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Baby falls from building in Brazil and is saved by diaper

All is well with a 1 year and 6 months baby that fell from the window in the 3 rd floor of a building in Boa Viagem, South Zone of Recife, Brazil and is hospitalized.
The incident happened on the morning of Tuesday.
Witnesses said that Cauã Felipe Massaneiro not dropped directly on the floor.
He was suspended for a while - the diaper was stuck in iron clamps placed on the wall, and reduced the impact of the fall.

Heart surgery for 51 hours exhausted blood bank in Brazil

A heart surgery that took 51 hours almost exhausted the stock of blood in the city of Londrina (PR).
In that period, were used about 400 units of blood, plasma and platelets, which represents a volume of blood exchanged in the patient at around 70 times.
The surgery was performed at the Evangelical Hospital of Londrina by Gregori Junior Francisco cardiologist.
The patient, the manager of sales Onivaldo Cassiano, 49, presented the clotting problem during the operation to treat an aneurysm (enlargement) in the aorta.
The disease, causes undefined, generates an expansion in the artery - responsible for bringing blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
The treatment is the exchange of the artery and aortic valve.
The lack of clotting caused a haemorrhage that the medical team could not estancar.
According to the advice of the hospital, doctors have used various methods to contain the bleeding.
“He began to stop the stock of blood of Londrina. The bank of blood donors need to convene,” said Gregori Junior, who said Tuesday “cochilado” in the very heart of the surgical hospital to meet the patient.
Only after 51 hours of surgery the patient’s body responded to treatment. “Nunca passei de 24 horas de cirurgia”, afirmou o cirurgião. “Never spent 24 hours of surgery,” said the surgeon.
According to him, where more time the percentage of mortality is very high, above 90%.
The patient remains hospitalized, has left the ICU of the hospital and his state of health is stable.
The physician responsible for the operation is the same as 11 years ago - in a situation of extreme emergency - Super Glue used to stop the bleeding in the heart of a patient.

SwagVault.com Is Giving Away iPhone 3G, Try Your Luck Now!

Global leadling MMORPG value-added service provider www.swagvault.com launches its ”2008 Olympic Games Sales Promotion & Prize Give-Away Event”! In this event, you will have chances to win great prizes like Free Coupon Codes, iPhone 3G & “Large 2008 Olympic Beijing Mascot “FUWA” Plush Dolls”! It’s easy to join and no registration & purchase Required! This event will last from August 1 to August 30. Take advantage of this opportunity and participate.

There are three ways you may have chance to get prizes.
1. Lucky Orders
2. Currency Coupon
3. Olympic Games Outcome Guessing Contest

For more details, please visit: http://www.swagvault.com/
About SwagVault.com
SwagVault is a diversified service provider operating the world’s largest secure network of buying and selling sites for massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) virtual currency and assets on the Internet. It occupies over 70% markets shares on the following products: WoW Gold (World of Warcraft Gold), WOW Game Card & CD- Key Codes, AOC Gold (Age of Conan Gold), EvE Isk, Maple Story Mesos, Lorto Gold, GW Gold, L2 Adena. Since its founding in 2004 by consummate gamers, SwagVaulthas been an industry trailblazer and a market steward. In meeting the demand of game players to buy, sell and trade in-game items, SwagVault provides gamers with fast transactions, 24-hour customer service and guaranteed transactional security. SwagVault is dedicated to improving gamer services and fostering a more enjoyable

Immigration law,Dallas immigration law experts,Dallas immigration lawyers

Experienced immigration lawyers can determine the most suitable visa category for you. They offer you an interactive, innovative, and easy-to-use questionnaire that asks for all the basic facts and information required to start your visa process. Tidwell, Swaim and Associates, representing over 100 countries with over 30,000 successful immigration law cases. Experts in Employment-Based Cases, Family-Based Cases, Citizenship Cases, Federal Cases, Colleges and Universities, Removal and Deportation Cases. Dallas immigration law experts.

