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It's the end of the day at the end of a week that Tulisa Contostavlos hopes she never has to go through again. She sits down, and exhales like a slow puncture. "I've had to stay silent for a year," she says. "I've had to sit back and look like the bad guy, while my whole life was ripped apart."
In June 2013, Contostavlos was "exposed" by the Sun on Sunday's Mazher Mahmood, aka the Fake Sheikh, in a front-page splash alleging she had fixed a cocaine deal for him. Even by Mahmood's standards, it was an elaborate sting, involving first-class plane tickets between London and Las Vegas, luxury hotel suites, the prospect of a £3.5m film contract opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in a big Bollywood production. You couldn't make it up - only Mahmood did, and Contostavlos bought it.
Since then she has lost more than a stone, changed her physical appearance, ditched (or been ditched by) nearly all her colleagues, been abandoned by friends (and found a few brilliant new ones), had her endorsements frozen, lost any number of contracts and contemplated suicide.
At the outset of the trial last month, her friend Michael Coombs pleaded guilty to providing Mahmood with £820 worth of cocaine. The Sun on Sunday printed texts in which she offered to "sort" drugs, and filmed Coombs arriving at the Dorchester hotel in London to deliver them at a later date. In court, Contostavlos proclaimed her innocence but could see only one outcome. "My heart told me: there's no way this can happen. I'm very religious and I kept saying, God won't forsake me." And her head? "My head was telling me, if they're allowed to take it this far, to tell so many lies, God knows where it can go." She thought she'd be convicted? "100pc. I was preparing for prison."
But on 17 July, four days into the hearing, it emerged that Mahmood may have lied in a pre-trial statement. His driver, Alan Smith, had told police Contostavlos had talked about how much she disapproved of drugs when he drove her home one night, because she'd seen the damage it had done to a relative. Smith had been expected to give evidence supportive of Contostavlos, but later changed his mind. Did he discuss his statement with Mahmood? In a pre-trial hearing, the journalist denied this; but under cross-examination in court, he admitted he had received the driver's statement and that they had talked about it.
The case was thrown out: Judge Alistair McCreath told the jury there were "strong grounds to believe" Mahmood had lied on oath, and "the underlying purpose… was to conceal the fact that he had been manipulating the evidence". Proceedings against Coombs were stayed; Mahmood was suspended by the Sun on Sunday pending an internal investigation. He may now face perjury charges.
I meet Contostavlos four days later. It is the first interview she has given to a newspaper in more than a year, and she has plenty to get off her chest. Only this morning she was in court for a second, unrelated case: she was convicted of assaulting celebrity blogger Savvas Morgan and fined £200. She is livid and insists she committed no crime - she will be appealing. Contostavlos is perfectly friendly but has lost the easy smile and chirpy chutzpah of her X Factor judging days. Occasionally she seems close to tears.
In a statement she made after the trial collapsed, Contostavlos said Mahmood's sting had come at a time when she was feeling especially vulnerable. What did she mean? Well, it was only a few months after an ex-boyfriend, Justin Edwards, had posted a private sex tape online. She made her own video in response, naming Edwards and saying she had nothing to be ashamed of. But she did feel ashamed: "I was very depressed and I blamed it all on the industry. I thought, if I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't be experiencing this situation, which was an utter violation of my human rights. Humiliation. Just walking into shops and facing people was a task, never mind sitting on the panel of a national TV show going out to millions. I wanted to get out. I wanted to go into acting, and piss off to America."
She went to Los Angeles for auditions, which is where she was targeted by Mahmood, posing as a Bollywood producer. First she was approached by somebody claiming to work for 21st Century Fox, who set up a false Twitter account and followed her online. He then introduced her to Mahmood. She was flown to Las Vegas to discuss a major film, starring DiCaprio and backed by financiers who had a stake in Slumdog Millionaire.
"He was my childhood crush," she says of DiCaprio. "I'd admitted it in interviews, so they knew." They had done their research: she believes Mahmood and his team chose Bollywood because they knew Gareth Varey, her close friend and PA, had worked in India as a dancer. "I think they'd studied the people he'd worked with, the movies he'd worked on - because that's what they based it all on. I flew to Vegas first class, was picked up by limos, had two huge suites." Most of the time she was being secretly filmed by Mahmood.
She made it her business to find out what the producers were after. "I didn't get as far as I have from sitting back and being dopey. I know what it takes to get a job, and I'm going to pitch myself. You look at the person who wants something and you listen to what they're saying. You pick up on it and begin to be everything they want."
They told her they wanted a British actress. "He says, actually, we're looking for an urban, ghetto kind of British, someone with your accent. And my instant reaction was, 'Oh yeah, mate, I can give you all of that!' I'm pitching, fighting for a job. That's how I've gone into every meeting since the age of 11. There was a reason they called me 'the female boss' in N-Dubz - I did all the talking."
N-Dubz formed in 2000, an urban hip-hop group consisting of Contostavlos, her cousin Dappy and former boyfriend Fazer. She was talented, mouthy, but also insecure and struggling at home: her Greek-Cypriot father, briefly successful in the 1970s band Mungo Jerry, had left home when she was young, and she was an only child brought up by an Irish mother with schizoaffective disorder (she has often said she feels like the mother in their relationship). She self-harmed, smoked weed - fans warmed to her honesty.
It was this drug-toking, street-savvy girl the fake film-makers wanted - even if that was a girl Contostavlos, now 26, had left behind some years ago. Most of the time she dealt with Nish, Mahmood's fixer. "We weren't even allowed to bring her to court, because it was said she wasn't a part of it. But for me she was a stronger character than Mahmood because she played the 'friend.' She played this very caring, almost guardian angel. I found Mahmood extremely slimy." Mahmood told Contostavlos that they didn't do official auditions, they did "social auditioning" - in effect, every encounter was an audition. Nish, she says, cajoled her into becoming the bad girl. "She would make out she knew what I needed to do to get the job. So I would listen to her and think, oh yes, she's got my back." She says Nish told Gareth Varey, her PA, that the producers were choosing between Contostavlos and Keira Knightley.
