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NARS Oil-Free. Very natural finish, not dewy but not matte either. Definitely HG material…the coverage is very buildable. Love love love 🙂
eww….had this, hated it! don't ever cry using it bc you'll have a streak going down your face where the foundation melted away.
Dermablend in #15 mixed with MAC F&B in C3
Meow Foundation, for more than a year now. And my jar is not even finished ! I love it so much.
Prescriptives custom blend foundation… So I only have to use it where I need it and its the coverage and consistency I want :):)
Bobbi Brown Moisture Rich Foundation SPF 15…my first foundation ever (not counting the bottle of drugstore foundation I bought at the age of about 12, which was also way too dark for me). It's been over a year since I bought it and the bottle's almost empty now. I'm quite pleased, but not really impressed with it. I still need to test other foundations to be able to compare it though. Currently I'm thinking about testing Bobbi's new "Skin Foundation"…
Mac Studio Fix Fluid. It gives the perfect coverage for those pimples on my forehead ..
Mac Studio sculpt ( love it!) & sometimes,MAC select tint r Maybelline mineral fluid.
They both look natural and have a great staying power.
Mac Studio Fix Fluid, it covers wonderfully and is a perfect match, but sometimes I wish for a foundation that wouldn't be so matte…
that's why I'm so eagerly waiting for Studio Sculpt, maybe that'll be HG material 🙂
Studio Fix. I'm open to switching, but haven't found anything I like better yet. I should probably give MUFE a try.
Lunasol cream foundation
MAC studiofix NC30 (powder).. It's the only foundation that matches my skin and I like the matte finish it gives me. Still searching for something that would beat my foundi.
GA Face Fabric. Looks like skin. Very light coverage but somehow manages to even out my skin. love it!
Smashbox SPF 15 – although I think I got the wrong shade. Also, Dior Forever powder foundation – that is quite nice, but the smell is very flowery and old ladyish. Will keep looking. I want to try MAC Studio Fix Fluid and Sculpt.
MAC satinfinish fluid. I loved the mineralize powder so much I wanted to try the liquid. It's not really Holy Grail for me, but I like it fine. It's about on par with what I was using before(Moistureblend)
SFF. i just ran out!!! I am waiting to reorder until there is something else i want to buy from MAC so im not paying for shipping for one item! Bleh!
Dior Forever liquid and compact (builable coverage), I'd like to try Dior Nude. I've always loved Dior foundations.
I tried DiorSkin Nude this morning and OH MI GOD! It is amazing! I got given a sample by my lovely Dior SA Pam last night and I tried it on this morning and it is beyond incredible! Flawless coverage, blends like a dream and looks so completely natural – more so that any other foundation I've ever tried. Once I see how it lasts on, I'm going to buy a bottle!!!
Otherwise, at the moment I'm using Estee Lauder Double Wear Light and I am very happy with the coverage and staying power.
right now i mix maybelline dream liquid mousse and liquid mineral power. i am digging it 🙂
just bought it and love it! i applied this on one side of my face and mac's sculpt on the other and no one could tell the diff….actually my friends thought maybelline looked cleaner… 🙂
I'm using powder foundation as of now because I don't need the coverage that much and it's too hot for liquid. The brand is Za, just a drugstore brand. Medium coverage, and gives me a matte or rather 'satin' (in mac terms) finish. It also sort of bronzes my face up a little, I don't know how since the color is a match to my skin tone but I look more sun-kissed and less pale and chalky with it on.
Hi Christine! 🙂
I'm using several foundations: Double Wear, Double Wear light, Red earth perfect definition, Maybelline Mineral, Clarins Truly Matte and YSL perfect Touch.
Morning Christine,
I use:
MUFE HD with the green primer. Can't use the foundation without it!
Mac studio Stick
Studio Tech
Lazy days I just
Mac MSF in Med. Buff it in and it's out the door!
I'm dying to try the new Mac foundation though!!


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I like the show, "In Plain Sight," on USA. Mary McCormack plays a perpetually angry US Marshall who oversees people in the witness protection agency. Her partner's name is Marshall, which means he is Marshall Marshall. That is hilarious. (My 3rd grade teacher was named Rose Rose. She was less funny.)
