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Since school level, I have had a quite cosmopolitan education.I can handle new situations and cultural differences.
I like it.
Starting my independent brand was a natural step while living in Buenos Aires.
Today, I am considering openning a children store in Kristianstad.
I like challenges; I can.
I had the opportunity to exhibit in Solvesborg, where I live; in Istanbul, Turkey and in Thessaloniki, Greece.
That’s why I’m here. Ready for more!
My goal is to join the local art scene and connect with people.

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Japanese maples have a lovely structure which means they even look attractive in winter after the leaves have dropped. And, they make ideal shade trees over the warmer months.
Although not native to Australia, the Japanese maple can be grown in most areas except the tropics or subtropics. It makes a perfect specimen tree and can reach a height of 5 metres.
There are even grafted weeping forms that will add another dimension to your garden,
Here’s how to grow a Japanese Maple tree in cold and temperate areas around Australia.
Plant your Japanese maple in a sunny spot in the garden. However, in warmer areas, ensure the tree has some protection from the hot afternoon sun.
These trees also need protection from strong winds. Hot and dry winds will cause stress to the tree and the edges of the leaves will burn and dry.
Temperature and humidity
Japanese maples prefer cooler temperatures and can handle cold temperatures down to minus 10 degrees Celsius. In fact, exposure to cold winter temperatures will improve the colour of the foliage both in spring and autumn.
A Japanese maple does like a little moisture in the air as dry, hot air will often scorch the leaves. That’s precisely why this tree should be protected from strong and hot winds.
Japanese maples prefer deep soil that has been enriched with plenty of organic matter. The soil also needs to be free-draining and slightly on the acidic side.
These trees do not really like heavy clay soils so if that’s what you’ve got to work with, you’ll have to improve the soil by applying some gypsum to break up the heavy particles.
Alternatively, consider growing a smaller variety in a large pot filled with premium potting mix.
These trees need to receive adequate water during the warmer months, especially during long, dry periods. However, ensure that the soil does not become waterlogged.
Ideally, your established tree will need a good soaking once the top 5 to 10 cm of the soil become dry.
Once your Japanese maple has become established, you only have to supply an annual dose of controlled-release fertiliser if the soil is depleted of nutrients.
However, if you mulch around the base of the tree and top this up regularly, this should provide enough nutrients as it breaks down.
You can also leave the fallen autumn leaves as mulch around the base of the tree as these will break down and provide nutrients as well.
These well-shaped trees do not require any pruning. However, dead or damaged branches can and should be removed in winter while the tree is dormant.
If you want to create a certain shape, you can prune your young tree into the growth form that you’re after.
Problems, pests and diseases
Luckily, Japanese maples are rarely bothered by any pests or diseases. Especially if they’re kept well-watered and protected from the harsh afternoon sun and hot, drying winds.
However, in less-than-ideal conditions, you might notice some leaf burn. This normally happens during summer when the tree has received too much afternoon sun or has been exposed to hot, dry winds.
If this happens to your tree, either move it to a better location or provide some shelter on the western side of the tree.
Maple trees that are constantly being stressed by lack of moisture or too much sun, may be prone to borer attack. In this case, you should cut out the infected branches and give your tree better growing conditions.
RELATED: Plants That Like Afternoon Sun
How to grow a Japanese maple tree in a pot
Thanks to their compact root system, Japanese maples are ideal for growing in large pots. This makes them perfect for growing in a courtyard garden or similar smaller spaces.
Select one of the smaller varieties and use a pot that is around twice the size of the rootball of the tree you want to grow in it.
You just need to remember that this tree really doesn’t like to dry out too much. Therefore, ensure that your potted specimen receives a constant supply of water.
But, make sure that the pot has good drainage and that you don’t allow the roots to sit in water as this may cause them to rot.
Japanese maples are slow-growing, so they won’t need to be repotted too often. However, you should provide nutrients in the form of slow-release fertiliser pellets.
It’s also a good idea to place a layer of small rocks or pebbles on top of the soil in the pot and around the base of the tree. This will help to keep the soil cooler and also to retain moisture.
Popular Japanese maple varieties to grow in Australia
There are numerous varieties and cultivars of the Japanese maple. These exhibit different growth habits and a variation in colours of their leaves.
Here are just some to consider:
Acer palmatum ‘Osakazuki’
This stunning cultivar has brightly coloured leaves in autumn from pink right through to a vibrant red. It’s a beautifully shaped tree with a clean trunk and spreading canopy.
This is one of the most popular varieties grown in this country. It can reach a height of 5 metres and a spread of around 4 metres.
Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’
This is another popular cultivar that is prized for its dark purple leaves in late summer. These turn a bright crimson in autumn.
This tree will also reach a height of around 5 metres but only a width of 3 metres, making it ideal for smaller spaces.
Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Red Dragon’
This is a smaller growing cultivar that will only reach a height of 2 metres but with a spread of 3 metres. It features deep purple to red leaves in summer.
These leaves are quite fine and turn a bright scarlet colour in autumn. The canopy of the tree produces a cascading effect of branches and leaves and is truly stunning.
Are Japanese maples deciduous?
Yes, Japanese maples are deciduous and will delight you with their gorgeous autumn colours as well as the new growth in spring.
Where is the best place to plant a Japanese maple?
Japanese maples make excellent specimen trees and can be planted anywhere in the garden that gets protection from strong winds and the hot afternoon sun. The roots are non-invasive so these trees can be planted near your house or any other structure.


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I just did a cave painting day where I covered the walls with butcher paper,
elected some "torch bearers" to hold flashlights, gave everyone else chalk or
charcoal, and we drew ice age animals in the dark on the walls. A couple of
the kids did some really nice images.
We talked at the end about what similarities of experiences we might have
shared with the cave painters and why the artists might have put those
pictures on those French walls in the first place. Some of my kids were pretty
perceptive and eloquent with their answers.
All of this went along with what they were studying in Social Studies, too, at


