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For what it is worth, I sent an email to the IFRA regarding my feelings about Oakmoss specifically and limitations or prohibitions of alleged alergins in fragrance. It may do no good but, wrongs continue if good persons fail to act. I would encourage you all to write an email as well suggesting discalimers rather than bans. Below is a copy of what I sent. If you google IFRA and go to thier web site you can send an email directly.
Gentlemen: As a long time purchaser of fragrance products I must say that I am greatly dismayed by some of the reductions or banning of some substances which are vital to the very essence of certain genres of fragrance. I would like to know why Oakmoss, for example, is, after decades of use, suddenly so dangerous to the public. Good science does not a good substitute make for the informed right of choice on the part of the fragrance purchaser. If you must protect us use disclaimers as does the pharmaceutical industry regarding possible side effects. Your edicts would eliminate scents as the public has come to know them. If Oakmoss causes more than a rash I would like to see the scientific evidence. I am convinced that the effect on the fragrance industry and the purchasing public is disproportionate to industries where allergans are concerned.
Last edited by N_Tesla; 3rd June 2010 at 04:03 AM.
Amen! Cigarettes and alcohol are far more dangerous than oakmoss and no one is trying to ban either. If oakmoss had a huge lobby and legions of lawyers, everything would be different.
Good on ya ,D !
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It's not just oakmoss ,it's jasmine too, amongst others too. But you know, I don't think the people who decide all this ,care what we think or say.
My two cents, there are worse things going on in this world right now ,like the oil spill ,which is still spewing, as I type. What on earth ( literally ) does oakmoss ,jasmine etc matter in perfumes......??
i mean , the IFRA "have their knickers in a twist".
Last edited by Mimi Gardenia; 3rd June 2010 at 05:47 AM.
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I applaud your initiative, N Tesla, and will follow suit, as I hope all BNers will.
And the science? It's all the IFRA's science. They do their own in-house research and then fund a panel of experts to review the data. Amusingly, the standard suggested by the IFRA is almost always the one the experts come to agree on.
I am afraid even tons of e-mail protests wouldn't cause more than a few amused smiles within the billion dollar global cartel.
And yet - one up for initiative, Tesla!
Last edited by narcus; 3rd June 2010 at 06:13 AM.
'Il mondo dei profumi è un universo senza limiti: una fraganza puo rievocare sensazioni, luoghi, persone o ancora condurre in uno spazio di nuove dimensioni emozionali' L. V.
Re. oakmoss- for interest's sake...
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What about sulfates in wines? Will they take all wines off the market? How silly and narrow is this?
"No elegance is possible without it...perfume is a part of you." Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Why can't we do some "fragrance activism"?
I don't know if you can provide us with IFRA'S e-mail addres, but you might as well send it to me via PM so I can send them an e mail.
I can't imagine them having any objection to receiving emails from the concerned public.
Stephen Weller, IFRA Director of Communications:
[email protected]
Mattias Vey, IFRA Science Director:
[email protected]
Please be polite as possible, these good people can help us a great deal.
But a few questions that are worth posing:
-Why does the IFRA target essential perfume ingredients (oakmoss, jasmine etc.) for review and restriction while placing no limits on hazardous chemicals that appear in their members' products? (strychnidin, xylene, ethylene glycol etc.)
- Do the companies who produce the synthetics used to replace naturals have a conflict of interest when voting? What about the executive officers of the IFRA who are also employees of these same companies?
-Doesn't the allocation of votes based on the percent of the IFRA's budget the company supplies amount to private "pay-to-play" politics?
- The Melissa Oil ban was reversed; the three unpublished studies cited in establishing the ban were later revealed to contain no evidence of adverse human reactions. Why did the IFRA fund testing only to ignore the data? Why aren't these studies available for public review in case of a similar occurrence?
-Why is the IFRA Swiss headquarters inside of Givaudan's (major fragrance manufacturer and IFRA vote holder) Geneva offices?
-IFRA standards have marred or destroyed many of the artistically significant fragrances. That's not a question just a solid bone to pick.
And we could go on and on . . .
Zizanioides- fantastic questions and thanks for the email addresses too.
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I think some "fragrance activism" is more than appropriate. I would encourage all Base Notes members to write to the IFRA in order to have our voices heard. The greatest mistake we can make is to assume that our efforts will come to naught and thereby sit, complain to ourselves and do nothing. Apathy is our worst enemy. If the IFRA receive enough emails it will have an effect. Please take a few moments and send the IFRA an email.
Last edited by N_Tesla; 4th June 2010 at 08:54 AM.
I would also suggest flooding the brands with letters about reformulations. The only thing that would get IFRA members to stand up is customer dissatisfaction.