The show is on Sunday night's but I usually DVR it and watch later in the week. That was the plan this week. On Tuesday, I planned on watching the latest episode, which was about an Amish couple that is forced to move to New Mexico.
This proved to be incredibly ironic, since I was forced to scrap my planned Tuesday night viewing because of a case of unplanned Amishness.
Because of some rooftop corrosion that I don't really understand, my building's Time Warner cable and internet service were both knocked out of service. IT WAS HORRIBLE!
I was forced to spend 24 hours completely cut off from the outside world, except for my radio, cell phone, 3G data service, tv at the gym and, you know, the actual outside world on the other side of the front door.
I had to listen to a baseball game on the radio, like some little kid in the early 50's trying to drown out the fears that his older brother was going to get killed in Korea. Only it was worse than that, because John Sterling has gotten really bad at calling baseball games. (On a related note, Wednesday night, John Sterling said this: "And it's a two run shot by Teixiera. You're on the Mark, Teixiera. And the game is tied at 1." Read that again. It will make your brain hurt.)
Once the game ended, I was forced to watch a DVD on my macbook, LIKE A CAVEMAN!
At one point, I tried to watch a youtube video on my phone, but because I was dealing with simple 3G service instead of my usual WiFi, it took nearly three minutes to load. THREE MINUTES!!! Is this Afghanistan?
Finally, I just gave up and read a book, then went to bed.
Service was finally restored at 11:30 the next morning. That afternoon, I got to watch my episode of "In Plain Sight." It ends with the witness returning to her Amish lifestyle. I don't know what she was thinking.
Sports Illustrated: June 20th, 2011.
We'll start this week with a letter.
Barber's likening himself to Anne Frank is a demonstration of more than just "artlessness," as L. Jon Wertheim writes (Tiki Barber Gets Real, May 30). For Barber to compare hiding in his agent's attic in an attempt to avoid gossip columnists to Frank's hiding from the Nazis during World War II is outrageous and perverse.
Abraham H. Foxman
New York City
Abraham Foxman isn't just some resident of New York City. Abraham Foxman is the head of the Anti-Defamation League, the top watchdog against anti-semitism in the country. That seems like a fact that merits mention, especially considering he was all over the news (I interviewed him, in fact,) in the days after Tiki Barber's idiotic comment was first published.
Obviously, I have to mention Dan Patrick's interview with Don Mattingly. Despite the fact that I happily deify Don Mattingly in my every day life, I'm not delusional enough to believe that he's ever given an interesting interview. He generally offers nothing. That's why I found this exchange to be somewhat interesting:
DP: After Giants catcher Buster Posey's injury, what do you think the catcher's role should be on a play at the plate?
DM: I think the catcher is the one who really controls that. I know there's a way to block the plate where you position yourself so that you don't get hurt. The runner can't just come in and politely curtsy. If [Posey's agent] would have come out 30 days before Buster got hit and said, "Hey, I think we should do something about the catchers," [that's one thing], but not after his client gets hit. Then it gets into, "Hey, let's not slide hard into second because I've got a client who plays second or short."
Mattingly offered up a legitimate and somewhat pointed opinion on a semi-controversial issue. Good for him. And good for Dan Patrick for knowing his subject and not turning this into his usual "guy talk, check out that lady in the bikini" style interview.
Lone Star Power by Lee Jenkins
I think the concept of the Mavs being a team of one star and 14 no talent hacks has been vastly oversold. At this point, they have as many future hall of famers (2-Dirk and Kidd) as the Heat (2-James and Wade.) It can also be argued that they have a more talented team. Shawn Marion is a multiple time All Star. Jason Terry is a former 6th man of the year. Tyson Chandler is an Olympian. Peja Stojakovic is one of the top 4 or 5 shooters of the last quarter century. That's not nothing. Still, I'm glad they won. It takes a special type of despicable personality to make me root for an Aryan German to succeed. LeBron James is that kind of despicable personality.
The Jimmer Dilemma by Chris Mannix
I hate, HATE, fold outs in magazines. Why couldn't they just print their first round mock draft on a regular page of the magazine. Just publish it instead of this useless "where will Jimmer play?" article. All it did was rehash the exact same arguments that we've heard for the last year.
