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3 ways that declines in stock prices could influence economic growth
Portfolio > ETFs > Broad Market
by Joseph Ciolli, Anne-Louise Jackson, Dani Burger
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told Congress Wednesday that weakening stock prices pose a risk to the economy, indicating to investors a more gradual approach to rates. But how should everyone else feel with stocks down 10 percent in a year?
While far from definitive, evidence exists that equity prices hold clues to the economy, either portending or influencing future growth. A study by the research firm CXO Advisory Group LLC in July 2014 found that changes in gross domestic product only "very slightly" forecast the Standard & Poor's 500 Index over the next few quarters, while stock signals for the economy are more robust. Bloomberg data shows that since 1929, bear markets have come on average nine months before the start of recessions.
Yellen's testimony before the House Financial Services Committee addressed the possibility markets might contribute to a contraction, rather than simply signal one. While acknowledging that rising volatility may reflect "fears of recession risk," her prepared remarks noted that swings in stocks and currency could themselves "weigh on the outlook for economic activity and the labor market," particularly if they persisted.
Shares sank again Thursday, with futures on the S&P 500 down 1.8 percent at 8:21 a.m. in New York.
"The stock market, unlike what many other people believe, is not like the weather forecast; it's like the cigarette butt in the forest," Roger Farmer, distinguished professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in an interview with Joe Weisenthal on Bloomberg TV. "If the stock market drops by 10 percent you could expect the unemployment rate to be 3 percentage points higher than it would've been in the absence of the drop."
Here are three ways that declines in stock prices could influence economic growth.
Almost $3 trillion in share value has been erased from American shares since the start of the year, a loss of wealth that economists say could sour consumer sentiment and make Americans less likely to spend. The threat is arguably greater now: With business investment falling in the wake of the commodity rout, pressure has been mounting that consumers would take over in accelerating expansion.
Americans have a lot of money in the market. As of September, households had $17.1 trillion invested in stocks, representing 35.5 percent of their financial assets, Federal Reserve data compiled by Ned Davis Research Inc. show. While the proportion was down from a peak of 38.8 percent in 2014, it compares with an average of 27.4 percent since 1951 and trails only 1965, 1968, 2007, and the years of Internet bubble.
"If you get significant swings in stock averages, it will affect wealth and spending decisions," said Alan Gayle, senior strategist for Atlanta-based Ridgeworth Investments, which has about $42.5 billion. "The stock market is a daily barometer that most consumers will monitor on an ongoing basis. Consumer confidence tends to rise when the stock market is up, and it tends to ease off when it's down."
The seven-year bull market that began when global equity markets bottomed in March 2009 has been a boon to companies trying to raise money in equities. Between initial public offerings and share sales, more than $1.7 trillion of stock has been sold, including $228.9 billion last year.
This year's volatility is squeezing off the spigot. January was the slowest month for IPOs since December 2008, when no companies filed after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. In January 2015, 19 companies listed on American exchanges. The busiest month in the past eight years was July 2014, when 54 companies started trading.
Volatility in markets can make life difficult for financial institutions: Look at the performance of bank stocks, which have plunged twice as fast as the S&P 500 this year. Brokerages, insurance companies and lenders make up the second-biggest proportion of the S&P 500 and are also important sources of employment in the broader economy.
About 8.2 million people or 5.7 percent of the U.S. workforce held jobs in the broader financial industry, including insurance and real estate. Hiring has increased in this sector for the past 29 consecutive months, though remains 2.2 percent below its November 2006 peak.
"Layoffs would make an impact if banks cut a big chunk out of the mergers and acquisitions department, or a big chunk out of trading, or a big chunk out of other capital market sensitive areas," said John Canally, chief economic strategist at LPL Financial Corp. in Boston. "It would put a chill on geographical areas like London and New York that are important financial centers."
–With assistance from Alex Barinka, Oliver Renick and Lu Wang.
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Random Quotations – Islam – Dec. 8th, 2018
"A refugee from Bangladesh was tried by a French court and was acquitted of the rape of a high school girl. The verdict was handed down yesterday… The young man also sexually assaulted another young girl. He was charged with both cases but acquitted of the rape… According to the defense the refugee has 'different cultural norms' or 'cultural codes' and could have misinterpreted the contact with the girl." – Voice of Europe, "Refugee acquitted of rape 'as he has different cultural norms' – His female victim attempted suicide" – Nov. 22nd, 2018.
"More than 550 Greek Orthodox churches, chapels and monasteries located in towns and villages of the occupied areas, have been pillaged, deliberately vandalized and, in some cases, demolished. Many Christian places of worship have been converted into mosques, depots of the Turkish army, stockyards and hay barns." – Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs; – and – "UNESCO considers the intentional destruction of cultural heritage a war crime." – Artnet News, 2017; both quoted by Uzay Bulut in "Turkey wipes out the Christian culture of occupied Cyprus" – Gatestone Institute, Nov. 25th, 2018.
"Theresa May has been accused of refusing asylum to a Christian mother who is being hunted by lynch mobs in Pakistan… The fate of Asia Bibi has pitted Home Secretary Sajid Javid against the Prime Minister, with Mr Javid arguing passionately that she should be given refuge in the UK… But sources say that his plan was thwarted after Ms May was persuaded that letting Bibi claim asylum here would 'stoke tensions' among British Muslims." – Glen Owen & Abul Tahir, "Revealed: Theresa May 'blocked asylum application from Pakistani Christian' locked up for blasphemy despite UK playing host to hijackers, extremists and rapists" – Daily Mail, Nov. 24th, 2018.
"The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement designates churches and other houses of worship, along with schools and hospitals, as 'sensitive locations.' ICE agents refrain from making arrests at these sites. This policy has given birth to a sanctuary movement in Connecticut over the past year and a half that has become a rallying cry for the larger immigrant rights movement in the state." – Erik Ofgang, "The ancient tradition of seeking sanctuary in churches has been reborn in Connecticut" – Connecticut Magazine, Nov. 21st, 2018.
"Little Yara was the last person in her classroom who spoke German at home. Her school can be characterised as a migrant majority school with Turks and Arab migrants as students. The bullying of Yara increased and it even ended with her being stabbed by an 'Arab child'… 'She was just pushed down by an Arab child that she didn't even know. This child slit her abdomen with a sharp object,' her father says… 'Naturally, she went to the teacher and showed her what happened. She was in pain and bleeding. The teacher totally downplayed the incident and actually made my daughter stay at school the rest of the day'…" – Voice of Europe, "8-year-old German girl bullied and stabbed by Arab child at migrant majority school – Teacher covers it up" – Nov. 30th, 2018.
"The Kara-Ali brothers had previously said they would not obey Australia law and indicated they would refuse to abide by any court rulings over their religious retreat… They refused to acknowledge legal action brought by Hawkesbury City Council and for months ignored all orders of the Land and Environment Court… Mustapha Kara-Ali had told Daily Mail Australia he would refuse council officers access to the land, stating they were 'Cruasaders' and an affront to Islam… He and Diaa refused to attend the court because they did not recognise its authority… 'Because of the religious symbolism of the court, that contradicts with my religion,' Mustapha Kara-Ali said. 'For my religion to be free I can't be dictated to by another religion'… The brothers agreed they had not sought approval for the work and said they had no intention of doing so because they did not recognise Australian law." – Stephen Gibbs, "Still thumbing their noses at the law: Muslim brothers haven't demolished their illegal religious hideaway months after being ordered to tear it down" – Daily Mail Australia, Dec. 2nd, 2018. (You can read this astonishing example of Muslim arrogance and supremacy here.)
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Q: Struts 2 - URL tag not going through dispatcher I'm new to struts.
I made an index.jsp page that has an href to an action that loads another JSP. I simply want to have a link that a user can click to go to another JSP.
I am getting the error :  The Struts dispatcher cannot be found.  This is usually caused by using Struts tags without the associated filter. Struts tags are only usable when the request has passed through its servlet
Please see this imgur album for screenshots of the project/code:
Link to my project
Thank you in advance.

