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About the BRIDGE project
The Valuing Nature Network BRIDGE project team aims to bridge the gap between knowledge and policy by pulling groups of researchers and decision-makers together, to investigate how natural, social and economic science evidence on the benefits of biodiversity can best the utilised by decision makers to develop more effective biodiversity conservation policies.
BRIDGE is slightly different from the other Valuing Nature Network projects in that it is exploring how scientific evidence can best be used to develop more effective policies. A clear message that we have found during a series of workshops with researchers and decision makers, is that the scientific evidence produced by researchers is not always in a format suitable to help decision makers design policies. Through the BRIDGE project, we hope to be able to find better ways in which we can bring these two communities (researchers and decision makers) together, to ultimately develop better policies in the future.
Background: from values to decisions
The capacity of UK natural resources to deliver ecosystem services has declined dramatically over the last 60 years. This decline is, in, part, because nature is not fully accounted for in decision-making (Defra, 2011; NEA, 2011). Since the 1980s there have been significant developments in environmental valuation methods, while the 1990 Environment White Paper integrated crosscutting systems of environmental policy appraisal into UK central government decision-making. Yet systematic integration of the value of nature into decision-making remains poor, as the growing supply of valuation evidence has seemingly not matched the demands of decision-makers.
Current research suggests that this is in part due to
(1) lack of effective dialogue between researchers and decision-makers on evidence needs (Nilsson et al., 2008; Russel and Jordan, 2007) and
2) shortcomings in valuation to fully account for the complexities of social-ecological systems (Kay, 2008; Spash, 2008).
This project, called BRIDGE, will develop a transdisciplinary Valuing Nature Network hub of researchers and decision-makers to address VNN challenge 4: to improve understanding of, and find ways to, incorporate information on values obtained from the natural sciences, economics and other social sciences into governance and so improve decision-making and the implementation of these decisions.
Project management
BRIDGE revolves around a series of transdisciplinary workshops, following an iterative process that will be carefully designed and facilitated to share and synthesise across disciplines and develop a shared theoretical framework, so that a coherent and comprehensive research agenda will be delivered.


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The Strategy Pattern allows you to abstract away particular algorithms from their usage. This allows you to easily swap the algorithm being used without having to change the calling code. The general form of the pattern is:
In Groovy, because of its ability to treat code as a first class object using anonymous methods (which we loosely call Closures), the need for the strategy pattern is greatly reduced. You can simply place algorithms inside Closures.
First let's look at the traditional way of encapsulating the Strategy Pattern.
Here we have defined an interface
Calc which our concrete strategy classes will implement (we could also have used an abstract class). We then defined two algorithms for doing simple multiplication:
CalcByMult the normal way, and
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The Rookie: Kelly Szymczyk, 48, Lewisberry, Pennsylvania
Though she'd been a Spinning instructor for a dozen years, Szymczyk had a road bike she rarely used.
"My husband would ride, but frankly I was scared," she says. "There's that bike-handling thing you don't have to do indoors. We weren't in the most bike-friendly place in Alabama.
I had little kids. I was tired—and full of excuses." When her husband's job relocated to Pennsylvania in 2009, Szymczyk found wide-open, cycling-friendly country roads and was determined to try again. She joined the Harrisburg Bike Club, where the reality of the outdoors hit her full-on in the form of hills. Her first major climb was Kings Gap, a 4-mile ascent at a gradual 5 to 6 percent grade. Once over the top, she says, she started freaking out.
"It was switchbacky and there was some gravel on the shoulders," Szymczyk recalls. "I rode my brakes so hard all the way down, my hands were completely cramped up and beet-red under my gloves by the time I got to the bottom." Though she's learned to ease up, she still feels wary of using the drops and takes it slow. "I'm a cautious descender, but getting more comfortable," she says. "But it's my inexperience in bike handling that makes it slow going."
The Challenge: Descending
Descending can seem counterintuitive: Your first instinct—brake, hard!—can send you to the ground. It takes finesse and confidence, both of which come with practice.
The Advice: Start with a short, straight downhill you can descend with no brakes and practice getting into the correct position.
"New riders often sit bolt upright because they don't like how they speed up with their hands in the drops," says Applegate. "But that's unstable; your weight is too high and too far forward." Shift your rear back, spreading out your weight, and put your hands in the drops. "This lowers your center of gravity, keeps the rear wheel firmly on the ground, and makes the bike more predictable," Applegate says. "And it gives you more leverage with the brakes."
Scrub speed by gently squeezing the brakes. Your front brake holds about 80 percent of your stopping power, so go easy on it. And be cautious in turns. "When you brake, your bike stands up and goes straight—the opposite of what you want in a turn," Applegate says. Instead, slow down gradually so you're at a comfortable speed when you reach a turn. "Steer by leaning your bike, not your body," says Herrera. Press your outside leg into that pedal. Point the other knee to the inside to shift your hips and shoulders into the turn.
Look where you want the bike to go. "It will follow your head and eyes," says Herrera. Flatten the turn by starting wide (without crossing the yellow line), cutting through the apex and exiting wide.
What She Learned...
Don't put a death grip on the handlebar: "I am learning to relax and enjoy the air as I go. I also feather the brakes more."