Three Grand by Tom Verducci
Tom Verducci sums up Derek Jeter's personality in one anecdote as well as any writer I've ever read in the past 17 years.
Just then former pitcher David Wells, an ex-teammate visiting Jeter at his locker, adds, "Some guys are thick-skinned and some are thin-skinned. Kenny Rogers … love him to death, but he couldn't handle it. Now, you go date Mariah and… . "
Jeter, who once dated Mariah Carey, cut him off quickly and without a chuckle: "Easy … easy."
Wells fell awkwardly silent;
Even famed loudmouth jackass David Wells, who once ripped Joe Torre in a book while he was still playing for him, knows to shut the fuck up when Derek Jeter tells him to.
True Grit To The End In Boston by Brian Cazanueve
The most interesting thing about this article is the little notation on the first page that tells readers they can download an updated version, written after Game 7, for free on any of SI's multiple digital platforms. Last week, I noted the folly of writing about an ongoing playoff series in a weekly magazine. It seems SI has figured out the best way to deal with that issue.
She Had A Secret by Selena Roberts
This is terribly uninteresting. Who cares that this woman lied about her age? It doesn't make the fact that she played with boys any less true. But more importantly, this woman is horrible. She holds in a lie no one in their right mind would ever care about for decades, then decides to admit the truth in order to write a book no one will ever want to read. Then, when someone actually takes the time to turn her stupid life into a movie, she complains about the ending. Fuck her.
Point After by Phil Taylor
I'll end this quote heavy SI review with one more:
Before you take a self-portrait to text to that special someone, ask yourself a question: Am I wearing pants? If the answer is no, back away from the cellphone. If it's yes, double-check, just to be sure.
I hate to admit it, but that made me laugh out loud. It's a joke that's both hackneyed and obvious, but it made me laugh out loud.

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I and a friend are working with a project to create a file system, who manages a secondary memory simulated as a byte array in Java. We want the file system to be a hierarchical tree structure like in UNIX.
We have come quite far, but the paths are not handled correct. I seem to have mistaken the relative folder ./ for the root folder, but it should mean "working directory folder", ie, where I stand now. That is, if I stand in /dir1 as my "working directory" and make mkdir ./dir2 then should dir2 end up as subfolder in dir1. But with me it appears in the root.
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Melquíades Rafael "Mel" Martínez is currently the junior United States Senator from Florida and served as General Chairman of the Republican Party from November, 2006 until October 19, 2007. Previously, Martinez served as the 12th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George W. Bush. Martinez is a Cuban-American and Catholic. He announced he was resigning as Chairman of the Republican National Committee on October 19, 2007 .
Martinez resigned his cabinet post on December 12, 2003 to run for the open U.S. Senate seat in Florida being vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Bob Graham. Martinez secured the Republican nomination and narrowly defeated the Democratic nominee, Betty Castor. His election made him the first Cuban-American to serve in the U.S. Senate. Furthermore, he and Ken Salazar are the first Hispanic U.S. Senators since 1977. They were joined by Bob Menendez in January 2006.
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"Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible."
Mel Martinez
"It's a mix of experiences that I think keeps me in touch with the common man. I'm not someone who's forgotten where he comes from."
"I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms."
"From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States."
"I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important."
"Creating voluntary personal retirement accounts for our workers just entering the work force are a good idea that Congress should examine."
"Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime."
"In America, all things are possible."
"Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents."
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Signs for speed cameras
Mike Noon from the AA writes in the Herald:
The AA is one of the leading road safety campaigners in New Zealand, we support the use of speed cameras and do not condone speeding. But let's take a step back for a moment and consider what is the ultimate aim of the cameras? The answer is obviously getting drivers to slow down.
Fixed speed cameras (the ones mounted on permanent poles) are placed in safety black-spots where there has been a history of speed-related crashes. …
The fact that some of these cameras are still issuing thousands of tickets shows the current approach isn't succeeding and that speeds are not being managed.
Having signs alerting drivers that there is a speed camera area or camera operating ahead will ensure more drivers slow down in these black-spots, and this has to be a good thing.
The other key point in this debate is that the AA is only calling for signs ahead of fixed speed cameras. We support the continued use of mobile cameras without signage, such as vans on the side of the road.
