Childhood can be one of the most memorable moments in life. Our youth would not be complete without the famous and most favorite childhood treat, cookies When we were children we learned how to share with others. However, sharing our cookies with friends may have not been something we wanted to do!
As adults, when life gets tough, we long to retreat to a better time. We turn to memories of our younger years, invoking the smell and taste of homemade cookies. Remember the aroma of classic chocolate chip and yummy oatmeal raisin? Life seemed better when we had a cookie in both hands! Cookies are a favorite snack, regardless of age! A glass of cold milk with a plate of warm cookies, now that is relaxation! Cookies come in many styles and shapes, cookies for sale may be cut out or rolled in various shapes, they come dropped, pressed or in bars It doesn't matter, the question is what is your favorite cookie? What do you like to bake? Favorite recipes? Family recipes handed down..they all have special meaning to us, . However if you love to bake cookies; you should know the secrets to make your cookies the best. And make them your specialty cookies. After all happiness is the smell of homebaked cookies!
1. Use butter,not margarine. Butter and margarine are two different products. Butter is a natural product.. Butter also produces a flavor that cannot be created by other oil or fats. To soften your butter, bring to room temperature, if you squeeze your butter and it leaves a deep indentation, it is too soft, your identification should be minimal. Do not microwave to soften. Microwaving can change the consistency.
2. Cookie sheets should be heavy. Your cookies are less likely to burn if your cookie sheet is heavier.
3. Use parchment paper.. Parchment paper reduces the need to grease your baking sheets, creates even baking and minimizes clean up. You can re-use your parchment paper for the same type of cookies. In the long run, they are more economical and more efficient. Parchment paper also absorbs extra fat in your cookies and that is a good thing!.
4. Before baking or mixing your ingredients, take a moment and assess your kitchen, is it too hot, too cold, is the air humid or dry? What about altitude? All these play a factor in determining if you need to adjust your ingredients. Too humid? You may need to lessen fats and sugar. Too dry? Maybe alter the amount of flour, and increase your fats. . Bring your ingredients to room temperature before you mix them and above all do not over mix your batter!
5. . Before baking your specialty cookies, the first step is to have the right temperature set for your oven. Oven temperatures may vary by type of oven, gas or electric, conventional or convection.
6. Do not bake your cookies for too long. Once removed from the oven, cookies will continue to cook from the heat of the cookie sheets..
These are just some of the secrets in making your cookies the best. A lot of practice and you will eventually make perfect cookies. Who knows, maybe one day you may start your own business and offer your cookies for sale!!


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Come Join Tracy as she shows you how to create this Explosion box. Choose your own papers and colors.
The class cost is $18 and the day is January 24th (Tuesday) Her class times are 2:30-4pm and 5-6:30pm.
Must sign up at least 2 days in advance. Cash or check for classes.


I have just arrived, loyal reader, in Reno, Nevada, a city not too far from Lake Tahoe, fairly far from New York, high up in the desert mountains, where one can gamble if one likes or play in a chamber music festival if one is invited to do so. My trip was brightened by vistas of snow covered cities and farms seen from spacious window seats, delicious Starbucks yogurt parfaits and luxurious airport handwashing aided by an arsenal of automatic dispensaries. Unfortunately it was also marred by long delays, Starbucks sandwiches, John Cassavetes' Husbands, temporarily lost baggage, and an unsettled feeling, a sort of vague premonition of doom that I think was brought on by the aforementioned sandwiches (or I could have written 'by those self-same sandwiches.' I thought about it, and now I think both are bad.). Also, at one point near the end, a couple of skiing surfer dudes started punching each other at baggage claim. As I was saying, I am arrived, and now I lie swaddled up under the covers of a Murphy bed(!?!) in what has to be the nicest non-smoking conference room suite of this giant hotel-casino. This room is easily bigger than our apartment in New York, though 90 percent of it is taken up by the 30-person conference room table, really. I could change rooms tomorrow, but I'm fairly certain I will opt to stay right here. I feel like this will be a good space for me to do some quality brainstorming, or networking, or even conferencing if it comes to that. Here I will perform a work by Turina (the 2nd piano trio) for the first time in my natural life. I have to say, I love the music! It's like Brahms, but sexier. I hope I will be able to 'Turina' good performance. I'm also playing the first piano quartets of Faure and Martinu, along with the only piano quartet of Schumann. Looming over me this week like an unspeakable dread while I try to enjoy some nice and new music making is the upcoming camping trip I signed myself and my brother and my friend Zahari up for.


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Last weekend I finally got to join a workshop I have always wanted to take part in; a calligraphy workshop. No, not Chinese calligraphy. This one includes nibs, inks, cursive letters, and flourishes! Ah, dream come true!
The workshop was held at Cafe Demitasse and by the bellas of La Bella Scriturra.
When I entered the room (late), I saw bottles of ink and nib holders on the table. That got my blood rushing and I was more than eager to start learning!
Every student was given two envelopes. One contained our worksheets and the other contained our nibs, pen, and pencil.
And we all went through the basics of the basics, learning Nib Anatomy, how to dip properly into ink, what angle the pen should be, and other things.
One thing we were all surprised to learn was that we all needed to use our spit on our new nibs!
There was an awkward moment when we all had to spit on tissue paper and rub our nibs with it but we were all excited to get started, so spit and rub we did!
After learning how to assemble our pens, everyone started working on their practice sheets. With the guidance of the bellas, the activity was both enjoyable, peaceful, and very educational.
We practiced strokes with pencils first, then with ink. Heavy when going down, light when going up. It took a while for me to get used to doing it, and I couldn't really follow the outlines… but I think I did pretty well!
I was a very serious student. Haha!! The activity was very calming, just feeling the sharp end of the nib touch paper and running it across the surface… it has an effect on me!
Nearing the end of the workshop, we were given blank board paper that we had to write on. It was going to be our output card and the bellas held a contest for who they think did the best.
During this time, my hands were shaking from the cold, from the practice strokes, and from wanting to pee so badly. I didn't do very well and I didn't win. The winners' (there were more than one) works were beautiful, though. They deserved their win!
All in all, the workshop was a success! I definitely got what I needed to learn, and more! Now, I have the necessary equipment to start and to continue practicing and I now know what kind of paper to use!
Many thanks to the Bellas and I hope to join another of your workshops in the near future!
Check out the La Bella Scriturra website for more information on these lovely ladies and to check if there are workshops happening near you!
Hi!! 🙂 I don't think I took a photo of my work. Haha!! This was my very first ever workshop and I remember my output looked very… sharp, in a bad way. HAHA!


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import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;

public class LibgdxMusic implements Music, com.badlogic.gdx.audio.Music.OnCompletionListener {
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	public final long id;
	public final com.badlogic.gdx.audio.Music music;
	public final LibgdxAudio audio;

	public LibgdxMusic(LibgdxAudio audio, com.badlogic.gdx.audio.Music music) {
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		this.music = music;
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	public void stop() {
		music.stop();
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	public boolean isLooping() {
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	public void setVolume(float volume) {
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	@Override
	public float getPosition() {
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	@Override
	public void dispose() {
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	public void onCompletion(com.badlogic.gdx.audio.Music music) {
		audio.notifyMusicCompletionListeners(this);
	}
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title: Ubuntu Software Center verrà abbandonato dalle prossime release di Ubuntu
subtitle: il pesante software center di Ubuntu verrà definitivamente abbandonato
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USC (Ubuntu Software Center) verrà abbandonato a favore di Gnome Software, in Ubuntu 16.04 e derivate.
Non si sa se Lubuntu invece terrà Lubuntu Software Center(versione "allegerita" di USC).

Condivido appieno questa decisione in quanto USC è molto pesante e soffriva di crash random.

In Ubuntu 16.04 verrà inserito anche Gnome Calendar e verrano rimossi Brasero ed Empathy (saranno comunque disponibili sui repository).


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Q: Power Presets - Ubuntu 14.04 Hello Ubuntu Community,
On Windows, I was able to set different power plans ("Never Off", "Charging", etc.) which allowed me to change suspend/screen turn off settings with the click of a button. However, I'm not sure exactly how to do this on Ubuntu.
Anybody know how to do this?
Thanks!

A: Power settings are available at

System settings > Power option

where you can set suspend time, if you're on a laptop you can set lid events too. For turning off screen, look at system

settings > Brightness & lock

Or, if present, from the battery icon in the panel.

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Multi game arcade with 80 games in the one cabinet. Easy to use single or two player modes, 24.8″ VGA montior, includes two joysticks, 3″ trackball and buttons. Some of the games include Golden Tee Golf, Super Strike Bowling which use the trackball system and Mortal Kombat (various versions) NBA Jam and Defender which use the joysticks and buttons. For full games list click on Specifications tab.


