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STAM was also the exclusive investment/asset manager in France and Belgium for Allianz GmbH and the Dresdner Bank's Degi funds between 2000 and 2009. Over that period, €1.8 billion of core investments were conducted on behalf of this separate account client.
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Discussion in 'Handbags' started by mikeijames, Apr 27, 2004.
what are your reactions...frankly.... i it
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i do not like that... no i do not like it...
mike...can i call you mike...what does your signature mean pls?
don't like it at all
I just don't like Gaultier for Hermes
the KELLY to me is like the Birkin:
if these bags change shape their price tag should drop too!!!
people are paying for the original / actual bag; i.e. shape included.
this bag just looks like a knock off or a simple leather slouchy bag for 300$
and i agree that the Gaultier accent is very visible
I don't understand... how is this bag any different? Isn't it just like the original Kelly but with softer leather?
Actually...I like this bag I do agree with Leyla though, it shouldn't be priced like an original Kelly bag. They should treat it like a modern, updated, temporarily available 'season' bag and price it likewise.
It CAN NOT replace, or even be judged like, an original Kelly bag.
But still....I like the look of it
I hate it... it looks sooooooooooooooooooooo impractical.
... and what's so special about this bag?
*homer voice* mmmmm.......Jell-O.....
It's not proportional. It looks oddly shaped.
Sometimes that might be a good thing, but not in this case.
I dont like it at all...that bag is just ugly and the shape is just silly.
Also i thought you was going to post the bag he designed especially for Linda E if anyone can find a pic. Its black and white...i like that one better
what an awkward shape. And that handle is like 3 times too long. I don't like Gautier for Hermes at all, its such an oxymoron. Take the one house left that is actually clasic and put in a designer whose idea of a long lasting trend is nautical striped fited tee shirts. It really disapoints me.
I don't its squished look
Limb Kelly... all I can say is Limb Kelly... maybe try some "helpers"
Looks like someone sat on it
I like it though
i agree also with those posting ....it looks VERY unpractical
imagine the nightmare of finding little nothings at the endless bottom
of this bag..
JPG seems like a bad choice for Hermes
I might like this bag...but not for Hermes...and not as the new Kelly
How do any of you know the price on this bag so soon?
HATE the color, it's like sweet potatoe color-y-ish....lol and the shape is oh so dreadful......

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The Biotech Boot Camp aims to enlighten high school science students from various provinces on the science, safety, and potential benefits of biotechnology in agriculture through workshops and exposure trips to biotech research institutions in Los Baños, Laguna.
European Biotech Week: Celebrating Innovation
The European Biotech Week celebrates biotechnology, an innovative and vibrant sector launched by the discovery of the DNA molecule back in 1953. The first European Biotech Week that took place in 2013 marked the 60th anniversary of this pivotal moment in history.
This momentous occasion opened the door to a better understanding of the world we live in both for scientists and for society.
To provide you with an example, DNA triggered crucial discoveries and deeper knowledge on genes, proteins, viruses, bacteria and stem cells.
Biotech entrepreneurs were able to translate this knowledge into applications for many sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, food, energy, water sanitation and biochemical processing, all of which have changed the world for the better.
Biotech associations are key in helping to maximize the potential of biotechnology. In Europe, the National Associations Council, hosted by EuropaBio, represents 17 national biotech associations that together represent over 1,800 small- and medium-sized biotech companies and organisations.
In 2017, the week takes place between 25 September and 1 October.
About Program
It brings together farmers and other stakeholders from Asia to learn about plant biotechnology through first-hand experience by visiting plant biotech commercial farms and R&D biotech facilities; and interacting with farmers, scientists, media and policymakers.
The FX Program has been held annually since 2007. The 9th FX Program was held Mar 2-7 in the Philippines. The CropLife Asia, CropLife Philippines and the Biotechnology Coalition of the Philippines have organized the nine editions of the FX program.
About the Symposium
The Plant Sciences Symposium is primarily a student organized symposia series sponsored by Corteva Agriscience™, an agriculture division of DowDupont™, that is held at universities and research institutes worldwide. The objective of the Symposium is to promote the interaction between scientists and experts of both public and private sectors. In October 2019, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) will host the Plant Science Symposium in Los Baños, Philippines.
The theme of the symposium is "Agri-food value chain: Challenges and Opportunities".
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IRRI is the world's premier research organization dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger through rice science, improving the health and welfare of rice farmers and consumers, and protecting rice-growing environments for future generations. It is an independent, nonprofit, research and educational institute, founded in 1960 by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations with support from the Philippine government. The Institute is also a part of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food-secured future.
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The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is one of the 26 specialist institutions of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO). Established in 1966 and hosted by the Philippine government, SEARCA is mandated to strengthen institutional capacities in agricultural and rural development in Southeast Asia through graduate education and institutional development, research and development, and knowledge management. It serves the 11 SEAMEO member countries, namely, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.


