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I am sitting in seatac airport with five'ish hours to go until I liftoff for home, and want to record some thoughts while they are fresh and juicy. First off, Zoo is a GREAT road mate. Words cannot express his huge contribution to the road trips being extraordinary, but I'll give it a shot..
He is unflinching about being alive and living life his way. I have great respect for him, even when I disagree. His travel is experience is deep, so having him along adds a layer of comfort, especially when he says, "Can we drive down on that iced over river?" (unnamed rental car company, please do not read this). His encouragement of me and other people to go outside their boundaries and live a little makes life interesting and fun. There's so much more, but my point is sincerely that I appreciate you, Zoo. Thanks for the miles and the smiles, dude.
Places #1 Portland #2 Banff #3 Vancouver
I could move to Portland tomorrow and be a very happy man. I will visit Banff many times in the future. And Vancouver is a damn cool city.
Highlights Kennedy School - just plain awesome The Doug Fir and Rontoms are great bars with fun people. Always wanted to drink at the Doug Fir and I learned that the Indie Music scene in Portland is great at Rontoms. My beautiful skull Banff, the beautiful Best Road Biggest Unanswered Question Whistler Village, BC
Favorite People Photo
Best Breakfast - Voula's (Sorry, Portland!) Best Lunch - St. James Gate Gangers and Mash Best Dinner - Tie between Slo Bar (burger) in Portland and Grizzly House (fondue) in Banff
Growth Every single road trip we make includes opportunities taken to plant seeds, leave room for gestation and let the new rear its head. On this trip, I was a lot more emotionally stable than prior trips, so instead my personal growth included being a bit more "one of the guys." My life prior to this didn't really have opportunity to ever be a wingman, play in bars, flirt outrageously, etc. It was a fairly "normal" path towards the American Dream of having the house, marriage and kids. Now I am living a new bachelor life and finding out that not only do I like being alone, but I also like learning more about what I may like in a relationship with each new gal with whom I spend a little time.
The result? I still believe in love and fidelity in a committed relationship. But it's not something I'll die over if I don't get it now... In the meantime I'm having fun.
As for Zoo, I know he had his own thoughts gestating during the trip. I won't presume to comment on them, but I do think they are going to stay underground for some more nutrients and water in the dark.
On another topic, I have some more thoughts about authenticity. It is a slight paradox that I choose to use a pseudonym on this site, but firmly believe in transparency and authenticity. This is brought into relief by one of Zoo's posts where during that evening I gave out personal information, but not info about this site. It turned out for the best, because the fun-poking from Zoo could be hurtful should the site be found. Nothing terrible, just not entirely nice. And here is the crux of the matter... What Zoo posts is not my responsibility, but I do share the site with him. Do I reveal what he posts by revealing the site, or do I let it pass? That question lies unanswered at present. So I also have something that needs more time to grow before I can make a decision.
It's also apparent that I am still learning the fine art (snicker) of being a wingman. It's foreign to me, and my beliefs. In parallel, I also believe that it's far easier to condemn something without every trying it. Greater understanding comes with experience. Easier said, I'll try anything once. In this case, if everyone is out to have a good time then it's a part of the "game." My gut feeling is that I am far too sincere to be a wingman. ;)
Biggest personal disappointment: Ummm... being a little naive about 'signals'
2nd biggest personal disappointment: Not actually engaging in deliberate Sentography, only holistic.
Biggest personal success: Frankly, enjoying myself with unfamiliar women on short notice. I've been removed from that world for a long time... I usually work into relationships over a long period of time. Bars and dating are almost a foreign language to me.
Wrapup Every road trip is a potent reminder that we have to choose to enjoy our days, not wait for enjoyment to find you. Make the things you want happen, but don't expect to be able to plan every road between here and what you want, leave that to chance - it's more fun that way.
And finally, get yourself a mohawk. It's the tits.


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Judging or Being Judgmental? by the Rev. Dr. Frank Kirkpatrick
December 8, 2013, Second Sunday of Advent, Trinity Church, Hartford
The Rev. Dr. Frank G. Kirkpatrick
Isaiah 11:1-10, Romans 15:4-13, Matthew 3:1-12, Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19
One of the persistent dilemmas facing all persons who acknowledge the awesome power of God in history is how to reconcile the theme of divine judgment with the human temptation toward self-righteousness in claiming for ourselves the right to impose on others that divine judgment ourselves.
This morning's scripture lessons are full of references to judgment. In the reading from Isaiah the one who is coming will judge the poor and decide with equity for the meek. In the Psalm, the King's son will rescue the poor and with judgment will crush the oppressor. And, in some of the strongest language in the New Testament, John the Baptist warns that the ax of judgment is ready to cut down the unfruitful trees and throw them into the unquenchable fire.
I suspect that there is some part of each of us ready to cheer on the righteousness of God as the evil doers are given their just desserts. There is something emotionally satisfying in seeing judgment meted out on those who have been doing evil. Extreme examples of such heightened emotions often occur when cries of "fry the S.O.B." are frequently uttered by people waiting for the switch on the electric chair to be thrown or the fatal pill to be administered in this irrevocable and final act of human judgment.
But there is often a thin line between cheering on what we take to be God's judgment and becoming the arbiters of that judgment ourselves, a thin line between judging and being judgmental. When human beings claim the mantle of divine authority in administering moral judgment on other people, they often meet an increasing resistance to the use of moral language at all when the subject involves complex social situations. Passing moral judgment on someone else has come to seem harsh, dogmatic, absolutist, and intolerant. There is a strong sentiment 'out there' that one's moral judgment should be left out of social policy because it seems like a violation of each person's inalienable right to hold whatever views one has without them being judged by others. And there is also a reluctance to judge social policy by moral criteria because it seems to intrude on the secular realm of politics. But politics, as we've said many times before, is the realm of people deliberating together to form a just and compassionate community. And if morals don't have anything to do with the quality of our life together then morality may as well be declared dead. Unfortunately, we've seen many examples, especially when they promise political benefits, of people proclaiming that they have the only true morality and that God, at the final judgment, will send everyone else to hell.
The dilemma this poses for most of us is that we do believe that there are some basic moral values at the heart of God's created order and purpose for history and that these values cannot be compromised. Yet at the same time we are also acutely aware of the danger of dogmatic denunciations of others who disagree with us especially in the area of social ethics. We sense the problem of coming off as judgmental, arrogant, or self-righteous. There is a fine line between knowing what righteousness is and engaging in a self-righteousness that regards the moral convictions of others as unworthy of respect.
There are a couple of points we need to remember as we confront this dilemma of holding tightly to basic moral values without falling into moral arrogance. One, we know that in the end it is not our finite judgments that matter, but God's. We believe that the ultimate outcome of history is in God's hands, not ours. We know the moral treasure God has given us but we have that treasure in earthen and therefore fragile and corruptible vessels.