"I was told via Gareth that they really want the bad girl, and they're going to give it to Keira Knightley. So I had to prove the reason I'm better is because I am the girl in the role, and Keira Knightley could never be that."
Whenever she met Mahmood and his team, she became that person. "I went in trying to concoct stories from real-life situations. So I talked about a court case involving an ex but exaggerated it. I admitted I'd smoked weed at night every now and then. I'd not smoked weed in ages, but I was using that because it was the only thing I'd done."
On 10 May 2013, at the Metropolitan hotel in London, Nish suggested they go to the bathroom together; Contostavlos says she had been plied with alcohol for six hours.
"It's just me and her, and in so many words she tells me, 'This is it, they want to give it to you, they want to give you £3.5m. You've just got to go in now and do whatever they want - be the bad girl, the ghetto girl. Tulisa, I want you to have this so badly, trust me.' I walked out thinking, I've got this."
So she went into hyper mode, and her mild exaggerations became whopping lies. "All of a sudden I go from saying, hey, I smoke a bit of weed to hey, my ex is the biggest coke dealer in London and I used to shoot crack!" She laughs. "I was drunk as a skunk. One of the things they disputed in court was how much I'd had to drink. Every time I finished one drink, they'd put another in front of me. I felt under pressure to show I could drink them under the table."
She says they asked her to take drugs with them. She politely declined. She says Nish suggested she retire to the bedroom of one of the producers, which she interpreted as sex for payment, or at least payment in kind. Again, she declined.
As a number of Mahmood's victims have alleged, Contostavlos believes her drink was spiked. She says one of the two friends with her passed out. "It's my belief all three of us were spiked." (Mahmood has strongly denied this in court.) "So it gets to the point where he keeps asking for drugs, and I've gone on a mad one where I've told him I can get him drugs."
How many times had he asked?
"Four or five. I was so trashed I'd made up this ridiculous thing about 'white sweets'. I was trying to sound like I knew about the gangster world." Contostavlos told them half the guys she knew were drug dealers. OK, they said, put your money where your mouth is - which is when she panicked. She didn't know any dealers. She thought about who she could contact who'd sound convincing and landed on Coombs. There was a logic of sorts: she had acted opposite him in the TV series Dubplate Drama, playing a cocaine addict with Coombs as her dealer. Can she remember what she said to him? "Yeah: talk a load of shit to them, just make 'em think you're going to get it."
And he went ahead? She says she still doesn't know. That was the last time she spoke to him, though Mahmood's team filmed Coombs handing over a package at the Dorchester. "I wouldn't put anything past the Sun. It could have been talcum powder, and they could have done anything with it."
After disbanding the case, Judge McCreath said that, because Contostavlos had been denied the opportunity to give her defence, it was only fair that he provide a summary of it: "She never intended drugs should be supplied to [Mahmood] by Mr Coombs or by anyone else. Anything which he [Coombs] did in that regard was out of a misplaced desire on his part to help her out of her dilemma, not because she asked him to do it; this was something she did not intend."
Did Contostavlos not think it unlikely that they were so keen to pair her up with DiCaprio, given her limited acting experience?
"But the amount of money they spent, thousands of pounds." She looks at Varey. "He's the one who said, at times, something's not right. And I was, no, no, no, they're going to give me £3.5m, I'm going to be a movie star, I'm going to meet Leo. If somebody had told me what it really was at the time, I would have said, that's impossible, how is that even legal?"
Ten days after she contacted Coombs, Mahmood revealed his real identity. She says she can't even remember this, it was so traumatic, so her long-time publicist Simon Jones intervenes. "I'll tell you exactly what happened. I get a call, and he says, 'It's Mazher Mahmood, from the Sun' and I was like, 'Oh great! How can I help you?' He said, 'I just want you to know that your client is going to be on the front page tomorrow for selling me cocaine.' I said, 'Who?' And he went, 'Tulisa.' And I went, 'Tulisa Contostavlos?'" His voice rises in disbelief. "I actually went, 'Tulisa sold you some cocaine?' Mahmood said, 'I can't get into it any further, but we've already gone to the police, so I'd expect you to be hearing from them shortly.' I said, 'Woah-woah-woah, I just don't believe this, I'm going to have to call you back.' I couldn't get hold of Tulisa. I called Gareth and he said it's the movie people. It's the moment you just go sick in your stomach."
As he recounts this, Contostavlos's head is down and she is almost in tears. "I wasn't even thinking I'd done anything wrong, or I was going to get arrested - I just thought they'd set me up to talk rubbish. That alone terrified me, that they'd print some of the shit I'd come out with."
Varey thought the splash "would be the straw that broke the camel's back". What did she think? "I hadn't got my head around it enough to want to go that far, but I was getting there. It was a big debate: 'Do I?'"
Does she mean suicide? "Yeah. The fact it had gone as far as it had meant, to me, there's a higher power out to get me." Did she talk to her friends? "No, I wasn't going to terrify them. It's always something I've thought about, and it's something I attempted once when I was very young. People hear that and are like, 'Agh!', like it's a big deal, but it's not. It's a simple thought process: my life is ruined, it's over, do I stick around or do I end it? It could last for a second or a minute, then I'll be all right again. The fact of the matter is, I'm still here."
Did she make a suicide attempt? "Maybe once. Something along those lines. Well, it wasn't a strong enough attempt. I didn't really know what I was doing." She took pills and alcohol. "Luckily, they weren't enough to finish me off."
One thing she blames herself for is getting Coombs involved. Before the case collapsed, he would almost certainly have received a custodial sentence. How would she have felt?
"That would have been a very hard thing. I never wanted any of this. Mike is not a drug dealer."
She still lives with Varey, who is gay. But they no longer sleep in the same bed. "The way I've been waking up screaming… it's not been fun."
What about her face - is she aware that people are suggesting she has had cosmetic procedures? Yes, of course, she's not daft.
"Look, the papers have always said I've denied it, but I haven't given an interview in a year, so where have I had the chance to deny it? Yes, I've had my lips done, and I'm happy with my lips. And I also had a tiny bit of filler in my cheeks." Anyway, she says, let's talk about the positives. She's going to record a single. Is she going to go on holiday? No, she's too much to do.
"This is only the start. I've had my reputation ruined. Now I've got to fight to get it back."
