A while back, I saw YouTube videos about making your own palettes with existing eye shadows and depotting stuff etc. (Like this one from Angelica Nyqvist where she duped a Jeffree Star palette) That made me think about all the beat up palettes I have (without lid and so on as they are old and have travelled/got dropped on the floor), and how I should put the shades into Z-palettes to possibly get more use out of them. So, I hopped on Beauty Bay, and got a couple of palettes and some extra magnets.
There are many palette designs to choose from, but I went with these cool animal prints since they are neutral but still fun. There was a bright pink one as well, but I felt that these suit my aesthetic vision better.
And here you can see the palettes I created from the old ones, the other one is neutral and quite warm toned, whereas the other has darks, brights and such in it. I thought they came out nicely, and I think I will somehow arrange a Project pan for myself few shades at a time and try to go through as many as I can next year. And then, I can invest on few nice staple shades as single shadows from some cruelty-free company (one contestant for that is Karity, they're completely cruelty-free and have also vegan shadows) to create a go-to palette (or two). But like mentioned, first I need to get through the old ones.
This depotting was a nice prologue for the makeup declutter and organization I then did as a part of my End of the year declutter. I did mostly go through my makeup in the move but I still had a thing or few to put away while doing this. Below you can see some before/afters, although again to be fair, I might do this more aggressively next year when I better get into the mindset of living more minimalistic and reducing my purchasing as well as my carbon footprint. Like I mentioned in my clothing declutter, these posts will show you how messy I have been behind closed closet doors - our apartment is very tidy even with the cat rallying around, but my drawers and so on have been an abomination. I feel like outing myself this way helps me stay more organized.
So, as you can see, before this, drawers were such a mess. I'm not saying they're perfect now either, but at least anyone can find things. I feel like if my boyfriend can find anything from my drawers, they're organized enough and don't have too much stuff. These are currently at that stage, but I know I can do even better. This probably doesn't meet the requirements of minimalism in most people's books, but for me, it's a journey rather than throwing things mindlessly away just to have a certain number of things. The goal later though is not to have many of the similar things. I don't need five red lippies, two will suffice well. And I don't need seven different shades of light brown for blending, as I can get away with just a couple.
Next year's mission will be to project pan some of the older things as well as possible, and further reduce the collection. I don't say I won't be buying anything new as far as makeup goes, but I sure as heck will be more thoughtful in what I bring to my collection. I also want to switch the Born Pretty Store brushes into bit more quality ones at some point. Maybe have less but in better quality. I'm considering getting xoBeauty ones as they have gorgeous vegan brushes, but also Ecotools and Real Techniques are brands I consider switching to.
Have you done any declutter recently? Let me know in the comments!
That's all for today's post, and in the next one, you get to see my capsule wardrobe for the winter season. I will also be talking about the changes I'm making in my clothing purchase pattern soon, as well as continuing the declutter series a bit further. So that's what's in store for the next week or so, and if any of those happens to be a topic that interests you, stay tuned in here or on social media - I tend to share my posts on all the platforms so that no one would miss out. See you in the next one!


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Xinghualou keeps mooncakes traditional, but goes healthy
Hu Min
The time-honored brand has teamed up with Coca-Cola to offer unique, high-fiber gift packs for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Time-honored brand Xinghualou joins hands with Coca-Cola, an "East meets West" innovative approach.
Two months away from the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xinghualou, one of the city's oldest brands, has revealed its unique recipe for the seasonal festive snack of mooncakes, adding something special.
Unlike other time-honored restaurants and food stores in the city which pursue novel and sometimes bizarre tastes in mooncakes, Xinghualou with a history dating to 1851 has developed a special mung bean fiber mooncake which highlights health.
"Dietary fiber is added into the mung bean mooncakes with the fiber content reaching 6 percent to satisfy consumers' demand for healthy food," said Chen Zhe, General Manager of Xinghualou Group. The mooncake is also low in sugar.
Xinhualou chefs developed the recipe over a year, and the proportion of fillings went through numerous adjustment to ensure quality, said Chen.
The mooncake is served with fiber cola from Coca-Cola in three gift boxes, an innovative "East meets West" approach.
Each can of Coca-Cola fiber cola contains about 5 grams of dietary fiber.
The cooperation makes the time-honored brand young and international, said Chen.
The formula of Coca-Cola only shared with a small group was placed in a vault, while the secret recipe of Xinghualou mooncake was also placed inside a vault at the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank in July, 1997.
The recipe contains 16 procedures and eight key points in operation.
The design of the gift boxes drew inspiration from white moonlight to cater to young people, but they also feature traditional and classic patterns like peony, and Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon.
Xinghualou mooncakes hit the market in the United States and Canada last year, and they will also be sold in the US this year.
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 13.
Cross-industry cooperation is a new trend of time-honored brands to inject vitality into old brands and lure youngsters.
Among them, the Shanghai-based White Rabbit candy company has teamed up with Happy Lemon to produce a White Rabbit candy version of milk tea, and a floral-fragrance flavored alcopop has been produced by Liushen floral water and Rio.
Shanghai Farm: The city's food basket is expanding
Tunnel opens to link Xuhui and Minhang
Art for all at reasonable prices
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DOT designates Baguio as a vacation spot
September 21, 2019 September 20, 2019 Dexter A. See
BAGUIO CITY – The tourism department designated Baguio City as a vacation spot which must be preserved and protected by the people for the same to be passed on to the coming generations.
Tourism Assistant Secretary Roberto Alabado III said the agency included Baguio City and the Cordillera as one of the preferred tourist destination for culture and nature lovers, especially for foreign and domestic visitors wanting to witness well-preserved cultures which had not been influenced by the country's colonizers.
He pointed out aside from Baguio City and the Cordillera, the agency also recommends the Mindanao area as part of the itinerary of foreign and domestic visitors wanting to witness the culture of Filipinos that is why tourist arrivals in the said areas continue to significantly increase.
He disclosed that apart from the country's scenic beaches, foreign and domestic tourists also want to explore the rich culture of Filipinos, as well as well preserved and protected nature and the cool climate.
For the past five years, tourist arrivals in the city and the region had been increasing which has contributed in spurring economic growth in remote areas through the generation of additional jobs for qualified residents and the mushrooming of businesses.
In the Cordillera, the tourist arrivals in 2014 was recorded at 1.1 million before increasing to 1.4 million in 2015, 1.7 million in 2016, 1.9 million in 2017 and 2.1 million last year.
However, Assistant Secretary Alabado claimed Baguio City accounted for over 80 percent of the tourist arrivals in the region through the years, thus, the need for the agency to entice more foreign and domestic visitors to visit other scenic places outside the city to improve the potentials of the tourism industry in other areas of the region.
According to him, Europeans, particularly French, remain to be the top foreign tourists who frequent the region through the years followed by Israelites, Koreans, Chinese, Japanese and Americans.
He explained Europeans are known nature lovers who prefer scenic tourist destinations, like the well-preserved sceneries in the different parts of the region, thus, the need for other localities to aggressively promote their existing tourist spots worthy of being visited to help in spurring economic activities in the countryside considering the bright prospects for the country's tourism in the coming years.
Last year, the tourism department registered some 7.1 foreign tourist arrivals which was much higher compared to the foreign tourist arrivals the previous years.
Alabado revealed that the tourist arrivals contributed some P245 billion in the country's economy which played a significant role in generating employment opportunities in the countryside.
For the first six months of this year, the tourism official stated that the foreign tourist arrivals reached over 4.1 million which means that the projected 8.2 million foreign tourist arrivals this year is likely to be achieved considering the enormous foreign tourist arrivals recorded in the different tourist destinations.
By Dexter A. See
Illustration by Don Ray Ramos
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Leukemia in GH Deficient Children
Shaw Watanabe, Shoichi Mizuno, Yukiko Tsunematsu, Atsushi Komiyama, Chutaro Yamanaka, Masaru Kubota
1994 Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology
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The incidence of leukemia, exduding malignant histiocytosis, among growth hormone (GH) users has reached 13 cases in Japan. These consist of six with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), five with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and two with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) . In nine of these patients the leukemia was idiopathic, but the other three had underlying malignant decease and one had Fanconi's anemia. Leukemia developed during GH treatment in eight patients and after cessation of GH therapy more » ... three. The longest interval between cessation of GH therapy and the onset of leukemia was 10 years. One patient with AML was considered to be already at the preleukemic stage when GH was started. Recently, two new leukemia cases (AML and CML) in GH deficient children who had not received GH have been reported. Analysis of these cases suggests that both high and low GH levels are risk factors for leukemia.
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Shaw Watanabe, Shoichi Mizuno, Yukiko Tsunematsu, Atsushi Komiyama, Chutaro Yamanaka, Masaru Kubota. "Leukemia in GH Deficient Children." Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology 3.Supple5 (1994) 53-60


