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What would you say is the world’s most famous individual car? KITT from Knight Rider? Mr. Bean’s Mini? The General Lee? For anyone born prior to the mid 70’s, the answer would probably be “The ’64 James Bond Aston Martin DB5.” Driven by Sean Connery in the classics Goldfinger and Thunderball, it featured a long list of spy gadgetry, and is considered by many to still be the quintessential Bond car. This fall, for the first time ever, the silver beauty will be put up for auction. Start saving now, because it is expected to fetch over US$5 million. | {
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Cook you a Jamaican Meal
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I will cook a fresh Jamaican lunch. Menu includes mild curry chicken, rice and peas, fried plantains, and greens. Must be able to meet and pick up.
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I love cooking. The act of cooking and watching people eat and enjoy my food is fulfilling to me. Additionally, it doesn't hurt that I have many recipes from my Jamaican heritage that I love to wow my friends, family, and guests with. Some of my favorites are oxtail, curry chicken, rice and peas,
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Simbi is a great platform for those like myself who believe in the good old system of trade. I hope to be able to utilize this platform to exercise and further develop my graphic design skills, build my portfolio, and help provide others with services they may not be able to attain otherwise.
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About Rendesia White
A native Californian, I have 15+ years in Office Administration. As a developing small business owner I specialize in virtual assistant services from managing calendars and answering e-mails to form c...reation, date entry, and even social media management.
I take responsibility for making change, and I actively advocate for anti-sex trafficking, health and welfare, and specifically, HIV/AIDS awareness for women and girls. Currently, I serve as the Community Outreach Liaison for the National Alliance for Free Women, Inc, a non-profit organization in the Inland Empire region in Southern California. Through the NAOFW, Inc. and my own personal endeavors I strive to continue my efforts to help educate, empower women and girls everywhere.
Outside of the office and outreach my biggest joy comes from my children. I have a young family and watching my children develop and grow has been such a pleasure. I feel honored by the responsibility to raise them. Some of my biggest passions are natural health/living and environmental conservation/preservation, cooking and feeding people and gardening.
I feel it is my duty to provide a sense of peace to those around me. As I’ve matured, I have embraced the helper and healer in me and I have become more comfortable sharing my life story. I hope that my experiences, mistakes, failures, and triumphs can impact someone else's life and deter them from experiencing the same heartaches or help them heal from traumas of their own.show more | {
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Game of Groans: Why Success Won't Make You Happy
In the past 50 or 60 years, real term incomes in countries such as the USA and the UK have increased dramatically, but happiness has not kept apace. In fact, people today are considerably less happy than back then: they have less time, they are more alone, and so many of their number are on antidepressants that trace quantities of a popular antidepressant have been found in the water supply.
Although economists focus on the absolute size of salaries, several sociological studies have found that the effect of money on happiness results less from the things that money can buy (absolute income effect) than from comparing one’s income to that of others, and in particular to that of one’s peers (relative income effect). This is an important part of the explanation as to why people today are no happier than people 50 or 60 years ago; despite being considerably richer and healthier, they have only barely managed to ‘keep up with the Joneses’.
But there is more. If I am to believe everything that I see in the media, happiness is to be six foot tall or more and to have bleached teeth and a firm abdomen, all the latest clothes, accessories, and electronics, a picture-perfect partner of the opposite sex who is both a great lover and a terrific friend, an assortment of healthy and happy children, a pet that is neither a stray nor a mongrel, a large house in the right sort of neighborhood, a second property in an idyllic holiday location, a top-of-the-range car to shuttle back and forth from the one to the other, a clique of ‘friends’ with whom to have fabulous dinner parties, three or four foreign holidays a year, and a high-impact job that does not distract from any of the above.
There are at least three major problems that I can see with this ideal of happiness. First, it represents a state of affairs that is impossible to attain to and that is therefore in itself an important source of unhappiness. Second, it is situated in an idealized and hypothetical future rather than in an imperfect but actual present in which true happiness is much more likely to be found, albeit with great effort. Third—and most importantly—it has largely been defined by commercial interests that have absolutely nothing to do with true happiness, which has far more to do with the practice of reason and the peace of mind that this eventually brings.
In short, it is not only that the bar for happiness is set too high, but also that it is set in the wrong place, and that it is, in fact, the wrong bar. Jump and you’ll only break your back. | {
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The Other Kate
Exploring the perspective on history enjoyed by those who actually have some.
Well, by ‘recent’ I mean ‘not medieval’.
The speaker this time is neither a precocious three-year-old nor a witty 70-something—it is a young woman who doesn’t come close to splitting that difference. She looks about 20 to me, but that can’t be right. Somewhere north of 25 and south of 30 is my realistic guesstimate, based on what we’ve learned so far about her education and work history. Patient, charming, quiet but not ridiculously reserved, good sense of humour—all these we have also learned about her as she has squired us around Edinburgh and environs. And her communication? That comes straight up: neither sarcasm nor irony seem to be in her repertoire.
Today we are heading north to our home-away-from-home for the next week—an environmental education centre near Inverness. Our guide enlivens the trip by naming every bird on the flit and every flowering plant glimpsed in passing; by pointing out everything from nearby ruins to on-the-horizon geological features; and by trying to communicate the broad sweep of Scottish history in simple terms for those few of us who have failed to do the recommended reading ahead of time. Oops, there’s some of that sarcasm. Although the mechanics of how the swap happened aren’t clear, it appears that I am in possession of the sarcasm she lacks, as well as my own proper share.
As we drive past the wreck of a castle not on the stop-and-photograph list, she indicates that it’s not of much interest, being of such ‘recent’ construction, and this is where we get into it.
Well, by ‘recent’, I mean ‘not medieval’.
Indeed—that’s usually what I mean by ‘recent’ too.
Except when I mean ‘in the last few days’ in the context of the last time I remember seeing my missing flash drive.
Or ‘in the last few weeks’ in the context of a half-remembered news story about something of scientific interest.
Or ‘in the last few months’ in the context of a celebrity’s death.
Or ‘in the last few years’ in the context of a major political event.
Come to think of it, I can’t remember the last time I used ‘recent’ to mean ‘not medieval’.
In a country just now learning to spell and pronounce sesquicentennial in preparation for our eventual 150th anniversary (still a long, long way off—all of five years for goodness sake), ‘recent’ means, well, ‘recent’, damn it. In a country lacking medievality, it doesn’t mean ‘anything and everything that’s happened since the 15th century’.
You know, little things like the Renaissance (I think of Michelangelo and friends), the age of discovery (Columbus and his ilk), the Protestant Reformation (Luther et al), the scientific revolution (Newton and those guys), the days of Empire, political revolutions, the Enlightenment (Newton again, per Wiki – when did he find time to go to the movies?), the industrial revolution, the cessation of the slave trade, the theory of germs, the theory of evolution, the advent of world war, the mastery of the atom, the exploration of space, the triumph of the electron(ic). Whew. My knowledge of history is a little sketchy and jumbled, but that seems like a lot to lump together as the ‘recent’ past.
But if that’s how it’s going to be, well, I’m in. Not only ‘in’, but in-spired by Kate—the charming and ever-so-patient guide with the odd perspective on history.
When will that document be ready? When will I start that exercise program? When will supper be on the table?
Client/Doctor/Big Guy: Relax! I’m on it. Soon.
Well, by ‘soon’ I mean ‘before the next ice age’. That’s how you use it too, right?
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One of the interesting things, when one travels across Canada, is to see the historic “base line” rising from east to west. In the Maritimes and Newfoundland, the base line starts in the 1600s. In Central Canada, it’s in the 1700s. By the time you get to BC, it’s the 1800s or even the 1900s. History starts when “our people” arrived. Anything before that is either irrelevant or, umm, medieval.
Jim – Yes, I know we have little formal history, especially out West. I remember my surprise, seeing houses dating from the 1600s in New England. I sure understand Kate’s viewpoint – if you have medieval castles, one that was built in the late 1700s would look sort of, well, recent. Here in Ottawa, our heritage buildings are about 150 years old, if that. | {
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FSA steering group resignations in protest over UK government ‘pro-GM’ stand
FSA GM dialogue process a ‘PR exercise on behalf of the GM industry’
by the ANH team
......Breaking news: 2nd June 2010:
In a further development, the vice chairman of the steering group that was set up by the Food Standards Agency to gauge opinion on GM food has now also resigned in protest over the public 'consultation' being effectively a pro-GM propaganda exercise. See below for public comments about the resignation of leading academic, Professor Brian Wynne of Lancaster University.
On 26th May, Dr Helen Wallace, the Director of GeneWatch UK, resigned her membership of the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) Steering Group for the GM dialogue, with immediate effect. In a public letter of resignation to John Curtice, the Chair of the Steering Group, she declared that it had become clear to her that the purpose of the FSA process was nothing more than a PR exercise on behalf of the GM industry. She also believes that the process would be a significant waste of £500,000 of taxpayers money.
FSA accused of trying to implement the GM industry’s PR strategy
Dr Wallace is firmly convinced that the FSA are attempting to implement the GM industry’s PR strategy which aims to: maintain that GM crops will ‘feed the World’; lobbying to end segregation of GM and non-GM food and feed that is entering Britain and Europe, and; opposing the labeling of meat and dairy products from GM fed animals.
She clearly sets out, in her frank and well-referenced letter various pertinent points that shoot down in flames this GM industry strategy, including the revelations that there is ‘no realistic prospect’ of drought-tolerant, salt-tolerant or nitrogen-fixing GM crops, and the fact that GM herbicide-resistant crops have resulted in a major problem with herbicide-tolerant superweeds that are currently spreading across the US, and causing Monsanto’s share price to plummet.
GM causing poverty cycle for poor farmers
Dr Wallace also highlights the tendency for expensive patented GM seeds, with their accompanying own-brand herbicides, to lock poor farmers into a poverty cycle and a dependence on multi-national seed companies that they find impossible to break.
Soil Association calls for an end to impartial ‘consultation’
In a further development, Peter Melchett, Policy Director of the Soil Association has written to the Right Hon Lord Rooker, Chair of the FSA, calling for an end to the GM ‘consultation’ process, in view of the fact that it can no longer be considered impartial. He points out that, with the resignation of Helen Wallace, it would now be ‘unthinkable’ to spend any further public money on this exercise.
The FSA should be protecting the public from GM food
The Food Standards Agency is supposedly a non-ministerial UK government department responsible for protecting public health, and for making sure that the food eaten in the UK is safe to eat. There is now ample evidence that GM food is unsafe to eat, as well as ample evidence of many other concerns, particularly major environmental concerns associated with the uncontrolled and non-intentional movement of transgenes (genetically modified genes) in different plant and animal species. It beggars belief that the FSA have been acting in the interests of the GM industry, and, in effect promoting these dangerous foods as safe.
Dr Wallace’s resignation letter brings out into the open some revelations that will be shocking to some. Others will be relieved that someone has had the courage to tell it how it is. Dr Wallace has effectively told the story of betrayal of duty and public trust, and an abuse of public money—one born out of a need to dance in step with the all-powerful biotech industry.
It is good news indeed that both Dr Wallace... and then Professor Wynne... have taken this stand. We congratulate them and deeply respect their principled decisions.
Comments made on the BBC Today Programme by Professor Brian Wynne after his resignation:
“The main concern … was that this was being called a public dialogue about food and the role of GM within that and the more I was involved in it … the more it looked much more like … yet another … extractive exercise in eliciting public attitudes to GM. The two things are quite different in their principles. The Government has ... established principles for good practice on public dialogue and various of those principles were being contravened in the way in which the dialogue was being set up.”
“The members of the steering group, the officials … from FSA and the other relevant Government agencies … were … operating in a perfectly proper way. It’s the context in which the steering group and the process was being established that I was concerned about and that’s where I think the claim to impartiality is …in a state of institutional denial.
“When you … look at the premises on which the FSA is operating then there’s no way in which this can be an impartial public dialogue. The first one is that the GM issue as a public issue is a scientific issue. It’s about risks and … is it safe if I eat GM food. There are many more dimensions to the GM issue alone, let alone food security in the world, than the safety of GM. It’s controversial … but … there are many other dimensions to it which are not scientific issues and I tried to make that distinction in the steering group. It was falling on deaf ears in the FSA around me, not in the steering group itself. The second (premise) is the FSA operates only on sound science. The third one is … that the public is anti science.”
“When I challenged (the Chair of the FSA) on that … he equated public attitudes with headlines in … the tabloids. Tabloid headlines are not public attitudes. One can see expressions of an anti science kind occasionally in the public domain on this issue but the public is not anti science in general. To begin with those premises one arrives at a pro GM policy in all but name and … the claim that this is … impartial and that the FSA is impartial with respect to GM is simply not true.” | {
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family RTW travel
Our WHY Behind Travelling the World Every story has a back story and it's not always pretty. I never really considered ourselves storytellers until this trip. Sure, Chris and I like to talk in stories. It's fun | {
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North House
West Cowes, Isle of Wight
Our House
North House is a Grade II listed townhouse located in the heart of Cowes Old Town.
The house has been sympathetically renovated throughout and retains many of the original features and period quality, including its attractive authentic fireplaces. We have 14 rooms, some with idyllic sea views. We offer a restaurant, private dining room, bar, library, garden and an outdoor, heated swimming pool.
The house is situated within the Conservation Area of the old town of Cowes, close to the high street and its busy array of shops, restaurants, marinas and its various yacht clubs. The high speed passenger ferry service to Southampton is less than a ten minute walk from the house, making the journey time from London only 2 hours.
Our fourteen bedrooms go from Cosy to Spacious via Comfy, with wooden floors and lashings of natural light. Each one has its own style, some with huge four-posters, others with vintage chests at the foot of the bed. There are deep velvet armchairs, stand-alone dressers and Farrow & Ball wallpaper.
Our restaurant has a relaxed, stylish and comfortable feel - full of character, yet unpretentious. Our team of chefs create dishes focused on fish and seafood from the South Coast with a respectful nod to the seasons.
With flagstone flooring, tongue-and-groove walls and a peaceful terrace. In the Summer months; spill out onto the terrace for a glass of the palest Côtes de Provence or locally distilled gin before feasting on the Isle of Wight’s biggest draw: seafood. | {
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Custom Command Center
Materials: Akrum base cabinets (two 30" with large drawers, two 18" with cabinets), two lengths of Langan countertop (96" and 49")
Description: As a photographer, designer and artist, I was in need of a desk solution that would accommodate all my computer/camera equipment and peripherals, plus tons of storage for materials and supplies, and with extra room on top to spare so that it could actually be used as a work/craft surface.
While I am lucky to be blessed with the space for an 11-foot desk, sadly no such product seemed to exist. I headed to the Ikea kitchen section for answers. 4 Akrum base cabinets and 2 lengths of Langan wood countertop solved the problem. The cabinets are designed to sit on legs (keeping them flat on the ground would mean the bottom drawers and cabinets would scrape against the floor), but to avoid extra height I decided to forego the legs and instead placed a few pieces of 1/2" plywood underneath to lift them just enough.
I needed a 132" top, and decided to create it out of two lengths of the Langan. The pieces were cut, sanded, stained, and waxed; with the excess used along with the set of Capita stainless steel legs to make a shelf. A hole was cut in one of the pieces to allow cords to pass through.
Even without the cabinets sitting on legs the desk is still several inches taller than normal desk height (32" instead of 28-29") but an adjustable-height chair solved the problem.
Since the drawer and cabinet faces are not pre-drilled, I was able to choose interesting hardware from another source for the pulls and handles (library card catalog pulls, which I filled with bits from vintage NYC street maps). | {
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Foreign-language records: Every detail counts
In litigation, medical records can be a minefield of details. A nurse has scribbled an illegible note in the margin. A page from another patient’s file has slipped into the record. A key handwritten dosage isn’t clear.
And when the record isn’t in English, it gets worse. If you don’t speak the language, how can you ... | {
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The most luxurious nut in the world is the macadamia. She’s a delicate, rich and buttery lady who combines perfectly with tall, dark and handsome raw cacao.
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A rich decadent mix of Raw Cacao and the most delicious and luxurious nuts around, the Heavenly Macademia! Their rich, smooth, creamy texture is buttery and luxurious and they are also high in Vitamin A and iron. Mix that with Chocolate...and Wow what a mix! If you love having something decadent and delicious for breakfast but don’t want all that processed white sugar and additives then nut and seed butters and spreads are the perfect choice. Raw Cacao is raw chocolate, and the most loved of all of the superfoods. It is the raw chocolate bean that all chocolate in the world is made from.
Raw Cacao beans come from the Theobroma Cacao tree, a small evergreen tree grown in Mexico and South America. Raw Cacao has been used for thousands of years. It was first used in Mayan times and where it was regarded as a culinary treasure to be named as the "Food of the Gods" by the Aztecs because of its high nutritional profile and exceptional flavor. Ever since then Cocoa has been used across the world to make chocolate and now only recently are we able to eat it in its natural form again as Raw Cacao.
Macadamia nuts are regarded as the world’s finest nuts. They are small creamy coloured nuts with a distinctive flavour and texture that come from macadamia nut trees that are grown in tropical climates of Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya, New Zealand and South Africa.
Their delicate flavour and crunchy texture makes them delicious to eat alone and added to any recipes when you want a rich creamy buttery texture. The nuts grow in extremely hard kernels which are very difficult to crack open. Once cracked, the shell reveals an ivory colored kernel which is rich in oil with a buttery, creamy flavor.
Macadamia nuts are loaded with vitamins like vitamin E, thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin, pantothenic acid (B5) and folate, and minerals such as potassium, phosphorus, magnesium and calcium. They are a rich source of Vitamin A, iron, protein, thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin. They also contain moderate amounts of zinc, copper, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium. Macadamias contain antioxidants like polyphenols, Amino acids, flavones and selenium which have anti-aging properties and help us stay young and fit.
So not only do you get raw chocolate which is high in magnesium and helps release feel good hormones, you also get all of the health benefits of Macadamia. Spread it on toast for breakfast, dip some strawberries in it for a healthy decadent snack or put it on ice cream. Luxurious indulgent heaven! Get spreading :) | {
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Pandemic threats such as Ebola, Zika, and avian flu are not only a danger to public health, but are also viewed as potential national security threats.
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This town still hearts Barry Bonds. Outside the San Francisco city limits, the slugger's quest to surpass the record for career homeruns – currently held by Hank Aaron – is viewed with skepticism, if not derision. But here, the steroid allegations, the surly reputation – all that noise can be muted with the crack of a bat.
Just ask Gary Faselli. For the past two years, he has spent most Giants home games in the 55 degree water of San Francisco Bay, sitting in a kayak waiting for the slugger to whack one into the drink. "I think he's great. I don't think any of this talk that's going around really has much to do with where he's at now," says Mr. Faselli. He fended off a kayak scrum to scoop up Bonds's 738th home-run ball in April.
Residents of any city outside the Bay Area might shake their heads at this kind of devotion to Bonds. However, as so often happens in sports, hometown fans are often more tolerant or forgiving of athletes whose alleged behavior on or off the field has drawn the ire of others.
"People are not objective about their own players," says Ed Hirt, a psychology professor at Indiana University who often studies sports issues. "They excuse behavior or minimize it depending on the circumstances."
The circumstances can usually be boiled down to this: Can he help us win? If so, almost anything can be forgiven – short, perhaps, of an escape run in a white Ford Bronco.
"Sophistication and fandom are mutually exclusive," says Ray Ratto, a sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's something you do for fun, and when you go to a ballpark or a football game, you don't give it the golf clap."
Support for Bonds, he says, is a matter of concentric circles: The farther away from the ballpark, the less he is liked.
Inside the stadium, he's the star. Wearing a Bonds jersey, Trevor Tauzer from Davis, Calif., likened fellow fans to the die-hard Republicans who still defend the Iraq war decision because of their loyalty to the president; with Bonds it's loyalty to the team. "There's been all sorts of rumors and speculations and leaks to the press, but from my standpoint, if he doesn't belong on the field for these reasons the league should have him taken off," he says. "Until that time, I'll stand behind him as a Giants fan."
The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that Bonds told a grand jury he never knowingly took steroids. But Bonds has generally remained mum on doping allegations.
"I'm a fan of his," says Greg Bradford of Sacramento, but "if he didn't do it, he should just say it straight out."
Others Californians are less equivocal.
"I'm a fan of him as an athlete, but I'm not a fan of his behavior with the steroid controversy," says Paul Rosenberry of El Dorado Hills, Calif. "He probably has not represented the sport as well as he could have. He had a chance to be the greatest athlete in baseball history."
But many say the controversy is irrelevant.
"Steroids aren't going to give him the hand-eye coordination to hit the ball," says Addie Martin of San Francisco. She admits that if he played for a different team, she'd view the case with more of a crooked eye. "Fans are fickle; we like our hometown boys."
In New England, Patriots fans took a similar stance on the arrival of Randy Moss, one of football's bad boys.
Did Moss suddenly become a good Samaritan after being traded from the Oakland Raiders? No, it's much more basic than that: The Patriots acquired him as a receiver for quarterback Tom Brady.
"The thinking is 'he's our guy,' " Mr. Deford says. "This is true all over the world, not just in America. It happens with European soccer players all the time. And look at New York. Jason Giambi admitted taking steroids in testimony, but Yankee fans don't care."
Sociologists say fans loathe and love players on an emotional level rather than employing a rational – or moral – basis.
These snap judgments explain, in part, why Kobe Bryant reigns as the NBA player with the top-selling jersey, despite acknowledging an adulterous liaison in Colorado that led to sexual assault charges. (They were dropped in 2004, and Bryant issued an apology to his accuser.)
"Sports figures are given the benefit of the doubt because they provide us with pleasure," argues Jay Coakley, a sports sociologist. "And that trumps all sorts of things. If a person brings us some type of excitement, then we're not real anxious to take that person out of the game."
Whether the issues involve serious, criminal offenses, a sense of fair play, or matters of style, fans tend to invoke – and dismiss – various transgressions on a whim. They also fall prone to ranking real and perceived offenses on an equal basis.
Thus, when Terrell Owens – then a member of the San Francisco 49ers – very publicly stomped on a Dallas Cowboys logo, he elicited howls of outrage in Big D and beyond. Now, as a member of the Cowboys, he garners hometown cheers.
Media outlets may spotlight player arrests and embarrassments, but the fans have the real vote – with their wallets.
This spring, USA Today's sports page featured dozens of mug shots depicting NFL players in trouble with the law. The new commissioner has meted out harsh suspensions, but the NFL was never in jeopardy with fans.
Much the same can be said for other leagues. Baseball, tarnished by the lingering steroids scandal over the past decade, nonetheless posts record revenue and attendance, year after year.
In the sports world, everything's relative in an Al Davis kind of way: Just win, baby. Fans turn to sports for escapism and entertainment, making it easy to ignore feet of clay in favor of feet at play.
"They lose sight of the athletes as human beings, as people who have responsibilities," says Dave Czesniuk of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Boston's Northeastern University. "People should expect more integrity and honesty."
That is unlikely to change.
"It's just part of the human condition," Deford says. "It's a good escape, and everybody understands there are more important things than ballgames. Sports are important to the culture, but they're for the moment. It's here and gone." | {
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Nice Shoes Need To Be With Nice Pants
Compare to many women’s strictly to shoes wearing most men do not care about the shoes at all. I know many men will wear a pair of office shoe for working, and not change that after getting off work. Also, many guys wear shoes inappropriately to match bad color or style clothes.
The principle to wear men’s shoes is:
1. Remember to pick a pair of matching shoe, such as, be darker than pants.
2. Although not everyone can see your socks in the shoe, a bad match in a glance will looks so bad
3. If you would wear a belt, shoes must be match to it, because the belt can be very different colors and not every color shoe can be suitable
Men’s Shoes for Jeans
Jeans can looks good with almost any color, except for those shoes with bright and shinny colors.
Boots, sneakers, loafers and sandals can be easy matched with jeans, this means a style of shirt will helps you choose shoes in a convenient way.
For example, a sporty, polo shirt may work with a loafer, t-shirts match with sneakers or retro-style shoes, long, artsy button-downs match with sandals or now fashion styles.
Men’s Shoes for Casual Pants
No matter what you named the shoes, there are really so many kinds of loafers, oxford and other styles of shoes can work well with casual pants
To achieve the appearance, you can make the ornamentation and style of the shoe sure and it will come naturally
For example, dressy side with a little more tassle or a buckle, causual side with little more woven pattern or heavy stitching.
Men’s Shoes for Dress Pants
To match dress pants, you would better choose shoes that you may wear with a suit, Shinier materials will make shoes dressier. Pants color must be the same or lighter than shoes, some people may also wear belt, this also need right color shoes to match with that.
Color Matching for Men’s Shoes
Navy, grey or black pants work well with black shoes.
Tan, brown, beige, green, and other pants work well with brown shoes.
Burgundy shoes will bring better effect to khaki, lighter browns, blue and grey pants.
Earth tones, blue, beige, lighter tan or white pants work well with tan shoes.
Men’s Casual Shoes for Work
Nowadays, we do not need to wear uniform everyday and this sounds better to most office staff. So we need to cherish the chance of casual work surroundings, you can still look good and be respected and dress smart.
Dress oxfords together with jeans will make better feeling and is a must for casual work environment. Not neglect Clarks ‘Desert Boots’ or other suede boots when shopping in a store or online store, they are really good and give you special feeling, they are people’s fashion tendency. | {
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These graceful earrings measure 50mm from top to bottom. The little bud dangles are approximately 19mm long, including the wire-wrapping, and the imitation pearls are 12mm wide. The kidney-shaped ear wires are copper based and are without nickel, so most sensitive ears should be fine wearing these.
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CBI report is a web of imagination, say Talwars
The parents of murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar have alleged that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) closure report in the case is a web of imagination.
Mother Nupur Talwar said that there was a possibility that she left her daughter's door unlocked and left the keys hanging on the door, which gave the killers access to Aarushi's room.
Nupur Talwar told CNN-IBN: "The CBI report is a web of imagination, not worth the paper it is written on."
Rajesh Talwar, the girl's father who is named as the chief suspect in the sensational murder case in the closure report, said that the CBI had to be very sure before they charge a parent with a child's murder.
"We always had faith in these agencies, there is no other way. When the Uttar Pradesh Police came to our house, we had complete faith in them. But when this is the way you are treated, you lose faith," he said.
Nupur Talwar said: "There is a possibility I didn't get back the keys and left them hanging on the door, and that is what has given access to these killers to Aarushi's room. I will never forgive (myself) for that."
"I know I'll never be able to live with this fact, and I am completely guilty," she added.
Nupur Talwar said that the CBI had been informed all of this.
She said that at no point did they ever touch the crime scene, and the closure report's version of how the crime scene looked was not how she found the dead Aarushi.
The 14-year-old girl was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in the Talwars' apartment in Noida, Delhi's suburban town in Uttar Pradesh, May 16, 2008.
The family's domestic help, Hemraj, was also found killed on the flat's terrace - a day later.
The CBI moved a Ghaziabad court seeking permission to close the Aarushi murder as an unsolved case on grounds of lack of conclusive evidence. The decision has triggered a row. | {
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The government has failed to convince the public that coalitions are good for the country, and more than two-thirds of people now believe the government is weaker, less decisive and "confused" about what it stands for.
Only half of people believe the Liberal Democrats have had an influence in the coalition and most people think the Tories have got the best deal.
Nick Clegg should stop trying to be an overarching deputy prime minister and take on a major government department if he wants to improve his powerbase, the Institute for Government (IFG), which commissioned the poll, said.
"It is very difficult to exert serious political authority sitting in the Cabinet Office without a portfolio," Lord Adonis, the former Labour transport secretary and director of the IFG, said. The coalition had failed to convince the electorate of its efficacy, he said. "Their experience of coalition over the past year seems to have turned them decisively against it."
The IFG poll, part of a report One Year On – The First Year of Coalition Government, found that 63% of people think it is a bad thing that no party won a majority at the election – up from 55% a year ago. Some 68% think that coalition has created a weaker government, 73% believe government is less decisive and 80% say the government is "more confused" with a coalition.
Some 58% say the Liberal Democrats abandoned their principles by entering a coalition with the Tories and only 44% believe they have had a significant influence on government policy. However, a slight majority – 52% – said they believed the Liberal Democrats were right to enter the coalition. Even on constitutional reform – the Liberal Democrats' flagship policy which led to the alternative vote referendum – only 40% of people said they believed the party had had an influence.
Adonis said: "The polls show that the coalition is not viewed as a partnership of equals. A large majority believe the Liberal Democrats 'abandoned their principles' by forming a coalition with the Conservatives … As a political project, the coalition clearly needs to reinvent and renew itself, even more so following the AV [alternative vote] and local election votes.
"A significant pointer to the future will be whether the deputy prime minister revisits his decision not to take a more prominent role as secretary of state for one of the major departments or whether he sticks to constitutional reform as his major preoccupation."
The report also claims that "the Liberal Democrats have suffered as a result of failing adequately to preserve their distinct identity within the coalition".
Yesterday, Clegg promised to exert his party's independence more within the coalition. "I totally accept that, and this was one of the things that came through last week, that if you are a Conservative voter one of the things you are accustomed to is the Conservative party go into government and cut public spending," he said in a speech at the National Liberal Club.
"Some Conservative voters might even both demand it and like it. If you are a Liberal Democrat voter, you don't like it. I don't like it. I didn't come into politics to kind of announce great cuts and savings. You do it out of necessity."
David Cameron, meanwhile, last night issued a direct challenge to Clegg when he dismissed claims by the Liberal Democrats that they had used their influence to pause the legislation introducing the government's controversial NHS reforms, claiming it was a Tory decision.
The pollsters Populus interviewed 1,003 people by phone between April 15 and 17. | {
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In his letter to the editor, "If the church wants to play politics, it should give up its tax-exempt status" (July 6), David Johnson seems to be misrepresenting the separation of church and state. It is clear that our founders believed that people should not be compelled to observe a state religion in order to gain the benefits of citizenship. There is nothing suggesting people must choose between their religion and their rights as citizens. By extension, churches can express views on behalf of their members, just as labor unions can speak for their members. Mr. Johnson's comments about taxation may be equally misguided. It is arguable that churches are exempt from taxation...
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In his letter to the editor, "If the church wants to play politics, it should give up its tax-exempt status" (July 6), David Johnson seems to be misrepresenting the separation of church and state. It is clear that our founders believed that... | {
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Manuscript Summary: St. Gallen copy of Paulus Orosius' history of the world from Adam to the year 417 from the 9th century, with numerous glosses and several maps, written by the monk Ekkehart IV. in the 11th century. (smu) | {
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THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE BEAUTIFUL CONCLUDES! • HAWKEYE and HAWKEYE lead the fight to save AMERICA CHAVEZ from a cult that believes she's their prophesized chosen one who will lead them into the light - and also into victory - as they attempt a takeover of Los Angeles. • But just as things look darkest, the team is joined by a mysterious and powerful new ally. • Amid flying arrows and punching fists, relationships are both blossoming and being torn apart - what does it all mean for the future of the West Coast Avengers?! Rated T+ | {
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Letters by a modern St. Ferdinand III about cults
Plenty of cults exist - every cult has its 'religious dogma', its idols, its 'prophets', its 'science', its 'proof' and its intolerant liturgy of demands. Cults everywhere: Islam, the State, the cult of Gay and Queer, Marxism, Darwin and Evolution, 'Science', Globaloneywarming, Changing Climate, Abortion....a nice variety for the human-hater, amoral, anti-rationalist to choose from. It is so much fun mocking them isn't it ?
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution by Ray Comfort
Evolution is stupid.
by StFerdIII
Comfort: Atheism has no moral anchor. There’s no absolute right or absolute wrong.
Comfort is a Protestant writer and speaker. He is vilified by Atheists for challenging their dogma named 'Evolution.' Evolution, as Atheist apostle Richard Dawkins stated, is the scientific philosophy which fulfills Atheistic cant. In this vein, the naturalist theology of Darwin, purportedly supports pond-scum to people, and indeed nothing to everything as Comfort states.
It is a lie when an Atheist-Darwinist states that they don't believe in abiogenesis, or that Evolution does not offend the first 2 laws of thermodynamics [energy and matter beget the same, and the law of entropy or system decline]. It matters not if the 'system' of life is either open, closed, or a hybrid. Matter and energy are needed to create the same, and all systems fail and degrade – no matter how open or close they are. Period. Evolution is thus in opposition to two of the most fundamental laws known to science.
This fact and 1 million other objections make the cult of Evolution a non-science, a theology, a cult, a dogma premised on reducing men and women to the status or lemurs or pond scum. With such a perverted and twisted view of reality anything is possible – murder, eugenics, abortion, euthanasia, theft – nothing matters because there is no free-will, no logic, no reason, no morality, just a bunch of molecules knocking about driven forward in the frenzied 'natural selection', survival of the fittest. What a load of garbage.
Comfort on the dogma of Darwin's cult and the fools who reside in it:
...stupid speculations of Darwinian evolution, blindly embracing an unsubstantiated, unscientific fairy tale for grownups, because they foolishly think that it deals with the moral dilemma of having to face God], and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools [Another amazingly perfect description of the atheistic evolutionist. He embraces an imaginary theory that came from the over-fertile mind of a man bitter at God because of the loss of his beloved daughter. And so the atheist calls all who don’t believe as he does an unscientific knuckle-dragger], and changed...
and
Comfort: atheists’ aggressive agenda is to remove God’s name from schools, from currency, from nature programs, and from history books, and at the same time fill movies and television with His name used in blasphemy.
There is no mechanism for gene insertion or genomic software code change during or after the embryonic process. None. How and why would a reptile want to fly ? Cats are cats. Snakes are snakes. A sparrow is just a bird.