Has Simon Cowell been in touch? "Well, me and Simon were never really that close. It was always like a work relationship, but I've never heard a bad word from him. The people I was close to on X Factor were Louis [Walsh] and Nicole [Scherzinger] and even Gary [Barlow]. Louis's always the first person to text."
Can she understand why Mahmood thought it a good story? "No. If I was a drug dealer or a bad person, I can understand that. But there's a difference between entrapping a criminal and setting up an innocent person."
She is convinced there was an element of targeting the chav who flew too near the sun. "Other celebrities can be seen on camera with cocaine. But certain people of a certain class can have one story and almost be seen as cool, whereas I supposedly gave someone a telephone number and am the biggest criminal of the year." She has lost a year's earnings. I find myself staring at her Female Boss tattoo. Is this still accurate? "More than ever. I've surprised myself. I feel stronger, wiser - enlightened."
She describes Mahmood giving evidence behind a screen and she kept shifting to force him to look at her. She was boiling over.
"I reached a point when I thought, no, I'm not stooping to your level. I'm better than this. I looked at him and thought he's draining me. I said, right, you're going to have to do it, and I was battling with myself, then I sat there and did it - I said a prayer for him."
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I machine-sewed another felt wrap, based on the pencil-roll project in The Creative Family; Melody will now be able to carry along her crayons on the long train journeys we'll be making over the Christmas period.
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It's looking like make or break day over at Schmoes Know as their Wonder Woman and Terminator stories have come accompanied with a rather surprising Ghostbusters 3 claim.
If you choose to believe that the Schmoes have turned into a super-fast scoop machine, and aren't just winging it across a chasm to certain indignity, then you'll be fascinated to hear how both Jonah Hill and Emma Stone have been offered roles in the long-developing Ghostbusters threequel.
That's right: they aren't on a wish list, they've actually been offered deals.
The parts, they say, will be called Jeremy and Anna. Sounds quite like Jonah and Emma. Especially if you say it really quickly. With your mouth full. And somebody pinching your nose.
I have a hunch as to where the Schmoes might be getting all of these stories from, and it will be the same single document.
Or, for all we know, it might be thin air. Let's see how this streak pans out.


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Bots are complicated. They're made to process repetitive actions autonomously and can be fairly easy to build, but they aren't always working on the side of good. Here's what you need to know.
Each year, EContent magazine compiles a list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
Voting is now closed. We'll announce the results of the first-ever EContent 100 list chosen by the people!
Ashley Jones
Oct 30, 2007
Organizing your online life just got a little easier. Launched on Oct. 30, Eluma 2.0 is a new personal web organization tool designed to aid personal productivity. Founders Richard Buck and Paul Christen created Eluma with one goal in mind: to combine the various elements of personal productivity and then marry these elements with various search features.
Eluma is an end-user desktop application that allows users to collect and share online content. Similar to del.icio.us, a tool that stores bookmarks, Eluma users can create and share collections of web content with customer communities. Unlike del.icio.us, however, Eluma users' collections go beyond bookmarks to include RSS feeds, Flash content, podcasts, and video. Says Joe Lichtenberg, Eluma's VP of business development, "I subscribe to feeds, I collect bookmarks and podcasts, and all of these things combined make up who I am on Eluma."
Personal collections, once organized, can remain personal (solely for the collector) or be made public and available to anyone. Those made public can then augment others' searches.
For instance, before shelling out $2,500 for a plasma television, most do a bit of research. Eluma allows users to gather and store the searches and information found most helpful into a collection that can then be shared with others who are also interested in buying a plasma television.
Social search is a hot topic and attracting an increasing number of traditional searchers. However, as Lichtenberg points out, scalability remains a major problem with social search.
Most people are not content creators. "Almost all users are lurkers," Lichtenberg says. While this is true, it is also true that most users have favorites, bookmarks, and go-to sites they rely on to meet their needs. With this new product, Eluma is trying to cut out the middle man by allowing private searches and their results to go public if an Eluma user so chooses.
Traditional web search engines can be limiting and tedious. If you were to Google "Bruce Springsteen," for example, the top results are fairly static. On Eluma, top results are constantly in flux, as they are rated by other users. A Bruce Springsteen collection gathers all of the best hits as determined by another Eluma user, complete with website summaries written by the collection's creator. Eluma presents the searcher with algorithmic search results, along with social search results.
However, an issue that arises with social search solutions is evaluating the quality of others' collections. Eluma users can tag, rate, and comment on collections, and collections with the highest ratings and most positive feedback are the most prominent.
Furthermore, Eluma employs tools that plug into a browser. If a lot of people visit a certain site, that collection rises to the top. "We put the tools in place so that the community can be self-policing," Lichtenberg says. "Sites like Wikipedia don't police their contributors, and that's the risk."
Whether or not social search will prevail as the most effective approach to finding information remains to be seen. What is clear, though, says Lichtenberg: "The read/write dynamic is being included into all elements of the web, and that's what search is on the brink of. We at Eluma just want to put control back into the hands of the users."


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Two of us with Wendy Whiteley and Anna Schwartz: 'She's basically an anarchist and so am I'
Sydney-based gardener Wendy Whiteley (left), 78, and Melbourne gallery owner Anna Schwartz, 68, have been friends for 50 years. And while stylish and glamorous, they are most comfortable around each other in their jammies.
ANNA: The first time I set eyes on Wendy was at an exhibition opening in Fitzroy in Melbourne about 1970. She was extraordinarily beautiful and unique. I'd never seen anybody like her. We met a little later, when Brett [Whiteley, her artist husband] and Wendy had rented a summer house and I went to stay there with Joel [Elenberg, artist, Schwartz's first husband and Brett's best friend].
I was 19, she was 29, and I found her incredibly glamorous and intimidating. She did everything with individuality and flourish. She has always had a great engagement with the artistry of everyday. I've learnt a lot from Wendy's approach to food and interiors.
The four of us spent a lot of time together, much of it in Brett and Wendy's house in Sydney's Lavender Bay. There was a thread between us. We felt that we'd created our own special family network.
