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Can I join you? I can add a few vials myself including Le Muguet, Neroli, Chevrefeuille, and the one that just arrived today...Rose Splendide?
Thread: Goutal-o-rama
The dog days of summer are almost over, but Ive still been reaching for some fragrances that feel summery to me, while being sort of refreshing. Quite often, it is something by Annick Goutal!
Would anyone be interested in doing a sample pass of some Goutals that fit this bill? Im thinking of including:
Citrusy: Eau dHadrien, Les Nuits dHadrien, Eau du Sud
Refreshing florals + greens: Eau de Camille, Un Matin dOrage, Folavril
Summertime flowers: Songes, Passion, Gardenia Passion
Please post here if youd like to join the sniff. Ive had so much fun with sample passes recently, and I hope this might bring some bit of enjoyment to others!
Can I join you? I can add a few vials myself including Le Muguet, Neroli, Chevrefeuille, and the one that just arrived today...Rose Splendide?
Dans La Nuit Vers Le Jour Sans Adieu Je Reviens Vers Toi.
Hey CN. Gosh, I haven't tried a lot of Goutals..maybe 5, but none of which you have posted up there. I think I liked 1 out of 5. Lol. It was the sample you included once, Eau De Charlotte. I'll try some more Goutals..if there is a spot for me.
I can add Grand Amour it might be a bit on the heavy side 'tho.
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I would love to join too CN! I am not that fancy with descriptions but I know it will be another warm and cozy pass around. I haven't tried ANY of Goutals other than Sables contributed by One-Who-Hosted-Fruity-Pass-Who-Can't-Be-Named. I can include it too is it was a very generous sample.
Is it too late for me too??? I can contribute Songe & Passion. Would love to try the others!
If there is a spot, I'm happy to join. No problem otherwise.
*** Although I am new at this, from what input I've seen about group size, it seems like we can accommodate perhaps 7-8 people with a 2 ml vial. I bugged PerfumedLady previously with questions on sample pass logistics and about this pass particularly, so I'm also going to tentatively hold a slot for her too, as she is having computer problems right now and may not be able to log on very readily. After harassing her so much, it would be a travesty not to, lol! I hope everyone agrees! That leaves one iffy spot, but given that some folks have a variety of different Goutals that they are contributing from their collections or have already, those will be less sampled, I am guessing? So with all that said and on the table, anyone else?
So as it stands, we have:
1. Fleurine
2. Kalli
4. Whitefluffy
5. Genie Jeanie
6. Cacio
7. PerfumedLady
Thank you for putting this together for us cestrum nocturnum! I'm so excited about this!! I love the few AG scents I've had the opportunity to try/own & I can't wait to learn more about this house. Please let me know if I can assist in any way, ok?
I find Des Lys summery and refreshing-- I am wearing it today! It's discontinued, but now and then there are bottles on eBay.
I can contribute a sample/small decant if you like-- let me know if you prefer a spray or glass vials, and is it 2 mls that you've settled on? (I've smelled them all and don't wish to join the group.)
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Sorry, I don't have anything to contribute. I did have several Quel Amour vials but have long since given them away. And yes, it was the mint in that one and a few other Anns I didn't like. Good memory CN! I didn't mind root beer as it seems to be a sign of myrrh or vanilla I guess. I like root beer. Thanks for doing this pass, very awesome of you.
A thought: Several of the ones listed have been significantly reformulated and it might be useful to people to know whether they are testing the current version or an earlier one.
The formulation of Le Muguet being sold now is very different from the earlier one. It used to be highly realistic but a bit stuffy; now it's quite grassy and a bit more lemony in its top notes.
Eau d'Hadrien is also significantly more lemony in its current version, but the drydown is weaker since oakmoss was restricted.
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Why is oakmoss being restricted? That's a bummer, seems like a lot of things are being restricted.
Thank you so much, cn! Yes, would love a spot but don' t mind being bumped if you have more interest than juice. You know what a sampling group piggie I am. It's because I love sniffing with you all so much more than on my own!
The nose wants what it wants!
Big Brother thinks it has to protect us all because some people develop sensitivities.
This is why muguet scents don't smell right any more, too-- there are restrictions in how much hydroxycitronellol and Lyral can be used; these create the impression of lily of the valley.
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I am sensitive to Big Brother.
I just found my recently acquired sample of LA VIOLETTE & would be more than happy to add it to the soliflores. Don't think I've seen it mentioned yet.
Thanks for having started this thread. I am a big, no huge fan of sample passes. Sniffers' contributions are a wonderful way to get some friends right here too. I will not be seeking participation this time as I have tried them all and the whole house is full of surprises, hits and misses on this skin.
LOL @ sensitivity to Big Brother. Great one!
You guys never fail to warm my callous heart.
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Just an update: I have all of the samples ready to go, plus some very generous samples of Des Lys from 30 Roses and Sables from Cacio. I will contact the other generous Goutal donors and if they haven't mailed anything out to me, I will see if they would like to mail to our first sniffer, Fleurine and we can get the pass started. So excited!!!!
Hi fellow sniffers! I would be glad to send the La Violette directly to Fleurine. The post office is on my list of stops tomorrow so the timing is perfect.
Fleurine, could you pm me your address so I can drop it in the mail??
Let's get this party started!!
You guys, I need to back out of this. Work schedule too crazy...please start with the next person on the list. Thanks!
Dans La Nuit Vers Le Jour Sans Adieu Je Reviens Vers Toi.
We'll miss you, Fleurine! Please feel free to sample some if you do have time, or rejoin later! The box should get there by tomorrow- it was mailed on Thursday, but maybe the holiday has caused some delay. I believe Genie Jeanie mailed her sample to you as well.
For everyone else, please don't forget to send your mailing info to the person ahead of you.
Yay! We've got it going. The La Violette was sent out on Wednesday so Fleurine should get some scents arriving soon.
Fleurine, my dear. I know a true perfumista can't possibly have boxes delivered without taking just a sniff! Please do come home from a long day & enjoy something new.
Well, I got a La Violette sample! Thank you Genie and Fleurine! I like sweet, I like violets(from what I know of them)..so..I like this somewhat. Fruity on top..like a Goutal-berry citrus with currant blend..then a strong, short-lived bitter green note, then quickly turns powdery..very powdery. Very woody on the dry down, which I like. I would say about 3-4 flowers, maybe? An amber-ish note in the base perhaps. I would say..violet, a little spicy rose & perhaps a very light jasmine...idk. Still sweet even as it dries down. Candy like sweetness is from iso methyl ionone I guess. Pretty simple scent...a soliflore scent as the name suggests. This violet is super powdery and candy sweet. Green note only lasts for a tiny bit of time. I guess violets and iris have things in common? Violet is sweeter and not as earthy? But both are green and sometimes powdery...and both are purple! LOL. This is really just a sweet, powdery, stem-y, woody violet. Not a sharp or cold floral but a sweet, welcoming violet. Wondering if I get musk on the base there. Thought I got a small waft of it...not sure. Super sweet. I kinda like this..as an every-once-in-a-while scent. When I very first smelled this..I dug the sweetness out of the vial and I thought..'oh maybe I could keep this one..I mean, that's why it was sent to me right? For my keeping?' LOL. hehe.
