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Reviews are not personal opinions.
They are , in raw format, essentially descriptions by breaking down notes and then recompiling them of a perfume.
This in itself is not an easy task.
It requires skill and experience.
Thread: a few questions
First, why would three of my reviews never be posted? Is this my technical error?
Second are scents ever OBJECTIVELY good or bad? I mean, if I were using my imagination (and I would have to because I know nothing) I would say a good fragrance would have to be stable (not changing in the bottle, people write of this though I have never experienced it), and should have longevity. But isn't everything else taste?
First question- it's actually difficult to step out of one's own head and think about what they're doing. A review is an evaluation, and that in and of itself can mean many different things. Most importantly, I think what a review requires is relevance. For instance, I once wrote a review about GIT and I included info about batch numbers. My review was not posted. Why? Because it was irrelevant. My info about batch numbers did not address the purpose of trying to provide an analysis of the fragrance. But yeah, it takes a lot of experience (which I often don't have), and probably a lot of expository writing classes lol.
Second- I hate to say it, but it's only a matter of opinion. I know, I know, it's a cliche and derivative answer. But to answer your question with another, do companies make perfumes with the intention of making it smell terrible? No, of course not. So yeah, I guess it's all taste.
The things that make a good perfume are the same as what makes any good art - It has to move the viewer in some way. It has to make the observer stop and think or feel. It's about balance, composition, movement - things that can be qualitatively analyzed.
First of all, my reviews fell so far short of what you are describing, I can easily see why no one posted them, thanks. But your answers about fragrance quality were empty. Can no one else respond? Is there no objective marker of quality in fragrances? After all, every review comes with either a thumbs up or thumbs down.
Yes - I think so. But actually hard to get. An objective review would be very expensive. Fragrance firms invest a lot of money in panel testing. I think this is the most objective way to do this kind of things.
For sure an analysis of 'notes' is rubbish. Notes are a concept of the first half of the 20th century. It simply doesn't apply any more. We have chemicals in use that each cover a whole spectrum of olfactory sensations from spice to leather, from hay to metal, e/g safraleine, helional. And too chemicals having an effect and less more, hedione, Iso E Super. 'Notes' are weird and volatile compositions in themselves. Within an hour of wearing the smell of an artificial rose could morph into jasmine and then into - fish, principally. My 'review' of Scarb pointed to this new possibilities.
With 'notes' nothing is said about a fragrance. At best it's a very rough guideline. I don't trust super noses who might detect every tiny facet in a fragrance. I think the most valuable 'review' could be a comparison to other fragrances. For example ELdO - Je Suis Un Homme against Halston - Z14. Or ELdO - Rien against L.T.Piver - Reve d'Or.
Have fun!
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Breaking down a scent with one's own olfactory system, then recompiling those impressions into language may not be an easy task. But there is no right or wrong. Depending on the audience, a 2 word review may convey more utility than a full page diatribe or idolization.
We all have biases and blind spots.
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I don't judge fragrances by their ingredients: I couldn't detect most of them! I find them nice or not nice!
The above can be said about movies, music, literature, painting, and perfume. A person who's knowledgeable can see things and appreciate things that a newcomer can't. Luca Turin can teach me something about perfume, just like Pauline Kael can teach me about movies. But they can't make me like something I don't like. Good and bad don't really come into it.
I think that what hedonist means is that reviews that simply state "I'd love to wear this in summer" or "I like it a lot" are not helpful when you haven't sampled the fragrance or need a second opinion to contrast your own. "I'd love to wear this in summer": how hot is summer where you live? Is it humid or dry? Are you a person who loves summer and enjoy it outdoors? Do you have patience for thick fragrances in summer? etc. It is all very relative. "I like it a lot": Well, that obviously is no reference point at all.
I have to admit that, like he does, I usually go and look for reviews by certain people, who give historical and objective information in them...
Kurt smells like Teen Spirit
He boiled for our sins.
And Dunez, I'll elaborate:
Perfume X : notes:
Saffron - iris - cardamom - birch tar - rose - styrax - benzoin - sandalwood - vetiver (wow this sounds nice actually lol)
Reviewer A is pretty experienced and clearly detects all notes except rose, benzoin , iris and saffron.
Reviewer B detects all notes except benzoin and sandalwood and is also very experienced
Reviewer C considered the most experienced detects all notes except benzoin and says iris is not very prominent.
Based on these reviews i can conclude that this perfume is not heavy on iris and benzoin is not at all perceptible.
Facts? Yes because they are renown reviewers. Experts in this field. Respected individuals.
Whether these 3 like the perfume or not is irrelevant to me. I'm only after their perception skills.
To draw comparison to another field, a good music critic (is there such a person?) doesn't usually tell you what notes are being played.
This is where it gets subjective. Saying something smells like cherry coke is very subjective. I get no cherry coke in m7 for example.
But it's not subjective when i say, for example, the Oud in Leather Oud by Dior is Oud wood not Oud oil. And when i say that the vetiver in Vetiver by Dior is Haitian vetiver not Indian Ocean. All facts.
Okay, this is much better. My reviews sucked now that I read peoples' remarks, so ignore my question about their not being posted, no one will miss them! So far as opinion blah blah blah, I am not a connoisseur of fragrance, but I am a connoisseur of certain things, and even things I don't like i can say are objectively good or bad, assuming they are not TOO far afield from my tolerances.
Wildthingy makes somes extremely interesting remarks that beg certain questions. for example, do certain notes or effects prompt olfactory fatigue or memory more than others? I remember a shoe I had stepped in human feces and I needed hours or days (I can't remember) to be convinced I gotten every trace out.
Clearly these are some informed responses. But no one has even cited a single criterion of "goodness" like I did, and I am not making too big a deal out of my ideas, I only pose them as discussion points, "stability" and "longevity", feel free to rip these to shreds, but they sound like two good things for a fragrance to have were I to use it.
EDIT: I used a lot of times the word "review", didn't I?
Kurt smells like Teen Spirit
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Reviews which vilify a scent should not be posted, in my opinion, especially the colourful one's like - smells like the fur of a wet ferret in heat - which are just figments of imagination.
Suppose someone put acetone (nail polish remover) in a scent bottle and marketed it as such. Would it be objectively a bad scent?