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Soundtrack från TV-serien Twin Peaks.

All musik skriven av Angelo Badalamenti om ej annat anges.

Soundtrack från Twin Peaks

Utgiven 1990. Angelo Badalamenti vann en Grammy samma år för det instrumentala ledmotivet.

 "Twin Peaks Theme"
 "Laura Palmer's Theme"
 "Audrey's Dance"
 "The Nightingale" (sång: Julee Cruise, text: David Lynch)
 "Freshly Squeezed"
 "The Bookhouse Boys"
 "Into the Night" (sång: Julee Cruise, text: David Lynch)
 "Night Life in Twin Peaks"
 "Dance of the Dream Man"
 "Love Theme from Twin Peaks"
 "Falling" (sång: Julee Cruise, text: David Lynch)

Soundtrack from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Utgiven 1992 i samband med att långfilmen Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me hade premiär.

 "Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me"
 "The Pine Float"
 "Sycamore Trees" (sång: Jimmy Scott, text: David Lynch)
 "Don't Do Anything (I Wouldn't Do)"
 "A Real Indication (sång: Angelo Badalamenti, text och musik: Thought Gang)
 "Questions in a World of Blue" (sång: Julee Cruise, text: David Lynch)
 "The Pink Room"
 "The Black Dog Runs at Night" (sång: Angelo Badalamenti, text och musik: Thought Gang)
 "Best Friends"
 "Moving Through Time"
 "Montage from Twin Peaks"
 "The Voice of Love"

Twin Peaks: Season 2 Music & More

Utgiven 2007 i samband med att DVD:n Twin Peaks Gold Box Edition gavs ut.

 "Love Theme Intro"
 "Shelly"
 "New Shoes"
 "High School Swing"
 "Hayward Boogie" (piano: Alicia Witt)
 "Blue Frank"
 "Audrey's Prayer"
 "I'm Hurt Bad"
 "Cop Beat"
 "Harold's Theme"
 "Barber Shop"
 "Night Bells"
 "Just You" (sång: James Marshall, Sheryl Lee och Lara Flynn Boyle, text: David Lynch)
 "Drug Deal Blues"
 "Audrey"
 "Josie and Truman"
 "Hook Rug Dance"
 "Packard's Vibration"
 "Half Heart"
 "Laura's Dark Boogie"
 "Dark Mood Woods/The Red Room"
 "Love Theme Farewell"

The Twin Peaks Archive

"The Twin Peaks Archive" är en samling ljudklipp som gavs ut 2011, och som finns tillgängliga på davidlynch.com. Av de totalt hela 211 olika klippen återfinns, utöver musik från TV-serien och långfilmen "Fire Walk With Me", ett antal demoinspelningar samt stycken som spelades in till serien men sedan aldrig användes, alternativt endast användes i trailers och annan reklam.

Twin Peaks

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It is becoming increasingly apparent that a lot of the children who struggle with their emotional well being and their mental wellbeing, are not getting access to suitable treatment from appropriately trained professionals. Treatments include interventions by appropriately and well trained professionals. When left untreated these children face significant impact in their educational engagement, their mental, emotional and physical health and their quality of life.
We as a society have a growing knowledge regarding the long term damaging impact, the number of young people affected, and the comorbidity of experiences. This comorbidity includes bullying, abuse, trauma, family difficulties, poverty, depression, anxiety, family breakup, and many more. We also know that the sooner we can intervene in an appropriate way, the better the outcome is. We also know that the more complex the situation the greater the knowledge and experience of practitioner is required.
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As a school, you can choose which young people to refer to me and why they are being referred. Ideally, I will then meet someone from their home context to get some background information. I will then work weekly with that young person for 10 weeks. Towards the end of that time I will give you a report explaining the type of work we have covered, a summary of my observations and recommendation for that young person. At that point, you may choose to request that I keep working with that young person or start with a different one.
The work is very play and child lead, using toys, games, arts and even sport.
Half day £100, allowing me to work with two children.
I used pupil premium funding and Notional SEN funding to fund the Play Therapy. The cost was then used as part of the childs support package when referring for an EHCP (statement) and able to feed into any social care involvement.
How did you justify the funding choice?
The direct impact on Teaching and Learning. Having experience of Play Therapy in my last school, I knew the huge impact it had with vulnerable children and this was the case in point with the children referred. Where previous low-level intervention did not work, the minute that Play Therapy [Ed Magee] was introduced learning started to click and accelerate.