Stephen Weller, whom I met and interviewed, is well aware of the point of view of the online perfume community. In an open letter to Perfumer & Flavourist, I conveyed our concerns and suggested that the industry leverage our enthusiasm and knowledge to convey positive messaging about fragrance, to counteract the negative campaigns that scare them so...
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I have bombarded companies with emails but sometimes they don't reply. Chanel is one of those. P & G for Jean Patou was surprisingly one of the good ones who replied twice ,researched my questions re. Joyand took my concerns seriously. I really felt likethey were interested.
Guerlain- well- they just give you standard issue replies most of the time . I write about reformulation issues etc and Ms Rousseau replies about how wonderful their customer service is ,how they value their customer and how to apply perfume !
Last edited by Mimi Gardenia; 4th June 2010 at 02:15 PM.
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Carmencanada, your Perfumer&Flavorist editorial was just terrific and I commend you on your efforts. Did you ever receive any replies from within the industry? My gut feeling is that you did not, and for the same reasons you and others suggest. Their attempts to corner the market on perfume ingredients by monopolizing the access and availability of them, with their boots firmly planted on the necks of the dependent, smaller essential oil businesses, is something that must be stopped.
These divide-and-conquer tactics have been used by all the power-mad groups in history: religions, mafia, nazis, pharmaceutical companies, and now most of the larger corporations throughout the world. Yes, it may sound a tad alarmist, but the truth is the truth, and it is sometimes too horrifying to want to really believe. But facts are facts. We all are becoming more and more aware of the dangers that self-regulation in Corporatism can have on our societies. The individual may still have some leverage, but it must be large-scale to have any effect.
It always starts with small things, doesn't it. First this, then that, then it escalates into a trend. I hope that we can garner more individual effort to do just as N Tesla has suggested, and continue to battle this pervasive devouring of independence. With little bites, they slowly consume our ability to have free choice in so many venues...lets not let them take over EVERY aspect of the fragrance industry too!
Pollux; Here is the web address where you can leave email to the IFRA.
I have not received a response to my email. If anyone else who sends the IFRA a message receives a reply please consider posting it.
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We're mad as hell and we're not going to take this anymore!
See my blog; http://www.basenotes.net/blogs/2645-kumquat
Financial Times article criticizing the IFRA. Hooray public exposure!
Thanks for sharing this Zizanoides!
With the new 43rd amendment regulations taking place this year, does anyone know if any additional reformulations have hit major fragrances since the beginning of the year? I.e., I know Mitsouko was reformulated in 2007, but will it be reformulated again this year?
It's hard to say. Sometimes reformulations will take place even before the amendments are publicly announced while other companies will hold off as long as possible. Sometimes this works out very well as in the case of Oakmoss, who's implementation date for existing formulas has been rolled back 3(?) times and is now set somewhere in 2011. Sadly, unless you find changes on the allergen listing on the back of the box or shell out the cash for a GC/MS analysis you can't say for certain.
Thanks for the great article Zizanioides - great reading. I hope ,if anything, reformulations will happen to include 'new' oakmoss- one that complies with the IFRA .
There is oakmoss now available that complies I believe.... http://www.perfumerflavorist.com/fra.../90265777.html
I posted this earlier - this gives me hope ! I hope Guerlain can reformulate to add this kind of oakmoss ??
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I got a reply from Stephen Weller who seems like a nice guy, to be honest.
"Thank you for your email. I understand your frustration at the reformulations and the fact that some ingredients, old favourites, have been banned or restricted.
The problem we have is that regulators have to do what their political leaders tell them through legislation. Over the past 30 to 40 years there has been a constant political and societal push to eliminate as much risk from peoples lives as possible. Allergic reactions to various materials are on the increase all over the world. However, allergic reactions to fragrances are on the decrease thanks largely to the industry getting together and developing its own set of Standards to ensure the safety of their products. As an industry we are consequently in a much better position than had we done nothing regarding potentially sensitizing materials being used. The entire industry could have been banned and there are still NGOs and political organisations who are campaigning for this.
It gives us no pleasure to ban or retsrict materials and we spend a great deal of time, effort and money to assess materials and indeed defend many of them. However, if the science clearly shows a material as being a sensitizer, we have to react or the authorities will. By restricting and monitoring materials we have managed to keep many in use and avoid authiorities simply banning them outright.
We do our best to keep the perfumer's pallette as large as possible, but we also have to balance the needs of society and the regulators.
I hope this explanation of our activities and intentions has helped clarify our role for you."
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Thanks a lot, Mimi! Good to see a response, I'll post anything I get back.
