Peculiarities of performance of the spin valve for the superconducting current
The spin valve effect for the superconducting current based on the superconductor/ferromagnet proximity effect has been studied for a CoO/Fe1/Cu/Fe2/Cu/Pb multilayer. The magnitude of the effect , where and are the superconducting transition temperatures for the parallel (P) and antiparallel (AP) orientation of magnetizations, respectively, has been measured for different thicknesses of the Fe1 layer . The obtained dependence of the effect on reveals that can be increased in comparison with the case of a half-infinite Fe1 layer considered by the previous theory. A maximum of the spin valve effect occurs at . At the optimal value of , almost full switching from the normal to the superconducting state when changing the mutual orientation of magnetizations of the iron layers Fe1 and Fe2 from P to AP is demonstrated.
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The possibility to create a spin valve, based on the superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) proximity effect is actively studied both theoretically and experimentally. Two different constructions of the spin valve for the superconducting current have been theoretically proposed. The first one  is the F1/F2/S multilayer system where F1 and F2 are the ferromagnetic layers with uncoupled magnetizations, and S is the superconducting layer. Calculations  show that at parallel (P) orientation of magnetizations of F1 and F2 layers the superconducting transition temperature () is lower than in the case of their antiparallel (AP) orientation (). The second construction [2, 3] is F1/S/F2. Its operation is similar to the first one. Several experimental works confirmed the predicted effect of the mutual orientation of the magnetizations in the F/S/F structure on (see, e.g., [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]). However, the magnitude of the spin valve effect turned out to be smaller than the width of the superconducting transition itself. Hence a full switching between the normal and the superconducting state was not achieved. Constructions similar to that suggested in  were studied to a less extent [10, 11, 12]. Theoretical works by Fominov et al. [13, 14] have generalized the theory of the spin valve effect for both constructions taking into account the appearance of the triplet component in the superconducting condensate. Recently, when studying the construction proposed by Oh et al.  on an example of multilayer CoO/Fe1/Cu/Fe2/In, we have succeeded to obtain a full switching between the superconducting and the normal state when changing the mutual orientation of the magnetizations of F1 and F2 layers . (Here CoO is an antiferromagnetic bias layer which fixes the magnetization of the Fe1 layer along the cooling field direction, Cu is a nonmagnetic layer N which decouples the magnetizations of the Fe1 and Fe2 layers, and In is a superconducting indium layer). Furthermore, a detailed study of the spin valve effect has shown that the magnitude of the effect strongly depends on the Fe2 thickness yielding the change of its sign at large values of [16, 17].
To improve the operating parameters of the system (in particular, to increase ) we have replaced In by Pb  and have found out that the full switching can not be achieved because of a large value of the superconducting transition width . It should be noted that the thickness of the Fe1 layer should also affect the value of . This is because the mean exchange field from two F-layers acting on Cooper pairs in the space between Fe1 and Fe2 layers should be compensated for the AP orientation of the magnetizations of Fe1 and Fe2 layers. Thereby a naive consideration shows that for the observation of the maximal spin valve effect it is desirable to have comparable values of and .
The basis of the present work has been formed by our earlier studies of the superconducting spin valve effect in the multilayer system CoO/Fe1/Cu/Fe2/Cu/Pb . In the present paper we study a dependence of on the thicknesses of the Fe1 layer and of the Fe2 layer . At the optimal value of we have succeeded to demonstrate an almost full switching from the normal to the superconducting state.
The layer sequence CoO/Fe1/Cu/Fe2/Cu/Pb was deposited on a single-crystalline MgO substrate (Fig. 1).
We used the same sample preparation method, experimental setups, and protocols of magnetic and transport measurements as in our previous work . An additional copper layer between Fe and Pb layers was evaporated in order to stabilize the properties of the Fe2/Pb interface. Full characterization of these samples shows that this additional layer does not affect the spin valve effect. At the final step of the preparation process all samples were capped by a 85 nm thick SiN dielectric layer to protect the structure from oxidation.
For all samples we have performed magnetization measurements using a VSM SQUID (vibrating sample magnetometer superconducting quantum interference device) magnetometer. We have measured the major and minor hysteresis loops in order to determine the field range in which the full switching between P and AP orientations of the magnetizations of the Fe1 and Fe2 layers is realized. We have found out that the hysteresis loop related to the free iron layer Fe2 saturates at a field of the order of kOe suggesting a complete suppression of the domain state.
Electrical resistivity measurements were performed with a standard four-point probe setup in the dc mode. We have combined the electrical setup with a high homogeneous vector electromagnet that enables a continuous rotation of the magnetic field in the plane of the sample and have used a system which enables a very accurate control of the real magnetic field acting on the sample. The magnetic field strength was measured with an accuracy of Oe using a Hall probe. The temperature of the sample was monitored by the 230 Allen-Bradley resister thermometer which is particularly sensitive in the temperature range of interest. Therefore the accuracy of the temperature control within the same measurement cycle below 2 K was better than mK. To avoid the occurrence of the unwanted out-of-plane component of the external field, the sample plane position was always adjusted with an accuracy better than relative to the direction of the dc external field.
In order to study the influence of the mutual orientation of the magnetizations on we have cooled down the samples from room to a low temperature at a magnetic field of 4 kOe applied along the easy axis of the sample just as we did it when performing the SQUID magnetization measurements. For this field both F-layers’ magnetizations are aligned. Then at the in-plane magnetic field value of kOe the temperature dependence of the resistivity was recorded.
Fig. 2 depicts the dependence of the magnitude of the spin valve effect on the thickness of the Fe2 layer for fixed thickness of the Fe1 layer nm .
For samples with nm we have observed the direct effect with , whereas for samples with nm the inverse effect with has been found. The data shown in Fig. 2 are qualitatively rather similar to our previous results on the sign changing oscillating spin valve effect in CoO/Fe1/Cu/Fe2/In multilayers [15, 16, 17]. Practically, in our samples the iron layers thinner than 0.5 nm are not continuous anymore. The reason why for the Pb layer in contact with the Fe layer is larger than that for the In layer in contact with the same Fe layer is unclear.
Fig. 3 shows the dependence of the magnitude of the spin valve effect on the thickness of the Fe1 layer for two fixed thicknesses of the Fe2 layer.
One can see that the dependences of have maximum at the values of of the order of 1 nm or less. The maximum in can be related to the compensation of the mean exchange field in the space between Fe1 and Fe2 layers occurring for nearly equal thicknesses of these two layers. With increasing the value the spin valve effect diminishes. This is because the penetration depth of the Cooper pairs into the iron layer is nm . That means that only a small amount of the Cooper pairs can penetrate through the Fe2 layer to be subjected to the influence of the Fe1 layer.
For the spin valve sample CoO/Fe1(0.8 nm)/Cu(4 nm)/Fe2(0.5 nm)/Cu(1.2 nm)/Pb(60 nm) the difference in for different magnetic field directions is clearly seen (see Fig. 4).
The superconducting transition temperature for the AP orientation of the magnetizations occurs at a temperature exceeding for the P orientation of the sample by 40 mK, which is of the order of the superconducting transition width . This opens a possibility to switch off and on the superconducting current flowing through our samples almost completely within the temperature range corresponding to the -shift by changing the mutual orientation of magnetization of F1 and F2 layers. To demonstrate this we have performed resistivity measurements of the sample by sweeping slowly the temperature within the and switching the magnetic field between kOe and kOe (Fig. 4).
Let us discuss the results shown in Figs. 2 and 3 in the framework of the S/F proximity effect theory. For that we extend the results of  where of an F1/F2/S trilayer was considered in the simplest formulation: all the interfaces were assumed to be transparent, and the outer F layer was assumed to be half-infinite. That formulation enabled studying interplay of different magnetizations’ orientations in the two F layers. For the present experiment, we are interested in theoretical results only for the two collinear orientations (parallel and antiparallel). At the same time, we should extend the previous theory  for arbitrary thickness of the outer F layer (Fe1 layer in notation of the present paper).
