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Talcum like effect
So, I have been thinking about this one for awhile and couldn't come up with a definitive answer, so I ask for your help
I work at a men's frag counter and when I am showing someone a "powdery" fragrance (YSL La Nuit, Armani Code, Brit, etc.) and the customer seems to be liking it I might let the "P" word slip and for some of them it seems their manhood is being judged and they quickly move on. I have even seen fragrance models use the "P" word to insult a competitors fragrance (a couple was just about sold on Armani Code when the Coty model came over and said "Oh, that's too powdery" - the couple left without buying anything).
The best I could come up with for a substitute is "Dry Spicyness (spiciness?)" but I would love to know what you guys think.
Thanks for the help!
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maybe "irisy" would be a good word as usually iris note is respinsible for fragrance powderness. Or describing a scent "it gives a slightly dry feeling"
When some SA would tell me the fragrance is powdery, I'd be even more interested as I'm a big fan of clean, powdery scents (Hello, my dear Prada Amber Pour Homme & Infusion d'Homme)
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Dessicated. Most people won't really know what you're talking about, so I recommend saying it with a french accent. French accents always make things sound more sophisticated.
More realistically, you could say something like 'comforting clean quality' or 'slightly barbershop effect', 'slightly barbershop cleanliness', 'cashmere qualities', 'an almost tactile, comforting softness' etc.
If it is powdery, why not just say that. Or is the need to deceive just to make the sale that much greater?
If I heard you describing something in amorphous terms, I would just trust your judgment less.
Mellow, moderate sweetness
thicker, opaque, not transparent
dusty, velvety, enveloping quality
Fougere may be a good term. Generally quite "powdery" (meaning talcum) scents such as The Baron or Canoe are classified as fougeres.
Any of the suggestions so far are fine but I have to say I don't find those frags to be powdery at all.
Powdery sounds femme to the average guy, so just dont use the word at all. With the frags you mentioned i would call them "spicy, but smooth and clean" , "with a nice masculine sandalwood note" (not sure if they have sandalwood but probably, some sandalwood is powdery to me)
DO NOT mention any flowers, no iris. Spices and wood are manly. French and flowers are not. You probably know most of this stuff already.
Of course im talking about the average guy here so i dont want to hear all of the exceptions from everyone.
Also did you threaten that Coty model with bodily harm for messin with your money!
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Nothing wrong with powdery. It is very courtly. Tell them that. Else perhaps baby bottomesque.
"Powdery" definitely has bad connotations in the 21st century. At best, it conjures up powdered wigs and the like. I would suggest "classic barbershop," which is where these powdery notes came from originally. Barbershop is an evocative, accurate description and it suggests a retro masculinity before everything went unisex. Or "sec" (French for dry and a butch-sounding word familiar from wine terminology) or "coiffeur masculin" (French for barbershop) for a classier tone.
Last edited by BurgundyMarsh; 14th April 2012 at 05:03 PM.
Instead of powdery, why not say "exquisite powderiness" or "unique exclusive powderiness", or "with a hint of elusive and sensual powderiness".
Quite frankly, the only really powdery scents I've ever come across have been Royal Copenhagen, Lagerfeld Classic and Lagerfeld Jako - they smell like I've shaken talcum powder all over. YSL La Nuit, Armani Code, Brit etc may have powderiness, but I'd really have to sniff hard to notice it.
Anyhow, then describe to male clients how famous aromatherapy books say women are all turned on by the smell of talcum powder - but that this secret is best used subtley in a sophisticated manner - by using scents such as Armani Code - rather than being too obvious about it.
"has a barbershop quality to it"
I think if you allude to the 'barbershop' vibe you can circumvent the emasculation the word 'powdery' seems to inflict while remaining honest to the frag's nature
LOL! French always sounds so nice when describing perfume.
"Try this, sir. Very poudreux!" LOL!
I would say "creamy."
I would agree not to deceive the customer to make a sale. Let the perfume sell itself to the customer. Don't let any other fragrance reps--ever--get on your turf while making a sale!