The sweetness is almost too much..but I can handle sweet just fine. Perhaps some may find this a bit overkill on the sweetness. Totally understandable. It is almost too much. There's a point where I am like..ok, I get it..it's sweet..can we move on a little? And it still stays super sweet.
The wood notes come in more..and I like that. I would say I got a waft of sandalwood. A nice scent..if you can do sweet. I wouldn't mind having some...but I'd only wear it once and while, like I said. Cause I could see myself getting over this scent quickly otherwise. Idk. Since this is so sweet..I think this can be pulled off in the colder months..in fact..I'd like to sniff this again later when colder. Has a Malle Lipstick Rose-y dry down a bit due to that violet & rose combo.
Thanks for sharing! All I got was this La Violette sample..I'll wait for the other samples before passing to keep it organized. Thanks again guys!
Last edited by kalli; 8th September 2012 at 06:08 AM.
Great review, Kalli!!!! I haven't tried La Violette so I can't add much, but it sounds lovely. Thank you Genie Jeanie for the contribution! I just PM'd Fleurine to check on the box. (Alas, no tracking number; I had to have Bf mail it for me due to my schedule issues and he forgot to get delivery confirmation for the box.) Anyway, thank you again, Kalli, for the great description and comparisons!!! I almost feel safe enough to blind buy; sweet violet sounds yummy!
I love La Violette, partly for the spicy rose note in there, not very prominent. I don't get a lot of woods from this one. I agree that it is candy-sweet-- an usually I don't like sweet fragrances, but with La Violette, it is not too much. I've pared down my violet perfumes in the past year but this one stayed. Turin & Sanchez gave it 4 stars-- for once we agreed.
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Last week, I emailed Fleurine to follow up on the box, and didn't hear back. I thought perhaps she was just horribly busy or had mailed the box on to Kalli already. Today I got my answer from the USPS! I'm note sure exactly what has happened, but it seems that Fleurine probably did not get the box, because it arrived back in my mailbox this afternoon. The little box was totally abused and torn and was smeared with what looked like used engine grease or worse, and arrived in the standard USPS "Sorry; we mutilated your package- have a good day!" baggie. At least it was returned, but I am still really, really unhappy about this turn of events. I have never been so angry to receive a box of perfume in the mail!!!! The only good news is that all of the packing materials did their job, everything is unharmed inside, the oil/grease/filth did not ruin or contaminate anything. So I will just do a quick rebox and pop it in the mail to Kalli. Bf was kind enough to mail it for me last time, but I will mail it myself this time and it will certainly have delivery confirmation to track it. We've been having USPS issues of late (lots of things going to neighbors, weird/incorrect delivery info reported on tracked items, etc.) so let's all cross our fingers that it has safer travels this time and Kalli gets it in a few days. I'm so sorry that this pass has had such an inauspicious start… I hope that everyone is still interested and can enjoy sniffing nonetheless.
This has really been one of those weeks. -____-
How frustrating, CN! It's a wonder the samples were still inside the torn box.
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Oh, btw, to contrast the recent USPS horrors, you should have seen the *pristine* condition of the envelope that carried the Blackberry and Bay samples. It was unbent, no postage mark on the package, nothing. It looked as though it came directly from your desk to my mailbox!!!! They mock me.
Ok, sorry, this is now a USPS-complain-o-rama thread.
I'm glad my little package arrived unscathed-- how odd that the stamps weren't even franked!
But as to your apparently-used bottle, it's possible that it wasn't used at all but that evaporation occurred in transit. Was it sent by air? The air pressure in airplanes is lower than at ground level, and I have heard of people getting bottles whose contents had been sucked out. The fact that the box was damaged/open to the outside air pressure makes this seem likely. In any case, however the contents were lost, it seems to me that would be a good reason to file an insurance claim.
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Wow, that is unfortunate about the package. My goodness. I was just about to post that I haven't received the package yet and wondered what was going on. But now I know. Sorry to hear!
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So, I got the Goutal pass yesterday. Thanks CN.
Nuits d' Hadrien
Orange rind..bitter orange, perhaps neroli or orange blossom opens this up. Leans on masculine, patchouli. A fresh, zingy orange citrus..gets slightly sweeter, softer..vanilla? I get mostly a dark but fresh tangy orange with patchouli on the overhang. This is mostly orange..and something powdery. Vanilla could be making it powdery though. Lemon note I get. This could be worn by a man or woman. A lot of orange here. I get woody notes, sandalwood. Don't get a whole lot of florals though. Perhaps a discreet jasmine, not sure. Lemony and woody notes hang around for quite a while. So, opening..orange and orange rind with patch, vanilla makes an appearance through the middle notes. Orange turns to lemony-woody. Lemon note goes on forever. Lemony-herbal. Then sandalwood.
So, orange-y patch>vanilla peaking through>lemon-y woods.
Ok, so eventually I looked it up lol..basil is listed and I've got to say..the basil note is really strong in this. That's mainly what I get in the middle there. So, orange-y patch>vanilla peaks through>lemon and basil(strong)>sandalwood.
Basil has a nice scent to it but I wouldn't want to wear basil. A man could easily wear this. Says it's for women but this is clearly unisex. Definitely is masculine. I see this on a man more than a woman. Similarities with Polo Explorer came to mind. But far less masculine. This is more creamy too. I think men who like perhaps Edition Blanche may like this scent(if they also like strong herbal) if a man decided to wear it. Though, it's clearly more focused on orange at first but that strong lemon note makes an appearance before too long.
Liked the orange and patch but became too lemony basil forever. Not enthused.
Sables: first impression, Brut with nuts. LOL.
Yep..so sampling on paper..Brut with nuts. And something like praline(must be the immortelle)..sweet candied nuts/praline and Brut LOL. I can barely stand to sniff it. LOL. Got to be a men's scent? Herbal like Brut. Powdery. Very strong scent. A couple spritzes will last you forever. Light hand on this one. Can I leave it at that?
Can you tell I am not into AG that much so far? LOL
La Mimose: Yellow bright, almost lemon(mimose smells nearly lemony to me-that bright yellowness to it) & musk. Musk note is strong in this one. *sigh* I don't even want to review it. lol. Just mimose, peach and musk. I like the peach note as it's pretty strong. But it's a deep, yellow peach not entirely sweet to me. Slightly underripe peach. But a fuzzy peach with the fuzzy peach skin..I like that. A green note. *sigh*. Woody and musky on the dry down. Peach note is pretty alright..but a pass for me.
None of these I liked so far except the opening to Nuits...and a tiny bit of that nice, big peach note in Mimose. But too yellow of a peach for me..though, still nice. I'd want sweeter peach & no musk or greens. No musky peaches for me please.
Need to take a nose break. So, going to make the rest pretty short. I know, not in the spirit of sniffs but I've been on a sniffa-palooza for a while now and my nose is really needing a break. So..here a goes nothin:
Very short impressions on each of the rest:
Songes- sweet jasmine, perhaps honeysuckle and alas.. gardenia..strong jasmine...and it's mostly jasmine..I like that but gardenia kills it. Pass. Smells like 60% jasmine 30% gardenia..10% honeysuckle or other. Lol, I know.
Passion- Patch I get and herbal. Lavender? Super masculine. Smells like strong, aftershave splash. Pass.