In this theory, the set of equations describing superconductivity in all parts of the structure is reduced to the problem for the S layer only. All the information about the rest of the structure (two F layers and interfaces) is then contained in a real-valued parameter that enters the effective boundary condition for the F2/S interface: , where is the singlet component of the anomalous Green function in the S layer and is the coherence length. Physically, determines how strongly superconductivity in the S layer is suppressed by the rest of the structure due to the proximity effect. The larger is, the stronger is suppressed. Therefore, should correlate with . Note at the same time that generally there is no simple explicit relation (like, e.g., proportionality) between them.
In the parallel configuration, we effectively have F/S system with a single F layer of thickness . Then we reproduce the result of :
Here and are the normal-state conductivities of the S and F layers, respectively (the diffusion constants will be denoted and ); is the coherence length for the S layer (where is the critical temperature in the bulk). The wave vectors and describe the scales of the spatial inhomogeneity due to the proximity effect in the S and F layers, respectively ( is the Matsubara frequency, which can be taken for estimates as ). We assume that is small enough so that .
In the antiparallel configuration, we generalize treatment of  taking into account finite (and also taking into account different degree of disorder in the S and F layers, so that , and , are different). The result is
where the numerator and denominator of the last fraction are
The qualitative correlation between measured and calculated in Figs. 2 and 3 looks satisfactory. Note that and in Fig. 2 approximately correspond to the limit of infinite since this thickness is several times larger than the penetration depth . The central result of our paper, the dependence of on , is shown in Fig. 3. For the calculated curves of we used the same parameters as in our previous paper : for the F layers we put the Fermi velocity cm/s, mean free path of conduction electrons nm, and the exchange field eV. According to our calculations . The dirty-limit theory (the Usadel equations) that we used to calculate , requires, in particular, the condition (where is Planck’s constant) . The above-mentioned parameters correspond to the value of of the order of one. There are also other simplifications of the theory compared to the experiment; the main of them is probably that all interfaces are assumed to be fully transparent [while the exchange splitting of the conduction band of the ferromagnet is at least one source for a non-perfect F/S interface transparency (see, e.g., )]. Taking this into account, we can only expect qualitative agreement between theory and experiment.
Let us now discuss our qualitative understanding of the spin-valve effect dependence on , keeping in mind that is the penetration depth of superconducting correlations in the ferromagnet. In the parallel orientation, the two F layers act as a singe layer leading to some suppression of superconductivity in the S part. The spin-valve effect is due to partial mutual compensation of the exchange fields of the two F layers when they are in the antiparallel orientation. We expect that the spin-valve effect is largest when this compensation is most effective, which is the situation at if . At this condition should be modified since the outer layer of the same thickness, cannot fully participate in the compensation effect. Only a part of it, with thickness of the order of , is effective, so we expect the spin-valve effect in this case to be strongest for . The theoretical results for presented above confirm this qualitative picture, and the experimental data in Fig. 3, corresponding to nm, seem to be consistent with it. Note that the theory also predicts peculiarities of the spin-valve effect at very small (due to interference features of the oscillating proximity effect in the F part), however we do not focus on them since we do not have experimental data for such small thicknesses.
In conclusion, we employed a spin valve system CoO/Fe1/Cu/Fe2/Cu/Pb to investigate the dependence of the magnitude of the spin valve effect on the thickness of the Fe1 layer . We have observed that the value can be slightly (by ) increased in comparison with the case of the half-infinite Fe1 layer considered by the theory . The achieved theoretical understanding of the dependence warrants a next step towards practical application. Indeed, the optimal choice of the thicknesses and of gives a possibility to get an almost full switching from the normal to the superconducting state.
The work was partially supported by the DFG (grant BU 887/13-2) and by the RFBR (grants Nos. 11-02-01063-a and 13-02-97037-r-povolzhje_a). Ya.V.F. was supported by the RFBR (grant No. 11-02-00077-a), the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia (Contract No. 8678), and the program ‘‘Quantum mesoscopic and disordered structures’’ of the RAS.
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After only visiting Conrad Maldives last Christmas and already visiting twice before that (reports here and here), we were not planning to return to Maldives that soon. Yes, it's one of our favorite places on earth but it can be expensive to make it a yearly tradition.
We had gone on the whale shark excursion during the last visit and had signed up to the non profit Maldives Whaleshark Research program mailing list/facebook page that ran the excursion since we wanted to learn more about the maginificent whale sharks. Early in 2013, there ran a silent charity auction for a stay at the Conrad Maldives which we ended up winning much to our surprise!
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Two weeks prior to departure, I got restless and managed to come up with a much long winded way of getting to Maldives albeit in First Class:
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This is an ideal way to teach your kids how to save, share and spend smart with online tools, including a quarterly online newsletter that includes fun activities and cut outs. Plus, The Money Mammals website offers videos, games and much more. All your child needs is $20 to open GECU's Money Mammals Savings Account.
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M3 Money Club
(Ages 9 - 13 years)
GECU's M3 Money Club is an exciting tool designed to help your children, ages 9 through 13 years, learn about saving money. You can help your children develop these skills with a M3 Money Club account. All your child needs is $20 to open GECU's M3 Savings Account and join an exciting world where superheroes rule and learning about money is cool.
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(Ages 14 - 18 years)
This is an important time for you. You're in high school - maybe looking ahead to college - and now you're earning some extra cash. You've got a lot of decisions to make about managing your money... good thing you have GECU's Free2Be checking and savings accounts to help.
Ideal for: Saving for college tuition, buying your first car or planning for unexpected expenses.
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The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
NEW YORK, United States — "Every guy wants to be a little bit of a rock star," says John Varvatos, who has built a formidable menswear empire on this very notion. His seasonal advertising campaigns feature music icons like Iggy Pop and Kiss. His downtown New York flagship is housed in the space previously occupied by legendary punk club CBGB. Since 2001, he has collaborated with Converse, a brand beloved by The Ramones and The Clash. And his collection — which includes signatures like attenuated suiting, biker boots and knotted neckerchiefs — comes with a distinct rock n' roll twist.
Since launch, in 2000, John Varvatos has expanded into a range of new product categories — including eyewear, watches, fragrance. The company now generates a reported $250 million in annual revenue. And the expansion continues.
This year alone, Varvatos is set to almost double his total retail footprint, with entries into Asia and Europe — in Bangkok and London, respectively — due later this year. His new 4,200-square-foot boutique on New York’s Madison Avenue (his third store in New York, but the first on the city’s Upper East Side, a stone’s throw from brands like Lanvin and Hermès) opened yesterday. And just last month, the designer announced the launch of his own record label, John Varvatos Records, in conjunction with Republic Records.
Varvatos’ interest in the intersection of music and style began early on. “From the time as early as I can remember, I was so intrigued by the way music artists dressed, whether it was The Rolling Stones or Jimi Hendrix,” he says. “When people had great style, their shows always seemed to be stronger. I started understanding that style — not fashion, but style — really had an influence on how people perceived you.”
Though he dabbled in drawing boots as a child, the Detroit native ultimately came to fashion “a little late,” he says. “The light bulb went off at like 27 years old that I wanted to be a designer.”
Thus, in 1983, he left his degree in education behind and joined Ralph Lauren in sales. "I always called my early days at Ralph Lauren 'Polo University,'" Varvatos says. "I had no formal training at that point in time in design, and it was at Ralph Lauren that I absorbed everything from understanding about building a brand to creating a brand personality to being true to who you are and never worrying about what anybody else does."
In 1990, Varvatos moved to another American fashion great, Calvin Klein, where he oversaw menswear design. "It was a huge opportunity, because I was not a senior designer at Ralph Lauren at that time," says Varvatos. "What I learned there [at Calvin Klein] was a sense of myself. Calvin, he just wanted me to deliver the goods. He wanted me to create the concept for the collection and design the collection and invent the brands. I think that having that pressure of being left alone to do it on your own gave me a lot of confidence."