I would have said yes it was a bad scent up until five years ago - till when I applied Secretions Magnifique to my hand - and I would happily douse myself with acetone in lieu of applying Secretions Magnifique to myself again. And yet some people claim to really like SM. So now I'm not really sure if acetone is an objectively bad scent.
As an aside, I remember when Creed Royal Water came up at a really bargain price on the internet. I read the reviews and ordered it. I received it, sprayed it on my wrist, then called my wife over and said - here's a present for you Dear.
All the reviews except for one had been totally utterly useless. They failed to mention either,
a. that this was an unambiguously feminine scent, or
b. that each reviewer suffered from the common handicap around here, of being unable to distinguish feminine from masculine scents, in the way that 95% of the rest of the population easily can do.
The good thing about reviews is that when you have been here a while, you pick up on who has similar tastes to you in scents, and who doesn't. Then when considering a blind buy, you can increase your probability of success by reading the reviews of people you know share your taste.
I don't post reviews here in the BN directory any longer due to the wait times and limited amount of edits allowed. That makes no sense, because perceptions can change with each wearing, so I'd have to wait about a year before writing up a review, which I'm not going to do because then I'd forget my initial impressions. Go to fragrantica and write a review that appears immediately, and which you can edit all you want, if that's the main thing for you.
For me, frags are "good" or "bad," if they are meant to meet traditional standards, but that is relative, and I can still appreciate a somewhat "bad" frag because I like variety. I'm not always sure if that was the intention of the perfumer, however, so there is "guesswork" involved. The other thing involves how one appreciates the frag. I focus on the drydown and try to ignore top notes. Most people seem focused on the top notes and complain that the frag has poor longevity. Therefore, if you read my reviews you would need to know that, and I have pointed it out often. One crucial point here is that as a newbie I could not tell the difference between "good" and "bad" frags, so if you are not willing to put the time in, I suggest forgetting this idea and just wearing what you like.
"Good" involves balance, ingredient quality, complexity, dynamism, etc., but some frags seem to be purposefully unbalanced, for instance, and many BNers like those kinds of frags. Party frags, for example, are often very strong and sweet, and are meant for a particular social occasion, it seems. Office frags tend to be more balanced, but also boring, at least relatively-speaking. Recent designer frags seem to have been made with social notions in mind, whereas the great vintage ones were not, at least to the degree that today's are. So, I suggest you do a lot of sampling and don't dismiss frags too quickly. In my case, I didn't like frags such as Habit Rouge at first but there was something about them that was compelling, and eventually I was able to appreciate them. On the other hand, many frags I initially enjoyed now strike me as "chemical messes," and I can't wear them any longer.
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In my opinion, there are two types of 'good' basenotes review. They adopt fundamentally different approaches.
The first and older is the sort of review inaugurated by Naed_Nitram, of antique fame. It is not particularly factual at all, but imaginative, subjective and poetical.
The second is the style of foetidus and many others. These reviews are filled with subtle analysis of the scent itself - its notes, perhaps its context and history, a precise record of what they olfactorily perceive, thoughtful comparison to other scents, and so on.
Paradoxically, perhaps, the former sort of review harder to do well, but the latter requires more skills. I enjoy the best of both styles very much, but only remember and muse upon the first sort of review. The analytic reviews, however, have the most weight with me when it comes to potential purchases.
So the consensus is that fragrances' worth is entirely subjective, that there are no objective meters by which one could measure a frag?
You didn't say that consensus opinion was what you sought, so why is it crucial now? With wines, there are people like Robert Parker and there are people who drink the cheapest wine and think it's wonderful. So you really need to think about where you fit in, or where you want to fit in. In the food industry, there is the concept of "spikiness," which is similar to the concept of balance in fragrances. Some people like spiky food (or certain spiky foods) while others don't. As I said, I think you should do a lot of sampling and build up a database in your mind, and then answer this question for yourself !
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Regarding the perfumery 'notes' I'm a heretic and people will ignore me as long as possible. I doubt that 'notes' are a valid language to talk about smell, especially when synthetic materials formerly unknown to nature have to be considered. Former 'niche' firms made their (obvious) fun with it - read the 'notes' for Hilfiger - Thommy Girl (Apple Blossoms ... Butterfly Violets, Desert Jasmin, Cherokee Rose, Magnolia Petals, Dakota Lilies,) or Comme Des Garcons - Odeur 53 and Odeur 71 (hot bulb, photocopier, oxygen ...)! Would any 'reviewer' dare to list those notes? Which hot bulb in particular and how did they extract the oxygen-smell?! And of course ELdO - Secretions Magnifique smells of and like everything which is bad with the human body, spit for instance and foremost: sex!
Since I'm not buying fragrances, I don't read 'reviews' anymore.
Reviews which vilify a scent should not be posted, in my opinion, especially the colourful one's like - smells like the fur of a wet ferret in heat - which are just figments of imagination.'Reviews' are considered advertizing.I agree with this entirely - I want to be inspired, not 'turned off'.
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I am no wine expert, but regarding the parallel with wines and Robert Parker, my understanding is that wines have evolved so that the overall quality of wine has improved, making distinctions increasingly subjective. I wonder if that is the case with fragrances.
I don't think there is a right way or a wrong way to write a review or make a fragrance. Opinions, even silly ones, are always useful to me and, after the first technical reviews breaking down notes, there isn't much need for other reviews along the same lines. I have found the totality of opinion found on Basenotes enormously useful in understanding fragrances.
I am struck, on Basenotes, by the extreme diversity of opinion on the same fragrance. In other aesthetic fields, there is a general consensus, among connoisseurs and experts, on a core of classics and the differences are mostly over the minor details. I don't know why it is different with fragrances.
Two points:
REVIEWS: I use reviews as a general information source, rarely do they influence my purchase decision. I live near near a major city so I rarely blind buy. It is fun to read what others have to say about a fragrance BUT... at the end of the day, my nose is the one that matters, and - not surprisingly - I find that I very often am in the minority. If a person writes an unequivocally negative review, it is often because the fragrance inspired revulsion in that individual. In my book, revulsion is every bit as valid, and as interesting, a reaction as rapture.
WHAT MAKES A FRAGRANCE UNIVERSALLY GOOD: Regarding what constitutes a good fragrance, in my opinion, the question cannot have a definitive answer, because the meaning of what is "good" varies from person to person, and even from culture to culture. For example, I loathe the smell of baby powder: baby powder = NOT GOOD. Any perfume that smells like baby powder will never smell good to me. That means that many famous fragrances that are cherished and lauded by others on this forum as "good" or "great" are repulsive to me.