To descend you first have to climb, and Szymczyk switched her gearing after watching others roll past her. "I started asking everyone what gears they had," she says. "First I bought a new cassette, switching from an 11-23 to a 12-28; then this past fall I put on a compact. Big help!"
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Bill Detwiler is Managing Editor of TechRepublic and Tech Pro Research and the host of Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Prior to joining TechRepublic in 2000, Bill was an IT manager, database administrator, and desktop support specialist in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.
I am interested in the 13" Air but since Intel has released such over whelmingly more powerful cpus that have a much less per unit cost, not to mention per 1K unit cost, will apple retool quickly and release a performance beast air for cheap? imagine a 13" Air3 with a intel quad core i7-2600 oops I just saw the macbook pro announcements about these intel chips being recalled. seems they will be in next macbooks but releases will be after march or april according to Intel chip delivery announcements. unless the macbooks only use SATA ports 0 and 1 then the recall chips will work just fine. It is SATA ports 2-5 that fail.
Very helpful. Do you know where a replacement A1377 battery for 13" Macbook can be obtained?
let's take a look at the brand new $1300 macbook air released this week!: I bet it has that spiffy magnetic power adapter! YES I bet it has one of those cool new Core i3 i5 or i7 processors, right? probably an i7 at that price right? ummm NO, just an old timey Core 2 Duo well surely I can upgrade the CPU later to a faster Core 2 Duo? ummm NOPE - soldered in ok fine, I see it comes with 2GB RAM, I can upgrade that to 4GB or 8GB, right? ummmm NOPE - soldered in & no expansion slots how about 3 or 4 USB ports? NOPE 2 (like a year 2004 laptop computer) ok, how about a backlit keyboard, an ambient light sensor, or even Adobe Flash? NOPE, NOPE, and NOPE can I at least have an internal DVD drive at this price? NOPE, and if you want an external DVD, you are now down to 1 USB port! geez, did you say this thing was $1300 or $300?
Excellent I probably never w?ll open one Thanks
I found a ~50-piece (don't remember exactly how many) "security" bit set at Harbor Freight for under ten bucks, which makes easy work of handling 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 corner screws with and without center pegs. That or something similar could do wonders for these breakdowns.
If you were in the market for one of the new MacBook Air notebooks, would you opt for the ultra-portable 11-inch model or the slightly larger 13-inch machine?
You really said that...? Well I don't have any of the fancy IT titles you do but I do still remember selling the old GRID laptops with a few hundred K of bubble memory running Grid OS for a few thousand bucks each and some sort of morphodite Epson laptop thingamabob that had Wordstar on a plug in ROM chip back in the mid to late 80's. I also remember pecking away on an otherwise forgettable Toshiba laptop from a'rd the 1999-2001 days. Said all that to say what you see as shortcomings and grounds for ridicule in your post still look pretty good to me. Now if I only had one of them fancy titles after my handle to make my opinion worth something... Oh yeah... in answer to the thread question... I'd take the 13".
I actually have a Craftsman 32-piece set of security bits from Sears (http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00947486000P). Unfortunately, it didn't have bits for dealing with the rounded corners used on the MacBook Air screws. Also, the bits in this set are often too large for the small screws used in many of the notebooks, tablets, and smartphones I crack open. I'll check the Harbor Freight site and see what they have.
Neither. Old processor. Not a fan of mini-display ports either [try and find a monitor that has one when you are on the road - such as presentations].
I'm of the belief that the 11" is too under-specced - the 13" comes with more additions like the SD card reader, plus other items, it makes a LOT more sense. Personally though, I'm going for a 13" Macbook rather than the Air - they're slightly heavier, but contain more power, more flexibility and more "bang for the buck" - roughly 2/3 the price for slightly more weight sounds like a better deal to me
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Automated Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
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An ambulatory blood pressure monitor is a small device that is worn throughout the day, usually for 24 or 48 hours. The device takes your blood pressure automatically while you do your normal daily activities.
The device periodically inflates and takes blood pressure measurements, which are recorded for later printout and analysis. The devices are usually loaned by a clinic, hospital, or pharmacy.
You doctor might ask you to use one of these monitors if he or she thinks you have white-coat (or office) hypertension or if there is a difference between the blood pressure you have at home and in your doctor's office. These monitors are also valuable for diagnosing and treating high blood pressure in pregnant women and older adults.
If you are required to use an ambulatory blood pressure monitor, keep in mind that it is important for a health professional to properly size the cuff, which fits around your arm. Fitting does not take long.
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1. If you were to start your own business, what would it be?
Well, a blog is a business... right? Can be, anyways. So a blog. OR I would start either my own makeup artist business (oh wait, that's already my plan) or a spa. We have to create a "Dream Spa" for one of our school projects, mine is already fantastic. haha!
eeeeeeehhh... I try to fight it... but sometimes my efforts are useless. Only on extra grumpy days though.
Hm... I remember having to take a nap at my sisters 6th bday party (I would have been 1) but I am not sure if that's because it's in a video somewhere or if I really remember it. I remember a dream I had a few times as a child. It involved one of my dolls. She had a peach and white crocheted dress with a hood...
This is a tough one. If it's ending BADLY I'd probably make sure I was with the ones I loved and not fight it. BUT I also have a survival side in me that would probably instinctively kick in.
Lunch. I love a good salad, sandwich, or bowl of soup.