Varvatos returned to Polo Ralph Lauren in 1995 as head of menswear design, where he stayed until the launch of his eponymous collection in 2000. "I saw a hole in the marketplace," he says. "I saw a lot of sameness at the time. I was walking through Barneys [New York] on a Sunday afternoon, and everything was black and nylon. I thought, 'Wow, it's a time to do something different.' So my first collection, I didn't do anything black at all. I wanted to show that you could do something completely different in the marketplace and still look modern and hip." The collection earned the designer the Perry Ellis Newcomer's Award for Menswear from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). The following year he was named the CFDA's Designer of the Year.
“Now, of course, [black is] an important part of what we do,” Varvatos continues. “There are a lot of guys that are really classic [in taste] that have come over to wear our clothes because they feel the heart of it is based in classicism — but it’s the twist that makes them feel a little more unique. They don’t feel like when they go to work or a board meeting or to a dinner that somebody will say, ‘Bill, what are you wearing?’ Most guys don’t move very revolutionary with their wardrobes, they move very evolutionary. Guys are afraid to get out of their comfort zone, so if they do move out of it, they move baby steps.”
A year into business, Converse (since 2003 owned by sportswear giant Nike) came calling. The collaboration, which was originally supposed to last two seasons, has instead lasted 12 years, “and we just signed up another agreement, so we're continuing on,” Varvatos says. “When we came out with the laceless Chuck Taylor in 2003, it changed everything for us, because we went from selling small quantities in the Converse world, in the Nike world, to selling huge quantities. It put us on the map globally.”
Varvatos’ other long-term relationship — the rock sensibility that has become so closely intertwined in his brand’s DNA — also came about organically, he says. “I didn’t do it with any thought in the beginning. For the first six years, we didn’t market with musicians in our ads. It was all kind of sprinkled throughout, just things that I was influenced by growing up.”
He strengthened that connection in 2008, when he opened a store in the former CBGB space on New York’s Bowery (though the move generated no small amount of protest from those who decried the transformation of The Bowery, once best know for its flophouses and bohemian streak, into a corridor for luxury retail).
“CBGB was a place that I went to in the late 70s and 80s, and [the decision to do the store there was] totally impulsive,” Varvatos says. “I was in the Bowery looking at another space and they were also the landlord for the CBGB space, so I said, ‘Can we take a look?’ I stood there at that space looking around — there was graffiti all over the walls and still some posters that were pretty shredded — and something happened. A couple days later [my management team] came to me and said, ‘Doesn’t sound like the right thing, the neighborhood’s underdeveloped, it’s ten blocks from Soho, it’s too big of a financial risk’ — all these things. That Monday, I came in and called everybody together and said, ‘We’re going to do it. I think we can do something there that’s totally unique that will be a big part of the soul of the company.’”
Now, the designer is adding another layer of music to his brand — with John Varvatos Records. “My mission statement with the label is to really nurture young artists and create a forum for music that is iconic again,” Varvatos says. “I want it to be quite democratic. I grew up in Detroit, in what I think is the most musical city in the world — we had Motown and gospel and jazz and blues and for sure rock and roll. People think I’m only going to be going after rock and roll. That’s not really what I’m totally intrigued by. I’m intrigued by great music.”
Although Varvatos experimented briefly with a women’s line in 2004, he says “it’s not in our three-year plan. The men’s business is a lot bigger than we ever thought it was going to be, and I think taking your eye off what got you to where you are is the wrong thing for us to do.” Plus, he notes, “the guy that shops in our store, from what we understand from him, he loves this place that’s only about him. He’s not sharing it with his wife or girlfriend. I don’t think there’s a lot of places for guys like that, especially [in the] designer [fashion category].”
“If we focus focus focus focus on the people that we do business with, the stores that we’re in, we can have a very big business,” Varvatos continues. Currently, sixty percent of his business comes from his designer Collection, while forty percent comes from Star USA, the more youthful, contemporary priced second line he launched in 2006. “It’s about how people really dress today: Great jeans and great easy pieces to mix in with [the more expensive designer pieces],” he says. “The last few years, [Star USA has] really been a big fire in our business, to the point that we really have to control our growth there because we want to make sure that it's a long-term growth and that it isn't just loading up stores with product.”
Ultimately, Varvatos likes his clothes like his music: timeless and iconic. “I want to create clothes that last through the generations,” he says, “so when you go back in your closet 10 years from now, you go, ‘This jacket looks better today than when I bought it.’”

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Etheridge had been diagnosed with breast cancer a few months earlier and the show marked her first public appearance since having a lumpectomy, along with numerous rounds of chemo. Looking bald and beautiful, she took the stage to show fans she wasn’t going anywhere.READ MORE: GUIDE: Where To Watch Fourth Of July Fireworks In Philadelphia Region
“It was an opportunity for me to prove to myself that I could get back on the stage,” Etheridge told Radio.com. “This symptom of cancer that I had was not going to stop me, kill me, change me. I was actually going to be better after this and that the chemotherapy that was just sucking the life force out of me wasn’t going to keep me down.”
Before she went onstage, Etheridge shared a few words of advice with her duet partner Joss Stone. “I remember telling her like the wise older one that I am, ‘Oh don’t worry about GRAMMY audiences, they don’t stand up…don’t look to win the audience over because they’re industry. Don’t take it personally,’” she said.
But the minute Etheridge stepped on the stage to sing “Piece Of My Heart,” 35 years after Joplin passed away, she was greeted with a round of applause.READ MORE: Hundreds Gather In Haddonfield For First Major Rollout Of Fourth Of July Fireworks Since Pandemic
“Walking out on stage it was very warm,” Etheridge said. “It was a beautiful, beautiful feeling.”
Her voice was a little raspier than usual, but she was clearly happy to be back on stage. She even gave a little smile as she growled, “I’m gonna show you, baby, that a woman can be tough.”
By the end everyone was on their feet, including Joplin’s brother, Michael, and sister, Laura, who gave an approving thumbs up to the camera.
– Shannon Carlin and Heather Stas, Radio.comMORE NEWS: Wheeler, Hoskins, Realmuto Lift Phillies Over Cardinals 4-0
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This Bourbon Pecan Banana Bread recipe is my all-time favorite banana bread! It is unbelievably moist, packed with tons of sweet bananas and toasted pecans. The top is drizzled with a Bourbon Barrel Aged Maple Syrup glaze that takes this bread to a whole new level! You can easily adapt this recipe to bourbon-free for the best pecan banana bread ever.I can honestly say, I have not had excellent banana bread in a very long time. Of all the recipes I've made, there was always something missing from the taste and texture that kept that bread from being the best. My husband is not a fan of banana bread, so eventually the search for the best recipe stopped.
Recently, I've been seeing banana bread littered throughout my Instagram feed which has rekindled my cravings. However with all of my fall and winter recipes already planned out, it fell by the wayside.Then, this past week my good friends from The Maple Shop reached out to me suggesting a recipe for this Bourbon Pecan Banana Bread. I could no longer ignore the forces of getting a banana bread on this blog!
As if this recipe could get any better, the idea came to their one of a kind, Bourbon Barrel Aged Maple Syrup for a drizzle on top of this magnificent bread.
While this recipe is very simple, it is complex in flavor. Each component of this bread would be amazing on its own, but when they are combined together they create a beautiful marriage of flavor.
- This recipe calls for 3 large bananas. Lots of banana flavor here!
- You guys already know my love for pecans from my recent Butter Pecan Thins recipe. These soft and delicate nuts are toasted before getting tossed into the batter for an extra boost of nutty flavor! For a great deal on pecans, shop at a bulk store like Costco, BJs or Sam's. You'll need 1 cup for the recipe.
- The amount of bourbon in this recipe is 2 tablespoons. It's not much, but it's just enough to provide depth and a mellow background. If you're not a bourbon fan, you could try spiced rum instead. If you don't want to use alcohol, you could omit the bourbon.