So if a driver chooses to slow down for a signposted fixed camera and then speed back up again, they can be caught by the anytime, anywhere mobile cameras, and of course they can be caught by police officers on patrol. Our call is not about helping drivers to avoid tickets, it's about getting drivers to slow down and to check their speed, especially in high-risk areas.
Having signs alerting drivers to a fixed speed camera is done in Australia, Britain, and most other countries we compare ourselves to for road safety best practice.
I think the AA makes incredibly valid points, and the Police and Government should reconsider their policy. Otherwise the suspicion will remain that revenue is more important than safety.


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After reading alot of archived posts on the board and much searching on the internet, I think I might have come up with a way to fit a aftermarket amp onto where the stock location is and still retain the space for a cd changer. I am not to sure if this will work/fit but I am going to be trying out those new Blaupunkt Class T amps.
Anyhow so in the time I am waiting for the stuff to arrive, I need some help in clearing up some confusing things with the wiring. If anyone knows the answer to this I'll really appreciate it. 1. Is there an adapter that fits into the factory harness, meaning the 26pin Siemens and the 12pin AMP connectors that go into the factory amp? 2. For those who have upgraded their amps, not using the factory harness, where did you find the cleanest grounding location? 3. On different wiring pin out diagrams (Ron's images, Scott Galaba, and BMWRobert)there is some differences. For the Left Front Midrange Speaker: BMW wiring diagram + Yellow/Gray - Yellow/Blue Scott Galaba and BMWRobert + Yellow/Blue - Yellow/Gray For the Left Front Kickpanel "Low" speaker: BMW wiring diagram + Blue/White - Blue/Brown Scott Galaba and BMWRober + Yellow/Red - Yellow/Brown 4. On the front midrange and tweeter, it appears that there is a built in passive crossover from the factory. If there is one, why send two sets of wires to the speakers, instead of just sending one wire? Also, if this is a passive crossover, could I attach those two wires to one channel of output, or should I have a seperate channel for each? Thanks in advance for any help or insight. Cheers, Tomo |
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Display the color combinations of color LEDs without using a Microcontroller you Can Make a Simple Color Cycle Display For RGB (Red,Green,Blue) LEDs
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Golden Years
Ninjago? What in Sam Hill is Ninjago? MARGARET? YOU HEARD'A THIS NEW LEGO TOY? Huh. Maybe it's time to face it. Grampa's gettin' old.
Used to be a time that I was a young'n. Used to be a time, I'd hear "Ninjago Brickmaster LEGO set" and know right away what a Ninjago was and what a Ninjago wasn't. I'd be able to rank it relative to other products and quickly determine just how cool a Ninjago would make me when I showed it to my friends, or if I should keep it hidden from that kid who always smashed everything for fun. Do you still have that kid in your life? Yeah, of course you do.
Even still, there's one thing ol' Grampa still knows. And that's how LEGO is always going to be fun. Always. Like, even if "Ninjago" turns out to be an accountant talking about his latest training in 801.3(c)(1) legal issues, this Brickmaster playset will STILL have more than 140 LEGO bricks which can be used to make ANYTHING a child can imagine.
But even still, I'm sure curious. MARGARET? MARGARET, DID YOU EVER FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS NINJAGO MESS IS ALL ABOUT? WHAT? NINJAS? Huh, guess that makes sense, in a way. Probably the included book of instructions and stories would have cleared all that up anyway.
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Those were my last words. I had spoken them right after I had been injected with some form of toxin. It was their last effort. But maybe I should back up a little. Let you know why I was cornered by cops and lethally injected.
My name is Widow…Okay my real name is Willow but Widow became more suitable. I was born in London. November 2nd if I remember correctly. I was eight when they took my family. They had taken everyone. And that's the way it stayed. Until I was thirteen at least. Then he changed my life forever.


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Jamie-Lynn Sigler's beauty look has transformed right before our eyes. From her breakout role on Sopranos to her newest role in Guys with Kids, premiering September 26, we're taking a look at her changing style. One thing's for sure: she definitely isn't afraid to switch things up!
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Fresh-faced and natural, a young Sigler is ready for her Sopranos debut. (Great brows, girl!)
Whoa! Jamie-Lynn goes from baby-faced to babe with sleek hair and frosted lips.