A: The error message says it all–many (all?) S2 tags expect to be called only on pages displayed as the result of executing an action.
If you are linking from one bare JSP to another just use a link tag; there's no S2 functionality involved at all, and no need to involve S2 tags.
It should be rare to hit a "bare" JSP page in an S2 app at all. At most you might have a landing page that redirects to an action.

A: you should add the code to your web.xml:
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/action/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

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SystemVerilog for Verification
Spear, Chris
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A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features
Based on the highly successful second edition, this extended edition of SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features teaches all verification features of the SystemVerilog language, providing hundreds of examples to clearly explain the concepts and basic fundamentals. It contains materials for both the full-time verification engineer and the student learning this valuable skill.In the third edition, authors Chris Spear and Greg Tumbush start with how to verify a design, and then use that context to demonstrate the language features, including the advantages and disadvantages of different styles, allowing readers to choose between alternatives. This textbook contains end-of-chapter exercises designed to enhance students' understanding of the material. Other features of this revision include:New sections on static variables, print specifiers, and DPI from the 2009 IEEE language standardDescriptions of UVM features such as factories, the test registry, and the configuration databaseExpanded code samples and explanations Numerous samples that have been tested on the major SystemVerilog simulatorsSystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features, Third Edition is suitable for use in a one-semester SystemVerilog course on SystemVerilog at the undergraduate or graduate level. Many of the improvements to this new edition were compiled through feedback provided from hundreds of readers. von Spear, Chris
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Chris Spear has been working in the ASIC design and verification field for 30 years. He started his career with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) as a / CAD Engineer on DECsim, connecting the first Zycad box ever sold, and then a hardware Verification engineer for the VAX 8600, and a hardware behavioral simulation accelerator. He then moved on to Cadence where he was an Application Engineer for Verilog-XL, followed by a stint at Viewlogic. Chris is currently employed at Synopsys Inc. as a Verification Consultant, a title he created a dozen years ago. He has authored the first and second editions of SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features. Chris earned a BSEE from Cornell University in 1981. In his spare time, Chris enjoys road biking in the mountains and traveling with his wife.Greg Tumbush has been designing and verifying ASICs and FPGAs for 13 years. After working as a researcher in the Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) he moved to beautiful Colorado to work with Astek Corp as a Lead ASIC Design Engineer. He then began a 6 year career with Starkey Labs, AMI Semiconductor, and ON Semiconductor where he was an early adopter of SystemC and SystemVerilog. In 2008, Greg left ON Semiconductor to form Tumbush Enterprises, LLC where he has been consulting clients in the areas of design, verification, and backend to ensure first pass success. He is also a part time Instructor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs where he teaches senior and graduate level digital design and verification courses. He has numerous publications which can be viewed at www.tumbush.com. Greg earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1998.
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Orto Parisi (Nasomatto) Boccanera & Stercus
Posted on March 30, 2015 by Kafkaesque
Alessandro Gualtieri via Fragrantica.
Orto Parisi is the new brainchild of Nasomatto's Alessandro Gualtieri who founded the theoretically separate, unrelated house in 2014. Boccanera and Stercus are part of the 5-piece collection, all of which follow Mr. Gualtieri's manifesto to create over-sized, strong scents that represent "parts of our body," as well as how our animalic side has been repressed by civilisation. I'll look briefly at each of them in turn with a more generalised summation than my usual in-depth analysis.
BOCCANERA:
Boccanera via Luckyscent.
Boccanera is a pure parfum that was released without any notes. It was recently chosen as a finalist in the Independent Category for the 2015 Art & Olfaction Awards. I'm surprised, to say the least, because Boccanera trods very (very) well-worn territory. In fact, it's a complete riff on Mr. Gaultieri's own Black Afgano for his Nasomatto line, only with a heavy dusting of cocoa in the opening phase and a heightened quantity of industrial-strength aromachemicals.
As noted earlier, Boccanera comes with no notes and Orto Parisi offers no description for the scent on its website. However, First in Fragrance has a small blurb that seems to quote the company's press copy. It states: "Boccanera means 'dark mouth' in Italian. Nature offers dark holes that express sensuality in an erotic dark way."
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Nasomatto Duro
"Fire Storm" by Marina Petro. Source: marinapetro.blogspot.com
Honeyed leather, spices and patchouli, dusted with cocoa, then infused with dark woods, tobacco, and a touch of smoke on a resinous amber base flecked by vanilla. That is one side to Nasomatto's Duro. The other might be the aroma-chemical bomb that is woven through every fiber of this perfume. Duro is one of those scents where I really wish I couldn't detect a drop of aromachemicals a mile away, because I think I might like it otherwise. Unfortunately, Duro has such an enormous quantity of occasionally sharp, abrasive synthetics that it would probably drown a hound dog. And I'm not the only one who struggled with this issue.
Duro via Luckyscent
Duro is an extrait de parfum created by the Dutch niche house, Nasomatto, a brand which is best known for their cult masculine favorite, Black Afgano. It's not easy to find details on Duro, when it was launched, or what precisely is in it. On its website, the company provides no notes, and simply says that Duro is intended to "enhance all the manifestations of male power." I find that to be an asinine, obnoxious, and immature comment on a variety of levels. Plus, someone better not tell the legion of women who wear patchouli or spiced wood fragrances that they are somehow swinging a male organ, because that is the olfactory essence of Duro and that is also one of the implications of the company's chest-thumping statement.
Source: imgfave.com. Artist or creator unknown.
Since there are no official notes for Duro, most sites simply list "leather, woods and spice," as Luckyscent does. However, First in Fragrance always seems to have a company's press release copy for a fragrance, and it provides the following description and olfactory notes for Duro:
Duro – The essence of male attraction
This composition concentrates the erotic essence of mythical masculinity and sexual attraction in itself.
Duro – A fragrance that directly and unequivocally shows the way with its overwhelming fragrance of sensuality.
Top Note: Agarwood (Oud)
Heart Note: Woods, Spices
Base Note: Leather, Resins
Leather tannery in Bangladesh. Source: ecouterre.com
Duro opens on my skin with a blast of animalic, slightly urinous leather slathered in honey. It is followed by spices and several, different, sharp aromachemicals. There is a chemical oud that smells a touch antiseptic, then something vaguely ambered (Ambermax? Ambroxan?) which has a rubbing alcohol twang. Putting aside the large quantities of those two extremely sharp notes, the rest of Duro's opening bouquet is lovely. The animalic note isn't fecal nor reminiscent of a barnyard. It's musky and a wee bit urinous, though in an extremely subtle way. As a whole, the honeyed leather feels a little raw, uncured, and butch, but in the pretty way of LM Parfums' Hard Leather.
The spices are interesting. I tested Duro twice and, the second time, there was merely a generalized "spice" accord. However, during my first test, the bouquet felt quite multi-faceted, even if the spices were so fused together that they weren't always easy to pull apart. As best as I could tell, there seemed to be the lightest touch of saffron, cloves, and black pepper, followed by a much more significant tonality of red chili pepper. The latter felt like another aromachemical in the sharpness of its fiery bite, but it was an nice counterbalance to the honeyed leather. I think I detected ginger as well — candied, dusty, and freshly pungent — but it was very muted.
During that first test, Duro began manifesting a dusty sweetness and an increasing touch of creamy woods less than 15 minutes into the perfume's development. The woods felt almost as if some Mysore substitute had been used, supplemented by the spices. The note had a distinct gingerbread undertone that some sandalwood fragrances can have, even through artificial means. One example would be Chanel's Bois des Iles which is Chanel's successful homage to Mysore, despite never actually containing any of the rare wood. Here, Duro briefly reflected the same sweet, spicy, gingerbread characteristics, but it was very short-lived and generally overpowered by that very synthetic oud aromachemical.
Source: 123rf.com
The second time I tested Duro, I didn't experience either the wide range of individual, clearly distinct spices nor the quasi-sandalwood impression. Instead, the main note apart from the honeyed leather and the fake oud was patchouli. Lovely, true, original patchouli with all its spicy, red-gold-brown, slightly smoky, sweet facets. It was a touch earthy, but never dusty. It also occasionally showed a glimmer of the note's green, camphorous side, though that sharpness may again have been the various aromachemicals wafting all around.
I'll be honest, at times, it was extremely hard for me to detect the subtle nuances of Duro because they felt hidden behind an advancing phalanx of aromachemicals that acted as a wall or barricade at the very top of Duro's pyramids. The first time was really difficult indeed, and I almost scrubbed Duro, especially as it gave me a profound headache whenever I smelled the perfume up close. I was relieved that Duro was better the second time around when worn on a different arm, but it's only a question of degree. That said, I fully concede that my nose is much more sensitive to aromachemicals than the average person, and some of you may have no problems at all. (Then again, judging by the comments on Fragrantica, perhaps you might….)
Duro continues to shift as time passes. First, there is the arrival of a tobacco note. It's dry, sweet, a little bit smoky, and, once in a while, has a tinge of an ashtray-like note on my skin. After 20 minutes, there is also the first whiff of labdanum. It feels a little synthetic and reminds me of the note in Black Afgano because it has the same cherry cola or root beer nuance. It is accompanied by a slightly plummy undertone as well, almost as if the patchouli were manifesting its purple, jammy, dark molasses facet.