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Not really comfortable with the conversation, she simply said, "Okay." She hoped he'd end it there. He didn't.
"Even if I had wanted more—which I hadn't—he wouldn't have given it to me. He's always been so very sure that he'll recognize his mate on sight that he held his sexual partners at a distance, reasoning that letting them close could lead them into thinking he wanted more. He did it out of loyalty to a mate he hadn't yet found—or, as it turns out, who he hadn't consciously known he'd found. For Trick, there's only ever been you. No one else counted."
Warmed a little by his seeming determination to reassure her, she nodded. "Thank you for telling me that."
"You're good for him. For a long time, Trick has made a point of taunting the fuck out of others. But it's been at least four months since he last teased anyone. I knew something was wrong, wondered if maybe he and his wolf were becoming restless and sour by watching others find their mates while he remained alone. He wouldn't talk about it. Wouldn't even admit that he was losing hope of finding you. See, Trick comes across as someone who's easy to read, but he's not. A lot of stuff goes on in his head; he just keeps it to himself. He does that for the same reason that he pushes—or did push—people's hot buttons and deliberately stirs things up."
"To keep a part of himself separate from others." She tilted her head as something occurred to her. "Is it because of Jana?"
Marcus rocked back on his heels. "He told you about her? Good. It shows he's holding nothing back from you."
He did seem to be genuinely pleased by it. This wasn't someone who was at all jealous or even slightly discomfited by her connection to Trick, she mused. The tension that had stilled her muscles began to ebb. Even her wolf began to relax a little.
"To answer your question, yes, I think it is because of Jana. No one's going to crush hard on a person who goads them, taunts them, and deliberately makes them feel uncomfortable—even though he's not malicious about it. He wasn't like that until the Jana incident."
"What was he like?" she asked, curious.
"More empathetic, sensitive, and unguarded. Oh, he still teased people, but he did it in a lighthearted way. He did it to lift the mood or make them laugh, not to piss them off. I've seen him act that way with you. I wondered if there was anything of the old Trick left in him. It's good to know that there is; it's good to watch it resurface. I'm glad he has you back."
Frankie felt a smile curve her mouth. This wolf was easy to like. "I can't really blame him for scratching your itches." Especially since Marcus was hot.
Marcus laughed. "Thanks. So things aren't going to be weird between you and me? Because I really don't want that."
"Things aren't going to be weird," she assured him truthfully.
"Good. See you at dinner after I go see what Trey's called a meeting for."
They parted ways, and Frankie soon arrived at the kitchen. It was kind of odd walking inside on her own. Sure, this was technically her pack, but she still felt like a visitor at times. Grief marred the air, but there was an unexpected hint of warmth there too.
Jaime smiled the moment she spotted her. "Hey, Frankie." She patted the chair beside her in invitation. "Lydia was just telling us about all the crazy shit that Iris did whenever she was drunk. Lydia, tell her about the time your mom wrote the poem for a badger."
Lydia did, and Frankie couldn't help but chuckle. As she listened to each of Iris's drunken incidents, she felt the grief's tight grip loosen.
Sniffling, Greta rubbed at her nose with a tissue. "I'll miss Iris. She was a lovely woman."
Riley's brows drew together. "You called her fit to burn a week ago."
"I did not," stated Greta, affronted.
Behind the old woman, Grace mouthed "She totally did," and then placed another platter of food on the table.
"I had a lot of respect for her," Greta claimed. "She was like me. Family oriented. Fair. Supportive. A survivor. She'd been through a lot, but she didn't let any of it beat her. No."
Taryn shook her head in what looked like amazement. "You have a glossy opinion of yourself that is massively undeserved."
Makenna nodded in agreement. "Some find ignorance to be bliss, I suppose."
"My boys are the ones living in ignorance," sniped Greta. "For some reason, they don't see their mates as unworthy of them. Marcus did me proud finding Roni. But the rest of them . . ." Greta grimaced. "They let me down, and they let themselves down." Her eyes slid to Frankie. "I had high hopes for Trick and Dominic, but there you sit with my Trick's mark on your neck—bold as brass, like the hussy you are. That wouldn't have happened back in my day. Nooooo. I never let anyone but my Arthur leave a brand on me."
Frankie snickered. "You also took your driver's test on a dinosaur."
Clapping, Riley threw back her head and laughed. The kids didn't seem to have any clue what she found so funny, but they started clapping along.
Jaime bumped Frankie's shoulder with her own. "Iris would have loved that one."
At that moment Trey, Dante, Tao, and the enforcers filed into the room. Trick sank into the seat beside Frankie and kissed her temple. "What's so funny that has Riley doubled over with laughter?"
Frankie just shook her head. "Is everything okay? Did the meeting have anything to do with Drake?"
Piling food on his plate, Trick explained, "Trey wanted to let me know that Morelli called him with a warning."
She frowned. "What kind of warning?"
"Drake's gone missing. Or, more likely, he's gone AWOL."
"Meaning he could come after you again." Her wolf's upper lip curled. "I'd say it was good of Morelli to warn you, but he's probably done it so he can deny blame for whatever Drake does or doesn't do next."
"That was my thought. We'll find out soon enough. For now, let's eat."
Frankie had never been to a shifter funeral before. It wasn't much different from those held for humans, except that there were no clergy members reading out scriptures. Instead the Bjorn Alpha, Josh—who was also one of Dante's older brothers—had spoken of what a warm, supportive pack member Iris had been and then voiced his wishes that she rested well. After that, other Bjorn wolves and relatives began to take turns speaking, sharing funny or touching stories.
Frankie listened intently to the stories, eager to hear more about her grandmother. Focusing on them also helped her ignore the curious glances and whispers coming from the Bjorn wolves.
People sniffled and sobbed, even as they chuckled at the anecdotes. One thing was clear—Iris had been well loved by these people. It wasn't surprising; the woman had won Frankie's affection quickly. Right then her heart felt heavy, and there was a huge lump in her throat. Yeah, the tears were building. Hoping to ward them off, she took a deep breath and drew in Trick's scent and the smells of earth, fresh flowers, and sun-warmed stone.
Right then, his warm hand supportively engulfed hers. He never strayed far from her side. He was always touching, kissing, and soothing her. When he wasn't holding her hand, he was massaging her nape, cupping her elbow, splaying his hand on her back, or resting it on her shoulder. Frankie soaked in his support, needing his strength.


Great album! Their cover of Heart's "Crazy On You" is absolutely amazing! Can't wait to hear more from them.
There are some songs that are decent, but nothing is special. It was a bad career decision to try and take on Crazy on You when it has been performed already by a much higher caliber singer - which in turn highlights her limitations as a singer. Overall it is average.
Favorites are "Haunted" and "SleepWalking". I love the energy she has (especially live, she's amazing) and the guitars were epic, just like her strong vocals . This band seems to be bringing the traditional rock vibe back, with a female singer, which is admirable. Keep it up, and the band's songs will be topping the charts in no time. DIAMANTÉ, love you. But I suggest that you classify the band as just Rock (not Pop/Rock ). Most true rock fans are anti-pop, and the same problem vice-versa, so don't associate with pop. Besides, its clear from your Youtube documentary that you see yourself as a rock artist. OWN THAT!!
Y'know that crappy music they play in strip joint scenes of bad TV cop shows? Here's a whole album of it. So bad you'll laugh out loud.
i liked every cut although, no one should attempt a heart song especially crazy on you. ann wilson is truly the greatest voice in rock!!!
This is great drag music!!!
Got to buy it early at a show and she signed it! Kickass band live and keeping that old school rock sound alive! Also got my picture with her and her beautiful blue hair!


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UCLA Grand Challenges referenced in new report from Luminary Labs on the 'State of Open Innovation'
Michelle Popowitz (Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research and Executive Director for UCLA Grand Challenges) was one of eleven leaders interviewed by Luminary Labs.
On October 2, 2018, Luminary Labs, a strategy and innovation consulting firm in New York City, released a report titled State of Open Innovation. Luminary Labs approached nearly 100 private sector, government, and nonprofit organizations to understand why organizations are investing in open innovation, how they are doing it, and what's next.
Luminary Labs gathered and analyzed results from a survey administered earlier in 2018 to build the report. From the 98 organizations surveyed, 11 leaders were contacted for a follow up interview, including Michelle Popowitz (Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research and Executive Director for UCLA Grand Challenges).
Michelle was interviewed by Luminary Labs' CEO and Founder, Sara Holoubek, and Managing Editor, Jessica Hibbard, earlier this calendar year. The firm was interested in the techniques used to develop the Grand Challenges – categorizing the practices of tapping a collective intellect to pursue new solutions to complicated problems as "open innovation."
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Strategic Growth Council awards $638,000 in funding for transitioning disadvantaged... UCLA Professors Neil Berg and David Neelin quoted in laist article about rainfall...