Wendy and I have always had a frank, open dialogue. There are no secrets between us. We've both been through a lot of changes in our lives. [Joel died of cancer aged 32. Brett died of a heroin overdose at 53, and Brett and Wendy's daughter, Arkie, died of cancer aged 37.] We have a great empathy. There's an aristocracy of loss; we all enter that aristocracy eventually, Wendy and I earlier than most.
Having been friends and known each other's partners so intimately, we understood the complexities of each other's lives and losses. She's always been very engaged with me and my feelings, and I with hers. Nothing between us has ever been formal. It's always been very relaxed and authentic.
Wendy is one of the most ethical people I've ever met, with the highest integrity. She is also fiercely loyal. The way that she has safeguarded Brett's work and the enormous commitment she's made to the Brett Whiteley Studio provide a great model for what is possible in terms of representing an artist's work in this country. After Arkie died, Wendy asked me to join the Brett Whiteley Foundation to represent, with her, the Whiteley family's position. It was the most natural thing in the world, because I am family, in terms of both our friendship, and my understanding of the work.
What I admire most about Wendy is her honesty, individuality and the depth of her intelligence. She's been through the extremes of human experience and that has given her a great comprehension of people and a great tolerance. She's impatient with the superficial but very tolerant of the eccentric. I love Wendy's Secret Garden [in Lavender Bay]; it has been her salvation. It's amazing that she got an Order of Australia for what was basically a guerilla action, because it was not her land. That's what I love about Wendy. She's basically an anarchist and so am I.
As a friend she is faultless, although she can be very critical. Sometimes she'll say, "You look ridiculous." I like that she speaks her mind. It's irritating at the time, but I wouldn't change it. If I could change one thing about our friendship, it would be to give us another 50 years.
WENDY: Anna and I have always had a very easy kind of affection for each other. From early on, we started having conversations about the meaning of life. We are still having those discussions today. We talk on the phone all the time. She'll tell me stuff that she probably doesn't tell anybody else, and I do the same. If I'm feeling a bit down, I can tell Anna. It's always been like that. She's like a sister. I can be silent with Anna, too. That's very precious, to be able to sit in a room and be silent with each other.
We were talking recently about what we'd do if we retired, and I said, "Well, you'd read, wouldn't you?" She said she wouldn't be satisfied, so I said, "We have to have a serious conversation about how what you do is not who you are." I said, "If I just saw you as this well-known, disciplined, tough gallerist, I don't think we'd be friends."
I love her generosity. It's not a money thing; it's an emotional thing of being open, listening at the right time, not being judgmental. Just being with you in the space that you're in. Hopefully, that's what I give her in return; being able to be with her without being judgmental. We've never been competitive; there's no need, because we're both our own people.
I accept Anna as a complete person, with all her complexities. I don't necessarily love every facet to the same degree, but I love the complete person. The thing I love most about our friendship is being together in the morning at her place or mine in our jammies, making coffee, not caring what we look like. It's just very easy. There's no nervousness or insecurity.
I would not change anything about her. There's a big difference between tolerating somebody and accepting somebody for who they are, and I feel complete acceptance of Anna. The friendship gets deeper, the more we share the ups and downs of life. We talk all the time about getting older, and figure out how we will cope. We talk about girly things, too: whether to have facelifts, whether to go grey or dye our hair.
Anna decided she would make paella at my New Year's Eve party last year. She arrived with a huge paella plate, which covered the entire stove. Next thing I knew, she was hovering over the stove, constructing this paella in her Issey Miyake evening gown. I said, "For Christ's sake, put on a bloody apron."
I tell her if I don't like what she's wearing. She loves Comme des Garçons, and sometimes I say, "You look like a f...ing matching lounge suite. That thing is wearing you." She won't take it off, though. She should be more in charge of how she looks, though I have noticed lately that she looks a bit more casual, not quite so much like a walking monument. If something happened to Anna, I'd be devastated.
Lunch with Wendy Whiteley, Spectrum.
To read more from Good Weekend magazine, visit our page at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times.


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"Reverse Canvas"
Novembers Green Tara DT work
I covered the top and bottom half of the canvas with different papers in blue and green tones to represent the sky and grass then lightly painted over the paper with a watered down white paint.
Using a brick template I created a brick wall with texture paste and distress inks. The brick wall also follows on inside the canvas. Adding a small stamped bird cage.
Adding several pieces of chipboard each one inked in several colours, the fence has had a treatment of white crackle paint. Using Green Tara wire cord I have twisted it around the fence and up the blossom tree to create a creeping vine adding flower soft and Green Tara roses for flowers on the vine.
Adding a cluster of beautiful flowers & leaves from Green Tara, I wanted smaller leaves but only had large ones left so I cut a maple leaf into 3 smaller ones . The darker flowers have had their tips lightly inked in white to tone them down a touch.
With Green Tara's new velvet rose taking the lime light, these flowers are beautiful and soft with a velvet feel and look.
Green Tara Products Used
Velvet Rose Lavender - CODE: XF9217L
Wire Cord Green - CODE: RB1164Gr
Maple leaves copper 4.5cm - CODE: LA7C
White paper leaves 1.5cm - CODE: LA13Wh
Mini rosebud ivory - CODE: FDV025Iv
Roses 1cm ivory - CODE: FDR001Iv
Roses 1.5cm Turquoise - CODE: FDR003Tu
Apple blossoms plum - CODE: FDV044PL
Cherry blossoms white - CODE: FLC22Wh
Cherry blossoms sea green - CODE: FLC22SG
Extra products used - Twiddlybitz & A2Z chipboard, texture paste, distress inks, prima paper, flower soft.
"Christmas Reverse Canvas"
My lovely kids keep telling its almost Christmas time so I thought I would get us into the Christmas spirit. I'm not a gold person and I rarely follow the traditional Christmas colours but I'm trying to challenge myself. I must say creating this was the so much fun and the idea I had in my head came together perfectly. And is totally loaded with lots of Green Tara goodies.
This canvas is 27cm wide and 20cm tall and is and extra deep canvas. I covered the inside and front edges with a gold metallic 12x12 crinkle paper from Green Tara using modge podge, adding extra folds and creases around the front edges. Then painted the rest of the outside edges of the canvas in metallic gold paint but then wiped it down with a tissue leaving only a thin layer of colour. I also white washed the gold paper so it had a softer tone.