Mark Rothko, #20 or "Black,brown on maroon." Source: artsearch.nga.gov.au
The more significant change always occurs about 40 minutes into Duro's development, when the leather loses its honeyed touch and sinks fully into the base. There, it remains as a constant undercurrent to the scent, waxing and waning in terms of its prominence. In one of my tests, Duro at this stage had shifted to a very oud-y, aromachemical woody fragrance with dark, fruited patchouli, a touch of chili pepper pimento, hints of gingerbread spices, and a rootbeer-like sweetness over a thin leather base. In the other, Duro was a brown (not fruited) patchouli scent with earthiness, sweetened tobacco, spices, abstract woodiness, aromachemical oud, amber, and spices on a leathered foundation.
Duro is a very concentrated fragrance in its overall bouquet, much as you'd expect from a pure parfum extrait. It is, however, much airier and softer than the notes would have you realise. There is a lightness to the scent, and the sillage is only moderate at first, before dropping to hover just an inch, at best, above my skin at the end of the 1st hour. It remains there for another hour, before turning into a skin scent. Yet, Duro's overall bouquet remains largely unchanged as a whole.
In fact, Duro is an extremely linear scent, though I always say that there is nothing wrong with linearity if you love the notes in question. The individual elements fluctuate in terms of their prominence or order, but Duro itself doesn't change for a few hours. For the most part, it merely turns more resinous, ambered, and golden in feel.
"Novemthree" by Olaf Marshall. Source: vitaignescorpuslignum.blogspot.com
The biggest change occurs at the start of the 4th hour when new notes arrive on scene. There is, without any doubt in my mind, vetiver in Duro and I noticed it on both occasions when I wore the scent. There is also cedar. None of this is particularly surprising, as both elements are common companions to patchouli in European fragrances. Here, the vetiver is somewhat smoky and dark. In one test, Duro turned primarily into a vetiver-patchouli fragrance at the start of the 6th hour, lying atop a very arid aromachemical, ambered base that was resinous and a little plummy. The perfume felt simultaneously woody, sharp, smoky, and slightly leathered.
Source: Colourbox.com
It was a very different story the second time around when I tried Duro on my other arm. In that case, the patchouli remained as the dominant note from the end of the 2nd hour onwards, not the smoky vetiver. Duro was a blend of earthy patchouli with abstract spices and a hint of tobacco, lightly flecked by vetiver and cedar atop a warmly resinous amber base with a leather undercurrent. The scent was sweet, spicy, warm, a touch smoky, and very golden in feel. It became even better around the middle of the 3rd hour when the patchouli started wafting a cocoa powder heart. Vanilla started to stir in the base, adding to the prettiness. By the start of the 5th hour, Duro was patchouli, cocoa, amber, vanilla and aromachemicals, lightly flecked by vetiver and with a hint of cedar, atop a resinous, slightly leathered base.
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In both versions, the long, final drydown phase of Duro was largely the same: woody sweetness dominated by patchouli and abstract ambered warmth. There were differences in terms of how distinct or clear the individual notes might be, but as a whole Duro simply turned into some variation of a patchouli woody scent with different forms of sweetness (amber resins, vanilla, or both). The woods became increasingly amorphous, the leather largely faded away on my skin, and the spices melted into the patchouli which, in turn, became more fuzzy, warm, sweet, and vanillic. It was pretty, and lasted for ages. As a whole, Duro lasted just short of 8.75 hours in one test, and just over 9.75 in the other. The sillage was always soft after 90 minutes, and it generally turned into a skin scent after about 2.5 hours with 3 very large smears (or the equivalent of 2 small sprays from a bottle).
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On Fragrantica, reviews for Duro are mixed, with some people calling it a woody, resinous "masterpiece," while others find it nice but far from unique, and a handful note Duro's very chemical nature. A good number of people seem to have encountered the same sillage and softness issues that I did, as they had difficulty detecting Duro after a few hours. Here are a selection of the negative or conflicted reviews for the scent, many of which echo a common theme:
megachemical blast of wood…lasts nothing… the hole in your wallet will last longer!
Very synthetic smell. Didn't project at all. Longevity was maybe 6 hours. I really can't stand that sharp, medicinal, chemical oud scent you get from fake agarwood. I wore it a few times but it was no better than Montale [….]
Smells like vix rub … woody musky like a incense burning on wood in a hindu temple not something i would wear … drydown is a little better but all i can smell is that wood note
Duro, like the name suggests, is extremely hard on the nose. At least for the first hour or two it smells like a medicinal syrup with heavy woods. However, the dry down is fairly pleasant.
Oo no, I really don't like this one, very strong and heavy woods of the bitter type. Also detect strange medicinal notes [….] Definitely prefer B Afgano.
I bought this bottle Dec 2012, at first i felt it was too medicinal, the oud and spice really strong, almost felt like i was in the operating room, but after several months i began to love the scent,,you have to get used to it, its a strong masculine spicey, leathery, oudy bomb!!
This is unique, bold, very strong, but sadly utterly unenjoyable to my nose. I smell some of the same dark (opaque!) resin notes in Duro as I do in Slumberhouse's Norne… But with an additional cherry cough syrup accord layered on top.
A solid woody spicy and completely masculine fragrance which is very simple but well-made at the same time. [¶] The opening is a heavy and dark combination of smoky woods, some spices and a little bit of sweetness completely in the background. [¶] The smoky woody/leathery smell remind me of the smell of oud and there are noticeable amount of spices and some sweetness beside it. [¶] In the mid you have exactly the same smell which only gets smokier and woodier. [¶] Smell very masculine and bitter smoky woody, but smell very familiar too! nothing new or unique about it.
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Others, however, adore what they think is the super-sized masculinity and testosterone of the scent:
A fantastic masculine perfume. Women scare of it I think! […][¶] Shortly a perfume not for human maybe, gorillas deserve it. You either hate it or love it and there's nothing in between. This is one of the manliest fragrances I've ever smelt. Seems is made out of pure testosterone. [¶] For men who drink beer at morning and work with axe.
This is the most explosively masculine perfume I've ever smelled!! You couldn't stop this from projecting if you held it at gunpoint and threatened it's bottle. [¶][…] This perfume says: "WOOD, SPICE, LEATHER…B@TCH!!!! I'M A MAN!!!"
DURO!!!! [¶] The HARD ON of male perfumery! […][¶] If you like wood up the wazzoo this is the fragrance for you! [¶] Loud woodiness of dank strong Oud and a harder denser wood combined with it. [¶] Then there's the spice it's hard but not in a cooking spice type of way or even a hot chili kind of way, it's dry woody spice…almost like the natural spicey scent that would come from a piece of exotic wood. [¶] This fragrance for me is absolutely everything I look for in a masculine powerhouse. The spice perfectly tones down the unpleasant quality oud can have. You know? that bit when it takes a nosedive after the initial almost sweet strange amber quality. [¶] Anyway…the price of this juice is high, extortionately high some might say but I still felt Duro was a worthy purchase because of how bold and strong this juice is. [¶] Longevity and projection are massive as you'd expect from extrait de parfum. [¶] It's not especially unique smelling this one but what can I say? It has a certain appeal & I was charmed by it.
As you can tell from that last comment, Nasomatto fan boys love the brand's macho reputation, though even they have to admit that Duro is not particularly unique.
Montale Aoud Musk via mychicstore.com
What is more interesting to me is the fact that a lot of commentators find Duro to be comparable to Montale's Aoud Musk. Nay, actually "identical to" the latter, in several people's opinions. I haven't tried Montale's Aoud Musk, but if it's true, then that would certainly be a much cheaper purchase. Duro costs $185 for a mere 30 ml, while Luckyscent sells Montale's Aoud Musk for $120 for a 50 ml bottle and for $170 in the 100 ml size. In addition, you can find Aoud Musk on numerous discount retailers for much less, making the price differential all the greater.
The other thing that I found noteworthy is a comment about Nasomatto's dilution of its scents. I'm pretty sure the version of Black Afgano that I tried was altered to be much sweeter and less smokier than the fragrance of legend, but it seems that it isn't the only one in the line to be so changed. A Fragrantica commentator called "Aphexacid" wrote in August 2013:
First, let me say that the rumor of Nasomatto watering down their perfumes is unfortunately TRUE. [¶] I purchased Duro and Pardon together, and they were both completely a shadow of their former selves. [¶] I got maybe 1 hour of moderate projection out of each, then it became skin scents. 6-8 hours later, gone.
What does Duro smell like? Its basically a weaker, less interesting version of Montales EPIC masterpiece "AOUD MUSK".
Duro is lacking backbone.
If Duro has been diluted, that may explain why the scent I tested did not seem wildly masculine but, rather, felt like something that women could appreciate as well, if they had a taste for resinous, woody, patchouli, oud fragrances. I truly don't think Duro is that much of a chest-thumping fragrance, though a number of men on Fragrantica would clearly disagree.
What a number of people would not disagree with is my view that Duro is as aromachemical as hell. Judging by all those references to synthetic, medicinal, antiseptic, "vix," cough syrup, or "operating room" aromas, quite a few people picked up on it. In short, it's not merely a question of me being abnormally sensitive. There's nothing wrong with the judicious, light use of aromachemicals in a fragrance, but to have such a vast quantity in a tiny bottle that costs $185 when the fragrance supposedly is "identical to" a Montale? That's a problem.
I really wanted to like Duro, especially as its notes should be right up my "patch head" alley, but it's a complete pass for me. However, if you enjoy very resinous, woody fragrances centered on oud, patchouli, spices and amber, with a light streak of leather, then you may want to give Duro a sniff for yourself.
