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Not sure you have made Dzing sound that appealing, Larimar!!
I need to defrost my wheels and gingerly negotiate our downward-sloping,
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Thread: SotD Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Good morning, folks!
I am enjoying a Dzing! day... heavily spritzed myself and that's the way to do it.
Forget the circus... that image has been stressed way too much. Wearing it feels like being involved into slightly too much dirty talk (Hi Quarry !) or having slept on a rough leather sheet on a hot and sweaty summer's night.
This is one I had in my wardrobe and the first to re-appear... soon!
Best to all
Not sure you have made Dzing sound that appealing, Larimar!!
I need to defrost my wheels and gingerly negotiate our downward-sloping,
icy driveway to freedom. Wearing Fendi and I have a cold - so look out
A woman without perfume is like a flower without a scent.
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Morning All,
I'm wearing Fumerie Turque today. Much of the snow from Sunday has now turned to icy slush. Mind how you go, Kewart and I hope your cold clears up soon.
Have a lovely day, folks.
hello Larimar, Kewart, and all
oh i love Dzing whan i was buying my Vanilia, i was making decision between Dzing and Vanilia.....i also cant get any circus with that thing, i get cardboard, the drydown is very nice, but i went with easier sweeter option, all L Artizans are in a waz transparent light, they never feel heavy! so i think they need to be applied properly hehehe
i am joining the club of stinkers with Amouage Gold on some days it feels nobel luxurious very different!....but its one of those scents that i can hardly understand there are people who name it number one on their top list its very bitter!!
Morning all!
l'll be off to work soon, wearing Sheer Obsession again, my favourite daytime winter warmer.
Still a mixture of snow, ice & slush here, & very cold. l'm hoping for more snow later!
Take care out there, everyone.
"What is this secret connection between the soul, and sea, clouds and perfumes? The soul itself appears to be sea, cloud and perfume..." - from Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.
...........Good morning!.
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille
Gobin Daude Nuit au Desert. Cold here.
Hello everyone, windy and cold (21F) here today. Lately I'm finding I enjoy florals in cold weather, in fact the colder it is the better they work on me. So today it is vintage Diorissimo. So beautiful.
Kewart feel better and be careful in the ice and snow, ditto everyone contending with same.
Best to all.
"I felt something so intense, I could only express it in a perfume." - Jacques Guerlain
Much respect to you L - I can't handle Dzing! at all. An olfactory car crash on me (smelled like a shire horse after a hard day toiling with the plough).
Still below freezing here, and the heating in the lavs has broken at work. Need to go carefully otherwise icicles will be forming in all sorts of unimaginable places
SotD is Back to Black.
Hope you feel better soon, kewart.
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Royal Gold by Charriol
Have I told you about the scent of jasmine? Have I spoken about the smell of the sea? The earth is scented. And I perfume myself to enhance what I am. That's why I can not wear a perfume that bothers me. Perfuming is an instinctive wisdom. And like all art, it requires some knowledge of yourself..."
Clarice Lispector ( 1920-1977) - Perfumes da Terra / Earth Perfumes
SotD - Silver Mountain Water by Creed
Good morning everyone!
I had a nice long run in LizSport earlier, and now I'm in Chanel No5, several layers of it, lol ...soap, bath oil as moisturizer (divine!) and, although I was very well-fragranced and could have stopped there, a few spritzes of vintage-80s edp ...I just can't ever resist the spritz.
Y'all have a great day!
Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. ..Carl Sagan
Hope you feel better soon, Kewart!
Had a really hard time getting on Basenotes this morning, don't know if it was just me or a site problem. It's still dreadfully cold, even worse than yesterday, but hopefully it's suppose to warm to -3F today.
SotD is Estee Lauder Sensuous Noir.
Stay warm and safe, everyone!
Sending a big get-well hug to Kewart!
30R, that hand cream looks really nice and what a bargain! The beeswax- this is why I've been using the Burt's Bees lately; my excema seems to respond to it very well. And I'd be remiss in not mentioning FrouFrou's homemade cream; a sample jar of it got me through last winter. It smells wonderful, she uses ylang, rose and lavender to fragrance it. I wonder if she's still making it?
Speaking of florals, I'm in HdP Tubereuse 1 today. This is turning out to be one of my most worn of the winter. I have spring fever already, thank goodness for flowers in perfume!
The nose wants what it wants!
Finally applied fragrance. I'm craving orangey citrus but with warmth so wearing Cacharel Amor Amor. Slightly too sweet to totally meet my craving but very cheap and very cheerful.
The view from my kitchen window is very uplifting, snowy Pennine hills fronted by a winter wonderland of kids sledging and playing snowballs on the cul de sac. So pleased that the combo of a poorly car and sciatica led me to work at home
I'm doing a lot of running around today, wearing Gingerale.
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Narciso Rodriguez for her Musc intense. Very nice in the cold.
L de Lolita Lempicka for me all day today - the poor man's Musc Ravageur. Goes really well with the crazy rain we've been having.
Facebook group: Perfume Lovers in Singapore, Unite! (You don't have to be in Singapore to join.)
Good evening.
SotD has been my beloved Gomma by Etro.
Have a nice evening, fragrant people.
