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Local financial analysts say that Cummins, Inc. is in a strong enough financial position that a $2 billion penalty for alleged emissions violations is unlikely to disrupt the company’s operations — and expect Columbus’ largest employer to continue being profitable.
Earlier this week, the Justice Department released new details of a settlement between Cummins and federal and California authorities to resolve allegations that the Columbus-based company installed software on certain RAM pickup truck engines that thwarted emissions rules in violation of the Clean Air Act.
As part of the settlement, Cummins has agreed to pay a $1.675 billion civil penalty — which the government said is the largest civil penalty ever under the Clean Air Act — recall 600,000 RAM trucks and fund emission mitigation projects. The cost of the projects and recall are estimated at more than $325 million, bringing the total penalty to around $2 billion.
The engines in question were made at the Cummins Mid-Range Engine Plant in Walesboro, Cummins officials told The Republic previously. Cummins, which did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement, has said that it fully cooperated with regulators and “has seen no evidence that anyone acted in bad faith.”
Craig Kessler, president and chief investment officer at Columbus-based Kessler Investment Group, said he does not anticipate that the settlement will have any material impact on Cummins’ business or the community.
“They have enough cash to just write a check for the penalty as it is,” Kessler said. “I’m not saying that’s how they will handle it, but the fact is that they can cover the cost of this with just the cash that’s on the balance sheet.”
“I think Cummins has handled this professionally and to the benefit of the community and investors,” Kessler added. “…We don’t think it will have a material impact on the community. This should be something that is in their rear-view mirror relatively quickly.”
To put the civil penalty in perspective, Cummins reported about $25.5 billion in revenue over the first nine months of 2023, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company also reported about $2.2 billion in net income over the same period. Net income is often seen as a company’s final measure of profitability.
Cummins has not yet released its fourth quarter and full-year results for 2023.
Roger Lee, director of research at Columbus-based Kirr, Marbach and Co., said he still expects the company “to be profitable even with the effects of the settlement.”
“(The penalty) is not going to wreak havoc,” Lee said. “It’s just probably going to delay stock buybacks and things of that nature. I think it’s just more of a change in how they’re going to allocate capital for the next year or two. It’s not like it’s going to fundamentally reshape the business.”
“The company is in such a good financial position where it stands currently that this isn’t like a death blow,” Lee added. “It’s more just like a scarlet letter for a little bit.”
The civil penalty has not prompted a steep decline in Cummins stock. On Friday, Cummins stock opened at $239.98 per share, down 1.6% from a closing price of $244 on Dec. 21, the day before the penalty was publicly announced, according to Yahoo Finance. However, the company’s stock opened about 2.3% higher on Friday than its closing price of $234.67 a month earlier.
Cummins has said it expects to record a $2.04 billion charge during the fourth quarter of 2023 due to the settlement and “other related matters” involving approximately 1 million pick-up truck applications in the United States. Of that amount, approximately $1.93 billion relates to payments that are expected to be made in the first half of 2024, the company said.
“The company is in a strong financial position with existing liquidity and access to capital to satisfy obligations associated with the settlements, support ongoing operations and execute its growth strategy,” Cummins said in a statement last month.
Earlier this week, a 23-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., shed some additional light on the allegations announced by the Justice Department last month.
The complaint alleges that certain “software functions and calibrations” that Cummins installed on 630,000 model year 2013 to 2019 RAM pickup trucks affected the vehicles’ emissions controls differently when being tested in a laboratory versus “during other kinds of normal operation.”
During federal emissions, the software and calibrations activated full emission controls and were “compliant with emission standards.” However, the software and calibrations reduced the effectiveness of the vehicles’ emission control system “during normal vehicle operation outside of the parameters of some of the federal emission tests,” leading to elevated nitrogen oxide emissions.
The end result, the government alleges, is that the vehicles emit nitrogen oxides “at a much higher level than emission standards allow.” Preliminary estimates from the Justice Department suggest that the software and calibrations “have caused (the engines) to produce thousands of tons of excess emissions of nitrogen oxides,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement last month.
The Environmental Protection Agency says nitrogen oxide pollution damages the human respiratory system and contributes to acid rain, among other things.
Cummins told The Wall Street Journal that it did not install specific hardware devices to circumvent emissions regulations. Instead, the company attributed the problem to software that was not “properly calibrated” to meet emission standards “at all times.”
The company said it conducted an extensive internal review and “worked collaboratively” with regulators on the matter for more than four years and has already addressed many of the issues.
Cummins spokesman Jon Mills told The Republic last month that the company is looking forward to concluding the agreement with regulators and is planning to “focus on the future” and decarbonizing its industry.
“We’ve been working collaboratively with the agencies on this for more than four years, almost four-and-a-half years,” Mills said. “We’re pleased to be reaching an agreement and looking forward to concluding it. We have a strong reputation for meeting emissions standards, and we have a strong reputation as a great company, and we’re going to continue to focus on the future. We’re a leader in the decarbonization of our industry, and we’re going to continue to do our part to really help our customers seamlessly and successfully transition and continue to lead.”
Experts say that meeting increasingly stringent emissions standards can be “a little tricky” for engine makers, with some regulations having “some room for interpretation.”
“Certainly, there is sophistication required in software and in hardware in passenger car vehicles, commercial vehicles, off-highway vehicles, in order to meet increasingly stringent emissions regulations,” said Greg Shaver, a mechanical engineering professor at director of Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at Purdue University.
“But the other part is some of these regulations are fairly complex, and there are parts of the regulations that require some interpretation,” he added.
Ray W. Herrick Laboratories conducts engineering research and receives funding from several companies, including Cummins.
Shaver pointed to language in some of the regulations that stipulate requirements on software or hardware that can reduce the effectiveness of an engine’s emission control system “under conditions which may reasonably be expected to be encountered in normal vehicle operation and use.” While the regulations provide a description of what is allowed, “there’s still some room for interpretation.”
“How do you determine that?” Shaver said. “How do you determine what is normal operation and whether or not it’s already captured in test cycles that are used to evaluate whether or not an engine meets the requirements and intent of the regulation?”
“(The vehicle) either meets emissions or it doesn’t meet emissions, but how you determine whether or not a vehicle is compliant, that assessment is done through specific tests that are well defined but also potentially testing that is not as well defined,” Shaver added.
The EPA, for its part, regularly takes action against companies for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act violations related to engine emissions. The regulatory agency reported 33 such cases last year, according to its website.


