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We can take a moment of honesty to point out that a very small percentage of clients own a Lambo, and by very small, I essentially mean none of them. But the Aventador is just a metaphor, reminding all of us that we want to succeed in business, right?
At BridgeHouse Marketing, our job is to serve you and your business. What does that mean?
Well, for starters, our products and services have a single purpose which is to optimize and manage the digital presence of your business for consistent and sustainable growth. That includes a long laundry list of to-do's, but isn't it nice to know we can help where you need it most?
And secondly, but no less important, our job is to serve you personally. You might be the business owner, or sales manager, or marketing manager, or an independent rep, or anything in between. When we succeed, your life gets easier, and that's a recipe for personal happiness.
We remember that which is so important to business success, and that is personal happiness. If you are a business owner, part of journey is finding a healthy balance of personal rewards alongside business rewards. When business becomes all encompassing, effectively reducing personal mental and physical health, the carryover will hamper business success. Misery loves company, as they say. We are here to help you achieve balance and success.
Whether you are a sole proprietor or Chairman of the Board, you know that business is teamwork. There a lot of unsung heroes on a successful business team too. Accountants come to mind. When you read an article showcasing a Fortune 500 business, it's pretty rare to see 'Betty' from the accounting department headlining the cover. But guess what, if Betty didn't perform her position flawlessly day by day, the company could topple in a matter of weeks.
The same is true for the sole proprietor with a handful of employees. Their tax preparer may be saving them thousands of dollars per year by identifying miscues before filing. But we have such a negative connotation wrapped around good ole American taxes, we forget to look at the positive side. The tax preparer actually helped you make money by saving money.
That is how we operate. Your business needs marketing help. Notice we didn't say 'if' because we know all businesses need marketing help. Businesses with staffed out marketing departments outsource components of their marketing needs. The reason is, it's nearly impossible to hire staffing with expertise in all categories. And when you do, those people are constantly being head-hunted by your competitors.
By bringing BridgeHouse Marketing onto the team, you have effectively added the expert staffing needed without the high overhead costs of employee labor and benefits. Our services are highly customizable too. Meaning, we fit in where we are needed and that eliminates the stress of hiring full time personnel and trying to keep them busy. We can start small and scale big, or handle anything in between.
Team Rowing is a fascinating sport. Much like business, it requires precision teamwork and cooperation. Success is measured by how efficiently it operates. In this case, there are 8 people in a tiny vessel, each of whom carry 1/8th of the responsibility for moving the boat in a direction. If one person is out of sync or missing, the boat does not operate well. Most importantly, it demonstrates that one person cannot do everything - it takes a team.
So, if seeing us cruising through town in a Lambo is motivation to hire us to be your new marketing agency... hang tight a second, we'll rent one and roll out in style. But how about this instead? You hire BridgeHouse Marketing because we represent your business the way you want it, and together, we will work towards parking the Lamborghini in your garage. After all, this is a team sport and we know our place.


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Folkmanis Little Puppets are made especially for little hands. The expressions, mouth and front legs or paws can be animated. It comfortably slips over the hand.
Folkmanis Little Puppets are made especially for little hands. The Little Puppets are smaller versions of the Folkmanis Stage Puppet lineup and high quality with a lot of detailed design. The expressions, mouth and front legs or paws can be animated. These fabulous little puppets are ideal for pretend play, storytelling, games, daycare, school and puppet theater.
Your child will find that the Folmanis Little Puppets are easy to feed and care for with lots of love and snuggly fun!

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Dazed Daisie loves two things above all: smoking weed and taking naughty pictures of herself. We think you'll get along nicely.
Though we have doubts about whether that's her real name, she comes highly (heh) recommended by way of her fellow Ganja Girls. (Surely you remember Maddy and Blakely and and Heaven, right?) We love a girl with friends -- especially friends like these.


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The Sacred Heart University men's hockey team had its 2018-19 season come to an end Friday night, falling 3-1 to RIT in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Hockey Tournament. The victory gave the Tigers, 17-16-4, a 2-1 series win and a berth in the AHA semifinals. The Pioneers end the year at 16-17-4.
The teams were tied late in the third period when a Pioneer clearing pass was intercepted. Alden Dupuis found Jake Hamacher who knocked home the go-ahead, and game-winning tally, with 2:31 to play. Hamacher would provide an insurance goal, scoring an empty-netter with 20 seconds left, to secure the win.

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text: Our Store Colleagues are a bit like sales advisors. Just, well, totally different. Sure, like a sales advisor you'll serve customers, fill up the shelves and keep the whole place looking spick and span. But this is anything but your everyday retail role. Here, you'll talk confidently with customers, giving them the advice they need to live healthier, happier lives. And we'll make sure you're ready for whatever question, query or lifestyle goal is thrown your way. If you want to go on and specialise in sports, nutrition, beauty or aromatherapy, we can help you to do that too. The training can be pretty full on – but it's totally worth it. You'll learn how the human body works. You'll get to know vitamins and supplements inside out. And you'll develop the skills you need to flourish. Be it dietary advice, aches and pains, or a customer wanting to polish up their guns, you'll know just what to do. It's challenging. It's hard work. And it's certainly not for the faint hearted. But if the idea of a career in health and wellbeing (and a life of helping customers in their pursuit of health and happiness) gives you that warm-fuzzy-feeling inside, there's a unique experience here for the taking. When it comes to specialist health and wellbeing retailers, we're number one. The biggest in Europe. We've over 1, stores (and more on the way) in almost every major city and town across the UK and Ireland – not to mention more than 8 stores around the world too. It's big scale stuff. And you could be part of it all.

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text: Just in case there is any doubt, I still hate (and am completely opposed to) standardized test. Yes, it is somewhat hypocritical to protest these and then prepare them in such an archaic way. I struggle, especially this time of year, with this. Most of the year I am an innovative educator proud of what my students do. This time of year, I feel like the worst teacher ever. However, these games allow students to remain engaged. So in a few short weeks, I can stop hating myself, and get back to normal.

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Foreclosure is a nightmare to any family going through it irrespective of the reasons why they are about to lose their home. Today we are going to look at the foreclosures effects in Kansas City KS and what local house sellers need to know. First we will look at the effects and the ways of easing them.
Loss of your home – Pretty self-explanatory here. The major end result of a foreclosure in KS is of course the loss of the home to the bank.
House Values In Your Community – Another one of the big foreclosure effects in Kansas City KS is that they tend to lower the overall value of the houses in your neighborhood… especially if there are multiple foreclosures in the immediate area.
Talk with a local real estate expert, like Home Remedy Investments LLC: We know the local Kansas City real estate market well and are very experienced in the foreclosure process here in KS. Give us a call at 816-388-9791 and we can guide you toward the resources that can possibly help you.
Sell your house: If you’d rather find a way to sell your house and avoid the foreclosure all together, great! We buy local Kansas City houses for cash… and would love to look at your situation and make you a fair all-cash offer on your house. Just call us at 816-388-9791 or shoot us your details through this website.
With the above knowledge on foreclosure effects in Kansas City – what sellers need to know, you can guard yourself by calling Home Remedy Investments LLC at 816-388-9791 and we shall assist you in the shortest time possible to sell your house. However, to fast track the process, kindly fill out our website contact form to give us more information about you. We’d love to connect with you and help you find the best solution!

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Touted as a "trade and economic integration" agreement by Australia and New Zealand negotiations on PACER Plus have been going since 2009.
Its proponents say it aims to create jobs, raise standards of living and encourage sustainable economic development in the Pacific region.
But those campaigning against it say it is unnecessarily restrictive and does not achieve anything that could not be achieved bilaterally.
The Chief Trade Advisor for Pacific Island countries Edwini Kessie said the final touches were being made to the proposed agreement and he said, in April, 12 Forum Island countries are expected to sign PACER Plus along with Australia and New Zealand.
Mr Kessie said Papua New Guinea and Fiji are not expected to be among the signatories.