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The concept of prevention enticed David Goff, M.D., Ph.D., early in his medical career.
"When I was in my first couple years of medical school, I learned a lot about the causes of heart disease," said Goff, director of the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. "Then in the hospital, seeing patients face to face made me realize we should be doing more to prevent it."
Goff, a longtime volunteer who's known as the American Heart Association's "cholesterol go-to guy," received the organization's Meritorious Achievement award last month in Dallas. He has made major contributions to understanding the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, and to developing and implementing AHA guidelines for managing patients at risk for heart disease.
Goff grew up in the small, one-high-school town of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. His family ran a mom-and-pop restaurant where he worked as a teenager. He got his first taste for medicine through a high school club that met at a county hospital to hear presentations from medical professionals. A book about early drug development further intrigued him.
At the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, where Goff received his M.D., his interests eventually turned to interventional medicine and cardiology. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and completed his clinical training in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine-affiliated hospitals.
"Seeing patients with severe, advanced heart failure — the number of people and the extent of the disease — made me realize we weren't doing a good job with prevention," Goff said. It also sealed his professional fate: preventive cardiology.
The mid- to late 1980s was a time when ideas about prevention were limited, and game-changing drugs were still in development.
"The thoughts about prevention were that we needed to help people quit smoking, achieve a healthier diet and be more active, and we needed to control blood pressure better," he said. "That's about as far it went because we didn't have good cholesterol-lowering drugs yet."
The tides started to change when lovastatin, the first cholesterol-lowering statin, came on the market in 1987 , and a new class of high blood pressure and heart failure drugs called ACE inhibitors was giving hope on the prevention front.
"It was an exciting time to think about prevention," Goff said.
In the late '80s and early '90s, Goff worked on the Corpus Christi Heart Project, which helped shed light on disparities in health outcomes by race. About the same time, he began volunteering for the AHA. He has gone on to direct more than 50 research projects for the nonprofit. As director of the AHA's 10-day seminar on the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease, he trained hundreds of early career cardiovascular scientists.
He also led the development of an AHA guideline that spurred big changes in how many doctors help patients lower their risk for heart disease. Then he steered efforts to have the guideline incorporated into the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Million Hearts program.
Over time, Goff said he's developed a greater appreciation for social determinants of health such as such as poverty, lack of affordable housing and education, and inadequate access to health care and healthy food.
"I've come to appreciate that it's really hard to talk to someone about changing their diet if the reality of the world is that cheap food is crap, and healthy food is expensive and you don't have access to it," he said.
Goff is interested in learning people's motivations for making health changes. He wants to help them understand how, for example, smoking is stopping them from going on a hike or attending a wedding.
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Philipp Jäger joined the research department "Macroeconomics and Public Finance" as a researcher and Ph.D. student in April 2014. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Leipzig and a Master of Arts in International Economics from Georg-August University Göttingen. In the course of his studies, he spent one semester at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and at Seoul National University each. Philipp Jäger interned at the ifo Institute for Economic Research, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and Prognos.
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Songstress FKA twigs—never one to shy away from going big and bold—models the season's statement earrings.
Our first glimpse of Tahliah Barnett—better known as FKA twigs—in the 2013 video for the single "Water Me" was a three-minute close-up of the then-25-year-old Gloucestershire native's angelic visage, digitally altered so that her eyes appeared twice their normal size, like a manga cartoon. Ten months later, on the eve of her critically lauded album debut, twigs released the video for "Two Weeks," a surrealistic vision of the artist as a giant golden idol enthroned in a vaguely ancient temple—imagine Cleopatra in cream trousers—surrounded by a half-dozen miniature dancing versions of herself. (Her next release—a collaborative film with Google Glass that sent up the chameleon's ever-blossoming collection of visual personae—was, almost by default, stripped down in comparison.)
Still at the beginning of her musical career—the mere title of her record, LP1, anticipates more to come—twigs, now 27, is already ready for her next chapter. "Work always reflects how your brain is morphing," she says from the hair-and-makeup chair of Patrick Demarchelier's Manhattan studio. "And right now is a very morphy time for me." Her architecturally designed braids and gelled curls have been jettisoned in favor of beautifully tousled dreads, and in addition to playing the biggest concerts of her life, twigs is navigating the practical challenges of her relationship with very-famous-person Robert Pattinson, who will pick her up from the set a few hours later. "Sometimes I really struggle having my picture taken," she says, and one can't help thinking of the relentless paparazzi, who at the moment simply cannot get enough of this new anti–It couple.
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Her beautiful peculiarity seems to stem, at least in part, from the way she surrounds herself with a tight-knit group of creative friends. "I want to learn to tango," she says, "but I wouldn't seek it out—I'll wait to meet someone off the street who could teach me." That's not so far off from how she met Derek Auguste, her current movement coach and vogueing specialist, at a New York City nightclub. Now, Auguste says, "she wants to train every day. She's not just trying to touch on a few aspects of vogueing; she's trying to get in with the girls." On the heels of her sold-out show at Manhattan's Terminal 5 the night before this shoot, twigs and Pattinson attended the Mugler Ball in Astoria, Queens, where twigs vogued down the runway with the best of them, finishing with aplomb in what's known as a death drop. "You have to give a part of yourself to a particular culture," twigs says, "rather than just borrow [inspiration] from it or enjoy looking cool because you're there." (Rihanna also attended the ball, causing quite a stir, though she didn't perform.) "Everything you reference, you need to give back to it in some way."
Dance training is a major impetus for twigs's imminent move to New York—currently planned for March, when she finishes her tour. And odds are that more dance training will only stoke her creative fervor. "A few years ago I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side," she says. "I'm wild in that way—I've been brought up to do my own thing."


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Cinnamon powder is commonly used in cooking, but you can also use it in some home remedies. It is usually harmless; however, the powder can cause side effects that you may not even expect. Cinnamon powder can cause allergic reactions and breathing problems, and if it is ingested it can lead to serious burns. Some of these side effects can lead to life-threatening medical emergencies.
If you are experiencing serious medical symptoms, seek emergency treatment immediately.
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Cinnamon powder can sometimes be very fine, leading to accidental inhalation. If you inhale it into the throat, the throat can become irritated and this can lead to coughing. The coughing can become so severe that you may have difficulty catching your breath. This can be very serious for people who already suffer from breathing problems such as asthma or COPD. In fact, according to the University of Michigan Health System, cinnamon powder can lead to a bronchial constriction, which can be life threatening. If you suffer from an underlying medical condition that may cause problems with breathing, you should be very careful when handling cinnamon powder.
Cinnamon powder can be very dangerous if you accidentally ingest it by mouth. For example, small children who like to play in the cabinets can easily get into the spice cabinet and ingest the cinnamon powder. This can cause severe burning of the mouth and throat and require immediate medical attention. The burning may be so severe that the child can suffer from swelling of the mouth or throat, which can be life threatening.
Allergic Reaction
According to the University of Michigan, an allergic reaction can occur if you have not previously used cinnamon powder. This is especially true for young babies or children that are being introduced to cinnamon for the first time. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, cinnamon can cause an allergic reaction that can even lead to anaphylactic shock, which is a life-threatening medical condition. An allergic reaction can also occur on your skin. Sometimes when cinnamon powder gets on the skin it can cause reddening or even a rash.
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This is officially the longest I have gone without posting a blog since starting VOTC 3 years ago. Over the last 6 weeks I have prepped a MAJOR move out of state which included single handlily packing the entire house, loading a storage unit, prepping the existing house to be listed on the market, making two trips to the new house in Ohio relocating my collection, prepping the new house and finally overseeing the loading and unloading by our movers. Next came the unpacking and re-setting up of the new house. To say that I have had little free time is an understatement. I did my best to continue to generate content for Card Corner Club, host the weekly Card Corner Club Radio show AND aided in the negotiations of our recent merger and acquisition by The Cardboard Connection.
One of the first things that I was tasked with by our realtor was diassembling my mancave and putting its contents into storage to eliminate the risk of unscrupulous buyers pullling a 5-finger discount. This included a temporary stay in a climate controlled storage facility. Feeling like a fish out of water, in my own office, for the better part of 2-months was getting old but I am happy to see all is well with my collecting universe again as the pictures of the reassembled mancave below can attest.