Eau De Camille..Grassy, like a grassy field..herbal with a wood spice. Really fresh. If you are craving grass/greens to the point where you want to nibble on some tree branches..this is for you. Woody..kinda like the realistic grass/woody. But a pass for me. But there are things I like about it..fresh and super realistic greens. But don't think I'd get a bottle.
Folavril- Refreshing floral, white, peach? Or something similar to a peach. Like the fruity+ jasmine. Smells a bit musky. Other than that.. kinda like it. A mix of florals including rose. Rose is pretty strong and noticeable..I get musk and greens...so pass on this. I gotta admit though..this would really be a good one in super high heat. It would be like an oasis in the heat. I like that aspect. But the notes don't do it for me. Almost but something goes awry. Not to mention the water-y note aspect to this. Awry.
Eau d' Hadrien..like cutting open a fresh lemon. Like literally pure lemon juice on the skin. With the seeds and all. I like lemon but not that strong..pass.
Un Matin d' Orange..nice on the orange but a strong, creamy gardenia note.. Pass.
Gardenia Passion- do I have to? *sigh* I will leave this sealed for the next sniffer. Gard + Tuberose? Someone else can enjoy it. lol
Eau d' Sud- Lemon, earthy, herbal..masculine. A men's scent? Or uni. Really a bright verbena...but too herbal..too overly citrus-y lemon-y. Definitely a better verbena than a DKNY verbena. lol. I do like the earthy notes to this and a bit of the verbena..but pass.
Heure Exquise- ahh, well this is getting to be more up my alley! I was going to say violets but it got pretty earthy..iris and rose? Very nice floral. The rose joins in nicely with the iris. Strong on the florals. A slight make-up note. Powdery. With woody vanilla notes..not bad. Ok..then I get something ash-y..what is that about? Like cigarette ash? A quick ash note. Weird. My neighbor is a smoke-aholic..perhaps she lit up. LOL. I think it's just super powdery. Haha..you're an SA trying to sell a powdery/dusty fume and instead say ash-y. lol..wouldn't sell a lot of bottles there. I would say this is close but no cigar for me. So close. Aaah, I might wear this every once in a long while. Idk. I would say a must sniff for Whitefluffy.
Des Lys..like a soliflore..of something. LOL. Not good at guessing florals sometimes. It's aquatic to my nose. Lotus? Magnolia? Green though. Not really up my alley. Oh my gosh..Lys..that is lily in French. LOL. Brain smog. lol. My Quebecois husband would be shaking his head at me. The fleur de lys is the main part of the Quebec flag. LOL. I am not too familiar with sniffing lilies or lotv for that matter..so, that's why I was amiss. Not sure if I am a fan of strong lily scents. I like a fresh, real lily..but have yet to find a lily scent I like thus far. This is a really green take on the lily. Really a clean, refreshing green lily. Would be great in the heat.
So..I kinda liked one-"Heure" besides the Le Violette. I wanted to like Songes cause of that jasmine..but darn on the gardenia! But Violette is the clear winner for me out of these. I have to say that these would be supreme scents in high heat. Like an oasis, as I stated earlier. I think if I were hot and sweaty and needed something refreshing..not necessarily "perfume-y" if that makes sense..I may want to head right over to an AG. But I probably wouldn't though...LOL. I'd grab an iced tea. Some AG scents are like taking a cool drink of water or having an iced tea in the heat though. I'll stick with a real iced tea though. I was hopeful I may like more AG scents after the Violette. But oh well, at least there was hope. LOL. Out of all the AG scents I've smelled thus far..I like Le Violette and Eau De Charlotte.
Mimi would probably like some of the ones with gardenia.
That's that...that's all that was included in the pass I see. The little paper says there's more? But that's all there is. Will try to ship to RHM before too long.
Last edited by kalli; 20th September 2012 at 09:49 PM.
Oh, my goodness, Kalli! *LOL*!!!! That was very entertaining read, thank you! You were right about Heure Exquise, it is right up my alley and I did smell it before. I do like it a lot, but not sure I will buy a bottle as it is too reminiscent of Chanel N 19 and I am not a big fan of having fragrances that smell somewhat like each other. I get bored pretty easily...;D
Lol..just wanted to get er done. Lol. Maybe I should smell No. 19 again...been a while and I forgot what it smells like.
Hello again! I'm glad this is finally alive!
kalli: YAY!!!! I am *soooooooooo* glad that you got the box! The tracking was not showing up in the system until the day it was delivered to you. I just about had a heart attack when I checked and saw no trace of it in the system for days. I can't tell you how relieved I am that it got to you safely! (I didn't fully trust the "delivered" status, either!)
It sounds like everything is there; the inventory sheet I included also reflects the contributions from others. As you recall, we lost a sniffer and I should have crossed off what she had mentioned adding to the samples. Sorry for any confusion- I was rushing and just shoved everything into a new box to resend it! Please draw a line through those, if it is not too much trouble.
I think you get the award for quickest sniffing!!! Lol! Good job! And your reviews are such a good mix of perfume notes and humor! Thank you for starting this off for us (finally!!!) with a running start!
Eau de Camille reminds me of a grassy expanse too! In my notes I wrote: "The scented air wafting over a flower and herb garden bordering a wide, green lawn."
Un Matin d'Orage actually means "a morning storm" in English. I recall at first glance, I misread it too and my brain popped an "n" in there and made it A Morning of Orange(juice? Lol!) Anyway, FWIW, lemon does show up in the notes online, although my skin doesn't bring out citrus from it—orange sounds really nice though. Sorry about the gardenia!
Songes—awww, so sorry again! I thought this could be a delicate white flower fragrance that even white flower haters might like! Guess not!
Heure Exquise is definitely in the "No. 19 and friends" clique! Very perceptive notes and super clever to recommend that it might be something Whitefluffy would like!
I always enjoy your reviews! Thank you so much for being a good sport even though a lot of these didn't appeal to you!
Lol..I can't read...funny that I thought I smelled orange after misreading it. I didn't spend much time on it..got some citrus and then a big gardenia note..I tend to sign off quickly if I smell gardenia. Like 'ok, it's all about gardenia, next'. I didn't even test it out on paper, I know..lol. Confession. lol. At least I don't remember if I did. But don't think so. I think I smelled it on a card a few weeks ago as I was sent a sample. Maybe a quick sniff on a card if anything and signed off. I was thinking to add it to the pass but saw that it was already listed as one of the samples. Maybe if I would have actually taken the time to really sniff it out..I may have gotten lemon, not orange. Lol. I may have to resniff. Lol, I don't read so good. *dunce cap* Basically, I got a lot of gardenia..a creamy gard..had to pass. At least I saved more for the other sniffers, eh?. I do like white flowers..jasmine flowers. LOL. That's about it? I think. Idk.
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Yes, CN, it seems like Kalli figured me out, lol. I don't know if I should be scared.... And Kalli I had no idea, but we do have something in common - I can't stand the gardenia either, it makes me sick!
But I am reeeaaalyyyy looking forward to Eau de Camille, sounds like exactly my cup of tea. Grassy expanse? Give me some to roll around in, !
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My dark side would be eating too much dark chocolate..why did Almond Joy HAVE to come out with a dark version? And don't get me started on imports. lol. There is a dark chocolate version of everything now..I can't keep up.
