unity in his appointments, raising concerns that he had done so at the expense of expertise.

"There was already great mistrust of his personnel appointments," said independent commentator Atsuo Ito.

Noda's quick decision to sacrifice Hachiro would probably help dampen public criticism, but a drop in his voter support could make it harder to obtain help from opposition parties to pass bills in the divided parliament, where they control the upper house and can block legislation, Ito added.

(Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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Obama begins tough slog to sell pivotal jobs plan (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? President Barack Obama, seeking to rescue a faltering economy and his own re-election prospects, began an uphill battle on Friday to win Republican support for a $447 billion jobs plan.

The proposals, weighted toward tax cuts for workers and businesses, was carefully crafted to appeal to middle-class voters who gravitate toward the political center.

A day after unveiling his ideas on Capitol Hill, Obama will pitch them directly to Americans during a visit to a Virginia university, kicking off a months-long campaign to promote the package across the country.

The White House sees the plan, a mix of payroll tax cuts and spending to upgrade roads, bridges and school buildings, as the best hope for reducing the 9.1 percent unemployment rate that threatens Obama's presidency and addressing what he called a national crisis.

Obama hopes he can rally enough popular support to pressure Republicans to get behind his plan so that it can start to lower unemployment before the November 2012 presidential vote.

"The next election is fourteen months away," Obama told a rare joint session of Congress on Thursday. "And the people who sent us here -- the people who hired us to work for them -- they don't have the luxury of waiting fourteen months."

Financial markets showed little reaction to the speech, due to doubts over whether it could clear a divided Congress. U.S. stock index futures fell slightly early Friday.

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There were initial signs that Republican congressional leaders may be ready to find at least some common ground on the plan, despite their opposition to much of Obama's agenda over the past year.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, said Obama's ideas "merit consideration." Rep. Eric Cantor, the second ranking Republican in the House whose state Obama will visit on Friday, said the payroll tax cuts were "something that will be a part of the discussions" and described "a lot of room for us to work together."

"I heard plenty in the president's speech last night where there is a lot of room for commonality and we can get something done quickly," Cantor told CNN on Friday morning.

He said Republicans were unconvinced about the need for an infrastructure bank, another component of Obama's jobs plan, but could accept other aspects, including tax cuts.

Top Democrats said they hoped Republicans, whose top issue is debt and deficit reduction, would be willing to accept the public works programs and funds to hire teachers that round out Obama's program, along with mortgage refinancing help.

"If we piecemeal it, if we just take little pieces, frankly I'm not sure that will do the job," Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland said on CNBC.

FEARS OF RECESSION

Bleak jobs figures and other recent data have raised fears the U.S. economy could slide into another recession.

While the economy's woes have sent Obama's popularity tumbling to new lows, Republicans are well aware they could suffer political fallout too if Obama succeeds in painting them as obstructionists in the effort to fix the jobs problem.

Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday morning that funds from the jobs plan would filter out into the economy in three to six months after it passes and could help assuage companies that have been reluctant to spend their money.

"This is all designed to change the confidence level and attitude of people out there," he told NBC.

Republicans have hammered Obama for months over what they viewed as weak leadership on the economy. And in a grim sign for the president's re-election prospects, Democrats have increasingly begun to sour on his economic stewardship too.

The unexpectedly large $447 billion price tag for Obama's jobs plan was welcomed by powerful constituencies such as labor unions whose support Obama needs in his re-election drive.

The package and the feisty tone in Obama's speech were welcomed by Richard Trumka, president of the influential AFL-CIO labor federation, who sat with first lady Michelle Obama in her box during the speech.

Trumka said afterward Obama had made clear he was "willing to go to the mat to create new jobs on a substantial scale."

(Additional reporting by David Morgan, Doina Chiacu, Patricia Zengerle and Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Anthony Boadle)

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Going Green in the South End | First Boston Realty Real Estate Blog ...

Boston Major Thomas Menino and HUD (Housing and Urban Development) Secretary Sean Donovan have awarded a green building grant in the amount of $6.7 million to a South End affordable housing development, which will go towards fitting the building with energy-saving improvements.

