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The company reaffirmed its commitment to deliver low double-digit compound annual earnings per share growth between 2007 and 2011, excluding the potential impact of health care reform in the U.S.
Looking further out, the company also provided a general perspective on possible financial performance during the major patent expiry years of 2012 to 2014 and beyond.
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Everyone is always posting about SEO and other techniques to get their site ranked higher in Google, what about how to rank it lower?
That's happened to me also. At first I actually was embarrassed by it. I got over it.
From my perspective, that's there issue to deal with. Let them work on their site to make it rank higher.
Some "official sites" are so poorly built that ranking higher than them is not very hard to if you build even a halfway decent page.
No, but if you Google on the word "failure", the first listing that comes up is a link to his bio on the White House website! lol
whats wrong with ranking higher then them? surely you make something from the site, why not be at the top and make more?
Done properly, both sites should benefit.
Its refreshing to see someone who prefers things in their proper order rather than just another opportunity to scam the public. -Larry
I thought the provision of the link was very considerate, and I would suspect your accidental visitors would feel likewise.
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But if you're concerned about appearances, a small note could be added to the copyright notice and other junk at the bottom of the page, along the lines of "[other guy's name] and the trademark(s) of [other guy] are the property of [other guy]; this site is not affiliated with [other guy]."
Just my $0.02....
Seriously. I run a site where it is quite obvious that I have no affiliation with any of the thousands of authors I list. I get daily e-mails and occassional snail mail from people thinking that I am one of the authors they looked at on the site. Some of them I can blame on the fact that it is younger kids, but others, like those from elementary school teachers are just sad.
Easy. Just take the following simple steps:
Alternately (and more easily), try disallowing all bots in your robots.txt file, or use Google's URL Removal tool. Any of these should get your site out of the index.
Of course, if you want to still be in the index but just rank lower, none of these will work. Just remove the "offending" terms from your page if possible.
I would have thought the bare bones web page and plain text would give it away that it was not the official site?
As a good example, when I do a search for Interpol on Google, I want to see THIS site as number 1: [interpol.int...] But... I would have little problem if per chance a really great site covering the world�s pre-eminent police organisation in depth and providing a ton of related content happened to rank above the official site, I would be understanding of this.
As things stand, currently some band with the name 'Interpol' ranks as number 1... Frustrating to me, but not out of hand as it is very possible fans of this band may feel the International Police department isn't as good as the music, ok whatever...
If per chance it was some sponsor-filled garbage not even remotely related to either one and evidently designed only for gaining a few clicks and it was misleading in its approach, I would not be pleased.
Word of note: The band site took me a few minutes to realize it wasn't a ringtone site... Almost!
Because yes, it is about proper ranking... Now if your site covers the subject better than the official site, take it as a compliment as google takes other things into consideration besides backlinks and officialness.
As much as the results are skewed at times, in some ways the surfers themselves are responsible.


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Should Tuple2 be immutable?
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One of the cornerstones of my 2d game programming since I've seriously programmed games has be my Tuple2 class, which I've slowly added methods to until it has become pretty durn useful. Objects often have a Tuple2 as their location, and keep a single reference throughout their entire life. I'm now wondering, prompted in part by my own thinking, and in part by Item #13 of Joshua Bloch's
, "Favor Immutability," if I should make Tuple2 immutable. If I have a great many moving objects, will it be taxing to make a new Tuple2 for every object, every frame?
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I'm a big fan of making immutable classes wherever possible - or, wherever I see a possible benefit. But I have a hard time imagining a benefit here. Immutability is great for things that aren't expected to ever change, or that rarely change and if they do, you don't need (or want) the changes to be communicated to other threads which may be (accidentaly? unknowingly?) using the same object. (As is generally the case for strings.) But it sounds to me like your tuples will change very frequently -I'm guessing there's little benefit to making them immutable; it probably just makes more work for the JVM. Ask yourself this: how many different threads need to access a given tuple? If the tuple values change due to processing by one thread, do you want the other threads to see the changes? Immutable classes can simplify multithreaded applications, if changes to data either don't occur, or don't need to be shared with other threads. But I'm guessing that you either don't have a multithreaded application, or you need the data changes to be communicated to other threads. In which cases, immutability is no use to you, I think.
Is there something about your application which makes you think immutability would be useful here?
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Thanks Jim, that makes a lot of sense. The only advantage I really see is blindly jumping on a bandwagon.