The gold cherubs ribbon was painted with a watered down white paint to tone down the gold a little. Beautiful lace used as a garland was inked in golds and green then sprayed with a little water to blend the colours
Bead Garland Red has been wrapped around the tree to add more decoration
Bead Garland in gold and green has been used to create hanging decorations from the roof, Along with 3 flying deers from the reindeer garland that have had a little white paint added to them. I have used a white Xmas wreath and ruffled it up then added metallic gold paint to the tips of the ruffles. Cutting 2 trees from the Xmas tree ribbon I have added white paint to the edges and added them to the mantle for decorations.
The fire place was made from cardboard then bricks made with texture paste, a few sticks from the garden to make logs and a base plate made from a green paper from the Xmas art deco paper range. For the mantle I just used a couple of pieces of timber that are meant to be the corner supports that came with the canvas and painted them white.
Small gifts made from foam blocks and covered in Green Tara papers and wrapped in Green Tara ribbons & bows. Metallic gold trim added to the bottom of the canvas and slightly painted white.
A small cluster of flowers along the tree side of the canvas with wire embellishments that have been slightly painted with white paint in hearts and stars. A Christmas bouquet in gold added under the tree.
Taking a Metal swirl and straighten it, I then twisted it around a paintbrush in small pieces to create flower swirls
Adding a large cluster of flowers of the fire place side including flower sprays, skeleton leaves, paper leaves, roses, apple blossoms, gardenias, and silk flowers. I have painted metallic gold paint on all of the flowers petals and leaves.
Green Tara has a great range of Christmas themed ribbons these are some of the ones I have used.
Green Tara products
Metallic gold crinkle 12x12 paper - CODE: 1212CG
Metallic Cherub ribbon - CODE: RB605MG
Xmas tree ribbons gold - CODE: RB717Go
Bead Garland Gold - CODE: RBY06Go
Bead Garland red - CODE: RBY06R
Bead Garland - green - CODE: RBY06Gr
Gold skeleton leaves - CODE: RTB2G
Red skeleton leaves - CODE: RTB13
Xmas wreath white - CODE: TWX02
Bead garland 8mm square ribbon - CODE: RBY16G
Reindeer garland brown - CODE: RB652Br
Bows white & gold - CODE: BowS
Christmas bouquet gold -
Small red poinsettias - CODE: PFPRS
Small white poinsettias - CODE: PFPWhS
Med Red poinsettias - CODE: PFPRMG
Med white poinsettias - CODE: PFPWhMG
Art deco Xmas green paper pack - CODE: ADX2
Jaipur Red paper - CODE: SHJR
Art deco white and gold paper pack - CODE: ADGW
Mulberry paper handmade white - CODE: 1212HMWh
Wire hearts gold - CODE: WH178Go10
Wire star green - CODE: WS177Em
Wire star red - CODE: WS177R10
Metal swirls red - CODE: MS858R3
Metal swirls green - CODE: MS858Em3
Skeleton leaf paper red & gold -
Ribbon organza hearts glitter gold - CODE: RB330IG15
Metallic gold trim - CODE: RB660MG
Silk flowers with crystals small red - CODE: SDRS60
Gardenias red CODE: FDV054R and white CODE: FDV054Wh
Apple blossoms red CODE: FDV044R and white CODE: FDV044Wh
3 flower spray red CODE: PFSTR and white CODE: PFST1
2cm roses red CODE: FDR006R and white CODE: FDR006Wh
Paper leaves maple in copper - CODE: LA7C
Lace - CODE: L2920W
Extra products used - Texture paste, distress inks, white paint, creative imaginations stickers, misc bird, cameo, brads, Kaiser chipboard.
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In the 1950s, Richard Beckhard coined the term organizational development. One of his six assumptions about the nature of organizations is that people will support what they help create.
Remember, don't create in a vacuum! When you have stakeholder buy-in, you have a much easier sale in the end. Be sure to include your attractors, or friends, and detractors, or frenemies, in the creation/input process. Your skeptics will have a much harder time criticizing the outcome because they contributed to the input. Plus, a skeptic's view can strengthen the outcome by introducing a varying perspective.
Thus, it is important to identify a robust group of stakeholders for all phases of a project. Not only at the onset, but when you are interpreting data you should ask for their insights and thoughts. Because sometimes you don't know what you don't know!
We follow 3 simple steps to secure stakeholder involvement.
1. Identify 'Em
2. Get To Know 'Em
3. Give It To 'Em
At the onset of any project, build a stakeholder matrix to be sure you engage the RIGHT people on the RIGHT project at the RIGHT time.
1. IDENTIFY 'Em—Build a Stakeholder Matrix
2. GET TO KNOW 'EM—Ask the Questions
Once you have your stakeholders secured, here's a great resource to get to know your stakeholders! This list of questions will help you identify the level of involvement you need from each representative and how you can best meet their needs.
3. GIVE IT TO 'EM—Build a RACI chart
With every project my team executes, we create a stakeholder matrix and a RACI chart. Once our list of stakeholders is identified, we determine who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed (RACI) for each major task in the project plan.
This way we know who to engage when, and a RACI sets role expectations for each of the stakeholders. They can negotiate more or less involvement when you are creating the RACI.
In the end, the organization will have much more confidence in your project and/or findings if you engage them appropriately and they help you create it.


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The Vatican has now posted an English translation of Cardinal José Saraiva Martins' homily for the beatification mass for 498 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War. See more at this earlier post, which has been updated accordingly.
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There are a number of ways to run SAS from Powershell:
- Using SAS Integration Technologies (Chris Hemedinger has some great resources on this)
- Directly by calling sas.exe (presuming you are running on a box with a local install)
- Indirectly via the SAS Stored Process Web Application.
- It deals with authentication (no need for embedded passwords)
- Can perform tasks using system account (sassrv), as SAS code is secured server-side
- Resource management (no need to tidy up any redundant sessions)
- Can be done in just ONE LINE of Powershell code!