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Roulette is one of the most popular casino games which most agree was initiated by a French physicist and mathematician Blaise Pascal during the 17th century. You may or may not know that Mr Blaise had a completely different goal in mind; what he was trying to do was prove it was possible to produce a perpetual motion machine even though the laws of physics said otherwise. So we’ve got a failed experiment to thank for being able to bet on the outcome of a spinning wheel and have tons of fun while at it. This brilliant physicist didn’t actually create the game, but he did invent the mechanism which was then used as basis for an Even-Odd game using a wheel with 20 slots.
For hundred years of so, Roulette wheel remained pretty much the same. It was the need to make profit that changed it by increasing the number of slots to 37. Mid-19th century, commissioned by King Charles III of Monaco, Lois Blanc created a wheel with a single zero and thus significantly increased house edge. Then Roulette made its way across the Atlantic Ocean and Americans came up with an idea to give the house an even bigger edge by adding a double zero slot. Instead of 37 numbers (0 through to 36), American wheel had 38.
If you look at it, not that many modifications were made to the original game for almost 400 years. It all changed in the early 2000s when Roulette went online. Within two decades or so, developers have offered us game variants playing with multiple balls and featuring side bets which provided additional betting and winning opportunities. What’s more, they made it possible for us to feel as if playing in a land-based casino without having to leave our homes. And more! Let’s take a look at how industry giants such as Evolution Gaming, Pragmatic Play and Playtech changed the way people play Roulette.
Live Roulette Played in the Comfort of One’s Own Home
Online Live Roulette games these days come packed with in-game functions which either mimic options available at land-based venues or go beyond. Players can use Live Chat function to communicate with the dealer and other players, tip their hosts to thank them for a great service, access game rules anytime they wish, view detailed statistics going as far back as the last 500 spins, and choose among multiple bet denominations with limits frequently being lower or higher than in brick-and-mortar casinos. They can place wagers with the help of a Racetrack or use Bet Building mode to create their favourite bets and save them for future use. Several providers stream games from physical casinos and some enable online players to place their wagers alongside those placing real chips on the same table. Most online casinos will allow registered members to observe the game without having to risk a single cent. What’s more, all of the above is available via desktop computers as well as mobile devices.
Evolution Gaming has developed a whole range of Live Roulette variants to accommodate gamblers of different nationalities and make the game even more exciting. To start with, they have recruited a bunch of native dealers able to communicate with online players in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Flemish, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Greek, Russian and Arabic – and they’re not done yet!
Lightning Roulette is one of Evolution’s impressive 2018 releases which quickly proved to be a major success. Innovation comes through a unique studio design which incorporates a background of red, black and green numbered panels representing slots featured on the wheel. Once the latter has been sent spinning, the croupier pulls a lever to activate random selection of 1 to 5 lucky numbers. As lightning bolts strike panels to reveal the selected special numbers, players who have chosen them when placing Straight Up bets get to benefit from a multiplier ranging from 50x up to incredible 500x. This lucrative side game uses a unique combination of Live Roulette wheel and a digital Random Number Generator.
Playtech’s Age Of Gods Roulette is a themed live game playing on a stone table according to European rules. To get a shot at winning one of 4 progressive jackpots, the player needs to select the appropriate option and as the result an average of 0.99% of their bets will contribute to the jackpot pool. Multi-level progressive jackpot is randomly triggered and guarantees the bettor will win either Power, Extra Power, Super Power or Ultimate Power jackpot, the later worth a minimum of €100,000 and likely much more. A new game screen opens and reveals 20 coins, each hiding one of the four jackpot symbols. You’ll need to turn them over to reveal the symbol, and having found 3 matching ones, win the corresponding jackpot. Should you fail to do it within 30 seconds, the game will automatically reveal your prize.
At Extreme’s Golden Ball Roulette table, the one betting the highest amounts over 20 rounds gets to „spin the ball“ and as the result claim additional cash rewards or attractive prizes. The developer’s Reel Roulette series consists of game variants that incorporate one-reel slots based on popular Novomatic titles and offering payouts as high as 80:1.
Live Lucky Ball by Authentic Gaming also offers an independent side bet. Game screen incorporates Lucky Ball wagering area with 4 Lucky Balls coloured in green, blue, orange and purple, each displaying base and bonus payouts. A unique number is attached to each colour on every spin and one randomly chosen as bonus colour. If the outcome of the spin happens to be the selected number, you’ll win between 6:1 and 25:1. Should the physical ball rest on the number featured on the bonus ball, you’ll collect a minimum of 60:1 and potentially as much as 120:1.
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Playing Live Roulette online already comes with multiple advantages over doing one’s gambling in brick-and-mortar casinos, and there’s no doubt further innovations are already being tested by industry leaders. As players, we might find it difficult to imagine what’s next to come, just as we couldn’t have foreseen amazing extras online gaming has provided over the last 2 decades. An increasing competition combined with technology advancements will surely keep wowing us for years to come. How? Your guess is as good as ours.
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Dark chocolate, which is rich in endorphins, makes the nerve cells in the body the most functional. According to the researches, dark chocolate, which is the purest form of cocoa compared to other chocolates, is also rich in flanovol, a powerful antioxidant substance. So, what are the effects of a piece of dark chocolate on the brain?
Scientists doing research on dark chocolate, which is considered the healthiest food despite being a processed food, discussed the effects of dark chocolate on the body. It has been proven in research that even a single piece of dark chocolate, which renews cells, causes miracles in terms of health. US scientists emphasized that dark chocolate causes controlled movement in the functionality of the brain as well as the nervous system. Scientists also underlined that dark chocolate is the most natural remedy for migraine attacks. A piece of bitters taken in the middle of the day affects especially the central area of the brain, making it more vigorous throughout the day.
WHAT EFFECTS CAN A PIECE OF BITTER CHOCOLATE MAKE ON THE BRAIN?
- Only a piece of dark chocolate consumed during the day provides blood flow even to the neutralized areas of the brain for 3 hours.
- It increases the holistic functionality of the brain by activating nerve cells.
- It prevents health problems that affect brain activities such as nerves, stress and fatigue.
- Vascular occlusion and aneurysm are the leading diseases of the brain. dark chocolate prevents blockage in the brain by regulating blood flow.
- It increases the activation in the brain by activating the concentration and information storage areas.
- Dark chocolate, which completes the feeling of satiety, also prevents sweet cravings. This feeling of the brain rather than the stomach and intestines is more beneficial for those who want to lose weight.


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First comes Love, then comes the marriage and then there comes the happily ever after. It might seems like a fairytale ending to many couples. But do they really exist??
Love is the most beautiful emotion to a human being and this gets triumph when the happy couple ties the holy knot of matrimony. Many people think a marriage is only successful if it is with the right person. Hence automatically when the things are going wrong, they go to the “oh crap, I married the wrong person” phase. The couple starts feeling dumbfounded when their fairytale beginning of love starts slipping away in front of them.
But that’s not quite right. In fact, marriage has a lot less to do with the right or wrong person than it is to do the right things with the person you love and marrying. Every couple faces some ups and downs in a relationship but it is a constant work in progress. While it also signals a healthy relationship, it can also discourage you. So to keep the happy connection that made you say “I do” at the first place sustained, try out these following tips to spice up the romance in your married life.
Nurture yourself and re-evaluate the reasons why you first started it:
Begin the flashbacks and ask yourself: what drew me to this person, to begin with? What makes you take all those wedding vows at the altar at first? Remind yourself the qualities of your partner that you have fallen in love with at the first place. Reevaluating the reasons that brought you both together reminds you of the reasons to stay together and this can strengthen your struggling foundation of a relationship.
We understand marriage require a lot of giving but it should not be one-sided. For a marriage to have a happy ending, you need to be a good you. Learn to prioritize and make boundaries around the activities that help you to keep yourself healthy and whole. In simple words, escape some “me” time from your marriage schedules. It can be in the form of a lounge outing with friends or maybe joining a hobby class. This way you’ll have a more balanced version of yourself that help you to take from “me” to “us” equation.
Communicate and Discussion the problems:
Spend some time with yourself before concluding anything. Sit and think about your marriage and analyze which parts work and which don’t. Draft what according to you would be the perfect day in your perfect married life. And then start breaking the issues into bite-sized pieces and tackle one at a time. Discuss the issues with your partner and before you know it, you’ll leave with only a bite-sized problem.
Set up a financial plan together:
Money can be the biggest aggravation to a marriage. We have heard many couples fighting over the money issues and crossing the bottom line over it. So if you also find you and your spouse fight over these money matters for getting the mortgage, then surely it’s a time to put on some efforts. Sit with your partners and make a plan of managing the money. Do you want to combine all the income or separate it? Whatever be the decision is, make sure you both agree upon that. This will be a good step towards understanding and you’ll keep your relationship humming this way.
Do something special together:
There might be some restaurants that were once your favourite and you haven’t visited them for ages. Perhaps this is a good time to go and explore some of them or you can also go back to the place where you first fell in love. Being in a space where you have strong memories of your togetherness will reignite your passion. Travelling is also a good therapy for a shattered marriage and also a good chance to experience something new together. It doesn’t have to be expensive every time, you can simply hire a minibus and go to a favourite place of yours with your partner. Sometimes sitting on a park bench watching the children play the games while holding hands can be magical if love exists. The important thing is to spend some time together and reconnect together.
Forgive each other:
To forgive is to mean detaching from unwanted sorrow, bitterness and anger that are nothing but would harm your happy married life. These negative emotions will only keep you from your love. Learn to forget things and remind yourself whatever happened, happened; there is no good reason to drag the things from past. Forgiveness doesn’t require much, just a sweet message along with a beautiful flower bouquet would do the task for you.
Though it is suggested that one should never remain in a relationship that only jeopardizes your well-being, but every relationship demands your earnest efforts to get through a bad phase. Not giving up on your love and trying to make things work are honourable tasks to do. Use these seven ways to save your struggling marriage and reap the benefits of a happy bond of love.