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Kazaa tops Yahoo's search queries for 2003
Cmon Aussie Cmon. Kazaa tops Yahoo's list of 2003 search words. Kazaa is run out of Sydney. Finally, another Australian company (okay so Sharman bought it from the Dutch... so?) gets world recognition for something related to the internet economy. Okay so they are allegedly walking a fine line with respect to their legality, but since when has that ever stopped an Aussie from capturing global headlines? Ned Kelly anyone? Underarm bowling? erm... winning the America's Cup with a yacht funded by someone soon to spend years in jail for fraud?
Another interesting item in this article is that the top news query was for "cloning". How's that for a zeitgeist?


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Veteran Greek gymnast Ioanna Xoulogi told IG Online that she is eager to use the World Cup of Baku that starts Thursday as a launching point for a series of key events on her agenda this year.
"Although it is very early in relation to other big and important competitions like the European Championships in August and the world championships in October, I think I'm ready enough for this World Cup," she said. "My preparation goes very well."
Xoulogi, who turns 26 on April 16, said Baku will help her assess her potential for good results in other big meets in 2018.
"This competition is a test for me to see my weak points," she said. "Then I will have a lot of time to be better and be ready for the Greek national championships, the Mediterranean Games, the European championships and finally for the most important competition of the year, the world championships. My target for there is to place in the top 24 with my team."
In Baku, Xoulogi said she has high expectations on balance beam and floor exercise, the two apparatuses on which she plans to compete.
"My first target is to compete in the finals and then I wish and hope for a medal," she said.
Xoulogi credits outside support for contributing to her longevity and rejuvenation.
"I want to thanks my sponsors, Sigoa, for my beautiful leotards and Healing Art Massage that helped me in my recovery," she said.
Xoulogi said she is confident that she can continue to progress as she also eyes a return to all-around competition this year.
"Since 2017, I have changed my routine a little on balance beam, which is my favorite apparatus, and I will compete in the all-around," she told IG. "But first of all I have to protect my body from injuries, and I wish that I will be fine until the next competition."
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Ex-wife says Bonds beat her repeatedly during marriage
REDWOOD CITY - Barry Bonds' ex-wife, breaking down in tears on the witness stand, has claimed he beat her repeatedly during their stormy marriage and kicked her when she was eight months' pregnant.
Testimony by Sun Bonds provided a dramatic start Wednesday to the second phase of the couple's high-stakes divorce trial before San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Judith Kozloksi.
Kozloski has already upheld a 1987 prenuptial agreement in which Barry and Sun Bonds agreed to keep their financial assets separate.
Sun Bonds hopes to show that the behavior of the San Francisco Giants slugger kept her from making a living, a factor that can be considered in setting permanent spousal support.
Under questioning by her attorney, Lawrence Stotter, Sun Bonds described several incidents that depicted one of baseball's highest paid players as an egotistical wife-beater who wanted to control her life.
Sun Bonds, citing an incident she said had happened in 1989 when the couple lived in Pennsylvania, told the judge that her husband had become enraged when she told him she wanted to obtain a cosmetologist license.
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At the time, she said, she was pregnant with their now 5-year-old son, Nikolai.
Robert Nachsin, an attorney for Barry Bonds, said in his opening statement that he would discredit Sun Bond's allegations with testimony from witnesses, including household employees.
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Sun Bonds, a native of Sweden, said that her husband had told her it was her job to be a mother and homemaker and that his own mother had given up a career as a model.
Eventually, Sun Bonds said, she stopped talking about having a cosmetology career, a goal she was pursuing when she met Bonds while working as a Montreal bartender. Bonds was then an up-and-coming player with the Pittsburgh Pirates; today, he is in the third year of a six-year $43 million contract with the Giants.
Sun Bonds described several other alleged fights. After one incident in which she said her husband choked her, she said she had called police - but had not filed a report.
"Barry was this big man that was loving me one minute, and the next minute he was beating me up," she said. "I was scared. I didn't know what he would do after" the police left.
According to court records, Sun Bonds called Atherton police in August 1993, claiming Barry Bonds had hit her and pushed her down some stairs. He claimed she had attacked him. No charges were filed against either party after a review of the case by the district attorney.<


