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A Library of Design
Insights • Inspirations • Destinations • Design
Reclaiming The Beauty of Life
WHY WE NEED BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN OUR LIFE
Recently I watched the film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. I know the title is long (one reviewer said it made him "lose the will to live"), but the story is surprising – and deeply moving. The kind of story I haven't seen for years. I read the novel a decade ago, and wept. I saw the film, and wept some more. Then I bought the DVD. (It's also on Netflix.) It reminded me of the power of storytelling. And boy, have we forgotten that in this age of pithy, witty one-line tweets and abbreviated conversations.
It was a film of layers: the war; the importance of books; the importance of empathy; the importance of friendships. And then there was the elegance of the cinematography. Even the garden scenes and Isola's flower-filled home had the light and painterly quality of a painting.
It reminded me of what a new friend said when she wrote to me recently. "Where has the fabulousness of life gone? Where is the magic?" Well, it was there, in Isola's greenhouse, in a lovely film with a title so long it would barely fit into a modern-day tweet.
I hope you get the chance to see The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. In the meantime, here are a few more beautiful things, to help you cope with this expeditious life we're all leading.
(There's a good little piece about the backstory behind the story here -- LA TIMES )
(Top image from Zimmerman's new collection, 'Corsage' -- more on this below.)
(HOW TO WRITE YOUR OWN BOOK)
If you dream of writing your own book, be it a design book, memoir, or novel, I hope you'll come along to our intensive, one-day WRITING AND PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS. They not only look at the nuts and bolts of writing a book, but also how to get your book or proposal to the attention of publisher.
It's short notice, I know, but there's ONE place left this weekend -- Sunday August 26 -- in the library at my beachside home on the coast of the Mornington Peninsula. And TWO places on Sunday, September 2nd, in a beautiful venue in Melbourne.
There may be another Writing and Publishing Workshop in London in mid-September (we're just finalizing it now) -- please email me for details (email on website).
More than anything, I would love to help you all with your books, whether they're novels, biographies, memoirs, travel books, design and architecture books, or anything you'd like to write. We need more good stories in this world.
See this link -- www.janellemcculloch-officialwebsite.com for details
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NB: A huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who has bought Gardens of Style: Private Hideaways of the Design World (Rizzoli New York). Your support and sales helped it reach number one on Amazon (US) in the 'Garden Design' category in May. I am so deeply grateful, and so very touched, as is everyone who worked on this wonderful book. It was a beautiful project, and I'm so thankful to the entire team. Even Tory Burch did a lovely post on it here -- TORY BURCH
THE GARDENS OF BUNNY MELLON
Here's a glimpse of the glorious new book about by Linda Holden about the style and gardening icon Bunny Mellon. With last year's biography being such a huge success, it was inevitable that more books about this extraordinary person would follow.
Bunny Mellon was known for her wealth but she was also incredibly talented at garden design. One of her commissions was the the formal and vegetable gardens at Hubert de Givenchy's French home, Château du Jonchet. (Mellon, in turn, had many of her clothes designed by Givenchy, including her gardening hats and smocks.)
This book features many of Ms Mellon's garden plans, watercolors, and illustrations, as well as vintage photographs by Horst, Aarons, and others of Mellon's gardens, including her main residence, Oak Spring (above), and also her gardens and homes in Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua, and New York.
PS There's a wonderful article about Bunny Mellon's interiors and garden by Architectural Digest here -- BUNNY MELLON
Vendome Press. Published October 30, 2018. US$60
TORY BURCH AND BUNNY MELLON
A stylish addendum to the book about Bunny Mellon, above, is the recent article in US Vogue about fashion designer Tory Burch, who bought Bunny Mellon's estate in Antigua, in the Caribbean. Burch has spent the last few years restoring it, with the help of landscape designer Miranda Brooks (who did Anna Wintour's home), and interior designer Daniel Romualdez. The word are almost more interesting than the images, so do read it -- it's beautifully written by Hamish Bowles, who I think is underrated as a storyteller.
I particularly loved the trellised garden room in this tropical hideaway, above. The image on the left is its current form, after Tory Burch's restoration. The image on the right is when Bunny Mellon had it, filled with her beloved pots and plants and topiary.
