Our kidneys, lungs and buffering systems take care of this for us, operating together to keep our blood pH tightly controlled. There is some evidence that a more alkaline diet is beneficial, although not to the degree that some popular diets promote.Ī typical Western diet produces more acid than alkali, so overall it’s slightly acidic. Is there any scientific evidence about this diet? If you don’t consume fewer kilojoules, it’s not likely to result in weight-loss. It’s likely that if you follow this diet you will lose weight simply because it’s restrictive, so you’re likely to consume fewer kilojoules. Just because foods are acid-forming doesn’t make them unhealthy! We need to look at the big picture of our overall diet. Many people assume tomatoes and lemons are acid-forming but as with most vegetables and fruit, they release more alkaline by-products once they’re fully metabolised. Acid-forming foods include fish, meat, poultry, eggs, shellfish, cheese, bread, cereals and grains.Alkali-forming foods include fresh vegetables (including starchy vegetables) and fruit.Once digested and metabolised, most foods release either acid or alkaline by-products into the circulation: Drinks including tea, coffee, alcohol, sugary and carbonated drinks are often on the banned list as well, whether or not they are acid-forming. Generally, the diets advise that from 70 to 80 per cent of our foods need to be alkaline and to achieve this we’re told to limit or eliminate acid-forming foods (see below). The alkaline diet comes in different forms and is sometimes called the acid alkaline diet. This is because our kidneys help maintain the acid-base balance in our bodies by regulating the disposal of hydrogen ions (which are what is actually being measured when we talk of acidity and alkalinity). To check the results of dietary changes, people following these diets use litmus strips to test the pH of their urine. ![]() The theory behind the alkaline diet is that the foods we eat should reflect the alkalinity of our blood as eating too many acid-producing foods makes it more difficult for our bodies to maintain this balance. The normal pH range for our blood is 7.35 to 7.45, so it is slightly alkaline. Acids have a pH less than 7 a pH of 7 is neutral and a pH greater than 7 is alkali (also called base, as in the acid-base balance). ![]() The pH scale is a measure of acidity and alkalinity. They’re also promoted as weight-loss diets. What are alkaline diets and is there anything in it for us? HFG senior nutritionist Rose Carr takes a closer look.Īccording to proponents of alkaline diets, if we eat mainly alkaline foods we can improve the pH in our bodies and thus improve our health.
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![]() The fact that many insomniacs eat cherries or drink the juice as a natural sleep booster explains why you must avoid it at breakfast. Thus, if you’re fond of eating cherries during breakfast, that could be the reason behind the non-stop dozing that occurs after.ĭrinking cherry juice at breakfast is another surefire way to dozing off immediately after. Only a few foods have been linked with stimulating Melatonin production and cherries are one of them. Cherriesĭid you know that your body has a built-in clock that controls sleep? Well, Melatonin is the hormone tasked with sleep regulation. This can lead to an energy deficit characterized by tiredness and sleepiness.īefore you know it, you’re looking for the perfect reason to seek the day off or work from home. Pancakes contain carbs and sugar – a deadly combination that surges your energy levels instantly and drops down as quickly. But unless you have plans of taking the day off and catching up on some sleep, you should rethink your choice. Sometimes, the aroma can be so tempting that you lose all your motivation to stay away. PancakesĪ couple of pancakes can be mouthwatering especially when you have a long day ahead. If you’re eating bananas the morning after a sleepless night, you might as well bring pillows to the breakfast table. But, the natural muscle-relaxing properties of these nutrients make dozing off a real possibility.īananas also contain L-tryptophan, a serotonin-producing amino acid that makes you feel so good that dozing off becomes easier. But they’re not exactly a good choice if you want to stay awake after breakfast.Įating a few bananas can supply your body with potassium and magnesium. Bananaīananas offer a lot of vitamins which are crucial for your health. Also, you should probably digest the fact that a typical bagel contains as many carbs as 4-5 slices of bread. Just know that you’ll be at a greater risk of nodding off after. But this energy is unsustainable due to the absence of fiber and protein which slows down the body’s ability to break down carbs. But do you know why you feel sleepy after munching on a bagel or two?