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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California loves green — or at least loves going "green." Be it a political stunt or an actual concern for the environment, Pelosi has been a leader of the Democrat's "Green the Capitol" campaign.
The only problem is, going green can be quite expensive - as House members recently found out.
Northern California Republican Rep. Dan Lungren, chairman of the House Administration Committee, recently ordered an end to Pelosi's composting program in the House of Representatives. We'll call it the end of "wasteful spending on waste."
The composting program was put into place as part of Pelosi's plan to to make all things government more environmentally friendly. As part of the program, all Styrofoam and plastic materials in the House eating establishments were replaced with biodegradable alternatives. The resultant biodegradable waste was then shipped to a composting site in Maryland.
For the hardcore environmentalists, it was a victory. For America's pocketbook, it was a disaster.
According to reports, an internal review found that the government would save $475,000 a year by ending the practice. Not only are the immediate monetary savings great, but Rep. Lungren says that hauling the waste to Maryland and the extra electricity used to turn the trash to pulp increased the energy consumption used instead of decreasing it. It other words, it wasn't so green to go green.
That is truly one of the biggest problems in trying to be environmentally "correct" or friendly. It is really hard to do. Not only are the costs prohibitive in many instances, but the end-result environmental savings are often non-existent.
Going "green" is a wonderful goal, but until the costs come down and the processes are refined, it makes for a better campaign plug than an actual government program. Luckily, some in government are starting to agree.
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Anxiety is a state of apprehension, worry or fear. Anxiety causes intense stress at the time of the incident.This means that the eyewitness may have difficulty encoding the information during the acquisition stage of the memory process, The results of research into the effect of anxiety on eyewitness testimony have been highly mixed. It is believed that eye witness testimony is most accurate when the anxiety level is somewhere in between low and high. There is Research showing that anxiety has a positive effect on eye witness testimony such as Yuille and Cutshall they interviewed people who had witnessed a real life shooting and found that recall was very accurate despite high levels of anxiety. However, the people who were subjected to the highest levels of anxiety were nearest to the incident so would have been able to see more clearly what happened.
Participants were then given 50 photos and asked to identify the person. The findings were that witnessed who had seen the man holding the knife emerge accurately identified him, 44% of the time, whereas the participants who saw the man carrying the bloodstained knife only identified him 33%. However, this study can be criticized. This is because the study was a lab experiment and was done in a lab. The variables can be manipulated so it could therefore be bias.
Allowing faculty to carry firearms can have an effect on mass shootings at schools. On 1999 in Columbine fifth teen people were killed, in Minnesota nine people were murdered, in Virginia thirty three were killed, and in Connecticut twenty eight were murdered. Allowing faculty to carry firearms would greatly cut the amount of murders that were committed. Trained faculty can protect children and themselves, while allowing more time for the authorities to arrive at the
LAWE 1120 Final Examination Directions: Trace each case through Ohio’s criminal court system. Indicate in chronological order each step of the process. Be sure to include in your response, which court will conduct the proceedings, timelines that need to be adhered to as well as what occurs during each step of the process. For the purposes of this exam, assume that when appropriate, probable cause will be found, the defendant will plead not guilty, and that the jury will ultimately render a verdict of guilty. Scenario #1 Miss Dee Meanor was arrested on June 30, 2011 in Brook Park, Ohio.
Gaining greater understanding how the limbic system and other areas of the brain operate is essential to identifying potential obstructions that disallow the normal flow of chemicals/communication within the brain, which may cause a person to become depressed. Additionally, hormones levels are another biological factor which can lead to depression. Imbalances of cortical, for example, such as an excess amount or uneven distribution over a period of time have been noticed in depressed patients (Sahelian,
CI was given $50.00 of official PD money to conduct a controlled purchase of $50.00 worth of Crack Cocaine from "Lil Sam", , at a predetermined location. "Lil Sam" was observed making an exchange with the CI of money for a small clear plastic baggie. The CI handed Detective a small plastic baggie containing an off white rock like substance that was field tested positive as cocaine. The CI was again searched with negative results. The Crack cocaine was sent to the state crime lab for an official drug analysis.
Other witnesses enlightened the jury on the unusual position of John Diamond’s gun on the morning of the murder. It was loaded, cocked, and in the waist band of the experienced police officer and marine. The defense called upon witnesses that concurred in Mr. Diamond teaching Trudi ways in which to disarm a person with a weapon when she felt threatened. This statement brings up another point for why the second round went through her wrist, she was trying to disarm her lover in fear of her
Severe laws against marijuana do not discourage use of marijuana, but rather breed this contempt not only for drug laws, but for laws in general. Therefore sever laws against marijuana are more dangerous to society than the activity which they are designed to prevent” (p.45). The first premiss would have to be “Encouragement of contempt for laws is more dangerous to society than occasional use of marijuana. “ This certain premiss is important because it makes one of the claims for the argument. Another premiss is “Severe laws against marijuana do not discourage use of marijuana, but rather breed this contempt not only for drug laws but for laws in general.” This ties in with the first premiss, but can stand alone as its’ own as well.
This population’s lack of empathy isn’t just based on “evil” in the flesh. This is based on scientific actions. These people are being forced not to have feelings or even think so they won’t have the ability to relate to someone, in other words feel empathy for one another. The people behind all this are evil. Just as the scientists do, these people fid ways to trap there people into lacking a lot of things a good person would have.
When a performance is rewarded, a subject will produce more of it and naturally when a performance is not rewarded, a subject will produce less of it. It is also known that the government rewards crime labs verifying unknown substances to be illegal narcotics, for finding a driver’s blood alcohol content to be over a certain number and determining a package of drugs is over a certain weight so a heavier charge can be imposed. Police often share their suspicions regarding suspects with lab workers before forensic examinations are performed. This introduces prejudice to lab personnel in areas such as fingerprint examination and chemical testing for accelerants in arson investigations. Some lab examiners feel they are part of the prosecution

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When we talk about pork scratchings, their history is clouded in mystery. They have said that they originate in the West Midlands or Black country. So we might never know the true story behind Britain's iconic pub snack.
According to foodie historians, butchers started selling pork scratchings in the 1930s, but because pork scratchings have such a clouded history, they were believed to be in the market over 100 years ago in the West Midlands.
You may not be aware but pork scratchings are a traditional pub snack that can be found all over the world. Many countries have similar products but with their own cultural twist.
Our neighbours in Europe, the Spanish, eat a range of products made from slices of pork rind, as part of their famous Tapas appetisers. Like here in the UK, they often eat them in bars and cafes.
You might have realised that they are always standing next to a bag of crisps in your favourite local pub. Why? Well, these two crunchy snacks are the most popular pub nibbles and are constantly competing against one another.
Why are pork scratchings the healthier option to your regular packet of crisps?
Pork scratchings are high in fat, however, two thirds of all the fat in pork scratchings is actually mono and polyunsaturated fats, which means it’s beneficial for heart health. Pork scratchings also have a high protein content, which keeps you fuller for a longer duration.
High in Collagen
Collagen is the most plentiful protein in the human body, which is found in the bones, muscles, skin, and tendons. It is beneficial for muscle repair, and a balanced diet requires it.
The best part is that pork scratchings are full of it. It’s simple, if you let your collagen levels drop… so will everything else that requires it. By keeping the levels high you can also improve your sleep quality, according to 10 Reasons to Eat More Collagen by Mark Sisson.
Tell me more about potato crisps
In comparison to your regular packet of potato crisps, eating them regularly can have a major impact on your health. They are filled with so many unhealthy ingredients, and simply do not provide enough vitamins and minerals required for the human body.
Another concern about potato crisps is that they’re fried in oil, which means they’re high in fat. The fat content gives you the energy your body needs, but they definitely have no nutritional value.
So yes, pork scratchings are definitely the healthier option. They’re great for your hair and skin, so maybe we should all start showering in them?!
Here at The Chuckling Cheese Company we have a wide variety of pork scratchings to choose from, made with the most tasty seasoning from classic original to BBQ. But if you’re looking for a spicy kick, then the Habanero flavour will serve you well.
Can I still eat pork scratchings on Keto?
Pork scratchings are perfect for the keto diet. This is because pork scratchingscontain very little carbohydrates, which means your blood levels won’t be spiking during your day. They are the ideal substitute for cereal, breadcrumbs, fried chicken and more.
However, consuming too much protein on a Keto diet could take you out of the program. We cannot tell you how often you should eat pork scratchings as we are not your personal nutritionist.
Pub snacks have been a long time favourite. Depending on what you are into, everyone has their own perfect partner when enjoying a lovely, ice cold pint. So yes, enjoy a ‘meat and drink’ next time you visit a pub.
Most pub visitors consume their drink with pork snacks. Pub snacks have been a long traditional favourite, but pork scratchings have a distinct combination of a hard crunch but a soft and savoury texture. Although, scotch eggs, pickled eggs, olives, and wasabi sticks are also preferred snacks.
Next time you visit your local pub ensure you grab a pint with a pack of pork scratchings. You will not be disappointed.
But are you an indoor kind of person, but love a drink along with a crunchy savoury snack? Or maybe you are stuck indoors this weekend?
Bring the pub to the comfort of your own home and enjoy a beer with a little extra! In our Virtual Pub Box you will receive; a Smoked Chuckling Cheese Wax Coated Cheddar, Pork Scratchings, Craft Beer and more snacks to go with them. The perfect gift for Father's Day.

