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If you're not on birth control, you want to time the procedure with your menstrual cycle. "It's best if it's done when your lining is thin, which is usually during the first two weeks of your menstrual cycle," Khayat said. "However, if you are on the birth control pill, it can be done anytime except when you're having your period."
Some patients may experience slight nausea or cramping afterward and may have some spotty bleeding. "I suggest patients take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs about 30 minutes before the procedure," Khayat said. "That seems to lessen their pain."
You must wait 91 days after the procedure to be sure it's effective. Patients are advised to use another form of birth control during this time.
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He added that almost any woman wanting to have permanent sterilization is a candidate for Essure. The only exceptions are people with serious allergies to metal, but that is very rare, Khayat said.
Also, if you have recently given birth, you must wait eight weeks before the Essure coils can be placed. "We usually talk about it when patients come for their six-week post-partum checkup," Khayat said. "If they choose Essure, they come back two weeks later and we place the Essure coils in their fallopian tubes."
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Troy Polamalu hopes to play at least one more game this season, even though the slumping Pittsburgh Steelers have only a slim chance of making the playoffs.
Polamalu has missed eight games and most of two others with a pair of ligament injuries in his left knee. He hasn't played since the opening series against Cincinnati on Nov. 15 and probably won't play against Green Bay on Sunday, when the Steelers (6-7) will try to end a five-game losing streak.
The five-time Pro Bowl safety said Monday he wants to return "at least" for the regular season finale at Miami on Jan. 3, even if the game is meaningless to Pittsburgh. The Steelers also play Dec. 27 against Baltimore.
"Why not?" said Polamalu, who is wearing a large, protective brace on the knee. "I'm a football player. I'm not a coach, I'm not a cheerleader. What I love to do is play football and be out there with my brothers. That's why. It's always been irrelevant for me whether or not we go to the Super Bowl or playoffs. It's something I enjoy."
Asked last week what it would take to play again this season, Polamalu said, "A whole lot of healing (in the knee). A whole lot of prayers."
Losing one of the NFL's best defensive players has significantly affected the Super Bowl champion Steelers. They are 4-0 when Polamalu is on the field for at least one quarter - beating Tennessee, Minnesota and Denver - but 2-7 when he is out or plays only a handful of downs, as he did against Cincinnati.
Polamalu, who helped lead Pittsburgh to its second Super Bowl victory in four seasons in February, missed the Steelers' second through fifth games with a sprained anterior cruciate ligament. He sat out the last four games with a sprained posterior cruciate ligament that was initially expected to be less severe than his earlier injury.
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AE: I have heard that there is quite an active butch/femme community in Taiwan,
and some of that is in Drifting Flowers.
Can you tell me more about that and why you put that in the movie?
ZC: Right. Why did I have to make Spider Lilies as well as Drifting Flowers? Because in Spider Lilies, the distinction between the butch and femme characters was not very clear.
But in Drifting Flowers, the main
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ZC: Because she herself is a very typical
butch. She is a student in the drama department at Taiwan National
University of the Arts. …
After some training, she was able to be very natural in this role.
But in Spider Lilies, I wanted a more
beautiful-looking butch, not a realistic butch, so I found Isabella Liang.
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great to see Chao Yi-lan. I really enjoyed it. You don't often see that kind of
ZC: Yes, she's very sexy, very
AE: You are one of very few
openly lesbian Taiwanese filmmakers — in fact I don't know of any others. Do
you know of any others?
ZC: Openly lesbian? There aren't any
other openly lesbian ones. There are a great many closeted ones [laughs]. I also
don't know why they are not out.
AE: How does it feel to be the
only one?
ZC: I can't go around with a mask on
— faking it is very tiring. When I was a journalist and people would ask me, "Are
you or are you not?" I would lose patience and say: "If I am, I am.
Don't keep asking!" [laughs]
AE: Do you feel any
responsibility to speak for lesbians in Taiwan?
ZC: At first I thought there wasn't
any question of responsibility, because I was only speaking for myself. Then
later I found it was not that simple. So whenever there are LGBT events or
parades, people are always asking me to go and appear and speak, and I never
thought it would be so complicated.
AE: [laughs] True. Are
there any Western lesbian films that you've seen that were influential to you
as a person or as a filmmaker?
ZC: Let me see. There are many good
films, but at the moment I can't really think of anything that has had a
particular influence.
AE: How about television? Do
you get The L Word in Taiwan?