Two, we also believe that we are called by God to contribute to the events that constitute the arc of history which, as Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, bends toward justice. We are not to be merely bystanders in the work of justice but to be deeply engaged in that work. We have no excuse to abstain from the work of justice because abstention is tantamount to indifference to the crying needs of others.
Three, we must acknowledge the limitations of the application of our moral vision to specific circumstances. We may glimpse with a high degree of certainty what the essential elements are in God's moral vision for the world: we can all agree that these include love, compassion, mercy, peace, reconciliation, and justice. And we also know what is fundamentally incompatible with these values: abuse, indifference, oppression, and hatred. We know that love is more basic to doing God's will than hate, compassion trumps mean-spiritedness, that justice is morally superior to oppression and discrimination, and so forth. These are core moral values that must never be compromised.
Four: we must also recognize that our moral judgments are not primarily against persons, but against principles and behavior. I do not have the right to judge the interior life of other persons. That is for God alone to do. But I do have a right, even an obligation, to judge their principles of behavior and the actions they perform in carrying them out. I know absolutely that racial, sexual and gender discrimination are wrong. I can't make the same absolutist judgment about the state of the souls of those persons who engage in such discrimination.
This leads us to a fifth and final point. We have to acknowledge that the basic moral principles of our faith may lend themselves to a variety of different, but equally worthy, means of implementation. Our earthen vessels are many and are often different in shape and form. In acknowledging our own limitations, including our sinful tendency to identify our own self-interest with God's purpose for us, we acknowledge that there may be real-world circumstantial factors that lead us constantly to adjust the means for carrying out God's will as best we can discern it without morally condemning different means to the same end which other people have proposed. This pragmatic adjustment is not a sell-out or a fatal compromise in our basic moral values which remain the guiding star for our moral actions. But the pragmatic application of moral principles is a morality without self-righteousness, without the judgmental arrogance that assumes that if we know the basic moral principles then only our conception of how they can be carried out is truly right.
For example, one of the basic moral principles which has often been obscured behind the fractious discourse over the Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare), is our basic moral obligation to care for the health of those in need. No person in the Abrahamic traditions could ever conclude that we have no responsibility to provide the best possible health care to those who are in need of it, regardless of their medical condition or financial resources. This is a profoundly moral conviction, yet even some of supporters of the Health Care Act have shied away from embracing this moral conviction head on for fear of being seen as moralistic or judgmental on people who don't share it. As New York Times columnist Linda Greenhouse put it in an essay earlier this week, "One of the failures of the Affordable Care Act saga, it seems to me, has been the president's unwillingness or inability to present universal health care as a moral issue, a moral right in a civilized society. Thus the administration meets the moral claims of its opponents in technocratic mode, one hand tied behind its back."
The moral principle of affordable health care does stand in stark contrast with the moral claim that we are all on our own and owe nothing to the less fortunate among us and that contrast between these two moral claims must be pointed out unambiguously. But for those who agree on the moral principle that health care is a moral right to be met by our society as a whole, then there is an obligation to be open to different ways of achieving the same moral end. We can do this by discerning through reasoned argument what are the most effective means of providing health care to the suffering people in our society. We need to move beyond slogans, rhetoric, and ideology, whether on the left or the right. If we can agree on the basic moral principles at stake, then surely we have the basis for a discussion with people of good will as to what will be the most effective means of implementing those values. That discussion should be informed by the spirit of humility and openness, and an awareness that we are not God and do not exercise the divine right of final judgment upon the souls of those who disagree with us. We are instead merely God's servants who humbly offer up our best insights for bending the arc of justice a little closer to the goal of history by standing firm on the core moral values of our religion without a descent into judgmentalism, arrogance, or self-righteousness.

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37: Grab Bag IV (w/ Katie Willert)
Kirk's on vacation, so pinch-hitter-in-chief Katie Willert is back in the "studio" to fill in for the Kragman. She and Paul are taking it easy for the Los Angeles summer heat wave, eschewing a themed episode entirely. Which means it's time for another "Music Raygun" grab bag episode. Paul goes weirdly nostalgic for this one, digging up a bunch of vintage clips while Katie keeps things ever-so-slightly more current. But other than that, be prepared to follow your hosts wherever the wind and their fancy takes them.


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Making of Project "I" by IXOR VFX
Project "I" is a full CG animated movie based on mythological and fictional creatures and characters. The Making of video is showcasing a brief demonstration of IXOR's pipeline & tools. IXOR was resposible for the entire CG production. Starting from 2D concepts, art direction, storytelling, mood development, cg creatures and dragons, realistic cg humans, digital environments as well as composting all the shots. The final trailer is expected to be released by end of May 2014.
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Grab your earplugs and put up your fists for this month's Superhero Sunday with DC's Black Canary.
The History
Black Canary was created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino, Debuting in Flash Comics #86 (Aug 1947). This was the character's start in comics but it wasn't until 1983 when Roy Thomas had a crack at Black Canary that she became the recognizable figure we know today. Black Canary would continue to grow and become a known name and eventually move past the pages of comics and onto the television screens in the hit cartoon series Justice League, and live action show Arrow.
The Character
The original Black Canary was Dinah Drake she was a crime-fighter who infiltrated and took down gangs. At the start, she was merely a companion to Johnny Thunder but quickly become her own hero. Back in 1948-1950s Dinah, who would become the Black Canary, was a black haired florist in love with Larry Lance a GCPD Detective. She would fight crime and even join the Justice Society. Note: Comics got messy when Earth One and Earth Two crossed over providing Dinah with magic gift of "canary scream" from Aquarius (Later many things were retcon).
Let's jump to 1983. Black Canary was revealed to be the daughter of Dinah and Larry Lance, she is Dinah Laurel Lance (during retroactive continuity). Moving forward Black Canary moved up from stopping street crime and becoming a full on member of the Justice League.
While a team member of JL she was a key member of the Birds of Prey a team that consisted of Oracle (Barbra Gordon), The Huntress, and herself. This team forms while trying to take down the Suicide Squad, and after that mission they stay together and continue to fight crime. Black Canary also popularly has a relationship with Green Arrow; for years in DC she would partner with him both romantically and for fighting for justice.
The new new new story has their lives retconned but reuniting in DC REBIRTH.
Why this hero?
It is amazing how cartoons as a child exposed me to so many characters in the superhero universe. Black Canary being one of those characters. I grew up on comics and cartoons and for DC that meant Batman the Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited. Black Canary was one of those characters I enjoyed watching fight alongside Green Arrow and Batman, but never followed. Then she pops up in Young Justice (a must see DC cartoon) as the Trainer and advisor to a young team of new superheroes. I have since seen her in Arrow and read several stories and now appreciate Black Canary as a superhero who deserves your attention. She is tough, confident and can kick your butt.
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Advocacy can also happen in a world outside our own community. As both a community and individuals, we're able to take action that promotes mental health equality and suicide prevention. This includes raising awareness about mental health, advocating for the use of non-stigmatized language, promoting access to mental health treatment, and generally taking a stand to further the cause of mental health awareness.