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DSH Perfumes Le Smoking (YSL Retrospective Collection)
Posted on March 23, 2014 by Kafkaesque
Yves St. Laurent. Photo via Pinterest.
One of my greatest icons and heroes in the artistic world was Yves St. Laurent. As a child, long before I knew the extent of all his accomplishments, he was an indirect part of my world through my fashionista mother, and I worshipped him. Thank to her, I spent hours at his Avenue Montaigne boutique, admiring the sleek clothes and the even sleeker women who bought them. I would marvel at the beauty of the African and Ethiopian models he used on the runways (he was the first fashion designer to really break the colour ceiling), and at how they loped with exquisite grace in highly structured clothes that often plunged down to their navels or that were slit up to their hips. There were the famous Helmut Newton photo shoots, the aesthetic focus on Morocco and Africa, the stunning power of Opium perfume, the creation of the safari jacket, and Le Smoking.
Photo: Helmut Newton, 1975. YSL Smoking.
Above all else, and far before Opium became my personal holy grail, it was all about Le Smoking, Yves St. Laurent's reinvention of the tuxedo jacket for women that oozed sexuality, sleek minimalism, and power. From Catherine Deneuve (Saint Laurent's longtime muse) to Bianca Jagger, Jerry Hall, and many others, all the most iconic, famous women of the day clamoured for Le Smoking, often wearing it with nothing underneath. Today, when you see fashion mavens like Gwyneth Paltrow, Rihanna and others wearing a sleek tuxedo jacket and little else, it's a direct nod to Yves Saint Laurent.
Source: DailyMail.com
One reason why Le Smoking became as significant as it did is because the jacket exuded a powerful androgynous attitude, mixed with women asserting their sexuality in more traditionally masculine ways. What Caron's Tabac Blond sought to do for perfumery in the early 1920s, the Saint Laurent smoking jacket sought to do for fashion, amped up times a thousand with more overt sexualization. It was a fashion re-engineering of gender in a way that was completely revolutionary after the lingering impact of Dior's New Look with its focus on hyper-femininity, and the hyper obviousness of the Courreges miniskirt. (As a side note, YSL was actually the head designer at Dior for a few years. He reached that lofty level at the mere age of 21; a mere two years later, he designed the wedding dress for Farah Diba, future Empress, for her marriage to the Shah of Iran. You can read more about his fascinating, complicated life on Wikipedia, if you are interested.)
Source: Denver Art Museum.
Given my feelings about Saint Laurent, I was keenly interested when I heard that there was a perfume that paid tribute to Le Smoking. Nay, a whole collection of fragrances that were created in homage to Yves St. Laurent, from Le Smoking to my beloved Opium itself. It was the YSL Retrospective Collection from DSH Perfumes, an indie, artisanal American line out of Colorado.
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz. Source: The Perfume Magazine.
DSH Perfumes was founded by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, and all its fragrances are her personal creation. In 2012, she collaborated with the Denver Art Museum which was holding an exhibit on Yves Saint Laurent's long, storied career "as one of the greatest influencers in the world of fashion, culture and perfume." Those are not my words, or hyperbole. Those are CaFleureBon's words, and they're accurate because Saint Laurent really was that important. (To learn more about YSL and his "Gender Revolution," you can watch a PBS video on the Denver Exhibit, or click on a photo gallery from the Denver Museum that is available at the bottom of the linked page.)
To that end, Ms. Hurwitz created 6 fragrances, each of which was an olfactory interpretation of some aspect of Yves Saint Laurent's life. By a wonderful twist of fate, Ms. Hurwitz contacted me mere days after I was looking (for the umpteenth time) at her website. At the time, I had been too overwhelmed by all the tempting choices to make a selection, so I was grateful when Ms. Hurwitz offered to send me a number of her fragrances to test. I suspect that some of you might feel similarly at a loss to know what to choose, so I'm going to cover a number of her fragrances in a row.
Le Smoking in the 5 ml antique bottle. Source: DSH perfumes
Today's focus is the very unisex, green chypre-tobacco eau de parfum called Le Smoking. Other planned reviews include her patchouli scent, Bodhi Sativa. And there is obviously no way this Opium fanatic would miss Ms. Hurwitz's nod to, and reinvention of Opium, with her Euphorisme d'Opium. For the rest, I'm trying to decide between fragrances from her Egyptian collection and her Persian one, as well as her botanical Vanilla and some of the spice scents.
As a side note, I have to say that Ms. Hurwitz is one of the sweetest people I've encountered in a while. The overwhelming impression is of gentleness, mixed with a lovely warmth. She is down-to-earth, open, understanding, gracious, and a lady to her very fingertips. None of that will impact my objectivity in reviewing the actual fragrances, but I did want to thank her. She never once blinked at my numerous requests for the specific notes in each fragrance (the full list is not provided on the website), and she seemed to actually appreciate my obsession with details. (That last one alone is rather remarkable.)
Le Smoking. 10 ml mini bottle of EDP. Source: DSH Perfumes website.
Speaking of notes, Ms. Hurwitz says some of the many ingredients in Le Smoking include:
Top: galbanum, bergamot, clary sage, hyacinth, blackberry;
Heart: grandiflorum jasmine, damascena rose absolute, orris co2 extract, carnation, geranium, marijuana accord, honey;
Base: blond tobacco absolute, incense notes, styrax, leather, peru balsam, green oakmoss absolute, ambergris, castoreum.
Source: 10wallpaper.com
Le Smoking opens on my skin with a small blast of bitter greenness from galbanum and oakmoss. Both notes are infused with a lovely, dark, smoky incense, that is followed by a touch of marijuana. Now, I've never smoked marijuana, but I have occasionally been around people who do, so I'm somewhat familiar with the general aroma. To my untutored nose, the note in Le Smoking doesn't smell exactly like smoked pot, because it lacks a certain pungency that I've detected (skunks!), but it's not exactly like the unsmoked grassy version either. It's a little bit sweet, earthy, green but also brown, and, later on, quite a bit like patchouli mixed with marijuana.
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Mere seconds later, one of my favorite parts of Le Smoking arrives on scene. It's tobacco drizzled with honey, intertwined with leather, all nestled in the plush, rich oakmoss. The greenness of Le Smoking softens quite quickly on my skin, leaving a fragrance that is increasingly dark and smoky. It's flecked with sweetness, and has almost a chewy feel to it at times. On other occasions, the river of dark leather seems more dominant, especially once the styrax arrives. It also adds in a different form of smokiness that works beautifully with the deep oakmoss and that sometimes pungent galbanum that flitters about.
As a whole, Le Smoking doesn't feel particularly green on my skin. Rather, it feels like a darkly balsamic fragrance centered around honeyed tobacco and incense that merely happens to have some galbanum and to be centered on an oakmoss base. Its darkness sometimes feels like a balsam resin that has been set on fire. On other occasions, however, the sweetness of the honey swirled into the tobacco dominates much more. Lurking in the background is that ganja accord which is sweet, woody, chewy, and green, all at once. It is subtle now, after its initial pop in the opening minutes, but it is increasingly taken on a patchouli like aroma.
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It's all terribly sexy, but it's also quite masculine in feel. In fact, Le Smoking evokes so many "masculine" fragrances with their dark elements that I blinked the first time I tried it. I had had the vague impression that the perfume was a chypre for women. But, then, I remembered YSL's gender-bending goal, and the actual Le Smoking of the past. Feminine as masculine, masculine as feminine, but always boldness and sexiness throughout. Well, mission accomplished, Ms. Hurwitz. And to think that I had initially dreaded this fragrance as some sort of potential galbanum green bomb! Not one bit.
Other elements start to stir. Initially, the bergamot and clary sage were nonexistent on my skin, but they slowly start to raise their heads after ten minutes to add a quiet whisper. The clary safe is more noticeable out of the two, adding a herbal touch that is just faintly like lavender with a touch of soap. It's all very muted, however, unlike the carnation and geranium which are the next to arrive on scene. They add a peppered, spicy, and piquant edge, but the carnation has a clove-like undertone that works particularly well with the honeyed tobacco, leather, incense, and marijuana accords. Apart from the carnation, the other florals are very hard to detect on my skin, and the blackberry is nonexistent.
After 15 minutes, Le Smoking turns into a lovely bouquet of chewy, dark notes. The sweetness is perfectly balanced, and cuts through the smoky incense to ensure that the scent is never austere, stark, or brooding. The ganja's earthiness melts beautifully into the clove-y note from the carnation, while the leather is now met by a slight muskiness that betrays the castoreum in the base. Galbanum and oakmoss provide a little green sharpness, while the minuscule flickers of clary sage add a tinge of herbal freshness in the background. Throughout it all, honeyed tobacco continues to radiate a dark sweetness that is intoxicating. Call me suggestive, but one of Yves St. Laurent's plunging jackets really would be the perfect accompaniment to this scent.
Photo: Terry Richardson. Source: stylesaint.com
I keep thinking about Tabac Blond, Caron's gender-bending foray into leather and tobacco. It is such an enormously different perfume than Le Smoking, particularly in Tabac Blond's current version. For one thing, the leather note smells fundamentally different in the Caron scent, as it stems from birch tar. Le Smoking's leather does not. If anything, it is more of a subtle suggestion that is amplified by the castoreum in the base. Tabac Blond's tobacco also smells extremely different than the version here, and is just a minor touch. In fact, Tabac Blond's dominant focus on my skin seems to be the feminine traits of lipstick powder and florals, traits that only tangentially happen to have a masculine undertone on occasion. (The reformulated, modern Extrait is really a disappointment.)
With Le Smoking, the focus is almost entirely masculine, and all florals are subsumed so deep that they're impossible to pull out. The carnation is the only one, and even then, it smells primarily of cloves instead of anything floral on my skin. The hyacinth, jasmine, and rose… they barely exist. At most, they are swirled into a very nebulous sense of something vaguely "floral" that lingers in the background in the most muted and muffled form. (And even that only lasts 15 minutes or so.) On me, Le Smoking is a thick layer of darkness dominated by tobacco, incense, sweetness, spice, earthiness and slightly animalic musk. The perfume feels more like something that would come out from Nasomatto (albeit, a non-aromachemical Nasomatto) than Caron, if that makes any sense. Tabac Blond, this is not.
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The differences become even more stark after 30 minutes, as Le Smoking turns into a very different fragrance than what originally debuted. The patchouli-ganja element becomes more and more dominant, as does the castoreum. The latter is fantastic, feeling simultaneously musky, leathered, velvety, oily, dense, and a bit skanky. The two notes join the honeyed tobacco and the incense as the main players on Le Smoking's catwalk.