ZC: Oh, yes! I've seen some of it. It's
very popular in lesbian circles in Taiwan. I even asked Isabella and
Rainie to watch The L Word as part of
their homework. I have only seen a couple of the episodes myself — I haven't
seen it all — but we couldn't find enough lesbian films to give them for
research, because there are too few of them.
AE: That's why your movies
are important.
ZC: [laughs] Really? OK, I will
finish making all six colors!
AE: Do you have anything you'd
like to say to the Chinese-American lesbians who are watching your films?
ZC: You know, my films cannot be shown in mainland China, so my
films have all been pirated and shown underground. I heard that in 2007 the
pirated version of Spider Lilies was
ranked No. 5 in sales among underground movies. Of course it didn't do us any
good financially, but I'm glad more people could see them.
AE: I guess maybe you didn't
understand my question — I wondered whether you had anything to say to
Americans watching your films.
ZC: As far as I know, for many
Chinese Americans, the pressure from their family is even stronger.
AE: Oh, yeah.
ZC: If my films can help our gay and
lesbian friends to connect with their families, that would be something I
really would want to do.
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I'm back in town and after some food shopping will likely collapse and ride the next day or two out on life's bench.
I'm not sure if it's the stress of all that's happening or if something more specific is leaving feeling perpetually under the weather, but as I noted earlier my own health has been in the subpar range over the past few weeks. And as I now have to begin probate duties, I don't see an end in sight — at least for the next couple weeks.
That said, I'd like to thank each of you who has contributed to my call for aid. Your generosity has certainly helped lift what was an additional and unforeseen burden. It was only 29 days between my Mom's being admitted to the hospital for leg pain until her death. What was originally a 2-6 month prognosis turned on a dime: it was 20 days from the discovery of the cancer to my flying in and putting together the funeral arrangements the day before the burial.
And then to find out my brother was calling the funeral home on the day of the service to try to have a death certificate released to him so he could collect on a life insurance policy he purchased on her after having cashed out her prior policy and naming himself sole beneficiary on the new policy — well, that was the rotten cherry on top of the shit sundae.
So again, thanks to all of you for your kind words and prayers. My mother didn't suffer. That's a blessing.
Special thanks to the following folks for their financial generosity:
Joel W
Joseph D
Arnie L
Robert F
Barbara B
Patsy P
Bill S
Steck S
Scott M
Frank P
Janes M III
Arthur B
Blake W
Keith M
Kim C
Jay M
Barbara L
Steven G
Tanjia M
Jonathan D
Kevin K
William D
Matthew B
Christopher J
Linda M
Bobby U
Patrick C
Samuel M
Aaron E
Evan C
Bridget S
Chris S
Kevin B
Darleen C
Thomas D
Malcolm A
Dennis D
Geoff B
Jennifer W
Romain B
Daniel S
Pietra B
Roger H
Patricia F
Fred W
RI Red
Lowell J
Jacqueline K
Robert P
Michele R
John R
Timothy K
Jessica M
Daniel K
Jer O
Robert E
Roy M
David H
Robin S
Scott V
Amy B
John H
Stephen B
Dale P
Rick H
…and extra special thanks to William P
Nancy M
and Brian C
I'm humbled.
update: I'm working over the next few days to close out any remaining open accounts in my Mom's name that I can find as well as to find out information about pension payments left her by my father — whether they continue to the estate or cease upon my Mother's death.
As executor I have to deal with all aspects of probate, which is grueling.
On the positive front, I reached out to the Baltimore detective today and she's going to use some of her leave time to contact all the people who are lining up to tell their stories about the abuse my mother suffered at the hands of my brother — all of which reaches full relief as the different experiences of the different friends and neighbors and health care workers are cobbled together.
Evidently, my brother had the gall to troll for sympathy on facebook and deleted comments from people who excoriated him. Personally, I can't even see the posts because he's had me blocked; but I've received notice from others who were appalled by his phony mourning — especially given the fact that he spent the morning of the funeral trying to pressure the funeral home to release to him a death certificate so he could cash out "his" money. He's listed under Steven Michael Goldstein, I believe. Feel free to leave him a message!
Also, I want to take this opportunity to send out thanks for additional support received from readers, who deserve to be recognized:
Brenda L
Jon E
Fitzhugh W
Marilyn U
Helen F
Brian P
Mark C
Robin S
I feel like I'm a friend to the grass roots, as nearly all of the names here have come from those who have no big time blogs, have no advertising deals with the GOP or other GOP friendly institutions, and are merely just people looking to get their country back. Which tells me that my marginalization didn't have the desired affect some of my detractors hoped it would.
Again, thank you all so much, and I'll keep you updated as I go forward. I will be, once the probate is in order, the plaintiff against my brother. Which, that's always fun!