Jamie-Lynn goes dark at the MTV Video Music Awards. From the extra-dark lips to the extra-dark brows, we're all left wondering… where was the makeup artist?
Going for the gold at the U.S. open, Jamie-Lynn shows off a new blonde 'do and pink lips. (We're just relieved her eyebrows are back to their normal color!)
Back to brown? Jamie-Lynn gets a shoulder-length cut and wears natural makeup at the MET Gala.
Curls, curls, curls! This au natural look at a concert event has made a fan of us. Her lined eyes and bronze makeup really pulls the look together.
Rocking a dark, curly updo, Jamie-Lynn puts all the attention on her eyes with winged, liquid liner and curled lashes.
Jamie-Lynn proves she's all grown up with a voluminous bob and smokey eyes. Looking good, chica!
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6x6 oil - a plein air from last year - havent gotten out yet this fall and the leaves will soon be gone! This is a favorite from last year - shows signs of the desire to go more abstract and loose
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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- jyothisethu said...
Beautiful work...
I love the style which you have used...
congrats... - October 13, 2010 at 7:07 PM
- Linda Popple said...
Lovely! I like your Furlough series, too. Your colors and the abstract qualities are really changing in your work. Very nice!
- October 13, 2010 at 9:39 PM
- Li Mahalik said...
Lovely! You captured the feel of autumn!
- October 13, 2010 at 11:17 PM
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Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil; 14 October 2010 © Joao Quental
Also known as the Blue-necked Jacamar, this species forms a superspecies with its north-bank replacement, the Yellow-billed Jacamar (Galbula albirostris), and in the past these two species were occasionally viewed as being conspecific. The Blue-cheeked Jacamar is found across southern Amazonia, from eastern Peru to east Amazonian Brazil, where it inhabits the interior of lowland forest, both terra firme and seasonally flooded, and in some areas appears to move into areas of várzea forest only during the high-water season. From other southern Amazonian jacamars with largely rufous underparts, this species should be easily distinguished by the yellow lower mandible and the bluish head and neck sides, although these features might require good light to appreciate.
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. 2010. Blue-cheeked Jacamar (Galbula cyanicollis), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=294776
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I realized this morning that I posted this to MaxMSP, which I didn't mean to do… duh. It hasn't yet been moved by a moderator, so I'm re-posting the same basic question here.
I've been working on a design, and some basic implementation, of a music notation-based UI for MaxMSP. I want to use this for an interactive composition patch I've been developing. So far, I've been working in Processing, and I'm getting totally baffled by the task of trying to keep objects "connected" to one another – basically just managing the positions of things. I'm wondering whether building a canvas-like UI in Jitter would be any simpler. And primarily, whether the geometry stuff is any easier to take care of. As an example, one of the big problems I'm having is in keeping staves "attached" to the same page, notes "attached" to the staves, and so on. That is, when panning the score, making sure all the staves move together, and having the notes and so on all "stick" to the staves properly. I didn't expect this to be a problem in something like java, as I just thought the object orientation would take care of that, but I haven't been able to do things so simply, thus far. I found a good java library from Geosoft that can manage these sorts of problems, but it's a full rendering system, so it won't work under Processing (and thus lacks some of the ease-of-use that Processing is great for).
Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated, as I seem to be getting more confused the longer I work on this… If it's simpler in Jitter to, for example, make a "staff" object, which can take notes, and other items, then render that on a "score" object, move it around, move around notes on the staff, and drag/translate the entire score position, etc., then I'll probably give Jitter a try.
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by Dan Rosen / St. Louis BluesPatrik Berglund is excited to be playing in home country of Sweden. Berglund grew up in nearby Vasteras (Getty Images).
Indeed it was. And yes, strange would be the appropriate word to use right now.
During a day trip to Stockholm in late July, Berglund, the young St. Louis Blues center who is from nearby Vasteras, also the hometown of Detroit defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom, felt like he was staring into a mirror as he glanced at the advertisements decorating downtown to promote the Compuware NHL Premiere-Stockholm.
"I saw my own face on the fliers and (Henrik) Zetterberg as well as Lidstrom," Berglund told NHL.com. "That was a little weird. I didn't know about that. It was fun and a little unreal, kind of hard to believe."