$uri="http://YOURSERVER.YOURDOMAIN:8080/SASStoredProcess/do"$pgm="/Products/SAS Intelligence Platform/Samples/Sample: Hello World"invoke-webrequest -Uri "$($uri)?_program=$pgm" -UseDefaultCredentials
Which gives the response:
The key part to this request, to avoid HTTP Status 401 and "This request requires HTTP authentication" response, is the -UseDefaultCredentials parameter. This uses the account that Powershell is running in, to connect to the server.
Some prerequisites:
- You need to configure your SAS code to run inside a Stored Process using SAS Management Console – set for streaming output
- You may need to set your execution policy (explained here)
- The account being used to run the script must have a SAS identity, and the web server must be configured for single signon.


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US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Health of cleanup workers
Lawsuits over health of US Deepwater Horizon spill cleanup workers
An emblematic case
On 20 July 2010, a class action lawsuit was filed against BP, Halliburton, Cameron, Anadarko, MOEX, and two BP subcontractors in the clean-up effort, O'Brien Response Management and Tiger Safety, in a state court in New Orleans, Louisiana. The case was transferred to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in August 2010. The plaintiffs include a Louisiana fisherman, John Wunstell, who was hired by BP to take part in the clean-up of the oil spill, and the co-owner of his vessel. The plaintiffs' vessel had been assigned to the "burn unit", which gathered oil, gas and other contaminants from the surface, and burned or were in the vicinity of the burning of these substances. As a result, the crew was allegedly exposed to large quantities of noxious fumes, gasses and other chemicals, but were allegedly not supplied with respiratory protection. On 28 May, the fumes and gasses allegedly caused such symptoms that Wunstell had to be taken to hospital. Wunstell claims that he continues to suffer from his injuries.
According to the plaintiffs, BP should have ensured that all crews on clean-up vessels receive necessary training, protective equipment and other workplace and environmental equipment. The plaintiffs also allege that vessels were to be detoxified, which had not been done in their case. The plaintiffs claim that BP, O'Brien Response Management and Tiger Safety were negligent in failing to provide training, protection and respiratory equipment, as they had agreed to do. They also claim negligence in the deployment of the vessel to an area with high exposure to hazardous fumes and chemicals; in the alleged failure to inform crew members of the danger of hazardous substances; in the alleged failure to monitor the health of the crew members and the surrounding air quality; and in the failure to take appropriate remedial action when crew members fell ill.
The plaintiffs also allege that BP, Halliburton, Cameron, Anadarko and MOEX negligently failed to take adequate safety measures prior to the explosion, which caused the fire and explosion resulting in the oil spill and subsequent injuries and economic harm to the plaintiffs. In addition to negligence regarding the well itself, plaintiffs allege that the companies negligently increased the environmental damage by adding dispersants and using other harmful or negligent methods and agents in the clean-up.
The plaintiffs seek damages to compensate them for injuries incurred, pain and suffering, damage to the vessel and punitive damages for gross disregard for their safety and health.
In addition, the suit seeks a court-supervised medical monitoring programme, on behalf of volunteers and workers in the clean-up suffering from injuries like the plaintiffs'. This part of the suit holds that the defendants caused clean-up workers and volunteers to be exposed to dangerous levels of harmful substances, which the defendant companies knew or should have known to increase the risk of developing serious health problems including latent diseases. The medical monitoring programme would be designed to catch such diseases at an early stage for early treatment.
The case has been included in the federal Multidistrict Litigation consolidated proceedings.
Proceedings on health of cleanup workers following consolidation
On 15 December 2010, the claims of clean-up workers for injuries allegedly suffered due to chemical exposure were consolidated in a master complaint filed in US federal court in New Orleans. On 26 May 2011, BP, Anadarko, MOEX, Nalco and other defendant companies moved to dismiss personal injury claims of all clean-up workers and volunteers, alleging immunity under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Nalco, which made the dispersant used on the spilled oil, argued that plaintiffs' claim cannot proceed because the US government approved the use of dispersants. In response, the Plaintiffs Steering Committee argued that the defendants cannot claim immunity from lawsuits under the CWA because the CWA only applies to damages arising from actions of the US government.
On 3 Mar 2012, BP announced an out of court settlement with the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee. BP is to pay $7.8 billion to settle private plaintiffs' claims for economic loss, property damage & injuries.
- "BP Reaches Estimated $7.8 Billion Deal With Spill Victims", Jef Feeley, Bloomberg, 5 Mar 2012
- "Oil Spill Hearing to Focus on Sickness and Other Claims BP Wants to Dismiss", Sabrina Canfield, Courthouse News Services, 26 May 2011
- "BP, Spill Partners Harmed Oil Cleanup Crews, Lawyers Say", Laurel Brubaker Calkins, Bloomberg, 31 Mar 2011
- "BP Facing Lawsuit Over Handling of Oil Spill Cleanup", Hillary Stemple, Jurist.org, 21 Jul 2010
- "Round Two of BP Litigation: The Clean-Up Suits Begin", Dionne Searcey, Wall Street Journal Law Blog, 20 Jul 2010.
- "BP downplays health risks for spill cleanup crews", Brett Michael Dykes, Yahoo! News, 1 Jun 2010
- "Medical monitoring and general liability insurance: An uncertain prognosis for coverage", Bryce L. Friedman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, 30 Sep, 2010
Legal documents:
- U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Louisiana: [PDF] Omnibus Memorandum in Opposition to Motions to Dismiss Bundle B3 Master Complaint, 30 Mar 2011
- [PDF] Complaint, John Wunstell, Jr. and Kelly Blanchard v. BP, Halliburton, Cameron, Anadarko, Moex, O'Brien Response Management and Tiger Safety, in Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Louisiana, 20 Jul 2010


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IEN in Norway
On October 5, 2010, Dr. Martha Russell gave a presentations about "Innovation Ecosystems in Traditional and Changing Cultures: Examples from Minnesota and Silicon Valley," in Norwegian Information Technology Forum at Skei, Norway.
Two day after, on October 7, 2010, she gave another presentation about "Knowledge Across Borders: Accelerate Building Trust to Unleash Innovation," Business Institute at Olse, Norway.
You can view the video here and the presentation is also available in resource page.