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It was Friday morning in Chatham when a Cook County eviction team arrived at an apartment in the 8100 block of S. Maryland. It was going to be another busy day. On this street alone, sheriffs had six evictions to execute within steps of each other—a new record for the South Side. A burly male officer with a battering ram stood like an executioner.
The first two evictions did not happen. The owner or a representative of the property wasn’t there so the eviction was called off, but it kicked off a morning for a Crusader reporter who rode along in a sheriff’s police car for an inside look into the work of officers who have to do the dirty work of throwing out tenants under sometimes hot and hostile conditions.
SQUEAKY CLEAN DESCRIBES the apartment a tenant was evicted from. Though tenants are sometimes forced to leave in a hurry, many take the time and leave the vacated premises thoroughly cleaned.
After the first two evictions were called off, the officers then walked across the street to two three-story apartment buildings where they posted fluorescent green “No Trespassing” stickers on units that had already been vacated. Three of the units were trashed with garbage and possessions left behind by the occupant. The offensive odor coming from one unit was so strong that an officer strongly advised a Crusader reporter to stay away from it. Then there was the unit with a fireplace, that was left squeaky clean.
By the end of the day, officers on one team would carry out nearly 30 eviction orders. The total number of evictions for all teams that day was 63. Years after millions of Americans around the country and in Chicago lost their homes to foreclosures, evictions in the city’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are a daily occurrence keeping the Cook County Sheriff’s office busy around the clock.
So far, this year, on the South Side alone, there were 1,688 evictions that occurred in 10 neighborhoods, according to the latest figures from the Cook County Sheriff’s office. Last year, there were 3,377 evictions in those same neighborhoods on the South Side.
The highest eviction rate among all the neighborhoods is in South Shore, where there are 391 evictions. However, last year, South Shore had 850 evictions—the highest among the 10 neighborhoods surveyed by the Crusader.
Once a neighborhood for middle-class whites who fled the area when Blacks integrated Woodlawn, South Shore is about 95 percent Black and the median income is nearly $30,000 according to Statistical Atlas, a database that provides demographics by state and city.
The second highest on the eviction list is Chatham. This year, the neighborhood has had 316 evictions. The Bronzeville area is third with 261 evictions. Woodlawn is fourth with 229. Rounding out the list are Hyde Park/Kenwood (154), Englewood (109) and Back of the Yards (94).
Eviction is the final step landlords use to take back property after filing papers and enduring months of hearings in Cook County Circuit Court. In most cases, tenants don’t show up to contest the complaint for a number of reasons, but their main problem is lack of money to retain a lawyer. Once a judge grants a landlord an Order of Possession, tenants are notified by the Sherriff’s office that they will be evicted and that may come within 24 hours. Many vacate the property on their own rather than waiting to be forced out. It’s a humbling, if not humiliating, experience that many choose to avoid.
For this story, a Crusader reporter rode along for several hours with Bob, a member of a Cook County eviction team made up of four officers: three males and one female. The evictions unit has approximately 30 officers. The number of teams that go out each day varies. Four officers are assigned to a team. Every day, the teams spread out to cover the nation’s second most-populated county in carrying out eviction orders that can sometimes get testy.
The region that requires the most enforcement is the South Side.
The ride-along began at 8 a.m. with Bob, who has worked with Cook County’s eviction unit for six years. Before this, Bob worked for 15 years with Cook County’s SWAP program, which reduces jail overcrowding by providing an alternative discipline to incarceration.
At the beginning of his shift, Bob peruses a three-page list of evictions his team will execute for the day. His team has 30 evictions to execute that day, but the Crusader observed seven scheduled evictions during the ride-along. Many were in South Shore, but those would come later. Chatham was first on the list. Out of three police cars sprang four officers in the 8100 block of S. Maryland Ave. They entered the apartment building and climbed two flights of stairs before they reached their destination.
“Sheriff’s office! Eviction!” yelled one male officer. The door was not locked and the apartment looked abandoned and trashed with the tenant’s belongings.
The last two evictions occurred in the 1100 West block on Marquette Road in Englewood. As a precaution and standard procedure, members of the press do not enter an apartment or unit with the eviction team. The media is allowed into the property after the team leaves and posts the “No Trespassing” sign on the front door.
When the officers arrived to evict a tenant in Englewood, they discovered a neighbor was watching the tenant’s children. That neighbor was also evicted that day. The Sheriff’s office said the man had gone to the store to buy diapers. A total of 6 children, two teenagers and a toddler were evicted from two units. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said this was not a “home alone situation” and the children had a place to go. Both units were left in unsanitary conditions.
Cook County has a social service team in its eviction department. The team provides counseling and helps connect tenants to shelters and social services. In extreme cases where there are no options for tenants with children and disabled occupants, an eviction will be called off, according to Sophia Ansari, spokesperson for the Cook County Sheriff’s department.
Last year, the eviction social services department county-wide had 796 eviction cases opened, Ansari said. Of this number, 511 cases involved children under 14 and individuals with a mental illness.
I was illegally detained and handcuffed for 3hrs at my home by CPD. WHO I told I had never received any eviction documents because I was never evicted this is a fraudulent eviction. I have photos and videos not until pastor Evans came and spoke with them to take the handcuffs off after verifying the eviction was false. I would like the way CPD deals with us. They came into my home allowing my door to be broke in while they stood and watch.


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There I was, climbing through 5,500 feet in southeastern Texas, when I had a close encounter with a Boeing 747 named Air Force One. It was closer than I would have liked, anyway.
I was flying my Mooney to Florida last April for the Sun ’n Fun Fly-In, had departed California late in the day and spent the first night in Carlsbad, N.M. The following day, I flew the first leg from Carlsbad to Lampasas, Texas, on a VFR flight plan. I had been briefed that President Bush was visiting Fort Hood, Texas, that day and that there was a temporary flight restriction (TFR) in effect surrounding Fort Hood until 3:15 p.m. local.
On the way to Lampasas, I checked with Flight Service on the status of the TFR and was advised again that the TFR was in effect until 3:15 local. The airspace around Lampasas wasn’t closed, but only airplanes on VFR or IFR flight plans were being allowed into the area prior to 3:15. I closed my flight plan upon landing at Lampasas at 2:45, refueled and elected to wait on the ground and have lunch until after the TFR expired. While I was there, I asked the airport operator if he had a copy of the NOTAM. He did and he showed it to me. The expiration was noted as 3:15 p.m. local time.
Accordingly, at 3:45, I fired up the Mooney, taxied out and departed Lampasas for Baton Rouge, La. As I climbed out, I was careful to stay well south of the normal restricted areas associated with Fort Hood, R6302A, B and C. My route of flight was also well south of President Bush’s Crawford, Texas, prohibited area, P-49, which was inactive since the TFR had been cancelled at 3:15—or so I thought.
Climbing through 5,500 feet for 7,500 feet, I saw an F-16 arcing across in front of me and turning right about a mile ahead. Hmm, I thought, and double-checked both the Garmin and ARNAV GPSs to make certain that I was nowhere near either P-49 or any of the R6302 areas.
In addition to the Garmin 430’s moving map, I was using a new copy of Air Chart’s Aviation Topographic Atlas, 2005 to 2006 edition, which I had received only two days before leaving on the trip. I checked my watch again, and it was nearly 4 p.m., a full 45 minutes after the TFR had expired.
About that time, the F-16 arced by again, this time, only about ½-mile ahead and firing a dozen or so flares across my path as he transitioned from lower left to upper right. Something was not right.
Uh-oh. The F-16 blazed by on my left and below, waggled his wings, plugged in the burner and disappeared straight up.
I tuned in the recorded AWOS at Skylark Airport in Killeen and was advised again that the “TFR will expire at 1515 local time.” By this time, it was 4:10 p.m., 1610 in military time, nearly a full hour after the TFR was to have expired.
As I landed, I saw an Army Blackhawk helicopter sitting on the ramp, gulped a few times, turned off the active and taxied toward it. Apparently, it had nothing to do with me, as the three khaki-clad men standing nearby motioned me away and toward the transient ramp.
Shortly after I pulled up in front of the FBO and shut down, a black government sedan drove out onto the ramp and two men in black got out and came over to the Mooney. They were courteous and instructed my wife and me to get out of the airplane. We did as we were asked, and after introductions all around, the lead Secret Service agent asked if I knew why I had been instructed to land.
I answered honestly that I had no idea, since the TFR had expired a full hour before. He knew nothing about TFRs or airspace, only that he was to investigate an alleged TFR incursion that had caused someone to scramble an F-16. He asked all the obvious questions—where was I coming from, where was I going, why was I flying adjacent to Fort Hood at that particular time, etc.—and I answered that I was complying with every regulation I knew of and that no less than four sources had suggested that the TFR had expired a full hour before the alleged incursion.
All the while, I was thinking that no matter if I was right, I could wind up being detained for quite a while if the Secret Service decided that I was a bad guy. Just as with the U.S. Customs Service, the Secret Service has virtually unlimited power, and if they decide to detain you without charges, they can do so.
He folded up the phone and told us that we were free to go. I asked him if there would be any ramifications of the incident, and he said that there had been no violation, so that would be the end of it.
Fortunately, the rest of my trip was uneventful. We arrived in Lakeland, Fla., the following day, and I dropped by the FAA building to ask an inspector about the incident.
He smiled and said, “Yes, that happens all the time. The schedule gets screwed up, and there’s no way to make certain that everyone has the message. Don’t worry about it.” Why do I still worry about it?