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text: Poetry is my life! I even got in a state wide competition for poetry. *groans* I shuddered and i will get my results tomorrow. If you read my blog post Miracle you will have a sample of the book I composed for the competition. I just need support right now!!! I L-O-V-E poetry so please help me fill me with courage for my last poem reading tomorrow!


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The Agriculture of the Torrid Zone
Hail to thee, fertile zone,–
Where the enamored sun in daily round
Enfolds thee, where beneath thy kisses shows
All that each various climate grows,
Brought forth from out thy ground!–5.
In spring thou bindst her garlands of the ears
Of richest corn; thou giv’st the grape
Unto the sopping casé; no form nor shape
Of purple, red or yellow flower appears
Unknown to thy soft bowers;10.
The odors of thy thousand flowers
The wind’s delight afford;
Across thy pasture sward
The countless flocks go grazing from the plain
Whose only boundary the horizon sets, 15.
Unto the surging mountains, where
Lifting the snows into the inaccessible air
They hold their parapets.
Thou givest, too, the beauty of the cane
Where honey sweet is stored 20.
That leaves the beehive in disdain;
Thou in thy coral urns bring’st forth the bean
Which soon in chocolate in the cup is poured;
With blaze of scarlet are thy nopals seen
Such as the Tyrian sea-shell never knew; 25.
Thy plant of indigo such hues afford
As ne’er from out the sapphire’s heart looked through
Thine is the wine the piercéd agave stores
To glad Anahuac’s joyous sons; and thine
The fragrant leaf whose gentle steaming pours30.
With solace when their hearts aweary pine.
Thy jasmines clothe the Arab brush,
Whose perfumes rare the savage rage refine
And cool the Bacchic flush;
And for the children of thy land 35.
The stately palm-tree’s fronds are far displayed
And the ambrosial pineapple’s shade.
The yucca-tree holds forth its snowy breads;
And ruddy glow the broad potato beds;
The cotton bush to greet the lightest airs 40.
Its rose of gold and snowy fleece prepares.
Within thy hand the passiflower blooms
In branches of far-showing green
And thy sarmentum’s twining fronds afford 44.
Nectarean globes and stripéd flowers’ perfumes.
For thee the maize, the haughty lord
Of all thy ripened harvests, high is seen;
For thee the rich banana’s heavy tree
Displays its sweetest store –49.
The proud banana, richest treasury
That Providence in bounteousness could pour
With gracious hand on Ecuador!
It asks no human culture for its aid,
Ere its first fruits are displayed, 54.
Nor with the pruning-knife nor plough it shares
The honorable harvest that it bears.
Not even the slightest care it needs
Of pious hands about it shed,
And to its ripeness so it speeds 59.
That hardly is it harvested,
Ere a new crop is ripened in its stead.
Oh, youngest of the nations, lift your brow
Crowned with new laurels in the marveling West!63.
Give honor to the fields, the simple life endow,
And hold the plains and modest farmer blest!
So that among you evermore shall reign
Fair Liberty enshrined,
Ambition modified, and Law composed, 68.
Thy people’s paths immortal there to find
Not fickle nor in vain!–
So emulous Time shall see disclosed
New generations and new names of might,
Blazing in highest light Beside your heroes old! 73.
“These are my sons! Behold!”–
(You shall declare amain)–
Sons of the fathers who did climb
The Andes’ peaks in years agone,–
Of those who great Boyaca’s sands upon,–78.
In Maipu and in Junin sublime,–
On Apurima’s glorious plain,
Did triumph o’er the lion of old Spain

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Certain online casinos are so simple to access that it may seem like they are controlled by an electronic program. These casinos offer no bonus on deposits and demand that players download an electronic form to sign up and login. After they’ve registered the casino will show them a list of all the games that they provide. Each game is listed beneath the bonus code. If you win, just need to click on the “redeem” tab to apply your winnings to your account.
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Welcome to the first edition of Family Fun Fridays! I’m so glad you could stop by!
It began as a box. It was just sitting around, waiting for the Recycling Fairy to take it to the garage.
It could have turned into a train, a storage container, or a decorated carriage for a princess.
Maybe, though, this adventure began as a mother’s desperate attempt to do something crafty with her summer-weary children.
The oldest child, age seven, is quite a craft-loving girl, and the middle child, age four, is quite the enthusiastic cheerleader for any venture involving scissors and drama.
What you’ll need:
- Large box
- A towel, sheet, blanket, or piece of fabric
- Duct tape and possibly packing tape
What you do:
- Fold the flaps of the box inward.
- Cut a large square into the back of the box.
- Reinforce the inner sides of the box with packing tape, duct tape, or both.
- Place the towel/sheet/blanket/fabric over the hole you cut, securing it at the top with duct tape (or, if you’re clever, some other attaching device that will work better).
- Sit back and enjoy the show, camera in hand!
Some notes from my experience:
I would not have made the square larger, except that my seven-year-old insisted that it be the size of the entire box. Let’s just say I used A LOT of duct tape and packing tape to reinforce the edges.
I really underestimated how long this would entertain all of my kids.Observe:
The box is still around and intact, two weeks later. I plan to whip it out next week when we’re pulling our hair (again) out in the midst of this August Armpit of Summer!
I couldn’t help but think of other ways to use this handy dandy puppet show theater box:
- Reenact Bible stories, especially the dramatic ones (I’m thinking princesses, of course, though we are always fans of things that involve projectiles and silly responses)
- Use puppets/characters to show and explain to my seven-year-old how her first confession will probably go (because she’s been asking about her First Communion a lot this summer, and just the other day, we were talking about how souls go to heaven and all sorts of deep way-over-my-head theological concepts)
- Host a musical, a la Sound of Music (those dangly puppet things are too cool, though we will have to settle for something far less fancy, as my craft skills are rudimentary at best)
- Pretty much anything from Chapter 2 of Catholic Family Fun (yes, that’s a plug for my book, and yes, I find myself needing to use it A LOT this summer)
Can’t wait to see what family fun YOU are up to! Include a link back here, if you would, and enjoy the journey through the other submissions.
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This post is also linked to 7 Quick Takes at Conversion Diary.