The services offered by TSALAW(immigration lawyers in the Dallas) are of great assistance when a person makes a decision to immigrate to the Dallas,USA.

Dallas immigration attorneys representing over 100 countries with over 30,000 successful immigration law cases. TSALAWs’ Dallas immigration lawyers represented large number of immigration law,Family-Based Cases,Citizenship Cases,Federal Cases,Colleges and Universities, Removal and Deportation Cases. As Dallas immigration law experts we can help you in Employment -Based Cases. We have immigration lawyers who handled large number of successful cases

Services Offered by TSALAW for immigrant includes

• Family-based Visas
• Work visas and marriage visas
• Green cards
• Executive transfers
• Fiancee visas
• Citizenship and administrative appeals
• I-751 petitions to remove conditional residence
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Adjustment of status
• Employer regulatory compliance

Immigration lawyers help a number of clients ranging from multinational executives to treaty investors, software professionals, researchers and scientists, as well as artists, athletes, entertainers and fashion models. For those who are seeking employment, they give employment guidance.
With the support of the latest online visa processing technologies, immigration lawyers based at Dallas offer fast, secure and economical immigration services.

You will receive an honest assessment of your case before we start, a fair and reasonable fee which is usually more competitive that other immigration firms, and our guarantee that we will work with you to achieve your goals. We encourage you to compare our Firm’s capabilities, and our commitment to our clients and the proper application of the law to our cases. There is a reason that over 70% of our new clients are referred to us by current and former clients.

The football “CAKI” complex

We discovered the “CAKI” trend when we first started compiling data for our
prediction types. We randomly chose to begin working on games where we had picked the road team to win. As we went through the results, the numbers came out showing that as a team became favored by more points, its winning percentage also went up, which is what we expected. For the first category, where the road team is favored by 0-2 points, the winning percentage came out at sixty percent, and it maintained about a two percent jump for each category up to the last where a road team favored by 19 or more points had a win percentage of sixty-eight percent.

Encouraged by these results we quickly moved on to games where we had picked the home team to win, expecting to find a similar or even stronger trend since we were now dealing with teams that had home field advantage. Our calculations didn’t get very far before we encountered puzzling results. Home teams favored by 0-2 points were winning at an eighty-one percent clip, a very high rate. The next level, home teams favored by 3-6 points, had the same jump as the road teams did, moving up to eighty-three percent. Before we decided to divide up the prediction types by point amount we knew that home teams were winning at an overall rate of seventy-eight percent. Was something wrong with our program? Obviously from here the winning percentage had to go down, so how could it be that teams favored by 6 or less points at home won more often than those favored by 7 or more at home?

Here is how the numbers finished coming out:

  • Home team by 0-2: 81%
  • Home team by 3-6: 83%
  • Home team by 7-10: 71%
  • Home team by 11-14: 69%
  • Home team by 15-18: 76%
  • Home team by 19+: 88%

After some serious thought, we decided that getting an overall win percentage of seventy-eight percent was fundamentally solid, and after all the road team numbers made sense. We decided to start looking in depth at all the games where the program had picked home teams to win by between 7-14 points. After a few days of reviewing box scores and game recaps something started to stand out to us. Home field advantage was disappearing from these favored teams.

The picture began to paint itself like this. Leading up to a game, teams study their opponents by going over their style, personnel, and tendencies. Throughout this they develop a pretty good feel as to where they stand on paper against their opponent. Then they likely hear from friends, media, and fans as to where they stand on paper. When game time comes, they walk on to their home field knowing that they are viewed as a 4 point underdog, or as in our case study a touchdown or more favorite. The other team knows, the crowd knows, and they feel the win before the game even starts.

A quarter will go by, another, and at halftime the road underdog is still in the game, or even winning. Still the home team favorite believes they have the win, all they need to do is play their game. The crowd still believes too. Somewhere in the third quarter things begin to fall apart. Maybe it starts with a botched play, or a teammate losing his cool. The crowd gets nervous and quiet. Pressure builds on the home team, understanding that their fans expected them to win. The coaches know this as well, and press the team further. At this point home field advantage has disappeared, and now they have become the road team playing beneath a frustrated if not hostile crowd. Even though they were favored by as much as two touchdowns, the home team lacked the confidence and killer instinct needed to win a close game at home.