This is the second release of my Markov Chain text generator – mctext. This text generator takes existing sample text, and generates a new text using Markov Chains.
The main new thing in the version in that it allows the users to specify via the command line how many words should be considered when generating the next one. The bigger the step number the closer the generated text is to the original one. The value used in mctext-0.1 was 2, and this is also the default in this one. The number of steps can be set using the --steps command line switch.
This entry was posted in C/C++, mctext, Projects and tagged mctext, Projects on April 30, 2008 by Guy.
mctext is a new project of mine, focusing on text generation using Markov Chains. This little utility reads a sample text file, preferably a large one, and generates new text based on the semantics given in the sample text.
This entry was posted in mctext, Projects and tagged mctext, Projects on January 29, 2008 by Guy.


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Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 7:30 pm on 30th March 2009.
Malcolm Bruce Chair, International Development Committee 7:30 pm, 30th March 2009
Indeed, that is exactly right in terms of the publication. I acknowledge that entirely as the hon. Gentleman is a member of the CPA executive.
Interestingly, in Tanzania we were looking at different aspects of development. They do not normally fall within the area of things that we would expect our Department for International Development directly to support, but because it is the Department for International Development, it is important to know where the dynamic growth in an economy comes from. There are still roles for education and training to enable the private sector to flourish.
We were looking at the tourism industry in Tanzania and at the Tanzania National Parks association—TANAPA. The immediate information that we received was that tourism was down one third over the past six months. Many of the tourism companies we met were laying people off or making them redundant and that the revenue to the national parks had diminished, which meant that the animal conservation mechanisms were under threat. Of course the benefits, some of which accrue to the local people, were diminished too. It is estimated that about 20 per cent. of the tourist spend goes to the local community, which is not as bad as it sounds given that half the money is spent before people even arrive in the country. Obviously, however, more pro-poor tourism would be desirable.
Again, that raises a longer-term point. Tourism is down right now because people are reining back their expenditure. Some people, including Members of this House, have said that people should not go on long-haul holidays. We need to think very carefully when we make such decisions. Many developing countries rely on tourism for significant potential employment and development. If we stop going to them, we make it virtually impossible for them to lift their economies in that significant sector. It is important that we are aware of the consequences of what we are doing, because tourism generates revenue for Government, jobs for local people and the opportunity to invest and develop.
We also looked at the fact that a high proportion of the timber extracted from the coastal forests, in particular, and from forests across Tanzania, is illegally extracted and that most of it is being shipped to China. That reinforces the point that I made at the beginning of my speech. That activity is unsustainable and most of it gives no revenue to the Government and virtually no benefit to the local communities. The WWF was working with some local communities to try to tackle those programmes, as well as to tackle illegal fishing that uses dynamite, and to try to ensure that a system was in place to prevent the illegal exploitation of resources, to give the Government access to revenue and to give people a share of the resources in their communities. At the end of the day, the problem is that in a huge area of territory where there is no inspection, no follow-up and no enforcement, people find ways to exploit the area in a way that gives no benefit to 99.9 per cent. of the people in the country. It seems to me that we could help to prevent that by training people and providing resources to deliver that training.
In Tanzania, we give a considerable amount of our contribution in direct budget support, which is a controversial matter. It is very difficult to audit every penny but it would be fair to say that the method bears fruit inasmuch as the proportion of the Tanzanian budget that comes from overseas development aid has diminished year on year over the last several years as Tanzanian revenues have risen. That seems to show that the mechanism is working. Indeed, the Government say that their objective is to take the amount of aid that supports their budget down to below 25 per cent. over the next two to three years. That is a remarkable achievement. At the same time—Hugh Bayley is not here—the International Monetary Fund suggested that it was prepared to allow the Tanzanian Government, who have low debt and reasonably good management, to stimulate the economy by 2 to 3 per cent. I hope that I have made the point that that is all very well, but if we do not buy their products or send our tourists there, they will need more than that simply to offset what they have lost from the financial downturn.
That brings me to my final rounding-off point. We are considering the impact of climate change and of poverty in developing countries, and there is a conference of the parties summit in Copenhagen in December. It seems to me that we have to ensure a recognition that the effects of climate change have been caused by the development of the G20—by us—while the impact is greatest on the poorest of the G77. In those circumstances, they cannot be expected to respond to that impact without help.
We also have to be careful that the aid and development budget is not subsumed by the climate change budget, which does not reduce poverty. That is the real tension. The president of the World Bank has suggested that all stimulus packages should have a top-slice that goes towards climate change. I was worried to hear Javier Solana's response, at a Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairs—COFACC—meeting at which I had the opportunity to question him, to my question about why the European Union's proposal was that its contribution to developing countries for adaptation to climate changes should be a third. Not surprisingly, the developing countries think that contribution should be 100 per cent. They say, "We did not cause it, we are suffering from it, you should pay." That is a reasonable proposition to my mind. Mr. Solana's answer was, "Well, that is just a negotiating position—an opening position for a bargain." The bargain implies that poor countries will have to pay for the climate change damage that we have done to them. The question for the Minister to answer is whether we as a country or as a Government would accept that that is reasonable. There is no justification for compromising poverty reduction measures with climate change measures. Those aims need to be separated and delivered. When one can deliver the other, that is fine, but one should not be delivered at the expense of the other.
My final concern is about the effect of the exchange rate on the cost of the budget. I have very little time left, but perhaps the Minister could let me know in writing rather than with a direct answer. The House needs to know what the real effect of the exchange rate will be on the purchasing power of aid and development. Specifically, we make our contribution to the European Union in euros but the statement in the report is in sterling. That implies that some £300 million to £400 million will not be available for development at the end of the year. It is important that we know. The Government are not in any way compromising their commitment on development, but they have some challenges to meet, and the House needs to know how best to meet them and what the priority decisions involved would necessitate. I hope that the Minister will be able to answer, if not now, in writing.
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Copy of AM 510 4to (Petersens: Jómsvíkinga saga & Jómsvíkingadrápa (1879), p. xxviii; Fornmanna sögur, vol. XI: p. 7).
There is later foliation in red ink (1-48) by Kålund, which is fading due to washing of the leaves. There is moreover modern foliation in pencil (1-48).
There are no quire signatures. There are catchwords on fols. 1v, 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v and 40v.
Fol. 1 is shorter than the other leaves, as the lower margin has been cut off. It is a replacement for the original first leaf.
There are holes from overcast stitches in the inner margins of all leaves.
The leaves show some stains and older repairs by means of coloured Japanese paper.
The pages at the quire boundaries (except for fol. 1r) are slightly dirtier and more discoloured than the rest.
The leaves have been trimmed, causing some damage to the running titles.
The leaves have been washed during restoration, which has caused the red foliation to fade.
The text is written in one column with 28-29 lines per page and 11-14 words per line.
The written area measures ca. 230-235 mm x 130-135 mm.
On fol. 1r there is a plain first initial spanning 2 lines. Other initials within the text span 1-2 lines. Most initials in the text are emphasised by means of bold lines and sometimes additional hairlines and strokes. Occasionally, the initials are decorated with floral ornaments.
There is a scribal addition in the margin of fol. 17v.
A different hand made additions and corrections to the text on fol. 38r.
The manuscript is bound in a full parchment binding from Árni Magnússon's time. Parchment straps are worked through the spine and there are remnants of two stickers for the shelfmark and the running number. The title of the text is written on the spine by hand using brown ink.
The manuscript was written in Iceland. Kålund dates it to the seventeenth century (Katalog I, p. 11).
Árni Magnússon received the manuscript from Þórdur Jónsson. Earlier, the manuscript was in the the possession of a certain Þorbjörg Vigfússdóttir (see AM-slip).
Catalogued 28 September 2015 by BS.
A4 pictures from 1980 and portraits from 1998.