Lol..I didn't know WF didn't like gardenia. And here I was thinking I was the only one. Ya, I get the same thing with gard..I smelled a bottle of gard perfume when I was younger...I never forgot it, it was that bad to me. Granted..they were all cheapo soliflores but I remember the gard... I know my thoughts with the sample pass here were on the generic side perhaps..I just finally got sampled out! And I generally don't like too much greens in my scents I notice. With green notes..I mainly like peony and violet. And some of these were just too overly citrus-y for me.
I do really have some appreciation for these scents though. I mean I usually don't like grassy at all from what I've smelled but the Eau de Camille was pretty well done. I decided to re-sniff that one. There is something a little pine-y on the opening which I really like. The flowers are warm and soapy? A little creamy? Which I kinda didn't like somewhat but tones down after a bit. A flower I don't have too much familiarity with. Smells familiar though. Kind of just one flower mainly in the middle there...then it fades out..I can't smell too strong of base notes with this. Mainly..it's greens then a big(white?) flower and fades. Scent is fleeting on my skin..the base notes are pretty dry..light woody. Didn't I say I was done? Sorry, I wanted to give that one another shot. That pine-y note..whatever it is in the beginning, I dig that. The main note in the middle I think I would prefer as an accent note, not as a main note. I still probably wouldn't get a fb of it though.
I noticed that the tag on the Matin vial does say orange, but even on the Annick Goutal manufactured sample I read it as orange. Even though there's no 'n' in there. So easy to wanna put that 'n' in there! Boggles the mind! lol. I sharpied out the 'n'.
Eau de Sud..another one which had things I like about it..maybe if just a little less on the citrus. Songes is pretty..but that gardenia..too distracting for me. And sniffing Folavril just out of the vial..I notice I get a bigger rose then before. And one last sniff of the Heure..it's like baby powder with rose. Pretty. Very pretty. The rose gets spicier and then sweet and balmy notes follow. Ok..I am done! I just wanted to give some another shot. Nothing really changed though..lol..only liked the Huere and the Violette.
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Goutals went out today..on their way to RHM.
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Oh no! I wonder if it was autocorrected—and by the computer this time! Hmmm, sorry about that! I'm actually not surprised I missed the typo, given how bad my vision is! It had to be the tiniest print to fit on the vial. Just don't tell my French teacher; she would still be appalled! Lol!!!
No worries, LOL..I would have put orange for sure! Totally. And my French speaking hubs would be like, 'What is that about?'. I thought it was orange beforehand, so, lol. Haha, my hubs tells me that a lot of French on labels out there in general..aren't even really French or really bad French. Interesting. He's always like..'umm, that's not French.' Haha. He is Quebecois but they read and write proper French. But anyone that knows me knows I don't care about English grammar/vocabulary. There is one in the family. I've asked..''What does that mean?'. She's said, 'Either you know it or you don't' or 'I can't put it in layman's terms for you, there's just no other word, you know it or don't.' Oh brother! LOL.
But perfume? You don't know how many times I've used a translator whether web or my hubs to figure out what in the world something is called. Frustrating, especially if it's a long name..I am just like..man, I've no idea what this perfume is even about! Lol.
Last edited by kalli; 23rd September 2012 at 01:07 AM.
Hi fellow sniffers!!
Sorry I've been out of the loop here but life has been submerged in dealing with the iphone 5 release. Work, work & more of the same. Coming up for air now! (and NO, I can't help anyone get one) Sorry for the rant....
I would reply with quotes but my reply would be a mile long at this point!
Kali, you've got me rolling on the floor! I hope I can give an unbiased review of the pass, but my taste seems to run so parallel to yours! Tuberose & gardenia... for me & I'll pick those notes out in a heartbeat. Kind of kills a scent for me. But when the pass comes to me I will do my best to ignore the thread & give each frag my all.
Just wondering happened to the "Eau de Charlotte". I thought it was included in the pass but I don't see a mention of it in Kali's review. I can add it to the pass & send Kali a sample too if needed.
Just lurking and enjoying. Is anyone ever neutral re: gardenia? I love the stuff, cheap, expensive, doesn't matter.
What do insomniac perfumers do to fall asleep? They count chypres!
I do have to say that the smell of the real gardenia flower has very special & endearing meanings to me. Maybe it just doesn't work well on my skin. Or maybe I just have not given it a proper chance. I'm always open jugy54, How can I give it a proper chance?
Jujy..you gotta try Hothouse Flower by Ineke then..well done gardenia. Even if I don't like them.
Eau de Charlotte wasn't included in the pass..I say the more samples the merrier. I was kind of biased with the Goutals, maybe not the best way to go around it, idk. But it is what it is. Or it was what is was. lol. I remember sniffing Eau De C...it reminded me of Covet by SJP just a smidge but less damp, forest notes. Or no damp forest notes I should say..I think. Don't remember entirely. Also, lighter and less masculine.
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I'll send you a sample Kalli & add to the pass too. I think this might be one you kind of like, even if it's not a love. To me it's sort of jammy with a definite chocolate note in there too. ( you'll like it better than the Fracas - promise )
I already know I like it as I have tried it..so no need to send me one. I just can't remember how similar it was to Covet. I think the chocolate and yellow/green notes combo is what it was. But thank you so very much. And yes..I like it more than Fracas! LOL.
La Violette made it to my wish list. I miss that sample already..
Last edited by kalli; 23rd September 2012 at 03:39 AM.
Sorry about jumping in, but I did find a gardenia that I liked (unbelievably so) - Ophelia by Heeley. Not the obnoxious-makes-you-sick kind, but the green-fresh-pretty-reserved-kind. The only Gardenia I could ever consider in my wardrobe.
Oh, goody....they are on the way to meeeeeee!
I'll let you all know when they get here.
I'm so excited to sniff the ones I don't know.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~Herman Melville
Genie, I just sent you a pm.
The sweet smelling package was in my mailbox today. I've unpacked it and I have all of the contents here on my countertop. My brother says I look like I am conducting a science experiment.
I will start testing and record my thoughts.
Sooooo excited!
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~Herman Melville
Just to let you know I was lame and the Folavril didn't make it into the box but was shipped to RHM today. Sorry guys.


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Greetings all,
During my practice and my life in Buddha's teachings, I've felt much happiness and insight to the world I live. Yet during this time, various questions have troubled me and I seek some clarification on this forum if possible.
1. Many who are on the Bodhisattva path may take any number of lives to fully reach enlightenment. But the dharma states that those who accumulate good karma in this life by practicing the Five Precepts and the Ten Meritous Deeds will be reborn in a human or heavenly realm. I understand the human realm, but isn't the heavenly realm a place of bliss, and as such, a deva would not care to practice the dharma, and as such would be reborn into a lower realm (an impediment to enlightenment)? In other words, if one does follow the dharma, Five Precepts, Ten Meritous Deeds, and Noble Eightfold Path, taking refuge in the Three Gems, and living with faith, compassion, and wisdom, how does one ensure rebirth into the human realm so if one does not attain enlightenment in this life, he/she will have the foundation to pursue the Bodhisattva path in the next life?
2. In these modern times, threats to humanity's existence seem prevalent (nuclear war, economic collapse, peak oil, etc.), so if, theoretically, humanity is wiped out, how will one continue to practice the dharma?