īagels give your body an instant infusion of energy. When you’re in the mood for a quick breakfast, bagels are one of the first options that come to mind. If you’re serious about staying awake after breakfast, this is one of the meals to avoid. This results in an even bigger spike and decline in blood sugar levels. In college, I always skipped it on test days to stay as alert as possible.īut why does this popular breakfast induce sleep so quickly? Like toast, oatmeal contains complex Carbs which trigger rapid rise and fall of blood sugar levels.Īlso, the majority of us pour insane amounts of sugar and milk on our oatmeal. No breakfast meal makes me sleepy and as quick as oatmeal. Well, unless you’re having breakfast in bed. The powerful corn-sugar combo is not good for you under any circumstances. And it is no secret that corn contains extremely high amounts of carbs. This is why many of us struggle to avoid sleeping after eating cereal in the morning.Īlso, corn is the other main ingredient in cereal. If you’ve ever checked the nutrition figures on any cereal box, you’d be amazed at the fructose content of your favorite brands.Īs noted earlier, large amounts of sugar can crash and burn the body’s energy levels. What do Cheerios, Frosted Flakes, and Fruit Loops all have in common? Sugar…. This spike declines equally rapidly, leading to a sudden lowering of energy levels. Remember, white bread, in particular, may contain up to 32 calories per slice.īut how does eating a few slices of bread at breakfast make you sleep? Well, toast can give your body a quick increase in blood sugar levels. This may be due to the high carbohydrate content. ![]() However, many people experience dozing off a few minutes after munching on their favorite toast. Whether it’s an early morning meal at home or in a restaurant, it is almost impossible not to have some sort of bread on the menu. Toast is probably the number one breakfast food on the planet. 21 foods that make you sleepy after Breakfast 1. The 21 most common breakfast foods that make you feel sleepy immediately after eating is as follows. Related: Sleeping After Breakfast: 21 Epic Tips to Stay Awake While eating abnormal food portions is a common cause of sleeping after breakfast, what you eat can have an even bigger impact. Certain foods can trigger sleepiness, especially when consumed in the morning. For me, a truly classic everyday fragrance. The fragrance is indeed a classic all-rounder - like the Sauvage, this fragrance can actually be worn anytime, anywhere. After that, it is then very close to the skin until after said 8 hours then also finally the air is out. In the hours 3 and 4 one would give even in a car or an elevator still a fleeting impression. This spray behavior provides the Prada Lu.halt.beim PLRC then for the fact that I am the first 2 hours in a - loosely at an arm's length - well perceivable fragrance cloud. (1x behind each ear, 1x front on the clothes, 1x in the hair and once in the neck) As with every fragrance (except the Shaghaf Oud) I operate the sprayer exactly 5 times. However, such sensations are rather subjective nature.Īnd for my (subjective) feeling this fragrance radiates quite neatly. The sillage is here on Parfumo a little bit underrated in my opinion. On the clothes even the next day still clearly noticeable. Short and sweet, one point per hour - so makes 8 points at 8 hours shelf life. ![]() All in all, this fragrance is very balanced - and that with this fragrance tree - I can only pay respect and take my hat off! We have here an extremely mineral, cool and hard fragrance, which thanks to the bergamot nevertheless brings a decent freshness and despite all the mineral notes never drifts into the dull. Incidentally, the headline already suggests that I associate the fragrance a little with a pencil - this is due to the metallic notes and the coal - but more on this in a moment. The scent is a true gentleman - and that's despite the pepper-ambrox combo. It seems perfectly balanced from front to back. Picking up the three main players of PLRC then is definitely the lavender, which makes this scent super wearable and elegant despite all its coolness and harshness. Similarities are of course not to be denied - a quick look at the fragrance pyramid is enough - but the Prad.sorry, the PLRC is definitely the mature, big brother. What is far too loud and aggressive for me in the Sauvage, Prada brings in an incredibly gentle, good harmony in the bottle. Prada has managed to stage this fragrance note incredibly softly and gently. However, ambrox is not the loud friend here. These three notes dominate the action from here on out and stay at the party until the very end. In addition, the Ambroxan so despised by me now also inexorably paves the way forward. Because the degree between dominant and penetrating pepper is narrow.