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Boro can look towards the megabucks rolling in after winning promotion to the Premier League - but first they must shell out £3m to top flight rivals West Ham and Leicester.
And Championship strugglers Blackburn Rovers will be in line for a £2m windfall too.
With the new Premier League TV deal kicking in this summer, promotion is worth a minimum of £170m to Boro .
And number-crunchers Deloitte have calculated that staying up next term would bank Boro £290m .
Promotion catapulted the club straight into the top 30 richest clubs in the world.
But elevation to the elite comes at cost with a healthy promotion bonus to be shared by the squad and staff.
Some deals concluded with signings over the past two years also include a built in Premier League pay-rise which will kick in when the new football year starts in July.
And promotion will also trigger additional transfer payments on three deals.
Boro must now pay West Ham an extra £1.5m as part of the deal that brought former England winger Stewart Downing, 31, to the club.
The Teessider rejoined his home town club after Boro brokered a complicated deal with the Hammers last July.
It involved Boro paying West Ham a guaranteed £5.5m in instalments over three years.
But it also included the big bonus to the Hammers if Boro went up this season.
And newly crowned champions Leicester City are also due a dividend on the Nugent deal.
The striker signed a three year deal last August that cost Boro an initial £2m but also included an extra promotion payment of £1.5m as well.
Rhodes signed for an initial £9m in January but the deal also included a lucrative bonus now payable to Blackburn with a £2m promotion clause agreed.
But those extra hits will be seen as a price worth paying for success this season.

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Kareem Chehayeb is a Lebanese writer and musician based in Beirut.
Follow him on Twitter: @chehayebk
Opinions expressed in this article remain those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The New Arab, its editorial board or staff.
New Lebanese law against torture draws ambivalent reaction
Lebanon's new torture law went into effect last Thursday, after Parliament originally voted for the draft law back in September.
In collaboration with human rights groups in Lebanon, the new law was drafted and presented to Parliament by MP Ghassan Mukheiber back in 2012.
"This [new law] is a big step forward, in my opinion," Mukheiber told The New Arab.
"Lebanon has set up the right foundation to criminalize the practice of torture."
The MP added that the drafting process was done in consultation with local human rights groups.
However, those same activist groups have told The New Arab that, while the law is a step forward, it still has its shortcomings.
"What is certain is that the law is better than what we [previously] had," Georges Ghali, Programs Manager for local human rights organization ALEF, explained to The New Arab.
"[The law has a] potential positive impact if properly implemented."
Ghali, who is among the human rights activists consulted with the draft law back in 2012, said it is far too early to indicate how the new law will play out.
Other activists who were consulted outright condemned the law, such as Suzanne Jabbour, executive director at the Restart Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture.
She simply told Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star, "I'm not happy at all." She added that the new law was merely an amendment of the old one.
Claims of vague and limited language (and other shortcomings)
Human rights lawyer at the Geneva-headquartered Alkarama Foundation, Inès Osman, believes that the definition of torture in the law is "too restrictive."
"[The definition] only includes acts committed during the investigation or after," Osman told The New Arab.
"Technically, it excludes cases in which individuals were tortured during the arrest or held in administrative detention."
"Another shortfall of the law is its weak criminalization," Ghali added.
"Torture acts satisfying the definition will largely be considered as [a] misdemeanor."
Under the new law, if the victim does not die under torture or suffer a permanent injury, the torturer only receives one to three years in jail.
Ghali told The New Arab that what is considered a permanent injury or injury with a permanent marking is vague.
"People could be waterboarded, a [torture] technique that would leave no markings," he said. "Are we encouraging perpetrators to choose torture techniques that allows impunity, or better sentencing?
In response to these claims, MP Mukheiber told The New Arab that they must have "misread the [new] law," adding that the law is fully in compliance with Lebanon's obligations under international law.
Lebanon ratified the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture in 2008 and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment back in 2000.
The previous law did not fulfill its international obligations, but the United Nations' verdict is yet to be seen.
Syrian refugees and Lebanon's "war on terror"
Lebanon's heightened security situation alongside the Syrian conflict next door has added a new angle on the subject of torture and ill treatment.
On June 30, 2017, a routine military raid on two refugee camps in northeast Arsal by the Syrian border ounded both Syrian refugees and Lebanese soldiers, and the death of a Syrian child. Narratives on the causes of the injuries and deaths clash; the Lebanese Army reported that militants hiding in the camps detonated themselves.
However, the controversy didn't stop there. After the Lebanese Army arrested around 350 refugees, it was later announced that four died under their custody.
Claiming it was due to natural causes, the four refugees' families, represented by Lebanese lawyer Diala Chehade alleged it was in fact death under torture.
The army said that they died prior to the interrogation due to pre-existing health conditions exacerbated by the summer heat.
While Chehade was stopped by the army from testing the medical samples she retrieved from the bodies, human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say the photos of the bodies show signs of torture.
A military investigation later concluded that the four refugees did not die of torture or ill treatment.
Chehade told The New Arab that torture is definitely one of Lebanon's most pressing human rights issues, and that Syrians who oppose Assad are among the most vulnerable.
"Suspects who are tortured often admit to crimes [they are accused of] and that would be the only evidence used in court," she added.
The Lebanese lawyer explained that she is concerned with how the new law will play out when it comes to Syrian refugees and other marginalized communities, Lebanese or otherwise.
"Those [Syrians] who were tortured told me that they were threatened with being returned to Syria [authorities]," Chehade added, expressing her concern that this could be a way to sidestep Lebanon's legal obligations against forced returns – or refoulement.
Osman echoed similar sentiments to Chehade.
"[Lebanese] security services remain powerful," she said.
"The authorities might not want to put too much pressure on them in the context of the Syrian [refugee] crisis [or] fight against terrorism."
Towards erasing a dark stain from Lebanon's history
MP Moukheiber remains optimistic, considering that the new law includes the formation of a human rights committee.
"The committee will be a national body to guarantee [the law is implemented]," he told The New Arab.
While Chehade welcomed the formation of the body, she believes that lawyers should have primary access to clients.
"The [state human rights] committee doesn't have a relationship with the suspect like a lawyer would," she explained.
"A lawyer would have a direct interest in protecting their client, whether they're Lebanese, Syrian, or of another nationality."
Parliament announced the formation of the state human rights committee back when the draft law was voted in Parliament in September 2016. However, there has been no news about who is part of the committee.
"There have been delays in Cabinet in naming the committee based on nominations," Moukheiber told The New Arab.
"I'm hopeful that we will see it through in the coming months."
Lebanon's human rights activists say that the next phase to end torture will be tough, but more crucial than ever.
"Certainly now we are in front of a tough uphill to make further changes and it might take years to create that opportunity," Ghali said.
"But we will keep advocating for a larger legislative framework that would further criminalize torture and further prevent torture."
Kareem Chehayeb is a Lebanese writer and musician based in Beirut.