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What Is Weekly Confusion Watch Service?
One of the services Trademark Factory® offers is weekly confusion watch service.
Weekly Confusion Watch Service is a service that we offer, Trademark Factory offers, that goes outside of the regular trademark registration process. What that allows you to do is to have updated information as to when somebody else is trying to file a trademark similar to yours. Every week we would check the Trademarks Office database to see whether somebody is trying to file a trademark that looks like yours, that sounds like yours, that may mean similar things. The purpose of that is for you to know when to act against them if you need to.
There are a few reasons why you want to do it. Because the trademark registration process, as you will know, is long—It takes several months, 18 months in Canada, 14 months in the US, 12 months in Europe; It takes about eight months in Canada, four months in US, and about four months in Europe for you to even hear back from the Trademarks Office the first time around—when somebody else files a trademark that may be similar to yours, they won't even know necessarily if it's similar to yours, especially if they didn't do the proper trademark search. What you want to do is to notify them right away that you see what they're doing and that you don't approve of it.
The benefit of that is that even if the Trademarks Office is going to stop them, is going to write back to them and say, "Well, we think your trademark is too close to somebody else's," a lot of time will have passed and they will have invested a lot of time, a lot of money, a lot of energy in building what they think is their brand. It's a lot easier to make them stop early if you say, "Excuse me, excuse me, this trademark that you're trying to file is actually too close to ours. We filed it before you did and we're going to do everything to make sure the Trademarks Office doesn't allow yours. I would suggest that you abandon this trademark right away before you invest more time, money and energy building that up." It works in many cases—just as you would expect.
If it doesn't, then you can again continue monitoring what happens with that other trademark and see if the Trademarks Office approves it. If they do approve it, then it will go to publication, which will allow you to oppose it. This is especially important in Europe, where the Trademarks Office is not going to examine somebody else's trademark based on its being confusingly similar with somebody else's trademarks, meaning yours. It's the responsibility of a trademark owner to oppose any trademarks that they think are confusingly similar to theirs. How are you going to know about those other new trademarks if you don't really have somebody consistently watching their database to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks?
Again, we offer a service called Weekly Confusion Watch Service. We can do it before your trademark registers, after your trademarks registers. We can even do it without actually working on your trademark if you need to. Just tell us what the brand is and we will make sure that whenever somebody files a trademark similar to yours, you're going to get notified and you'll decide whether you want to send a nasty letter, whether you want to wait to see what the Trademarks Office does with that, whether you want to oppose it when the times comes, whether you want to sue them in the court system. That decision you can make based on the information that we're going to provide to you.

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Bea and Jacob began dating in 2015 and had a very strong relationship. Although they didn't keep anything a secret, they didn't officially confirm that they were dating for a while. They are both singers and have gone on tour with Fifth Harmony. In June 2016 rumors said that they might have gone on a break because they were both on tour but it was never really confirmed.
J-14 did a feature on their relationship called 11 Times Jacob Whitesides and Bea Miller Proved They Are the Ultimate Relationship Goals in May 2015.

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The Registry CleanUP suites conveniently removed with just one click useless and obsolete registry keys in a few seconds. Through the support of modern processors with multiple cores, the application does the Registry cleanup is many times faster than programs from other vendors.
Instead of deleting errors directly, will be displayed the Registry analysis report. You can decide whether the errors should be removed. As protection for a worst case scenario, creates the App a Windows restore point. The registry cleaner is more than a registry clean-up. Thus, it is also a registry defragmentation, a startup manager and registry editor. The Startup Manager is able to isolate and disable Windows start-up programs. With this function, you have a direct impact on Windows start-up performance.
The tool's interface is professional-looking and untangled. If you are a novice, then you can start the registry optimizing assistant wizard; it scans, cleans and fixes any invalid entries in the registry. But it can also be programmed to automatically create a system restore point before making any modifications to the system, as well as to restart the computer when the tasks are completed.
The app can analyze many sectors in the Windows registry - these revolve around the ActiveX, OLE and COM areas, application settings, software and process entries, common files, network connections, start menu objects, file types, help files, autostart entries and hardware. Additionally, you can create an exclusion list, perform a defrag job on all the aforementioned registry sectors, use a registry editor and search engine, backup and restore items, as well as manage entries which automatically run at system startup.

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Women of all shapes, sizes, age, and fitness level can have side fat that just doesn’t budge! We can work out day after day with no real results showing, it’s frustrating, right?! These 6 tips to lose side fat are to help you get rid of that muffin top or side fat that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere!
If you’re serious about losing your side fat, start with these tips to see a noticeable change in how you feel and look.
If you’re look for ways to lose side fat, increasing your fiber intake is a great place to start. The more fiber you eat, the more full you will feel, thus reducing your appetite and urge to snack on other foods.
Another benefit of fiber that you’ll absolutely love is that it reduces bloat! Fiber aids your digestion process and helps to minimize bloat and other stomach issues that make your midsection look a little larger than it actually is.
Whole foods such as vegetables and fruits are fiber rich, here’s a List Of Whole Foods For Weight Loss.
2. Reduce Refined Food Intake.
Refined foods are a HUGE contributor to excess side fat. Simply put, they’re empty calories that provide zero benefits to your body.
What’s the point of eating foods that have negative effects on our bodies? There really is no point at all!
Many of these foods also contain ingredients that are toxic to your body and are stored as fat cells.
Try to reduce or eliminate as many refined foods from your diet as possible and replace them with whole foods.
An interesting fact about protein is that it’s not stored by the body, which means we have to regularly consume it to access the benefits.
Protein plays a large role in promoting lean muscle growth which can help boost your metabolism, as well as aid in burning fat.
The more muscle you have, the more fat your body will burn. Protein, like fiber, helps to fill up your tummy and reduce cravings.
Alcohol, ahh what can I say. Alcohol comes under the category of refined foods. It contains a high amount of sugar and is also toxic to your body.
It’s best to completely eliminate alcohol from your diet if you’re seriously trying to lose side fat.
It doesn’t hurt to have a glass of wine every now and then as long as you don’t go overboard!
Controlling your portions is the ultimate way to lose side fat. Diet is the primary way to lose weight, and you have complete control over it.
You don’t necessarily have to eat smaller portions, you may just need a slight rearrangement.
Here’s a good portion example: 30% protein, 20% complex carbs, 10% healthy fats, and 40% veggies.
Veggies should take up the majority of your plate, followed by lean protein, complex carbs, and then healthy fats.
You can still have awesome meals using this portion example!
The more you move, the more you burn. Regular exercise is a great way to enhance your weight loss results.
And the best part is… Walking is free!
Starting a 30 – 60-minute walk each day will help to burn fat and reduce your stress levels. Never underestimate the power of a daily walk!
Leave a comment if you enjoyed 6 tips to lose side fat fast, or if you have any questions!


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Are you a movie buff? Do you like buying movies on DVD and save them to watch whenever you feel bored? And finally, are you a bitcoin enthusiast? If the answer is yes on all the three counts, then there is some good news for you. Lionsgate Shop, the online store belonging to Lionsgate Films now accepts bitcoin payments and those paying with bitcoin can avail an additional 25% discount on their purchase.
Lionsgate films is a Canadian American movie production and distribution company. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California the company is a subsidiary of Lionsgate Entertainment. The company has taken an interest in bitcoin and it has also include bitcoin as an additional payment option on its online store — LionsgateShop.com.
With the introduction of bitcoin payments, Lionsgate will now be able to sell DVD and Blu-ray copies of its movies and TV shows for bitcoin. In order to promote the new payment option, Lionsgate is now offering an attractive discount offer on its LionsgateShop.com, the online store where people can buy movies or TV shows. The discount of about 25 percent is applicable on selected movies and TV shows from 2015 and especially for those who opt to pay for their purchases in bitcoin. The offer will be available till the end of this month.
Lionsgate films has partnered with GoCoin, a bitcoin payment processor to accept bitcoin payments on its site. Apart from bitcoin payment option, the company is also interested in exploring new opportunities with bitcoin and blockchain technologies.
The company is currently using bitcoin for retail sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs where the customers are individuals. Lionsgate can soon extend the same into its movie production and distribution channel as well. Apart from using bitcoin as a currency, the technology behind it can be used for a lot of other applications including inventory, rights management and more.