3. Lastly, I do have this fear that seems hard to detach from. I have a fear that at this time, our technological advancement is unhealthy and fuelled by anger, ignorance, greed, and by consumer's attachment to superficial satisfaction. Very soon, as technology advances, human genetic engineering, possibly cloning, and advanced AI, may be a reality and as such, humans may transcend into a greater existence. This I fear because we may forget and disregard our own true nature, as animals, as a part of nature, and thus condemn the very thing that brought us to existence. And then it will all come spiraling down due to a number of factors. Don't get me wrong, I don't despise technology. Because of it, life is a lot more positive and happier to live, medical advances have reduced suffering, and internet has made Buddhadharma available to many who wish to follow. Can this be prevented?
Thanks all, and feel free to give your honest opinion!

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Baseball Moves Into Championship Round with 8-5, 10 Inning Win over Anderson; Faces #1 Mount Olive as Only Unbeaten Team Left
April 17, 2010
WILSON, N.C. Tyler Smiths double into the left field corner in the top of the 10th inning scored Aarin Sharpe all the way from first base with the go-ahead run as Pfeiffer University downed Anderson University, 8-5, on day three of the 2010 Conference Carolinas Baseball Tournament. The win propelled the Falcons (27-25) into Sundays championship round against No. 1 seed Mount Olive College. The Trojans must defeat Pfeiffer twice in order to prevent the Falcons from claiming their first league crown since 2005.
Midway through the seventh inning, Pfeiffer appeared well on its way to a win. Falcons starter Nick Fogleman was enjoying a three-hit shutout, and his offense had provided him with a 5-0 cushion. However, Anderson (19-34) had proven resilient throughout the tournament, and it proved again so in the bottom of the seventh.
Singles by Erick Sanderson and Jonathan Romano and a Pfeiffer error set the table for Brett Scarberry, who doubled home two runs with a shot down the right field line. Fogleman was replaced by Luke Wilhelm, who was touched for a two-run double by Derek Hipp. Two batters later, a Falcon error allowed the game-tying run to score, erasing Foglemans strong night.
Neither team threatened in the eighth and ninth, but Sharpes single through the left side in the 10th off Anderson reliever Canler Cox (0-4) set the stage for Pfeiffers final push. Cox was relieved by B.J. Scarborough, who gave up the go-ahead double to Smith. The Trojans then walked the next two batters one intentionally to set up a possible double play, but instead Zack Pou lifted a fly ball to center that scored Smith on the sacrifice fly. Preston Lyon followed with an RBI single to left that gave the Falcons a third run in the inning.
From there, Wilhelm (6-3) limited Anderson to one base hit in finishing off the victory for Pfeiffer. Wilhelm went four innings, allowing three hits and one unearned run while striking out six.
Pfeiffer led from the very first inning, scoring in the top of the first on an Anderson error, a single by Lyon and a sacrifice fly by Will Davis. The Falcons increased their advantage to 2-0 in the second on a Smith single, a Hunter Boehme double, and an RBI single by Myles Pearl.
The score remained unchanged until the fifth inning, when Pfeiffer tacked on a pair of runs. Pou produced a one-out single, and Lyon followed with an RBI triple into the left field corner. Anderson starter Ben Roberts then issued three straight walks, the final one a free pass to Eric Shoemaker that forced in Lyon with the second run of the inning. Reliever Justin Rogers came in and forced a double play ball to avoid further damage, but Pfeiffer held a four-run lead at that point.
The Falcons increased that advantage to 5-0 with a run in the top of the seventh on a bases loaded hit batsman before Anderson made its late rally to tie.
Lyon had three hits and two RBI to pace Pfeiffer, with Smith adding a pair of hits. Sanderson had three hits for Anderson, with Romano and Scarberry contributing two hits each.


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Call it mother's intuition, but in early February, Sherry Wilkie sensed her daughter, Jackie Brown, was fighting a losing battle.
Brown's lungs, damaged by the cystic fibrosis she had since she was 9 months old, could no longer take in air. She and her mother were in Duke Hospital waiting for a double-lung transplant. With support from family, friends and community, they had raised $24,000 for the lung transplant and living expenses while in Durham.
Wilkie has seen her daughter struggle to breathe before, but this time was different. The 35-year-old was weak, breathing with the help of a ventilator and losing blood through her tracheotomy.
"She had a transfusion because of the blood she was losing," Wilkie said. "She was starting to look pale. We were beginning to think the lungs were not coming."
They had waited more than a month and had gotten their hopes up at least once when lungs were available but ended up not being a match.
'Right on time'
Despite her weak condition, Brown got out of bed to walk a little every day, her mother said. She was walking when a hospital representative came and told them they had a set of "high-risk" lungs.
"The Lord showed up right on time," Wilkie said. "You can turn down 'high-risk,' but we couldn't turn them down. I don't believe she would have lived through the weekend."
Lungs are designated "high-risk" when the medical team doesn't know everything about the donor's background. Once it was determined the lungs were a good match, despite being "high-risk," the hospital staff prepared her for the surgery. It was Feb. 21, less than a month after Brown's birthday on Jan. 29.
"Before they took her into surgery, Jackie looked at her nurse and told her, 'I want you to be sure and thank everybody who had been so good to me,'" Wilkie said.
Doctors started the surgery at 7:10 p.m. and worked through the night, finishing at 5 a.m. the next morning. People from Durham to Cleveland County and all over the United States were praying, said Sandra Cooke, a friend who has known the family for 20 years.
"Prayers increased as news and updates trickled through all the avenues, people sat by their computers and slept with their phones waiting to hear anything," Cooke said in an email. "Then came the news at 5 a.m. that the surgery was over, the lungs were working, and she was stable. Tears flowed everywhere. It was a true miracle. God had given Jackie a miracle not in her time, not in her family's time, her pastor's or anyone else's, but His time, and it was right on time, the perfect time."
'Things are looking better'
Since the surgery, there have been some ups and downs, but Brown is on the way to recovery. She and her mother thought they might get to come home soon, but this week doctors discovered a germ and an antigen growing in her lungs. Treatment for one takes four weeks and the other one is longer, but she could take that treatment at home, Wilkie said.
"It's been a long road, but things are looking better and getting better," Brown said. "I can walk up a hill. I can actually breathe. I feel good and don't have pain anymore. I'm still a little weak in the legs, but I'm getting stronger every day."
Brown said her morning begins with taking medicine every two hours; then from 12:30 to 3:30, she exercises at the hospital.
"I exercise to build up endurance and strength — walking, bicycling, stretches and strength training," Brown said. "When I come home, I take more medicine at 5 p.m. and go walking around the apartment. At 9 p.m. I hook up to a feeding tube and I'm on it until 9:30 the next morning. I lost so much weight, they are trying to put some weight on me. At 10 p.m., I take more medicine."
She hates taking medicine, but "it is worth it; I have to take them. Some of them I will be on the rest of my life."
'The Lord gave us all of it'
Her medicines and rent cost about $2,500, and they have $9,000 left from the money raised before the transplant. They will be in Durham at least six more weeks, Wilkie said.
Her church has a fundraiser planned
May 18 to help replenish the fund until Brown and Wilkie can return home. Brown appreciates all the support she's received from her church, Walgreen's co-workers and the community.
"I'm thankful, and I believe the Lord gave us all of it," she said. "I give God the glory, and I'm thankful for everyone where I work, my friends and family. The Lord knows what we need, and he has met and will continue to meet our needs."
Want to help?