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NASA's plans to reach the moon by 2020 could be hampered by budget shortcomings, according to a committee appointed by President Barack Obama to review the space agency's space flight plans.
Led by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman R. Augustine, the Human Space Flight Plans Committee was commissioned in May by President Obama to perform a review of NASA's human spaceflight plans.
The 10-member committee has determined that NASA's ambitious goal of sending astronauts to the moon again by 2020 is unrealistic. The plan to revisit the moon has been in place since 2004, when President George W. Bush authorized the "Vision for Space Exploration."
Committee members are expected to meet with the Obama administration on Friday to inform them that the current level of funding will not provide a way to reach the moon by 2020. The current plan would only be possible if NASA chose to de-orbit the International Space Station by crashing it into the South Pacific in 2016. The panel said it expects the $100 billion orbiting outpost to be extended to 2020.
"Our view is that it will be difficult with the current budget to do anything that's terribly inspiring in the human spaceflight area," said Augustine.
NASA has plans to retire its shuttle fleet by 2010. Its successor, the Ares 1 rocket and Orion space capsule, is not expected to be ready for spaceflight until 2016. During this time, NASA has been advised to use Russian rockets to visit space until the Ares 1 is ready for launch.
The HSF committee said under the current budget, NASA would not be likely to visit the moon until 2028.
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WILMINGTON -- The serpentarium on Orange Street in downtown Wilmington has some of the worlds deadliest snakes on display.
A local couple says one of those snakes -- one of the most deadly -- got loose over the weekend.
A snake was loose inside the serpentarium Saturday. A pair of visitors says it was the deadly green mamba snake. Workers at the serpentarium say that wasn't the case.
Sina Norris and her husband got quite a scare Saturday at the serpentarium. They were looking at the exhibit for the venomous green mamba snake but couldn't find the snake.
Norris said, "All of the sudden one of the girls standing next to me said, look up top there he is and there he was on top of the cage -- the green mamba."
Norris told the employees about what she saw, and was quickly ushered into the lobby. "Ten minutes later they came back out and said that everything was fine," she said. "He said it was just a green snake."
Tannith Tyrr works at the serpentaruim. She says the snake Norris saw on top of the cage was a dead ringer for the green mamba but was harmless. She says it was a snake commonly found in our area, that a kid brought in earlier in the week.
Tyrr said, "A few days ago a young gentleman came in and was very proud of his catch and he offered us a rough green snake and I said no thank you. My suspicion is that he decided to leave it here for us and he decided that we were going to adopt it whether we liked it or not."
Norris isn't buying it. "This was not a green snake," she said. "In my opinion the green snakes we see down here are two to three foot long at the most and their slender -- this snake was fatter."
Though the cages look secure, Norris thinks the mamba might have gotten loose at feeding time.
"It is posted on the door that they feed their animals in there at three everyday, so we were in there at four so maybe they didn't secure the cage good enough after they fed them. I don't know if they did feel that one, but I see that that's the only way he could have got out."
Tyrr says every display is opened with a key, and the workers are trained to always lock the exhibits behind them. As for the missing mamba, Tyrr says Norris couldn't find him because he was hiding at the top of his cage.
The serpentarium employees say a snake has never gotten out of a display. They say it was just a coincidence that a green snake got in and was found near the mamba display.


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In Part I of this article, we examained the key principles and values of Humanism and Secularism. We will now address a few of the misconceptions regarding Humanism, Secularism, and Atheism, compare Humanism and Secularism with Modern Freemasonry, and finally discuss the place of the Bible and belief in god(s) in light of the principles and values of Modern Freemasonry.
Misconceptions concerning Humanism, Secularism, and Atheism
Before moving on to the principles and values of Modern Free-Masonry, we must address two common misunderstandings of Secularism and Humanism, which are that all humanists and secularists are atheists, and both of these philosophies are inherently "anti-religious" in the sense that they aim to abolish religion or prevent people from expressing their religious beliefs. This latter assumption commits the fallacy of assuming that because a worldview does not rely on religious or supernatural principles that it must somehow aim to suppress religion or supernaturalism, or more harshly wish to prevent others from expressing their religious and supernatural viewpoints. However, not only is this assumption a generalization, but it confuses the aims and scope of humanism and secularism.