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Black ties, glitzy five star logos, once-in-a-lifetime advertising deals and red and white banners. Lots of red and white banners. Must be time for the What Hi-Fi winners award ceremony.
Rega Planar 1 Best turntable £200-£500 | Rega Planar 3/Elys2 Best turntable £500-£800 | Rega Planar 6/Ania Best turntable £1200 | Rega Brio Best stereo amplifier £300-£700 | Rega Elex-R Best stereo amplifier £700-£1500 | Moon 240i Best stereo amplifier £1500-£2500 | Chord Mojo Best DAC under £500 | Chord 2Qute Best DAC £500-£1000 | Chord Hugo 2 Best DAC £1000+ | Moon Neo MiND Best music streamer £1500-£2000 | Naim Uniti Atom Best hi-fi system | Rega Fono MM MK3 Best phono stage under £250 | Monitor Audio Silver 200 Best floorstanders £800-£1200 | Monitor Audio Bronze 2 Best standmount speaker £200-£400.
Looks like Linn had a limited advertising budget this year.


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Indian Ramajit Raghav again pips title of oldest dad at world. This vital Indian got his son in 96 years.! Ramajit Raghav of Kharkhoda village. All who know it is rare that someone has that same year, let alone think about posterity .
However it happened on 5 Ramađžit October has become the world’s oldest dad gotten a son in 96th years old. Actually the title of the world’s oldest dad’s got more in his 94 years of life, when his wife gave birth to their first son Sakuntala Vikramadžita. Them two have been married for 22 years old. Tada said he has enough for a child his age, but before 12 days ago and got a second son whom he named Randžita.
“What can I do?’s All God’s will. He wanted to get another son,” said Ramajit. When went to visit his wife and son Šakuntalu Randžita in the hospital, people laughed at him because they believed he was the father of the child . while neighbors in the village and still think that they are the biological parents of two sons that their children.
Oldest dad in the world says that the vitality keeps feeding on milk, almonds and butter. Sometimes Ramajit was a wrestler now has a pension of 550 rupees, and occasionally his neighbors sometimes bring a little food, a blanket and a piece of clothing.


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If you can scrape $2.9 million in change off of your dresser top or car trays, you can buy a Fort Worth home owned by Grand Prairie-bred singer-actress Selena Gomez.
In September, the 25-year-old (who is the most followed person on Instagram with over 130 million followers) shocked fans when she revealed in an Instagram post that she had undergone a kidney transplant over the summer due to complications with her lupus. Gomez, who was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease in 2013, received a kidney from longtime friend and “Grown-ish” actress Francia Raisa.
Last month, both Gomez and Raisa sat down for an interview with the “Today” show’s Savannah Guthrie to discuss the life-saving surgery.
"I don't want people to think it's a sad thing that I went through this with Francia or with anything in my life,” Gomez said. “I think all of the stuff that I went through made me and defined everything that I am right now. It's a really beautiful thing and I have to remind myself of that. It's not a negative experience."
Since her transplant, the “Fetish” singer has helped raise almost $500,000 (and counting) for the Lupus Reasearch Alliance.


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Episode 19 - This episode, Yuddistira gets it into his head that he should be King of the World! As he has been inclined to do since becoming king, he calls for Krishna to advise him on how to accomplish this task. Krishna tells him to send Bhima and Arjun to Magadha and get rid of his main rival to the imperial title, King Jarasandh.
And so, Krishna, Bhima and Arjun go down to Magadha and pick a fight with Jarasandh. Bhima wrestles the old guy for fourteen days and finally body-slams him, killing him instantly.
Sorry I've slowed down my production lately. I've had some musical commitments that have eaten up my free time. That's mostly over, so hopefully things will pick up a bit from now on! If you'd like to encourage me, please send a message; it certainly helps morale. Also, it would be great if you were to go into iTunes and rate my podcast. It would help increase its visibility for other potential listeners. Thanks!
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Our gorgeous unicorn wall sticker makes a beautiful feature in a girl's bedroom or nursery. The original artwork is a handmade paper collage creating a wall sticker unlike others you'll find. Featuring soft shades of green, blue, yellow and pink, the unicorn looks lovely in a pastel room.
The unicorn wall sticker is so easy to apply - just peel and stick (no squeegees required!) It can be used to decorate walls or furniture and can be removed and repositioned.
The unicorn wall sticker measures approx H28 x W41cm.
The unicorn wall sticker is rolled in pink tissue paper and shipped in a glossy poster tube. If your item is a gift, please add a note to your order and we will ship in an additional mailing bag so that your tube is label free and ready to gift.
Check out our matching rainbow wall sticker to create a magical scene.
Delivery is free in the UK. We also ship internationally.


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How the use of Matrix Reimprinting has been able to change the lives not only of the practitioners who use it but also the countless clients who have experienced it from these passionate practitioners - A must watch!
Hosted by our lovely Sharon King, author of Heal your Birth, Heal your Life, this series of over 30 specialist webinars invites 22 wonderful, experienced guest speakers to share their knowledge and expertise with practitioners of EFT and Matrix Reimprinting.
2016 EFT Matrix Summit - Free Online Event Have you registered yet for the free Matrix Reimprinting World Summit? This year it will be September 19-23, 2016 and will explore topics and techniques that can transform your life.


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The fall is always an exciting time at St. Luke's School. As our youngest students arrive for orientation and all students return to school tomorrow, we look forward to the many milestones that are ahead of us in the next few months. Our newest faculty members will certainly make their mark at St. Luke's School this year.
Trevor Allen joined Bonnie Soha as a co-lead Kindergarten teacher. Trevor has been a lead Pre-K and Kindergarten teacher at Mandell Preschool. He also served as a lead Kindergarten teacher in a public school. He has been an assistant teacher at Corlears and a wildlife educator for the Central Park Zoo. He has an undergraduate degree from Baldwin-Wallace College and an M.Ed. from Hunter College.
Tim Byrnes joined our music department as our Band Instructor after 15 years as an After School Music Program teacher. A long-standing member of our community and trumpet player, Tim earned his undergraduate degree from NYU and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree from Hunter College.
Sam Davison joined Sherry Froman as her Grade 1 associate teacher. Most recently, Sam has been working in the After School Program at Berkeley Carroll School, and prior to that, he served at St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's School. Sam is a recent graduate of the Master's program at the Bank Street School of Education and received his undergraduate degree from Emerson College.
Marikah Goin joined St. Luke’s School as a co-lead teacher in Junior Kindergarten. Marikah was previously a Grade 1 lead teacher at a charter school in Brooklyn. She has a BA in psychology from SUNY Old Westbury and is completing her Master's from Relay School of Education. She is dynamic and enthusiastic and has expertise in language instruction.
Jessica Greif joined the foreign language department as our K - Grade 2 French and Grade 6 Spanish teacher. Jessica earned her MA in French with a specialization in Pedagogy from Middlebury College, holds an additional MA in Educational Theatre from NYU, and a BA in Spanish. Most recently, she has served as a French teacher at Packer Collegiate Institute. Jessica has extensive experience teaching both French and Spanish across all ages.
Aurea Hernandez-Webster joined us as our Upper School social studies teacher. With an undergraduate from Brown University and a MA from Columbia, Aurea was previously an English teacher at Rumson Country Day School in New Jersey. She has also been a humanities and social studies teacher and was the Director of Studies at Friends Seminary some years ago.
Deborah Irwin joined us as Drama Instructor. Debby has over 20 years of experience teaching drama, public speaking, and movement. With both undergraduate and graduate degrees in theater education, she has designed and implemented two K - Grade 8 integrated drama curricula at other schools – Lacordaire Academy and St. Catherine's Elementary School in New Jersey.
Sarah Robotham is familiar to many of us through her work in our After School Program and as a frequent substitute these past three years. She is a graduate of Bennington College and is currently in a Master's of Education program at Fordham University. She joined Kelsey Martin as her Grade 1 associate teacher.
Tracy Thai joined Kristina Bassiacos as a co-lead teacher in Kindergarten. Tracy has an undergraduate degree from Barnard and a Master's in Education from Columbia. Most recently she was at The School at Columbia, who identified her as one of their most gifted teachers.
Stephanie Tocko joined our physical education teaching team this year. A graduate of Kean University where she was a scholar-athlete and collegiate lacrosse player, Stephanie has spent the past three years teaching and coaching at public and independent schools in New Jersey. She has taught physical education and health to students in Grades 1 - 8 and coached multiple sports at the middle and high school levels.
We are excited by the quality of the teachers who joined our program this fall and the vitality change can bring. We are indeed fortunate to be able to honor the legacy of the dedicated teachers in our community and build on the strength of our current faculty by welcoming these gifted educators to our school.


