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Rock 'n' Roll Marathon to bring 12,500 runners, concerns about Palm Sunday traffic
About 12,500 runners will descend on downtown and West Raleigh this weekend for the biggest road race in the city's history – a major tourism boost that also brings some logistical worries.
After a full year of planning, the marathon makes its Raleigh debut starting at 7 a.m. Sunday. Runners from 49 states and five nations have signed up for the sold-out race.
"Rock 'n' Roll Raleigh is going to be incredibly good for the entire area," said Denny Edwards, president of the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau. "We're looking at direct visitor spending in the millions and hotel nights in the thousands."
Rock 'n' Roll Marathon is a for-profit event held annually in 28 cities in North America and Europe. The draw is its musical model – a rock band performing to runners at each mile along the course.
But the Raleigh race has drawn some fire because it requires the most extensive road closures ever seen in the city, and the course passes near 20 churches on one of the most important dates in the Christian calendar: Palm Sunday.
Drivers will find roadblocks on some of the busiest streets in Raleigh's core, including Western Boulevard, Hillsborough Street, Peace Street and Blue Ridge Road. A section of McDowell Street – the primary artery through downtown – will be closed from 6 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Several churches have opted to cancel or move services to avoid potential traffic hassles.
Along Hillsborough Street, West Raleigh Presbyterian and Pullen Memorial Baptist are surrounded by the race course. The Presbyterians canceled morning worship and will hold a service at 5 p.m. instead. Pullen is moving to Jones Chapel at Meredith College.
"We just knew after seeing the map, it just wasn't tenable," said Brooks Wicker, church administrator at Pullen. "Our hope is that the City Council will at least look at the liturgical calendar before they set a date in the future."
A few blocks away, Fairmont United Methodist Church encountered the same problem and worked with Rock 'n' Roll to secure access points to cross the race course. Organizers have established eight "metering" locations spread across the marathon route, where police will allow cars to pass whenever there's a safe break between runners. No estimates have been provided for the potential traffic delays at those crossings.
'Enticing' worship
Fairmont's pastor, Beth Gaines, is dropping the traditional service to hold a "Jerusalem marketplace" outdoors along the race course featuring live animals from biblical times. "We're going to celebrate outside and watch the runners go by," Gaines said. "Jesus is coming in on a donkey. ... We wanted to make worship that morning as enticing as it could be."
Rock 'n' Roll's Josh Furlow said race organizers met with each affected church to plot a viable route for its congregation. Residents of neighborhoods along the route – Oakwood, Boylan Heights and University Park – have received multiple rounds of notification to prevent any surprises Sunday.
"This is all about advance notifications," Furlow said, adding that his company has set up a community hotline, 919-996-5046 or 919-996-5047, to field complaints and questions during the race. "It's a live person talking to you. Our whole idea is a personal touch."
Sights and sounds
Raleigh leaders have approved what's called a "postcard route" for Rock 'n' Roll to showcase the city's sights.
Runners will pass the old State Capitol, the Executive Mansion, N.C. State University, Chavis and Pullen parks, the Dorothea Dix property and PNC Arena.
Along the way, they'll get a taste of the local music scene from 27 North Carolina bands selected for the event. Most are rock bands, but the diverse lineup has the Shaw University pep band playing atop the school's Blount Street pedestrian overpass, Irish punk rockers My Three Kilts playing next to Oakwood Cemetery and a Johnny Cash tribute band on Hillsborough Street.
The first sound runners will encounter is Raleigh folk-pop band Saints Apollo, performing from a stage next to the N.C. Museum of History. "We thought it would be a unique opportunity to gain exposure," cellist Kaitlin Grady said, adding that the 7 a.m. gig is "a solid 15 hours earlier than we normally play. ... We've selected our most upbeat songs."
Getting around
For drivers and churchgoers: Check the maps of the affected roads before heading out. Some will reopen by 9 a.m., while others will remain blocked off well into the afternoon. Race officials will reopen roads as soon as the final runners come by. Several major roads will remain open to traffic in one direction only, including Edwards Mill Road, Western Boulevard and parts of Hillsborough Street. Detailed maps and detour directions for each church impacted are available online at runrocknroll.competitor.com/raleigh/road-closures.
For runners: The race starts at 7 a.m., but runners are encouraged to arrive by 6 a.m. to find parking. Only one route into downtown will be open throughout the event: Wilmington Street, which has entrances to six parking decks that will be shared by runners, spectators and church congregations. Runners can buy parking passes for the closest decks during Saturday's Health and Fitness Expo at the Raleigh Convention Center.
For spectators: The course comes within a short walk of the start and finish lines several times, so downtown is the ideal spot to see most of the action. Free concerts at the Red Hat Amphitheater will run from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with awards at 10:15 a.m. To catch a bit of the race without battling for parking, drive to the N.C. State campus or Cameron Village and walk to the course and the nearest rock stage.


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Obituaries November 14, 2012
Michael P. Bartolomeo
Michael P. Bartolomeo, 54, of Newport died on November 6, 2012, in Newport.
He was born on March 26, 1958, in Long Island, New York, a son of Dominick and Helen (Grossman) Bartolomeo.
Mr. Bartolomeo earned his GED and later graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Community College of Vermont. He was a member of American Legion Post #21. He enjoyed working on computers, drawing, watercolors, and most of all raising his daughter Demi.
He is survived by his daughter Demi Bartolomeo and her companion, Greg Crease Jr.; by his grandchildren: Gregory Crease III and Colin Crease; by his sisters and brothers: William Bartolomeo of Colorado, Janice Corkins of North Carolina, Joseph Bartolomeo of North Carolina, Patty Murray of North Carolina, Diane Scalzo of Vermont, Lori Catley of North Carolina, James Bartolomeo of New York, and Peter Bartolomeo of North Carolina.
He was predeceased by a sister, Barbara Thibeault.
Private funeral services will be held at the convenience of the family.
Should friends desire, contributions in his memory may be made to the family care of Demi Bartolomeo, 56 Eastern Avenue, Newport, Vermont 05855.
Online condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch.com.
Ronald B. Simons
Ronald B. Simons, 46, of Coventry died suddenly on November 5, 2012, at his home.
He was born on September 11, 1966, in Sharon, Connecticut, a son of Earl and Joyce (Morey) Simons.
On May 1, 1999, he married Sarah Dunbar, who survives him. Mr. Simons was a truck driver for Simons Logging Company.
He raised registered chickens and showed them along with his registered pigeons at various shows. He loved his constant companion dog named Harley. He enjoyed going to work, reading western novels, and watching television. He especially loved his grandson and spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah Simons, of Coventry; by his parents, Joyce Simons of Barton and Earl Simons and his wife, Brenda, of Brownington; by his children: Bruce Simons of Barton, Samantha Simons and her companion, Allan Bartelson Jr. of Coventry, and Carmen Simons and her companion, Justin Maloney, of Coventry; by grandson Wyatt Maloney; by his brothers: Jay Simons and his wife, Julie, of Bolton and Lance Simons and his wife, Carolyn, of Claremont, New Hampshire.
He was predeceased by his brother Adam Simons in 1987.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, November 17, at 2 p.m. at the Brownington Center Church in Brownington with the Pastor Dan Prue officiating.
Online condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch.com.