For one, we can see, based on how Humanism and Secularism are defined, that the two stress religious tolerance, individual liberty, or freedom of conscience, which ultimately contract the possibility of being "anti-religion.", "anti-God", or the aim of abolishing all religion. In order to uphold individual freedoms and freedom of conscience, one must also tolerate expression of all worldviews, religious or not. Both Humanism and Secularism clearly promote the use of reason, rationality, and scientific thinking to answer some of the most fundamental questions regarding ourselves and the universe, and both imply an approach that is "without" faith, superstition, and mysticism. However, choosing one method or approach over another does not at all imply, by any degree of common sense or logic that all other methods or approaches ought to be abolished or not freely expressed. Hence, Humanism and Secularism are not at all anti-religious in the sense just explained; rather they simply do not rely on religion or the supernatural to define their worldview or approaches.
The confusion in light of the aims of humanism and secularism are likely based on the fact that these two philosophies tend to promote detaching religious dogma and supernaturalism from morality, scientific enquiry, and government institutions. The reasons for this "detachment" have nothing to do with a general desire to abolish religious dogma or to prevent others from expressing it, but are based on the consensus among humanists and secularists that religious dogma and supernaturalism hinder out ability to progress and flourish as a modern society. In the context of separation of church and state, this false accusation that humanists and secularists are somehow "anti-religious" illuminates the irony of adherents of religious dogma claiming that they are victims of discrimination because they are not allowed to express their dogma in a government institution. They fail to conceptualize the implications of their actions in the larger context of human rights and freedoms. Embracing human rights fundamentally means that there will be times when we have to restrict or circumscribe some individual freedoms to prevent restricting the rights of others. This requires the ability to prioritize the outcomes and impacts of our actions and consider the overall balance of human rights.
The claim that all humanists and secularists are atheists is also entirely flawed and ungrounded. Conversely, theism is simply the belief in "God" or gods, which in itself does not contradict using a secular approach to making ethical decisions and seeking knowledge. Certainly, if we couple theism with religious dogma that professes faith-based knowledge and proscribes ethical behavior that contradicts the principle of separation of church and state and other humanist values, then there are clearly conflicts with Humanism and Secularism. But this is not an issue of theism and atheism, but with religious dogma and confusing theism with religion. Theism, by and in itself, is not directly inconsistent with Humanism and Secularism, for a simple belief in a deity does not proscribe an entire anti-secular worldview.
The phrase "without theism" in the context of the principles of Humanism and Secularism pertains more to the methods that these worldviews use to ground ethics and the quest for knowledge, as opposed to what an individual must believe in light of the existence of god(s). Therefore, not all humanists and secularists are committed to atheism. Put another way, one does not have to be an atheist to support separation of church and state, otherwise any person who thinks that children should not receive religious instruction in public schools would have to be an atheist, which is not the case. One does not have to be an atheist to promote the use of reason and science to lead ethical lives or answer life's most fundamental questions, otherwise many of the most influential and prominent scientists and philosophers in history would all be atheists, which is not the case. And one does not have to be an atheist to believe in the freedom of conscience, human rights, and liberty for all, otherwise a good portion of the human race would be atheists, which is not the case. In other words, one need not subscribe to atheism to embrace the fundamental tenets of Humanism and Secularism, because none of these principles directly contradicts the simple and isolated belief in god(s). Theism is simply not a part of the equation here, and it is kept separate from the general approach of Humanism and Secularism, just as humanists and secularists argue that religious dogma ought to be kept separate from government. This is not anti-theism, but non-theism and non-atheism.
Modern Free-Masonry
We will now define the key characteristics of Modern Free-Masonry by examining two sources: the Grand Orient of France and the Grand Orient of the United States.
Modern Free-Masonry expresses the motto of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity," but when we review the philosophy behind the Grand Orient of France (5), it goes much deeper than this. From its "Observatory of Freedom of Conscience" we can derive the following key values and principles:
- Independence of the state and all public services from any religious institution or influence
- Absolute freedom of conscience
- Freedom of the mind
- Liberation in regard to all dogmas
- The right to believe or not to believe in God
- Autonomy of thought concerning religious, political and economical constraints
- Emancipation of life styles in relation to taboos, prevailing ideas and dogmatic rules.