If a man is intimidated by mere words, he is not man enough to wear any scent, IMO. Let them go cry in a corner. Fragrance is only for men confident enough to pull it off. A bull elk in a rut does not apologize for the noise he makes to get attention. He is just happy the other boys step aside and the girls bat their lashes.
You might use the terms, however:
Subtle rather than soft.
Fresh rather than floral.
Bracing rather than spicy.
Bold rather than loud.
Gourmand rather than sweet.
Oh, and that comment about "French and flowers" not being very manly: there was a French nobleman on the 1830s who wore tons of eau de jasmine and orange blossom who was 6'3" and could flatten a man's face with a single punch (he was a bare-knuckle boxer), but he just preferred to slice men up in sword duels, or put a lead bullet through an arm with a percussion-cap pistol. He just wanted to prove a gentlemanly point and never intended to take anyone out.
Last edited by Primrose; 14th April 2012 at 07:05 PM.
"No elegance is possible without it...perfume is a part of you." Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Classic talcum powder for men used in... barbershops.
There are different kinds of powdery scents achieved through different raw materials: lavander and the type of musk popular in the 1970's produces a kind of powderiness different to the ones produced with iris or vetiver. So the concept is quite elusive, you would have to define the sort of powderiness you are sensing. For instance, the one mentioned is the "barbershop - kind" of powderiness, which is different to Grandma's scents.
there was a French nobleman on the 1830s who wore tons of eau de jasmine and orange blossom who was 6'3" and could flatten a man's face with a single punch (he was a bare-knuckle boxer), but he just preferred to slice men up in sword duels, or put a lead bullet through an arm with a percussion-cap pistol. He just wanted to prove a gentlemanly point and never intended to take anyone out. [/QUOTE]
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+1 for dusty, talc-y...dry?
maybe, soft?
i have never found powdery to be a particularly appealing adjective. I also don't fully understand why a fragrance needs to be described as powdery at all, since powders themselves are fragranced to smell the way they do. Perhaps just figure out different facets of whatever perfume you are selling and talk about that. Also, don't most guys respond well to adjectives such as "popular" "best-seller" "new release" and "popular with women." If you're selling to the Armani code and la nuit d l'homme customer, why challenge yourself? Also someone needs to pull that Coty model (?) back into line!
The word powdery is overused, overated, abused and tired. Glad that the OP started this thread. Lots of good rec's. I love dusty, barbershoppy, soft....etc. C
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J&J's baby powder was a lemon, lavender and vanilla accord. So many things can come off as powdery to people, all it takes is a rough approximation of the accord to set off scent memory in many people. This is why there is so much disagreement over whether or not some frags are powdery, and why it is not a good way to describe a frag. You can train your nose out of a tendency to perceive a frag as powdery with a little work, or at least be able to understand what's making it seem powdery instead of smelling it as "just powder". Strong scent associations are a hindrance, IMO...
I think barbershop is a good way for the op to make the relation without saying "powdery", as people commonly associate barbershops with the use of talc powder.
Nowadays, though, hair salons smell of burnt hair and nasty synthetics. Powder suggests old ladies in the tea room. I wouldn't even use the word.
The barbershop is a dead institution.
In the old days, wealthy men had their own sets of straight razors. They were kept sharp by the manservant. Men shaved themselves or had the servant shave them. This was done at home in the man's dressing room.
Poor men, on the other hand, had no razors, so they went to get shaved a few times a week at the barbershop.
How times have changed. Now only rich men go to a barbershop for a shave. Poor men shave at home with their own Mach3s and disposable Bic razors.
Powder was also used on men's faces after a shave. An alum block, dipped in water, was rubbed over the face after a shave to close pores and stanch bleeding nicks, giving a chalk-like appearance to the face. Finally, the powder was applied.
Powder is not a bad thing at all.
Barbershops can be found in some cities, but the economy is not kind to them. The Truefitt and Hill in Las Vegas closed, sadly.