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Race + Justice Summit by The Atlantic
The Atlantic was in Los Angeles to explore the changing narrative of race and identity in this country. In our second annual Race + Justice summit we convened civic leaders, activists, artists, policymakers and storymakers for a day of unflinching conversation. The summit unfolded in multiple chapters, as we try to answer the questions: Who is California? Where is Home? What is Justice? and Whose Story Gets Told?
Within that framework we tackled some of the most pressing issues of our time, from immigration and housing, to policing and the role that Hollywood plays in shaping the story of race in America.


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Stoll Berne is currently investigating claims on behalf of women who have had BIOCELL textured implants or tissue expanders implanted.
Premera Blue Cross Data Breach
Stoll Berne serves as interim liaison counsel in a multi-district litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.
Receptionist Services Suit
Keith Dubanevich and Cody Berne are representing a class of customers whose complaint seeks damages for breach of contract for charges for receptionist time not actually used.
Aequitas Securities Litigation
Stoll Berne is co-lead counsel for the investors in the case arising out of the Aequitas Ponzi scheme, asserting claims against Aequitas' auditors, lawyers, and others for participant/aider liability...
Public Accommodations Law re Airbnb
Together with the Law Office of Nick Kahl, Stoll Berne attorneys Josh Ross and Yoona Park filed a class action against Airbnb on behalf of black Oregonians who have been denied access to equal public...
Health Insurer Data Breach
The firm currently represents plaintiffs from multiple states in a proposed class action against a health insurer for harm that resulted when plaintiffs' sensitive information was compromised...
Sony Antitrust Class Action
Steve Larson filed a federal class action against Sony Corporation, Hitachi Ltd., LG Electronics, Inc., Toshiba Corporation and others on behalf of Oregon consumers who purchased optical disk drive...
Auto Parts Antitrust Litigation
Steve Larson and Keil Mueller are currently representing Oregon purchasers of automobiles in over 38 putative class actions alleging that the manufacturers of a wide variety of automotive parts fixed...
"Pay for Delay" Class Action
The firm recently concluded a "pay for delay" class action against pharmaceutical companies that manufacture Aggrenox, a stroke medication.
A.F., et al. vs. Providence Health Plan
Keith Dubanevich and Josh Ross represented children with autism in a class action against Providence Health Plan.
Villanueva vs. Liberty Acquisitions Servicing, LLC
Stoll Berne represented former debtors of U.S. Bank in a consumer class action brought against a debt collection firm alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
Consumer Class Action Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Steve Larson appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court in two cases brought by consumers alleging that their insurers had not provided them with notice that the insurers were charging them higher...
Representation of Victims of Financial Fraud
Gary Berne has represented victims of financial fraud in individual cases and class actions, ranging from claims against brokerage firms to matters involving derivative securities, real estate, TICs,...
In re JPMorgan Chase & Co. Securities Litigation
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FedEx Ground Class Action
Stoll Berne attorneys Steve Larson and Keil Mueller represented Oregon drivers for FedEx Ground in a class action alleging that FedEx Ground misclassified the drivers as independent contractors, but...
Telephone Consumer Protection Act Class Action
Keith Dubanevich prosecuted a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action claim against a national food marketing company.
Cable Services Class Action
Keith Dubanevich prosecuted a class action in New Jersey challenging a cable company's unlawful bundling of cable services with set top boxes.
Farmers Insurance – Overtime Class Action
Stoll Berne served on the Steering Committee and as liaison counsel in a nationwide class and collective action under federal and state laws brought on behalf of approximately 2800 claims adjusters...
Stahlbush Farms Class Action
Steve Larson and Yoona Park represented agricultural employees in an employment class action against Stahlbush Island Farms for failure to pay overtime wages under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act...
Bank of New York Mellon Securities Class Action
Keith Ketterling, Keith Dubanevich, and Keil Mueller obtained a $180 million settlement on behalf of Bank of New York Mellon investors in a lawsuit alleging that the bank operated a deceptive foreign...
BP Unpaid Dividends Suit Following Deepwater Horizon Disaster
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Bank of America Flood Insurance Litigation
Stoll Berne attorney Tim DeJong recovered $31 million on behalf of a nationwide class of homeowners forced by Bank of America to purchase overpriced and excessive flood insurance.
Chehalem Physical Therapy, et al vs. Coventry Health Care, Inc.
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Bottomley Evergreens Class Action
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Rite Aid Class Action
Rite Aid assistant store managers sued the national pharmacy giant in federal court, alleging that they had been improperly misclassified as exempt from overtime when they performed no managerial...
Quantum Residential Class Action
Stoll Berne represented a class of over 2,000 current and former tenants on claims against property manager Quantum Residential for charging illegal nonrefundable bond fees.
Portland School District – Custodian Class Action
Stoll Berne attorneys Robert Stoll and Jennifer Wagner negotiated a $14.5 million settlement in a federal civil rights class action against the Portland Public School District.
Nationwide Automobile Insurance Class Action
Over a span of five years, Steve Larson represented consumers who had purchased automobile insurance from Nationwide and alleged that the insurer had failed to adequately inform policy holders that...
Reynolds vs. Hartford Financial Services Group
Stoll Berne attorney Steve Larson represented consumers that had purchased automobile insurance policies from Hartford in a class action alleging that Hartford failed to inform policyholders that they...
Smurfit Newsprint Class Action
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In re Assisted Living Concepts Securities Litigation
The firm recovered $43.5 million on behalf of investors in Assisted Living Concepts in a nationwide securities class action arising out of accounting for related party transactions.
In re Southern Pacific Funding Corp. Securities
Stoll Berne attorneys Gary Berne and Tim DeJong obtained more than $20 million in total settlements on behalf of shareholders of Southern Pacific Funding Corp. (SPFC) in a securities class action...
Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Securities Class Action
In a securities class action against Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Steve Larson helped to obtain a $65 million settlement as one of the lead attorneys for the shareholders.
Barlean vs. Black & Co.
Stoll Berne attorney Steve Larson settled a securities class action on behalf of investors in Hanna Car Wash securities.


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How to Add Network Options to the Windows 7 Start Menu
If you tend to work with network settings quite a bit, you may want to permanently add the network options to your Windows 7 Start menu. The network options include Connect To (to view or change network connections), Network (to see all the devices on your LAN), and HomeGroup (to see all the devices on your homegroup). If you frequently change networks, you'll be glad to know that by adding these options to the Start menu is quite simple.
Right-click the Windows taskbar and choose Properties.
The Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box opens.
Click the Customize button on the Start tab.
A dialog box opens showing all the different ways you can customize the Start menu.
Select the check boxes for the network options you want to add to the Start menu.
The options are Connect To, Network, or Homegroup.
Click OK twice to close the all the dialog boxes.