While categorizing the Blues' journey to Stockholm as "a business trip," Berglund also admits he's bursting with excitement.
It's one thing to realize his dream of playing in the NHL, but playing an NHL game in Sweden is "almost a bigger dream," one that was too farfetched to imagine just a year ago when Berglund was entering his rookie season and getting comfortable in North America.
"It's a real big deal for me," said the 21-year-old Swede, who had 21 goals and 26 points as a rookie last season. "You're playing in the NHL and going home to play the Detroit Red Wings, our rivals and the team with all the Swedes. It's just an exciting moment."
For Anders Berglund, too.
Anders, Patrik's father and a former teammate of Lidstrom's for Vasteras IK in the Swedish Elite League, had 11 people with him at Friday's game and 22 more, including many business associates, at Saturday's game.
Anders saw Patrik play in eight games last season and he was also in Montreal for the YoungStars Game presented by Upper Deck during All-Star Weekend. This experience will easily top those.
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Patrik played for VIK Vasteras HK in the HockeyAllsvenskan, Sweden's second highest league behind the Swedish Elite League, from 2005-08. He remembers only one time playing at Ericsson Globe, but it was a national team game and he didn't recall the details.
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Home › Forums › Campfire › Editor's Roundtable › How Safe Is Your Food? Investigating the effectiveness of odor-proof bags
Apr 9, 2013 at 11:09 pm #1301516
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How Safe Is Your Food? Investigating the effectiveness of odor-proof bags
Apr 9, 2013 at 11:48 pm #1974752Interestning but not surprising. After having seen trained dogs look for human tracks on pavement, humans in avalanches, munitions, truffle or whatever, it's easy to believe there's no limit.
One important thing to think about when avoiding "scent detection" is wind direction. May be hard to predict bear direction though…
I only have brief experience with hiding food in bags in the smokies one night a couple of years ago. Since where I usually roam there's no need for food-bags it was all new to me. Turned out ok but my measures where literally worthless if a bear would have been close.
But to the question! What's the brand and the weight of the see-through bandana the officer in the 4th picture has over his eyes?
I see multi-purpose use, sunglasses and cap. :)Apr 9, 2013 at 11:58 pm #1974754Well done. I'm glad this experiment was completed, and from a layman, it is a little surprising. Thanks.
Apr 10, 2013 at 12:06 am #1974756Way to go!
Demonstrating marketing 1, science 0, for the claims.
Most excellent study.Cheers
Apr 10, 2013 at 12:09 am #1974758Wow, this is really great, well done organising this.
I find the results unsurprising and a good reminder that there aren't any shortcuts to bear safety.
Apr 10, 2013 at 12:13 am #1974759The Animal Kingdom never ceases to amaze. I'd MUCH rather hear about this kind of thing in the news than the nonstop stupidity of our fellow humans.
Apr 10, 2013 at 1:05 am #1974761Amazing stuff. Many thanks for such a thoughtful and meticulous study.
Apr 10, 2013 at 4:29 am #1974774–
Apr 10, 2013 at 5:15 am #1974778Excellent Study – Much Thanks for publishing it.
Raises a lot of interesting questions in my mind … here are two:
I wonder about the rates of permeability … given how quickly the dogs found their targets it doesn't seem like doubling the bags would help.
I also wonder about vacuum sealer bags used for home dehydrated meals. (If odiferous smells can get permeate out, then can O2 permeate & get in? … same question about commercial freeze-dried offerings)
Ok, Art – when are you going to publish the next set of experiments? :-)
Apr 10, 2013 at 5:34 am #1974779excellent article! I am not surprised by the findings, although I still believe OP sacks likely reduce odor transmission better than a standard zip lock and still have some value when used in conjunction with a proper hang or inside of a bear canister.
Apr 10, 2013 at 5:50 am #1974780Great work. I have always been sceptical of the OP bags and have not purchased them. I assumed they were no better than ziplocks. But I am a little surprised though that neither seems to have much useful effect.
Apr 10, 2013 at 7:08 am #1974799Thanks for the nice comments, guys. We had fun performing this study and the dogs thought it was a great game.
"I am a little surprised though that neither seems to have much useful effect."