Confidence and killer instinct. This is what was causing home teams to perform worse the more they became favored over their opponent. Well coached teams and teams with strong on the field leaders had the mental psyche to avoid falling into the trap of being a heavy favorite at home. Those that did not failed to take advantage of opportunities to put the game away early, and then when ‘home field advantage’ became ‘home field pressure’ they buckled and lost games they should be winning. The more we broke it down, the more this “CAKI” complex made sense. We labeled it as a complex affecting a large middle portion of the league since teams ranked lower than 26th were rarely favored by more than a touchdown even at home, and the top five teams seemed immune to allowing the turn of the crowd to affect them. The top teams didn’t think they were the better team, they knew it and when the opportunity presented itself they would take advantage in home game after home game and seal the win.

It even explained why home teams favored by 6 or fewer points won over eighty percent of the time. They never got it in their heads that they were heavy favorites to win, more likely all week they prepared for a tough game that they needed to win at home. The crowd wasn’t expecting a win either, and when it came to crunch time they were more motivated, cheering and pulling for their team to pull out this difficult victory. No more hostile and frustrated fans. We lost count how many times we would read a quote from a player that said “…we knew it would be a tough game, but when the crowd got behind us it gave us that extra push we needed.”

The picture became complete when we analyzed the final two categories where the home team was favored by more than two touchdowns. Wouldn’t it be even worse for a team to know it was favored by so much? That would make sense psychologically, but physically on the field teams favored by more than 14 points were just so much more fundamentally sound that they often blew their opponents out by the third quarter. Or their opponents were so poor that they were unable to take advantage in close games when the home team and home crowd lost their confidence. Hence the rise back to seventy-six percent in the 15-18 category and the big rise to eighty-eight percent in the 19+ category.

One final note we’d like to make. It’s unlikely that teams have seen our specific numbers while preparing for games week to week. Also, while we may have a team as a 12 point favorite, the common line has them as a 5 point favorite. Or vice versa where we have a team as an 8 point favorite and the common line has them as a 15 point favorite. As would make sense, the “CAKI” complex showed up most often when the common line closely matched our line. Every team and every game have enough uniqueness that it would be wrong to generalize on when the “CAKI” complex shows up in the common line. All we can say is that we know our numbers and trust them. So the next time you see your favorite team is playing at home and favored by close two touchdowns, take it with a grain of salt. They may just be setting themselves and the crowd up for a
psychological meltdown.

Solution to Attacks on School Campuses Developed by Virtual Ed Link, Inc.

By Rodney Marvel
Author, e-media Direct

Fairfield, NJ - June 25, 2008 – In the light of recent college and high school tragedies, there has been an ongoing rush to develop new methods that quickly and efficiently alert and contact students, parents and faculty. One company, Virtual Ed Link, Inc. (VRED), has developed an amazing communication and crisis preparedness system called the School Safety Management System (SSMS). This system has the ability to both simplify life for teachers or parents and more importantly, to facilitate the protection of our children from the chaos of our modern world.

According to the National Education Association (NEA), three kinds of parental involvement at home are consistently associated with higher student achievement: actively organizing and monitoring a child’s time, helping with homework and discussing school matters. Increased parental involvement improves a student’s education, reduces absenteeism and improves behavior. With Virtual Ed Link’s SSMS, schools can inform parents of school activities, announcements and current events. The benefits are supported by the Harvard Family Research Project, which found that schools should adapt strategies to enhance parental engagement in the education of their children.

The School Improvement Research Series (SIRS) study shows that parent involvement in children’s learning is positively related to achievement, attitude and social behavior. If parents receive phone calls, read and sign written communication from the school, and attend parent-teacher conferences, the education of their children is improved. With SSMS, school personnel can schedule and create custom messages for parents of all students or smaller, more specific groups, ensuring timely, accurate communication in the format and sent to devices that parents prefer.