I'm a mix and match girl, and it also depends on what it is. Because of dance, I developed great listening and viewing learning skills. But I also need to do things multiple times to be able to do it well. A lot of the time I can just see something and remember it. But my brain can be pretty selective with that. If we've ever hung out- ask me what you wore, where we were, things you said, and any other detail oriented question- chances are I'll remember it.
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A language plugins provides the ability to run analysis on a specific language. More than 20 languages are currently supported. Available language plugins are: .NET (C# + VB.NET), ABAP, Android, C/C++, C++ Community, C#, Cobol, Delphi / Pascal,Drools, Erlang, Flex / ActionScript, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Natural, Pacbase, PHP, PL/I, PL/SQL, Python, VB.NET, Visual Basic 6, Web, XML.
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Cutoff - Excludes files from analysis based on a date threshold, to analyze the work done on an existing code base and measure the quality of new code/changes only.
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Google Calendar - Posts an event when a project is analysed by SonarQube.
Hudson - Enables launching SonarQube analysis from the Hudson CI engine.
Jenkins - Enables launching SonarQube analysis from the Jenkins CI engine.
Maven Report - Adds a link to the Maven site to reference the project's SonarQube dashboard.
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SCM Activity - Collects and reports information on commits using SCM data.
Switch Off Violations - Excludes some violations in a fine-grained way.
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LDAP - Enables the delegation of SonarQube authentication and authorization to LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory.
OpenID - Enables user authentication and Single Sign-On via an OpenID provider.
PAM - Enables the delegation of SonarQube authentication to the underlying PAM subsystem.
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Motion Chart - Displays projects measures using the super sexy Google Motion Chart Gadget.
PDF Report - Generates a PDF report with the results of projects analysis.
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JMeter - Displays JMeter test results in SonarQube.
Mantis - Retrieves and reports the number of project issues from Mantis.
Security Rules - Allows a more prominent reporting of security-related issues to help you keep them under control.
Sonargraph - Provides architecture governance features accompanied by metrics about cyclic dependencies and other structural aspects using Sonargraph.
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Thucydides - Reports on Thucydides (acceptance tests tool) metrics.
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Trac - Retrieves and reports the number of project issues from a Trac instance.
Useless Code Tracker Plugin - Reports on the number of lines that can be reduced in an application.
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- SecureCI - An open-source continuous integration solution that is packaged as a virtual machine and can be run with the VMware Player. It integrates many tools like SonarQube, Maven, Nexus, Hudson and Subversion.
- Structure101 - Tracks metrics for software architecture.
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- City Model - Displays your source code as a 3D city using SonarQube metrics.
- PMD Model - Provides information about violations detected by PMD, such as the number of violations by category or the level of implication of PMD in your quality profile.
- Findbugs Model - Provides information about violations detected by Findbugs, such as the number of violations by category or the level of implication of Findbugs in your quality profile.
- Checkstyle Model - Provides information about violations detected by Checkstyle, such as the number of violations by category or the level of implication of Checkstyle in your quality profile.
- ABC Metric - Calculates a new size metric based on ABC (Assignment, Branches, Conditions) in Java projects.
- Logo Plugin - Includes a widget to show your project logo or any other image in your dashboard.
- Scertify™ Refactoring Assessment - Detects the portions of an application that can be refactored, gives valuable information on refactoring strategies, and costs.
- Benchmark Plugin - Shows statistical information (average, minimum, maximum, distribution) to compare your project's metrics and retrieve its rank and percentile inside your SonarQube instance.
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- OWASP Plugin - Provides information about the OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks and gives you an overall security risk factor for your project.
- FxCop Model - Provides FxCop information for your C# .NET project, such as number of violations by category (design, naming, performance,...) or the level of implication of FxCop in your quality profile.
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Included in this template package are 1 HTML page – the main landing page is perfectly formatted using good practices for landing page design including strong, obvious CTA areas (Call To Action) to help convert visitors into clients / customers. The design is based on the popular "Z" pattern to guide the eye around from title to content to image and purchase. We have many special areas including the image area above the fold – which can quite easily be changed for a video area, along with a strong defined benefit area underneath – with an image section under the fold that has prettyPhoto lightbox primed and ready for you to roll. There is also a styled subscription form on the top of the page (as well as a important message area) that is ready for your own personal script to be plugged into – the form and message will display on load, but can be as easily closed as turning off a light.
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- 6.1 i586 , 6.0 i586 , 7.0 i586 , 7.1 i586
Problem description
OpenLDAP installs the ud binary with mode 755 and the default group, taken from the installing user's primary gid or the gid of the directory itself. Depending on the gid used, this can cause the file to be group-writable for an extended group. We have determined that Linux-Mandrake is not vulnerable to this exploit.