Cost & Availability: Duro is a concentrated parfum extrait (or pure parfum), and is generally sold only in a 30 ml/1 oz bottle. However, a mini 4 ml version is available directly from Nasomatto, who sells the 30 ml bottle for €118 and the 4 ml mini for €42. Nasomatto ships world-wide. In the U.S.: Duro retails for $185 for 30 ml. It is available at Barney's, Bergdorf Goodman, Luckyscent, Neiman Marcus, and BeautyBar. Outside the U.S.: In Canada, you can find Duro at The Perfume Shoppe which sells the 30 ml bottle for $165. I think that is in US pricing. In the UK, Duro costs £108, and is available at Liberty London, Roullier White, Bloom Parfumery, and The Conran Shop. In France, you can find Duro at Premiere Avenue or Jovoy for €118. In Spain, you can find Duro at Parfumerias Regia, in Italy at Sacra Cuore, in Russia at what seems to be Nasomatto's own Russian site, along with Orental.ru. In Germany, Duro is sold at First in Fragrance. In the Netherlands, you can obviously find it at Nasomatto's own shop in Amsterdam. In Australia, you can find Duro at Libertine which sells the 30 ml bottle for AUD$220. In Hong Kong, Konzepp carries the fragrance. In South Africa, the Nasomatto line is available at Rio Perfumes. In the UAE, the line is sold on Souq.com. Samples: I obtained my sample from Luckyscent, but you can also find Duro on Surrender to Chance where prices start at $4.99 for a 1/4 ml vial. Samples are also available for purchase at many of the sites linked up above.
Posted in Leathers, Nasomatto, Oud Fragrances, Patchouli Fragrances, Perfume Review	| Tagged Duro, Duro fragrance review, leather fragrances, Nasomatto, Nasomatto Duro, patchouli-fragrances, perfume review
Nasomatto Black Afgano
Posted on August 19, 2013 by Kafkaesque
Source: Nathan Branch.
I never thought I'd spend time researching hashish for a perfume blog, but it seems to be an unavoidable aspect of Black Afgano, the famous, slightly notorious fragrance from the Dutch niche house, Nasomatto. It's a pure parfum that supposedly seeks to replicate the effects of hashish and, perhaps, even its actual smell. The whole thing is done in a very wink-wink, coy manner, right down to the perfume's ingredients which are kept secret and which some jokingly claim include a little bit of the drug.
Some people aren't joking about it, though, and they genuinely believe Black Afgano contains hashish or cannabis. (Technically, there is a difference between hashish and cannabis.) I find the possibility extremely amusing and hard to swallow, but they may have a reason for their conviction. According to the Nathan Branch blog, at the time of Black Afgano's release, there was much "talk about how perfumer Alessandro Gualtieri spent several years experimenting with actual Afghanistan hashish (even "smuggling" it to his lab) in order to make a perfume that either features the essence of hashish or smells somewhat like the stuff[.]" Like me, he also dismisses the likelihood of hashish as a note, saying "that strikes me as more a fantasy story that's good for generating hipster buzz." Still, the bottom line is that hashish and Black Afgano seem intertwined, whether in terms of the perfume's description or in terms of people's expectations. A number of people truly expect to smell cannabis, and, for some, those expectations led to disappointment and harsh criticism.
Hashish via fadedfools.com
I've never done drugs of any kind, and have no familiarity with hashish or its related, supposedly weaker counterpart, cannabis. In Europe, however, everyone knows about Amsterdam's open stance on drugs, and I had quite a few high-school classmates who'd tried the city's famous hash brownies (or who… er… exported… other souvenirs of their trip). I knew full well the visuals, even if I didn't experience the product, and I have to say, the visuals are dead-on for Black Afgano. The scent, though, was a surprise, and nothing like what I had expected. In a nutshell, Black Afgano is a very nice amber oriental dominated by medicinal oud, incense, nutty labdanum, chewy tobacco, patchouli, and vanilla. A wholly conventional, if potent and super-rich, oriental — and hardly the dangerous, completely daring, hardcore fragrance that I had expected. In fact, it strongly reminded me of another, earlier, much more pioneering, and genuinely innovative oud scent: YSL's famous M7 in vintage form.
Source: Nathan Branch at website linked up above.
Black Afgano was created by Nasomatto's founder, Alessandro Gualtieri, and was released in 2009. The Perfume Shoppe has a description of the scent, and its notes:
One of his boldest creation invokes the best quality of hashish. It is the result of a quest to arouse the effects of temporary bliss. The fragrance's description ("smuggled" ingredients, harsh herbs, marijuana-as-incense) conjures wild thoughts yet Black Afgano's dark brown juice is syrupy and the fragrance opens with strong aromas of oud and musk. There is also a hint of wood-scented cigarette smoke in the opening minutes of the fragrance. Black Afgano's mid-notes develop into smelling like marijuana with a dry, herbal-leafy accord (cured tobacco) tinged with a sweet sweaty note. In the dry down Black Afgano becomes vanillic ambery with a touch of patchouli. The lasting power of Black Afgano is sensational. Bold and masculine which says "Dare to wear me".
The specific, official elements in Black Afgano are unknown. Nasomatto doesn't release notes for its perfumes, and lists nothing on its website. Fragrantica has nothing, either, but Luckyscent vaguely references "coffee, oud, tobacco and hash." It seems far too minimal a list. While different blogs mention different elements, Scent Intoxique has one of the better ingredient lists, with "cannabis, herbal notes, resins, woods, coffee, tobacco, frankincense, oud." Nonetheless, I don't think that's complete either, and since everyone has their own version of what is included, here is mine:
Coffee, oud, frankincense, tobacco, labdanum, herbal notes, dried fruit, wood, vetiver, vanilla, patchouli, amber resins and/or benzoin.
YSL M7.
Black Afgano opens on my skin with a blast of coffee and oud, followed quickly by tobacco, fruited raspberry and cherry notes, labdanum, and incense. There are strong undertones of both leather, and something that is aromatic but floral. In truth, it is extremely close to YSL's fabulous, vintage M7, only more concentrated and potent (which is a plus, as M7 was incredibly sheer and short in duration on my skin). Black Afgano has the exact same cola note from the labdanum amber resin, though it's more raspberry in nature here than in M7 where it was almost wholly cherry-like. The medicinal nature of the oud, and the manner with which it combines with the amber, incense, and slightly honeyed undertones of the labdanum, feel very close as well. There are differences, however: M7 opens with herbal lavender, juicy bergamot, and a powerful element of cardamom; it lacks even a drop of coffee, something which is quite robust in Black Afgano's start. Yet, ultimately, M7 is hardly about the lavender or citruses, and the two fragrances have enough similarities that my jaw was a little agape.
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Putting M7 aside, Black Afgano's opening is quite lovely. The rich coffee feels like freshly roasted beans, as well as the somewhat wet, black grinds. The labdanum is beautiful here, showing all the reasons why it is my favorite type of amber resin. It's dark, very nutty, just barely animalic and musky, with a tinge of dark leatheriness underlying its glowing, golden heart.
The other notes are lovely too. The tobacco element is similar to the sun-dried, sweet leaves in Serge Lutens' Chergui with their sweetly honeyed touch, but there is also a thick, almost wet feel to the note in Black Afgano. I never detect cigarette smoke or ashtrays, though. At the same time, there is a subtle suggestion of patchouli at play in Black Afgano, and it's the dark, dirty kind which adds some rich, textured depth and chewiness to the tobacco. Flickers of dark, rooty, slightly earthy vetiver lurk in the base, while, up top, there is a surprising fruited note. It smells strongly of raspberries, with a touch of plum, and it adds another source of sweetness to counter the darker elements. The whole thing is very much like the middle and drydown stages to M7 that I'd hoped to experience in full potency, but which my wonky skin turned instead to a thin, sheer gauze. And absolutely none of it smells of hashish or cannabis….
Norlimbanol. Source: leffingwell.com
The swirl of dark, smoky, chewy, wood, incense, labdanum, and tobacco notes have something else underlying them. It almost feels like ISO E Super, but it's not. I can't pinpoint which precise synthetic is at play, but I know it's there and it adds to the slightly medicinal feel of the oud. I was very relieved to have some help from the blog, Scent Intoxique, whose review of Black Afgano noted two synthetic elements:
Straight out of the bong you're greeted with a dense aroma chemical sucker punch made up of synthetic Givaudan oud, coupled with an underpinned cedar effect in the form of Kephalis (which is an Iso-E-Super substitute, only with a more woodier/smokier feel).
Finally I can make out some quite prominent vetiver/tobacco notes, adding to the "greenness" which the general nose picks up. I may be off, but I definitely feel like I'm picking up one of the main players here and that's Norlimbanol™, which is described as an "extremely powerful woody/animal amber note. That has a dry woody note in the patchouli direction".
As described by Chandler Burr, "Norlimbanol is one of the most amazing scents around, a genius molecule that should be worth its weight in gold; Norlimbanol gives you, quite simply, the smell of extreme dryness, absolute desiccation, and if when you smell it, you'll understand that instantly—the molecule is, by itself, a multi-sensory Disney ride."
It's this same compound which I believe gives the scent its subtle leathery undertones along with the amber.
I don't share his enormous familiarity with either aroma-chemical, but I'd bet he's right. That said, I would say the labdanum is also responsible for the leather nuances in Black Afgano, though they aren't very profound or dominant on my skin. And I'm pretty sure there is actual patchouli at play as well.
Forty minutes into Black Afgano's development, the fragrance begins to shift. The notes turn hazy, overlapping each other and creating a soft bouquet. The coffee, medicinal oud, sweet raspberry, cola, slightly honeyed tobacco, and nutty, leathered labdanum are all still there, but they've lost some of their edge and distinctiveness. A quiet hint of powderiness lurks underneath, and the whole thing has started to lose projection.
Painting by Holly Anderson. "Spherical Romance Art Set" via Artbarrage.com. https://www.artbarrage.com/item.php?id=656
With every hour, Black Afgano becomes quieter and quieter, though its primary overall bouquet remains on a singular, linear trajectory for many more hours to come. At the end of the second hour, the fragrance hovers just barely above the skin scent, and thirty minutes later, sits right on it. Around the same time, both the coffee and vetiver fade away entirely, the patchouli becomes much more noticeable, and a chocolate note creeps into the mix. Some aspect of the labdanum's dark, nutty, slightly leathery characteristic has combined with the patchouli to create a definite but subtle chocolate undertone to Black Afgano. Around the 3.5 hour mark, a quiet hint of vanilla pops up in the base, and it eventually becomes much more prominent.
By the start of the fifth hour, Black Afgano is a blur of sweet woodiness with smoke. The fragrance is a well-blended hazy bouquet of medicinal oud, cola labdanum with its faintly raspberry-like undertone, patchouli, amber, incense, and vanilla, but they are really hard to tease apart. Flickers of tobacco and leather lurk at the edges, but they never feel distinct either. Soon, Black Afgano turns even more nebulous and abstract, wafting only patchouli, vanilla, and labdanum amber with faint tendrils of black incense. In its final moments, the fragrance is nothing more than the merest suggestion of patchouli with ambered sweetness.