- Mutual tolerance and the respect of others as well as oneself
- Refusal of racism
- Integration, not simulation of diverse ethnic groups
- Equal rights and equal chances
At this point, these values should appear familiar to the reader. We again see an emphasis of separation of church and state, equality, tolerance, and extreme individual liberties in regard to religion. Now let's turn to the American extension of European Modern Free-Masonry, namely the Grand Orient of the United States. Here we find the following key principles and values:
- Freedom of conscience of all people, and that it is an essential component of liberty, equality and fraternity
- Separation of religion and government, and religious and spiritual tolerance among all people.
- Freedom of the press as a necessary component of maintaining the inalienable rights of all human beings, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- The need for higher education and life-long learning
- An impartial judiciary system as essential to guaranteeing the preservation of human rights
- Arts and sciences as essential elements in the progress and evolution of humanity
- Efforts that work towards global environmental and ecological sustainability as essential to the survival of the human species
Again, the reader should see more familiar ideas here, given our prior review of Humanism and Secularism, now with the introduction of higher education, science, an impartial judiciary system, and global environment and ecological sustainability.
We can now summarize our comparison of Modern Free-Masonry, Humanism, and Secularism. It should be evident now that the intersection of the principles and values of these three philosophies, focusing particularly on the Grand Orient of France and the United States, is more than just a few points of similarity. On the contrary, it appears that Modern Free-Masonry aligns to most all of the principles of Humanism and Secularism. All three worldviews promote freedom of conscience (thought and expression), separation of church and state, education, scientific enquiry, individual liberty, ethics rooted in reason and the human experience, tolerance, and human rights.
Some obvious points of divergence between Modern Free-Masonry and both Humanism and Secularism are the use of ritual amongst Freemasons, the study of Masonic history and symbols, and the fact that Freemasonry is a fraternity (though one can find a strong sense of fraternity in some secular oriented clubs and organizations).
Moreover, we are not limited to the Grand Orient of France and the Grand Orient of the United States for our comparison. It should come as no surprise that there are modern Masonic orders today that strongly promote humanist and secular values, for if we examine the historical context in which 18th century speculative Freemasonry flourished and originated, namely the age of enlightenment, we again observe strong humanist and secularist values that were either championed and/or originated by Free-Masons such as Benjamin Franklin and Voltaire. What this suggests is that secular and humanist Free-Masonry is not unique to just the Grand Orient of France and the United States. In her "The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions," Margaret Jacob explains how when the Catholic Church in Europe condemned Freemasonry in 1738 as being a quasi religion, this fueled positioning lodges as more secular and progressive. And by 1750 being a Freemason depicted embracing the new enlightened ideas of the time (7), which included but were not restricted to separation of church and state, egalitarian values, and a view of the universe and human morality based on reason and rational methodologies.
Another piece of evidence supporting that European Freemasonry of the 18th century was definitively secular is the comparison of pocket almanacs of both Masons and the general public, as documented by Jacob:
"One remarkable feature stands out that separates most Masonic diaries from those aimed at a general audience. Most general diaries contained pious sentiments that invoked religious pieties and Godly thoughts. Not the Masonic ones. In large measure their publishers cast the contents of diaries aimed at the fraternity in decidedly secular terms" (7).
Hence, as we can see, the secular and humanist character of Free-Masonry is not an innovation by any means, but an essential feature of the origins of early 18th century speculative Free-Masonry. Modern Free-Masonry of today serves to maintain this progressive worldview, in which being strictly secular (not just in name) is indispensible toward the advancement and betterment of humanity.
God and the Bible
What does a secular and humanist Masonic order have to say on the topic of the Bible and "God"? At this point, the answer should be clear, and it would be abundantly clear to any humanist or secularist. To be truly secular, a lodge cannot require initiates to declare nor deny belief in god(s) or a supreme being, which is certainly the case for both the Grand Orient of France and the Grand Orient of the United States. The Grand Orient of France made this very clear in their declaration of the freedom of conscience in 1877, which was a partial basis for the more religiously oriented "antient" Freemasons declaring them "irregular" (8)(9). Nor can a secular lodge require the use the Bible in its rituals and obligations, because this violates the principle of freedom of conscience (to freely choose which moral philosophy one chooses to lead his or her life) and the point that humanism and secularism are "without" religion. Importantly, there is historical precedent for this as well, not just limited to the Grand Orients of France and the United States. According to Paul Bessel's research:
"The great principle of freemasonry in the 1700s was that it allowed men much greater freedom of conscience than most institutions had until that time, and this included tolerance of all religious attitudes within masonry. It was not until 1760 (forty-three years after the premier grand lodge was formed ) that the Grand Lodge of England changed its rules to require the Bible on lodge altars (until then Anderson's Constitutions was acceptable), and originally candidates were not asked to express a belief in God ('the laws and ritual of the original Grand Lodge in 1723 required no more of its initiates on the subject of religion than that they should be good men and true, men of honor and honesty, obeying the moral law')" (8).