Updated packages
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text: Just for JaxerB Share | gary107 posted:8/30/2013 12:24:58 PM (Reply)Gaelic music and it's ghostly impact gary107 posted:8/30/2013 12:26:18 PM (Reply)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJ4CcZdFhY Gaelic Song by the Arrogant Wormsgary107 posted:8/30/2013 12:26:18 PM (Reply)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJ4CcZdFhY Gaelic Song by the Arrogant Wormsgary107 posted:8/30/2013 12:29:10 PM (Reply)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJsrcbVGsa4 History is made by Stupid People by the Arrogant Wormsgary107 posted:8/30/2013 12:39:48 PM (Reply)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9IQmP0SVHE A Manly Song by the Arrogant Worms these are the guys who did the song "The War of 1812" I like that they used the international symbolism icon for the "Men's Room" for this work. My paper "Return to Babel" [1968] was used in the development of this non-spoken conceptual language.gary107 posted:8/30/2013 12:53:06 PM (Reply)THIS ONE FOR BobP, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-T3coiH-ss Proud to be Canadian by the Arrogant Wormsgary107 posted:8/30/2013 2:04:46 PM (Reply)THIS ONE FOR LINC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d473eFW3NIg I AM COW by the Arrogant WormsLincolnGenghis posted:8/31/2013 12:48:13 AM (Reply)I thought the whole thread was for jaxer. how did I get brought into it. :)LincolnGenghis posted:8/31/2013 1:11:47 AM (Reply)Its not even my kind of music. bobprin posted:8/31/2013 6:35:27 AM (Reply)Nope, no comment.Jaxerback posted:8/31/2013 10:45:00 PM (Reply)I am reminded of the tag line from the movie,"The Fly"...."Be afraid...be very afraid!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BzwxJ-M_M0 Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Mike Ashley will be feeling very clever.
He and his board at Sports Direct have created a financial instrument so brilliantly complex that, I would imagine, only his former Merrill Lynch genius adviser Jeff Blue really understands it. The City certainly doesn't.
The company's advisers assured that this put-option-with-a-difference was wholeheartedly approved by the board, and that the non-executive directors all plainly understood it. Really?
Anyway, it says, essentially nothing has changed: we retain a stake in Debenhams and are still seeking dialogue.
Except, actually, a lot has changed. Sports Direct, which fought so hard to shake off the spivvy image it had when Mr Ashley first brought it to the market, had been starting to behave itself like a real FTSE-100 company.
Now, it's going back where it started. Poor communication, eccentric behaviour, baffling language.
Not that Mr Ashley will care, though.
What was it he used to call investors who didn't like his style? Crybabies.
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Federal financial and human resources systems are among the next government systems that will move to the cloud.
Vivek Kundra, federal chief information officer, said today that agencies run more than 500 financial and more than 500 human resources systems across government, and it's an area ripe for savings by moving them to a cloud service provider.
"In the financial systems space, there are some really innovative companies, like Workday Human Capital Management that are looking to disrupt this space when it comes to financial systems," Kundra said during an event sponsored by Politico and Microsoft in Washington. "I hope other companies and entrepreneurs will think about cloud based financial systems so an agency as large as the Homeland Security Department can provision its financial systems in a similar way a start up fires up a financial system using QuickBooks."
Kundra said with so many systems across the government, the potential for savings is great. He pointed to the General Services Administration and Agriculture Department's decision to move each of their e-mail systems to the cloud. He said combined, the two agencies will see a savings of about $40 million.
"There are billions of dollars that could be saved," Kundra said. "We are laying out a strategic landscape that's going to allow us to disrupt, whether it's HR systems, financial systems or whether we are looking at simple things like e-mail or more complicated workflow systems. The notion that we can bring together a number of agencies who have shared problems and in an area that is ripe for innovation and disruption."
Kundra said the administration did that with the request for proposal GSA issued in April for email-as-a-service.
He said the type of vehicle could come about for financial and human resources systems.
"I envision in the future, in the next couple of years, where you will be seeing major multi-billion dollar RFPs that are cloud centric coming in and disrupting financial, HR and other platforms across the government and to give a strong signal to the private sector to make sure the privates sector are innovating and provide us with solutions that allow us to move away from the model of asset ownership and to service provisioning," Kundra said.
Several agencies already are heading down this path or are considering it. For instance, the Labor Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission outsourced to the cloud each of their financial systems to a third party vendor, Global Computer Enterprises (GCE). EEOC hired GCE in March under a five-and-a-half year contract worth about $10 million. Labor began using GCE's cloud in January 2010.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently issued a sources sought notice to move its financial management system to a new provider, and cloud computing is one option. Additionally, the Interior Department's National Business Center runs a private cloud for its 15 customers using Oracle Federal Financials.
But Kundra said he expects the private sector to lead the way when in the financial and HR areas. This would be different than the Financial Management Line of Business started under the Bush administration, where agencies were encouraged to move to federal shared service providers for financial management and HR services. The private sector part of the LOBs never got a lot of traction across the government.
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"In the same way in the financial systems arena, we're going to do exactly the same thing. We are going to do that in the HR," he said. "We need to start bringing the government to start pooling their purchasing power. We need to start saying where we are heading not three months from now, but over the next 5-10-15 years."
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Quade Cooper has unequivocally announced that he would not want to play for the Wallabies even if he was fit.
The injured flyhalf has been in the news following his scathing attack on the Wallabies coaching staff and a team environment he described as toxic. On Thursday night, he reiterated his stance when he spoke live on Australian television.
'I'm just striving to be the best that I can be and that's why I said I didn't want to be involved in that kind of environment,' Cooper said. 'For me to continue to improve as a player and as a person you want to be in the best possible environment and I feel that that environment is destroying me as a person and as a player, so that I can't do the best that I can do to represent my country and my family and my friends, to the best of my ability.'