#Ferguson – Vox sniffs "Grand Jury had too much evidence" [Darleen Click]
Better to have evidence, especially exculpatory evidence, excluded when one is in pursuit of "Justice" …
The reason that most grand juries don't go very long, as Vox's Amanda Taub has written, is they're typically only looking at a selection of the evidence that's been cherry-picked by the prosecutor. In the Ferguson case, however, St. Louis County Attorney Robert McCulloch's office deliberately presented the grand jury with as much evidence as they could possibly find.
Oh THE HORROR!! How dare the Grand Jury (an investigative body) be given the whole picture to enable it to sort through what was fact and what was made up sh*t.
#Ferguson — Identifying the media invested in a racist agenda [Darleen Click]
Compare and contrast
Photo: stuff-that-irks-me: spursandbling: Liberal news always making things about race… ???? #ferguson #cnn… http://t.co/Hk1CJDElLR
— Peter T Volkmar (@ptvolkmar) November 25, 2014
Ferguson in flames [bh]
A comment from Geoff:
All the burning and looting is just to strike out at the "[p]etty bourgeois" professions – the classic base of fascism." [Further:]
When Leon Trotsky looked at the emerging Nazi movement that mushroomed in Germany after 1929, he argued that the Brownshirt marches, parades and street violence had the effect of terrorising their opponents and giving political direction and the illusion of strength to the movement. He described this effect as "turning worms into dragons".*
[From Richard Fernandez:]
Of course the Reds had their own street gangs. Doesn't everyone have one? No, and that's the point. Conservatives don't do stuff like that, at least not naturally. They have to be forced to even think it.
Conspiracy is so ingrained in the Left they are forever mirror-imaging themselves in conservative groups who completely lack this sense of consciousness. For example, some posters at the Democratic Underground really believed members of the FreeRepublic posting board are brownshirts. It is entirely possible that many on the left actually think of the Tea Party are incipient "domestic terrorists". They see themselves in others.
They can't believe that conservatives have no process for "turning worms into dragons". Whether that is good or bad I leave to the reader. But the fact remains that "dragons" are qualitatively different from "worms". There is no doubt about this. Worms are inhibited. Dragons have lost that key sense of restraint. Worms will trust in their elected leaders to represent them to the King. Dragons will breathe fire, such as at Ferguson.
There is the widespread misconception that people can be radicalized by suffering. Alinsky showed this was not true. People can only be radicalized by acting on suffering. Just getting beaten over the head is never a radicalizing experience. It just always results in a headache. Fighting back, however feebly, is always radicalizing.*
The heat of emotion is only for the foot-soldiers. The leadership will be, needs to be, cold as dry ice.
No indictment in Ferguson [Darleen Click]
Now can we move on?
Decision in Ferguson reached … the drool factor threat level elevated into red zone [Darleen Click]
No announcement yet, but I'm sure the usual suspects, from professional race-baiters to Lamestream media (sometimes, one-and-the-same) are anxiously awaiting with promises of ratings and fame dancing in their heads.
Unfortunately, no blizzard in the weather forecast to put a pinch in the plans of performance art post-announcement.
from Baldilocks
So has Hurricane Race War made landfall yet?
— Juliette A. Ochieng (@JulietteAkinyi) November 24, 2014
Not your mama's Schoolhouse Rock [Darleen Click]
Even as this is a minor tweak at Barry, the rather deferential tone is more like a kid trying joking with a favorite uncle rather than any kind of Truth to Power dissent.
The sheeple still maintain.
Is essential beauty meaningful? [bh]
Is beauty worth commenting on?
(Hat tip sdferr in a test of my thoughts on putting comments into posts.)
Update! From our friend, Lee:
"When I was a youngster, my dad took an interest in botany. All well and good, except he wasn't over his previous ( and perennial as it turns out) passion for photography, with predictable results.
I gotta tell ya, after looking at eighteen thousand pictures of the most beautiful flowers in the western hemisphere, one can get an itching to see a picture or two of a rock, or a dry patch of sand say. Something, anything, to provide some context, or perspective, or otherwise relief from an endless parade of exquisitely beautiful and diverse same old same old."
Update! From our Darleen from our Heinlein:
"An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. But a great artist–a master–and that is what Auguste Rodin was–can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is…and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be…more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart…no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired–but it does to them. Look at her!"
This is what a Feminist looks like — The university system as The Village of the Damned [Darleen Click]
Brendan O'Neill on the death of Free Speech in the UK.