I am interested in reading what others have to say on this issue.
foetidus, for example, provides some great reviews but openly states his dislike for birch tar - fine, I keep this in mind when reading his reviews of a fragrances that contain it.
Others have blind spots/open dislikes to certain houses - again fine, as long as they are open about this then the review may be useful anyway.
In terms of a fragrance being judged objectively good or bad - yes I believe this is possible but there just aren't very many objectively bad fragrances.
SM and M/Mink are good examples of subjectively bad fragrances (although some, like myself quite like them) that are objectively good.
edit: Actually, on second thought, I wonder if "good" and "bad" are too broad to allow objective analysis? Perhaps subjective responses are the only possibility.
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congratulations with new theme. Good luck with sales Looks nice
Congrats ! Theme Looks Nice ! GLWS
Really Awesome Design
Thank you, sir
Great theme ! GLWS
Nice work! good luck!
Well, purchased the theme and ofcourse i like it thats why i purchased. I am Developer and i can easily get into the code and fix the issue which i am going to share with you. The reason is to ask you or to make you aware about this.
The description (or the tagline or the second line below title) does not work. It works on Blog page, but not in the page templates of home and portfolio. Even on portfolio items. I have tried several places where you have given input box for that but no, it did not work.
So for myself, i will just get into the source code and fix but want to know if i missed something or you will fix and upload the updated one ? Kindly do let me know.
Sorry if its me who is missing something, but i thought its good idea to share with you and ask you before i get into the code and do it with hard coded text.
Hey – cheers for your purchase. I can assure you the custom page-heading fields are working for all post-types: posts, pages, portfolio items & custom page templates.
I whipped up this quick video to show you where I'm editing the subheadings: https://www.screenr.com/hyRN (the video froze after editing the portfolio post heading)
Feel free to shoot me an email via my profile with your admin login if you want me to take a look at where/how you're entering the headings.
Dear Paul,
There is a spelling mistake in custom types php file in your theme. Where custom description is spelled "custmo" so please correct that. For my copy, i have corrected, but not everyone will have the coding knowledge. I have a little bit but you are expert So fix it for others. Just informing you.
Contact form is also not responsive, so you might suggest some other contact forms instead of contact form 7 which you are suggesting because even in your demo, it does not work well with responsive. Atleast on my android set.
Thanks M.Hanif
Cheers you'll receive an update notification email soon to let you know when the typo fix has gone through.
Nice theme! However, I have the same problem as user 'hanifonline'. The page description does not seem to be working.. Afraid i have to fix this in the code. Not an expert however. How do i get it to work?
Also: the Masonry pages are not working properly. I have to refresh every time I want to see the page correctly. The portfolio items are overlapping.
Can you help me?
Thanks in forward, Sander
Hey Sander – you'll receive an update notification email shortly as we've updated the theme to fix a typo. Cheers
Hi Paul, thanks! Looking forward to the update!
There is a spelling mistake. Open your theme files, then goto
includes folder
then goto custom-fields.php
and correct the spelling of cusotm_page_description
Around line 60.
It should then work properly. I am a purchaser myself, but just helping you out so you don't need to wait for support to answer
Thanks Muhammad Hanif
Cheers Muhammad – update notification will hit everybody's inboxes soon.
That's great. Best of luck!
Thank you very much hanifonline for pointing this out! It's fixed. Have a great day
Hey all – the theme was updated recently to fix a small typo, everything's smooth sailing now with the custom page-heading fields.
Hey Paul,
I just purchased this theme. Love your work man.
What font did you use to create the "B." logo?
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In both the homepage and homepage masonry layout, all posts are displayed. I think the more correct behavior would be to display only three items.
I've fixed this in my copy by changing the query to:
$homeposts = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'pagination' => true, 'posts_per_page' => 3, ) );
Each to their own, sir 3, 6, 9, everybody is different. Glad you found what works for you, of course.
Good looking theme, just a quick comment to let you know you should fix the background image to be at least 2560×1600 as for users with large monitors the background will not be sufficiently large and will show a blank white space on the right side.
Cheers for the heads up!
Hey mate – IE8 seems a bit funky. I've tested your demo and the logo and menu get messed up a bit. Can that be fixed? Would be good to get it as far back as IE8 (don't care about 7).
Hey – cheers for the heads up I'll take a look into that.
Hi :
I had some problems when I used this theme.
It always show twice when I upload pictures in portfolio items. Even I already deleted the images, it still existed. Could you help me fix it?
Thank You
Hey – please open a ticket at paulwinslow.ticksy.com – this is where we manage all of our support
Hi Paul
I have a problem with the theme. I would like to create archives for the individual Portfolio Type. I want to create filter above the list of portfolio.
How should I do ? Thank you.
Sorry for English
Hey – building-in a filter function would require a bit of work from a developer so that would be a separate modification gig. You could try Envato Studio
Hello Loved the theme and would like to use it on my website.
I would like to know: You can view the thumbnails in the display of blog posts on the bottom of the home?
Another question: If you can put social icons in the top menu bar?
1. Do you mean you'd like to work the homepage template to show thumbnails next to the blog posts? That would require some modification the template which I'm not able to offer in support, I'm afraid. Great little gig for Envato Studio, however. http://studio.envato.com/
2. Same as above, sir.
Cheers, Paul
You can add buttons to the tags above the frames of the projects?
Do you have a page where I can see the panel of the theme and to "test drive"?
Paul, if I can install a plugin I can put a shortcode social bar at the top menu? Could you tell me what file I put?
These are all customisations, mate. Perfect for an Envato Studio gig but I can't offer customisations to the theme in support.
Hi. You is expected to release an update to the new versions of wordpress?
The theme is smooth sailing for the newest releases of WordPress.


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The Southern channel has the Nutra Sonic at an event price which is about 1/2 the price of the Clairisonic. I watched the video on it and it sure does seem like the same thing. Do any of you have the Nutra Sonic and if so, what do you think about it? I am really wanting to order this, and the price is great.
I've used the Nutra Sonic daily since early January and I love it.