Cooper is currently unavailable because of injury, and is unlikely to recover in time for the Wallabies' end-of-year tour. But even if he was fit, he claims that he wouldn't want to be involved.
'No, like I said, the environment there at the moment is one that I don't feel comfortable in and if I don't feel comfortable and if I don't feel that I can give 100% for my country and that yellow jersey, that's a very big problem,' he said.


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Vodacom Western Province fullback Gio Aplon has called for more focus from his young colleagues, as many of them prepare for the biggest game of their careers.
Aplon, who trained for the first time today after missing last week's game through injury, is one of a host of WP players who have never been in an Absa Currie Cup semi-final. Although they will be pleased with the third-place finish in the league and the reinvention of their adventurous style of play, this is the moment they have been waiting for.
"We can look back at the season and honestly say we have played well, but I think that doesn't matter now," he told keo.co.za. "These are the semi-finals, and if you make one mistake, it could cost you the game."
Province have not made it past the semi-finals since they won the Absa Currie Cup in 2001. They subsequently failed to make the playoffs in 2002 and 2003, and then bombed out twice against Free State in 2004 and 2005.
There have been moments of brilliance this season, but there have also been a few instances that show up the lack of experience in the side. Saturday's match will be a true evaluation of their collective mental character.
"There have been a few times this year where we slacked off and were not clinical enough," confessed Aplon. "But everybody understands what is required in this game against the Bulls."
Aplon is one man the hosts will be looking to shut down quickly, as none would have forgotten how he destroyed them in the 25-13 home victory in Cape Town, scoring two cracking tries. But Aplon was wary to suggest a repeat performance, as WP are no longer the unknown quantity that they were in the earlier stages of the competition.
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Thread: Question about Samples
I am a sales associate and I specialize in the Tom Ford Private Blends. I give out many samples, not only of Tom Ford but of multiple products that people ask for.
From your perspectives as customers, I ask if sampling actually draws you back to purchase the product. Do you sample and then go buy online for a cheaper price? Has a sample ever made you decide to go back and purchase. How many of you sample repeatedly to spare the money of buying the product?
I try to follow-up with customers that sample. What are your thoughts on this?
I know from my own purchases of Creed, Bond no. 9, etc. whenever I buy I receive samples. They have generally led me to a purchase. But I am more of a faithful customer to specific SA's that go out of their way to find things that I like. I have never sampled and sought better prices. I also have a stigma against discounted products. I feel they may be poor quality. They put work in, and deserve my business. At different boutiques, I have specific SA that I contact for business and we have a relationship.
I guess it is the server mentality. If you tip well as a server, somewhere down the line that tip will make its way back to you.
Thoughts? This has been something that I have thought about a lot.
Yes, samples make me go buy the product.
Although I never purchase or collect samples myself, if I receive samples as part of a purchase I make from a generous SA, I often return to that same SA to make future fragrance purchases.
I've returned multiple times to buy fags from a SA that gave me samples.
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I got samples on line, and I bought on-line fragrances that I couldn't get here, or the price difference was huge.
I had a wonderful experience with a SA, that gave me a bunch of samples when I purchased from her, she went really off her way!
My decisions are based on the difference in price now, If it's less than 10.00 I'll go to my SA, cause I feel I'm taking care off, but they have a very limited inventory.
hope this helps.
It is my policy to buy from the store and -- if possible -- the clerk who gave me a sample. If I purchase a sample, then I am at large to purchase the product wherever I like.
Back on topic to the thread though...
I never repeat sample to just avoid buying the product. As for the sample, they defintely make me consider returning to that SA if price is close. But I'm not going to come back and pay triple for what I could get at a big discount or maybe a used bottle that is a good value, just in the name of some silly "entitled loyalty". Especially if the SA does nothing out of the ordinary or seems to want to get rid of me. Not quite as bad, but also annoying is when they clearly push something they have an agenda to sell. A Bond Rep did this to me one time.
Now of course if the SA works with me, is friendly,helpful, and generous with samples, obviously then I will lean toward doing business with them
Oh defintely price and value! But if it was close, I would probably not have a problem giving the sale to the SA, especially if he had worked with me and been helpful. But I'm not going to pay near double, simply b/c they allowed me to test their stock at the counter.
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To be honest; yes, no and no.
As for the 1st No, I met a fantastic Tom Ford SA once, she gave me 6 4ml samples without me even asking for samples, but merely for showing interest and knowledge. However, the store sold the 50ml for $220 each, when they sell online for as low as $120, $100 is a huge difference. But as I said, in the case the lady simply liked me and offered to give me stuff. I would never abuse a SA if I have absolutely no plans of making a purchase.
As for the the 2nd No; Sometimes I ask for a sample of a perfume simply to have enough of it for reference. An example is "Serge Lutens Arabie". I'd never wear that perfume thus I wouldn't buy a full bottle of it, but I like having some of it for reference. But again, in this case I would not ask for a sample unless I am making a purchase.
And for the Yes; If I'm genuinely interested in a perfume I'll ask for a sample, if I happen to like it I'll make a purchase from the same SA. If I make a purchase and the SA is very generous with samples, I'll come back even if I don't like any of the samples I got. When I used to live in Canada, a SA always gave me over 10 samples (I was purchasing expensive niche stuff anyway), and I always came back to that store whenever I had spare money for perfumes, even if I was more interested in a line sold somewhere else, I would put my plans aside and spend my money in that same store. So yes, generosity can make a customer very loyal.