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Whistleblower alleges widespread lawbreaking inside Lloyds Banking Group
January 19th, 2012
Another whistleblower has emerged from inside Lloyds Banking Group with well-documented evidence of illegal sales practices in the bank's retail arm.
Ex-Army officer and former UBS and Towry Law executive Ian Taplin was fired by Lloyds in August 2010 after he sought to alert its senior management and board of directors to the alleged unlawful behaviour and fraud.
After being bullied, stonewalled and eventually fired, Taplin set up a public interest website, Don't bank on Lloyds ethics, with a view to alerting the British public both to the shenanigans themselves and to the willful blindness the bank's board of directors, led by chairman Sir Win Bischoff. On the website, Taplin writes:-
"The site has been set up to expose examples of Lloyds Banking Group acting unethically and unlawfully and against the public wellbeing and against the interests of the British people."
Taplin, 53, was an executive in Lloyds TSB's private banking and wealth management arm from 2005-10. In December 2009, January 2010 and April 2010, he made formal complaints to Lloyds managers, board directors and CEO Eric Daniels about staff dishonesty and the unfair treatment of customers – providing all three groups with detailed evidence of the alleged unlawful behaviour and practices.
Taplin's legitimate complaints – just like those of earlier HBOS and Lloyds whistleblowers including Graham Milne and Paul Moore before him – were ignored by the bank. Just like Moore and Milne he was then subjected to a shabby campaign of "bullying, intimidation and threatening behaviour" by management, before eventually being fired.
The practices and behaviours highlighted by Taplin relate to the unfair maximisation of charges and bonuses at the expense of clients and the abuse of customers' trust. In particular, they relate to the bank's illegal discrimination on the basis of customers' wealth. Clients with investable assets of more than £100,000 paid much lower charges on their savings and investment products than less well off clients.
He says the practices and behaviours were widespread across the bank's UK retail sales operations, where brands include Lloyds TSB, Bank of Scotland, Halifax, Scottish Widows, Cheltenham & Gloucester and Intelligent Finance. Taplin said:-
"Such behaviours , I believe, are not only unethical they are also unlawful*. These sales practices are I believe still in place."
The practices and behaviours have led to hundreds of thousands of UK customers being fleeced, said Taplin.
"Also, through the medium of this website, I will explain how bank staff exploited the sales policy to enhance their own bonuses at the expense of others in the bank, and also what I allege are examples of internal fraud. I will also explain, with my allegations, how the investing public have been put at a substantial financial disadvantage, nationwide. My long-running dispute with Lloyds is about examples of unlawful and unethical behaviour by certain bank staff. In intend to write about the allegations of professional misconduct, not about the actual persons involved. I hold no thoughts of malice towards any bank staff. This is not a personal vendetta; it is about professional misconduct. It is undertaken for the public wellbeing and the integrity of the financial services industry and the the integrity of the associated regulatory and legal framework in our Parliamentary democracy. The bank's clients and the British public deserve to know about what I encountered when working at Lloyds."
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text: So my lips have been chapped these last few weeks I'm not sure if it's because of the weather or what but they've been dry lately. I grabbed my Chapstick and put it on while I was kinda spacing out and gosh it felt good to feel the cooling/reviving feeling. It made me think about last Friday when I went to the store and was looking at just an aisle full of all of the different kinds of Chapstick. It's almost ridiculous how saturated the Chapstick industry with companies always coming out with some new twist that is going to be better than the other competitors when really it's just a play on the same base. They claim there's something different that is worth selling whether it be the flashy label or whatever is eye catching to the buyer, but I always go back to the same old Burt's beeswax for a whopping $2.95 because it just always seems to satisfy and do the job. I relate this to religion. Now-a-days, people always try to sell you something new and improved from the old tried and true but there's always a twist to make it more exciting and to attract more of a broad range of people to "satisfy". Like Chapstick, or toothpaste, or anything I buy, I always find myself reaching for what I know is best and what satisfies me most. Like Christ and my church and my faith, when I am in need of anything, I will always turn to Christ, because He and He alone is what satisfies my thirst when nothing else will. 1 Comment


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Brown Still Has USC On His Mind
WR Justin Brown (6-4 210) of Wilmington, DE has an offer from USC and is still interested in the Gamecocks. He also has offers from Penn State, Pittsburgh, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia Tech, Maryland, Rutgers, Oregon, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, and several other schools. Brown has not narrowed his list and says he will do that after the season.
He has already taken an unoffical visit to USC and was pleasantly surprised. "It was real nice down there," he said. "The campus was probably the nicest of any school I've been to. I didn't expect that. I saw the weight room and locker rooms...things like that, and they were real nice," Brown went on to say. He also added, "I like the offense they run and Coach Spurrier is a great coach."
Brown plans to take all of his official visits after the season but does not know which schools he will take them to. He says that playing time is fairly important to him so he likely will not choose a school that has a lot of Freshmen and Sophomore receivers already. He will probably make a decision close to signing day.


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Tips For Treating Panic Attacks
Mental health is one of the last frontiers in medicine because we can't measure the problem..
Learn The Signs For Postnatal Depression
Postnatal depression is a depression that can occur in a woman after she has given birth to a baby..
Can Hypnosis Help You Overcome Anxiety?
Anxiety is a disorder that can negatively affect every aspect of a person's life..
Teenage Depression
Teenage depression is becoming more and more common these days. It is a scary ordeal for parents and teens alike..
Natural Meds for the Treatment of Depression
There are approximately 20 million people who are actively suffering from depression in the United States..
Tips For Treating Panic Attacks
Mental health is one of the last frontiers in medicine because we can't measure the problem. To many of the problems are considered "in your head" that it's only now being recognized as an honest illness. I am a sufferer of depression and panic attacks. It takes everything I have everyday just to get up and be somewhat productive. Although everything appears to be well with my life, in reality it's a day to day existence with little thought of actually getting better. What I hope for is just getting through the day. It's in this spirit that I offer the following suggestions. Remember that I'm not a medical doctor and everyone should seek treatment if only to validate that you're not crazy!
Panic attacks come on at any time of the day or night. If you're ever been so scared and out of control, then you've probably had a taste of what a panic attack feels like to the typical sufferer. Ever feel as if you were in immanent danger and had to flee? That's kind of what a panic attack feels like. It comes on strong, scares the heck out of you, and it's gone.
Here are a few ideas on how to cope…
Once you've finally visited doctor and have been diagnosed with panic attacks you will be offered a course of treatment. In order to make sure the treatment has the best chance of succeeding, YOU need to take control of your life!
1. Participate in Your Treatment
Do not sit back and wait for relief to come by itself! You must remain active and aware of your mind and body's reactions to treatment. Be ready and willing to ask any and every question and to address every concern you have with your health care provider. Open lines of communication will increase the chance of control and success.