Last edited by Primrose; 14th April 2012 at 11:24 PM.
"No elegance is possible without it...perfume is a part of you." Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
The classic barbershops I remember were in fancy hotels and had a posh clientele. I remember seeing them in old-style hotels in Europe in the late 1980s. In past centuries, for the rich, the barbers went to them--- they also did blood-letting (the medical treatment) which is why barber poles have that blood-red stripe on them. I think barbering was always considered a "profession" and required a license. It seems to me it would always have been cheaper to own a razor than to pay someone to shave you, so I don't really see the connection to the "poor." Sondheim's "Demon Barber" had a middle class clientele as I remember it.
I was going to say starchy, lol.. but the way people are watching their carbs these days, forget it, lol. Plus, don't know if starchy is a desired word, might think of a potato or Idk. Foot powdery is more manly, lol.
But I still like dusty.
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I am brought to mind of the classic Pinaud scents for a powdery feel.
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"Powdery" is of course the best way to get across the characteristic of a scent that most people would perceive as "powdery". It's a shared perception that we acquire having all grown up smelling baby powders and/or certain women's and men's perfumes of the past. It's fixed in the collective fragrance memory. "Powdery" is then a problematic word in describing a fragrance to make it sound attractive for that very reason: it's negative associations. But it's simply the best way of describing that characteristic. When you try to use a euphemism for something you are trying NOT TO SAY it often ends up sounding ridiculous. But if you don't want to use the dreaded word try looking at the situation differently. The fragrance isn't powdery itself, it doesn't contain or produce powder. It just happens to have characteristics of the scents of things that actually were powders. There's no reason you can't describe a fragrance for what it is (sweet, floral, lavender, benzoin, tonka, creamy) and leave the word "powdery" out of it. Chances are the person you're talking to will supply it for you anyway.
I would like just once in my life to experience a "talcum like effect" though.
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...lush, plump, peachy, flannel-like, downy...?
I pride myself on NOT being the asshole SA who will try to sell you anything just to get a sale, I see it happen a little in my store and elsewhere and I absolutely HATE it... I have one of the lowest amounts of returns on the sale floor and I hope that is because I try to find the best fit for the customer. I have actually talked customers out of something they liked the smell of because they were looking for something that was going to last on their skin and I knew what they picked out was not going to last at all and the customer would be displeased. I love spending time with cistomers who are interested and I enjoy explaining things to them, some ppl like crosswords, I like finding the right frag for ppl. Most of my interactions with customers end with them initiating a handshake and thanking me for sharing my time and knowledge.
I am trying to use a different word so people will not have an adverse reaction and move on even if they love the fragrance.
Just as you can tell in a few seconds if a fragrance SA knows what their talking about, I can tell if my customer is knowledgeable or not as well. So, I am mainly talking about the newbies here that are just trying to buy cologne to get laid
It is not deception or ambiguity I am trying to achieve, I am just trying to make sure they don't let their preconceived notions get in the way of what they might like in a fragrance. This is not a selling trick like the crap corporate tries to train us in, if my regional manager saw me on the floor she might have a fit, but my numbers are very good so I feel I would be able to defend myself for not using the method of selling them everything I can and then upselling more then getting them out the door and hoping they never come back and return the items. When teens come to the counter most of the other SA's don't even give them the time of day, I like to talk to them and when I find the ones that are genuinely interested I help them out with samples and show them around as much as I can even though I know they're not going to buy anything from me because when I look at them all I can see is me at that age, eager to smell all these mysterious concoctions, but too afraid or embarrassed to ask any questions or even be noticed.
I have a passion for what I do and my goal is to help the customer, not my numbers.