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Cash offer to public officials for information was first made in 'different environment'
By David Hencke and Alison Winward | 18 July 2012
"I am sure that you can understand why [it] excited the attention of the inquiry"
– Lord Justice Leveson
Former police photographer Matt Sprake defended his picture agency at the Leveson inquiry this afternoon after being exposed by Exaro.
Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into newspaper practices summoned Sprake to explain why his agency, NewsPics, offered thousands of pounds to police officers and other public officials for information on celebrities. The offer was made explicitly on the agency's website.
Sprake admitted under questioning by the judge today that the offer was a mistake.
Leveson told him: "I am sure that you can understand why [it] excited the attention of the inquiry.
"But I would be interested to know why you ever thought it appropriate to put on your website that you were prepared to pay – that you were inviting, nurses, prison officers and civil servants – to provide you with stories, doubtless in breach of their duty, and make money out of it."
Sprake, a former forensics and surveillance officer for the Metropolitan Police and now managing director of the agency, said: "It is a hypothetical situation." He explained that a nurse might, for example, offer a story that was in the public interest.
Leveson: "But Mr Sprake, you chose to put this offer on your website. Are you saying that you were only interested in public-interest stories, and, if so, why did you not put that? Or is this just a total aberration?"
Sprake: "It was a mistake to put the wording on there."
The agency supplies pictures to national newspapers. Its website still made the cash offer despite a police investigation into alleged payments made by journalists to public officials, and Leveson's wide-ranging inquiry into newspaper practices.
Sprake told Leveson that the offer was first made many years ago. "It was a very different environment to what it is now, and when that website was first created, probably it would have been acceptable to have spoken in those terms. Now, obviously, it is totally inappropriate."
The website was "broken" in 2010 and no content could be changed, he told the inquiry.
Sprake had given the same explanation to Exaro. The former Met photographer also repeated to the inquiry that he had never paid a police officer or "anyone in authority" for information.
Visitors to the NewsPics website were told: "All sorts of people have been paid thousands of pounds by us for giving information that leads to a picture being sold or a story being written, are you a doorman, police worker, civil servant, probation officer, prison officer, nurse? Make some extra money without anyone ever knowing…"
In a section headed "news exclusives", the agency tempted public officials to provide details of "a scandal" or, "where a prominent person is living or what they get up to," or, "a celebrity having an affair."
"You can earn yourself good cash now by calling… 24 hours a day and remember, nobody ever needs to know it was you that told us!"
Within hours of Exaro's disclosures a fortnight ago, the website containing the appeal was taken down and replaced with a holding page. But Exaro had already published the key page from the website.
Robert Jay, counsel to the inquiry, asked Sprake whether it was a coincidence that the website was removed on July 4, very shortly after the article appeared on Exaro.
Sprake replied: "No, I removed the website on purpose when the story came out because of the inappropriateness of the words on the website and how out of date that website was."
He also submitted to the inquiry a statement showing that most of the agency's surveillance work over the past two years was for The People. It also carried out similar work for the News of the World before it closed in 2011.
Sprake said that he and his wife, Marion, are the directors of the agency, which he launched in 2003.
Under 'Operation Elveden', Scotland Yard is investigating allegations that journalists paid 'bribes' to police and other public officials.
Scotland Yard has so far refused to comment on the case of Sprake, whose 10-year career in the Met included anti-terrorism duties.
Update 23 July 2012: Leveson today invited Lloyd Embley, editor of the Daily and Sunday Mirror and formerly of The People, to provide evidence in response to Sprake's testimony.
During today's hearing, Leveson made the following statement: "In a number of the closing submissions, it has been suggested that one of the consequences of the fast-moving nature of this inquiry has been an inability to challenge material, particularly where relevant witnesses have already given evidence prior to new allegations being made.
"That is to misunderstand how the inquiry has proceeded. It has always been open to core participants (and others) to submit evidence to the inquiry to answer allegations that have been made and, in appropriate cases where the interests of fairness require, that evidence will be published as part of the record of the inquiry.
"There have been a number of examples where this has already happened, and I am prepared for that type of material to be provided to the inquiry over the weeks to come (albeit no later than the end of August 2012 in respect of evidence prior thereto).
"One example will suffice. The inquiry only learnt of the existence of Matthew Sprake very recently, but I am conscious that his evidence last week concerned, in large part, the work that he had been employed to carry out for The People. Further, it raised issues relating to the responsibilities for the ethical decisions in connection with its commissioning.
"Although I recognise that it is now too late to serve a notice under Section 21 of the [Inquiries] Act on the editor, Mr Lloyd Embley (who gave evidence during the course of Module 1), should he wish to provide his account of that relationship, dealing with what Mr Sprake has said, I shall, of course, consider it."
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Oh how I love the Oscars! My favorite part is the pre-show red carpet, especially during those years when the celebs get really wild, bold or weird (remember Bjork's swan dress?). Last night there were tons of gorgeous gowns, but nothing really surprising, except when I heard Helen Hunt tell Ryan Seacrest who designed her dress ... H&M!
Say wha? Seacrest looked pretty astonished too, and Hunt laughed, "Isn't that sexy?" Well, yes, yes it is Helen! Affordable fashion is always sexy, right ladeez? Hmm -- hold that "affordable" thought...
While the dress isn't anything incredible, it's pretty; a classic Armani-esque strapless, mermaid type number with a sort of bustle in the back, in a dark blue satiny material that flatters Hunt's skin and hair but looked a bit wrinkled already on the red carpet. And, apparently, the gown was already a member of Hunt's surely eclectic wardrobe (at the Spirit Awards, when queried about her Oscar dress plans, she just said, enigmatically, that it would be something already hanging in her closet).
Hunt explained her choice to Seacrest, saying, "They made a beautiful dress and they are going green," and added that H&M is working with Global Green, an organization Hunt collaborates with herself to help prevent global climate change. OK, fair enough! But THEN Hunt went on to say that she was also wearing $700,000 worth of jewelry (by designer Neil Lane, who had jewels on many celebs last night, like my best-dressed of the red carpet, Naomi Watts). And the rest of Hunt's accessories weren't exactly from Payless Shoe Source: Roger Vivier shoes and a Salvatore Ferragamo clutch. So much for dressing down!
The Cut wonders whether Hunt was actually paid by H&M to wear the gown; they point to a New York Times piece that says H&M is coming out with line of formal wear in early April of this year to back up their theory. By the way, according to the Times, the exact dress Hunt is wearing won't be available, but H&M says such a look would cost about $650 to buy off the rack.
Interesting! Let's not kid ourselves -- none of those celebs on the red carpet actually PAID for their dresses; the publicity is way more valuable to the designer. And it's kind of cool if Hunt's motivation was to bring awareness to a cause she cares for. It's slightly less admirable if she was paid to do it. Either way, it does go to show that "high" really can mix with "low."
What do you think about Helen Hunt's "budget" dress?
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Zac Brown's Next Single Will Be Controversial EDM Song "Beautiful Drug"
When many country and Southern rock fans got their copy of Zac Brown Band's latest release Jekyll + Hyde, they feverishly ripped off the cellophane, struggled with the stupid sticker the runs across the top edge and never comes off in one piece, and then put that puppy into the CD player so full of excitement and anticipation, they found themselves nothing short of crestfallen and shockingly confused when the first song coming out of their moderately-priced but still decent-sounding speakers was the completely formulaic EDM saccharine-fest called "Beautiful Drug."
It wasn't just the shock that Zac Brown had decided to dip his toes into the whole EDM craze, it's that he'd chosen to start his album off that way, and that the song—beyond the sonic departure for the band—was so vapid and superfluous. Since then Zac Brown has been out there collaborating with Avicii, so it is all starting to fit in a much wider pattern. There's also another EDM-style song on Jekyll + Hyde called "Tomorrow Never Comes" that may even be a shade worse than "Beautiful Drug."
Zac Brown apologists came out of the woodwork to defend "Beautiful Drug" saying, "Oh come on, this is just Zac Brown doing what he wants to do. It's just the band having fun. They won't release it to radio or anything."
Well think again.
According to the country music Antichrist and head of Big Machine Records Scott Borchetta, "Beautiful Drug" will be Zac Brown Band's next single. Speaking at iHeartMedia's current Music Summit in Burbank, California, Borchetta confirmed the news, and said they hope the song will cross over from country, seeming to allude that it will start on country radio, even though the song has absolutely no semblance of anything "country" to it aside from a token banjo, which makes the offense even more obvious.
Clearly this is Scott Borchetta's answer to Sam Hunt, and it's hard to see how "Beautiful Drug" will be anything less than a mega hit, putting a serious hurting on the sonic foundations of country music, and from a band that used to be one of the respites of substance in the mainstream.
As Saving Country Music said in the review of "Beautiful Drug":
"Beautiful Drug" is not the Zac Brown Band spreading their creative wings. "Beautiful Drug" is not Zac Brown asserting his freedom as an artist. "Beautiful Drug" is not the boys from Georgia "defying genre," though these excuses and many more will be levied in their defense, and you, YOU the sainted country music and Zac Brown fan will be charged with a treasonous level of closed-mindedness, misunderstanding, and attempts to stifle the evolution of music if you so dare to raise a peep in opposition to Zac Brown finally breaking loose of his corporate bonds to make the music he's always wanted which in the case of "Beautiful Drug" is apparently hyper-EDM club pop dance music replete with bass drops and the most horrifically prototypical rhythm and structure employed in American pop music in its history. Sam Hunt, eat your ever-loving, Puma-wearing, flat-brimmed country interloping heart out.
There is one thing to take away from "Beautiful Drug" and one thing only: Zac Brown wants your fucking money America. I would label this a sellout moment, but even that seems to slight just what depravity of character the Zac Brown Band evidences by releasing this song, especially as the first track on an album. He might as well have just cued up a mic and screamed "Fuck You!" to start this thing off. Dig deep in those pockets, put your dollars on the table, and nobody gets hurt except the souls of country music fans. It's time for the Zac Brown Band to get paid mother truckers, so quit your bellyaching and pony the hell up.