Where are their transitional species either found in the natural world [shouldn't there be many hybrids of reptirds ?] or in the fossil record ? Not one single artifact exists supporting dino to bird, or reptile to bird macro-evolution. None.
Why did hundreds of thousands of animals, fish, reptiles, and birds (over millions of years) evolve a female partner (that coincidentally matured at just the right time) with each species?
Why would a heart develop if there is nothing to pump? Why would there be blood without a heart ? Why would there be a circulation system without blood ? How would 'nature' know to make insulin to manage the sugar level within the blood supply as it enters cells ? Why would natural processes create a complex protein of 51 amino acids like insulin without the entire system being present and how would it produce this protein complexity to manage glucose to an insanely detailed degree ? Where is the proof ?
Comfort: blood vessels evolved before there was blood, why did they evolve if there was no such thing as blood? And if the blood evolved before the heart evolved, what was it that kept it circulating around the body?
Instead of screaming that their cult is 'science', maybe Evolutionists need to actually provide proof for their theory. As it stands now, the facts are against Evolution to such a degree, that in the future their cult members will be equated with flat-earthers, Martian believers and those who held that Venus had the same climate as Earth. A bunch of dunces. | {
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From Science through Art to Literary and Discursive Interpretation: Rethinking Anthropology from Its Classical to Contemporary Trajectory
Saiful Islam
Abstract
The emergence of anthropology as a separate discipline in the Enlightenment saw an attempt to establish this subject matter as a discipline of natural sciences. Functionalism, structuralism and structural-functionalism were some of the earlier rigorous theoretical frameworks for the scientific classification of anthropology. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, interpretives and postmodernists fervently opposed earlier claims that anthropology should be made a science, and critically raised questions of truth and objectivity in science. These theorists argued that anthropology is not an objective science; rather, they considered ethnographic data “text” that should be subjectively read, explained and interpreted. Questions of whether anthropology should be considered science or art, whether it is interpretive and discursive (as argued by the postmodernists) and whether it is a matter of universal law-making theory or more of a hermeneutic and humanistic discourse, are still very alive in and fundamental to anthropological literature. This article confronts these questions, examining the trajectory of anthropology from its classical to contemporary context.
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RSS Foisting Fundamentalist Agenda Through BJP Govts: Akhilesh Yadav
In a democracy, governments keep changing but these elections were fought on issues "other than development or people's welfare", the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister alleged while recalling that schemes launched by his government were replicated by the governments of other states.
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday alleged that the RSS was trying to implement its "fundamentalist" agenda through the BJP governments, putting at risk the secular character of the country.
"The politics today is at a very dangerous turn...RSS is conspiring to get its fundamentalist agenda implemented through the BJP governments, which could put the secular character of the country at risk," he told a meeting of SP MLAs and MLCs here.
Referring to the results of the recent Assembly polls in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh accused the BJP of introducing a "new form of political corruption".
"BJP has no plan for the development of Uttar Pradesh...They have formed the government on the basis of false promises. People have been misled in a planned manner...A new form of corrupt politics has come before us," he said.
In a democracy, governments keep changing but these elections were fought on issues "other than development or people's welfare", the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister alleged while recalling that schemes launched by his government were replicated by the governments of other states.
He also claimed that his government had succeeded in creating a "basic structure for development" in the state.
Stressing that funds were utilised for people's welfare and corruption was checked during his regime, Akhilesh reminded his party colleagues that they would once again have to go to the people with SP's policies and programmes.
"People will soon start realising the difference between the SP government which had honoured its promises and the BJP government which has only misled them," he claimed.
Meanwhile, according to the secretariat of the Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, senior SP leader Ahmed Hasan has been made the Leader of Opposition in the Upper House. | {
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Thanksgiving: Legacies of Hope in the Midst of Loss
When I think of holidays, I think of my grandparents. Though we didn’t actually celebrate on Thanksgiving Day, our Thanksgiving wasn’t complete until we had given thanks with family at my Mama Bobbie and Papaw’s house. For twenty-eight years of my life, our Thanksgivings consisted of chicken and dressing, old-fashioned chocolate pies with “calf slobber,” football in the yard with cousins, napping on the couch after a great feast, great aunts and uncles visiting, men and boys going hunting while the women stayed behind to decorate for Christmas, and so much laughter.
Nine years ago, my grandfather passed away just before Christmas and two years ago my grandmother, the glue that held our family together and my very best friend, was called home unexpectedly. Needless to say, our holidays have never been the same since the matriarch of our family became a memory. We all follow my grandmother’s recipes and try to replicate the same dishes, but they just don’t taste the same. Our great aunts and uncles have also gone on to glory and the one house we all called home no longer belongs to us. The old, broken in couches are gone, as well as the familiar living room where we shared stories, games, and pallets on the floor. We’ll never again all gather around her dining room table that held countless memories and we no longer have the privilege of decorating her house for Christmas and excitedly making plans to return for another celebration. The laughter has faded and the heartache still lingers.
It’s easy to become bitter and want to avoid the holidays altogether when your grief is great. We can be quick to become angry and question God when you feel blindsided and your heart is breaking. Our first Thanksgiving without Mama Bobbie came just three months after her passing. We were devastated. It was hard for me to see any blessings through the blur of tears. It was difficult to be thankful when her empty chair was a perfect representation of the emptiness felt in my heart.
As I think back to the struggles of the Pilgrims from the first Thanksgiving, I believe they could relate to some of these feelings. By faith, they excitedly left the comforts of their homes in 1620 in search of a new world where they believed their dreams would come true. They desired a better life for their families and freedom to worship their Father in heaven. However, they, too, were blindsided by tragedy. Nothing about the voyage was easy. Powerful storms beat against the tiny, cramped ship nearly leaving them shipwrecked. Diseases like scurvy took them by surprise. Starvation, seasickness, discomfort, feuding, and unsanitary conditions all became a new, unexpected way of life. Once they landed in Plymouth, they endured harsh winters, brutally hard work, and fear of Indian attack. This adventure was certainly not what they had imagined.
It would have been understandable for them to become bitter and angry. It would have been easy for them to question why God would allow such heartache when they were seeking a better way to serve Him. It would have been much easier for them to have turned the Mayflower around and head back when the seas began to rage against them. Once the winter and freezing rain set in at Plymouth, no one would have blamed them for loading back up and returning to the comforts of the warm homes they once knew.
But they pressed on. After the most trying year of their lives, they celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621. They had lost half the loved ones they began the trip with. Women were widowed in a strange world. Men who believed they would be providing a better life for their families buried their wives and children. Excited children who placed their faith in their parents became orphans and grew up far too soon.
The Pilgrims had not been allowed to bring many possessions with them on board the Mayflower. In fact, the majority of them arrived in America sixty-six days later wearing the same clothes they had on the day they boarded the ship. Their most priceless possessions were the family members they made plans to share hopes and dreams within America; however, they were forced to watch them die agonizing deaths. Those who remained were devastated and felt the searing sting of death.
As they gave thanks in 1621 for God’s protection and provision, I’m sure they also thought of all the extra chairs that would have been placed around their table. Yet through the grave circumstances they experienced, they gave thanks to God and remembered their family members and friends who shared their same vision and values. They had a fierce determination to remain faithful and honor their loved ones.
We have a tradition called the “Thankful Pumpkin” in our home. Every year we take a large pumpkin and write on it the things we are thankful for throughout the month of November. It’s entertaining to see what the boys are thankful for each day, and it becomes a challenge because all five of us list something different every day and no one can repeat anything that’s already been listed. For the past three Thanksgiving seasons without Mama Bobbie, Jesus is the first name written on the thankful pumpkin by my boys and the very next name they list is Mama Bobbie.
So many people hurt through the holiday season as a result of losing ones they love, but what a lesson my dear boys have taught me through their childlike faith! Instead of focusing on how things are different and the things we lost when Mama Bobbie went to heaven, they are most thankful for her and the things she left with us!
I am abundantly thankful this season for a Savior who gave His life for us, so that we may have eternal life with Him and the ones we love. I am grateful that we don’t grieve His death, for death could not hold Him! He is alive! If we were faced with suffering like the Pilgrims and everything we had was stripped from us, our great Redeemer would still be plenty to be thankful for!
I am also thankful for those salty saints who persevered through trial in order for us celebrate Thanksgiving in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
My heart will always long for my precious grandparents (especially during Thanksgiving). The tears may continue, but I will choose to be thankful for the traditions they began and the thankfulness they displayed. I will rejoice in the godly heritage and values they granted us. The laughter still may not be quite as loud for some time, but I will be thankful for the happiness they gave to us and the smiles we shared. Like the Pilgrims and my boys, I choose thankfulness in spite of the loss. I will be thankful for the twenty-eight years of blessings I did share with my grandparents and no matter what, I will give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever (1 Chronicles 16:34).
There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance (Ecclesiastes 3:4).
You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever.
Psalm 30:11-12
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September 12, 2015 - November 15, 2015
Developed in the 1960s and aligned with Pop Art, Photorealism features ordinary elements of contemporary life such as vehicles, buildings, streets, and consumer products in an objective, almost clinical manner. Artists like Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, and Tom Blackwell use photography as a tool to help them reproduce the image as realistically as possible on paper or canvas. By considering the detailed focus, saturated colors, and highly reflective surfaces of photographic imagery these artists question the differences between reality and artificiality. | {
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Amio (Amio) is a populated place (class P - Populated Place) in West New Britain Province (West New Britain), Papua New Guinea (Oceania) with the region font code of Asia/Pacific...
Its coordinates are 6°7'0" S and 150°45'0" E in DMS (Degrees Minutes Seconds) or -6.11667 and 150.75 (in decimal degrees). Its UTM position is KU52 and its Joint Operation Graphics reference is SB56-09.
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A New Year, A Special New Podcast Series
Welcome to the new year! It has been an eventful few weeks, with the launch of the book and a number of happening onInnov8social. There has been a lot of thought on ways to renew, refresh, and re-engage the podcast.
There are a few incredible interviews coming up, and you will hear them in force over the next few weeks; however, on this auspicious start—the first podcast of the new year we are trying something a little different.
In today’s episode, the guest is me :) I spend a few minutes recapping the past few months and reflecting. The inspiration behind the reflection is this idea of “the moment when anything is possible”
Listen to Neetal Notes #1 : The Moment When Anything is Possible
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The event, set to be held at TPC Twin Cities golf club in Blaine, will elevate the state’s golf tournament bonafides and benefit charities through the 3M Open Fund sponsorship
Minnesota has locked in a seven-year deal to bring an official PGA Tour event to the Twin Cities. Sponsored by 3M through its nonprofit 3M Open Fund, the deal will see the world’s top golfers compete routinely at TPC Twin Cities, a private golf club in Blaine.
The 2019 dates for the new event, called the 3M Open and operating as part of the FedExCup Season, will be announced in July with the PGA Tour 2018-19 schedule.
“3M is honored to welcome the top players on the PGA Tour to the Twin Cities, and we look forward to the many opportunities this tournament will bring to support our community,” said Paul Keel, 3M senior vice president of business development and marketing-sales, in a statement.
The 3M Open debut will be the first official PGA Tour event in Minnesota since the 2009 PGA Championship that was held at Chaska’s Hazeltine National Golf Club, and narrowly won by Y.E. Yang over Tiger Woods.
It also comes on the heels of the last-ever 3M Championship, the PGA Tour Champions event that has been held at TCP Twin Cities since 1993. The last edition of this tournament, which involves golfers ages 50 and up, is set for August 3-5, and will feature Paul Goydos defending his 2017 title.
“We’ve formed a great relationship with PGA Tour Champions over the last 25 years and are excited to build on that partnership with the 3M Open,” said Keel.
Beyond serving as a PGA Tour Champions successor – or advancement in terms of Minnesota’s level of involvement with the PGA – the fortuitous timing of the 3M Open is also marked by other recent sports activities in the Twin Cities.
“We are delighted to partner with 3M for this new PGA Tour event in the Twin Cities, a community that has shown tremendous support for professional golf over the years… and deservedly played host to the biggest events in sports,” said Monahan.
Monahan added that the 3M Open will continue 3M’s dedication to charity, as the 3M Open Fund plans to donate all the proceeds from the tournament to local organizations, building on the more than $26 million raised collaboratively by 3M and its longtime PGA Tour Champions partner Pro Links Sports. That fruitful partnership will continue, with Pro Links Sports assuming management of the 3M Open.
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Sharon Oberlander, 'Top 50 Wirehouse Women in 2011'
Merrill Lynch FA Sharon Oberlander was recently recognized on the inaugural "Top 50 Wirehouse Women in 2011" list in the January 1, 2012, edition of Registered Rep. magazine. Oberlander has over 30 years of experience in helping affluent individuals and corporations pursue their financial goals with thoughtful, tax-sensitive investment guidance. She plays an active role in the Chicago community through her involvement in The Executive's Club of Chicago Women's Leadership co-chair, the University of Chicago Medical Research Board, and several cultural and arts organizations. She is also a member of the United Way Tocqueville Society.
Merrill Lynch FA Sharon Oberlander was recently recognized on the inaugural "Top 50 Wirehouse Women in 2011" list in the January 1, 2012, edition of Registered Rep. magazine. Oberlander has over 30 years of experience in helping affluent individuals and corporations pursue their financial goals with thoughtful, tax-sensitive investment guidance. She plays an active role in the Chicago community through her involvement in The Executive's Club of Chicago Women's Leadership co-chair, the University of Chicago Medical Research Board, and several cultural and arts organizations. She is also a member of the United Way Tocqueville Society.
Merrill Lynch FA Sharon Oberlander was recently recognized on the inaugural "Top 50 Wirehouse Women in 2011" list in the January 1, 2012, edition of Registered Rep. magazine. Oberlander has over 30 years of experience in helping affluent individuals and corporations pursue their financial goals with thoughtful, tax-sensitive investment guidance. She plays an active role in the Chicago community through her involvement in The Executive's Club of Chicago Women's Leadership co-chair, the University of Chicago Medical Research Board, and several cultural and arts organizations. She is also a member of the United Way Tocqueville Society. | {
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<shrug> I like the ads. I’m not in apple’s target early 20-something market (i’m 34), but the ads speak to me. (does that mean I’m having a midlife crisis 10 years early?! At least I didn’t buy a Vette)
Anyway, I chuckled at this quote:
The Post points out: “Channel Surfing isn’t available on Apple’s music store, iTunes.”
Jupiter analyst Michael Gartenberg said: “It’s a little ironic that they chose to put that song in the commercial. There’s probably someone in the publicity department who is a little red-faced.”
So what? Maybe they were demonstrating that you can put *your* music on this device, not only iTunes music.
where’s the rolleyes smiley when you need him
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 25, 2004 at 11:04 AM (CST)
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He is “... the world’s leading expert on the social impact of personal-stereo devices…”
Beautiful! Ain’t academia great?
This 42-year old geezer loves his iPod, and didn’t really need to see an “advert” (or maybe “ad ” as we say on this side of the pond) to know that it was what he wanted.
As far as ads and marketing go, look at the Honda Element. The target demo was 18 - 22. They are selling well to the 40+ demo. Go figure…
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 25, 2004 at 11:28 AM (CST)
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“where’s the rolleyes smiley when you need him”
can someone explain to me why there is NO rolleyes smiley created!??!?
I’ve been needing for QUITE sometime… and i always get mad that there is none when i need it.
* rolls eyes
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 25, 2004 at 11:32 AM (CST)
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Age is relative. 30 is now the new 20. I see people who are 35 who act like high schoolers. I know high school kids who act like the parents of the 35 year olds. Be careful when going after a certain age market because everyone is different!
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 25, 2004 at 11:32 AM (CST)
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The iPod ads are correctly aimed at the highest spending age group for music (which may be narrow, but boy do they spend on music), and what’s more is that to skew older WOULD ALIENATE them (aka. be uncool). It’s easy for older and diverse car owners to accept that a youth obsessed campaign is not alienating them, so why should iPod users be any different? End of argument.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 25, 2004 at 11:38 AM (CST)
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I remember the old ipod ad where is was some ugly dude in his mid to late 40’s singing “talkin’ ‘bout my generation”.
I loved that advertisement. Anyone have a mirror for it?
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 25, 2004 at 1:56 PM (CST)
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If someone cannot infer from these youth-oriented commercials that the ipod would work just as well for “older folks listening to classical music and Frank Sinatra and such,” then I think said person has more important things to worry about, namely their brain power.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 25, 2004 at 2:29 PM (CST)
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Steve Jobs remains committed to the Macintosh as a “platform” as a opposed to a “product.” “Think different” is not just a slogan, it’s a philosophy. Hence, all Apple advertising, but especially expensive, mainstream media, ads are intended to be “institutional,” like those ads for energy companies on PBS, as well as to sell a particular product.
From this pov, the Apple ads are serving the same purpose as RJR’s notorious “Joe Camel” campaign. The average age of the actual customers may be much older than the demographic the ad is aimed at, but it is the youngest consumers that both marketers are seeking to get hooked early and deeply.
Where was the Macintosh computer first and most fimly entrenched? In schools, where kids who used them there, would often buy Macs for their homes if they could afford them. But as Windows improved, the cost of pc hardware continued to plummet, and most importantly new non-Mac electronics/computer hybrids like x-box and playstation became the prestige toys of choice for new generations of youth, the Mac became more marginalized than ever. While the i/eMacs may have stanched that bleeding to an extent, they were still unsuccessful in growing Apple’s market share significantly.
Now the iPod has the opportunity to become today’s kids’ most cherished and desirable electronic product. It’s a “gateway” purchase: even if it is too expensive for most kids or their parents, it has become the standard for the first thing a kid would buy if he/she could.
As these kids outgrow their first computers, perhaps PCs, the Macintosh is going to look a lot more inviting to those who have iPods. Even more than the iMac, the iPod is spreading the Apple gospel.
So I think that, assuming the tv ads skew young, they’re brilliant. However, I suspect that they still appeal more to a 35 yo going on 15 than they do an actual teen.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 26, 2004 at 8:41 AM (CST)
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Interesting post, but I’d would love to see some sales data on Mac vs. Windows versions of iPods. I’m guessing that it is in the range of 10 to 1 in favor of Windows, but that is just a SWAG. I seriously doubt that the iPod is gonna be the “gateway drug” that gets folks using Macs, sorry.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 26, 2004 at 11:15 AM (CST)
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^ Before buying my iPod I would have never wanted anything made by Apple. But now I want an iBook aswell… :)
Anyway.. I think the adverts are pretty cool.. and I’m 15.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 27, 2004 at 1:20 PM (CST)
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i think the commercials were awsome.(.)(.)
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UK Online Advertising Spend Now Exceeds TV
In a recent post I mentioned recent IAB figures which showed for the first half of 2009 New Zealand TV advertising revenue plummeted 13%, while, in stark contrast, online advertising grew 7% compared to last year.
This may have been a shock to some media planners & buyers. Especially those who to date have given little, if any, attention to online. No one likes their world turned upside down, so some may even be in denial & view this as a short term aberration due to the recession.
I don’t think so!
Most people acknowledge UK is a couple of years ahead of NZ on the online curve & generally what happens there is a pretty good indicator of things to come in NZ.
Whilst things have been tough enough in NZ, the recession has been much worse in UK. As a result the UK advertising industry has really suffered, with a £1.5 billion reduction in total media spend. Despite this, online advertising has continued to grow because of its performance accountability.
The real bombshell however is that, for the first time ever, more money is being spent in UK on online advertising than on TV!
That is pretty astounding & makes UK the first major economy to see online spending overtake television.
As the above table shows, UK’s growth in online advertising has very clearly been lead by paid search.
In NZ paid search is now the biggest online advertising channel & accounts for 36.3% of all online spend. However to put this in context, according to the IAB, paid search in UK accounts for 62.6% of all online spend.
Begs the question – when will that happen here? My money’s on it being within 2 years. | {
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Foreign stars key to FA Cup final success according to new research
Overseas stars have played a pivotal role in English football’s main cup competition
Anthony Martial The Premier League no longer hates you with a burning passion Image Paul Gilham/Getty Images
Whether it is diving or the odd dirty tackle, foreign players – rightly or wrongly – take their fair share of the blame when it comes to the ills of English football.
However, overseas stars may hold the key to success in the FA Cup according to new research.
“overseas players are vitally important when it comes to winning the world’s oldest cup competition”
A study conducted by www.bettingexpert.com and Ladbrokes has revealed the incredible impact foreign players have had in English football’s biggest domestic cup competition.
The figures show that, out of the last 30 finals, the team with the greater number of overseas players have come out on top on an incredible 24 occasions.
All of which suggests Manchester United – who are likely to field more foreign stars than opponents Crystal Palace – could be the team to back for a victory.
A BettingExpert spokesman said: “It’s clear to see that overseas players are vitally important when it comes to winning the world’s oldest cup competition. Looking at likely starting lineups, it would be a good bet that the trend continues with the stats pointing to another win for United.”
History is also on the Red Devils’ side, with United winning the FA Cup on four occasions when they have kicked off with more imported stars.
In fact, the last team to win the FA Cup with a higher number of British and Irish players were United’s old FA Cup rivals Arsenal, who beat Chelsea in those circumstances back in 2002.
“despite England’s captain leading United out, it could be the quality of the overseas players that makes the difference”
The Gunners hold the record for highest number of FA Cup wins in the club’s history, with 12 titles to their name.
However, Manchester United can draw level with them provided they beat Palace and claim their first FA Cup title in 11 years.
Given United’s focus on foreign stars, Ladbrokes are in agreement in backing Louis van Gaal’s team for victory.
A Ladbrokes spokesman said: “The stats and our odds are very much in agreement that despite England’s captain leading United out, it could be the quality of the overseas players that makes the difference for the favourites.”
With Brexit, very much on the agenda, we wouldn’t be surprised to see more than a few Manchester United fans backing the Bremain campaign come the FA Cup final. | {
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The express giant added that its Asian business is currently performing well, but there were no guarantees how long this will last.
“Business demand in Asia remains elevated due to backlogs caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of responsive measures in Asia in early calendar 2020, as well as decreases in cargo capacity on passenger airlines,” FedEx said.
“However, due to weakening economic conditions in Europe and the United States, and resulting decreases in demand for goods manufactured in Asia, there are no assurances that these increased levels of demand will be sustainable.
Meanwhile, chief executive Fred Smith has cut his base salary by over 90% for the next six months. | {
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C Hypolocrian Scale on the Piano - Improvisation and Composition
The C Hypolocrian uses eight notes per octave. Because of this same reason it is a member of the so called Octatonic -scales that have Eight-note (or Eight-tone).
On the piano keyboard, it is made up of one black keys: F# and six white keys: C, D, E, G, A, and B. This combination makes this scale - as well as the C Aeolian, C Aeolian Harmonic, and C Aeolian Major - as great choices for composing or improvising Greek music.
If we take a look a the key signature of the C Hypolocrian Scale we can find it has no flats and one sharps. Therefore, on sheet music you will find one accidentals on the score. The notes of this scale are: C, D, E, F#, G, A, and B.
How to play the C Hypolocrian scale?
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To play the C Hypolocrian on your piano, start on the Root note.
Play C, the first note of the scale.
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Continue with rest of the notes
that shape the scale, play D, E, F#, G, A, and B.
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Return to the home of the C Hypolocrian scale.
Play again C -the tonic of the scale- to mark its ending.
How to play the scale in descending fashion?
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Begin on the last note.
Play the C, the last (and first) note of the scale.
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Go down.
Play B, A, G, F#, E, and D.
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Reach the home again.
Establish tonality by playing the tonic of the C Hypolocrian scale: C.
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Tip.
If you want to learn how to improvise or compose your own music using the C Hypolocrian scale or any other scale, check out our piano improvisation and composition lessons and enjoy thousands of interactive multimedia piano animations. | {
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Stage 1 is entirely the responsibility of IAPT. All the remaining stages are organized by HBCSE.
The detailed information about eligibility and structure of the stages is given below:
Stage I: National Standard Examination in Biology (NSEB)
NSEB is the first stage of selection of students in the biology Olympiad Programme which is organised by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT). Every student aspiring to go through successive stages of the programme must enroll for NSEB. NSEB will be held at a large number of centres in the country.
Date of NSEB 2013: 24 November 2013 (Sunday)
Time of NSEB 2013: 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Last Date for Enrollment for NSEB: 15th September 2013
Eligibility:
All Indian students who are born on or after July 1, 1994 and, in addition, are in Class XII or lower as of November 30, 2013, are eligible to appear for NSEB 2013 — 2014. A student may appear for more than one subject provided the examination schedule allows it. See information about the examination schedule under various subjects. Students who have passed Class XII are not eligible to enroll for NSEB.
It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the eligibility criteria are satisfied. In case at any stage of the program it is found that the student does not satisfy the eligibility criteria, he/she may be disqualified from the program.
Syllabus:
The syllabus for NSEB is broadly equivalent to the senior secondary level (Class XI and Class XII) of CBSE Biology. This is only a rough guideline, and there is no detailed syllabus given for NSEB.
Question Paper:
NSEB emphasizes comprehension of the subject, not rote memory. Its format will be as follows:
The question paper will consist of 80 multiple choice questions, each with only one of the four options correct.
Language : English.
Qualifying for the Second Stage:
The aim of the first stage examination is to have a wide reach, to progressively increase this reach and to attain nationwide representation for stage II without overly compromising on merit. Hence the selection to the stage II examinations i.e. Indian National Olympiad Examinations (INOs) is based on the following scheme.
Eligibility Clause: A candidate must secure a score equal to or greater than a Minimum Admissible Score (MAS) to be eligible for the Stage II INO exam leading to the International Olympiad . The MAS for a given subject will be 40% of the maximum score in that subject.
Proportional Representation Clause: The number of students selected for Stage II (INO) in each subject is around 300. The number of candidates who appeared for NSE in 2011-12 in a subject from centers in each State or Union Territory (UT) will be considered the baseline for calculating the number qualifying from centers in that State or UT for that subject. Suppose this number in 2011-12 for centers in a given State in a given subject is S, and the total number that appeared in 2011-12 in that subject for the country is T, then the number selected to Stage II in that subject from that State would be S/T times 300, rounded off to the nearest higher integer. In the event of a tie at the last position in the list all students with the same marks at this position will qualify to appear for the Stage II examination. The selected students must nevertheless satisfy the eligibility clause laid out above. The total number to be selected from centers in each State for each subject will be displayed on the IAPT and HBCSE websites (click here for the list).
Minimum Representation Clause: Notwithstanding the proportional representation clause the number of students selected for INO from each State and UT must be at least one, provided that the eligibility clause is satisfied.
Merit Clause: Given the eligibility clause, it is conceivable that 300 students may not qualify for Stage II in a subject. Should this occur, the shortfall (from 300) will be selected based purely on merit without further consideration to proportional representation and minimum representation clauses. In the event of a tie at the last position in the list all students with the same marks at this position will qualify to appear for the Stage II examination.
There will be no other criterion or provision for selection to the Indian National Olympiad Examinations (INOs).
All students who qualify to appear for INBO get a certificate of merit from IAPT.
For any queries or clarifications and for any difficulties regarding enrollment for NSEB, please contact:
Stage II: Indian National Biology Olympiad (INBO)
INBO is organized by HBCSE at about 15 centres in the country.
Eligibility: Students selected from Stage I examination (NSEB) are eligible to appear for INBO. In addition those students who have been exempted as described in the Enrollment page are also eligible to appear for INBO. Besides these two, there is no other way by which a student becomes eligible to appear for INBO.
The tentative date and time of INBO 2013 examination is as follows:
February 02, 2014 (Sunday): 01.00 p.m. – 03.00 p.m. (2 hours)
The confirmed date and schedule will be announced in the first week of January 2014 on this website and communicated by post to the eligible students. Students appearing for INBO are eligible for TA/DA as per norms of the programme.
Syllabus : The syllabus for INBO is broadly similar to NSEB. The syllabus, however, is only a broad guideline. Questions and problems in National Olympiads are usually non-conventional and of high difficulty level, comparable to International Olympiads.
On the basis of performance in INBO, the top 35 students in the merit list are selected for Stage III Orientation Cum Selection Camp (OCSC) in biology.
In the event there is a tie at the last position, all students with the same marks at this last position qualify for OCSC.
There will be no other criterion or provision for selection to OCSC.
Stage III: Orientation Cum Selection Camp (OCSC) in Biology
OCSC in biology will be organized by HBCSE sometime in April to June 2014 for 2-3 weeks. The precise dates will be announced prior to or along with the announcement of the selection list for the OCSC.
Eligibility for OCSC : Only the students selected from the merit list of Stage II (INBO) are eligible. There will be no other criterion or provision.
Thedates of OCSC – 2014 will be announced later.
The camps include several theoretical and experimental tests. Orientation is provided to students especially in experiments. The camps conclude with a valedictory function where distinguished scientists are invited to speak to the students.
The merit list of OCSC is prepared on the basis of the combined theoretical and experimental score aggregated over all the tests in the camp, with 60% weightage for theory and 40% weightage for experiment. Performance in previous stages (NSEB and INBO) will not be a consideration for the merit list and awards of the OCSC.
The top 4 in the OCSC biology merit list are declared to be special merit awardees. These special merit awardees are given Rs. 5,000/- each in the form of books and cash. In addition there are special prizes to recognize meritorious performance in theory and experiments.
The 4 special merit awardees in biology selected at the end of the OCSC constitute the 4 member student team for the International Biology Olympiad (IBO), provided they satisfy required criteria such as age limit, holding valid Indian passport, medical fitness, parental consent, etc.
Stage IV: Pre-departure Training (PDT) Camp for IBO
The selected 4 member Indian team undergoes a rigorous training programme at HBCSE in theory and experiment. Special laboratories have been developed at HBCSE for the purpose. Resource persons from HBCSE and different institutions across the country train the students. The duration of training will be subject to IBO regulations.
Stage V: Participation in International Biology Olympiad (IBO)
The 4-member student team, 2 teacher leaders and 1 scientific observer constitute the Indian delegation to the International Biology Olympiad (IBO).
The 24th IBO will be held tentatively in Bali, Indonesia from 6-13 July 2014. | {
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True tales of the adventures and creations of a mom and her two daughters.
Monthly Archives: June 2016
When I sent my beloved female friend Bec the above picture of me trying on the two-piece bathing suit I ultimately bought, I told her that the process had been less painful than I expected. Her response was to tell me that was because I had followed Step 1. I asked what Step 1 was and she replied that it was be attractive. As I consider attractiveness much more than just physical appearance, I believe that she was quite right.
I wasn’t excited about trying on bathing suits this morning but as I hadn’t bought a new one in at least 10 years and the one I did have didn’t fit me well (it was a mismatch that I found at a great sale price) I figured it was overdue. I grabbed several bathing suits, both one piece and separates and took them all into the dressing room with me trying to prepare for how I’d look in them. I quickly discovered that almost every top piece or one-piece suit I’d chosen was too small while every bottom separate fit perfectly. I should’ve chosen more wisely as my top half is a bit curvier than my bottom, but I didn’t and so I was left with several bathing suits that didn’t fit.
Fortunately, when I tried on the two pieces in the photo, I immediately loved how I looked in the mirror. The top is comfortable and colorful and the bottom combines the look of shorts and a skirt in a feminine and flattering way that does wonders for my legs. I know I won’t feel any hesitation going to the pool or beach with my girls this summer when I’m wearing that suit and I know that that’s extremely important for my daughters to see.
I do genuinely love myself as a person but it’s an ongoing struggle to love my body because I know my healthy weight is at least 20 pounds lighter than my current weight. I could say that I’m still trying to lose the “baby weight” from having my last daughter, but Jaycie is turning 10 this year and it’s certainly not her fault that I can’t be consistent with my weight loss progress.
I admit that I’m a stress eater and as my days involve balancing being a single mother, solo homeowner, freelance writer, jewelry designer, creator and marketer, I tend to get a bit overwhelmed. I’d much rather work out my stress by learning how to swordfight, hip-hop dance, kick butt with martial arts or all of the above but there isn’t any nearby access to such things and so I turn to food. Walking Jazzmin helps but with the heat and excessive amount of biting deer flies the past few weeks, those walks haven’t happened as often as they should.
Back to Step 1 of trying on bathing suits. I do not mean to sound conceited when I say this, but I consider myself an amazing woman. If you’d told me 10 years ago that I’d be where I am now, making it on my own with continued determination and strength, I’d have probably said you were crazy. Nevertheless, I am where I am and that all makes me and anyone else like me attractive. Confidence is attractive, being a good person is attractive, being the best mother I can be is attractive, believing in myself is attractive, honesty is attractive, a selfless spirit is attractive, the love of helping others is attractive, being a good friend is attractive, the love and ownership of shelter animals is attractive and while I know I’m not perfect, I do the best I can every single day and go to sleep knowing that I gave it my all.
So I share this picture of me in a bathing suit with my fuzzy, braided hair and non-hard body physique in the hopes that other women will see that we are all beautiful. I will expand on Bec’s Step 1 of “be attractive” by saying that you must also love yourself. We are all deserving of love and that love is the one we must give ourselves every single day.
Corbin is more than just my last name; it’s my bond to a creative legacy. The name Corbin is synonymous with creativity. There was Corbin Clockworks that my father often spoke of (and to which I think I’m only a very distant relation) and Corbin motorcycle seats. I owned a Corbin seat on the motorcycle I used to own and I found it comfortable and very well made. I’m sure there are many other Corbin owned and named businesses out there and I hope they all utilize their own type of the creativity that I have also been gifted with.