- The Maple Glaze:
- When The Maple Shop & I chatted about this recipe, we decided the best add to this bread would be a glaze made with their own Bourbon Barrel Aged Maple Syrup. Of course, maple is a natural pairing with the other flavors, but the bourbon maple syrup adds a smooth and sweet boldness to contrast to the nutty bread.
This glaze makes this bread totally over the top delicious.
If you don't have bourbon maple syrup on hand, you can substitute it with pure maple syrup with ½ teaspoon of bourbon for a similar effect. I definitely urge you to splurge for the real deal. Any leftover syrup is DELICIOUS on pancakes. 😉
| To pick up your own bottle of pure Vermont maple syrup, check out The Maple Shop to order! |
This bourbon pecan banana bread came out so good, that my husband tried some and LOVED it!
How to make perfect Bourbon pecan banana bread
This recipe is really easy. Banana bread can be made in one bowl (although, I recommend whisking together the dry ingredients separate first!).
Heck, you don't even need to break out an appliance! All it needs is a few stirs with a wooden spoon.
Once the wet and dry ingredients are combined, I tossed in the chopped, toasted pecans. My immersion blender came with a tiny food processor attachment which is great for chopping small batches. I use it all the time!
It's a lot less to clean than a traditional food processor.
The thick batter is then poured into a greased loaf pan and baked for about an hour.
I don't know about you, but I actually have a lot of trouble with baking in loaf pans. The outside always seems to cook faster than the inside and I've often been left with raw batter in the middle.
Here's how to avoid under-baked or over-baked banana bread.
Start off baking at a higher temp for the first half of time, then drop the temperature for the last portion of the bake time. I also use aluminum foil to cover the edges so they don't get too brown during the lengthy bake time.
This method has worked very well for me!
I really hope you give this banana bread a try!
For the Banana Bread
- 1 c chopped toasted pecans
- 2 c all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp fine salt
- ¾ c granulated sugar
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter (melted and cooled)
- ¼ c sour cream (full fat greek yogurt can be substituted)
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp bourbon
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 large very ripe bananas (mashed, about 1½ cups)
For the Glaze
- 1 c powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp Bourbon Maple Syrup (regular maple syrup can be used + ½ tsp of bourbon)
- 1 tbsp hot water
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- Prepare a 9x5 standard loaf pan by greasing it well with vegetable shortening. Set aside.
- Chop pecans in a food processor into small pieces (about half the size of a pea). Spread on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in the oven for 5-8 minutes until toasted. Allow to fully cool.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, baking powder & salt). Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the sugar and butter. Mix. Add the sour cream and mix well.
- Next, stir in the eggs. Add the bourbon & vanilla extract. Combine.
- Add in the mashed bananas.
- Once all the wet ingredients are well incorporated, gently fold in the dry ingredients until all the flour is absorbed.
- Fold in the chopped pecans.
- Pour the batter into the loaf pan. Place the loaf pan on top of a baking sheet (in case there is spillage!). Bake for 40 minutes at 350°.
- Once 40 minutes is up, drop the temperature to 325°. Rotate the pan and place foil along the edges in case they are browning too much.
- Bake at 325° for another 20-30 minutes or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for 30 minutes and remove the bread from the pan. Finish cooling on a cooling rack.
- When the bread is cool, prepare the glaze.
- Mix the powdered sugar and syrup in a bowl with a whisk. Lastly, add the tablespoon of hot water until thick drizzling consistency is reached. Drizzle on top of the bread and allow to dry.
- This bread can be stored for several days in an airtight container or frozen for up to 3 months.
Recipe adapted from: JustALittleBitofBacon.com
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes

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- Inarritu wins top DGA prize, further obscuring awards season Updated: Feb-07-16 4:05 am
LOS ANGELES - An unclear cinematic season got a little foggier on Saturday with Alejandro Inarritu's Directors Guild win for his harrowing frontier epic "The Revenant." With only weeks to go before the Academy Awards on Feb. 28, the race is still as wide open as ever.
- Nominations set stage for Oscar sequel, starring Inarritu Updated: Jan-14-16 6:40 pm
Coming soon: "Oscars: The Sequel."
- The Latest: Jennifer Jason Leigh wakes up to an Oscar dream Updated: Jan-14-16 2:10 pm
BEVERLY HILLS, California - The latest on the 88th annual Oscar nominations announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, California, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (all times local):
- List of 88th annual Academy Award nominations is announced Updated: Jan-14-16 9:57 am
Complete list of 88th Annual Academy Award nominations announced Thursday:
- Stars get in a party mood after the Golden Globe Updated: Jan-11-16 4:45 am
BEVERLY HILLS, California - Win or lose, Golden Globe guests get to party after the ceremony ends.
- The Latest: 'The Revenant' wins best drama film Golden Globe Updated: Jan-10-16 11:28 pm
BEVERLY HILLS, California - The latest from Sunday's 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California (all times local):


text: Goblins are rather aggressive beings. They enjoy fighting and when they have no common enemy, the clans start waging wars among each other. You are going to head one of the goblin tribes and try to lead it to victory. The size of your army matters, so recruit as many soldiers as possible before setting out to the battlefield. There are different units at your disposal that can come in handy depending on the situation. Their correct disposition is the second factor that can change the outcome of the combat even if the odds aren’t in your favor!

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Hi, I’m Ari! That’s what Hiamari is for.
Welcome to my blog and thank you for stopping by.
Here you can find the latest trends about design from interior design to home decor, going through fashion and outfits to even food design.
If you have any questions or requests please do not hesitate to contact me: firstname.lastname@example.org, I will be glad to help you. Enjoy!

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Peter Andre’s wife Emily MacDonagh has called out influencers including Zara Holland, who was last week fined for breaching Barbados’ Covid-19 rules, for showing off their flashy holidays overseas while everyone else is in lockdown.
Love Island star Zara, who appeared on the show in 2016, appeared in court last Wednesday in Barbados and was fined £4,417 for trying to flee the island with her partner, Elliot Love, who had tested positive for Covid-19.
Responding to the amount of celebrities who spent the festive break overseas – despite overseas travel being banned unless for a ‘legally permitted reason’, such as for work – Emily, who is a junior doctor with the NHS, believed if influencers were breaking the rules while travelling it shouldn’t be advertised on social media.
‘So many celebrities have been criticised for travelling abroad during lockdown,’ she wrote in her latest column for OK! ’We don’t know the circumstances and some of them could be working, but I think if they are breaking the rules then they shouldn’t be putting it on social media when we’re all stuck in lockdown back home!’
She name-dropped Zara, adding: ‘Former Love Island star Zara Holland was lucky to only receive a £4,417 fine after breaching quarantine rules in Barbados. You have to put the health of other people first and to try and leave Barbados after her boyfriend tested positive wasn’t the right thing to do.’
Emily also shared her thoughts on the current lockdown guidelines, with the country currently in its third national lockdown after Prime Minister Boris Johnson brought back the slogan ‘stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives’.
Speaking about the latest measures, the doctor insisted action has to be taken to help beat the pandemic.
She wrote: ‘We’re in a national lockdown now and I think it’s good we’ve taken action, because things would have only got worse, but I don’t have much confidence that lockdown actually works.
‘We seem to have been doing it for nearly a year and not much has changed, but that’s not to say that I know what the right thing is, and I don’t think we have many options at the moment to prevent the NHS from becoming overwhelmed.’
A rep confirmed the Mysterious Girl hitmaker had tested positive, after reports claimed Peter had been ‘feeling weak and struggling to breathe’.
He later opened up about his diagnosis on social media, while he isolates at home, and Peter was seen praising wife Emily for being there for him over the last few days when he hadn’t been feeling well.
Reacting to this positive test, Emily said: ‘The weird bit about this is he actually hasn’t gone anywhere, he’s the most careful person I know.