Have you met the Stepford students? They're everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they seem like your average book-devouring, ideas-discussing, H&M-adorned youth, but anyone who's spent more than five minutes in their company will know that these students are far more interested in shutting debate down than opening it up.
This side of the pond is little better …
The 'no platform' policy of various student unions is forever being expanded to keep off campus pretty much anyone whose views don't chime perfectly with the prevailing groupthink. Where once it was only far-right rabble-rousers who were no-platformed, now everyone from Zionists to feminists who hold the wrong opinions on transgender issues to 'rape deniers' (anyone who questions the idea that modern Britain is in the grip of a 'rape culture') has found themselves shunned from the uni-sphere. My Oxford experience suggests pro-life societies could be next. In September the students' union at Dundee banned the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children from the freshers' fair on the basis that its campaign material is 'highly offensive'.
Barely a week goes by without reports of something 'offensive' being banned by students. Robin Thicke's rude pop ditty 'Blurred Lines' has been banned in more than 20 universities. Student officials at Balliol College, Oxford, justified their ban as a means of 'prioritising the wellbeing of our students'. Apparently a three-minute pop song can harm students' health. More than 30 student unions have banned the Sun, on the basis that Page Three could turn all those pre-rapists into actual rapists. Radical feminist students once burned their bras — now they insist that models put bras on. The union at UCL banned the Nietzsche Society on the grounds that its existence threatened 'the safety of the UCL student body'.
Stepford concerns are over-amplified on social media. No sooner is a contentious subject raised than a university 'campaign' group appears on Facebook, or a hashtag on Twitter, demanding that the debate is shut down. Technology means that it has never been easier to whip up a false sense of mass outrage — and target that synthetic anger at those in charge. The authorities on the receiving end feel so besieged that they succumb to the demands and threats.
Heaven help any student who doesn't bow before the Stepford mentality. The students' union at Edinburgh recently passed a motion to 'End lad banter' on campus. Laddish students are being forced to recant their bantering ways. Last month, the rugby club at the London School of Economics was disbanded for a year after its members handed out leaflets advising rugby lads to avoid 'mingers' (ugly girls) and 'homosexual debauchery'. Under pressure from LSE bigwigs, the club publicly recanted its 'inexcusably offensive' behaviour and declared that its members have 'a lot to learn about the pernicious effects of banter'. They're being made to take part in equality and diversity training. At British unis in 2014, you don't just get education — you also get re-education, Soviet style.
Who knew that being an observant Jew or Christian would be the radical provocateur against The Orthodoxy.
(I would have said, "The Man", but that would have been inexcusably heteronormative, sexist and unconsciously submissive to The Patriarchy.)
You've been forced to pick your ObamaCare plan, now good luck in keeping even that [Darleen Click]
Because PR is much more important than your silly liberty …
Here's a Friday Obamacare news-dump for you: In a 300-page regulatory proposal released late this afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is considering changing Obamacare's auto-renewal rules so that, within the health law's exchanges, instead of being automatically renewed into your current health plan, you'd be moved into the lowest cost plan from the same service tier.
From the attached fact sheet:
Under current rules, consumers who do not take action during the openenrollment window are re-enrolled in the same plan they were in the previous year, even if that plan experienced significant premium increases. We are considering alternative options for re-enrollment, under which consumers who take no action might be defaulted into a lower cost plan rather than their current plan.
(Fact sheet via Adrianna McIntyre; proposal first noted by Politico.)
States running their own exchanges could start doing this in 2016, and federal exchanges could start in 2017.
It's not just auto-reenrollment. It's auto-reassignment, at least for those who pick that option. Basically, if you like your plan, but don't go out of your way to intentionally re-enroll, the kind and wise folks at HHS or state health exchanges might just pick a new plan—perhaps with different doctors, clinics, cost structures, and benefit options—for you. And if you want to switch back? Good luck once open enrollment is closed. There's always next year.
A hassle? Maybe. But have faith: They know what's best. […]
[S]ince HHS decided over the summer to institute auto-renewal, and since the majority of Obamacare enrollees are expected to take no action and thus stay in their current plans, the reality is that under the current system a lot of enrollees are likely to see large premium hikes, just because they didn't shop around for a new plan.
They only have the purest of motives, you know. Bless their hearts.
h/t PJ Tattler


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My main impression of POAL is new wood, perhaps cedar, not rose, not floral. This is unisex, despite its name, and wearable in all seasons and climates. Not heavy in feel, but it throws off silage and is noticeable when sprayed. IMO, the name, POAL, is evocative to my mind of new world modernity and my vague recollection of the straightforward quality of the protagonist of the novel POAL, unaffected by old world Europe.