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- Set a target to eliminate poverty in Aotearoa by 2025.
- Make a cost of living adjustment to all benefits.
- Introduce a living wage for all workers.
- Dismantle institutional racism within the justice system as a matter of urgent priority.
- Place a moratorium on the building of new prisons and expand the provision of Whare Oranga Ake and Māori Focus Units in existing prisons.
- Reduce the rate of Māori over-imprisonment by 30% by 2027.
- Establish an Anti-Corruption Commission to absorb the investigative functions of state sector agencies.
- Set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry in to institutionalised racism.
- Set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry in to the abuse of children while in State care.
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Thanks to a certain reality TV show, extreme couponing is all the rage right now. But while the show might be fascinating to watch in a disturbing kind of way, extreme couponing isn't exactly a practical endeavor. Using coupons wisely is one thing; spending hours in a store searching for items you plan to stockpile in your garage is quite another.
I'm convinced that our national obsession with extreme couponing is rooted in the fact that most Americans genuinely need to find ways to save money on groceries. Couponing can be a great way to do this, but it can also be time consuming, and quite frankly, it's an art I haven't yet mastered.
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If you're looking to slash your grocery bill but don't know how (or don't want to devote the time) to clipping coupons, consider the following alternatives.
1. Eat Less Meat
Meat is typically the most expensive part of any meal you prepare, so one easy way to save money is to buy less of it. Start having Meatless Mondays at your house, or stretch your recipes by occasionally substituting less expensive beans or rice. According to the Mayo Clinic, the benefits of eating less meat aren't just financial — a diet rich in beans, grains, and fresh vegetables is also better for your health.
2. Become a Planner
By nature, I am not a planner. But when you know what you'll be cooking in advance, you won't be making repeated trips to the store or purchasing prepared foods at the last minute, both of which add to your grocery bill. For help getting started with meal-planning, check out some of the handy meal-planning apps that are available.
3. Buy in Bulk
Items like toilet paper, toothpaste, and other household supplies are often cheaper when you buy them in bulk, and warehouse stores like Sam's Club and Costco offer bulk discounts on just about every grocery item you can imagine. Some savvy shoppers are also taking advantage of special deals on Amazon Grocery, where they can get things like diapers routinely shipped to their home for less than they would pay at the store.
4. Start a Garden
When you grow your own food, you can avoid chemicals and pesticides, and you'll marvel at the amazing flavor of produce that has just been picked from the vine. And if you plan your garden carefully, you can also save yourself some money. Start-up costs like seeds, soil, and garden tools can be high in the first year, but if you're willing to put in a little money up front, a garden is an investment that can yield great returns in the future.
5. Learn to Preserve
I know, it sounds all Little House on the Prairie, but preserving food is an extremely cost-effective way to stretch your food dollars. Buy fresh fruits and vegetables when they're in season and inexpensive (or grow your own), and then preserve them by freezing, canning, pickling, or dehydrating. For a comprehensive guide to canning and preserving foods, visit PickYourOwn.org, or for a more humorous (and realistic) tutorial, read Canning For Klutzes in 20 Easy(ish) Steps from The Happiest Mom Meagan Francis.
6. Cook From Scratch
Pre-made foods are convenient, but they are not budget-friendly. When you cook from scratch using fresh ingredients, your dollars will go further and your family will be healthier. For example, a loaf of bread costs an average of $2 to $4 at the store, while you can easily bake your own bread at home for less than a dollar a loaf.
7. Stick to Your List
It isn't easy to avoid impulse shopping. Grocery stores and food brands spend big bucks figuring out how to display goods so that you're more likely to buy them. This is why I always come home with chips and beer during football season and gingerbread-flavored coffee cream every December.
Be aware of these displays, and don't get suckered into buying seasonal items that aren't on your list. An extra $5 to $10 a trip doesn't seem like a lot, but it can really add up over the course of a year. Plus, nobody really needs gingerbread-flavored coffee cream anyway.
8. Take Advantage of Sales
Make it a habit to skim the ads from your local grocery stores. This way, you will always know when the best sales are being held. If you know what price you routinely pay for your favorite products, you will know a good sale when you see one and be able to stock up while items are at their cheapest.
9. Don't Be Impressed by Name Brands
Sometimes, you may find that you genuinely like the name brand variety better. But store brand products are often identical (minus the fancy label and catchy commercials), and almost always represent savings, so it's worth it to give them a try.
Don't write off discount chains like Aldi's or Big Lots, either. You may not be able to do all your grocery shopping at these stores, but they offer deep savings on a number of brand name products. For example, I routinely find Kashi cereal and granola bars at Big Lots for a really great price.
10. Carry Cash (and Only Cash)
It's hard to stick to your budget when you know that, technically, you can afford to add that block of gourmet cheese or extra bag of potato chips to your cart since you'll be paying with a credit or debit card. The solution? Leave the card at home, and head to the store with only the cash you plan to spend.
It might sound extreme to carry a limited amount of cash, but I've found that it is hands-down the best way to ensure that I only buy the essentials. You just can't spend money that you don't have.
How do you save money at the grocery store? Do you clip coupons?
More Help Saving Money:
- 12 Money Saving Tips for Parents
- Save Money on Healthy School Lunches
- 9 Ways to Save Money on Laundry
This post was included in the Carnival for Saving and Making Money.