"Your fragrance with a fume of iodine" L. Cohen
Cold and snow here. Itchy from water exercise and whirlpools—all that chlorine—I smartly warm up my Shalimar lotion under the electric blanket. I get out of bed smooth and unruffled to face the day (:
What do insomniac perfumers do to fall asleep? They count chypres!
SotE - Heeley Iris de Nuit.
Good Evening,
I received a wonderful packet of vintage Chanel samples (besides others ) today from a certain BN angel. The generosity of members here never ceases to gladden my heart. Thank You !
Going with No.5 EdC tonight ( from said packet ). I think I'm at real risk of developing Repetitive Sniffing Injury. It's worth it, though.
Best to all.
Wearing Yatagan, happy for the warmer weather.
Naughty boys, Larimar and Jon, putting images in an impressionable girl's mind early in the day. How you make me smile.
Healing vibes for Kewart.
Yes, Kiliwia, Basenotes is e-floundering again. Reminds me how my father always drove an old car, and we could just never be sure when it would break down on the side of the road.
Wearing some husband-pleasing ICONOfly Attaché-Moi today.
This site's too buggy.
Will try again later.
Aftelier Wild Roses
Current Top Five:
1. Bois des Iles--Chanel
2. George Sand--Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier
3. L'Ame Soeur--Divine
4. Violet Blonde--Tom Ford
5. Santal Blush--Tom Ford
Hurry up...before Basenotes crashes again!!!
Cacharel Pour l'Homme by Cacharel
I'd love to wear this more often (it's beautiful) but my decant is almost empty.
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
-- Eckhart Tolle
Evening, all!
We've had snow, sleet, rain & wind here today. The existing snow is fast disappearing leaving a few patches of ice, & the new snow won't lay because the ground is too wet. Boo!
SOTE is Stoned.
"What is this secret connection between the soul, and sea, clouds and perfumes? The soul itself appears to be sea, cloud and perfume..." - from Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.
Jon you smell wonderful this (your) evening!!!
gandhajala you smell wonderful too
Thank you again, oh kind BN folk, for supporting my venturing into photo ops territory . I do love our corner of the Earth.
shadesofbleu you are absolutely right. It is the austere beauty of the southwestern desert that is so enchanting to me.
Quarry I am happy I was able to take you to places you have never been .
Twolf oh I am a princess too when it comes to camping. We are not roughing it in the tent, no...few years ago my hubby convinced me to purchase a pop up camper which is a blessing to sleep in. Which parts of the state did you get to see in 2007?
SOTD wonderful Sarrasins shared with me generously by jujy. It took me a second try to fully appreciate it.
Hey again, y'all -
Still in No5 this afternoon, I just topped off with a few generous dabs of 70s parfum.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. ..Carl Sagan
Teatro alla Scala for me today...still on my Krizia kick
I'm wearing La Reine Margot-Les Parfums Historiques.
A belated happy birthday to southerngardens
I spent yesterday doing some sampling, courtesy of a very generous Basenoter. Thanks to her, I could have joined several of you fragrant lovelies in Dzing!, but I've been so cold for the last few days, I went with Ambre Sultan instead.
A late hello to all of y'all! I seem to be on a leather kick today. SotD was Bandit, and SotE is Cabochard.
The beagle in my photo is sick (bronchitis) and I am nursing her.
Good evening all, Reglisse Noire today, yum, and off to bed for me after a whirlwind day, like most weekdays are in this houshold.
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That's a sweet doggie girl! Hope she gets her voice back and the breathing impediments go away. How I like dogs, in general..... I like cats too, I think, but sometimes we just do not click.
Whitefluffy, it was all across, from TX to AZ with the stop in NM (I think we stopped in Lordsburg for the night). We sometimes do it -- US highways are paved with our hard-earned money, you have heard I know. Yay for Bandit on you, BTW.
MDCI Peche Cardinal, as inspired by another thread.
Late posting ... I had to wait til after the KU/Kstate game to get online. But, I'm happy since KU won! I'm wearing LV Musk today.
carolina girl, sending get well wishes to your girl. Our late sheltie was very prone to bronchitis ... thankfully prednisone and antibiotics helped him a lot.
I've trademarked the color bleu
SOTE - Clubman by Pinaud, splashed-on with a couple shots of Original Vintage Calvin Klein Calvin Cologne Spray on my arm (just, because...)
Some perfumes are as fragrant as an infants flesh, sweet as an oboes cry, and greener than the spring; While others are triumphant, decadent or rich; Having the expansion of infinite things, like ambergris and musk, benzoin and frankincense, which sing the transports of the mind and every sense.
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Vancouver Whitecaps affiliate Mountain WFC U-14 Boys lost 2-1 to Northern Virginia Royals in their Super Y-League North American semifinal on Monday in Florida.Mountain WFC fell two goals behind early in Monday's game, and despite a late comeback, they were unable to recover. Defeat not only ended Mountain's perfect record of three wins and no losses, but denied the team a chance of playing in Tuesday's championship final, despite an impressive overall performance in reaching the semifinal stage.CLICK HERE FOR MATCH DAY 4 PHOTOS In Monday's consolation action, Coastal WFC U-13 Boys made it four straight draws to finish the tournament after a 2-2 result with Carolina Dynamo, while Coastal WFC U-15 Boys battled hard against FC Westchester, but came up short to lose 2-1.Mountain WFC U-16 Boys, who were coming off a heartbreaking 3-1 loss to Mustang SC, fell 3-0 in Monday's consolation game with Northern Virginia Royals, while Mountain WFC U-16 Girls were on the wrong end of a 5-0 defeat to the Eagles in their consolation contest.The final consolation game on Monday also ended in defeat, as Mountain WFC U-15 Girls lost 1-0 to West Michigan Fire Juniors.