I think dominique ropion is a genius and my bottle of his une fleur de cassie from the year 2000 has been firmly placed on a pedestal in my mind as my desert island fragrance. I also love caron aimez moi, a dominique ropion fragrance for caron. I love carnal flower. I like geranium pour monsieur very much, don't mind the mint, think the dry down is superlative.
POAL is a seamless and transparent airy melding of wood and rose accords , no doubt due to sophisticated technology and well thought materials. I don't get the sense of lush, weighty (even figuratively weighty, or tactile or oily essence) essence that I get from my fleur de cassie or other Ropion creations. I don't get the sense of darkness, vampires or even patchouli overload that some reviews mention. POAL is not as dark or earthy as Voleur de Roses. Voleur has plummy wine accords and earthy patchouli; it's wine analog would be a Barolo. POAL has a crisp translucent vibe in comparison; it's wine analog would be closer to a white burgundy. POAL is not a gourmand or sweet rose patchouli fragrance like Kurdjian's Lumiere Noir. If someone wanted a sweeter, fruitier, spicier tone, perles de lalique would be another option, as a cross between a more gourmand modern rose chypre like Lumiere Noire or Guerlain Rose Nacre du desert and POAL. A bargain modern rose chypre that is closer to POAL is Gres. Cabaret (I originally mixed up Cabaret and Perles in my head, so have changed the reviews to reflect this).
Since I prefer to rotate perfumes and I have many fragrances, I don't need more than a few 10 ml travel vials. This is strong and creates silage. It also lasts. One spray only, preferably not too near the nose. I prefer to decant and dab.
Portrait of a Lady is perfume with a capital P, dense, evocative and full bodied. Light, fresh roses aren't for me but this is baroque, dark and smokey.
There's a lot going on here. The opening is all about deep velvety spiced red roses. There is also a hefty dose of raspberry that contributes on gaining a wine sense but apart from the roses there is A LOT of incense and patchouli. And I mean a lot, so you must absolutely love these to love Portrait of a Lady.
This is a fantastic fragrance from Dominique Ropion, just a drop and you get nuclear strength and longevity until the next millennium. Truly majestic.
This is not a "lady" fragrance. If this was to represent a picture of a woman, here would be that woman: she is a vampire, dark and old though she appears in her 40s, dressed in a black gown that mixes gothic and medieval. Mature, deadly, she walks through her darkened stone castle at night, enjoying the silence and the flickering of the fire that lights its passages. She radiates a power that comes from her age and experience, as well as from being what she is: the immortal undead. Reaching the balcony that overlooks the mountainous landscape below, she grins, her fangs catching the moonlight, as the wind stirs her long dark hair, stirring the scent that followed her passage through the castle as she revels in being what she is. She laughs at the vampire hunters scurrying towards her castle--they are hopelessly outmatched. She will eliminate them all. THAT is "portrait of a lady". It is the most gothic scent I have ever smelled or owned. Dark, sensuous rose that initially dances with a rich yet subtle berry, then accompanied by spice and musk, the rose (I envision here a black rose, something not quite 'alive or happy' like a rose in bloom) never overpowered. It settles into a gorgeous mysterious voluptuous rose nestled in incense and musk (on my skin) radiating like heat off my skin. This is not a girly rose, and its not a proper- woman rose. It is evil in rose form--black rose or a rose so deep burgundy it might near black, perhaps just slightly past its prime...if you could turn the color "oxblood" into a perfume this might be it. To compare to other rose scents, Jo Malone "Red Roses" was pure red rose, fresh and cold, like the cooler containing the rose bouquets at the florist. Frederic Malle "Lipstick Rose" smells slightly sweet, mixed with violet and powdered, just like vintage powder makeup, proper and aristocratic. Tom Ford's "Cafe Rose" is a sweeter cold rose with spice at the same time, also a little dark but still more bright and clear than POAL. Tom Ford's "Noir et Noir" is a rose that has been soaking in a glass of deep merlot wine for days and has turned slightly sour. Portrait of a Lady is strong and lasts forever. Spray yourself only once, carefully, and you'll smell it easily into the next day even with showering. The smell will linger in your home and remain in your senses long after you actually used it last. This scent is not for those who like lighter fragrances, and not for those who prefer subtleness in scent.
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My first perfume review, well I'm not a perfume expert, never was and probably never will be, so sorry but I just have to write down my feelings.