‘When it came back positive, I was absolutely shocked. He just stayed at home, it’s so weird, we don’t really know where he’s got it from. Luckily, he’s pretty well… just a bit under the weather.’
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Leo Shallat (@leoshallat)
Native to Seattle, Washington with foundations in hip hop culture, Leo Shallat incorporates movement and lyrical aspects to his multi-disciplinary work. From murals to canvas to interior design, Leo is developing an intuitive symbolic language, inspired by dance, typography, and storytelling. His work explores the intersection of proto-word forms, fine art elements, and everyday objects.
Photographer and director Alena Kozlova. It's about my personal projects mostly relating to the dance, pregnancy, body positive and a body language expression.
Abstract Colorism is promoting the artistic feeling of freedom, for the stereotypical sense of normality...
Original content, taken with my pocket camera... I'm also an artist and a sculptor... my fascination lays with all kinds of dynamics, and I'm a fearless explorer in portraying the various dynamics through... photography – art – sculpture...
Madrid based Belgian artist obsessed with skulls & anatomy.
Art is a research. Instead of copying reality, my focus is to understand what lies behind it, to see past the details & find the essence of things. Every curve has a life, a reason to be, a personality.
Inspired by Renaissance drawings do to their demonstration of a time where art and science were seen as one.
Yolane Rais (@lafilledestournesols)
Photograph | Video maker
David J. Crewe (@davidjcrewe)
Landscape and Portrait Photographer
Senior Editor for www.SLRLounge.com,
Working on creating a better art community through education and collaboration.
ASMP / APA / PPA
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Richard Saul Backer (@dickiesaul)
I remember Kennedy being elected, and many exciting events in-between.
Ragib Choudhury (@ragib)
I chase sunsets and talk to trees
Tim Sandwick (@timsandwick)
Jesus • Graphic Designer | Artist • Visual Funk
France based artist : STREET graphism / Muralism / Street art.
ARCHITECT ARTIST CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Brian Johnson (@brianjohnsonstudio)
amber jam (@amber_jam)
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Bec Adamczewski (@becski)
Illustrator designer and collaborator from the wild and enchanting island of Tasmanian, Australia.
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i am a aspiring artist/illustrator from London,uk.
hope you enjoy my artwork :)
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The sound quality problem inside the car cabin is important in the automotive field, especially in the case of upmarket vehicles. The reductions of the noise produced by internal combustion engines and the emergence of hybrid and electric solutions have transformed the perception of sound by the user. The acoustic contribution of equipment such as the HVAC has become paramount and must be studied from the design stage.
The main purpose of Cevas project is the development of a virtual and acoustic prototyping computer tool on the air conditioners and cooling batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles. The tool should allow to predict the noise generated by ventilation systems and design solutions at less cost and with less delay to reduce noise and improve sound quality of these embedded systems.
The project results will be integrated into a calculation software that will interface with an "acoustic synthesis module" allowing to quantify through listening the influence of each component of the internal circuit on the overall acoustic performance and on the sound quality of the ventilation system.
The integrated tool should allow the assessment following psychoacoustic sound quality ventilation systems criteria for different conditions of use and if vehicle integration.
In order to treat acoustic problems and provide virtual prototyping tools, a thesis work was conducted within the framework of the Cevas project to study and characterize the components of an automotive HVAC.
An acoustic synthesis approach is used to identify the components responsible for the noise generated and transmitted. Their active and passive properties, translated by a source term and a transmission loss, have been studied and represented by thin strips spectra. This definition allows sound synthesis of the noise produced and the study of sound quality using acceptance laws. The source term of the fan is predicted by an original law, based on experimental data and inspired by ASHRAE law. The source term of the flap is characterized by using the Nelson and Morphey empirical method. The source term of the heat exchanger is determined from measurements. The transmission losses of the flap and the heat exchanger are obtained using the scattering matrix. The transposition of the source terms from a standardized test environment to an acoustic medium representative of the HVAC has been studied.
The developed method is based on modelling the source term by acoustic excitation whose amplitude and location are independent of the environment. The application of this method has required analytical and numerical models to characterize the acoustic excitation. In the case of the fan, its propagation in a simplified HVAC is studied. A virtual prototyping tool has been implemented in the case of the simplified HVAC. The noise prediction is confronted with sound power measurements. The use of the prototyping tool allows studying the contribution of each component considering various cases of ventilation.
The thesis can be downloaded from the following weblink: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01555908v1
Maxime Legros. Synthèse acoustique d'un module de ventilation automobile. Mécanique [physics.med-ph]. Université de Technologie de Compiègne, 2016. Français.


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Well last night, I found a little tunnel under the road for cattle. The side with the cattle on it was blocked off, so I slept right at the foot of the tunnel. It was a super good guard from the wind and the noise from cars. I had an incredible quiet time and slept like a baby. I woke up to a snow covered tent which was a little upset. I hate being cold when I have been warm all night. So I put on all of winter gear and started breaking down camp. That didn't take long, but I really was super cold. I got on the bike and headed to Farson as fast as I could. I didn't have any breakfast stuff with me, so I just wanted to eat. I munched on a Clif bar for a while as I headed in. I found out that I was a little closer to town than I anticipated, so I actually biked about 100 miles yesterday.
The first (and almost only) building in Farson was the cafe, Mike's. I went in around 10 to grab some breakfast. Hot coffee was a good start, and when I talked to the waitress, I heard it was 28 degrees the night before. That would explain the snow. Mike's was a tad bit over priced in my opinion. The food was great though. I got the "Chef's mess". It is hashbrowns, green peppers, onions, cheese, and ham with three eggs scrambled into it. All in a mess. And then a bunch of sourdough bread to go with it. The waitress was pretty surprised that I ate all of it. She says about one in twenty people can put down the whole thing. (I'll be honest with you, I was so hungry I could have easily eaten half of another, and if I wanted to make myself a little bit queasy, could have put down another whole one, I just didn't have the money for that.) I left to them making a banana creme pie, which is good, because if I stayed another 2 minutes until it was finished, I would have bought a piece. It was gigantic and delicious looking.
I started on the next highway of this leg and did a lot of gradual climbing through deserts. My favorite part of this ride was a group of about 20 or so bob-tailed deer. They ran beside me, on the other side of the fence, for a good 15 miles. About an hour worth of riding. That was pretty sick. I kept on climbing and got to the Continental Divide. This part made my day. I have always wanted to be there, and then it just popped up on me. I thought it would be relatively down hill after that, but I ended up with another hour of climbing after that. I had to go through another pass, which was fun. It wasn't super hard. There was no elevation sign, but I believe it was around 9000 feet above sea level. I don't know why, but I haven't had any trouble breathing up here. So that is a huge blessing. After climbing all day, I finally got some downhills I got to crush. It was a 7% grade for almost 8 miles. That went by in no time at all. Near the tail end of the descent I came over a little ridge, and there was the Red Canyon. My jaw just dropped. It was incredible. I stood there looking at that thing for a good half hour.
I partially wish I wasn't on such a tight deadline for this trip. I definitely get to see a ton. But at points, I wish I didn't have to arrive at SC. I wish I could just go explore on the bike. No where to go, just go. Maybe some other time.
I made it to the next highway and rode about 7 miles. My legs were super dead. I have gone about 85 miles today. I crawled up this hill to set up camp for the night. It is in a little valley between two hills. I am out of view of the road, and on the other side of the tent are the Bridger Wilderness mountains that I have been crawling through all day. It is breathtaking. Freeze dried food for dinner, with a glass of hot peppermint tea. A quite time and time for bed. I can't complain.
It is views like the one I am looking at right now that make me wish I had a few of my boys around, and a pipe of tobacco to enjoy with them. Oh well, good thing I never want to smoke a pipe again after looking at what that crap does to your lungs when I was at the Bodies exhibit in Idaho Falls.
Still wish the boys were here.