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London, August 12 (ANI): A new biography on Oscar-winning actor Sir Laurence Olivier has revealed that he hated Marilyn Monroe and didn't bother being taught acting by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
According to the extracts seen by The Sunday Times, Oliver thought of Joan Fontaine, his co-star in Rebecca, as 'loathsome' and Merle Oberon as a 'silly little amateur', the Independent reported.
Historian Philip Ziegler listened to taped interviews with Olivier before penning the book which has him talking condescendingly about some of old Hollywood's brightest stars.
The biography reveals the 'Hamlet' actor's deep hatred of Monroe, who he thought of as a 'flaky and undisciplined presence' during the filming of 'The Prince' and the Showgirl and remarking on other Hollywood stars. (ANI)


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Recently, the vulnerabilities Meltdown and Specter have been identified. These are bugs in the architecture of most modern processors, with which you can intercept data from programs that have elevated permissions. Threats are personal computers, mobile devices and even cloud systems.
Intel, which had the main impact, released emergency patches that close security holes, after which many users began to complain about the loss of computer performance to 30%, and in some cases about frequent reboots.
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system and the founder of the Linux Foundation, expressed his opinion on the patches of Intel. As always, the well-known developer spoke quite frankly. In an open correspondence with Amazon engineer, David Woodhouse, he called the updates "complete garbage" and asked if anyone told Intel developers "that they are insane."
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On Aug. 6, the Washington, D.C.-based National Quality Forum released a white paper, “Data Needed for Systematically Improving Healthcare,” intended to highlight strategies to help make healthcare data and analytics “more meaningful, usable, and available in real time for providers and consumers.”
According to a press release issued on that date, “The report identifies several opportunities to improve data and make it more useful for systematic improvement. Specific stakeholder action could include the government making Medicare data more broadly available in a timely manner, states building an analytic platform for Medicaid, and private payers facilitating open data and public reporting. In addition, electronic health record (EHR) vendors and health information technology policymakers could promote “true” interoperability between different EHR systems and could improve the healthcare delivery system’s ability to retrieve and act on data by preventing recurring high fees for data access.”
The press release noted further that “The report identifies actions that all stakeholders could take to make data more available and usable, including focusing on common metrics, ensuring that the healthcare workforce has the necessary tools to apply health data for improvement, and establishing standards for common data elements that can be collected, exchanged, and reported.”
The report emerged out of an initiative supported by the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and spurred by a 2014 report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology that called for systems engineering approaches to improve healthcare quality and value.
The press release included a statement by Christine K. Cassel, M.D., president and CEO of NQF. “Data to measure progress is fundamental to improving care provided to patients and their outcomes, but the healthcare industry has yet to fully capture the value of big data to engineer large-scale change,” Dr. Cassel said in the statement. “This report outlines critical strategies to help make data more accessible and useful, for meaningful system wide improvement.”
Following the publication of the report, Rob Saunders, a senior director at the National Quality Forum, and one of the co-authors of the report, spoke with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland about the report and its implications for healthcare IT leaders. Below are excerpts from that interview.
What do you see as the most essential barriers to moving forward to capture and correctly use “big data” for clinical transformation and operational improvement in healthcare?
There are sort of two buckets we looked at through this project. We looked at the availability of data, and we’re seeing more availability of electronic data. Interoperability remains a major challenge. But it wasn’t just about interoperability between electronic health records, but also being able to link in data from elsewhere.
Does that mean data from pharmacies, from medical devices, from wearables?
Some of these may be kinds of data from community health centers, or folks offering home-based and community-based services. So, getting a broader picture of people’s health, as they’re living their lives in their communities. And there are exciting things on the horizon, too, like wearable devices. But the first barrier we heard about was just getting more availability of data. Perhaps the harder problem right now is actually using more data, and turning that raw data into meaningful information that people can use. There’s so much raw data out there, but it so often is not actionable or immediately usable to clinicians.
So what is the solution?
That is an excellent question. Unfortunately, there’s no silver bullet. We’ve looked at a wide range of possible solutions, but it will take action from healthcare organizations trying to improve their internal capacity, for example, creating more training for clinicians to use data in their practices, or even state governments taking action. I think it will require a lot of action from all the stakeholders around healthcare to make progress.
The white paper mentioned barriers involving information systems interoperability, data deidentification and aggregation, feedback cycles, data governance, and data usability issues. Let’s discuss those.
I think one of the challenges with all of those is that there are some big strategic issues around all of those, and some large national conversations around all of those, esp. interoperability, but there are also just a lot of large technical details to iron out. And unfortunately, that’s not something we can just solve tomorrow. But there’s opportunity with these new delivery system models, and that will hopefully be helpful.
How might all this play out with regard to ACOs, population health, bundled payments, and other new delivery and payment models?
What we’ve heard is that those new models are becoming increasingly more common, and because of those, clinicians and hospitals have far more incentive to look far more holistically at the entire person, and think about improvement, and to really start digging into some of this data.
Marrying EHR [electronic health record] and claims data for accountable care and population health is a very major topic for our magazine and its readers right now. Let’s talk about those issues.
We didn’t necessarily go into great depth on that particular challenge. But clearly, that’s one of the big issues in trying to link all these different data sources together, and it also speaks to the challenge in getting this data together.
Is there anything that healthcare IT vendors need to do better?
Are you also concerned about data blocking?
Yes, that’s how ONC and HHS have characterized it. But yes, we’re really talking about data access. Clearly, that’s a barrier. And then there are still some technical pieces here around how to create APIs that can really start to allow more innovative ways to analyze the data that’s already in a lot of these EHR and health IT systems, and that will allow some customization and capabilities.
What’s your vision of change for the use of data in healthcare?
There are a number of folks doing really exciting work using data for systemic improvement. So we showcased Virginia Mason as a model. And some of their work involves manual collection of data. And that can produce really remarkable results; and as you become more sophisticated, you’re able to incorporate that data collection into the EHR [electronic health record] and other systems. That speaks to what we said earlier, that availability of data is a good thing, but it’s the use of data that seems to be more of an issue. Premier Inc. has done some really good things, collecting data through some of their groups, to share; and oftentimes, that was data people didn’t even have before. You can also activate clinicians’ professional motivation—many physicians, nurses, really want to make care better for their patients. And data really can make a difference in that.
And the last point is the fact of the important role that brings this down to patients and consumers, involving the broader public in this. What we’ve talked about so far has been very technical. But patients have a lot of data about themselves, and they’re also able to help out with a lot of this.
So you’re talking about patient and consumer engagement in this?
Yes, I am, but it’s not just that. I’m also talking about patients as an untapped data resource, and an untapped resource in general of folks who are highly motivated and who want to make care better, if they have the tools available and are able to do so.
The “blessed cycle” of data collection, data analysis, data reporting, the sharing of data with end-users and clinician leaders for clinical and operational performance improvement, and the re-cycling into further data collection, reporting, etc., is very important. Any thoughts on that concept?
We didn’t necessarily talk about that concept per se, but we did talk about the general idea of this all being a process. And improvement needs to start somewhere, and oftentimes, you need to start small. And your data will be rough and dirty when you start; and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The real pioneers in this area started out with rough, dirty data, and learned by using that data, and were able to increase their sophistication over time. So that’s part of the issue—bringing data together, oftentimes, you don’t know what data you need, until you start to use it.
So what should CIOs, CMIOs and their colleagues be doing right now, to help lead their colleagues forward in all these activities?
We really want to encourage more organizations to start doing this type of system improvement work. There’s more that can be done, so we want to encourage that. And the second message that permeated the entire project was not only making sure that more data should be made available, but also building up use, and to encourage more folks to get into systematic improvement.