Sorry this was soooo long :} and D&S, please don't take any of this as a personal attack, it was not meant as such in the least bit! I truly enjoy your comments and knowledge on here and I indeed do see how you might have thought I was trying to be sneaky with the customer, but I hope I have explained myself better now
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LOL thanks for your input, and we actually got into a screaming argument on the floor once albeit a controlled screaming match... a customer wanted to try the new D&G fragrance called "gentlemen" and the model said "Oh, that isn't new, it's an old one".. I quickly countered back with "Actually The One Gentleman just came out 2 weeks ago".. her head flung back at me and she had the look of Medusa and said "I WILL HANDLE THIS, you stay OUT!!" ... I didn't and it made for an unpleasant working environment for awhile But now she is with a different company and she and I get along GREAT lol I still can't believe it
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Why not just say, " This one is like being enveloped in a soft, billowy cloud of fleecy iris flowers and gives you a talcum like affect covering your whole body!!!! So waddaya say John Henry?? Wanna buy it?? Oh I just love your work boots!! Are those John Varvatos??"
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You can call it anything, and still the Coty model would scare off your powderophobe customers at the mention of the "P" word.
Your best bet is to retaliate against her. Say something mean about her mom.
Thanks :} On a more important note lol how are you able to type words in Bold now? I used to be able to do that here, but haven't seen that option since the hack
-Cologne is the only fashionable thing that fits me! (Me, circa 1997-present)
No, you just can't use the word "powdery" in that environment. My bold option is working fine but you can always use the old html for this...
Say it has a cocaine like vibe to it....or since they think powder is a feminine feel say "It has a "Yayo" like vibe to it, Tony Montana style."
Should give them an image of a gangster rather than a baby's ass...being as though they feel as though their masculinity needs to be validated.
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Relating the IoT to Enterprise Business Strategy
Recently, I got to speak to a CIO at a Global 500 Company about the challenges of running his IT organization. He said that one of his biggest challenges is getting business leaders to understand technology better. "I want my business leaders to be asking for digital services that support and build upon their product and service offerings". I think that his perspective provides real insight to how businesses should be thinking about the so called Internet of Things (IoT), but let me get you there first.
What is the IoT?
According to Frank Burkitt of @Strategy, by 2029, an estimated 50 billion devices around the globe will be connected to the Internet. Perhaps a third will be computers, smartphones, tablets, and TVs. The remaining two-thirds will be "things"–sensors, actuators, and intelligent devices that monitor, control, analyze, and optimize our world. Frank goes on to say if your company wants to stake a claim in the IoT, you first need to develop a distinctive "way to play"—a clear value proposition that you can offer customers. This should be consistent with your enterprise's overall capabilities system: the things you do best when you go to market.
While what Frank suggests make great sense, they do not in my opinion provide the strategic underpinning that business leaders need to link the IoT to their business strategy. Last week an article in Harvard Business Review by Michael Porter and James E. Heppelmann shared what business leaders need to do to apply the IoT to their businesses. According to Porter and Hepplemann, historical, enterprises have defined their businesses by the physical attributes of the products and services they produce. And while products have been mostly composed of mechanical and electrical parts, they are increasingly becoming complex systems that combine hardware, sensors, data storage, microprocessors, software, and data connectivity.
The IoT is really about creating a system of systems
Porter and Hepplemann share in their article how connectivity allows companies to evolve from making point solutions, to making more complex, higher-value "systems of systems". According to Russell Ackoff, a system's orientation views customer problems "as a whole and not on their parts taken separate" (Ackoff's Best, Russell Ackoff, John Wiley and Sons, page 47). This change means that market winners will tend to view business opportunities from a larger versus a smaller perspective. It reminds me a lot of what Xerox did when it transformed itself from commoditized copiers to high priced software based document management where the printer represent an input device to a larger system. Porter and Hepplemann's give the example of a company that sells tractors. Once a tractor is smart and connected, it becomes part of a highly interconnected agricultural management solution.
According to Porter and Hepplemann, the key element of "smart, connected products" is they take advantage of ubiquitous wireless connectivity to unleash an era where competition is increasingly about the size of the business problem solved. Porter and Hepplemann claim that as smart, connected products take hold, the idea of industries being defined by physical products or services alone will cease to have meaning. What sense does it make to talk about a "tractor industry" when tractors represent just a piece of an integrated system of products, services, software, and data designed to help farmers increase their crop yield?