But to be reasonable, no matter how generous you are, if you're working in a store that sells products for, say, over %130 of what they go for online, I'll make my purchase online. Good customer service can only take you so far...Luckily the price difference in the Niche market is usually tight, so I don't mind paying an extra $20 to get some goodies. But designers on the other hand...they can go for %400 in store.
If an SA is helpful--by giving samples, or guiding me to a fragrance I might like, that sort of thing--I'll likely make a purchase from that SA sometime in the next few weeks. But I shop at a lot of different fragrance stores, and I take a long time, sometimes months, to go from sample to purchase. Therefore, it's unlikely that that purchase will be the one that that SA showed me--it will probably be something that some other SA showed me a few months before.
And, yeah, if I can find a fragrance at a deepdeep discount, odds are I'll buy it at that discount, and I'll go back to the helpful SA to buy something that I _can't_ buy at a discount. For example, if a Neiman Marcus SA shows me an older Goutal fragrance, I'll likely buy the deeply discounted version online, but when I want to buy something new and not yet at the discounters (or at least not deeply discounted), or buy something from a brand that manages to keep its products away from the discounters, I'll go buy it from that SA.
Some places, like Sephora, have very little that I want, that isn't deeply discounted elsewhere. I buy one or two full-price products from Sephora every year, just because I go in there to sample so often and I'd feel guilty if I didn't. (If I wore makeup, I'd sample perfume at Sephora, buy makeup there, and buy the perfume at discounters. But I don't wear makeup.)
I think the original question is probably more relevant to niche as Ekove mentions - for me it is SAs at the handful of retailers carrying niche stuff that I have got to know quite well and with HK tax free status + in all three cases a 10% membership discount the on the ground price is way better than online retail.
Particularly with the Private Blends, sometimes showing people a fragrance that layers and blends with their current Private Blend helps them increase their fragrance wardrobe.
I usually walk in the department store and I make my way over to the fragrance counter, smile and usually the SA are kind of nasty to me. But honestly, I have met one that was really nice, down to Earth, even went out of her way as to what she thought was the best scent for me and never tried to force something off on me. She gave me one of those 'gift with purchase' bags that didn't come with my fragrance and a butt-load of samples. I went back and sought her out (sadly, she had left) because of just how nice she was and she seemed to really want to help me. If all SA were like her, I'd go back and buy with them in a heartbeat.
I'll be frank.
Until Xmas eve, I was also working as a fine fragrance SA, which also covered the Tom Ford portfolio (amongst others).
I know how this works from both sides of the counter. I also learned how to recognise a genuine request or need for a sample from a 'sample-whoring' request.
Answer: If Im given samples, 9 times out of 10 I will shop online if I can find it drastically cheaper.
This being said, the store I worked in until recently had a Guerlain counter. Our competition (just across the road) ALSO had a Guerlain counter. DESPITE our very generous 20% staff discount, I made all my local Guerlain purchases from the store across the road. That is because the Guerlain consultant there ALWAYS provided exceptional customer service. She followed up on purchases, made calls to get me to come in and sample, invited me to VIP events and gave generous GWPs. Even when faced with outstanding house discounts in my store, I was (and still am) very loyal to her.
When was testing some Bond frags, the SA gave me samples of what I wanted and she was very helpful in general. I could have purchased my bottle online for a solid discount but I felt better about giving her the sale. She also gave me 8 more samples and some samples of Jack black facial cleansers.
Sephora's wonderful about samples, but their selection isn't a great match for my tastes.
Point of sale retailers, for a higher ticketed price, offer immediate services. If I decided I wanted Creed's Green Irish Tweed, I know exactly where I need to stop on the way home from work, from having stopped by Bloomingdale's a week or two ago. That's worth a little extra, no?
With designer frags, available at $30-40 online (~50% off retail), the risk is acceptable to me.
Edit: As for sample-giving. I won't give my business to a place that refuses samples, at all. If I get samples from a place like Sephora, but buy the product online, I make sure I give some other kind of business to them. In this case, I buy all my skincare products there.
Having said that, if I meet an awesome, generous SA, I'll definitely go out of my way to get "qualifying" products from them!
Samples definitely make it more likely that I will buy the product-- in fact, I don't buy perfumes if I have not been able to sample them. But I find that there is no consistent correlation between where I obtain samples and where I buy the product.
I have samples:
that came to me secondhand from other BNers
that I got by emailing the house and requesting them
that were decanted by SAs at Nordstrom, Sephora or Aedes
that were original manufacturer samples given to me by an SA (but not many stores in CT have mfr. samples to offer; usually these are designer scents that I don't end up liking or buying.)
that I was allowed to decant for myself, into sample size atomizers that I bought online and brought along in my purse for just this purpose
that I bought online from Luckyscent, Aedes, Perfumed Court, eBay, L'Artisan, Rosine, Beauty Café....
With samples coming from all over, it is not so likely that I will associate a particular sample with a particular SA. I also shop at different hours and days and often do not see the same SAs anyway.