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AceShowbiz - Another music video from Lil Baby has arrived. Released on Friday, October 28, "From Now On" visuals finds the Quality Control Music artist linking up with his collaborator, Future, in New York City.
In the clip, Baby and Future can be seen sporting colorful outfits, including matching white ensembles that they pair with flashy jewels. The 27-year-old rapper and the "Bum Bum Tam Tam" spitter are joined by a group of friends in the music video.
"Switchin' up my image, no more pictures with my styrofoam/ Why the f**k I keep buyin' these houses if I'm never home," the Atlanta emcee asks in the opening lines of the track. Future later chimes in, "Codeine drinkin', but I swear the money getting me higher/ Just told the judge I’m on pills, my mansion got marble/ Charge a M for a show, still send bail to you tomorrow."
"From Now On" is Baby's latest song off his new album "It's Only Me" to receive a music video treatment. The rap star, whose real name is Dominique Armani Jones, has already dropped visuals for "California Breeze" and "Heyy".
Aside from the songs mentioned above, "It's Only Me", which ruled the Billboard 200 albums chart in the week ending October 20, consists of other 20 tracks. They include, "Real Spill", "Stand on It", "Perfect Timing", "Not Finished", "Never Hating" and "Detox".
Serving as a follow-up to 2020's "My Turn", the new record also features appearances from the likes of Nardo Wick ("Pop Out"), Young Thug ("Never Hating"), Fridayy ("Forever"), Rylo Rodriguez ("Cost to be Alive") and Jeremih ("Stop Playin"). EST Gee and Pooh Shiesty also appear on the album on "Back and Forth" and "Shiest Talk" respectively.


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The 15th Cornbury Festival takes place at the Great Tew Park, over this weekend, July 13-15.
Among the weekend line-up are Alanis Morissette, Mavis Staples, Amy MacDonald, Pixie Lott, PP Arnold, UB40, Squeeze, Caro Emerald, Deacon Blue, Jimmy Cliff, Marc Cohn, Andy Fairweather Low, Danny & the Champions of the World and Mari Wilson and The New Wilsations.
Mari Wilson stormed the UK charts in the early eighties. With her striking beehive hair style and fully choreographed twelve‐piece band The Wilsations, she appeared on television shows and scored radio airplay hits with her singles Cry Me A River and Just What I Always Wanted as well as performed sell-out concerts around the world.
In 2016, Mari released her latest album Pop Deluxe which featured up to date reimagining’s of songs by artists such as Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and Jacky.
Andy Howells spoke to Mari earlier this week about her career and appearing at Cornbury Festival.
Do you enjoy performing at music festivals such as Cornbury?
I love it. Whether you’re on in the afternoon or the evening, it’s just that thing about been outside. If you’re on during the day, the sun is shining and that’s one type of atmosphere and at night with the twinkling stars, that’s another kind of atmosphere. With the weather currently been as it is, it’s fantastic.
Did you come from a musical family at all?
Well my brother is a musician. He’s written songs for Cliff Richard and is 6 years older than me, so I kind of looked up to him and we used to harmonise together at home. There was a always a lot of singing, my Mum had a beautiful voice and my Dad could sing. We could all harmonise, we were like the Von Trapp’s! No, we weren’t really! (Laughs)
We didn’t have television 24-7, people entertained themselves more in those days!
What led you to becoming a singer?
Oh, two things! Firstly, Judy Garland, when I saw her on TV in the old films and then I saw her on Sunday Night at The London Palladium, I thought to put across a song and make you cry or laugh – how amazing to make people feel like that?
Then, I saw Shirley Bassey’s dresses, I thought, “I want to be a singer like Judy Garland but I want to dress like Shirley Bassey” so that’s how it kind of happened! Then I heard The Beatles and got into Motown, Stax, the Bee Gees and Barry White,
I used to go to grammar school and my headmistress, Miss Henderson, used to say “Your trouble is Mari, all you think about is pop music! You’re too excited!” I used to say “Yes, well, I don’t need to know about Henry VIII because I’m going to be on Top of The Pops “– I must have been horrible! (Laughs)
It turned out I was on Top of the Pops but it could very well have not happened. Fortunately, I didn’t need to be an expert on Henry VIII it worked out fine!
How did you get into recording?
Well I’d been doing backing vocals for people and working in studios. It’s funny, when you want to do something you mix with other people that do similar things. I was drawn towards been with musicians and just singing with anyone, not to get paid, I had a proper job in an office or something was just trying to break through. I met Tot Taylor (who wrote Just What I Always Wanted) in this South London studio and I recorded a few other songs.
Now, there are millions of people making records. Back then, there weren’t that many people doing it. When you told people, you were a singer they’d go “how exciting!”, because there weren’t that many of us!
Chart success came in 1982 with Just What I Always Wanted. Do you recall the events surrounding that?
I was at a gig with Tot and there was this buzz going around about me. The gigs were getting more and more full. On the way there we were in the back of a mini cab and he said, “Do you know what?, I think this could get really big and take off!”
When I was on Top of the Pops for the first time, I thought, “Yeah, this is what I had planned, this is what I told Miss Henderson, here I am” It was lovely! Top of the Pops was like a religion, it was like “I’ve made it now!” Actually, really making it is keeping going. It’s great because you get your foot on the ladder but you’ve got to try and stay there and that’s the challenge!
You brought the Beehive hairstyle back into fashion for a bit too?
It was interesting because I wasn’t doing old music but my look was retro. I’d always loved Lana Turner and The Ronettes. I had an older sister who used to have a Beehive. In the 60s, we used to share a bedroom and I’d watch her backcombing her hair and I’d go, “I’m going to look like that!” I thought it was a great look, it certainly got me noticed!
There was quite a trend for the retro style in the early 60s wasn’t there? The Maisonettes and King Creole spring to mind.
There was King Creole and the Coconuts with the Zoot suits and that kind of thing. It was all about glamour in the early 80s. We’d had the punk thing which was anti-glamour, then we all came along, The Human League, Culture Club and The Eurythmics and we were dressing up and it was great. That was what was great about been a pop star, you could look ridiculous, which was fine because you weren’t working in a bank.
It was making music fun again too.
Yes, it should be fun, when I look back the first time I got on stage and did a gig I thought its really good fun, that’s why I’m doing it.
Mari Wilson plays Cornbury Festival on Sunday July 15. For more details about Cornbury Festival visit cornburyfestival.com
Read Part 2 of our interview with Mari Wilson tomorrow.