And I agree, Mr. Weller is a nice guy as I'm sure everyone is at the IFRA. It's important to remember not to vilify them as an evil organization (not that anyone was! but I like to remind myself) but a association founded with genuinely good intentions. The issue is the structuring of internal legislation and decision making and a Gordian interweaving with the corporate members, raising serious doubts about neutrality and producing bizarre results.
"However, if the science clearly shows a material as being a sensitizer, we have to react or the authorities will. By restricting and monitoring materials we have managed to keep many in use and avoid authiorities simply banning them outright."
There are many, many sensitizers and allergens in IFRA member products which are not regulated by that organization.
Possible Allergens: Soy, Peanut Oil, Milk, Egg protein, (these are more common as oral allergens but skin reactions do occur, I assume these go into the cream-type products but it's anyone's guess), propylene glycol and associated chemicals
Skin Irritants: Oxalic Acid and Tartaric acid (the chemical sting in nettles), Formic Acid (skin irritant found in fire ant and other insect bites), Valeric acid, Crotonaldehyde, Urea (chief component of urine, yum!), Resins: oleo-capsicum and paprika,
Solvents: Turpentine, Xylene, Ethylene glycol (Anti-freeze), Petroleum ether, Naptha
Bizarre/Dangerous Ingredients: Brucine (strychnine relative, symptoms of poisoning start at 2mg dose), Piperidine (PCP precursor)*
. . .and these are just the ones I had written down from earlier, the list just goes on and on.
Do these chemicals appear in concentrations that pose a risk to perfume user? Doubt it, but I'd believe that chili pepper and urine are much worse for your skin than oak moss. *steps off of soap box*
*All ingredients from the IFRA January report
Last edited by Zizanioides; 7th June 2010 at 10:15 PM.
Off-topic, but urea's actually great for your skin - it's an ingredient in a lot of therapeutic lotions for dry or sensitive skin for that very reason. Gross, however, if you think about it.
I just have not heard about a wave of oakmoss-related death and destruction ... the stuff has been used in fragrances for around 100 years, hasn't it? Wouldn't we have noticed people keeling over before now?
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Lovely activism guys!
If I may, I would like to play the Devil's advocate just a little: you've got to think that IFRA has a lot on their plate because they're getting harassed from two directions. There are the perfumistas (us). But there are also the (particularly North American) NGOs, such as the EWG who publish hysterical manifestos about 'the secret chemicals in perfumes' despite there being a fully public list on IFRA's website of everything used in perfumes today.
The raison d'etre for IFRA is to become law in the representative countries and thus bypass official government regulation. I can imagine this would raise suspicion on both sides.
What would be the better solution?
I think my biggest current frustration with all of this is the lack of proper care with the science and funding of certain projects. Some materials aren't deemed worth the effort of either, which can mean a meaningless restriction or a ban.
My thoughts on this, from The Male Fragrance Forum in the thread entitled
" How IFRA and the EU continue to destroy the art of perfumery. "
1. Do you have any idea how much a crate of Oakmoss costs these days?
2. You try to take control of your life only to find it's controlled for you by petty bureaucracy
3. There has to be something more to life than just being safe.
4. We're not all stupid. We don't all need nursemaiding.
I mean, if I lightly sprayed Bois du Portugal and had asthmatics pass out whenever I entered an elevator I think I wold get the idea.
( I probably wore A*Men by mistake )
When did life become so dangerous, anyway?
The OP article shows that the "science" is questionable:
Toxicological testing requirements for cosmetics are not specified, although the SCC(NF)P / SCCS expert committee offers opinions "
( Why, Oh why, did they not have rats sprayed with Patou PH vs Axe? )
You know, if I developed acute contact dermatitis by wearing Curve I'd probably conclude that, gee I'm allergic to Curve and shouldn't wear it, or that C.G. Jung's Collective Unconscious is telling me: " For God's sake! Get a bit of class . . ."
Has anyone tried getting drunk by drinking a bottle of Chanel # 5?
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I am allergic to dairy products. I appreciate a label of food items that says CONTAINS MILK. It is helpful to me, as in many cases milk is not an obvious ingredient. It is a sufficient solution for me. I am not lobbying to have milk (or any other food allergen) removed.
Am I being reasonable or am I insensitive to the sensitivity of the sensitizers?
So one has to wonder: why hasn't the fragrance industry gone in the same direction as food allergy labelling? This would provide consumers the choice between 'may contain nuts' or 'free-from' type ranges which could be created in fine fragrance lines too.
There are some ingredients that simply aren't sensible, even with labelling (say bergamot oil containing furanocoumarins - might as well take those out since we can these days). But many, MANY of the restrictions are merely recommendations, and a lot of the allergen science is more than a bit iffy. Especially since a lot of it relies on animal testing.
I have this suspicion that the situation actually is not quite as we perceive as 'perfumistas'.