I have not owned my own Clarisonic, but I have used someone else's (I hope that does not start a new "ick" thread) and find them to be quite comparable. The Nutra Sonic has a gentle setting, a normal setting, a "jitter" (exfoliation) mode, and a body setting. It comes with a sensitive skin brush, a normal skin brush (which I prefer) and a body brush. Mine stays charged for about 10 days with daily use. I have not had any problems with it at all.
The Skinn Sonic on ShopNBC is the same machine as the Nutra Sonic. It comes with a lot of products, but it's not on sale right now.
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the Clarisonic has ONLY 2 speeds AND the mini Clarisonic is the Mia ? with 1 speed
I PERSONALLY think that the NutraSonic AND SkinnSonic which are the SAME PRODUCTS are MUCH better AND offer more EVEN if they did not offer all of the EXTRA items -
with TWO extra speeds, less expensive, 3 brushes
NutraSonic has a JITTER mode AND SkinnSonic has an EXTRACTION mode BOTH are AND do the SAMETHING - they are just calling them different names
Thank you so much for your replies. I have gone ahead and ordered it. I am excited about receiving it. I am 60+ but have pretty good skin. I have noticed that my pores are much more noticable so thought I needed something to help me with that situation. I had ordered the Clarisonic a few days ago when it was on 5 easy payments, but thought about it and $200 is pretty steep, so cancelled it. So, while browsing the other channel today, saw the Nutra Sonic and thought it sounded great, and no shipping and half the price. Now I will be able to see if it really helps out with these pores.
I know this post is late...but I agree with the other ladies. I also own the Nutra Sonic and I LOVE it, it has more speeds than the Clarisonic, and it does such a GREAT job. And let's face it- it is MUCH cheaper! Glad you tried it!
I just got the mini Nutra Sonic on Monday. It only has two speeds. I haven't tried the Clarisonic, so I can't compare them, but so far I love the Nutra Sonic. I think you'll be happy. No free shipping on mine though.....
Had both and retruned both. Clarisonic felt nice, but saw no noticeable differnece in my skin. Nutra Sonic, was hard to regulate the speeds and remove the brush head, 1 of them actually broke Try the Oil of Olay facial brush for $30, I haven't tried it but it's cheap(in a good way).
I found an interesting review @ truthinaging.com that compares them - click HERE.
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Thanks Lyn! The review makes me think that maybe I should return the NS for the Clarisonic.... My skin is very sensitive, and while the NS brushes are fine for most of my face, my cheeks would probably appreciate the softer brush!
You're welcome, itsMe.
I bought the Nutra Sonic mini when it was the todays special on HSN. I also sent them as Christmas gifts to each of my 3 daughters. I like mine just fine and they were only 39.95 each. One difference that I have noticed Dr Rob addressing on the Clarisonic demonstrations is the fact that the whole brush moves on the nutra sonic as opposesd to only the center on the clarisonic. He says that is so that it won't splash into your eyes. I dont have a splashing problem and I can't afford the clarisonic so I am pleased with my nutra sonic.
On 6/4/2010 PhotoQueen said: The Southern channel has the Nutra Sonic at an event price which is about 1/2 the price of the Clairisonic. I watched the video on it and it sure does seem like the same thing. Do any of you have the Nutra Sonic and if so, what do you think about it? I am really wanting to order this, and the price is great.
Clarisonic is the market leader. It is utilizes the patented Sonicare technology. Why go with a 'me too' product? Stick with the leaders. Love my Clarisonic Mia!
You get what you pay for in this world.
I have had both & the only difference that I noticed was the lack of a timer on the NutraSonic. For the price difference, I'm just as happy with the NS, but I honestly never have seen much improvement in my skin from using it.
i own two full sized nutrasonics, one mini nutrasonic, and gave two mini nutrasonics to my daughters for christmas.... can you tell i love them???..... they are an EXCELLENT product. i have not had any problems and i use it about two or three times a week. i can definitely feel a difference in my skin and it helps serums and creams sink into my skin much more easily.
mine came with three heads and can hold a charge for well over a week.
the pricing is so much better than the clarisonic!!!!
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i have the special value NS and I love it. my 20-something daughter also tried it and loves it too. i will get her one for her birthday. why pay for the name brand? if NS can make one for this price, why can't CS? Highly recommend the NS
I've never tried any except the Clarisonic, so I can't compare - and that's probably true for most of us. We find a machine we like and use it. Not sure what machine I'd try if my Clarisonic died, but definitely would want to use a machine in my cleansing routine. Just have no idea which is better and I'm not likely to buy a different brand while my Clarisonic is working well.
I'm very late in replying too, but I got the Sonicare when it first came out. I never much liked it and wasn't that upset when it died. I threw it out and bought the Nutri-Sonic. I like it so much better. It was less than half what I paid for the Sonicare.
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Mister Q opened the box. Inside was a sorrowful chair! He gazed at it fitfully. Then he gazed at Mani fitfully. "It's astounding," Mister Q said. "Come here and let me blast you."
Just then, a forgiving crone sprang out of hiding and cackled like bombs bursting in air. "Your happiness will not last!" she said in a young voice and dropped a piece of paper onto the dinner table.
Mani read it. "It's a page from a diary. It says...it says that you're my brother."
They stared at each other forcefully as the crone cackled some more. Mister Q's arm began to tremble. Then Mani shrugged, pulled out a piano, and hit the crone on her hair. She fell over dead.
"Problem solved!" Mister Q said and kissed Mani gently. "This is a naughty Valentine's Day!"
They ignorantly burned the diary page in the candle and never told another soul.
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Police were first called at 1:40 p.m. to Southeast Milwaukie Avenue and Franklin Street, where a woman said she was robbed at gunpoint while using an ATM, said Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson.
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It's time once again for our monthly trip through Previews looking for cool, new comics.
Wait a minute … "monthly"?
It's true that we haven't taken a What Looks Good tour in a few months, but the feature is back with an all-new approach that we hope will be more varied and useful than the old format. Instead of Michael and Graeme just commenting on everything that catches our attention in the catalog, we've invited Chrises Mautner and Arrant to join us in each picking the five new comics we're most looking forward to. What we'll end up with is a Top 20 (or so; there may be some overlap) of the best new comics coming out each month.
As usual, please feel free to play along in the comments. Tell us what we missed that you're looking forward to or – if you're a comics creator – mention your own stuff.