LINK HERE – VOGUE
GARDEN ROOM GLAMOUR
If you fancy a trellised garden room of your own, House and Garden UK has just featured this glorious wallpaper -- 'Botanical French Trellis' -- a custom-made wallpaper mural, from £294 a square meter. It's from Iksel. Guaranteed to make even the smallest powder room feel like a grand conservatory.
DETAILS HERE -– HOUSE & GARDEN
LINK HERE – IKSEL
THE NEW CORSAGE COLLECTION
(CONSERVATORY CHIC)
Do you follow Zimmerman? It's a gorgeous Australian label that's become a major name in New York and London. I adored the Edwardian-looking pieces earlier this year. The forthcoming Corsage Collection (above) is sublime.
LINK HERE – ZIMMERMAN
LONDON MEETS NEW YORK CITY
One of the most glamorous homes I've seen this year has just been featured in House & Garden UK. Designed for a couple who moved back to London after being in New York for years, it mixes Manhattan glamour with English understatement.
The design firm was Maddux Creative, a two-person show made up of Scott Maddux and Jo leGleud. They commissioned the paint specialist Isabelle Day to colour the arched entrance hall in Ben Nicholson-esque blocks of blue and sage and ochre, and then saturate the dining green in deep viridian green, which blends seamlessly with the view of the garden. In the white marble in the adjoining kitchen, rolling library ladders provide access to high cupboards, while the drawing room features an elegant curved sofa by Vladimir Kagan and voluminous, asymmetric curtains inspired by Alber Elbaz's designs for Lanvin.
The bathroom, however, is the pièce de résistance. Inspired by Le Meurice hotel in Paris, it is a lavish marriage of unlacquered brass and Arabescato marble.
LINK HERE – House & Garden UK
THE WORLD OF CABANA
If you love design, you must look for an issue of Cabana Magazine, the bi-annual tome that covers some of the most intriguing, elaborate, and extraordinary interiors in the world. But if you can't find it, the beautiful new book – Cabana Anthology by Martina Mondadori Sartogo – covers all ten issues.
In the words of its author, Cabana Anthology explores the "intellectual and emotional intimacy with buildings and their surroundings... the intense relationship of thought, place and the person." Cabana Anthology, says its author, is about "the magic of atmosphere and aesthetics inspired by the classics and Italian art history, and interiors where old and new are assembled to reflect the soul and history of a person or a family, not a stylist."
Look for it in bookstores, or order online.
DIOR AND HIS DECORATORS: A NEW BOOK
Whenever today's tastemakers reach for gray and white, leopard and houndstooth, satin skirts and sunburst mirrors, they pay homage to the chic of Dior. Now a new book chronicles the great couturier's love of interiors and furniture. DIOR AND HIS DECORATORS is the first work on the two Parisian interior designers most closely associated with Christian Dior, Victor Grandpierre and Georges Geoffrey, and the first study of the evolution of Dior's aesthetic as seen through his houses.
Author Maureen Footer, an expert in French decorative arts and former interior designer in her own right, recounts the lives and work of this influential trio, illustrated with a trove of evocative vintage photographs. Grandpierre created not only the chic, elegantly restrained look of Dior's salons (pale gray walls, white moldings, and Louis XVI–style chairs) but also the template for the Dior brand, including typeface, logo, signage, and packaging—still followed to this day. Georges Geffroy, an aesthete and connoisseur of eighteenth-century antiques, shepherded Dior into the couture world with an introduction to the couturier Robert Piguet in 1937. When Dior acquired a townhouse in the fashionable 16th arrondisement, he asked both Grandpierre and Geffroy (who worked independently) to design the interior, assigning the private rooms to the former and the public rooms to the latter. The results were, like Dior's haute couture creations, rich, sensual, and refined.
After Dior's untimely death in 1957, both Grandpierre and Geffroy went on to design salons for other couturiers, as well as homes for royals, Parisian socialites, fabulously wealthy ex-pats, and celebrated film stars and artists, ranging from Yves Saint Laurent and Marcel Rochas to Baron de Redé, Arturo López-Willshaw, Élie and Liliane de Rothschild, Gloria Guinness, Daisy Fellowes, and Maria Callas.
There's a good article by Architectural Digest here – DIOR in AD
Abrams. Published September 2018.
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GARDENS OF STYLE in the NY Times and Architectural Digest
If you follow the New York Times' T magazine's Instagram page, Architectural Digest's online feed, and my own modest (and irregularly updated) Instagram page (LINK HERE), you'll know that a beautiful and rather ambitious book we've been working on for many years called GARDENS OF STYLE: PRIVATE HIDEAWAYS OF THE DESIGN WORLD has just been published by New York publishing company Rizzoli.