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This document provides instructions for connecting a desktop computer to Stanford's internet service, provided by University IT. Only PC-compatibles running Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista, or Macintosh computers running Mac OS X, are supported. These instructions assume you have a computer equipped with either a built-in ethernet port or an ethernet network interface card.
General network information
The computer network in Stanford West is a cable modem system, not unlike what you might get from Comcast or other cable TV vendors. You will receive an Arris WBM 760A cable modem from University IT. You should not purchase your own cable modem or DSL router, as University IT will not support any problems encountered by client-provided cable modem or DSL routers. If you remove the provided cable modem and substitute another, the service will automatically disconnect. If you need additional ethernet ports, we recommend a simple ethernet hub or switch.
You are allowed up to five concurrent connections for each cable modem. You may register more than five computers but, only five can communicate through your cable modem at a time. If you need more than five active connections, it is highly recommended that you get an additional cable modem connection, as that will also increase your bandwidth.
Note: The cable modem provided by University IT provides internet service through a wired ethernet connection. If you want to have wireless internet access, purchase a broadband router and connect that router to the cable modem through the ethernet port.
Data service configuration
Getting additional help
If you have questions about setting up a network function in your apartment; need additional assistance configuring your computer; have problems with your data service; or you would like to order additional services or make modifications to an existing service, please contact the IT Service Desk at 725-HELP (650-725-4357), Option 2. For more information on technical support for wireless, please see the web site.


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Agriculture producers in the Texas High Plains could potentially diversify their operations by growing specialty crops and get higher returns for their water – without having to replace their irrigation systems.
With a declining water table in mind, Texas A&M AgriLife, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service and three industry partners will investigate the potential of producing high-quality vegetables under irrigation for fresh market sales.
The research will include the use of mobile drip irrigation, MDI, integrated with a patented, computerized irrigation scheduling system that uses plant and soil water sensing and weather feedback. The system is called Irrigation Scheduling and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, or ISSCADA.
Charlie Rush, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Research plant pathologist, Amarillo, has been evaluating melons, peppers and tomatoes for AgriLife Research’s breeding program in the High Plains climate for many years. His interest spiked when he started working in high tunnels, and he has compared production inside and outside the tunnels for produce quality in the different climates.
The focus of Rush’s latest study is on types of irrigation and irrigation scheduling. The study is funded by a grant from the Irrigation Innovation Consortium at Colorado State University. The Consortium is funded by a $5 million, five-year grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.
More production and profit per drop of water
Approximately 4.5 million acres of cropland are irrigated by over 30,000 center pivot systems in the Texas High Plains. Most of these irrigated acres are planted to corn and cotton. However, due to declining groundwater and increasing pumping costs, growers are continually searching for economic alternatives to those commodity crops. Among those alternatives may be high value specialty crops, such as watermelon, cantaloupe, tomatoes and peppers.
“It’s fairly well recognized that where people are commercially growing high quality, fresh-market tomatoes outside, they are doing so with drip (irrigation),” Rush said. “So, if we want people in the Texas Panhandle to grow high value crops, they need to do it with drip irrigation. However, our farmers have already invested in center pivot systems. So, how do you grow higher value produce when everyone has a pivot and we know drip irrigation does best? That’s where we will focus this study.”
Read the complete article at www.agrilifetoday.tamu.edu.

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7 Comfy Heels You Can Actually Wear All Day
Gone are the days when ‘comfort’ and ‘heels’ couldn’t coexist in the same sentence. Say hello to the fashion revolution that’s changing the game – comfy heels! It’s time to strut your stuff without sacrificing your precious feet in the process.
Ladies, we all know the struggle of wanting to look fabulous in heels while secretly longing for the comfort of our trusty sneakers. Well, your fashion prayers have been answered with comfy heels.
These are not your grandma’s orthopedic shoes; comfy heels are the chic, modern answer to elevating your style without the pain. From block heels to cushioned insoles, we’re about to spill the secrets of how to rock these comfortable beauties while still looking like a runway queen.
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text: Human beings get starch from plants where it is found as small grains. Plants make starch which serves as food for seedlings and new shoots until they are able to make their own food materials. Sunlight and chlorophyll, as well as water and carbon dioxide, are essential for starch formation. This starch is stored as small granules in stems, roots, leaves, fruits and seeds. Potato, rice, maize and wheat have large quantity of starch in them.

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22 years old literally, about 87 at heart. I write about self care, university life, money, music, books and whatever else that piques my interest.
Exploring My Teen Angst Using Overused Music Stock Photos
When I graduated from fifth form, my school organized a dance for everyone in my year to celebrate the momentous occasion. The idea of this event terrified me because my name and 'dancing' really shouldn't be anywhere near each other, but I went anyway for fear of missing out on "the time of my life." Awkwardly wobbling about in 6-inch heels, I made my way to the Hilton hotel, clad in a bedazzled peach gown that I most definitely didn't have the chest for. I prepared myself to have a glorious night, or at the very least, pretend that I did. However, when I arrived, I spent the evening subjected to death glares from another girl in my year, someone I had spoken to maybe once or twice in the five years that I had attended secondary school. Coincidentally, we had worn the same dress: mine in brilliant peach and hers in an illustrious grey. Different colours, but still self-evidently the same dress.
Can Writers Be Apolitical?
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The Delicate Art of Constructive Criticism
A month ago, I read a story by another Vocal Creator entitled All Writers Are Mean. The writer expressed her frustration with the quality of criticism launched against a fellow creator after a win in a Vocal challenge. It was brutal. The grand prize was $2,500, and some creators were nitpicking and tearing apart the winner’s work. The writer concluded that the writing space is mired in jealousy, envy and meanness. I've said as much in an article I published a while ago. Tucked away in the back of my mind, I didn't revisit this story until the completion of the Little Black Book challenge a few weeks ago.
A Rehabilitated Swiftie’s Guide to Zen
I have owned two albums physically in my 22 years of life: Kelly Clarkson’s Breakaway (randomly) and Taylor Swift’s Fearless. Growing up, we had this really beat-up VCR/DVD player hybrid that was perpetually on its last legs, and it was through this medium that I blasted all the songs on Fearless on repeat. Many years later, I regard this album with great fondness and nostalgia and can still belt the songs line-by-line. I consider myself to be what one would call a rehabilitated Swiftie. Taylor’s music was the backdrop to my early childhood, but somewhere between my first and second year of secondary school, I fell off the bandwagon. The transition to secondary school was rough. I was a bit of a nerd (still am) and was often admonished for my taste in music, with many labelling me an“Oreo." For those of you reading this who aren’t black, this is a grave insult when launched at a black person. It is almost a denial of your blackness because of your consumption of different forms of popular culture. As if your blackness could be erased by something as trivial as the type of music you enjoyed.
The Perfect Order to Read the Avatar the Last Airbender (ATLA) Comics
So you've finished Avatar the Last Airbender and are now looking to dive into the comics but have no idea where to start? Look no further! I present to you the perfect reading order for the graphic novels. Except for Suki, Alone, a standalone graphic novel set to be published on June 22, 2021, I own and have read the graphic novels multiple times. I've also seen the TV series a million and one times.
Emptying The Tank
I don't often dream, but when I do, I'm either being brutally murdered by a family member or doing something dreadfully mundane like going to the bathroom. Believe it or not, the bathroom dreams are the scariest. Everything else can be discounted as fantasy and fiction, but these, the ones when I envision myself doing things that I regularly do, seem real and visceral. Like the lines between our world and the dream world are temporarily blurred, and I lose the ability to distinguish between the two. These dreams plagued me periodically throughout childhood. There was always this overwhelming sensation of wakefulness.
If Twilight, Then Here are 5 Other Cringeworthy, Awful, No-Good, Terrible, Hilariously-Bad Teen Movies
Anyone who knows me knows I adore Twilight. I've read every single one of the books at least five times and have watched the movies just as many times. I'm even able to quote the first film line by line. We can speak endlessly about its long-lasting impact on my music tastes, the books I enjoy and the content I consume. Don't get me wrong. Despite this, there is no doubt in my mind that Twilight is terrible, awful, cringe-worthy and angsty in just about the worst possible way. That being said, it's also amazing.
Tonight, I'll Be Eating Ramen Because I Spent $6033.38 on Uber Eats Last Year
Yes, you read the title right. In the span of 12 months (March 2020 - March 2021), I somehow managed to rack up a $6033.38 Uber Eats bill. Before lockdown, I'd already had the app downloaded on my phone but only used it sparingly - once or twice a month at best. However, with the onset of the pandemic, my spending on food delivery went from bimonthly to every single day. It didn't help that Uber Eats' "Tonight I'll Be Eating" ads flooded my social media algorithm. You know the ones I'm talking about.
Daylight Saving and The Illusion of Time
Growing up in the tropics, we had two seasons: dry and wet. From January to June, rainfall is scarce, the air is practically devoid of moisture, and the sun is hotter than usual, which, living on an island in the Caribbean, is saying a lot. Onwards from July, it is more common to be lulled to sleep by the pitter-patter of rain outside your windows. As a bonus, the threat of hurricanes is ever-present. With the acceleration of climate change, the line between these two seasons has become a bit more blurred.
A Snapshot of My First Vocal Withdrawal
I published my first Vocal article on December 28th, 2020. Having discovered Vocal through an advertisement on Facebook, and after mulling it over for some time, I finally plucked up the courage to submit my first article entitled "How To Make New Year's Resolutions That'll Stick."Marketed as advice for others on how to craft successful New Year's Resolutions, the story was essentially a plan and a promise to myself. I was thinking out loud. 2020 as a concept was uniquely terrible for me as I'm sure it was for many others. I was thousands of miles away from my family, who I hadn't seen in over a year. I made the decision a few months earlier not to return home for Christmas because of how expensive plane tickets to the Caribbean are around that period, thinking that I'd just go home and spend the summer.
Blame Canada For Ruining Pizza
There are two types of people: those who love pineapples on pizza and those who believe it’s an abomination and representation of all things dark in this world. It‘s an age-old question that has divided the internet and turned friends into enemies, brothers against sisters and has been the subject of numerous virtual battles: does pineapple belong on pizza? On one side, there’s the argument that the sweet, tangy taste of the juicy pineapple balances out the savoury, punchy flavour of the cheese and ham. On the other end, many hold that the addition of the tropical fruit makes a mockery of an already-perfect Italian masterpiece. It's pizza, not a fruit salad!
What An Argument With An Internet Stranger Taught Me About Conflict Resolution
A week ago, I got into an extended argument with an internet stranger. This dispute came after I shared an article about the popular animated series, Avatar The Last Airbender, in a popular Facebook fan group. The story was entitled "The Avatar Has Returned - 7 Must-Have Elements for the Expansion of the Avatarverse." For anyone unfamiliar with the series, Avatar takes place in a world divided into four nations in which each nation contains people who possess mastery over one of the four elements (water, earth, fire, air). This information is necessary to understand the context of the argument, which went as follows:


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Bombshell unlocks lyric video of her recent hit single dubbed “Fukunyuka”. The song was produced by Eazy The Producer and Editbeats.
‘Fukunyuka’ is a Zam dancehall/Kwaito inspired track that speaks of putting your money where your mouth is and not just talking from without. The song also talks about how people that talk a lot are don’t do what they say,so Bombshell is challenging them to put money where their mouths are.
Watch the video below.


- Call for Nominations: Rural Telehealth and Healthcare System Readiness Committee
- Addiction Doctor: Rural Residents Should Get Naloxone, Just in Case
- Rebuilding the Foundation of Rural Community Health after COVID-19
- Administration Announces $200 Million from CDC to Jurisdictions for COVID-19 Vaccine Preparedness
- Red-Zone Report: New Rural Infections Jump 30% in Last Week
- HRSA: Revised Geographic Eligibility for Federal Office of Rural Health Policy Grants
- CMS Announces New Federal Funding for 33 States to Support Transitioning Individuals from Nursing Homes to the Community
- Rural Hospitals Without Obstetrics Units Worry About Emergency Births
- Trump Administration Invests $268 Million in Rural Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Improvements in 28 States
- America's 200,000 COVID-19 Deaths: Small Cities and Towns Bear a Growing Share
- How the Pandemic Forced Mental Health Care to Change for the Better
- CMS Announces New Guidance for Safe Visitation in Nursing Homes During COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
- Rural 'Red-Zone' List Shortens Significantly for First Time in Two Months
- Trump Administration Releases COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Strategy
- COVID Exodus Fills Vacation Towns with New Medical Pressures
LDI Virtual Seminar Eyes Coronavirus’ Spread Through America’s Hinterlands
The eighth virtual “Experts at Home” seminar convened by the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in rural America. New evidence suggests that rural populations are at heightened risk for contracting the virus due to factors such as age, race/ethnicity, and prevalence of multiple chronic health conditions. The seminar brought together experts from academia and top government positions to discuss the unique challenges the pandemic poses for the health and economies of the country’s rural areas.
A new resource developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Group for Mental Health and Psychosocial Supports in Emergency Situations helps in providing guidance to individuals struggling with their mental health during the COVID-19 outbreak. Addressing Mental Health and Psychosocial Support with the COVID-19 focuses on topics such as: older adults coping with stress, supporting people working with the COVID-19 directly, activities for adults and children who are being quarantined and much more.
Over the years, there have been many studies on the effectiveness of the community health worker (CHW) in improving health outcomes. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and the National Association of Community Health Workers recently published a summary of the research from the past 50 years. It focused on assessing effectiveness in improving health outcomes, reducing healthcare costs and bridging the gap in health disparities.
On Thursday, March 19 the Independent Regulatory Review Committee (IRRC) will consider a final regulation, as required by the Child Protective Services Law, to implement the mandatory reporting requirements for practitioners regulated by the State Board of Dentistry. As “mandated reporters,” board regulated practitioners will be required to complete mandatory training in child abuse recognition and reporting.
The National Health Center Immigration Workgroup has updated its FAQs on the Public Charge rule effective March 1. The updated FAQs now include information about the rule’s Feb. 24, 2020 effective date and the factors beyond the use of public benefits that immigration officers will consider when deciding whether or not to approve an application for a Green Card. These resources and more are available on NACHC’s Caring for Immigrant Patients webpage.
This toolkit from the Rural Health Information Hub was produced in collaboration with the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. It compiles evidence-based and promising models to help rural communities implement programs that address social determinants of health.
The Rural Health Information Hub has created a guide to help you learn about activities underway to address COVID-19. Check it out here.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued new guidance to allow DEA-registered telehealth practitioners to issue prescriptions for controlled substances to patients for whom they have not conducted an in-person medical evaluation, for the duration of the public health emergency. All of the following conditions must be met: (1) The prescription is issued for a legitimate medical purpose by a practitioner acting in the usual course of his/her professional practice (2) The telemedicine communication is conducted using an audio-visual, real-time, two-way interactive communication system and (3) The practitioner is acting in accordance with applicable Federal and State law.
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) has provided the following information for supporting vulnerable friends and families in substance use recovery:
- PA Department of Drug & Alcohol Facebook page with support links for Get Help Now Hotline, Family, online/virtual recovery supports, and more: https://www.facebook.com/PennsylvaniaDDAP/
- SAMHSA links to information on telemedicine; tips for social distancing/quarantine/isolation; guidance for opioid treatment programs; disaster planning & crisis care…https://www.samhsa.gov/
- Pro-A developed a list of online recovery supports, including AA, NA, Refuge Recovery, SMART Recovery, and many more. http://pro-a.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/PROA-Online-Support-Resource-list-31720.pdf
- Recovery support organizations who may offer online/virtual recovery support information:
- Faces & Voices of Recovery (national resource): https://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/about/who-we-are/
- PRO.A: http://pro-a.org/
- for SE Pennsylvania, PRO-ACT
- for Western PA, Message Carriers
- In central PA, RASE Project