All in all, Black Afgano lasted just short of 10.75 hours on my skin. It was nothing like the purported legend of longevity that I'd read about with its rumours of a single drop lasting for 24 or 36 hours. I know my skin is wonky and consumes perfume, but this was really a surprise, especially for a fragrance that is pure parfum extrait! A few people on a Basenotes thread reported a similarly moderate or average lifespan, but the majority find Black Afgano to have monumental longevity. My experience with the sillage, however, was wholly consistent with all the reports; everyone agrees that it is a scent that doesn't project much and which remains very close to the skin.
part of "The Blooming Tree," Painting by Osnat Tzadok, via osnatfineart.com
http://www.osnatfineart.com/art/landscape-paintings/6088-The-Blooming-Tree.jsp
I have very mixed feelings about Black Afgano. It wasn't at all what I expected. In fact, I'm a bit perplexed by how Black Afgano — that supposedly hardcore, brutish, super macho, edgy, dangerous scent — makes me envision curling up in winter before a fire in a sweet, smoky, woody amber cloud, but it does. It's a totally safe, easy, approachable, comfort fragrance for me, without any edge whatsoever. I absolutely enjoyed wearing it, and I'm pleased I have an alternative to the rare, discontinued, vintage M7 which actually lasts on my skin. Vintage M7 lasted a whopping 3.5 hours on me, and the equally discontinued, reformulated M7 was even worse! Both fragrances only felt noticeable for a mere, solitary, wholly abysmal hour, so even the soft, minimally projecting Black Afgano is a step up in that regard. And, again, it was a very pretty, even occasionally beautiful, warm, rich amber on my skin. As Now Smell This put it: "Black Afgano is a handsome oriental fragrance for men; it's a "well-rounded" perfume with no ragged/jagged edges. Black Afgano smells more like the incense people use to cover up their pot use than it does the drug itself."
Source: lolzparade.com
Yet, despite my enjoyment of the scent, there is the issue of hype. When I wore Black Afgano, I wondered to myself, "Is this IT??!" Even if one puts aside its similarity to other fragrances, it doesn't feel revolutionary or edgy at all. Black Afgano has such a reputation for ferocity, and I don't understand that given the largely soft, sweet cloud I experienced. In fact, I have to wonder if there is some sort of hipster cool or bravado swagger associated with the scent that makes people — young men, in particular — like to hype it up? Is this part of a certain subculture in the perfume world that likes to brag about "panty dropper" fragrances? Is Black Afgano the perfume equivalent of a Porsche's penis extension symbolism for guys who thinks it makes them seem super cool, macho, and virile? Or is it all the fault of my skin which has muted the fragrance's supposedly "beastly" roar?
Whatever the reason, I simply don't get the fuss. Black Afgano is a perfectly lovely fragrance — one I enjoyed, in fact — but what I smelled didn't rock my world, make me feel like a dangerous rebel, or make me lust for a bottle right away. Don't kill me, but I could see a grandfather wearing Black Afgano in a sweater and slippers by the fire as he sips a glass of scotch, just as much as I can see a hot young guy or woman wearing it. In my opinion, Amouage's Tribute is the beastly, smoky, dangerous Darth Vader or Hell's Angels of fragrances. Black Afgano could work in a NASA library.
The reactions to the scent are very interesting. There is that one small sub-group that I mentioned earlier (who are almost invariably young males) which adores to brag about the dangerous toughness of the scent. Then, there is a much larger group which simply enjoys Black Afgano's dark, chewy, sweet-smoky, ambered nature, without regard to the perfume's reputation. Finally, there is a massive group who seems to loathe the fragrance, either on its own merits or in conjunction with the extreme hype.
On Basenotes, the views seem very split. For example, in one thread, most of the Basenoters are extremely negative about the scent, despising it as rather unwearable or genuinely unpleasant, or else regretting having bought it. Apparently, a month earlier, there was another Basenotes discussion which was wholly positive in nature. In the official Basenotes entry for Black Afghano, the fragrance has an 82% score out of 33 reviews: 66% (or 20 people) gave it Five Stars and 21% (or 7 people) gave it three.
On Fragrantica, early reviews seem to be wholly gushing in nature, while the vast majority of subsequent assessments are sharply negative. I can't tell you the number of people who find the scent to be over-hyped. For some, it's because they are genuinely upset that there is no actual smell of weed. If you think I'm exaggerating, I'm not. For example:
Cant believe the price for this rotten flanker of M7 , i would call it a suffocating oxygen sucker. Where is the marijuana and coffee btw?
Nothing like the hashish or cannabis, and those notes were exactly what I was looking for. And I know too well what I`m talking about.
Apparently, some people were hoping to get a legal form of hashish in perfume form. I'll spare you my thoughts on that quixotic dream. More interesting (and sane) to me, are the repeated references to M7 amongst Fragrantica posters. I'm glad to know it's not just me, but I'm a little surprised by some of the anger over the similarities. Yes, actual anger about Black Afgano, and it's not just the quoted commentator up above, but some others as well. M7 has a worshipped, protected, cult status amongst many perfumistas, but still! Again, I think the issue of hype is partially responsible, with many finding the fragrance to be much ado about nothing (particularly in light of M7), or being disappointed by their expectations when they experienced a perfectly nice, conventional, sweet, smoky, woody, amber fragrance.
Perhaps the more useful part of the reviews is the discussion of similar fragrances other than M7. On Basenotes, a few people shared my thought that Black Afgano has a similar tobacco note to that in Serge Lutens' Chergui. On Fragrantica, 20 people voted for a similarity to Carner Barcelona's Cuirs. I haven't tried it, so I don't know how true that may be. On both Basenotes and Fragrantica, a number of people bring up Montale's Dark Aoud. I haven't tried the latter, either, so I can't compare, but it may be something to keep in mind if you can't get Black Afgano. Apparently, Nasomatto only makes the fragrance once a year in somewhat limited quantities, so I've read a few people claim that it's not always easy to obtain. (However, I had absolutely no problems finding sites from the U.S. to Russia and South Africa that sell Black Afgano, so take that claim with a grain of salt.) However, the Montale is significantly cheaper at $110 for 50 ml than Black Afgano, which costs $185 or €108 for a 30 ml bottle. Also, as a slight warning, Black Afgano supposedly stains clothing, so if you get it, be careful where you spray it.
Treating Black Afgano in a vacuum, and without reference to the larger context, the fragrance doesn't work on everyone's skin. One problem is the tobacco note. A friend of mine wanted to like Black Afgano, but said it smelled like "a sour and stale ashtray" on his skin, and he's not alone; I've seen a few references to an "ashtray," along with chewing tobacco, and pot smoke. A tiny handful struggle with something completely different: cumin. I have never seen any site or blog list cumin as one of the notes in Black Afgano, but clearly, something in the scent replicates a stale or sweaty aroma to some noses. Finally, some people have problems with the synthetics, detecting either a rubbing alcohol note (which would be the ISO E Super-like element mentioned up above), Ambroxan, or various unpleasant, abrasive chemical aromas. One person even compared the scent and feel of Black Afgano to latex paint!
The bottom line — and the reason for this extended discussion– is this: Black Afgano is complicated scent on a variety of different levels, some of which have absolutely nothing to do with the fragrance's actual aroma. It's a perfume that comes laden with expectations, whether it's about the notes, its effects, or its reputation. Block it all out. If you do, and if your skin plays nicely, then you may experience a very rich, deep, oriental, amber scent. Not a revolutionary one that will knock your socks off, but quite a nice one. If your skin doesn't comply, then it will be a dark, unpleasant tobacco or synthetic oud experience for you. And if you've smelled or own vintage M7, your primary reaction may be déjà vu.
Either way, Black Afgano won't be the dark, brooding, difficult, revolutionary "beast" of legend. It's not radically daring, it's not a high, it's not like cannabis, and I highly doubt you'll be transported away in state of euphoric, drugged-out bliss. My advice is to approach Black Afgano with low expectations, and not to expect the Lost smoke monster or some sort of hashish drug replacement. If you're lucky, then you may be surprised at the loveliness of the chewy, dark, incense-y, tobacco-y, nutty labdanum and cola, oud opening. You may really enjoy the soft patchouli, vanilla, and ambered sweetness of the drydown, and you might even think Black Afgano is a cozy, comfort scent at the end of the day. Whatever you do, however, don't buy Black Afgano blind, and don't believe the hype.
Cost & Availability: Nasomatto is a concentrated parfum extrait (or pure parfum), and is generally sold only in a 30 ml/1 oz bottle. However, a mini 4 ml version is available directly from Nasomatto, who sells the 30 ml bottle for €108 and the 4 ml mini for €38. Nasomatto ships world-wide. In the U.S.: Black Afgano retails for $185 for 30 ml. It is available at Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys, Luckyscent, , BeautyBar, C.O. Bigelow (where it is currently sold out). Outside the U.S.: In Canada, you can find Black Afgano at The Perfume Shoppe which sells the 30 ml bottle for US$185. In the UK, Black Afghano costs £108, and is available at Roullier White, Bloom Parfumery, and The Conran Shop. Liberty London sells the Nasomatto line, but I don't see Black Afgano listed on the website. In France, you can find Black Afgano at Premiere Avenue for €108. In Spain, it's sold at Parfumerias Regia, in Italy at Sacra Cuore, in Russia at what seems to be Nasomatto's own Russian site, along with Orental.ru. In Germany, Black Afgano is sold at First in Fragrance (where it's priced higher than retail at €120). In the Netherlands, you can obviously find it at Nasomatto's own shop in Amsterdam. In Australia, you can find Black Afgano at Libertine which sells the 30 ml bottle for AUD$220. In Hong Kong, I found Konzepp carries the fragrance, in South Africa at Rio Perfumes, and in the UAE, I found it on Souq.com but it seems to be sold out or currently unavailable. Samples: I obtained my sample from Surrender to Chance where prices start at $4.99 for a 1/4 ml vial. Samples are also available for purchase at many of the sites linked up above.
Posted in All Other Perfume Houses, Nasomatto, Orientals, Oud Fragrances, Perfume Review	| Tagged Black Afgano, Black Afgano Perfume Review, M7 fragrance, Nasomatto, Nasomatto Black Afgano, perfume review