Īfter a short time, the dark coal, which give the fragrance a certain depth and very cool metallic notes join. He is clearly present, but at no time overloaded. The pepper, however, is not a bit biting. The prelude is characterized by a, really subtle and immediately held only in the background bergamot and a decent pinch of black pepper. What I do not like so well, however, is the sprayer. The design is simple and I actually quite like it visually. Speaking of pencils - let's finally get to the actual topic, the Prada Luna Rossa Carbon, oops sorry - I mean to the PLRC :-) It's super fun for an evening - but if you had this girlfriend around all the time, you'd eventually feel the need to stick a pencil in your ear and see if you could scratch your brain with it. The one who wants to love everyone and is the loudest at every party. ![]() ![]() ![]() That one friend who always laughs louder than everyone else, who is always in an over-the-top good mood and can never be serious. Don't get me wrong, if someone walks past me and I catch a glimpse of this scent, I like it - but if I wear it and thus have this scent permanently hanging in my nose, then this scent is kind of like that one friend that almost everyone in their circle of friends has. Whether it's an EdP or an EdT, we just don't become friends. DS is a fragrance that I just can't warm up to. The several comparisons to Dior Sauvage were also a reason for my dislike. I have long hesitated to test this fragrance, too much have deterred me the fragrance notes, especially the ambroxan - a fragrance note that I could not really get something - at least until now - but more about that later. The speech is from Prada Luna Rossa Carbon - hereafter only PLRC called. Today we take on a fragrance that can be purchased cheaply and that really surprised me. I hope you are well and you beat yourselves bravely through these crazy times. ![]() ![]() Jugs have a smaller opening than the bottom and usually have a handle. Bottles have an opening smaller than the bottom that can usually be plugged or capped. Jars have an opening roughly the same size as the bottom. Rinse all aluminum, steel cans, glass and plastic bottles and jugs. Note: If your recycle pick-up day falls on a legal holiday, it will be collected the following day. Route 2: The Third Tuesday of every month Route 1: The first Tuesday of every month Note: If your trash pick-up day falls on a legal holiday, it will be collected the following day. The Authority has provided a schedule summary for its events. For details see /Cit-e-Access/webpage.cfm?TID=121&TPID=11922. SCMUA also hosts special recycling events. The website is If you bring your trash to the SCMUA landfill, please look for separate containers at the convenience center for propane tanks, car batteries, tires, electronics and metals. You may also bring your recyclables to the SCMUA recycling center, located on Route 94, just north of the intersection of Routes 15 and 94, Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. Please don't include plastic bags with your curbside pickup take them to a grocery store that accepts clean and dry plastic bags. In the past, the DPW workers were empting the bags and leaving them behind, however they were blowing around and creating roadside litter. The bags cannot be collected with the other recyclables as they get caught in conveyor belts during the recycling process. Place your recycling of glass and plastic bottles in a sturdy container. Please do not leave your curbside recycling in plastic bags. Also, please listen for changes or cancellations on 102.3 FM, 103.7 FM and 1360 AM. 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Place recyclable materials and trash at your curb no later than 7:30 a.m. Click here for Recycle Coach information Schedule For Residential Curbside Pick-Up And it feels that there are even less varieties of voice actors than in those games - most of my operatives speak with an Irish accent, and there's another large group that speak in Jamaican accents. Just to mention in this review, the voice acting in Watch Dogs: Legion is on par with Bethesda games such as Oblivion and Fallout 3. It is up to you, and your operatives that you recruit and play as, to conquer London from Albion - a private, corrupt military group run by Nigel Cass (who soughts to bring down DedSec) and find out who set up DedSec for the terrorist attacks. ![]() Which has unfortunately come to disarray after a planned terrorist attack occurs and is blamed on DedSec (the main protagonist faction of the Watch Dogs series), and the group soon disbands. The game's main setting is London, the cultural capital of the world - home to many different walks of life. Making this mechanic interesting, but underdeveloped. Beforehand, you can check these operatives skills and abilities (for example hitmen can carry lethal weapons and are generally more maneuverable in combat, and doctors and police officers can give you access to restricted areas) However, once you upgrade your skills from the main menu, you will only need to use certain operatives throughout most of your playthrough. They will then return the favour and join your cause. To recruit an operative, you can just go up and talk to them (help them with a problem or liberate a borough if