In contrast, the suggestion of leather softens, the galbanum retreats completely to the sidelines, and the brief blip of clary sage dies away entirely. The oakmoss feels as though it has melted into the base where it adds an indirect touch to the top elements. For the next two hours, I thought on a number of occasions that it had actually died away, but the oakmoss waxes and wanes, sometimes popping up to add a wonderful green touch to the increasingly brown-and-black landscape.
The overall effect after 35 minutes is a scent that feels wonderfully dense, earthy, musky, spicy, smoky, and sweet, with light touches of oily skank, upon a plush, mossy base. Le Smoking lies right above the skin at this point with a graceful airiness that belies the concentrated richness of its notes. More and more, the ganja note pirouettes like patchouli in a mix of sweet, smoky earthiness, with spiciness from the "cloves" and a pinch of cinnamon (presumably from the styrax). There is even a vague sense of something chocolate-like lurking deep underneath its chewy facade. I have to say, I love all of it.
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Other changes are afoot around the same time. At the end of the first hour, the tobacco turns darker and more concentrated in feel, while the honey starts to fade away. The leather and oakmoss feel even more like mere undercurrents, but the castoreum blooms. Unfortunately, the fragrance becomes harder to dissect at this point. One of the reasons why is that every element melts seamlessly into the next.
The other reason is the sillage. Ms. Hurwitz told me that her aesthetic preference is for soft, intimate fragrances, as she hates to "taste" perfume. As a result, she avoids creating anything with big projection. The problem is, on my skin, the lack of big sillage has resulted in several fragrances that have virtually NO sillage. I have problems with longevity, not projection, so it was quite a shock when a good number of the DSH line turned into skin scents on me after a mere 20 minutes. A few took even less time. Le Smoking was the best and strongest out of the ones that I've tried thus far, but it required me using over 1/3 of a 1 ml vial to experience even decent projection. Tests with a smaller quantity were rather hopeless, I'm afraid.
With the larger amount, Le Smoking initially wafted 1-2 inches in a very concentrated cloud. However, it took less than 12 minutes for the perfume to lie a mere inch above my skin. It dropped at the end of an hour to lie right on the skin, though it was always dense and rich in feel when smelled up close. Le Smoking turned into a skin scent after just 2 hours with the increased dose, but using anything less than 3-4 enormous smears gave me anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. Le Smoking has decent longevity on my skin if I apply a lot, but the perpetual intimacy of its scent is not my personal cup of tea. In fact, I find it to be a huge problem.
It was even more of a problem for my Yves St. Laurent-adoring, Smoking-wearing, chypre-loving mother who was a natural target for my testing. After a mere 5 minutes with 2 big smears of Le Smoking, she said bluntly, "I can barely smell it." So, I applied 2 more. It didn't change things much, and my mother kept frowning at me as she sniffed. In fact, she later said that Le Smoking didn't last more than 2 hours on her, which is unfortunately similar to some other reports of the perfume's longevity. One reason for such a brief period of time is that Le Smoking is almost all natural (or possibly, entirely natural, I forget which now). However, having a skin scent sillage doesn't help in letting people know the perfume might still be clinging on tenaciously.
The bottom line is that Le Smoking's projection will be a massive problem for anyone who wants to smell their fragrance without having to actually put their nose on their skin and inhale forcefully. The longevity may be another big issue as well. On the other hand, the entire DSH line would be perfect for even the most conservative office environment.
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Le Smoking is a largely linear fragrance on my skin, and loses a lot of its multi-faceted complexity after a while. As regular readers know, I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with linearity if you enjoy the notes in question. In this case, I love the early bouquet of tobacco, incense, earthy ganja-patchouli, and musky castoreum, with its chewy, honeyed, cloved, leathered, mossy and occasionally skanky inflections. Alas, at the end of the 2nd hour, Le Smoking turns primarily into a tobacco and marijuana fragrance with more abstract, indistinct elements ranging from earthiness, to spices, sweetness, and muskiness. It's still lovely, but I have to admit, it isn't as interesting or as enchanting as it was at the start.
An hour later, Le Smoking becomes an increasingly simple scent of earthy, sweet, musky tobacco. It remains that way until the end when Le Smoking dies away as a blur of sweet earthiness. All in all, Le Smoking lasted just under 8 hours on my skin with the massive dose. With more regular amounts, I had about 3-4 hours of duration. Yes, the difference was that dramatic, and my only explanation is that perhaps I simply couldn't smell any lingering traces of the perfume.
Bianca Jagger in Yves St. Laurent. Source: lifestylemirror.com
I loved Le Smoking's opening hour, absolutely loved it. It's sexy as hell, beautifully done, very elegant, and incredibly sophisticated. The remainder was lovely, until the end of the third hour basically, at which point my frustration with the sillage started to impact my feelings about the scent as a whole. That's not fair, and I know it, but it's hard when you really like something and can barely detect it. I'm clearly the wrong target demographic for DSH Perfumes, but it doesn't change how smoldering or sexy Le Smoking can be at first, or how brilliantly it conveys Yves St. Laurent's whole message behind his jackets.
The reviews for Le Smoking are very positive, though rarely detailed. (As a side note, there are no comments posted on Fragrantica about the scent.) At Bois de Jasmin, guest-writer Suzanna had a tiny paragraph which was mostly about Le Smoking's notes. The one sentence about the smell of the actual perfume itself was: "The brilliant touch is that this fragrance, which might sound like a heavyweight, dries down to a light, erotic skin scent." Mark Behnke wrote more for CaFleureBon:
For Le Smoking Ms. Hurwitz embraces the masculine origins of the tuxedo with the herbal quality of clary sage and green galbanum making a provocative start. Geranium carries the green theme into the heart and then a sweet jasmine leads to a honey and cannabis accord that truly smokes. Tobacco signals the transition to the base and this is a sweeter tobacco for arising from the cannabis. It is complemented by incense, balsam, and leather.
Over at Now Smell This, Angela loved Le Smoking, calling it one of her two favorites from the YSL Retrospective Collection
On my skin, Le Smoking is a trip to a spring pasture while wearing a classy formulation of Dana Tabu. Le Smoking is a sweet-dirty medley of tobacco, benzoin, incense and dry leather with a chiffon-like veil of tart green overlaying it for the five minutes the green takes to burn off. All those flowers listed in its making? I'm sure they do something important, but they collapse to a sultry, unisex potion fit for double agents who lounge in private clubs.
Neither of these fragrances lasts much longer than three hours before retreating to skin level, but it's an enjoyable ride while it lasts.
Dried tobacco leaves. Source: colourbox.com
Le Smoking lasted a similarly brief period of time on Marlen over at The Perfume Critic, but he also loved the scent and thought it a throwback to the men's classics of the '70s. His detailed review reads, in part, as follows:
Le Smoking is a stunning, unisex chypre built on leather, tobacco/marijuana and Moroccan incense. […]
You'll like this if you like: Tobacco, chypres, leather fragrances, Fresh Cannabis Santal.
Pros: So incredibly different from most chypres thanks to Dawn's light hand with the oakmoss – no grassy, soapy drydown here; absolutely no "natural perfume" vibe.
Cons: I wish the longevity was a bit better. [¶][…]
Reminds me of: Le Smoking is a throwback to men's fragrances of the mid-80′s – think Tuscany Uomo and Santos de Cartier…or even further back to the classic chypres of the late 60′s and early 70′s such as Rabanne Nuit, Ivoire de Balmain, etc. It's tone, however, is a bit lighter than all of these. [¶][…]
Le Smoking is seamlessly blended and though it moves from a bright neroli & citrus opening to warm, ambery basenotes, the core of the composition never really shifts – tobacco, marijuana and leather are always at the heart. […][¶] Lasted about 2-3 hrs on my skin; I wish it packed a bit more punch for a longer period of time. […]
Le Smoking was my hands down favorite of Dawn's collection created for the Denver Art […] [A]s chypres and I never really get along, likely due to the dry and bitter soapiness of the oakmoss (and I also have problems with tobacco scents for the same reason), I was a bit surprised to fall so deeply in love with Dawn's creation. Despite the complexity of the composition, Le Smoking has a singular character, not unlike the aroma that greets the nose at the opening of a filled humidor. But what really gets me going is the vanillic sweetness at the drydown that lingers and lingers, so unlike many of the scents it reminds me of who become far too dry for my tastes.
Truly, Le Smoking as a natural perfume feels as if it could have come from an equivalent niche house like L'Artisan or Caron.
I agree, Le Smoking doesn't smell like the typical natural perfume, and would work well on someone who loves tobacco, leather, or cannabis scents. I would add patchouli and smoky fragrances to that list as well, but not necessarily chypres. I think anyone who expects a typical or truly green chypre perfume may be in for a little bit of a surprise.
All in all, I think the Maestro would have thoroughly enjoyed Le Smoking and its dark, sultry character. I know he would have smiled approvingly at how elegantly the perfume crosses gender lines. Le Smoking is absolutely lovely, and I would wear it in a heartbeat if … well, you know.
Disclosure: Perfume sample courtesy of DSH Perfumes. That did not impact this review, I do not do paid reviews, and my opinions are my own.
Cost & Availability: Le Smoking is an Eau de Parfum that is offered in a variety of different sizes, as well as in a pure parfum concentration. All versions are sold exclusively on DSH Perfumes' website. Le Smoking is offered in: a 10 ml decant size of EDP for $55; a 5 ml EDP in an antique bottle for $98; a 1 oz/30 ml EDP size for $125; and an Extrait Pure Parfum version in an antique bottle in a 0.5 oz size for $198. Samples are available at $5 for a 1/2 ml vial of EDP. There is also a special YSL Retrospective Collection Coffret, where all 6 fragrances in the line are offered in 5 ml bottles for $98. All orders over $10 will receive free samples of fragrances, with the number depending on the price of your order. If you are outside the U.S., international shipping is available if you contact DSH Fragrances. Samples: a number of DSH fragrances are available on Surrender to Chance under the name of "Dawn Spencer Hurwitz," but the YSL Retrospective collection is not offered. The Perfumed Court does not have any fragrances from DSH Perfumes. Your best bet is to order directly from the company itself.
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26 thoughts on "DSH Perfumes Le Smoking (YSL Retrospective Collection)"