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Louis C.K. performed for the first time since admitting sexual misconduct
In this Aug. 9, 2017, file photo, Louis C.K., co-creator/writer/executive producer, participates in the "Better Things" panel during the FX Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. Comedian Louis C.K. has returned to the stage for apparently the first time after he admitted to engaging in sexual misconduct.
Timothy Bella, The Washington Post • August 28, 2018 10:09 am
On Sunday night, Louis C.K. did what he's done for much of his career, walking on stage for an unannounced set at the Comedy Cellar, the revered institution in New York's Greenwich Village. In front of a sold-out crowd that reportedly gave C.K. an ovation before he began a 15-minute set, the comedian performed for the first time in almost 10 months since he admitted to numerous instances of sexual misconduct.
In a set filled with bits on racism, parades and waitresses' tips — what Comedy Cellar owner Noah Dworman described to the New York Times as "typical Louis C.K. stuff" — the comedian was said to be "very relaxed" in his return to the public eye. What was not addressed, however, was his admission of wrongdoing that made C.K. one of the many men to face the consequences of the #MeToo movement.
"I didn't think it was going to happen as soon as it did," Dworman told the Times, saying that one audience member called the Comedy Cellar to object to the club allowing C.K. to perform. "I had thought that the first time he'd go on would be in a more controlled environment. But he decided to just rip the Band-Aid off."
In November 2017, five women came forward to tell their stories of C.K.'s sexual misconduct dating back to more than a decade ago, including instances involving masturbating in front of the women. The day after the New York Times report, C.K. confirmed the accusations.
"These stories are true," C.K. said in a statement last November. "At the time, I said to myself that what I did was OK because I never showed a woman" his genitals "without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look" at your genitals "isn't a question. It's a predicament for them."
The initial sexual misconduct accusations, and his admission a day later, led to FX Networks ending their production deal with him, essentially killing the release of "I Love You, Daddy," a film that included scenes with the kind of behavior mentioned by the women who came forward.
Though some loyal fans expressed joy at his return, the majority of the response on social media to C.K.'s return has been widely met with criticism from comedians, writers and journalists.
"Back by NO demand, sexual predator Louis C.K. does more of his completely necessary and revolutionary observational comedy," comedy writer Mitra Jouhari observed. "What a relief that this voice is back on the scene."
It was a sentiment echoed by MAD Magazine editor Allie Goertz. "I believe people can grow and change, but this urgency to bring him (and others) back SO soon just sends such a bad message," she tweeted.
There was also anger directed at the Comedy Cellar for allowing C.K. a stage to perform so soon following his admission of sexual misconduct. "many good, well-employed comedians regularly perform at the Comedy Cellar. they all have the power to make it clear that Louis CK's return is not acceptable," Seth Simons wrote on Twitter.
Dworman told the Times that he understood why people were angry with him.
"I care about my customers very much," he said. "Every complaint goes through me like a knife. And I care about doing the right thing."
Dworman did say, however, that "there can't be a permanent life sentence on someone who does something wrong."
The set comes on the heels of Aziz Ansari returning to do shows in several cities seven months after a story on Babe.net regarding an unnamed woman's experience with the comedian after a date.
A longtime haunt of his, the Comedy Cellar was a likely place for C.K.'s unexpected return to the public eye. The front of the club was prominently featured in the introduction to "Louie," his FX show that aired from 2010 to 2015.
While it remains unclear what comes next for C.K., seeing the fallen star working on new material at the Comedy Cellar is emblematic of something much larger potentially happening in the next year. In his 2016 autobiography, "Louis C.K. and Philosophy: You Don't Get to Be Bored," C.K. detailed how he'd work on his act at smaller clubs, like the Comedy Cellar, until he was ready to produce a new show for that year. The Sunday show might not be any different, Dworman said.
"It sounded just like he was trying to work out some new material, almost like any time of the last 10 years he would come in at the beginning of a new act," Dworman told the Times.
In his November statement, C.K. said that he was lucky to have a career that allowed him to say anything he wanted.
"I will now step back and take a long time to listen," he said at the time.
With his return to the stage, that time for listening might have ended.