they don't like DedSec) and they will give you a mission - usually go and collect an Ambulance or protect them from an assassination attempt. Gameplay wise, it is very much identical to Watch Dogs 2 however it implements new features such as multiple playable characters (known as operatives) and these characters will have their own routines that they will live out (or so it feels like at first glance). It's not a bad game however, it is just really lazy and underdeveloped. ![]() Watch Dogs: Legion is about as good as you'd come to expect from this series. In the left-hand pane, choose Empty Project. Create a new applicationĬlick Create New Project on the Welcome screen or select File | New | Project from the main menu. For more details about plugins, see Managing plugins. In the search field, type JavaScript and TypeScript. Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open the IDE settings and select Plugins. Make sure the JavaScript and TypeScript plugin is enabled in the settings. On this page you will find a short Getting Started Guide that will walk you step by step from creating a web application to debugging and testing it. PhpStorm supports running and debugging tests as well as navigation between tests and subjects or between a failed test and the fragment of code that caused the problem. PhpStorm integrates with Jest, Karma, Protractor, Cucumber, and Mocha testing frameworks. Learn more from Debug JavaScript in Chrome. Note that PhpStorm supports debugging JavaScript only in Chrome or any other browser of the Chrome family. With the built-in debugger, you can debug both your client-side and server-side code and even run JavaScript code snippets in the interactive debugger console. PhpStorm also integrates with JavaScript linters and the Flow type checker. ![]() JavaScript-aware coding assistance includes completion for keywords, labels, variables, parameters, and functions, error and syntax highlighting, formatting, code inspections and quick-fixes, as well as common and JavaScript-specific refactoring. PhpStorm also supports React, Angular, Vue.js, and other frameworks and provides tight integration with various tools for web development. With PhpStorm, you can develop modern web, mobile, and desktop applications with JavaScript and Node.js. ![]() Sign up for a free Jotform account to create powerful online forms in minutes - with no coding required. When someone joins or leaves your team, you can promote anyone to owner status of the files, and the owner can then remove someone entirely from accessing the files. Both let you right-click on a file or folder to share it via email, but Dropbox also adds a “Copy Dropbox link” option that you can paste into an email or a Slack channel, for example. File sharing on Dropboxĭropbox also makes it a little easier to share files directly from Windows Explorer or Mac OS Finder. You can also set an expiration date for sharing, and after the date passes, the file-sharing link won’t work. You can set passwords on shared files in Dropbox so that only people who have that password can access them. However, Dropbox does edge out Google Drive when it comes to securing your shared files. They’re pretty much the same when it comes to granting permissions or sharing links. Paid storage winner: Google Drive File sharing featuresīoth Google Drive and Dropbox let you share files and folders. Google One does cost less - $99.99 per year vs Dropbox’s $119.88 per year. To get 2 TB of storage with Google Drive, you have to upgrade to Google One, a subscription service. However, you can get an extra 500 MB of storage space for every friend you refer to Dropbox, for a maximum of 19 GB of free storage space. Google Drive offers 15 GB of free storage, while Dropbox only gives you 2 GB. ![]() If your primary use for Google Drive or Dropbox is free storage, Google Drive is the clear winner. Google Drive only uses 128-bit encryption for data at rest (in storage). National Security Agency has approved this encryption standard to protect information that has been classified top secret. However, Dropbox uses a stronger version of encryption to keep your files safe when they’re being stored - Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256-bit encryption. You can collect photos, videos, and other file uploads via custom online forms and send them to Dropbox or Google Drive automatically with Jotform! Securityīoth Google Drive and Dropbox offer two-factor authentication and encrypt your data when it’s in transit - from the cloud storage service to your device, and vice versa. ![]() ![]() But when Dominika contacts her superiors to reveal the identity of the mole, she frames her uncle Ivan rather than betray Korchnoi. She could then replace him as a mole and further their work by passing information to the CIA. He fears he will be caught soon, and instead of dying in vain, instructs Dominika to reveal his identity to Ivan. He explains that he was initially patriotic, but grew to feel that Russia was corrupt. She wakes in a hospital where General Vladimir Korchnoi reveals that he is Marble. She initially helps Matorin torture Nash, but turns on the executioner and kills him. Dominika returns to Budapest, and informs Nash that she wishes to defect with her mother to America.