It's not 'perfumistas' versus 'the industry'. It's actually the anti-perfume lobbyists versus the industry. The chemical-illiterati, over-zealous hysteria-generating general public that currently makes the most noise. The industry seems to be responding to that. They seem to have IFRA on the back-foot.
So maybe the real solution would be us (the perfumistas) to join forces with IFRA and start a massive campaign to get some scent sense in the world. Maybe?
I don't know. The way it's currently heading with jasmine being strangulated and all that other jazz; it's no fun for anyone.
Also, I would suspect that we don't even have a consensus position within the 'perfumista community'. Perhaps a discussion in a fresh thread on what IFRA should do (if anything) is in order. I would like to see the diversity of opinions out there.
From an interview with Stephen Weller on mimifrou.com: "However, not all consumers read labels or indeed understand the information on the label.
Therefore, IFRA Standards are needed to help reduce the incidents of sensitisation to certain materials. Experience shows that labelling alone does not have the desired effect."
A major issue with this opposition to labeling is it forces member companies into a precarious position. Warning labels exist to protect the consumer and the manufacturer. If someone had an adverse reaction, perfume companies are entirely naked to "failure to warn" suits, a kind of product defect tort where a company is liable for any foreseeable dangers they didn't proclaim. It's one of the reasons everything in the U.S. from pillows to candy bars comes with a disclaimer concerning relevant threats. If perfumes were a significant source of consumer harm (or any real source) every manufacturer would make the ingredients a matter of public record to prevent legal suicide, just like food manufacturers. Just how real is the threat of perfumes if companies can't be bothered to take basic steps in protecting themselves?*
-Disclosing relevant information is simple via the internet, Proctor and Gamble have an entire site devoted to the ingredients of their products and companies aren't liable to make you understand the information, just to present it.
It could be a matter of trade secrets but, as Burr explains, competitors are the first to analyze new releases hence the only people who don't know the ingredients are the general public, the ones least likely to exploit them and most likely to be harmed. The outline of Coca-Cola's recipe, one of the most valuable trade secrets in the world, is printed on every can and no one has run them out of business yet. So why doesn't it work for perfume?
*(From Hafner v. Guerlain "Evidence at the trial indicated that of some 270,000 sales of the perfume in 1963, there were only 25 complaints received." And this is back in the golden age of nitro-musks. If anyone has statistics on the number of perfume complaints/lawsuits each year I'd love to see them)
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I can only speculate that the majority of fragrance manufacturers fear loss of sales and marketing 'magic' more than they fear a couple of law suits...
If one declared the full ingredients list of a perfume, it wouldn't make any sense to a typical consumer. It would look frightening and unnatural. This would probably lead to lost sales generally - and especially in the chemophobic contingent.
There is a huge failure by the general public to understand the basic concept that everything is made up of chemicals. Plants are giant chemical factories. Humans are too. Etc, etc. It's absolutely no good separating natural and synthetic chemicals - they're all just chemicals from a toxicological viewpoint.
Additionally, the marketing copy of 'gardenia notes' and the like would look even more fake than it does today because you could quickly see what has actually gone into the juice. Even the natural materials would look scary because of all the allergens they contain.
I certainly don't think it would be necessary to declare percentages (thereby giving away the whole formula which is certainly not at the best interest of the manufacturer!). However, I have pondered about the pros and cons about declaring all of the ingredients. My personal opinion is that until we somehow manage to tackle the unjustified hysteria about 'evil chemicals' overall, declaring the whole list of ingredients is not the right solution - not yet. Going towards the direction of 'buyer beware' and adopting a system akin to food allergy labelling - that would be great. It would seem the next logical step from the EU regulation of having to declare allergens on the label already.
I'm not sure there's a great deal we can do against the 'evil chemicals' camp and I'm skeptical how much of a role they play in shaping IFRA policy. For one, most of their invective is confined to attacking secondary perfume ingredients (UV-blockers, solvents, stabilizers) and the now demonized DEP and other phthalates. In the much publicized report from EWG, "Not So Sexy: The The Health Risks of Secret Chemicals in Fragrance", http://www.ewg.org/files/SafeCosmetics_FragranceRpt.pdf there is a single mention of oak moss and an entire section devoted to phthalates, one of the few ingredients the IFRA spoke out in defense of. In my limited research, most of these groups don't really care that much about the majority of IFRA restrictions or advocate restrictions on the beloved natural ingredients.
scentsitivity, I'd be happy to engage in that thread.
Discussing the IFRA's negative impact on we the consumers is good but, how many of you actually sent an email outlining your displeasure as consumers? There is an old saying " if your not part of the solution then you are part of the problem." Consumer pressure does work but only if apathy takes a back seat.