"Growing up Adventist, I had always believed that divorce was wrong. One of the very first counselors we saw told me that my husband's problems were a private matter to remain between the two of us, and that it was my job to protect his reputation. I took that seriously and kept to it for over four years.
My husband and I were actively involved in all aspects of the church. He led out in Pathfinders for years and was an elder. I taught Cradle Roll and served as a deaconess among other positions. My church face was always smiling, but behind the scenes were disaster, exhaustion, and pain. I've lost count of the number of counselors we saw to get my husband help, and of the thousands of dollars and hours poured into trying everything possible that people suggested. Every new strategy or idea I learned of, I devoured with new hope.
Finally, many factors led two counselors to urge me to separate and prayerfully consider divorce. It took many long, tearful months for me to decide that divorce was the road I would take. I was terrified of what everyone at church would say. I saw this as the ultimate failure, and prepared myself to be treated accordingly.
Our church was shocked when they learned we had split. No one saw it coming. I chose not to divulge details of my husband's struggles with many individuals, but those who were aware of the situation were full of nothing but love and support. It was my turn to be shocked as I reached out to various people for advice on navigating this new chapter of my life and was greeted with open, loving arms!
To this day still there are not many who know the full depth of those awful years. Going through a divorce was both the most horrible time and the most wonderful time as I experienced so much growth, transformation, and relief at no longer having to play the happy wife. The pain was intense and felt unbearable. But my relationship and understanding of Jesus' love is so much stronger now today than it was before."


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Don't Poison Your Heart – singiel polskiego piosenkarza Michała Szpaka, mający swoją premierę 22 listopada 2017. Utwór skomponował Andy Palmer, a tekst napisał Kamil Varen. Utwór jest balladą utrzymaną w stylu rockowym.

Nagranie znalazło się na 35. miejscu listy AirPlay – Top, najczęściej odtwarzanych utworów w polskich rozgłośniach radiowych.

Historia utworu

Geneza
Utwór skomponował Andy Palmer, a tekst napisał Kamil Varen. Singel został wydany w formacie digital download 22 listopada 2017 roku. Piosenka została wydana jako singiel zapowiadający drugi album studyjny artysty, którego premiera odbyła się 7 września 2018 roku. Tekst piosenki "porusza problem hejtu i fake'u, szczególnie w sieci".

Teledysk
24 listopada 2017 roku w serwisie YouTube ukazał się oficjalny teledysk do piosenki, za którego reżyserię odpowiadała Agencja Artystyczno-Reklamowa As Plus Sławomira Sokołowskiego, a za montaż odpowiedzialny był Miron Broda.

Wykonania na żywo
Pierwsze wykonanie utworu na żywo miało miejsce 25 listopada 2017 roku w finale ósmej edycji programu TVP2 The Voice of Poland. Michał Szpak zaśpiewał utwór w duecie ze swoją podopieczną Martą Gałuszewską. 2 grudnia piosenkarz wykonał piosenkę w finale wyborów Mister Supranational 2017.

Lista utworów
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When Priya of Cook like Priya asked me to do a guest post, I was so thrilled, because it is my first time. I instantly accepted. I admire her blog - the layout, design, pictures, the words she uses and also her recipes. If you haven't been to her space take a peep here. We both are in the baking group, so we got to know each other personally. She is a very bubbly cheerful person and am so happy to have her as a friend.
Initially I wanted to do some baked dish for the post, but later changed my mind thinking one after the other festive seasons are about to come , so Indian dessert would be most appropriate. Also Thaara loves laddoos (any type) a lot, that is also another reason for selecting laddoo.
Below there are some pictures of the laddoo. The first picture you can also find in Priya's place, meaning virtually am bringing in laddoo to Priya for the guest post and after clicking the picture, I was focusing to click some pictures , by that time, Thaara is trying to take laddoo from the basket, she couldn't resist it. I clicked the picture of it too. That is the other picture. Anyway, the laddoo, was a hit at home, both Hubby and Thaara loved it. Most of it were gobbled by Thaara and rest by Hubby and few friends.
The laddoo almost melted in the mouth and the toasted, chopped almonds added crunch to the bite. It is a yummy laddoo. Now you can imagine the taste of the Laddoo.. For the recipe, hop on to Priya's space.
Lord Ganesha is widely worshiped as God of,wisdom, prosperity, good fortune and health. Also before beginning anything new, he is the one worshiped first. He is believed to remove all the obstacles, destroy all evils and bring in success.It is his birthday today. On this special occasion, wish you all a Happy Vinayagar Chathurthi!!
The most famous dish made on this day is kozhukattai. What can be more apt than Oats Kozhukattai for breakfast on this special day? Yes. Today's recipe is Oats Kozhukattai.
Dry roast the oats till it gives mild aroma. Then let it cool and powder it finely.
Heat oil in a skillet, add mustard seeds, urad dhal, red chilies and curry leaves and fry till urad dhal turns color lightly, then add chopped cilantro mix well and remove them from heat. Let it cool.
Combine oats flour, rice flour and salt. Then add the tempered mixture to the flour and required quantity of hot water and knead the flour till they are fully combined and a dough is formed(Chappathi dough like consistency).
Take this mixture, roll into equal sized balls and take each ball in palm close the fingers and press to get the desired kozhukattai shape. Do the same to all the balls.
Then grease a idly plate and steam cook these kozhukattais for 7-8 minutes.
Remove from heat, keep them covered till it is ready to be served.
I got about 12 kozhukattais.
For kneading, I used about 3/4 cup of hot water plus few more drops. Take care not to add too much water.
While storing keep the kozhukattais covered, when kept open they get dried very fast.
I love to bake. Though my love for baking started years ago, I began baking only after landing in the US. So I joined a baking group and theme for the month was cookies and I selected Corn flakes cookies from the book, Baking: Commonsense by Murdoch books.
Corn flakes covering the cookies gives the crunch required on the outside and it is soft on the inside with a mild coconut flavor and loaded with raisins and cranberries. Yum!!
I just halved the recipe and it yielded around 12 cookies(regular size) and 2 little cookies (I made for my son without the cornflakes) and also I added some extra cranberries along with the raisin except that I didn't change anything else much in the recipe.
Sift together flour, baking soda and baking powder and set it aside.
Cream together butter and sugar till they are fluffy and add a egg and beat them lightly and then add vanilla and mix them till they are well combined.
Then add the flour mixture to this mixture and using the spatula mix them well, and now add the dessicated coconut, raisins and cranberries and mix them till they are fully incorporated and the dough is smooth.
In a shallow dish take the crushed cornflakes and take a tablespoon of the cookie dough, drop and roll them in these cornflakes and arrange them in a cookie sheet.
Once all the cookies are arranged, bake them in the oven for 12-15 minutes until they turn lightly golden.
Let them cool completely then store them in airtight container.
Eat and enjoy as desired.
Being away from India, I really miss my Mom's cooking a lot. Special ingredient in her cooking will always be her love for us. I love everything my mom cooks, especially her egg kuzhambu. Though I have tried the recipe so many times, still it does not match with hers. But sure, it is my hubby and little girl's favourite. Just wanted to share my mom's Egg kulambu recipe here. It is a tamarind based spicy and tangy gravy made with boiled egg.
South Indian style spicy tangy tamarind based gravy with boiled egg. This gravy can be had with rice, idli or dosa.
Soak Tamarind and extract it.
In skillet add two tsp oil,add cumin seeds,then add chopped onions, saute till its golden brown.Then to it add turmeric, chilli and coriander powders. Finally add coconut and switch the stove off , when the roasted coconut gives a good aroma. Let it cool for a while and grind it to paste.
In a sauce pan, add remaining oil and then add mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds. Add asafoetida, curry leaves and garlic, cook till the garlic is a light brown colour. To it add the ground paste, and the tamarind extract. Let it cook for 3-4 minutes.
Then add water and salt to taste. Finally, add boiled eggs.
Let the gravy simmer till oil seperates.
Finally garnish it with cilantro.
I made small slits in the egg, so that the flavour of the kuzhambu can get into it.
I feel like it has been ages since I last posted any recipe in this space. It started off as a small vacation break and one thing lead to another and couldn't get back into action. Finally here I am with a recipe- Arisi Paruppu saadham.
It is a simple and easy one pot meal, which makes it great for packing lunch on a busy morning. This dish is a special of Coimbatore and everyone have their own way of making this dish. When I decided to blog about this dish, I mailed my Mom for her recipe and made it. I prepared it one busy day and in a hurry clicked some pictures and I served it with some fry-yums.
Wash the rice and dhal and set them aside.
Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, cloves, cinnamon and fry them for a minute or two. Then add the garlic and curry leaves and fry for another 2 -3 minutes until they garlic turns a light golden brown.
Then add chilli powder and turmeric powder,asafoetida then add the rice and dhal, add salt to taste and water (in the ratio 1:2.5) mix well and add a handful of grated coconut, close the lid and pressure cook.
Once the cooker whistles, reduce the flame and let it cook for a 5-6 minutes in a low flame, turn of the heat.
Once the pressure releases, add 2-3 tablespoons of ghee, mix well and serve.
You can add tomatoes too. But I haven't used them.
Instead of grated coconut, you can chop up the pieces of coconut and add to the rice. Mom used to do it.
The rice will be mushy. If you want them to be less mushy adjust the proportion of water accordingly.