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1) Love and Rockets New Stories #5 by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) — How do you possibly top the triumphant storytelling feat that was "The Love Bunglers"? I dunno, but Jaime Hernandez is certainly going to give it the old college try, this time shifting the focus onto the vivacious "Frogmouth" character. Gilbert, meanwhile, brings back some of his classic Palomar characters, so yeah, this is pretty much a "must own" for me.
2) Skippy Vol. 1: Complete Dailies 1925-1927 by Percy Crosby (IDW) — Percy Crosby's Skippy might well be the great forgotten comic strip of the 20th century. Extremely popular in its day, and a huge influence on such luminaries as Charles Schulz, the strip has largely been forgotten and the name conjures up little more than images of peanut butter. IDW's effort to reacquaint folks with this strip might change that — the few snippets I've read suggest this is real lost gem.
3) The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized Books) — Tom Kaczynski's small-press publishing company drops its first major, "big book" release with this memoir from the always-excellent Gabrielle Bell. Collecting work from her series Lucky (and, I think, some of her recent minis), the book chronicles a turbulent five year period as she travels around the world. Should be great.
4) Godzilla: The Half Century War by James Stokoe (IDW) — I usually stay as far away from licensed books as possible, but there is one simple reason I'm including this comic in my top five: James Stokoe. Stokoe's Orc Stain has quickly become one of my favorite serialized comics, and his obsession with detailing every inch of the page combined with his ability to incorporate significant manga storytelling tropes in his work convince me he can do a solid job chronicling the adventures of the big green lizard that spits radioactive fire.
5) Barbara by Osamu Tezuka (Digital Manga) — Speaking of manga, here's one of the more noteworthy Kickstarter projects of recent years: Digital Manga's attempt to bring the master's saga of a famous author and the homeless, beautiful woman he takes in and assumes to be his literal muse. This is well regarded in many Tezuka fan circles as one of the cartoonist's better adult stories, and I'm glad to see Digital willing to take a chance on bringing more Tezuka to the West. I'll definitely be buying this. I should also note that Vertical will also be offering some Tezuka this month, namely a new edition of Adolph (originally published by Viz in the '90s), here titled Message to Adolph but well worth checking out regardless of the title.
Comics | Bryan Young talks to Archie Comics Co-CEO Jon Goldwater about the attempted boycott of Life With Archie #16, which featured the marriage of Kevin Keller, as well as the changes that have taken place within the company to make that marriage possible. "When I got to Archie my first mandate was to talk to the staff and creators and say 'Change things up. Try new things. Be bold. Be daring. Be creative.' If there was an idea I felt was out of line or too crazy, I'd nix it. But for the most part, people like Dan Parent came to me with excellent ideas and suggestions. Kevin Keller is a perfect example of that. I don't think you would have seen the previous regime publish Kevin." [The Huffington Post]
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On the heels of its last Kickstarter campaign, which will fund a reprint of Osamu Tezuka's Swallowing the Earth, Digital Manga inaugurated a new Kickstarter drive last week, this one dedicated to producing a print edition of another Tezuka manga Barbara.
Whether the book will actually be published is no longer in question — the campaign reached its goal last week. The question is whether this is how comics publishers should be doing business.
On the one hand, you can argue that Barbara is a book that would be difficult to publish in English by the traditional means. It is one of Tezuka's more outré books, with adult content that will make it hard to place in the usual channels. Here's the blurb:
Wandering the packed tunnels of Shinjuku Station, famous author Yosuke Mikura makes a strange discovery: a seemingly homeless drunk woman who can quote French poetry. Her name is Barbara. He takes her home for a bath and a drink, and before long Barbara has made herself into Mikura's shadow, saving him from egotistical delusions and jealous enemies. But just as Mikura is no saint, Barbara is no benevolent guardian angel, and Mikura grows obsessed with discovering her secrets, tangling with thugs, sadists, magical curses and mythical beings – all the while wondering whether he himself is still sane.
At Manga Widget, Alex Hoffman argues that this is essentially the readers commissioning a book, as a patron might commission a painting from an artist. "Commissions are what works for microniche consumer materials," Hoffman argues, adding,
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a "Splurge" item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
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If I only had $15, I would only be buying one title this week: 20th Century Boys, Vol. 18 (Viz, $12.99). Sorry Americanos, but Naoki Urasawa is delivering a gripping, sprawling drama that most other books can't live up to. Wait, I'm wrong – I'd buy two comics with a $15 budget this week; I'd snag the $1 The Strain #1 (Dark Horse, $1) for the price point and Mike Huddleston. I've read the novels, but for $1 I can't miss sampling at least the first issue.
If I had $30, I'd be thankful to double-back and first get Uncanny X-Force #18 (Marvel, $3.99). This issue, the finale of the "Dark Angel Saga," has been a long time coming and I'm excited for the writing, the art and the story itself; and I can't forget colorist Dean White, sheesh he's good. After that I'd pick up my usual Walking Dead #92 (Image, $2.99) and then try Ed McGuinness' new work in Avengers: X-Sanction #1 (Marvel, $3.99). I'm a big fan of McG's work, but also realize just how different he is than the standard Marvel (or mainstream super-hero) artist in general. I've loved his storytelling sense since Mr. Majestic, and will pick up most any of his work without knowing much about the book itself. Next up would be James Robinson & Cully Hamner's The Shade #3 (DC, $2.99). I'm surprised DC hasn't done more marketing for this book, especially considering it's a character who's never held a series before; they've done little-to-any marketing to define just who the character is, relying on his ties to a lesser-selling series that ended ten years ago (no matter how good it was). Getting off my soapbox: those that have been reading The Shade know it's good. After that I'd round it off with the best looking comic on shelves, Batwoman #4 (DC, $2.99).
If I was to splurge, I'd double-up my J.H Williams 3 fix with the final volume of Absolute Promethea (DC/ABC, $99.99). Although I already own these issues in singles, getting it over-sized and in hardcover is a treat. I'm hoping it also includes some production art or process sketches – I'm a nut for that.