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After watching a squad from Greenville make a deep run in the East Regionals of the Little League World Series, Long is wishful one of his teams can make it that far one day.
"Ultimately, every kid's dream is to play in the World Series," Long said. "What's the biggest World Series out there for kids? The Little League World Series in
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Instead of forming two-team divisions, the combined league could manage four or five teams in a division. The league is for kids between the ages of five through 12.
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JON CARDINELLI says the axing of Francois Louw is a sure sign the Springbok selectors learned nothing from the Australasian beatings.
Louw's been selected for Saturday's Currie Cup clash between WP and the Bulls. WP coach Allister Coetzee said he would play the Boks who don't make the final 24-man squad, and Louw's selection suggests the flanker isn't being considered for the 21 August Test against the All Blacks.
Dewald Potgieter will also return to the Bulls, which leaves loose forwards Schalk Burger, Ryan Kankowski, Juan Smith, and Pierre Spies in contention for the Soweto fixture. Burger, Smith and Spies will start, and while they've been such a formidable combination in the past, it's clear the current breakdown laws demand the inclusion of somebody who plays to the ball.
Heinrich Brüssow was the top fetcher in the world in 2009, besting prominent breakdown bandits like Richie McCaw and George Smith. After Brüssow's season-ending injury in early 2010, Louw was identified as the alternative. He made a great start in the preliminaries but then battled behind a losing tight five in the two defeats to New Zealand.
Surprisingly, the Bok selectors opted to replace Louw with Kankowski for the final tour match against Australia. Predictably, the Boks were completely outclassed by a Wallabies back row that boasted a better balance, and more importantly, a specialist fetcher in David Pocock.
The Bok selectors who explained Kankowski's inclusion as one that would speed up their game were exposed. You cannot hope to put speed on the ball (or deny the opposition a quick ruck recycle) if you don't have a breakdown specialist. Louw should have played in Brisbane, and he's a must if the Boks want to combat McCaw and Pocock in the coming three Tests.
Burger and Smith are no slouches on the deck, but their ball-poaching strengths cannot match those of the best fetchers. A trio of Burger, Smith and Spies is geared for ball carrying which is fine as long as the Boks are on the attack, and on the Highveld it will work to some extent. But consider how well the All Blacks and Wallabies retained possession in the Tests against the Boks, and you will realise why a ball-stealer is so vital.
You would hope there's been some mistake and that Louw will return to the Bok squad next week, but then why would you release him to play in a grinding forward-oriented clash against the Bulls? He will be needed at some point this year and in 2011, as even when Brüssow is fit, the Boks need two fetchers in their squad.
The decision to retain Kankowski is perplexing, as like Wynand Oliver and Zane Kirchner he's yet to make the step up at Test level. The Bok selectors are blowing an opportunity to start Louw, Smith and Burger as a combination. They're refusing to try something new. They'd rather favour a tried and tested, but ultimately limited, trio. That may work to a degree, but it won't win matches.
And if they believe that combination can win matches, where is the planning beyond the Tri-Nations, a tournament that South Africa can no longer win? They need to give Louw opportunities now and experiment with a new No 8 in Burger. Kankowski is not good enough and Spies's defensive game is lacking.
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Although it is quite unusual that Chicago is in the mid 50's this late in November, I am not one to question this phenomenon. With that being said, for all of those who are traveling this way for the Thanksgiving Holiday, you can leave your snow suite at home!
Yes I said it, Thanksgiving. That time of year where we get together with all our family members, eat so much food you have to put sweat pants on, sprawl out on the couch watching football in attempts to make room for not one, but two pieces of pie. Well, at least that what my Thanksgiving is like.
As a kid I always loved Thanksgiving because we got to make cool crafts. Some of you might recall using a profound amount of glue and construction paper to make your Pilgrim hat and Indian headdress. The most genius (and easiest) craft was making your very own Turkey by tracing your hand. Now that Pinterest exists, there are millions of other great craft ideas that you can do with your family or for your home. If you have not heard of Pinterest, then I suggest you join the millions who are "pinning" their hearts out. That way, you too can create your own board full of your favorite fall crafts and food ideas this holiday season. Check it out at www.pinterest.com and prepare to spend countless hours following, liking, and repining.
If you are downtown Chicago Thanksgiving Day and feeling ambitious before the feast, head to State Street for the Thanksgiving Day Parade from 8 a.m. – 11 a.m. You can also tune into WGN Channel 9 for full coverage. If you are feeling brave enough to fight the crowds, don't forget to check out the Black Friday sales that will be going on in your area.
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U.S. Department of Education Senior Advisor to Discuss Teacher Preparation at Teacher Education Council of State Colleges and Universities Conference
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Deputy Assistant Secretary Frank Chong to Give Keynote Address at the National Council for Continuing Education and Training's Annual Conference
Frank Chong, deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education, will give keynote remarks at the National Council for Continuing Education and Training's annual conference Monday, Oct. 11 in Miami, Fla. Chong will provide an overview of...
