Talkin ’bout Massage Chair

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Massage-Chair-Relief.com Expands Product Line — Online Retailer Now Offers Omega 510

Massage-Chair-Relief.com is now offering the Omega 510. This model contours to the back and is great for multiple users, as it is programmed to scan and memorize the shape and weight of the user's body to give a personalized massage. This machine gives results such as reduced fatigue, improved sleep and increased circulation.

South Jordan, UT (PRWEB) October 6, 2007 — Massage-Chair-Relief.com is now offering the Omega 510. This model contours to the back and is great for multiple users, as it is programmed to scan and memorize the shape and weight of the user's body to give a personalized massage. This machine gives results such as reduced fatigue, improved sleep and increased circulation.

With the OM 510, there are four massage sessions to choose from, including upper body, lower body, all over therapeutic and an incline/recline function. In addition, the user also has the capability to manually choose a fixed point or a general area that will allow for an extremely relaxing and refreshing pressure point massage. Areas of the body that can experience a massage include the buttocks, thighs, calves and feet through a built-in 3-D air pressure system,

The OM-510 is available in white, brown and black. The chair's durable exterior covering is similar to leather, and the arm rests are sleek and curved, and have a shiny, wooden flair. The chair is comfortable even without the massage functions activated.
   
Omega Chairs, based in Irvine, California, is committed to manufacturing massage chairs that are not just solid performers, but chairs that are progressive and pleasing to the eye. The company admits its chairs are made with aesthetics in mind. Omega has an extremely selective process in choosing its channels, as they want to ensure its dealers are knowledgeable in the massage chair arena and …

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This is said to be the only Cordless Rechargeable Massage Seat available on the market at the moment that is powered by a rechargeable battery, transforming any chair into a gentle vibrating massage platform for your back and hamstrings during prolonged periods of sitting on an airplane, at work, or while driving.

This massage seat has got six vibrating motors throughout three massage zones that deliver a deep, soothing massage and an integrated heating element relieves stress and facilitates blood flow throughout your back and hamstrings.

The massage and heat functions can be used simultaneously or independently and the unit can deliver a co nstant or pulsating massage.

The Lithium-ion battery lasts up to seven hours an eight-hour charge.

Includes charging base and car adapter. 36″ L x 18″ W.

you can get this seat here

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Wired for excitement
Red Sox fans experience many highs and lows while watching the team. MIT researchers and one diehard supporter put those emotions to the test during Game 1 of the World Series.

The Globe enlisted the help of MIT students to measure one Sox fan’s
physical reaction to the World Series.; WS; baseball; boston.com; red sox;
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By Billy Baker, Globe Correspondent  |  October 28, 2007

Sometimes, when she’s watching the Red Sox, Elena Tate said, she feels “like I’m going to die.” She’ll get dizzy. Her palms will sweat. She’ll hold her breath. “It’s a lot of physiological and psychological stress,” she said. “Sometimes, I feel like I can’t stand it.”Curious about what’s going on inside fans while they cheer or groan on the outside, the Globe, with an assist from MIT Media Lab, wired Tate while she watched Game 1 of the World Series.The graduate students and journalists weren’t qualified to delve deeply into Tate’s physical health. But they did track her pulse and “skin conductivity,” a measure of emotions, both good and bad.When Dustin Pedroia hit his first-inning home run, Tate’s pulse spiked at 117 beats per minute; after the outcome of the game had been obvious for two innings, she was down to a sleepier 77. Other peak emotional times for the 26-year-old, who watched the game on her mother’s couch in Cambridge: when she heard about the offer of a free Taco Bell taco if a player stole a base (which didn’t happen until the next night) and when Ashanti sang “God Bless America” in the seventh inning.Tate has a fairly typical diehard fan story: She’s had beer poured on her at Yankee Stadium, toasted the Red Sox at her own wedding - “People were like, ‘You should be toasting yourselves.’ . . . But it was during the 2003 They needed it.” - and quit her job in New York before the 2004 playoffs so …

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Recently, my friend A’s vigorous 10-year-old laika (a Russian breed whose name means “barker̶ woke up wheezing. She seemed fine the next morning when he went to work, but that afternoon he got a call from his mother, who had come over to let the dog out, telling him the dog seemed disoriented. He left work, arriving home about an hour later, to discover his pet on the floor of the bedroom, eyes open and fixed, body stiff. He picked the dog up, put her in the car, and drove to the vet. He ran in with the rigid dog over his shoulder and announced, “I think my dog is dead!” Everything stopped in the waiting room as the techs whisked the dog away.

