![]() ![]() In addition, most rawhide chews are ultra-processed with hundreds of chemicals- I would not want to feed them to my dog on this alone. These sharp fragments can damage the mouth, stomach and intestines. Secondly, when a dog chews on rawhide it can shatter and fragment. This can cause extreme vomiting and may need emergency surgery to correct. Instead, it gets pulled through the guts as a chunk, inevitably getting stuck when the intestines start to narrow. Along with the blockage mentioned above, veterinarians are seeing other painful injuries including broken teeth, broken jaws, and rawhide pieces stock in the intestines.Īs a vet, my main concerns with rawhide chews are in their digestibility, their chemical processing and their ability to fragment.Īlthough dogs can usually digest rawhide, when a large chunk of rawhide is swallowed, it may not get digested by the stomach and intestines in time. Rawhide chews can cause painful injuries. As I shared, Rodrigo can't handle the flavored ones there are other dogs that have shown that they're allergic to the ingredients used to create the rawhide chews. Rawhide chews come with a risk of contamination due to the chemicals used to create them (remember the glue I mentioned?). They passed right before he was due for a trip to the emergency vet and it was a painful process for him and terrifying for me. Rodrigo enjoyed rawhide chews until he had to pass a few sharp pieces. Our dogs sometimes swallow entire chunks at a time, and since they're largely indigestible, these can get stuck in a dog's throat (I've pulled many out) and intestinal tract. Rawhide chews come with a real risk of blockage. Some rawhide chews are flavored, but Rodrigo doesn't do well with the flavored ones, so we always just purchased the plain ones. They're spun in circles and dried, and if you look closely, they're held together with an adhesive (should our dogs be consuming this?). ![]() The ones we've purchased are made of beef hide. Rawhide chews were my saving grace when the weather sucked, when I needed to get some work done, or when I just wanted a peaceful evening. When I accepted that rawhide chews were dangerous for my dogs, I was disappointed. Rawhide chews keep our dogs' jaws strong, their teeth clean, and their breath fresh. Our dogs love to chew and rawhide chews have been great for their teeth, for boredom, and to alleviate anxiety. Did you know that rawhide chews are mostly indigestible? Did you know that rawhide chews can be dangerous to our dogs? In this post, I share more than 20 alternatives for pet parents looking to safely satisfy their dog's chew drive. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A descriptive name for the device that will help you easily identify it.On the other hand, you can also immediately investigate who is trying to break into your network with the knowledge that the Fingbox is blocking their access.įor legitimate devices that are part of your network, the app allows you to enter: If, for example, you are adding a new IoT device to your smart home or you just gave a guest your Wi-Fi network password so they can connect their laptop to it, you can easily use the Fing app to unblock the device. When the Fingbox detects someone or something attempting to connect to your network, it will automatically block it and send you a notification. Fingbox Device Managementįirst, the Fingbox allows you to manage all the devices connected to your network, including automatically blocking all intruders and unknown devices that attempt to connect to it. In addition, because the Fingbox isn’t intercepting every packet, analyzing it, and then passing it along to its destination, it doesn’t have any impact on your network’s performance. Instead, the Fingbox provides users with additional tools to help secure a network. It doesn’t monitor every data packet coming into or out of the network looking for potential hazards and filtering them. The first thing to understand is that the Fingbox is not a firewall. There are iOS and Android apps for interacting with the Fingbox. The Fingbox is a small white puck with a blue silicone cover that plugs into your network with an Ethernet cable connected to your router or an Ethernet switch. There are a number of other network security devices available, of course, but I chose to focus on the Fingbox and Firewalla because, unlike many others, they don’t require a yearly subscription that, over time, will add significantly to the cost of ownership. In this article I’m going to focus on two of these devices: Fingbox and Firewalla. ![]() Given this, adding additional hardware security devices to a network that can detect issues makes sense. According to an article published by ZDNet, today’s consumer-grade routers have numerous security flaws that leave consumers open to attacks by hackers. Securing a smart home begins with securing the home’s network, including its Wi-Fi. Other top breaches include man-in-the-middle attacks and brute