This book was such a team effort, and we are all so thrilled to see the final result! It was such a risky book, but has turned out beautifully -- mostly thanks to all the wonderful people involved in the project.
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All the designers featured in GARDENS OF STYLE were all such a delight to work with. They are all hands-on gardeners, and their gardens are not just testament to their green thumbs but also serve as beautiful inspiration for their fashion and design collections.
Aerin Lauder, Bunny Williams, Carolyne Roehm, Ben Pentreath, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Celerie Kemble, Robert Couturier, Paolo Moschino, Gary McBournie, Roman and Williams, and many others featured in this book have all drawn on their private gardens for their work, using the flowers, foliage, lines and forms to influence and inform their projects and collections.
Two of the designers, Christian Dior and David Hicks, were as famous for their gardens as they were for their designs, with Dior using his beloved flowers to create his magnificent silhouettes. In fact, writing the Dior chapter was unexpectedly moving, knowing that he always viewed himself as "a simple gardener" rather than a couturier, and always suspected he would have been happier had he been allowed to retreat from the world and the stresses of his fashion collections to tend to his beloved rose beds.
GARDENS OF STYLE was commissioned by Rizzoli in late 2015, and it has particular significance for me, because I began work on it only a few weeks after my father passed away from a brain tumour in September that year. In fact, I flew from Australia to New York for the first editorial meeting barely two weeks after my father's memorial service. I'm sure I looked a mess after months of crying, but my editor was very gracious, and so we began the long and complicated process of planning the gardens to be featured.
This was aways going to be a difficult book, not just because of the logistics involved in shooting all the international gardens -- shoots rely on seasons and weather as much as their owners and their schedules -- but also because of the sheer distances involved. For one of the shoots, I flew from Australia to Provence and back again in 4 days - 48 hours of flying in total -- and then, just three days later, I repacked the bag and flew 24 hours back to Europe again. Another time, I flew home from New York to Australia, received an email to shoot Aerin Lauder's magnificent garden in the Hamptons, and got a flight straight back to the US again. And yet another garden, in the Dominican Republic, was shot a week before a major hurricane hit. But every air mile was worth it to venture beyond the garden gates of these remarkable estates and gardens, all of which are private, and most of which are rarely open to the public.
It really was a great, great privilege to see these places, and an even greater privilege to shoot them. I am still grateful. So very, very grateful.
From the elegant formality of David Hicks' famous garden in Oxfordshire to the romantic flower beds of Carolyne Roehm's country estate in Connecticut to the enormous potager and overflowing produce of Emma Bridgewater's castle garden in England to the astounding design of Celerie Kemble's tropical hideaway in the Dominican Republic, every garden featured has its own beauty, its own charm, its own secrets, it own splendour.
Perhaps what I remember most about doing this book is the people who helped produce this book -- the designers who created and own these gardens, the head gardeners who clipped the hedges and parterres ready for photographing, the assistants and staff who helped set up the shoots, and of course the entire team at Rizzoli, who helped polish it ready for publication.
There were also many, many wonderful lunches and teas with these designers, and no words can adequately express how grateful I was for these lovely balmy afternoon, amongst the flower beds and box hedges. Some of the gardens were so beautiful, I had a quiet tear when I got in the hire car and drove away.
I hope the beauty of these magnificent estates is evident on the pages. And I hope that, if you buy a copy (a great Mother's Day -- hint hint!), you enjoy these gardens as much as I and my team has done.
GARDENS OF STYLE: PRIVATE HIDEAWAYS OF THE DESIGN WORLD
Rizzoli New York
Available through most bookshops, or online.
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GARDENER'S TRAVEL COMPANION TO ENGLAND
Published by Images Publishing, Sept 2019
Published by Rizzoli New York, 2018
LONDON SECRETS: STYLE, DESIGN, GLAMOUR, GARDENS
Images Publishing, June 2017
PARIS: A GUIDE TO THE CITY'S CREATIVE HEART (2012)
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PARIS IN STYLE
BESTSELLING GUIDE TO THE CITY'S FASHION, STYLE AND DESIGN DESTINATIONS, PUBLISHED OCT 2015 (MUP)