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Here you will find some exotic flower and foliage species that have not been yet placed in their own category. Some are small herbaceous plants, while some are large trees. You will find acalyphas, cordylines, hoyas, pandanus, plumerias and others, including uncommon plants. Day by day we will add more and more interesting items.
This hard to find Amorpho has a different leaf with tapering leaf tips and spectacular prominent midribs (seen from below). Marvelous inflorescence with a red-to-blue spadix coming out of a cream white spathe.
Amorphophallus polyanthus is found in one location in NE Thailand, where it grows in deep shade at the base of rocky outcrops. It is low-growing, with rounded-rhombic leaflets, 3-10 cm long, and nice inflorescences with short spathes with purple tones.
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Anthurium clarinervium has thick, cardboard-like leaves that take the shape of a nearly perfect heart. It sports beautiful, sparkling white veins against a deep green, velvety background.
Four 14-20 cm cuttings - Creeping, fast growing groundcover mesemb with flowers in summer. This is the true A. cordifolia, with hearth-shaped leaves with bumpy surface and purple-pink flowers. It takes more cold than other aptenias.
Aptenias are excellent groundcover plants. They are creeping succulents, potentially evergrowing in the "mesemb" family: Aizoaceae. There are 4 species in the genus Aptenia and this A. haeckeliana is the beautiful one with the yellow flowers.
Interesting deciduous vine from Central and South America
Unusual flowering vine from from Central and South America.
This "Rengarenga Lily" or "New Zealand Rock Lily" is an ornamental and useful perennial with lush foliage and fower stalks up to 1 m tall with abundant bright white flowers.
Butterfly Milkweed is grown as an ornamental plant. It lasts several years as a perennial if kept above 5C. The leaves are the favourite food of Danaus butterflies. If Danaus are in your region, plant a few and they will come !
Wide exotic striped leaves rise from rhizomes. Aspidistra is a perfect indoor plant and a does well outdoors in the tropical-looking garden.
Hard-to-find Japanese selection of "variegated" Aspidistra. It is not striped: each leaf develops a cream white "shade" in the upper part of the blade. Aspidistras make excellent pot plants for shade. They can live indoors or outdoors as they can take real frost.
This selection of Aspidistra elatior from Florida is a particularly nice, wide-leaf, solid dark green selection. It grows to at least 1 m tall with broad foliage that may exceed 15 cm in width. A bold garden specimen.
NEW! Variegated aspidistra with "frosted" mottled leaves and occasional stripes.
This is considered the most floriferous aspidistra, because its large flowers carpet the ground conspicuously during the winter months.
This species has very dark green leaves with remarkable yellow spots. They are glossy, up to 50-60 cm long, with elegant pendant tips. It is frost-hardy to about - 10 C.
NEW!Aspidistra sichuanensis 'Ginga' is most always sold in the trade as Aspidistra 'Milky Way'. - See more at: http://www.plantdelights.com/Aspidistra-sichuanensis-Ginga-for-sale/Buy-Speckled-Cast-Iron-Plant/#sthash.jXWBO7WT.dpuf
Incredibly useful tree. Its leaves are both an insecticide and a healthy vegetable, widely eaten in Asia and used for health. It is very important for ecological agricolture. Leaves and most of its parts are used for different purposes
Very ornamental tropical tree with large, glossy, deep-green leaves and unreal, spectacular white flowers. Fruits are also incedible as they are "cubic". They
All purpose spinach, but also an ornamental groundcover or climber for shady, wet places. Basella alba grows fast in hot, humid and lightly shaded conditions. Leaves can be picked continuosly and are often eaten lightly cooked, as a spinach.
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Village "Voice Picks" mapped - The editors of various sections of The Village Voice have created a Google Map to plot the best in the arts, entertainment, dining and drinking in New York City. You choose which category, location and day you're interested in. The map linked above goes to the default music map so you can choose different categories from there, or just look for the orange "picks map" button throughout the Village Voice NYC Guide.
Manhattan All Night - If you're getting ready for a weekend of partying in the Big Apple, you might want to bookmark this map on your mobile to scope out all-night businesses catering to the city that never sleeps. It plots out places like Restaurants, Delis & Markets, Grocery Stores, Convenience & Drug Stores. (Warning: This map can load slowly) [via]
Many more New York City Google Maps Mashups can be found here and here.
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This Just Might Be The Most Terrifying Roller Coaster EVER!
Are you afraid of heights, lose rails, or falling down?
If so, this is NOT the right for you!
In an amusement park in “Washuzan Highland” in Japan, you can ride this one-of-a-kind roller coaster, peddling your way down the track and through the trees.
Each rider has their own set of peddles that way they can control their own speed. Oh, and be sure not to crash into the person in front of you!
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Video games hardware company Razer is now collaborating with Chinese Internet "value added" service company Tencent as the companies look to combine their strengths to serve the world’s approximately 2.4 billion active mobile gamers. The collaboration between Tencent and Razer will focus on hardware, software, and services.
Tencent will work closely with Razer to optimize Tencent mobile games for Razer’s hardware. This includes including the Razer Phone and mobile accessories like mobile game controllers designed by Razer.
The collaboration will also see both companies working together on optimizing Tencent’s mobile games for Razer’s mobile game platforms and the Razer Cortex mobile game launcher. Razer Cortex is a powerful Android mobile game launcher that optimizes mobile game performance, recommends the latest and greatest gaming deals and launches games from one single location.
Both companies will also explore the use of Razer technologies within Tencent mobile games – such as Chroma RGB lighting as well as THX Spatial Audio from Razer’s audio technology subsidiary THX Ltd.
A final part of the collaboration, Tencent and Razer will also explore additional monetization opportunities for mobile gaming including integrating Razer services.
“Mobile gaming keeps growing at an incredible pace and at Razer, we are poised to be a leader in the segment. We have been working with Tencent since 2008 and are excited to now enter into a collaboration with them to spearhead future innovation in the space,” said Min-Liang Tan, Co-Founder and CEO of Razer. “With the strengths of Tencent and Razer combined, we are going to supercharge the mobile gaming industry.”
Tencent is the global publisher for mobile games such as PUBG Mobile and Arena of Valor.
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Mr. MnV wanted to become a celebrity since childhood. Mr. MnV first posted Musically content on December 2016 during his college days, along with one of his college friends. He usually makes videos in collaboration with famous fellow Musically stars and Instagrammers like Aashika Bhatia, Christine, Kat Kristian, Mrunal Panchal, etc.
He is popular not only for his TikTok performance, but he has a great fashion sense too. This tall, dark and handsome guy rules every outfit he wears, be it a casual T-shirt or traditional attire.
He is usually seen wearing hoodies and a long plain T-shirt. His long T-shirts include bright colors like black, red or green.
Apart from causal, this guy looks super sexy in a traditional sherwani, paired with a light-colored dupatta. In his TikTok videos, he is seen wearing leather jackets and that is just a perfect scene to watch.
He has a great sense of color in pairing his clothes. Like blue with black or red with white, etc. are some of his outfits that are just breathtaking. He has a piercing and usually wears a chain around his neck. Well, to be honest, his beard is just icing on top of all his looks.
He is the official face for Musical.ly in India, thanks to his impressive looks, hilarious comedy skits and excellent lip-sync duets and solo videos on TikTok.
More recently, Manav Chhabra has taken another step towards achieving his dream of becoming a celebrity by being nominated as one of the many contestants that appear on the highly-popular reality TV show, Big Boss: Season 12 (2018).
He realized his passion for acting when he was studying in the ninth standard. He would often participate in acting contests and other performance-oriented competitions. He is often asked about his hair-care routine and the styling products he uses.
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Wakefield secured their first win of the season with a 22-12 victory over Catalans.
Danny Brough celebrated his 500th career appearance with a ten-point haul as Chris Chester’s side put in a solid display against Les Dracs.
The two teams exchanged early scores through Tom Johnstone and Samisoni Langi, but late tries from David Fifita and James Batchelor, along with three Brough goals, put them 20-8 ahead at the break.