Porter and Hepplemann claim, therefore, the phrase "Internet of Things" is not very helpful in understanding the phenomenon or even its implications. They say after all what makes smart, connected products fundamentally different is not the Internet, it is a redefinition of what is a product and the capabilities smart, connected products provide and the data they generate. Companies, therefore, need to look at how the IoT will transform the competition within their specific industries.
Like a business slogan, the IoT is about putting IT inside
IT leaders have a role to play in the IoT. They need to move IT from just assisting business management drive improvements to the company value chain to organizations that as well embed IT in what become system oriented products. How perceptive, therefore, was my CIO friend.
Porter and Hepplemann claim connectivity serves two purposes. First, it allows information to be exchanged between a product and its operating environment, its maker, its users, and other products and systems. Second, connectivity enables some functions of the product to exist outside the physical device. Porter and Hepplemann give the example of Schindler's PORT Technology that reduces elevator wait times by as much as 50% by predicting elevator demand patterns, calculating the fastest time to destination, and assigning the appropriate elevator to move passengers quickly. Porter and Hepplemann see as well intelligence and connectivity enabling an entirely new set of product functions and capabilities, which can be grouped into four categories: monitor, control, optimize, and autonomy. To be clear, a systems product can potentially incorporate all four.
- Monitored products alert users to changes in circumstances or performance. They can provide a product's operating characteristics and history. A company must choose the set customer value and define its competitive positioning. This has implications design, marketing, service, and warranty.
- Controlled products can receive remote commands or have algorithms that are built into the device or reside in the product's cloud. For example, "if pressure gets too high, shut off the valve" or "when traffic in a parking garage reaches a certain level, turn the overhead lighting on or off".
- Optimized products apply algorithms and analytics to in-use or historical data to improve output, utilization, and efficiency. Real-time monitoring data on product condition and product control capability enables firms to optimize service.
- Autonomous product like are able to learn about their environment, self-diagnose their own service needs, and adapt to users' preferences.
Smart, connected products expand opportunities for product differentiation
In a world where Geoffrey Moore sees differentiated products constantly being commoditized; smart, connected products dramatically expand opportunities for product differentiation and move the competition away from price alone. Knowing how customers actually use your products enhances a company's ability to segment customers, customize products, set prices to better capture value, and extend value-added services. Smart, connected products, at the same time, create opportunities to broaden the value proposition beyond products per se, to include valuable data and enhanced service offerings. Broadening product definitions can raise barriers to entrants even higher. The powerful capabilities of smart, connected products not only reshape competition within an industry, but they can expand the very definition of the industry itself. For example, integrating smart, connected farm equipment—such as tractors, tillers, and planters—can enable better overall equipment performance.
Smart, connected products will not only reshape competition within an industry, but they can expand the very definition of the industry itself. Here Porter and Hepplemann are talking here about the competitive boundaries of an industry widen to encompass a set of related products that together meet a broader underlying need. The function of one product is optimized with other related products.
Porter and Hepplemann believe that smart, connected products allow as well companies to form new kinds of relationships with their customers. In many cases, this may require market participants to develop new marketing practices and skill sets. As companies accumulate and analyze product usage data, they will as well gain new insights into how products create value for customers, allowing better positioning of offerings and more effective communication of product value to customers. Using data analytics tools, firms will be able segment their markets in more-sophisticated ways, tailor product and service bundles that deliver greater value to each segment, and price those bundles to capture more of that value.
Some parting thoughts
So summarizing their position, Porter and Hepplemann believe the IoT is really about taking smart things and building solutions that solve bigger problems because one can architect the piece parts into a solution of solutions. This will impact marketplace dynamics and create competitive differentiators in a world of increasing product commodization. For me this is a roadmap forward especially for those at the later stages of product lifecycle curve.