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Comics | While going through a box in his attic, a Grange Park, Illinois, man discovered a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man, that he had bought as a kid. While other copies of the comic have fetched as much as $1.2 million, Chimera's Comics is selling it for $12,000 due to its condition. [LaGrange Patch]
Comics | Brian Truitt profiles Marvel's Fantastic Four, talking to Mark Waid, Tom Brevoort and Tom DeFalco about the long-running comic. [USA Today]
Publishing | Janna Morishima, formerly of Scholastic and Diamond Comic Distributors, has joined Papercutz as its first marketing director. [Papercutz]
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Digital Manga is a small manga publisher that has explored a number of unconventional ways of doing business, including the Digital Manga Guild, an attempt at legal fan translation. Last week, they tried another new approach: A Kickstarter drive to fund a new edition of Osamu Tezuka's Swallowing the Earth.
Kickstarter is usually a venue where independent creators raise seed money for new projects. At first blush, that's not what Digital's pitch sounds like:
Unfortunately we printed too few copies, and the book is no longer available anywhere (except on eBay for exorbitant prices). Fans are constantly asking us to print more of the book, but simply put, we're a small company, this is an expensive book and we can't afford to put up the cash for another print run.
As Lissa Pattillo points out, this is a win-win situation for Digital and its readers: Digital gets the money for the reprint up front, and participants in the drive get a pretty generous package of rewards—in addition to the book, backers get their choice of other volumes of Digital manga, with the highest-level backers getting a pretty big box of books (with free shipping). On the other hand, she raises the question of whether this is a sound business plan, if Digital can't afford $4,000 for a reprint they are confident will make them money.
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Chris Arrant
If I had $15, I'd first get the third issue of my favorite New 52 title, Batwoman #3 (DC, $2.99). Seriously, J.H. Williams III is hitting a home run on every outing here when it comes to my tastes. Although the writing isn't up to the level of Greg Rucka's time on the book, it's close and only bound to get better. Next up I'd get Point One #1 (Marvel, $5.99). I think this format–an extra-size preview book for what's coming next–is an interesting experiment, and I'm intrigued most by the Nova story, but also interested to see what the others do. Third would be Uncanny X-Force #17 (Marvel, $3.99), to get the one-two punch of Rick Remender and Jerome Opena. Iceman as a bad guy? I dig this.
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If I had $15, I'd mostly grab the second issues of some DC stuff I enjoyed last month: Batman ($2.99), Birds of Prey ($2.99), and especially Wonder Woman ($2.99). No Justice League for me though. Unlike Action Comics, I didn't enjoy the first issue enough that I can rationalize paying $4 for it. Instead, I'll grab Avengers 1959 #2 ($2.99) and Red 5's Bonnie Lass #2 ($2.95), both of which had strong first issues.
If I had $30, I'd have to put back Bonnie Lass and wait for the collection in order to afford Jonathan Case's atomic-sea-monster-love-story Dear Creature ($15.99).
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If I had $15, I'd spend several musty dollars on Fear Agent #31 (Dark Horse, $3.50). This penultimate issue has been a long time coming, and I'm excited to see Remender and Moore enlist Mike Hawthorne to help get these final issues done – big fan of all three of them! Next up would be two of DC's New 52; Action Comics #2 (DC, $3.99) and Swamp Thing (DC, $2.99); I admit that I feel weird not being more excited about Morrison's run than I am, but somehow the first Action Comics wasn't as gripping as the first All-Star Superman … and it's not the art. For the last pick, I'd get X-Men: Schism #5 (Marvel, $3.99). It got off to a slow start, but Jason Aaron's an expert at nailing his landings, and I'm intrigued to see how it all goes down.
If I had $30, I'd start off with a pair of number ones – Pilot Season: Test #1 (Image/Top Cow, $3.99) and Roger Langridge's Snarked #1 (BOOM! Studios, $3.99). Pilot Season has always been a must-buy for me; sometimes the concepts don't live up to the promise, but they still have a good track record. I just wish more ended up as ongoing series. Next up I'd get the long-running Invincible #83 (Image, $2.99); seriously, this hits all my itches harkening back to my younger comic-reading days. Last up I would get Animal Man #2 (DC, $2.99); I love what Lemire and Foreman started here; I just wish there were more of it!
If I found some extra cash, I would double-back for Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant (D+Q, $19.95). This reads like a literary nut's comic strip, and I love every bit of it. For some reason it reminds me of Gary Larson's The Far Side but in a very modern way.
Comics | Dismayed by the portrayal of Catwoman in DC Comics' relaunched series, Alyssa Rosenberg of ThinkProgress asks whether feminists are wasting their time in hoping and lobbying for better portrayals of women in mainstream superhero comics. While she understands the desire to walk away, the decides in the end "it's worth it to keep nudging": "… Even if the industry doesn't change, there should be voices in the background when folks read these books pointing out their problems. The key is getting folks who really just want to see, say, Catwoman bang Batman and nothing else to hear those critiques and to find a way to engage with them constructively, which is really, profoundly difficult. But I'd rather live in a world where people who don't want to hear the works they like criticized have to work to shut them out, rather than leaving them to relax into the blissful sounds of silence."
At The Atlantic, Noah Berlatsky points out that not all comics are like Catwoman or Red Hood and the Outlaws, and recommends some alternatives. Meanwhile, Tom Foss jokingly suggests that the "new" Starfire is merely replacing longtime New Teen Titans creeper Terry Long. [ThinkProgress, The Atlantic]
Phoenix: Future (1967), page 15 panel 9 (or is it panels 9-11?). Osamu Tezuka.
The easiest way of thinking about sequence goes something like this: multiple panels, related by subject or context and taken together at a steady rate, fuse together into a single, more communicative thing. Something that imparts more meaning than a single drawing can. But it gets a little more complex than that when the question of what exactly constitutes a panel is raised.
One might say it is an individual drawing, and be correct in a high percentage of cases. But the true difference between "panel" and "sequence" is functionally impossible to pin down, better defined case by case than with a single sweeping bit of language. After all, it's no easy task to define what an "individual drawing" is either. Is it one fully formed object, such as a figure or an environmental feature? Perhaps not — there can be plenty of those in single panels. Is it everything an artist puts down into one uninterrupted space? Maybe, but in that case are word balloons separate panels? The lines blur when you look at it too carefully, and as with everything in the language of comics, an attempt to state a definition with words is doomed to fail. The eyes know better than the written word can say; better to go through a book of your choosing, any will do, and let them tell you that this thing, this drawing or collection of drawings is a panel, and this one a sequence.
