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These stunning sunflower paintings were created by the Grade 3 students after they looked at the sunflower paintings and drawings created by Vincent Van Gogh.
I found some images online from Vincent Van Gogh's sketchbooks and I always show these to the students to reinforce how important their art journals are in the process of creating their artworks.
The students also looked at photos of sunflowers which grew outside our grade 5 classrooms earlier this year
and at photos inside a magnificent book by David Douglas Duncan titled 'Sunflowers for Van Gogh'.
I was lucky to stumble across this lovely book for $3 at the Salvation
Army Opportunity Shop in Werribee. What a find! The author and photographer, David Douglas Duncan, fell in love with Van Gogh's sunflower paintings and travelled to France to create a book devoted to the fields of sunflowers in France. I often find fantastic art books on the bookshelves of Op Shops and they are always really cheap! Op Shopping is one of my favourite pastimes as you just never know what you might stumble upon! The students loved looking through this book and it was out, on their work tables, throughout the creation of these wonderful artworks. They were fascinated by the variety of the sunflowers and that they were so different to the sunflowers that grew in our school garden beds.
As you can see the grade 3 students spent many, many weeks on these art works and they are, rightfully, very pleased with them.
The students started by doing a 10 minute pencil draft in their journals of 4 different sunflowers – front view, side view, dying with petals dropping, not yet open.
All the students found these 4 views challenging but were willing to give it a go in their journal. They then bought their journal to me for a quick one on one chat about their drawings, full of praise, of course, and directed specifically at their ability level – differentiation!
They then drew a vase of sunflowers 10 minute pencil draft. And again bought this to me for a brief chat. Most children drew their sunflowers in the vase facing in different directions (hooray!) as the brief practice of the four views freed them up to do this. I did not make any direct references to how they were to draw their vase in their journal, or that they were to include the four views from their previous drawing. It was all learning by doing – and isn't that the best kind of learning!
So that is 2 steps before they could even commence painting!
The students commenced by drawing a faint pencil line at about a third of the way up from the bottom of the paper. This gave them a line between the tabletop and the wall. This was suggested by a student who pointed out that Vincent had given his flower vase somewhere to sit by creating a table top rather than the vase just finishing at the bottom of the painting – hooray, hooray for improved observational skills! There was a huge variety in the colours used and some children created fancy tablecloths while others decorated the background wall. Most students painted their background with dry block paints giving it a wishy washy watercolour appearance.
I usually write up a basic framework to create the art work during discussion with my first class at that grade level. I then revise and add to the framework through discussion with the other grades. All students are well aware that it is only a guideline and they are free to pursue their own ideas throughout the process. This allows the students to work independently, with a reference up the front if they need it, as they work their way back and forth, stopping and starting, between parts of the complex work. I scribble in alternatives at each step, sometimes as they appear, and make sure the materials are available on the resource table, to aid the students independence.
The next step was the sunflower stems. Most students chose to print the stems onto the background using cardboard scraps. Again, this created a huge variety of different looking stems.
They then painted the sunflowers carefully, most students leaving one stem without a head. Most students chose to paint their sunflowers using basic school acrylic paint. This accentuated the difference between the wishy washy background walls and the stark, bright, solid colours of the sunflowers.
The 3D sunflower head was made using Model Magic
which is an air dry clay which is very light and can be painted when it is dry. You can get it from Cavalier Art Supplies in Geelong. You can also use Paper Magic Clay
which is created by Zart Art in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia as an alternative to Model Magic. My students have used both successfully. We found, as the weeks marched on, and some students had not created their Model Magic flowers, that it worked just as well when we started cutting corners to get finished. It was just as successful if you glued the flower on as soon as you made it, rather than wait for it to air dry, and you could paint it before it air dried as well.
To finish their amazing work of art the students cut and decorated a vase and made sure it was big enough to cover the stems! This was an hilarious learning adventure all on it's own. I showed the students how to fold a kinder square in half, draw half a vase on one side, cut it out and get a whole vase. The shocked faces when their vase was way too thin or better still, in two separate pieces, as they had drawn their vase along the wrong side of the folded paper, were priceless! I am always pointing out to the students that mistakes are part of their learning so it was fantastic to watch them fiddling with the two sad, separate pieces of their vase, to figure out where they went wrong, so they wouldn't do it again.
It was a very long, involved process from start to finish for this work, with many stops and starts in between, as work had to dry completely between many of the steps.
All the grade 3 students worked brilliantly and moved independently onto different parts of the work while waiting for other bits to dry.
I am very proud of how committed the grade 3 students are to their art and how well they used their art time!!!
And I'm sure you will agree that these are stunning artworks, some of which took 8 sessions to complete. All students, regardless of the level of their ability, were proud of their achievements.
And they made a gorgeous display. I can't wait to put them all up at the art show! The Cambridge Primary School Art Show is on the 23rd and 24th October!!! Just 4 weeks away – aaaggghhhhh!
Thanks for reading and please leave a comment.


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Hunt for Osama Over? Obama Steers Clear of Bin Laden References
Obama's rhetoric on bin Laden has changed considerably since campaign.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2010 -- Terrorism and the national security agenda continue to define U.S. foreign policy, as they did during the Bush administration. Yet there is one person who is missing from the language of President Obama and his advisers -- Osama bin Laden, the FBI's most-wanted terrorist.
Former President Bush defined his war on terror in light of bin Laden. He famously pronounced in December 2001 that he wanted the al Qaeda mastermind captured "dead or alive."
So, too, did Obama when he was running for president. In a debate on Oct. 7, 2008, he declared, "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."
He kept up that strong rhetoric right up to election day.
"I think capturing or killing bin Laden is a critical aspect of stamping out al Qaeda. He is not just a symbol, he's also the operational leader of an organization that is planning attacks against U.S. targets," Obama said on Nov. 2, 2008, just a few days before his victory.
But as a president, Obama has been considerably less eager to make bin Laden the central feature of the fight against terrorism. In an interview with CBS News in January 2009, Obama seemed to lower the bar of the importance of finding bin Laden. His administration's "preference obviously would be to capture or kill him," Obama said, but he added a caveat.
"If we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America," he said.
Since then, the president has been quite frugal in using bin Laden's name. Even as he explained his decision behind the troop surge in Afghanistan and tried to re-focus efforts on stamping out al Qaeda, Obama has, for the most part, kept bin Laden out of his language.
That, experts say, may not be unwise.
"When you mention bin Laden's name too much, you inadvertently elevate his status to a person larger than it needs to be. [It] fuels al Qaeda's ranks," Rick Nelson, a senior fellow at the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told ABC News. "We don't want to create this organization that has this cult personality. We want to minimize publicity."
Others say the Saudi dissident, whose last tape was released in June, may not still be alive and even if he is, he may not be the leader he once was.
"We don't know whether he is in any way the daily boss of al Qaeda. He is historically the boss and symbolically the boss, but is he the guy who really runs it?" said Pulitzer Prize winner Leslie H. Gelb, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Our intelligence can't answer that question with any confidence. We can keep personalizing it on Osama as Bush was wont to do, but I think Obama is correct to make it [the focus] al Qaeda rather than the person, because it may turn out the guy is dead already."
Hunt for Osama bin Laden Continues
Some conspiracy theorists have said the U.S. government created the most recent bin Laden tapes. Others have dismissed his tapes as fake, but no one has been able to say with certainty if the world's most-wanted terrorist is still alive.
The decision to keep bin Laden out of the national security rhetoric and frame the terrorism war differently is likely deliberate.
Obama has repeatedly stressed the importance of language. When asked in a January 2009 interview with Al-Arabiya TV channel about the phrases Bush used, such as "war on terror" and Islamic fascism, Obama said: "The language we use matters. ... We cannot paint with a broad brush a faith as a consequence of the violence that is done in that faith's name."