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy to Visit New Salem-Almont High School in North Dakota to Discuss Rural Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy will visit New Salem-Almont High School in New Salem, N.D., on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Following the classroom visits, Duncan and Pomeroy will hold a North Dakota Education Roundtable discussion and media availability. They will...
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Director of White House Hispanic Education Initiative to Deliver Keynote at Kansas State University's Encuentro Celebration
Juan Sepúlveda, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, will give the keynote address during the Kansas State University Encuentro Celebration at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 12. The event will be held at the K-State Alumni Center in...
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U.S. Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter will address community-based college advisers at the annual conference for National College Access Network (NCAN) on Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 1 p.m. The event will be held at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C.
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MOUNT OLIVE, NC – In the Conference Carolinas Semifinal game, the No. 3 seed Mount Olive Trojans (13-2) hung on to knock off Pfeiffer (9-5) in men's lacrosse action. Despite holding a 45-31 advantage in shots, the Falcons were on the wrong side of a 10-6 decision on Wednesday evening.
Pfeiffer also grabbed more ground balls than the Trojans and won 13-of-18 face offs in the contest. Derek Thomas scored two goals and Spencer Allen finished with a goal and a pair of assists.
Mount Olive's goalkeeper Ross Bowman made 19 saves to earn the win, while Hayden Kirk made 10 stops.
Spencer Allen struck just 16 seconds into the contest on an unassisted goal. However, Pfeiffer would not score for the rest of the half and were held off the scoreboard for the next 32:03 of game action.
Mount Olive scored four straight goals, two on extra man opportunities, and would carry the 4-1 lead into the break.
Thomas broke the scoreless drought for Pfeiffer as he cut the deficit to 4-2 at the 12:41 mark of the third period on an unassisted goal. However, Mount Olive scored consecutive goals to push the advantage to 6-2. Tucker Hammock scored with 58 seconds to play in the third period as the Falcons went into the final 15 minute frame trailing 6-3.
Mount Olive seized the momentum by scoring two straight goals, with the first strike coming only 20 seconds into the period. Trailing 8-3, Pfeiffer refused to give up. At the 7:03 mark, Steven Tilmon beat Bowman and Allen set up Thomas for another score 1:01 later. Unfortunately, Tilmon was whistled for a penalty following Thomas' score and Brett Kingston capitalized for the Trojans on the man advantage.
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Should police officers be entitled to learn the names of fellow employees or residents who file complaints about their job performance?
That's the question at the center of an ongoing legal dispute between the city of Gastonia and one of its police detectives. Tuesday, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled that Gastonia Police Detective David Wind has that right.
The panel upheld the decision of a trial court, which ruled in Wind's favor in November 2011. The Court of Appeals ordered the city to turn over full copies of all personnel documents related to two complaints lodged against Wind more than four years ago.
To date, the city has refused to provide Wind with information that would name the two people who filed the complaints against him. The city has only handed over documents from Wind's personnel file that are redacted, or blacked out, to obscure details that would identify the two complainants.
The city will now decide whether to appeal to the N.C. Supreme Court. City Attorney Ash Smith said that decision will be made after he consults with City Manager Ed Munn and Police Chief Stacy Conley.
"It's just too early to tell," Smith said.
Wind could not be reached for comment Tuesday. But his attorney, J. Michael McGuinness of Elizabethtown, who specializes in representing police officers in court cases, said he was pleased with the ruling.
"It reaffirms the rights of North Carolina public employees to simply obtain copies of personnel records which are developed about them," he said. "Those records are vitally important for law enforcement officers to know when individuals make complaints about them."
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Wind was hired as a Gastonia patrol officer in March 2008. He previously worked for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and as a police detective in Coral Springs, Fla., according to court filings.
In fall 2008, two complaints were made against Wind with respect to a traffic stop he was involved in. One came from a fellow officer, and the other from a person who was involved in the stop, said court documents.
The person, who was carrying a gun at the time, complained that Wind exhibited "rudeness/force by a firearm" by disarming him and securing his weapon in the course of an investigation.
An unidentified officer filed a separate complaint saying Wind exhibited "conduct unbecoming of an officer" during the traffic stop. The complaint also alleged Wind had falsified grounds for probable cause in order to make an arrest at a traffic stop, and therefore challenged Wind's integrity and truthfulness, according to court filings.
The citizen's complaint was investigated by Wind's superior officer, while the other officer's complaint was investigated by Internal Affairs. Then-Police Chief Tim Adams ultimately found both complaints were unfounded and closed the case.
Should names be divulged?
In February 2009, Wind asked to view the complete investigative files associated with the complaints. The city provided Wind with redacted documents about two years later.
Wind filed suit in 2010, alleging the city was violating state and city laws that entitled him to see all the information in his personnel file.
After a trial court agreed, the city appealed to the state Court of Appeals. That court sided with the original decision, though one judge on the three-member panel offered an opposing view.
Court of Appeals Judge Chris Dillon suggested in written remarks that divulging such information discourages law enforcement officers from reporting one another's bad behavior. He referenced an uphill battle that internal police investigations face due to the "blue wall" – the tendency of police officers to be uncooperative with investigations of fellow officers.
Wind has acknowledged one of his motives in learning the identities of the two accusers is "so he can sue them," Dillon noted in his comments.