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Certificate in Maternal and Child Health
Drexel's accredited, online Certificate in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) provides the knowledge and skills needed to effectively promote the health and well-being of women, mothers, infants, children, adolescents, and families in local, domestic, and global settings.
Access a tailored maternal and child health core curriculum, informed by federal MCH leadership competencies, to learn how to translate data into practice, plan and evaluate programs, and communicate with distinct and diverse audiences guided by mentors/faculty with MCH experience. As a student of Drexel's maternal and child health certificate program, you will apply skills in a required local field experience, as well as elective domestic and global practical experiences using innovative technology and enhance your capacity in the MCH workforce.
Program Features
- Courses taught by experienced faculty from Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health, which is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)
- Convenient 100% online format for busy professionals
- Curriculum shaped by the five MCH core competencies:
- Scientific Basis
- Methodological/Analytical Skills
- Management and Communication Skills
- Policy and Advocacy Skills
- Values and Ethics in MCH Public Health Practice
- One of five national HRSA-Funded MCH Public Health Catalyst Programs
- Taught by Drexel faculty and guest lectures by national and international experts in MCH
Upon completion, you will be able to:
- Understand the historical development of the maternal and child health field, including the history of local, state, and federal MCH agencies and their structure, and national legislative mandates relative to MCH
- Define the MCH population in a community
- Apply the life course perspective to MCH public health problems
- Utilize core public health analysis and research methods to interpret MCH data and translate it into MCH practice
- Describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of MCH programs domestically and internationally
- Explain the tenets of MCH program planning and evaluation and identify essential gaps in existing programs serving mothers and children
- Effectively communicate to diverse MCH populations
- Identify the biological, social, and behavioral basis for a MCH program
Online Open House
View our previously recorded online open house to learn more about the Certificate in Maternal and Child Health program.
State restrictions may apply to some programs.
This program is organized into four 10-week quarters per year (as opposed to the traditional two semester system) which means you can take more courses in a shorter time period.
|Required Courses
|Overview of Maternal and Child Health
|Global Issues in Maternal and Child Health
|Introduction to Epidemiology
|Electives (Choose 3)
|Research with Rare, Stigmatized, and Hidden Populations
|LGBT Health Disparities
|Intersectional Perspectives
|Perinatal Epidemiology
|Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies
|Violence, Trauma, and Adversity in Public Health
|Reproductive Women's Health Across the Life Cycle
|MCH Home Visiting: Safe Motherhood and Healthy Families
|Maternal and Child Health Nutrition
|Total Credits
More electives coming soon.
Admissions Criteria
- Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited university
- Demonstrated interest or work experience in Maternal and Child Health
Required Documents
With multiple ways to submit documents, Drexel makes it easy to complete your application. Learn more by visiting our supporting document submission guide.
- A completed application
- Official transcripts from all universities or colleges and other post-secondary educational institutions attended (including trade schools)
- Resume
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Language of the case: French
Appellant: Bruno Gollnisch (represented by: B. Bonnefoy-Claudet, avocat)
Other parties to the proceedings: European Parliament, Council of the European Union
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The appellant claims that the Court should:
set aside the judgment of the General Court of 11 July 2019 (T-95/18);
refer the case back to the General Court;
award the appellant the sum of EUR 12 500 in respect of procedural costs;
order the Parliament to pay the costs.
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if it considers that it has sufficient information, itself rule on the substance of the case;
annul the decision of the Bureau of the Parliament of 23 October 2017;
grant the form of order sought by the appellant at first instance;
order the Parliament to pay all the costs.
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1. First ground of appeal, alleging retroactive application in defavorem of subsequent case-law in order to declare the action inadmissible
In order to dismiss the action, the judgment under appeal retroactively, unfavourably and unlawfully applied case-law of the Court from the period after the action was brought, even though the action was explicitly described as admissible under the previously existing situation.
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The General Court held that those two articles did not apply to the case, even though it was clear from Article 52 of the Charter and the explanations of its articles recognised in the case-law of the Court that they were relevant.
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The judgment under appeal incorrectly relied on a judgment of the Court in order to deny the appellant his right to an oral hearing, even though that judgment concerned only interveners in specific and marginal proceedings which, moreover, authorised an oral hearing.
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I met and filmed many people on my journey. One person in particular was, and still is, a musician called James Radcliffe. He and his girlfriend Jen were following an old drovers trail from Skye to Crieff and they stopped for a night in a bothy located in the Lairig Leacach (Pass of the Flagstones) – a glen that forms part of an old drove road linking the Great Glen to Kingshouse at the gateway to Glen Coe. I arrived at the bothy on day 54 of my journey after climbing two nearby Munros (my 84th and 85th). A greyness had hung in the air since dawn and the surrounding mountain tops were obscured by a conveyor belt of cloud.
During my ascent I saw a lone Rowan tree, almost horizontal, growing from a rock. I disturbed a herd of deer which dissolved into the mist like ghosts. I experienced what hard rain hitting eyeballs feels like. I sat at both summits and saw the cloud up close, whipped up into spirals and over rocks by the whistling wind. Everything was still grey, but greyer.
It was good to be here though. My journey taught me early on that there's more to climbing a mountain than simply reaching the summit to get a view. There is no denying that I'd have preferred to have been somewhere warm. Conversely, I was glad to be on a cold and wet mountain seeing and feeling nature instead of being detached from the world in some dingy basement office (and I've sure been there). On such occasions as these, I reasoned that a bit of temporary discomfort was a fair compromise. The bad times during my journey were offset by the good. The Sun would have to come out eventually. It was only a matter of time, whether hours or days. The darkness of winter is always replaced by the light of summer. Both should be accepted and embraced, I think.
I had pitched my tent further down the glen earlier in the day but as I descended I saw smoke rising from the bothy chimney. I decided to change course and investigate in the hope of getting some warmth. I was welcomed inside by James and Jen plus a man called Chris who was travelling alone and they ushered me towards a plastic chair. They had tried starting a fire with the only wood available – a massive tree-trunk of a log. The smoke I had seen was their final attempt to ignite it using scraps of twigs. They had given up.