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Featuring my photographs of Versailles
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Take a stroll through the real Paris with Janelle McCulloch's beautifully photographed and gorgeously packaged book. Visually rich and totally inspiring, Paris is a treasure for lovers of art, style, design and food. Anthropologie New York
More secret addresses from the well-travelled Janelle McCulloch, Paris Secrets is an ode to the City of Light. C'est si bon! Australian Vogue
The City of Love can be grimy, chaotic and a rip-off but Janelle McCulloch gives Paris buff and shine. Lisa Carapiet, The Australian Financial Review
One of the loveliest books to arrive on my desk this year… Holly Kerry Forsyth (on Country Estates of Australia) in The Weekend Australian newspaper.
For Francophiles, Janelle McCulloch's words and photographs in Provence and the Cote D'Azur deliver a decent French fix. Anyone unsure exactly what appeals to so many about the south of France is most likely to be convinced of the region's charm, beauty and style after perusing McCulloch's photo-filled tome. Adelaide Advertiser newspaer.
The prettiest guesthouses and hotels in Provence… The Weekend Australian newspaper (front cover).
In her recent book, Design in Black and White, Janelle McCulloch writes that black and white is being rediscovered. One of the reasons for this revival is that black and white is impervious to fashion." Simon Caterson, The Weekend Australian newspaper.
Janelle McCulloch's writes with the heart of a romantic. How could anyone not enjoy seeing Paris through her eyes? Peggy Kopman-Owens, Amazon.
I loved this book. It's definitely the most interesting guidebook for Paris I've ever read. She mentioned a lot of really interesting shops and museums. The pictures are stunning and her writing isn't half bad. (I really liked how she wrote about the character of each arrondissement.) Good job Janelle McCulloch! Amanda M. Amazon
If you haven't yet visited Paris, this is the book that will make you want to get there before you die. As you delve into the well thoughtout pages you will practically feel the Parisian atmosphere and picture the offbeat, out-of-the-way spots and the famous landmarks! In a word, this book is: Captivating! Angus & Robertson website.
McCulloch captures the delight of these gardens {in a book that] provides the reader with a wealth of ideas. Chicago Botanic Garden, on The Modern Kitchen Garden
Her latest book is a visual feast of more than 500 glorious photographs of both classical and modern designs. ABC Radio on The Modern Kitchen Garden
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The Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 40.3 is a distinctive yacht of great style and performance.
With twin helm stations allowing high-side operation and visibility, 40 feet of overall length, a 13-foot beam, a 5-foot bulb keel, a large spade rudder, and a 54-foot mast carrying 800 feet of sail area, this is a big yacht that sails brilliantly in any seas. Her state-of-the-art rigging includes an in-mast furling mainsail and 120% furling genoa that are both entirely controlled from the cockpit by four large Harken winches, providing maximum safety and convenience.
The size of the Jeanneau 40.3 makes her very comfortable on deck. She easily accommodates nine passengers seated in her spacious cockpit. Forward she has much area for sun bathing and moving about. Twin helm stations are mounted port and starboard. This opens the center of the cockpit for unobstructed movement under sail. Cockpit seats and floors are inlaid with nicely finished, glowing teak. A sizable teak inlaid swim platform lets guests easily access the water. Her twin helm stations have two large leather-wrapped steering wheels and areas housing top-quality Raymarine instrumentation including autopilot, boat speed, depth, log, and wind speed and direction instruments and repeaters. A Raymarine color cartographic GPS with electronic charts is also mounted in the cockpit.
The Jeanneau 40.3 is breathtaking below deck. Spacious and intelligently laid out, she is warm and inviting – the perfect venue for a unique dinner with family or friends. Finely finished teak is used throughout. She has two sleeping cabins, forward and aft, with fine cabinetry and large hatches for ventilation. The main salon provides a large table with U-shaped seating for seven. Two wide seats flank another table on the port side. A forward-facing NAV station desk also lays to port. The plasma screen mounted on the bulkhead is visible throughout the salon. Her sizable L-shaped galley provides a two-burner stove, oven, refrigerator and a double sink with hot and cold pressure water. The galley is stocked with quality wine glasses, plates, silverware, cookware and utensils. Abundant teak cabinetry surrounds the salon and galley areas, and the floor is holly and teak. The entire space is bathed with natural light from many opening windows and hatches. Her head is sizable with a separate shower compartment.