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Orange cheese-tart
I didn't plan to make this cake at all, what I did plan was apple tart with apricot jelly... Well, sometimes I just change my mind, especially while experimenting in the kitchen :-) The result is interesting, refreshing and citrusy! :-) If you don't like the strong orange aroma, you can replace them with any soft and sweet fruit: peaches, pears, and apricots should do fine!
Vegetarian bento
Today was one of these days that my coffee needed a coffee... And I really couldn't make myself cook in the morning. So, the vegetarian bento was made! It's fast, it's simple, and it tasted great. Consider that a fancy salad for lazy days.
Sweet Mustard Eggs Bento
I got tired of sausages after yesterday's deluxe bento, so today I decided to have some eggs with lunch. I put some sweet mustard over the cooked yolk to have them pack some punch and they were really interesting!
I prepared also hand-made furikake (rice sprinkles) with ingredients I like, which made my rice extra tasty today!


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I get a lot of emails from people with the above statement, usually followed by some sort of plea for help. I have a lot of sympathy for their situation. I can't even imagine how painful it would be to not have a steady income, have no luck finding work, and have others depending on you to provide an income.
Whenever I see an email like this, though, I usually respond with many of the same points (often tailored to a specific situation, of course, but the ideas are constant). What follows are the things I almost always tell people who are having difficulty finding work right now.
First of all, don't waste another second passing blame for this situation. Yes, the economy isn't particularly strong. Yes, depending on your political beliefs, it's all the Republican Party's or the Democratic Party's fault. Yes, the president (Bush or Obama, choose one based on your political ideas) is/was a horrible individual who is trying/has tried to destroy the country.
Guess what? All of that time and energy spent thinking about or fretting about who or what to blame only reduces your own chances of finding work. You have an immediate problem on your plate that needs a solution. That solution requires all of your energy and your focus, and burning away that energy and focus by passing blame off to politicians or government or employers or former coworkers just takes away from what you need to be doing right now. Save that spitfire for the next election cycle, when you've got a good job. If you're unemployed, don't waste your energy on it – spend it on getting employed.
Remember, no one owes you anything. People don't "deserve" things, they earn them.
The same thing goes for activities you do that help you "unwind" or "escape." So often, I hear from people who say things like "I can't find anything, so I spend all day at home surfing the 'net."
Yes, it's good to relax a bit, but treat your unemployment like it's a job and spend at least forty hours a week specifically looking for work. If you need to unwind, do it in the evenings. I like to unwind with a glass of wine and a game – maybe for you it's a television show or a movie or surfing the 'net. However, I also know that I should only be unwinding if I have something to unwind from.
So, how can you spend that time searching for a job?
One big thing you need to do is expand your search horizons in several different directions. You need to look for jobs outside of your local area and accept that you may need to move to find work. Look nationally – and even internationally – for jobs that match the skills you bring to the table.
Similarly, you may have to seek out a job that's "beneath you." No job is "beneath you." I always think of that snippet from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when I hear that someone won't apply for a job that's "beneath" them…
Clark: "How can they have nothing for their children?"
Ellen: "Well, he's been out of work for close to seven years."
Clark: "In seven years, he couldn't find a job?"
Ellen: "Catherine says he's been holding out for a management position."
If it came down to a choice between picking vegetables for minimum wage or losing the house my children have lived in since they were born, I'd pick green beans from sunup to sundown, go home, and work on job applications. The same goes for flipping burgers in the kitchen at McDonalds or any other job that might be "beneath" me – because, frankly, they're not.
At the same time, you should always be searching for jobs in your field of expertise. Start by polishing that resume until it shines. Go over it and over it again. Have friends review it. Submit it to resume experts – even bloggers who might use it for a post on their site. Get it perfect – and make sure it highlights the best of you very clearly, so that you stand out.
You should also keep your skills sharp and, at the same time, promote yourself. How do you do that? Get involved in the community of people online. Dig into projects that utilize your skills. Never stop learning new things. Open a Twitter account and join in the conversation in your field (and link to your Twitter feed everywhere you can so that it comes up first when people Google you). This is not only part of the job hunt, it's part of what will make you successful in your field.
The final key piece of advice? Don't give up. Never, ever stop searching for the perfect job for you. Yes, you might find yourself working in something that you don't believe matches your skills, but that doesn't mean you don't spend your spare time getting yourself ready to find that perfect job.
Good luck.


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Hulu Adds Full-Length, Ad-Free HD Episodes
Hulu.com, NBC's online venture with News Corp., might not be featuring any content from the Olympics, but the online site is expanding its HD content.
Hulu on Tuesday added full-length HD episodes of shows like Heroes, 24, 30 Rock and The Office. The updated HD Gallery is the first time Hulu has featured long-form videos in true 720p, according to a spokeswoman.
For a limited time, the HD content will also be ad-free, though Hulu did not specify exactly how long that will last.
The HD Gallery currently features seven full episodes from the aforementioned shows, as well as Joss Whedon's Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog starring Neil Patrick Harris, Fields of Glory, and Three Sheets. It also includes six nature and documentary shows, four sports programs, and 10 movie clips.
Hulu entered a private beta in October 2007 and went live in March.


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True Image Lite 2013 is stripped down version of the Acronis True Image backup tool.
And it really is stripped down. There are no disk, partition, email or file backup types on offer here, for instance: just nonstop backup and online backup.
There's no support for full or differential backups, either (it's incremental only). No support for backing up to CD, DVD or Blu-ray. No scheduling, and no option to create a bootable recovery disc.
By way of compensation, though, True Image Lite 2013 is extremely easy to use. Starting a backup is as simple as clicking "Nonstop Backup", choosing some folders to protect - "Documents", "Pictures", "Music", say - and a destination folder. And that's it, the program will back up your files automatically.
Like the full True Image 2013, you can add True Image Online, a cloud storage service. This gives you 250GB of online backup space for $4.99 a month/ $49.99 a year, but a single subscription can be used by up to 5 PCs (and you get a free 1 month subscription to try it out).
A very stripped-down but correspondingly easy-to-use backup tool