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I come from the dark side.
Between 1994 and 1999, I studied at two business schools. Then I worked in advertising and marketing from 1999 until 2016 — for 17 years. First I was an employee in a couple of advertising agencies. Then I got a doctorate in Marketing and helped build our own specialised agency, with a group of friends and colleagues. The one over-riding goal of everything was always:
Advertisers may cite many reasons why they work with advertising and marketing agencies, but at the end of the day, they all want the same thing: to grow their market share, their profits, their sales.
And make no mistake: All advertising agencies ever want for themselves is growth, too. More clients. Bigger staff. More campaigns. More money.
Nobody who works in advertising ever questions any of this. There is no time. There is always the next deadline. The next flight to the meeting. The next crazy client request. The next ego emergency. Besides, why question the hand that feeds you? Growth pays for advertising. Then advertising begets more growth. Its a virtuously vicious circle.
I myself had no idea that something might be wrong. And when the news were reporting another year of GDP growth, it was the kind of good news I was happy to hear — I’d grown up in cold war “Economic Miracle” Germany, after all.
And yet, about a dozen years into my career it dawned on me that I could not, would not, should not spend the rest of my days trying to sell more of this shampoo or that floor cleaner. That that was simply not a worthwhile pursuit for a life well lived.
But I couldn’t leave right away, I had to stick it out for another four years, we had to keep growing our business so we could sell our company. I was fairly lucky with my contract and my role in the company — once the deal was done, I could quietly slip out the back door. The new owners hardly even realised that I was no longer there.
It was March 2016. I was in Munich.
I got an electric car — I thought that would be my contribution to protecting the climate. I went to Barcelona for a month, to spend time with friends. Then I moved back to Berlin. Brexit happened. It made me sad. I was living in a small apartment on Urbanstraße in Kreuzberg that I had rented from a friend. I was experimenting with a bit of freedom and with my underused creativity. In other news, the German right-wing party “AfD” was on the rise. I didn’t know what to do about it. Should I be more political? My father had been in politics.
I didn’t have a family of my own (I still don’t), I was alone. I made a hand-drawn animated short film. I reconnected with old friends. I thought about new professions I could take on. I felt a bit lonely. Autumn was coming. But overall, I was trusting that things would somehow be fine.
Then, Donald Trump got elected.
Many were shocked by the news, but ultimately this political earthquake did not leave much of an impact in the daily lives of many people in most European countries. Modern capitalism keeps us simply too busy to care: A presentation is due for the boss. There is the problems with the co-worker at the office. The neighbour just bought a new large SUV. Should we get one, too? One of the children is ill. Let’s just pray that the insurance will cover it. Also, the older one needs a new phone. The car has to go to the garage. A big SUV might feel safer, right? Oh my god, did we remember to book the flights for the holidays? Plus, can we even afford to put Ma in that retirement home? Oh man, health insurance rates went up again.
And so on. And then, at the dinner table, you might find a short moment, you’re looking at one another, saying: “Oh man, Trump is the American President now, that’s something else, isn’t it?” You shake your heads in disbelief, and then it’s back to the daily race.
Well, me … I had none of that.
I was by myself, no one needed me.
I was running nowhere.
No one waited for me.
I had no place to go, no job to do.
Instead, I was looking at the wall in that small apartment — and Trump was always there.
Soon I realised: This wasn’t about a complete catastrophe of a US President. It was about a very different question: What is going on in this world that the United States of America elect someone as horrific as him as “the leader of the free world”.
Where and when had things gone so badly wrong? What had I missed?
2017 became my fact-finding year. I read books and newspapers. I spoke with people. I launched a blog and wrote regularly about my experiences and questions. Soon, the climate crisis rose to the top of my agenda: jointly with my friend Kai Schächtele, I developed a show format called vollehalle — it talks about the climate emergency and the role of us all in it, in a constructive and inspiring manner. We also interviewed Tim Jackson for it. A giant among those who are imagining a better economy. Meeting Tim was my first brush with a new way of thinking about the system I had taken for granted.
And another thing happened to me in 2017: inspired by a small article in the German newspaper “taz”, I discovered the “Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik” — the German arm of the “Rethinking Economics” student movement. Thanks in part to our meeting with Tim Jackson, and also to David Graeber’s book “Debt” and Wolfgang Streeck’s “Gekaufte Zeit” (English title: “Buying Time“), it was dawning on me that the way we are running and thinking about our economies is probably a big part of the problem. But so far, I hadn’t met anybody who had useful answers. So, I applied to attend the Netzwerk’s first Summer Academy, which took place at the beginning of August 2017 in the small village Neudietendorf outside Erfurt. And I got accepted.
That week in August of 2017 changed my life.
Never before had I seen 90 people — most of them millennial students — so heavily engaged in deep, thoughtful, intellectually curious and generous debate about the major issues of our time. They weren’t shouting their written-in-stone political beliefs or adherence to some political party at one another. Instead, these (mostly) twenty-somethings were soft-spoken and genuinely curious about each other’s thoughts, about how to advance their own thinking, in order to get to new solutions. And they were going at it non-stop, from 8 am at the breakfast table until 2 am at night, as they were having their nightcap beers in the courtyard.
It dawned on me: If there is hope for our world, it’s with critical economics thinkers like these students — with their radically open eyes and their real questions and their genuine curiosity.
And there was something else that I realised: Nobody knows this. Nobody outside these circles knows that the ideas that will solve many of our most dire problems may already exist. And they lie in truly rethinking our economy. In other words, nobody outside these circles seemed to realise that economics was the most important and most exciting subject of our time, if tackled in the right way. I understood that we needed to vehemently start telling these stories and bring this thinking to a wider world. The stories that I was hearing here, the thinking that was going on here, it needed to be shouted off rooftops!
And that was just the informal part of the week.
The biggest part of the official agenda were the workshops. The one I had signed up for was called “Prosperity Economics”, led by Katherine Trebeck and Himanshu Shekhar. At the time, Katherine was a researcher at Oxfam in Scotland. She explained to us how GDP was at best an imperfect measure of progress and how an alternative take on “prosperity” would look at the real issues. She also talked about the challenges of measuring prosperity holistically, in a way that deals with how people’s lives — and the lives of all other living beings on this earth, too! — are really going.
And then she told us about a plan she had, jointly with an Italian professor named Lorenzo Fioramonti who was teaching Political Economics in South Africa. They wanted to build a “counter-G7”: A new summit that would bring countries together who tell the world: “Enough is enough, let’s show the world how to think differently about the economy — in a way that can actually save mankind and this planet.”
They wanted to call it the “WE7”: the Wellbeing Economies 7.
What a story!
Six months later, I got a call from Gustav Theile. He’d been one of the Summer Academy organisers, now he was Katherine’s intern in Glasgow. He told me two things: One, the summit was happening! With Scotland, Costa Rica and Slovenia as the first members, getting together in Slovenia — there, they would jointly sign the Ljubiljana Declaration. And two, Lorenzo had left the project: He was returning to his native Italy, in order to run for office in the Italian election — he wanted to bring his post-GDP thinking into a new Italian Government.
I could not contain my excitement. So I turned to my friend Nick Scholey — a media creation one-man powerhouse, musician, camera operator, editor, all around creative force — and said, “Man, we gotta start making a documentary about this. Let’s go to Scotland and to Rome, let’s start filming these people. What they are doing is too important for the world to miss.”
Neither of us had ever made a documentary. But that didn’t matter. We were now on a mission. And we got support from my friend Kim Münster, a film producer.
Today, one and a half years later, we have hours and hours of footage. Of Lorenzo’s political battles in that strange Five-Star-Lega government, which eventually fell apart — he’s now actually become the Minister for Education, in the brand new Italian Government. And of Katherine travelling around the world, helping save the Wellbeing Economies government project, after the summit in Ljubiljana got cancelled at the last minute. But Katherine and the amazing folks inside the Scottish Government kept at it. And so, a few weeks ago, Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, gave a TED Talk about how Scotland, Iceland and New Zealand had joined forces as the Wellbeing Economy Governments!
I am a very different person from the one I was in early 2016. I really hope that I will look back one day and say:
I made my way from the dark side to the light. And it wasn’t too late.
Martin Oetting is a filmmaker and managing director of Omnipolis Media GmbH. In early 2016, after 17 years in the industry, he left the world of advertising and turned his attention to political issues. Together with journalist Kai Schächtele, he set up the collective “vollehalle”, which develops and stages a ‘climate show’ that tours Germany and encourages audiences to tackle the climate crisis in a constructive manner. The transformation in his own life is part of the inspiration for his other project, a documentary about a new vision for our planet — Wellbeing Economies.
Originally published on the Degrowth.info blog and reposted on the Wellbeing Economies Film website.
Find out more about the Post Growth Institute on their website.
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In the past 10 years we have lost several animal species – in this day and age we consider ourselves better than our predecessors, yet we are still the main cause of animals going extinct… we’re no better than those before us – in some ways we’re worse, as we are not doing what we do to survive; we are doing it for “fun” or “progress”. In what civilised or ‘advanced’ society is there place for this abominable behaviour? Yes, this post is looking to be an informative rant-type…
In the past century many animal species have been wiped from the planet, below is a selection (from the past decade) of those lost forever:
(1) 2015 – Eastern Cougar
(2) 2014 – Malagasy Hippopotamus
(3) 2013 – Formosan Clouded Leopard
(4) 2012 – Pinta Tortoise
(5) 2012 – Zanzibar Leopard
(6) 2012 – Japanese River Otter
(7) 2011 – Western Black Rhinoceros
(8) 2010 – Alatora Grebe
(9) 2010 – Derwent River Sea Star
(10) 2009 – Christmas Island Pipistrelle Bat
(11) 2008 – Spotted Green Pigeon (Liverpool Pigeon)
(12) 2008 – Caribbean Monk Seal
Many species that are extinct today is due to humans – we hunt to extinction, we destroy habitats, we remove animals from the wild for fashion or entertainment – we first make them extinct in the wild and then we deplete the captive animals until they’re gone… and many other reasons.
The ICUN Red List contains information of the endangerment of species.
We used to hunt sustainably for food, and in many countries/cultures this is still the case, but most of the hunting (at least in first world cultures) is for “fun” or “sport” and is unjustifiably cruel and unnecessary. The man that hunts to feed his family and/or community is not the reason Elephants and Rhino’s are depleting in number and becoming extinct; the cruelty of riding out with a pack of dogs to have them tear apart an innocent fox is not for any justifiable reason; the mind-set of people needs to change to make a difference… the bans we have in place need to be enforced to make a difference… we all want a better world but that won’t happen if we cannot really change.
We have bans (in certain countries) on things like fox hunting, whale hunting (whaling), shark finning, dog and cock fighting, removing animals from the wild (with conservation excepted), and many more abhorrent things – yet these bans are not universal, and often not enforced. If there are no consequences for these actions, or these consequences are not adhered to and/ or enforced, then what power do these bans have? Where then is the protection for these creatures?
Animals are a lot more important to their ecosystems than people give them credit for – the removal or addition of one species has an affect on everything around it. Take the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park for example – video link here (this is in no way my video) – thanks to wolves being back in the ecosystem, the rivers went back to how they used to be, plants that had been destroyed by the overpopulation of deer returned, because the wolves kept down the deer population – things went back to the way they were; back to how they should be. Why did the ecosystem breakdown in the first place; why did the wolves become extinct in Yellowstone? Because of us. Because of humans. Because we killed them off…Grey Wolf
The way we are going, the same thing will happen again and again, with more species. We, as a species, need to change before we are the only species left on a dying planet – small steps to ensure that other species don’t become myth and fairy-tales, instead of living, breathing creatures that share this planet.