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>>> As an example: logprof always adds new rules to the main profile.
>>> It should offer an option to add a rule to a include'd file.
>> when rules are common across profiles.
> ... and, while you are on it, if they come from an abstraction.
being present it sees a flattened profile.
and all the nasty tricks you can do with them.
>> the profiles, even when the rules contain regexes.
>> the sets with the rules for each set.
>> This should help a lot in making abstractions.
>   file instead of the main profile.
>   adding an abstraction to a profile with logprof.
>   can be run after manual changes in the abstractions.
rule cleanup etc as for includes.
and it finds/suggests rules it could be used in.  etc.
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Used Facial Tissues Being Sold To ‘Train Your Immune System’!
"We believe using a tissue that carries a human sneeze is safer than needles or pills. This isn’t like any tissue you’ve used before, but we love using them, and you will too".
Ok, I understand the concept of building up the immune system through exposure to germs but this is just gross AND very expensive! At $80 per box, who does this company believe is going to buy into this?
Source: Used Facial Tissues Being Sold To ‘Train Your Immune System’!

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On Sunday 18 August, David Miranda, the 28-year-old partner of Glenn Greenwald, was detained at Heathrow airport under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act.
The terrorism law, enacted in 2000, is aimed at killers. It is designed to allow police to stop possible jihadists or IRA members planning bombings, as they enter Britain. It is a draconian piece of legislation: no "probable cause" or specific suspicion is needed. The purpose of the stop is a grave one: to assess whether someone may be involved in the "commission, instigation or preparation of acts of terrorism".
Miranda wasn't a terrorist. The British authorities knew that perfectly well. He was the partner of a journalist. They suspected he was in fact carrying copies of Edward Snowden's NSA and GCHQ files, which Greenwald was engaged in researching and publishing. Their prime purpose, as they were later to admit, was simply to get hold of the files, and find out how much Greenwald knew.
The two police officers who rifled through Miranda's backpack and questioned him in a custody suite asked virtually nothing about terrorism. They didn't inquire if Miranda was a member of a terrorist group. Miranda says the questions he was asked "seemed random and unfocused ... They gave me the impression that they were questioning me just to give themselves time to examine the material."
Documents obtained in the subsequent legal proceedings from MI5 explain this lack of curiosity.MI5 and the NSA decided several days earlier to have Miranda stopped at Heathrow and his documents seized. They knew for certain he was carrying the data – either through intercepts or an informant – and were desperate to find out how much Snowden had leaked. For the spies, it was an extraordinarily lucky opportunity. But they seem to have been anxious not to let Miranda and his friends realise they had been betrayed.
On 15 August – three days before the stop – MI5 contacted the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism command, SO15. The agency requested detective superintendent James Stokley to have Miranda grabbed. The agency filled in what is known as a "ports circulation sheet" (PCS) with the official request. In a box that asked the author to confirm that possible terrorism was involved, MI5 wrote: "Not applicable." Unfortunately, the police had only one power to search and seize passengers' baggage without the need to give any sort of a reason. This was schedule 7 of the act. The police pointed out the problem. MI5 redrafted the PCS form. Twice.
In its final version, MI5 claimed: "Intelligence indicates that MIRANDA is likely to be involved in espionage activity which has the potential to act against the interests of UK national security ... We assess that MIRANDA is knowingly carrying material, the release of which would endanger people's lives. Additionally the disclosure, or threat of the disclosure, is designed to influence a government, and is made for the purpose of promoting a political or ideological cause. This therefore falls within the definition of terrorism and as such we request that the subject is examined under schedule 7."
It was an absurd account. It was written to mimic the wording of the language in the act defining "terrorism". But of course, the authors knew it was not Miranda's intention to make threats to endanger anyone's life, least of all to achieve some "ideological objective".
The definition in the act was supposedly aimed at a fanatic who threatened to blow up a plane. MI5 explained their anxiety: "Please do not make any reference to espionage activity. It is vital that MIRANDA is not aware of the reason for this ports stop. We would be grateful if this stop could be made to seem as routine as possible, and that it appears that this stop is not at the request of the Security Service."
The use of schedule 7 against someone who was known not to be a terrorist was a blatant abuse – and an alarming precedent in which a government matched journalism with terrorism.
This was the first time the much-criticised section of the act had been used against a journalist carrying source material. Coming on top of the forced destruction of the Guardian's computers on 20 July, it looked like a chilling attack on press freedom.


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This article describes how you can protect your child's Android device with F-Secure SAFE, using the Family Rules feature. We're going to show you how to create a child profile, set up application control, time limits and content filtering for your child on this device.
Once you're logged in, click Add device.
Select My child's device and click Continue.
If you are creating a new profile, click on the drop-down arrow, and select New child profile. Click Continue.
Select Phone from the device type options, and click Continue.
Choose how you want to send the installation link to your child's Android device.
Enter an email address that you can access from your child's Android device.
Enter your child's phone number with the country code.
Now on your child's Android device, open the email or SMS containing the installation link. Tap on the provided link.
Tap Install from app store.
On the F-Secure SAFE Google Play Store page, tap Install > Accept.
Read and accept the terms and conditions. Tap Accept.
On the Welcome to SAFE screen, tap Continue.
Create a new profile for your child. Enter the name and select the age group.
Now is a good time to sit down with your child and go over Family Rules together. Tap Next.
App Control lets you view installed apps remotely via your My F-Secure portal and choose whether the apps should be time-limited, allowed, or blocked completely. Time-limited apps will be blocked when the time limit is up, which we will configure later.
Tap Turn on App control.
Choose the default setting for newly installed apps (Time-limited or Blocked).
Choose how you want to limit individual installed app (Time-limited, Allowed or Blocked).
Time limits allow you to control when and for how long your child can use the time-limited apps.
To set the daily use limits, tap Edit (pencil icon) and slide the slider to the desired time length for weekdays and weekends. Once done, tap the Tick icon to save the settings.
To set bedtime (prevent device use during night-time), tap Edit (pencil icon) and specify the time frame for school nights and weekends. Once done, tap the Tick icon.
Content filtering blocks certain types of website content when browsing with the Safe Browser.
Select by checking the boxes the content categories you want to block for your child.
The protection feature overview page opens. Tap Next.
The Family Rules feature needs device administrator permission to protect your child from harmful content. Tap Continue.
Tap Activate this device administrator.
Turn on accessibility, tap Continue.
Select F-Secure SAFE from the Services Accessibility list, and slide the slider to the On position.
To allow F-Secure SAFE to observe actions and retrieve window content, tap OK. You may be prompted to enter the device PIN to continue.
F-Secure SAFE is now installed on your child's Android device and the child's Internet use is protected according to your setup.
To view the Family Rules settings for the child, tap Family Rules from the app's main screen.
Later, if you want to make changes to these Family Rules settings, on any device, log in to your My F-Secure account and click on the child's profile to view and change the Family Rules settings.


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Going through this at work, another example of shaping an organization or a team through indirect influence, standard setting + levels.
Thought I had bookmarked this awhile back, really great visual introduction into circuit breakers, timeouts and failover.
Somehow remembered Yegge’s posts from back in the day this week. Wish he was still writing.
Understand causality, set aside political / religious beliefs, don’t be afraid to be wrong.
Great descriptive phrase and something to watch out for, both in case you or your team get labeled with some kind of dominant narrative or as something that you hear other teams or people get labeled.
Tons of good product management links.
So many good quotes in here… Also, it’s not chat, it’s social software in general.
Lots of good stuff in this article (blog post?), similar to "fierce conversations" book I read recently. The "um" story is worth remembering.


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What makes you think that we will not be persecuted? Jesus was why not us?
Huh!?! What fantasy are you dreaming up now?


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Warren Haynes, the Allman Brother from another mother, is the quintessential sideman – ego and arrogance-free, willing and capable of playing any style to support the music.
Apart from supporting the Allmans, Haynes has been the driving force behind the spared-down Allmans sound of Gov’t Mule, and he has sat in and toured with bands such as Grateful Dead, Blues Traveler, Dave Matthews, Son Seals, John Mayall, and James Cotton. Blues, jam-band, country, alt-country, jazz rock are all on his ticket.
He’s also released a couple of solo studio records to mixed reviews. This new effort was recorded with the New Jersey alt-bluegrass band Railroad Earth. It’s almost as if Haynes the sideman just can’t take too much time out in front of a band. Even though Haynes wrote or co-wrote 8 of the 13 tracks on the album, and sings lead on all of them, his presence still somehow still seems like that of a sideman.
His rationale for the album was sound enough. The predominance of the banjo and violin wouldn’t fit his work with either the Allmans or Gov’t Mule. But it’s not a bluegrass album, either. Haynes reportedly wanted to record this album with Levon Helm and the sideman’s sideman, T-Bone Wolk. When both passed away in the early 2010s, the album took another form with Railroad Earth.
But you can hear Levon Helm’s influence even without his presence. This record is a little bit The Band, a little bit Grateful Dead, a little bit country/bluegrass and a little bit rock and roll. But all things considered, not a whole lot to get too excited about.
Sometimes the banjo and violin take too much time away from Haynes’ spectacular guitar playing. Occasionally the songs drag on one extra verse and two minutes time too long. The songs are solid and workmanlike portraits of Americana. Haynes’ voice has strengthened since I first heard it. The piano rag blues “Stranded in Self-Pity” is a standout track on the album, and I swore I was listening to Richard Manuel singing.
This track veers off into a beautiful jazzy solo section where Haynes’ liquid guitar talents really shine. Another track successfully covers Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman”, with Grace Potter playing the role of Stevie Nicks. What do ya know, yet another frontperson for the talented Mr. Haynes to back up.