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Cigarette manufacturing profit margins are just about to get squeezed again in the developing Fire-safe cigarette debacle.
To start; fire-safe paper – aka LIP paper – costs 6-9 times as much as regular cigarette paper. This means in the range of $60 – $90 per bobbin. This assumes you can find a source.
Next comes the testing required to demonstrate compliance with regulations – Laboratory testing can run $8,000 and if your product doesn't pass – the exercise needs to be repeated.
Last, and this one will become a major issue for the smaller independents, is annual registration and compliance fees levied by each State.
These fees vary considerably. Some are levied by brand others by SKU and are $250 – $3,000 per brand / SKU – depending on the State. For now this cost is around $500,000 if you have 4-5 brands and register them in those states requiring FSC cigarettes.
You can expect these fees to increase and become more consistent between States. This will increase to several million dollars a year in registration fees.
The fees will increase the fixed cost of compliance and registration. Operating margins will be hit and for smaller operations this may be beyond their means – ultimately contributing to their demise or consolidation.
Fair? What do you think? What about competition?


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The Endowment, a responsibility passed down through time to protect what we known as the fountain of youth. This was a very good book with a great plot, suspense, and action. But I offer a word of warning. The book goes on something of a Jesus bender starting at about the 33% mark. All of a sudden nearly all of the characters start talking or thinking about their savior and praying a lot.
So, this would be the kind of thriller ideal for a church book club or a reader of very similar faith. For others, the shifting of gears might be a little jaring.
That said, the plot and characters are strong and a lot of fun. There is a strong backstory that grows and expands to strengthen the present day plot. Woven together, this shows J.M. Leduc's skill as an author. Perhaps best of all, this is just book one in the series. So, if you like it, there's plenty more where that came from!
You can read more from J.M. Leduc on his blog at http://jmleduc.blogspot.com. More information on Cursed Blessing in Kindle format can be found here.


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Katie Mattson, MA, LPCC
Mental Health Therapist
Phone: 952-217-0877
Fax: 763-746-2401
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
701 Decatur Avenue North
Suite 109
Golden Valley, MN 55427
Katie joined Headway in October, 2015 and has worked in human services since 2008. She is experienced in working with children aged 3-18 and their families experiencing a variety of struggles, from emotional coping, impulse control, trauma, communication, conflict resolution, and identity questions. She is trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy as well as the use of art, sand, and play therapy. As a school-based therapist, she works with elementary-aged children providing individual therapy as well as working with their families and teachers to best help them. "I believe building caring, trustworthy relationships with clients and their natural supports is essential to real change," she says. "I work to empower kids by giving them the skills, support, and safe place that they need to work through trauma, manage emotions, learn to engage in healthy relationships, and tackle various challenges they may face."
When she is not at work, Katie loves spending time with her family, going to the beach or park, and cooking and baking.


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It's so beautiful here, not too hot. It's the perfect time to come to the beach.
Here are a few pics.
Taking a nap after a long day on the beach.
Stopping on the way to the beach to stretch and have a snack.
I took a break yesterday to record a song. I thought about going down to the beach to record early in the morning, but I didn't want to lug all my stuff down there and possibly get it all sandy. So I just did it in our nice room.


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Archive for the 'Play Alfresco' Category
lilac twilight over bristol marina
Posted in Photography, Play Alfresco, tagged Boats, Bristol Marina, Charleston Marinas, Charleston SC, Charleston Waterfront, Nancy Sisk Photography, Photography, Photos of Charleston, Travel on January 26, 2012| 5 Comments »
camping with 7 dogs and 5 humans = 1 sleepless night
Posted in Animals, Photography, Play Alfresco, tagged Camping, Charleston, Dogs, Marshes, Photography, Photos of Charleston on November 17, 2011| 5 Comments »
The Setting: 100 acres of pluff mud and marsh grass about 30 minutes outside of downtown Charleston.
The Plot: 5 friends plan to go camping with two mutts and a German Short Haired Pointer. At the last minute, one of the friends decides to dog sit and bring a Golden Retriever, and another friend brings his father's Chocolate Lab and junkyard dog, along with his sister's Labra Doodle (did I spell that right? Is that even a real dog? Yes, yes it is.) All are in for a fun filled night of incessant barking. Who knew a dog pack 7 strong would stay up ALL night on constant alert for raccoons and abominable marshmen?
The Characters:
Here are some of my favorite action shots from the trip
shorter days and magical twilights
Posted in Photography, Play Alfresco, Reflections, tagged Daylight Savings Time, Photography, Photos of Charleston, Sunset on November 15, 2011| 4 Comments »
Something magical happens when daylight savings time ends in Charleston. The sky can shift from baby blue to grapefruit pink to blood orange in a matter of seconds. I've never seen such a diverse and ever changing skyscape. On this evening, I was lucky enough to capture some of the beauty.
So the next time I complain about shorter days, I need to remember to look up. And give thanks.
Charleston voted "Top City in the United States"
Posted in Dine Alfresco, Play Alfresco, Travel, tagged Charleston SC, Conde Nast Traveler, Great US Cities, Top city in the USA, Traveling on October 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Charleston was voted the Top City in the United States by the 2011 Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards! Congrats Charleston!
it's a dog's beach
Posted in Animals, Photography, Play Alfresco, Reflections, tagged Border Collie, Dog Park in Charleston, Dogs, Dogs on Beach, Golden Retriever, Maltese, Nancy Sisk Photography, Photography, Photos of Charleston, Photos of Dogs, Sullivans Island, Yellow Lab on October 10, 2011| 12 Comments »
Sullivans Island is a special place…especially for dogs.
Before noon, the beach belongs to dogs. Allowed off leash, the shoreline morphs into a puppy paradise…the mother of all bark parks…an endless tract of territory unmarked. They are free to run, and swim, and dig. All shapes, colors and sizes are welcome…at sunrise, it's a dog's beach. It is Saturday mornings on Sullivans Island when my soul is at ease, and Biscuits' too. There is something intangibly good about a dog at play. The happiness a dog feels at the beach is contagious. I know this because it is on these mornings when I have met some of the nicest people in the city. And I am convinced it is because our dogs bring out the goodness in our hearts.
So next Saturday, change it up a little. Go for a jog or sip your morning coffee on Sullivans. You and your dog will be equally grateful. (Just make sure to read up on Sullivans Island beach rules before you go…yes, you will get a hefty ticket if you break them.)
Below are photos I took this weekend at the beach with Biscuit. Prepare for utter cuteness.
Anxious Yellow Lab patiently awaits beach time!
A Golden Retriever walks loyally with owner
A cute Maltese named JJ tries to warm up in owners arms!
But she is beginning to tire.
So it's time for her mid-morning snooze.
Until next time…
enchanting movie, enchanting theater
Posted in Photography, Play Alfresco, tagged Midnight in Paris, Photography, Photos of Charleston, The Terrace Theater, Things to do in Charleston, Vintage, Vintage Theater, Waiting For Superman on August 4, 2011| 1 Comment »
I have always been attracted to restaurants, shops and attractions that celebrate American past times and days gone by. When I am worried about letting the children I babysit for play in the front yard by themselves, I envy the environment our parents grew up in. And I romanticize it. I am filled with jealousy when I hear stories of my mom and dad being able to walk to a movie theater with their friends, spend the pennies and dimes they have saved from chores on a soda and watch a summer film to escape the seasonal heat.
Today, we still go to the movies. The difference is, we drive our children to the theater and they wait in the car with us until they get a "we're here" text from their friends…then they swipe their check cards for a 15 dollar 3D movie, and swipe again for a 12 dollar popcorn that could feed a family and a soda big enough to swim in.
But this past Friday, I got to relish in my romantic ideas of the past at the Terrace Theater, a truly unique experience that offers children of Generation Y to morph into Baby Boomers for a night. The Terrace Theater features independent and foreign films, along with local and national documentaries. My discovery of this special place occurred when they offered free admission to a documentary called Waiting For Superman, a heart-wrenching, brutally honest look into our public school system. A must-see. Not for the light-hearted.
I knew I needed to go back to experience the theater in a more free-spirited light. And on Friday, they were running Midnight in Paris for its final night. And without knowing anything about this Woody Allen film, I purchased my ticket.
Without spilling a spoiler, (because this film is also a MUST SEE) I could not have chosen a better movie for the theater atmosphere I wanted to experience. That is all I will say.
Okay. No more gushing about the 1960's and wish I had been born in a simpler time. Now I will gush about the Terrace Theater.
This special place is a celebration of the vintage. My photos will tell its story.
5 Things you all must do:
1. Watch Waiting For Superman
2. Stop waiting, and find Superman
3. Go see a movie at the Terrace Theater
4. Redbox Midnight In Paris
5. And then, enjoy the present