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Veteran Hindi film actress Shashikala, who was known for her renowned work in films and television, passed away today on April 4 at her residence. She was 88. The news was shared by writer Kiran Kotrial.
This is what the post read on his Facebook page:
She was associated with films ever since the early 40s and starred in titles like Jugnu, Bombay, Arzoo, Sangam, Nau Do Gyarah, and Gumrah. She was also seen with Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, and Priyanka Chopra in the 2004 comedy Mujhse Shaadi Karogi.
Born on 4 August 1932 in Solapur, Maharashtra, Shashikala was a renowned television and Bollywood actor. She had played supporting roles in more than a hundred Bollywood films.
Shashikala had received eight nominations for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award and won the award twice for 1962 film ‘Aarti’ and 1963 ‘Gumrah’. She is the recipient of several awards for Best Supporting Actress (Hindi) at the Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards – for ‘Aarti’ in 1963, for ‘Gumrah’ in 1964, and for ‘Rahgir’ in 1970.
Apart from this Shashikala also received the Padma Shri award, India’s fourth-highest civilian award in the year 2007 for her contribution to Indian cinema.
With inputs from ANI

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Microsoft has acquired RPA technology provider Softomotive and has added the London-based company’s flagship product, WinAutomation, to the Microsoft Power Automate platform. Rumors had been swirling for weeks that the Redmond, Wash.-based company had its eye on Softomotive, which moved its headquarters to the U.K. from its native Greece in 2015. According to Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s citizen application platform, WinAutomation will offer Power Automate users a low-code automation option that is simple for anyone to build from a desktop.
“Now, anyone can build RPA bots with our existing browser-based authoring app or through a new desktop app with WinAutomation,” Lamanna said. The addition of Softomotive to Microsoft’s RPA platform gives the software giant “a robust set of RPA capabilities in one platform.”
The acquisition firmly entrenches Microsoft as an important player in the emerging RPA space only months after its initial entry, just as it was at the forefront of the Internet wave three decades ago. In an interview with RPA Today, Softomotive CEO Marios Stavropoulos spoke about RPA as a revolutionary technology, potentially as impactful as the internet.
“I believe this is a truly transformative approach. I have seen how an engaged mindset really changes how an individual thinks about work. It’s powerful. In this approach you provide users with the tools and technology that enable them to take control over their own workload. “
WinAutomation is now available to Power Automate users as a standard part of the platform. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.


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A local host for community parties and events held a “stripathon” fundraiser event to raise money to improve the location. I took pictures during the event (which remain private for the participants), but also took a few “staged” shots of a few of the participants … all “pre strip.”
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