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Harwinton girl asks for donations instead of birthday gifts
HARWINTON >> Birthdays are the one day out of the year where being selfish is expected. When a child is asked what they want for their birthday, answers typically range from an iPod to a cell phone to video games. However, one local girl said she wants to give back instead.
Mia Pickert will be turning nine on Feb. 23 and instead of getting presents for her birthday, she told her mother, Jacki Pickert, she wants people to bring something to donate.
"I already have everything I need, a family, a roof over my head, food. With how old I am I got presents for eight years and its time I don't get presents," said Mia Pickert.
Mia said she chose to give back because she wants to help people.
"I feel good because I just like being kind, nice and to help other people who are less fortunate," she said.
Mia is in third grade at Harwinton Consolidated School (Region 10) and said she wants to be a scientist when she grows up.
"I want to do research on animals. I like doing research, I do research in school on animals," she said.
In her free time Mia said she likes to play with her cats, Gizmo and Cinder.
"I like swimming a lot, I like karate and playing with my kitties," she said.
Mia lives with her mom and little brother Eugene, 6.
The birthday girl said she would like the community to get involved and donate their old clothes to charity.
"She came up with that idea all by her herself. It was one of those proud parents moments, I just couldn't believe it," said Jacki Pickert. "It's quite amazing to me and I'm quite proud of her. At her age it's such a selfless act to do, I hope it continues into her adulthood."
All the donated clothes and shoes will be given to the Goodwill store located on East Main Street in Torrington.
"It would be good if families got children involved too, (donating) clothing items, shoes, something people want to be donated," Jacki said. "Originally she wanted to donate to an orphanage but there wasn't anything local."
Mia said she will be having her birthday party at JumpZone in Canton.
"People can bring gifts they want to donate," she said.
Next year, Mia said, she already knows what she wants to do.
"I want people to bring garbage bags ... to clean up littering. I want to help the environment and people," she said.
Anyone who is interested in cleaning out their closets can drop off their bags of clothing to the Pickert's residence at 232 Lead Mine Brook Road in Harwinton. People can drop off clothes throughout the day on Monday and also leave them out front, said Jacki Pickert.
Reach Nikki Treleaven at (860) 489-3121 ext. 324


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Congenital Malformations Registry - Summary Report
Section II
Major Congenital Malformations by Organ System, 1998-2001
Introduction to Figures
The organ system figures in this section present the distribution of 12 categories of major malformations, the relative contribution of each category to overall prevalence of major malformations in New York State, and the contribution of type of malformation within each subset category. Some of these percentages may differ from previous reports because of the new malformation coding system described in the Program Overview .
The figures are all available in the complete Congenital Malformations 1998-2001 Annual Report which is available as an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF, 903KB, 81pg).