Langi bagged his second in the second half to cut the deficit to eight, but Brough’s latest penalty secured Wakefield the win.
Wakefield: Hampshire, Jones-Bishop, Lyne, Tupou, Johnstone, Miller, Brough, Fifita, Wood, England, Batchelor, Ashurst, Arona. Subs: Horo, King, Kopczak, Hirst.
Catalans: Tomkins, Mead, Langi, Wiliame, Tierney, Gigot, Smith, Simon, McIlorum, Moa, Edwards, Whitley, Casty. Subs: Garcia, Goudemand, Maria, Baitieri.


Whatever happened to the girl next door?
Hollywood seems obsessed with synthetic female stars. Ben Walsh watches Katherine Heigl, Angelina Jolie and the rest, and pines for the days of Carrie Fisher and Teri Garr
Friday 22 October 2010
Whatever happened to that girl-next-door actress in Hollywood films – the believable, (the sort of, but not really) attainable, sassy, droll American actresses that graced big-budget Hollywood fare throughout the 1970s and early 1980s? Who are we talking about, pining for? Well, the much-missed likes of Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starman), Margot Kidder (Superman), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, Reds), Debra Winger (An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment), Teri Garr (Tootsie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and Carrie Fisher (Star Wars).
They were (still are) all pretty, clearly, but they weren't overwhelming (oppressively) "beautiful". They were, for want of a better word, real. They had an artless, attractive, acting style, as well as a fierce intelligence, a distinctive look (Karen Allen's lovely crooked smile) a distinguishing "voice" (Allen, Kidder and Winger all possess a rather husky one) and, most crucially, they always managed to have some sort of chemistry with their leading men.
They were sexy. Richard Gere never again achieved the chemistry he had with Winger (Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman? Don't be silly) as he did in An Officer and a Gentleman. Winger's factory girl Paula Pokrifki was vulnerable, flirty, independent and natural; it made perfect sense that this newly qualified Navy flight-officer would endanger a back muscle hauling her out of the paper plant to the strains of Jo Cocker and Jennifer Warnes's "Up Where We Belong".
Who are their nearest equivalents now? Well, the obvious ones are Jennifer Aniston (too glossy, too much sheen, too much sheer tan), Sandra Bullock (funny, but a tad too one-note) and Reese Witherspoon (again way too much sheen, and too fond of gracing glossy magazines). They're all talented comediennes, but they're also far too sleek and lustrous to be considered a girl-next-door type.
The less obvious examples and the most promising girls-next-door around now are Michelle Williams (sensational in Kelly Reichardt's downbeat but lovely one-girl-and-her-lost-dog tale Wendy and Lucy and Thomas McCarthy's The Station Agent), Anna Kendrick, whose chemistry with George Clooney was the most satisfying thing about Up in the Air and the enormously talented Ellen Page, who was captivating in Juno and Hard Candy.
In recent times, other characterful actresses have been sidelined in pretty sub-standard fare; the most glaring example being Catherine Keener, whose considerable talents have recently been shamefully squandered in the likes of Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief (fantasy drivel), Where the Wild Things Are (morose animation) and Hamlet 2 (a Steve Coogan vehicle to be avoided at all costs).
Big-budget Hollywood movies are now dominated by a conveyor belt of front-page-of-a-glossy-magazine "hotties", perfectly interchangeable women, with their flawless teeth, hair, curves, and skin. And, most crucially, they're not terribly compelling actresses. They're seemingly selected for how good they'll look (mainly to teenage boys) on a movie poster. "There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic," Lily Tomlin (Nashville, Short Cuts) once quipped. And the sharp-witted actress is spot on.
Who are we talking about here? Well, there's Megan Fox, star of the mirthless, noisome Transformer franchise, Liv Tyler, the exceptionally beautiful actress who flounces through the Lord of the Rings franchise, Scarlett Johansson, whose credit rating has been crashing since her breakthrough in Lost in Translation, Jessica Alba, Katie Holmes, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jessica Biel, Leslie Bibb and, of course, the high priestess of them all... Step forward Angelina Jolie, the not-so-human star of such Hollywood action duds as Tomb Raider, Alexander, Salt and the frankly unacceptable and unpleasant Wanted. Jolie, indubitably, proved her acting chops in Clint Eastwood's harrowing The Changeling, but there is still something profoundly unengaging about the 35-year-old Californian; something distant and detached.
Put simply, you don't really care what happens to her characters because she lacks a sparkle, warmth, wit, substance. It's reminiscent of John Cusack's sudden realisation that his glamorous former girlfriend, Charlie (Catherine Zeta-Jones), is supremely shallow in High Fidelity: "Charlie's awful," he says. " She doesn't listen to anyone. She says terrible, stupid things and apparently has no sense of humour at all."
Jennifer Garner is another Amazonian model who bestrides action films (Daredevil, Elektra) and Hollywood comedies (including Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Ricky Gervais's mawkish The Invention of Lying) and, while she is more engaging than most, it would have been more pleasing to see, say, someone like the wonderful Tina Fey (who was given a chance with $55m Date Night, where she played a beleaguered thirty-something mother) in these sort of roles instead. Fey might even have rescued Gervais's hopeless comedy.
Perhaps it's unfair to pick on these actresses for their carefully constructed beauty – and there is obviously some sort of romanticising for times past going on here. And, in a lot of the 1970s action films, the women mentioned – Winger, Allen, Fisher – played second fiddle to their hunky love-interests. They were there to make the often topless Harrison Ford and Richard Gere look sexier. Also the demands on the modern actress – the photo shoots, red carpets, glossy magazine interviews – are no doubt more arduous and trying than they once were.
But does the world really deserve, for example, another Katherine Heigl comedy vehicle? Heigl is statuesque, striking but deeply unfunny, as proved by a succession of "comic" turkeys: Knocked Up (no jokes), The Ugly Truth (misogynistic claptrap), Killers, 27 Dresses and, worst of all, Life as We Know, currently in British cinemas and described as a "desperate contrivance" by The Independent's reviewer, Anthony Quinn.
Karen Allen knew how to deliver a funny line: "We never seem to get a break, do we?" she laments in Raiders of the Lost Ark; as did Margot Kidder: "How do you spell massacre?" snaps her Lois Lane in Superman; and so did Carrie Fisher: "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" quips her Princess Leia in Star Wars.
But Heigl wouldn't know a funny line (not that she gets many) if it bit her on her perfectly formed tootsies. Here's hoping that the next successful action franchise benefits from the charming Kendrick, Page or Williams in a lead role.
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- 4 'We're not heroes, just tourists': Swedish police officers on holiday stop vicious assault on New York subway
- 5 Buckingham Palace guard who attacked passers-by in 'most most violent piece of CCTV footage' police officer had seen walks free
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Global warming: Scientists say temperatures could rise by 6C by 2100 and call for action ahead of UN meeting in Paris
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And they’re off in Ottawa…
Yesterday’s Speech from the Throne is the starting gun in the race for the next federal election. The speech provided an opportunity for the government to highlight what it intends to do in the last half of its mandate. Details on how the government will get there will be spelled out in legislation or regulation in the coming weeks or months, or later in a budget or election platform.
Strategically, yesterday’s speech was about three Rs: resetting, redefining and refocusing. In an attempt to change the channel from Senate spending troubles, the government’s goal was to communicate control on its top priority – jobs and economic growth, while at the same time demonstrate an ability to bring ideas to the table, including a package of measures focused on the consumer and further commitments aimed at small business.
The government’s consumer initiatives will include measures to cut the gap between consumer prices in Canada and the U.S., changes to rules that allow cable companies to force consumers to pay for bundles of channels, rather than pay for individual channels they want to watch, lowered domestic roaming fees for wireless phones, and expanded no cost banking.
For small business, the government committed to cut red tape in the tax system, provide tax relief once the budget is balanced, as well as introduce legislation to enshrine into law its One-for-One Rule where a regulation must be removed for every one that is created.