force attacks.” Among all IoT-related security breaches, malware tops the list. Again, according to an article on the Parks Associates Blog, “40 percent of broadband households experience security/privacy-related problems with their connected devices annually. According to Parks Associates, “79 percent of consumers are concerned about the possibility of data security or privacy related issues.” These concerns are not unwarranted. ![]() ![]() If you love strategy gaming please go and buy this game and support this developer! This is a FAR, FAR superior game to Civilizations 1-5 as well as anything put out by Creative Assembly. I'm very excited about where this will lead with the Hearts of Iron series, because all the design wisdom that we can see in CK2 and EU4 is leading in the absolute correct direction. The depth and complication is welcome, but it has been softened with a more thoughtful and gaming friendly structure! GREAT WORK PARADOX! Good things take time, and your grand ambitions are finally bearing fruit. Europa Universalis IV seems to demonstrate that Paradox has really turned the corner. The machine kept churning away but Paradox learned to save us from the worst of it, and the gameplay began to blossom. However something miraculous happened with Crusaders Kings 2, and echoes of the good things we saw in earlier games (Hearts of Iron 2) reappeared: Better looking graphics. But beyond inaccessibility, the games were finally not that good, because even when you figured out the mechanisms they were still too MECHANICAL: not even really worth learning in the end because they were all variations of a sausage machine. Most of the Paradox efforts suffered from terrible tutorials and ridiculous learning curved that discouraged any vaguely casual gamers. ![]() Their games have been for the most part tedious, pretentious and ugly, with cluttered mechanisms, and hideous micromanagement. Their WOW! For about ten years Paradox Development have been a small team of nice guys working hard to give us good games and mostly failing. One of them even brought me back Excalibur! I mean, it might not be the Excalibur, but anyone who says otherwise is going into the dungeon.WOW! For about ten years Paradox Development have been a small team of nice guys working hard to give us good games and mostly failing. As they evaded bandits, hunted wild beasts, and discovered legendary relics, I looked forward to every thrilling dispatch from my adventurers. Inspired characters now show up at court to ask for funding to go on thrilling adventures to far-flung corners of the world, and these kick off some of my favorite event chains in all of CK3. Now I can!Īnd if I'm not feeling like going on some grand outing to found new kingdoms and give rise to new cultures, I can pay someone else to do it for me. It always felt disappointing before when I would lead my viking armies to conquer part of India, but I couldn't combine aspects of both the conquerors and the conquered, as often happened in actual history. If you're not the culture head you can choose to diverge from your parent culture, and if you have more than one prominent culture in your realm you can create a hybrid culture of the two. As the head of an existing culture you can swap out or add pillars, from adopting Roman-style standing armies to becoming horse nomads who completely ignore attrition on the windswept steppes. Now, we can do the same thing with our entire culture as well. ![]() CK3 launched with an excellent custom religion system that allowed you to create your own heresy, selecting everything from the bonuses it gives practitioners to its teachings on, for example, homosexuality or witchcraft. Royal Court introduces new and rewarding ways to leave your mark on the map, too. A new king of historical strategy has been crowned. ![]() In fact, if I had to pick only one game to play for the rest of my life, the decision wouldn’t be that difficult. All of the engrossingly flawed characters and stories of love, war, triumph, and loss that have already dynamically emerged from my playthroughs feel like just the beginning of something legendary. I have thousands of hours in the previous game, and I expect to spend at least that many in this third installment. ![]() Crusader Kings 3 is a superb strategy game, a great RPG, and a master class in how to take the best parts of existing systems and make them deeper and better. ![]() ![]() ![]() (updated by Lisa Hendicks on - thank you ) Burns Chevrolet Inc Updated on 01/19/21 Bridge Crest Acceptance Corp Type: Loss Payee Bmw Financial Services (Lease) PO Box 8002 Hillard, OH 43026-8002 Sacramento, CA 95866 BMW FINANCIAL SERVICES (LEASE) Address: PO BOX 924517 FORT WORTH TEXAS 76124 ( UPDATED 02/20/19) BMO HARRIS, NA updated by anonymous on 01/31/19 thank youġ2 South main street Holland, NY 14080 BANK OF THE WESTġ2860 N Hwy 183 Austin, TX 78750 Bellco CUįax 85… (UPDATED 02/20/19) Beneficial State BankĢ00 Mill Road suite 100 Fairhaven, MA 02719ġ818 Market Street Philadelphia PA 19103 ( all 3 updated on 06/11/19) BLUE FCU This address was updated by an anonymous user on BANK OF HOLLAND updated on 02/8/21 by Neal. 