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Introducing Our Brand New, All-Local Indie Online Store – 'Shop SoKing'!
We'd like to introduce our Readers to a brand new, fully homegrown initiative that, thanks to Seattle-based Buck, we're launching within our network of six local blogs – Shop SoKing – a new online store consisting of locally-owned, independent businesses in the south King County area!
We're reported (sadly we might add) about numerous local merchants that have gone out of business, empty storefronts, struggling new businesses and more, and wondered, how else can we help our local economy?
Well, just in time for the holiday shopping season, we think we've found a way: Shop SoKing!
Over the last few months we've been developing this new online shopping site with fellow local resident Andy Kleitsch's company Buck, which is a leader in the local, social online shopping area (okay, so Buck did most of the heavy lifting but now it's our turn to step up and promote!).
"By partnering with South King Media, we're enabling local merchants to drive local sales in a new way," Kleitsch told The Tukwila Blog. "Blog readers can now discover great local products, share their favorite products via social media and easily make purchases. It's a great way for blog readers to support local merchants!"
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Every writer -- even the great ones -- suffers rejection. Several years ago, The Missouri Review went digging in the Alfred A. Knopf archives and retrieved a collection of in-house readers' reports documenting the publisher's rejection of several notable authors. In "Publication is Not Recommended: From the Knopf Archives," the Review reprinted many of the reports. Here's an excerpt of the article, featuring the original text of several rejections.
Jorge Luis Borges: "El Aleph," 1949
For extreme erudition, fantasticalness, and general obliquity I have never read a collection of stories (are they stories, most of them?) to equal this. In reality these are moral parables, theological discussions, nightmares, and pure displays of the most recondite information, larded only two or three times with real stories. If you could combine the early Aldous Huxley, the H.G. Wells of The Time Machine and The Crystal Egg, and the most arcane efforts of Corvo you might get something like this. I'm afraid that they are utterly untranslatable, at least into anything that could be expected to sell more than 750 copies in the United States. That they are remarkable is beyond argument, but their peculiar variety of remarkableness seems to me to legislate against them as anything but $50-a-pound caviar to the general (including me). I'd decline with appropriate expressions of astonishment.
Knopf considered El Aleph the same year it was published in Spanish. In 1956 Emece published a revised edition of the book under the title "Obras Completas," volume 7. The book didn't appear in English until 1970, when Dutton released "The Aleph and Other Stories: 1933-1969."
This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune and by digital edition via email. Click here to learn about joining Printers Row.
Italo Calvino: "L'entrata in Guerra," 1955
As I have already told Mrs. Knopf, Calvino seems to me an authentically gifted writer, mature, confident, and possessing the undistorted clarity of vision (unsentimental but not unfeeling) which we popularly attribute to a child. These three long episodes, all dealing withItaly'sdeclaration of war (the "stab in the back") are quite remarkable: the very first, describing the expedition of a troop of Fascist youth-militia (boy scouts, really) to Menton, their pillaging of the town, and the narrator's reaction and action, is a real beauty. All three stories document a watershed in one young man's experience; the impinging of the world on the essentially private preoccupations of the adolescent. As you know, I admired Calvino's first: the Trap-door Spider novel ("The Path to the Nest of Spiders"). He is one of the few, few, few fresh voices I have hit on in current Italian writing. There is no reason to suppose that you can sell more than 1600, 1800, 2000 of this book. But IF you are interested in gambling on what ought to be a rich future, go ahead and publish. It will certainly do you credit.
During the German occupation of Italy, Calvino joined guerrilla forces in the Ligurian mountains that were fighting for Italian control. This experience provided material for much of "L'entrata in guerra" and for some stories in "Ultimo viene il corvo." "L'entrata in guerra" has yet to be published in English.
Joyce Carol Oates: "Vendetta," 1959
Miss Oates has talent, and for all I know the long-hairs may single this out as a masterpiece. But to me it is nearly incomprehensible. Lord knows I tried, because I was tremendously impressed by Miss Oates' story, "In the Old World."
This "novel" concerns a boy without a last name who leaves home for unspecified reasons, headed for a place never specified, who encounters various people who give him lifts toward his unknown destination. The journey goes on through a mysterious countryside in an oppressive atmosphere, but one can never see the countryside nor feel the atmosphere. In counterpoint to this is the story of another boy who keeps helping his father repair a barn which keeps falling apart.
Now all this is no doubt allegorical and profoundly meaningful to the author. If you can imagine a mixture of Rex Warner and Kafka writing about American hillbillies, you can guess what this is. I defer to Grove or New Directions.
Knopf considered this early manuscript and another, "The Brittle Splendor of Artifice," when Oates was only 21 years old. Her first publication came the same year, when her story "In the Old World" appeared in the August issue of Mademoiselle. Her prolific publishing career would really begin four years later, with the release of the short-story collection "By the North Gate" (New York: Vanguard Press, 1963).
Cynthia Ozick: "The Conversion of John Andersmall," 1961
Employing the meliorative device of the stylized dialect story in dealing with the painful experience of Jewish self-hatred, Miss Ozick has composed a bitter-sweet fantasy that, for all her considerable talents, simply fails to come off. While clearly recognizing the intrinsic limitations of the dialect novel (in a letter accompanying the [manuscript] she cites its "built-in style ... word association ... word discriminations") her decision to utilize a dialect-speaking narrator — in an attempt, seemingly, to make a virtue of necessity — is a tactical blunder which only serves to amplify those qualities which, if anything, demanded attenuation. For now one has to deal, as well, with a built-in point of view — the narrator becomes, as it were, only a personalization of the mode itself — and the effect is one of utter monotony.
More substantively, Miss Ozick's tale of a son's alienation from his immigrant parents; his marriage to a wealthy Italian society girl and his fury at her conversion to Judaism, becomes increasingly fey and outrageously phony as a series of tricks and sentimental non sequiturs reunites them all in a final outpouring of chickensoup and sympathy.
The author mentions that she is working on a large work and I certainly think that we ought to ask for a chance to see it on completion. I view her present submission as an extended exercise (and an honorable failure) which while it doesn't work, suggests that she is, perhaps, just about to turn the corner.
"The Conversion of John Andersmall" was never published. Ozick's first novel, "Trust," was published by New American Library in 1966. In 1971, Knopf did publish "The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories," a prize-winning collection of short fiction which firmly established Ozick's literary reputation. She had a long career with Knopf; her latest work was published by Houghton Mifflin.
Sylvia Plath: "The Bell Jar," 1962-63
First rejection:
I'm not sure what (the British literary publisher) Heinemann's sees in this first novel unless it is a kind of youthful American female brashness. But there certainly isn't enough genuine talent for us to take notice.
Final rejection:
This is an ill-conceived, poorly written novel, and we would be doing neither ourselves nor the late Miss Plath any good service by offering it to the American public. The heroine of the book lacks depth, sensitivity and self-knowledge — she is, in short, a rather naif prig — and thus the reader can hardly be expected to become deeply concerned with the girl's struggle with insanity. Moreover, the author fails to make clear the psychological motives behind the heroine's plunge into madness.— Her boyfriend is a "drip"; and she's frustrated at not being admitted to an Advanced Writing course at college ... but these are hardly grounds for suicide. Or if they are, they are hardly interesting grounds.
The prose is uncertain, and occasionally atrocious. It wanders from the "turgid-poetic" ("Mirage-grey at the bottom of their granite canyons, the hot streets wavered in the sun, the car tops sizzled and glittered, and the dry, cindery dust flew into my eyes and down my throat"), to the homely aphoristic ("There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."). The general effect is one of emptiness, awkwardness and banality.
If this novel could be regarded as an articulate psychological document, we might, considering the circumstances of the author's death, and editorial loyalty, forget the book's failings. But it tells us nothing — except that Miss Plath turned out a quite unsuccessful first novel. I don't doubt that certain elements of the British press will puff the book nicely, but Mrs. Jones' original four-line report strikes me as the only honest and responsible critical reaction to the work.
In a letter to Plath, Editor Judith Jones was kind but firm in her rejection of "The Bell Jar," ultimately pointing to Plath's failure to mold her material in a "novelistic way." Once the novel was published, many critics echoed Jones' sentiments. The Times Literary Supplement wrote that "the author can certainly write," but that the novel lacked structure and shape. The American rejections and the later criticisms were disheartening to Plath, even though she dismissed her own work as amateurish. Regardless, she seemed genuinely excited about her new novel in progress and promised friends that it would show the same world as "The Bell Jar" except through the eyes of health. The novel was never completed.
After multiple suicide attempts and a lifetime of depression, Plath killed herself by taking sleeping pills and inhaling gas on Feb. 11, 1963. Knopf had published Plath's first collection, "The Colossus and Other Poems," the year before her death, a fact that did not guarantee continued support. For a variety of reasons, Knopf would reject "The Bell Jar" and her second poetry collection, "Ariel."
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If you were listening to AM radio in 1969, you felt the blast of fresh air provided by the unlikely gospel/pop hit "Oh Happy Day" by the Edwin Hawkins Singers. Who were the Edwin Hawkins Singers and where did that song come from? The Wall Street Journal's Marc Myers goes to the principals to get the story behind the single in "When he washed my sins away." (The format of the story is screwed up by the videos posted with it online, but I think you'll find what remains unobscured is still of interest.)
Singer Dorothy Morrison recalls: "I ad-libbed on When Jesus washed, oh, when he washed, my sins away. And I threw in a James Brown good God toward the end, which made the song feel even more current." Forty-plus years later, the song still packs a wallop.