I think Stephen Weller is very happy to comunicate with parfumistas so we should at least tell him how we feel . Nothing to lose that is not already lost.
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'Il mondo dei profumi è un universo senza limiti: una fraganza puo rievocare sensazioni, luoghi, persone o ancora condurre in uno spazio di nuove dimensioni emozionali' L. V.
A personal note: have just experienced contact dermatitis from using a niche perfume sample. Had the same reaction years ago from a now-defunct Helena Rubinstein scent. The solution? I've used a mild cortisone cream and the rash is now subsiding.
This is an idiosyncratic reaction of my skin to some perfume ingredient and not a cause for banning it. I don't know which ingredient specifically sparked the reaction, but it doesn't matter. I won't be using either of those scents again, but I hope the niche perfume is going to be around for years to come, as it was a great scent and most people don't get reaction.
My point? What's a little rash on the wrist compared to the risk of losing forever our great perfumes? Nothing at all!
And incidentally, I've tried a number of "wet wipes" and found I got a really bad reaction from all of them, but there's nothing on the labels to indicate any potential problem.
So why focus on the very minor issues around certain perfume ingredients, and why ban them when most people are fine with them?
I'll be e-mailing Mr. Weller to make these points. Thank you for posting the address.


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The Patriots beat the Ravens last night, and did so more handedly than anyone could have imagined. The Patriots dominated the Ravens. They held them scoreless for nearly three and a half quarters. Even if the 41-7 final score was a bit deceiving, New England still went wire-to-wire, on the road, against a team that had won four straight games and desperately needed a fifth. And now, for the 10th time in the last 11 years, the Pats are AFC East Champs. They're back in the postseason. The only question is how far they'll go. Or for now, more specifically . . .
What did yesterday's win tells us about how far they'll go?
You know, the worst thing you can say in a column like this is nothing at all. But sometimes, saying nothing is actually saying something. I think. Let's just go with that. It's better than the alternative.
The alternative is what has happened from week to week this season and pretty much every season before it. It's the fallout from games like Carolina and Denver and Cleveland and last week in Miami, when individual wins and losses leave us feeling like something has to be said. Something grand. Something absolute.
The Pats lose to the Panthers, and they just don't have it. They beat the Broncos and sky's the limit. They beat the Browns, but lose Gronk and now the season's over. They lose to the Dolphins and erase any doubt.
That's life in the NFL. Back and forth. Up and down. The future is always crystal clear between Tuesday and Saturday, and then Sunday comes along and smashes crystal clear over the head with a bat. It alters perception, and therefore reality. And in turn, we all scramble to adjust . . . just in time for the next Sunday . . . just in time for everything to change again.
The truth is that it's hard to walk away from yesterday's Patriots win without feeling better than you did walking in. Obviously. But that's relative to perception. After Gronk and Miami and the way the Ravens were rolling, the consensus was that the Pats had been through too much and had taken one too many hits. Or more like two or three or four too many hits. Either way, they were walking into a buzz saw in Baltimore. Limping into a buzz saw. They'd been defeated by the war of NFL attrition while the Ravens were hitting their stride at the perfect time.
Sunday proved all that moot.
The narrative was so real, though. We believed it. I did. But today, it's miles away. Now, the upstart Ravens appear more likely to fall on their face next week in Cincinnati than they do to make any noise in the playoffs. And suddenly, the Patriots are reborn. At the very least, they're back in the conversation.
Even if it wasn't their most dominant offensive performance, there was a beautiful December balance between pass (36) and run (24), and a balance within the run, between LeGarette Blount (16 carries) and Stevan Ridley (15). The makeshift offensive line stepped up provided Brady enough time and opened lanes on the ground. The Pats were also three for three in the red zone. They won the turnover battle and the time of possession battle and committed fewer penalties for fewer yards.
On defense, what can you say? Sure, in retrospect, maybe the Ravens were a good match-up. The Pats are weakest against the run, and Baltimore has just about the worst run attack in the NFL. So maybe it shouldn't be a surprise that New England swallowed up Ray Rice and Bernard Pierce. But what they did to Flacco, Torrey Smith and the Ravens air attack garners nothing but optimism. It's a credit to Bill Belichick, and a reminder that as much as haters love to hate, the guy can still spin a game plan. It leaves you feeling much better this morning — potential injuries to Shane Vereen and DevinMcCourty aside — than you ever imagined you would.
Are the Patriots going to win the Super Bowl?
It would take a lot of faith and blind optimism for anyone to say that.
Can they win the Super Bowl?
That's another question entirely. And we can find the answer on the other end of a few other questions.
Can the Patriots beat the Bills next week and lock up a first round bye?
Can the Patriots beat the Bengals or the Chiefs or the Colts at home in the divisional round?
