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Find out the nitty gritty on prepaid cell phones and 911 service. Find out what prepaid cell phone companies are required to do and why.

Everybody is familiar with 9-1-1 service, which allows you to easily contact emergency services from your home phone. But what about your cell? Emergencies can happen when you're away from home. And even while you're at home, more households are moving towards a single-line solution, replacing their landline phones with mobile.

The FCC requires all cellular carriers to put through all 9-1-1 calls, even when the phone does not have an active service contract. Individuals who have medical conditions may do well to carry an emergency cell phone, even if they do not use a cell phone on a regular basis. It is also an ideal solution for the elderly, who may be at risk while out and about. Keeping an emergency cell phone in the car's glove compartment, along with a portable charger, can help avert a disaster in case of a breakdown or accident in a remote area.

The so-called E911 (enhanced 911) service, mandated by the FCC, also requires carriers to implement a system that tells emergency dispatchers the location of the caller. This has been a part of landline emergency services for several years, and when you call 9-1-1 from your home phone, the dispatcher automatically knows your callback number and your fixed location. But on a mobile phone, there are some technological challenges. Fortunately, the cell phone companies stepped up to the plate and came up with a solution. In Phase I of the FCC mandate, carriers had to create a system that would tell dispatchers the cell phone number of the caller, as well as the location of the cell tower, which would provide at least an approximate geographic location. More sophisticated location detection technology uses GPS-enabled cell phones to determine the location of the caller in an emergency.

Phase II, scheduled to be fully implemented by the end of 2005, goes a step further by providing Automatic Location Identification (ALI), with precise latitude and longitude of the caller, to the emergency dispatcher. This capability has been incorporated into many newer cell phones, but there are still older cell phones still in use. If you plan to use your cell phone as an emergency backup, make sure you have a newer "location-sensitive" phone that is equipped to handle this service.

There is no charge for calling 9-1-1 from a cell phone; the E911 infrastructure is paid for with a small surcharge on normal cell phone services.

Tom Spelling is a contributing editor to http://www.prepaidreviews.com/ which reviews prepaid cell phone plan providers and rates them according to service factors and customer feedback. The site offers reviews on Verizon Prepaid wireless, Cingular GoPhone and more.

We know that xbox 360 is not just simply for playing of games but also for playing of songs and videos where you and your family can enjoy listening and watching. The xbox 360 guitar hero song downloads has legions of onlookers, watchers, listeners and fans comprising of kids, teenagers and even adults. This is simply because of the songs that are included in the soundtracks, which are definitely irresistible and cannot be ignored. The big factor also is the set of different artists and singers of the various songs who are simply great in their outstandingly done performances.

The xbox 360 guitar hero song downloads is the list of songs or the actual songs included in the guitar hero game being played in xbox 360 console, by means of all the great demands and all the tremendous responses from the people during forums and gatherings, enthusiastic fans and followers now have this immense chance to download the nine songs, which were taken from the original guitar Hero via Xbox live Marketplace.

There is more to that! New songs and other electrifying contents will be made accessible on a monthly basis, and the preliminary xbox 360 guitar hero song downloads will be comprised by the most wanted finger-numbing tracks. In Xbox 360 guitar hero song downloads, the songs included in Guitar hero Track Pack 1 are Bark at the Moon popularized by Ozzy Osbourne, Hey You sung by The Exies, and Ace of Spades made famous by Motorhead.

In guitar hero Track Pack 2, the songs included are the Killer Queen sung and popularized by Queen, Take It Off that was made popular by The Donnas, and Frankenstein performed by The Edgar Winter Group.

In guitar hero Track Pack 3, the songs included are Higher Ground played by Red hot Chili Peppers, the song Infected executed by Bad Religion and the song Stellar carried out by Incubus. The Xbox 360 guitar hero song downloads can be accessed from Activision.

With the entire tracks advanced to the guitar hero II feature set, involving co-op game play with choices in lead, rhythm and bass guitar, the songs will be obtainable to download in packs of three. This opportunity is definitely favorable to the fanatics of guitar hero, and of course to those who love the songs of various featured artists and performers. The fans will be even more ecstatic when more songs will be included and more performances be played on another set of guitar hero pack. The supporters of the Xbox 360 guitar hero song downloads will surely wait for more forthcoming updates and features.

For those who follow the evolution of the Xbox 360 guitar hero song downloads, just keep yourself updated and posted with the latest announcements because more of your favorite songs will be included in the future, of course, that will depend on how you support the featured current songs and performers. Be there when the next batches or packs of songs are launched!

If I had to pick just one way to score better I'd say, "improve your putting." Because it's a simple formula. If you shot a 100 in your last game of golf and you had 8, 3 putts in that score then it doesn't take a genius to work out that if you could turn those 3 putts into 2 putts then you'd score 8 shots better.

Ok, we've worked out that you need to practice your putting, but how?

Well it's been proven that the better the putter is the better they are at long putts, so that's where you should spend most of your time practicing. And don't just practice your putting line but rather practice hitting putts a correct weight. Because it doesn't matter if your ball is on the correct line if it's 10 feet short or long. And think about how often your putts are 10 feet wide of the hole. It's not often is it?

So practice long putts and one of the best drills to improve your putting touch is to putt balls to the edge of the putting green. Get about 5 balls and start about 30 feet away from the fringe and try to putt the balls so they end up as close to the fringe as possible.

During this exercise don't worry about direction, only speed. Keep doing this and vary the distance from the fringe for each 5 balls you stroke. Do this at least 6 times so you practice at least 30 putts.

Also, to make this exercise more effective, putt with your eyes closed. And after you've hit each putt guess how close the ball has come to your target (i.e. the fringe). Once your ball has stopped rolling, open your eyes and see how correct you were.

Now here's another great distance control putting drill.

On your practice putting green measure 30 feet from the fringe. Then place about 15 balls down there. Then putt your first ball and try to get it at as close to the fringe as possible. Once you've done this then hit your second putt and try to get it to finish as close to your first ball as possible without going past it. Then hit your third putt and try to get it to finish as close to your second ball as possible, without going past it.

Keep doing this and see how many balls you can get between yourself and the fringe. But if any balls go past the previous ball then it's game over. You have to start again.

this is a fun putting game to see how many balls you can get between the fringe and yourself and it will improve your distance control at the same time. Plus you can keep record of your personal best and try and beat it.

Doing putting drills like this allows you to concentrate solely on feel and weight without worrying about whether the ball has gone in the hole. And if you improve your long putting your scores will improve and it will be easier than working on your swing.

You see, there's no point in hitting the ball great but then 3 putting. So improve your putting first and then work on improving your swing.

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