I hear lots theories of why US Mens' soccer doesn't dominate on the world stage. I think below is the key reason.
As a side note, I coach some 10 and 11 year-olds in soccer. I've tried for years to get them to learn to juggle. They have plenty of excuses for not doing it. It's boring. It's too hard. I was too busy. The weather was bad.
On a jog a few months ago, I passed a house with an 8-year-old Hispanic kid in the front yard playing. It looked like he was with his Dad as his Dad was doing some work for a homeowner inside. He was juggling a tape measure. Yes, a tape measure. He was holding it by the tape and dangling it and using his feet to juggle the case of the tape measure.
He wanted to learn to juggle because he thought it was cool, not because an adult coach told him to do it. He didn't have a ball, so he improvised.
Just like the kids in the above picture in Argentina, they didn't need a $100 ball to kick around on a million dollar sports field with a licensed coach leading them in drills. They improvised. Plastic bottles in the street will do.
Kids in the US don't improvise. Soccer is something they do in practice. The ball stays in the garage at home, until the next practice. If they play soccer on their own, it's the FIFA video game.
UPDATE: I'd like to add that the 5-year-old on the right side of the Argentina picture displays some elements in driving (i.e. kicking) form that average 10-year-olds in the U.S. do not have.
First, he's holding his hand opposite of kicking foot high in the air. This keeps his chest up, maintains balance and squares his body weight to the ball so more of his body's momentum gets transferred into the ball on the strike.
The average 10-year-old the States keeps that arm down and folds their opposite shoulder over as they strike the ball, losing all the momentum from the opposite side of their body and thus losing power on their shot.
Second, he's loading his striking leg (pulling it way back), before the kick. This ensures that his foot strikes the ball at maximum speed on the swing. The average 10-year-old in the States, pulls the kicking leg back a few inches before kicking, and usually strikes the ball when the leg is somewhere between a quarter or half max speed.
Third, he's looking at the bottle he's about to kick. This helps him make good contact. Like any swinging form, golf or baseball bats, good contact is the key. The average 10-year-old in the states is looking where he wants to kick at this stage, instead of looking at the ball.
The question I have is how did that 5-year-old learn this? By watching and emulating his favorites? By being ridiculed by friends in the street when he did it wrong? I'm guessing a little of both. Who knows, maybe they even teach it at school. Or, perhaps, he just happens to be an exceptional Argentinean kid? Maybe.
I happened to hear a local radio station talk to Leslie Jones, comedian and actor, known for her lively performances on SNL and soon-to-be-known as a Ghostbuster.
I thought what she had to say was very wise and worth repeating.
First, during the interview, one of the DJ sidekicks mentioned his try at stand-up comedy. He bombed. He said it felt worse than death and hated that feeling. He asked Leslie how she deals with it.
She said, Bombing on stage is a part of being a comedian. You shouldn't dread it. Learn from it. It's really not a big deal.
That's why she's a comedian and he's not. She understands that nothing's perfect, not everyone will think your funny and some nights just won't go so well. But, she doesn't let that stop her.
When asked what she thought about the criticism the new Ghostbusters is receiving, her response was, she doesn't take it seriously. I mean, the movie isn't even about real things. There's no such thing as a ghost buster. It's just for fun. Some people say I ruined their childhood [with this remake]. Honey, if this ruined your childhood your childhood was already much too delicate.