Calvary's Cross Baptist Church, off N.C. 226 in Polkville, is sponsoring a yard sale, biscuit and bake sale at
7 a.m. May 18 to help with continuing medical expenses for Jackie Brown, who received a double-lung transplant in February. Donations for Brown may also be sent to The Jackie Brown Fund, c/o Calvary's Cross Baptist Church,
P.O. Box 367, Polkville, NC 28136.
About the Duke transplant program
- Duke has the nation's largest programs of its kind, established in 1992.
- In 21 years, the Duke team has performed more than 1,100 lung transplants — 145 in 2011.


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Murat Gunel MD, FACS, FAHA
Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Genetics and of Neurobiology; Co-Director, Yale Program on Neurogenetics; Director, Neurovascular Surgery
Biographical Info
Dr. Murat Gunel, Professor of Neurosurgery, assumed the position of chief of Neurovascular Surgery Program in January of 2001. Dr. Gunel is a board certified neurosurgeon and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has special interest in treating brain aneurysms and vascular malformations with special emphasis on arterio-venous malformations and cavernous malformations. He also has expertise in occlusive vascular disorders such as carotid disease and gamma knife surgery (radiosurgery).
His laboratory interests parallel his expertise in clinical neurovascular surgery and focus on gene discovery in disorders of the nervous system and its vasculature. Dr. Gunel's lab completed the two largest genome wide association studies (GWAS) aimed at understanding common variants that underlie intracranial aneurysm genetic risk based on the analysis of over 20,000 subjects. In addition, he is interested in the identification of genes important in human brain development through the study of rare, consanguineous families with recessive forms of malformations of cortical development.
International Activity
- Neurovascular Surgery
Professor Gunel conducts collaborative work in Turkey on neurovascular surgery
- Molecular Genetics
Collaboration on genetics of malformations of brain development
Education & Training
- Istanbul University (1991)
- Chief Resident
- Yale-New Haven Hospital, Neurosurgery (1997 - 1998)
- Intern
- Yale-New Haven Hospital, General Surgery (1991 - 1992)
- Resident
- Yale-New Haven Hospital, Neurosurgery (1992 - 1997)
- Board Certification
- Neurological Surgery, Board Certified (2002)
Honors & Recognition
- Outstanding Poster Award in Basic Science
5th Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery (2002)
- Honorary Doctor of Philosophy Degree
Bahcesehir University, Turkey (2010)
- Nixdorff-German Professor
Yale University (2009)
- Honorary Master of Arts Privatim Degree
Yale University (2010)
- Outstanding Poster Award in Basic Science
4th Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery (2001)
- Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award
Minister of Health, Turkey (2010)
- Young Investigator Award
American Epilepsy Society (1999)


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JMockit is a single class with a small set of static methods, which allow arbitrary methods and constructors of any other class to be replaced by mock implementations at runtime. It has the following features:
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new SomeClass()calls throughout your code
- you don't need to worry about
- legacy code can be unit tested without the need for any adaptation
Since JMockit depends on the JVM class redefinition mechanism exposed by java.lang.instrumentation, Groovy, JUnit or TestNG tests that use it must be run under a Java SE 5 VM. However, application and test code can still be compiled to older versions of the language.
The sections below illustrate using JMockit for the mocking parts of Using Testing Frameworks with Groovy.
The Item Storer Example
We are going to consider how you might use JMockit as part of testing the Item Storer Example.
First we define the following class in a file called
We place this in a separate file rather than straight in the same script as the instrumentation classes in the JVM (which JMockit relies upon) don't know about classes compiled in memory by Groovy. They will look for replaced classes on the classpath.
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Cris Ritchie — Editor
September 26, 2013
RICHMOND – A Hazard man was arrested this past weekend and accused of passing a phony check to pay for an all-terrain vehicle in Madison County, while police later discovered he was also wanted for numerous other crimes in Kentucky and other states.
Troopers with the Kentucky State Police arrested 37-year-old William Dale Steele after an employee at Honda of Richmond reported that a male had entered the dealership on Sept. 21, writing a check for more than $7,000 in exchange for a Honda Foreman ATV. The check, as it turned out, was fraudulent, according a press release from the Kentucky State Police.
Troopers later located Steele's vehicle on the Mountain Parkway in Powell County. He was placed into custody and charged with theft by unlawful taking over $500. Police said the ATV reported stolen from the Honda dealership was also recovered.
While in custody at the Madison County Detention Center, Steele was served with an additional 26 warrants from multiple states, and it appears he can add another warrant from Ohio to the list.
Courtney Chumbley works at Cincy Custom Carts in Cincinnati, where she alleges Steele wrote a fraudulent check for $4,686 on July 24 while purchasing a golf cart. She said Steele presented her with a story about taking his family on vacation, and was ready to leave with them the next day.
"I found him the perfect golf cart, he wrote me a check for it," Chumbley said. "He seemed like the nicest guy. Well, of course, that's his tactic, that's what he uses."
Steele left the dealership with the cart that day, and it was 10 days later when the business received a call from the bank reporting that the check was no good.
Chumbley said she spent the day attempting to contact Steele, but he never answered her calls. She added she was able to get a family member to call him from a 606 area code in Kentucky, and while he didn't answer, he immediately called Chumbley in Ohio, claiming it was a mix up with the bank and his funds were never transferred into his checking account.
Chumbley said it was the last she heard from him.
"We sent the check through once, it came back as insufficient funds," she said. "Second time we sent it through he had closed the account."
She then began the process of obtaining an arrest warrant for the alleged theft, which she said a detective in Cincinnati told her would be issued on Wednesday.
According to the Madison County Detention Center's website, Steele was booked on a bevy of warrants, including 19 alleging theft by deception.


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In Your Best Brain, Professor John J. Medina - an award-winning scientist, New York Times best-selling author, and leading advocate for brain research - delivers 24 exciting lectures that probe the origins of consciousness, memory, emotion, attention, intelligence, and beyond. He focuses on five key areas of study in neuroscience: the brain's physical structure and function, and how it enabled us to become the planet's apex predator.
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A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
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Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel.
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?"
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In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs - a real-life Tony Stark - and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new makers.
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Present moment awareness is an essential ingredient in life if one expects to experience any degree of authentic peace and contentment. It has been acknowledged for centuries as the cornerstone of spiritual awakening in all traditions of Eastern thought. In the West, however, it is still a relatively unrecognized concept for living. The Western mind is always restless, never content with the moment.
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After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's new assignment with the DSG - surveilling Russian diplomats working at the UN Mission - is thought to be "a quiet end", he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of office life.
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Amy Poehler is hosting a dinner party and you're invited! Welcome to the audiobook edition of Amy Poehler's Yes Please. The guest list is star-studded with vocal appearances from Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Michael Schur, Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner, and even Amy's parents - Yes Please is the ultimate audiobook extravaganza.
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Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever.
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It is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media - as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents - the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer?
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Aaron Littmann, the chairman of one of the country's most prestigious law firms, has just been contacted by a high-profile defense attorney whose client is Nikolai Garkov, a Russian businessman arraigned on terrorism charges for pulling the financial strings behind recent treasonous acts. The attorney informs Aaron that Garkov is looking to switch representation and will pay $100,000 just to take the meeting.
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Amos Decker's life changed forever - twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good and left him with an improbable side effect - he can never forget anything.