Not only that, but I may sample at one store, then some time later decide to buy the fragrance while in another city, shopping. Perhaps it would be different if the stores that sell the perfumes I love were closer; as it is, convenience plays a big factor.
I'm more likely to buy while I'm out for a day of shopping with my husband and daughter. It becomes part of the pleasure of the outing. I've sampled in Westport but ended up buying later in NY (Bois de Paradis). I've sampled at Barney's NY and bought later at Barney's Boston! (Une Rose.) Perhaps it all evens out for the SAs in the long run-- I hope so!
I do buy online sometimes, particularly from vendors that offer a discount to Basenoters and free shipping. These represent a minority of my perfume purchases, however. I've found them entirely satisfactory.
Follow-up calls-- I do not care to get these calls (unless I have specifically requested that I be called when a certain item becomes available.)
I find multiple interesting topics associated with your post.
Samples definitely make it more likely that I will buy the product-- in fact, I don't buy perfumes if I have not been able to sample them. But I find that there is no consistent correlation between where I obtain samples and where I buy the product.So you receive samples from multiple places and don't keep track of where you get them. I competely understand this. In fact, it makes sense. How exactly are you supposed to keep track of samples of products especially when you have multiple.I have samples:
that were decanted by SAs at Nordstrom, Sephora or Aedes
Would it make a different to you if a SA was to attach their business card to the sample and give it to you? If they made the visit and experience great for you, would you be open more to remembering the SA?
You bring atomizers to the store and fill them with juice from the testers? that I was allowed to decant for myself, into sample size atomizers that I bought online and brought along in my purse for just this purpose
So it is a convience factor for you rather than a loyalty?Not only that, but I may sample at one store, then some time later decide to buy the fragrance while in another city, shopping. Perhaps it would be different if the stores that sell the perfumes I love were closer; as it is, convenience plays a big factor.
Interesting. As a SA at a high end retailer, they actually encourage us to do this. Have you told the SA to add you to a don't call list? Has this method ever worked for you in returning, even without a request for a certain item's availability?Follow-up calls-- I do not care to get these calls (unless I have specifically requested that I be called when a certain item becomes available.)
So you receive samples from multiple places and don't keep track of where you get them. I competely understand this. In fact, it makes sense. How exactly are you supposed to keep track of samples of products especially when you have multiple.
Clarifying, I don't have multiple samples of the same fragrance. Just samples of a number of fragrances.
Would it make a different to you if a SA was to attach their business card to the sample and give it to you?
No, this would be inconvenient given my storage method (I decant vials into empty 2.5 ml spray atomizers and store them stuck into a box filled with poly pellets.)
If they made the visit and experience great for you, would you be open more to remembering the SA?
I have only had one truly memorable visit to a perfume counter with an SA, and that was at JAR boutique. That SA is immortalized in my memory for sure.
I do not say this to fault the SAs. I prefer to sample independently without having to maintain a conversation with an SA simultaneously-- LOL I think my brain only runs on one track at a time! Seriously, conversation while sniffing practically guarantees that I won't retain any impressions of the perfumes. At JAR the difference was that we were seated, the perfumes were presented slowly and ceremoniously, and I had a table at which to take my own notes while sniffing. It was quite the experience, but not practical for most perfume counters!
You bring atomizers to the store and fill them with juice from the testers?
I buy empty atomizers in varying sizes from Accessories for Fragrances.com and use them for sharing samples with others, for decanting my current fragrances into (I keep the full bottles in fridge and the decants in the same poly pellets in dresser drawer) and I also bring some with me when we visit shops that sell perfume.
If after using the store tester on paper/skin I think I might like it enough to buy it, I request a sample. Almost always, I am told regretfully that they do not have samples. I then ask if I may decant a bit (usually 1-1.5 ml) into my own sample atomizer and with rare exception, I am told that I may. I would never take it without asking as I consider that to be theft.
The only places where I asked and was refused were Bendel and Barney's Boston. I do not ask for samples that I am not interested in, so obviously I have not tried this everywhere.
So it is a convience factor for you rather than a loyalty?
As I mentioned, the stores I buy from are almost entirely out of my local area, so yes, I buy where it is convenient. I don't make a special trip to a particular distant store if I can get the perfume closer to home. I have a family to care for, a teenager and elderly parent with needs, and I weigh the family's needs over loyalty to a particular store or sales associate. However, if I do recall where a scent came from and if it is convenient to buy from that store, I would do so.
"Follow-up calls-- I do not care to get these calls (unless I have specifically requested that I be called when a certain item becomes available."
Interesting. As a SA at a high end retailer, they actually encourage us to do this. Have you told the SA to add you to a don't call list? Has this method ever worked for you in returning, even without a request for a certain item's availability?
I've only had follow up calls from Bond No. 9 and L'Artisan so I don't feel the need to give such instructions. OTOH, when I have actually requested return calls (from Saks and Nordstrom) the calls never came. I think it probably works best for me to just call them myself to check on availability.
**I do want to say this, lest you conclude that I am callous about or rude to sales associates. They are humans like myself and are worthy of every bit of common decency. I make it a point to always be polite with them, and we do chat, but not when I'm sniffing if I can avoid it!
It depends, as a student I am generally a bit more tight with my pennies.