Another reason for the shift in language, experts say, is precisely because the current administration wants to separate itself from its predecessor. The president hasn't shied away from that.
But does that mean the threat from bin Laden is over?
"Eliminating Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri won't result in a defeat of al Qaeda, but you cannot defeat al Qaeda without eliminating Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri," Nelson said.
Nelson's statement echoed remarks made by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, in December, when he said capturing or killing bin Laden, an iconic figure whose "survival emboldens al Qaeda as a franchising organization across the world," would help in defeating al Qaeda.
"It would not defeat al Qaeda to have him captured or killed, but I don't think that we can finally defeat al Qaeda until he is captured or killed," he told Congress.
Experts say symbolically, it is key to eliminate both bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, but doing so won't mean the threat is over.
"I think symbolically, it would mean a lot, but it would be foolish for any one of us to assume that if we got rid of both of them the threat would leave us," ABC News consultant and former FBI agent Jack Cloonan told ABC News. "It won't. They're not in charge of the organization anymore."
Cloonan, who served as a senior agent on the FBI's bin Laden squad in New York and headed the case of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, said al Qaeda as an organization has changed considerably over the years. Rather than being a united group, it exists in many shapes and forms throughout the world, a challenge the Obama administration saw firsthand in the case of the botched Christmas Day terror plot.
But that doesn't mean the United States has stopped going after the senior leadership. In fact, the case of the CIA agents being killed by a double agent in Afghanistan last month was a clear indication that the United States is still having a hard time pinning down the location of al Qaeda leaders, Cloonan said.
The Jordanian doctor who killed five CIA officers and two CIA security contractors lured the agents to a meeting by claiming he had just met with Zawahiri and bin Laden.
"It shows you how vulnerable we can be after all this time because we lack the critical information to get Zawahiri and bin Laden," Cloonan said. "It tells me also we are very dependent on liaison services to come forward with somebody who we can send into that region of the world. ... We don't have the human assets to tell us where these people are."
Framing National Security
The president and his team may not have made bin Laden the central feature of their terrorism war -- and have been chided by critics for not using the word "terrorism" enough -- but they have upped the assault on al Qaeda. The administration approved an escalation of CIA drone strikes, mostly in North Waziristan, in northwest Pakistan, where al Qaeda leadership is believed to be hiding.
In 2009, the CIA launched more than 50 drone strikes, according to a tally by ABC News. That's more than the total drone attacks in the previous five years combined. From 2004 to 2008, there were 46 drone strikes, according to data from the Long War Journal.
A drone strike in South Waziristan in August killed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, considered to be one of the chief leaders behind attacks in Pakistan and against American interests.
As the president's State of the Union speech approaches, he is expected to address in detail the national security challenges and the administration's steps moving forward.
"He'll take some forceful position that encompasses everybody's opinion," Gelb told ABC News. "That's his pattern."
But don't look for any references to bin Laden, experts say.
"My recommend is for the administration to publicly minimize the importance of this individual and the mention of his name," Nelson said. "Every time his name is mentioned, it elevates his status and serves as a recruiting tool. I think we have to avoid that as a nation."

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At first, Brian Burke declined the job offer.
The 58-year-old had been a general manager many times before. In fact, his entire National Hockey League employment since 1992 (apart from five years as a league executive) has been spent as one.
But this position offered to him — president of hockey operations for the Calgary Flames — was not a general manager's role.
"This is a different job and I talked to my guys in the other sports that have pondered this scenario and watched it work," Burke was saying on Thursday to a gathering of local media at the Scotiabank Saddledome, flanked by Flames president and CEO Ken King on one side and general manager Jay Feaster on the other. "It is a chance where ..."
He stopped himself, providing an example from earlier this winter before he was let go as the Toronto Maple Leafs GM in January.
"I was in Ufa (Russia) for the World Juniors," Burke said. "I didn't enjoy that. I got sick as a dog. The food was awful. I said to myself, 'This is not a good use of my time.' This job (with Calgary) allows a guy of my seniority to do less of the grunt work, the day-to-day stuff but still be involved.
"I had to get my head around that and Ken did a good job of selling that."
So, familiar with the ownership group (he was in lockout negotiations with the NHLPA and Flames' co-owner Murray Edwards last summer), a history with King and Feaster, and a grip on the actual position, Burke — the subject of rampant speculation on Wednesday night — finally accepted and signed a contract Thursday morning.
He'll attend an Alberta Junior Hockey League function in Lloydminster, Alta., before returning to Toronto for the weekend to watch his daughters play soccer.
His first official day on the job is Monday.
"The rebuild we've talked about, there's an opportunity to get there even faster," said Feaster of Burke's hiring. "I really do (believe that). We've said all long that we don't want this to be a long rebuild."
"Brian has been there and done that and has experienced that in Toronto.
"I think it's an opportunity to get there even quicker."
As of now, the chain of command in the Flames' front office now looks like this:
Feaster, remaining as the team's general manager, reports to Burke and consults him on any hockey-related matters.
Burke, as the team's president of hockey operations, reports to King and consults with him and Feaster on any hockey-related matters and decisions. He is not the general manager nor is he the spokesperson of the team (really).
King remains as the president of the newly branded Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation, overseeing the Flames and their American Hockey League affiliate Abbotsford Heat, the Western Hockey League's Calgary Hitmen, the Canadian Football League's Calgary Stampeders, and the National Lacrosse League's Calgary Roughnecks.
It's an idea and role the Flames have had mulled over all summer which, at one point, included the courtship of NHL chief of player safety Brendan Shanahan (who politely declined).
"I love the concept, that's what I've said to Ken from the very beginning," Feaster said. "I think the devil is in the detail and getting the right person.
"I think, in Brian Burke, we are getting the right person ... I know our hockey guys are excited. John Weisbrod and Craig Conroy, the opportunity to sit down in a room and get his thoughts and have that lively debate.
"That's the great thing about Brian — he's not a shrinking violet. He's going to tell us what he thinks."
Optically, it's a three-headed monster; the similar, relatively new organizational structure that is present with the Colorado Avalanche and the Edmonton Oilers. It's a relationship that is going to be a work in progress.
But known for being a straight shooter, Burke stressed the team aspect of the position and the behind-the-scenes role he accepted despite his reputation as being a bus-driver.
"If you look at the model where this has worked for other teams, the day-to-day guy, the guy you talk to every day should be the coach ... the transactional guy, if you make a trade whether it's a big trade or a little trade, the guy that explains it should be the guy that pulls the trigger on the trade — that's Jay.
"I don't think there's any way this works unless the guy in my position takes a lesser role. To me, it's not protecting Jay. Jay's a big boy. He's got as many rings as I do (one apiece). It's more this is how it has to work. It has to be the person in my role has to say it's a more senior role, it's not a day-to-day transactional operational role as much it's a guiding, advising role."
Burke, whose daughter Molly already lives and works in Calgary, becomes part of a team that needs help fixing and one that has already endured an interesting off-season with the flooded rink and historic draft.
Although he was the first to admit that he has a lot of learning to do about the Flames roster, he said an organizational overview — not overhaul — is needed. Personnel, scouting structure, everything will be evaluated.
"We think we know players," Burke said. "So, you think 'OK, I know the Calgary Flames' and then you watch practice every day and you realize you don't. Even when I took the job with Anaheim partway through last season and you watch the team. Holy cow, I was off on this guy, I was wrong on this guy's foot speed, this guy's a way more important player when you watch the players interact.
"So, unless you're in the room, unless you're part of the staff, you don't really know a team."
The plan is for Burke and Feaster to collaborate daily, pooling their expertise.
And goodness knows, Burke has a lot of it.