When I was choosing a name for my website many years ago, I decided to go with Corbin Creations because I wanted to honor the family name of my father, my maiden name that I fought hard to regain after my divorce. My father, Robert Corbin, was the best man I ever knew and whom I miss every single day. My father was very intelligent and loved working with his hands. He was an engineer at Xerox for his main job, but his other passion was woodworking. He made beautiful, durable things with wood that ranged in size from large decks on our house to small wooden puzzles. My family and I would often say that my father’s wooden creations would outlast everything and in many cases, that proved true.
I hope one day to live up to the greatness of my father and I work every day toward that by utilizing my creativity. I felt the name Corbin Creations covered my various creative outlets including writing, painting, knitting, crocheting and most prominent of late, jewelry designing and creating. My Facebook page was originally Corbin Creations just like my website but I changed it to “Corbin Creations by JulieAnn” a couple years ago to make it a bit more personal. I will be keeping my website CorbinCreations.com though because I’ve bought the domain name and I’m rather attached to it.
For the past few years, I’ve had a store on Etsy that I called CorbinGirl. I recently changed it to CorbinCreations1 (CorbinCreations was taken) on Etsy and changed my account name on social media platforms to keep things more consistent. Although I had great success when I first started selling my jewelry on Etsy and received all positive reviews from customers, it seems impossible to gain new customers on that platform now.
My store, Corbin Creations by JulieAnn is now live and ships to the United States, Canada, and select other countries. I will eventually ship worldwide once I work out a few more details. I will continue to add products to my store, adjust things as needed and throw myself into marketing. As part of that marketing, I’ve created a blog on that site called Practice, Patience and Persistence, dedicated strictly to my beading and jewelry making. I feel it would be too confusing to write about that on this site that I use mainly for sharing my rambling tales of daily life. Beading is part of my daily life but it’s also a world unto itself and deserves dedicated attention.
Feel free to check out my shop, ask me questions and if you decide to buy something, thank you! This is just the start of another great chapter in my life and I’m confident I can make my dream of having a successful jewelry business a reality!
Just as I said I was going to in my last blog post, I sat down at my desk this past Sunday and started writing in my fantasy novel “Unbroken Flames.” During the past few years, whenever I’d sit down to write, I’d feel all nervous and restless, as I doubted my own abilities as a writer. I didn’t know if I still had “it” anymore and when I’d start writing, I couldn’t remember what tense I usually wrote in or what my writing “style” even was.
Fortunately, that nervousness didn’t exist this past Sunday and for the first time in many years, I was able to put on music and just start typing out whatever was in my brain. The ability to listen to music and write was something I’d lost and I’m not entirely sure why. Perhaps it was because I can’t concentrate on my work writing if I listen to music. Writing for pleasure is different though and I was finally able to let the music help inspire me and move my fingers across the keys.
I only wrote a few pages but those few pages were the start of something important and they represent a shift in my life. I’ve finally managed to close the doors on certain chapters of my life and restore my eternal hope for the future. Those feelings flowed into the main character of “Unbroken Flames” as I realized that she needed to transform just as I have these past few years.
I may not be able to rewrite what’s happened in my life, but I can rewrite what’s going to happen in hers and perhaps as I write the future I want for her, it will create the future I seek as well. That may sound absurd, but I know better than to underestimate the power of the written word…
My father and I in the Adirondack Mountains. He was always supportive of my writing.
Occasions like Father’s Day today have been difficult for me since my father walked on in October of 2009. Quite often, I feel sad and cry during the days leading up to the event, but then on the actual day, I’m okay. Surprisingly enough, I haven’t really been sad leading up to or including Father’s Day. I still miss my father immensely and always will, but I think I’m finally in a better place now and able to focus on all the positive aspects in my life that come from having him as my father.
One of the things I remember my father asking almost every time I saw him was “How’s your writing going?” I’d usually reply that it was going okay or some such thing, but I always felt like I was letting him down because I wasn’t published yet. He was one of my biggest supporters when it came to my writing and losing him made it so hard for me to continue writing in any of my books. I think the fact that I now make my living as a freelance writer would please him, but it’s not quite the same.
Yesterday was a wonderful day that started with waking up to my daughters coming into my bedroom and included beautiful sunshine, a conversation that made me smile and laugh, and an afternoon and early evening spent visiting my mom. I felt so elated and inspired that I actually felt like writing in my newest fantasy novel (now over 4 years old and only containing one chapter). When I told my oldest daughter Jordan of my desire to write, she smiled broadly and was genuinely excited for me. She’s blessed with the gift of writing as well and is a far better writer at 13 than I was at her age. In her enthusiasm for me writing again, I saw a bit of my father and I knew I couldn’t let either of them down.
Alas, I was a bit too tired to write last night, so I decided that I would write today. My girls won’t be back until the late evening and it’s too hot and full of deer flies to do much outside so writing in my fantasy book entitled “Unbroken Flames” sounds like the perfect way to spend the day. A lot has changed in my life since I started writing that book and it’s past time that I start incorporating that into the story.
One thing that will never change in any of my writing though is my love for breathing life into strong female characters who are willing to fight for what they believe in, have faced challenges that made them stronger instead of destroying them and who still believe in love and all of the amazing gifts that come with it.
So here’s to you, Dad, your little girl will finally get going again on her writing!
Yesterday was one of those breezy but glorious days. The high temperature was 62 degrees and the sky was full of big puffy clouds that occasionally blocked out the sun in the most breathtaking way. When I took Jazzmin out for our afternoon walk, I paused on the way back in the house to observe the way the wind was swirling the tall grass in the field behind my house into shimmering waves that seemed to breathe along with the breeze. The power and beauty of the wind is something I have always admired and it was extremely worthy of that admiration yesterday.
Around 4 p.m. I felt this inner tug and voice telling me that I needed to spend some time outside. Knowing better than to ignore such feelings, I decided to lay a blanket down in the lawn in front of my smaller storage shed and sit on it for a while enjoying the beauty of the day. I hooked Jazzmin to her tree lead within a few feet of my blanket and she set about busily sniffing away at squirrel trails. With my thick green comforter spread out on the ground, I then spread myself out on it and laid on my back feeling the warmth of the sun on my face. By that time, the temperature had dropped into the mid-50’s so I was wearing my sweatshirt, tank top and yoga pants. I was “sun bathing” completely clothed as it were and considering I’m not a big fan of tanning it worked fine for me.
I closed my eyes for a while feeling the warmth of the sun on my face and then eventually rolled over on my stomach to watch the huge cumulous clouds move over the back field like a thick, fluffy blanket. Dragonflies flew by periodically, I saw a few butterflies too, and amid the tall grass, I could see red – winged blackbirds, starlings and bobolinks flying up before disappearing back down into the grass. It was all so amazing and peaceful that I was glad I’d made the time to go out and enjoy it.
Another periodic visitor in my gaze were turkey vultures flying low over my house and then soaring up on the winds and out over the valley to the west. Eventually I decided to stand up and walk over to the western edge of my property so I could see where the turkey vultures were going. I was quite surprised to see at least 20 of the huge birds soaring at various heights over the properties down the hill from me. I surmised that there must have been appetizing roadkill somewhere down the road to attract so many of the scavengers. I understand that many people might find turkey vultures and the fact that they’re scavengers ugly, but I admire them for their huge wingspan, grace in the air and the essential role they play in the cycle of life. If we humans are going to keep hitting animals that try unsuccessfully to cross the road in front of our vehicles, the least we can do is show proper respect for the turkey vultures who clean up after our mess.
As I watched the large birds circle, I took a few pictures with my phone even though I knew they would just look like dark specks among the clouds.
Those specks among the clouds are turkey vultures. Extremely zoomed in pic from my phone
I had just lowered my phone when I realized that one of the circling birds didn’t have the same shape as the turkey vultures. At first, I thought it was a hawk but then I saw that it was much too large. A moment later the sun came out from behind the latest swath of clouds and in the warm golden glow, I saw the white head and tail that revealed to me that I was looking at a bald eagle.
My heart swelled in joy at the sight of the bird and when it broke off from the turkey vultures and flew northeast temporarily disappearing beyond the canopy of my trees I walked quickly toward my driveway to try to catch another glimpse of it. I was therefore elated when I saw that the bald eagle had turned and was now flying directly over me as I stood in my driveway. Tears immediately flowed from my eyes as I saw the great bird closer and there was no denying those beautiful white head and tail feathers. I held my phone up to take a couple pictures and hoped I got something recognizable because I couldn’t see anything in my viewfinder due to the glare.
Another zoomed in pic. Bald eagle directly above me.
As I watched, the bald eagle flew gracefully from north to south over me as I stood in the driveway, then over my yard and into the field behind my house, eventually soaring beyond my sight over the southwestern line of trees.
The small, dark speck is the bald eagle soaring over the southwestern trees.
The tears were still streaming down my cheeks because I felt so blessed by the visit of the great bird and its powerful spirit and I didn’t even bother to wipe them away. I let the tears dry on my face as I sat back down on my blanket, overcome with feelings of awe and amazement. My heart and spirit pulsed with gratitude that the universe had sent me such a powerful messenger. Aloud I thanked the Creator, Great Spirit and my father’s spirit for reminding me once again that I haven’t been forgotten and that even though I might not know what it is yet, that I have an amazing destiny ahead of me. I am eternally glad that I listened to that inner voice yesterday telling me that I needed to sit in the lawn for a bit to enjoy the day and witness the beauty in the breeze.
Why in the skies
Are there so many deer flies?
Swarming about and biting
Turning strolls into bug fighting.
Swirling about the head
Making walks a thing of dread.
Buzzing, nipping, landing
Trying to be the last one standing.
They ensure that no walk is fun
And wow do they make us run!
From my western facing deck I always have a great view of the incoming weather as it makes the way across the valley and to the hills where I live. On clear days, I can see blue sky stretching into the horizon and on stormy days, I can see the dark clouds slowly swallowing the blue in flashes of lightning and visible lines of rain as they approach.
Today was one of those stormy days and although it wasn’t raining when I put Jazzmin out this morning, the air was thick with humidity and the breeze promised additional moisture. The air was cool but not cold and I watched later as the storms approached, changing the sky from dark to darker.
When particularly turbulent storms approach, full of rumbling thunder and flashing lightning, I love to stand on my deck and watch them grow closer. Especially in summer when it’s been a hot day and I can just feel that the storm is going to bring relief. There’s something so raw and beautiful about the power of mother nature as she stirs up the wind and brings the rain that drenches the earth.
I can still feel that power even after the rain stops as I walk into the wet grass with bare feet. It’s as if the pulse of the ground received an energetic jolt from the storm and I can feel the heartbeat of the earth much more vividly. I often close my eyes when I’m standing in the grass to feel the breeze upon my face and listen to it whisper of more beautiful storms to come. | {
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Dag & Red 0-2 Hartlepool: Match Report
08 February 2014 06:02
Luke Williams and Andy Monkhouse were both on the scoresheet as Hartlepool did their play-off hopes no harm at all with a battling 2-0 away win over Dagenham.
Striker Williams pounced in the 69th minute at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Stadium, before Monkhouse netted with a minute remaining to secure three valuable points for United in their quest to break into the top seven.
The north-east club are still nine points adrift of the play-off places but their first victory in three games gave their travelling supporters plenty to smile about.
Defeat for Dagenham was their first in three matches but the London club remain in the hunt for the play-offs themselves despite being upset on their home patch.
Medy Elito shot just wide early in the contest as the Daggers started brightly, before Luke James rifled wide of the left upright at the other end.
Rhys Murphy and Luke Morris both went close for the hosts but United dominated the second half and, after Williams and fellow forward Marlon Harewood had failed to convert good chances, it was the former who netted with a deflected long-range strike.
It was Williams' first goal of the season and first since September 2012, while then Monkhouse bagged his sixth goal of the campaign at the close to make sure it was a good day on their travels for United. | {
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Archive for January 2014
In our stressed out hyper-driven world of rising global incidence of diabetes, it is always good news to discover evidence that inescapable habits (also known as “well established neural circuits”) can be helpful!
In this case researchers studied over a million coffee drinkers and concluded: “This study provides strong evidence that regular consumption of coffee is beneficial for prevention of diabetes.”
Those who consumed one cup daily demonstrated the best preventative effect with gradual decrease in benefit as the number of cups increases.
Affirmation of the Taoist proverb:
“Everything in moderation, Nothing in excess” (with the possible exception of moderation……)
Coffee, Even Decaf, Linked to Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Nancy A. Melville
January 28, 2014
Coffee consumption is strongly associated with a reduced risk for type 2 diabetes, regardless of whether the coffee is caffeinated or not, according to a new meta-analysis of 28 prospective studies, published in the February issue of Diabetes Care.
“Compared with no coffee consumption…6 cups/day of coffee was associated with a 33% lower risk of type 2 diabetes,” the authors write, adding, “Caffeinated coffee and decaffeinated coffee consumption were both associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes.”
Drinking coffee has been well-established in previous meta-analyses as being associated with a reduced risk for type 2 diabetes; however, the new review was needed to account for more recent trials evaluating the benefits of caffeinated vs decaffeinated coffee, the authors explain.
“We found that a 1-cup/day increment of regular coffee was associated with a 9% reduction in diabetes, and 1 cup/day of decaf was associated with 6% reduction in diabetes, but the difference in risk reduction between the 2 types of coffee was not statistically different,” said senior author Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology with the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts.
“This study provides strong evidence that regular consumption of coffee is beneficial for prevention of diabetes,” Dr. Hu told Medscape Medical News. “For individuals who already drink coffee, they may enjoy this and other potential health benefits, and for those who are sensitive to the effects of caffeine, decaf may confer similar benefits.”
Robust Findings
The 28 studies in the analysis included 1,109,272 participants, and all had the outcome of risk for type 2 diabetes; there were 45,335 cases of diabetes, with follow-up ranging from 10 months to 20 years.
The relative risk for type 2 diabetes with coffee consumption, compared with no or rare consumption, ranged from 0.92 for 1 cup per day, 0.85 for 2 cups, 0.79 for 3 cups, 0.75 for 4 cups, 0.71 for 5 cups, and 0.67 for 6 cups.
Meanwhile, the relative risk for diabetes associated with 1 cup of caffeinated coffee per day (compared to no or rare coffee consumption) was 0.91 compared with 0.94 for 1 cup of decaffeinated coffee per day ( P = .17).
The findings were consistent for men as well as women, and while coffee-brewing methods were not assessed in the studies, the inclusion of diverse populations likely covered a wide array of methods, the authors note.
“Most coffee is likely to be filtered coffee, and the results from studies conducted in various populations, including US, European, and Asian, were similar, indicating consistency of the results despite potentially different preparation and processing methods,” they observe.
And while none of the studies assessed levels of sugar and dairy added to coffee, the amounts are “likely to be small compared with other food sources,” they add.
While this meta-analysis does provide “strong evidence” that higher consumption of coffee is associated with a significantly lower risk for diabetes, “longer-term randomized controlled trials are needed to establish causality and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms,” they conclude.
Coffee Just a Small Part of the Diabetes Equation
One possible explanation for the reduced risk for diabetes with coffee consumption could be the role of chlorogenic acid, a phenolic compound and a major component of coffee, Dr. Hu said.
“Compounds in coffee also include antioxidant polyphenols, minerals such as magnesium and chromium, [and] vitamins; however, it is impossible to tease out the effects of individual compounds, because they don’t exist in isolation in coffee and they may have synergistic effects.”
He stressed also that coffee consumption remains a small piece of the picture.
“Coffee is only one of many dietary and lifestyle factors that can contribute to diabetes prevention. Clearly, maintaining a healthy weight through diet and exercise is the most important way to reduce risk of diabetes. For those who drink coffee regularly, they should enjoy it, but they still need to watch their weight and be physically active.”
The research received funding from the National Institutes of Health. The authors have reported no relevant financial relationships.
This article presents evidence that links a measure of experienced state of well-being generated in the mid-brain (depression) with a metabolic condition (diabetes) and the risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack. All three systems are fed by the vagus (ninth cranial) nerve and can be regulated by mindfulness practices.
Diabetes and Depression Combo Hikes MI Risk
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
BARCELONA — Individuals who have both diabetes and depression have an increased likelihood of having a myocardial infarction (MI), a large Swedish study affirmed.
The odds of having an MI compared with individuals without either condition were greatest among those ages 45 to 64, with the strongest association seen in women (OR 7.1, 95% CI 6.1-8.2), according to Karin Rådholm, of Linköping University in Sweden.
Rådholm and colleagues explored the link between diabetes, depression, and MI using data on 3,738,524 individuals ages 45 to 84 from Swedish national registries of prescription drug use, hospitalizations, and deaths. The analysis excluded those who had had an MI before the beginning of the study period.
Prescriptions for medications for diabetes and depression were used as surrogates for the conditions themselves.
The researchers divided the patients into four groups, which could be shuffled each of the 3 years of the study, based on drug use:
Neither type of medication
Anti-diabetics only
Antidepressants only
Both types of drugs
During the 3-year follow-up, 1.2% of the participants had a first MI. Of those, 37% were fatal.
In the older half of the cohort (ages 65 to 84), all three of the drug groups carried an increased likelihood of having an MI, with odds ratios ranging from just over 1.0 to about 3.0 compared with non-users. The greatest odds were observed in those taking both types of medication and in women versus men.
The findings were similar in the younger half of the cohort (ages 45 to 64), with odds ratios ranging from just over 1.0 to about 7.0. The results were not changed by adjustment for the use of anti-hypertensives.
The findings were not surprising, according to Ewan Pearson, PhD, MBBChir, of the University of Dundee in Scotland. “It’s a very nice, large study that establishes the fact that people with diabetes and people with depression have higher rates of cardiovascular events,” said Pearson, who co-chaired the session at which Rådholm presented the results.
What is noteworthy is the large sample size used in the analysis, he said.
“A study of 3.7 million is incredible,” he said. “It just shows the utility of these massive population resources that Sweden has access to.”
Rådholm acknowledged that the study was limited by the lack of information on the indications for use of antidepressants, noting, for example, that tricyclics can be used for neuralgias and other conditions. The analysis also lacked information on important confounders, such as smoking, lipid levels, and lifestyle.
This article is self explanatory. Note the setting in which the study was done however. Seventh-Day Adventist Communities are atypically more cohesive than those of mainstream Americans. They also have been practicing social values that exemplify, “clean, spiritually intentional living” for several generations. BMI stands for base metabolism index.
Vegetarians Slimmer Than Meat-Eaters, Study Finds
A new study from Loma Linda University researchers shows an association between diet type and weight, with vegetarians having a lower body mass index than non-vegetarians. Interestingly, researchers found this association despite both groups in the study having similar caloric intake.
The Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics study is based on data from the Adventist Health Study 2, which includes dietary data from five groups: meat-eaters, semi-vegetarians (occasional meat-eaters), pesco-vegetarians (vegetarians who eat fish), lacto-ovo vegetarians (vegetarians who consume dairy) and vegans (who don’t consume any animal products). Data was collected between 2002 and 2007 from 71,751 Seventh-Day Adventist men and women, with an average age of 59.
Caloric intake was similar among all dietary patterns — about 2,000 calories a day — with the one exception being the semi-vegetarians, who consumed 1,707 calories a day.
Researchers found that average BMI was lowest among vegans, while average BMI was highest among the meat-eaters. Looking specifically at obesity (defined as having a BMI over 30), researchers found that vegans had the lowest percentage of people who were obese — just 9.4 percent — while meat-eaters had the highest percentage of people who were obese — 33.3 percent. About 24 percent of semi-vegetarians were obese, 17.9 percent of pesco-vegetarians were obese, and 16.7 percent of lacto-ovo vegetarians were obese.
Even though calorie intake was similar across all the groups, there were differences in the types of nutrients consumed. Meat-eaters had the lowest intake of plant proteins, beta carotene, fiber and magnesium, and the highest intake of heart disease-linked fatty acids.
Of course, diet isn’t the only factor in weight — the study didn’t examine other factors, such as exercise or socioeconomic status. It merely showed an association between eating patterns and weight, not a cause-and-effect relationship.
More evidence is offered here that given how we measure health, location, income and wealth disparities correlate with a community’s status. The wider the disparity in a community, the lower the health status for all individuals whether more or less economically secure.
This article was downloaded from open source DiabetesPro Smart Brief: (http://www.ledgertranscript.com/home/9046656-95/geographical-location-income-determine-health-care-in-us)
Geographical location, income determine health care in U.S.
Low-income Americans’ access to health care and the quality of care they receive vary widely based on where they live, according to a recent report released by the Commonwealth Fund, a health policy think tank.
Compared to wealthier people, low-income Americans lose more teeth, have more asthma flare-ups and miss out on vaccinations and cancer screenings. They also are less likely to have health insurance.
The report provides a state-by-state comparison of health care for the 39 percent of people with incomes less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, or $47,000 for a family of four and $23,000 for an individual. Information garnered from the report indicates that we are often two Americas divided by income and geography when it comes to opportunities to lead long and healthy lives.
Statistics drawn from a recent Time Almanac on income disparity notes that low-income people account for at least one-quarter of total state populations, yet account for almost half in some states, i.e. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and New Mexico.
To understand how many inhabitants of a country are poor, it is not enough to know a country’s per capita income. The number of poor people in a country and the average quality of life depend on how equally or unequally income is distributed across the population, as measured by the Gini index or coefficient. Information drawn from the World Bank indicates that the United States rates 40.8 on the Gini index. The poorest 20 percent of our population receives approximately 5.2 percent of income, while the richest 20 percent receives 46.4 percent of income.
The disparities regarding the quality of health care received by people with low incomes and higher incomes, more than 400 percent of the poverty level, or $94,000 for a family of four was major across the income distribution in each state.
It has been determined that higher-income people in states with low health care scores are often worse off than low-income people in states with high health care ratings. For example, low-income elderly Medicare beneficiaries in Connecticut and Wisconsin are less likely to receive high-risk medications than high-income elderly people in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.
Hawaii and states in the upper Midwest and Northeast had the best scores, while Southern and South Central states often lagged. Among low-income people, there were two- to five-fold differences in their health care and health outcomes scores, depending on where they lived.
Among the other findings:
The percentage of uninsured low-income adults ranged from a low of 12 percent in Massachusetts to a high of 55 percent in Texas.
Only 32 percent of low-income adults aged 50 and older received recommended preventive care, such as cancer screenings and vaccines. Rates ranged from 26 percent or less in Idaho, Oklahoma and California to 42 percent in Massachusetts.
In eight states, 40 percent or more of Medicare beneficiaries received medications considered high risk for the elderly — rates more than double that of states with safer prescribing.
Asthma-related hospitalizations among children from low-income communities in New York were eight times higher than in Oregon, the state with the lowest rate (477 per 100,000 in New York compared to 56 per 100,000 in Oregon).
At least one of four low-income adults under age 65 in West Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky lost six or more teeth due to decay or disease, compared to less than 10 percent in Connecticut, Hawaii and Utah, the states with the lowest rates.
Low-income people were more likely to be uninsured or underinsured than those with higher incomes. In 2010-11, nearly 56 million low-income people were uninsured or underinsured, ranging from a low of 36 percent in Massachusetts to a high of more than 60 percent in Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
The sharp differences in health care access, quality and outcomes identified in the report result in a substantial loss of lives and missed opportunities to improve health and quality of care.
Using the measurement criteria where all states across the country could provide the same levels of health care accessibility and quality:
Tens of millions of adults and children would receive needed preventive care, such as vaccines, check-ups and cancer screenings.
About 30 million more low-income adults and children would have health insurance, reducing the number of uninsured Americans by half.
About 33,000 more infants born to low-income mothers would survive until their first birthday.
We are talking about people’s lives, health and well-being being affected by income disparity and disparity in the level of medical goods and services availability to all across the country. It is hoped that state policymakers and health care leaders use these data to target resources to improve access, care and the health of residents, especially those with below-average incomes.
This article was downloaded from open source DiabetesPro Smart Brief: (http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/12262/20140119/diabetes-prevention-try-a-little-chocolate-tea-and-berries.htm)
A recent study shows how tea, berries and chocolate could all help in the prevention of Type 2 Diabetes due to the high levels of flavonoids.
Based on a study of almost 2,000 people, researchers found that these food groups also help to lower inflammation and insulin resistance.
Professor Aedin Cassidy of the University of Anglia (UEA)’s Norwich Medical School, discusses the study, courtesy of a press release. “Our research looked at the benefits of eating certain sub-groups of flavonoids. We focused on flavones, which are found in herbs and vegetables such as parsley, thyme, and celery, and anthocyanins, found in berries, red grapes, wine and other red or blue-coloured fruits and vegetables.
“This is one of the first large-scale human studies to look at how these powerful bioactive compounds might reduce the risk of diabetes. Laboratory studies have shown these types of foods might modulate blood glucose regulation – affecting the risk of type 2 diabetes. But until now little has been know about how habitual intakes might affect insulin resistance, blood glucose regulation and inflammation in humans.”
For the study, researchers examined close to 2,000 healthy women volunteers from Twins, U.K. who had completed a food questionnaire that estimated their total dietary flavonoid intake as well as six flavonoid subclasses. Blood samples from participants showed evidence of both glucose regulation and inflammation. They also assessed fasting insulin and glucose levels via an equation.
“We found that those who consumed plenty of anthocyanins and flavones had lower insulin resistance. High insulin resistance is associated with Type 2 diabetes, so what we are seeing is that people who eat foods rich in these two compounds – such as berries, herbs, red grapes, wine- are less likely to develop the disease.
“We also found that those who ate the most anthocyanins were least likely to suffer chronic inflammation – which is associated with many of today’s most pressing health concerns including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
“And those who consumed the most flavone compounds had improved levels of a protein (adiponectin) which helps regulate a number of metabolic processes including glucose levels.”
However, the researchers note that further studies will be needed to potentially determine how the compounds directly lower the risk.
More information regarding the study can be found via the Journal of Nutrition.
(dailyRx News) Fish is commonly referred to as “brain food,” and now research is also showing that it may help prevent some chronic diseases like diabetes.
A recent study found that men who got more than 5 grams of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids — fats that are primarily found in fish and other seafood — per day had a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than men who consumed lower amounts.
The authors of this study noted that a more diverse study sample is needed to confirm these findings.
This study was led by Jyrki K. Virtanen, PhD, from the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, Finland. This research team examined the relationship between omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) from fish and type 2 diabetes.
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are essential fats that play a role in brain function and growth and development, but the body does not produce these fats. They must be consumed in the diet.
Dr. Virtanen and colleagues analyzed data from 2,212 men in the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor study. These men, who were between the ages of 42 and 60 years old, did not have type 2 diabetes at the beginning of the study between 1984 and 1989.
The researchers looked at intake of four types of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Serum polyunsaturated fatty acid levels were measured from blood samples to determine levels of exposure to polyunsaturated fatty acid levels.
The participants were instructed to record what they ate for four days, and their records were run through a nutrition software program to determine the nutrients present in the foods they ate. They were separated into four groups depending on the amount of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids they consumed ranging from lowest (less than 3.62 grams per day) to highest (more than 5.33 grams per day).
Type 2 diabetes status was determined through a combination of self-report, a fasting plasma glucose test (measures blood sugar levels) and an oral glucose tolerance test (measures how well the body breaks down glucose) at 4, 11 and 20 years after the study began.
The researchers accounted for several factors that could have influenced the development of type 2 diabetes, including medical history, medication use, family history of diabetes, smoking status, alcohol consumption, blood pressure, body mass index (a measure of height and weight), education and annual income.
The researchers found that during the follow-up period, about 19 percent of men developed type 2 diabetes.
Study participants who consumed more than 5.3 grams per day of three of the types of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids — eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) — had a 33 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes than men who consumed less than 3.62 grams per day.
The fourth type of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid — alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) — was not found to be related to diabetes risk.
Since fish can contain high levels of mercury, which has been linked to a higher risk for cardiovascular diseases, the researchers also measured hair mercury levels to determine the relationship between mercury levels and risk of type 2 diabetes. The researchers did not find a relationship between hair mercury levels and risk of type 2 diabetes.
The study’s authors concluded that omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids appeared to be connected to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, but research is needed in more diverse populations to confirm this finding.
This open source Medscape (http://www.medscape.com/today) article discusses research that affirms the neurogenerative effects of regular mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) practice. “Time in” makes for more present time out in the world!
Meditation in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may slow progression to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), new research suggests.
A small, randomized pilot study of adult patients with MCI showed that those who received mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) therapy for 8 weeks had a greater increase in functional connectivity between brain regions related to both MCI and AD than those who received usual care.
These regions included the posterior cingulate cortex, the bilateral medial prefrontal cortex, and the left hippocampus.
In addition, there was “a trend” toward less bilateral hippocampal volume atrophy in the patients who received MBSR compared with the usual-care group.
“This study suggests that an intervention with meditation and yoga may impact the areas of the brain that are most susceptible to developing dementia,” lead author Rebecca Erwin Wells, MD, MPH, who was at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, at the time of the study, told Medscape Medical News.
Dr. Wells, who is now an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, noted that although this was a small, preliminary study, she is “very excited” about the findings.
“MBSR is a relatively simple intervention, with very little downside, that may provide real promise for these individuals. If [it] can help delay the symptoms of cognitive decline even a little bit, it can contribute to improved quality of life,” said Dr. Wells in a release.
The study is scheduled to be published in the November 27 print issue of Neuroscience Letters.
No Current Treatment
The investigators note that patients with high stress levels are at increased risk of developing MCI and AD, and more than 50% of those with MCI will go on to develop dementia within 5 years.
“Despite the clinical and public health significance of MCI, there are no known therapies preventing progression to dementia,” they write.
“While meditation may reduce stress and alter the hippocampus and default mode network (DMN), little is known about its impact in these populations.”
“We were particularly interested in looking at the DMN, the brain system that is engaged when people remember past events or envision the future, and the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for emotions, learning, and memory,” said Dr. Wells.
She added that they wanted to investigate whether MBSR could attenuate the decline of individuals already experiencing memory problems.
A total of 14 adults older than 54 years with MCI were enrolled between 2010 and 2011 and were randomly assigned to receive either MBSR (n = 9; mean age, 73 years) or usual care (control group; n = 5; mean age, 75 years).
MBSR teaches both mindfulness meditation and yoga. Those who received this arm of treatment underwent 8 weekly 2-hour sessions plus 1 “mindfulness retreat day.” In addition, this group was encouraged to spend 30 minutes a day listening to guided audio recordings in their own homes.
All participants also underwent resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at baseline and at the 8-week mark to measure connectivity changes in areas of the DMN. And MRIs were conducted to measure volume changes in the bilateral hippocampus.
This is “the first study to our knowledge reporting the impact of MBSR on fMRI among patients with MCI,” the researchers write.
Increased Connectivity, Less Atrophy
Results showed that, compared with the control group, the MBSR group had a significantly greater increase in functional connectivity between the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and the bilateral medial prefrontal cortex and between the PCC and the left hippocampus, as shown by fMRI scans.
Both treatment groups showed bilateral hippocampal atrophy from baseline to the 8-week follow-up, as shown in the MRI scans. Still, although not statistically significant, there was a trend toward less volume atrophy in the MBSR group (P = .07).
No study-related adverse events were reported by either group.
“MBSR may affect the region of the brain most sensitive to MCI and AD,” write the investigators.
“If some component of cognitive decline is a function of stress-induced hippocampal changes, then meditation may impact the hippocampus as a stress-reducing technique thereby improving cognitive reserve,” they add.
The researchers note that more studies with larger sample sizes and longer follow-up periods are now needed, but they voiced optimism in the findings of their small trial.
“For a condition without a standard treatment and with potential progression to AD, this study provides preliminary evidence that an intervention with limited side effects may be of potential benefit to patients with few other options for improvement,” they write.
Dr. Wells noted that researchers at both BIDMC and Wake Forest are continuing to examine these issues.
Durable Effect?
“I think this study offers a very useful component of therapy for these patients, for several reasons,” David Geldmacher, MD, professor and Patsy and Charles Collat Scholar in Neuroscience in the Division of Memory Disorders and Behavioral Neurology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told Medscape Medical News.
“First, we know that it’s a stressful experience for people with the illness, especially in the early stages. So anything that can help to address that frustration on a symptomatic level is important,” said Dr. Geldmacher, who was not involved with the study.
He added that a sense of control and self-direction “is crucial” in this patient population.
“This is an illness where people often feel that someone else is starting to drive the bus and that the disease is starting to take away their rights and privileges. So the ability to do something themselves that may potentially alter the course of their illness is important,” he said.
Dr. Geldmacher noted that the physiologic part of this study was also interesting.
“What we don’t know in as much detail is whether this intervention could have an ongoing, clinically meaningful effect or not. Obviously there’s going to be very little harm, if any, to doing this, and we get the psychological benefits,” he said.
“So even if meditation did nothing to the hippocampal structure, it may help to reduce the symptom burden of the illness as a whole.”
Can’t Hurt, May Help
Thaddeus W. W. Pace, PhD, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, at the University of Arizona in Tuscon, told Medscape Medical News that he had some concerns with the research, including that it was a pilot study and that there were so few participants.
“Even for an imaging study, the number was on the lower side. Also, the overall design could have been a little stronger,” he said. For example, he questioned the use of treatment-as-usual for the control condition instead of an active control condition in which participants would also meet with others during the course of the study.
“This would account for the social contact that happens during meditation training. One of the most important challenges we have in our research is how we design the control condition that we’re comparing everything to.”
Dr. Pace, who was not involved with this study, has conducted previous research examining the effects of meditation on the brain’s response to emotional stimuli.
He went on to note, however, that the current study “does have some exciting points.”