Can't get enough of Astro Boy and Black Jack? Here's some good news for fans of Osamu Tezuka, a.k.a. "the father of manga": Tezuka Productions is putting out an iPad app containing 62 volumes of Tezuka's work and 39 episodes of "Motion Manga." The manga are translated (the motion manga are subtitled) and stored in the cloud, and you can access all of it for a subscription fee of $9.99 per month. It's already in the iTunes store. The service will expand to Android tablets in the fall and winter, and a host of other foreign-language versions are under consideration.
I downloaded the app, which is free, onto my iPad. The selection isn't bad: In addition to Black Jack and Astro Boy, it offers volumes of Ode to Kirihito, Apollo's Song, Dororo, Phoenix, Buddha, MW, and Adolf. (One has to wonder how some of this content got through the iTunes store's screening.) It's not very responsive, though: I got the opening screen you see above, but the touch controls to download the magazines and configure the app didn't respond until I held my finger down on them for a while. This happens sometimes with iPad apps—Comics+ used to be very slow and you had to almost hit the screen to make it work, before they upgraded it—but by now I'd like to see that kind of bug worked out. One more beef, as long as I'm complaining: It's customary to offer some free samples to entice people to buy, but all you get with this app is an invitation to subscribe. I'd rather pay a few dollars more for one of Vertical's beautifully produced volumes of Black Jack or Dororo and get to keep it forever, but if you want to gorge yourself at an all-you-can-eat Tezuka buffet, this does offer a lot of manga for a decent price.


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Nisa Ontiveros strikes out an awful lot of batters for Ridgeview High's softball team, but she's not afraid to rely on her defense.
That became quite literal in the seventh inning of Wednesday's Central Section Division III semifinal, when Ontiveros went full extension to catch an infield pop-up, lost her balance -- and caught herself when she wrapped second baseman Jackie Marintez in a bear hug.
Ridgeview breathed a sigh of relief and finished its 6-0 rout of Independence.
"I almost tripped, and instead of falling, I saw her and kind of used her for that," Ontiveros said with a laugh. "She's always there for me."
Ontiveros finished with a two-hitter and seven strikeouts, though she also dared Independence hitters to put the ball in play early in the count. The Wolf Pack defense committed one meaningless error, and Ontiveros threw just 75 pitches -- 61 for strikes -- in her seven innings.
"I just tried to get ahead of them and attack them; I didn't want to get behind in the count," Ontiveros said. "My main goal was to make them put it in play and trust my defense.
"I love them. I know that if anybody puts it in play, they're there to get anything and everything."
Next for the Wolf Pack (31-3-1): A chance to defend its D-III section title at home Friday against Hanford West, which beat Kingsburg on a walk-off home run in the other semifinal.
"It'll be a good game," Ridgeview coach Jerry Dumatrait said. "We're very confident in ourselves. This team has won over 60 games in two years, so we know how to win."
Last year, Ridgeview beat Kerman in a 1-0, eight-inning battle, just as the Wolf Pack beat Hanford in last week's quarterfinals.
This one was much easier.
Independence (15-18) made six errors, leading to four unearned runs and taking pressure off of the top seed.
"We have these games, and I knew there was a chance we'd have one," Independence coach Staci Yoder said. "And when we have one, it's usually a domino effect."
The Falcons played Ridgeview tough in a 2-1 loss early in the season, but since then have lost two of their best players, leadoff hitter Marisala Gonzales (injury) and utility player Desiray Rubio (academic ineligiblity).
"We've had a lot of ups and downs as far as injuries and grades," Yoder said. "Those are huge losses for us."
Ridgeview contributed offensively, too. Madelaine Wilen doubled, Courtleigh Brown was 3-for-3 with a double and Jessica Castaneda led off the fifth with a home run to left field.
"We've been in a funk on our hitting, but hopefully we'll have them all going Friday," Dumatrait said. "If we're hitting, there's not a whole lot of teams that can match up with us. If we're not, it'll be a close game."
That would be fine for Ontiveros, who doesn't usually need much help.
She allowed a second-inning bloop single to Britny Ward, then didn't allow another hit until Maddie Arambula singled to right with two outs in the seventh. In between, she retired 16 of 17 Falcons, with the only blemish a hit batter in the sixth.
"We have that pitcher to dominate," Dumatrait said. "That's nice."
She'll be back in the circle Friday, when the Cal commit tries to end her high school career with another title.
"Our goal was to get back, and we got there," Ontiveros said. "Now we've got to take it all."


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Freedom Communications, owner of the Orange County Register, is putting the newspaper's longtime Santa Ana building on Grand Avenue and adjacent property on the market.
Aaron Kushner, Freedom chief executive and publisher, said in a year-end letter to the staff Friday that the company is continuously evaluating the organization. "Along those lines, as have many newspapers, we will be marketing our Santa Ana real estate for either sale-leaseback or sale," Kushner wrote.
He said if the company does not lease back the existing space, the newspaper will move to another Santa Ana location.
No sales price has been announced.
Freedom owns nearly 16 acres of land in Santa Ana off the I-5 Freeway, including the five-story, 175,000-square-foot Register building at 625 N. Grand Ave. Freedom's founding Hoiles family built the office in 1986.
Jerry Holdner, vice president of market research for Voit Real Estate Services, said it's difficult to estimate a sale price because there are no comparable properties in the area. Holdner, who is not connected to the listing, estimated the Register building alone could sell for $20 million to $25 million.
Industrial firm buys Santa Ana foreclosure
Westminster-based American Cooling Tower Inc. has purchased a foreclosed industrial property in Santa Ana for $5.3 million.
Pacific Mercantile Bank sold the vacant manufacturing building at 3130 W. Harvard St. after taking it back from Trimco Finish Inc., which declared bankruptcy last year.
The 49,700-square-foot building sits on more than 3.2 acres and features 23-foot ceilings and five ground-level loading doors. Built in 1970, the property recently was outfitted with solar panels across the entire roof.
"(The property) wasn't new by any stretch of the imagination but it was in pretty good shape," said Jim Snyder, a senior vice president and principal with Lee & Associates.
Snyder, along with colleagues Grace Yoon and Matthew Sullivan, represented the seller. Christy Johnson of TAB Enterprises represented the buyer.
Seal Beach strip mall trades hands
Investors have acquired a strip mall near a busy Seal Beach intersection.
BGN Investments Ltd. paid about $6.6 million for three adjacent properties along Westminster Avenue near Seal Beach Boulevard, just down the street from the Leisure World retirement community.