IT service management
Information technology - service management
Why ISO/IEC 20000 ?
At present, the IT and ICT services and tools in some way maybe affect every area of human activity or business. Whether delivering hardware and software solutions, providing web space or housing, or manage network design, control and preparing projects for ICT solutions, providing mobile communications and payment gateways, database programming, application, etc., moving in the area of ICT services - one of the most flexible and fastest growing business sector. Effects of inefficient election, user inconvenience, inflexibility of failure, limited capacity, poor response time or even the loss and misuse of information may vary from annoying to disastrous delays disposal of business and property. Standard ISO 20000 provides a solution to prevent the above-mentioned risks.
Standards and recommendations.
ITIL and ISO 20000
International framework and standard for the provision of IT services (IT Service Management) is based on the best practice guide of ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library version 2, 3) which is the basis for standard ISO / IEC 20000-1:2005 (Specification), ISO / IEC 20000-2:2005 ( Code of practice, the set of recommendations on how to achieve what specifies the 1st part), and will in future be followed by even parts 3 and 4 It is the first standard in the world which deals with specific IT service management.
The main elements of the standard.
Standard ISO / IEC 20000-1 define the requirements of main ITIL books and process approach (and the principle of P-D-C-A) for organizations which want to deliver managed IT services. And for those who wants to be successful both commercially and to meet the needs of its customers.
Standard contains the following main elements:
Planning and implementation of management services Planning and implementation of new or changed services The processes of service delivery - the availability, continuity, capacity, IT safety management, reporting, SLM, budgeting... Relationships ProcessesResolution Processes - incident / problem management, Control processes configuration management, change management The processes of release
Certification according to ISO / IEC 20000-1 fast becoming a standard of quality among providers of ICT services. And it is not only the label, it allows also to improve their quality of service and reasonable application of processes for monitoring and analysis. This then contributes to an increase in the success of the company. We have certified major provider of IT services such as Fujitsu-Siemens Computers sro, ČEZnet Ltd., Telefonica O2 Sevices Ltd. etc.
Working time savings.
Company with established system according to ISO 20000 reported 50% reduction of working time devoted to errors repair. Time spent in the beginning of the project is an investment with multiple returns.
Some of configuration management
Controlled access for the acquisition of hardware and software companies can achieve savings in particular for the subsequent maintenance of systems. If IT infrastructure is acquired according to the criteria of necessity, mutual compatibility and availability of service, you can achieve savings in working time devoted to planned maintenance until 1 / 3 time.
Implementation of such process also achieves savings in time. For example in the case of internal changes in the system settings. The company can react more flexibly in the event of changes in customer requirements or changes in communication with clients and subcontractors.
ISO 20000 standard that adopts the requirements of ISO 27001 standards relating to the security of information systems, provides immeasurable savings in case of security incidents.
For who for what?
For the companies, which takes IT services from external suppliers and want to ensure a consistent approach from all their IT service providers? For the IT services providers who are trying to achieve best practice in the management of IT services and want to prove their internal and external clients, providing consistent and quality IT services. Also, companies that want to improve the quality of their IT services, increase productivity and reduce costs in the field of Information technology.
Comparison with the ISO 9001 standard.
Number of certificates issued does not exceed 1% in comparison with certificates issued in accordance with ISO 9001 standards. This is due to sectored specialization and the delay of 15 years in its use. Yet in the field of IT services, this standard will soon be recognized and required more than the standard ISO 9001.
Comparison of ISO 9001 and ISO 27001
We can with big easy to confirm that the ISO 20000 standard combines the requirements of ISO 9001 standards in the field of providing IT services (such as the quality of IT services is mainly based on the quality infrastructure and management of customer and configuration related processes ) and ISO 27001 standards dealing with information security. What standard ISO 20000 contains, is the greater degree of specificity for a specific area of IT services.


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How Does A Womans Temperature Get When She Is Ovulating
If a woman has a temperature at the time of ovulation does it decrease her chance of getting pregnant.?
I had a drop in my temperature today below the coverline on my BBT chart at 5 days post ovulation does that mean I won't get a pregnant this cycle. ?
I am charting my cycles with my BBT. My husband and I had (unprotected) sex the day of my temperature rise, so 1 day after ovulation. Is it possible to get pregnant?
Can a woman ovulate & not get a period until 1-2 months after?If so is the just hanging around until a period begins?
Not really : if and when one ovulated one of two things happen. Either you get pregnant or you don't. If you do not get pregnant the egg dies in about 14 days which triggers a withdrawal in hormones causing a cycle. If your periods are irregular then you are not ovulating or not ovulating consistently ...Read more
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Football megastar Gareth Bale has lit up Euro 2016 with his sensational free kicks and his unbridled passion for wearing the Wales shirt.
He’s won admirers across the globe for his quick feet, lightning pace and his bullet of a left foot which has seen him record the most shots on target of any player at the tournament.
And now it appears computer gaming giants Konami have also jumped on the Bale bandwagon by recreating all three of the Cardiff-born player’s goals so far.
As part of their promotion for the best-selling game Pro Evolution Soccer: Euro 2016, which was released in April, designers have perfectly captured the 26-year-old’s swerving set piece against Slovakia which sent the hordes of travelling Wales fans into delirium.
They’ve also used the latest in gaming graphics to replicate the moment Bale’s 35-yard free-kick squirmed under hapless England keeper Joe Hart.
But the set wouldn’t be complete without recreating the Whitchurch legend’s cool finish in Wales’ dominant 3-0 victory over Russia.
Bale, who features on the front cover of the game, will hope the Pro Evo designers are once again working their magic after Wales’ quarter-final tie with Belgium this evening.

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Border Control Failure
January 27, 2004
President Bush's has proposed a temporary guest worker program to deal with the problem of those who are variously called illegal immigrants, undocumented workers or working semipermanent tourists, depending on one's viewpoint.
Beginning with the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, the federal government invested steadily more money and effort to stop illegal immigration. Since 1993, federal spending on border enforcement has more than quintupled from $740 million to $3.8 billion.
The number of border patrol agents tripled and the most popular corridors for illegals -- San Diego and El Paso -- were sealed off, says the WSJ. The IRCA traded amnesty for illegals currently in the United States in return for employer sanctions -- fines or prison terms if they hired undocumented aliens. These policies have been either ineffective or had unintended consequences:
- Circular migration is now less common, human smugglers have increased their fees, there is a flourishing fake ID industry and hundreds of additional deaths from exposure in the mountains and deserts between San Diego and El Paso.
- Illegal immigration has continued at a rate of about 500,000 per year, according to Walter Ewing of the Immigration Policy Center.
- Between 1990 and 2000, illegal immigration -- 77 percent of which is from Latin America -- rose by 5.5 million people.
- In 2001, undocumented workers filled 1.4 million jobs in the wholesale and retail trades, according to the Pew Hispanic Center; more than one million worked in manufacturing and another 1.2 million worked in agriculture.
Source: Editorial, "Our Border Brigades," Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2004.
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AMD Phenom Agena 9500 OC'd to 2465Mhz
Biostar Tforce TA790GX A2+
Powercolor ATI Radeon 4850 512Mb
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800Mhz/PC2-6400 Memory GOLD DUAL CHANNEL 5-5-5-18
Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 CPU Cooler
Arctic Power 600W PSU
Seagate 500GB Hard Drive SATA II 7200rpm
2x Antec Tricool 120mm Intake case fans from the front
Im bored at work, and im debating whether to effectively downgrade that Quad to a x2 6400 or x2 6000 either OC'd to 3.3 - 3.4ish. 2 less cores, 1GHz more clockage.
Looking at £60 or so, so its not a major loss if i dont get better performance but i just feel that Phenom struggles when i try and (for example) do a bit of encoding while surfing or gaming.
I know that most will want to post "wait till Jan, then get a Phenom II. Im not going to spend £200 plus on a chip...maybe next xmas ill pick one up.
Its holding up surprisingly well...cant fault it really.
I like pretty much the latest and greatest...say everything except GTA IV which i know i have no chance of running well. Crysis goes ok with most settings on high.
Im usually on some kind on online fps...UT or CS or somesuch but with large scale worlds i do get slowdown and i know the 9500 is a bit of a weak link (or it feels that way)
I think if it came to a 4870 x2 or a Phenom II, it would be the CPU every time.
The 4850 isnt at all your problem. I have an X2 6000+ and a 4850 and have no problem in gaming or multi-tasking. I think you are correct in saying that your performance hits are from the lower mhz on your processor. Most games utilize one or two cores right now so its important for gaming to have a high clock speed. Your predicament is the exact reason I went dual core when I built my system but made sure to get an AM2+ board to get a phenom II when there released.....didnt think in dec 07 when I built it that it would take AMD another year to get them out but now that there almost here I cant wait....Your best bet is a phenom II. Keep in mind however that ANY processor is going to slow down some when doing something like encoding. My system is powerful enough that i can continue to browse the web, watch tv and do small tasks while doing video encoding but I definitely wouldnt be able to game while video encoding.
One advantage I do have though is I run 2 4850's. So far though I havent found a game that benefits overly much from crossfire, the fact that I have my two monitors on a seperate card then the monitor I game on I'm sure helps in my multi-tasking while running a game fullscreen as well.
mmm good to hear some feedback, thx for that. I cant really xfire well as the x16 PCI-e is split x8 / x8...there wasnt really a well priced board with true dual channel GPU's (w/e its called). I imagine id see performance increases, but for the £100 it would cost, i can just put that towards a Phenom II and then pick up a beastly GPU sometime down the line.
AdioKIP did you o/c the x2 6000?
Nah I'm not an overclocker. Although I am an exterme user, and use to build a new computer yearly I never got into overclocking after fooling around with it years ago. For me stability/reliability are always more important then sheer power. I run my system as a media server with 2.25 terabytes worth of storage. My computer stays on 24/7 365. While I know you can maintaint stability with a reasonable overclock there was just never any need for me to do it since the gains are mostly seen in games rather then overall multi-tasking/regular applications which I run alot more of then games.
Even at 8x you would still get benefits from crossfire. Not as much as with 2 full 16x express lanes but you would see some benefits. If it came down to it though I would take the upgraded phenom over adding another video card.... Only thing is based on another thread I just read the Phenom II's might be priced higher then I was expecting :-(
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£220 is pricey but its not insanely pricey i spose....might treat myself once they get to £180 or so
I think your 4850 is fine, but if you wanted to crossfire, you could. PCI-E 2.0 8x does not bottleneck most cards (exceptions being the X2's and maybe the 280.) Also, the PII X4 920 should be quite a bit cheaper but only a little slower GHz wise. It has also been shown OC'ed to 4GHz, but since it has a locked multi, it will require more effort. Just something else to consider.