“The findings themselves are pretty cool, and the outcomes make me want to know more. The big finding was about the [DMN] areas and how they’re all working together. And that was quite fascinating,” said Dr. Pace.
“The hippocampal volume outcome, even though it was a trend, was also pretty exciting to me, especially because my interest is in stress and health. We know that stress response and inflammation have an impact on chronic illnesses, including Alzheimer’s,” he explained.
“When the hippocampus atrophies, it may lead to inappropriate regulation of the stress response systems, which can then further the illness process. So it was very interesting that MBSR had an impact, or at least a trend, on hippocampal volume in these folks with MCI.”
Overall, Dr. Pace said that it appears that MBSR could be beneficial to this patient population.
“As long as you tell patients that this study’s findings are preliminary, I would be comfortable recommending to clinicians that they recommend MBSR to their patients,” said Dr. Pace.
“It can’t hurt, and as a program, it could only be helpful. If a patient has enough time to devote to it, why not try it? And then clinicians should also keep an eye out for the next-generation study.”
The study was funded by several grants and sources, including the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. A full list of funders is available in the original article. The study authors and Dr. Pace have disclosed no relevant financial relationships. Dr. Geldmacher also has disclosed no relevant financial relationships, but he did report that Dr. Wells was a former student of his.
Here is a compelling discussion about the relationship between dietary carbohydrates and dementia. Once again,gluten is implicated but not the sole potential culprit.
This interview was posted on the open source Medscape website.http://www.medscape.com/today
Dementia: Is Gluten the Culprit?
Bret S. Stetka, MD, David Perlmutter, MD
DisclosuresJanuary 21, 2014
Editor’s Note:In his new book Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain’s Silent Killers, Dr. David Perlmutter, Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine, advocates that lifestyle modifications, starting with a high-fat, nearly carbohydrate-free diet, can prevent or greatly lower dementia risk and progression — and he’s armed with plenty of data to back up the claim. But detractors say the evidence isn’t quite there. With Grain Brain about to hit its 15th straight week on the New York Times best-seller list (including a stint at the top spot) Medscape spoke with Dr. Perlmutter about his thoughts on the impact of carbohydrates and gluten on the brain.
Medscape: For those unfamiliar with your ideas, can you summarize the thesis behind your new book and how you arrived at it?
Dr. Perlmutter: Certainly. I’m a board-certified neurologist and a fellow of the American College of Nutrition. I’ve been very frustrated with neurology over the past 20 years, because we’re trained in residency and practice to basically treat symptoms of neurologic disorders. I found that not to be satisfying and thought it was important to delve into causality as opposed to just focus on treating the smoke and ignoring the fire.
That said, with time we began seeing wonderful research citations that were drawing a link between risk for dementia, for example, and blood sugar levels appearing in our most well-respected journals. For example, a study published in Neurology in 2005[1] pointed a finger squarely at the most powerful metric being glycated hemoglobin. Even back then, it was becoming clearer that there was something going on with blood sugar correlating with rate of brain atrophy, specifically hippocampal atrophy, and cognitive decline. When you now retrospectively evaluate that study, you begin to appreciate that glycated hemoglobin is more than just a metric of average blood sugar, which is typically how it’s looked upon even today.
Glycated hemoglobin is a glycated protein. This is a marker not just of average blood sugar, but more important, it’s a marker of the degree of glycation that’s going on in human physiology — a process that increases inflammation and dramatically increases the production of free radicals and oxidative stress. So the idea that even subtle elevations of sugar, which is a dietary lifestyle choice, are related to risk for brain degeneration really began to crystallize.
This notion has gained traction and, I think, is profoundly supported by a couple of more recent studies. A study published in August 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)[2] was very supportive, indicating that even subtle elevations of fasting blood sugar translates to dramatically increased risk for dementia. This was a prospective analysis that measured fasting blood sugar and followed 839 men and 1228 women for a mean of 6.8 years. I’ll quote the conclusion: “Our results suggest that higher glucose levels may be a risk factor for dementia, even among persons without diabetes.”
Why? These are levels of 105 and 110 mg/dL — levels that most doctors are going to be satisfied with. However, according to the study, these numbers translated into a significantly increased risk for dementia in individuals who were not demented.
Medscape: That is striking. However, I think it’s important to point out that many of the studies you cite report associations between glucose and risk for dementia and don’t necessarily prove causality, correct?
Dr. Perlmutter: You are 100% correct. I’ll stand and take my lumps from those individuals who want to make the argument that there’s no smoking gun here. But when a prestigious journal like NEJM calls our attention to this relationship effect in glucose and cognitive decline, we’ve got to take notice, especially at a time when we have no other choice. It’s the best thing that we have going.
We know that a lower-carbohydrate diet is the right choice for the heart and the immune system. There’s no downside to it. I offer it up as being supported by the current peer-reviewed literature. If that’s as good as it gets, that’s the best we have right now.
You can wage criticism that the NEJM study was not interventional. It wasn’t a double-blind study testing some sort of pharmaceutical intervention. It was a prospective study that basically asked who’s going to get dementia on the basis of fasting blood sugar levels.
Some people criticize prospective or even retrospective studies because they’re not interventional. I tend to think that they can provide very, very valuable information. There’s never been an interventional trial that’s demonstrated that seatbelts are effective in reducing injuries in a car accident.
The Dementia Diet
Medscape: What type of diet or interventions do you recommend to prevent or slow dementia?
Dr. Perlmutter: The data show that individuals with lower blood sugar levels have a lower risk for dementia. Therefore, we’ve got to keep blood sugar low. We do so by using the time-honored dietary intervention of a lower-carbohydrate, higher-fat diet.
This is what the scientists have told us for years is the best way to lower blood sugar. If you look at the A TO Z trial,which was published in JAMA in 2007,[3] dramatic reductions in blood sugar were seen in participants on a lower-carb, higher-fat diet.
A similar article was published in NEJM in 2008.[4] This was an interventional trial demonstrating both weight loss and reduction of fasting blood sugar in individuals eating a higher-fat, lower-carbohydrate diet.
The Mayo Clinic published a study[5] in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease in 2012 demonstrating that in individuals favoring a high-carb diet, risk for mild cognitive impairment was increased by 89%, contrasted to those who ate a high-fat diet, whose risk was decreased by 44%. Drs. Barnes and Yaffe from the University of California, San Francisco, published a study in Lancet Neurology in 2011[6] indicating that about 54% of cases of Alzheimer disease in the United States could have been prevented with attention to lifestyle changes, such as exercise, weight loss, and controlling hypertension.
This province of lifestyle modification in neurologic diseases has not been one of comfort for neurology in general. We neurologists are acting in an essentially reactionary manner. In other words, we are responding to illnesses by hoping that there are medications to treat symptoms, whereas we really ought to embrace the notion of preventive medicine, because the science is staring us in the face.
Medscape: One of the points in your book I found interesting is that you’re not just talking about processed carbohydrates or sugars here, right? You believe that whole grains — typically presumed healthy — also increase dementia risk?
Dr. Perlmutter: Yes, they do. There’s a lot of very good information provided on the glycemic index of these foods. That is a metric of not only just the elevation of blood sugar and the consequence of consuming a particular food, but actually it’s also a measurement of how long the blood sugar remains elevated.
The glycemic index measures what the blood sugar is between 90 and 120 minutes after consuming a particular food. When you look at the glycemic index of whole-grain bread, for example, it’s extremely high: 72-74. It’s higher than that of white bread. It’s much higher than that of many candy bars. It becomes a huge issue in terms of how long your blood sugar remains elevated — that is, how long you have increased risk for glycation of proteins. It becomes a big issue that we have to reconsider these recommendations about whole grains in terms of the simple fact of looking just at the glycemic index.
Medscape: Does the same go for other grains common in health foods these days, such as flax and quinoa?
Dr. Perlmutter: Flax and quinoa (which by definition is actually not a grain) are gluten-free foods rich in fiber and healthful fat. However, they do contain modest amounts of carbohydrate, and assessing these foods by evaluating their glycemic indices will help decide how healthful they really are.
Giving Up Gluten, and the Paleo Diet Fad
Medscape: Why do you feel that gluten is particularly detrimental to our brain health?
Dr. Perlmutter: Gluten-containing foods stimulate inflammatory reactions in a significant number of individuals, well beyond the 1.8% of the population that has celiac disease. This may lead to increased bowel permeability and even increased blood/brain barrier permeability, as described by Dr. Alessio Fasano (formerly at the University of Maryland, now at Harvard).[7] The mechanism deals with the expression of the protein zonulin brought on by gluten exposure. What is so compelling about this newer research is the fact that this reaction to gluten may occur in all humans.
This may explain to some degree the array of neurologic issues now correlated with gluten sensitivity in nonceliac patients, as described by Dr. Anna Sapone and colleagues.[8] So we have to look at gluten sensitivity in a new light, recognizing that its manifestations may extend well beyond the gut. Writing in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry,[9] Dr. Marios Hadjivassilou stated, “That gluten sensitivity is regarded as principally a disease of the small bowel is a historical misconception. Gluten sensitivity can be primarily and at times exclusively a neurological disease.”
That said, many people shop the gluten-free aisle of the grocery store, thinking that those gluten-free breads, pastas, pizza doughs, crackers, and so on are much better because they’re gluten-free. The bottom line is these are still powerful sources of carbohydrates.
Even fruit is a source of aggressive carbohydrate in the human diet. Take a simple 12-ounce glass of freshly squeezed orange juice — what could be better, right? As a matter of fact, that’s about 34-36 grams of pure carbohydrates. That’s 9 teaspoons of pure sugar with breakfast before your breakfast cereal has even arrived.
My recommendation is to try to keep the total carbohydrates per day to 60-80 grams. If you have 2 glasses of orange juice, you’ve already consumed 72 grams of pure carbohydrate.
It’s really fundamentally important that we address this mechanism of glycation of proteins as being a cornerstone of brain degeneration pathology, and recognize that beta-amyloid itself is a protein that can become glycated and as such can become a powerful nexus for the production of free radicals in inflammation.
We have watched with dismay over the past several years the failure of the drugs designed to rid the brain of beta-amyloid. Most recently, as published in NEJM,[10] a higher dosage of the experimental drug semagacestat was associated with increased cognitive decline of individuals compared with placebo.
Medscape: How does your diet compare with the paleo diet — the idea that we should be following the presumed diet of Paleolithic humans?
Dr. Perlmutter: They are very similar. It’s basically focused on very low carbohydrates and the aggressive addition of good fats: by all means, avoiding modified fats, trans fats, and hydrogenated modified fats, but welcoming back to the table such things as extra virgin olive oil, nuts, seeds, and grass-fed beef (not typical beef).
My diet is not a big beef, go out and eat a lot of meat, kind of diet. When Drs. Campbell and Campbell published The China Study[11] about the possible health consequences of eating meat, their report was valid because by and large, the type of meat that people are eating is derived from animals that have been fed genetically modified corn and soy and high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, which are proinflammatory. Therefore, clearly the idea that there’s a relationship between that type of meat consumption and cardiovascular disease, and even cancer, is valid.
We’re talking about specifically small amounts of grass-fed beef and wild fish. We’re moving the meat, chicken, and fish away from being the centerpiece of the meal to being the side dish, the garnish. Lots of above-ground leafy green vegetables, colorful vegetables, and welcoming back good fats, because that’s what the brain is desperate for.
Medscape: So, it’s in line with a review published by the American Society for Nutrition[12] last year, as well as other recent data[13] suggesting that a little saturated fat, particularly from free-range red meat, might not be so bad for our brain health and may protect against anxiety and depression?
Dr. Perlmutter: Absolutely. And not just from grass-fed beef, but from the dreaded egg as well. There is no relationship in the current peer-reviewed literature between egg consumption and cardiovascular risk — none whatsoever. Yet, there is still the ubiquitous egg-white omelet on every restaurant menu that you can find.
Diet Isn’t Everything
Medscape: There are a lot of data on other lifestyle factors with benefits in dementia — physical activity and mental and social stimulation in particular. How much weight do you give these nondietary factors?
Dr. Perlmutter: We were all over exercise in Grain Brain. One of the notions that I think is very, very empowering and compelling is the idea of neurogenesis — that humans retain the ability to grow new neurons in the hippocampus throughout our entire lifetime. We can enhance our ability for this activity through the process of epigenetics.
A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 showed that we can actively modify the gene for the production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) with simple exercise.[14] The investigators looked at 120 elderly nondemented individuals over a 1-year period who either stretched or did aerobics. They measured 3 variables: serum BDNF levels, memory function, and morphometric analysis of hippocampal size on MRI before and after the intervention period. After 1 year, the group that did the aerobic exercise had an increase in hippocampus size by about 1%, improvement of memory function, and higher levels of serum BDNF.
What is so incredible about that is there is no pharmaceutical that can do that. Believe me, you would have probably the world’s most valuable pharmaceutical if you could develop a drug that would do that. Plain old physical exercise, nonproprietary. No one owns it. That’s why you don’t hear about this on the evening news. It’s not advertised in our medical journals. Just aerobic exercise improved memory, grew the hippocampus, and raised BDNF levels — which beyond neurogenesis also stimulates neuroplasticity, which is fundamental for learning. How incredible that you can modify the growth of your brain today by engaging in aerobic exercise! All you need to go out and buy is a pair of sneakers.
The Obama administration just dedicated $33 million to help pharmaceutical companies develop an Alzheimer disease prevention pill, and yet this article has already been published showing preservation of hippocampal size and function — in fact, regeneration of hippocampal size and function.
A Whole-Grain Gripe
Medscape: What do you say to the fact that many global diets proven to be healthy — particularly the Mediterranean diet, which is continually shown to be beneficial in numerous medical and mental conditions — include whole grains? And that many of the world’s so-called “blue zones” — regions in which residents have notably long lifespans — also include grains in their diets?
Dr. Perlmutter: I think people do tolerate some amount of grains, and that the classic Mediterranean diet is one that has added fat and lower carbs. Of note, an April 2013 article in NEJM [15] compared a standard US diet with a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil and a Mediterranean diet supplemented with mixed nuts. The investigators looked at 3 endpoints: myocardial infarction, stroke, and death. They had to stop the study halfway through it, at 4.6 years, because the individuals with the highest fat consumption had a 30% lower risk for the endpoints. It was unfair to the rest of the participants.
Can people get away with having some whole grain products? I suspect so. But you have to understand that wheat products represent 20% of our caloric intake in the United States. That’s not the way it is around the rest of the world. The Mediterranean diet, for example, does not pound people over the head with soda.
Medscape: How would you respond to your detractors that there just isn’t enough evidence to support would could be considered a somewhat extreme change in our country’s dietary habits?
Dr. Perlmutter: My response is that the “extreme change in dietary habits,” to quote you, is actually what has happened to human nutrition in only the past several centuries. In the early 19th century, Americans consumed just over 6 pounds of sugar each year. That figure now exceeds 100 pounds. And there has been a dramatic reduction in the consumption of healthful fat. Beyond the mechanism of protein glycation, as well as the powerfully detrimental downstream effects of uncontrolled insulin signaling, we haven’t even begun to understand the epigenetic consequences related to the effects of these new dietary challenges in terms of maladaptive genetic expression.
So in reality, I am not suggesting a change. I am recommending that we end this grand experiment and return to a diet that isn’t evolutionarily discordant.
Medscape: Do you have any final comments for Medscape’s audience of clinicians? How do you feel your ideas should be incorporated into patient care?
Dr. Perlmutter: Again, look at A1c in a different way. Rather than simply representing a metric of average blood sugar over a 3- to 4-month period, look at it as a way of modifying your pharmaceutical intervention; look upon it as a marker of what it really is, glycation of protein. That glycation of protein dramatically relates to inflammation and oxidative stress. That’s number one.
Second, begin to incorporate a fasting insulin metric as a way of anticipating who’s going to then develop elevations of fasting blood sugar and glycation of hemoglobin moving forward. The earliest sign of pancreatic stress is elevation of fasting insulin — which ideally should be less than 8, not up to 24, which is what is in the so-called normal range.
Third, recognize that vitamin D is a powerful player in terms of brain health. Beyond strong and healthy bones, vitamin D activates more than 900 genes in human physiology, most of which are important for brain health. Low levels of vitamin D correlate with increased risk for multiple sclerosis, dementia, and Parkinson disease. Those are my 3 take-home messages. | {
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Memorial Day driving advice you can actually use — no, seriously
If this story catches your eye while you’re washing your car or clearing out the trunk or vacuuming the back seats in preparation for the Memorial Day holiday, you’re not alone: 89 percent of travelers — that’s more than 31.2 million people — say they plan to travel by car this weekend, according to AAA.
That’s up slightly from last year, when 31.1 million motorists took to America’s highways for the traditional start of the summer travel season.
(If you’re flying, you might be in luck. Air travel will be down, but let’s face, it once you land you’re probably going to hit the highway to get to your final destination. And the roads will be full.)
What’s the best way to survive your the trip?
Timing is everything. Travel during off hours. No, really. New Yorkers know not to head to the shore or the Catskills Friday night. If you have any control over your schedule, take an extra day off or travel at night. After dark, it will be cooler in the car, less taxing on your engine and you’ll probably burn less fuel. Plus, the kids will sleep. Big rigs also take a break in the evening, so fewer trucks on the highway. Otherwise, avoid city centers and major interstate exchanges during rush hour or the hours right after lunch.
Driver swaps. Whether you’re traveling 30 miles or the average road-trip distance of 690 miles to get to your summer fun, switching drivers is a smart idea. It gives everyone a chance to stretch their legs, reach into the trunk for anything they need and reduce driver stress. A refreshed driver is an alert driver. Try to swap every two to three hours, more frequently in high traffic.
Pack smart. After crisscrossing the country over the past few years and covering it on our family travel blog we’ve learned some very important things. We pack too much into the car and we need more snacks. Our new mantra is: twice the snacks, half the clothes. Snacks keep the kids and adults happy and reduce the stressful edge of food anxiety. And believe me when I say, you can find a shopping center or laundry in every town, even Beverly Hills!
Pump right. The average price of a gallon of unleaded fuel is $3.67, which is down slightly from this time last year. If your drive is “average” fill up at your favorite gas station and then use the Gas Buddy app on your iphone to find cheap fuel along the way to your destination.
Stop along the way. If you follow our advice on driver swapping, frequent stops come naturally. But with a little planning, or luck, you’ll find some interesting places to pull over and explore. These quick visits help break up the monotony of the road and give the whole family a chance to stretch their legs, get some cold water or snack before moving on.
Follow these tips and you’ll find the journey may be as exciting as the destinations. But most important, stay alert and be careful out there. Not everyone will see this story.
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
IIE project
This year's InterIsland Event is going to be on Monhegan. Never been. Can't wait! Our 'assignment' for this year is to do a presentation about what makes our island special. We wanted to focus on some technology standards, so we're having the kids do a news cast using our Flip video cameras. They started by writing down all the things that make Frenchboro great on sticky notes which they put on the white board. Then several students pared the list down by grouping them into categories. This is called an Affinity Diagram. After they got the categories down to a managable number, they Power Voted on which ones they wanted to focus on until we were down to five categories: Businesses, Trails, Locations, Museum/School/Library, and Lobstering.
Then they did a mock script about what they might say during the 2 minute newscast about their topic. They also came up with what video they would want to include and where they should shoot it. Then we split into two teams and headed out to site check.
They won't start the actual video part until they have a script and have rehearsed enough to know it by heart, but I'm anticipating some interesting gag reels. | {
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Monday, May 11, 2009
"Hello, darkness, my old friend" or: What does it all mean
"Hello, my name is Colin and I follow the football."
"Hello, Colin." "Would you like to share anything?"
Good to get to know you again. Been too long. A number of interceding points of interest have kept me from expressing myself as I should here at this point when all things come to an end and into full focus at the onset of May. The end generally comes crashing down around us like a tidal wave, doesn't it? There's really no casual unfolding, as much as you might want it. Even if you feel like you expect what is to come, the end of the season will always be like a rubber band snapping across your unsuspecting forearm.
Sorting these thoughts, divulging this emotion and admitting these feelings has been something I've dreaded for the last month - at least. In truth, I haven't even wanted to come to grips with it. How often have I, over the span of a decade, answered that routine and quite mundane question, "hey, how are you?" with something pulled directly from the early dawn hours of my life as a football supporter - in spite of the language barrier, as it were.
This season, these horrible, horrible 14 months since February, 2008 when Eduardo shattered his leg, Gael Clichy committed a clumsy penalty and then-captain William Gallas threw a tantrum that would impress a colicky toddler, has been pockmarked by brilliance. Little protruding teases of brilliance. "What's this?" you'll ask yourself as one comes on and passes you by. "Haven't had one of those in yonks." It's there, it can clearly come back, you know well that it used to be there. But then why does it just flitter away? Why won't it stay? You've clearly welcomed it, made room for it, put out some extra towels and such. Stay, won't you? I've got bachelor chow, and there's vodka in the freezer. Hell, I've even got ice. Just stay! Here, let me make you an egg. Why would you leave? Who leaves when you can stay!? Right, Brilliance? Right? I mean you're with me, right?
Pockmarked by brilliance.
Fleeting and all-too rare glimpses of that brilliance we've known for so long as Arsenal supporters. The truth through the long season has been clear to all - the team isn't good enough. Scroll back through the Match Pricks archives, take a look at the fall and see just how I felt about many of the players and the situations. Just not good enough. Still, did I get caught up in the hope that many of those moments would turn into something greater? You bet your ass. So did most everyone else. But then that's football, isn't it? Turn out, put in a performance and capture it for tomorrow. Bottle it, release it at will. Hell, don't even release it ... when you're in form rip the top off of that damned bottle and shake it out like freaking holy water for the whole world to rub it into every pore in their miserable bodies for the exciting essence of life it truly is ... a football team in form. A class football team, with class players. A team with values. A team that holds the blueprint. Good form is like the best, clearest, most soaring, most challenging, most inspiring, most encouraging and most outwardly sexual poem you'll ever encounter. It just is, it soaks in, takes hold and grips your entire body. You can see it on people's faces, when their team is in form, when they are there in that special place - when they have arrived.
Quite conversely, you can see it on people's faces when they've encountered some 14 months of stubborn refusal to accept, process and profess the truth ... that they simply aren't good enough. We're there now though, aren't we? The Arsenal, and their supporters have been climbing a veritable mudslide of fortune, only to find themselves facing the very bottom of that hill. Sure, Arsene Wenger, Arsenal's genius manager who has now been cast more in the light of stubborn emperor leading a parade in nowt but his bare glory, has been trying to convince us of the direction and planned outcome, but all the same, there will always come a time when the truth is just there for all to see on our faces. And we have hit it at full speed.
Fact is, the supporters know it. The non-supporters, the neutrals, the guy across the street ... they all know it. Those involved, though? Those responsible? They'll either not admit it just the now or they are - quite simply - idiots.
Arsene Wenger won't admit it. And in fairness he shouldn't. He needs to do his job as manager. He is not a mouth-piece, he is not the press agent for the club. The idiots involved? Let's put it this way (you'll have gotten this teaser if you checked in on the Match Pricks Twitter feed this morning) ...
-Faith in few
-Mistrust in others
-Apathy toward the rest
Faith in a few? Yeah ... there are a handful of players that see everything the way they should. Players who care, who exhibit pride and effort. Players who recognize the opportunity in front of themselves and want to take it.
Mistrust in others? Right ... there are too many players on this team who play for selfish reasons, who try and exert effort for selfish reasons. They are there not for the club, but to attain a stage of further personal glory. To write a new chapter in their career before turning the page to the next and challenging themselves to see if they can achieve in another manner. They say things that are purely counter-intuitive to the steps one needs to assert and find success as part of a collective whole (i.e. a team). "We need to buy good players, show ambition, win trophies." "I am here to repay the club for the faith they showed in me, I am here to win them trophies and after that point I will be able to think about leaving." Oh how very f&*$ing gracious of you to hang around long enough to bestow us with a trophy, your grace. All of the talk in the world yet none of the commitment. Get F%^&$D!
Apathy toward the rest? You heard me ... just. not. good. enough. You're fine, you play your role (poorly), you show up, you punch the clock, you toss out an idea or two in a meeting every now and again, you repeat someone else's good idea, you latch on to the leaders ... Yeah, you heard me, you're just not good enough. Thanks for hanging around though, I can't really hold it against you, can I?
Lost?
Yeah ... me too. It's in there somewhere though. Just keep searching. And now that this has been done, I may finally be able to muster the energy to turn my attention to Patrice Evra and Cristiano Ronaldo. The latter, of course, the most-despicable human being this side of Silvio Berlusconi (who is, in the end, falling firmly in the 'Happy Fool' category) and the former ... I don't even yet have the words. | {
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
OMG SOOOO GOOOD!
I had a HUGE urge to make bao tonight. I've never done it before and I don't have a steamer, but the show must go on and I MUST eat bao! I found a great online recipe for bao dough and made an ad-lib pork/cabbage filling. I'm pretty happy with the taste of the filling. I'll have to recreate it in the future and write down my filling recipe. I have a bad habit of winging it w/ cooking, I don't write my measurements down. I mostly go by taste and whatever I have at home, i.e. if I don't have lemon juice I'll use vinegar...
Here's the dough recipe from www.myrecipes.com:
1 cup warm water (100° to 110°)
3 tablespoons sugar
1 package dry yeast (about 2 1/4 teaspoons)
3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (about 14 2/3 ounces)
3 tablespoons canola oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
For the filling I used:
(Sorry there are no measurements for these... I just starting throwing stuff in a bowl)
I pretty much followed the instructions on the link for the dough and then mixed my filling ingredients while the dough rises. I made 24 smaller bao's from this recipe. Because I don't have a large steamer I had to look for an alternative way to cook these. I found this great video where they fried then steamed the buns in a saucepan. PERFECT!
The frying/steaming process basically calls for you to heat up canola oil in a large saucepan then place the uncooked bao's in the pan. Fry them until the bottom is golden brown then pour in a cup of water and cover with a lid. Cook/steam them until you hear sizzling, remove the lid and let the excess water cook off. The finished fried/steamed bao looks like the picture above. Nice a crispy on the bottom and fluffy on top! Best of both worlds! But you need to take care and not burn the bao with frying them for too long. I burned my first batch!
I made 24 bao's, froze half and cooked half. I'm fully satisfied and going back to work now. :)
Bao Quest completed! I might have to do a step by step post about this in the future. Bao is definitely on the menu now. It wasn't that hard and being able to freeze them makes it easy to prep for a few days worth of meals.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Limited editions prints are now available.
I've been sitting on these prints for a few months now. This was a joint venture between me and the gallery I've been working with in Milan. They turned out really well, but got damaged during shipping from Italy. I was heart broken. I didn't want to sell them because they were damaged, but I also need to recoup the cost of printing and shipping... I'd like to get something back for our time and effort. These were originally priced higher, but I'm offering them for much less. :) This offer is only through my blog and my FB. Since I don't have a shopping cart please email me if you'd like to buy a print. I will update this post when they sell out.
8 Raven prints left & 7 Elephant prints left.
The prints are $40 each and shipping within the US is about $15.
I will ship them in a heavy duty shipping sleeve wedged in cardboard. It's about 3 pounds, but very bulky. I think international shipping will cost prohibitive, but feel free to contact me if you'd like a shipping quote outside of the US.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
"The Raven & The Sun" print
17" high x 11.5" wide
Printed on high quality matte paper. There are slight corner dings on the bottom corners.
Limited run of 25, signed and numbered
$40.00 per print + Shipping (about $15 within the US)
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Help for Heroes Paralympic hopefuls visit Bath Rugby
29 October 2013
As part of a British Weight Lifting training camp held at one of the Help for Heroes run Recovery Centres, Tedworth House, several service personnel and GB Paralympic Powerlifters visited Bath Rugby's training ground to meet the first team and train in a different performance environment.
The visit was part of Bath Rugby's on-going partnership with Help for Heroes which started in May 2012.
It also highlights the relationship with British Weight Lifting that came about under the H4H and British Paralympic Association's jointly run programme, 'Front Line to Start Line.' This initiative helps to identify wounded or injured military personnel who are excelling in sport and have the potential to reach elite level.
This is the third performance camp that British Weight Lifting has held at Tedworth House this year. Some of the soldiers taking part are already in the GB squad, whilst others are hoping to make their Paralympic dreams a reality in the coming years.
Sgt Micky Yule of the Royal Engineers, one of the wounded soldiers who visited Bath Rugby, said: "It's really inspirational to watch the Bath Rugby team training out on the pitch and it's great for us to get some work done in their gym too. They have a very similar attitude to training as we do so I think we feed off each other's drive and energy."
Stuart Hooper, Bath Rugby captain, added: "It's inspiring to see the ambition and determination the wounded soldiers have. As individual players and as a squad on the whole, there is a huge amount we can learn from them, and have already learnt over the course of their visits. I know they will do all they can to achieve their individual goals, and hope to see them in action for Team GB come the next Paralympics."
Tom Whittaker, Paralympic Performance Manager at British Weight Lifting, said: "The drive, determination and focus required to succeed in powerlifting is shared by many in our armed forces, as well as other elite sports. Some of our athletes are lifting 3-4 times their own bodyweight, so I hope it's inspiring for everyone to see them in action, just as it's inspiring for us to meet and train with elite rugby players." | {
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Since the spring of 2013, the Mi’kmaq, along with Native and non-Native allies, have been resisting exploratory testing by SWN Resources Canada in New Brunswick. SWN, a Houston, Texas-based company, is searching for deposits of natural gas in shale rock formations. If they are successful and find significant deposits, they will then attempt to extract this gas using the process of fracking. →
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By Macdonald Stainsby
If anyone doubted that it’s a good thing that Sun News in Canada has been both going broke and also denied the ability to force their way onto Canada’s basic cable system (vastly expanding their audience and getting themselves included in most homes with television subscriptions by default), the racist rantings of Ezra Levant in response to the recent RCMP attack on the Mi’kmaq community of Elsipogtog ought to clear it up. → | {
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How Not to Look Like A Tourist When Traveling in Europe | Travelhoppers
How Not to Look Like A Tourist When Traveling in Europe
Dear Travel IQ: My husband and I are making our lifelong dream a reality: this summer, we’re going to Italy! And not just Italy – we’ll be making our way through Germany, France, Belgium and England! Unlike my husband, though, I’m pretty worried about “fitting in”: I don’t want someone taking advantage of us because they know we’re tourists. On top of that, I sometimes have social anxieties about standing out in a crowd. Can you advise on how to “fit in” while we’re in Europe?
Signed: Sarah in Tampa, FL
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Dear Sarah:
Many Americans dress for comfort when traveling, and who can blame them? After all they’re on vacation. It’s usually easy to spot American tourists in Europe – they’re the ones wearing a college football T-shirt with a matching baseball cap, shorts and running shoes or flip-flops. But dressing like this screams “American tourist”, making you an easy target for conniving thieves who target tourists. Less serious, but nevertheless annoying, is that if you look like a tourist you’ll be more frequently approached by vendors trying to sell you tacky souvenirs or an overpriced tour of some sort. Plus, you’ll stick out like a sore thumb, instead of just blending in. Whatever your reasons for not wanting to look like a tourist, a few simple tweaks to your wardrobe and you’ll fit right in – wallet intact.
Footwear - Most Europeans believe that flip-flops belong at the beach and running shoes in the gym. Comfortable as flip-flops or running shoes may be, most Europeans would not be caught dead wearing them while sightseeing. This doesn’t mean wearing uncomfortable shoes: Europeans like to be comfortable as well (with the possible exception of Italian women, whose love of sky heel heels is legendary). Calf-mid thigh boots with no heel or just a slight heel are good options for women, as are wedges, which fare much better on cobble stone streets than stilettos. Sandals or flats are also fine. Men have more flexibility, just nothing that’s white and resembles a running shoe.
Baseball Caps/Sun-visors - Some Europeans do wear baseball caps, but not nearly as often as Americans do. I can count the number of times on one hand I’ve seen my German husband or European friends wearing a baseball cap, and I’ve never seen a European wear a sun-visor, so if you want to blend it with the locals, it’s best to leave the baseball cap and sun-visors in the hotel, or better yet, at home.
Photo by Ed Yourdon on Flickr.
Shorts - Younger Europeans (25 or younger) wear shorts, but the majority of Europeans don’t wear shorts no matter how hot it is, unless they’re at the beach. Skirts are a popular option for women as are capris. Pants made from a lightweight breathable material are popular for both men and women. Jeans are fine for both sexes and a safe option.
Logos – Some logos are a clear give away that you’re an American tourist. Coach, a popular brand in the U.S, is not easily found in Europe and a Coach handbag is a clear sign of an American tourist. The same can also be said for t-shirts with college football logos since football as Americans know it is not popular in Europe. “Football” to Europeans is what Americans call soccer and is an extremely popular sport, so feel free to wear your favorite soccer team’s logo – especially if it happens to be a European team. Name brands such as “GAP”, “Tommy Hilfiger” “United Colors of Benetton” are fine to wear since these brands are found in many parts of Europe and are also worn by Europeans.
Jewelry – Wedding rings are common in Europe and may be worn on either the left or right hand, depending on the country or religious beliefs. It’s common to wear the wedding ring on the left hand in the UK, Italy and Sweden, while it’s usually worn on the right hand in Germany, Greece, Spain, Poland, Norway and Austria. Given the diversity, there’s no need to switch your wedding ring to the other hand. What may give you away as a tourist is wearing a large engagement ring. Engagement rings are not popular in many European countries including Germany and France. It also goes without saying that wearing expensive jewelry of any type – watches, earrings, chains – makes you more of a target for theft, so leave your valuables at home.
European women to love to accessorize with scarfs.