A law graduate of Harvard, the Edina, Minn., native has served as the general manager of four NHL clubs — the Hartford Whalers (1992-93), the Vancouver Canucks (1998-2004), the Anaheim Ducks (2005-08), a term that included a Stanley Cup championship, and the Toronto Maple Leafs (2008-13).
"Brian has had a storied and considerable and venerable hockey career, I think we all know that," King said. "He's had success, he's won and he has had a huge impact on our sport not only on the ice but in many, many other ways.
"He had a big decision to make in terms of whether not for the next phase of his career he could move into a different role. He did make that decision and we couldn't be more pleased that he decided to join us."
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Sunday School – 10:00 am
Worship Service – 11:00 am
Bible Study – 12:15 pm
Wednesday Bible Study - 6:30 pm
12859 Martin Road Spur
Northport, AL 35473
Pastor Todd brings another character study on one of the apostles. Certainly, in James, we see much growth from his conversion until his death in the Book of Acts. We pray this lesson is an encouragement to you in seeing that God chooses to use common, ordinary people.


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Welcome to our website. Chloe Alberry specialises in door handles, cabinet fittings, hooks, and mirrors. Located in the heart of London's Portobello Road, we are open everyday from 9am to 6pm. If you have any queries please feel free to call us.
To enter the site, please click on
one of the currency symbols below:
Once you have entered our site, click on any image or title to see more details
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5 pc drumsticks (skin removed)
1 cup dried longan
1/2 cup dried red dates (pitted)
1/4 cup gojiberry/ wolfberry (wash)
3-4 chinese yam
20-30 pcs solomonseal rhizome
4 liter water
salt to taste
1:Wash all herbs and drumsticks ,removed the skin set aside.Prepare large pot with water at high heat.Add in all the herbal in the pot,cover with lid,let it's boil.
2:When the soup is rolling boil,add in drumstick,reduce heat to low medium.Let's the soup simmer for an hour or until the liquid reduce to half pot.Add in salt to your taste.
3:Serve warm before dinner or lunch.
This soup have natural sweet taste coz I add extra gojiberry and solomonseal rhizome into it.Both herbal is very good for our health especially to strengthens immune system,improve eyesight,heals cough and clear internal heat.


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New Groups Restrict Categories and Groups Import Export.
- Groups 404 Redirect allows to redirect visits to pages that are protected by Groups.
- Groups Blog Protect restricts access to blogs based on group membership.
- Groups File Access Groups File Access is an extension that allows to provide file download links for authorized users. Access to files is restricted to users by their group membership.
- Groups Forums provides a powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites.
- Groups Gravity Forms allows to add users to groups automatically, based on form submissions.
- Groups Import Export – An import and export extension for Groups.
- Groups Jigoshop Groups integration for Jigoshop that supports memberships and subscriptions.
- Groups Newsletters helps you to communicate efficiently, providing targeted information to groups of recipients through automated campaigns.
- Groups Notifications allows to send automatic notifications to group members and the site administrator.
- Groups PayPal – Sell memberships and subscriptions with Groups and PayPal.
- Groups Restrict Categories features access restrictions for categories, tags and other WordPress taxonomies, including support for custom post types and taxonomies.
- Groups Restrict Comments Pro This extension for Groups allows to restrict who can post or read comments based on a user's group membership.
- Groups Subscriptions is a subscription framework for Groups.
- Groups WooCommerce Groups for WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin that allows you to sell memberships.
- WooCommerce Group Coupons This extension for WooCommerce uses Groups and WordPress roles to limit the validity of coupons.
- WooCommerce Groups Newsletters The WooCommerce Groups Newsletters extension lets customers subscribe to newsletters at checkout.
User groups
- Supports an unlimited number of groups
- Provides a Registered group which is automatically maintained
- Users can be assigned to any group
- Users are added automatically to the Registered group
Groups hierarchy
- Supports group hierarchies with capability inheritance
Group capabilities
- Integrates standard WordPress capabilities which can be assigned to groups and users
- Supports custom capabilities: allows to define new capabilities for usage in plugins and web applications
- Users inherit capabilities of the groups they belong to
- Groups inherit capabilities of their parent groups
Access control
- Built-in access control that allows to restrict access to posts, pages and custom content types to specific groups and users only
- control access to content by groups: shortcodes allow to control who can access content on posts, show parts to members of certain groups or to those who are not members Shortcodes: [groups_member], [groups_non_member]
- control access to content by capabilities: show (or do not show) content to users who have certain capabilities Shortcodes: [groups_can], [groups_can_not]
Easy user interface
- integrates nicely with the standard WordPress Users menu
- provides an intuitive Groups menu
- conceptually clean views showing the essentials
- quick filters
- bulk-actions where needed, for example apply capabilities to groups, bulk-add users to groups, bulk-remove users from groups
Sensible options
- administrator overrides can be turned off
- optional tree view for groups can be shown only when needed
- provides its own set of permissions
- cleans up after testing with a "delete all plugin data" option
Access Control
Groups defines some capabilities of its own. The groups_read_post capability is used to restrict access to certain posts or pages to groups (and users) with that capability only.
- Solid and sound data-model with a complete API that allows developers to create group-oriented web applications and plugins
- All features are supported independently for each blog in multisite installations
Your opinion counts
You & Groups
Beta-testers and developers who need to integrate group-based features in their plugins and web applications: please use it and provide your feedback.
Feedback is welcome!
If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the Groups plugin page.
Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn't work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Thanks!
Follow me on Twitter for updates on this and other plugins.
Content Access Control
Access restrictions on posts
On posts an pages (and custom content types) a new meta box titles Access restrictions appears. By checking Enforce read access, you can restrict access to the post to groups and users who have the groups_read_post capability. You need to assign this capability to a group and make users members of that group to allow them to see those posts.
Content visibility for members and non-members
The [groups_member] and [groups_non_member] shortcodes are used to limit visibility of content to users who are members of a group or users who are not members of a group. Multiple comma-separated groups can be specified.
Example: Limiting visibility of enclosed content to registered users.
[groups_member group="Registered"]
Only registered users can see this text.
Content visibility based on capabilities
The [groups_can] and [groups_can_not] shortcodes limit visibility of enclosed content to those users who have the capability or those who do not have it. Multiple capabilities can be given.
Example: Showing enclosed content to users who can edit_posts (standard WordPress capability).
[groups_can capability="edit_posts"]
You can see this only if you have the edit_posts capability.
Integration in the 'Users' menu:
Users – group membership is managed from the standard Users admin view. Users are automatically added to the Registered group. You can add multiple users to other groups here and also remove them.
Sections in the 'Groups' menu:
Here you can:
- add groups
- remove groups
- assign capabilities to groups
This is where you add, remove and manage capabilities.
Capabilities can be assigned to groups and users (1). These capabilities include the standard WordPress capabilities but you can also define additional capabilities for your web-application.
Groups defines some capabilities of its own. The groups_read_post capability is used to restrict access to certain posts or pages to groups (and users) with that capability only.
(1) Assigning capabilities to users is not integrated in the user interface yet but can be done through API calls.
Administrator override :
Administrator overrides can be turned off.
Permissions :
For each role these permissions can be set:
- Access Groups: see information related to Groups.
- Administer Groups: complete control over everything related to Groups.
- Administer Groups plugin options: grants access to make changes on the Groups > Options admin section.
Testing the plugin :
A convenient option is provided to delete all data that has been stored by the Groups plugin. This option is useful if you just need to start from fresh after you have been testing the plugin.
Please visit the documentation page on shortcodes for up-to-date information: Groups Shortcodes
Download the Groups plugin on WordPress.
2,443 Responses to Groups
Anton February 21, 2020 at 6:51 pm #
Hi! Thanks for plugin! I have one question – i use Groups for restrict access to some pages in category, but users, who don't have access don't see this pages in lists of category. I want to show them, but if they try to access, they see another page with tariffs. How i can show thats pages in lists? Thanks!