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Carolina Augusta Maria de Gloucester (24 de junho de 1774 - 14 de março de 1775) foi membro da família real britânica, bisneta do rei Jorge II, sobrinha do rei Jorge III e filha do príncipe Guilherme Henrique, duque de Gloucester e Edimburgo, e da sua esposa, Maria Walpole, filha de Sir Edward Walpole e da sua amante, Dorothy Clement.

Nascimento e Baptizado

A princesa Carolina nasceu em Gloucester House, em Piccadilly Street, Londres. O seu pai era o príncipe Guilherme Henrique, duque de Gloucester e Edimburgo, terceiro filho do príncipe de Gales, e a sua mãe era a duquesa de Gloucester, antes duquesa Waldrave, nascid Walpole. Foi baptizada em privado, vinte-e-nove dias depois de nascer, com os nomes de Carolina Augusta Maria. Os seus padrinhos foram o rei Frederico I de Württemberg, seu uncle-in-law, a duquesa Augusta de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, sua tia paterna, e a duquesa de Gloucester, sua mãe.

Morte

No início de Março de 1775, o duque de Gloucester e Edimburgo ficou gravemente doente com varíola. Estava com a saúde tão fragilizada que decidiu viajar para o estrangeiro, achando que uma mudança de cenário seria benéfica. Contudo, antes de partir, quis certificar-se de que as suas filhas não sofreriam como ele, por isso ordenou que a princesa Sofia e princesa Carolina fossem vacinadas contra a varíola, o que aconteceu a 3 de Março. A princesa Sofia, que tinha dois anos de idade na altura, sobreviveu e pensasse que não terá sofrido efeitos secundários. Contudo, a princesa Carolina ficou gravemente doente dez dias depois, a 13 de Março, sofrendo de ataques e desmaios. A princesa morreu a 14 de Março, quase com nove meses de idade. O seu corpo encontra-se enterrado na Capela de São Jorge, no Castelo de Windsor.

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Mastering the digital transformation, and building a robust future: ensuring quality journalism doesn't go the way of opera – highly respected, but for elite audiences and heavily subsidised.
Drawing on extensive research involving over 60 interviews in over twenty organisations including the Washington Post, Vox, Vice, the Financial Times, the Economist, Axel Springer, Schibsted, the New York Times, Le Monde and many more, this new report, by Lucy Kueng, Going Digital: A roadmap for organisational transformation analyses how organisations can 'disrupt themselves' to master the digital environment, and core dimensions of best practice in such a transformation.
Other key elements explored by Kueng include tech and data, digital storytelling and the need for radical culture change.
The merging of journalism, tech, and data inside organisations, has been one of the biggest internal shifts in the industry in recent years and the report looks at how this is taking place. It finds these areas are blending in four areas: product, data, social media, and digital storytelling.
Culture change has been a major 'pain point' for legacy media in recent years, and the report analyses the two key cultural challenges: implanting the realisation that leadership in one tech era does not automatically confer leadership in the next, and merging the cultures of content and engineering. The report argues that the first is best achieved through a combination of strong leadership messaging combined with exposure to the speed of change outside the 'organisation bubble'. A range of measures can address the second, including embedding tech experts in the newsroom and ensuring large tech projects have an implicit culture change component.
The era of the leader as digital visionary is waning. Organisations now 'get' the need for change, and the leadership challenges centre on finding the right long-term strategy, solving the business model challenge, and keeping the pressure up on digital transformation. The leadership imperative has progressed past the need to issue 'calls for digital action' to hard-nosed implementation.
Research: What lies ahead for virtual reality in the newsroom?


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Large Sovereign Wealth Funds Stacking Cash, While Finding Buying Opportunities
Europe's International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) based in London and State Street have teamed up to make a report about the condition of the world's sovereign wealth funds by analyzing capital flows and speaking to a sample group of fund representatives. The new report denied rumors that countries were following Norway's lead and raiding their sovereign wealth funds: "Rather than tapping their rainy-day funds, several governments from oil-rich nations, from the Arabian Gulf to Kazakhstan, have recently borrowed from the international bond markets to cover budget shortfalls." SWFs as a whole are in reasonable shape. At the start of 2020, many were already heavily in cash according to IFSWF, and this finding can be confirmed in SWFI's March 2020 survey in which 31% revealed plans for an overweight cash position for the next 12 months.
That is not to say that sovereign wealth funds haven't taken a beating on their equity and other positions, as bellwether Norway Government Pension Fund Global counted losses of €112 billion in March 2020. Some of those losses have likely been replenished given the stock market rally of April and May. Government responses have also been robust, supporting everything from mortgage-backed securities to junk bond ETFs. SWFs did not sell into weakness generally, but there was a "flight to safety towards the U.S." The results of the research thus indicate an optimistic future and renewed confidence.
The report also states that "selective risk taking and rebalancing" is occurring. In fact, many large funds have engaged in new purchases, as SWFI has been reporting in recent weeks. Saudi Arabia's US$ 300 billion Public Investment Fund (PIF) has been a particularly active purchaser of listed companies at a discounted rate. PIF took stakes in Facebook (for US$ 491 million), Walt Disney (for US$ 522 million), Marriott (for US$ 514 million), and Cisco (for US$ 491 million). Banks Citigroup (for US$ 522 million) and Bank of America (for US$ 488 million) were scooped up. Even Boeing, which drew the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration into its downward spiral, saw US$ 714 million from PIF. Boeing stock fell by 60% in 2020. Carnival Cruise Line saw inflows of US$ 369 million from PIF and concert company Live Nation also saw US$ 500 million. Equinor, Royal Dutch Shell, Total SA and Eni SpA looked attractive enough for PIF to place US$ 1 billion in them combined. England's oil major BP was PIF's favorite, taking in an investment of US$ 827.7 million. A number of smaller purchases include Berkshire Hathaway, Broadcom, Qualcom, IBM, Pfizer, Starbucks, Union Pacific, ADP, and Booking Holdings.
While there are many doomsayers, one voice that would agree with PIF's U.S. purchases is geopolitical strategist and former U.S. State Department employee Peter Zeihan. In his 2019 talk on "Millennial Consumption," Zeihan said demographics are on the side of America: "Today, courtesy of the millennials, the United States is the top consuming power. And today, courtesy of the boomers, the United States is the top investment power. But in just 11 years the United States is the only consumption power and the only investment power." Zeihan says instability is a plus for the U.S.: "Every time there's a geopolitical hiccup, we get these surges of capital flight to the American market because there's nowhere else to go." This last prediction has already proven accurate, with foreign money fleeing the developing world in favor of the U.S. in 2020.
Public Investment Fund