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Feel free to share pictures of your newest figure, the latest news on a sculpt, or questions about the hobby. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once they’ve burned off all that energy we’ll take care of their party meal and squash. ![]() They’ll have the best time climbing, exploring in the ball pit, and whizzing down the slides with their friends. Our Soft Play Parties could be perfect to let your little ones celebrate in style. We’ll take care of the food and drink, and even the birthday invitations. They’ll love the competitive fun with their friends. Only at Palasad South, experience a shooting good time for birthday parties, team building, stag & doe, or a fun workout. Stop asking Google Where’s the closest laser tag near me and head to our Laser Tag locations across Australia today. Let the birthday boy or girl captain their team to victory with a Sector 7 Laser Tag Kid’s Party. So grab your girls and get into the singing spirit with some prosecco and bang out some tunes. 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I even tried to blow dry my hair with just the cold air at first, but after I froze myself for a few minutes and realized my hair was no closer to being dry, I gave up, tossed my hair into a bun and tossed the dryer into the trash.Īs luck should have it, just as I sat down to check my email, I saw that Sephora was on their last day of a double points promotion for Beauty Insiders, and I recalled that my best friend had recently purchased and enjoyed the DryBar Buttercup blow dryer. This time, no matter how much I jiggered the cord, all I got was an icy blast. In fairness, it had been doing this intermittently for a while, but then the hot air would only stop functioning for a few seconds, so it was easy to put up with. I had purchased it at ULTA years ago, and out of the blue one day, it just completely stopped blowing hot air. Connect with her via Learn more about how our team of experts tests and reviews products at Insider here.About two months ago, I laid my beloved CHI Blow Dryer to rest. When she's not writing (for work or creatively), you can find Julia curled up on her couch reading, practicing yoga, exercising in some capacity, adventuring with her husband, or spending quality time with family. Julia's bylines have since spanned across publications like InStyle, Insider, SheKnows, Eat This, Not That!, MindBodyGreen, and more. A full-time freelance writer and editor based in New Jersey, Julia previously served as a health and wellness reporter for Elite Daily and kick-started her career in the e-comm space as the beauty editor for from 2015-2017. With over six years of writing across both verticals, she is forever testing all things makeup and skincare, fashion, athleisure, products that benefit women's health, as well as the best home gym equipment. Julia Guerra is a contributing beauty/style and fitness writer for Insider Reviews. But overall, the paddle shape of the brush really helped my own hair texture take on a smooth, straight look. For this reason, after reviewing the Drybar Double Shot Blow Dryer Brush, I personally wouldn't recommend it to someone with very curly hair. This blow dryer brush's handle was slippery and uncomfortable to hold after a while. This makes drying my hair with even a regular blow dryer taxing. My hair is naturally wavy and I have thin strands, but it's also very dense. Is the Drybar Double Shot Blow Dryer Brush worth it? ![]() A microfiber hair towel can help to speed up the drying process. Unless you have thinner, shorter hair than I- in which case about 10 minutes of air drying will probably suffice. Despite this, it takes a very long time to dry thick hair if it's soaked to start with. The first thing I noticed when reviewing the Drybar Double Shot Blow Dryer Brush was how hot and powerful the airflow was. ![]() Then I use a detangling comb or traditional brush to work through any big knots and pile 90% of my hair on top of my head with a clip or silk scrunchie. To prepare for this Drybar Double Shot Blow Dryer Brush review, I added a coat of heat protectant spray to my wet hair. My experience with the Double Shot Blow Dryer Brush The tool promises to seal the hair cuticle for less frizz and maximum shine, but at $155, I needed to know if it would deliver. But as a long-time fan of Drybar's salon (and especially their Buttercup Blow Dryer), I wanted to review the Double Shot Blow Dryer Brush and see how it works. Dyson's is super popular, but Dyson Airwrap reviews complain that it's too expensive. It can be tricky to narrow down your options when so many brands have their own version. The best blow dryer brushes like the highly-reviewed Revlon One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizer are champions of this kind of multitasking. ![]() That was until it came time to review the Drybar Blow Dryer Brush.