We can further reinforce the view that the origins of speculative Free-Masonry were secular by reviewing the list of "complaints" that the rival "antient" and non-secular Masons waged against the earlier Modern Free-Masons. Among these charges were the observations that the Moderns de-Christianized Masonic rituals, ignored the Saints Days, the rejected of the Royal Arch degree (which was overtly Christian), and perhaps omitted prayers (10).
Hence, we can see that the first Modern Free-Masons did not themselves require candidates to believe in God, nor did they require the use of the Bible in their lodges. These requirements would not come into play until the "antient" Masons instilled more religiously conservative principles and requirements into their rival form of Masonry, which is what we see as the predominant Masonic order in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Perhaps the most simple and concise way to position the Bible and belief in god(s), in light of Modern Free-Masonry and humanist and secular values, is to state that the order does not intend, in any way or manner, to replace, substitute, or reinforce any religious beliefs or dogma. What this means is that god(s) and the Bible are completely independent and outside of the order, as they must be if Modern Free-Masonry intends to draw human beings together under a common cause, yet at the same time tolerate the diversity of potentially contradictory viewpoints on religion and god(s).
Click here to view an online version of both Part I and Part II of this article.
- (5) Grand Orient of France. Website: http://ns6745.ovh.net/~godf/foreign/uk/index_uk.html
- (6) Grand Orient of the United States. Website: http://www.gomasons.org
- (7) Margaret C, Jacob. The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts & Fictions. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, p. 18-19, 23.
- (8) Bessel, Paul. "U.S. Recognition of French Grand Lodges in the 1900s", Heredom: The Transactions of the Scottish Rite Research Society -- volume 5, 1996, pages 221-244]
- (9) Jaunaux, Bro. Laurent. "Concise History of the French Regular Freemasonry", Regular Grand Lodge of Belgium. Website: http://www.masonicnetwork.org/blog/2009/concise-history-of-the-french-regular-freemasonry/
- (10) Jones, Bernard E. The Freemason's Guide and Compendium, New and Revised Edition. Cumberland House. 1950, p. 200-201.


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The GOP's Iraq Problem
All spring and summer, the Republicans ducked the question of what to do about Iraq. Their mantra was: Wait for General Petraeus. Among Washington insiders, it was no secret why: The hugely unpopular war was largely responsible for the party's massive defeat in November 2006, and as party officials scanned confidential internal polls, things weren't looking any better for 2008. Rather than answer questions about the need to change course in Iraq, the GOP hoped and prayed that the general--dubbed by some "Petraeus ex machina"--would fly in from Baghdad with good news to report, so Republicans could relax.
He didn't, and they can't.
Though the new Republican mantra is that the surge is working and that Petraeus needs more time, there is little evidence the American public was swayed by the general's report that the war in Iraq is turning around. Four and a half years into the grinding conflict, public opinion has decisively shifted against the war, and it isn't going back, according to GOP pollsters and consultants. "The American people have turned the page on Iraq," says Kellyanne Conway of The Polling Company, a GOP firm.
George W. Bush's damn-the-torpedoes determination to stay the course in Iraq has thus created an excruciating dilemma for the GOP. By sticking with the White House, Republicans in Congress can block the Democrats' efforts to end the war, either by filibuster or by upholding an almost certain veto of any bill challenging the war. But any such victory will be Pyrrhic, costing them dearly in next year's election. Between now and then, they'll remain trapped between a White House that isn't ready to give an inch and a Democratic caucus in the House and Senate that can force them to cast vote after embarrassing vote in defense of Bush's war over the next thirteen months, in full public view.
Although Democrats have the stronger hand, Iraq poses a significant challenge for them, too. Having largely adopted an antiwar stand, the Democrats can look forward to 2008 secure in the knowledge that public opinion is overwhelmingly on their side. Still, since they don't have the votes to force a shift in the war, they may find themselves caught between their disappointed, left-leaning antiwar base and a GOP attack machine describing them as "Defeatocrats." Even with public support, it will require some real political skill for the Democrats to highlight the White House's sorry record in Iraq--from the rigged intelligence that justified the war to the mismanagement of the occupation to its enormous cost in lives and treasure--while insuring that the Republicans pay the price.