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FEEL GOOD FRIDAY: Ceiling Fans
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Today we're premiering a regular column we feature on our sister site The Waterland Blog. "Feel Good Friday" is written by Des Moines resident Dave Markwell:]
As I stepped out the front door this morning, I suffered many mixed emotions, none of them good. The half-frozen, sleety rain whipped through my several layers and I felt nothing but despair.(no poetic intent here…it just happened) I don't like the cold and rain separately, but I especially don't like them in combination. The unfortunate fact that the rear window of my truck was busted out last week did not comfort me physically or emotionally. The day was dark and so was I.
In circumstances such as these, when the depths of my S.A.D-ness slices deep, as it did this morning, I have, out of a sense of necessity and desperation, developed several techniques for softening the blows. These coping mechanisms include: listening to island music and visualizing warm places. I try to remind myself that the pain is only temporary as I count the calendar days until spring.
This morning a fond memory arrived as an old friend in my mind as a savior from this somewhat depressing morning: Many years ago, in one of several lifetimes I have lived, a couple of buddies, Scott and Jason, and I took a road trip to Costa Rica. It was filled with adventure and fun and lots of stories. It was also hot. Real hot. A lot hot. And one night was especially smokin'. So much so, in fact, that I wrote about it then. This thought is what saved me this morning. Here is the story of a night many years ago written in a molten motel room in Merida, Mexico:
"I lie here in the soft bed of our cheap motel room. My back sticks, moistly, to the tainted yellow sheets. The ceiling fan above ticks noisily along as its breeze seeks to tame this brutal night. I see the lightly tanned skin of my stomach keep time with the beat of my heart. The sickly sweet humidity sweats hungrily through my dim awareness as I try to sleep. My roommates shift restlessly in the damp tropical heat, savoring each delicious draft the over-worked fan delivers. We lie, each alone in our thoughts to explore the possibilities of our lives. Each one is presented certain circumstances, through fate or folly, and must decide on a path. We all have, more or less, decided on this sauna to attempt to sleep in, for better or for worse.
I'm sure in the grand scope of life poorer decisions have been made by all, but it makes one think about how we came to this decision and whether possibly this decision is representative of other decisions and the fact that no matter how fast and noisily the fan sings, sometimes it's just going to be hot."
I was and am warmed by this memory. It is nice to know that memories like this exist. They are good and necessary. They remind and bring peace and perspective. Many more chilly days await and I think it's worthwhile to keep my little jewel a little closer to the surface. Even the most miserable of days don't stand a chance against a dank and steamy Mexican motel room with a screaming ceiling fan.
To quote from "Three Day Blow", the best final line of any Hemingway story: "It was a good thing to have in reserve." Damn right.
[EDITOR'S NOTE:"Feel Good Friday" is a regular column written by Des Moines resident Dave Markwell, who extols to all neighbors: "Enjoy where we live. Put your feet on the pavement and truly feel how great it is to live here!" Also, you can "friend" Dave on Facebook here. Or work out with him at his new exercise company Waterland CrossFit!]


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The government's online catalogue for the public sector to purchase cloud services, Cloudstore, suffered technical problems yesterday that left users unable to search for suppliers and products.
Just before lunchtime on 25 July the government revealed that it was aware of problems occurring and claimed that Mark Craddock, a member of the G-Cloud team, was working to find a fix:
@G-Cloud: "We know there's still issues with #cloudstore + @mrcraddock is working v hard w Gov E-Marketplace team to fix it – will update when fixed."
The second iteration of the Cloudstore was launched in May. It was built as part of the Government E-Marketplace and is hosted on a cloud platform provided by Procserve.
The original release of the Cloudstore, which was unveiled in February, was hosted on Microsoft's Azure platform, but was moved off after it suffered an outage a few weeks after launch.
Steph Gray, director at Helpful Technology, expressed her frustration on Twitter at the Cloudstore glitch.
@lesteph: "Baffled again by the @g_cloud_uk Cloudstore. Can you get any results from the search here? [the Cloudstore website]"
She tweeted again this morning: "@G_Cloud_UK Hi – are there Cloudstore problems? Can't see results for e.g. Steria."
The Cabinet Office released a statement yesterday, quickly placing the blame on the platform providers, Procserve.
A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: "The G-Cloud is currently experiencing a system error which is temporarily preventing suppliers and buyers from accessing cloud services.
"We are liaising with Procserve, the platform providers, who are working to resolve the problem and restore normal services as quickly as possible."
However, the G-Cloud team has confirmed this morning that the problems are now resolved and users should be able to use the catalogue as normal.
The government's Cloudstore has 257 suppliers signed up to the G-Cloud framework, offering 1,700 cloud services to the public sector, and catalogued within an online portal. It has since revealed details of the second iteration of its G-Cloud framework, which will run for 12 months and is worth £100 million.


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Did I say Shinola, that's right this morning while watching my four hour block of GAC from 5-9 a.m., I saw the video 40 minutes into the program, this is the first time that I have seen it on GAC, and that only means our fabulous, most special entertainer Dolly Parton, who I have always admired and who I think every one should look up to, "she's about 5'4" in heels" no really every young girl should look up to her for the person she is, but since this video was played it only means that CMT and GAC will be playing more often, we as a Dolly Parton family must do what we can to get this video all the way to number one on both stations, I know we can do it, hey if I can dress up like Dolly from head to toe, which I did after seeing it played, I think we all can vote when it comes time to vote on the top videos of the week. Dolly on behalf of everyone one on this site as always I will always love you!!!!!!!
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Going to the beach doesn't simply mean getting a killer tan. There's also plenty of great fashion and home décor finds along the way. Here's a guide to places to shop while visiting the shore.
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The iconic retailer, now based in Florida but originally launched in New Jersey, is opening its first Maryland location in Ocean City this month. The shop is known for its surf-centric inventory, ranging from boards and wetsuits to swimsuits and casual beachwear, outwear and even jewelry. Ron Jon is scheduled to open in June.
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The U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible antitrust implications of Google's two-week test with Yahoo to combine some of their Web search and advertising business, a source informed about the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
The Justice Department is concerned that the test may violate antitrust law, the source said, adding that authorities "have initiated an investigation" of it.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said some of the government's concern focused on a telephone call from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt to Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) Chief Executive Jerry Yang to offer help in thwarting Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid.
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Google and Yahoo told Reuters they had told the Justice Department about their two-week test.
"We informed the Justice Department before we launched this test and we have been responsive to their questions about it," said Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich.
Yahoo spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said: "Yahoo proactively kept the Department of Justice informed of its intentions to conduct this limited test with Google and have provided information to DOJ on the nature of the test."
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In the test, which ends this week, Yahoo uses Google's Web search advertising system to sell ads alongside Web search results of Yahoo users.
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Google is the top search engine with 63 percent of searches, and No. 2 Yahoo has 17 percent, a combined 80 percent of the market, according to ratings company Hitwise.
Philip Bromiley, who teaches law at the University of California at Irvine, said that kind of clout meant that companies could sharply raise rates it charges advertisers. "Any industry when you start to see that kind of figure, you're going to have antitrust arguments," he said.
Yahoo President Susan Decker told Wall Street analysts, during a conference call held Tuesday to discuss quarterly results, that it was too early to say whether Yahoo would reach a deal to turn over some part of the company's Web search advertising business to rival-turned-Microsoft-counterweight Google.
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Google shares closed down 1.5 percent to $546.49 in regular trading on Wednesday, while Yahoo, which posted strong earnings yesterday, finished down 1.6 percent to $28.08, both on NASDAQ.