Purse/Wallets – Never keep your cash and other valuables in your back pocket. A cross-body bag is ideal, since it’s more difficult than a regular purse to swipe, which can easily be ripped from your arm.
Accessories – European women love to accessorize, especially with scarfs – so bring a few along. Scarves are also a good way of changing the look of an outfit without taking up much space in your luggage. Scarves are also popular for men to wear underneath their coat. Many European women feel naked without a scarf or costume jewelery to pull the outfit together.
Don’t Wear a T-shirt to Dinner - Europeans generally dress up more than Americans and wouldn’t wear a T-shirt to dinner, even if it’s just a casual dinner. That doesn’t mean getting dressed to the nines; a simple blouse for women or button down shirt for men is perfectly fine. It just means making a bit of an effort and perhaps changing clothes after a day of sightseeing before heading to dinner.
The true test to see how successful you have been at passing off as a European? When a European tourist mistakes you for a local and asks for directions – and of course when you return from the end of your vacation with all your valuables still intact.
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Laurel Robbins is a freelance travel writer who writes for a variety of publications. She comes from Canada, but now calls Germany home and has also lived in S. Korea, Thailand and the U.S.A She is happiest when traveling, hiking or diving. Her favorite travel adventures include diving with hammerhead sharks in the Galapagos and volunteering on a conservation boat off the coast of Scotland. She is currently busy exploring Germany and writing about her European adventures on her popular travel blog: http://monkeysandmountains.com | {
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Scott Ramsay
Summary
I am 22 years of age and I am confident, personable, adaptable and suited to working in a team.
I am also very open minded when it comes to new opportunities and am a keen and perceptive learner.
I feel I am very competent when it comes to dealing with clients/customers and the general public.
I love to travel and have been to every continent except the Americas (north and south).
Work History
Work History
Editor (2012 Union Magazine)
University of Queensland Student Union
Elected to be one of several editors for the 2012 magazine year.
Jan 2011 - Present
Member of Executive, Social Convener
University of Queensland Journalism and Communication Society
Event planning and execution
2011 - Present
Casual Event Assistant
Helping Hand Group
Assisted in various charity auction events.
Jun 2009 - Apr 2011
Marketing Coordinator
MS Australia - QLD
MS Australia - Queensland
1.Started a 1 month internship June 2009 (extended to 3 months) in media and communications
2.Hired into events department (3 month contract) as an "Events Coordinator", with a specific focus on fundraising for the upcoming MS Moonlight Walk 2009 which raised $80,000 ($50,000 target).
3.Hired into the direct marketing department as a "Lotteries/Marketing Coordinator" (6 month contract, extended twice) to create and implement a youth targeted initiative called NEXTGEN VIP (NGV) (www.facebook.com/nextgenau). This required for me to create a new brand from scratch separate from all current MS Australia - Queensland marketing activities.
Duties required me to:
ØRun a social media campaign to actively engage NEXTGEN VIP's target demographic.NGV currently has over 2000 members on its Facebook page.
ØBuild and cultivate an entirely new database of potential MSQ supporters aged 18-35.
ØSupervise the creation of marketing collateral such as online advertisements, and flyers.
ØCreate and adaptmarketing strategies for fundraising initiatives such asthe "Mini-Cooper Lottery" and a iPad raffle.
ØRun multiple online competitions and giveaways.
ØSponsorship
ØBrand promotion at events such UQ Market day and Supernova Expo. Resigned early April 2011.
Jan 2010 - Jan 2011
Promoter
The Arcade Creative
Entertainment & music festival promotion (On an "as needed" basis)
2005 - 2008
Waiter/Bartender
Various Hospitality Jobs (Hong Kong/Australia)
Bartender for 3 months @ Hebe 101 Sai Kung, Hong Kong.
I was required to pour tap beer, make a small selection of cocktails.I was also trained in front of house and bar cash handling as well as a small amount of waitering duties. Stocking fridges and maintaining the bar area we also required of me.
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The “full” adage, of course, is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and connotes the idea that the interaction of the various components or elements constitute, in their entirety, a greater effect and impact than the efficacy of quantifying the singular components in their individual capacities added merely together. It is the working in tandem of individual components that creates a greater whole than the sum of its independent parts, and this can be true whether in a negative or positive sense.
One has only to witness a crowd of individuals working together, whether in riot control or as a military unit, to witness an active, positive impact or, in a negative sense, a pack of wild dogs attacking their prey — working in coordination, circling, attacking in conjunction with one another, etc. Medical conditions have a similar negative impact; we tend to be able to “handle” a single health crisis, but when they come in bunches, we often fall apart at the seeming enormity of the impact and the dire perspective it engulfs us with.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who have a sense of being overwhelmed, where the medical conditions seem to take on a whole greater than the sum of their individual components, it may be time to prepare, formulate and file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal or Postal employee is under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset.
Sometimes, it is necessary to recognize the dominance of the greater whole in order to focus upon the elements which have taken on a lesser role — like taking care of one’s health. Prioritizing matters is important, and when one’s health has taken on a secondary status and where the compendium of medical problems have taken on an exponential effect deleterious to one’s well-being, the Federal or Postal employee should consider consulting with an attorney who specializes in obtaining Federal Disability Retirement benefits.
Such a consultation may prove Aristotle’s wisdom to be correct — that the whole of such a consultation is greater than the sum of their individual words combined, or something close to that.
Observe the animals excluding the human one; what do they all do, except perhaps the male lion who awaits the predatory prowess of the lioness and her cubs who hunt for the royal crown; and the rest, of constant pecking, searching, laboring just to survive. Nature’s law requires survival; survival mandates predatory consumption; the rest look out that they are not in the sequence of a food chain that includes one’s self. For, it is the resting bird, the supine squirrel and the slumbering rabbit that becomes the meal of Nature’s law.
Leisure, by contrast, is a relatively modern concept. In the yesteryears when wagons traveled upon roads uncharted, and weekends were comprised of a Sunday afternoon beyond the morning prayers and sitting upon the hard bench of a preacher’s sermon about sin and hellfire, even then the food to be prepared for the evening meal, the water to be gathered from the river beyond the horizon, and the animals that required tending lest fences left rotting allowed for the nighttime burglars of foxes and coyotes to wander uninvited for an unsolicited meal; no, leisure is nature’s antonym, unknown and relatively unheard of except in these days of modernity, where the right to full weekends and paid vacations and “down-time” and sustained interludes of systematic quietude are a necessity within this world of constant razzle-dazzle in noisy streets of uninterrupted brackets of thunderous blaring where we cannot even think without being bombarded with informational overload.
Leisure requires time; time necessitates periods of calm away from the constancy of survival’s instinct, where the appetitive division of the soul is taking a break from the search for satisfaction, thus allowing for a reflective repose, an interlude of contemplation and a self-recognition that, yes, I am actually enjoying myself in doing this mindless activity or fun engagement. Leisure is, in the end, nature’s antonym, in the very resistance to being able to relax, to reflect and to remain relatively rested in retrospective renditions of relentless reaping in the reality of raucous and riotous living (sorry about the alliteration, but it cannot be helped for fear of further farcical fancies fettered forever from feckless and foreign flattery).
In modernity, it has somehow become turned upside down, where leisure was once unheard of, dangerous to the very instinct of survival, and rarely engaged except in the slumber of midnight exhaustion. Now, it is declared to be its very opposite – of a necessary means to survive, and without which work and ‘making a living’ cannot be accomplished because time away allows for the restorative powers to reenergize those proverbial batteries gone dead.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who need to contemplate filing a Federal Disability Retirement application through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal or Postal employee is under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset, there is little time to contemplate leisure as Nature’s antonym. Chronic medical conditions tend to be a type of ‘work’ in and of itself – exhausting because of the constant attention it requires, and profoundly fatiguing upon one’s body, mind and soul.
That being said, obtaining a Federal Disability Retirement is necessary for precisely that reason – as a means of focusing upon one’s health, in order to attain a level of normalcy such that tomorrow can be another day to battle. In that sense, preparing, formulating and filing a Federal Disability Retirement application is an exception to the rule – for, it is not leisure as Nature’s antonym, but more likened to the days of yesteryear when the one time the body required leisure was to rest in order to regain one’s health, just to have another tomorrow to battle the greater world of predatory juggernauts.
The herd mentality must of necessity have a survivability factor; otherwise, there is little to explain the illogical repetition of the historical recurrence of human folly for behavioral anthropology. In the modern era, being “different” is a sign of rebellion, and the cultural tidal wave of the Sixties in altering the normative landscape of music, art, religion and social customs, revealed the pinnacle of self-destructive behavior — until it became clear that being a misfit itself was merely the convention.
Behaving “normally” means that one does not make “waves”; in a highly bureaucratized society, the importance of non-innovation and complete compliance is regarded as sacrosanct. Loud, boisterous behavior; conduct outside of the normative inflexibility of societal perspectives; that which is acceptable as quirkiness or eccentricities, as opposed to destructive explosions of tendencies bordering upon insanity; the invisible line between the misfit and clinical commitment to a psychiatric facility is a thin reed, indeed.
Often, however, it is uncontrollable circumstances which impose upon an individual the unwanted label of being an “outsider”. Medical conditions often have a tendency to promote such a state. It is like being labeled a plague-carrying contagion by the CDC; once whispered, the rumors begin to spread.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suffer from a medical condition, such that the medical condition begins to prevent one from performing one or more of the essential elements of one’s job, being labeled a misfit becomes a “given”. Others begin to shy away from an association; some are told bluntly not to have contact with “that one”.
Loss of normative acceptance within any community or society is an important factor for success; somehow, despite all of the legal safeguards, EEO regulations and protective statutes applying to disabled individuals, the herd mentality of yore nevertheless prevails. For Federal and Postal workers, the only pragmatic exit is to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal or Postal worker is under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset.
Is it a retreat or an escape? Not really; rather, just a means of looking out for one’s own best interests. The medical condition itself should always be paramount in considering one’s life; attending to it properly means that one must have the time and energy to treat the underlying malady; and continuing in an employment atmosphere where acceptance is avoided, and empathy is rare, is also an unstated definition of engaging in self-flagellation.
Questioning one’s character occurs in multiple guises, by subtle and overt means, through self-reflection and conspiracies of consorts; one can question through self-reflection, when an intended result falls short of expectations; one can do it to others, when that which was promised was unfulfilled; or, we can do it out of sheer meanness, when rumors and unverifiable gossip can eat away at the fabric of one’s unprotected persona and self-image.
The offense of questioning one’s character is grave, indeed, and the responsiveness of reactionary rectitude is often tied to the sensitivity of one’s self-image, the reputation one holds within a given community, and the sense that one must maintain and control the opinions of others. Indeed, in this world of Facebook and rampant, unconstrained and un-restrainable opinions thrown about throughout the ethereal universe of the Internet, the questioning of one’s character is something which must be responded to with a callous disregard.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who must contend with a hostile work environment when a medical condition begins to impact one’s ability to perform all of the essential elements of one’s job, the issue of character questioning falls to the forefront without notice, without warning, and without a capacity to quickly respond. Suddenly, those years and decades of dedicated service are open to questioning; what one did in the past counts for naught; what one is currently doing is discounted because it falls short of coworkers’ expectations because of the enormous contributions of the past, which now account for little; and what is anticipated for the future is set aside, as one becomes a nobody in a universe which only takes into account the present actions and current accolades.
The fact that a medical condition is the culprit of one’s diminished professional capacity means little; and as the agency rarely reveals any underlying capability for empathy, the choices become limited: filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether one is under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset, is often the best and most viable option. Federal Disability Retirement is a means to an end: the means requires that the Federal or Postal employee attains a level of security such that the medical condition itself can be the primary focus; the end is for the Federal or Postal employee to remain productive for the future, and to utilize the talents and as-yet-unrealized contributions to society for the many years to come.
Character questioning is a game of sorts, and one which empty souls and superficial artifices of valueless individuals engage in; the question itself should never involve a self-reflection of doubt based upon the invalid criticism of others, but the forthright confidence of the Federal or Postal employee who still has many years of valuable contributions left, in a society which screams for character.
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Overused words lose their intended efficacy. Perhaps the point of decay came about when the (unnamed) fast-food company decided to combine the word with the term, “meal”, and thereafter kids, grandkids and celebrity popularization effectively killed the last semblance of meaning. But when watching the exuberance exhibited by a puppy, where commonplace activities are engaged in with reactive and unbounded energy, it is appropriate and meaningful to compound the two, and ascribe the descriptively emotive, “happy puppy“.
Whether it is the latter term which enlivens the former, or vice versa, is a question of inference; for, with the loss of meaning generally of the former, but with a retained appreciation that the latter is always inextricably bundled with ecstatic joy and delicious laughter; sometimes, by mere inference and inseparable conceptual coalescence of words, the singular vacuity of a word can be reinvigorated. It also is often ascribed in anthropomorphic terms, as well as its opposite: men and women are described as “happy puppies” or “sad puppies”, and the accompanying imagery is one of circumstantial delightfulness or despondency.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suffer from a medical condition, such that the medical condition prevents one from performing one or more of the essential elements of one’s Federal or Postal job, if the elusive concept of “happiness” has been replaced with the daily toil of anguish and turmoil of angst, it is perhaps time to consider filing for Federal OPM Disability Retirement benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal or Postal worker is under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset.
When once the Federal or Postal employee was described as “one happy puppy”, but now avoidance and treatment as the winds of a plague have brushed upon the workplace each time the Federal or Postal employee enters the premises, and whispers of the arrival of that “sad puppy” abound like a pervasive brushfire of vituperative verbal assault; then, it is time to prepare, formulate and file for Disability Retirement benefits through OPM.
For, when the reality of a circumstance overshadows the conceptual force of words, then it becomes an opportunity for the sad puppy to seek the higher grounds of greater joy, and to wag its proverbial tail into the sunset of a happy life.
Is there a limit to the capacity for a draught animal that engages in the heavy toil so assigned? Like the proverbial reed of hay which breaks the camel’s back, what is the limit, the absolute capacity, the outer stretches of what the psyche can absorb, the ultimate strain upon the human physical endurance and the will to survive; until the beast of burden crumples upon an exhausted heap of fatigue and loss of hope, a broken mass of bones, organic matter and mindless assemblage of shattered void?
Is that not how one sometimes feels, when the strains of daily toil aggregate to such an extent that stress is no longer merely an acceptable medium of daily work, and information is no longer a tidbit of enlightening accentuation; rather, too much means that the system is overloaded, beyond the acceptable parameters of mere survivability, and enters into the unknown universe of meltdowns and nuclear fissions.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suffer from a medical condition, such that the medical condition prevents one from performing one or more of the essential elements of one’s job, the feeling that the balance of life which was so delicately maintained throughout one’s career, can come careening down an uncontrollable chasm of chaos, when once the medical condition becomes that proverbial piece of hay upon the beast’s back.
Federal Disability Retirement benefits are not just an “out” for the faint-hearted; rather, it is part of the compensation package which all Federal and Postal workers are accorded, whether you are under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset. Federal Disability Retirement is a benefit which is filed (ultimately) through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and it is not one’s own agency which makes the determination of approval or denial.
For some, it is the only solution remaining; for others, it may be a godsend; for all, it is merely a benefit which allows the Federal and Postal worker who finally recognizes that priorities in life must include, first and foremost, attending to one’s health and well-being, to actually effectuate the balance of life once maintained, but temporarily lost.
For, in the end, while we all like to think that the beast of burden is some mythical creature on a farmer’s pasture in a foreign land, it is often the one who imagines that about the “other”, who is the subject of toil; one needs to merely look in the mirror on a morning when time, stress and stretching of tolerance exceeds the point of no return, and realize that the beast of burden is the one with eyes looking back at you.
Seven False Myths about OPM Disability Retirement
1) I have to be totally disabled to get Postal or Federal disability retirement.
False: You are eligible for disability retirement so long as you are unable to perform one or more of the essential elements of your job. Thus, it is a much lower standard of disability.
2) My injury or illness has to be job-related.
False: You can get disability even if your condition is not work related. If your medical condition impacts your ability to perform any of the core elements of your job, you are eligible, regardless of how or where your condition occurred.
3) I have to quit my federal job first to get disability.
False: In most cases, you can apply while continuing to work at your present job, to the extent you are able.
4) I can't get disability if I suffer from a mental or nervous condition.
False: If your condition affects your job performance, you can still qualify. Psychiatric conditions are treated no differently from physical conditions.
5) Disability retirement is approved by DOL Workers Comp.
False: It's the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) the federal agency that administers and approves disability for employees at the US Postal Service or other federal agencies.
6) I can wait for OPM disability retirement for many years after separation.
False: You only have one year from the date of separation from service - otherwise, you lose your right forever.
7) If I get disability retirement, I won't be able to apply for Scheduled Award (SA).
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June 23, 2011, Houston – Today, almost two years after the military coup in Honduras, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a complaint in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas, on behalf of David Murillo and Silvia Mencías, the parents of 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo who was shot and killed by Honduran military forces during a peaceful demonstration against the military coup d’etat of June 28, 2009. The defendant is Roberto Micheletti Baín, former president of the Honduran National Congress who assumed the role of head of the de facto government immediately following the coup d’état ousting President Zelaya. The complaint details extrajudicial killing, crimes against humanity of murder and persecution, wrongful death and other gross human rights violations that occurred in Honduras under the authority and/or direction of Micheletti.
“I want no more bloodshed,” said Silvia Mencías, mother of the killed teen. “I don’t want any other mothers to suffer the way I have.”
“I was Isis Obed’s friend, teacher and father. We carry our pain like a cross, but Isis Obed’s legacy – the principles with which we raised him – will always be alive in our minds,” said David Murillo, Isis Obed’s father. “In life and in his work with social organizations, he was committed to defending the rights of others.”
On July 5, 2009, President Zelaya attempted to return to Honduras and restore the democratically-elected government. Zelaya intended to fly by airplane to Honduras and land at Toncontin International Airport in the capital of Tegucigalpa . Nineteen-year-old activist Isis Murillo and his family joined thousands of other coup opponents at the airport for a non-violent, peaceful gathering to welcome Zelaya back and support the restoration of the government. When Zelaya’s plane attempted to but was blocked from landing, Isis Murillo was shot in the head by Honduran military and died just moments after.
“The forces of Micheletti’s de facto government killed Isis Murillo as part of the severe crackdown and repression that ensued immediately following the coup,” said Center for Constitutional Rights staff attorney Pamela Spees. “Our clients’ son was a casualty of the systemic attacks on fundamental rights under this illegitimate regime.”
Subsequent to Isis ’ killing, the plaintiff and his family were subjected to surveillance and harassment by police and other authorities. This harassment took place in the context of what lawyers describe as an intense repression and political persecution that began under Michiletti’s regime that targeted the National Front of Popular Resistance, which formed in opposition to the coup, as well as journalists and other groups standing in opposition.
“How is forgiveness possible if there is no investigation, sanction nor reparation – when there is impunity?” said Bertha Oliva, Director of El Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras (COFADEH), Center for Constitutional Rights’ partner in bringing this complaint. “As family members of people who were forcibly disappeared for political and ideological reasons, we know full well that reconciliation is not reached through forgiveness and forgetting of atrocities. We need truth and justice to move forward.”
The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change. | {
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In December, Dual Smart Kitty and rider Clay Johnson won the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity, which was the first jewel of the sport’s Triple Crown Series.
Over the weekend, the mare got off to a great start at the NCHA Summer Spectacular Derby, the Futurity’s sister show.
Dual Smart Kitty qualified for the Summer Spectacular Derby open division semifinals, which are scheduled for Friday. At that point, the mare will attempt to advance to Saturday’s open finals, the third jewel of the Triple Crown.
Dual Smart Kitty and Johnson, a Stephenville resident, advanced to Friday’s semifinals after turning in a two-ride aggregate score of 436. The mare, who is owned by Rusty and Shelley Simpson of Nemo, turned in a remarkable first-round score of 221 on Friday, and followed up with a solid 215 on Sunday at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum.
Rusty Simpson said Dual Smart Kitty shows lots of determination.
“She’s got a lot of heart,” he said. “You can tell by the look on her face coming in that she’s ready and she will lock in on a cow.”
Junie Wood and rider John Mitchell of Weatherford, the duo that won the April Super Stakes, advanced to the semifinals after turning in 440.5 (221.5 and 219). The Super Stakes was the middle jewel of the Triple Crown.
Cheyenne concludes
Three Fort Worth-area cowboys won event titles at the 118th Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days Rodeo on Sunday.
Trevor Brazile of Decatur clinched the tie-down roping title and earned $22,573. K.C. Jones, who also lives in Decatur, pocketed $13,210 after winning the steer wrestling title. And Jarrett Blessing of Paradise earned $14,731 after winning steer roping.
When the tie-down roping title was at stake in the final round, Brazile, a 19-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association world champion, turned in a time of 12.4 seconds. He clinched the title with a three-run time of 37.1, two seconds faster than second-place finisher Matt Shiozawa.
In steer wrestling, Jones, a seven-time NFR qualifier, turned in a 12.9 during the finals. He clinched the title with a three-run time of 30.2, three-tenths of a second faster than runner-up Dru Melvin.
Blessing, a three-time National Finals Steer Roping qualifier, won the steer roping title after turning in a 19.6 during the finals. He finished with a three-run time of 58.9. Jess Tierney and Randy Mekelburg tied for second with 61.2s.
In bareback riding, Richmond Champion, a resident of The Woodlands who helped Tarleton State’s men’s team finish second at last month’s College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo., clinched the title after scoring 91 aboard the notorious bronc Dirty Jacket, which is owned Dallas stock contractor Pete Carr. Champion earned $12,122.
Two-time world champion Tuf Cooper clinched the tie-down roping title at the Days of ’47 Rodeo in Salt Lake City after turning in an arena record time of 6.6 seconds. That broke eight-time world champion Fred Whitfield’s record of 7.0 in 2012 at EnergySolutions Arena. | {
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ANDOVER, Mass. -- The 2010 season was a wild ride for Andover's Andrew Coke.
Coke transferred back to his hometown high school from Brooks School to join his Golden Warrior teammates. It was also the first season for head coach E.J. Perry, who took over the program from John Rex. Adapting to his new surroundings, Coke self-admittedly got off to a slow start in his new surroundings.
"The first scrimmage last year, I probably had about 20 carries for five yards," the 6-foot-1 running back said.
Those meager beginnings were no indication of where Coke would end up. The ESPN Boston All-Stater grinded out 1,841 rushing yards and 29 touchdowns. As a hybrid running back and quarterback in the Golden Warriors' Wildcat-like offensive scheme, Coke also threw for over 200 yards and two touchdowns. He had over 2,000 all-purpose yards.
All of Coke's contributions helped Andover to its first Merrimack Valley Conference title in 35 years and had them within an earshot of the Division 1 Super Bowl. The Golden Warriors had a season that started off a bit like that of their offensive leader.
"You have to remember, at one point last season we were 4-3," Perry said. "That's when we started to gel and come together as a team. We got smacked in the face by Chelmsford and then we woke up."
From there, Andover went on a run leading up to their Thanksgiving Day win over Central Catholic to clinch the MVC title.
Now, the 11th-ranked Golden Warriors have higher expectations than ever.
"We're willing to take that extra step to play in Foxborough," Coke said of their Super Bowl aspirations.
Coke's role will be slightly different this season. He's going to play defense as well, so with his time at safety mixed in, you might not see Coke rack up the 35-carry performances that become customary last year. Perry is also looking for junior C.J. Scarpa to hold down the quarterbacking duties. It would come as no surprise to see Coke under center again -- as became a necessity last season after Tom Dempsey was lost to injury -- however, Perry's looking to exploit Coke's athleticism more, meaning he'll be lined up more in the backfield, or even split out wide.
No matter what the circumstance, the Andover boss is happy to have the ball in No. 2's hands.
"He has a unique blend of power, speed and the ability to cut," Perry said. "I think his production made him the best back in the state last year. With his speed, and when you consider that he's bigger and faster this year, it's going to cause trouble for other teams."
Coke, who has received a lot of interest from Ivy League schools including Brown, Harvard and Princeton, is looking to take his game to another level. And, in the process, he'd like nothing better than to finish his short but fruitful Andover career with a win at Gillette Stadium.
But he won't soon forget how it all started.
"Things are a lot different this year," Coke said.
ANDOVER AT A GLANCE 2010 record: 8-4 (Lost to Everett in Division 1 playoffs)
Coach: E.J. Perry (2nd year, 8-4)
Players to watch: Andrew Coke, Sr. RB/S, 6-1, 200; T.J. Leeman, Sr. OL, 6-2, 270; Freddie Scribner, Sr. RB/DB, 6-0, 175; Matt Crush, Sr. OL/DL, 6-2, 225; Giovanni Rosano, Sr. LB; 6-0, 175; Brendan Paquette, Sr. TE/LB, 6-1, 175; Cam Farnham, Jr. SE, 5-8, 150; Will Heikkenen, Jr. SE, 6-2, 185; Ben Hartford, Soph. OL, 6-2, 250.
Strengths: Mental toughness, physical style of play.
Weakness: Experience at quarterback.
Outlook: As giddy as the Golden Warriors are about having another year with Coke, added cause for optimism lies in the offensive line. Andover returns "two and a half" (Perry's words) starters from the line last year, including Leeman and Crush. James Kelley also started during the second half of the year following a rash of injuries on the line. Sophomore tackle Ben Hartford is a name fans will be hearing in the coming years and associated with D1 college programs. Junior Andreas Christopulos takes over at center. On defense, Perry thinks he's found a replacement for the talented Ned Deane, who was very much the quarterback of the unit last year, in Rosano. "He's a tremendous linebacker and people are going to get to know him," Perry said. Paquette adds experience and skill to the linebacking corps while nose tackle Greg Brown will hold down lineman up front with his two-gapping ability. | {
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Grease an 8 by 8-inch pan with butter, or line it with waxed paper.
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In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the sugar, chocolate, 1 1/2 tablespoons of the butter, the half-and-half, and the corn syrup. Stir with a wooden spoon over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved and the chocolate is melted.
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Increase the heat and bring to a boil without stirring. Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover, and cook for 3 minutes. Remove the cover and attach a candy thermometer to the pot. Cook until the thermometer reads 234°F.
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Remove it from the heat and add the remaining butter. Do not stir! Let the mixture cool for 10 minutes, or until it drops to 130°F. Add vanilla and nuts, if desired, and stir until the mixture well-blended and its appearance changes from shiny to matte. This might take a while—up to 15 to 20 minutes. Be strong!
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Pour the fudge into the prepared pan. Let it sit in a cool dry area until firm, 3 to 4 hours. Cut into 1-inch pieces and store in an airtight container for up to a week.
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Whether you're starting out or are a seasoned freelance consultant, being a business owner means you go through seasons of extreme busyness to those of extreme workload lows.
During those peaks and lows, you want to employ what I call “Yes/No Pricing”. In today’s episode, I'll explain how I use this type of pricing to help increase my value and my rates over time. Plus, I’ll share some tactics that you can employ for optimal business success.
“Yes/No Pricing,” can help you climb up the stairway of value and leverage your brand in the process.
In this episode, I’ll cover these topics:
“Yes Pricing” What it is, when to use it, and how to use it
Why “Yes Pricing” or penetration mode is not the best place to be in far as positioning for your brand
When to employ a “No Pricing” strategy
How to “Price them to no" can leverage up your brand
Why it’s always better to move up the value ladder rather than stay stagnant, even when you are super busy and need to turn clients away, plus how to turn clients away using the “Pricing them to no” strategy
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Spanish fuel cell exceeds the target of power marked by USA
A group of researchers from UNED has developed a method for manufacturing a component of the fuel cells that allows to exceed the target of power marked by the Department of Energy of the United States (US DOE) for 2017.
The technique, which has been patented, copes with any fuel cell size from laboratory to marketable dimensions and could be used for low cost industrial production.
"In the area of fuel cells, the US Department of Energy has set targets to be achieved during 2017-2020. Some of these targets have been already surpassed in our lab", says Pedro Luis Garcia Ybarra, professor at the Department of Mathematical Physics and Fluids of the UNED.
With ultra-low platinum loadings of 0.01 mg/cm2 in both electrodes, the platinum utilization was so high that PEM fuel cells delivered powers reaching up to 10 kW per gram of platinum. This figure improves the U.S. DOE forecast for the period 2017-20 (8 kW per gram of platinum with a loading ten times higher).
Typically, fuel cells generate electricity using hydrogen and air. This process is clean and the flue gases consist exclusively of water vapour instead of releasing CO2, such as the usual car engines working with gasoline or diesel. In addition, if hydrogen were produced from renewable energies (for instance, by water hydrolysis from wind or solar energy) total pollution of the energy cycle could be reduced to a minimum.
To overcome the performance marked by the U.S. authorities, scientists have optimized an element of the PEM fuel cell called MEA (Membrane-Electrode Assembly). "This component is common to all polymeric fuel cells", says Jose Luis Castillo, a professor of the same department.
Controlling material properties
The result has been patented by the investigators as a method for depositing thin nanostructured layers of electrocatalyst particles on the fuel cell electrodes, which are joined by simple contact on both sides of the polymeric membrane, making the MEA.
The methodology used for the deposition of the catalytic layer (electrospraying) is the key to increase the performance. "We were able to control the morphological properties (porosity and roughness) of the material generated by the catalyst particles when deposited, substantially increasing the active surface", says Castillo, and adds: "as the performance depends on the surface of the catalyst particles exposed to the reactive gas, and it was made very large, we have reached a high performance".
Another advantage is the simplicity of the procedure to be scaled-up: the same components of the deposition technique used in the laboratory can be applied on an industrial scale with a very low cost, avoiding the difficulties encountered with other methods.
An element in the renewable cycle
The cost of the platinum catalyst is about the 30% of the total price of a fuel cell. Hence to build fuel cells at competitive prices is one of the challenges pursued by the research community. Inexpensive fuel cells are aimed to be used by the automotive industry, replacing internal combustion engines by electric motors powered by fuel cells.
Lowering costs and increasing performance could also allow to exploit another of its possible applications: to solve the problem of discontinuity in the renewable electricity generation by matching production to demand. Currently, electric accumulators (batteries) solve the problem, but fuel cells would be a more simple and economical way.
"One idea is to use the excess of electricity generated at valley hours of demand to produce hydrogen and store it. So, when a peak of demand occurs, fuel cells could be connected to the grid to achieve an additional generation of electricity", explains Garcia Ybarra. "So, you can get a steady production of energy from renewable sources", he adds.
Scientists try not only to reduce the price of fuel cell components but also to enlarge its durability. So far, a fuel cell with the MEA developed by these researchers has been operating for more than 1,000 hours without interruption. | {
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MIT, ABB Announce Energy Research Partnership
Will develop green technologies and train graduates
Compiled By Adrienne Selko | Jan 24, 2008
ABB, a leader in power and automation technology will join MIT's Energy Initiative (MITEI) to support research in a variety of areas including nanofluids, power electronics, intelligent robotics and equipment heat management.
"A MITEI partnership with ABB creates enormous opportunities to provide technology solutions to global energy challenges," said Professor Ernest Moniz, Director of the MIT Energy Initiative. "The ABB corporate portfolio offers a range of potential research focus areas in which MIT has substantial research capability and could make a major contribution."
ABB spends $1.1 billion per year on research and development. Soaring energy demand has placed a premium on energy efficiency, a key area of ABB's research and development activity, comprising about half of its research investment. "This partnership is another significant step in ABBs strategy of combining our leading industrial technology competence with cutting edge international research," said Peter Terwiesch, ABB's chief technology officer. 'New technology is the key to tapping the potential of energy efficiency in the face of the soaring demand and increasing environmental concerns.'
In addition to supporting the research program, ABB's five-year, $5-million collaboration will support graduate fellowships and MITEIs energy research "seed fund." The fund was set up to promote the development of a broad range of innovative energy technologies and concepts from researchers across the Institute.
MITEI is an Institute-wide initiative designed to help transform the global energy system to meet the challenges of the future. For more information, please visit http://web.mit.edu/mitei/. | {
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I was visiting family in Arizona for Thanksgiving weekend. I spent the Friday after Thanksgiving with my mom, aunt, and uncle making zongzi or Taiwanese tamales, a fitting description that reflects my Pacific Islander/Southwestern identity. 😉 The zongzi are based on my Taiwanese grandmother’s recipe, and includes sticky rice, peanuts, pork, fried shallots, dried shrimp, dried daikon, shiitake, and salty duck egg yolks wrapped in bamboo leaves. The bamboo-wrapped packages are then boiled and steamed. Yum!
I just got back to NYC from the latest Hepnova recording sessions in Arizona. We finished two covers of old songs that got the Hepnova treatment. The first is called “En la plaza de mi pueblo,” a flamenco-tinged song from the Spanish Civil War, and “Märk Hur Vår Skugga,” an eighteenth-century Swedish song by Carl Michael Bellman about death and drinking. “En la plaza” features a guest guitar solo from American Flamenco pioneer José Alarcon.
The working title of the new collection is Transistor Troubadour. We are planning on doing some more covers as well as some Hepnova originals and to continue to develop the unique electro-acoustic sound that has emerged in previous Hep tunes like “You’re For Me” and “Again Tonight.”
Ok, this is my last restaurant review for the day. I’ve finally caught up with my backlog of blog posts.
This place hardly needs another review, but let’s just say that it is one of the first places I go for dinner whenever I am back home in Arizona.
This place is the ultimate in slow food. Every pizza is handmade by chef-owner Chris Bianco and baked in a wood-fired oven. The restaurant is in an old “historic” building (ok 1920’s counts as historic in Phoenix). But come prepared to wait. They don’t take reservations for parties of less than 6, so show up an get in line at 3 or 4 pm for opening time at 5.