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Turning the page
07 June 2009
By Nadine O'Regan
In December 2007, Helen Oyeyemi was just a few months into a Masters in Creative Writing programme at New York's Columbia University when she decided – inexplicably to her fellow writers – to up sticks and leave. For most 22-year-old writers, abandoning one of the most prestigious writing courses in the world would have seemed like an act of sheer lunacy; hundreds, if not thousands, apply to the Columbia course every year, and precious few make the grade.
But for Oyeyemi, it was the only logical course of action. ''I couldn't do the programme," the now 24-year-old literary wunderkind says, with an abashed grin spread wide over her face. ''It clustered the way I wrote. I had done two and a half novels by the time I was on that course. I had established away of writing."
She's not kidding: at the tender age of 18, Oyeyemi sold her first novel, The Icarus Girl, to Bloomsbury for a lucrative sum – not the stg£400,000 reported on Wikipedia, she insists, but enough to allow her to live in comfort as a full-time writer.
Oyeyemi's second novel, The Opposite House, moved the London Times to say that it was ''intelligent, lyrical and thrilling in its ambition''. With her third, the newly published White Is For Witching, Oyeyemi further confirms the presence of a singular talent: the plot might be patchy, but the authorial voice is unstoppable, confident, measured, flowing and thoroughly unique.
Frankly, it should all be enough to make one ridiculously jealous of the girl. When I mention her achievements to a friend, ''I hate her!" is the firm and decided response. And it wouldn't be too surprising either to find Oyeyemi a little full of herself – successful, attractive, young; on the surface at least, she has it all.
But Oyeyemi is an unusual, intricate and eminently likeable soul – and to measure her success in career terms is, in some sense, to miss the point. As she sits in a corner of a city-centre Dublin hotel, her black coat huddled around her body like a comfort blanket, Oyeyemi flips between gaiety and reserve – she's candid, unprepossessing and friendly, but watchful for thorny questions.
Oyeyemi's books take on magic realism and gothic themes, but they also tackle serious issues: eating disorders, depression, familial dysfunction, the pressures of academia and being gay in modern society. Several of these themes are informed by Oyeyemi's own experiences. These young shoulders have borne a massive amount. Raised on a council estate in Lewisham, London, Oyeyemi alternated between ''quiet'' and ''rebellious'' at school, battling clinical depression. At the age of 15, she tried to commit suicide by overdosing on pills.
''I was depressed for a long time," she says. ''It was difficult to be animated, to animate my face and have normal expressions. I had a constant sense of being at a remove. I didn't eat very much either. I couldn't tell whether I wasn't eating because I was sad – or whether I was sad because I wasn't eating. Oyeyemi's parents – her mother is an employee of the London Underground, her father is a supply teacher – were determined not to see her problems as a condition. ''I developed this perspective of parents being people who didn't know how to save you from stuff. The whole time it was happening, I had this detached view, like I could understand that they couldn't understand." She confided mainly in her sister – and slowly learned how to combat her disease.
''There are ways of thinking and responding to certain events that I have to be quite careful about," she says. ''It's like walking down a certain staircase and saying, 'No', and going back up. Most of the time it's okay. I think that's because, in my third year of university, I got really tired of the way that the depressions kept hitting me and I decided to go on anti-depressants.
''I'd always been like, 'No medicine'. I wanted this to come from me, if I could get better. But I unconsciously made the whole thing more baroque. I could just take the medication and I did feel better. I could get out of bed, do my stuff. And eventually I stopped needing it."
When she was at her weakest, Oyeyemi – a Catholic, albeit one who goes to Mass mainly at Easter and Christmas – devoted much of her time to reading about the lives of the saints.
becoming a nun," she says. ''I wanted to live a pure life, and not be touched or affected by the world around me. The edited stories of their lives is that they waited in peaceful serenity for God. And I would have liked to have done that, but I couldn't because I'm human."
Oyeyemi laughs. These days, she says, she feels like a completely different person: she is more sociable, more relaxed. Newly single, she had a boyfriend for most of the past year; she says prospective dates either find her career ''intimidating or boring''.
''I really hope and pray that they don't read my books," she grins.
If they do, they'll continue to find the darkness from the old days bleeding through her work. The strongest thing about White Is For Witching is its potent atmosphere: with its multiplicity of narrative voices, and creepy, spiky events, the reader is left constantly unsettled, if not always satisfied – even Oyeyemi herself cannot explain the logic of some of the happenings in the book.
Yet White Is For Witching had such a potent effect on me that I found myself having gothic nightmares in the wake of reading the book. Hearing that, Oyeyemi clasps her hands together in genuine delight.
While Oyeyemi can't bear to watch horror films – she found The Orphanage almost too much for her – she loves gothic literature, delivered ''in little doses, skillfully done''. She doesn't know whether she believes in magic, but she has a ''respect, an acknowledgement of systems that might work in ways that I can't understand''.
''I can't say what I believe in, but a lot of stuff seems possible tome. I hoped this book would find people who like gothic stories."
Set in a mysterious, talking house on the cliffs near Dover, the narrative focuses on Miranda Silver, who – we are told at the start – has vanished. The story of the book is the story of Miranda, and that of her family and her lover, Ore.
One excerpt reads: ''Last night had been the fifth, perhaps the sixth night that Miranda had lain by Ore, smelling her, running her nose over the other girl's body, turning the beginning of a bite into a kiss whenever Ore stirred. Miranda had needed Ore open. Her head had spun with the desire to taste."
It's intoxicatingly weird stuff – and it comes as no surprise to hear that, in preparation for the book, Oyeyemi read up on Dracula – ''at one stage, I was feverishly reading and rereading it'', she says. It's notable that, although Oyeyemi doesn't have any complaint about the Columbia programme, in what was clearly a protective gesture, she never showed her fellow students any drafts of White Is For Witching.
''We had to produce stuff for workshops, so I'd bash something out. I couldn't write anything I cared about while I was on the course. It's not that I don't need or want feedback, but the stage I require it is much further down the road. I didn't touch White Is For Witching, which I'd already been working on, because I had a feeling that, if I did, it would shrivel."
In truth, the only reason Oyeyemi applied to do the course at all was because she had wanted to teach fiction writing in America – and had been told that the only way for her to do so was by taking a creative writing Masters course herself. By leaving the course, she had to accept that she probably wouldn't be able to teach fiction writing.
It might seem strange that Oyeyemi would even want to become a teacher when her writing career is going so well: often, full-time teaching is a career arc for struggling creative writers who need to make a living. But she has a discomfort about the idea of becoming a full-time writer. At Cambridge University, Oyeyemi studied political and social sciences because she felt that to study English literature would have been to ''spoil it''.
After leaving Cambridge, where she gained a second class honours degree, she moved on to Paarl, a village outside Cape Town, where she spent five months in 2006 doing something a million miles removed fromthe arts: volunteering at a centre for children born with HIV.
For a black writer used to the buzzy, cosmopolitan melting pot of London, South Africa proved quite a change – and a cultural challenge. ''Was there a difference in how people treated me? It was the kids," she says thoughtfully. ''At first I felt I was being paranoid, but the kids would cry and be bad and leave rubbish on the floor for me. But with the white volunteers, they would be very well behaved. It was as if they equated my blackness with, 'Oh, there's the cleaning lady'.
''There wasn't one child there over three years old. It was scary to think that, so early, they had these ideas about colour and who did what."
After Oyeyemi left South Africa, and then New York in December 2007, she moved to Paris for five months, then to Toronto and then to Washington to a writers' retreat. In Paris, she knew no one and could not speak a word of the language, but rather than abhorring the solitude, she revelled in it. ''At first I felt almost euphoric," she says.
''Sometimes I wouldn't speak aloud to anyone for days. And then I started to descend into strange states. I knew that it had to stop, though."
In away, the process seems to be one of Oyeyemi continually testing herself, finding out who she is and what she wants, through isolating herself and putting herself into potentially challenging circumstances. ''I think I was trying to find out what was more important to me, whether it was having friends or writing," she says. ''And then I thought, 'You've got to have both'."
Few writers would take their life to such extremes in order to truly find themselves in their work; Oyeyemi is unusual in her approach – and all the more interesting for it.
White Is For Witching is published by Picador, priced €18