The 500-unit affordable housing complex, Castle Square development, is tenant-owned and built in the 60?s. It is the largest affordable housing complex in the U.S. to perform a retrofit of this nature. Winn Development is developing this project.

Donovan stated that $14 billion was awarded to HUD in the Recovery Act and nearly a third would be used to make public and assisted housing nationwide green. He believes that the Castle Square project in the South End is part of a huge movement in Boston real estate to renovate and rebuild in a different way.

Repairs and remodels of the windows, walls, and ventilation system in the building are all part of the Deep Energy Retrofit. The exterior will also be clad in insulating panels, which will not only give the building a more contemporary look, but will also increase the building?s energy efficiency. Those involved in the project hope to reduce the energy consumption in the building by 72%, decreasing things like heating costs alone from $200,000 to $50,000 for the entire building.

Ann Moy, president of the board of directors for the complex?s residents? association, stated,

?For all of us, this is our home, and having this energy benefit is really going to benefit our families here?we?re very happy the 21st century is coming to Castle Square.?

A member of the board and a building resident said, ?The ventilation system is huge here for the residents, especially those who have asthma. Also the energy efficiency is very huge. You can open up your electric bill and see the huge breaks, so especially during these times, you can?t ask for any more.?

Are you looking for ways to renovate or improve your Boston real estate property? Have you considered green fixtures?

If you are interested in purchasing an energy-efficient Boston condos, Boston luxury apartments, or Boston real estate property contact First Boston Realty International.

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Medical management alone may be best treatment course for stroke prevention, study suggests

ScienceDaily (Sep. 7, 2011) ? Patients with narrowed arteries in the brain who received intensive medical treatment had fewer strokes and deaths than patients who received a brain stent in addition to medical treatment, according to the initial results from the first, nationwide stroke prevention trial to compare the two treatment options.

The results of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) study called Stenting versus Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis (SAMMPRIS) are published in the online first edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Rush University Medical Center is the only hospital in Chicago and one of two sites in Illinois that participated in the clinical trial funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), which is part of the NIH.

"Stenting was associated with a higher stroke and death rate at 30 days (14.7 percent) versus aggressive medical management alone," said Dr. Shyam Prabhakaran, neurologist and site lead investigator at Rush. "At this time, stenting cannot be supported in routine practice; however, whether subgroups may benefit from this or other interventions in the future needs further study."

"This study provides an answer to the longstanding question of what to do to prevent a devastating second stroke in a high risk population," said Prabhakaran, co-author of the New England Journal of Medicine article. "All patients should be managed aggressively with medications."

The medical regimen used in the study included daily blood-thinning medications and aggressive control of blood pressure and cholesterol.

New enrollment in the study was halted in April because early data indicated that strokes and deaths occurred more significantly among the stented patients at the 30-day mark compared to a group of study participants who received medical management alone.

In addition to the intensive medical program, half of the patients participating in the study received an intervention of a self-expanding stent that widens the major artery in the brain and facilitates blood flow. Study authors suggest one possible explanation for the higher stroke rate in the group that received stents. Patients who have had recent stroke symptoms sometimes have unstable plaque in their arteries which the stent could have dislodged.

The device used in the study, called the Gateway-Wingspan intracranial angioplasty and stenting system, is the only system currently FDA approved for certain high-risk stroke patients.

Study participants were in the highest risk category with blockage or narrowing of the arteries from 70-99 percent. Stroke patients with moderate cerebral arterial blockage (50-69 percent) were excluded because their risk of stroke is low with the usual medical management and because researchers thought this group would be unlikely to benefit from stenting.

The SAMMPRIS trial enrolled 451 patients at 50 hospital sites in the U.S. Study investigators analyzed whether patients had a second stroke or died within 30 days of enrollment, or had a stroke in the same area of the brain from 30 days to the end of follow-up. Patients in the study were between 30 and 80 years of age and had experienced a recent transient ischemic attack, a type of stroke that resolved within 24 hours, or another type of non-disabling stroke, which was caused by a large degree of stenosis in the cerebral artery.