The Science (SCI) department is concerned with the evolution of the universe, the complex processes that impact planet Earth and the human body, and the nature and interaction of the most elementary particles in our world.
Tracks offered by the SCI department are Biomedical Science, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Computational Science, Earth Science, Environmental Science (Biology), Life Science, Mathematics and Physics.
A special program offered by the SCI department is the Pre-Medical Program.
An overview of all courses in the Science department can be found in here.
Annemerel Mol shows her research project in the lab, one of the many students who is doing her own research while at UCR.


Puttock, Mark and Rose, Martin (2016) Measurement of thermal wakes in compressor secondary air systems using low frequency thermocouple data. XXIII Biannual Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery, Stuttgart, Germany, 1-2 September 2016. Published in: Proceedings of XXIII Biannual Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery.
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Finishing a map is an emotional moment. For players, it is a sweet moment of triumph as final cutscreen plays across the monitor, swords lifted high and fireworks filling the sky. But along with the thrill, there is a spot of depression as the realization sets in that the game is over. Most--if not all--of the map has been explored. Opponents have been defeated and will rise no more. Heroes it took so long to develop have retired from the fray. It's like closing a book.
But for mapmakers, the emotions are amplified. As their creator, the mapmaker becomes even more attached to the fantasy world and its inhabitants. After driving their evolution in the course of development, the mapmaker must now send the creations out on their own and hope that they perform as expected.
Instead of having spent a few hours with the map, the mapmaker will have spent weeks. And toward the end of the project, the mapmaker becomes immersed in final testing, last minute changes, and packaging the map for distribution. Then the map goes out and the mapmaker can only wait for others to play it. If all goes well, players enjoy it and reward the mapmaker with their praise, which is especially sweet when it comes from a reviewer or fellow mapmaker. If not, players are disappointed and the map is ignored. The torture for the mapmaker is not knowing which outcome will result.
In this series, I'd like to explore the emotional side of heroes from the point of view of the player. But much of the discussion is addressed to the mapmakers, since their reward stems from the reactions of the players. By providing players with an enjoyable experience, mapmakers can in turn enjoy the praise and recognition that makes all the work seem worthwhile.
Essentially, the mapmaker is an entertainer. No matter what type of map it is – pictorial, battle, puzzle, RPG, or whatever—it will be judged by players according to whether they had a good time playing it. The different types may be enjoyed in different ways. A picture map may offer stunning graphics. A battle map may provide a venue for a fair fight. A puzzle map may present challenging problems. An RPG map may be populated with memorable characters. But from the players' point of view, it comes down to a brief departure from the cares of the day to a world inhabited by Heroes of Might and Magic.
these main pleasures – discovery, beauty, and success.
In this series, I explore each of these ways for mapmakers to entertain their players. Rather than offering a how-to on the mechanics of map construction—am important topic that has been well addressed elsewhere—I'm focusing on the psychology of players and ways that mapmakers can make the players' experience as entertaining as possible. There will be three main installments to the series, each on a different way to develop appealing maps.
Part 1: Discovery. Here we will see some ways for mapmakers to create and sustain the anticipation that leads to the pleasure of discovery.
Part 3: Aesthetics. In this installment we look at ways to make maps attractive to the eye and to use the visual dimension of Heroes to best effect. I also move into an area less related to the entertainment value of Heroes maps and into a higher realm of human needs, but first it's necessary to look deeply into the entertainment arena.