2. Be Patient
While many patients respond within weeks or sometimes even days to treatments for panic attacks, no one responds the same. Furthermore, no known treatments for panic work instantly. Be prepared to spend at least a full two months following your initial course of treatment before you start judging its effectiveness. If you still haven't experienced the improvement you were seeking, you can always work with your provider to adjust your treatment plan then.
3. Be Alert To Side Effects
If part of your treatment involves medication, you will likely need to be aware and provide a lot of feedback to the doctor until the dose and type of medicine is determined. Make certain your doctor explains to you the side effects you might have to expect. Usually they get easier to tolerate with time but it's critical that you know what to expect. Your doctor may begin lowering your dosage, or trying alternatives if the side effects are pronounced or cannot be tolerated.
4. Join A Panic Disorder Support Group
If misery loves companionship, then a great source of support, relief and information for those who suffer from panic attacks can be found in the support group. Now I'm NOT a big fan of support groups in that they tend to validate problems instead of focusing on fixing or living with them. I do recognize however that some people find great solace and support in these groups and for those people, please attend and enjoy. Most attendees will be talking about their experiences, their treatments and coping tips.
Just keeping these tips in mind and putting them to use during your treatment may help make you feel much better and increase your chances of treatment being effective.
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Fundamental Information On Depression
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James and Tilla are incredibly creative and this shows in every way they live. It was important to them to be able to fully involved in the creation of the website and its ongoing management.
James and Tilla have a wild damson tree planted in their site's honour, this fairly scarce tree can be found still in the Carmarthenshire countryside and is a gem when you do find them. Knowing the creativity of James and Tilla they are likely to be round here harvesting the fruit for jam.


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Repeat after me:
I wanted to go down to where the roots begin,
To find words nested in their almond skin,
The seed-curls of their birth, their sprigs of origin.
The iambs beat like a healthy heart. The buzz of r's on the tongue is pure pleasure, as is the echo of Yeats. Next stanza:
At night the dead set words upon my tongue,
Drew back their coverings, laid bare the long
Sheaths of their roots where the earth still clung.
Words are fecund, passed along by the past, by forebears poetic and otherwise. In tongue/long/clung we hear the solemn tolling of ancestors. Like plants, like teeth, words have roots, are rooted. Now pay attention:
I wanted to draw their words from the mouths of the dead,
I wanted to strip the coins from their heavy eyes,
I wanted the rosy breath to gladden their skins.
Poetry is acquiescent ventriloquism, borrowed voices. The words are already there. We need only listen to reanimate them, to raise the dead. And now the concluding lines:
All night the dead remembered their origins,
All night they nested in the curve of my eyes,
And I tasted the savour of their seed-bed.
The tongue, lips and palate savor words. Reading a poem is akin to eating and singing, urges that sustain us while giving pleasure. Something about the best poetry is primally human. Eric Ormsby titles his poem "Origins" and sets it like an epigraph, italicized, at the front of The Baboons of Hada: Selected Poems, suggesting a disclaimer for what follows: "My poems are written to give pleasure," he might be saying. "No trespassing for the tin-eared and ahedonic. "In the essay "Poetry as Isotope: The Hidden Life of Words" (Facsimiles of Time, 2001), Ormsby makes clear his poetic assumptions:
In poetry the immediate pleasure is physical. Recurrence, repetition, pattern, design, account for much of the pleasure we receive from poetry; these returning patterns correspond to something in ourselves, to something in nature. They correspond to the rhythm of things. They echo the beat of our hearts, the pulse in our throats, the cadence of our breath. They reflect larger sequences of recurrence: the alternations of night and day, the succession of the seasons, the elemental speech of natural processes; the voices of rivers or of oceans; the various dialects of the winds; the articulated and recurrent cries of birds.
Such talk is heretical in today's culture of colloquial poetry flatter than good prose. Ormsby is a multilingual voluptuary of sound. Born in Georgia in 1941 and raised in Florida, his career has been unusually scholarly and cosmopolitan, qualities that distinguish his verse yet never make it stuffy. He lived for decades in Montreal, serving as director of University Libraries and professor of Islamic thought at McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies. Now he is professor and chief librarian at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. His previous books include Theodicy in Islamic Thought and Moses Maimonides and His Time, and Ormsby has earned a reputation as a discerning critic and reviewer in England and North America. He shares the bookish bent of those other librarian-poets, Borges and Larkin.
The Baboons of Hada is a severe winnowing of Time's Covenant: Selected Poems, published in 2007 by Biblioasis of Canada. At almost 300 pages, the earlier volume contains Ormsby's previous five collections together with new and uncollected poems. It's the volume to acquire if you find Ormsby's work to your liking. Unusually, none of his poems is without merit, though some shine more brightly than others. His new book contains a stingy 68 poems in 118 pages, arranged in four sections without regard for chronology. It's more a representative core sample than a career-documenting cornucopia.
Ormsby is a poet of celebration. He revels in the order and design of creation. He's unapologetic about his abject love of the beautiful. In "Microcosm" he sounds like a fractal-minded Blake: "The smallest beings harbor a universe / Of telescoped similitudes." But he's neither nature mystic nor heir to the Transcendentalists, celebrating and singing himself while ostensibly celebrating Nature. Many of his poems, like Marianne Moore's (perhaps the poet he most resembles, with a dash of Wallace Stevens), are devoted to animals, usually species of elegant design or capable of elegant creation—starfish, spiders, flamingos and anhinga. To fauna he adds flora, often the humble, homely sort still beautiful in design—milkweed, mullein, lichens and skunk cabbage. His sonnet to the last-named flower concludes with these lines:
It always seems so squat, dumpy and rank,
A noxious efflorescence of the swamp,
Until I got down low and looked at it.
Now I search out its blunt totemic shape
And bow when I see its outer stalks
Drawn aside, like the frilly curtains of the ark,
For the foul magenta of its gorgeous heart.
Ormsby is a poet of second and third looks, both curious and reverent, who bows before the world's bounty to see it more closely and to pay his respects. His work is neither confessional nor rancorously political—the default modes of much contemporary verse. Even his overtly autobiographical poems, usually devoted to his Southern childhood, are never preciously self-regarding, building up to the portentous revelation so dear to the hearts of small poets. A poem titled "Childhood Home" would normally be cause for running away in dread. Ormsby turns it into a sad, clear-eyed meditation on memory and its duplicitous seductions:
Somehow I had assumed
That the past stood still, in perfected effigies of itself,
And that what we had once possessed remained our possession
Forever, and that at least the past, our past, our child-
Hood, waited, always available, at the touch of a nerve,
Did not deteriorate like the untended house of an
Ageing mother, but stood in pristine perfection, as in
Our remembrance.
Sometimes I fancy that poets and all writers can be distinguished as writing either for children or adults, and either as children or adults. So many are among the former. Their assumptions about the world are one-dimensional and without nuance. Of course, even a mature-minded poet can, on occasion, slip into childishness.