Tomas February 10, 2020 at 8:17 pm #
Is it possible to assign different roles to 1 or more groups?
Role "Subscriber" = "Group 1"
Role "Editor" = "Group 1" and "Group 2"
Role "Admin" = "Group 1", "Group 2 and "Group 3"
So each new user with a specific role also gets assign to the pre associated group/groups.
kind regards
Lynda January 28, 2020 at 3:16 pm #
Hello I have a dropshipping shop and I work with the Alidropship and Stripe plugin to sell my products, what version of the compatible affiliate plugin can I hang to make it work on my site WITHOUT WOOCOMMERCE SVP?
Korgster January 8, 2020 at 3:12 pm #
Hi Folks!
We may use Groups for a project for one of our clients.
Is it possible to allow members to upload and share documents within a group? For example, Group A consists of User1 and User2, both of which will upload pdfs for ONLY each other to see?
We look forward to your response
Chelsie December 5, 2019 at 3:04 pm #
Hi there, when I assign posts (custom post type) to a specific group, users who are not in the Group can see it and users that aren't can't. Any idea why that is happening? Thanks!
Lynda December 4, 2019 at 9:53 pm #
Hello with affiliate plugin woocommerce light how can i create a second level of commission please?
Andreas Torgersen November 5, 2019 at 11:31 am #
I use the group plugin on a page that runs with the Divi theme. I use the plugin to lock certain pages to specific groups. I want the option to display a custom unauthorized message when an unauthorized visitor tries to view a locked page. I have tried to use the shortcode [groups_non_member group="premiumgold"]Custom message[groups_non_member group="premiumgold"] to display an unauthorized message, but it does not work. Seems like the shortcodes only work for pages that are not locked directly. But because I use the Divi builder to create content then it does not work for me to use shortcodes to wrap content that should be hidden. So the perfect solution would be that I could continue use the protect functionality directly from the edit page screen, but add a shortcode that display a custom message to all non-group members of a specific group.


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Clear history
Clear all history software can delete history in the popular browsers including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera. It can clear your browser's history automatically when you close it and upon request.
To protect your privacy and improve your computer's performance, clear history software can delete Windows Temporary Files, clipboard content, Recycle Bin content, recent documents history, recently run programs list, Windows search history, Start Menu open programs history, recently opened files list, and page file.


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Lone Pine Boutique Hotel By The Beach, George Town
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Tumblr, and the rest of the kpop related internet for that matter, is in frenzy over a picture recently posted of JYJ's Jaejoong and Super Junior's Heechul together in a car for a joyride. The origin of the photo is still unknown, however it's rumored that Heechul posted it to his Twitter account before he private/deactivated said account around his birthday. Whether that's true or not, no one knows. As for if the photo is real? That's actually pretty easy to answer with the use of some nerdy information. If you want the short answer, instead of the explanation, more than likely the photo IS real. As for when it was posted, who it was posted by, or how it was snatched, no clue.
Both camps are in shock and disbelief that Jaechul have been spotted together, let alone in the same car looking as chummy as ever. And many people are freaking out wondering if it's real or a photomanipulation, while others are flat out saying it's fake and that it shouldn't be spread around/spoken about. Cassie and ELF are not happy campers, which is often the case in situations like these. After all, it's some unspoken rule that a burger stands between these two men having a close friendship, let alone more serious things like the lawsuit that's spanned three years and supposedly divided SME employees and JYJ. That's besides the point, however.
The point itself is this; using a technique developed by Neal Krawets, it's possible in this day and age to break a photograph down to see behind what the naked eye is looking at; the noise of the photo. When you take a photograph and adjust it to view the 'noise' in the photo, you're given an image that looks like a bunch of strange dots and/or large fractals. This noise is what's used to spot any inconsistancies such as photoshopping or copy and pasting; this site gives a pretty in depth explanation about such. Basically if a photo is touched up, there's visible inconsistencies that one can spot. If the photo has NOT been touched up, than all the different outlines and shadings match up rather well.
In the case of Jaechul's selca, it would appear that it is more likely to be REAL than false, which one can view by checking out THIS comparison. There's also another reference HERE, with larger fractals for those of us who are as blind as bats. When looking at the outline of the two bodies, as well as the seats between them, there pretty much identical; the same can be said for the bulk of fractals in Heechul's hat and Jae's head. And as well as that, the both of them have the same level of white noise in their ELA, meaning they're actually together in the photograph rather than being copied and pasted one atop the other.
Both references seem to make it rather clear that there's no cut and paste done here, or any other hinkiness. This also lends to prove that while a lot of people screamed, 'HAX!!!!!!!!111!!!' over their following of one another on Twitter in months prior, it's pretty likely that was real as well. It would seem that these two Flower Boys have stood the test of burger espionage, and remain friends whether or not the fandoms can handle it. I say kudos to them, and it's nice to see that lines haven't been drawn in the sand between current SME employees and former-ish ones. It's also kind of epic to imagine the two and what trouble they might wreck on Seoul together.
Sauce(s): 韩网 (original poster of the photo), Destinyhae @ Sup3runior.com for reposting the photo, and my nerdy nerdy self with the use of Neal's talents, Fotoforensic's awesome web engine, and 29a.c's helpful tool.
Yes I am that nerdy, and that determined to prove Jaechul don't hate each other because of a cheap burger centuries ago, or their alleged pretty boy statuses.


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On a separate note, I finished piecing together the top for my Four Seasons Quilt Swap quilt last night. I really like how it came out. Fits the summery theme, don't you think?
The pattern is called "Bay Breeze" and it's in the Summer 2008 issue of "BH&G Quilts and more".
See that striped piping around the border? That was tricky. It's a 3/4" strip of fabric folded in half, sewn on separately to the top, and then the borders sewn on top of it (and you have to cover the seams). Make sense? I've seen them called "peepers" online before.
Anyhow, working on such a small piece was tough. A lot of the piping got lost in the seam allowance.
OK, for all you eagle-eyed "Where's Waldo" fans out there, there is a bit of a blunder in this quilt. Can you spot it? I worried after making the mistake that it would no longer be "swap-worthy", but I think it's still OK. For you other FSQS swappers out there, what do you think?


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Summer exams
Posted 24 May 2019 - 11:57
Having requested week 2 at a local centre, I logged on a short while ago to see if my appointments were online.
Only to find that my entry now states 'preferred week - week 4.
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Posted 24 May 2019 - 13:53
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Posted 24 May 2019 - 14:07
I also think my 'no Saturdays' has been altered. I had checked as per the Board's published appointments timetable, expecting week 2 exams to be online between now and early next week, otherwise I wouldn't have looked again at my entry.
I don't think the centre had been changed - I'd be more bothered by that, and hope you can sort it out, LP.
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Posted 24 May 2019 - 14:18
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Posted 24 May 2019 - 20:21
I do hope you both get it sorted - but what a ridiculous load of aggro and stress....
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Posted 24 May 2019 - 22:26
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Posted 25 May 2019 - 07:32
I really don't understand why they can't publish a list of their provisional bookings for each centre. They can't possibly have exams every week at every centre in the country. Everybody understands that the final dates may change, but it would be really helpful when entering to know that, for example the nearest centre is only the first week, but the one a few miles further is the third week. Trinity do this. This time is the first time that my exams are outside of the published dates (a week later - they must have had more entries than they expected), but I have known the date and times since the day I booked. I am still waiting for AB which could be very soon, or mid-July. This is hardly helpful for children, as they get bored of pieces they can play and sometimes go backwards, not to mention the fact parents work and accompanists have other people to play for! I have several students who would prefer to do AB exams, but can't because of their booking system.