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SMU is hosting several awesome events this weekend celebrating Darwin's 200th anniversary, and Dembski has told his students he wants them going.
I don't want you going there merely as spectators but will indicate in class how you might actively participate and engage the Darwin-lovers you'll find there.
"Darwin-lovers." Cute. Very, erm, scientific.
Now, Dembski doesn't exactly say "cause a disruption and shout people down." But, here's the thing. It's obvious, at this point, that poor old Dembski has basically given up. That bold and courageous five-year plan indicated in the Wedge Document to undermine "materialistic" science and replace it with New & Improved Jesus Science hasn't gone so well. Yes, we have millions of uneducated and undereducated dimwits in the general public who reject evolution, but what Dembski wanted was academic respectability, and that has eluded him. Because neither he nor anyone in the late and unlamented ID camp ever produced any research, any science, any peer reviewed papers showing that the evidence for ID was more reasonable to accept than that for evolution.
So now he's reduced to asking his students to do his work for him, by trolling blogs and "challenging Darwin-lovers" at seminars held by real universities. As this exercise will lead to very embarrassing encounters for these poor deluded kids when real experts and scientifically literate people school them hard, one could almost call it cruel. I can see some poor 20-year-old kid, deciding to "actively engage the Darwin-lovers," raising his hand during the Q&A, confidently spouting some ignorant ID canard, and being met with gales of laughter and some steely cold facts. It's almost unpleasant to contemplate, like visualizing a squirrel being squashed by a semi. (Okay, I lie. It's actually funny to contemplate and not nearly that bad. But I'm striving for "positive atheism" here. Work with me.)
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if I'm logged in to instagram online it runs and gets the data but doesn't seem to send the data to the parent
if I'm not logged in it won't do anything, the php redirect to the instagram login page doesn't go there at all.
I'm far more interested in a possible solution without using iframes though.