Tora on March 23, 2014 at 10:23 am said:
Honey, tobacco, leather, galbanum, oakmoss, patchouli……OH MY!!!! You painted such a beautiful picture of this perfume. It is sad though, that it does not project, nor last. The composition sounds divine.
Kafkaesque on March 23, 2014 at 10:34 am said:
You forgot the marijuana. LOL. 😉 😀 But yes, it is really stunning, which makes the sillage issue all the more frustrating for me. I know there are people out there who love intimate skin scents. I'm just the furthest thing from being one of them. I know you, as well as a few other readers, are the same way.
wefadetogray on March 23, 2014 at 11:24 am said:
I will be forever amazed at the laws of virtual synchronicity. I was just last week deciding my next olfactory move and DSH's rendition of my beloved Opium assaulted me. I had to have it. I have been doing my research to place a big order to indulge myself, so I will wait until you are done with your reviews to see what else I add to my cart.
I do love an unhealthy dose of honeyed tobacco. I have been wearing pretty much on a daily basis my beloved Bois Blond (I am not sure you will like it though. Should I try Tabac Blond?). I will definitely try this one yet the sillage saddens me a bit. I like my scents to endure and to fill me up with their aura. I don't really need massive projection but I want to be able to smell myself when I move. I own and love Winter White by DSH and it lasts on my skin no more than 2 hours and that is considering I have a skin that makes perfumes last well past a shower!
Kafkaesque on March 24, 2014 at 3:33 pm said:
Considering how your skin retains perfume, and your love for honeyed tobacco, I definitely think you should try Le Smoking. You may well have better luck with its sillage than I did. 🙂 Have you tried the DSH version of Opium and, if so, how long did it last on your skin? As for Tabac Blond, do you like a lot of powder?
wefadetogray on March 24, 2014 at 3:48 pm said:
I haven't tried it yet. I was trying to find reviews on other perfumes so I could place a big order. I want to try it although I fear to try it! It makes no sense, I know, but these things happen to me with perfume and movies. I do like powder. I am not sure I like it in crazy amounts. A sample wouldn't hurt, right? Mmmmhhhh. I am going to wait for your thoughts on DSH's Opium before I order it though. I know you love it too!
theasceticlibertine on March 23, 2014 at 1:15 pm said:
Dear Kafka, just had to write in that I'm also a fellow YSL adorer/admirer–I'm assuming you've seen the documentary on him ("His Life and Times")? Great stuff, though I wish there had been more clothes… 🙂 Another, "L'Amour Fou," I have yet to get through because it made me too sad (but I will at some point!). Amazing review, as always. I love dark, spicy, honeyed leather scents (and even patchouli, although in some formulations it can go foul on me) but the cannabis/marijuana accord gives me pause. Still, I'll keep an eye out for this one, just to sniff. Look forward reading the rest of your reviews on this line!
Yay for another YSL admirer! I've seen the first documentary on him, but not the second. Like you, it makes me too sad. I don't want to think about the last decade of his life, and his unhappiness. I know the primary focus of L'Amour Fou is on other things, like his/Bergé's love of collecting, but there's reportedly enough on YSL's depression and sadness. I don't want to think of that, for his own sake, you know? (I know you'll understand given what you said about your own difficulties in watching the piece.)
As for Le Smoking, definitely keep it in mind since you like a lot of the notes mentioned, and since the cannabis really smells more like patchouli (to me, at least). 🙂
hajusuuri on March 23, 2014 at 3:14 pm said:
When DSH had its holiday sale back in December, I vowed to get a sampler set because i have never tried any. Guess what? I was so overwhelmed by the choices that I ended up not getting anything. (I seem to have problems when a brand that I can only meet online carries a lot of perfumes.). Anyway, your review and the upcoming ones piqued my interest and I will place an order the next time there's a discount code. Le sigh…
The sheer plethora of choices is definitely overwhelming, so I can relate completely. I'd looked at the site a number of times but always felt lost as to where to begin. Hopefully, the upcoming reviews will help you to narrow things down a little more. 🙂
Esperanza on March 24, 2014 at 2:21 am said:
Interesting review, Kafka. Living in Amsterdam I am very familiar with THE scent of pot and I have come to really detest it as THE scent of marihuana can be forced on you here. So I do not think this is a scent I Will enjoy but I would still like to smell it. It is a Pity though Le Smoking has no longevity or sillage. Enjoyed Reading your review !
Given your particular location, I can understand your hesitation completely, Esperanza! When one lives in Amsterdam, smelling of cannabis in perfume form may not be the most appealing or unusual thing around. LOL.
poodle on March 24, 2014 at 3:48 am said:
Lovely review and I look forward to your reviews of some of her other perfumes since I have wanted to try a few but don't really have an easy way to do so. I do have a few samples that were given to me. Not this one though. If it fades to a skin scent that fast I'll pass on this. I like a little more oomph.
I think you'd enjoy the bouquet and notes in Le Smoking, but Ms. Hurwitz doesn't like big sillage, so that is her aesthetic preference as a whole.
For me, sillage is as critical an issue as the particular notes in a fragrance. Longevity as well. A lot of blogs seem to gloss over both factors, as if they are not important, or skip it entirely. I feel very differently. In the case of DSH Perfumes, I think liking intimate scents will be a must.
DSH on March 25, 2014 at 2:10 am said:
Thank you so much, Kafka, first and foremost for the honor you have given my designs with your time, attention and wonderful writing. I am also deeply touched and very grateful for your kind personal words. I do truly admire your very in-depth approach and attention to detail. It is one of the aspects of your reviews that I love the most.
Thank you also for the very constructive criticism (which I am very open to) and as I am in the process of editing and revisiting much of my catalog, I will keep in mind the issues you have experienced with sillage and longevity while keeping true to my own aesthetic (which will, perhaps, be a challenge at many points…). It has been a great pleasure and I send all of my best wishes for your continued success with Kafkaesque!
Thank you for your very gracious, wonderfully kind response, Dawn. I know our tastes are very different when it comes to the sillage issue, but it is truly one of THE most important elements in a fragrance for me. If a perfume is absolutely lovely, but with intimate sillage that soon turns into a skin scent, I would walk away instantly. It could be the most beautiful perfume in the world, but if I can barely smell it, then that takes precedence over everything. You know, my absolute favorite patchouli scent thus far and one I completely fell in love with is scent from Jovoy, but the intimate sillage automatically and instantly rules it out for me. And not just for me, either, as numerous other people have walked away from considering the scent solely because of the sillage and how low it is.
So, I would be happy if you would keep people like myself in mind if or when you revisit any of your scents, especially Le Smoking as it is simply gorgeous. Truly, truly lovely.
And thank you for the very kind words on the detailed nature of my reviews. That means a lot to me.
Kevin on March 25, 2014 at 5:56 am said:
I've heard so much about Dawn's scents and it's high time I tried them! This honestly sounds really lovely, and I know so many people prefer the more discrete. I'm not that person, but I can see why she has such a devoted fan base. Even though I find the sillage and longevity issues troubling personally, it really makes me want to try her stuff – not to mention she sounds gracious and lovely which makes me more inclined to try her stuff.
Yves Saint Laurent was a pretty wonderfully talented individual, for sure. I loved the documentary I saw on him, and his house in Morocco was truly enviable!
God, that house in Morocco! Wowzer! I definitely think you'd enjoy a few from the DSH line, and the botanicals are almost attar-like in concentration. Some people have good sillage with them, so fingers crossed that you are one of them.
Christos on April 4, 2014 at 12:19 pm said:
Just a quick comment to attest to the gracious kindness of Dawn and to the genius of Le Smoking. Your detailed review almost deters me from writing my own, don't worry though, I HAVE to write about this one! It is the one perfume that comes closest to my personal vision of perfection in a long time and I am extremely happy that it is so ambiguously unisex that I will be wearing it fearlessly.
Kafkaesque on April 4, 2014 at 5:11 pm said:
HURRAH! More love for Le Smoking, and one of your lovely, detailed reviews as well. I can't wait. 🙂 Just out of curiosity, and because I'm a little bit too impatient for the full review, did you dab or spray, and how was the longevity on you?
BTW, as a side note, for your jasmine series, you may want to consider Xerjoff's Al Khatt. I just posted the review and I thought of you, as it's death by jasmine syrup. Osswald in Zurich has Al Khatt, so you can sniff it easily and without ordering a sample. 🙂
Christos on April 6, 2014 at 7:14 am said:
I dabbed Le Smoking and yes, longevity could be better but is quite potent scent so I don't know whether this is good or bad. I can't say that I have experienced a full wearing because I only have a sample which I cherish for my review.
My jasmine post is not exactly a series. You were mislead by "#1" which is actually part of the name of the fragrance "Untitled #1". Untitled #2 exists and I have already written a mini review of it. Spyros Drosopoulos, the perfumer behind Magnetic Scent, uses Untitled to name fragrances created not out of a concept but as a need to showcase a special ingredient.
I am not fond of sweet jasmine. I reviewed those two because they both share a futuristic representation of the classic note. My favourite jasmine of all times is Sarrasins which does not use jasmine sambac (as the two perfumes I reviewed revently) but jasmine grandiflora, which is the jasmine that grows in gardens and balconies in Greece.
Kafkaesque on April 6, 2014 at 7:25 am said:
I wasn't confused by the perfume's name, which I knew was "Untitled #1," but I had the impression that you were doing a whole series in a row on different jasmine fragrances. My apologies for my misunderstanding. 🙂 As for jasmine grandiflora, it's lovely and I can see it as being far more appealing to you than something sweeter. 🙂
Don't apologise dear.I am not "there" yet to do a jasmine series, perhaps I will never be… I don't feel passionate enough to do so.
sylviavirginia on April 11, 2014 at 12:15 pm said:
Your reviews are so lovely and loving…they may exceed the perfumes that you describe. Have you ever thought about that?
Kafkaesque on April 11, 2014 at 3:38 pm said:
You're very kind. Thank you for the huge praise. In this case, it is my undying, passionate love for Opium which deserves all the credit. I do hope, however, that my writing doesn't overshadow the perfumes or, even worse, create a misleading sense about them. Maybe you haven't read any of my really harsh reviews? lol 😉 Joking aside, thank you very much for your kind words.
Don on January 8, 2016 at 12:18 pm said:
Forgot to mention (I think) that I tried Le Smoking, Fumée d' Or, Fou d' Opium, Opium Euphorisme, Aroma d' Egypte, Keni, Seve de Pin. I really loved them all, especially Le Smoking.
Kafkaesque on January 11, 2016 at 2:49 pm said:
I'm glad you enjoyed them, Don. 🙂