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.
On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?
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Bunn boys basketball coach Gerald Melton thinks Kinston is the top hoops program in the state. Vikings coach Perry Tyndall thinks the Wildcats are solid all the way around.
Tonight, one will move on and the other will see its season come to an end.
Seventh-seeded Bunn (23-6) will face top-seeded Kinston (25-2) at 7 in a 2A Eastern Regional semifinal game at the Crown Arena in Fayetteville.
The Vikings enter as the seasoned veterans, having been at least this far for seven straight years while the Wildcats are just getting their paws wet in their first return to the regionals since 2006.
But histories aside, all that matters is what happens on a neutral floor tonight.
"My guys, they've been here. They're not going to be wide-eyed. They've played quality opponents," Tyndall said at Monday's regionals press conference.
"My guys are ready. But you've got to be prepared, too. Against a good team you've got to have a good game plan."
Kinston's game plan — as it has been all season and every game for the last several seasons — is simple: play solid defense, rebound and take care of the basketball.
None have been a problem for the Vikings since their postseason began on Feb. 20.
In five postseason games, Kinston has held its opponents to a combined 37.8 percent (90 for 238) shooting from the floor. It has also forced those five teams into a total of 94 turnovers and has outrebounded all five teams 185-144.
On top of that, the Vikings have shot a blistering 52.1 percent (139-267) over the last five games themselves.
"We've got to continue to really play solid defense and limit our turnovers," said Tyndall, whose team has won 16 straight games. "We've just got to continue to play at a high level."
On another level is how Melton sees the Vikings.
Bunn enters on its own 12-game win streak and having won 18 of 19 overall, but it struggled against some 3A and 4A competition to begin the year.
Scheduling teams like Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons and Chapel Hill weren't necessarily good for the Wildcats' record, but they were good for character building and team chemistry.
Still, Melton feels the Vikings are the best team his squad has faced to date.
"We've played some good 4A schools," Melton said. "I don't know if we've played anyone with the great guard play that (the Vikings) have as well as the big kids that they have. They have big kids that can step out and shoot it."
Those big kids — 6-foot-5 forward Denzel Keyes and 6-7 wing Brandon Ingram — can indeed shoot it, and dunk it, and score it in just about any way possible. Keyes enters leading the team in scoring at 19 points per game while Ingram shares 11 points per game with senior guard Josh Dawson, who also averages seven assists per game.
Bunn is guard heavy, led by 5-11 junior guard DeShawn High, who averages 18.6 points per game. But it also has some post play in 6-3 senior forward Jonathon Alston, who averages 6.2 rebounds per game and will play football in the fall at N.C. State.
"They're an extremely well-coached, fundamental basketball team," Tyndall said. "They've got good guard play, and in high school basketball good guard play can carry you a long way. They've also got size."
Both teams are prepared. Melton is hoping his team doesn't get caught staring in the headlights.
"You can't know basketball living in this state and not know about Kinston. That's what you want to do — you want to play the best. We've played some good teams this year but I don't know that we've played a team that's complete like they are," he said.
"You want to avoid Kinston in the brackets until the last possible minute. They're a tremendous team, it's going to be a great challenge, and we're just going to come in and compete and play as hard as we can play, play with determination and see what happens."
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A look into the mountain of boxes and albums atop John and Adelia Davis' dining room table documents a life well-lived.
The life full of exotic places and different people, 30 years full of adventure, started with rollerskates.
John and Adelia met in the summer of 1980 at Skate World, where Abundant Life International Baptist Cathedral Church on Gumbranch Road now stands. They were 17 and 14 respectively.
A few weeks later, John said he got a hold of Adelia's number and gave her a call.
"I had never really dated a blonde before so I figured why not," he said.
The couple dated for the better part of Adelia's four years of high school. John, two years ahead of her, went to college for a year and then joined the Air Force.
"He joined to show my dad he has potential and he has stability to take care of somebody," she said. The Easter of her senior year of high school, John took leave to come home and visit.
He took Adelia to one of their favorite spots: Elizabeth Lake behind Northwoods where they used to feed the ducks. He proposed to her on Easter morning.
"I think our life together was supposed to happen," Adelia said.
John agrees.
They married on June 23, 1984 at Richlands United Methodist Church, 10 days after Adelia graduated from Richlands High School.
The couple recalled their parents packing up all of their wedding presents in a U-haul and placing it on top of Adelia's car, so they could make the cross-country drive to San Antonio where John was stationed. It was the first time they ever drove on the interstate.
"That was the starting of our adventure," Adelia said.
And they never stopped having adventures.
Because of John's career in the Air Force, the couple moved all over the world. After San Antonio, they went to Germany for three years, where their first daughter, Cacelia, 26, was born. Kimberli, 23, was born in San Antonio, the second time they were stationed there.
Also, with John in the military, they learned a lot about their relationship and themselves. John was deployed for Operation Desert Storm.
"I had to learn to do everything by myself," she said, such as fixing a lawn mower or a vacuum. "It made me a better person."
Then there was the terrifying week that Adelia was in the hospital with spinal meningitis while John was still deployed, and he said he was at the "mercy of whatever information I could get" about her illness while he was away.
John described it as an experience that brought them closer together.
"It knocks the breath out of you, but you keep going," he said.
Despite how challenging living in new places was, Adelia said they always "had so much fun, we saw so much," wherever they went.
They lived in England, Italy, Alaska and Minot, North Dakota, John's last duty assignment before retiring in November 2003.
"There's nothing like looking at … all the things we studied at school, of all the pictures you see of Germany and Italy and places like that and then being able to go to these places and say, 'I've seen this and I've got my own photos, I don't have to look at a book anymore.' How many people can say they've done that?" John said.
That experience has opened their minds to new experiences and made them more adventurous as a couple, they said. John said they still go on trips approximately every other weekend.
"Adventures and excursions don't have to cost a lot of money. We've slept in that vehicle right there a couple times," John said, pointing to a red SUV in a picture buffeted against a backdrop of mountains.
He said the importance of taking trips together is that it is time spent bonding.
In addition, Adelia said taking trips as well as planning them helps them with their communication. While she gets things ready packing, John gets out the atlas, mapping their route.
"It's two people working together as a team getting something accomplished," she said.
A lifetime of traveling has also impacted the way they raised their children.
"We told them to never judge anyone by the way they look … just talk to them, everybody's the same … everybody is somebody," Adelia said. "We tell them to look at things differently, like the sunset, tell me what colors are there. They would say Angel Hair Pink."
After retiring from the Air Force they moved back to North Carolina, where John works civil service on base and Adelia works for Onslow County.
Every year, the Davises try to celebrate their anniversary with something special: their first anniversary, they made a trip back home to Onslow County to see their families for the first time since getting married.
On their 12th anniversary, they saw Bon Jovi in concert in England. They renewed their vows on their 15th in Alaska in a chalet with friends and family. On their 25th they went on a cruise, and John gave Adelia a new wedding band.
"Back in '84 we couldn't afford anything," she said, smiling.
For their 30 anniversary celebration, they rented a beach house on Onslow Beach and enjoyed the sand beneath their toes. John also got Adelia 30 roses and an extra band to put on the other side of her new set.
Getting married so young, the Davises look back and say that it all worked because they did it as a team – and they still do.