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Sometimes we need to let go to assure your place in the future. Letting go sounds so easy. Like dropping a pen onto the floor, not caring to pick it up again. Though in reality, we eventually lift the pen from the ground, using it again to take notes. We need the pen, we need the past, but... we could as well just take the pen on the desk to make notes, neglecting the pen that has fallen. It's hard do describe the way I am feeling now, though I'm continuing to appear strong. I have to leave things behind. No, not just things. People who are actually very dear to me. But change will give me a new opportunity to, what I hope to be, a bright feature with more opportunities. I know, in the end I will have to let go again and we all have to do it one day. But somehow it feels like a door is opening in front of me while the other behind me is closing. The door in front of me is all I ever wanted and yet the door behind me could have been just enough.
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Last week we saw Amazon drop a bit of a bomb on the competition by offering a $50 per year data plan. At 250MB a month, it isn't a very good data plan, but people will buy it. I wondered how Amazon could have negotiated such a good deal with AT&T. Perhaps they're cutting them in on revenue from users who shop on Amazon while using a Kindle Fire HD via the LTE data network? It was purely speculation, but it intrigued me enough that I spent a bit more time thinking about this whole topic. And I quickly realized that Apple actually has a pretty well-established iTunes affiliate program.
In case you aren't familiar with affiliate programs, they allow someone to earn a commission by promoting some other company's products. For example, website (like iMore and many others) can link to great new music via iTunes, or amazing new apps via the App Store, and receive a percentage of any referred sales, without costing the end user anything extra.
The last time I checked, Apple's iTunes affiliate program paid a 10% commission on sales. So what if they struck a deal with wireless carriers like AT&T and Verizon, essentially treating the carrier as the affiliate on any sales conducted over the cellular network? The carrier would make additional revenue on all iTunes and App Store sales, and Apple could use this to negotiate lower priced data plans for its customers.
It seems to me that any vendor who can get its customers a lower priced data plan (versus other vendors), has a significant competitive advantage. Amazon has started down this road already, and I think Apple could be next if they want to be.
Can Google, RIM or Microsoft do the same? I don't think so. At least not with something compelling to sell to the end user. Android users don't tend to spend much money on apps (as least based on the developer discussions I've had). Google doesn't really sell anything other than Adwords (and consumers don't care to buy pay per click ads). RIM doesn't even have an affiliate program created yet, but at least their users actually spend money on apps. And Microsoft? They're hardly out of the gate yet.
Apple has a huge app and iTunes ecosystem that people actually spend money on. Every day. Amazon has a massive retail backend along with a great library of digital content (even if they have very few apps). Both companies have well-established affiliate programs. Cutting in the carrier as an affiliate seems to be logical.
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Thread: Welcome to Just Starting Out...
Hello, I'm new here. And thanks for great board!
I'm looking for new fragrance, which I could use daily, e.g. at work. Currently I'm using CK One in daily use, and nighttime, I'm using DKNY Be Delicious.
Hi lv_obsessed !
Welcome to basenotes !
I am in Melbourne .. The best place to look for the info you are after is a separate thread - Under Locality guides - you will find threads for Melb and Sydney - there a whole bunch of links there
My most favorite little place of all - a small apothecary style pharmacy in Bangalow - just 15 minutes from Byron bay - in the main street - they carry a great selection of all sorts of far flung goodies - if ever your travelling that way I would highly recommend a visit !
Hope to see you around LV
Dear Grant & other, more experienced Basenoters,
Thank you for providing a forum for beginners like me. Am just starting to feel my way around this fascinating site (which I discovered while doing search on Borsari's Violetta di Parma; that's another story...). I look forward to reading more of your reviews -- highly entertaining IMO -- and hope to qualify to make useful (or at least amusing LOL) commentary one of these days. Scent has always been a huge dimension in my life. I simply had to smell _everything_, when I was little (much to my mum's great public embarrassment), and today, at age fifty-five, I can still accurately tell my spouse where he's been all day at work (please -- nothing sinister here friends, all in good fun! LOL), pracdtically hour by hour, just by smelling his hair. Now, if only I can learn to apply this acuity to perfumery...
All best wishes,
Hello and welcome to you Mme_Tootoo!
You sound like you have a well trained nose. It'll be nice to see your input in some of the discussions that go on.
...and lets hope the man doesn't got bald. Otherwise, who will know where he has been...
Hi lauren,
apologies for the (very) late reply but I've only just seen your question and figured it's better to reply here so anyone looking for perfume in Sydney can read, rather than PM you.
David Jones in Market (i think? The women's store, not the mens) Street carries L'Artisan, Acqua di Parma, used to carry Diptyque but I think that's on it's way out?, Jo Malone, and Penhaligon. Maybe one or two other niche brands I can't remember too, and sometimes they've got a Comptoir sud Pacifique clearance the 100ml bottles for ~$20.
Mecca Cosmetica stocks the Serge Lutens export line and a very few CDGs, they're all over sydney and have an outlet in the David Jones too.
The Hermes store directly opposite DJs stocks the full range, including Hermessences.
Myer in Pitt St is pretty standard but has Annick Goutal.
All the other department stores in Syd are hopeless, and I haven't managed to find any perfume stores other than the discount ones selling nothing but the current flavour of the month.
That should keep you busy (and poor) for a while, I think.
Hello Everyone,
I am new to the perfume universe I was never interested in perfumes before, even if my mom is a complete junkie (One of her favorite advice to give is to wear perfume because it brings positive energy) I always found perfume suffocating when my mom was applying them and a very few times vaguely pleasant. Until I found THE scent. It's nothing fancy it's simply Inspiration by Lacoste but I don't know why, while flipping the pages of a magazine and getting a whiff of it. My reaction was one of bliss and comfort. Never felt that before towards a perfume, I don't know what in it's composition was triggering this reaction. But then I understood it all, why people like perfume so much. I bought it and I put it on everyday and as the hours passed I kept on smelling my wrist and feeling that same well being. I guess the reason why I didn't like perfume before is because I never found one that I really liked and suited me well. Now that I have I want to discover more and know about everything. (I like to get information, I could've win a trivia show)
So I'm looking forward to chat with you all, this is a wonderful ressource
Welcome to Basenotes... I just joined recently and was amazed at the amount of information I could find here (p/s: I don't think I've ever joined any other forum with friendlier and helpful ppl)..
Funny how it is, I too had a pretty uninterested attitude towards fragrances until I found THE scent.. Ever since, I've never gone a day without waking up in the morning, taking a bath and hurrying to my little fragrance cabinet..
Never looked back since.. =)
Have fun at basenotes..!
thank you
Hi there,
Brand new to the forums but have been browsing the site for a long time now. Just trying to figure out how to add fragrances to my wardrobe. I have a hunch that I must post here first?
PS. I love the site and I'm glad there is something like this out there for us olifanatics!
Hi, Welcome to Basenotes!
All you have to do is go to the fragrance's page and choose Add To Wardrobe from the drop down menu.
To make your wardrobe appear as an Icon next to your name when you post, go to User CP --> Edit Profile --> and choose "Yes" for See Wardrobe in Posts (at the bottom).
Hi - I'm just starting and I can't see how to add items to my wardrobe. When I go to a perfume, I don't see the button that says "Add to my Wardrobe." Can you tell me what to do or where to look?
Hello! I've been interested in perfumery for a few years and have visited this site off and on for a while now but haven't joined in just because I have found that for womens fragrance there are many resources out there. But now my sweetie wants a new cologne(unbeknownst to him!) and it seems this is the best place to be for reviews on Mens fragrance (I've just discovered it is the best place for all fragrance I just tended to stick with what was familiar and comfortable to me....mainly MUA) . My personal favorite houses are Comme des garcons, Diptyque, Serge Lutens, Comptoir Sud Pacifique, Etro, and Demeter. I'm also a fan of Bpal. I'm always on the lookout for a new favorite but I honestly have enought perfume to last a life time!
Alas, it is my poor husband that I am here for this time! He has 1 and only 1 cologne! For the first 30 years of his life he never found a cologne he could stand the smell of (he wasn't looking really hard). But a few years ago he fell in love with Bvlgari pour Homme. Believe me that was a happy day! Something is better than nothing and I do like it okay but I'm getting real sick of it! So he just ran out again and hasn't been able to find it at any of the usual suspects of TJMAXX so he has asked me to get it for him on Ebay. So I feel bad since I've been fibbing to him and telling him I'm having a hard time finding it but in reality I've been having a hard time getting my activation email from basenotes so I can get on HERE and find him something NEW and LOVELY! HA! So here I am! I'm thinking of getting him some samples of Creed for starters....He would love the sounds of Irish Green Tweed! And since I'm now learning that many of the CdG and SL scents I have are gender neutral I'm going to have to pull a few out that I put away because they were too masculine for me !DUH!
Anyways! This is a fun place to be and I'm happy to finally get around to joining!
Hello and welcome to basenotes, Yatri!
There are so many online sources for common bottles of cologne like Bvlgari pour Homme so finding it, if you want to stick with that one, wont be hard. I like the sound of the Creed samples to get him started. With a lot of niche fragrance houses you'll find unisex stuff so be on the lookout for those. I would imagine Comme des Garcons to be interesting to him. I would certainly show him the incense series. As always I will suggest looking at L'Artisan Parfumeur (Navegar, L'Eau de L'Artisan, Mechant Loup, etc...). I hope you find something for him! There will be plenty of help if you need it.
Hello everyone,
Have been reading the directory here for quite a while now, and have enjoyed lurking here. Thank you to all who so freely share their expertise. Am not new to perfume as a wearer, but would like to train my sniffer and experiment with some new scents. I have always had a good sense of what scent works best on me, so rarely pay attention to ads and promotions.
About 9 years ago hubby and I moved to the country to a small farm, and I no longer go into NYC if I can help it, which has limited my ability to sample scents walking through department stores. Unfortunately, all I have nearby is Macy's - and what they have to offer doesn't stimulate my sniffer. Buying scent unsniffed has been a disaster and I was surprised to discover "decants" and will now dive in to try some - it will certainly save me money.
I grow OGRs (Old Garden Roses) as a hobby, and would love to find a perfume that can equal the scent of some of my favorites, like La Reine Victoria, to wear during the cold winter months while I long for the return of bloom season. The other scent that fascinates me from my garden has always been datura, and would love to find a perfume that evokes it, and works on me.
I don't know if I have a signature scent, but if I had to pick which of the small selection I currently own that I wear most frequently, that I love (and so do folks who sniff me), I'd have to pick L'Heure Bleue, which I've been wearing since I first discovered it in 1971 on my first trip to Paris as a young woman. I'd love to find some other perfumes that work as well. My second pick would be Poeme, which my husband loves me to wear.
Would like to branch out and experiment, and with so many choices available I get overwhelmed.
Hope I can get some suggestions here now that I've taken the plunge to de-lurk.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
Hello Denise and welcome to basenotes!
It is a lot easier to figure out what you should look into buying when you are a member so signing up is going to be so much better than lurking. To be honest I am not farmilliar with the scents in your wardrobe but I do know of an earthy, rosey scent. It is called Voleur de Roses and it is from L'Artisan Parfumeur. I would look into getting a sample. I know they sell it in the city at a few locations but I guess you don't want to go there. I'm sure you can find samples online. Good luck! The women here really know their stuff so maybe you can post something in the Women's Forum and get better suggestions and even places you can sample them.
Good luck!
Thanks for the welcome EnvYuS,
will post my queries on the Women's forum.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
Hello. I'm just writing this to see if I can post. I had some problems signing up early on and I gave up for awhile. Anyway, hopefully this is working now and I can openly discuss the disease... er, hobby, of fragrances. I wish I had more to say, but I'm running late in real life. Currently testing Intuition by Estee Lauder (sp?) and it's so-so.
I found this board a few days ago after reading an article on gourmand frangrances in "O". I did a lot of reading and actually went to Nordstrom's to do some testing. The staff was great and I left with two new scents that I am willing to decant. I have also gotten several samples. My goal was to have one new signature scent (in the past, Angel Innocent and Light Blue) but have determined that there are just too many great scents out there to limit myself!
Welcome to both of you!!
I hope you find everything you are looking for. If not then you let me know what I can help you with.
Hello to all! I have always loved perfume and have had a bit of a collection since I was a child. My mother entertained my desires for Chanel, Tresor, Obsession and patchouli oil even though they all give her splitting headaches (thanks, MOM!). I have spent most of the past 2 years on the BPAL forum and experiementing with natural perfumary myself. I came to basenotes looking for reviews for Serge Lutens creations. Somehow, his name keeps crossing my path. I must follow...
I love deep, spicy, ambery, musky, vanilla, patchouli scents. Fruit and white flowers are also often quite good on me. Favorites of mine are BPAL's Snake Oil, Bvlgari Black, and Michael by Kors. Some scents I am looking forward to trying are (via searches on the Perfumed Court and Aedes~I don't go to department stores much any more):
Serge Lutens: Fumari Turque, Muscs de Kubla Khan, Chergui, Datura Noir
People of the Labrynth: Luctor et Emergo
L'artisans: Tea for 2
I am so glad to be here! I have to find my way around now...
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Hi, I'm new and I'm trying to figure out how to use my "wardrobe." I still haven't figured it out. Can anybody help me?
Hi everyone.
I've just signed up today because I'm increasingly fascinated by fragrance...always been keen but recently stumbled across Terre D'Hermes. Supposedly a man's fragrance (I am female!) but I absolutely love it - and get an amazing reaction whenever I wear it out. Wasn't sure what was in it so the reviews pages have been really helpful.
Can anyone help with my first question; I don't know what 'sillage' or other technical terms used frequently here mean. Is there a guide on this site for beginners?
I always like to introduce myself when joining a new forum and this seems to be the place.
Hi, my name is Ian and i'm still a bit bemused as to how i ended up interested in fragrances. I find myself to be such an unlikely candidate for this hobby that i am worried it is just a flash in the pan. Therefore i think i will hold off on any major purchases ( at least untill Monday when i can get to London ) and learn as much as possible in the mean time.
To be honest my interest started with womens perfume a few days ago and i'm not even sure why. It quickly swerved into men's fragrances though once i realised there was more to cologne than the slap on alcohol that lines department store shelves. That may sound harsh but such is my experience with buying aftershave to date. However as knowledge refines appreciation i find myself being drawn into this very seductive world.
I have always known but never realised the importance of ones scent on the poeple one comes into contact with apart from personal hygien of course. I think it is more the personality and image one can project and indeed tailor that interests me more than the fragrance itself. No, actualy it's more than that. It's the memory, the impression you can leave on someone and indeed evoke for yourself from someone elses scent.
As you may have gleened from my rambling i am looking for something special in a fragrance. Haunting as opposed to memorable, a trail that would leave anyone helpless to follow. The Pied piper of scents more evokative than a caribean sunset. The masculin romance of Black beard and Dick turpin and mystery of leonardo de vinci.
Ok, i'll stop there for now i think.
I hope to be able to contribute and converse with you all soon.
I will add that there are 3 fragrances that have realy caught my eye and may fit the bill.
Vintage Taberome 1875
Knize Ten
Creed Vetiver
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There are several threads that answer questions about how to use your wardrobe:
Browse around in the community center - and you should find answers - thats how I finally figured it all out!
There is an FAQ on the men's fragrance forum
If you do a search here - there are several threads explaining sillage and even how to say it
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
Greetings all,
I thought I should introduce myself around here before I start on my quest for knowledge. I'm Topher, 21, all the way from Australia. I have always 'liked' finding new fragrances, but it's only been in the past year or so that I've started to do it with some seriousness. I still haven't found "the one" fragrance that I want to wear for the rest of life, if only because when my mood changes, so must my scent. In the past I have been a wearer of the common ralph laurens, Calvin Kleins, but I guess we must all start somewhere.
I'm now at the stage of my life where apparently I'm supposed to off the spontaneous nature of youth and settle into regularity, but alas it hasn't occured yet, though I have found my niche as a writer I believe. Working in a book store helps open my creative side, and writing schlocky B-Grade Horror movies to shoot with friends in the holidays, or finishing a novel hopefully to be published some time in 08 serves as a nice distraction from the real world.
At the moment I have Jacomo D'Jacomo Rouge, Viktor & Rolf Antidote, Signature and RSVP by Kenneth Cole on some kind of rotation, with Jacomo being a favourite...this month anyway.
Any help with further fragrances and learning the way of the for....scent, would be much appreciated