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St. James Community Garden began in 2012 and is located beside the church in a sunny, level space overlooking the Grand River. A bench and shaded area make it an idyllic spot to find respite between gardening activities. We invite parishioners and the general public to participate. Some of our plots are nurtured by the food bank and other community groups along with individuals who have no other means to grow their own. We grow fantastic potatoes!

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Typical Únêtician crouched burial from Quedlinburg (© LDA Sachsen-Anhalt).
Towards the end of the third millennium BC, the local cultures gradually learned to work with a new material: bronze, an alloy of copper and smaller quantities of other substances, such as arsenic, antimony and later above all tin. There were two conditions that allowed this era of metal production to begin. Firstly, the region became included in the distribution networks for Alpine copper ore, and secondly, the technical know-how for working this metal spread from southeastern and southern Europe. The common archaeological feature that links the central European early bronze age is the custom of burying the dead in a contracted position (a 'crouched' position). This custom can be traced clearly as it is inherited from the local neolithic cultures and passed on into the first era of metal production, and so shows that religious concepts were retained across this technological divide.
The classic Únêtice cups', a characteristic pottery form of this culture (© LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, Photo: Juraj Lipták).
The culture that flourished in the middle of Central Europe in the early bronze age is known as the Únêtician culture. The name is derived from the site Únêtice near Prague in Bohemia (Czech Republic), where important finds from that period were made as early as 1880. The Únêtician burial custom differs from that of all the neighbouring, contemporary cultures in that the dead person is laid out on the right side of the body, with no distinction made according to gender. This type of burial is the real identifying characteristic of this culture, even more than the shared design features of material remains like pottery and metalwork. These include the characteristic Únêtice cups ('hour-glass cups'), squat jugs and taller jugs, jars with knobs below the rim (the so-called 'Zapfenbecher'), two-handled jars, and exceptional metal forms like the 'Bohemian eyelet pins', special forms of flanged axes, daggers with solid metal hilts, and halberds.
Halberds from the deposit Dieskau II (© LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, Photo: Juraj Lipták).
The distribution of archaeological finds of Únêtician graves and settlements reveals that the pattern of settlement closely follows natural geographical features. Northern and southern branches of the culture can be roughly distinguished, separated from each other by the highlands of the Thuringian Forest, Erzgebirge and Sudeten Mountains. In the northern branch, it is the East Harz region that commands the most attention. Here the most extensive concentration of finds occurs in an arc open to the west, occupying the areas of loess and black earth soils that curve around the hill-country, which itself has no such finds.
This geographical division created smaller settlement regions that to some extent develop on independent lines. In the early phase, from around 2,300 BC, the culture still appears relatively uniform, with simple burials in the ground and no special efforts undertaken in funerary practices. But from around 2,000 BC different lines of development can be seen within the 'Circumharz Group'. In the drainage basin of the lower Saale, most graves are now carefully lined with stone ('walled cists'). The grave goods also reveal regional differences. North and south of the Harz, people almost always continued the tradition of including a number of pottery containers in the grave, but in the lower Saale region a 'metal group' forms, with the characteristic feature that the dead person wears certain typical bronze clothing accessories like the eyelet pin and the so-called tattooing needle.
The barrow of Leubingen (© LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, Photo: Juraj Lipták).
Gold jewellery from the princely grave of Leubingen (© LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, Photo: Juraj Lipták).
In the same period, a special form of burial is found in Leubingen (Kreis Sömmerda, Thuringia), Helmsdorf (Salzlandkreis) and Dieskau (Saalkreis): the so-called 'princely grave'. These Únêtician princely graves were equipped with gold and bronze objects of high value in both quality and quantity, and are also characterised by an elaborate grave construction - a barrow of over 30 m diameter, in the centre of which is a core of stones surrounding a tent-like wooden mortuary chamber.
Hoards from the Únêtician culture have a different distribution pattern from the funerary finds. For the most part they contain objects made of bronze, and their geographical distribution not only covers the known regions of Únêtician settlement, but they spread well beyond the limits of these areas as well.
It was in this period of transition, during which there were also changes in burial practices, that the Nebra Sky Disc (included into the UNESCO's Memory of the World register in 2013) was sacrificed and buried. The finds discovered along with it - swords, axes and a chisel - still show some characteristics of the slightly older Únêtician princely graves, but the depiction of the religious symbol of the sun-barque on the Sky Disc now brings an entirely new programme of imagery into view. Nebra thus marks the end of the early bronze age tradition and the start of a new era.


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Enjoy your favorite workouts with a personal coach on your wrist. The new generation of smart bands combine several tracking technologies in one single device that offers you a complete experience from heart rate monitoring to multi sports mode that adapts to the sport you prefer. The ultimate fitness accessory that will become your new workout partner!
Optical Dynamic Heart Rate Monitoring: Record the heart rate curve for the last 16 hours.
GPS motion tracking: Always know your exact position with the built-in GPS tracker.
Multi Sport Mode: Adapt your band to your sport.


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To grant iOS apps permission to use the microphone, you will need to add a Privacy - Microphone Usage Description statement to the Info.plist in the Runner xcode project.
Chirp SDKs accept data as an array of bytes, creating a versatile interface for all kinds of data. However in most cases, Chirp is used to send a short identifier. Here is an example of how to send a short string with the Chirp SDK.
It is worth noting here that the send method will not block until the entire payload has been sent, but just as long as it takes to pass the message to the SDK. Please use the onSent callback for this purpose.
A received event includes the payload and the channel for multichannel configurations. There are several other callbacks available which are illustrated in the example.
This project aims to be a community driven project and is open to contributions. Please file any issues and pull requests at GitHub Thank you!
Demonstrates how to use the ChirpSDK plugin.
This project is a starting point for a Flutter application using Chirp.
Chirp enables your apps to send and receive information using sound.


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Two weeks ago, when the Bruins arrived in Tampa for a game with the Lightning, it seemed the best chance for two points in the middle of a road trip that included playoff teams Pittsburgh and Florida. It turned into perhaps Boston’s worst game of the season.
BOSTON – Two weeks ago, when the Bruins arrived in Tampa for a game with the Lightning, it seemed the best chance for two points in the middle of a road trip that included playoff teams Pittsburgh and Florida.
It turned into perhaps Boston’s worst game of the season.
The Bruins were down 3-0 less than five minutes into the game, changed goaltenders twice and were routed, 6-1. In terms of margin of defeat, it’s topped only by the 6-0 loss to Buffalo on Feb. 8.
"There’s no doubt we didn’t play very well," coach Claude Julien said today. "They came out extremely hard against us, and we weren’t ready for that and because of that we lost a game.
"It was a pretty easy win for them. Let’s put it this way – we way we gave them goals and the mistakes we made along the way, we have to be better."
The Bruins hope to have a better time of it for tonight’s game against the Lightning at TD Garden (NESN, NBC Sports, WBZ-FM, 7:30 p.m.).
The Bruins are 1-2-0 against the Lightning, having lost the last two after beating Tampa in the second game of the season.
Tampa Bay comes in off a 5-3 win last night in Philadelphia, a game in which the Flyers outshot the Lightning, 38-15. The Lightning have won three straight, scoring 11 goals in that span. But it’s likely too little, too late. With seven games left, Tampa Bay is seven points out of the playoffs, and probably needs to win out to even have a chance at a miracle playoff spot.
The offense isn’t a problem for Tampa Bay, especially from their top lines. Steven Stamkos is the big name, and his game backs up the hype. His 53 goals lead the league and he’s second with 88 points. Only three players have more points than Stamkos has goals.
Martin St. Louis is having another good season with 24 goals and 68 points. Teddy Purcell is the third player to watch out for, with a career-high 60 points.
All three play on the same line, so expect to see Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg jump over the boards when that line plays. The Patrice Bergeron could also see time in that matchup.
Vincent Lecavalier (hand) is with the Lightning, but his status isn’t clear for tonight.