Can they go to Denver in the AFC Championship, and beat the Broncos?
It won't be easy, but the answer is yes. They can. It's within reach.
And then, can they go to New York, under what we can only assume will be frigid conditions, and beat the best of what the NFC has to offer?
Before Sunday, you might have said no. For all the pessimism that surrounded the Pats, but also because the Seahawks sure looked like a powerhouse. Destined for homefield advantage and on the fast track to the Super Bowl. But after watching them lose, at home, to the Cardinals, all bets are off.
So, yes. New England can win the Super Bowl. They're not the favorites. It won't be a shock if they fall short. But to sit here today, after what happened yesterday, and renounce any possibility of the Lombardi trophy making its long-awaited return to New England is just as absurd as the notion of guaranteeing that it will. Saying that the Pats have no chance is a good way to show the world that you have no clue. In reality, the dream is still alive.
But did we really need the Ravens game to revive it?
Probably not. After all, the only thing that matters is getting into the playoffs. And thanks to the Dolphins, the Pats were in before they even took the field in Baltimore. Truth is that they could have lost 41-7 last night. They could have found themselves in a position where they had to play Wild Card game. Where they had to travel TO Cincy for the divisional round. Even then, you could have gone through that "Can they win the Super Bowl?" checklist and said "yes" at every turn.
As we learned after Carolina and Denver and Miami, one win or loss doesn't say anything about the big picture. Nothing absolute. Nothing that can't change completely the very next week. But now, thanks to Sunday, one thing is very much set in stone. The Pats season won't end with the regular season. They're back in the playoffs. Very likely three wins from another title.
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- I joked about this on my Twitter account, the message was dead serious: The September employment report will sneak up on you so get prepared -- now. My initial instinct is to gird for a letdown, as gleaned from the employment component in the Empire State and FedEx seeking "further" streamlining. What I am attempting to figure out Wednesday is whether the market is starting to price in another subpar jobs report, and then to interpret it as saying the Fed's third round of quantitative easing -- a.k.a. QE-Infinity -- will have limited short-term impact. If so, this is a big win for the bears, seeing as fiscal-cliff worries and the international stories will then get reiterated with greater authority.
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The Philippine Stock Exchange has approved the planned initial public offering (IPO) of microfinance firm AG Finance Inc. worth about P149.76 million.
Based on the offering memorandum posted by the PSE on Thursday, AG Finance—which provides microfinance and consumer loans—plans to offer up to 68.07 million primary common shares at a price range of P1.91 and P2.20 per share.
The offer price is expected to be finalized Friday while the offering to the public will run from July 30 to Aug. 5. The stock trading debut on the PSE's main board is targeted for Aug. 13.
The planned IPO will bring to public hands 26 percent of the company's ownership. The company is led by the King family.
Acting as issue manager and lead underwriter is Banco de Oro Unibank's investment banking unit, BDO Capital & Investment Corp.
Proceeds from the offering are meant to finance the company's professional and skilled overseas Filipino worker (OFW) loan portfolio expansion program. About P47 million is targeted for additional disbursement this year and in 2014. Portion of the IPO proceeds will also be used to repay outstanding loans with China Bank amounting to P37 million, which is falling due this month.
As of the end of March this year, AG Finance had P280.9 million in loans and receivables and P344 million in assets. It has an authorized capital stock of P550 million.
The microfinance firm was established in 2011 to provide short-term, unsecured credit facilities to permanent rank-and-file employees of reputable medium-sized companies in the Philippines.
In 2003, AG Finance expanded its market coverage to include professionals and skilled workers in North America and the Middle East.
AG Finance has since established operations in 20 countries targeting overseas Filipinos. It is currently focused on Australia, Canada and Middle East. It has 4,000 active borrowers.
The microfinance firm provides salary and emergency loans amounting to P10,000 to P50,000 payable over 12 months via salary deduction arrangements.
Loans to overseas Filipinos amount to P50,000 payable over 12 to 18 months via post-dated checks.—Doris C. Dumlao
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An acquaintance from Los Angeles recently sent me a video of the Jan. 9, 1972, game in which the Milwaukee Bucks broke the Lakers' 33-game winning streak. It's good viewing on a lot of levels, from ABC's chintzy set to the 35-year-old commercials to the splendor of Kareem and Wilt and Oscar and West going at it in the Arena.
Coincidentally, ESPN Classic just replayed Game 6 of the 1974 NBA Finals-one of the all-time great games, really-in which Abdul-Jabbar floated that majestic sky-hook in double overtime to beat Boston in the Garden.