"I believe that because of the threat of a lawsuit and also safety concerns … divulging the names of complainants would have a chilling effect on police officers and others reporting misconduct, and would affect (the police chief's) ability to manage his department effectively."
McGuinness, Wind's attorney, said Wind is completely within his rights to sue someone who made a false complaint against him.
"If (the complaint) is unlawful, the law provides for that," he said.
He also said police officers, like any other municipal employees, should be able to know the details of accusations made against them when the complaint case has been closed.
"People accuse police officers on a daily basis of all sorts of allegations," said McGuinness. "Police officers in North Carolina have historically been able to retrieve that information, so they can determine how to deal with it.
"I've never seen a police officer denied that right, until we got to Gastonia."
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George Naddaff: Welcome ChallengesJeff Bezos: Follow Your PassionsAnita Roddick: Keep Things InterestingJim Koch: Patience Is a VirtueCandice Carpenter: Do What's ManageableEvan and Paulette Cole: Always Seek ImprovementHenry Bloch: Recognize Key PlayersPhil Romano: Pick and Choose the Right AdviceJohn Sculley: Don't Be Afraid to Make Tough DecisionsKen Iverson: Simplify Your Business
George Naddaff has run, launched, or taken national more than half a dozen companies. He's best known for Boston Chicken, whose shares soared 143 percent in a record-breaking IPO in 1993, the year after he sold it. Though his lifetime of entrepreneurship has not been all smooth sailing, he told Inc. in 2008 that the hiccups are what has kept his career moving. "No business, no problems. No problems, no business. Problems are opportunities for solutions."
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Before The Body Shop even began its push into the U.S. market in the early 1990s, the company was enjoying fast growth abroad. But success can do scary things to a company, says founder Anita Roddick. She told Inc. in 1990 why doing well caused her employees to lose some enthusiasm. "We're getting to a point where we can't fart without calling a meeting," she said. "And if I'm bored by them, and I run the bloody thing, Christ knows what other people must be thinking."
Jim Koch left a $2,500-a-day consulting job to get into the business of selling beer. Over a decade after founding Boston Beer Co., which manufactures Samuel Adams, he realized that growing his business was taking a lot longer than he anticipated. In 1996, he told Inc., "We are the 10th-largest brewer in the United States. Do you know what that means? We have one two-hundredth of the beer market. That's minuscule. Twelve years of busting my ass, and we've gone from nothing to infinitesimal. If I'm lucky, I'll go another 12 years and get to be small. That's my life's work."
There's no use in constantly striving for something that will always be out of reach. That was iVillage founder Candice Carpenter's philosophy in 2001, a year after she resigned as CEO. She decided that finding the perfect equilibrium between running a popular women's website and enjoying her personal life was just not possible. "Balance is the new form of self-torture," she said. "If you grew up with a picture of Twiggy on the wall, I think balance is the same sort of thing: You can try to attain it, but it's just not happening."
Husband-and-wife team Evan and Paulette Cole co-founded ABC Home in the early 1980s. Over time, their visions for the business diverged. She wanted to steer the business toward socially responsible ventures, while his focus was on the bottom-line. The couple separated in 2000, and Evan took charge of the company. He treated his staff with tough love and a critical attitude. In 2002, he said of his approach, "Stay constantly irritated. When you walk through your business, focus on what's wrong. What's right is what you pay your staff for."
Henry Bloch, co-founder of H&R Block, is widely known as a pioneer of the tax preparation industry. So you'd think that he'd consider himself the most important guy on board at the company. But, as he explained to Inc. in 1987, that's not the case. Instead, he points to his office managers who hire seasonal tax preparers and liaise with corporate headquarters. "The office manager is the most important person in our organization -- no question. I like to say we have a pyramid organization, and the office manager is at the top."
People told Phil Romano that he was foolish to bake his own rolls at Fuddruckers, and that he couldn't have a butcher slicing beef where people could watch. He knew that if he listened to them, Fuddruckers would look like every other hamburger joint. So he followed his gut. A serial entrepreneur, Romano has learned when to take advice from outsiders and when to stick to his guns. At an Inc. conference in 1991, he asked, "When should a founder bring professional management into a new business? Immediately. When should the founder turn over control of that business to a professional manager? Never."
John Sculley says it was one of the hardest things he'd ever had to do as a CEO: stripping his friend and sponsor, Steve Jobs, of any operating role in the company Jobs had co-founded. Sculley spoke to Inc. in 1987 about what became a very public crisis at Apple Computer, explaining why working with entrepreneurs -- especially those who crave control -- can be trying. "The hardest part of dealing with entrepreneurs is getting them to recognize their own weaknesses. Sometimes they will say they are weak in certain areas, and then try to jury-rig an organizational concept to compensate for those weaknesses. But they really don't mean it -- they don't believe it."
When Ken Iverson orchestrated the turnaround of Nucor Steel from near bankruptcy into one of the largest steel companies in the United States, he did it by paring things down. He reduced levels of management and scrapped perks like reserved parking spots and special health benefits. He once told an Inc. editor, "My most crucial role is maintaining simplicity. When I see two or more people gathering at the coffeemaker, I know they're making this business more complex than it needs to be."


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Any security programme should start by finding out who is already inside the company. Once any company reaches a certain size, someone will find a way in.