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Posted 25 May 2019 - 21:25
Is it really that we have had our weeks changed, or simply that AB treat the whole summer exam period as one big session, so it starts with Scotland in week 1 and "our" English week one is therefore week 3?
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Posted 28 May 2019 - 10:20
It is shocking they've altered the week/centre without bothering to tell you MaggieMay. I don't think the current booking system is fit for purpose and there is an arrogance to the whole "we'll tell you the date when we're ready" set up.
Teachers, candidates and parents are all busy and in my experience parents are more stressed and demanding than even 10 years ago.
We need to know the date of exams much, much further in advance. (I am accompanying 8 of my students for summer exams and having to delay booking a flight in case ABRSM decide to schedule the exams 2 weeks earlier than I requested).
I have been loyal to ABRSM for many years but unless they bring their booking system into the 21st century very soon all my students will be doing Trinity exams.
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Posted 28 May 2019 - 10:36
I have just received my exam notification for the 1st day of the "1st" week (ie the first week in England/Wales) so I think the board must be taking the exam session as a whole, and the English 1st week is in fact the 3rd week of the exam session over the whole of the UK.
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Posted 28 May 2019 - 13:35
(I do hope that first day of the first week is what you were hoping for!)
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Posted 28 May 2019 - 14:25
If I may mention a related complaint:
This is 2019.
Here in the States, we still have to register for exams by mail: fill out the forms, including one with credit card numbers if paying by card, and mail it in to the local representative. I'm lucky to be dealing with an overall competent and conscientious local rep, but SURELY the ABRSM could enable at least some limited form of online registration here in the States.
Again, this is 2019, but other than the printing out the forms myself and the ability to use credit cards, the registration system might as well be in 1819.
To make matters worse, our postal service is notoriously unreliable, with mail and parcels routinely misdelivered or outright lost (though this may be a local problem in central Texas).
I don't intend to hijack this thread, just wanted to whinge a little...
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And my week "2" request has materialised too!
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Photo credit James Duncan Davidson/TED via Flickr
Creating an unforgettable moment crystallizing how technology can change a person's life, Adrianne Haslet-Davis last week fulfilled her dream of dancing again less than a year after losing part of her leg in the Boston Marathon Bombing. Haslet-Davis' moment took place at TED 2014 and was made possible through hard work and the support of Hugh Herr, MIT's BioMechatronics Lab Director, who outfitted her with a revolutionary prosthetic limb that allowed her re-learn basic dance moves that once came naturally to her.
Photo credit James Duncan Davidson/TED via Flickr
Herr, shown above with Haslet-Davis at TED, is known for his revolutionary work in the emerging field of biomechatronics – creating bionic limbs that emulate the function of natural limbs. Herr was a guest earlier this year at Dassault Systemes' SOLIDWORKS World event where he told attendees how he designed his own legs after suffering an accident as a child. Using SOLIDWORKS, he created the world's first bionic foot and calf system called the BiOM.
The BiOM Being Designed in SOLIDWORKS
BiOM prosthetic legs mimic the movement of natural limbs by adapting to a person's walking speed and the terrain of the land to help the prosthetic propel the person naturally. By simply using a battery source and springs for energy, the prosthetic legs augment a person's ability to run and walk. They normalize a person's pace while enhancing stability and controlling for fatigue.
The SolidWorks World Audience is Surprised
to Learn that Herr Wears Prosthetics
Herr and his group worked with SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium to create the BiOM prosthetic legs. He uses it in his group at MIT as well – as he feels that the minimal learning curve allows for quick, easy use by new incoming students.
The human body is often referred to as "the world's most advanced machine," and by improving medical device design and patient experience with our 3D design and simulation technologies, the potential to understand how that machine works is finally here. As seen at TED, these advancements are enabling people to achieve what they once only dreamed.
Below is a video of Herr speaking to the audience about his work and about how technology has positively changed his life:


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There are some fragrances that smell fecal, or straight up bad, but project a very nice aura. Arabie is good example of that, but Arabie is not really fecal.
As far as fecal smells, some can get quite interesting. But I honestly don't know...
Are there actually people out there who enjoys the smell of feces? I noticed that some fragrances and oil (such as oud) that have the fecal smell that some people love so much. Oud is not cheap either. What is it in human that enjoy the smell of waste?
My Top 10
1. Amouage Homage Attar
2. Serge Lutens - Muscs Koublai Khan
4. Serge Lutens - Ambre Sultan
5. Chanel Egoiste
6. 24 Gold by Scentstory
7. Amouage Epic Man
8. Amouage Jubilation XXV
9. Bond No. 9 New York Oud
10. Serge Lutens - Chergui
"A beautiful fragrance to the nose is like good jazz music to the ears, great food to the mouth, and Megan Fox and Jessica Alba to the eyes..."
There are some fragrances that smell fecal, or straight up bad, but project a very nice aura. Arabie is good example of that, but Arabie is not really fecal.
As far as fecal smells, some can get quite interesting. But I honestly don't know...
Life is short and the world is full of scents not smelling fecal - why should I waste my time smelling fecal scents?
A nose unsophisticated to certain notes, such as certain ouds, civet, or castoreum (among others) may interpret these notes as 'fecal' because this may the closest aroma they recognize. A similar phenomena occurs when one can't recognize floral notes and will then associate them with smells they know (such as 'soapy'). Once you're acclimatized to these smells you realize that they don't actually smell fecal, but rather they have unique aromas that have little to do what how you once associated them. I'm not aware of a single fragrance that actually has a true fecal smell, even if that's a common descriptor. It's with notes and accords such as these with which you shouldn't necessarily judge or assess a fragrance based on what you smell digging your nose into your wrist. Many fragrances are designed to be smelled when worn and the fragrance will smell quite different from how it smells up close. An oud, civet or perhaps cumin fragrance that smells fecal or sweaty or whatever on your wrist has entirely different olfactory effect sprayed on your neck and experienced from farther away.
If it is applied at the basenotes and in a very small dose and mixed with other notes it can make a good musky fragrance in a mens masculine scent. For example Givenchy Gentleman opens with a leather note that leads to the patchouli note then you get a pinch of civet at the basenotes. This gives it a good musky fragrance at the end phase of the scent.
i would seriously buy something that would make people around me gag. 12 sprays!
A beautiful perfume is the one which gives us a shock: a sensory one followed by a psychological one."
Edmond Roudnitska (19051996)
Most sane people don't want to smell like poop. That much is true, but the whole world of flavors/aromas is sort of different shades of technicolor gray.
For example, sometimes people have nasty feet that smell like parmesan cheese. It's gross. Yet at the same time, one could say that parmesan cheese smells like feet-- yet we put that stuff in our mouths!
I always wondered why I heard all the tuna jokes in junior high. Then eventually, I found out. Crude? Yes. Accurate? Sometimes.
And then when you consider human waste and food, we naturally consider them extreme opposites in many ways, yet they're the same exact material, just before and after. Take broccoli for example. It's loaded with indole, which is a poop smell. I can't stand it when somebody orders steamed broccoli to go, and then just decides to stand around having a conversation. After five minutes that broccoli smells like a poorly maintained men's room. There is a poopy component to broccoli and cruciferous veggies, yet we eat them-- sometimes with parmesan cheese!
Honey and urine are both opposite sides of the same phenolic coin. One man's Miel de Bois is another man's Douche D'Or. Look at the controversy of Kouros. I personally think it's the phenolic honey accord in Kouros that gives people more trouble than the civet. Phenols are also a component of chocolate in conjunction with vanillin; And there is a saying that "You can't make a great chocolate accord without a little shit."
I mean, not to gross you out but next time you eat a candy bar (and I don't mean a Baby Ruth at the bottom of a pool), really try to take note of what's going on in the "basenotes" of that chocolate.