I moved to my aunt's apartment in 2011, it's in a beautiful neighbourhood, on of the richest in this area.. It is close to work place and school so I don't really care about that this is the city where even old (but elegant) ladies drive Porshes and you can bump into football players in every corner. I don't really care about these stuffs..
This building is not as big as you would think (like skyscrapers in the US), so basically everybody knows everybody. She lived in the top floor, in a huge penthouse-like appartment.
She was my neighbour and friend but I feel like I never really knew her. She was 23. There were times I saw here every single day, and there were times I didn't see her for like weeks. I had no idea what she did/does for a living. I know one thing, she always looked exquisite,her style was impeccable, she was really beautiful, a class beauty I'd say, you could tell she likes fashion, but she was not that uber fashionista, she had her own style, sophisticated and glam but she was never too much, she simply looked effortlessly chic and RICH. She could have worn Zara or Forever21 or whatever fast fashion brand but she'll still look like an aristocrat.
Before we became friends I was always wondering how she is able to afford the living here (it's an European thing I suppose, we are guessing, making conspiracy theories, but we never really ask - "oh it would be so rude" as my mother would say LOL). She might have been a model, or a heiress, or a rich man's little bird kept in a cage... I don't know.
So one day I was really happy because I passed one of my important exams, and I bumped into her (she always took the stairs), she smiled, said hi, and something was smelling so good, normally I'm way too shy to ask anything from people, but as I mentioned I had a good day so I just complimented on her perfume. She accepted it with class and she invited me for tea. That was the first time I saw her apartment. It was beautiful. Not that pastel-mint-apricot-pink colored girly style that is so popular nowadays. It was mature, minimalist and luxuriously empty. So we had a tea, it was a French brand (she said she bought in Paris) I can't really remember the name of it, and I'm a coffee girl but boy it was the most luxurious tea I've had in my life. She showed me her outstanding perfume collection and of course I always liked perfumes but I never really knew a thing about them. Of course I had some perfumes (from Avon, Flowerbomb, Bright Crystal), but nothing really sophisticated... I mostly used perfumed deodorants before changed my cosmetics to organic ones. So notes, accords, niche perfumery - these things were new to me. New but really fascinating. She introduced me to fragrantica and basenotes, and some blogs, and gave me samples and showed me her favorites. Portrait of a Lady was one of them. That was the one I komplimented on. Beautiful, magical fragrance. Really suited her. Sensual but still a little distance keeper. You can never know what to expect. I was fascinated by her world and the fragances.
So there it began. We slowly became friends. We were really good friends until I went to the annual summer college camp. When I came back she moved out. She left without a word. I tried calling her but her number was no longer available. The apartment was empty for months. After that a couple moved in, but they rented the place through a real estate agency and they knew nothing about the owner.
I was, and still I'm really disappointed. I tried several ways to get in contact again with her without a success. I gave up. I won't forget her but I decided to stop being miserable.
But this weekend me and my BF(he lovees perfumes) were in Munich and went to a nice niche perfumery and they had the whole line of Frederic Malle. I tried Portrait of a Lady. And tried again. My BF really liked it on me and said he would buy me for Valentine's Day. But I don't know. I It reminds me of her. Her smile but the sadness behind it. Her unexplained disappearance. Our probably non-existent friendship. Portrait of a Lady is not my fragrance, that beautiful girl was not my friend, and I don't really have a misterious, glamorous life she had. I could wear Portrait of a Lady and pretend to be someone else but I just can't.
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THE SELLER AT AEDES DE VENUSTA WAS SO EAGER TIO GET THIS TO ME, ITS HIS FAVOURITE HE GENERALLY HAS GREAT TASTE AND KNOWS WHAT IM LOOKING FOR AND KNOWS MY BASE PERFUME IS FRACAS SO I LIKE LOUD, ( GOLD BY AMOUAGE IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY BUT I LOVE IT) i find it dainty nothing like any of the other desrctippiosnat all i dont find the slightest thing "hippy: about it, its veryu "ladylike" if you will, and it takes a lot of suirts for me as my skin eats perfume fast, i find it sexy like a third date sexy.... but not a first this is not the first impression id want anyone to have of me, its t5oo shy and retiring the rose is sweet but not cloying and its very nice i wont buy it again but itll probably last for a year or so as its just not really me. now if i could only remember that gingerbread serge lutens name i loved that sample....
