05.10.11

Tommy Epps with Epps Body Blow the whistle on buy will be hosting White Oak Fun Day Saturday, Oct. 22, to aid Halifax County Cancer Association.

The Fun Day will be held at 5037 Chatham Course on Highway 57 in Halifax and will begin at 8 a.m. when powered parachutes will fly in.

The day hanker event will include a cruise-in featuring old-fashioned and custom cars, trucks and motorcycles, old and quarter scale tractors, airplanes, helicopter, rations, bluegrass and gospel music, remote hold sway over airplanes and barrel rides for the kids.

Aliment available for purchase will be stew, barbecue plates and sandwiches, hotdogs, fish plates, sandwiches and bake marketing items.

50/50 drawing tickets can be purchased for $1 each or an arm magnitude for $5. Along with cash prizes, other prizes will be awarded.

Anyone wishing to accompany an antique or custom car or truck, custom motorcycle, tractor or airplane are asked to communication Epps at 470-3777 or call Halifax County Cancer Relationship at 434-476-2714.

Source: Gazette Virginian

03.10.11

Take a heavy breath, readers in Oklahoma City, Okla.; Birmingham, Ala.; and New Orleans. Precisely kidding, we know you can't! These are the country's most congested cities, according to a new scan from Sperling's BestPlaces and Breathe Right Nasal Strips. 

Seven categories were entranced into consideration when ranking the most stuffed-up cities: pollen upon, molds and spores; air pollution; incidence of flu; securing habits of congestion products; prescriptions of congestion comfort drugs; smoking; and climate.

Surprised a smog-dreary city like Los Angeles didn't top the bibliography? So was Dr. Michael Breus, a board-certified take a nap disorder physician. "I kind of expected inevitable cities that may be known for more pollution would be at the higher end of the scale," Breus says. "Everybody always talks about smog in unavoidable places, like Los Angeles. I would’ve expected that to be conclusively in the top 10 and it wasn’t." (Los Angeles was ranked no. 38.) 

As Breus explains it, we can also safely take for granted these congested cities rank very high in the following categories: most meet to sleep poorly, most likely to  entry-breathe  and most likely to snore. 

Source: msnbc.com

by Rosa Golijan

The Google Vigour help has been around for a while and allows you to look after an online salubriousness chart. In theory this would aid doctors and dearest members in keeping railroad of your strength information. By integrating a apparatus like the Withings scale, the secondment could theoretically be adapted to to serve keep a trim or wholesomeness envision on railway. After all, it’s kinda muscular to fib if your scale tells on you – not only to Twitter, but to Google and your doctor.

Withings Announces Integration with Google Fitness for its WiFi Connected Body Scale

Issy-les-Moulineaux, France – January 28, 2010 — Today, Withings, maker of the age’s first WiFi connected particular scale, is announcing its integration with the Google Robustness serving. As of today, the Withings WiFi Body Scale can take care of updates to a drug’s Google Strength serve wirelessly in actual-period using its built-in WiFi kith.

Google Healthiness, launched last year, is a intimate vigorousness recording that allows users to store, form, and carry out well-being facts all in one suitable. It organizes a consumer’s vigorousness message and allows them to ration that tidings with kinsfolk members, caregivers and doctors. Now, the scale will automatically update the drug’s weight and fat heap up to their Google Salubriousness take.

“It’s rip-roaring to be one of the inopportune machinery devices to merge with the Google Haleness mending,” said Cedric Hutchings, Withings Inexact Foreman. “Keeping your doctors and caregivers briefed on all aspects of your fitness is eminent in maintaining a accordant strength drawing, so being part of Google Trim’s feat to intimate this feasible is animating.”

The WiFi Body Scale is a solitary offering that automatically records the owner’s body tonnage, gangling & fat mess, and purposeful body assemble listing (BMI) to his/her fixed webpage and/or release Withings iPhone persistence, WiScale [ more info on the scale here ]. Also, if enabled by the purchaser, the scale can automatically “Tweet” dope in serenity to get motivation from the drug’s followers [ more info on that puff up here ].

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by douglasmichael1990

The Omron Hbf-5125 is a extraordinary sensory scale. It has whole body formulation and promotion tracking for more than one individual! Gentle to use and has measurements accurately down to one tenth of a beat out increments. It also does an critique of your body and compares it to what age your body’s simultaneous health circumstances is. It blows bathroom scales out of the distilled water. I have tried many doctor auspices scales and this is a wonderful comparision if not superiority.

I have had the Omron Hbf-512S Full Body Article Study & Scale for only a week now – purchased thru Amazon / Gizmo’s for Way of life. It looks nifty and I’m very advantageous with the module. It arrived on the earliest girl in the estimated deliverance in cultivate quarters. It was calmly to set up but I did come two quirks.

- First you have to wait 24 hours after your original biography entrance to see it in celebration (it does say 1 day ago – so that was definitely decent a “worked as advertised” effect).

- Secondly, if you weigh yourself with the handgrip in the holder, you weigh 1.2 lbs. less than when your holding the charge steer in your hands as its heaviness is not included. When it is in your hands, the reading is 1.2 lbs. higher. Not truly a malfunction, I over all the Omron handgrips calling this way. I’m lawful surprised it didn’t direct attention to that in the enchiridion. As in particular #1, its not definitely a demerit equitable an order that should be mentioned by the producer. I suggest – they did evaluate this sentiment didn’t they?

The directions doesn’t talk either of these issues nor does it with any of the units on the Omron website. But then, the Omron Hbf-512S isn’t even mentioned on the assemblage website.

The scale is very lightweight, precise and express; all the measurements exertion as advertised. They do seem a unimaginative piercing (my body age always comes up as 80 – the max & I’m only 56) but then I am overweight and in inferior state of health. At least the section doesn’t cavil at out when the body age shows up as max. Other Omron units allegedly have had that glitch.

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