Accurate and split second communication are a high priority when it concerns the health and well-being of students. It goes without saying that today’s schools are much more vulnerable to seemingly random acts of violence and catastrophe. It has become such an epidemic that colleges and universities all over the nation have petitioned the U.S. Government for funding to update their outdated security systems and procedures.

Virtual Ed Link is poised to provide solutions to the country’s campus security shortcomings by providing the most comprehensive, web-based communication and crisis preparedness system available today that no other solution can currently equal.

Virtual Ed Link, Inc., based in Fairfield, New Jersey, is a subsidiary of Viyya Technologies, Inc. and publicly traded under the symbol VRED. The company was established on June 18, 2007 in response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech. The executive team, with an understanding of the power of the Viyya Information Portal, redesigned it, customized it, and geared its strengths to planning, teaching, training, and emergency communication. Since the company’s inception, a transparent effort has been made to build VRED on a strong foundation of solid management, with wide-ranging backgrounds in law enforcement, communications, technology, and education.

“Our team here at VRED has developed a one-of-a-kind product that has the potential to make our children safe. The goal of our technology has always been to provide students, and teachers, with an environment conducive to learning and not one where fear is the daily norm. The School Safety Management System also has the ability to simplify the lives of parents, while increasing their involvement in their child’s education and everyday life,” stated John Bay, Chief Executive Officer of Virtual Ed Link, Inc.

The company is currently demonstrating its School Safety Management System to high schools and institutions of higher learning throughout the United States. If you would like to learn more about the company and its revolutionary communication and crisis preparedness system, please visit the company’s website at www.virtualedlink.org. Any schools that are interested in a demonstration of the SSMS are encouraged to contact VRED at (973)276-0555 to speak with a company representative.

John Bay, President, a veteran of 30 years founding and managing businesses which created software and provided system integration applications for law enforcement around the U.S. For further information: info@virtualedlink.org or 973.276.0555.

Rodney Marvel is currently the Director of Operations for e-media Direct, a full-service investor relations firm located in Winter Park, FL. He has five years of experience in the marketing and financial industries. He has worked with close to 100 publicly-traded companies on a multitude of projects, including website designs, press releases, and marketing campaigns. You can contact him at: rmarvel@e-mediadirect.com or 866.284.2835.

Real Estate Professionals Find A Way To Thrive In This Very Difficult Market

Real Estate Professionals Find A Way To Thrive In This Very Difficult Market

The housing and credit market headlines over the past several months have meant nothing but bad news to real estate and mortgage industry professionals. The market has gone from sizzling to fizzling. A home that used to be able to be sold in a matter of days or weeks is now on the market for months or years and when it does sell, it is usually at a deep discount from what it could have been sold for a couple of years ago. The market is tough and getting tougher all the time.

To complicate things for real estate professionals, reduced earnings are being further eaten up by escalating gas and food prices. The final insult to injury is that retirements accounts are being greatly affected by a very volatile stock market.

So what is a real estate or mortgage professional suppose to do to get back on track? What have other real estate and mortgage professionals done to overcome the obstacles and thrive in this very difficult market? They have done their research and decided to use the skills that they used in their real estate and mortgage careers to take advantage of an extremely timely opportunity in the very complimentary financial services industry.

Why financial services? The biggest reason is the size of the opportunity available to financial professionals. There are over 78 million baby boomers entering retirement. As a matter of fact, the first of the baby boomers reached age 62 this year. Estimates of the amount of assets that are represented by this group of people are as high as trillion, but I will use a more reasonable estimate of trillion. This represents the largest shift of wealth that has ever been seen in this country as baby boomers retire and move their assets from company sponsored plans (like 401(k)’s) to IRA’s. In 2000, there were 35 million Americans over the age of 65. By 2030, there will be 70 million Americans over the age of 65. That is what I call opportunity if you are a financial professional ready to advise these people on how to fulfill their retirement dreams and not outlive their money.