Sometimes when I smell Jicky, I get that straight up civet and it smells kind of dirty, but usually I only perceive that roundness that it gives to the composition. The thing I love about Musc Ravageur is that it's similar to Jicky in this regard. I don't see civet listed as a note in MR, but I definitely think there's a civet note there.
But back to food, seriously think about how much more of these dirty smells are in what you eat. It's everywhere. It's kind of the chicken and the egg. I always wondered what was the appeal of Canteloupe (MUSK-melon) and honeydew melon with Prosciutto... Then one day I bought half a canteloupe, half a honeydew and some high quality prosciutto and when I put them together I nearly died laughing. Those dirty minded Italians! It smelled and tasted like a clean, slighty sweaty salty crotch. Sorry, but it does and if you don't believe me try it for dinner tonight! Seriously, do it. Close your eyes and try not to think about Monica Bellucci.
I do remember one Basenoter a long time ago who did seem to have a constant civet fetish and I think it was some kind of alternative lifestyle thing for him, and it did gross the hell out of me when he'd come on here and start up endless civet threads. I wanted to tell him that this was maybe not the right forum for him. EDIT: I just wanted to reassure everyone that this person I'm speaking of is long gone; banned I think. It's none of you guys!
Last night I was walking my dog, I kept getting this aroma which I would best describe as a "well used hooker eating fried mushrooms". I finally figured out that it was the snowy white blossoms on the trees lining my street. I did a little online research and found that they are called Bradford Pear trees and they're notorious for the offensive smell of their blossoms, which many people to find smells like semen, thus earning them names like "spunk trees" and "semen trees". If I had to name them, I'd call them "jizz blossoms" or "hey-who's-shooting-a-bukkake-film-around-here? trees" Strange, but it also smelled like mushrooms, and I suppose there's a connection there too. Funny how we'd go mushroom hunting for wild morels as kids, and my grandma would call 'em "peckerheads", not that I had any idea at the time why she called them that. Ew.
So anyway, to sum it up, sometimes there are a lot of aromachemicals compounds that are in both the things we put in our bodies and things that come out of our bodies, and we can't let the second process diminish the first. It all goes together.
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Why would I spend $50 on a fecal cologne when a bean burrito costs $1.49?
I'm just in awe of Indie's post, and laughing too hard to reply.
Fantastic. There is really not much more to say after that post.
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nineXseven, your explanation of developing the ability to differentiate and associate scents was beautifully said! Limited association has a way of constraining or truncating our enjoyment of the many aspects of scents and perfumes. The more you smell, the more you can identify the many nuances a scent can evoke. Language also has a way of limiting our understanding I think. There are just so few words to describe what the mind perceives in a scent.
Indie_Guy, you really made me chuckle at your wonderful analysis of this phenomenon... all of it is so true! What a great sense of humour!
My friend likes the smell of his fart. I just find that quite weird, but then I enjoy the smell of oud, which smells like a barnyard. I guess some people have a fetish for dirty scent?
My Top 10
1. Amouage Homage Attar
2. Serge Lutens - Muscs Koublai Khan
4. Serge Lutens - Ambre Sultan
5. Chanel Egoiste
6. 24 Gold by Scentstory
7. Amouage Epic Man
8. Amouage Jubilation XXV
9. Bond No. 9 New York Oud
10. Serge Lutens - Chergui
"A beautiful fragrance to the nose is like good jazz music to the ears, great food to the mouth, and Megan Fox and Jessica Alba to the eyes..."
The most indolic jasmine there is, I understand, is from Bourbon French Perfumes.
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On indoles:
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"That lover which is like fragrance
Whose voice is as beautiful as Urdu.
She who hides in the flowers
you can only find her from her fragrance."
"Chaiyya Chaiyya," from the film, "Dil Se."
Indoles are the component that many refer to as fecal. Indoles are part of feces and white flowers. Indoles have a sweet smell, they're added to vanilla ice cream. As Indie_Guy stated, humans have a highly developed culture of seeking out rotting things.
IndieGuy's post is great. To add something:
Next time you eat a hard boiled egg think of what it smells like. Farts! They both have hydrogen sulfide which gives it that smell. So now why would we want to eat something that smells like farts? I have no idea.
As for oud, especially Indian oud, there is a fecal smell to it. The more I have worn oud the more my perception has changed. It doesn't really smell fecal to me anymore. My wife however still thinks it smells like horse poop.
Dzing! and L'ombre fauve have challenging openings! But heart and base notes are amazing!
I personally do not like the smell of feces
Indieguy's post is indeed informative and good.
I am one of those people whose first experience of civet's fecal qualities was of alarmed fascination. I recorded my initial impressions here: http://www.basenotes.net/threads/268...Jicky-Question I still stand by them, having since had a chance to smell it again.
Civet does usually smell of human waste, or of animal decay. I suspect that people not only sense these aspects variously, but also interpret their experiences of them differently. It has been argued that it has something to do with how they sharply strike the limbic system, bypassing conscious volition. But I cannot comment on that, not being a scientifician.
Pluran recently observed of the note's excessive starkness in Chanel's Cuir de Russie that now that the formulation has less of an obscuring veil of birch tar, it has acquired the savour of human saliva, and a fecal quality. I have not smelled the vintage elixir he praises, but I can confirm that this is the case with the present formulation. Yet I find that there is something mesmerising about it, and in what it permits to the overall fragrance. A hard, shimmering quality.
No, I am not a fetishist of the sort Indieguy peturbedly mentions. However, perhaps because of its reminiscence of animal rankness, civet really causes some part of me to Pay Attention. It is like smelling salts, and forces an involuntary response in me. Like fear of death, civet sharpens the mind wonderfully.
I could characterise my response as a startlement similar to slight pain. Whether it turns into distaste, confusion or pleasure depends on how the remainder of the fragrance is composed and interacts with it. To me, Jicky seems ill-balanced. But when the note is used well, my god, it is beautiful. Pain mingled with beauty, precisely akin to when, in listening to certain pieces of music, one thinks, 'Ah, this is so beautiful it hurts me to contemplate it' - but with the added realisation that the pain preceded the beauty, and has been transformed by it into a lens of poignancy.
I also think (you might suppose ludicrously) of Socrates' comment in Phaedo:
Socrates, sitting up on the couch, began to bend and rub his leg, saying, as he rubbed: "How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem; and I cannot help thinking that if Aesop had noticed them, he would have made a fable about God trying to reconcile their strife, and when he could not, he fastened their heads together; and this is the reason why when one comes the other follows, as I find in my own case pleasure comes following after the pain in my leg, which was caused by the chain."
Similarly, my disarmed confusion at the decadent (in the sense of decaying) nature of civet changes after the first jagged moment (which is often repeated) into something else - something diametrically opposed, if the remainder of the fragrance is good enough to, so to speak, ease off the initial chain. With Jicky, the chain remains on to some degree; while with Cuir de Russie it falls off after a moment, leaving me, from sheer relief and delight, a little weak at the knees.
I cannot comment on ouds, my experience of them being too slight, but such are my current thoughts on civet.
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It's good to see some mature, thoughtful, and informative posting. This subject tends to bring out reflex reactions in many people that don't necessarily make for particularly interesting or informative reading.
Here's a post of mine from a while back rewritten substantially. I would have simply linked to the original post after some brief introductory comments, but the sorry excuse for a search engine on this site makes it next to impossible to track anything down:
A key constituent of civet is indole, which, along with skatole, is a key aromatic component of human feces. At a certain dilution, indole is highly floral. In fact, indole is actually a key part of the aromatic profile of certain white flowers, jasmine and orange blossoms, to name just two. Civet was a key component of many white-floral accords in classic perfumes because it gave an added dimension, body, and extension to the floral notes of such accords. It literally fixed the floral notes. Civet is one of the great fixatives. Like oakmoss it imparts its own characteristic olfactory aura as it slows down the evaporative rate of the lighter more volatile components in the perfume, and, at the same time, like oakmoss, it leaves these lighter more volatile components essentially unaltered so that they predominate unmasked and unmodified. No synthetic fixative comes close to having this complex effect, and this effect is inseparable from the indolic component of civet.