Ormsby has been dismissed by some critics as a finicky collector of bric-a-brac, a fuddy-duddy of pretty effects. Such assessments reflect a childish earnestness. In a review of Marianne Moore's letters, Ormsby once referred to that great poet, so often patronized as a quaintly cute old lady, as "a tenacious, indeed obsessive writer who could be as cruel in her curiosity as she was exquisite in her perceptions." In Ormsby we see a similar melding of the scientist's ruthless eye and the singer's sensitive tongue.
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This "pre-piano" group class for 4-6 year-olds is similar to Young Musicians, yet with more focus on introducing young children to the basics of the piano. Each class will include activities and games which teach about the layout and range of the piano keyboard, as well as movement, singing and percussion instrument play to allow children to continue their basic music development. Movement activities based upon philosophy and techniques of Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Children will learn to play a few simple rhythmic pieces in duet with teacher.
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Demi Lovato is ringing in the New Year by opening up to Seventeen about her troubled past and her bright hopes for 2012.
The "Skyscraper" singer tells the magazine, "I'm not going to lie, I was self-medicating. I was doing things like drinking and using [drugs], like a lot of teens do to numb their pain."
I'll admit, I did a double-take reading over the quotes and realizing they were coming from a Disney-bred star in a teen mag, not words from a revealing Vanity Fair interview with an aging rocker.
Kudos to Lovato for being honest. It's no secret she was in a rough place for a while: She checked into a treatment center last winter, after a tumultuous few months that played out in public, and in January 2011 acknowledged that she had completed treatment for "undisclosed emotional and physical issues." She later revealed she was battling anorexia, bulimia, and bipolar disorder.
She's had quite the comeback, however, releasing her third album Unbroken this past September, which landed her a Top 10 debut ("Skyscraper"), her first. She also recently sang the National Anthem at the World Series and (rightly) took on her former network over insensitive eating-disorder jokes.
Lovato seems well aware of her role-model status among impressionable teens, so it's nice to see the 19-year-old tell the magazine that now, "I don't drink, I don't do drugs, I don't throw up after my meals, I don't starve myself. There's nothing that I do that I feel ashamed of," and "I think sober is sexy. It's cool. I think it's way cooler to be above the influence than under the influence."
Lovato also opens up about the specifics of how she was able to get better. The interview touches on her support system during her trying 2011: friends (and fellow teen-pop queens) Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez. Despite rumors of a falling out with Cyrus, Lovato says, "There are two people that no matter how many times we fight, we will always be in each other's lives. [Miley Cyrus and I] are strong-headed. Selena [Gomez] and I, we never fight."
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The Essentials of Buying Car Tires
Before one embarks on purchasing car tires, they must know some fundamental information regarding purchasing car tires and how to pick the perfect tires for your vehicle. Even though most of the tire shops can provide you with the proper advice on tires and which would be ideal for you, it is still crucial to know about the tires so as to save time, know what you want and avoid being scammed when you purchase the tires.
Among the first things to distinguish the various tires would be the type and size. The dimensions of these tires are usually written on the sidewall of each auto tire. One of the crucial things in replacing tires would be locating the ideal size to buy. The tire size is signaled by the set of numbers that show the dimension of the rim, the width and the aspect ratio of the sidewall in contrast to the width.
The kind of tire is sometimes shown by an LT or P meaning a light-truck or passenger tire. The next pair of alphanumeric code suggests the speed rating and the load rating. These letters and numbers show the tire's load carrying capability and the capability to dissipate heat at high speeds. The final set of numbers shows the use of the tire. For instance, M+S shows that the tire is an all season tire. These fundamentals are crucial to understand when buying car tires. In order to get the best fuel economy and performance, it is advisable to use the tire dimensions recommended by the manufacturer. The maker of your car will have this number on a sticker on the panel of the gas tank door or the driver door.
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Most manufacturers have tires that are technologically advanced that make your driving experience safer and more comfortable so consider these when you purchase car tires for a better driving experience. Among the most famous types of technologically innovative tires would be the run-flat tires. They are intended to withstand flattening out and punctures if a nail or tear affects it. These tires have a hard sidewall which prevents it from deflecting. A number of the run flats have various ranges which you can drive on while level.
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Oleic acid is a major component of olive oil and has been strongly associated with reducing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure. It can also improve mood, delay aging, and prevent cancer. Keep reading to learn about the many health benefits of oleic acid and why overdoing it is a bad idea.
What Is Oleic Acid?
Oleic acid is a non-essential fatty acid, which means it is produced naturally by the human body [1].
It is the primary member of the omega-9 class of monounsaturated fatty acids. Oleic acid accounts for 92% of cis-isomer monounsaturated fats in the human diet [1].
Monounsaturated fats have only one double bond and are defined by the number of carbons in their omega side chain. Oleic acid is sometimes abbreviated as (C18:1), referring to its carbon structure [1].
Most naturally occurring monounsaturated fats are of the cis-isomer conformation, referring to the orientation of the double bond. Artificially produced trans-isomers are associated with negative health outcomes [1].
This article focuses on the cis oleic acid isomer.
Olive oil is the largest dietary contributor to human intake of omega-9 monounsaturated fats. Other good sources of oleic acid are in the following table [2].
|Fat Source
|Oleic Acid
|Olive oil
|Rapeseed oil
|Almond oil
|Peanut oil
|Rice bran oil
|Sesame oil
|Sunflower oil
Oleic Acid in Olive Oil and the Mediterranean Diet
Olive oil is an important component of the Mediterranean diet [3].
In Mediterranean countries, olive oil is the main source of dietary monounsaturated fats. This is compared to the US and northern European countries where meat and dairy products (20 to 40% monounsaturated fats on average) are more common dietary sources, and also include higher levels of saturated fats [4].
The Mediterranean diet has been linked to a variety of health benefits, including improved heart health, lower blood pressure, lower rates of obesity, and lower incidence of type 2 diabetes [3, 5].
Oleic acid is responsible for some of the health benefits of this diet, but other potentially beneficial compounds in olive oil (squalene, antioxidant phenolic alcohols, polyphenols, and vitamin E) also contribute to these benefits [6].
Mechanism of Action
Oleic acid plays an active role in many body processes by changing cell membrane composition and altering which receptors are present on the membrane as a result.
By changing receptor presence at the cellular membrane, oleic acid has the following effects. It:
- Blocks transport of cholesterol in the small intestine by reducing cholesterol receptor production [7].
- Increases production of heart-protective factors (platelet aggregation and hemostatic factors) [8].
- Increases production of proteins to promote healthy blood vessel function (PKA and RhoA) [9].
- Assists immune cells (neutrophils) in the identification of inflammation. This leads to a faster immune response and faster resolution of inflammation, including inflammation-related symptoms like pain [10, 11].
Oleic acid also serves several functions in neurotransmitter regulation:
- It blocks GABA reuptake, increasing GABA concentration outside the cell, which in turn increases associated nerve transmission in the brain.