The initial hypothesis was that the addition of intracranial stenting to intensive medical therapy would decrease the risk of stroke of death by 35 percent over two years. Instead, researchers found that 14.7 percent of patients in the stenting group experienced a stroke or died compared to the 5.8 percent of patients treated with drug therapy alone.

The study's design for medical management included a daily dosage of 325 milligrams of aspirin, and 75 milligrams a day of clopidogrel, which is a medication used to prevent blood clots, for 90 days after enrollment. Also, patients received aggressive management of key stroke risk factors including high blood pressure and high levels of low density lipoprotein (LDL), the unhealthy form of cholesterol. All patients also participated in a lifestyle modification program which focused on quitting smoking, increasing exercise, and controlling diabetes and cholesterol.

All patients that participated in the trial will continue to be followed for two years to determine longer-term effects of both interventions.

"The SAMMPRIS study is a call to arms to all physicians caring for patients with this high risk condition. It provides evidence that highly effective medications when used in combination and when strict targets for risk factor modification are met can have substantial stroke prevention benefits," said Prabhakaran.

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Israel troops kill Gaza gunman in incursion (Reuters)

GAZA (Reuters) ? Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman and wounded two civilians during an incursion into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, militants and medical sources said.

The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), an armed faction largely independent of Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers, said its men battled Israeli troops who crossed the border near Khan Younis and that one militant died in an air strike.

Hospital officials said two Palestinian civilians, a father and son, suffered shrapnel wounds in the incident.

An Israeli military spokesman confirmed that troops had operated inside Gaza, calling it "a routine operational activity following an operational assessment" but giving no more details.

Previously such incursions have been mounted to clear suspected gun nests or mines laid by militants to ambush Israeli border patrols.

After the soldiers came under mortar attack, Israel's air force struck the Palestinians responsible for the launch, the military spokesman said.

Israel blamed the PRC for a cross-border raid last month in which eight Israelis died.

The PRC, which lost its top leaders in a retaliatory Israeli air strike, denied involvement, and Gaza saw a surge of fighting in which Hamas rocket crews also took part.

The PRC member killed on Tuesday was identified by the group as a commander of its rocket crews.

(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams)

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Forming an email copy that will thrive is all about appreciating your target audience and imparting upon them the things they are looking for, through all of your emails. In order to increase your chances of success, you should try and focus on the various elements of your email copy and try to get them perfect each time. This article will show you how to direct your attention toward the nitty-gritty and this will let you become more triumphant with email copywriting.

People Buy Benefits: The thing that sells your creations or services is not so much the characteristics of it, but actually the plus sides of it. If you want to get some good response coming your way with your email copy, then you have to focus on showing your readers how your offer can benefit them. It is clever to make a list of the benefits your product has to offer and allow your prospects to see how spectacular it is, but if you are not successful in giving your prospects a reason to purchase from you, then you will definitely be unsuccessful in the sale. Every advantage your item/service has to offer is critical information, when it comes to acquiring that most desired sale. So no matter how small the benefit it is, you should always follow up a feature with the benefit so that your prospects know how buying from you will help them. Keep Your Email Subject Lines Short: Perceptibly, you will be unaware of the type of email service provider your subscribers would be using therefore it is more clever for you to have the most influential impact in the start of your emails. Parallel to a clear headline, a useful subject line should be useful, as well as short and snappy. If the subject line is too lengthy, then some email providers, such as Hotmail and AOL, condense the subject line.

So why put yourself out there like that? Try to keep your subject line short and punchy so that it gives away the essence of your email right in the start. So the common rule is that having an email subject line that is shorter and to the point will almost always cause you to have a larger rate of open/click-through.

Do Not Tell Them to Click Here: It might sound weird, but do not instruct your subscribers to, Click Here, because that will instigate your subscribers and make them think you are making them do this. You can use alternate phrases with your link such as, Check out This Offer or Download the eBook here. In order for your readers to anticipate what will follow when they click on your link, you should attempt to interlace the steps you want them to take in your copy. Furthermore, if you ultimately have a hankering to amplify the click through rate of your email, you should do your best to get your readers to feel relaxed before you move them toward the link with your call to action. If you?re into any type of online marketing, you?ll see that email copywriting happens to be one of the important tools in your arsenal. The type of emails you write will have a huge impact on your online business, as this is what determines the kind of response you get from your offers. Once you start putting the above strategies into action, you?ll realize how big of a difference they make to your overall email copywriting.