Start out with the antipasto plate ($12) or a Caprese salad (above – $9 -Americanized as “handmade mozzarella, local tomato and basil with extra virgin olive oil” on the menu).
For the main event, my two favorite pizzas are the Rosa (above – $11) and the Wiseguy (below – $14). The Rosa has red onions, Parmigiano Reggiano, rosemary, and AZ pistachios, and is bursting with vegetarian umami goodness. The Wiseguy is a meat-lover’s delight with wood roasted onion, house smoked mozzarella, and plenty of fennel sausage. | {
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This morning we were away from our yam field at 0745 and
back on the rough track. I drove for 3 hours and covered only 95 km, then
handed over to who did about another 70 km before finding the tar
surface that we had been expecting all morning. This was good for perhaps
30 km and then became very broken up, before getting slightly
better.
In Ouagadougou we had met a Belgian NGO worker,
Benedict, who was based in Accra and it was he who suggested this route.
En route, we both wondered what it had to commend it. The scenery for the
first 200 km was very drab, flat and dusty with sparse vegetation and
a series of very poor, scruffy villages along the route. Once on the
tar road the scenery became much greener with much more prolific vegetation
and a lot of banana plantations. As the road rose towards the mountains
the scenery became very attractive.
We had been planning another night of bush camping for
want of any better alternatives and Jenny was fixed on camping beside the Volta
but I doubted that the road we were on was going to give us access to the
river. Almost by accident we noticed a sign for Mountain Paradise, a
former Government Rest House in the hills, so we wound our way up there and were
delighted to find that they permitted camping in a wonderful setting. We were
lucky that tonight a Ghana TV crew were here doing a tourism documentary, so the
owner had arranged a traditional Ghanian song and dance group who performed
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How to Make Difference Between a Fake and an Original Naked 3 Palette
Naked is one of those brands that makes clients all over the world constantly happy. They have some of the most beautiful make up palettes. And I am not talking only about the eyeshadow ones, but as a whole their colors, richness and formulas are amazing.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not making an . here. But since we are always talking about make up we have to be honest about the different products that are out there. The Naked palettes are quite famous on Instagram and on many different tutorials. And how could they not be into that since they are so pretty. First of all the Naked packaging is pretty. Then you have the beautiful colors. And it all just comes to a good end. The Naked palettes are not very cheap, but are neither too expensive as are for example the eyeshadow palettes of YSL or Dior. So they are somewhere there in the middle, but give a lot of options.
Expensive and branded cosmetics that are not drugstore bought are quite popular. Everyone wants to use them. And sometimes it is not even about the product itself more than about being obsessed with a certain brand. That makes people go crazy. Wait for hours in lines when a new product comes out and it is crazy. But an obsession is an obsession and you have to do something nice for yourself.
So one of the most recent obsession in the make up world is the new Naked 3 eyeshadow palette. It has those beautiful colors starting from nudeish, going into brownish and then darker ones up to black. Those beautiful colors can’t be described in words. They are what they are and you have to see them and you will immediately love them. I know I love that palette. And it is going to be my most favorite product I own I am sure about that. But do you know what the main problem with it is? There are quite too many fake palettes out there and people are fooled to buy them.
If you have never bought a Naked palette you probably won’t be able to tell the difference between the real thing and the fake one. Of course if you go to a shop like Sephora or something like that, there is no way that you will get the fake one. The real deal is easy to spot once you know what to look for. So what exactly is that?
The box
The boxes of the real Naked 3 and the fake one have quite so many differences. Yes, on both of them you have the Naked 3 sign and then under it is written Urban Decay. All of that is in a goldish color. And the box is something in between rich nude and pinkish brown. Up to here things kind of match. But then the box of the legit Naked 3 is bigger than the fake one. Under the signs of the product and firm there is an illustration of all of the colors from the palette. This one though is not available on the smaller fake box.
When you turn the box to the side there are differences too. On the side of the box of the real Naked 3 you have two signs – on the left it says Urban Decay, written in gold. And then on the right is it written Naked 3, again in goldish. But then on the fake one the sign is one – Urban Decay and it is written in white.
Even if nothing else is shady you will easily spot the fake Naked 3 by the box, because as you can see on the pictures the difference is not small!
The palette
Once you open up that box you will be able to notice difference too. Both of the boxes come with 12 colors. Up to here everything is okay. But when compared side by side you can see how much difference there is.
First of all the brush must have two sides. But on the fake brush the hair is fake too and it feels like it. You will easily feel the hair on your skin.
All of the shades in the palette have their own names. You can look them up online but that does not matter as much. The main difference between them two is the fact that the real Naked 3 start with the lightest color which is kind of white. It continues with a pinkish one. Then come a rose-goldish shape. And almost will the end of the palette you have a pinkish color then you have a brownish-gold one. The colors get darker in a natural way. On the fake palette things don’t look the same. First of all the lightest color is kind of in the middle of the palette. And also you have some shade of a blue color which in the real Naked 3 is NON existent!
The feel of the product
Once you get to apply the product on your skin you will feel like something is wrong. As you can see we have the both the real deal and fake one. And the fake Naked 3 is not reach color. It kind of looks cheap and has no finish. Also the shimmer is kind of strange and does not cover fully.
So be careful when you buy a Naked product. Once you are not sure see those pictures and read here. And just remember the way the box looks and never go for a Naked 3 palette where there is a blue color. Because no blue is naked! | {
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I'm not sure, maybe I checked invalid shortcuts or application path references that deletes my Windows store, metro Remote desktop. And why do these appear in the cleaning dialog and not appear in the registry scanner? Anyways system restore helped or maybe registry restore would have.
I'm not sure, maybe I checked invalid shortcuts or application path references that deletes my Windows store, metro Remote desktop. And why do these appear in the cleaning dialog and not appear in the registry scanner? Anyways system restore helped or maybe registry restore would have.
Im not seeing this issue, just ran ccleaner again just to be sure, my shortcuts for those are still intact.
just dropping by to say love your previous guide for Windows 7, it is my default guide to show people who need to reload their OS. As for this windows 8 one I have a couple questions if you could clarify or prove right or wrong. Currently if you disable UAC in windows 8 CP then for some reason eventually you will begin to run into Metro UI problems. Apps not working, settings not showing up. I looked over the Windows 8 CP forums and found a few instances of people reporting the same and the event viewer also shows strange UAC related errors. Do not know if this changed after your guide was written or if it was a bug introduced in one of the CP updates, but figured I'd put that out there for debunking or as a quick tidbit for new users of Win8 CP and Seans' Guides. Windows 8 Forums There's more issues like that out there but this is was the first search result returned and I can confirm similar issues cropping up with my time in Win8. This might be helpful for some who do wish to try out the new UI but also love your guides
Also, with how Win8 CP can utilize UEFI and supposedly acheive even faster boot times would it be better to begin leaning toward just reducing hibernation to say say 25% (this article suggests the hibernation file is as large as 70% of ram but usually only ends up taking up 10-15%)
Those were the only two things I've run across so far with using Windows 8 aside from it's somewhat unstable nature at the moment. Keep up the great work, I always find your threads to be very great reads and I show them to any enthusiast or noob alike that tinkers with their computer
just dropping by to say love your previous guide for Windows 7, it is my default guide to show people who need to reload their OS. As for this windows 8 one I have a couple questions if you could clarify or prove right or wrong. Currently if you disable UAC in windows 8 CP then for some reason eventually you will begin to run into Metro UI problems. Apps not working, settings not showing up. I looked over the Windows 8 CP forums and found a few instances of people reporting the same and the event viewer also shows strange UAC related errors. Do not know if this changed after your guide was written or if it was a bug introduced in one of the CP updates, but figured I'd put that out there for debunking or as a quick tidbit for new users of Win8 CP and Seans' Guides. Windows 8 Forums There's more issues like that out there but this is was the first search result returned and I can confirm similar issues cropping up with my time in Win8. This might be helpful for some who do wish to try out the new UI but also love your guides
I've never had that issue myself. My metro apps work fine for me when UAC is disabled.
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Also, with how Win8 CP can utilize UEFI and supposedly acheive even faster boot times would it be better to begin leaning toward just reducing hibernation to say say 25% (this article suggests the hibernation file is as large as 70% of ram but usually only ends up taking up 10-15%)
Those were the only two things I've run across so far with using Windows 8 aside from it's somewhat unstable nature at the moment. Keep up the great work, I always find your threads to be very great reads and I show them to any enthusiast or noob alike that tinkers with their computer
Thanks for the link.
I believe that it is just talking about hibernation in general. They did some changes in how it works so now hibernation is faster than before if you use it. I never do personally, but I will be sure to add this info to the thread.
I will try to post a video of this in action today after work but i left hibernation in place and went into power options to make sure fast start was enabled. With a uefi (gpt) setup on the samsung 830 boot drive and win8 fast boot it takes around 5-8 seconds total until windows is there.
Phrased a different way. It takes more time now for my monitor to be triggered on via hdmi then it does for win 8 to load from a shutdown. But like i said ill try and throw up a video later today demonstrating it.
I reread that article and what it seems to be saying is yes they did tweak hibernation some but that they also applied it to there new fast boot mode. If you disable hibernation you lose fast boot. Seems like they are tied together but it will take some testing no doubt to see if the pros outweigh the cons with respect to how much space on an ssd it takes up
EDIT: Here is the video of my booting from shutdown to Windows 8 being ready to go. I still have lock screen enabled and I sign in with a password so those of you who disable Lock screen, password sign in, and no GUI boot will probably be even faster. As you can see though Windows is there ready to go by the time the monitor even gets powered up.
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Donald Trump on Education
Donald Trump on Education
2000 Reform Primary Challenger for President
Cut Department of Education and Common Core
Q: Would you cut departments?
TRUMP: We’re going to be cutting tremendous amounts of money and waste and fraud and abuse. But, no, I’m not cutting services, but I am cutting spending.ÿBut I may cut Department of Education– Common Core is a very bad thing. I think that it should be local education. If you look at a Jeb Bush and some of these others, they want children to be educated by Washington, D.C. bureaucrats.
[As president I’d] end Common Core. Common Core is a disaster. Bush is totally in favor of Common Core. I don’t see how he can possibly get the nomination. He’s weak on immigration. He’s in favor of Common Core. How the hell can you vote for this guy? You just can’t do it. We have to end–education has to be local.
Department of Education: “You could cut that way, way, way down.” — South Carolina Tea Party Convention, Myrtle Beach, January 2015
Common Core curriculum standards: “I am totally against Common Core.” — South Carolina Tea Party Convention, Myrtle Beach, January 2015. “That’s a disaster. That’s bad. It should be local and all of that.” — Iowa Freedom Summit, Des Moines, Iowa, January 2015
Infrastructure: “Fixing a country’s infrastructure–our bridges, our schools, our airports–that, I can tell you, no one is close to Trump.” — Iowa Freedom Summit, Des Moines, Iowa, January 2015
Local control: “Education has to be local.” — Announcement speech, New York City, June 16, 2015
Back in 2005, he started an online school called Trump University to teach the art of deal-making, but it didn’t offer degrees. The New York Department of Education complained and he changed the name to Trump Entrepreneur Initiative in 2010.
I was listening to some Europeans once and they seemed to agree that Americans didn’t seem to know their roots. Of course, their roots go back for many more centuries than ours and may be easier to decipher because many of us have ancestors from different countries. But it gave me a reason to think about what they said, and I realized in many cases they were right. I recently went to Scotland, as my mother’s side of the family is of Scottish ancestry, and I’ve spent time studying that country & therefore my heritage. It could even explain why I love golf so much–it originated in Scotland.
I found that I enjoyed learning about Scotland and it has broadened my horizons as well as my interests as a businessman. I am building a golf course in Aberdeen that will be spectacular, and I very much enjoyed my visiting and meeting the people from the culture and country. I also realized I still have a lot to learn, which will no doubt lead me into more interesting ventures as well as adventures.
Comprehensive education dissolves the lines between knowing too much and knowing too little on a variety of subjects–subjects that are necessary for success. Recently, I interviewed a young man who was very well versed in his field of expertise and almost uneducated in every other subject. It was like he had tunnel vision, and although I admired his knowledge of his field, I had to realize that, considering the scope of my enterprises, he might not be a great fit because of his limited interests.
Source: Think Like a Champion, by Donald Trump, p. 47 , Apr 27, 2010
Teach citizenship; stop “dumbing down”
Our schools aren’t safe. On top of that, our kids aren’t learning. Too many are dropping out of school and into the street life-and too many of those who do graduate are getting diplomas that have been devalued into “certificates of attendance” by a dumbed-down curriculum that asks little of teachers and less of students. Schools are crime-ridden and they don’t teach.
How long do we think the U.S. can survive schools that pretend to teach while our kids pretend to learn? How can a kid hope to build an American Dream when he hasn’t been taught how to spell the word “dream”?
Public education was never meant to only teach the three R’s, history, and science. It was also meant to teach citizenship. At the lower levels it should cover the basics, help students develop study habits, and prepare those who desire higher education for the tough road ahead. It’s a mandate the public schools have delivered on since their inception. Until now.
The people running our public schools don’t want to damage a student’s self-esteem. They’re concerned about “empowerment.” They’re worried kids will feel bad if they get a problem wrong or flunk a spelling test. It’s better to pat a kid on the head and praise his “creative spelling” than point out that there is a traditional name for people with poor spelling skills. We call them illiterates.
Some educators think being “judgmental” is the worst of all sins. The problem is that life tends to judge-and harshly at that. There’s no room for error when you’re launching the space shuttle. Or mixing the concrete for the foundation of Trump Tower, for that matter. Try giving a number “in the neighborhood of” on your tax returns and you may end up in a place where there’s a very definite number stamped on the back of your shirt.
Our public schools have grown up in a competition-free zone, surrounded by a very high union wall. Why aren’t we shocked at the results? After all, teachers’ unions are motivated by the same desires that move the rest of us. With more than 85% of their soft-money donations going to Democrats, teachers’ unions know they can count on the politician they back to take a strong stand against school choice.
Our public schools are capable of providing a more competitive product than they do today. Look at some of the high school tests from earlier in this century and you’ll wonder if they weren’t college-level tests. And we’ve got to bring on the competition -open the schoolhouse doors and let parents choose the best school for their children.
Education reformers call this school choice, charter schools, vouchers, even opportunity scholarships. I call it competition-the American way.
Defenders of the status quo insist that parental choice means the end of public schools. Let’s look at the facts. Right now, nine of ten children attend public schools. If you look at public education as a business- and with nearly $300 billion spent each year on K-through-twelve education, it’s a very big business indeed-it would set off every antitrust alarm bell at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. When teachers’ unions say even the most minuscule program allowing school choice is a mortal threat, they’re saying: If we aren’t allowed to keep 90% of the market, we can’t survive. When Bell Telephone had 90% of the market, a federal judge broke it up.
Who’s better off? The kids who use vouchers to go to the school of their choice, or the ones who choose to stay in public school? All of them. That’s the way it works in a competitive system. | {
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Gordon Brown has announced more than £39bn in government spending since he became prime minister, revealing the extent to which a new era of cooperation between No 10 and the Treasury has allowed him to dominate the news agenda and reap political dividends.
Much of the money would normally have been revealed in the 2007 comprehensive spending review, due in October.
The huge sum suggests that, as chancellor, Mr Brown was able to hold back funds and policy initiatives until Mr Blair had stood aside. In effect, this helped fund the "Brown bounce" that has delivered a run of significant poll leads and added to the expectation of an early general election.
The £39.32bn calculation has been made by the Guardian after analysing every government announcement in the Commons, either oral or written, since Mr Brown came to power seven weeks ago. A total of 40 have been delivered, not all of them with a price tag attached.
The main spending decisions revealed by Mr Brown and Alistair Darling, the chancellor, include:
· An extra £7.7bn for defence to 2011, a 1.5% average real terms increase, excluding the cost of operations met from the reserve.
· £15bn to 2014 to improve the railways, including £5bn for Thameslink, an extra 1,300 carriages to ease overcrowding and more than £500m to tackle bottlenecks in Birmingham and Reading.
· £4bn extra spending on early years education over three years, covering Sure Start centres to 2010-11.
· £8bn on increasing the availability of affordable housing over the next three years, a £3bn increase compared with the previous spending review. This figure is on top of continuing investment in decent homes, including more than £2bn on the arm's length management organisation programme over the next three years.
These spending levels do not imply that the Treasury is going to break the already announced commitment to increase public spending by only 1.9% a year through the three years of the spending review, but they do show the advantages of a coherent relationship between Treasury and No 10.
Ministers announced in the summer that the comprehensive spending review would be published in October, setting out budgets for the three-year period from April 2008. Mr Brown has already announced that spending increases will slow down to 1.9% a year in real terms, half the rate of growth in the previous spending round.
Other specific spending pledges made since Mr Brown took over as prime minister include £800m spending by 2011 on flood defences and the go-ahead for a £1.2bn on a new electronic border system.
In education, £400m of extra spending has been pledged for providing full grants to 50,000 extra students from families with incomes up to £25,000; £184m extra funds to improve youth facilities, including a youth club in every constituency; and £100m on school sports.
The spending pledges have inevitably fuelled talk of Mr Brown planning for an early general election. He sprang a surprise by installing one of his senior cabinet colleagues, Douglas Alexander, as Labour's election coordinator three days before he became prime minister. He has given another, Ed Miliband, the task of writing Labour's election manifesto. His announcements can be seen at least in part as coming from the same motivation: to put Labour on an election footing. Much of the money is going to big regional infrastructure projects or on small-scale, populist measures.
Mr Brown is considering and preparing for a general election next May. There is an outside chance he may go earlier if the Tory implosion continues, although poor economic news may delay him.
So far the polls have done little to discourage Mr Brown from going to the country. A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times at the weekend saw him break through to a double-figure lead over the Conservatives, 42% to 32%. The last ICM poll for the Guardian put Labour six points ahead. | {
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Shukto
Last week, I opened my mail and there was my first recipe request. Preeti, my friend in Germany, wanted me to post shukto recipe. Shukto is a traditional Bengali dish, usually eaten as a first course. I think it is the perfect dish encapsulating all tastes described in ayurveda. What gives it its unique taste is the medley of vegetables cooked together. It always has bittergourd, eggplant, plantain and then you can add the seasonal vegetables.
My own relationship with this dish has changed over the years. I remember not liking it when I was a child, but my taste changed as I grew up.
Making shukto involved a call to my mom in India. She gave me my maternal grandmom's recipe. Here goes:
Method:Saute the bittergourd, eggplant and potatoes separately.Soak the posto and 1/2 tspoon mustard in warm water for an hour. After draining it, make a paste of posto, mustard and ginger.Heat oil in a pan, temper it with mustard seeds and green chillis.Add in the vegetables one by one. Mix it all together, close the lid and let it steam.After about 10 minutes, add half of the paste, turmeric and salt. Add 1/4 cup water if it is too dry.Cook on medium low flame for another 10-15 minutes.Add the rest of the paste, sugar and milk and let it cook for 5 minutes.Serve hot with rice.
Thank you for the recipe, i am always looking for diverse vegetable preparations. Adding khas khas to vegetables was knew to me till last week when i used it with potatoes, and loved it. Will try this one out for sure.
DurgaYes, I made that recently as well. Will post my recipe soon. This blog is also helping me rediscover some of the recipes which I love and learn how to cook them!I still want to try your lau ghonto:)
I am a shukto lover also my husband. Living in U.K. I cook once or twice a week. Everything is okay in your shukto recipe except putting 2 green chillies. In Shukto turmeric is also not used or if used only a pinch and never should be any chillies. In Bengali nursery rhymes, it is said, "chhie chhie Rani randhtey shekheni, mashima key boley jholey mashla debo ki? ... Shuktani tey jhaal diyechhey, amboleytey ghee." this translates.. (Shame to Rani(imaginary little girl) who does not know how to cook curry and puts chillies in Shuko and Ghee in chutney).Putting chillies in Shukto and ghee in chutney are definiteley prohibited and if some one does that it means she/he does not know cooking at all.from Poppy
Poppy - Thanks for sharing the verse and your recipe. This is great to know. I use a pinch of turmeric in shukto and also green chillis. I need a little spice in my food and I like the taste of green chillis in shukto. Will try cooking without the green chillis and let you know how it turns out. Thanks for visiting.
Hi Mandira, I went through your reply to my comment and found out that the fundamental rule of shukto recipe is called by you 'your recipe'. Not true please. There are few recipes which have some fundamental rules dear. You can not call rice kheer a kheer by making it bitter or spicy. Poppy
I think even I have the habit of putting chillies in every savoury dish I cook.I just love the way you have elaborated the recipe.I'll definitely try it out and that too with chillies:o))....even if it goes against the bengali nursery rhyme!!
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ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE
May 31, 2013
The present specification discloses an organic electroluminescent device including: an anode; a cathode; a light emitting layer provided between the anode and the cathode; a first organic material layer associated with the anode and doped with a p-type dopant; and a second organic material layer associated with the cathode and doped with a p-type dopant.
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present description relates to an organic electroluminescent device.
This application claims priority from Korean Patent Application No. 10-2012-0058946, filed on May 31, 2012, at the KIPO, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
BACKGROUND ART
An organic electroluminescent device converts a current into visible light by injecting electrons and holes from two electrodes into an organic material layer. The organic electroluminescent device may have a multilayer structure including two or more organic material layers. For example, the organic electroluminescent device may further include an electron or hole injection layer, an electron or hole blocking layer, or an electron or hole transporting layer, if necessary, in addition to a light emitting layer.
Recently, as the use of the organic electroluminescent device has been diversified, studies on materials, which may improve the performance of the organic electroluminescent device, have been actively conducted.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Technical Problem
The present specification describes an organic electroluminescent device having a novel structure.
Technical Solution
An organic electroluminescent device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification includes: an anode; a cathode; a light emitting layer provided between the anode and the cathode; a first organic material layer associated with the anode and doped with a p-type dopant; and a second organic material layer associated with the cathode and doped with a p-type dopant, in which a content of the p-type dopant of the first organic material layer is 50% by weight or more and less than 100% by weight in the first organic material layer.
According to another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, when a concentration of the p-type dopant in the first organic material layer is A % by weight and a concentration of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is B % by weight, A−B≧B may be satisfied.
According to still another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, when a concentration of the p-type dopant in the first organic material layer is A % by weight and a concentration of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is B % by weight, A−B≧1.5 B may be satisfied.
According to yet another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, when a concentration of the p-type dopant in the first organic material layer is A % by weight and a concentration of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is B % by weight, A−B≧2 B may be satisfied.
Advantageous Effects
Exemplary embodiments according to the present specification may provide an organic electroluminescent device having low driving voltage, high brightness, and excellent light emitting efficiency by allowing both an organic material layer associated with an anode and an organic material layer associated with a cathode to include a p-type dopant, and setting a concentration of the p-type dopant in the organic material layer associated with the anode to be 50% by weight or more. In particular, when the concentration of the p-type dopant in the organic material layer associated with the anode and the concentration of the p-type dopant in the organic material layer associated with the cathode are controlled within a specific range, it is possible to further improve the aforementioned performance of the device.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 illustrates a stacked structure of an organic material layer of an organic electroluminescent device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification.
FIG. 2 illustrates a stacked structure of an organic material layer of an organic electroluminescent device according to another exemplary embodiment of the present specification.
FIG. 3 illustrates a movement of an electric charge between a second organic material layer and a cathode in the organic electroluminescent device illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 illustrates a movement of electric charges among an electron injection or transporting layer, a second organic material layer, and a cathode in the organic electroluminescent device illustrated in FIG. 2.
FIG. 5 is a graph showing roughness of an organic film according to the concentration of the p-type dopant.
BEST MODE
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments exemplified in the present specification will be described in detail.
In the present specification, an n-type means n-type semiconductor characteristics. In other words, an n-type organic material layer is an organic material layer having a characteristic that electrons are injected or transported at the LUMO energy level, and an organic material layer having a characteristic of a material having an electron mobility greater than a hole mobility. Conversely, a p-type means p-type semiconductor characteristics. In other words, a p-type organic material layer is an organic material layer having a characteristic that holes are injected or transported at the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level, and an organic material layer having a characteristic of a material having a hole mobility greater than an electron mobility. “An organic material layer which transports electric charges at the HOMO energy level” and the p-type organic material layer may be used as having the same meaning. Further, “an organic material layer which transports electric charges at the LUMO energy level” and the n-type organic material layer may be used as having the same meaning.
In the present specification, the p-type dopant means an electron-acceptor material.
In the present specification, an energy level means a size of energy. Accordingly, even when an energy level is expressed in a negative (−) direction from a vacuum level, the energy level is interpreted to mean an absolute value of the corresponding energy value. For example, the HOMO energy level means a distance from the vacuum level to the highest occupied molecular orbital. In addition, the LUMO energy level means a distance from the vacuum level to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital.
In the present specification, an electric charge means an electron or a hole.
In the present specification, an “organic material layer associated with the anode” means an organic material layer which is disposed closer to an anode than a cathode based on a light emitting layer, and an “organic material layer associated with the cathode” means an organic material layer which is disposed closer to a cathode than an anode based on a light emitting layer. At this time, the organic material layer associated with the anode or cathode may include an organic material layer which is in physical contact with the anode or the cathode. However, in exemplary embodiments described in the present specification, the case where an additional layer is provided between the organic material layer associated with the anode or the cathode and the anode or the cathode is not completely ruled out.
In the present specification, the p-type dopant means a material that relatively receives electrons for a host material in the organic material layer including the p-type dopant. Conversely, a host material in the organic material layer including the p-type dopant means a material that relatively gives electrons for the p-type dopant.
An organic electroluminescent device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification includes: an anode; a cathode; a light emitting layer provided between the anode and the cathode; a first organic material layer associated with the anode and doped with a p-type dopant; and a second organic material layer associated with the cathode and doped with a p-type dopant. In other words, the organic electroluminescent device includes the p-type dopant both in the organic material layer associated with the anode and the organic material layer associated with the cathode. As described above, even when the organic material layer is formed to be thick by including an organic material layer in which the p-type dopant is included in a larger amount on both sides, a driving voltage may be maintained at a low level.
In the exemplary embodiment, the content of the p-type dopant of the first organic material layer is 50% by weight or more and less than 100% by weight in the first organic material layer. The selection of the concentration of the p-type dopant in the first organic material layer within the range may exhibit an effect of reducing the driving voltage and is advantageous for stability and electrical characteristics of the device. In particular, in the case where a compound of Formula 1 to be described below is used as the p-type dopant of the first organic material layer, effects of reducing the driving voltage and improving the stability of the device may be maximized when the content of the compound of Formula 1 in the first organic material is 50% by weight or more.
Meanwhile, when the content of the p-type dopant is low in the second organic material layer, roughness occurs by other materials of the second organic material layer, and a light scattering effect may be exhibited, thereby exhibiting a light extraction effect. For example, when the compound of Formula 1 to be described below is used as the p-type dopant of the second organic material layer, and an aryl amine compound, specifically, NPB is used as a material to be doped in the second organic material layer, the concentration of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer needs to be lower than that in the first organic material layer.
According to another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, when the concentration of the p-type dopant in the first organic material layer is A % by weight and the concentration of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is B % by weight, A−B≧B may be satisfied.
According to still another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, when the concentration of the p-type dopant in the first organic material layer is A % by weight and the concentration of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is B % by weight, A−B≧1.5 B may be satisfied.
According to yet another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, when the concentration of the p-type dopant in the first organic material layer is A % by weight and the concentration of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is B % by weight, A−B≧2 B may be satisfied.
FIG. 1 illustrates a stacking sequence of the organic material layer of the organic electroluminescent device according to the exemplary embodiment. According to FIG. 1, the anode, the first organic material layer, the light emitting layer, the second organic material layer, and the cathode are sequentially stacked on a substrate. FIG. 1 illustrates an example in which the anode is provided on the substrate, but the case where the cathode is provided on the substrate is also included in a range of the exemplary embodiment described in the present specification. For example, the organic electroluminescent device described in the present specification may have a structure in which the cathode, the second organic material layer, the light emitting layer, the first organic material layer, and the anode are sequentially stacked on the substrate.
In general, in an organic electroluminescent device, electrons are injected and transported from a cathode to a light emitting layer, and holes are injected and transported from an anode to the light emitting layer. Accordingly, in the organic electroluminescent device of the related art, an n-type organic material layer, in which electrons are injected or transported through the LUMO energy level, is disposed between the cathode and the light emitting layer.
It is opposite to the technology, which has been thought in the field of the organic electroluminescent device, that an organic material layer including a p-type dopant is disposed as the organic material layer associated with the cathode. However, according to the description of the present specification, the second organic material layer including the p-type dopant is disposed as the organic material layer associated with the cathode.
In the device illustrated in FIG. 1, a method of injecting electric charges between the cathode and the second organic material layer associated with the cathode will be described in more detail as follows.
In the organic electroluminescent device in the related art including the n-type organic material layer as the organic material layer associated with the cathode, a barrier for injecting electrons from the cathode is a difference between the work function of the cathode and the LUMO energy level of the n-type organic material layer. In the organic electroluminescent device in the related art, electrons need to overcome the electron injection barrier corresponding to the difference between the work function of the cathode and the LUMO energy level of the n-type organic material layer in order to move from the work function of the cathode to the LUMO energy level of the n-type organic material layer. Accordingly, in the structure of the organic electroluminescent device in the related art, in order to reduce the electron injection barrier, an electron injection layer such as an LiF layer is introduced, an electron transporting layer is doped with an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal, or a metal having a low work function is used as a cathode material.
However, according to the exemplary embodiments described in the present specification, holes move toward the cathode through the HOMO energy level of the above-described second organic material layer including the p-type dopant. FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic view of the movement of the electric charge between the cathode and the second organic material layer including the p-type dopant in the organic electroluminescent device described in the present specification, for example, the organic electroluminescent device illustrated in FIG. 1. According to FIG. 3, a hole transported to the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer including the p-type dopant meets an electron of the cathode and is annihilated. Accordingly, the electron injection barrier is not present between the cathode and the second organic material layer. Therefore, in the organic electroluminescent device described in the present specification, it is not necessary to make an effort to reduce the electron injection barrier from the cathode to the organic material layer.
Accordingly, according to the description of the present specification, it is possible to select a cathode material from materials having various work functions.
FIG. 1 illustrates a structure in which the anode, the first organic material layer, the light emitting layer, the second organic material layer, and the cathode are in direct contact with each other. However, an organic material layer may be additionally provided between the anode and the first organic material layer, between the first organic material layer and the light emitting layer, between the light emitting layer and the second organic material layer, or between the second organic material layer and the cathode. For example, when an additional organic material layer is provided between the anode and the first organic material layer or between the cathode and the second organic material layer, a p-type organic material layer may be included. A p-type organic material layer may be included between the anode and the first organic material layer, or between the first organic material layer and the light emitting layer, and these may serve as a hole injection or transporting layer.
According to still yet another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, an electron injection or transporting layer may be provided between the light emitting layer and the second organic material layer. Here, the electron injection or transporting layer includes an electron injection layer, an electron transporting layer, or a layer that simultaneously injects or transports electrons. An n-type organic material layer may be provided as the electron injection or transporting layer. In order to differentiate from the additional n-type organic material layer of the present specification, the n-type organic material layer, which is provided between the light emitting layer and the second organic material layer and is in contact with the second organic material layer, is referred to as a first n-type organic material layer.
FIG. 2 illustrates an example of an organic electroluminescent device including the electron injection or transporting layer. FIG. 2 illustrates that the electron injection or electron transporting layer is in contact with the light emitting layer, but an additional organic material layer may be provided between the layers.
In the device illustrated in FIG. 2, a method of injecting electric charges among the cathode, the second organic material layer associated with the cathode, the first n-type organic material layer, and the light emitting layer will be described in more detail as follows.
According to FIG. 2, the first n-type organic material layer is disposed between the second organic material layer and the light emitting layer. Here, an electric charge may be generated between the second organic material layer including the p-type dopant and the first n-type organic material layer. Among the electric charges generated between the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer, holes move toward the cathode through the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer. The holes moving through the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer escape in the direction of the cathode. Furthermore, among the electric charges generated between the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer, electrons move toward the light emitting layer through the LUMO energy level of the first n-type organic material layer.
In the structure as illustrated in FIG. 2, electric charges are generated between the aforementioned second organic material layer including the p-type dopant and the first n-type organic material layer, and a hole among the generated electric charges moves toward the cathode through the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer. FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic view of the movement of the electric charge in the structure illustrated in FIG. 2.
Meanwhile, the light emitting characteristic in the organic electroluminescent device is one of the important characteristics of the device. In order to efficiently emit light in the organic electroluminescent device, it is important to achieve a charge balance in a light emitting region. For this purpose, electrons transported from the cathode and holes transported from the anode need to achieve a quantitative balance, and a point at which electrons and holes meet each other to form exitons needs to be within the light emitting region.
Meanwhile, in the organic electroluminescent device, it is possible to use a method of controlling a cavity of the device according to a light emitting color as one of the methods of increasing light emitting efficiency. The light emitting efficiency may be further increased by controlling the cavity of the device so as to be suitable for a wavelength of a light emitting color. Here, the cavity of the device means a length within which light may be resonated in the device. In an example, when an upper electrode is a transparent electrode and a lower electrode is a reflective electrode, the cavity of the device may mean a length from a top of the upper electrode to a top of the lower electrode.
In addition, in the organic electroluminescent device, the distance from the light emitting layer to the cathode may also affect light loss by a surface plasmon, a metal, a waveguide mode, a substrate mode, an out-coupled mode, and the like. Accordingly, it may be necessary to adjust the distance from the light emitting layer to the cathode.