Sometimes, we are a little too willing to allow the allure of nostalgia to become favorably filtered through the prism of time. Sometimes, the good, old days weren't really the good, old days. Yet with the exception of some fine runs in the '80s and the irregular blip of the 2001 season, that's been pretty much it for the Bucks.
Here we are, more than three decades later, and what do they possibly have to sell that would make you want to buy them for 2007-'08? The return of Bobby Simmons? Full health from Charlie Villanueva? The word "stale" keeps coming to mind, but in a market filled with competing entertainment options, the Bucks are worse than that: They just aren't interesting.
By no means has this all been Herb Kohl's fault. The senator has surrounded himself for years with people in the organization who weren't always capable of dispensing helpful, progressive advice. But there is a way to emerge from the stagnation of the past six years.
It starts next week with the draft. The Bucks could take their misfortune of falling to No. 6 in the lottery and do something bold and dynamic, something worthy of your attention. Something like trading up to get the defense-and-rebounding presence they desperately need, a guy like Al Horford, the 6-foot-10 power forward from Florida who may not be available at No. 6.
There will be immense pressure on general manager Larry Harris. Harris, frankly, is lucky to be back for another season; it was surprising that the senator decided to allow Harris to fulfill his lame-duck year, especially considering Harris has a new coach with a longer contract than his own. He has made some productive moves, but he has also hamstrung the organization by overpaying the injured Simmons and trading for Villanueva.
It would be a monumental task for Harris to move one of the above players, or another one of his mistakes, Dan Gadzuric, in a package to get a rookie who can help the Bucks immediately. But that will be part of his charge if he wants to remain in Milwaukee.
Ohio State point guard Mike Conley Jr. will come in for a workout, presumably as insurance if they can't re-sign Mo Williams. There's really no choice there. They must re-sign Williams and not rely on a rookie point guard; you saw what happened the last time the Bucks drafted a point guard.
And who is Joakim Noah to turn down a workout with the Bucks? That's some arrogance, even if the Bucks aren't his preferred destination. If I'm Harris, I don't want him, anyway. He's not strong enough for their needs. They've already got one Gadzuric on the roster.
The Bucks have a huge opportunity to recreate themselves with the lottery pick, cap room and roster space. Against all odds, they have to get it right this time because the public's patience has an expiration date, even in a very forgiving place like Milwaukee.
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Artur Davis represented Alabama's seventh district in Congress from 2003 to 2010. He routinely was elected with over 90 percent of the vote. A true independent voice, he was one of the few Democrats to vote against Obamacare. The congressman lost the 2010 Democratic primary for governor. A fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics and a former federal prosecutor, Mr. Davis was named one of America's 10 best congressmen by Esquire magazine in 2008. He switched parties and became a Republican earlier this year. To find out more about Mr. Davis' vision, go to: officialarturdavis.com.
Decker: You were a national co-chairman of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and gave one of the speeches nominating him for president at the Democrats' last convention. This year, you gave a rip-roaring address supporting Mitt Romney for president at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Why did you lose faith in President Obama and what about the 2012 Republican ticket gives you hope?
Davis: President Obama ran on two central themes in the fall of 2008: that he would devote his presidency to transcending our political and ideological divisions, and that he would restore the economy to good health. What he has given us is the most relentlessly ideological presidency in my lifetime, a political operation that shamelessly cultivates division, and the most inept economic recovery since the 1930s — one so weak most Americans haven't felt it. The Obama administration has also managed to shift the Democratic Party to a place where it is as intolerant of opposing viewpoints as the Washington establishment routinely imagines Republicans to be.
I believe Mitt Romney brings an important skill to bear: the most extensive record of executive leadership any nominee has had since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. Mr. Romney has a record of unbroken success in managing stubborn, hard-to-bend systems like the notorious bureaucracy in Massachusetts, the byzantine governing structure of the Olympics, and yes, he managed to create a private-equity colossus when that segment of the capital markets was quite new and untested. It may seem novel in a political culture where being the face of a campaign is cited as a leadership skill, but Mr. Romney's track record seems to demonstrate exactly the skills that the next president will need to rein in spending, revive the economy and launch an era of conservative reform.
Decker: You served four terms in Congress as a Democrat and ran for the Democratic nomination for governor of Alabama. What made you decide to cross the aisle and become a Republican this year?
Davis: As a long-standing member of the old center-right in the Democratic Party, I found the party moving inexorably to the left. Among other things, I felt that Democrats were wrong to embrace tax increases during a time of weak business confidence; wrong to coddle an empty-headed movement like Occupy Wall Street; wrong to resist meaningful entitlement reform; wrong in their overhaul of health care; wrong in their enthusiasm for overregulation and mandates; and way too hostile to any worldview that doesn't suit the Democratic orthodoxy on same-sex marriage or abortion on demand.