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The Shooting Of Anthony Hill:Where Mental Health and Militarization Meet…Again
The Latest unarmed man to be shot and killed by police was an American Vet named Anthony Hill. Anthony Hill Served our country for 5 years in the United States Air Force. He was 27 years old. When Anthony returned from serving he dreamed of a career in music, and according to his family and friends this budding career gave him purpose and joy. Anthony had a beautiful girlfriend, who got along with his sister, and ya'll know if you can befriend the sister you must be special! Anthony's sister is a hard working young adult who was about to set out on her own life adventure in Los Angeles, California.
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What this family and millions like them didn't have was the overall support needed to care for a vet who so desperately needed it. We have heard it time and time again that our Vets need more support when they come home but it's up to the citizens to hold our local elected officials responsible for not moving heaven and hell to get that support.
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Tonight millions of people will be watching Empire, a Television show who has dared to address among other serious issues, what Bipolar Disorder can like, and how it affects family members. Anthony also watched this show and gave profound commentary when he advised us to take a look deeper at what Bipolar Disorder looks like, as demonstrated by one of his facebook updates. Even in his final days he challenged us to be better, to look deeper and for those who suffer to remember self care: "To Love Your Life!"
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How to protect your organization against the rising threat of application layer attacks
Abhishek Kumar Jha
According to data published by the 2H2020 Threat Intelligence Report, the unprecedented number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that happened in 2020 will most definitely spill over in 2021. That prediction has held true. According to the report, over 2.9 million DDoS attacks happened during the first quarter of 2021 alone, which is an increase of more than 31 percent compared to the same period in 2020.
This record-breaking activity means that if this rate holds, we will end 2021 with the number of attacks overtaking the 10 million attacks recorded for the duration of 2020. This also shows that threat actors are working overtime to conduct their nefarious activities because the first quarter of every year is usually the lowest in terms of the number of attacks, but the numbers show an uptick instead.
This surge in attacks can be attributed to the sudden and abrupt change in work dynamics all across the globe brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of businesses shifted operations from inside offices to work-at-home arrangements. This has left many networks vulnerable and more prone to attacks.
Threat actors realized that many organizations have not prepared their IT infrastructure for this sudden surge in network traffic coming from outside the premises. They have not initiated security protocols and many have also failed to install security features like a load balancer and a web application firewall.
In a high-traffic situation such as a DoS or DDoS attack, a load balancer can provide the added resiliency to one's IT assets by routing traffic from one server to another when server failures happen. This mitigates or eliminates the risk of having a single point-of-failure and essentially provides redundancy in both normal situations and during attacks.
Load balancing can also scale traffic capacity during surges, which is a common occurrence during high-traffic seasons such as flash e-commerce sales or going viral. Meanwhile, a WAF will prevent attacks at the application layer, reducing the threat of SQL injections, cross-site-scripting, and similar threats.
The preferred method of threat actors
The difficulty of preventing application layer attacks
Protecting against application-layer attacks
Threat actors employ many methods to exploit weaknesses and vulnerabilities of an organization's IT infrastructure or to gain access to the network in order to steal sensitive data. But among the many methods these cybercriminals employ, one has emerged as a preferred attack method – application-layer attacks.
Application layer attacks are a type of malicious cyber method that targets what is referred to as the top layer in the OSI model. These are also referred to as Layer 7 or L7 DDoS attack. It primarily targets rudimentary internet requests such as HTTP GET and HTTP POST.
These types of attacks are more effective compared to network layer attacks like DNS Amplification because it uses both server resources and network resources.
Cybercriminals prefer application layer attack methods more than any other malicious method in their playbook. This is because of the relative harmlessness or ubiquity of this method. An application-layer attack is relatively indistinguishable from normal traffic, for example, a botnet that would perform an HTTP flood attack targeting an organization's server. The requests will look benign because the network requests will look like it is legitimate, therefore, the traffic is not flagged and will go through to the server.
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Because of the surreptitious nature of application-layer attacks, the human factor will also play a role in the success of these types of attacks.
There are two types of human-related factors that could enable criminals to become successful in their attempts.
The subject of vulnerabilities was discussed above, and this relates to this factor, which is poor configuration of the application or the server. Hackers, in their attempts to find zero-day vulnerabilities, will also look for weaknesses that are caused by poor configuration. When they find out, the application layer-level attacks can then be implemented.
Another human-related factor involves users of the applications. Hackers and malicious actors can implement tricks that would fool users into performing certain actions that would then expose the server, which would then now be open to an application layer attack.
The very nature of application-layer attacks makes them hard to detect and prevent. What is needed is a strategy and security protocol that will be robust and adaptive to these kinds of malicious actions. First and foremost, administrators need to check how the network is secured and determine if proper configurations are implemented across the whole enterprise. This will shut one door of vulnerability that hackers and criminals could exploit.
Implementing security features will also help prevent application-layer attacks. For example, a web application firewall will prevent certain types of application attacks by filtering dubious traffic that will attempt to connect to the server. Setting up a load balancer will also help tremendously in keeping the integrity of the server when an application layer attack does happen. By distributing the flow of traffic across servers, the network can continue operations and not be overwhelmed by a sudden upsurge in traffic that is usually associated with a DDoS attack. In fact, the tandem of a WAF and load balancer can help mitigate the detrimental effects of an application layer attack.
Application layer attacks are now the most prevalent type of malicious attack on servers, comprising almost 80 percent of all attacks. It has become the preferred method of malicious actors because it is harder to detect. But IT administrators and organizations can still defend the integrity of their servers by implementing an adaptive strategy that will be robust enough to quickly address the vulnerabilities in the server and be able to swiftly act when an attack does happen.