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Stanwood students team to rid park of vandalism, drug use
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Natasha Wilcoxen (right), 15, draws a detail in pencil on a large sheet of plywood that will be part of a 10-foot wide mural, while Kayli Rodgers, 17, prepares to sketch a bird that she designed for the mural. The students are from Stanwood's Lincoln Hill High School.
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The Stanwood Police Department is working with local kids to �take back the park,� because of problems with drugs and crime. Students from Stanwood�s Lincoln Hill alternative school are creating a 10-foot mural for the park.
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The Stanwood Police Department is working with local kids to �take back the park,� due to problems with drugs and crime.
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Mural project coordinator Krystal Riog (left) enjoys a lighter moment working with recent Lincoln Hill grad Nick Platt, 18, on the design of a dragon he is creating for a Church Creek Park mural.
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Natasha Wilcoxen, 15, draws a detail in pencil on a second large sheet of plywood that will be part of a 10-foot wide mural when painted.
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Young people sit in a cool, shaded area at Church Creek Park during the hot afternoon Wednesday in Stanwood. The Stanwood Police Department is working with local kids to �take back the park� from problems with drugs and crime.
It's about overcoming struggle.
It's about finding a voice.
That's how seven Stanwood teens describe "Project STAND," their work painting a mural for Church Creek Park at 27116 72nd Ave. NW.
The teens and other volunteers are working with Stanwood police to clean up the 16-acre park, where vandalism, damaged play equipment, and drug and alcohol abuse have led to prolonged closures, especially during school hours.
When Police Chief Rick Hawkins visited the park last fall, the gate was locked, closing off the entrance, and young people were hanging out inside.
At the sight of him, they scattered into the bushes.
He waited them out. They all got to talking.
He asked them for ideas to make the park vibrant again.
As chief, Hawkins didn't like the idea of a park being closed because of a few people committing crimes there, he said.
"We're supposed to prevent that," he said. "Let's stop the damage and criminal activity and get it fixed up and cleaned up, where people want to be a part of it."
Around the same time the chief was thinking about the problems at the park, Krystal Roig, 32, stopped by the police station, to report issues with graffiti at a local grocery store. She'd recently moved to Stanwood from Florida.
She and the chief talked. When people have problems, he likes to hear their ideas for solutions, he said.
Hawkins learned that Roig has a master's degree in criminal justice, and she had experience working with young people. Hawkins asked her for help with the park.
That's how the project got started: "STAND," for Stereotypes Alternatively Defined.
Church Creek Park has a negative stereotype, Roig said. She assembled a team of teens who volunteered from Lincoln Hill High School, an alternative campus in town.
"They put a lot of hours into this, since the beginning of February," Hawkins said.
The teens created a mock-up for the mural. They recently presented it to the school board, and are now painting the final piece, a 10-by-4-foot two-piece plank of plywood, at the Community Resource center.
"I have a trunkful of donated paint," Roig said.
Last week, Mayor Leonard Kelley stopped by to check in.
If the project is successful, the city may approve a similar mural for another park, he said.
The depth of the work is slowly emerging on the plywood.
There is a heart made of curlicues, an imposing dragon, flowers and finches, turtles and angels. Each teen contributed to the design, their earlier sketches lined up on poster boards set on chairs.
On July 2, Natasha Wilcoxen, 15, was filling in the details of a tree, its bark the gray of a stormy sea.
Her sketches included a "big sister," a robot-like guardian to protect children, playing on a swing. She drew a lantern, to light up darkness.
Kayli Rodgers, 17, worried about her yellow-and-purple finch, if the wings matched the body in size. She sketched elaborate hummingbirds, poised over petals. Her work is delicate, like her subjects.
"I really like drawing flowers and animals and nature and swirly things," she said.
Nick Platt and Ellie Nowak, both 18, just graduated high school.
Platt helped the other students decide which cans of paint to open and mix.
"I just think it was a wonderful opportunity to get involved with the community," Platt said. "It was positive and uplifting."
A murmur of excitement crossed the room when some of the girls found glitter paint. The dragon's scales, they whispered.
Platt is tasked with the dragon's head. Together, the teens brainstormed the theme of the mural, with concepts of strength and personal growth, Platt said.
"It's going through struggles and getting up to a point where you realize you have self-empowerment, and you go through a transformation," he said. "At the end of the mural, you have a voice. You can say what you want. You have an opinion."
Nowak kicked off her shoes. She's drawing hands that curl out from the gnarled tree.
She likes drawings hands. It challenges her.
"It's a realistic thing. It can go so easily wrong," she said. "Proportions are everything, or it's not going to look like a hand."
The design in the mural moves from black-and-white into color, from left to right.
"It represents confusion, and how you have not yet found the color within yourself," said Jordyn Corey, 17. "It shows the starting point in your life, the blacks and whites fading into these bright, vibrant colors you create for yourself."
Meanwhile, volunteers have work parties planned at Church Creek Park in July and August. They are going to weed and clean. City crews also are working on the park.
The mural unveiling is set for Aug. 16. The time is not final, yet.
One of the young people has suggested live music for the event, Hawkins said. The resource center has a portable stage the volunteers can borrow.
Hawkins figures if the community can be involved and take part in something like a park cleanup, they will feel pride and ownership in the work. That makes others less likely to want to cause damage.