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A detailed map for negotiating Gotham's latest color wars can be found in Tali Mendelberg's recent book, The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality (Princeton). A professor of politics at the school, Mendelberg identifies a contradictory double incentive for white politicians: They must both adhere to the standard of racial equality and win the support of white voters who may hold racial stereotypes. By the same token, those voters, despite their resentments and prejudices, outwardly affirm the norm of equality; as Mendelberg writes, "Most people want to avoid not only the public perception that they are racist, but also thinking of themselves as racist." The solution? Campaign strategists use what Mendelberg calls an "implicit racial appeal," in which "the racial message appears to be so coincidental and peripheral that many of its recipients are not aware that it is there. . . . The tension between the existence of racial conflict and the inability to express it produces indirect forms of communication."
A surreptitious appeal to white racial anxiety, therefore, doesn't operate via a winking pact between sender and recipient. Rather, its power is subliminal. The message loses force, paradoxically, once the viewer recognizes a message is there at all; exposed to light, it cracks and fades out. The ne plus ultra of suggestive racial appeals remains the infamous Willie Horton ads of the 1988 presidential season, featuring a photograph of a black convict who had raped a white woman while on furlough from prison in Michael Dukakis's home state of Massachusetts. The ads lost their potency once Jesse Jackson and Lloyd Bentsen accused George Bush's strategists of racial intentmaking the implicit explicit. (Coincidentally or not, Bush's ratings took a dive after the outcry.)
If Green did indeed engage in underground race-baiting in the runoff imbroglio, then Ferrer, and later Michael Bloomberg, were able to dissolve his message by spelling it out. "Can we afford to take a chance?" becomes a Rorschach test. Depending on where you stand, the phrase appears as either standard-issue rhetorical flourish or the most noxious noblesse oblige. And strangely enough, it might shape-shift into the latter regardless of the strategist's intentits message can appear either "by design or by circumstance," as Mendelberg writes.
"In a primary contest against a fellow Democrat, Green had the same type of incentive faced by many a Republican candidate running against a Democrat in a general election," Mendelberg told the Voice. "The case of New York is somewhat different from the standard scenario in which implicit appeals occur, because there are more racial liberals than usual. This in turn means that candidates who use implicit racial appeals, whether knowingly or not, run a higher risk of challenge. You might say that this is what happened to Greenhis message was challenged and he lost support. Bloomberg could simply sit back and watch the fallout from the internal division among Democrats."
The profound weirdness of this mayoral election is aptly illustrated by the plausible analogy Mendelberg can draw between your given GOP hopeful and Public Advocate Greenthe former Nader's Raider; the candidate endorsed by David Dinkins, the only African American mayor in the city's history; the Giuliani nemesis who sued for access to brutality complaints against the NYPD. A daunting 40 percent of Ferrer supporters crossed party lines for Bloombergthe anointed successor of a man who recently said, "I don't see minorities; everyone is a minority." Meanwhile, the racial deck-stacking and opportunism routinely practiced by Ferrer's top adviser, Bronx Democratic boss Roberto Ramirez, can hardly be underestimated (see, for starters, Wayne Barrett's "Miller Time" in last week's Voice).
But as Mendelberg points out, Ferrer's appeals to specific ethnic groupsarguably contained in his frequent invocations of "the other New York"cannot be held to the same standard as Green's, not least because white voters' priorities tend to dominate the political discussion at the expense of minority interests. "Clearly there are incentives for someone like Ferrer to appeal to the specific concerns of Latino and black voters," Mendelberg says, "but those appeals are not 'racial' in the sense I use for appeals to white voters. They don't draw on stereotypical anti-white thoughts or on derogations of whites, but rather on notions of what Latinos or blacks need as a group and on a worldview of American society as racist."
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Still, the utility was asking drivers to avoid the area. Police spokesman Lt. Dave Parker described the area as "a mess."
Businesses from 48th Avenue to International Airport Road would be without water until the broken water main was fixed sometime Friday night or Saturday, Kosinski said. Nearby condominiums would be without water until 6:30 p.m. Friday at the latest, as the utility planned to connect the residences to fire hydrants, Kosinski said.
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The provider, a unit of Hughes Electronics, said it added about 1.34 million subscribers last year, bringing its total number of customers to 10.7 million compared with 9.5 million at the end of 2000.
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Rationale, design, methodology and sample characteristics for the Vietnam pre-conceptual micronutrient supplementation trial (PRECONCEPT): a randomized controlled study
1 Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Thai Nguyen, Vietnam
2 Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
3 Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
4 The Micronutrient Initiative, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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BMC Public Health 2012, 12:898 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-898Published: 24 October 2012
Low birth weight and maternal anemia remain intractable problems in many developing countries. The adequacy of the current strategy of providing iron-folic acid (IFA) supplements only during pregnancy has been questioned given many women enter pregnancy with poor iron stores, the substantial micronutrient demand by maternal and fetal tissues, and programmatic issues related to timing and coverage of prenatal care. Weekly IFA supplementation for women of reproductive age (WRA) improves iron status and reduces the burden of anemia in the short term, but few studies have evaluated subsequent pregnancy and birth outcomes.
The Preconcept trial aims to determine whether pre-pregnancy weekly IFA or multiple micronutrient (MM) supplementation will improve birth outcomes and maternal and infant iron status compared to the current practice of prenatal IFA supplementation only. This paper provides an overview of study design, methodology and sample characteristics from baseline survey data and key lessons learned.
We have recruited 5011 WRA in a double-blind stratified randomized controlled trial in rural Vietnam and randomly assigned them to receive weekly supplements containing either: 1) 2800 μg folic acid 2) 60 mg iron and 2800 μg folic acid or 3) MM. Women who become pregnant receive daily IFA, and are being followed through pregnancy, delivery, and up to three months post-partum. Study outcomes include birth outcomes and maternal and infant iron status. Data are being collected on household characteristics, maternal diet and mental health, anthropometry, infant feeding practices, morbidity and compliance.
The study is timely and responds to the WHO Global Expert Consultation which identified the need to evaluate the long term benefits of weekly IFA and MM supplementation in WRA. Findings will generate new information to help guide policy and programs designed to reduce the burden of anemia in women and children and improve maternal and child health outcomes in resource poor settings.
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