@Ben- We only looked at whether the odor-proof bags performed better than ziplocs. We did not address the question of whether either had a useful effect at all. Here is an abstract suggesting that ziplocs may decrease bears ability to smell food, though one has to wonder whether the difference between 6 and 9 seconds is significant in a practical sense.Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 375-376, December 2010Ziploc Bags for Preventing Bears from Smelling Food
Background.—Wilderness activities occasionally result in
bear-encounters. To deter bears from detecting food scents, the
American Bear Association recommends double-bagging food
carried into the wilderness.
Objective.—Our objective was to determine if food sealed
in double-bagged Ziploc bags would decrease the ability of
bears to detect food scents as compared to food in unsealed
Ziploc bags.
Methods.—This was a prospective randomized singleblinded
study performed on bears at Northwest Trek Wildlife
Park, WA. Two black bears (Ursus americanus) and 2 brown
bears (Ursus arctos) were presented with open buckets in front
of their enclosures: one concealing food wrapped in 2 layers of
Ziploc bags and another with empty Ziploc bags. The time the
bears spent at each bucket was recorded for 30 seconds. In the
first phase, Ziplocs were open; in the second, Ziplocs were
Results.—The average time the bears spent at the open
Ziplocs with food and open Ziplocs without during the first
phase of the experiment was 9.573 and 6.613 seconds, respectively
(N _ 75). The average time spent at the closed Ziplocs
with food and closed Ziplocs without in the second phase of the
experiment was 6.25 and 6.8875 seconds, respectively (N _
80). The standard deviation for all average times was 1.5
seconds. An independent samples 2-tailed t-Test demonstrated
a statistically significant difference (P _ 0.032) when compar-ing
the time the bears spent at the open Ziplocs with food to the
closed Ziplocs with food. There was no statistically significant
difference between the controls from both phases of the experiment
Conclusions.—The bears spent a statistically significant
greater time at the open Ziplocs with food compared to the
closed Ziplocs with food. These data suggest that sealing food
in 2 layers of Ziploc bag may decrease the ability of bears to
detect the scent of food from within. We advise following the
ABA recommendations.Clark M. Rosenberry, MD
David C. Hile, MD
Troy H. Patience, BS
Fort Lewis, WA, USARichard L. Sartor, MS
Angela K. Gibson, MS
Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, WA, USA@Tony- I can answer your question about foodsaver bags, though not with a direct comparison. I had relied on the police officers to provide the "scent packets" for the study. Naively, I only questioned type and weight of the product, but not how they were packaged. After the study, I theorized that the seal must be the weak link in these bags and proposed a second study where we would investigate bags that were heat sealed to remove the opening. The officers laughed and told me the dogs would find them anyway. As it turned out, the drugs we used were sealed in foodsaver bags and then wrapped in a heavy canvas outer covering to protect the dogs from accidental exposure. I don't pretend to understand the intricacies of olfaction, but I developed a tremendous amount of respect for the dogs over the course of this study. Scent will find a way.
Apr 10, 2013 at 7:10 am #1974802I'll be curious to see what the manufacturer of OP Sacks has to say – if anything.
Is it safe to assume you provided them with a courtesy copy of your article?
Thanks for your time. Please keep us advised.
Apr 10, 2013 at 7:22 am #1974804I'll say it's things like this (and many others) that make BPL such a useful resource for a newbie like me – and by the responses for experienced backpackers as well!
This weekends trip with my sons Scout Troop is to Panthertown Valley, NC which is located within a NC designated black bear sanctuary and was subjec to a National Forest Service bear alert regarding some bears entering campgrounds and taking down bear bags.
I've been spending some time looking at bear safety myself, and our Troop has done a session on bear safety with the scouts. I have a bear canister I'll probably take along since I have it (UDAP No Fed Bear I got at STP for a good price with coupon) despite the weight. I'd been thinking about the odor sacks for my stuff as well given that the canister does nothing for odors and this article gives me pause to consider whether it is worth the effort.
Apr 10, 2013 at 7:30 am #1974807Phillip,
It is obvious that you will need a "Bag Handler" who has NO food/scent odors.
No foods in the pack.
Sitting 100 yards away during food prep and trailside lunches.
If this individual eats, s/he will have to be naked, and then take a bath.
I'm sure there are other considerations as well.Best of Luck.