įor those who don't know, a blow dryer brush is exactly what it sounds like: a double-duty styling tool that dries your hair while you brush and style. Unfortunately for my strands, achieving my ideal look typically involves using both a hairdryer and flat iron. Your haircare routine is just as important as your skincare routine, and I've been trying to nail down a regimen that doesn't fry my hair for years now. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am hopeful that this guide was able to provide some people with help and that it will continue to in the future. It currently sits at around 3,750 unique viewers and 70 favorites. The release of this one last patch prompted me to finish up this guide. This patch included no major augmentations in terms of content, but it squashed a few bugs. The devs have, not too long ago, released the very last update for the game. For now, have fun playing this wonderful game, and good luck! (also its christmas eve boys wew wew wew wew wew)ĮDIT (1/11/18): Been a while since I've revised this guide, but this *SHOULD* be the final draft. If for some reason the devs come back to this game and update it again, I'll update the guide accordingly. If you're looking at this guide in the future, PLEASE, leave a comment and I'll fix whatever may be wrong with it. ![]() The information in the guide still holds up (only 1 update since the many months ago I uploaded it, wew) and I might make some last little touches to make it as best as it can be. I know it doesn't seem like much, but for a semi-dead game like Nuclear Throne, it isn't bad. Nearly 2000 views and about 25 favorites. It's the most expansive guide I've made and I'm very very proud of it. ![]() There isn't much you can't find about the game in this guide.ĮDIT: Woah thanks for nearly 1500 views guys! Hope this guide has helped out.ĮDIT (12/24/16): Well, it's been some time since I wrote this guide, and a while since I viewed it. Nuclear Throne for dummies will include anything from how to complete stage 1-1 to all of the unlocks in the game. Did you just buy Nuclear Throne and you are lost? Are you very confused by what all of the other guides are saying? Are you clueless of what you are doing in Nuclear Throne in general and need some guidance? Look no further! Nuclear Throne for Dummies is here to help. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the Closing Date, the parties hereto shall cause the Merger to be consummated by filing a certificate of merger (the ![]() The closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall take place at the offices of theĬompanys counsel, Helms Mulliss & Wicker, PLLC, 201 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina at 11:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on the earliest to occur of (A) the third Business Day following the satisfaction or waiver of allĬonditions to the obligations of the parties set forth in Article 6 or (B) as otherwise agreed by the parties (the Separate corporate existence of Merger Sub shall cease and the Company shall continue as the surviving corporation of the Merger (the Upon the terms and subject to satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in this Agreement, and in accordance with the DGCL, Merger Sub shall be merged with and into the Company. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth in this AgreementĪnd intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto agree as follows: Respective business strategies and is in the best interest of their respective stockholders, and Parent has approved this Agreement and the Merger as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub. WHEREAS, the respective Boards of Directors of Parent and the Company have determined that the Merger is in furtherance of and consistent with their ) upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement and in accordance with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the ![]() WHEREAS, the respective Boards of Directors of Parent, Merger Sub and the Company have approved and declared advisable the merger of Merger Sub with and ), and CAROLINAS CAPITAL CORP., a North Carolina corporation, as agent for the holders of Equity Interests of the Company (the ), DIGITAL OPTICS CORPORATION, a Delaware ), DALTON ACQUISITION CORP., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ( TESSERA TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a Delaware corporation ( Governing Law Consent to Jurisdiction Waiver of Trial by JuryĪGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER, dated as of July 7, 2006 (this ∺greement), by and among Termination, Amendment and WaiverĮxercise of Remedies by Indemnitees other than Parent Written Consent in Lieu of Stockholders MeetingĬonditions to Obligations of Each Party Under This AgreementĪdditional Conditions to Obligations of Parent and Merger SubĪdditional