Another reason why a shift from real estate or mortgage professional to financial professional makes sense is that the benefits to you are very similar. You can work your own hours, build your own business and make a very respectable living (six or seven figures annually) by helping people accomplish their goals. Isn’t that what you were doing already?

The challenges that you face as a financial professional are also similar to what you are accustom to. You have to find prospects that need your services and provide a solution to meet their needs. What you have on your side is that the market is huge and growing. Finding prospects that need your services is easy once you know what to do, and you’re no stranger to prospecting for new clients.

Yahoo recently posted an article titled “These occupations will experience more growth through 2016 than any others.” Interestingly enough, 2 of the 8 listed occupations were: Personal Financial Advisor and Securities, Commodities, Financial Services Sales Agents. An occupation in financial services is rabid with opportunity and now is a perfect time to get involved.

One of the best marketing tips I’ve ever heard was that you should attract people by marketing to raise an issue, or bring to the forefront an issue that is already on everybody’s mind. With the credit crunch, housing and mortgage problems, out-of-control fuel and food prices and a stock market that is bouncing around like a kid on a sugar buzz, the only thing on everybody’s mind is money. Everybody, and especially retirees and pre-retirees, is worried about keeping what they’ve made so they can retire and/or continue to live with the same standard they are accustom to.

Real estate and mortgage professionals who are thriving have looked outside the box, compared what they like about the real estate market to what the financial services market has to offer, have seen the huge, perfect storm of opportunity that is heading the way of the financial services professional and have taken the steps necessary to be positioned to take full advantage.

Dave Miller is the owner of TKO Marketing & Consulting Group, LLC. (www.tkomarketinggroup.com) TKO offers marketing and consulting solutions to investment advisors, registered reps, insurance agents, attorney’s and people considering becoming one of the aforementioned. If you think a career change to the financial advisory business is something you’d be interested in or you’re looking for ways to improve and grow your current practice, visit www.milliondollarpractice.com to hear more about the opportunity.

Las Vegas Based Technology Company Revolutionizes Mobile Computing with Lilliputian Laptop

By Rodney Marvel
Author, e-media Direct

Mobile computing will never be the same with the advent of Seamless Wi-Fi’s S-Gen UMPC, or Ultra Mobile Personal Computer. In an era when computer manufacturers are developing smaller PC solutions to meet the nomadic nature of today’s consumers, the S-Gen stands out as one of the most robust, yet smallest, micro PC’s available on the market. It has already made appearances on the Montel Williams Show and at numerous shows in Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.

Ultra mobile is a bit of an understatement. The S-Gen weighs a mere 16 ounces and measures in with a length of 6.5 inches, a width of 3.8 inches, and a depth of 1.25 inches. Despite its diminutive size, this “pocket” PC comes complete with a near full size keyboard, TFT touch screen display, and 20 GB hard drive. Of course, it also has all of the bells and whistles of other mobile products, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular wireless technology. Maybe surprising to some would be the fact that the S-Gen also features an integrated GPS system with internal antennae.

Of course, being able to map your location and see your destination is only useful if you have enough battery power to get you through to the end of your trip. Fear not, the Seamless Wi-Fi S-Gen has a battery life in excess of 8 hours. That is roughly 4 times longer than traditional laptop battery life and double the endurance of higher capacity notebook batteries. When you consider just how many functions the S-Gen is capable of, you will realize that you need every bit of those 8 hours. The S-Gen is essentially a tri-band cell phone, MP3 player, GPS navigation system, and mobile computer all wrapped up into one very portable package.

The S-Gen is so power-packed that it has been featured in PC Magazine, Laptop Magazine, The Mercury News, and The New York Post. Let’s not forget the S-Gen’s reviews on DL.TV, Geekzone, and ZDNet just to name a few. All of this positive publicity can only strengthen Seamless Wi-Fi’s sales numbers when the S-Gen officially launches on July 1, 2008. The estimated retail price is,195, a very reasonable value when you consider the four or five devices that this unit will replace when you purchase it.