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Q: Coarse-grained vs fine-grained What is the difference between coarse-grained and fine-grained?
I have searched these terms on Google, but I couldn't find what they mean.

A: One more way to understand would be to think in terms of communication between processes and threads. Processes communicate with the help of coarse grained communication mechanisms like sockets, signal handlers, shared memory, semaphores and files. Threads, on the other hand, have access to shared memory space that belongs to a process, which allows them to apply finer grain communication mechanisms.
Source: Java concurrency in practice

A: In simple terms

*

*Coarse-grained - larger components than fine-grained, large subcomponents. Simply wraps one or more fine-grained services together into a more coarse-grained operation.

*Fine-grained  - smaller components of which the larger ones are composed, lowerlevel service

It is better to have more coarse-grained service operations, which are composed by fine-grained operations

A: Coarse-grained: A few ojects hold a lot of related data that's why services have broader scope in functionality. Example: A single "Account" object holds the customer name, address, account balance, opening date, last change date, etc.
Thus: Increased design complexity, smaller number of cells to various operations
Fine-grained: More objects each holding less data that's why services have more narrow scope in functionality. Example: An Account object holds balance, a Customer object holds name and address, a AccountOpenings object holds opening date, etc.
Thus: Decreased design complexity , higher number of cells to various service operations.
These are relationships defined between these objects.

A: In the context of services:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Granularity_Principle

By definition a coarse-grained service operation has broader scope
  than a fine-grained service, although the terms are relative. The
  former typically requires increased design complexity but can reduce
  the number of calls required to complete a task.

A fine grained service interface is about the same like chatty interface.

A: In term of dataset like a text file ,Coarse-grained meaning we can transform the whole dataset but not an individual element on the dataset While fine-grained means we can transform individual element on the dataset.

A: Coarse-grained and Fine-grained both think about optimizing a number of servicess. But the difference is in the level. I like to explain with an example, you will understand easily.
Fine-grained: For example, I have 100 services like findbyId, findbyCategry, findbyName...... so on. Instead of that many services why we can not provide find(id, category, name....so on). So this way we can reduce the services. This is just an example, but the goal is how to optimize the number of services.
Coarse-grained: For example, I have 100 clients, each client have their own set of 100 services. So I have to provide 100*100 total services. It is very much difficult. Instead of that what I do is, I identify all common services which apply to most of the clients as one service set and remaining separately. For example in 100 services 50 services are common. So I have to manage 100*50 + 50 only.

A: From Wikipedia (granularity):

Granularity is the extent to which a
  system is broken down into small
  parts, either the system itself or its
  description or observation. It is the
  extent to which a larger entity is
  subdivided. For example, a yard broken
  into inches has finer granularity than
  a yard broken into feet.
Coarse-grained systems consist of
  fewer, larger components than
  fine-grained systems; a coarse-grained
  description of a system regards large
  subcomponents while a fine-grained
  description regards smaller components
  of which the larger ones are composed.

A: Coarse-grained granularity does not always mean bigger components, if you go by literally meaning of the word coarse, it means harsh, or not appropriate. e.g. In software projects management, if you breakdown a small system into few components, which are equal in size, but varies in complexities and features, this could lead to a coarse-grained granularity. In reverse, for a fine-grained breakdown, you would divide the components based on their cohesiveness of the functionalities each component is providing.

A: coarse grained and fine grained. Both of these modes define how the cores are shared
between multiple Spark tasks. As the name suggests, fine-grained mode is
responsible for sharing the cores at a more granular level. Fine-grained mode has been deprecated by Spark and will soon be removed.