At the same time, expect the government to ramp up its criticism of opposition parties and Leaders, notably Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. Television ads should hit the airwaves around the Conservative convention in Calgary at the end of the month, or shortly thereafter. If and when the ads start, the Liberals learned their lesson painfully under Mr. Ignatieff and won’t sit on the sidelines and let their leader be defined. Expect a response! NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair will be caught in the middle from both policy and political perspectives – squeezed by both the Conservatives and Liberals – so expect him to be more aggressive and passionate in Question Period. So, if you’re a political junkie, in the words of Barack Obama, Game On!
The government will likely want to demonstrate quick progress in achieving the goals laid out in the throne speech, and may decide to bring certain measures into place through a budget. This could mean an earlier than normal federal budget, which makes fall PAC meetings with your MPs all the more important.

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Africa is one of the continents still with indigenous tribes who still maintain their cultures. These are two of the many inventions that have come to define our modern society. But, somewhere in remote areas and rich plains of Africa, there are groups of people who continue to live peacefully without dependence on any of the inventions the modern world values so dearly.
There are about tribes living in Brazil today, totaling aroundpeople, or 0. Nearly all of this reserved land But although roughly half of all Brazilian Indians live outside the Amazon, these tribes only occupy 1. Maria Yanomami.
Remarkable footage has been released of an uncontacted indigenous man who has lived alone in an Amazon forest for at least 22 years. Semi-naked and swinging an axe vigorously as he fells a tree, the man, believed to be in his 50s, has never been filmed so clearly before and appears to be in excellent health. He hunts forest pigs, birds and monkeys with a bow and arrow and traps prey in hidden holes filled with sharpened staves of wood.
Indigenous tribesmen living deep in the Peruvian rainforest have emerged into the outside world to seek help, after suffering a murderous attack by probable drug traffickers. The contact took place across the border in Brazil and was recorded in a video released on Friday. The tribesmen caught a serious respiratory disease after contact, a major killer of isolated indigenous people, but have since recovered. Other tribes living in voluntary isolation on the Peru-Brazil border have been spotted in recent years.


Student Profile: Lindsey Morr
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The Communication Studies department offers students a varied curriculum that prepares them to enter many different communication related fields. Lindsey Morr is a Communication Studies major and Marketing minor who will graduate in May 2010. She is active in several organizations on campus including: Lambda Pi Eta (Communication Honors Society), Gamma Phi Beta, and the Advertising Club.
As a participant in the internship program, Morr had the opportunity to apply course concepts to a “real world” setting. In the Summer 2009, Morr interned at MTV Networks in Los Angeles, where she was mentored by Candice Ashton ‘07, who was also a Communication Studies major.
While at MTV, Morr worked in the VH1 Publicity and Communications department. The majority of her time was devoted to writing press releases and media advisories, compiling press kits to send to media outlets, and assisting with events, including photo shoots and series premiere parties. Morr says that everything she learned as a Communication Studies major greatly prepared her for this internship.
“My media studies and media writing classes provided me with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed at this internship,” says Morr. “I was given more responsibilities as an intern, especially in terms of media writing, because of my strong communication background. None of this would have been possible without my incredible professors and everything they have taught me about communication. I applied practically everything I have ever learned as a Communication Studies major to my real-world experience in the entertainment publicity industry.”
Morr’s internship experience at MTV helped her get another communication-related internship for the current school year. She is now interning at Hutchens PR, a public relations firm in downtown San Diego. Morr continues to utilize what she has learned as a Communication Studies major to gain experience in the PR industry while finishing her degree at USD.


text: Polyrhythms consisting of two or three dissonant pulse trains have been used to investigate rhythmic interpretation. The dissonant rhythmic lines allow for the study of the emergent nature of rhythmic organization. The empirical outcomes demonstrated that the rhythm perceived was contextual, depending on the timing between elements, pulse train frequency, polyrhythm configuration, element accentuation, and individual preferences. The effect of any factor depended on the values of each other factor. Although polyrhythms can illustrate the interactive nature of rhythm, polyrhythms do not shed light on the traditional views of rhythm concerning grouping and temporal extrapolation. Therefore, polyrhythms provide a good context for studying rhythm as a foreground melody at the expense of providing a poor context for studying rhythm as a background-organizing factor for tonal melody.


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2005 started of with a bang. Unfortunately the bang was our Q4 bull rally being shot in the head and turned into hamburger. After three months of positive gains from the October lows January 2005 has been a serious disappointment. The expected near record fund flows were stopped at the spigot and we are leaving January with outflows for the month. Since 1990 the average January inflows have been over $20 billion with recent years over $40 billion. To say we went from feast to famine with a switch to outflows would be an understatement.
We beefed up the portfolio the first week of January in anticipation of that cash and the liquidity wave it would produce. When the cash did not appear the market entered into four weeks of selling as funds scrambled to cover the liquidity crisis. Having the Iraq elections, inauguration, Fed meeting and several high profile stock disasters has completely soured investor sentiment for 2005. It is entirely possible we could see the market turn around after next weeks events have passed but I am beginning to doubt it.
We had three stops hit this week and I am dropping Marathon Oil after it failed to participate in last weeks rally. This brings us back down to our minimum play level while we wait out the coming week. The market is still very over sold but could easily become more oversold if Dow 10400 breaks convincingly. We appear to be in a holding pattern at current support levels but I hesitate to initiate any new longs.
On years where January is down substantially it is common to see the trend continue but with numerous head fakes to the upside as bargain hunters try to buy each successive dip. Instead of trying to pick a direction this week and adding new plays accordingly I believe it is time to stand aside and let the market confirm its next direction.
The LEAPS Trader strategy is to reduce risk as much as possible while in positions and in uncertain times refrain from entering new positions. This market is a crapshoot. Good stocks are being slaughtered on any negative news and buyers are not rushing to pick up the bargains. EBAY last week is a perfect example. EBAY has been bullet proof for over a year and the public crucified them for allocating more money for expansion. The -$20 dip to $85 was not bought and we were stopped at $80 again this week. No buyers appeared despite the potential bargain. On the flip side our DGX play rocketed +$7 higher when they announced a +21% increase in earnings and raised guidance for the year.
Until the market outlook clears I would rather keep our exposure to a minimum. Once a direction appears we will be more aggressive but for this week cash is a position too. Four weeks of selling has produced a lot of red ink but I don't think we are alone.


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Achieving equity for women and girls in the ACT: Third Action plan
Carers ACT was invited to put a submission forward for the third action plan as a part of the ACT Women’s Plan 2016-26. Our submission particularly highlights the needs and experiences of female foster and kinship carers, recognising the importance of supporting all female carers.
Priority areas for the submission were:
• Health and wellbeing.
• Safety and inclusion
• Leadership and workforce participation
• Housing and homelessness
• Appropriate and accessible services
Some of the things that Carers ACT highlighted in the submission was the need for further mental health services and funding to access these services. Better understanding of respite needs and supports for female foster and kinship carers in this space. To ensure information on accommodation, housing and emergency housing supports is widely and easily available. To provide gender specific training to assist female foster and kinship carers in dealing with crisis in the home. And to ensure that barriers to accessibility of services and supports is addressed. Carers ACT are looking forward to seeing the Third action plan work more closely with the Carers Strategy and the Carers Recognition ACT to ensure that all female carers, including female foster and kinship carers, receive the supports they need.
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Advocating for Superannuation for Carers in the Upcoming Federal Election
Carers ACT, Carers Australia and the National Carer Network are proud to announce the launch…
The Release of the ACT Disability Strategy
Carers ACT Media Release A shared vision for a community that cares Carers ACT warmly…
“Unconditional”: New Locally Made Documentary Highlighting the Lives of Carers
Carers ACT is proud to announce the release of “Unconditional”, a powerful and insightful documentary…

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