Soon an employee emerged to explain it looked as if the dog had suffered a cardiac arrest. He also had a question: “Do you want us to do CPR?” All eyes turned to A, including those of the woman who had begun weeping in sympathy when A announced his dog had died. He realized he couldn’t bring himself to say what he was thinking: “How much are you going to charge me to do CPR on my dead dog?” Instead, he told them to go ahead, and took a seat. Techs came out with periodic reports—neither heart massage nor drug infusion was generating any vital signs. “I wanted to say, ‘That’s because she’s been dead for an hour,’ ” says A. Finally, they suggested the treatments should stop, and A agreed. They presented him with the bill. It turns out it costs $250 to try to revive a dead dog.

Two trends are making a visit to your veterinarian an opportunity for endless guilt. One is the increasing acceptance of the notion that pets are family members (thus the movement to change the word owner to guardian). The other is the convergence of veterinary and human medicine—pets can get chemotherapy, dialysis, organ transplants, hip replacement, and braces for their teeth. In 2004, Americans spent $18 billion to treat the country’s 164 million dogs and cats. Sure, you may have a health-care directive that begs your loved one to pull …

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Delray Medical Center offering health screenings with brownies, massage

By David Dipino |
Forum Publishing Group
11:21 AM EDT, October 23, 2007

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DELRAY BEACH - Delray Medical Center is having a Women’s Day event complete with health screenings until 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Delray Medical Women’s Care Center on the hospital’s campus at 5130 Linton Blvd. Cholesterol and blood pressure checks, health screenings and mammograms are being given by specialists.

Technicians at the site said Delray Beach Mayor Rita Ellis was one of the first through the door. The medical center is showcasing its new Digital Mammography Computer-Aided Detection System.

“It takes less time than in the past and we instantly get computer enhanced images,” said Laurie Little, a radiologic technician who specializes in mammography.

It takes each woman about an hour to make their way through a maze of screening and tests that concludes with brownies, bottled water and a chair massage.

Women may call 800-897-9789 for a free physician referral that will allow screenings to be covered by insurance. Physicians also will be on hand during the event to write referrals.

David DiPino can be reached at dddipino@tribune.com.

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Cathay Pacific has announced that its $100-million seating upgrade should be completed by mid-2009, with its entire fleet receiving an upgrade for all three classes. 

Changes to economy will see the seats reclining without the chair itself going backwards into another passengers’ space.  The passenger will instead recline within the chair itself.  All business class seats will become lie-flat beds and will be fitted with a massage feature- all seats will also have aisle access.  First class seats will be re-designed to be used as an armchair, a chaise lounge or a two-metre-long bed.  An ottoman will also be made available to allow passengers to invite friends or colleagues to join them.   

"We really like what they’ve done with that design," said Cathay Pacific’s Canadian vice-president Phillippe Lacamp for the Vancouver Sun.  "It’s going to make a big difference for passengers."

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Innovation Economy
A shopping trip, aisle by virtual aisle
Firm seeks to match convenience of Web world with fun of a local mall

By Scott Kirsner  |  October 21, 2007

John Butler is trying to introduce true browsing to the online shopping experience, blending the innovations of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with the old-school merchandising of R.H. Macy.Butler is the founder and chief executive of Kinset Inc., a Marlborough start-up that plans to launch its first online stores this week. Kinset’s stores combine e-commerce with the kind of visually rich, three-dimensional environment that has been made popular by the virtual world Second Life and such videogames as World of Warcraft, but that would feel familiar to a conventional department store shopper.In November, Brookstone will launch a Kinset store that will allow shoppers to roam virtual aisles in search of the perfect holiday gift. And Canton-based Tweeter, the consumer electronics chain, could have one online in time for the Su per Bowl, when buyers tend to hunt for new TVs.Kinset’s technology could help e-commerce continue its beanstalk-like growth. While online spending passed the $100 billion mark for the first time last year, according to measurement firm comScore Inc., it represents only about 7 percent of overall retail spending.”People who like shopping as a leisure activity like to be inside a cornucopia of products,” Butler says. “They like to be moving through merchandise and noticing stuff that interests them.”That’s very different from the kind of shopping that Amazon .com and eBay have popularized, where the process usually starts by typing a term such as “digital camera” into a search box and getting a long list of results.What Kinset is trying to do - changing consumer behavior - is the hardest thing any start-up can attempt. But it also can produce the biggest hits. A decade ago, it was an uphill battle for Amazon to persuade consumers to enter their credit card numbers into …

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FRANKFURT, GERMANY–Tel Aviv lawyer Alon Kaplan looks amazingly relaxed, despite the fact he’s still got an eight-hour flight to Newark and is transiting through one of the most chaotic airports in the world.