The ambivalence we feel over the indolic and animalic notes in general is to a large extent caused by the tension these notes create in us as we try to process them olfactorily. Do I like this fecal/animalic smell? Yes I do, but, wait, maybe I don't, but then, again, yes, I do, and before you know it, this vacillation has actually kept one engaged at a very deep olfactory level as one wavers trying to make up one's mind about whether the note is attractive or disgusting. No other type of note creates this kind of ambivalence and tension. It is the tension that arises from this ambivalence that keeps one fascinated by indolic and animalic notes in fragrances. It's a "troubling" attraction. Great perfumers understood this on the most conscious of levels and on the most visceral of levels also. Indolic and animalic notes are also just as powerfully attractive when they exist at a liminal level, and they frequently do in many classic men's and women's fragrances. I have actually found that you can seriously ruin a fragrance for some people (usually men) when you point out the indolic, richly animalic, or even urinous notes to them in a fragrance they like.
Indolic, richly animalic, and even urinous notes when blended well, it should be observed, appeal, at a very deep level, to the primal recognition and attraction of bodily odors by which--in our not so distant past--we used as the main means of identifying and "knowing" our fellow creatures, much like dogs do when they sniff each other. Of course, these bodily odors were very closely tied to sexual attraction. The hippocampus, the smaller primal brain within the brain, is not only the primal seat of emotions, but it is in large part the place in the brain in which smells are processed and hence connected with emotions and with attraction. Smells, especially indolic and animalic smells, connect us to the primal sniffing self. You can't, for the most part, have a neutral reaction to indolic or animalic notes. Notice the responses in this thread. You either love such notes or you "hate" them. Culture, gender, and, of course, the vagaries of human individuality provide the differences by which we all process and react to indolic, urinous, animalic notes in general. (What follows is entirely speculative.) My suspicion, however, is that gender plays a larger role than we imagine. Men generally tend to prefer their animalic notes in the form of leather notes, a somewhat sublimated and bodily removed set of notes that tie them at a primal and cultural level to their hunter origins. Much of this explains, on one level, why there are such strong, diametrically opposed responses to such strongly animalic fragrances like *Kouros* and perhaps, also, why so many women tend to find Kouros an unproblematically attractive fragrance on a man. Of course, women's fragrances have, traditionally, tended to be about seduction and so, not surprisingly, indolic and urinous notes have featured prominently in such fragrances, but for men, I suspect that that attraction is most powerful when it's liminal. On another very deep level, I suspect women are less troubled by indolic and urinous notes than men because of their experience of and closer proximity and exposure to bodily fluids as a result of the primary role they have historically taken in child rearing.
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Scentemental, that was really good, especially your opinions in the last paragraph on gender differences in regard to liminal and subliminal reactions to animalic notes.
There were times when I was very much aroused by women who were wearing indolic/urinous/musky perfumes which on a very conscious level I actually hated. I hated their perfumes, yet their perfumes would generate a physiological response from me. Not only that, some of these women, I'm ashamed to say, were not even attractive at all and I still got turned on against my wishes (but hey, I never said I went home with them!). So as stupid as "panty dropper/boxer dropper" threads are, there is still something to be said for a fragrance having the ability to trigger arousal almost on its own, when worn on any warm body.
Also, I have to agree when you pointed out that many fragrances are ruined for people when you mention the dirty notes of a scent they like. It's like walking a tightrope-- you're fine until you look down. I'd probably have never noticed the cumin in scents like Rose 31, Eau Sauvage, Erolfa, and Baldessarini if I hadn't seen the pyramids-- and not that my nose is so poor that it doesn't detect the cumin, but I've found that cumin is the one note that smells the least like itself inside a composition: It definitely imparts an effect on the fragrance, but it never smells like actual cumin to me.
Also, some people's body odor smells like cumin when they sweat-- mine generally doesn't (unless I've just eaten Indian food), so to me, I don't automatically smell cumin notes and run screaming-- but I avoid them because most people, I've found, have an aversion to them and associate them with dirty armpits. I remember once hopping out of the shower, dabbing on a little Arabie to test it out (and really loving it), heading to work and hearing a bunch of comments like "Who forgot to shower? etc.
You have to think to yourself... A lot of these animalic notes are a bit "out of the way" from the perspective of early perfumers looking for materials. It's a lot easier and more natural to pick a bergamot and squeeze the juice out of it than it is to grab a thrashing angry civet by its low hanging fruit and manage to "harvest" civet paste; I mean cripes, I feel a bit foolish and feckless trying to brush my dog's teeth, but I digress. You have to be determined. You really don't stumble upon civet paste and castoreum by accident, any more than some guy winding up in ER because he "fell and somehow impaled himself on a shampoo bottle in the shower".
All of these materials-- civet, musk, castoreum, hyrax, ambergris, beeswax were all selected for use in perfumery because of their relationship not only to (un)pleasant, primal human odors but also because of their compounds which echo and fortify the ephemeral, sublime qualities in all of the flowers and fruits that smell like we think of as smelling beautiful.
I do find that of all the animalic notes, I find leather the easiest for me to personally wear.
Also, I'm curious, Scentemental, if you know when civet stopped being used in perfumes. I wonder if early formulations of Kouros have it. I have a new bottle of Kouros and a very old (1986) bottle of Kouros Eau de Sport. To me, the civet note seems different in the Eau de Sport-- a lot more natural and warm than my newer bottle of Kouros. Just curious if it could be real civet.
No waste smell for me either.....I have noticed this with certain fragrances.....In the past I have also picked up a BO (body odor) note when sampling that is also a big turn off.....I cannot understand why anyone would want to smell like this!!!
I have a small bit of Cambodian oud oil and it can be perceived as either barnyard/fecal or resinous, woody and fruity. My perception flip flops a bit... my brain isn't sure which way to route the information, but the different ways of perceiving the scent provokes VERY different reactions. So saying something smells fecal might not be the way others perceive it. For better or worse, all of our sensory inputs are subject to the brain's interpretive associations.
Also, I like the "troubling" attraction scentemental mentioned... I get that for sure, the ones that do that to me are some of the ones I find most interesting.
For me it's not an issue.
That girl, that bottle, that mattress and me.
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For that matter, Chanel's Cuir de Russie, Mouchoir de Monsieur and Jicky are some of my all-time favs.
"That lover which is like fragrance
Whose voice is as beautiful as Urdu.
She who hides in the flowers
you can only find her from her fragrance."
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Yup, I like musky animalic notes.
Why is a difficult question to answer. I guess I find them comforting. There's a human quality to them that's familiar.
Sure as hell not me either!
Hmm, I'm a bit late to this thread but I've not yet experienced any fragrance with anything like a fecal smell. Are there particular fragrances that are supposed to have this? I don't get any fecal elements from Kouros.


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Don't forget the wildcard entries: Bryan Baker, Steve Johnson, & Jack Sock.
Baker & Sock headline the two night matches on Monday night.
Hmm, those are some big American names there. I wonder why the ATP website did not feature them. ::scratches head::
Bryan Baker will likely draw quite a bit of attention. It's a feel good story of the year. And he's playing good tennis still. ;-)
Too bad that Baker & Sock both lost in the opening rounds. :-(
Well, Bradley Klahn got through. He's got a great forehand.
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I'll get there around two with the summer camp kids from San Bernardino. I'll email you my number.