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Every summer for the past nine years, since KayLee of Oscoda was just 4 years old, she has spent a week at Camp Quality in Petoskey.
At Camp Quality - a 20-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to creating support programs for children with cancer and their families - KayLee doesn't have to focus on doctor visits or treatments. And she doesn't have to feel like she's the only kid who has, or has ever had cancer.
"Knowing that I'm not the one that stands out," KayLee said is what keeps her coming back each year. That and the dozens of friends she's made and continues to make each year.
"I love everyone here. They're my best friends," echoed Vicki of Tecumseh, a camper for the past four years. "Camp Quality is like home."
It's that home away from home, that one week out of the year the campers look forward to all year long.
"My friends tell me to shut up because I talk about it so much," said Vicki, a huge smile lighting up her face.
"I go through the picture books a thousand times," KayLee agreed with a giggle.
That smile and that giggle are exactly why Camp Quality exists today.
Eleanor West, Camp Quality Michigan director, said a group of about 30 people, including herself, formed Camp Quality Michigan after reading about a program started in Australia through the Community of Christ Church.
"We got together and said this is the kind of ministry we want to do," West said. "The ultimate goal is to help children."
The first camp was held in 1987 in Boyne City. That first year there were 12 campers. This year the camp, held at Camp Daggett in Petoskey, has more than 60 children participating. And a second camp was started this year in honor of the 20th anniversary, held at Camp Copneconic in Fenton last month.
But the main mission of Camp Quality has never changed. It's about "letting kids be kids again."
"It used to be that children who had a problem got hidden," West said. "But today a little girl who had never played baseball got to play and was encouraged. When you hear stuff like that, it's great!"
Campers agreed that Camp Quality encourages them to try things they never would have tried before.
"I never did archery but the first year (here) that's all I did," said Sarah, a six year camp participant.
Vicki said she ended up joining her school's equestrian team after riding a horse for the first time at camp.
Shawn, a four year camp participant, said he's loved his time at Camp Quality so much - going to the frog pond to catch frogs is his favorite activity - that he wants to come back eventually to volunteer. He wants to be a camper companion.
"It'll be easier for the kids," he explained. "I like to listen to all the hip hop. And I like to play video games. I think I'd fit in."
Companion Dave Wassenaar of Charlevoix, a cancer survivor himself, said Camp Quality is one of the best programs he's been involved with. That's why he's spent the past 12 years giving his time.
"I think we're mandated as humans to give back the way we've been comforted. I guess that's why I'm here," said Sally Longacre of Fairview, a first year volunteer and cancer survivor. "I think it's just a wonderful thing we're doing for the kids."
For more information about Camp Quality call 582-2471 or visit www.campqualitymi.org.


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Here's my honest overall take on this; every time I hear the saying that being or looking fit is "80 percent diet and 20 percent exercise", I cringe. Is diet incredibly important to fat loss, weight loss, and/or a healthy body? Yes. Is working out essential to fat loss, weight loss, and a healthy body? Yes; completely. Both are absolutely necessary for a strong, healthy, good-looking body; there's no reason to diminish the immensely important role of exercise in order to highlight the value of nutrition.
The award for the most bizarre trend in 2018 goes to this plan, which eliminates some of the healthiest foods, including fruits and veggies, nuts and seeds, beans, and grains (including whole grains). What’s left? Beef, chicken, fish, eggs, turkey, butter, milk, yogurt, and cheese. I’m typically open to any eating style that’s practiced in a healthy way, but since this plan is virtually devoid of beneficial nutrients, such as antioxidants, phytochemicals, and fiber, from plants, I can’t give it any props. And in fact, even if you’re losing weight eating nothing but animal foods, there’s still a good chance this plan will do some long-term damage. One study found that within two days of shifting to a mostly meat-and-cheese diet, your microbiome shifts in a way that promotes inflammation and intestinal disease. Plant foods are key to optimal health, as we know from studying people who live the longest, good quality lives, so let’s hope this diet trend gets dropped come the new year.
Aim to fill half your plate with fruits and veggies at every meal, recommends the United States Department of Agriculture. Try to “eat the rainbow” by choosing fruits and veggies of different colors. This will help you enjoy the full range of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that the produce aisle has to offer. Every time you go to the grocery store, considering choosing a new fruit or vegetable to try. For snacks, keep dried fruits in your workout bag and raw veggies in the fridge.
"Drastically limiting your intake of glucose, the usual energy source for your cells, reduces insulin secretions in your body. Since low levels of glucose are coming in, the body uses what is stored in the liver and then the muscles," says Rania Batayneh, MPH, the author of The One One One Diet: The Simple 1:1:1 Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss. After about three or four days, all of the stored glucose is used up.
People receiving cancer treatment need to be aware of food safety, because some treatments may weaken the immune system and lead to an infection. An infection occurs when harmful bacteria, viruses, or fungi, such as yeast, invade the body and the immune system is not able to destroy them quickly enough. Here are some basic food safety tips to reduce the risk of infection.
If you follow these two guidelines, you’ll automatically be doing a third thing that is linked to reduced calorie intake: eating more low-calorie–dense foods. High-calorie–dense foods (like full-fat cheese and red meat) pack more calories ounce for ounce than low-calorie–dense ones (like vegetables, fresh fruits, and whole-grain cereal). According to a study published in the journal Appetite, eating a low-calorie–dense diet (by decreasing fat, eating more produce, or adding water to recipes) helped people consume 230 to 396 fewer calories a day. “With these strategies, you’ll also be eating foods that are higher in fiber, so you’ll stay satisfied,” says Donald D. Hensrud, M.D., the chair of preventive medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. If you’re still not dropping weight, consider using an app, such as Lose It!, to track your calories. That way, you’ll be able to see what you’re consuming and where the calories are coming from.
Protein is needed to help keep your body growing, maintained, and repaired. For example, the University of Rochester Medical Center reports that red blood cells die after about 120 days. Protein is also essential for building and repairing muscles, helping you enjoy the benefits of your workout. It can be a source of energy when carbohydrates are in short supply, but it’s not a major source of fuel during exercise you’re well-fed.
The interesting thing is that many people are willing to spend a lot of time, money, and energy on expensive gym memberships and boutique fitness classes—and then say they’re too busy to cook. Even if you only spend 15 minutes driving to and from the gym every day, that’s 30 minutes that you could have put toward cooking a healthy dinner. And if you spend $30 a pop, 3 times per week on fancy circuit or spin classes, that’s $90 you could dedicate to your grocery budget. That wild salmon doesn’t sound quite so outrageous now, right?
Minerals are another component in a healthy diet. There are two categories of minerals: major minerals and trace minerals. The difference between each of these is the amount that is needed each day. The major minerals are calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride, and sulfur. The trace minerals are iodine, iron, zinc, selenium, fluoride, chromium, and copper.
Atkins products have been tested to ensure that their impact on your blood sugar level is minimal. The majority of Atkins products can be suitable for Phase 1 as long as you don’t sacrifice the intake of foundation vegetables (the requirement is 12 to 15 net carbs daily). If you are in Induction, you have 5 to 8 grams of net carbs to use for dairy, dressings, or Atkins products. You can plan accordingly and customize your diet to your needs!
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders after stroke, and affects around 50 million people worldwide. It is diagnosed in a person having recurrent, unprovoked seizures. These occur when cortical neurons fire excessively, hypersynchronously, or both, leading to temporary disruption of normal brain function. This might affect, for example, the muscles, the senses, consciousness, or a combination. A seizure can be focal (confined to one part of the brain) or generalised (spread widely throughout the brain and leading to a loss of consciousness). Epilepsy can occur for a variety of reasons; some forms have been classified into epileptic syndromes, most of which begin in childhood. Epilepsy is considered refractory (not yielding to treatment) when two or three anticonvulsant drugs have failed to control it. About 60% of patients achieve control of their epilepsy with the first drug they use, whereas around 30% do not achieve control with drugs. When drugs fail, other options include epilepsy surgery, vagus nerve stimulation, and the ketogenic diet.