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It seems entirely appropriate that the final American presidential debate is held in Las Vegas where you can be married in 5 minutes and divorced in 30 seconds.
It's the city that boasts the 64-storey Trump Hotel, the tallest building in the tinsel town, that gleams as the desert sun bounces off the windows that are gilded with 24 carat gold - a monument to excess, not unlike the orange owner.
Unlike their last outing there'll be no red jersey Ken Bones' moments.
This will be moderated by a tough talking Fox News anchor who'll ask his own questions, and we're told will show zero tolerance for shenanigans, which means he'll probably be more on edge than the candidates.
Regardless of his performance, Trump claims the election's rigged against him, accusing the media of bias.
That saw Barack Obama accusing him of whining before the game is even over, saying his remarks are unprecedented and a threat to American democracy.
The last debate saw Trump sort of apologising for his locker room talk about what he does to women but declaring that he has great respect for the fairer sex, adding no one has greater respect than he does - which, given his utterances, defies logic.
But it's what they say and what they've said that makes their appearances theatric, in a Real Housewives of Auckland way, and salacious, which does little for the standing of the serious job they're after.
In an email message from Michelle Obama on the eve of the debate, she told me how proud she was to vote for Hillary, adding that would be true no matter who she was facing in this election.
Yeah, when "Hills" was facing her hubby Barack, she was telling a very different story.
She said then of Clinton that "if you can't run your own house, then you certainly can't run the White House", in a clear reference to her wayward hubby Bill.
And back then Barack wasn't much better either when it came to Clinton, saying in a campaign ad, that she'll say anything but change nothing.
Ouch, that sounds like a line directly from the uncontrolled mouth of Trump.
But that was then and this is now and in Las Vegas it's showtime and sparks are sure to fly when they address the topic of their fitness to become the so called Leader of the Free World.


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Have you been eating “healthy” foods but still wondering why you’re not losing weight or seeing the progress you’re after?! Guys. What I’m about to tell you is going to BLOW your mind! There are SO MANY foods out there that we’ve been taught are healthy, but they’re actually sabotaging our progress. These foods have a BIG reputation?for being GOOD for us, but they may not deliver in the right ways. I’m going to break down the most common ones and show you exactly why they’re NOT and what you can be opting for instead. Watch my video or read below to find out more!
11 Unhealthy Foods Disguised as Healthy
1. Granola?sugar, sugar, and more calories
Granola is one of those common foods we know is healthy for us, but every time we eat it, we just can’t figure out why we’re not losing weight or hitting our nutrition goals! I’m talking about the bags of granola (not the bars) that you sprinkle over your yogurt or eat with your favorite milk. Chances are, the granola you’re buying is packed full of sugar and calories.
- Healthy tip: Always read your labels and look at the ingredients. Search for granola that is full of healthy, wholesome ingredients such as nuts, seeds, oats, and flax and those without a ton of binders (honey, syrups, and sugars).
You can typically find healthier versions of granola in the bulk and bin section of your health foods store.
2. Protein Bars?many are just glorified candy bars
Everyone thinks that in order to be healthy or help repair muscles after a workout, you need a protein bar. But the truth is actually pretty scary. They’re a lot closer to a Snickers bar with just a smudge of protein.
- Healthy tip: A good rule of thumb is to find a protein bar that has somewhere around 5-8 grams of fat (no more than that unless you’re following a Keto diet), 12-25 grams of carbs, and at least 20 grams of protein.
Pay attention to the added sugar in everything you do! If sugar is making up most of the carb content, it’s a big red flag, and you should be looking for a different bar instead.
3. Dried Fruit?often means added juices and sugars
So many of us think that dried fruit is a great snack because hey, it’s fruit, right? Wrong. A handful of dried bananas will come in just over 500 calories, while a whole banana is right around 100 calories, and a handful of fresh raspberries is 34 calories. When fruit gets dried, it takes up less space, right? Which means there’s room for more of it. Plus a lot of brands add juices and sugar to raise that calorie content right up.
- Healthy tip: Opt for fresh fruit, always!
4. Fruit Juice?Again more added sugar
Just like with the dried fruit, we think we’re making healthier choices because hey, it’s fruit, and fruit is good for us. The difference is that fruit juice is literally pure sugar. It’s just loaded with it. Even the fresh squeezed juices have a really high sugar content, so even if you think you’re being healthy, you’re honestly just taking in too much sugar.
- Healthy tip: Look for fresh squeezed juice that is diluted with water. If you love to grab fresh juice or green juices from your local juice bars, ask what the ingredients are!
My local favorite is a power greens drink that is made up of kale, celery, lemon, and TWO APPLES, bringing this drink to over 200 calories. Knowing this helps me know how to order, so now I ask that they only include 1/2 of an apple instead of two full ones. Always ask what goes into your drinks so you can make those swaps if needed!
5. Gluten-free + organic
There’s a big misconception that if something is gluten-free and organic, then it’s healthy. Guys, it’s not. A brownie is a brownie, whether it contains wheat-based flour or gluten-free flour.
- Healthy tip: Pay attention to your labels and ingredients!
6. Salads (and most salad dressings)
I hear it so often: You’re going on a diet (I hate that word, but we’ll address that in another blog, another day!), so you’re going to eat salads full of greens, lettuce, carrots, and veggies. It has to be healthy, right? Yet no matter how many salads you eat, you still can’t shed the pounds, and on top of that, you’re ALWAYS hungry and craving food. It’s because you’re sabotaging yourself with salad dressing. It takes a super disciplined person (I’m not even that person!) to only use 1-2 tablespoons of salad dressing on top of their salads. So you cover that dang meal in tons of dressing, which packs on hundreds of calories and loads of fat, totally defeating the purpose.
- Healthy tip: Look for calorie-free or low-calorie dressing so you can feel satisfied and enjoy your salad without having to sacrifice taste, flavor, or the actual health benefits of eating all those veggies.
7. Sushi?Not all Sushi is created equal
We all love sushi, right? And it’s so good for us, right? Ehh…depends on what you get. There are actually two kinds of sushi, and not all sushi is created equal. You can get the white rice and raw sashimi, which is actually very healthy. And then there are the rolls. The oh-so-yummy rolls that everyone wants. But the majority of those rolls are fried. And if they’re not fried on the outside, you can bet there’s some kind of fried fish on the inside, wrapped in avocado, and cream cheese, and sauce…and then you dip it in high-sodium soy sauce. So not only are you eating a ton of fat, but you’re taking in a ton of sodium. And your date night just got super unhealthy, super fast.
- Healthy tip: If you’re craving sushi, opt for the raw ingredients and rolls that aren’t fried. Don’t be afraid of avocado?it’s a healthy fat! Just make sure there’s not a lot of other fat added into those rolls right along with it.
Everyone loves yogurt. That’s why there’s a huge section in every store because we know it’s healthy, so we should be buying tons of it. But just like everything else, all yogurt is not created equal. Most contain a high sugar content, not a lot of live cultures, and very low protein. Some yogurts are completely processed.
- Healthy tip: Look for Greek yogurt. They typically have a lower sugar content, higher protein content, and are way better for us. I like to choose yogurt that has 0 grams of fat because then I can get my fat from what I add into it: nuts and healthy granola (like we talked about up top!). You can even add fresh fruit (not dried!). Steer clear of the other kinds of yogurt!
9. Microwave popcorn
This has always been one of my favorite snacks, but I was shocked when I learned that I was definitely eating the wrong kind. Most microwave popcorn is loaded with butter and salt and can pack in 400-500+ calories per bag.
- Healthy tip: Look for brands that aren’t movie theater popcorn and aren’t loaded with butter and salt.
Instead, try and find the ones that are seasoned with sea salt. A great kind to get is the 100 calorie Smart Pop bags that are already perfectly portioned and will still give you that crunch and flavor you’re craving in a snack.
10. Pickles?Check the sodium
People eat pickles because they only have like 5 calories in one giant pickle, and that seems amazing. It hits your craving while not taking in a ton of calories. But what people don’t realize is that pickles are loaded with sodium. You ingest a giant pickle, and your body can hold on to 5+ pounds of water the next day. Chris and I used to see this ALL the time with contestants on the show, and I used to see the same thing in myself after eating pickles! (Check out my video to see a crazy picture!).
- Healthy tip: Pickles are great to add on salads or sandwiches, but do not go on a pickle diet unless you want severe hypertension and swollen limbs. #heidilessons
11. Protein shake
Not all protein shakes are created equal. If you’re making your own and controlling your own ingredients, great. But be aware of nutrition shops and different stores that often conveniently located by gyms. They lure you in with something that sounds amazing…a cinnamon crunch or peanut butter and jelly shake. But what you don’t realize is those shakes are more like milk shakes. They usually contain ingredients that are full of fat: whole milk, actual jelly, quarter cups of peanut butter. And then you’re totally defeating the purpose of why you got a protein shake to begin with.
- Healthy tip: ASK what the ingredients are going to be if you’re out and buying a shake on the go. Otherwise, stick to making your own! That way you know without a shadow of a doubt what you’re eating/drinking, and you can feel good about the choices you’re making!
Need a super delicious AND healthy protein shake? Well…I’ve got a couple of amazing options for you! For a true meal on the go, check out our Chris + Heidi Low Carb Meal Replacements Shakes (which come in several flavors: chocolate peanut butter or mint cookie, anyone???), and we just launched our Chocolate Perform Protein Whey Isolate Shake. Both are filled with top-quality ingredients, are delicious with both water or your fave milk, and the macros are ??.
Remember, guys: Being healthy is all about balance. I’m not saying you can’t indulge and have a few of your favorite treats here and there. But if you’re wanting to see results, you have to be consistent. Let me know which swap or change you’re going to make this week!
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.
It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that’s all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we’ve misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.
Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings – all of us. We learn from each other. If you’re missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage.