I just got a guest pass for a tennis friend to come with me to the Farmers Classic tennis event tomorrow July 26th at UCLA> If you are a tennis fan like me, this is a great chance to see pros play. I am happy to share this pass with some nice fun person who wants to enjoy the games with me. I have only been playing tennis for 5 years but it is really a passion for me now!
Please send me a pic and some info about yourself. We would need to meet at UCLA around 11:30am since the tickets are for the 12 noon matches.
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3 tablespoons sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
3 tablespoons orange zest
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 1/4 cups whipping cream (heavy cream)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, orange zest, salt, and chocolate chips (by hand). Pour in whipping cream. Mix or knead by hand, just until combined (about 45 second). Mix will be sticky. Flour surface. Divide dough into two sections and pat into two rounds, each approximately four inches. Note: Score each round first with a knife into 4ths , then 8ths. Then cut and put on a greased large cookie sheet. Bake 9 to 11 minutes. Let cool five minutes, then glaze.
1 cup powdered sugar
2-3 tablespoons orange juice
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Height 6-5, Weight 220, B/T: R/R, DOB: 10/8/1984
2009 Redlegs Baseball Prospect Ranking: Not Ranked
Matt Klinker is a student of the game and one of the headiest pitchers in the system. He has an intellectual approach to pitching that enables him to objectively analyze his game to identify weaknesses so that he can improve upon them. And, his hard work has really begun to pay off, as he has elevated his game to the next level. Odd as it may sound, Klinker has actually managed to improve his baseline level of performance while climbing the developmental ladder. It's rare to see a pitcher improve against more advanced and challenging competition. Obviously, performance usually tails off as the competition improves. Klinker, on the other hand, has gotten even better as the competition has gotten better, which may well be a testament to both his hard work and impressive pitching IQ.
Collegiate Career and Draft Position
The Reds selected Klinker in the 15th round of the 2007 draft with the 469th overall pick. Klinker has pitching in the blood, as his father was a pitcher for Purdue University. Klinker was a draft eligible senior out of Furman University when the Reds called his name. He is yet another tall pitching prospect, which, of course, gives him additional room for growth and physical projection.
For Furman, Klinker spent his freshman and sophomore season working both as a starter and a reliever. As a junior and senior, he worked almost exclusively as a starter. During his four collegiate seasons, Klinker was never a dominant pitcher, posting season ERAs of 5.80, 4.38, 3.90, and 4.57, BB/9 ratios of 4.7, 4.2, 2.6, and 2.7, and K/9 ratios of 8.0, 6.2, 6.7, and 7.3, respectively.
He obviously had some potential, but lacked the electric stuff that tends to turn the heads of the scouting world, which is why he was still on the board when the Reds selected in round 15.
To open up the 2009 season, Klinker was sent to high-A Sarasota where he started 9 games. He worked a total of 42.1 innings in which he posted a 4.89 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, and a 42/8 K/BB ratio. Obviously, the ERA/WHIP are unimpressive, but his ratios (1.7 BB/9 and 8.9 K/9) were incredibly strong. His ERA was inflated by a poor hit rate, which was the result of poor luck (.391 BABIP). His groundball/flyball tendencies were pretty neutral at 1.13.
Obviously, the Reds looked beyond merely his ERA and WHIP in their decision to promote him to double-A Carolina. It didn't take long before he was making quick work of the more advanced level of competition. In 36.2 innings, Klinker posted a 2.95 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 3.2 BB/9, and 9.8 K/9. Despite his gaudy ratios, his FIP was only 4.29, as he was aided by a BABIP of .249 and a strand rate of 89.0%. So, he wasn't quite as strong as it appears at first blush, but it wasn't long before he was bumped up the ladder yet again.
For triple-A Louisville, Klinker worked 29.0 innings and posted a 2.48 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 4.0 BB/9, and 9.8 K/9. His FIP was a stellar 2.68 and both his BABIP (.298) and strand rate (73%), so his performance wasn't aided by luck, as his component stats were just as strong as his overall stats.
The surprising part of Klinker's performance in 2009 was that he posted the highest strikeout rate of both his collegiate and professional career. He had not previously topped the 9.0 K/9 mark at any level, but managed to do it against the advanced hitters in double-A and triple-A. His continued refinement of his offspeed pitches has improved his ability to generate swings-and-misses when he needs them. Not many pitchers improve as the competition improves, but the effectiveness of his riding fastball against wood bats and the continued development of his offspeed pitches has enabled Klinker to do just that.
Pitching Mechanics and Repertoire
Klinker features a two-seam fastball that he can effectively ride-in on the hands of right-handed hitters. This is actually a pitch that is more effective in the professional ranks, as it can break the wood bats. At the collegiate level, a pitch in on the hands can still be muscled into the outfield for a hit with the metal bats. His command of the fastball is one of his biggest strengths on the hill. He also utilizes a somewhat loopy 12-to-6 curveball. He has tightened it up and refined it as of late, which has improved its effectiveness, but it's still more of a slurve than a hard-biting off-speed pitch. He also uses a circle-changeup and has experimented with a split-fingered fastball to improve his effectiveness against left-handed hitters. Early in his professional career Klinker struggled to find a consistently effective offspeed pitch, but he has begun to improve his secondary offerings.
Klinker utilizes simple, straightforward mechanics that don't involve any wasted motion. He is very economical in his movements. He stands tall on the mound and begins his windup with a small step back while bringing his hands up to his chest. He then shifts his right foot down onto the rubber and brings his left leg up into his leg kick.
Klinker's leg kick rises up higher than parallel with the ground and his toe points down to the ground. At the apex of his leg kick he incorporates good hip rotation to build up energy to impart on the baseball. As he uncoils his leg kick and begins to drive towards homeplate, he gets a good push off the rubber. As he strides toward the plate, his glove-side arm rises up into a higher than normal position and his glove actually rises well up above shoulder level.
Klinker's arm slot is a three-quarter arm-slot, which prevents him from maximizing his ability to throw on a downward plane, but certainly seems to work for him. In addition, his arm action involves a slight cross-fire action.
His plant foot on the stride lands slightly closer to the thirdbase side, which is a slightly closed-off position. The position of his plant foot requires him to throw slightly across his body, which also results in him falling off to the firstbase side on his follow-through. Despite falling off to the first base side, Klinker generally maintains good balance and body control throughout the delivery.
There is one potential flaw in Klinker's delivery. The timing in Klinker's delivery is somewhat off, as his upper body isn't in sync with his lower body. His pitching arm lags behind his lower body, as evidenced by the photo to the right. In a perfectly timed delivery, the pitching arm is up in throwing position when the plant foot lands. In Klinker's case, his arm is horizontal to the ground, rather than vertical with the ball up around head level. The arm lag robs the throwing motion of efficiency, as the momentum drive towards the plate has to wait on the arm to catch up. It's not surprising that Klinker's timing is off, as taller pitchers frequently struggle to maintain good body control over the longer levers and torso. Despite being a taller pitcher, Klinker doesn't struggle very much with consistency in his delivery, but his arm does tend to lag a bit.
There are some really impressive photographs showing Klinker's pitching mechanics during a side throwing session available here.
Klinker may be the rare case of a late bloomer who has earned legitimate prospect status through hard work and study. As he continues to develop and improve his ability to locate his secondary offerings, he could continue to build on his breakthrough level of performance. While both he and Logan Ondrusek made stops at three levels in 2009, Klinker's much more impressive strikeout and walk ratios and the fact that he worked as a starter make him a better bet to sustain his breakout performance. Still, the 2010 season will provide an important data point on Klinker's career trajectory. It'll be interesting to see if he can maintain his new level of performance or if he'll regress and give back some of the gains he made in 2009.
Klinker is the type of pitcher who gets the absolute most out of his abilities, which when coupled with his refined secondary offerings is enough to land him at #15 on the list.