In order to control the distance from the cavity or light emitting layer of the device to the cathode thereof as described above, in the structure of the organic electroluminescent device in the related art, when the thickness of the n-type organic material layer associated with the cathode, for example, the electron transporting layer is increased, an imbalance of the electric charges may be caused. However, according to the description of the present specification, in the organic electroluminescent device, it is possible to control the thickness of the second organic material layer associated with the cathode. That is, controlling the thickness of the second organic material layer may be used to control the distance between the cavity or the light emitting device of the device and the cathode. In the exemplary embodiments of the present specification, electrons reaching the light emitting layer are not transported from the cathode, and are generated between the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer. Accordingly, controlling the thickness of the second organic material layer does not affect the charge balance in the light emitting layer. Furthermore, in the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, when the thickness of the second organic material layer is controlled, it is possible to minimize a problem in that in a structure of the related art, a driving voltage is increased according to the increase in thickness of the electron transporting layer which is an n-type organic material layer.
In the structure of the related art, when a distance (D) from the cathode to the light emitting layer is controlled, the charge balance in the light emitting layer may be affected. The reason is because the amount of electrons reaching the light emitting layer is varied when the thickness of the n-type organic material layer, for example, the electron injection layer or the electron transporting layer is controlled. FIG. 4 illustrates a structure from the cathode to the light emitting layer in the structure of the organic electroluminescent device according to the exemplary embodiments of the present specification as illustrated in FIG. 2. In the structure according to the exemplary embodiments of the present specification, when the thickness Dh of the second organic material layer associated with the cathode is controlled, it may be affected to control the distance from the light emitting point of the light emitting layer to the cathode as a distance related to the cavity of the device, but the charge balance is not affected because the length De related to the amount of electrons is not affected. Here, the light emitting point in the light emitting layer means a point at which light is actually emitted according to the balance of electrons and holes. The light emitting point may be varied depending on the material of the light emitting layer. In the art to which the present invention pertains, a central point of the light emitting layer or the interface between the light emitting layer and another layer may be set as the light emitting point.
For example, when the cathode serves as a reflective plate, the distance D from the light emitting point in the light emitting layer to the cathode may be controlled as an integer-fold of [refractive index of the organic material layer*λ/4]. At this time, λ is a wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting layer. Since lights having different colors have different wavelengths, it is possible to differently control the distance D from the light emitting point in the light emitting layer to the cathode depending on the color of light emitting from the light emitting layer. Further, it is possible to differently control the distance D from the light emitting point in the light emitting layer to the cathode depending on the refractive index of the organic material layer. At this time, when the organic material layer is composed of two or more layers, the refractive index of the organic material layer may be calculated by obtaining the refractive index of each layer and then obtaining the sum thereof.
In addition, when light proceeding toward the cathode reaches the surface of the cathode and is reflected, the penetration depth of light is varied depending on the type of cathode material. Accordingly, the type of cathode material causes a change in phase of light reflected from the surface of the cathode. At this time, in consideration of the phase difference to be changed, it is necessary to control the distance D from the light emitting point in the light emitting layer to the cathode. Accordingly, a material of the cathode may also affect the distance from the light emitting layer to the cathode.
When a phase matching of light proceeding from the light emitting layer to the cathode and light reflected from the cathode occurs, a constructive interference occurs, and thus it is possible to implement bright light, and conversely, when a phase mismatching between the lights occurs, a destructive interference occurs, and thus a part of the light is annihilated. According to the phenomenon of the phase matching and the phase mismatching as described above, the brightness of the emitting light is shown in the form of a sine curve depending on the distance from the light emitting layer to the cathode.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, in the sine curve showing the brightness of the emitting light of the device according to the distance from the light emitting layer to the cathode, a value of an x-axis at a point where the brightness of light is maximum may be set as the distance from the light emitting layer to the cathode.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, a distance from a boundary between the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer to the light emitting layer and a distance from the anode to the light emitting layer may be controlled such that an amount of holes in the light emitting layer is balanced with that of electrons therein. Here, the balance between the amount of holes and the amount of electrons means that the holes and electrons injected into the light emitting layer are recombined with each other in the light emitting layer and thus effectively form excitons for light emission, and the loss of holes and electrons involved in forming the excitons is minimized. For example, when the amount of holes in the device is larger than the amount of electrons therein, holes, which do not emit light and are annihilated, are generated in addition to holes involved in excitons due to excessive holes, thereby causing a loss of the quantum efficiency in the device. Conversely, when the amount of electrons is larger than the amount of holes, the loss of electrons may be caused. Accordingly, an attempt has been made to reduce the amounts of holes and electrons, which are annihilated without contributing to light emission, by achieving a quantitative balance of injected holes and electrons.
For example, as means for achieving a quantitative balance between holes and electrons in the light emitting layer, it is also important to control a movement velocity of holes and electrons. When holes are excessively present in the light emitting layer, a balance between holes and electrons may be achieved in the light emitting layer by increasing an injection velocity of electrons. In general, the hole mobility of a material provided between the anode and the light emitting layer, that is, in a second electric charge transporting passage and transporting holes is faster than the electron mobility of a material provided between the cathode and the light emitting layer, that is, in a first electric charge transporting passage and transporting electrons. For example, the hole mobility of NPB is at the level of 8.8×10−4 cm2/Vs, whereas the electron mobility of Alq3 is at the level of 6.7×10−5 cm2/Vs.
Accordingly, in order to enhance the light emission efficiency of the device, it is important to enhance the electron mobility, and when increasing and using the distance from the cathode to the light emitting layer, it may be effective to increase the thickness of the second organic material layer rather than the thickness of the first n-type organic material layer.
Therefore, according to an example, the distance from a boundary between the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer to the light emitting layer may be configured to be shorter than the distance from the anode to the light emitting layer. As a specific example, the distance from the boundary between the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer to the light emitting layer may be configured to be from 100 Å to 500 Å. As another specific example, the distance from the anode to the light emitting layer may be configured to be from 500 Å to 5,000 Å. However, the specific value may be controlled differently according to the characteristics of the light emitting layer or the user.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, it is possible to control the thickness of the second organic material layer for stability of the device. When the thickness of the second organic material layer is controlled to be increased, it is possible to further improve the stability of the device without affecting a charge balance in the device or an increase in voltage.
Here, the stability of the device means a degree which may prevent a short phenomenon due to contact between the anode with the cathode, which may occur when the device is thin. In general, when the thickness of the n-type organic material layer provided between the cathode and the light emitting layer is controlled to be increased, stability of the device may be improved, but driving voltage thereof is rapidly increased, thereby reducing the power efficiency thereof. In order to solve the problem in the related art, an attempt has been made to control the thickness of the n-type organic material layer provided between the cathode and the light emitting layer to be increased and dope the organic material layer with a metal, but there is a problem in that an increase in light absorption efficiency and a reduction in service life occur, and the process thereof becomes complicated.
However, according to the description of the present specification, it is possible to increase the distance between the light emitting layer and the cathode by controlling the thickness of the second organic material layer, which does not affect the charge balance or the increase in voltage, instead of controlling the thickness of the n-type organic material layer provided in the cathode and the light emitting layer. Accordingly, stability of the device is improved, and the increase in driving voltage is minimized, thereby increasing the power efficiency.
According to an example, in consideration of stability of the device, the distance from the cathode to the light emitting layer may be configured to be longer than the distance from the anode to the light emitting layer. Even in such a configuration, the charge balance or the increase in voltage is not affected unlike the related art. In a specific example, the thickness of the second organic material layer may be controlled to be 5 nm or more, and as the second organic material layer becomes thick, the stability of the device may be enhanced. The upper limit of the thickness of the second organic material layer is not particularly limited, and may be determined by those skilled in the art. For example, in consideration of ease of process, the thickness of the second organic material layer may be selected from 500 nm or less.
According to another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the thickness of the second organic material layer may be controlled such that the cavity length of the organic electroluminescent device is an integer-fold of the wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting layer. It is possible to improve light emission efficiency caused by constructive interference of light by controlling the cavity length of the organic electroluminescent device to be an integer-fold of the wavelength of light as described above.
According to still another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, it is possible to control the distance from the boundary between the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer to the light emitting layer and the distance from the anode to the light emitting layer such that the amount of holes in the light emitting layer is balanced with the amount of electrons therein, and to control the thickness of the second organic material layer such that the cavity length of the organic electroluminescent device is an integer-fold of the wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting layer.
According to yet another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, it is possible to control a moving time of electrons from the boundary between the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer to the light emitting layer and a moving time of holes from the anode to the light emitting layer such that the holes and the electrons of the device are quantitatively balanced in the light emitting layer, and to control the thickness of the second organic material layer such that the cavity length of the organic electroluminescent device is an integer-fold of the wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting layer.
According to still yet another embodiment of the present specification, a difference between the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer and the LUMO energy level of the first n-type organic material layer is 2 eV or less. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the difference between the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer and the LUMO energy level of the first n-type organic material layer may be more than 0 eV and 2 eV or less, or more than 0 eV and 0.5 eV or less. According to another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, a material for the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer may be selected such that the difference between the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer and the LUMO energy level of the first n-type organic material layer is from 0.01 eV to 2 eV.
In the case where the energy difference between the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer and the LUMO energy level of the first n-type organic material layer is 2 eV or less, when the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer are in contact with each other, an NP junction may be easily generated therebetween. In this case, a driving voltage for injecting electrons may be reduced.
As the second organic material layer is in contact with the first n-type organic material layer, an NP junction is formed between the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer. When the NP junction is formed, the difference between the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer and the LUMO energy level of the first n-type organic material layer is reduced. Accordingly, when an external voltage is applied thereto, holes and electrons are easily formed from the NP junction.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the work function of the cathode may have a value equal to or less than the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer.
When the work function of the cathode has a value equal to or less than the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer, an injection barrier is not present when electrons are injected from the cathode to the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer.
According an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the cathode and the second organic material layer may be in contact with each other. When the cathode and the second organic material layer are in contact with each other and the work function of the cathode is equal to or greater than the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer, electrons are easily injected from the cathode to the HOMO energy level of the first p-type organic material layer even though the difference between the work function of the cathode and the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer is large. This is because holes produced by the NP junction between the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer move along the second organic material layer toward the cathode. In general, when electrons move from the low energy level to the high energy level, there is no barrier. Further, when holes move from the high energy level to the low energy level, no barrier is produced. Accordingly, electrons may move from the cathode to the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer without an energy barrier.
An additional layer may be additionally provided between the cathode and the second organic material layer. In this case, the HOMO energy level of the additional layer may be equal to the work function of the cathode or the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer, or may be between the work function of the cathode or the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer.
In the present specification, the p-type dopant included in the first organic material layer and the second organic material layer may be used without particular limitation as long as the p-type dopant is an electron-acceptor material. However, when a compound of the following Formula 1 is used as the p-type dopant, the driving voltage is reduced and a light scattering effect is caused in the first organic material layer, which is advantageous for enhancing the light extraction effect.
In Formula 1, R1b to R6b may be each hydrogen, a halogen atom, nitrile (—CN), nitro (—NO2), sulfonyl (—SO2R), sulfoxide (—SOR), sulfonamide (—SO2NR), sulfonate (—SO3R), trifluoromethyl (—CF3), ester (—COOR), amide (—CONHR or —CONRR′), a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C1 to C12 alkoxy, a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C1 to C12 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C2 to C12 alkenyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or non-aromatic heterocyclic ring, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, a substituted or unsubstituted mono- or di-aryl amine, or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl amine, in which R and R′ are each a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C60 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or a substituted or unsubstituted 5- to 7-membered heterocyclic ring.
In the description, the “substituted or unsubstituted” means to be unsubstituted or substituted with a halogen atom, nitrile (—CN), nitro (—NO2), sulfonyl (—SO2R), sulfoxide (—SOR), sulfonamide (—SO2NR), sulfonate (—SO3R), trifluoromethyl (—CF3), ester (—COOR), amide (—CONHR or —CONRR′), a straight or branched C1 to C12 alkoxy, a straight or branched C1 to C12 alkyl, a straight or branched C2 to C12 alkenyl, an aromatic or non-aromatic heterocyclic ring, an aryl, a mono- or di-aryl amine, or an aralkyl amine, in which R and R′ are each a C1 to C60 alkyl, an aryl, or a 5- to 7-membered heterocyclic ring.
The compound of Formula 1 may be exemplified as compounds of the following Formulas 1-1 to 1-6.
Other examples, or synthesis methods and various characteristics of Formula 1 are described in US Patent Application No. 2002-0158242, and U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,436,559 and 4,780,536, and the contents of these documents are all incorporated in the present specification.
In the first organic material layer and the second organic material layer, a p-type organic material may be used as the organic material doped with the p-type dopant. As a specific example of the p-type organic material, an aryl amine compound may be used. As an example of the aryl amine compound, there is a compound of the following Formula 2.
In Formula 2, Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 are each independently hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group. At this time, at least one of Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 may include an aromatic hydrocarbon substitute, and substitutes may be the same as each other, and may be composed of different substitutes. Those which are not an aromatic hydrocarbon among Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 may be hydrogen; a straight, branched, or cyclic aromatic hydrocarbon; and a heterocyclic group including N, O, S, or Se.
Specific examples of Formula 2 include the following formulas, but the range of exemplary embodiments described in the present specification is not always limited thereto.
According to another exemplary embodiment of the present specification, when the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is the compound of Formula 1 and the material doped with the p-type dopant is the compound of Formula 2, for example, NPB, the weight ratio of the compound of Formula 1 and the compound of Formula 2 may be controlled to be from 1:9 to 5:5, specifically, from 2:8 to 4:6. The range is advantageous for enhancing the light extraction effect caused by light scattering.
The first n-type organic material layer is not limited to be composed of a single material, and may be composed of one or two or more compounds having n-type semiconductor characteristics. In addition, the first n-type organic material layer may be composed of a single layer, but may also include two or three or more layers. At this time, the two or more layers may be composed of the same material, but may be composed of different materials. If necessary, at least one layer of the layers constituting the first n-type organic material layer may be doped with an n-type dopant.
The first n-type organic material layer is not particularly limited as long as the organic material layer is composed of a material which may move electric charges through the LUMO energy level between the second organic material layer and the light emitting layer, as described above. For example, the first n-type organic material layer may include one or more compounds selected from the compound of Formula 1, or 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ), fluoro-substituted 3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA), cyano-substituted 3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA), naphthalene tetracarboxylic dianhydride (NTCDA), fluoro-substituted naphthalene tetracarboxylic dianhydride (NTCDA), and cyano-substituted naphthalene tetracarboxylic dianhydride (NTCDA).
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the first n-type organic material layer may be formed of the same material as the p-type dopant of the second organic material layer.
Moreover, as a material for the first n-type organic material layer, it is possible to use an organic material having n-type semiconductor characteristics used as an electron injection or transporting material, which is known in the art. Specifically, the following material may be used, but the present invention is not limited thereto. For example, as an example of the material for the first n-type organic material layer, it is possible to use a compound having a functional group selected from an imidazole group, an oxazole group, a thiazole group, a quinoline group, and a phenanthroline group.
Specific examples of the compound having a functional group selected from an imidazole group, an oxazole group, and a thiazole group include a compound of the following Formula 3 or 4.
In Formula 3, R1 to R4 may be the same as or different from each other, are each independently a hydrogen atom; a C1 to C30 alkyl group which is unsubstituted or substituted with one or more groups selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an amino group, a nitrile group, a nitro group, a C1 to C30 alkyl group, a C2 to C30 alkenyl group, a C1 to C30 alkoxy group, a C3 to C30 cycloalkyl group, a C3 to C30 heterocycloalkyl group, a C5 to C30 aryl group, and a C2 to C30 heteroaryl group; a C3 to C30 cycloalkyl group which is unsubstituted or substituted with one or more groups selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an amino group, a nitrile group, a nitro group, a C1 to C30 alkyl group, a C2 to C30 alkenyl group, a C1 to C30 alkoxy group, a C3 to C30 cycloalkyl group, a C3 to C30 heterocycloalkyl group, a C5 to C30 aryl group, and a C2 to C30 heteroaryl group; a C5 to C30 aryl group which is unsubstituted or substituted with one or more groups selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an amino group, a nitrile group, a nitro group, a C1 to C30 alkyl group, a C2 to C30 alkenyl group, a C1 to C30 alkoxy group, a C3 to C30 cycloalkyl group, a C3 to C30 heterocycloalkyl group, a C5 to C30 aryl group, and a C2 to C30 heteroaryl group; or a C2 to C30 heteroaryl group which is unsubstituted or substituted with one or more groups selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an amino group, a nitrile group, a nitro group, a C1 to C30 alkyl group, a C2 to C30 alkenyl group, a C1 to C30 alkoxy group, a C3 to C30 cycloalkyl group, a C3 to C30 heterocycloalkyl group, a C5 to C30 aryl group, and a C2 to C30 heteroaryl group, and may form an aliphatic, aromatic, aliphatic hetero, or aromatic hetero condensation ring or a spiro bond in conjunction with an adjacent group; Ar1 is a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring, or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic ring; X is O, S, or NRa; and Ra may be hydrogen, a C1 to C7 aliphatic hydrocarbon, an aromatic ring, or an aromatic heterocyclic ring.
In Formula 4, X is O, S, NRb, or a C1 to C7 divalent hydrocarbon group; A, D, and Rb are each hydrogen, a nitrile group (—CN), a nitro group (—NO2), a C1 to C24 alkyl, a substituted aromatic ring including a C5 to C20 aromatic ring or a hetero atom, a halogen, or an alkylene or an alkylene including a hetero atom that may form a fused ring in conjunction with an adjacent ring; A and D may be connected to each other to form an aromatic or hetero aromatic ring; B is a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene or arylene which conjugately or unconjugately connects multiple heterocyclic rings as a linkage unit when n is 2 or more, and a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl when n is 1; and n is an integer from 1 to 8.
Examples of the compound of Formula 4 include compounds known in Korean Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-006773, and examples of the compound of Formula 4 include compounds described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,645,948 and compounds described in WO05/097756. All the contents of the documents are incorporated in the present specification.
Specifically, the compound of Formula 3 also includes the compound of Formula 5.
In Formula 5, R5 to R7 are the same as or different from each other, and are each independently a hydrogen atom, a C1 to C20 aliphatic hydrocarbon, an aromatic ring, an aromatic heterocyclic ring, or an aliphatic or aromatic fused ring; Ar is a direct bond, an aromatic ring or an aromatic heterocyclic ring; X is O, S, or NRa; Ra is a hydrogen atom, a C1 to C7 aliphatic hydrocarbon, an aromatic ring, or an aromatic heterocyclic ring; and however, the case where R5 and R6 are simultaneously hydrogen is ruled out.
Further, the compound of Formula 4 also includes the following compound of Formula 6.
In Formula 6, Z is O, S, or NRb; R8 and Rb are a hydrogen atom, a C1 to C24 alkyl, a substituted aromatic ring including a C5 to C20 aromatic ring or a hetero atom, a halogen, or an alkylene or an alkylene including a hetero atom which may form a fused ring in conjunction with a benzazole ring; B is alkylene, arylene, a substituted alkylene, or a substituted arylene which conjugately or unconjugately connects multiple benzazoles as a linkage unit when n is 2 or more, and a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl when n is 1; and n is an integer from 1 to 8.
For example, imidazole compounds having the following structures may be used:
Examples of the compound having a quinoline group include compounds of the following Formulas 7 to 13.
In Formulas 7 to 13,
n is an integer from 0 to 9, m is an integer of 2 or more,
R9 is selected from a ring structure with hydrogen, an alkyl group such a methyl group and an ethyl group, a cycloalkyl group such as cyclohexyl and norbornyl, an aralkyl group such as a benzyl group, an alkenyl group such as a vinyl group and an allyl group, a cycloalkenyl group such a cyclopentadienyl group and a cyclohexenyl group, an alkoxy group such as a methoxy group, an alkylthio group in which an oxygen atom with an ether bond of an alkoxy group is substituted with a sulfur atom, an aryl ether group such as a phenoxy group, an aryl thioether group in which an oxygen atom with an ether bond of an aryl ether group is substituted with a sulfur atom, an aryl group such as a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, and a biphenyl group, a heterocyclic group such as a furyl group, a thienyl group, an oxazolyl group, a pryridyl group, a quinolyl group, and a carbazolyl group, a halogen, a cyano group, an aldehyde group, a carbonyl group, a carboxyl group, an ester group, a carbamoyl group, an amino group, a nitro group, a silyl group such as a trimethylsilyl group, a siloxanyl group which is a group having silicon through an ether bond, and an adjacent substituent; and the substituents may be unsubstituted or substituted, and may be the same as or different from each other when n is 2 or more; and
Y is a divalent group of groups of R9.
The compounds of Formulas 7 to 13 are described in Korean Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2007-0118711, and the contents of the documents are all incorporated in the present specification by reference.
Examples of the compound having a phenanthroline group include the following compounds of Formulas 14 to 24, but are not limited thereto.
In Formulas 14 to 17,
m is an integer of 1 or more, n and p are an integer, n+p is 8 or less,
when m is 1, R10 and R11 are selected from a ring structure with hydrogen, an alkyl group such a methyl group and an ethyl group, a cycloalkyl group such as cyclohexyl and norbornyl, an aralkyl group such as a benzyl group, an alkenyl group such as a vinyl group and an allyl group, a cycloalkenyl group such a cyclopentadienyl group and a cyclohexenyl group, an alkoxy group such as a methoxy group, an alkylthio group in which an oxygen atom with an ether bond of an alkoxy group is substituted with a sulfur atom, an aryl ether group such as a phenoxy group, an aryl thioether group in which an oxygen atom with an ether bond of an aryl ether group is substituted with a sulfur atom, an aryl group such as a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, and a biphenyl group, a heterocyclic group such as a furyl group, a thienyl group, an oxazolyl group, a pryridyl group, a quinolyl group, and a carbazolyl group, a halogen, a cyano group, an aldehyde group, a carbonyl group, a carboxyl group, an ester group, a carbamoyl group, an amino group, a nitro group, a silyl group such as a trimethylsilyl group, a siloxanyl group which is a group having silicon through an ether bond, and an adjacent substituent;
when m is 2 or more, R10 is a direct bond or a divalent or more group of the above-described groups, and R11 is the same as the case where m is 1, and
the substituents may be unsubstituted or substituted, and when n or p is 2 or more, the substituents may be the same as or different from each other.
The compounds of Formulas 15 to 18 are described in Korean Patent Application Laid-Open Nos. 2007-0052764 and 2007-0118711, and the contents of the documents are all incorporated in the present specification by reference.
In Formulas 18 to 21, R1a to R8a and R1b to R10b are each a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having from 5 to 60 nucleus atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted pyridyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted quinolyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having from 1 to 50 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group having from 3 to 50 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group having from 6 to 50 nucleus atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group having from 1 to 50 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group having from 5 to 50 nucleus atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted arylthio group having from 5 to 50 nucleus atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxycarbonyl group having from 1 to 50 carbon atoms, an amino group substituted with a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having from 5 to 50 nucleus atoms, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, a hydroxyl group, or a carboxyl group, and may be bonded to each other to from an aromatic ring, and L is a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having from 6 to 60 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted pyridinylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted quinolynylene group, or a substituted or unsubstituted fluorenylene group. The compounds of Formulas 18 to 21 are described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2007-39405, and the content of the document is all incorporated in the present specification by reference.
In Formulas 22 and 23, d1, d3 to d10, and g1 are each hydrogen, or an aromatic or aliphatic hydrocarbon group, m and n are an integer from 0 to 2, and p is an integer from 0 to 3. The compounds of Formulas 22 and 23 are described in US Patent Publication No. 2007/0122656, and the content of the document is all incorporated in the present specification by reference.
In Formula 24, R1c to R6c are each a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, or a halogen atom, and Ar1c are Ar2c are each selected from the following structural formulas.
In the structural formulas, R17 to R23 are each a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, or a halogen atom. The compound of Formula 24 is described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-107263, and the content of the document is all incorporated in the present specification by reference.
At least one organic material layer may be further included between the first n-type organic material layer and the light emitting layer. An electron transporting layer, a hole blocking layer, and the like having one or two or more layers may be provided between the first n-type organic material layer and the light emitting layer.
Hereinafter, each layer constituting the organic electroluminescent device described in the present specification will be described in detail. Materials of each layer to be described below may be a single material or a mixture of two or more materials.
Anode
An anode includes a metal, a metal oxide, or a conductive polymer. The conductive polymer may include an electrically conductive polymer. For example, the anode may have a work function value from about 3.5 eV to about 5.5 eV. Examples of exemplary conductive materials include carbon, aluminum, vanadium, chromium, copper, zinc, silver, gold, other metals, and an alloy thereof; zinc oxide, indium oxide, tin oxide, indium tin oxide (ITO), indium zinc oxide, and other similar metal oxides; a mixture of oxide and metal such as ZnO:Al and SnO2:Sb, and the like. As a material for the anode, a transparent material or an opaque material may be used. In the case of a structure in which light is emitted in the anode direction, the anode may be transparently formed. Here, transparency is sufficient as long as light emitted from an organic material layer may be transmitted, and the transmittance of light is not particularly limited.
For example, when the organic electroluminescent device according to the present specification is a top emission type, and the anode is formed on the substrate before the organic material layer and the cathode are formed, an opaque material having excellent optical reflectance may also be used as a material for the anode in addition to a transparent material. For example, when the organic electroluminescent device according to the present specification is a bottom emission type, and the anode is formed on the substrate before the organic material layer and the cathode are formed, as a material for the anode, a transparent material is used, or an opaque material needs to be formed as a thin film enough to be transparent.
Hole Injection or Transporting Layer
In the organic electroluminescent device according to the description of the present specification, an additional p-type organic material layer may be included between the anode and the first organic material layer, or between the first organic material layer and the light emitting layer. The additional p-type organic material layer may be a hole injection layer (HIL) or a hole transporting layer (HTL). The additional p-type organic material layer may include an aryl amine compound, a conductive polymer, or a block copolymer having both a conjugated portion and an unconjugated portion, and the like, but is not limited thereto. As the material of the additional p-type organic material layer, it is possible to use materials exemplified as the material with which the first or second organic material layer is doped.
A fourth n-type organic material layer may be provided between the first organic material layer and the anode. Here, the difference between the HOMO energy level of the first organic material layer and the LUMO energy level of the fourth n-type organic material layer may be 2 eV or less, or 1 eV or less, for example, about 0.5 eV. The first organic material layer and the fourth n-type organic material layer may be in contact with each other. Accordingly, the first organic material layer and the fourth n-type organic material layer may form an NP junction.
The difference between the LUMO energy level of the fourth n-type organic material layer and the work function of the anode may be 4 eV or less. The fourth n-type organic material layer and the anode may be in contact with each other.
The fourth n-type organic material layer may have a LUMO energy level from about 4 eV to about 7 eV, and an electron mobility from about 10−8 cm2/Vs to 1 cm2/Vs, or from about 10−6 cm2/Vs to about 10−2 cm2/Vs. The fourth n-type organic material layer having an electric mobility within the range is advantageous for efficient injection of holes.
The fourth n-type organic material layer may also be formed of a material which may be vacuum deposited, or a material which may be thin-film molded by a solution process. Specific examples of the fourth n-type organic material include the compound of Formula 1 in addition to 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ), fluoro-substituted 3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA), cyano-substituted PTCDA, naphthalene tetracarboxylic dianhydride (NTCDA), fluoro-substituted NTCDA, cyano-substituted NTCDA, or hexanitrile hexaazatriphenylene (HAT), but are not limited thereto.
When the fourth n-type organic material layer and the first organic material layer form an NP junction, holes formed by the NP junction are transported to the light emitting layer through the first organic material layer. As the material for the fourth n-type organic material layer and the p-type dopant of the first organic material layer, the same material may be used.
Light Emitting Layer (EML)
In the light emitting layer, hole transfer and electron transfer occur at the same time, and thus the light emitting layer may have both n-type characteristics and p-type characteristics. For convenience, when electron transport is faster than hole transport, the light emitting layer may be defined as an n-type light emitting layer, and when hole transport is faster than electron transport, the light emitting layer may be defined as a p-type light emitting layer.
The n-type light emitting layer includes aluminum tris(8-hydroxy quinoline) (Alq3); 8-hydroxy quinoline beryllium (BAlq); a benzoxazole-based compound, a benzthiazole-based compound or benzimidazole-based compound; a polyfluorene-based compound; a sila cyclopentadiene (silole)-based compound, and the like, but is not limited thereto.
The p-type light emitting layer includes a carbazole-based compound; an anthracene-based compound; a polyphenylenevinylene (PPV)-based polymer; or a spiro compound, and the like, but is not limited thereto.
Electron Injection or Transporting Layer (ETL)
In the present specification, the first n-type organic material layer may also serve as an electron injection or transporting layer. Additionally, an additional second n-type organic material layer may also be provided between the first n-type organic material layer and the light emitting layer. The second n-type organic material layer may also serve as an electron transporting layer or a hole blocking layer. It is preferred that a material for the second n-type organic material layer is a material having a large electron mobility so as to transport electrons well. A third n-type organic material layer may also be provided between the second n-type organic material layer and the light emitting layer. The third n-type organic material layer may also serve as an electron transporting layer or a hole blocking layer.
It is preferred that the first n-type organic material layer is composed of a material having 2 eV or less in difference between the LUMO energy level thereof and the HOMO energy level of the second organic material layer, as described above. According to an example, the first n-type organic material layer may have a LUMO energy level from 5 eV to 7 eV.
It is preferred that the second n-type organic material layer has a LUMO energy level smaller than the LUMO energy level of the first n-type organic material layer. According to an example, the second n-type organic material layer may have a LUMO energy level from 2 eV to 3 eV. According to an example, the second n-type organic material layer may have a HOMO energy level from 5 eV to 6 eV, specifically, from 5.8 eV to 6 eV.
The second or third n-type organic material layer includes aluminum tris(8-hydroxy quinoline) (Alq3); an organic compound including an Alq3 structure; a hydroxyflavone-metal complex or a sila cyclopentadiene (silole)-based compound, and the like, but is not limited thereto. As a material for the second or third n-type organic material layer, the aforementioned material for the first n-type organic material layer may also be used. The second or third n-type organic material layer may be doped with an n-type dopant. According to an exemplary embodiment, when any one of the second n-type organic material layer and the third n-type organic material layer is doped with the n-type dopant, a host material of the doped layer and a material of the undoped layer may be the same as each other.
The n-type dopant may be an organic material or an inorganic material. When the n-type dopant is an inorganic material, the n-type dopant may include an alkali metal, for example, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, or Fr; an alkaline earth metal, for example, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, or Ra; a rare earth metal, for example, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Th, Dy, Ho, Er, Em, Gd, Yb, Lu, Y, or Mn; or a metal compound including one or more metals of the metals. Alternatively, the n-type dopant may also be a material including cyclopentadiene, cycloheptatriene, a six-membered heterocyclic ring, or a condensed ring including these rings. At this time, the doping concentration may be from 0.01% by weight to 50% by weight, or from 1% by weight to 10% by weight.
As a specific example, the organic electroluminescent device includes first to third n-type organic material layers, in which the first n-type organic material layer may include the compound of Formula 1, and the second n-type organic material layer may be doped with an n-type dopant. At this time, the second n-type organic material layer and the third n-type organic material layer may include the compound of Formula 5 as a host material.
Cathode
As described above, in the present specification, a cathode material may be selected from materials having various work functions by including the above-described second organic material layer and first n-type organic material layer. It is preferred that the cathode material is usually a material having a small work function so as to facilitate electron injection. However, in the present specification, a material having a large work function may also be applied. Specifically, in the present specification, it is possible to use, as the cathode material, a material having a work function which is equal to or larger than the HOMO energy level of the above-described second organic material layer. For example, in the present specification, a material having a work function from 2 eV to 5 eV may be used as the cathode material. The cathode includes a metal such as magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium, titanium, indium, yttrium, lithium, gadolinium, aluminum, silver, tin, and lead, or an alloy thereof; a multi-layer structured material such as LiF/Al or LiO2/Al, and the like.
When Al is used as the cathode material, it is possible to provide a device capable of being efficiently operated by using Al either alone or together with LiF or Liq. In particular, when Ag is used as the cathode material, a device according to the related art is not operated well when Ag is used either alone or together with LiF or Liq, and thus as an organic material layer associated with the cathode, a layer composed of a metal such as an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal, or an organic material layer doped with a metal needs to be used. However, in the exemplary embodiments described in the present specification, a material having a large work function, such as Ag, may be used as the cathode material without a metal layer or an organic material layer doped with a metal, as described above. In addition, in the exemplary embodiments described in the present specification, a transparent conductive oxide having a high work function such as IZO (work function from 4.8 eV to 5.2 eV) may also be used as the cathode material.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the cathode may be provided so as to be in physical contact with the organic material layer. The organic material layer in contact with the cathode may be the above-described second organic material layer, and may be an additional organic material layer. Here, the organic material layer which is in contact with the cathode may be non-doped.
In the organic electroluminescent device in the related art, when a cathode of a material having a large work function, such as Al or Ag, is used, it is necessary to dope an inorganic material layer such as an LiF layer between an organic material layer and the cathode, or the organic material layer with a metal. In the related art, when the cathode is in contact with the organic material layer without using the inorganic material layer or the organic material layer doped with the metal as described above, only a material having a work function of 2 eV or more and less than 3.5 eV may be used as the cathode material. However, in the organic electroluminescent device according to the present specification, even when the cathode is in contact with the organic material layer, a cathode may be configured by using a material having a work function of 3.5 eV or more by the second organic material layer and the first n-type organic material layer.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the cathode is provided so as to be in physical contact with the organic material layer, and the cathode is composed of a material having a work function of 3.5 eV or more.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the cathode is provided so as to be in physical contact with the organic material layer, and the cathode is composed of a material having a work function of 4 eV or more.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the cathode is provided so as to be in physical contact with the organic material layer, and the cathode is composed of a material having a work function of 4.5 eV or more.