- It competes with serotonin for receptor binding to reduce excess serotonin activity in the gut.
- Dopamine forms a product with oleic acid that is necessary for body movement (locomotion) [12, 13, 14].
An increased level of oleic acid in the cell membrane reduces the oxidative damage caused by free radicals [R].
Oleic acid is an important building block of the brain and nervous system. It is required for the formation of myelin and for nerve growth and repair [15].
Health Benefits of Oleic Acid
1) Lowers Cholesterol
Patients at risk of heart disease were often prescribed a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet (Step 1 Diet). Both the high-carbohydrate diet and a high monounsaturated fat diet lowered total blood cholesterol levels. However, patients on the high monounsaturated fat diet saw lower LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides than those on the carbohydrate diet [16, 17, 18, 19].
The cells of the small intestine absorbed less cholesterol when oleic acid was present, because fewer proteins to transport cholesterol were produced [7].
2) Protects Against Heart Disease
The famous "seven countries study" followed Mediterranean men and women over many decades and compared them to their counterparts in northern Europe, Japan, and the US. Those with diets rich in monounsaturated fats, including oleic acid from olive oil, had lower rates of heart disease [20].
The seven countries study was the first to definitively link saturated fat intake to total cholesterol levels and heart disease. Many of the modern dietary recommendations about fat intake are based on this study. Men and women in the "seven countries study" with elevated cholesterol levels had higher risks of death due to heart disease [3, 20].
These protective effects are largely due to a decrease in total blood cholesterol levels, especially "bad" LDL-cholesterol. Limited evidence from an 8-week study of 23 patients with high heart disease risk connects a high monounsaturated fat diet to other heart-protective roles (blood clotting and circulation) [8].
Because oleic acid also acts on insulin sensitivity, blood pressure, inflammatory markers, and blood vessel function those who consume it are protected against heart disease. Oleic acid also lowered cholesterol levels in a study of 180 patients randomly assigned to high- and low-monounsaturated fat diets over 2 years [21].
3) Lowers Blood Pressure
In a study of 23 patients with elevated blood pressure, those assigned to high monounsaturated fat diets all had significantly reduced blood pressure after 6 months. Eight patients were able to stop taking blood pressure medication entirely while on the diet [22].
However, the drop in blood pressure observed in that 23-patient study was also linked to reduced saturated fat intake, and to increased nitric oxide levels stimulated by polyphenols present in olive oil, not just to the high monounsaturated fat content [22].
Rats with high blood pressure fed a different form of oleic acid (bioactive 2-hydroxyoleic acid) decreased their blood pressure to normal levels after 7 days of treatment. These effects were attributed to changes in the production of proteins that control blood vessel contraction (increase in PKA and decrease in the Rho A kinase protein) [9].
Integration of oleic acid into cellular membranes can alter their structure to allow certain receptors to be present or absent at the membrane (G-protein coupled receptors, specifically members of the adrenergic receptor family) [23].
Increased levels of oleic acid in the vessels of rats fed a high olive oil diet were associated with an increase in receptors that lower blood pressure (via PKA) [23].
4) Improves Insulin Sensitivity
When a group of adults (162 healthy people) was put on a 3-month high saturated fat diet, their insulin sensitivity decreased, compared to a high monounsaturated fat group [24].
Ten overweight patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes improved their glycemic profiles (blood glucose and insulin value correlation) when placed on a high monounsaturated fat diet for 15 days [25].
In mice with diet-induced diabetes and obesity, substitution of oleic acid for saturated fats in the diet improved symptoms (hypothalamic inflammation, insulin resistance, and body fat) [26].
Eleven pre-diabetic patients were fed 3 diets, each for 28 days, one diet high in monounsaturated fats, another high in saturated fats, and a third high in carbohydrates. These patients had less belly fat and better insulin sensitivity on the high monounsaturated fat diet [27].
5) Prevents Obesity
According to the World Health Organization, a high monounsaturated fat diet was the best predictor of low obesity rates worldwide [5].
A 28-day diet high in monounsaturated fats decreased belly (central) fat, which is associated with obesity, in 11 insulin-resistant patients [27].
Obese mice directly injected with oleic acid into the hypothalamus had reduced food intake and fat gain and improved symptoms associated with obesity, like hypothalamic inflammation and body fat [26].
6) May Improve the Immune System and Resolve Inflammation
Oleic acid is incorporated into cell membranes and can directly interact with the immune cells (neutrophils) responsible for controlling the duration and intensity of tissue inflammation [10].
Part of the inflammatory response in the human body requires the formation of reactive oxygen species by neutrophils at the site of inflammation. This recruits other molecules necessary for healing. This response is increased in the presence of oleic acid leading to faster resolution of inflammation including the release of cytokines (IL1-b) [10, 11].
Neutrophils are also responsible for pathogen identification and defense. They more efficiently engulfed (phagocytosed) and killed microorganisms when exposed to oleic acid [28].
Recruitment of neutrophils to the site of inflammation increased when oleic acid was present in lung-injury model mice but decreased when tested in a second study in cells outside the body. So, it remains unclear when or where oleic acid may assist with this early response to inflammation [29, 30, 31].
7) May Help with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Forty-three rheumatoid-arthritis patients given a dietary supplement of fish oil (high in omega-3) and olive oil (high in oleic acid) had the best improvements in both pain and mobility compared to fish oil alone or a placebo (soy oil) [32].
8) May Decrease Chronic Nerve Pain
Oleic acid inhibits a receptor (TRVP1) involved in pain perception (sensing of spiciness, hot temperatures, and itchiness). This is part of oleic acid's natural role in inflammation [33].
Injection of oleic acid and albumin at the injury site in mice reduced the pain and involuntary movements associated with paralysis after spinal injury [33].
Albumin and oleic acid also promoted new nerve cell (dendritic) growth in normal mice and in mice genetically modified to have human TRVP1 [33].
Injections of oleic acid in a mouse pain-model reduced pain and inflammation similar to that observed in human arthritis patients [34].
9) Essential for Brain Function
Oleic acid is produced during the repair of nerves (mature axons) and plays a role in the production of myelin [15].
Adrenoleukodystrophy, a rare genetic disorder that leads to the breakdown of myelin, can be treated with a mixture of fatty acids, including oleic acid, to slow the disease and reduce brain inflammation [35].
10) Improves Mood
A small 3-week study (14 to 18 people per test group) associated an oleic acid-rich diet with higher resting energy expenditure (mitochondrial activity), lower anger levels, and increased physical activity [36].
In 20 adolescent boys with ADHD, oleic acid levels in the blood were positively linked with brain plasticity and with the openness and extraversion of the boys' personalities [37].
11) Decreases Age-Related Cognitive Decline
High monounsaturated fat intake was correlated with reduced risk of cognitive decline in a survey of over 5,000 elderly Italians (over age 65) [38].