Barely having sat down, I left and waded up the gully of a nearby river. There are usually trees in gullies and sure enough I found some that provided enough wind fallen and dead branches to get a fire going. Back at the bothy I drank coffee offered by Chris. I ate food cooked by Jen – noodle soup with fresh broccoli. Vegetables were a rare treat on my trip. We warmed ourselves by the fire and spent the evening deep in conversation. Strangers in fellowship. It quickly got dark and, being tired and at least a half hour walk from my tent, I left them by the fire, bid them goodnight and walked into the darkness.
The following morning, I sensed that I should go back to the bothy despite it being the wrong direction for me. James had brought up some interesting points in our conversation and I was annoyed with myself that I hadn't taken the opportunity to film him the previous evening. When I arrived, Chris was leaving. James and Jen were still packing up. James made me some coffee and I filmed a short conversation with him about nature, life, connection. We exchanged contact details and went our separate ways.
We have since remained in touch and met up a few times in Edinburgh. I recently suggested editing some of the footage I captured on my journey to some of his music, not for the film but just for fun. He wrote a new piece called Invocation (available here) and I put the images together – and so below is the result of a chance encounter that happened via my ascent and descent of cloud-covered hill tops above the Lairig Leacach on a grey September day.


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Since I was reluctantly and tardily released from the mental asylum, Soho Housing Association has not stopped trying to put me back in there, and, since I have started this blog, Soho Housing Association has redoubled its efforts to put me away and steal my flat from me.
Incredibly, they are using exactly the same methods, corrupt tenants and corrupt departments of Westminster Council that they used before!
I received a letter from one such department, whose officer has invited himself to my flat. If I don't let him in, he will break in, but he ends the letter, cheerily, "See you next Thursday".
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Regarding your proposal to make an informal visit to my flat on 25th April.
I do not engage in informal arrangements with officers of Westminster Council.
I will be seeing my solicitor today, Tuesday and we will send a formal reply to your proposal, which will be copied to your supervisor, Steve Harrison. If you are unwilling to wait to receive the reply that we will send to your letter, and are determined to obtain a warrant of entry, please make sure that warrant is lawfully obtained, and not by perjury, as was the case with the last warrant obtained by Westminster Council. I am at present engaged in seeking redress from George Christian, the officer who unlawfully obtained it.
I look forward to not seeing you next Thursday.
At the last break-in by Soho Housing Association, which ended with my indefinite incarceration in the asylum, I also arranged to see a solicitor. Somehow, it seems that Soho Housing Association found out the date that I was to see the solicitor and they broke in the day before. How did they find out? Perhaps their favourite tenants, who work in the Metropolitan Police Service tipped them off.


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It is our contention that one flaw that has received less publicity than it ought surrounds issues of corporate ownership and its contribution to capital formation and economic growth. We believe the issue is especially important in the context of a growth strategy for the UK and for the West in general.
At the beginning of the new millennium Robert Monks and Allen Sykes in a CSFI publication ( [1] CSFI "Capitalism without owners will fail: A policymaker's guide to reform", Nov 2002) outlined the growing "disconnection" between the control of corporations (and other entities) exercised by both management, and its owners.
Importantly their study did not simply re-state the agency problems, but also looked at issues to do with the differing objectives of professional investors as owners of public companies versus the objectives of owners of private companies. The importance of this latter point is vital as they conclude that it is these professional investors who fail to match their interests with those of society as a whole.
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The policy and governance reforms outlined in their report went disregarded. Indeed in the intervening decade through deregulation the problems multiplied and we are now suffering the consequences of these structural faults: a huge compression of the investment time horizon towards an extreme short term bias. This constitutes a major barrier to capital formation and economic growth. It distorts the value of enterprises, reduces their availability of capital and their ability and opportunity to use it. It also ignites permanent instability through a vicious spiral, with higher volatility, uncertainty, new "asset bubbles" resulting, inter-alia, in sustained high levels of commodities and food prices. This creates a preference by investors for "safe" assets such as gold that in reality are both risky and unproductive. 'Operation Twist' launched by the FED and the recently announced QE by the Bank of England, claim exactly to soften this malicious time horizon distortion and goes into the right direction. Yet, our contention is that it should be accompanied by a proper set of systemic policy and governance actions: 'Operation Direct Growth: The New Avenue to Redevelop the Real Economy'
Whilst the reforms proposed by Monks and Sykes, re-regulation of capitalism on a global scale, are arduous to be implemented at the same time, this does not stop any one country from tackling the problem, by developing policies that encourage SME companies to grow. This neatly avoids all of the arguments over level playing fields that are so dominating the re-regulation of global banking.
Moreover, it is relatively easy to carry out research into just what policy changes in the UK we might implement and what their effects might be as most of the policy instruments necessary to support the growth in the number of private companies as well as the growth within such companies are under the control of the national government.
By contrasting German and UK SMEs we can discover why German SME companies are on average much larger and characterized by their focus on technology and long term investment; we also believe that new financial arrangements such as thedevelopment of a direct capital flow between investors and SME companies should be created: Systemic Economics: New Dawn to the Future:
Since governments seem unable to develop a growth strategy, lately, from the very wealthy came an unusual appeal to be willing to contribute more to the costs of the recovery by paying more of their fair share (Warren Buffet , French L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, Christophe de Margerie, of Total and of the Tattinger family, and then Ferrari's Chief, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo). Yet, in the best interest of everyone, what is really required is fixing our economies lack of growth. This is an appeal, not to encourage the rich to contribute more, but to contribute in a better way by directing more of their wealth into SME companies, the benefits of enhanced economic growth would then be for all.
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It is a historic place and many remains of the past have been found during the excavations. The specialty of the Harwan monuments is that they are the only remains of their kind in India (possibly in the world), and that they supply a life-like representation of the features of those mysterious people, the Kushans.
A large number of broken fingers and toes of terra-cotta figures, and terra-cotta curls belonging to images of Buddha are found from the excavated site.
Places of tourist interest are an ancient triple base of a medium-sized stupa and a chapel, Harwan Garden and Harwan Lake. A trout hatchery in the vicinity is worth visiting.
Nearest railhead is at Jammu, 300 km away. Regular buses connect Harwan with Srinagar, where the nearest airport is.
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