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The Tragic Triumph Of The MBAs

"We've seen Mubarak fall," said Salesforce's Marc Benioff of the corporate need to focus on social networks at the recent Dreamforce conference. "We've seen Khadafy fall. When will the first CEO fall for the same reason?" What a fantastic comparison! Because, as we all know, dictators who brutalize, torture, and murder thousands of their own people over a period of decades are just like CEOs who miss quarterly profit targets. Benioff isn't a bad guy, it was just a dumb thing to say -- but it's stuck in my mind, because Salesforce, cloud-computing's poster child, is the future, and his seems to be the voice of the zeitgeist. This feels a little like the end of an era. While I have issues with Apple's hegemonic approach, during his career Steve Jobs repeatedly changed our sense of what was possible, and the world, by making genuinely revolutionary products. Now he's gone. Meanwhile, Google has spent the summer laying waste to vast swathes of its product line. Google Labs, its experimental playground? Dead. Slide, bought last year for $182 million? Dead. Aardvark, bought last year for $50 million? Dead. A whole grab bag of other products and services? Dead. And it seems that whatever survives the ongoing Mountain View bloodbath will be thoroughly monetized. Massive price hikes are on the horizon for Google's (terrific) App Engine platform. Russell Beattie of PlusFeed reports that he's shutting down his service because otherwise his server costs would increase by a factor of thirty. I use App Engine for my own open-source-travel-guide pet project, and my costs will apparently increase fiftyfold.

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The Looming Crisis for Baby Boomers | The A2Z Articles Directory

The Looming Crisis for Baby Boomers

The baby boomers generation were born between 1946 and 1964 ? the years considered as U.S. renaissance. They enjoyed the most flourishing years in U.S. history than any previous generation. Although boomers had indulged the comforts of those successful years, everything changed and fate became cruel for them to endure the transformations in the society. Today, the boomers make up the large sector of the population and will soon outrank the elderly as they reach retirement.

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The most serious problem faced by baby boomers is retirement. Baby boomers lived in the age where elders were cared in their homes by their children and grandchildren. However, in modern times, the seniors are forced to stay in nursing homes or assisted living facilities until they die because most of their families are not willing to care for them. Nowadays, about 55 percent of seniors aged 85 and above need long term care and about 19 percent of all seniors are afflicted with chronic illness or disability.

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Long term care, is no doubt, the most talked-about and alarming health care issue that bothers millions of American seniors. The prices of long term care are very expensive and continue to increase in line with the inflation. The total yearly long term care expenditure for an elderly could reach from 5 billion and above, leaving the burden on the seniors and their families. Baby boomers are expected to suffer on sustaining the costs of care as the prices of nursing homes will have tripled over the next 25 years.

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A typical senior may endure the burden of long term care, so what?s more for baby boomers who might age the longest? Most baby boomers have not planned for long term care because they are still in their shell, not afraid of confronting golden years, and believe that their families will take care of them until they die. Many baby boomers make wrong decisions and common blunders of using out-of-pocket money for the care and relying on Medicaid to avoid paying large sums for the care.

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Everyone surmises that Medicaid will cover the entire long term care expenses. In reality, this is not possible because how can the government pay for billion expenses per person? Medicaid gives priority to low-income Americans. If you have assets that exceed Medicaid?s asset limit, you have to spend down all your assets and retirement income; therefore, you have to turn yourself into a pauper just to qualify for the assistance.

Private insurance currently pays 8 percent of total nursing home expenditures, while 36 percent of the total health expenditures. Private insurance is said to have helped increase Medicaid?s savings up to billion and diminish the out-of-pocket expenses up to billion.

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Most private insurance companies primarily focus on nursing care because it is the most expensive form of care. Nursing home care is the most preferred setting of people with disabilities and those who have to spend down their assets for coverage.

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Baby boomers should consider private long term care insurance because:

Life expectancy is increasing
Baby boomers will reach retirement years
Home care loses its essence as family members become more hesitant in caring for their old and sick elders

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