The mural is not a cure-all, the chief said.
It's a first step.
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GREENVILLE - A Darke County mother and daughter, Linda (Monnin) Spahr of Versailles and Misty L. Werling of Greenville, were among many audience members who brought home gifts from Ellen DeGeneres' TV show and more specifically during the 12 Days of Giveaways at Christmas time.
They, along with Spahr's cousin, Elaine Hannan Yard of California, were on the Dec. 12 show, at which all audience members each received five $500 gift certificates from J.C. Penney's.
The two local women's adventure actually began after the two women booked their tickets this past June.
Spahr, a reflexologist, decided she needed a vacation to California and asked her daughter to go along.
"She [Misty] said, 'Mom, I can' afford it,' and I said it would be my treat," Spahr recalled. "I thought the trip would be good for her and me. She's going through a divorce."
So, the plans began forming. In October, they went out to visit Yard in Los Angeles, 15 minutes from Burbank.
"Elaine had asked what we wanted to do while there and I said one of the things we'd love is to get on the Ellen show," Spahr said. "Elaine kept sending in requests for tickets, and three weeks before were were to leave, we got a call from the Ellen show."
While in Ellen's audience in October, the talk show host invited the entire audience to come back to one of her giveaway shows.
At the first show, Spahr, Werling and Yard each received a Despicable Me 2 DVR, and a CD of Keith Urban, who was on the show that day.
"It was nail-biting," said Werling of that first show. "It was a lifetime opportunity to be on the show with Ellen. Keith Urban was there and so were two firefighters, who had put out a fire and rescued two month-old puppies. They got the toxins out of their lungs and brought them back."
According the two women, Ellen presented each fire station with $10,000 to buy equipment for pets to keep on the firetrucks, then she gave the audience members each a $100 Petco card.
"There were 175 people in the audience," Spahr said. " That's when she invited us all back."
Werling said they were also given necklaces for Breast Cancer Awareness.
"I gave my Petco gift card to my grandpets," Spahr said.
The show once again contacted Spahr and Werling in November, giving them the choice of two days they could be guests once again on the Ellen Show. They chose Dec. 12.
They were excited, and Werling said they could feel the vibes from walking in the parking garage all the way into the studio. The two local women and Yard received a number and were seated.
"This time, we were right in the middle," Spahr said. "We had the most awesome seats."
"Everybody acted like they knew everybody," said Werling, who has two children, Grace, 11, and Evan, 2.
"It's a different atmosphere, not like here. It was fast-paced," Spahr said.
When they attended their second Ellen show, they each won five $500 gift certificates from JC Penney's on that day's giveaway.
Contestants on the 11 other days received such gifts as trips, cruises and electronics.
"That helped with Christmas," said Werling, who said she bought a lot of her children's gifts with those cards.
Both women were also happy to see the guest that day, Tyler Perry.
"We're still pinching ourselves," Spahr said. "We can't believe it."
"Ellen stayed on the stage the whole time," Werling said. "She was really connected to the audience."
They said there were 275 people in the audience on Dec. 12.
Each time, they went to California, they spent five days there, going to Hollywood, seeing Rodeo Drive and riding on a tour bus that showed them where the stars lived. A couple more highlights of their trip was visiting a wax museum and the Bubba Gump Restaurant.
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When I took psychology electives in college back in the mid-1970's, the experience left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. The textbook used in Canada at the time was Psychology Today, and it was chock-full of pseudoscientific b.s. that at the time was the established canon. Auras, ESP, Kirlian photography, parapsychology- get your hands on an edition of Psychology Today from, say, 1974. It's all in there. In fact, at the time you could make a career of studying this pseudoscience.
Seeing the charlatans exposed, one after another, over the following decades, left an even worse taste in my mouth. I was often ridiculed and put down by my fellow students and our profs for not buying into what today is well-known to be pseudoscientific hokum.
But not all of this type of nonsense has gone away. We still have charlatans like behavioural psychologists.
Let me lead you through a scenario to illustrate my point:
Dr Phil, whom I love to hate, is a behavioural psychologist. Many people who appear on his programme are in fact mentally ill. The clunker is when he says to one of these people, "Let me try to provide some insight as to why you behave the way you do." What follows is the usual hokum, going over the person's background, getting the person to talk so that the charlatan can go on a fishing expedition for "clues" or "markers", in pretty much the same manner a psychic does.
Enter brain science as opposed to pseudoscientific baloney. The person suffers from an inability either to produce or absorb serotonin- a physical problem. Depressed serotonin levels can cause a person to suffer from mood swings, to be irritable, often with control issues. One spectrum of sufferers are considered manic depressives.
What insight is such a person going to gain from the couch treatment? Many or most people think they're gaining some insight into why they are the way they are, but in truth they're not learning anything useful. Worse- they're losing time on an idiotic fishing-expedition while their illness goes untreated.
The proof is in the pudding, so to speak. Put the patient on a medication to boost or stabilise or help metabolise or to replace serotonin levels and the "problem(s)" go away. Poof.
Many patients waste years, often decades and in many instances entire lifetimes being sucked in by behavioural psychologist's pseudoscience.