On the Hill, Republicans are mightily aware that pollsters, pundits and politicians predict sweeping Democratic gains in 2008 if Iraq is still an issue. With twenty-two GOP-held Senate seats up for grabs next year--many from states that are hotbeds of antiwar sentiment such as Oregon, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Maine and New Mexico--the Democrats have an outside shot at winning a filibuster-proof, sixty-vote majority in the Senate. In the House, Democrats could pick up as many as thirty additional seats. Plus, of course, the White House.
According to Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster with Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, the GOP is weak everywhere, and Iraq is the main driver. An August 2007 survey of the seventy most competitive Congressional districts Greenberg's firm carried out for the Democracy Corps showed that even in Republican-held districts, 61 percent of voters "want their member of Congress to vote to change President Bush's direction on Iraq and start requiring a reduction of troops." Perhaps the most stunning result of her polling: In the thirty-five most competitive districts now held by a Republican member of Congress, voters favor the Democratic candidate by 49 to 44 percent. "The war hurts Republicans among swing voters, among seniors and older voters, especially older women, in urban/suburban districts, and in rural areas," says Greenberg. Just in urban/suburban districts, where antiwar sentiment is strong, Democrats could pick up eight or nine seats, she says. In Republican-held urban/suburban districts--typified by those held by Representatives Christopher Shays of suburban Connecticut and Mark Kirk of Chicago--fully two-thirds of voters support legislation that would set a deadline or timetable for withdrawal.
Even in rural areas, where the Republican base is traditionally rock solid, the war in Iraq has soured GOP voters on the party. "Given the current national climate, Republicans must win rural areas to see success in 2008, while Democrats in turn have an historic opportunity to strike deep into the Republican base," says a June report by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. And it won't matter how the White House tries to spin the news from Iraq if the news continues to be bad. "Spin is so secondary to substance," says GOP pollster William Greener. "Reality dominates what people are going to think or not think. It won't make any difference what the spin is, if the substance is bad."
Desperate for help from the White House, GOP Congressional delegations visited Bush to express their concern. A group of eleven endangered moderate GOP House members, including Shays, trekked down Pennsylvania Avenue in early May to see if Bush would budge. So did a more select group of senior senators. All were rebuffed. "When the party bulls went to the White House, they said, 'We know for a fact that in eighteen months your policy will be reversed. Are you telling us that for the sake of the next eighteen months, you're willing to destroy the party?'" says Steve Simon, a former national security aide to Bill Clinton. "And the President's answer was, 'Thanks for your interest.'"


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I was lured by a store promoter to try this new fragrance on a card.
After an hour of shopping, and smelling the card I went back to try it out on my skin. That was 9.5 hours ago and I can still smell it!
Chloe EDP is a subtle, clean, fresh, rosy modern fragrance. It's a "safe" scent that you could wear at work, an afternoon barbecue, or a night out!
Chloe sits close to the skin, you get a beautiful whiff every so often & it lasts and lasts. It's quite a summery scent but is nice to wear in fine cool weather.
It's not original though - it smells very much like a rose version of Dior Addict 2. It might be a good alternative as Chloe is an EDP whereas DA2 is an EDT. The scent is not the only thing it has in common with Dior. The bottle looks very similar to Miss Dior Cherie.
PS: July 07 - I've finally purchased a 30ml bottle of Chloe EDP & am enjoying it! :)
PPS: Oct 08 - A little of the magic is gone and I have not worn Chloe for a while. I don't think I will repurchase Chloe when my current bottle runs out.
PPPS: Jan 09 - One thing I'm quite unhappy about is that I've only had this scent for a year or so, but the top of the bottle (metallic part) has completely tarnished & discoloured. None of my other perfume bottles with similar material have done this. It makes it seem cheap.
Perhaps this is why I don't wear it any more. Who wants to put on a pretty scent from an ugly discoloured bottle? Very disappointing. Definitely NOT repurchasing.
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This is a nice perfume, but the smell is nothing special. I expected more from Chloe and I really wanted to get this perfume because of the pretty bottle. But this perfume is very strong, and I don't know if anyone else agrees with me, but to me it smells exactly like Gucci envy me the pink version. I think it would be a good winter perfume, but definitely too strong for summer.