Recently, at the “Money Show” in Las Vegas, Nevada, Seamless Wi-Fi demonstrated the many features of the S-Gen to businessmen from all over the world. One of the demonstrations that seemed to surprise some was the ability to take a SIM card from any wireless phone, pop it into the S-Gen and immediately begin making calls. The company received a lot of interest while at the show and is very optimistic about the sales potential of this one-of-a-kind product.

Seamless Wi-Fi, Inc. (SMWF), a development stage company, is an Internet company that is developing cutting edge technologies to create and provide new and innovative products and services for both businesses and consumers. The company is based in Las Vegas, Nevada, has three operating subsidiaries, and engages in the development and marketing of Internet communications products and services in the United States. The company provides wireless Internet access service known as wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) in Wi-Fi hot pots. It also develops software program that provides Wi-Fi users with Seamless-Secure Internet rowsing, which encrypts the user’s Wi-Fi signal.

Seamless Wi-Fi recently announced the impending launch of a big brother to the S-Gen, the S-NBK-1 mini-notebook. The S-NBK-1, which is available now, contains a 10.2” TFT screen, 1.6 GHZ processor, 512 MB RAM, 80GB hard drive, and Windows® XP operating system. The company has already launched the S-NBK-1 with a MSRP in the mid 0’s, which they feel is very competitively priced for the growing mini-notebook market.

Albert R. Reda, President and CEO for Seamless Wi-Fi, Inc., has been with the company since November 1988. Mr. Reda received his Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Long Beach, with a major in engineering. Mr. Reda is an officer and director of two other public companies, DCM Enterprises, Inc. and Global Debit Cash Card, Inc. For further information: info@slwf.com or 775.588.2499.

Rodney Marvel is currently the Director of Operations for e-media Direct, a full-service investor relations firm located in Winter Park, FL. He has five years of experience in the marketing and financial industries. He has worked with close to 100 publicly-traded companies on a multitude of projects, including website designs, press releases, and marketing campaigns. You can contact him at: rmarvel@e-mediadirect.com or 866.284.2835.

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All timepieces do have a money back guarantee, that clearly states all and every part of each timepiece sold by Rolex Savings is 100% Genuine Rolex Parts.

New Interactive Publication

NEW INTERACTIVE PUBLICATION….
A DISTINCTIVE STYLE IS TAKING GREEN TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
WED JUNE 11, 2008 – DALLAS, TX – Announcing a new revolutionary way to live green,
shop green, and be inspired to be more environmentally conscious. Were talking about A Distinctive Style Magazine, your new one–stop–shop for eco friendly products, news, art and inspiration.

Visit A Distinctive Style Magazine and you’ll find an interactive adventure on every page. The magazine is loaded with earth friendly gifts, apparel, accessories, beauty and household products, as well as artists who create unique jewelry, furniture, and toys all from recycled material! The fun part is this interactive technology allows you to click, shop, crop and clip articles, bookmark links and send feature stories to your buddy list too. As long as you have access to a computer you can flip through the pages (yes, on–line magazine technology actually lets you flip through as you would a regular magazine).

One of the main reasons for going on–line with this eco–magazine is simple, as the Publisher, Denise Marie explains, “No printed piece, no trees harmed, no toxic inks used, no waste after you’re through reading!” “Plus with the new digital age we need to keep up and inform people on–the–go…what better way than with an on–line magazine that’s accessible anytime.”

And if you’re a business owner offering earth friendly products or services A Distinctive Style Magazine gives you a hassle free alternative to getting your company exposed to thousands of on–line shoppers. Their design team will create an advertisement for your company, embedded with links and all, for a very competitive price. With a deal like that it’s no wonder that “Green” companies and artists from around the world are breaking down the door to get in.

For additional information on affiliate programs, advertising or for a media kit please visit:designer@adistinctivestyle.com
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