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OK...so, I wanted to do something different and try a sort of abstract piece of art..it really didn't turn out how i had hoped...lol...but it was a learning experience non the less...although i must say my hubby likes it and he is usually hard to plase when it comes to the things i do...i wanted to show the love of a mother to her baby, but experiment a bit with colour...well..i did that, but i must say the best thing that came from this is Jacob started to do a painting...i inspired him...so, without further ado here is my mother's love...i am of course linking this to the party....the paint party friday hosted by eva and kristin...yay...
Thanks for all the beautiful comments to all that have come and popped in....it really makes my day, and so look forward to see what you think of my scrambled attempts at trying to art...xxx
until next time
lots of it
My Urban Kitchen + The Stelton Emma Pitcher
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Hoboken, New Jersey has had a Memorial Day parade for 122 years to honor American soldiers who sacrificed their lives in defense of our country. That parade was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic when the event was shut down by the city.
American Legion Post 107 refused to let the coronavirus prevent them from continuing the tradition of honoring the fallen on Memorial Day, however.
"Since 1898 the Hoboken residents have been marching up Washington in honor of our fallen brothers and sisters," John Carey told Connecting Vets. Carey is the commander of Post 107 and is a Vietnam veteran.
With the parade officially canceled, the American Legion and a local boy scout troop organized in a semi-clandestine manner to stage a memorial walk.
"This is a tradition that we can't afford to let fade away. The local officials didn't allow us to have our normal parade so we decided to have a 'memorial walk,'" Carey explained.
After meeting up at 10:30 a.m., they marched up Washington Street while carrying American flags and wearing face masks.
"This year marks 122 years that we have marched/walked in honor of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the great freedoms we enjoy. God bless all our fallen brother and sisters and their Gold Star families," Carey said.

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Tucson Arizona Spring Camp, Ride Report
I just returned to snowy Indiana from another great trip out to Tucson Arizona with the Rollfast Cycling Club. This year we had representation from Florida, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Colorado and brought two new members to their first ever RFCC camp!
Upon arrival, we wanted to stretch the legs and did a quick ride along part of a 130 mile bike path called “The Loop”. The section we rode was the Rillito River Park bike path on the north side of Tucson.
For our first official day of camp, we explored Saguaro National Park. This is a spectacular 8-mile circuit on the east side of Tucson that winds through a cactus forest to the base of the Rincon Mountains. After a few laps in the park (one was quite heated!) we rode south to Pistol Hill.
Day 2 was the queen stage on our trip with a climb up Mt. Lemmon to Windy Point. I’ve done this climb about a dozen times. I’ve gone past Windy Point to the very top and one year we even climbed the entire thing two times back-to-back! But February 4, 2022 will go down as the most epic Mt. Lemmon day ever! First it was really windy. Gusts were upwards of 35mph with a steady push out of the East at 20mph. Climbing into the headwind was brutal. At the top we regrouped for a photo and quickly filled bottles with a nice stash that some of the guys drove up earlier that morning. It was cold at the top. 30 degrees and high wind. We talked a little about being safe on the descent and being aware of cold hands, bike control, cross wind gusts… and we were all scared as shit. We joked with a tourist to take us down in their Ford F-250 pickup truck. We all made it safely to the bottom at our own pace. The ride home we were all smiling ear to ear. Coasting on a bike at 40mph with nothing but wind and gravity pushing you does that!
Our last day of riding, we decided to try a route that was new to us. Gates Pass. It’s a short climb, but beautiful and really nice pavement. We grabbed a group photo at the top of this little explosive climb and then headed back down for a stop at a great coffee shop.
Each day after our ride, we had great food at different restaurants. Josh Drake aka “Julie the Cruise Director” was on the mark planning each meal and making quick work of navigation and reservations. Kudos Josh!
All of the riding on our trip was great. All of the food was really good. But the reason I love these camps is making new memories. Some of these guys I’ve been cycling with for 15 years. Some I just met this week. I love them all the same. The bonds that form at our camps are special. We take care of each other. We encourage each other. We teach each other. And yeah, we have quite a few laughs too.
We have a few more Spring Camps planned for 2022. Greenville South Carolina and Austin Texas are coming up quick. If you would like to attend a RFCC camp, you need to be a member, but that’s the easy part. Log on at www.joinrollfast.com or check out the info below and decide.
We’d love to ride with you. Be well!
ps – full photo album at: https://rollfast.smugmug.com/2022/Tucson-Arizona-Spring-Camp/