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If you have two hours to spare, consider scrolling through South By Southwest's official list of musicians performing over the course of the seven-day festival. If you only have five minutes, let us do the work for you — below, check out some of the festival's standouts.
Courtney Barnett is seconds away from joining the female rock goddess hall of fame. Barnett's head-bobbing rock rivals the works of Debbie Harry, the Wilson sisters and Annie Clark. Her second album, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit, drops March 24.
Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Barnett writes and performs wordy, guitar-heavy songs with poetic elegance. The 26 year old churns out music filled with underappreciated literary techniques, including alliteration, thoughtful pacing and extended metaphors.
Often times, Barnett uses her choruses as stanza breaks from her long-winded, spoken verses. "Pedestrian at Best," the first single off her sophomore album, follows this structure with great success. Every word is clear and audible, magnifying each word's meaning.
In preparation for her album's release, the Aussie will perform a number of shows during SXSW. Already an indie-rock darling, Barnett should find Austin and its relaxed hipster citizens welcoming.
When: Thursday, March 19 12:00–1:00 a.m.
When: Friday, March 20 5:00–5:40 p.m.
No one does it like Leon Bridges. Bridges. a 24-year-old Fort Worth native, is the R&B soul singer Sam Cooke fans have waited for since the late artist's death 50 years ago. All signs point to time travel, from his '50s inspired outfits to his musical themes.
With the help of Austin musicians and White Denim duo Austin Jenkins and Josh Black, Bridges produced his first album after signing with Columbia records — the same label that represents Louis Armstrong and Bob Dylan. The highly anticipated release is set for late summer. "Coming Home," one of the two singles available for download, became a "Top 10 Most Viral Track" on Spotify after its release in February.
His performances are subtle and genuine. Bridges' authenticity makes you question what he's doing in 2015. His ease with the guitar and confident vocals give off the impression he would perform exactly the same way in front of his bathroom mirror as he would in front of the president. Tracks such as "Better Man" will make any girl blush before the chorus even starts.
When: Friday, March 20 10:45–11:30 p.m.
The beautifully bilingual lead singer of Christine and the Queens, Héloïse Letissier, is France's latest transplant. Her highly synthesized and layered pop hits blend English and French lyrics in a consumable way. In her moody song "Nuit 17 à 52," about 20 percent of the lyrics are in English and the rest are in French.
In 2014, Letissier released her first full-length album, Chaleur Humaine, which topped the charts in Belgium and peaked at No. 2 in France. Most of her music is unavailable in the United States with the exception of iTunes and her official YouTube page.
Letissier's synthpop songs and the accompanying artistic music videos haven't gone unnoticed stateside. Marina and the Diamonds asked Christine and the Queens to open for their SXSW show.
When: Saturday, March 21 10:00–10:50 p.m.
Not long after, his song caught the attention of the music industry. Frost signed with Atlantic Records, which produced his 2013 EP Low High Low. Beats Electronic, the company Dr. Dre co-founded, picked up "White Lies" for commercial use, and in 2013, Frost opened shows for Fitz and The Tantrums and Gary Clark Jr.
Frost has yet to completely formulate his music style, but if his 2014 release, "Let Me Down Easy," is any indication, the 22 year old will be a force in the R&B pop music world.
The Austin singer-songwriter has three performances planned and certainly a number of shows yet to be announced.
When: Tuesday, March 17 12:00–12:40 a.m.
When: Thursday, March 19, 9:00–9:40 p.m.
When: Friday, March 20 1:00–1:50 p.m.
Check back on March 1 for our next installment of the DT Monthly Playlist. In the meantime, follow us on Twitter at @thedailytexan for great music reviews and recommendations all month long.
For those who couldn't care less about the new Katy Perry album released Tuesday, last week, two women put together two wildly different yet intriguing releases that show what pop music actually sounds like in 2013.
Between the folk-rock of Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett on her new EP and the dark electronic-pop hybrid of Los Angeles artist Kelela on her new free mixtape, these rising artists are showcasing exciting music.
The first of these two releases is The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas by Courtney Barnett, a collection of all her previously released material in the past two years available for purchase and streaming on her Bandcamp page. Barnett is the ultimate charming slacker, singing about how she is too lazy to even buy a television, with a wide range and a knack for great songwriting that fans of Liz Phair will enjoy. She adeptly shifts between indie pop on "Don't Apply Compression Gently" to stream of consciousness folk-rock reminiscent of early Dylan on the incredible "History Eraser." This all comes together on the standout "Avant Gardener," a winding tale of the singer's insecurities, as she sings about "having trouble breathing in" and doing "anything to take [her] mind from where it's supposed to be." The song, like the album as a whole, is expertly written and a great collection of art that fans of sharply written folk-rock will love.
For those who prefer their pop music on the darker and more futuristic side of the spectrum, there is nothing better than the free debut mixtape from Kelela, the electronic-pop star previously notable for collaborating vocals on dance tracks by groups like Teengirl Fantasy. Kelela's debut, Cut 4 Me, combines the dark and boundary-pushing production of experimental dance artists, such as Girl Unit or Kingdom, with breezy pop that glides over the complex beats. Imagine if one of the Knowles sisters sang soaring hooks over the harsh yet enticing beats present on Kanye West's Yeezus for an idea of what Kelela is doing on her mixtape.
Songs such as "Enemy" or "Do It Again" feature production that is so slippery and tricky they could serve as intriguing cuts for the dance floors of underground clubs on their own. Kelela's vocals ride in on top of the songs with such ease that she recalls the way Aaliyah would expertly sing over Timbaland's tricky beats, but updated for 2013. Cut 4 Me is a wildly inventive debut that is incredibly enticing, showing what forward-thinking pop music truly sounds like.
There are plenty of great female musicians making great pop music in 2013, from the '90s inspired musicians in Waxahatchee and Speedy Ortiz to the electronic pop of artists such as FKA twigs and CHRVCHES. Barnett and Kelela may be doing it in different ways, but on their debuts, they show how much more there is to contemporary pop music than what can be heard on the radio.