Conditions to Obligations of the CompanyĪrticle 7. Ownership of Merger Sub No Prior ActivitiesĬonduct of Business by the Company Pending the Closing Organization and Qualification Subsidiaries Representations and Warranties of Parent and Merger Sub No Conflict Required Filings and ConsentsĪrticle 4. Organization and Qualification No SubsidiariesĬertificate of Incorporation and By-laws Corporate Books and Records Representations and Warranties of the Company Conversion of Securities Exchange of CertificatesĬlosing Net Assets Adjustment to Merger ConsiderationĪrticle 3. TESSERA TECHNOLOGIES INC - 8-K - 20060710 - EXHIBIT_2Īrticle 2. The following is an excerpt from a 8-K SEC Filing, filed by TESSERA TECHNOLOGIES INC on. TESSERA TECHNOLOGIES INC - Current report filing (8-K) EXHIBIT 2.1 ![]() ![]() What I do is group the clones together, discard the worst-quality ones and keep the good ones in a bag. For some reason megabloks and other clone bricks tend to be in better condition. My worst concern are filth then I have serious issues with scratched bricks, specially those bricks which have micro scratches which make them look old and used. To be honest, megabloks are the least of my concerns about finding creepy stuff in "LEGO" bulks. That's probably one of the reasons I had a break on the purchase of those things. I usually find megabloks in the bulks I buy. My latest megajunk pile will probably get sent to a local charity shop, marked "No LEGO, Megablocks only" and hopefully some weak minded reseller with the IQ of a rock would buy then resell on eBay the lot at ridiculously high, like normal LEGO high. That was before I went into the Dark Age a decade ago, about a year before PayPal. He got a bag of 12 Hot Wheels missing lot of original paint, a load of empty candy wrappers, several domino (not complete), several card from games like UNO, plastic military figures, and other odd and ends that had nothing to do with building blocks. I did off one buyer, he offered a nice sum for "anything I find and removed from Megablocks". I went through them and threw out LEGO and other non Megablock junk" Gets buyer's attention and had a few "under the table" offers for those LEGO that I "threw" away. I keep all the junk bricks I find into one pile, and when it gets big enough I sell em on eBay under the guise "Megablock lot, 99% Megablock. Do you throw it on the floor, make a cross with your fingers, and yell "Begone, vile doppleganger!" or what? Or maybe you burn every one in hope of appeasing LEGO God and your next haul would be better. ![]() Please to explain how supporting open competition in the free market is a characteristic of communism.What would you do if you find any inferior clone bricks in your LEGO lot? Maybe a lot you found at Garage Sale, Boot Sale, eBay, etc and it has a few junk mixed in. If you had actually bothered to read the article, you would have noticed that the reason the trademark was rejected was because it was attempting to protect a functional design.Īre you such a communist that you can’t see why duplicating a companies design should be prevented? If someone were to make a mold of the pillsbury dough boy and sale them do you not think that they would be stopped? It would indicate that Mega made a mold that allowed for interchangeable use with LEGO blocks. Wouldn’t the very fact that the blocks are interchangeable indicate the MegaBlocks simply made a mold of a LEGO block and duplicated the design? LEGO is attempting to continue their monopoly be resorting to trademark law. LEGO blocks were originally patented, but those patents have expired. If the blocks fit together isnt that a physical object which can be tradmwarked?Ī trademark isn’t a physical object, so I’m not sure where you’re coming from here. However, hopefully the company will realize that actually competing in the marketplace isn’t such a bad thing sometimes.įiled Under: blocks, eu, lego, mega bloks, toys, trademark It’s quite likely that Lego will appeal this decision, as the company has quite the reputation for being overly aggressive when it comes to protecting its offerings. Despite losing in Canada, the company still pushed its trademark claims in Europe - but a European court has now sided with Mega Brands as well, in noting that no trademark should be allowed on the concept of interconnecting blocks. Lego, of course, decided that rather than compete on the merits, it would continue to try to avoid market competition through the use of trademark and copyright law. ![]() For years, Lego owned patents on its blocks, but those patents expired and, as has been known to happen, competitors entered the space. ![]() ![]() Thu, Nov 13th 2008 09:28am - Mike Masnickīack in 2005, we wrote about a Canadian Supreme Court decisions that cleared Montreal company Mega Brands from charges of trademark violations for creating Mega Bloks as a competitor to Lego’s well known interconnecting blocks. ![]() |
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