It helps that not far from his fingertips are some of the finest whiskies, wines and beers and a gourmet restaurant dishing out delicacies from tapas to smoked salmon to Viennese pastries.

Yet Kaplan is quite content to just peck away at his BlackBerry. He’s got a couple of hours to catch up on work until his "personal assistant" ushers him to the softly lit passport control counter, hands him off to his waiting chauffeur-driven Mercedes and smiles as he heads for the adjacent international terminal and the final leg of his journey.

If it wasn’t for all the coming and going of aircraft, you’d think Kaplan was lounging in the lobby of a five-star hotel.

Instead he’s in another exclusive enclave, the first airline terminal in the world devoted just to top-tier passengers – Lufthansa’s first-class and most frequent flyers.

"It’s like a boutique hotel," says Kaplan, who transits through Lufthansa’s three-year-old first-class terminal a few times each year. "You can have a sleep, you can have a shower. And the personal assistants are here to help you. There’s a feeling that you don’t have to figure out anything at all – everything is done for you."

That privilege doesn’t come cheap. The round-trip, first-class airfare from Tel Aviv to Newark, N.J. is almost $11,000. But it’s a price more and more passengers – especially harried business executives – are willing to pay, airlines around the world have discovered.

For Germany’s flagship carrier, the pampering has paid off big: Since the terminal opened, and Lufthansa created the HON Circle in 2004 to reward frequent flyers who rack up more than 600,000 air miles over two years, top-tier bookings are up 20 per cent annually …

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- For NCBTMB Jeff Kursman, 937-278-0681 jeff@ponweb.com The state of Texas has become the 32nd state to officially adopt the nationally recognized guidelines and examination requirements of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB). Responding to increasing numbers of massage schools and practitioners, as well as a growing demand for increased instructional hours commensurate with

other states, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has expanded its educational requirements for licensure in the field of massage therapy. Under the ruling, current massage students concluding their training after September 1, 2008, and new students enrolling in training programs as of September 1, 2007, will be required to complete 500 hours of training. The requirement supercedes the previous 300-hour minimum.

The intent of House Bill 2644 is to bring Texas in line with national minimum standards for therapeutic massage, and thus to promote a higher standard of practice for massage licensees in their chosen profession. With the June 2007 passage of the bill, the current Texas state massage examination is slated to be phased out according to an August 31 DSHS letter to stakeholders. It will be replaced by three exams, two being the NCETM (National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage) and the NCETMB (National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork). Both exams satisfy all of the newly established educational requirements for licensure in Texas. Moreover, with the adoption of the national tests, students can add the widely accepted and highly credible national credential to their state license by sitting for only one exam.

NCBTMB is already working with state officials and members of the massage community to facilitate the change during the period of stakeholder input. In Austin, NCBTMB CEO Chris Laxton recently participated in discussions with members of TAMSO …

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You work hard. You deserve a nice perk, say a weekly massage. But — ouch! — at $60 to $100 an hour, those spa massages can really take a bite out of that paycheck you work so hard for.

Save: The Shiatsu Massaging Seat Topper makes a regular massage a paycheck possibility. Simply place it on a high-back chair, plug it in, and sit back and feel your shoulders and back relax. The Seat Topper offers six massage patterns, and you can adjust the intensity as well. It’s $149 at www.brookstone.com.

Splurge: When it comes to massage chairs, they don’t get more high-end than the Panasonic Real Pro Ultra Body Massage Chair, which works the shoulders, hips, waist, thighs, buttocks, arms, calves and soles of the foot simultaneously, kneading in a high-speed circular motion. Available for $4,799 at www.sharperimage.com. And even at that price, you may save money eventually; weekly professional massages add up.