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The courtroom scenes in Justice Is Mind were filmed at the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover.
In Justice Is Mind the fictional trial was The Commonwealth v. Henri Miller. In reality Justice Is Mind was primarily filmed in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This past week, Justice Is Mind's editor Jared Skolnick, who is also an award winning filmmaker, was featured in an article titled "Hey, Hollywood and Bollywood — how about Valleywood?" The story in The Valley Advocate stated that Jared "makes movies in the Valley because this is where he's from and where he began building his professional network." The same holds true for me. Even when I was living in Los Angeles in 2007 and cast the two leads in First World in the "Golden State" of California, I filmed the project in Massachusetts? Why? Because this is where I'm from.
The Secretary of State's Washington, D.C., apartment in First World was filmed at the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston.
Having lived in both New York City and Los Angeles, I can certainly understand the desire to be at the epicenter of the entertainment industry. Having been on a network TV show, a city like Los Angeles can be very exciting when you are working on the high end of the industry. I know numerous actors (some I've trained) and filmmakers who have left Massachusetts for the hope of fame and fortune. I firmly believe if you have the desire and will to move to these cities you should. You will never know until you try. For me, I'm glad I had my experience in both these great cities, positive ones from a career point of view, but my creative energy and the launching of all my projects has originated in Massachusetts. It's not something I set out to do, it just happened that way. My new personal website, www.markashtonlund.com, chronicles the journey.
Case in point, the making of First World and Justice Is Mind. Both of these projects were enormously ambitious between the number of talent involved and needed locations. I had to work in a region where I knew the people and their general enthusiasm about being part of the film. Why film in a location that will require permitting, location fees and local regulations just to look cool, when you can film somewhere else for free working with enthusiastic location partners in exchange for promoting their business?
Preliminary plans for SOS United States call for the opening scene to be filmed on the USS Massachusetts in Fall River.
For me, as I did with Justice Is Mind, once I give the green light to a project I like to move along at reasonable pace in pre-production. Simply put, time is money whether literally or figuratively. As some may have noticed from postings to this blog, I have generally already scouted most of the locations for SOS United States and to some degree for In Mind We Trust.
But as we have seen from the latest film markets, the greatest challenge filmmakers on all levels have is in securing production financing for their projects and a return on investment. You don't have to be a fortune teller to recognize that it always comes down to equity and what the investor wants. To say there has been an about face in film financing you just have to revisit articles that the trades wrote around the latest American Film Market and then there was this blog post over at Film Specific. But there is one piece to "The Commonwealth" financing pie that keeps films in the state.
Tax credits.
I launched a new personal website this week. Check out http://www.markashtonlund.com
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Studio System
First day of trial. The Commonwealth v. Henri Miller.
This past week there were a variety of reports locally and nationally about the industry. In the Hollywood Reporter there was a story about how the major studios don't actually pay to make movies anymore they are more facilities, marketing and distribution companies. It has been true for some time. The studios mitigate their risk by partnering with production companies, investment funds, etc. This practice particularly picked up steam when capital was flush pre recession and especially post recession. As the majority of the major studios are divisions of multi-billion dollar companies, risk avoidance is what they now do best.
Kim Gordon as district attorney Constance Smith.
Here in Massachusetts, there were new reports on the building of film studios in Devens and in Westborough. For any of us in the region that is even remotely tied to the industry, we all remember the grand plans of Plymouth Rock Studios. Having recently just moved back from Los Angeles at the time I knew Plymouth was never going to happen. First, even with the tax credit benefits of the state (and they are nicely generous), there were simply too many empty stages in Los Angeles and unless you signed contracts with the production companies that supplied TV programming where on Earth was the revenue going to come from to support such an ad-venture?
Paul Lussier as defense attorney John Darrow.
Anyone that has worked with me knows that I am the consummate optimist. I strive to push the envelope until it gives, but in the end I'm a realist as well (I'm a New Englander after all!). When I see with these "studio" projects and the bravado of one person who claims mysterious sources of capital with a "build it and they will come mentality," I just shake my head. Unfortunately, it just doesn't work that way in this business or any other business. If you don't build a solid foundation to a business how are you going to support it?
George Katz on the witness stand.
The one thing we have in the New England region is great talent on both sides of the camera. This talent deserves to be involved in major projects not reaching for the crumbs when a BIG film comes to town. What film projects need is capital. Can you imagine instead of building all these buildings, a few million dollars in capital were raised to produce independent films with varying budgets? Sure as the budgets grow, you need to attach bankable (usually out of town) talent to sell your project domestically and internationally. But that doesn't mean that after you secure bankable talent at the top (say 1-3 actors) the rest can't be cast locally between talent and facilities in the region. Imagine a talented actor who is leading an independent film produced for under $50K and the project does reasonably well in sales. As that actor's profile starts to rise at some point they may be the "anchor tenant" of a larger film. Just like in the studio system days long past, an actor, a cinematographer, a writer all had to start somewhere. The studios had smaller films to test talent before moving them to larger projects.
Jeffrey Phillips as George Katz. Phillips played the President of the United States in First World.
For anyone that's produced an independent film you basically need to create a virtual studio to make it work anyway. Someone handles casting, locations, editing, marketing, distribution, etc. Why not seek to formalize it by raising capital to produce films under one virtual roof rather than build buildings and wait for product to come?
John Darrow cross examines George Katz.
With the digital age we live in a virtual studio system is possible. Once enough films get into the distribution pipeline and the revenue stream starts, the foundation is there to eventually build a studio. When I started a magazine I launched it on the dining room table and eventually got an office once we had revenue to support it. It's not a foreign business concept it's a practical one.
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I wanted to make it through my Love at First Stitch book before starting any other patterns, partially to keep things simple (one thing at a time!) and also to pick up as many skills as I could before jumping into the world of sewing patterns meant for not-total-beginners. I'm glad I did things in that order, but it was also really exciting to finish and have the whole world of sewing patterns open to me!
I got excited and bought 4 patterns at once (only two of which I've made so far - eep), and I got started with the Belladone from Deer & Doe. My coworker Kiran has made at least one, possibly a few versions of this dress, and I knew it was the first thing I wanted to sew. I love the fitted-but-not-tight A-line silhouette, and the back cutout is cute and interesting without making for complicated bra situations like some open backs can.
I've been really into wearing lots of black lately, so I decided to go with cheap black cotton for a wearable toile. I cut out my size and basted the dress together - long, loose stitches and no seam finishing. Miraculously, the pattern fit almost perfectly with no modifications! (This was in sharp contrast to my Tilly and the Buttons patterns, which almost always have way more ease than I want and require lots of contouring through the waist and back). So I took the whole thing apart and sewed it again, this time with normal stitches and nice, serged seams.
I'm super happy with this dress, with a few small exceptions. One, I am just not a fan of bias tape for finishing sleeves and necklines. Hopefully I'll get better with practice, but I seem to always end up with puckering in some spots and the edges don't lie as flat as with facings or a full bodice lining. Unfortunately the cutout back makes a full lining really tricky. Two, since I did use a cheap fabric, it's not as soft or smooth as I would really like, and it wrinkles easily. This kind of sounds like an excuse to buy a nicer black fabric and make another, though.
I really do love so many things about this dress though. I love the shape and the fit. It's flattering but still loose enough to be comfortable. There are pockets (which I made bigger to comfortably hold my giant phone). And honestly it's just a nice, classic cut and color. I usually pair it with black tights on work days when I want to look put together but don't really feel like figuring out an outfit.
The back. You can see a lot of the puckering around the binding tape here (the binding tape is all on the inside, so you're just seeing stitch outlines, not the tape itself). Ugh, binding tape! I've since had better luck (with another pattern) using self bias tape, that is, cut from the fabric instead of storebought. That may be a thing to try on a future Belladone!
And after making two Belladones I realized I assembled the upper back pieces wrong on both (see above photo). The upper shoulder pieces are supposed to be on top! I think it would look slightly nicer the correct way, but it's not bad enough to take apart and resew. Ah well!
Things I learned: How to follow more minimal instructions (these were still pretty comprehensive, but I had to google things like sewing in binding tape. My previous patterns from the book were very hand-hold-y); using binding tape to finish a bodice; adding a hem facing piece instead of just hemming the bottom.
I have since sewn 2 more of these, so stay tuned for much more Belladone.