Art San Diego is getting underway Friday with its Opening Night preview party at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.
(NEWS 8) - Art San Diego is getting underway Friday with its Opening Night preview party at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.
The gallery is San Diego's largest contemporary art show and one of the biggest show's in the country, featuring 60 different publishers, galleries and studios and more than 500 established artists, sculptors and photographers from around the globe.
Tickets for the show at the Wyland Center are available for single days and the whole weekend. Find more information here.


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Is The Liberal South By Southwest Festival Islamaphobic?
by Jeff Dunetz | Mar 16, 2016 | Culture
On Saturday, Ibtihaj Muhammad, a member of the U.S. Fencing Team, who will most likely be the first U.S. Olympian to wear a hijab, was registering for the liberal South by Southwest (SXSW) festival where she was scheduled to speak. At the registration, she was ordered to remove her hijab for a security photo. Ms Muhammad, who wears the hijab for religious purposes and has become a prominent U.S. athlete with sponsors such as Visa and American Airlines, tweeted about the incident as it was happening
And when Ms. Muhammad finally got her badge, they got her name wrong:
Later that day, Ibtihaj Muhammad appeared on a panel called "The New Church: Sport as Currency of American Life."
"I had a crappy experience checking in," she said. "Someone asking me to remove my hijab isn't out of the norm for me. … Do I hope it changes soon? Yes, every day."
As for sponsors who might object to her speaking out, she said, "If a sponsor wants to walk away … they weren't meant for me anyway."
The festival did issue an apology:
It is not our policy that a hijab or any religious head covering be removed in order to pick up a SXSW badge. This was one volunteer who made an insensitive request and that person has been removed for the duration of the event. We are embarrassed by this and have apologized to Ibtihaj in person, and sincerely regret this incident."
What makes this incident different is that South By Southwest is a showcase of liberal culture and technology. It is so liberal that President Obama skipped the funeral of former First Lady Nancy Reagan to speak at the event.
If something like this happened at CPAC or any other conservative event, the broadcast networks would most probably have interrupted their normal programing to break the story of the conservative affront to the American Muslim population and all the Sunday news programs would have led with the story. But, South by Southwest was not a conservative event, so the networks ignored it as they do just about any liberal error.