The opening of POAL is lovely, it goes down hill for me quickly and I am left with rose and benzoin...not a terrific combo. By the time I got home I had to scrub it off. This happened with Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille also....I'm sticking with Dior Addict, it never changes, comes through as a sexy vanilla and that's all I am really seeking. Nice try Malle but this was NOT a home run for me.
this is my favorite perfume i have ever smelled, and i smelled a lot of perfumes from expensive to affordable. this is indeed a strong perfume that caught me off guard at first and was absolutely turned away by it. than for some reason i tested it again and slowly it grew on me more and more, til i couldn't deny that i have found a scent that i love so much, i have yet to find something else to top it.
it is not light or cheery, it is deep, dark and warm. it smells strongly of rose but not cloying of floral. when i smell this perfume i feel instantly comforted.
i also find the ingredients of this perfume top notch (of course it better be for the price i am paying), for such a strong perfume i found no trace of it stinging or burning my nose upon spraying. the aroma is full bodied and complex.
i use about 3-4 sprays on my skin as my skin dont tend to hold scents well, so it isnt too full on when i wear it. i wear it so i can smell it and have a sense of comfort where ever i am and whatever i am doing.
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An intense scent I have intense and conflicting feelings about. I am in love with roses. Maybe it's because my mother pointed out that they start blooming around my birthday, but rose is my most-beloved fragrance note. My husband dislikes it, and prefers patchouli, woodsy, and incense scents. I also love the Frederic Malle line--the concept, the artistry, even the packaging. So, when daydreaming about my perfect scent, I would picture an incensey rose by Frederic Malle. But why would he produce one? He already had two rose perfumes in his line. So when I first read about Portrait of a Lady, the hair on my arms stood up. (You know you're a perfume nerd if...) It was like an answered prayer.
I didn't much care for PoaL the first time I tried it (see my snippily-dismissive review under Wyrmiax). The fruit and spices seemed to clash with the rose, and reminded me of potpourri. But I couldn't give up on it. And when I tried it again, it compelled me. It was everything I'd been longing for--all my perfume-loving life, it seemed.
So what's my problem? Malle says each of his perfumes is produced at its "optimum concentration." And PoaL is parfum strength, and a *strong* parfum at that. It's not extroverted or cloying--it's reserved to the point of being brooding, and dry for a rose fragrance. But it has such massive presence that it makes me self-conscious, especially since my workplace has a no-sillage policy. ("If others can smell your perfume, it is not acceptable.") My husband said, "You shouldn't wear that in a car with someone," even though he likes the scent. (And I never thought he'd enjoy a rose fragrance!) So the perfume I've waited all my life to find is a perfume for a life I don't have, it seems. I swapped away the bottle I'd bought, but I can't bring myself to get rid of my sample. I take it out and sniff it frequently, and occasionally apply just a couple drops.
UPDATE: I started thinking, When did I get so timid? I used to wear Azuree and Poison! I think my problem with PoaL is that it's a fragrance I feel I have to live up to. It reminds me of my youthful ambitions, and makes me uncomfortable that I haven't realized them. But it inspires me, so who knows what might happen? I also thought of my mother, who lost her sense of smell in her 70's. So I think it's time I claimed this scent as my own. A bottle is on its way.
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a shortes review ever- this smells like a love child of Lalique's Perles du Lalique(spicy,peppery rose) and PdE's Wazamba with it's bonfire, pine ,camphoric feeling...
a wonderful perfume, totally colliding with it's name....
Many of the reviews have this one right on target: dusty rose, lots of berries up front, patchouli but not head-shop product. Second every reviewer on MUA urging great restraint when spritzing. This is a room-clearer. I find that I rarely want to reach for POAL. When I do, the temperature outside has to be less than 50 F, and I spritz one small spritz in the small of my back. This allows me to enjoy warm gusts of a lovely dusty rose scent, while allowing others to breathe.
I'm a huge fan of Dominique Ropion and truly appreciate the cerebral beauties of his creations, especially for FM, but this one is difficult to love. One reviewer below called this perfume "oriental" and I agree. Being of North African descent, and as such am dark and of a definite physical "type" (no one's ever been confused as to whether I came from Scandinavia), I tend to shy away from perfumes that bring to mind a certain, shall we say, overexuberant use of gold everything and smothering fragrances a la Opium (the original). It just feels like too much of a cliche for me. POAL walks a fine line between brooding, dark, sensuality I love, and a certain brassiness I'd like to stay away from. I keep thinking I might grow into this one. I returned a full bottle which was first given to me by my lovely husband, but eventually bought some travel atomizers. I can't say this is a true love, and Le Labo's rose 31 is much more to my taste, or even Christian Dior Ambre Nuit, but I'm glad I have the travel mini's.