Mahmoud Thiam is convinced that someone has been going through his rubbish bins. His Manhattan residence is 4,000 miles from his native Guinea, where he was mining minister under the military junta that ruled until December 2010. A probe by Guinea's elected government into mining deals struck by past dictatorships has restarted a tussle for some of the planet's most coveted mineral stocks. Mr Thiam believes the hunt for any shady dealings, the latest twist in a 15-year saga of politics, business and bloodshed, has led all the way to his doorstep.
Tens of billions of dollars, as well as the future of a woebegone west African nation of 10m people, hang in the balance, as rivals from six continents vie for Guinea's treasure. The showdown over the country's minerals could prove a test case in a continent where natural resources make up two-thirds of exports but have tended to generate strife rather than prosperity. One prize glitters above the rest: Simandou, the mountain that sits on top of arguably the world's best undeveloped iron ore deposit.
Supporters of Alpha Condé, the president whose high-profile advisers include billionaire investor George Soros and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, say his public commitment to transparency breaks with a past sullied by alleged corruption.
Beny Steinmetz Group is the first to feel the government's scrutiny. The business is owned by a foundation whose beneficiaries are the Steinmetz family, with Beny Steinmetz, the Israeli tycoon, as special adviser to its subsidiaries. Last week a government committee that has gathered allegations of corruption demanded answers about how a subsidiary had secured rights to half of Simandou in 2008.
Nestled among the tropical forests of the remote highlands, Simandou has few peers as a repository of the ore used to make steel, a core ingredient of industrial development.
Rio Tinto won the rights to mine the mountain in the 1990s, during the dictatorship of Lansana Conté. But in 2008 the regime stripped Rio of half of those rights, saying it had missed deadlines to start mining. It handed them to Beny Steinmetz Group Resources, the mining arm of the oil-to-real estate conglomerate, days before the dictator died.
What the company did next is described by one African mining veteran as the "best private mining deal of our generation".
BSGR had paid nothing for its permits at Simandou, as is standard practice in the industry. After spending $160m on preliminary development work at Simandou and the nearby Zogota deposit, in April 2010 it announced an extraordinary return on its investment. Vale of Brazil, the world's biggest iron ore miner, agreed to buy a 51 per cent stake in BSGR's Guinea interests for $2.5bn, $500m of which was payable immediately.
According to allegations being examined by the government committee reviewing past mining contracts, BSGR's success in Guinea may not have been the result of business acumen alone. It has sent BSGR and Vale a catalogue of graft allegations, including claims – denied by the Israeli group – that BSGR gave a diamond-encrusted gold miniature Formula One car to a minister and made payments to Conté's fourth wife to help gain access to resources.
BSGR contests the allegations. "This is the fifth and most clumsy attempt by an already discredited government of Guinea in an ongoing campaign to illegally seize BSGR's assets," it said. "There is no substance to these ridiculous allegations." Vale said it conducts "appropriate due diligence" before its investments.
The wrangle for Guinea's minerals has set off a war of information, write Tom Burgis and Helen Thomas. Rivals speak of public relations manoeuvring and leaks to the press, some calculated to challenge companies, others to tarnish the government of President Alpha Condé or its allies. PR companies and corporate intelligence groups have been retained.
Even a purported personal history between George Soros and Beny Steinmetz has become one source of the rumours that are rife in Conakry.
Nava Touré, the committee's chairman, said any suggestion – made by Mr Thiam and others – that the review is being used to seize assets for the benefit of government allies was "unjustified and absurd".
BSGR, which said it would use "whatever legal means prove necessary" to defend its Guinean interests, has 60 days to respond to the committee or face the possible cancellation of the rights held by the joint venture between BSGR and Vale.
Days before the committee wrote to the companies, Vale revealed that it had put Simandou on ice. A person close to the Brazilian miner indicated that it had not abandoned its hopes of mining the mountain. But the stand-off threatens to delay once again the first shipment of Simandou's ore.
Some industry experts say that Simandou may have become a pawn in the strategies of miners that perhaps see blocking their rivals from controlling the mountain as at least as important as actually starting to mine it.
Another executive experienced in Guinean mining sees the lessons of the sector's history differently. "There's nothing to be gained [from corruption]," he says. Given the region's explosive politics, "there's more to be lost when power changes".
If the government tries to annul the Steinmetz group's rights in Guinea, the billionaire may trace the change in its fortunes to December 3 2009.
Moussa "Dadis" Camara had seized power on Conté's death. But not even the erratic young officer, a man so paranoid he would only conduct cabinet meetings in the dead of night at his barracks, could have foreseen what would transpire that day.
He had become an international pariah after his security forces massacred 157 opposition demonstrators at the national stadium in September 2009 and gang raped women in public. In the aftermath, Lieutenant Aboubacar "Toumba" Diakité, Capt Camara's aide-de-camp, feared he was being set up to take sole blame for the stadium massacre. Striking first, he shot the president in the head.
Injured but alive, Capt Camara left the country. He did not return and the junta's new leader pledged to hand power back to civilians.
Rio's position remained precarious during military rule. But the tables turned again in December 2010, when elections brought Alpha Condé to power. A Marxist intellectual who had spent years in exile, Mr Condé had few ties to past regimes.
He embarked on an overhaul of the mining code and launched the review of past contracts. Even before that review officially began, government investigators started probing BSGR's acquisition of its Guinean rights and other deals struck under both Conté and the military.
At the same time, Mr Condé's government struck a new deal with Rio.
The miner paid $700m last year – equivalent to one-seventh of Guinea's gross domestic product – for "the resolution of all outstanding issues" at the half of Simandou that it still holds. The company told the FT this month that its agreement "exempts Rio Tinto from any further changes under the current review of the mining code or any future review".
Mr Condé's critics, including BSGR, have seized on the Rio settlement to support their argument that the review is being used to secure big payments from miners hoping to secure their claims in Guinea, rather than to address past injustices.
Mr Touré, the mining committee chairman, insists that the Rio deal "is absolutely not a model for the review". He says his committee "prioritises protecting long-term interests over obtaining immediate payments, as it is difficult to judge whether such payments represent just and equitable compensation".
The government's avowed drive for transparency in mining has also been called into question elsewhere.
In May 2011, according to the International Monetary Fund, Guinea's government agreed a $25m loan to finance its newly formed state-owned mining company with Palladino, an investment vehicle of South African mining financier Walter Hennig.
The terms of the loan appeared to offer Palladino cut-price stakes in Guinea's mineral resources should the government default, causing uproar in Guinea. Some critics perceived a political undertone to the deal, citing Mr Hennig's connections to businessmen linked to South Africa's ruling African National Congress, the continent's strongest political force. The non-concessional loan also raised eyebrows among international creditors, led by the IMF and World Bank, which were negotiating $2.1bn of debt relief for Guinea.
People close to the government's mining policy makers insist the episode was misrepresented. The loan has been repaid. Palladino says it would only have gained the minority stakes in the event of a default at the end of the loan's 25-year maturity and that discussions about it securing rights of first refusal over certain Guinean mining assets came to nought.
Nonetheless, with BSGR's permits to Simandou past their expiry date, there is little doubt that investors interested in a share in Simandou, or helping finance the project's $10bn-plus infrastructure bill, are circling.
Would-be investors from China, Liberia, Europe and the Middle East are eyeing opportunities. This year Roger Agnelli, the former chief executive of Vale who signed the Brazilian miner's agreement with BSGR, approached Guinea's government offering the assistance of his new mining venture – a move that, once it appeared in the Brazilian press, prompted the threat of a lawsuit from the Steinmetz group, which claimed its interests were being jeopardised. Mr Agnelli declined to comment.
With parts of the army restive and parliamentary elections repeatedly delayed, Mr Condé's attempt to challenge vested interests in mining comes at a delicate moment.
The history of Africa's mineral and oil-rich nations is that their natural endowments often prove a curse, fomenting coups and conflict and undermining the rule of law.