Decker: You bravely bucked Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic House leadership to vote against Obamacare. Why did you do that, and what do you think should become of that law in the future? Should it be totally repealed?
Davis: I have been pretty detailed in my reasons for opposing Obamacare: too expensive, too much intrusion in the doctor-patient relationship, too many burdens on small businesses, too much new bureaucracy. The law should be repealed. But having said that, Republicans ought to replace the current law with a workable, market-based framework for extending insurance to the impoverished and for bolstering middle-income families who are saddled with catastrophic costs from illnesses. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this goal without the outsized cost and red tape of the Affordable Care Act, and right-of-center publications like National Affairs have documented them in detail.
Decker: Barack Obama's promise to guide America to a more unified post-racial future has not been fulfilled. In fact, this president has divided the nation to a frightening degree. What do you think needs to be done to heal the racial divide? Is it unfair for me to say the Democratic Party takes the black vote for granted and pursues policies — such as opposition to school choice — that keep many African Americans down?
Davis: The racial divide will fester as long as the left pursues an identity politics of grievance. The left adds to the racial divide every time its politicians or acolytes equate ordinary conservatism with racial intolerance, and link opposition to the Obama administration to racial backlash. The Democratic Party has unwisely distanced itself from policies like parental choice, vouchers and the overhaul of tenure that would have a transformative effect in the lives of black children, and there is an opening for Republicans to appeal to minorities by claiming priorities like education reform in the course of the next decade.
It should be noted that Republicans far more than Democrats are providing a pathway for African-Americas, Latinos and Indian Americans who dare to move beyond being spokespersons for their own communities. Condi Rice, Susanna Martinez, Nikki Haley, Brian Sandoval, Tim Scott, Allen West, Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio: They are a roll call of Americans of color who have won the privilege to speak for more than their own kind, and Mia Love and Ted Cruz will join them this November. In the Democratic Party, with precious few exceptions, minorities are consigned to represent and to speak for their own.
Decker: What are you afraid most endangers America's future, and what needs to be done to address the problem?
Davis: I am more bullish about our future than some doomsayers on both the Right and Left. I have seen America rebound from pitfalls more disturbing than anything we face today - like the near unraveling of our society in the 1960s, the wallop of exploding inflation and interest rates in the late 1970s, the dangerous deterioration of our security in the Carter era, the deception of Vietnam and Watergate, and the horror of 9/11. We have abiding worries, from making our schools competitive enough to compete in a global economy, to maximizing upward mobility, to reversing the momentum toward excessive regulation, but I refuse to see the current state of our country as anything other than America on the verge of finding our way back, and remembering who we are.
Brett M. Decker is editorial page editor of The Washington Times. He is coauthor of the new book "Bowing to Beijing" (Regnery, 2011).


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By Per Ake Persson: September 4, Karlstad, Sweden: Pugnus Promotion staged "Ingo the Champ", the Memorial show in honour of the late Ingemar Johansson tonight at the Lofberg Lila Arena. All fights were fought under the special rules that applies for professional boxing in Sweden, max. distance 12 minutes, 10 ounce gloves worn in all fights. In the main event heavyweight Timur Ibragimov outscored faded former IBF cruiser champ Al Cole over six two-minute rounds. The judges scored the fight 60-55, 59-56 and 59-55..
In the co-headliner Florida-based Swede Attila "the Hun" returned and stopped outclassed Bosnian Adnan Buharalija in the fourth of another six twos. Buharalilja was down twice in the second, once in the third and again in the fourth.
In a big upset Chilean Julio Vargas, 4-16-2, outscored Norwegian superbantam Reidar Walstad, 19-3-2, over four. Vargas hurt and floored Walstad in the first and while Reidar came back later in the fight it wasn´t enough and he lost on scores of 38-37 twice while the third judge had it even at 38-38.
Female welter Anna Ingman won something called the WPBF title with a six-round unanimous decision over Mariem Brakeche.
Supermiddle prospect Badou Jack took apart Vadim Chromich with bodyshots, floored him three times and it was stopped at 2.15 of the third.
Welter Patrick Bogere outscored Konstantin Sakara over four mixing flashy moves with some sloppier.
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SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- A group in Sevierville got a chance to go behind the scenes of the city and other businesses during a tour on Wednesday.
Gotta See Sevierville was created by the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce to give members an inside look at Sevierville.
Wednesday, the group toured Wilderness, and the City of Sevierville greenhouse. They discovered just how the city grows the plants that you see on the side of the road and downtown.
"And of course you go around the City of Sevierville you see the way the landscaping is, the flowers and that just doesn't magically appear there's a lot of hard work behind it," said Jim McGill with the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce.
The tour ended the day with a little time "down on the farm".
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