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May 3, 2014, 6:08 PM EDT
Whether the Minnesota Wild like it or not, they’ll need to stick with Ilya Bryzgalov in net against the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 2 on Sunday. If nothing else, head coach Mike Yeo is saying all the right things about Breezy, at least to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Michael Russo.
Yeo told Russo that he has a “good feeling” that the 33-year-old netminder will “play well” in Game 2.
As PHT noted on Friday, injuries continue to hinder the Wild in net. Yeo backed up yesterday’s update that Darcy Kuemper is not with the team just yet as he continues to struggle with an injury suffered during Game 7 of the Wild’s first-round series against the Colorado Avalanche.
While Yeo is putting on a brave face, Russo notes that Bryzgalov has been struggling lately. After a strong finish to the regular season (5-1-1 with two shutouts), Bryzgalov has struggled in the postseason. His lone playoff win in 2014 came after playing 13:15 in Game 7 following Kuemper’s injury.
Despite besting Bryzgalov and the Wild 5-2 in Game 1, more than a few Blackhawks players noted that they weren’t totally happy with their efforts in that victory (Johnny Oduya told Russo that they “got away with one”), so things could be even more challenging for the Russian goalie.
- How do Voracek, Giroux compare to the most expensive duos? 0
- Voracek turns monster season into massive eight-year deal 51
- Report: Canucks, Sutter closing in on five-year deal, north of $20M 24
- Voynov serving sentence at jail that once advertised it had flat screen TVs 45
- Report: Bernier and Leafs more than $2 million apart ahead of Friday’s arbitration hearing 11
- Flyers re-sign Couturier: six years, $26 million 40
- Benning calls Sutter a ‘foundation piece’ for Canucks 24
- Here’s a chart that shows which teams have been good/bad at drafting 40
- Penguins sign Fehr to three-year, $6 million contract 22
- Trade: Penguins send Sutter to Canucks for Bonino, Clendening 54
- Bettman says NHL would have to ‘consider’ putting Quebec City in the Western Conference (70)
- Rangers sign Stepan — six years, $39 million (62)
- NBC Sports to broadcast 105 NHL games in 2015-16 (58)
- Trade: Penguins send Sutter to Canucks for Bonino, Clendening (54)
- Voracek turns monster season into massive eight-year deal (54)


MELANIE McGRAW - Director
Melanie McGraw studied creative writing at Brigham Young University and then became an instructional designer and training consultant before pursuing her dream of filmmaking at age 30. She currently holds a MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she focused on writing and directing with a specialty in sound design. She is the recipient of multiple awards and scholarships, including a grant from The Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors Foundation, the Samuel and Lorenza Gary Memorial Award, the Albert J. Broccoli Foundation Award for Excellence in Production, the National Association of Theatre Owners, and the Tania Trepanier Memorial Scholarship. In June 2008 "Pitstop" won a Student Academy AwardŽ, one of the most prestigious honors for student filmmakers worldwide. Her debut film "Coif" (16mm B&W, 6 min.) has screened at film festivals around the world, including Frameline30 in San Francisco, and in New York City, Austin, Hamburg, Berlin, Toronto, Vienna, London, and Sydney.
While at USC, Melanie worked on over a dozen thesis films in a variety of roles, including editor, production sound mixer, supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer, and production coordinator. In addition, she acted as co-sound editor on "Cinemanifest," a feature-length documentary with Midge Costin, Head of the USC School of Cinematic Arts Sound Department, and held a teaching assistantship in the sound department 2005-2007. In March 2006, she traveled to Amman, Jordan to assist a small group of USC faculty in teaching a nine-day filmmaking workshop, held in conjunction with The Royal Film Commission of Jordan.
Melanie's experience growing up in a conservative Mormon family juxtaposed with "coming out" at age 23, instilled in her a desire to deal with life's uncomfortable moments and nurtured an ongoing fascination with how we can all be broken and beautiful at once. She explores these themes through her work.
DINA GACHMAN - Producer
Born and raised in Texas, Dina Gachman hightailed it to California when she was eighteen, and strangely, the longer she lives away from Texas, the more she loves her home state. Dina graduated with honors from UCLA with a degree in English Literature. She then worked as a film critic in San Francisco for five years, waiting lots of tables along the way. After years spent writing about other people's films, she decided to stop critiquing and start creating, going after what she is truly passionate about. Her USC MFA thesis film, ARCHER HOUSE, recently premiered at the AFI Dallas Film Festival, and she has recently finished adapting a book for the screen which is best described as FIGHT CLUB for girls, set in Tokyo.
MARY POSATKO - Producer
Mary Posatko is a third year Graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinema/Television. Growing up in Delaware with nothing to do but watch TV and dream, Mary became part culture junkie and part social activist. She went on to study Semiotics and Modern American History at Brown University, moved to LA to be a homeless counselor on Skid Row, then ran a program for gang members on the Westside. She then worked on news, documentary and drama production at NPR station KCRW in Santa Monica, and on several documentaries for HBO.
To date, Mary has produced four Graduate thesis films: Pitstop; Dina Gachman's Archer House (16mm, 15 min); Rain Breaw's Underpass (HD, 15min); Shoes on a Wire (16mm, 12 min); and a special joint project between USC and Julliard, Miss Lonelyhearts (HD, 3 min).
CAITLIN MILLAY TAYLOR - Producer
Caitlin Millay Taylor was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. She attended Yale University, where she received her B.A. and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her short film, Milk, was a finalist at the Ivy League Film Festival. In her spare time, Taylor interned for Michael Moore on his film, Bowling for Columbine, and worked with Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt on their film, The Education of Shelby Knox, which won the award for Best Cinematography at Sundance. Caitlin recently graduated from USC's Graduate School of Cinematic Arts with an MFA in film production. She currently works as an associate producer at the Foundation for Documentary Projects.
NICOLA MARSH - Cinematographer
Nicola Marsh grew up in London, England. She first moved to the US to work as a news camerawoman for NBC. After three years of covering burning buildings, household germs and Laci Peterson, she moved to Los Angeles in search of something deeper. Luckily she found USC, where she completed the Masters' Film Production Program. While there, she won a $40,000 scholarship from the David Lean Foundation. In 2006 she directed "Last Exit" which won third place at the PlanetOut Short Film Awards, which is being distributed by Logo Television. In that same year she shot and directed a music video for Bright Eyes' beloved indie hit "First Day of My Life" (Official Selection Outfest '06). She also co-directed a documentary with Pitstop director, Melanie McGraw, for the Victory Fund, profiling Congresswoman Heather Mizeur. She was accepted into the Film Independent's prestigious Project Involve program, and her mentor is the award winning director Jamie Babbit (But I'm a Cheerleader, Alias). She has shot an array of USC thesis films, including the award-winning documentary "Walk in the Light" about a gay black church in South Central Los Angeles.
Nicola currently works in Los Angeles as a freelance cinematographer. Her clients include, CBS (The Tyra Banks Show), TLC, Logo, the Discovery Channel and MTV.
COURTNEY TUESDAY YATES - Production Designer
Courtney Tuesday Yates was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. With family ties to the film industry, she has worked on numerous major motion pictures as a Production Assistant since a very early age, with titles including Say Anything, Honeymoon in Vegas, Dream Work's The Ring 2 and Wes Craven's Red Eye.
After spending much of her early twenties traveling and living abroad in such locations as Edinburgh, Scotland and Florence, Italy, she returned home for a scholarship to The California Institute of the Arts, graduating from Cal Arts with a BFA in Theatre Production Design and a year of exchange on full scholarship to the Glasgow School of Art for photography in 2003.
Tuesday worked as the Production Designer on "Indio USA," an AFI thesis film that won the Franklin J. Schaffner award, AFI's top honor, and also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Student Film of the Year. Since then she has designed other short films and music videos that air on MTV. She is currently working at a furious pace as a buyer, set dresser, and floral designer on advertising and editorial photo shoots for such celebrities and companies as Madonna, Tom Ford, and The Gap.
JULIEN GUERIF - Editor
Born and raised in Paris, Julien Guerif (27) worked as cook, mover, documentalist for diverse production companies, web journalist, translator (12 books total, 2 in progress) and script writer for the video games company UBI SOFT before moving to California to study film production at USC. There, he specialized early in editing and worked as an assistant for prestigious faculty members such as Jim Mitchell and Robert C. Jones.
His passion for editing comes from his long experience as a film goer, his wide knowledge of world cinema (he has seen more than 5,000 films) and the mentorship of Jean-Francois Naudon, his uncle, who has worked as a film and television editor in Paris for the past thirty years.
His influences are Walter Murch, Edward Dmytryk, Michael Kahn, Yoshiyahu Yamamure and more recently Daniel Rezende (City of God) and Claire Simpson (The Constant Gardener).


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Malayalam actor Captain Raju has died.
Raju Daniel known by his stage name Captain Raju was a former Indian Army officer and later an actor in Indian films.
He had acted in more than 500 films in the languages of Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and English.
He was best noted for his performance in character roles, and as a villain.
He suffered a stroke during a plane journey to New York and was admitted to a hospital in Muscat.
He was brought back to Kochi for further treatment.
He died on 17 September 2018 at his residence in Palarivattom, Kochi.
He was last seen in 2017’s Masterpiece.


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