Apr 10, 2013 at 8:07 am #1974820Thanks for confirming this. I've already had many very experienced thru-hikers tell me OPSAKs are useless…good to know it's not just speculation.
I suspect you could've made a lot more money by forwarding this article to High Times Magazine instead of BPL. This info could potentially keep a lot of "entrepreneurs" out of trouble.
Apr 10, 2013 at 8:11 am #1974823I asked the officers what would happen if the dogs couldn't find the bags. They told me that they would all buy stock in the company before the article got released.
Apr 10, 2013 at 8:14 am #1974824Did any of the officers mention people using vacuum sealed bags to fool dogs?
For lack of a better option I'm thinking I might vacuum seal individual meals and wash the outside of those meals very thoroughly. Obviously there will still be odor I'm just hoping it will be less odor then if I'd left a hunk of greasy summer sausage out.
For black bear I'm not too worried. Where I hike they are hunted and unlikely to bother me. Grizzly country would be the one place I'd go overboard with the whole vacuum sealing idea.
Apr 10, 2013 at 8:22 am #1974827Excellent work, Ari! I'm glad this research got published – it's just the kind of work that we need here on BPL!
I have a great deal of respect for dogs' scenting abilities, and seriously doubt that bears are any less able. Depending on "scent proof" bags is obviously not a viable technique for food safety in bear country.
Thanks again, and be sure to give your officers and dogs a big "Thank you!" from BPL!
Apr 10, 2013 at 8:25 am #1974829Apr 10, 2013 at 8:51 am #1974843One thing missing from this study is proximity. I certainly understand dogs (or any creature) identifying food when it's literally inches from it's nose, but I'm curious what the rate of detection would have been from 3 or even 6 feet away, emulating the distance a bear bag would be from the snout of a bear. Additionally, trapping odor in a locker with the ability to extract the air easily via a vent would seem to enhance the ability for a dog to detect the bags.
In open air, at 6 feet away, my guess is the results would be very different.
That said, thank you so much for doing this study. We need more of this on BPL.
Apr 10, 2013 at 9:01 am #1974847Out there waiting for you, is a bear. He can smell what you're thinking. He can smell what the weather is going to do. He can smell your car's tire pressure. He can smell that your bike isn't shifting right. He can smell how Stonehenge was built. He can smell the origin of the Universe. He can smell everything.
Apr 10, 2013 at 9:10 am #1974850It's great to know there is little practical difference in odourproofness between Opsak and Ziplok.
One observation from using both:
Odour permeability aside, the actual seals on Opsak bags are, in my experience, terrible. The bags can open in packs far more readily than Ziploc seals. Even if the odourproofness was perfect, it's a huge problem that the seals are so weak. I was putting everything in my Opsaks in Ziplocs, first, as a backup, but now I'll just forego the Opsaks altogether.
If Opsak could greatly improve their seal, I might still buy them, in spite of this study, for the additional piece of mind, but in lieu of this study, with their current seals… no point whatsoever.
Thanks for the great study! Love the care taken in designing it.
Apr 10, 2013 at 9:28 am #1974856This article has saved me money, because I don't see any reason to buy OP sacks again. Hard as it is to take for light and ultralight backpackers, it appears the the only sure way to prevent food from being destroyed by bears or other animals is to use a hard sided bear canister. Hats off to BPL for publishing this article, because you are going to get some flak from OP sack companies, I can guarantee you that.
Apr 10, 2013 at 9:32 am #1974858If a bear is a few feet from food in an odour proof bag I have no doubt that it will zero in pretty quickly.
To me the value of the odour proof bags are when the bear is a few hundred meters away, or some wind. The odour proof bags might possibly mute the smell enough to make it uninteresting in comparison to other natural (or unnatural sources), or possibly increase the difficulty in vectoring in on the source. If nothing else my opsak is coming along anyway to mask the smell of esbit, a task it does admirably.
I look forward to scorning odour proof bags becoming BPL dogma. I will add opsaks to my growing list of things I do or use but don't mention here any more, including but not limited to: trekking poles, hydration bladders, light hikers, white gas stoves, fleece, knife instead of scissors, bear spray, venturing out in the rain, drinking gatorade and using toilet paper.
(Edit: full disclosure, as a forum member, I did not read the article)
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