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Travel with Us on Our Quebec Tours
Unleash your sense of adventure in the realm of beluga whales and dolphins. Discover glacier-carved fjords, wooded capes and enchanting townships. Fuel yourself with gourmet farm-to-table cuisine, apple cider and superb wine. Visit North America's only remaining fortified city, with impressive architecture and cobbled streets. And soak up the vibrant blend of cultures that makes Quebec so unique.


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The finishing touches of our new website are being put on as we speak and will be available to you guys within a couple days! With our new site you can now use our free online designer tool that has 1000's of clip art and lots of different text fonts! We pretty excited about it as we can now let our customers have the power of creating custom t-shirts right at their finger tips. Chose your product color, the artwork and the sizes and you instantly get your price. No more back and forth waiting for prices to get sent to you. This includes bulk orders!
Also our Direct to Garment service is in full swing. Full color prints and no minimums. If you want one or 100 we can handle it. If you have checked out our Facebook and Instagram pages you have seen some of our work using the DTG printer. Along with our Sublimation printing that we use for our custom socks, the possibilities are endless in what you can create.
I forgot to mention. In addition to our custom t-shirts we now how a template and space for you to create your custom socks. Custom socks are great for expressing your personality as well as a great accessory for your custom t-shirts! Simple upload your designs and let us do the rest! We have two options. Create your designs and only decorate the crew (top) side of your custom socks or use our second option and have a full color design. The choice is up to you, just like everything on our site.
We want to become your favorite Columbus Ohio custom printer as well as those across the county. Envy My Tee will continue to add products and services to our lineup to help ensure your custom printing needs are taken care of!
Here are two prints we made. A vintage Amy Winehouse poster we found online (Not for sale, just for print testing) and a promo tee we made for Envy My Tee.
|Vintage Amy Print Test
|Envy My Tee Promo Tee


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The WordPress.com statistics monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.
With a total of 22,599 views from 13,765 visitors in 137 countries in 2015 and with 1,857 followers so far, I cannot be any happier. Writing and posting have been slow the last few months, but I will be back soon enough with new, hopefully, inspiring and helpful content.
Thank you each and every one of you who found your way to my words.
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The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 22,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.