"We had to figure it out together," Adelia said.
Both said their families had a no interference rule, meaning they were supportive but pretty much kept to themselves unless Adelia or John asked them for help. Even then, sometimes they refused, encouraging them to work it out on their own and grow.
The couple said they appreciate that and practice it with their own daughters now.
For younger couples just starting their journey, John advises them to make a plan. Whether that plan is educational, financial, job-related or whatever, he said have a plan and try to meet your goals.
"Everything there is going to affect the marriage," he said.
John said to this day he and Adelia still do "everything pretty much" together.
Of course, they have their own separate time. John likes fishing and hunting. Adelia likes to go out in town and spend time with her friends.
But one day of the week has always been designated for the family. When the girls were young, Friday was family night, and they would lay a blanket out on the floor, watching TV together and eating finger foods like pigs in a blanket and cheetos. Once the girls got older and started doing their own thing, John and Adelia made Friday night their date night.
Adelia said taking time to celebrate things is important. She makes a point of celebrating her family on holidays and birthdays. They plan trips for their birthdays each year.
"Everybody should feel special, because you are special," she said.
And they know that they always have each other.
"Our saying is, 'No matter what, it's us at the end of the day,'" Adelia said.
Though they might get aggravated sometimes, John said, they know they will always work it out.
Until Skate World closed down, John and Adelia would celebrate where their adventure began by visiting the skating rink every time they came home. And even now, somewhere up in the attic, the skates they had when they met are waiting for another go 'round.


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BLOG #4: Not a Sore Loser, Just Sore
November 14, 2011
By: Becca Walters
Ugh. The trials of aging.
Today, while merely shooting around in the gym, the left side of my body just decided to quit working. I paused for a moment to gather myself and continued to throw up a shot. Concerned, junior guard Brittany Cox looked over and cautiously asked, "Coach, did something just give out?"
To some, my age might not be indicative towards the level of my creakiness and sometimes noticeably slower gait.
Don't get me wrong, if need be, I can still throw down. It's just that I will definitely pay for it more afterwards, and the recovery time is prolonged quite a bit.
But in my defense, I have a lot of miles on this body. I have also never one to be light on my feet, and that is really catching up with me. I now have to warm-up for my warm-up. Stretching is no longer a bother; it's a necessity. What happened to the days of rolling out of bed, throwing on some shoes, and jumping into a game of pick-up? Shoot, if I did that now, I would end up with three pulled muscles and two sprained joints.
Fittingly, last weekend we hosted our Alumni versus Falcons game. In the past, I had always envisioned playing in an alumni game and dominating.
Well, turns out, it's difficult to dominate when you can't feel your legs.
I will say I lasted longer than I had thought. I didn't expend too much energy bringing the ball up the floor and jacking up 25-footers. And I have never wanted to be a defensive stopper, so I didn't expect anything from that end. However, the highlight of the game for me was swatting away a shot from our all-conference post player (no need to call her out). Even though she might have scored on me every other time she had the ball, I will continue to gloat about my one stop. But it wasn't enough, as the Falcons came out on top, winning by seven.
I realize that I will continue to get older and some things will become more difficult (and painful). I just hope I can make it through the times when I have to demonstrate a move or a jump in a drill without hurting myself and looking like a fool.
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- A shout out to Vontenea Williams, a junior guard from Granite Falls, NC, on being accepted into graduate school at Pfeiffer. Congratulations, Vontenea!


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LOUDON, N.H. — Matt Kenseth led a race-high 106 laps and claimed his seventh win of the season at the Sylvania 300 Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The number one seed in The Chase, Kenseth beat Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch for the second consecutive week, this time by .533 seconds.
"For me to win at New Hampshire, first of all, is more than a stretch and more than a dream," Kenseth said from Victory Lane. "This is probably one of my worst places. I didn't even know there was a Victory Lane here."
This race also marked the 500th start for Kenseth in the Sprint Cup series. Greg Biffle was third, followed by Jimmie Johnson, Jamie McMurray and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Kenseth became the third driver to win the first two races in the Chase. Tony Stewart accomplished the feat in 2011 en route to his third championship. Greg Biffle won the first two Chase races in 2008 and finished third in the standings.
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LIMA -The ALL Teddy Bear Fund and Applebee�s are partnering to raise funds to keep a free teddy bear in the arms of children when they are in the hospital.
The fundraiser will run from Monday to July 28, at the west side and east side Applebee�s restaurants in Lima. Customers can donate a dollar and purchase a bear to hang up in the restaurant. That donation will go to the ALL Teddy Bear Fund to help cover the $2.25 cost of each teddy bear. In return, the customer will get a $1 off coupon to be used at the next Applebee�s visit.
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Commission roadmap to meet the long-term financing needs of the European economy Objavljeno: 27/03/2014
Vice-President for Industry and Entrepreneurship Antonio Tajani said: "The ambitious initiatives presented today will contribute to making the financial system better in channelling resources towards long-term investments, needed to secure Europe's position on a sustainable growth path. The financial crisis has affected the ability of the financial sector to channel funds to the real economy. SMEs in particular are key contributors to sustainable growth, however they are still finding it challenging to obtain financing, particularly in the periphery economies. The initiatives presented today aim at unlocking additional funding resources to the real economy and all have a common goal: to promote the single market by creating the best conditions for growth and competitiveness in Europe."
The European Commission has adopted a package of measures to stimulate new and different ways of unlocking long-term financing.
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GOODY, Ky. — A two vehicle accident injured one woman and snarled traffic around 11:45 a.m. on Monday morning near the intersection of Food City on U.S. 119 at Goody, Ky.
The rear end collision caused considerable damage to both vehicles.
Jearline Wolford of Stopover, Ky. was placed on a backboard and in a neck brace by EMS workers and transported to a local hospital. She was driving a red Ford Mustang.
The other driver was identified as Evelyn Adkins of Delbarton, W.Va., by Trooper J.A. Nolte of the Kentucky Stat e Police (KSP). She was operating a gray Saturn.
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The Belfry Volunteer Fire Department (BVFD) and First Response Ambulance also responded to the accident. The BVFD spread a drying agent on the road to soak up antifreeze that had spilled onto the highway. They also helped with traffic control and removed some debris from the roadway.
The ambulance service responded with three ambulances and several EMS personnel.
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The tradition of the Olympic Truce dates back to the 9th century BC, in Ancient Greece. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to revive this ancient concept in order to protect the interests of the athletes and sport in general.
The tradition of the "Truce" or "Ekecheiria" was established in ancient Greece in the 9th century BC by the signature of a treaty between three kings. During the Truce period, the athletes, artists and their families, as well as ordinary pilgrims, could travel in total safety to participate in or attend the Olympic Games and return afterwards to their respective countries. As the opening of the Games approached, the sacred truce was proclaimed and announced by citizens of Elis who travelled throughout Greece to pass on the message.
Taking into account the global context in which sport and the Olympic Games exist, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to revive the ancient concept of the Olympic Truce with the view to protecting, as far as possible, the interests of the athletes and sport in general, and to encourage searching for peaceful and diplomatic solutions to the conflicts around the world.
Through this global and symbolic concept, the IOC aims to :
The IOC undertakings for the Olympic Truce extend beyond the period of the Olympic Games and have led to the implementation of a series of "sport for peace" activities through its National Olympic Committees.
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