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package org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

import org.apache.pig.LoadFunc;
import org.apache.pig.PigException;
import org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException;
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
import org.apache.pig.impl.PigContext;
import org.apache.pig.impl.io.BufferedPositionedInputStream;
import org.apache.pig.impl.io.FileLocalizer;
import org.apache.pig.impl.io.FileSpec;
import org.apache.pig.impl.io.ReadToEndLoader;
import org.apache.pig.impl.plan.OperatorKey;
import org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.datastorage.ConfigurationUtil;
import org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.PhysicalOperator;
import org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.POStatus;
import org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.Result;
import org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.plans.PhyPlanVisitor;
import org.apache.pig.impl.plan.VisitorException;
import org.apache.pig.pen.util.ExampleTuple;

/**
 * The load operator which is used in two ways:
 * 1) As a local operator it can be used to load files
 * 2) In the Map Reduce setting, it is used to create jobs
 *    from MapReduce operators which keep the loads and
 *    stores in the Map and Reduce Plans till the job is created
 *
 */
public class POLoad extends PhysicalOperator {
    /**
     *
     */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    // The user defined load function or a default load function
    transient LoadFunc loader = null;
    // The filespec on which the operator is based
    FileSpec lFile;
    // PigContext passed to us by the operator creator
    PigContext pc;
    //Indicates whether the loader setup is done or not
    boolean setUpDone = false;
    // default offset.
    private long offset = 0;
    // Alias for the POLoad
    private String signature;

    transient private final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());

    public POLoad(OperatorKey k) {
        this(k,-1, null);
    }

    public POLoad(OperatorKey k, FileSpec lFile){
        this(k,-1,lFile);
    }

    public POLoad(OperatorKey k, FileSpec lFile, long offset){
        this(k,-1,lFile);
        this.offset = offset;
    }

    public POLoad(OperatorKey k, int rp, FileSpec lFile) {
        super(k, rp);
        this.lFile = lFile;
    }

    /**
     * Set up the loader by
     * 1) Instantiating the load func
     * 2) Opening an input stream to the specified file and
     * 3) Binding to the input stream at the specified offset.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void setUp() throws IOException{
        String filename = lFile.getFileName();
        LoadFunc origloader =
            (LoadFunc)PigContext.instantiateFuncFromSpec(lFile.getFuncSpec());
        loader = new ReadToEndLoader(origloader,
                ConfigurationUtil.toConfiguration(pc.getProperties()),
                filename,
                0);

    }

    /**
     * At the end of processing, the inputstream is closed
     * using this method
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void tearDown() throws IOException{
        setUpDone = false;
    }

    /**
     * The main method used by this operator's successor
     * to read tuples from the specified file using the
     * specified load function.
     *
     * @return Whatever the loader returns
     *          A null from the loader is indicative
     *          of EOP and hence the tearDown of connection
     */
    @Override
    public Result getNext(Tuple t) throws ExecException {
        if(!setUpDone && lFile!=null){
            try {
                setUp();
            } catch (IOException ioe) {
                int errCode = 2081;
                String msg = "Unable to setup the load function.";
                throw new ExecException(msg, errCode, PigException.BUG, ioe);
            }
            setUpDone = true;
        }
        Result res = new Result();
        try {
            res.result = loader.getNext();
            if(res.result==null){
                res.returnStatus = POStatus.STATUS_EOP;
                tearDown();
            }
            else
                res.returnStatus = POStatus.STATUS_OK;
            if(lineageTracer != null) {
        	ExampleTuple tOut = new ExampleTuple((Tuple) res.result);
        	res.result = tOut;
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            log.error("Received error from loader function: " + e);
            return res;
        }
        return res;
    }

    @Override
    public String name() {
        if(lFile!=null)
            return "Load" + "(" + lFile.toString() + ")" + " - " + mKey.toString();
        else
            return "Load" + "(" + "DummyFil:DummyLdr" + ")" + " - " + mKey.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean supportsMultipleInputs() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean supportsMultipleOutputs() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public void visit(PhyPlanVisitor v) throws VisitorException {
        v.visitLoad(this);
    }

    public FileSpec getLFile() {
        return lFile;
    }

    public void setLFile(FileSpec file) {
        lFile = file;
    }

    public PigContext getPc() {
        return pc;
    }

    public void setPc(PigContext pc) {
        this.pc = pc;
    }

    public String getSignature() {
        return signature;
    }

    public void setSignature(String signature) {
        this.signature = signature;
    }
}


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