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Q: Creating x amount of pages equal to x ID's in database? The title may be a little vague, but I'll try to explain the concept here.
I have a site in which daily new items ( sports games ), get published, now what I would love is that my users would be able to click on a certain game and get redirected to a new page with more detailed information about that one game.
The thing is, creating every php page seperate for every game each day is a lot of work because also a lot details in the page need to be changed.
Now I was wondering if it is possible in some kind of way that there's a script that reads, OK you have 5 games today, page 1 = id number, title of the page is the matches name, extra info is the info that stands with that id.
I don't know how else to explain this so I hope this was good enough.
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A: You can use requests to select the page (the best way is to use $_GET as suggested by gbestard) to select the ID. Then you can have some static content (like url or short article or link to screen shot or something similar) stored in your database under the same ID as the game, and upon clicking on the link to the game, the page is reloaded and you populate it with the new content, that was stored in the database.
You can even store entire pages with static html (as in article or short game description in your case) content and etc in your database and simply call them to populate a div.
If you have something like a custom made admin section of your site, you can add a page to edits it with a js plugin like ckeditor and the creation/editing of articles will be a piece of cake.
It's pretty much a standard case of a CMS(Content management system).


Politics of Sir Lanka is undergoing serious changes in the last decade. These changes have shaken the very foundations of the major pillars of the post-colonial hegemonic edifice of Sri Lanka. Two of such pillars are the two-party equilibrium system and the North-South equilibrium system. The objective of this presentation is to map the post-colonial political landscape in Sri Lanka in relation to these two equilibrium systems and shed some light on the changes that are taking place in these two systems.
There was no well-developed party system at the time of the transfer of state power from the British colonial rulers to the indigenous elite in 1948. While the influence of the two organized left wing parties, i.e. the Lanka Samasamaja Party (LSSP) and the Communist Party (CP) restricted only to certain areas, the United National party (UNP) was only a makeshift arrangement that was made to face the 1947 general election. The number of independent candidates that were contested and won the 1947 election bear witness for the reality where the political allegiance of the voting public still remained outside political parties.
This situation began to change since 1956 with two structural changes. Firstly, two major Sinhala-Buddhist parties, namely Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the UNP consolidated in the Sinhala-Buddhist south as two main electoral rivals. I call these two parties 'Sinhala-Buddhist' as they rely mainly on the support of the Sinhala-Buddhist constituency for their electoral success. From 1956 to 1977 these two parties mostly with other minor parties whom they formed electoral alliance with managed to defeat each other in successive elections.
Secondly, two left parties which had evolved since 1930s as decisive force in Sri Lankan politics began to lose its grip on electoral process. As individual political parties, their impact was entirely disappeared after 1977. They could remain in electoral politics after 1977, even with the introduction of the proportional representation, a system that is much favorable for political parties with lesser voter-attraction, only through alliances first with the Sri Lanka Mahajana Party (SLMP), the party that managed to keep some voter-attraction immediately after the death of its charismatic leader, Vijaya Kumaratunga,and then with the SLFP.
After 1994 sees the metamorphosis of the Peoples' Liberation Front (JVP), which had devised its strategy to capture state power through organized armed insurgencies, into an electoral party. In this period the sudden growth of its voter attraction in the Sinhala-Buddhist South made one believe that it is emerging as a threatening force for the two-party equilibrium system.
Tamil North and Sinhala-Buddhist South emerged as two separate politico-ideological entities since the latter part of the nineteenth century, the period that began the modern political sphere. In the South, the cultural revival started in the mid-nineteenth century transformed itself into a nationalist politico-ideological formation which defined its 'self' in opposition to 'the non-Sinhala-Buddhist other' including Tamils. Although there emerged indigenous elite political entity, Ceylon National Congress (CNC), in line with the powerful Indian National Congress, bringing together both Sinhala and Tamil elites, this alliance did not last long as Tamil elite left the CNC over the issue of distribution of limited spaces available for locals in the legislative council in the 1920s.
At the time of the transfer of power, these two politico-ideological centers were well consolidated as separate entities. Unlike in India, however, where two similar historically evolved politico-ideological entities were transformed in two sovereign states, i.e. India and Pakistan, transfer of the power in Sri Lanka took the form of a single and unitary political entity, even in defiance of the so-called 50-50 demand that came from the Tamil political elite, as an alliance between Sinhala and Tamil political elite was forged in order to form a government following the 1947 general election. This alliance was however proved to be ineffective in the long run as Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist forces gained control in the government with the election victory of Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) in 1956.
With the increasing Sinhala-Buddhicization of the state after 1956, in which certain measures by the state such as official language act of 1957, certain measures taken in the realm of university admission and allocation of state sector jobs, and land colonization scheme in the North and the East were viewed by the Tamil masses, especially those in the North and the East as calculated measures against them. These governmental measures were supplemented by ethnic violence against Tamil masses by Sinhalese in creating further negative image in the mind of Tamil masses. This situation strengthened the grip of Tamil nationalist political elite over Tamil masses and augmented the demand of the former for a regional autonomy for the North and the East.
Amidst this ethno-based bifurcation of post-colonial political landscape in the Sri Lanka, the top layer of the political elite of the south and its think tank were very well aware of the gravity of the problem. Therefore, there was a continuous engagement between the Tamil nationalist elite and top layer of the governing elite, even at times of high tension, although there was no firm political will in the latter to come to a long-lasting agreement by defiance of Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist pressure. Bandaranaike-Chelvanayagam pact of 1958, Dudley-Chelvanayagam pact of 1967, enactment of the 13th amendment to the constitution following the Indo-Lanka accord, election manifesto of the Democratic People's Alliance headed by Sirima Bandaranaike for the 1988 presidential election, the package of political solution of 1995 by the Chandrika Kumaratunga government and finally Ranil–Prabha agreement of 2002 were clear instances for the flexibility shown by the top layer of the political elite of the south in this connection.
This flexibility was enabled by two factors. On one hand there was a significant distance between the hard-core of the Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism and the top layer of the political elite of the south. On the other hand, there was a pragmatic need for the political elite of the south to be flexible on the demands of the Tamil nationalism, and for those of the other minority groups such as Muslims. As the Sinhala-Buddhist constituency was sharply divided between two political camps headed by two major Sinhala-Buddhist parties, the support of the more unified constituencies of the minorities were essential for each of the two camps to ensure significant upper hand over its rival at elections and post-election efforts to form governments.
The election victory of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) marked the end of these two equilibrium systems that shaped the post-colonial political landscape. Two important structural changes occurred in the politics of the Sinhala-Buddhist south with the election victory of the UPFA in 2004 and, especially, 2005.
Firstly there was a gradual unification of the Sinhala-Buddhist constituency around the UPFA. This unification occurs at the expense of both the UNP and the JVP. The recoverability shown by the UNP after the major electoral setback in 1956 is not repeated after the setback marked by not-so-severe election defeat at the 2004 general election. Since then there is a gradual decline of the voter attraction for the UNP among the Sinhala-Buddhist constituency.
There is also a steep decline of the voter attraction to the JVP in the Sinhala-Buddhist south. Massive increase of the voter base of the JVP in the Sinhala-Buddhist south began to crumble since the JVP left the UPFA.
It is not only the UNP and the JVP, whose existence are challenged in this new context, but also SLFP situation is also no better. When the election results of the Northwestern provincial council is closely observed, this becomes clear. Candidates who received higher preferential votes are not SLFP's party based candidates. But those who can be identifies as post-political party politicians. One has to look at the poor performance of the former chief minister who is a party man. It is also interesting to note the election results of Colombo district in the last general election where a number of post-political-party politicians such as Wimal Weerawansa, Duminda Silva, Champika Ranawaka, Dinesh Gunawardana, Tilanga Sumathipala, topped the list at the expense of party-based candidates.
In this sense the UPFA is not an alliance of various political parties in the traditional sense, but a 'Post-Political-Party formation'.
Secondly, the tension between the top layer of the governing elite and the Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist discourse is radically disappeared since Mahinda Rajapaksha won the presidential election in 2005. The alliance that emerged between the Rajapaksha leadership and all major exponents of the Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist discourse still remain well intact. This unbroken alliance has certainly cemented the North-South polarization.
With the unification of the Sinhala-Buddhist constituency in a manner that the UPFA can enjoy the monopoly of voter attraction, there is no serious need for it to look for non-Sinhala-Buddhist constituencies to gain the control over the governing process.
In conclusion, I propose that the changes that are marked by the UPFA victory in 2004 and 2005 have serious implications for the political future of Sri Lanka. These changes certainly undermined the very foundation of the post-colonial political edifice of Sri Lanka and therefore threatening to the political unity that was built upon the fragile consensus between diverse constituencies.
*NB. This is written hurriedly to present as the chairman's address at the panel on Post Colonial politics of the annual research sessions of the faculty of humanities and social sciences of the University of Ruhuna, held 22nd October 2013. Critical comments are welcome to develop this further.
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1st Anniversary of my `Knighthood' by King Arthur Uther Pendragon (Druid)
7 Nov 2018 Mani Navasothy	Leave a comment
"To speak the Truth, to honour our spoken word, and to be Just & Fair in all our dealings..!"
Mani Navasothy being knighted by King Arthur Pendragon (Druid Leader) on 7th November 2017 at The Temple Church grounds, London.
I've followed (King) Arthur Uther Pendragon for a long time now.. and admired what he (sometimes single handedly) stands up for and injustices he stands up to! Had the privilege of inviting him to facilitate one of the rituals at PF London in 2005-6 when i was Events Organiser for PFL. Some years ago when he said to a group.. hold everywhere sacred..(not just Stonehenge) I took it to heart and have been keeping London as my sacred focus..instead of always running out of london to other spiritual places all the time.. And appreciate his sentiment that if we pagans want to keep Stonehenge sacred in the eyes of tourists etc at festive times, we should `robe up' and be seen in our magical/ priest/ priestly appearance..
So it is finally my honour to be Knighted by Arthur at the Templar Church yard – this time last year (2017) in London… at the culminating ceremony of a day of rituals around London. (there were others.. warrior Priestesses & priests who were knighted at same event..and we stand together in fellowship). Sir John Crow was the first, followed by Jenny, Debbie, Donna and a number of us. Their photos are in my other album for this Sacred day of rituals' 🙂
To the `uninitiated' it may be seen as a curiosity, a gimmick.. but for some of us, this – done in a magic circle, on sacred grounds (Templar Church in London, on the spot where the old Lamb building stood before it was wiped by WW bombing in 1942).. this act matters.. and takes on deeply significant proportions.
I've always done this.. so it isn't so much a beginning of the journey but a recognition of what i have been doing for a decade and a half.. and I will continue to do so..
Druid prayer:
`We swear by peace and love to stand,
Heart to heart, and hand to hand,
mark O spirit and hear us now..
Confirming this our sacred vow!'
Arthur's website : http://www.Warband.org.uk
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Nova Stellar Meetup presents an Evening with King Arthur Pendragon
13 Jun 2016 Mani Navasothy	Leave a comment
Dear all, it's no secret that am a follower of King Arthur Uther Pendragon. Tomorrow.. King Arthur Pendragon will be in London giving a talk at Nova Stellar meetup (run by organiser of South London Wicca meetup – yea we're all connected). So come join us..but come early..as the place is bound to be full 🙂 See you there. Bright Blessings.-Mani Navasothy
here's the details ..and link to `South London Wicca's event page for this.
http://www.meetup.com/South-London-Wicca-Meetup/events/228411041/
King Arthur Pendragon is the leader of what has become known as the Warrior Arm of the modern Druid movement, The Loyal Arthurian Warband. He is a veteran of the anti-roads movement of the 1990s and has been arrested – mostly for trespass – more than 30 times.
He is famous for his legal battles with English Heritage over Stonehenge in Wiltshire. He campaigned for the removal of the four-mile exclusion zone which was established each year during the summer solstice. On 19 October 1998, with assistance from Liberty, he had his case heard by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The court decided in favour of the UK government but the exclusion zone was lifted the following year.
In June 2008, he set up a protest camp, demanding free access to Stonehenge for everyone. He demanded that the fences should be removed, and that the A344 and A303 should be closed or redirected. He occupied the byway for ten months, and obtained 8,000 signatures in support of his petition. He defied a court order from Wiltshire Council to close the camp and only ended his protest on after English Heritage announced plans to move a section of the A303 underground, and to create a new visitor centre about a mile and a half away from the stones.
In August 2011, he unsuccessfully filed a High Court appeal calling for the cremated remains of more than forty bodies, which had been exhumed, to be immediately reburied. He has also voiced his opposition to English Heritage's plan to display three more sets of human remains at the new visitor centre, claiming that out of respect to the ancient British ancestors, replica bones should be on view instead.
He still conducts ceremony four times a year, from small gatherings of hundreds at the equinoxes to tens of thousands at Midsummer. His biography 'The Trials of Arthur' has been published by journalist C.J. Stone
Tonight, he talks about the 'Magic' in his life and the upcoming Summer Solstice. http://www.meetup.com/South-London-Wicca-Meetup/events/228411041
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Sacred Journey -PF London Conference 2015 & Hindu-Magic Talk
Dear all, this year's PF-London conference has the theme of `Sacred Journey'.. and is taking place tomorrow (27th June 2015) from 10am till 10pm in London (Leystonstone area). There are many and varied talks, workshops, festivities and such scheduled for this. I will be attending, and hope to post a review/ photos afterwards.
I'll also be giving a talk. Here's the blurb/ info 🙂
Hindu-Magic. Mani Navasothy – Hindu & Wiccan High Priest – briefly talks about how both religions have woven together in his life, touch on the mysteries of Shivarathree & Navarathree, and shares his blend of Hindu-magical practises that you can use.
Some older attendees may remember, that I used to hold the position of `Events Organiser' for PF London for some 7+ years and ran open rituals, annual Gaia Conventions (see link below)) and Masked Balls etc.. I stepped down back in May 2012, to pursue my own esoteric ventures (Publishing books, Gaian Times e-Magazine, Wicca & Witchcraft events etc).
Here's the official Flyer for the event & Schedules of talks etc
Pagan Federation London- Sacred Journey Conference flyer June 2015
PF London Sacred Journey conference schedule
The conference will be held on Saturday, June 27th at The Leytonstone Business & Enterprise Specialist School
Doors open at 10.00 am.
An all day conference hosted by The Pagan Federation London, featuring talks and workshops from 16 renowned speakers, live music, esoteric market, The Goddess Temple of London, food & bar, prizes to be won, and much more!
Featuring talks and workshops on Wicca, Tarot, Paganism & Hinduism, Pagan history, Magic, Sacred Places, Hoodoo, Storytelling, Deities, Pagan Britain, Scrying, ReWilding and a selection of talks exploring this year's conference theme of "sacred journey".
Philip Carr-Gomm, Ashley Mortimer, Geraldine Beskin, Peter Knight,
King Arthur Pendragon, Caroline Wise, Mani Navasothy, Jacqueline Woodward-Smith, Richard Levy, Jamie Alexxander, John Callow, Michelle Hawcroft, Abbie Palache, Jason Drew and more!
Our keynote speaker will be Mike Stygal, president of The Pagan Federation.
The Goddess Temple of London will be at the conference. They will be erecting a temple space for people to use through out the day, for private meditation, contemplation and honoring.
Visit the Family Corner – step outside away from the hubbub to meet other pagan families, and try your hand at some Summer Solstice crafts 10am-1pm.
Standard Tickets: £10 PF Members, £12 General Public
Tickets on the Door: £12 PF Members, £14 General Public
*Under 16's get in free*
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Esoteric Expert – eBooks by Mani Navasothy
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Cleopatra's Second Husband" a diabolically clever psychological suspense movie, arrives today. It marks an assured and daring dramatic feature debut for writer-director Joh Reiss. What Reiss is able to pull out of Paul Hipp and Boyd Kestner is amazing, and the uncanny rightness of their casting is echoed in the presenbce of Bitty Schram (Monk) an Radha Mitchell as well. In the movie demanding of the two women's roles, Schram really nails down Hallie. Provocative, well-shot (by Matt Faw), brisk and unpretentious, "Cleopatra's Second Husband" works up a considerable chill.
A dark, deftly told psychodrama about housesitters from hell, "Cleopatra's Second Husband" is one of those out-of-nowhere indie pics that turns out to be a wicked treat.
"Cleopatra's Second Husband" is startling in it's originality, and while it's only 93 minutes long, the movie feels epic in it's scope, thanks to all the twists and turns. In other words, it's destined to become a cult classic. In a nutshell, seek out "Cleopatra's Second Husband" and see if your jaw doesn't hit the floor like mine.
Blackly comic, thoroughly unpredictable, fascinating… I've never seen anything like it.
• This is one of those dark, disturbing film's that eats away at you as you sit there wondering what will happen next. The cast is brilliant, I have always been a fan of Radha Mitchell and she does not disappoint here. I recommend this to anyone that is looking for…a film that makes you think and one that effects you long after it's over.


Torontonians know all too well how fickle our winter weather can be. One day it is snowing and minus ten, and the next, it's sunny and hitting positive double digits. So how to dress when you've got to be prepared for anything and everything? Montreal-based designer, Melissa Nepton knows the answer. Her latest collection, inspired by the "Ethereal Nomad," is a combination of summer colours and light-weight delicate chiffon pieces, paired with oversized and dense chunky knits and heavy wools. It would seem it is no longer about layering for warmth, it is about layering for every weather.


Add color and flow to your life with addictive acrylic paint pouring. Learn how to use paint in a "Let it Flow" abstract manner, resulting in beautiful marbleized flowing color. In this class you will learn the swipe, flip cup and dirty pour techniques and create four approximately 6x6-inch paintings. It's a great way to loosen up and absolutely no experience is needed.
Those who have taken the class before can come back and build on what they learned before. This class will include new techniques, such as glitter geodes!
All materials provided. Bring an apron or wear painting clothes, this will get fun and messy!
Sunday, July 21 from 1-4 p.m.
Casey Rasmussen White has been a working artist since the age of four and an art educator for 21 years. Her artwork has been featured in Somerset Studio Gallery magazine and her work is in many private collections and local galleries. A selection of her art can be viewed here.