This decreased risk is probably due to oleic acid's role in the maintenance of neuron structural integrity [39].
The brain's need for monounsaturated fatty acids increases with age in rats [40].
12) May Slow Aging
Long-lived species like humans typically have higher levels of oleic acid in their membranes than shorter-lived species like rodents [41].
Aging is often linked with oxidative stress in cellular membranes and with DNA damage caused by free radicals released during energy production (glycolysis and electron transport). Rats that consumed more olive oil and probably have more oleic acid in the membranes had less age-related oxidative stress because these fatty acids are less susceptible to free radical damage [42].
13) May Prevent Cancer
Oleic acid's ability to decrease oxidative stress in the cell and thus to protect DNA from oxidative damage also lowers cancer risk [43].
Two studies interviewed more than 5,000 women with and without breast cancer about their dietary habits. Women with high levels of oleic acid in their diets were less likely to have cancer [44, 45].
Mice with induced lung cancer (adenocarcinoma) fed an oleic acid-rich diet had increased rates of survival and longer disease-free periods [46].
However, mice with salivary gland tumors fed an oleic acid-rich diet increased tumor progression, possibly due to a lack of other monounsaturated fats in the diet [47].
Negative Effects
1) Very High Levels Are Bad
Omega-9 concentrations (expressed as a percent of the overall cell membrane) in red blood cells of 3,000 patients were correlated with the risk of dying after 10 years. The relationship was nonlinear (U-shaped), indicating that both low and high levels of omega-9 could increase the risk of heart failure and death, with the optimal level close to 14% of red blood cell membrane (low levels less than 13% and high levels greater than 15% of cell membrane content) [48].
Mice fed an exclusively omega-9 diet developed deficiencies in the necessary fatty acids (linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids used to build omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids) [47].
Converting one's diet exclusively to any single fat source can be detrimental.
2) May Have Negative Effects on Reproduction
In mice, increased dietary intake of omega-9 fatty acids (like oleic acid) have been linked to poor reproductive outcomes, including smaller litters of pups and shorter gestation periods. This is likely due to changes in steroid hormone synthesis during gestation [49].
When mothers consumed high oleic acid diets during pregnancy, lowered sperm count and motility were observed in male offspring due to increased DNA damage (fragmentation and oxidative stress) in mice [49].
3) May Not Play a Role in Skin Care
Oleic acid is often marketed as an ingredient in skincare products. But there is little scientific evidence to support any positive claims about preventing UV (ultraviolet) damage, eliminating free radicals, or other skin benefits as either a dietary supplement or in topical applications [50].
Limitations and Caveats
Dietary Studies Include Many Factors
Many of the dietary studies for monounsaturated fats used olive oil as a source of oleic acid. This does not distinguish between omega-9 fatty acids (like oleic acid) or other monounsaturated fatty acids (like omega-3 or omega-6). Other compounds present in olive oil and other monounsaturated fatty acids in the diets also have positive health effects.
Determining which components contribute the most to those effects can be very difficult without tightly controlled studies, especially when diets were self-reported by participants [51].
Men and Women Respond Differently
Population (epidemiological) studies often did not distinguish between men and women, and many intervention studies had exclusively male participants. In the cases where data for men and women were analyzed separately, the effects on blood cholesterol levels were often smaller in women than in men [17].
Drug Interactions
Oleic acid has potential interactions with blood pressure medication or diabetes medications. When taken with one of these medications the combined effect could cause blood pressure or blood sugar levels to drop too low [52, 53, 54].
Some chemotherapy treatments for breast-cancer (paclitaxel) can be enhanced (greater cell death) in the presence of high levels of oleic acid and its derivative compounds when studied in cells [55].
Nutritional Supplements
Most adults receive enough oleic acid in their normal diet [2].
However, you might consider a supplement to increase oleic acid in your diet if you're interested in one of its positive health effects.
For some patients with high blood pressure (hypertension), olive oil or oleic acid supplementation can be as effective as prescriptions at lowering blood pressure [22].
Olive leaf extracts and other olive supplements are often normalized by their oleuropein content to indicate what portion of the supplement is derived from olives.
Olive Oil
The recommended dosage for dietary supplementation for patients with high blood pressure is 2 to 4 tablespoons of olive oil, or 10 to 20 olives per day [56].
Olive Leaf Extract
Olive leaf extract supplements have also been effective in reducing blood pressure in a comparison study of twins [57].
The recommended dosage is 500 mg twice daily [56].
Other Common Supplements High in Oleic Acid
The following oils and extracts are often sold as oils or in capsules. Blends of vegetable oils are common as well.
- Sunflower 0il
- Flaxseed 0il
- Omega complex (usually a mix of omegas-3, 6, and 9). Note that "essential omega" or "essential fatty acid" (EFA) supplements often contain only omega-3 and omega-6, not omega-9
- Macadamia oil
- Sesame oil
- Rice bran oil
- Other vegetable oils (coconut, safflower, etc.) also contain oleic acid, but in smaller quantities
User Experiences
User reviews on olive oil or olive leaf extract supplements were overwhelmingly positive. Many consumers attributed health improvements to these supplements, including reductions in blood pressure and cholesterol.
The most common complaint was receiving oxidized olive oil. This happens when oil is old and has been exposed to air for a period of time, possibly reducing the supplement's effectiveness.
A few consumers reported allergic reactions to these supplements, but it was not immediately clear whether they were allergic to the oil being consumed (olive and other vegetable allergies are possible) or if some supplements contained gluten or other filler compounds.
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Ingredients : Serves 4
9 prunes, chopped
25 g/1 oz/0.5 cup fresh breadcrumbs
100 g/4 oz/0.5 cup butter or margarine, softened
5 ml/1 tsp dried mixed herbs
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
700 g/1.5 lb piece of pork fillet
8 streaky bacon rashers (slices), rinded
Rice or pasta, to serve
Method :
Thoroughly mix together the prunes, breadcrumbs and 75 g/3 oz of the
butter or margarine, then stir in the mixed herbs and season to taste.
Slice the fillet almost in half, fill the centre with the stuffing, then
fold the meat over again. Stretch the bacon rashers with a knife on a
board, then wrap them around the meat. Lay the rolls in an ovenproof dish
and dot with the remaining butter or margarine. Bake in a preheated oven
at 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6 for 30 minutes until cooked through and crispy.
Serve with rice or pasta.
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Libyan troops loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi were today in control of Zawiya after a series of ferocious battles with rebels over the flashpoint town, The Times can reveal.
We were the first newspaper to witness the green flags of the Libyan leader as they were strung up around the main, central square - the scene of the worst fighting - while labourers worked furiously to clean up all evidence of what was until this morning a bloody warzone in which scores have died and many more been injured.
The scene, of mangled tank parts, rubble, glass, scorched walls, looked like the aftermath of some of the worst clashes in the darkest days of the Iraq war.
Gaping holes punched by rockets or tank rounds…