That said, if someone goes that extra step or is happy to give me samples of a few other fragrances I would be willing to overlook the 10% premium, Anymore than that and I am likely to purchase elsewhere, unless its truly exceptional service.
Hanae Mori and Tobacco Vanille samples have led me to purchase, not much else has led me to buying.
One last thing about the samples is that I don't hold onto them after I have determined that I do not like the fragrance enough to want to buy it.
Many BNers keep a reference library of fragrances, which is a wonderful idea but just too much clutter (physical and mental) for me. After I am done with samples, I pass them along, if possible to someone who has it on their "to test" list.
BTW I think Neroli Portofino is very pleasant; it's currently my favorite Tom Ford, though I do not own it nor have a sample of it. I'll have to smell it again next time I'm at Neiman Marcus.
I do both. Sometimes I buy online at a cheaper price. But there are some SAs, both local and across the country, who I have established a very good relationship with. So I will always give them my business when I can.
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I am loyal to sales associates who are helpful and knowledgeable. If they don't work on commission, I try to compliment them in writing. I am big on keeping business cards with notes, so if I do go back for a recommended item (fragrance or other) they get credit for the sale.
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Sometimes I feel that even if you are going to purchase a fragrance from somewhere else, writing a good comment card about your visit with the SA can be great and very rewarding.
If a sales associate is giving me many samples, talking about stuff, and making legit recommendations (not "here try "Bang!" If i get offered another Bang! tester card, I'm going to walk out and never come back) they've got a customer for life! As for samples exclusively, I personally have found that samples do help me make purchases, but not necessarily of the fragrance in the sample. Samples allow me to privately and publicly test a fragrance, get a feel for it, understand its dimensions and nuances. I can learn that I love or hate it basically. Over time I have become much pickier towards my fragrances, so I find sampling to greatly help me streamline my taste and collection. Tom Ford has been awesome to me with their 4mL samples, and I've purchased a decant of Tobacco Vanille as a result. Oud Wood is very slowly growing on me, and I can see myself owning a bottle a few years from now. And that's the other thing: maybe I won't buy it now, but if I dig up a sample from a month or a year ago, my taste is guaranteed to have change, and I may love it now. Same thing has happened to me with Serge Lutens. They sent few a Chergui sample and it didn't blow me away at first, but now I own a 50mL...something I'd never have done a few months ago. It just grew on me thanks to the sample allowing me to test it over time in different settings.
TL/DR: Samples will generally lead me to buying a fragrance, maybe not immediately, but at some point I may love it. As for yourself being an SA, I'd keep it up with giving out samples. A friendly SA that is willing to let you take a fragrance home and try it for as long as you need to before making a decision is a great SA!
It's extremely weird to me reading that you "give out many samples", specially considering that Tom Ford Private Blends are not cheap.
Here, at Barcelona and rest of Spain it's very, very, VERY, difficult to find a place where they give you samples without looking at you as an "anotheroneofthosewhoarenotgoingtobuymeanythingbut areusingMYfantasticsamples". And, the more expensive a perfume is, the most difficult is to receive a sample.
I can't buy a perfume if I can't try it in different days/situations/state of mind!!! But they seem to not understand it. Maybe they are not good professionals, or don't want to sell, or they get the samples to their own home.
Recently I went to a "high quality perfumes seller" at Passeig de Gràcia and had one of the most pathetical experiences with a seller. They are one of the few retailers (I only know 2) at Barcelona of Creed. When I requested for some samples, she told me it was not necessary. She explained me that the best I could do was to perfume my neck with two different fragances and each hand with two more perfumes on the wrist and the backside. Total=6 fragances. The best way, she told me, to compare them and decide which one was the best.
I won't buy there. Obviously.
Even at spanish Neiman Marcus (El Corte Inglés), I have difficulties to receive samples. Even more than other places! And they are one of the Creed retailers.
I don't have problems at Sephora, where they do instant samples at empty decants, but they don't sell niche fragances. Just Annick Goutal and Serge Lutens and only at the biggest one.
I don't have the same facilities as US residents to buy on the net, and that's why I will buy, without a doubt, in any place where they give me information, respect, samples and a professional treatment. Unfortunately, I'm still in process to find it.
I definitely look around at price and value but as long as it's not a massive discount I try to go back to the SA that helped me. The couple I have right now know that I return more often when they hook me up with a bag of samples etc.
I usually come in for more of the new stuff that can't be had online yet really and they know that and try to show me new stuff.
We have talked enough that the know I am not paying 270 for a 4oz when I can get it f or 140 reliably but say Atelier Trefle pur and Aventus flacon really have no huge deals out there and that was my last 2 purchases.
Next I think I am going to try Dior Leather Oud since it's really not around or cheap yet if that makes sense. I try not to waste their time sampling or spraying things I have already tried or can get cheaper and they know this. The free samples of that stuff are great though and nice to keep on trying if you are on the fence one a frag and are already purchasing something anyhow.
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I sampled most of the Tom Ford private blend before buying any of them. I now have full bottles of four (1 100 oz, 3 50 oz). Samples work. As a SA, be liberal with em
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Good question. I wouldn't buy something in the price range of the Private Blend line without sampling it first, regardless of how the sample is acquired. However, I'm not near any retailers. Beyond the current lack of funds, the geography makes it difficult to buy from an SA... but I've got your card!


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