Īfter spending the night with Nash, Dominika awakes to find him being tortured by Matorin, who is attempting to discover the identity of Marble. She is tortured and interrogated for days. Dominika and Volontov are required to immediately return to Moscow. Russian agents observing Boucher realize that the mission had been compromised. She unintentionally steps into traffic and is killed. On leaving the meeting place, Boucher sees American agents and is spooked. She carries out Marta's assignment to meet Boucher, and covertly exchanges the supplied information for CIA-supplied floppy disks. Dominika claims to her uncle that she is helping in Marta's effort to gather information from Boucher.ĭominika offers to work for Nash as a double agent. Dominika inspects Marta's room, and realizes that she is working to gather information from Stephanie Boucher, the chief of staff to a U.S. Dominika reveals her true identity to him, as well as her motive to find out Marble's identity. Dominika quickly makes contact with Nash, who correctly determines that she is a Russian intelligence operative. Upon her arrival in Budapest, Dominika lives with Marta Yelenova, another Sparrow. Dominika's assignment is to gain the trust of Nash, and reveal his contact. Meanwhile the SVR has been tracking Nash, and hopes to find out the identity of Marble. Dominika excels in her training, despite some friction with her trainers, and she is assigned to Budapest. Since he cannot return to Russia, he is assigned to Budapest, where he will regain contact with Marble.ĭominika is sent to State School 4, a specialist training schools for 'Sparrows', SVR operatives capable of seducing their targets with sexpionage. but insists that he is the only individual whom Marble will work with. Nash creates a diversion to ensure his asset, a mole in Russian ranks code-named Marble, escapes unidentified. While meeting with an asset in Gorky Park, they are confronted by the police. ![]() Nate Nash is a CIA operative working in Moscow. Ivan offers Dominika a choice to begin working for the SVR, or be executed so there are no witnesses to Ustinov's death. As Ustinov tortures her belly button, he is killed by Sergei Matorin, an SVR operative authorized by Ivan. She is tasked with seducing Dimitry Ustinov, a Russian gangster, in exchange for her mother's continued medical care. Following a career-ending injury, Dominika is approached by her uncle, Ivan, the Deputy Director of SVR. In modern-day Russia, Dominika Egorova is a famed Russian ballerina who supports her ill mother. ![]() When Rand Paul challenged his plan as non-conservative, Rubio deftly segued to Paul’s weakness, saying that he “is a committed isolationist” and, citing threats from “radical jihadists,” Iran and China, that “we can’t even have an economy if we’re not safe.” ![]() Later Rubio defended the per-child credit in his tax plan, attacked by some conservatives as doing nothing for growth, by saying his most important role was as a parent and, in a nod to cultural conservatives, “You can’t have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values.” He parried his first question, about reducing benefits, to how his modest-income immigrant family achieved the American Dream, how higher minimum wages accelerate automation, to his wider economic program and the need for vocational education: “We need more welders and less philosophers.” All in 333 words.Īsked about automation, he said it took 75 years for the telephone but only one year for “Candy Crush” to get 100 million users, a signal that he’s in touch with contemporary tech, and then referenced his plans to reshape higher education, which has been performing especially badly of late. With his smiling demeanor, unhesitant phrasing and ease at pivoting from one point to where he wants to go, Rubio has become a star in debate formats. ![]() But if it does, Rubio and Cruz are clearly better positioned than anyone else. The widespread assumption among political insiders is that in crunch time, when things really matter, Republican voters will abandon the front-runners for candidates with experience in public office. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington September 24, 2015. Ted Cruz (L) (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R) (R-FL) arrive in the House Chamber prior to Pope Francis addressing a joint meeting of the U.S. But I'm not going to sit here now and become his chief critic over the next six months, because he deserves the opportunity to go forward and make his argument and try to win," Rubio added.Republican presidential candidates Sen. The top Republican Senator said he would not use the next six months to be critical of Trump as he advances his presidential campaign. He should be true to what he believes in and continue to campaign on those things and make his case to the American people," Rubio said. That doesn't mean that Donald needs to change his positions in order to get my support or what have you. But, that said, these concerns that I have about policy, they remain and they're there. I intend to live up to the pledge that we made. "Like millions of Republicans, you try to reconcile those two things. On the other hand, I have well-defined differences with the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. "On the one hand, I don't want Hillary Clinton to be the president of the US. "I signed a pledge that said I would support the Republican nominee and I intend to continue to do that," he said, indicating that he is pledge-bound to support Trump in the elections. In his first national interview after he quit the presidential race, Rubio said he would not support the Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton in the November general elections. I'm just saying to you that I believe he would be best served by someone who more fully embraces the things he stands for, and that is certainly not me," Rubio told the CNN in an interview when asked if he is in consideration for vice presidential running mate of Trump. Marco Rubio, who withdrew himself from the White House race after he lost his home state Florida to Trump, has now ruled himself out from being considered as a Republican vice presidential candidate "I've never had those conversations with anyone in his campaign, so I'm not saying that anyone has offered it to me or even suggested it for me. That I came up short and disappointed their efforts, their time, their passion. If you want to know my greatest disappointment, my greatest disappointment is that I wasn't able to win for them. "I am certainly disappointed with the outcome, that I disappointed so many millions of grassroots activists across this country. You can invoke most of these features at once by clicking Run Smart Scan on the main page. Some, including TotalAV, take a step beyond, adding components designed to actively boost performance. Security companies got smart and switched to designing security products from the get-go to minimize performance impact. Many years ago, security programs got a well-deserved reputation for hogging system resources and putting a drag on system performance. The benefit of possibly catching a zero-day attack is well worth the few seconds wait before TotalAV releases legitimate uncommon files. Paying special attention to uncommon files is smart. ![]() Sure enough, TotalAV gave a quarter of them the rare file treatment before greenlighting them. To further exercise this feature, I tried installing about 20 ancient PCMag utilities, tools that surely aren’t currently in widespread use. ![]() Rather than fill the screen with pop-ups, it simply displayed the number of threats in a single pop-up, with a link to view the list by filename and threat name. As soon as the folder opened, it started stacking up notifications. The Pro edition did better, by a long shot. Rather than score it a big fat zero, we gave it credit for removing 85% of the samples during its required install-time scan-quite a bit better than in its last review. Lacking any real-time protection, the free TotalAV antivirus did neither of those. Others wait until just before the sample executes to activate a real-time scan. For many products, the tiny file access that occurs when Windows Explorer gets each file's name and size is enough to trigger a real-time scan. We start the hands-on malware protection test by opening a folder full of malware samples that we’ve curated and analyzed. F-Secure and McAfee managed 100% detection in their latest rounds of testing, while Bitdefender and Norton detected 99%. In the latest test, that score dropped to an unimpressive 73%. As you can see from the review, we’re not impressed with that move.Īt the time of our previous review, TotalAV detected 89% of the verified phishing sites, which is better than many competitors. In a very unusual move, TotalAV not only removes bonus features, it also strips essential real-time protection from TotalAV Free Edition. Many antivirus companies pack full protection into their free product, relying on added features or a personal-use-only clause to drive sales of the paid version. Given this product’s high price, you won’t want to waste any licenses. TotalAV lets you gift unused licenses to others while giving them their own accounts. However, their installations remain part of your subscription, under your control. With any multi-license antivirus subscription, you’re free to use your licenses to protect family members. The other three invoke Password Vault, Family Account Sharing, and Settings.įamily Account Sharing is interesting. Pointing to three of them pulls out submenus for Malware Protection, Internet Security, and System Tune Up.
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