The upper limit of the work function of the material constituting the cathode is not particularly limited, but it is possible to use a material having a work function of 5.5 eV or less from the viewpoint of selecting a material.
The cathode may be formed of a material which is the same as the anode. In this case, the cathode may be formed of the aforementioned materials exemplified as the material of the anode. Alternatively, the cathode or the anode may include a transparent material.
Hereinafter, specific examples of the above-described exemplary embodiments will be described. However, the following examples are illustrative only, and are not intended to limit the range of the exemplary embodiments.
The organic electroluminescent device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification may be a device including a light extraction structure.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the organic electroluminescent device further includes a substrate provided on a surface facing a surface of the anode or the cathode on which the organic material layer is provided, and a light extraction layer provided between the substrate and the anode or the cathode, or on a surface facing a surface of the substrate on which the anode or the cathode is provided.
In other words, the organic electroluminescent device further includes an internal light extraction layer between the substrate, which is provided on a surface facing a surface on which the organic material layer of the anode or the cathode is provided, and the anode or the cathode. In another exemplary embodiment, an external light extraction layer may be additionally provided on a surface opposite to a surface on which the anode or the cathode is provided on the substrate.
In the present specification, the internal light extraction layer or the external light extraction layer is not particularly limited as long as the layer has a structure which may induce light scattering so as to improve the light extraction efficiency of the device. In an exemplary embodiment, the light extraction layer may be formed by using a film having a structure in which scattering particles are dispersed in a binder, or unevenness.
In addition, the light extraction layer may be directly formed on a substrate by a method such as spin coating, bar coating, slit coating, and the like, or may be formed by a method of manufacturing the layer in a film form and attaching the layer.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, the organic electroluminescent device is a flexible organic electroluminescent device. In this case, the substrate includes a flexible material. For example, it is possible to use glass having a flexible thin film form, plastic, or a substrate having a film form.
A material of the plastic substrate is not particularly limited, but generally, a film of PET, PEN, PI, and the like may be used in the form of a single layer or plural layers.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, a display apparatus including the organic electroluminescent device is provided.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present specification, an illumination apparatus including the organic electroluminescent device is provided.
Example 1
An anode having a thickness of 1,000 Å was formed on a substrate by a sputtering method using IZO, a HAT (the following formula) was formed thereon to have a thickness of 50 Å (LUMO energy level: 5.7 eV), and then a first organic material layer having a thickness of 500 Å was formed by thermally vacuum depositing an NPB and the HAT (the following formula) at a weight ratio of 30:70. Subsequently, a light emitting layer having a thickness of 300 Å was formed by doping a CBP of the following formula with an Ir(ppy)3 of the following Formula in an amount of 10% by weight. A hole blocking layer having a thickness of 50 Å was formed thereon using a BCP of the following formula.
An organic material layer having a thickness of 100 Å was formed thereon using an electron transporting material of the following formula, and an electron transporting layer having a thickness of 50 Å was formed thereon by doping the electron transporting material of the following formula with Ca in an amount of 10% by weight.
The HAT (the following formula) was formed thereon to have a thickness of 300 Å (LUMO energy level: 5.7 eV), and then a second organic material layer having a thickness of 1,000 Å by thermally vacuum depositing the NPB (HOMO energy level: 5.4 eV) and the HAT (the following formula) at a weight ratio of 70:30. Finally, an organic electroluminescent device was manufactured by forming Ag (work function 4.7 eV) as the cathode to have a thickness of 2,000 Å.
The deposition rate of the organic material in the process was maintained at a level from 0.5 Å/sec to 1 Å/sec, and the degree of vacuum during the deposition was maintained at a level from 2×10−7 torr to 2×10−8 torr.
Example 2
An organic electroluminescent device was manufactured in the same manner as in Example 1, except that the weight ratio of the NPB and the HAT in the second organic material layer was set to 80:20.
Example 3
An organic electroluminescent device was manufactured in the same manner as in Example 1, except that the weight ratio of the NPB and the HAT in the first organic material layer was set to 40:60.
Example 4
An organic electroluminescent device was manufactured in the same manner as in Example 3, except that the weight ratio of the NPB and the HAT in the second organic material layer was set to 80:20.
Example 5
An organic electroluminescent device was manufactured in the same manner as in Example 4, except that the weight ratio of the NPB and the HAT in the first organic material layer was set to 50:50.
Comparative Example 1
An organic electroluminescent device was manufactured in the same manner as in Example 1, except that the weight ratio of the NPB and the HAT in the first organic material layer was set to 70:30.
Example 6
An organic electroluminescent device was manufactured in the same manner as in Example 1, except that the weight ratio of the NPB and the HAT in the second organic material layer was set to 30:70.
Comparative Example 2
An organic electroluminescent device was manufactured in the same manner as in Comparative Example 1, except that the weight ratio of the NPB and the HAT in the second organic material layer was set to 30:70.
The driving voltages and external quantum efficiencies of the devices in the Examples and the Comparative Examples are shown in the following Table 1.
From the results of Table 1 showing characteristics of the Examples and the Comparative Examples, in the case of Examples 1 to 5 and 6 where the content of the HAT, which is a p-type dopant in the first organic material layer, was high, roughness of the organic material in the device was reduced and the amount of leakage current is reduced, and thus the stability of the device is improved, showing high efficiency. In the case of Examples 1 to 5 where the content of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is low, a higher efficiency is shown due to an effect of increasing scattering.
Table 2 and FIG. 5 show atomic force microscope (AFM) data when the weight ratio of the NPB and the HAT is varied. When the weight ratio of the HAT is low (less than 50% by weight), it can be seen that roughness of the organic film is increased, and a device with high efficiency may be implemented when the phenomenon is appropriately controlled and used in the first organic material layer (50% by weight or more) and the second organic material layer (less than 50% by weight).
Claims
a first organic material layer associated with the anode and doped with a p-type dopant; and
a second organic material layer associated with the cathode and doped with a p-type dopant,
wherein a content of the p-type dopant of the first organic material layer is 50% by weight or more and less than 100% by weight in the first organic material layer.
2. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 1, wherein when a concentration of the p-type dopant in the first organic material layer is A % by weight and a concentration of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is B % by weight, A−B≧B.
3. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 1, wherein when a concentration of the p-type dopant in the first organic material layer is A % by weight and a concentration of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is B % by weight, A−B≧1.5 B.
4. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 1, wherein when a concentration of the p-type dopant in the first organic material layer is A % by weight and a concentration of the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is B % by weight, A−B≧2 B.
5. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 1, wherein the p-type dopant of the first organic material layer and the p-type dopant of the second organic material layer are a compound of the following Formula 1:
in Formula 1, R1b to R6b are each hydrogen, a halogen atom, nitrile (—CN), nitro (—NO2), sulfonyl (—SO2R), sulfoxide (—SOR), sulfonamide (—SO2NR), sulfonate (—SO3R), trifluoromethyl (—CF3), ester (—COOR), amide (—CONHR or —CONRR′), a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C1 to C12 alkoxy, a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C1 to C12 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C2 to C12 alkenyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or non-aromatic heterocyclic ring, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, a substituted or unsubstituted mono- or di-aryl amine, or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl amine, wherein R and R′ are each a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C60 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or a substituted or unsubstituted 5- to 7-membered heterocyclic ring.
6. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 1, wherein in the first organic material layer and the second organic material layer, an organic material doped with the p-type dopant is a compound of the following Formula 2:
in Formula 2, Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 are each independently hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group.
7. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 6, wherein the p-type dopant in the second organic material layer is a compound of the following Formula 1, and a weight ratio of the compound of the following Formula 1 and the compound of the above Formula 2 is from 1:9 to 5:5.
in Formula 1, R1b to R6b are each hydrogen, a halogen atom, nitrile (—CN), nitro (—NO2), sulfonyl (—SO2R), sulfoxide (—SOR), sulfonamide (—SO2NR), sulfonate (—SO3R), trifluoromethyl (—CF3), ester (—COOR), amide (—CONHR or —CONRR′), a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C1 to C12 alkoxy, a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C1 to C12 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C2 to C12 alkenyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or non-aromatic heterocyclic ring, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, a substituted or unsubstituted mono- or di-aryl amine, or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl amine, wherein R and R′ are each a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C60 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or a substituted or unsubstituted 5- to 7-membered heterocyclic ring.
8. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 1, wherein an electron injection or transporting layer is provided between the second organic material layer and the light emitting layer.
9. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 8, wherein the electron injection or transporting layer is a first n-type organic material layer which is in contact with the second organic material layer.
10. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 9, wherein the first n-type organic material layer is formed of a compound of the following Formula 1:
in Formula 1, R1b to R6b are each hydrogen, a halogen atom, nitrile (—CN), nitro (—NO2), sulfonyl (—SO2R), sulfoxide (—SOR), sulfonamide (—SO2NR), sulfonate (—SO3R), trifluoromethyl (—CF3), ester (—COOR), amide (—CONHR or —CONRR′), a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C1 to C12 alkoxy, a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C1 to C12 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C2 to C12 alkenyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or non-aromatic heterocyclic ring, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, a substituted or unsubstituted mono- or di-aryl amine, or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl amine, wherein R and R′ are each a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C60 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or a substituted or unsubstituted 5- to 7-membered heterocyclic ring.
11. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 9, wherein the p-type dopant of the first organic material layer, the p-type dopant of the second organic material layer, and a material for the first n-type organic material layer are the same as each other.
12. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 11, wherein the p-type dopant of the first organic material layer, the p-type dopant of the second organic material layer, and a material for the first n-type organic material layer are a compound of the following Formula 1:
in Formula 1, R1b to R6b are each hydrogen, a halogen atom, nitrile (—CN), nitro (—NO2), sulfonyl (—SO2R), sulfoxide (—SOR), sulfonamide (—SO2NR), sulfonate (—SO3R), trifluoromethyl (—CF3), ester (—COOR), amide (—CONHR or —CONRR′), a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C1 to C12 alkoxy, a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C1 to C12 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched C2 to C12 alkenyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or non-aromatic heterocyclic ring, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, a substituted or unsubstituted mono- or di-aryl amine, or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl amine, wherein R and R′ are each a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C60 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or a substituted or unsubstituted 5- to 7-membered heterocyclic ring.
13. The organic electroluminescent device of claim 9, wherein a second n-type organic material layer is provided between the first n-type organic material layer and the light emitting layer. | {
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Will Wiesenfeld aka Baths is sharing his side project Geotic with everyone for free. You can download Mendshere. Its a collection of songs that sounded like he had an all instrumental jam session with Bibio & Benoit Pioulard at a creek and it was documented on cassette. Enjoy and thanks Will!
Jarson says:
I think Geotic is definitely very Bibio influenced(very Vignetting the Compost), more in the production side of things. I love it because with every new release(he has 3 side projects) Will seems to become a better producer and this album sounds so good. If anyone’s wondering, Mend is supposed to kind of be a sequel to the Geotic album, Hearth.
Whoa this is some incredible material! I can see this playing very well with some Bibio, Tstewart, Hessian, maybe even Rameses III or Grouper. I am into Baths, but I can see myself getting wayyy into Geotic. | {
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Tag: 1980’s
The warm weather may be coming, but maybe you like to keep your arms covered. Maybe you like a Victorian style of clothing, but you also like the 80’s? This is exactly what Gunne Sax has created for you, then: A spectacular fusion of late 1800’s Victorian dress meets seaside bathing costume, incorporated into romantic early 1980’s design, padded shoulders and all. Definitely distinctive and one-of-a-kind! Pair it with pumps or lace-up boots, it’s your call. Click here for more sizing and views.
Combining 1980’s love for asymmetry and royal blue, this deadstock gown by Alyce Designs is in a timeless empire cut with a sheer, diaphanous overlay of what could be called “raining roses”. The flower motif adds tons of visual interest and glitz for the gown’s intended purpose as formalwear. As with many of the “true” hues, royal blue looks good with several skin tones and hair colors. Most of all, this is a unique piece and has never been owned before! Click here for more views and sizing information.
Although this top is from the 1980’s, it has a very historical feel to it around the shoulder area. Made by Sauci, this bright red crop-length piece has unusual padded detailing to the shoulders, reminding historical costume fans of Renaissance design elements. The rest of the top is all eighties: Bright color, youthful cut, scoop neck. Contrasting black piping at the neck and for the whip-stitching on the shoulders gives it some extra oomph. Click here for more views and details!
Rich and shiny in copper and black, this diagonal-striped women’s blouse by Nicola has never been worn and is in deadstock condition. Accentuating the 1980’s silhouette circa 1983, the shoulders are padded and the wide wristband and waistband are stretchy with a smocked look. Click here for more views and details.
The early to mid 1980’s saw a huge popularity with these fitted, gathered parachute pants: The provenance of boomboxes and moonwalking and breakdancing. These parachute pants were made by Bugle Boy in a sheeny gray nylon with lots of gathers and zip-closure pockets for maximum style. Click here for sizing and more views!
This necklace is a fascinating combination of natural and geometric shapes in neutral colors. The more organic, irregular shapes play off the regular shapes of sphere, ring, and one gray cube as the focal point. Click here for sizing and other views!
For that really fun-loving look from the mid-eighties, you can’t do much better than this purse. Made by “Desiree” in faux black leather and alligator-texture material, this purse combines a black background with several multicolored, highly asymmetrical shapes. Like so many other eighties purses, this features a very skinny strap so as not to pull the eye away from the party on this purse. Click here for more views and details!
This blouse comes from that period of the 80’s where ruffles were big, and yet it features the crisp blue and white stripes of a more conventional button-down top. The fabric is fairly lightweight, good for warm or moderate temperatures, and the colors are like ones you see in contemporary clothing. Click here for more information! | {
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21 Questions with Joe, Bluetrain’s New Account Manager
We are proud to introduce Joe, one of our new Account Managers. Learn about this movie-goer’s background in football, his very cool financial blog, and his unexpected guilty pleasure.
1.
RB: Where did you grow up?
JM: I grew up in Calgary but I was born in Nigeria.
RB: How did you end up in Edmonton?
JM: I came to Edmonton for school. I was recruited by the U of A for football.
RB: Is your family still in Calgary?
JM: Yeah.
RB: When did you come to Canada from Nigeria?
JM: When I was in grade 2.
2.
RB: What did you like most about growing up in Nigeria/Calgary?
JM: Nigeria I barely remember because it was so long ago. Calgary was nice. I had a regular upbringing. Grew up in a cul-de-sac so lots of neighbours and activities and water fights.
3.
RB: Any siblings?
JM: Two siblings.
RB: Are they in Calgary as well?
JM: Yeah.
4.
RB: What words would your family use to describe you?
JM: Jokester. Laid back. Sporty.
RB: You can be our sporty spice!
5.
RB: What is your family like?
JM: Loving, regular family. Fun.
6.
RB: What did you want to be when you were a kid?
JM: A football player. I wanted to play in the NFL, but as I grew older I realized I should probably have a back-up plan. Then I fell in love with business and marketing.
RB: Do you still play competitively?
JM: No. I stopped a couple years ago.
RB: Why did you hang up the cleats up?
JM: I was on my third or fourth concussion.
RB: That’s a good reason to stop! What position did you play?
JM: Defensive end.
RB: How long did you play?
JM: I played since I was in grade 7, but since my family is from Nigeria and soccer is a global sport, I started off playing soccer.
RB: Why did you switch?
JM: One day I saw football on TV and decided to make the switch!
8.
RB: What made you decide to apply to Bluetrain?
JM: I always had an interest in marketing. I took economics in university where we worked with data and analytics and I thought that was pretty transferrable since Bluetrain is very data-focused. Digital marketing is a growing industry as well so I thought this could be a great career!
9.
RB: Do you have your own personal blog?
JM: I do. Another interest of mine is finance and investing. I took lots of classes in school and do a lot of investing myself, so I have an investing blog called Newly Investor for people who want to get into the world of investing.
RB: Very cool!
10.
RB: What do you think about the world of digital marketing?
JM: There is lots of opportunity! I think as the world switched from traditional to digital, there’s going to be a huge boom in the industry. It’s definitely a growing industry.
11.
RB: Favorite food?
JM: I really like Westernized-Chinese food. It’s my go-to junk food.
RB: Do you have a favourite spot to order from?
JM: Szechuan Kitchen close to my place. I like Vietnamese food too; Lemongrass Café is awesome!
12.
RB: Mushrooms or olives?
JM: Mushrooms. You can use them in more dishes!
13.
RB: What do you do for fun?
JM: I go to the movies–that’s my go-to. I also like going to the gym, hanging out with friends, and reading.
14.
RB: What do you do to relax?
JM: Pretty much the same as what I do to have fun. Haha!
15.
RB: What is your guilty pleasure?
JM: I’m not proud of this but sometimes I watch trashy reality TV shows with my girlfriend like The Kardashian’s and Jersey Shore.
16.
RB: Favourite book or movie?
JM: Favourite movie right now is Get Out; it’s a new one that just came out.
RB: And favourite book?
JM: I like reading business books. Phil Knight’s book Shoe Dog. Elon Musk is another person I follow. He’s the real-life Iron Man.
17.
RB: Do you play volleyball or squash? This is a mandatory question from Bryan we ask everyone new.
JM: I actually play both.
RB: You ARE sporty spice!
JM: Haha! But mostly volleyball. | {
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Sleeping naked has always been a controversial topic, and definitely not something to discuss over a family dinner. But how much do people actually know about the real benefits of sleeping naked? The answer is quite obvious, given how only 1/3 rd of the people sleep in the nude.
In fact, most of us seem to be too attached to our pajamas and tend to spend the entire weekend in it. But when you do go to bed, Science says it’s high time you consider your birthday suit over pajamas. Multiple surveys have proven it to be an effective remedy for weight loss, which is one of the easiest remedies to date.
Moreover, it can improve skin and promote hair growth, while also preventing unwanted body odors. Talk about cutting your little fortune spent on cosmetics! All you need is to ditch your clothes and you’d fall right into a healthy lifestyle.
Having no barriers of clothes between you and your sleeping partner will also contribute to a healthier relationship and reduce stress levels. Actually, there’s more to this list of benefits than you can imagine. That’s why Snore Mentor has put together an infographic on 13 Reasons Why You Should Sleep Naked. | {
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Andrew J. Nathan is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and the author of numerous books, including China's Transition. He is co-editor with Perry Link, Professor of Chinese language and literature at Princeton University, of The Tiananmen Papers, to be published around the world this month by PublicAffairs and in a Chinese version later this year. Documents in the book were compiled by Zhang Liang (a pseudonym).
INSIDE CHINA'S POLITBURO
For the first time ever, reports and minutes have surfaced that provide a revealing and potentially explosive view of decision-making at the highest levels of the government and party in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The materials paint a vivid picture of the battles between hard-liners and reformers on how to handle the student protests that swept China in the spring of 1989. The protests were ultimately ended by force, including the bloody clearing of Beijing streets by troops using live ammunition. The tragic event was one of the most important in the history of communist China, and its consequences are still being felt.
The materials were spirited out of China by a sympathizer of Communist Party members who are seeking a resumption of political reform. They believe that challenging the official picture of Tiananmen as a legitimate suppression of a violent antigovernment riot will help unfreeze the political process. The extensive and dramatic documentary picture of how China's leaders reacted to the student protests is revealed in The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against Their Own People-In Their Own Words. This article is adapted from the extensive narrative and documents in that book.
THE STUDENTS' CHALLENGE
The 1989 demonstrations were begun by Beijing students to encourage continued economic reform and liberalization. The students did not set out to pose a mortal challenge to what they knew was a dangerous regime. Nor did the regime relish the use of force against the students. The two sides shared many goals and much common language. Yet, through miscommunication and misjudgment, they pushed one another into positions where options for compromise became less and less available.
The spark for the student movement was a desire to commemorate the reformer Hu Yaobang, who had died on April 15. He had been replaced two years earlier as general secretary (party leader) by another moderate, Zhao Ziyang, after student demonstrations in December 1986. | {
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There couldn’t be a more apt time for me attending Dr Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman show as I was confronted with my own 7-year menstrual suppression in this surreal play.
The truth of woman’s menstrual cycle was philosophised, researched and practiced on stage by six artists, each performing their innate and self-actualised relationship with their cycle through various personal and cultural rituals.
Beginning in an educational yet blood-soaked fashion, anthropologist Dr Carnesky impresses upon the audience a history of menstruation. Dishing out the crud on menstrual taboo, religion and mythology. Reminiscent of a TED talk, Dr Carnesky presents statistics, graphical and video projections which interlink the performances and gradually introduces the performers/characters’ stories.
The Radical Anthropology Group is where it all begins, with the union of women called The Menstronauts who then perform ritualistic practices during menstruation so that they can become synchronised with each other, manifest incredible energies and embrace the more often than not stigma that comes from monthly hemorrhaging.
At her podium, Dr Carnesky queerly divulges how women throughout the contours of time have been subjected to shame, ridicule and isolation, from Medusa to Kali and even the representation of women in horror movies, always drenched in blood and fighting for their dear precious lives, a relevant reference to this was an image of Carrie which flashed upon the screen along with other Scream Queen allusions.
This was a brief but necessary telling to convey the trespasses of womankind, branded by her blood.
The Menstruants’ rituals begin with a small introductory piece by Dr Carnesky, interlinking her study and how each Menstronaut has rejoiced, suffered, unionised and synchronised with her menstruation; a word that is embedded in your consciousness since it’s the most vocalised, chanted and sung word in the play through varying levels of expression.
Film footage acts as a backdrop whilst some of the performers saunter onto the stage to perform their rituals which were then analysed by Dr Carnesky back on her podium before moving onto the next ritual.
Dr Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman is quite an authentic piece; all of the performers on stage were near enough playing themselves as in reality they are cabaret and burlesque dancers, writers and multidisciplinary artists. I was also surprised to learn that The Menstronaut group does exist and every month you can find members walking around Soho celebrating menstruation in an effort to synchronise and expel the menstrual taboo.
Although the subject matter of menstruation does make a worthy premise for a play, it was difficult to perceive whether it was meant to be comedic, serious or a healthy balance of the both. Most of the ritualistic performances seemed touching and appeared to be serious, but were teamed oddly with Marisa’s speeches. Perhaps it was meant to be like this and left to the audience’s own interpretations of what they resonated with and reacted to.
The play also intensified and became more personal between Dr Carnesky’s character and other fellow performers which by the end acted as an advocate for a feminist movement, sisterhood artistry; a personal love letter to embrace womanhood/menstruation.
For the love of blood, I only wish that the performance had more blood-spurting action and exposure of just how difficult it is to be a woman bleeding every month from a more biological point of view. For years, I was scared of my own vagina having traumatic cycles of up to three weeks a time, annihilated by bloody congealing detritus floating and squishing in between my sex, a painful reminder that it would be another few weeks until it ended. It’s no wonder I’ve spent the last 7 years of my life avoiding them through menstrual suppression.
But for some a cycle also marks the death of a potential child. This was certainly an experience which Dr Carnesky herself shared and, who for years tried to conceive without success. This is a familiar story for many women who in return approach the meaning of their fertility cycle with dread.
According to tantric studies however, women don’t have to experience menstruation and can lead perfectly healthy lives through a process called ‘sublimation’ and various other yogic practices. It’s said that hemorrhaging isn’t healthy for women, often creating a severe loss of energy which is apparently less natural and beneficial to the body, creating disharmony.
At the end of the show in the bar area, performer Veronica Thompson (who also goes as the name Fancy Chance) who, performs an impressive hair hanger act and works at the Café de Paris with other renowned performers, came up to my friends and I thanked us for coming. It was ever so embracing and we spoke about the play and the how it felt for each of us to watch and almost face the subject head on. It’s not necessarily table talk, but perhaps it should be because that’s all part of dismissing the stigma.
Dr Carnesky’s Bleeding Woman is certainly the most original play I’ve seen in a long while, written by Marisa Carnesky, a performance writer/director/performer it seemed like a personal project and a movement that will continue to go on for a while yet.
I hope that it tours the world, matures, wows, questions and embraces others along its journey.
For more information on Marisa Carnesky’s work you can take a look at her website: http://carnesky.com/productions/
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TSA’s Insensitivity Impedes Security, House Panel Says
By Jeff Plungis -
Sep 12, 2012
Eleven years after the terrorist
attacks that led to its creation, the U.S. Transportation
Security Administration must become a “leaner, smarter
organization,” Representative Mike Rogers said yesterday.
Rogers, an Alabama Republican who leads the House Homeland
Security subcommittee on transportation security, said TSA
should rely more on private companies to screen passengers for
possible terrorism threats.
“The agency has gone down a troubling path of
overspending, limiting private-sector engagement, and failing to
sufficiently protect passenger privacy,” Rogers said at a
hearing yesterday on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Rogers released a subcommittee report that said TSA is
bogged down in defending unpopular airport screening procedures
that may not match current threats.
The agency has been too reactive, imposing screening
procedures that respond to past terror plots while not doing
enough to anticipate the next threat, according to the report.
Once implemented, procedures aren’t revisited to ensure they
still make sense, the committee said.
“Eleven years after 9/11, the American people expect to
see tangible progress in transportation security, with effective
operations that respect both their privacy and their wallets,”
the committee report said. “The private sector is best suited
to this challenge, not the federal government.”
Increased Scrutiny
Yesterday’s report and hearing follow 22 other hearings, 15
lawmaker briefings and seven site visits by the subcommittee’s
members and staff since last year. The agency has been subjected
to increased scrutiny as some efforts, such as pat-downs and the
addition of screening machines that produced detailed images of
travelers under their clothes, provoked consumer outrage.
The TSA is committed to working with industry and regularly
seeks advice on policy from airlines, airports and travelers,
among others, John Halinski, the agency’s deputy administrator,
told lawmakers at the hearing.
“As the memories of 9/11 slip by for many, we at TSA
cannot afford to forget what our job is,” Halinski said. “We
cannot be distracted by critics and others who forget we face a
threat.”
The agency replaced guards hired by airlines with federal
employees after Sept. 11 to to reassure the public that each
passenger and each bag would be screened, said Texas
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, the panel’s senior Democrat.
“I do not want us to be lax on procedures that have
provided a safe passage for billions of travelers since 9/11,”
Jackson Lee said.
Explaining Pat-Downs
TSA hasn’t adequately explained why it is using invasive
pat-downs, the committee’s report said. Americans would be more
supportive of the agency’s practices if they understood why TSA
was implementing a policy or what threat it was addressing, it
said.
“Pat-downs have hit a nerve with the general public, and
TSA has failed to adequately explain why it continues to use
this procedure two years after its initial rollout,” the
committee said.
Many of the TSA’s problems are self-inflicted, and result
from the strains of managing its bureaucracy and multibillion-
dollar technology contracts, the committee said. It said that
after spending $29.6 million on 207 explosive-detecting
“puffer” machines in 2006, the agency found the machines
wouldn’t work in dirty, humid airport environments. The machines
were ultimately removed and destroyed.
Passenger Traffic
The TSA’s workforce has grown as airline passenger traffic
has fallen, the committee said.
“A private-sector entity in the face of a shrinking
customer base usually must downsize,” the committee said.
“TSA, by contrast, has continually grown its ranks despite
fewer travelers.”
The TSA’s costs per passenger have been rising rapidly,
said Geoff Freeman, chief operating officer of the U.S. Travel
Association, a Washington-based trade group for tourism agencies
and providers. The agency’s budget increased 68 percent from
2004 to 2011, while the number of passengers was little changed,
Freeman said.
With passenger levels expected to double over the next 20
years, TSA needs to balance security with moving travelers
through the airport more efficiently, Freeman said. Millions of
people avoid travel because of time-consuming, frustrating
checkpoints, he said.
“The real threat of terrorism, the economic consequences
of inefficient screening, and increase in screening costs, add
up to create one of the biggest problems facing the travel
industry today,” Freeman said. | {
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Category Archives: Free Markets
The logic is as simple as it is foolproof. An “air-tight free-market argument,” as I explained: “If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men as a group would have long-since priced themselves out of the market. That entrepreneurs don’t ditch men en masse for women suggests that different abilities and experience are at work, rather than a conspiracy to suppress women.” (“The Week of Whining Womin”)
The exuberant, America-First patriotism of President-elect Donald Trump is likely causing a chain reaction of sorts. Despite the gush and tosh from the deranged media, Trump has done nothing to pressure corporations to remain in the US—nothing but reiterate his campaign promises. But a powerful persona’s mindset is infectious, especially when coupled with the promise of a better economic climate. Trump is changing corporate hearts and minds about investing in America and its people. In order to frame this good thing as bad, the media have suddenly discovered a love of free-market capitalism. By triggering a change in corporate culture; Trump has the media louts decrying his assault on capitalism and his fostering of crony capitalism.
LOL: Free-market capitalism has been an “unknown ideal” in the US for a long time.
Ford is canceling plans to build a new plant in Mexico. It will invest $700 million in Michigan instead, creating 700 new U.S. jobs.
Ford (F) CEO Mark Fields said the investment is a “vote of confidence” in the pro-business environment being created by Donald Trump. However, he stressed Ford did not do any sort of special deal with the president-elect.
“We didn’t cut a deal with Trump. We did it for our business,” Fields told CNN’s Poppy Harlow in an exclusive interview Tuesday.
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The $700 million investment will go to the Flat Rock, Michigan plant to produce more electric and self-driving cars. Ford believes electrified vehicles will outsell gas-powered vehicles within the next 15 years.
Ford is planning to roll out seven new electric vehicles in the next five years, including a Mustang Hybrid.
This is a major U-turn for Ford. Trump repeatedly slammed Ford on the campaign trail for shipping U.S. jobs to Mexico (a claim the company said was wrong). The president-elect has kept up the pressure. Just hours before the Ford announcement, Trump criticized GM (GM) for producing cars in Mexico. All of the big car manufacturers currently have some production in Mexico. …
“We can deploy a half a billion more solar panels. We can have enough clean energy to power every home. We can build a new modern electric grid. That’s a lot of jobs; that’s a lot of new economic activity.” So intoned Hillary Clinton, during the first presidential debate at Hofstra University, New York, on September 26.
Where have we heard this before? Like Clinton, President Obama hasn’t a clue how a viable market is created and sustained. Solyndra, if you recall, was awarded $527 million from taxpayers. Each of the temporary, unsustainable jobs created by Solyndra and touted by Obama cost $479,000. Obama thought this was sufficient to secure a profitable market for the product.
Clinton is every bit the cretin when it comes to the market economy.
Donald Trump, however, is good at this; business is his bailiwick. He has spoken so well in interviews about the unviable nature of the green energy industry (unless, of course, it’s privately funded and the risk is neither subsidized nor socialized). Trump can’t allow the arrogant certitude begun with Obama and Solyndra to continue with Clinton.
For Trump understands how demand is generated and sustained. How many
times has he recounted on TV, for example, that so expensive are solar panels, that by the time these panels have paid for themselves—also known as “a return on investment”—it’s time to replace them? In a May appearance in Bismarck, North Dakota, on the occasion of his reaching and surpassing the magic delegate threshold (chronicled in “The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed”), Trump spoke eloquently about deregulating energy.
Clean coal can be restored, he remarked, if regulations are reduced. The money quote Trump should repeat, from that appearance: “Free-up coal and let the market work. Market forces are a beautiful thing.” Indeed they are.
Back to the larger principle:
When Clinton dares to mention the environment and how much money she’ll steal from you and me to enrich and entrench global bureaucracies who’ll adjudicate environmental affairs—Trump must bring it back to America First. And to immigration. …
Most Americans have zero understanding of free-market capitalism, and are interested only in government “protections,” namely the regulation of production, in the belief that government interference can reduce costs and get Big Bad Business to behave.
If only Americans, brainwashed in the nation’s government-controlled schools, understood the less intuitive truth and aimed the arrows in their quiver at Big Bad Government, the real bad actors.
In the case of the “EpiPen sticker shock,” bureaucrats at the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration)—beholden to keeping the bureaucracy alive, not getting innovation to market—practically gum-up the process whereby other makers of the product can enter the allergy antidote market and trigger competitive forces.
Then there are the patent grants of government privilege. By granting EpiPen makers patents for posterity—yes, this is government’s fault—these lengthy grants of patent privileges prohibit manufactures of generic drugs from entering the market to make comparable products.
… when was the last time that America’s chair industry hiked the price of chairs 400% and suddenly nobody in the country could afford to sit down? When was the last time that the mug industry decided to charge $300 per cup, and everyone had to drink coffee straight from the pot or face bankruptcy? When was the last time greedy shoe executives forced most Americans to go barefoot? And why do you think that is?
The problem with the pharmaceutical industry isn’t that they’re unregulated just like chairs and mugs. The problem with the pharmaceutical industry is that they’re part of a highly-regulated cronyist system that works completely differently from chairs and mugs.
If a chair company decided to charge $300 for their chairs, somebody else would set up a woodshop, sell their chairs for $250, and make a killing – and so on until chairs cost normal-chair-prices again. When Mylan decided to sell EpiPens for $300, in any normal system somebody would have made their own EpiPens and sold them for less. It wouldn’t have been hard. Its active ingredient, epinephrine, is off-patent, was being synthesized as early as 1906, and costs about ten cents per EpiPen-load. … | {
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