But behavioural psychology does work, many experts will say. Well, in the same way that religious conversion works. Human beings are easily brainwashed. "Brainwash" is probably not the right term, but the process is pretty much identical. The underlying reality is that human beings can believe almost anything, and if the desire to believe is there, the belief tends to follow. Watch an old episode of The Amazing Randi (of debunker fame) and you'll see this demonstrated time and time again. He'd have a charlatan on his show who'd do his thing, the audience would clap in amazement, Randi would demonstrate how the charlatan accomplishes his fakery, and the audience would clap again, switching from credulous amazement to credulous amazement. Technically, Randi could have faked his debunkery and the audience would have been none the wiser, which illustrates the plasticity of human belief and credulity.
It is built into us that when a belief settles in that it gains what might be termed "inertia". Once established, beliefs become resistant to attack. This is how and why people are able to hold on to religious nuttery. To some extent the manner in which the brain works makes them resistant to the notion that the thing they believe is false. Many in the world of psychology will try to tell you that there is a process or pattern of thinking which leads to this condition, and a cursory search on the Interweeb will show this type of hokum in abundance. The fact of the matter is that people don't need to think or rationalise themselves into anything, although through repetition they can achieve the same end. The human brain is built to assimilate beliefs and then hold to them because indoctrination is a large part of our social past. Further, indoctrination isn't a thing people talk themselves into. It's a social phenomenon we're hard-wired to accommodate.
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Wales have questioned the judgement of referee Alain Rolland in sending off captain Sam Warburton and pointed to it as the decisive action in the Test.
Wales were the better team throughout the Eden Park clash despite being reduced to 14 men as a result of Warburton's 1th minute red card for what was adjudged to be a spear tackle.
However, coach Warren Gatland was still heavily critical of the decision. 'It surprised me how quickly the referee made that decision. You'd think that an experienced referee would have consulted his touch judges first. I don't dispute that he lifted the player, which deserved a yellow card, but he didn't drive him into the ground,' Gatland said.
'We feel like our destiny of winning a World Cup semi-final was taken away by that decision. But I'm proud of how the guys responded in a situation where France should have been comfortable. To get that close was a massive effort.'
Warburton said he never intended to lift winger Vincent Clerc, explaining that his momentum and weight advantage combined to make for a punishing hit. 'It wasn't malicious. One minute I was getting up off the ground, the next I was in the stands. I'm gutted.'
Wales had plenty of possession in the closing stages and looked to be setting up a drop goal. Strangely veteran flyhalf Stephen Jones never looked prepared to risk one, consistently calling for the ball to be retained in the forwards. Gatland was non-committal when probed on this issue.
'We didn't really ever put ourselves in a good enough shape to do what we wanted to in that situation,' he said. 'We had to get more momentum at the gainline, which didn't come.'
France coach Marc Lièvremont was typically animated despite another mediocre performance from his charges. 'I don't care about whether we were good or not. All that matters is that we are in a World Cup final in New Zealand,' he said.
'Strangely the numbers advantage seemed to affect us badly. We were expected to win from that position, but the players never controlled the ball like they should have. We made a lot of knock ons and poor decisions. But again, we're in the final and have a chance to make things right before then.'
Lièvremont said he hoped to face the All Blacks in the final. 'I've always been a lover of the All Blacks and to play against them in the final would be a dream come true. Our history against them at this tournament doesn't matter, we've never beaten them in a final. I'd love to face them.'
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khmrP wrote:The Rock wrote:^ Billups got him on 2 3s, he had a hand in his face what more do you want him to do? Everyone else was getting abused on one on one situations especially Nash and MWP
He got lost plenty on butler too and billups get by him too not just the 3.
They hit their open 3s, we missed. Kobe closed out, but he was having to move around and compensate for a LOT of mismatch problems early on. We took Griffin out with doubling after his ridiculous tear early on, and gambled by leaving shooters with some space. It didn't work. It's one game.
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A woman in her early-to-mid-60s, by my estimate, and outfitted from neckline to ankles in a tight-fitting, dark purple leotard, walked past me determined, yet friendly, before disappearing into the dimly lit studio.
Another group of women of about the same vintage followed the first. My jaw dropped. I simply could not believe, you see, what they are about to do, or attempt to do.
You cannot, not in this line of work, pass that sign on the second floor of an Aliso Viejo shopping center above a brewery bar and just keep walking. You have to go in.
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Elizabeth Blanchard met me there the other morning, and ushered me into the studio with 15-foot-high walls in which eight carefully spaced, 15-foot-tall silver poles were arranged, including three that rose from the hardwood flooring of a large stage.
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She glares at me as we stand in the middle of the empty studio with a look that basically says, Oh, please, get your mind out of the gutter.
I cannot help it, I tell her.
"OK," she says, "initially the only thing people can think is of a strip club, but here our focus is on fitness. It is a lot more about acrobatics and flexibility than purely sensuality."
More than 100 women a month come to her studio, she says. The average client age is late 30s to early 40s. They are college students, mothers with children, professionals, more than a few cops and attorneys and, yes, at least two strippers.
"They are women who just want to get in shape, and have fun," she explains. "That's the whole point. It's working out, but not feeling like you're working out."
It is almost time for her "flow and fitness" class to begin, and men are not allowed.
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At INTERPOL, we run a project known as AOC (Asian Organized Crime) that works to combat these complex and pervasive crime networks.
The Project offers a strategic overview of the problem and coordinates operations in the field, bringing together multiple countries in joint action.
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