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Competing on Analytics: A Follow Up to Thomas H. Davenport's Post in HBR
If you ask a CIO today about the importance of data to their enterprises, they will likely tell you about the need to "compete on analytics" and to enable faster business decisions. At the same time, CIOs believe they "need to provide the intelligence to make better business decisions". One CIO said it was in fact their personal goal to get the business to a new place faster, to enable them to derive new business insights, and to get to the gold at the end of the rainbow".
Similarly, another CIO said that Big Data and Analytics were her highest priorities. "We have so much knowledge locked up in the data, it is just huge. We need the data cleaning and analytics to pull this knowledge out of data". At the same time the CIOs that we talked to see their organizations as "entering an era of ubiquitous computing where users want all data on any device when they need it."
Why does faster, better data really matters to the enterprise?
So why does it matter? Thomas H. Davenport says, "at a time when firms in many industries offer similar products and use comparable technologies, business processes are among the last remaining points of differentiation." A CIO that we have talked to concurred in saying, "today, we need to move from "management by exception to management by observation". Derick Abell amplified upon this idea when he said in his book Managing with Dual Strategies "for control to be effective, data must be timely and provided at intervals that allow effective intervention".
Davenport explains why timely data matters in this way "analytics competitors wring every last drop of value from those processes". Given this, "they know what products their customers want, but they also know what prices those customers will pay, how many items each will buy in a lifetime, and what triggers will make people buy more. Like other companies, they know compensation costs and turnover rates, but they can also calculate how much personnel contribute to or detract from the bottom line and how salary levels relate to individuals' performance. Like other companies, they know when inventories are running low, but they can also predict problems with demand and supply chains, to achieve low rates of inventory and high rates of perfect orders".
What then prevents businesses from competing on analytics?
Moving to what Davenport imagines requires not just a visualizing tool. It involves fixing what is allying IT's systems. One CIO suggested this process can be thought of like an athlete building the muscles they need to compete. He said that businesses really need the same thing. In his eyes, data cleaning, data security, data governance, and master data management represent the muscles to compete effectively on analytics. Unless you do these things, you cannot truly compete on analytics. At UMASS Memorial Health, for example, they "had four independent patient registration systems supporting the operations of their health system, with each of these having its own means of identifying patients, assigning medical record numbers, and recording patient care and encounter information". As a result, "UMass lacked an accurate, reliable, and trustworthy picture of how many unique patients were being treated by its health system. In order to fix things, UMASS needed to "resolve patient, provider and encounter data quality problems across 11 source systems to allow aggregation and analysis of data". Prior to fixing its data management system, this meant that "UMass lacked a top-down, comprehensive view of clinical and financial performance across its extended healthcare enterprise".
UMASS demonstrates how IT needs to fix their data management in order to improve their organization's information intelligence and drive real and substantial business advantage. Fixing data management clearly involves delivering the good data that business users can safely use to make business decisions. It, also, involves ensuring that data created is protected. CFOs that we have talked to say Target was a watershed event for them—something that they expect will receive more and more auditing attention.
Once our data is good and safe, we need to connect current data sources and new data sources. And this needs to not take as long as it did in the past. The delivery of data needs to happen fast enough that business problems can be recognized as they occur and be solved before they become systemic. For this reason, users need to get access to data when and where they it is needed.
With data management fixed, data intelligence is needed so that business users can make sense out of things faster. Business users need to be able to search and find data. They need self-service so they can combine existing and new unstructured data sources to test data interrelationship hypothesis. This means the ability to assemble data from different sources at different times. Simply put this is all about data orchestration without having any preconceived process. And lastly, they need the intelligence to automatically sense and respond to changes as new data becomes collected.
Some parting thoughts
The next question may be whether competing upon data actual pay business dividends. Alvin Toffler says "Tiny insights can yield huge outputs". In other words, the payoff can be huge. And those that do so will increasingly have the "right to win" against their competitors as you use information to wring every last drop of value from your business processes.
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After a very sparse breakfast, even for Iranian standards, I take a short walk to the Falak-ol-Aflak castle, which sits on a hill in the middle of the city.