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Fasciation - that is what is going on with that one bloom.
I've seen a few Winter Hazels around the Philadelphia area at arboretums, estates, campuses, and at professional landscapes. This Buttercup is the main one. My biggest customer has a good specimen in her landscape on a slope above an artificial pond in mid-day full sunshine, but also some shade. It is a good-looking medium sized shrub that is neat and clean with good flowers, smooth grey bark, and form. This species is native to Japan and Taiwan.
Made and registered by @prabhisetty, this hybrid is a cross of Orchid (Cattleya Hawaiian Wedding Song) and Orchid (Rhyncattleanthe Twentyfour Carat).
I've had Woodside Debutante for many years now. The flowers are quite pretty but it does poorly in my garden. It has a difficult time with multiple freeze/thaw cycles in late winter/early Spring. I suspect it would do much better in a warmer climate.
My plants were bought from Wild & Son April 2017 and are a peach pink and not as medium pink as the other pictures here in the database. It definitely has the yellow throat.
I eventually gave up on Evening Trail. It is such a nice color & has great form, but the blooms are way too few to justify taking up space.
This Dwarf Plum or Sandcherry is native from New Brunswick to southern Manitoba down into the central Plains to Kansas to around the Great Lakes to some spots in the Appalachians to northern New Jersey to New England, growing in dry sandy sites in neutral to slightly alkaline soils. It an irregular, loosely branched shrub that spreads by rhizomes, often is only about 2 feet high, but can get to 8 feet high. Many botanists recognize three varieties based mostly on different leaf shapes. The leaves are 1.5 to 2.5 inches long by 1 inch wide, darker green above and getting a good fall color of yellow to red. The small, white, numerous flowers are about 1/2 inch across with 5 rounded petals with one style surrounded by white stamens with yellow tips, blooming in spring before the leaves unfold. The fruit is a nearly black, shiny, rounded drupe about 1/2 inch in diameter with a single bitter seed inside. The fleshy fruit can be delicious or tart, but is edible for humans as raw or cooked or in preserves, but the seed is bitter and should not be eaten. I have not seen this species yet, but I'll look for it. Some native plant nurseries sell some. I saw one photo online that is about 8 feet high in Minnesota and looks good to me in its informal form. This species was crossed with the Purpleleaf Plum Tree to produce the Purple Sandcherry shrub (Prunus x cistena) that is commonly planted.
This black-foliaged cultivar is the only form of this species that I've seen. The foliage begins as green and then turns almost black. Mondo-grass is a tuberous rooted, often stoloniferous, grass-like perennial of the Lily Family from Japan, closely related to Liriopes. It is a stemless plant with narrow, linear basal leaves in arching, slowly spreading clumps. The white tinged pink, 6-tepaled bell-like flowers about 1/4 inch long in summer are on leafless stems (scapes). They are followed by dark purple, pea-sized glossy berries. It grows best in moist, rich, slightly acid soil. The genus name of "Ophio pogon" comes from Greek meaning "snake beard." The cultivars and the mother species are much better plants than the similar Liriope spicata, the Creeping Liriope or Lilyturf, for gardens because they don't aggressively take over beds and get under the other plants and become such a horrible maintenance problem.
I came upon a few of this Manchurian Apricot at one location around an apartment complex on the west side of Aurora, IL, and at another apartment complex in St Charles, IL. It is a pretty tree with its good flowers, bark, and foliage. I don't remember really seeing any fruit that would be small 1 inch round apricots, and I don't remember the fall colour. Native to Manchuria and Korea.
This small shrub used to be commonly sold as one of the cheapest woody plants at many conventional nurseries in the Chicago area from the 1960's to the 1990's. This Dwarf Flowering Almond is a straggly woody plant that only has its flowers as the nice feature, which are single or double and white to pink. It would only live about maybe ten years and die out. Some cheap mail order nurseries may still sell it. It is native to central and northern China.
I've only seen this Common or European Birdcherry in one planting, and that was on the hospital grounds where I used to work in the west suburbs of Chicago, IL. About 10 trees were planted around the employee parking garage. Most were in part-shade and developed a bad case of Black Knot Disease of long, black growths along the twigs and younger branches. The ones in full sun were not as bad. The leaves of this species are 2.5 to 5 inches long by 1.2 to 2 inches wide. The fragrant flowers are in 3 to 6 inch long raceme clusters from mid-April to early May. The fruit is a 1/4 to 1/3 inch diameter cherry in July and August. It is sort of like a smaller American Wild Black Cherry. It is native to Europe and northern Asia into Japan. It has infrequently been planted in a few parks, campuses, and public landscapes by landscape architects in eastern North America. Nice, but not a wonderful plant. I would be concerned in North America of possible escape from cultivation by birds eating some fruit.
New from the Ball Horticultural Company, a Ball Flora Plant beauty.
New from the Ball Horticultural Company, another Ball Flora Plant beauty and I love it.
Mounding hedgehog cactus from north-central Baja California with several ribs, many stems, and orange flowers. Formerly a variety or subspecies of E. polyacanthus and E. pacificus. From the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, rare in habitat.
Not to be confused with the related E. pacificus, also formerly a subspecies or variety of E. polyacanthus, which is found to its north. Only E. mombergerianus is trioecious (with separate male, female, and bisexual individuals).
Variable mounding hedgehog cactus with 10-13 ribs, often many (dozens up to 400) stems, and orange or red flowers. Formerly a variety or subspecies of E. polyacanthus. From San Carlos Canyon in NW Baja California, rare in habitat. Not to be confused with the related E. mombergerianus, formerly a subspecies or variety of E. pacificus and E. polyacanthus, found just to its south and distinguished by being trioecious (separate male, female, and bisexual individuals).
This dwarf cultivar is relatively new to the market. I just heard of it last year from a landscape architect. It looks way better than either the old 'Bronx' or 'Arnold Dwarf' Forsythias that have been used like high groundcovers. It profusely bears its light yellow flowers in early spring. Its origin was in France when a seedling was selected from seed that came from 'Spring Glory' Border Forsythias irradiated with gamma rays. It was originally called 'Courtasol.' It is recommended that the long shoots that stick up above most of the shrub be removed. The flower buds can be damaged by strong winters in Zone 5.
This low growing shrub is not used as much as it used to be in 1960's into the 1990's in the Midwest and East USA, but it is still offered by some conventional and mail order nurseries. It forms a high groundcover of arching stems that hit the ground and root. I don't recommend it as it gets to be a messy tangle of stems as time goes on. It usually does not bloom well with its pale yellow or greenish-yellow flowers. It has no real fall colour. It was developed by Dr. Sax at the Arnold Arboretum in 1941 from a cross between the Border Forsythia (F. x intermedia X the Japanese Forsythia (F. japonica saxatilis).
This dwarf cultivar of the Greenstem Forsythia is still sold occasionally at many conventional nurseries in the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast USA. It tends to be used more by landscape architects & designers than the general public. I see it occasionally in some public and professional landscapes. I don't find it to be wonderful plant. Back in the Chicago Region in Zone 5a in the 1970's into the 1990's it often did not bloom well from flower buds killed during a strong winter, unless they were sheltered by snow. In Zone 6 and higher it tends to bloom well. It has no fall colour like other forsythias. I remember one person in the past digging one out of the ground because she did not like how it got untidy when older; it needs lots of selective pruning to keep looking good.


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Is the American shopping attitude morphing into that of China? I work at a high end men's boutique, and even with our clientele ranging from producers to agents to doctors and lawyers I still feel like I have a little hut in the middle of a Chinese market. The infamous recession is slowly evolving our shopping culture into a climate identical to the Chinese black market. If the American culture is demanding eco-friendly and American made products there is no room for haggling. If society is against the man, then how come our preferred shopping habits are killing small business owners? The conflicting desires among consumers today are throwing independent retailers into an even more chaotic downturn. Next time you are temped to haggle, just remember our marketplace will surly reap the benefits.
Being a proud Oklahoma citizen you can only imagine the excitement that filled my heart when the Native American influence made a mark in fashion history. Even though the Navajo fad will make it's departure as quick as it's appearance, there's still something quite nostalgic to know my heritage had a minute of fame. The fabrics and patterns of Navajo is a drastic change from the 40's silhouettes of F/W '09.
Overall, this trend is highly welcomed and executed extremely well by Pendleton/Opening Ceremony. Pendleton is a brand with a rich history of producing Native American fabrics and textiles since the 1800s. Opening Ceremony has teamed up with Pendleton to collaborate a trendy meets outdoorsy line. The outcome of the line is an ingenius artistic approach to our nation's richest and earliest settlers.
Fall is prime time to claim your F/W season staples. Designers have done an amazing job releasing on-trend budget friendly options. My top picks for key wardrobe pieces this season are scarves, schoolboy blazers, over the knee boots, nylon totes and a great time piece. When money is tight your greatest investment is one you can wear with anything. Rather than snatching up the latest dress you might want to consider how versable it is. These staples are sure to give you extra wear through those mild autumn days and cold winter nights.


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