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ACEVOG® Women's Round Neck Bodycon Pencil Party Work Basic Dress
What a nice dress. I wasn't expecting the ACEVOG® Pencil Dress to fit so well. The fabric is stretchy and thin, so that it's form fitting yet comfortable. I used some shapewear, because my every curve is exposed. It's not translucent material, though. I don't need to worry about what those undies look like.
My daughter says it looks futuristic. I can see that – the curves of bold red and black remind me of Star Trek. It could be a costume in their next movie.
I got medium, exactly what the sizing chart recommended. It fits fine and hits me just below the knees (I'm 5'5″). My husband thinks it's flattering.
This product was provided for review by Honormall.


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Major unions and the AFL-CIO announced their support for President Obama's action to provide new legal status for appx. 4 million undocumented immigrants. The Service Employees International Union and its partners launched a new website where immigrant families can learn if they are eligible and get help.
Mine Workers President John L. Lewis left the American Federation of Labor to launch the new Committee for Industrial Organization.


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"Chicago Fire" recap (1.23) "What an idiotâ€
Shay comes running up to Severide and suggests that maybe since they both work in highly hazardous jobs maybe having a baby together isn't the best plan. Just kidding. She suggests that they should have someone lined up to take care of the little sucker if either one dies. Mr. I Haven't Planned Ahead Once This Season think it's a good plan and then skips off with Boden to the scene of the fire. Severide comes running back and tells her that he'll be there tomorrow when it's time to make a baby and he looks pretty darn cute a he wags his tail. But then he says "squirrel" and off he runs.
The bar consortium is sitting around a table and Dawson has convinced a store to donate sunglasses for them to raffle off at the opening. Otis says his cousin Zoya can go pick them up. Herrmann has no idea what he's talking about but apparently he may have agreed to hire Otis' cousin to work at the bar. Dawson doesn't know anything about it but couldn't care less because Grumplestiltskin walks by and Dawson makes eyes at him that say "sorry I was the one to tell you that Boden boned your mom, forgive me?" Mr. Grumpus walks away cementing his status a the biggest dumbass around. You out punted your coverage Mills, you're going to need to grow a pair if you want to keep her.
The Chief, Severide, Casey, Lil Giddish, Antonio, and Voight are at the clinic checking out the arson. The clinic director has another clinic elsewhere in the city. Turns out the fire started in the patient records filing cabinet. Casey remembers that right before he and Hallie went to lunch she said something about a file being weird. The firefighters are called out and Boden says he'll cover for Casey. He and Severide show up and a truck driver says he heard screaming from inside a manhole. Sure enough a lady is stuck in the water and Severide and Boden go in to rescue her. They get her out with the help of the rest of the squad.
Antonio and Baby Giddish are in the office of the clinic director. He denies that the place is a "pill mill" and eventually gives Dawson the name of a drug dealer who got pissed when the clinic reported his girlfriend's broken jaw to the police.
Back at the station Herrmann's watching NASCAR when Otis arrives with his cousin whose English skills match my Russian skills. Nothing like a bartender who doesn't know what you're ordering. Herrmann and Dawson are peeved until Otis says Zoya is going to bring a monkey to the opening. What? Dawson asks if Otis remembers the lady from Oprah who got her face chewed off by a monkey. Otis says he does but if it looks dangerous they'll leave it in the car. Dawson's face says everything you need to know.
Voight won't tell Casey the name of the drug dealer they can't seem to find and asks if there was anyone Hallie felt uncomfortable around. Casey says that the only person she felt scared of was Voight. Voight tells Casey that he's sympathetic but that he's only letting Casey hang around as a courtesy. It's a nice gesture for a guy who got pinched trying to put a hit out on Casey. Casey gets pissed and points (so we know he's mad) and tells Voight to find out who killed his girl. Antonio escorts Casey out of the room and tells him to go back to the fire house to cool off. Casey stomps and say he's not leaving but Antonio wins this round and Casey stomps down the stairs.
Shay and Severide are playing "what happens when one of us finally dies from one of these near death experiences" with a surprising amount of mirth. They agree that Dawson should get the baby because, duh. Oh Shay, we know what you're really saying is that you and Dawson should be raising this kid together. Too bad you need Severide's junk for this. Shay feels bad that Casey just lost his girlfriend and she's getting ready to get pregnant. It's not too late, Shay. You don't have to do this. There are still so many pretty ladies for you to have sex with before you have a kid. Before Shayveride can process, Shay's called out to a gunshot victim.


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Loved that comic -and can only relate too well to overthinking stuff:) Hilarious!
mathematicians should NEVER date!!!! they should stay in their holes with their chalkboards and bad suits and just math their lives away!!!
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