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What does Down to the Wire mean?
Neil Young: Down to the Wire Meaning
Down to the Wire Lyrics
We don't currently have the lyrics for Down to the Wire, Care to share them?
May 21st, 2016 5:51am report
A old universal song that is still relevant in today's age about a woman that was loved much more and respected by ''The Innocents'', and her Man that was and still trying to hold on to her, being in denial out of love and his dependency to her to see the truth about her lying. You can see it all played out and coming down in a modern day version of a CROOKED HILL airy still trying to take the ROAD to the Whitehouse that is coming ''Down To The Wire'' with her Campaigners feeling the burn against THE ONE not so called Campaingner[politician] that helped her out once, not knowing she was burning his hands with so many lies.
kooljohn176
Dec 8th, 2013 12:34pm report
sounds to me this song can be about a relationship with a woman that he feels a fiery passion for, probably loves her very much, not only in the flesh wich is obvious, but in the hope that she would love him for his true self. many times we get what we want, but in the long run we may not get what we need, he is proabably taken the relationship to serious and she may have a lack of emphaty for how he feels about her or for himself for that matter, but he hangs on in the hope as words of a lair that once was helped by, but now he feels let down to the wire by the choice he made in her laughing in. finally the godly voice is turning into a angelic choir in his mind to warn him that they need help.
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Outstanding Graduate Awards
by Sessions Staff | October 5, 2022
On October 4, 2022, we are delighted to announce the Sessions College 2022-23 Outstanding Graduate Awards.
Each year during fall term, Sessions College faculty and staff engage in a process to identify our outstanding graduates from a wide range of programs. We look for graduates who have gone above and beyond, inside and outside of class. The goal is to highlight graduates whose quality of work and participation in their online classes shows their potential for future success as creative professionals.
This year, our selection committee identified eight award winners from Graphic Design, Web Design, Illustration, Digital Media, and Digital Photography programs.
The 2022-23 Outstanding Graduate winners are:
Adrienne Schaumann, Associate of Occupational Studies in Illustration
Angelique Shipley, Undergraduate Certificate in Web Design
Deborah Lefever, Associate of Occupational Studies in Illustration
Dhani Mouttet, Graphic Design Advanced Certificate
John Olson, Associate of Occupational Studies in Digital Media
Kristy Ren-Hayzlett, Associate of Occupational Studies in Illustration
Kylie Welsh, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
Ronald Graham, Undergraduate Certificate in Digital Photography
Please visit their award pages and join us in congratulating these students on their awards. We would like to thank all Sessions College faculty who nominated students and participated in this year's award process, in particular, Jordon Schranz, Piper Nilsson, Andrew Shalat, Felicia Kieselhorst, Fiorella Shalat, Boris Margolin, Tamara Pavlock, Kristen Becker, and Natalie La Scala. Visit the award pages to read their student endorsements!
About the Outstanding Graduate Awards
Outstanding Graduate Award recipients must be 2021-22 graduates recommended by Faculty and staff. They must have an excellent academic record and strong graduating portfolio of work. They must have distinguished themselves in their overall participation in their classes and/or made other notable contributions to the Sessions College community. Each year a set of graduates each receive a physical award and an academic recognition that can help them in their future career. The goal of the award is to identify talents that will shine brightly in the design world. We hope to inspire graduates to push forward in their careers and students to excel in their classes.
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BIG PROBLEMS: Last Friday's SVForum on Education and Technology was a certifiable jam-session on everything from global professional development to the neuroscience of learning. One of the liveliest discussions was a Q&A session with VCs from Alsop Louie Partners, NewSchools Venture Fund, Norwest Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures, and DBL Investors. With an audience evenly split between entrepreneurs, academia, industry, and educators, the questions were not limited to the run-of-the-mill-gimme-money-please variety. One major sticking point was how to create "scalable" solutions in a market dominated by "local" problems. Yes, this is a field in transition, the panelists agreed. Still they encouraged entrepreneurs seeking VC dollars to attack "BIG" problems (transcending local issues) and shoot for hybrid (institutional and consumer) or consumer-centric products--markets where VCs feel on more solid ground. Now, if only we could all agree on what constitutes a solvable "BIG" problem!


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DIRAC Researchers Observe 1I/'Oumuamua
On October 24, 2017, the first interstellar object, 1I/'Oumuamua, was discovered by a small telescope in Hawaii. 1I/'Oumuamua is thought to have originated in another solar system before its journey took it on a brief tour of our own Solar System. As the first interstellar visitor it was given its own special designation, the number 1 for it being the first of its kind and the letter "I" for interstellar. Even the name,'Oumuamua, means "first messenger" in Hawaiian.
The remarkable opportunity that 1I provides is the first direct study of the properties of solar systems beyond that of our own. Asteroids and comets, the by-products of planetary formation, have been studied for centuries in our own Solar System, but we have not yet had the opportunity to make similar observations of asteroids and comets on the outside. Even given the capabilities of modern-day astronomical observatories and satellites we still cannot observe individual objects the size of asteroids around other stars.
When 1l was discovered our research group at DIRAC took on the task of trying to understand as much as possible about it before it left the Solar System. Within days of its discovery, we were given time on the University of Washington's telescope at Apache Point in Sunspot, New Mexico. We took images of the asteroid as it passed through the desert skies. Right away we went to work analyzing the data. The photometry revealed that 1I had a reddish color, which Lynne Jones, an expert in our group on observations of the Solar System, realized meant that 1I's surface composition was similar to our Solar Systems asteroids.
Because of bad weather in New Mexico, we only managed to collect a few hours of data; making inferring properties such as the shape and rotation of 1I difficult to calculate. Luckily, we had an expert on statistics and machine learning in our team, Daniela Huppenkothen, who applied sophisticated statistical techniques to tease out the period and amplitude of the variations in brightness of 1I. The results of many analyses by the DIRAC group revealed that 1I was shaped like a skinny potato and probably had some amount of tensile strength holding it together.
Our group's findings were published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
In addition to our observations of 1I, we wanted to know where it might have come from. Together with Drs. Rory Barnes and Tom Quinn, we investigated the evolution of 1I's galactic orbit before it encountered the Solar System. We started out with the goal of finding out where 1I came from, but further investigation showed that finding a home star is not as straightforward as we thought due to the complex dynamics of the Galaxy. The orbit of 1I before encountering the Solar System was roughly circular making it possible that it migrated large distances within a relatively short time from some other area in the Galaxy so may never know which solar system was its original home.
This artist's impression shows the first interstellar asteroid: `Oumuamua. This unique object was discovered on 19 October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i. Subsequent observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that it was travelling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. `Oumuamua seems to be a dark red highly-elongated metallic or rocky object, about 400 metres long, and is unlike anything normally found in the Solar System.
We wish to acknowledge the support of the B612 Asteroid Institute, the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences, and the Washington Research Foundation in making this research possible.
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NIHR stands by Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter. We recognise the problem of racism and structural barriers to minority communities in the research system. We stand in solidarity against racism and anti-blackness and we acknowledge that as a research organisation we have more to do. We need more black voices within our leadership, in our committees, in our institutions and in the cohorts of people we fund. We must oppose racism in all its forms.
Jeremy Taylor, NIHR Director for Public Voice, says: "The killing of George Floyd and the protests that have followed are a stark reminder that racism remains and that it is a key factor in health inequality. NIHR is serious about promoting greater equality, diversity and inclusion. We are making some progress, but we must be open to challenge to do better faster, as I am sure we can and should."
NIHR recognises the toll that COVID-19 is taking on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and we are funding research on COVID-19 and ethnicity with UK Research and Innovation to understand and address this.
In partnership with the Centre for Black and Minority Ethnic Health in Leicester, we are addressing low participation by black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in research, in particular COVID-19 studies. Together with the Centre, NIHR is working to ensure that these communities have the information they need to take part and stay informed about COVID-19 research. In addition, we are supporting researchers to tackle the barriers that might stop some communities participating.
Professor Kamlesh Khunti, Director of the Centre for BME Health, says: "The Centre for BME Health was set up with the sole purpose of reducing ethnic health inequalities. We do this by supporting people and organisations in planning and undertaking research and healthcare delivery involving and understanding minority and seldom heard communities."A systematic review from our group shows that only six out of the 1,518 studies enlisted on ClinicalTrials.gov reported that they are collecting data on ethnicity. This has to change if we want to address the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on black, Asian and minority ethnic people.
"We are therefore committed to supporting the efforts to increase black, Asian and minority ethnic populations in studies conducted by NIHR and have developed resources to support the ongoing UK COVID-19-related studies and any other studies in the future. Without the vital knowledge achieved through research, we will be no closer to finding answers."
Dr Louise Wood CBE, Director of Science, Research and Evidence at the Department of Health and Social Care and co-lead of NIHR says: "As part of understanding how NIHR perpetuates racism endemic in the system, our Equality Diversity and Inclusion programme is examining matters such as who is involved in our decision-making, how we make decisions and who we fund. We will take the time to listen, understand and discuss the lived experience of black colleagues, communities and researchers and use their insights to shape a better future, one in which it is evident that opportunity is not influenced by skin colour or race."