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The next project on the horizon: A Free Software CardOS
Now that we have a 100% free software GSM protocol stack and baseband firmware for the network and mobile phone side, the only remaining proprietary part is the SIM card. And what is a SIM card? It's a small embedded computer / SoC with integrated flash + RAM.
Once again, like in many other areas of the telecommunications industry, development of Free Software has been hampered by lack of available register-level hardware documentation. Without such information, how should you be able to program? Hardware without such documentation is an insult to every software developer.
The next problem is that typically, the Card Operating System (COS) is written into mask ROM of the smartcard SoC. Making such a mask is quite expensive, and it means that for every software version, different silicon will have to be produced. So unless you are going to have millions of units in quantity, it is unlikely that it would make economic sense.
However, in recent years, purely flash based smartcard chips have been available and getting less and less expensive. However, none of them (like the Atmel AT90SC7272 or similar devices) have freely available documentation. Furthermore, availability on the open market is somewhat of a problem, mainly because they have been used extensively by people cracking encrypted satellite TV channels. In recent years, the smartcard industry is trying hard to cut any kind of supply to that group of users.
However, luckily, we now see small/independent chip design houses in China picking up and producing their own smartcard chips. They are not only cheaper, but they simply hand out the documentation to anyone who asks them. No questions asked, no NDA required. Welcome to the promised land! That's what Free Software developers like:
- Free access to documentation without any confidentiality agreements
- development samples available at the same price as quantity pricing later on
- inexpensive development hardware with JTAG access
- reference source code provided without NDA
- they are happy that somebody wants to develop for their hardware
As you can see, I am quite enthusiastic about this. I like this no-bullshit approach. No stupid marketing and sales droids who charge ridiculous fees for proprietary development tools that are inflexible and force developers to use one particular OS/IDE/toolchain.
I'm not sure how much time there will be, given the multitude of other projects that are all asking for attention. However, I think this is a chance that the Free Software community doesn't get every day. Let's hope some other people like bare iron programming in small embedded systems can get excited and we can create a FOSS COS. It doesn't have to be something serious. Something quite simple would be sufficient for the beginning. I'm not thinking of EAL4+ certification, multiple channels and public key crypto. SIM/USIM cards are simple, they just require a bit of filesystem read/write operations plus authentication. And luckily, SIM toolkit development doesn't have to be done in Java this way, either ;)


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