It is not very photogenic on the inside. There is just too much dodgy plumbing, wiring, lighting, and air conditioning marring the historic walls. The castle does however have a very nice museum. Especially the section about the Nomads of Lorestan is very informative and has signs in English as well. Back outside I reckon its clean your toxic chemicals bottles day.
I first thought the guy is just going to dump them into the sewer. I get on one of the castle towers to have a view of the city
In the afternoon I give the bike some TLC and take a ride to the ruins of the Shapuri bridge
Just before taking the above picture I get rear ended by a little kid on a 50cc. Its on a field in the middle of nowhere with nobody else around. How he managed that is beyond me. He just bends my license plate and breaks his blinker off and gets a crash course in English swear words.
After yesterdays dining disaster I look for a different restaurant and come a across this one:
Its not what you think. Its a Mashaal and its even worse than the other other restaurant with the double arch.
On my way back I walk past a spooky playground
Im afraid that Khorramabad will not make my list of favorite cities. It has so many things going for it: A nice setting surrounded by mountains, rivers running through it and enough ruins in the city and sprinkled around it to make it interesting. However, the rivers have been turned into smelly sewers filled with garbage that everyone just drops wherever they go, the traffic and pollution is of course horrendous too.
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The Greenhouse is a locally known eatery that has marvelous service and great food. \r \r The other two reviews here are way off the mark. \r \r No-I don't work for them or know the owners personally. I have lived in TC all my life and…
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The Green House Cafe has a good breakfast, but the sandwiches at lunch were nothing special. For lunch I would try the soups or the baked goods. It is walking distance from downtown
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Luna Gold Announces Completion of Secured Credit Facility05:30 EDT Monday, March 11, 2013VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - March 11, 2013) -Luna Gold Corp. (TSX:LGC)(OTCQX:LGCUF)(LMA:LGC) ("Luna" or the "Company") is pleased to report that the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary Aurizona Goldfields Corporation, has closed its previously announced US$30 million corporate secured revolving facility (the "Corporate Facility") with Société Générale (Canada Branch) and Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. The Corporate Facility has replaced the Company's WestLB debt facilities and will provide funding for general corporate purposes. John Blake, Luna's President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "Funding of our Corporate Facility contributes towards Luna being well capitalized to complete the Aurizona Phase I Expansion Project in 2013." Refer to the Company's press release dated February 18, 2013 for additional information with respect to the Corporate Facility. About Luna Gold Corp.Luna is a gold production company engaged in the operation, discovery, and development of gold deposits and advanced stage gold exploration projects in Brazil. On behalf of the Board of DirectorsLUNA GOLD CORP. John Blake, President and CEOForward-Looking StatementsThis release contains certain "forward looking statements" and certain "forward looking information" as defined under applicable Canadian and U.S. securities laws. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "plans" or similar terminology. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to future gold production and/or the results of analysis on gold production. Forward-looking statements are based on forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determinable and assumptions that while believed by management to be reasonable, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. Forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties concerning the specific factors identified in Luna Gold Corp.'s periodic filings with Canadian Securities Regulators. These factors include the inherent risks involved in the exploration and development of mineral properties, the uncertainties involved in interpreting drill results and other exploration data, the potential for delays in exploration or development activities, the geology, grade and continuity of mineral deposits, the possibility that future exploration, development or mining results will not be consistent with the Company's expectations, accidents, equipment breakdowns, title matters, labor disputes or other unanticipated difficulties with or interruptions in production and operations, fluctuating metal prices, unanticipated costs and expenses, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, the inherent uncertainty of production and cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and expenses, commodity price fluctuations, currency fluctuations, regulatory restrictions, including environmental regulatory restrictions and liability, competition, loss of key employees, and other related risks and uncertainties. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking information except as required by applicable law. Such forward-looking information represents management's best judgment based on information currently available. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed and actual future results may vary materially. Accordingly, readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information.FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Contact Information: Luna Gold Corp.Investor Relations(604) 568-7993www.lunagold.com