I had a sample of this thrust upon me at Saks and otherwise would not have tried it after smelling it at the store. Upon trying it the first time there were so many lovely notes particularly the very modern rose and peony (not your grandmothers version), but something seemed very off...and yet I kept putting it on before bed, night after night. I had all but given up because I couldn't get past that one note (amber maybe) when my husband smelled it and said it was the sexiest perfume he had ever smelled, then he said it again the next day and the one after that...up till then the only comment he had ever made on my choice of perfume was "you smell nice", now he was holding my wrist up to his nose.
So I pushed on thru for his sake and realized the dab on sample might be the issue and finally bought a spray bottle...bingo! How lovely and elegant and feminine this is small doses and it does have excellent staying power but I put on a spray too many the other day and too much is not a good thing, dosage is everything here. It does bear similarity to Stella to me (which I liked on others but not myself) but this is it's richer far more educated cousin, addictive and enviable indeed.
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I tried this a few weeks ago at Saks and was stunned at how beautiful it was. The rose in it is the most smooth and creamy rose i think i have ever smelled in a rose based scent before. I felt like i was burying my nose in several dozen roses. White roses that is. I dont know why, but I think of white roses when i think of this scent. Also, Chloe drips of pure, golden oppulence and wealth. Something made specifically for the upper crust in society. I can imagine a lady or refined gentleman who are listed in the social register wearing this scent. I have not bought a bottle of this yet but i will be in the near future. When i do i will fantasize about getting ready to go to a black-tie event. I will don a tuxedo and i will pick up my lady friend who will be wearing a pink, cinderella type dress. We will be headed to a french, victorian ballroom to hobnob with the super wealthy......even though we are mere peasants acting like we are old monied. The ballroom is done in 24 carat gold leaf and the place is shimmering with swarovski crystal and diamond chandeliers and ballroom is filled with dozens upon dozens of pure white roses in sparkling, glittering cherub vases. The ballroom is alive with the scent of white roses.....just like the new Chloe.
Wow, I realize opinions on what makes an excellent fragrance are super-subjective b/c a fragrance will vary on every skin it touches, but geez- fabric softener and generic clean floral are not what happens when I wear this incarnation of Chloe. Rather, every single time I've worn it in public, I get asked what I'm wearing & loads of compliments. I've always worn fragrances to work but never received the amount of compliments I've gotten with Chloe. Yes it's rose, but not knock-you- over-the-head Stella rose. Yes, it's clean, but not cheap, powdery clean. To me it's an extremely well-crafted blend that balances a subtle sweetness with a freshness that's unique to most if not all the department store brands I've tried. It works from day to night, and after a decade long search to find something that both my SO and I can love, the search is over. Chloe is a close-to-the-skin fragrance that lasts for hours. The later is a huge plus for those of us who can't seem to hold a fragrance on the skin for more than a half hour no matter how much layering we do. I love it.
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Very very pretty rose scent with a clean note.
I like it a lot.
Reminds me a little bit of Rose Leger but with a sweeter rose note.
This is a department store-type" scent, but one of the nicer ones I've smelled. I love the distinctive rose note.
Fresh, sweet, synthetic floral. Smells quite boring & banal, just like something I had smelt before but cannot quit pin down the name. Nor can I feel fabric. Actually I did not know it is made to link with the idea of fabric until I read this thread. But I think it should bring to mind the associative image of fabric intuitively if the idea has been successfully transformed in the scent. I agree this scent is soft and easy-to-wear but overall it is nothing special but just another generic, clean, commercial type floral. While there are so many similar, clean-smell kind of products like Vera Wang, Rumeur, Kelly Caleche etc. out there in the market, I am not excited in any aspect of this scent. For me it is most of honey with a faint, unknown floral note. Boring and loathsome!
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I love the look of this bottle...this fragrance would suit someone chic and sphisticated...an unstated classy fragrance...it smelt floral when i first spritz this...hours late it somehow smells like a fragrance i used previously...however this made me feel naueous and i keep feel like fainting!! interesting i usually break out in hives or have migraines or sneezing fits...nothing that makes me want to faint though!!
This smells exactly like Versace EDP (the new one-with the golden bottle).
Light, fresh floral, a little sweet and a little dry. But this one's more clean smelling. When I smelled it I immediately thought of "laundry powder"!
It's boring and generic smelling to me... Will not buy.