A: Corse-grained services provides broader functionalities as compared to fine-grained service. Depending on the business domain, a single service can be created to serve a single business unit or specialised multiple fine-grained services can be created if subunits are largely independent of each other.
Coarse grained service may get more difficult may be less adaptable to change due to its size while fine-grained service may introduce additional complexity of managing multiple services.

A: Granularity has an important application while storing large scale data where space is very important.
The meaning of granularity according to Oxford dictionary is -
"The scale or level of detail in a set of data."
According to Cambridge dictionary -
"A lot of small details included in information, making it possible for you to understand very clearly what is happening"
So from the word specific meaning, it is some kind of partition of data for a continuous  process.
Finer granularity consists of small interval partition, so that detailed representation can be achieved.
On the other hand, coarser granularity is larger frame interval, so that it can save storage.
Uses of two types of granularity is application specific.
For example- If we have an application, where recent time information is more important than the older information. For detailed representation of recent data can be found by finer granularity, while for older data representation we can use coarser granularity.


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package org.apache.felix.webconsole.internal.misc;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.apache.felix.utils.manifest.Clause;
import org.apache.felix.utils.manifest.Parser;
import org.apache.felix.webconsole.DefaultVariableResolver;
import org.apache.felix.webconsole.SimpleWebConsolePlugin;
import org.apache.felix.webconsole.WebConsoleUtil;
import org.apache.felix.webconsole.internal.OsgiManagerPlugin;
import org.apache.felix.webconsole.internal.Util;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.osgi.framework.Bundle;

/**
 * LicenseServlet provides the licenses plugin that browses through the bundles,
 * searching for common license files.
 *
 * TODO: add support for 'Bundle-License' manifest header
 */
public final class LicenseServlet extends SimpleWebConsolePlugin implements OsgiManagerPlugin
{
    // common names (without extension) of the license files.
    static final String LICENSE_FILES[] =
        { "README", "DISCLAIMER", "LICENSE", "NOTICE", "DEPENDENCIES" };

    static final String LABEL = "licenses";
    static final String TITLE = "%licenses.pluginTitle";
    static final String CSS[] = { "/res/ui/license.css" };

    // templates
    private final String TEMPLATE;

    /**
     * Default constructor
     */
    public LicenseServlet()
    {
        super(LABEL, TITLE, CSS);

        // load templates
        TEMPLATE = readTemplateFile( "/templates/license.html" );
    }

    /**
     * @see org.apache.felix.webconsole.AbstractWebConsolePlugin#doGet(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse)
     */
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
        throws ServletException, IOException
    {
        final PathInfo pathInfo = PathInfo.parse( request.getPathInfo() );
        if ( pathInfo != null )
        {
            if ( !sendResource( pathInfo, response ) )
            {
                response.sendError( HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND, "Cannot send data .." );
            }
        }
        else
        {
            super.doGet( request, response );
        }
    }

    /**
     * @see org.apache.felix.webconsole.AbstractWebConsolePlugin#renderContent(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse)
     */
    protected void renderContent( HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse res ) throws IOException
    {
        Bundle[] bundles = getBundleContext().getBundles();
        Util.sort( bundles, request.getLocale() );

        // prepare variables
        DefaultVariableResolver vars = ( ( DefaultVariableResolver ) WebConsoleUtil.getVariableResolver( request ) );
        vars.put( "__data__", getBundleData( bundles, request.getLocale() ).toString());

        res.getWriter().print(TEMPLATE);
    }

    private static final JSONArray getBundleData(Bundle[] bundles, Locale locale) throws IOException
    {
        JSONArray ret = new JSONArray();
        try
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < bundles.length; i++)
            {
                Bundle bundle = bundles[i];

                JSONObject files = findResource(bundle, LICENSE_FILES);
                addLicensesFromHeader(bundle, files);
                if (files.length() > 0)
                { // has resources
                    JSONObject data = new JSONObject();
                    data.put( "bid", bundle.getBundleId() );
                    data.put( "title", Util.getName( bundle, locale ) );
                    data.put( "files", files );
                    ret.put( data );
                }
            }
        }
        catch (JSONException je)
        {
            throw new IOException(je.toString());
        }
        return ret;
    }

    private static final String getName( String path )
    {
        return path.substring( path.lastIndexOf( '/' ) + 1 );
    }

    private static final JSONObject addLicensesFromHeader(Bundle bundle, JSONObject files)
        throws JSONException
    {
        String target = (String) bundle.getHeaders("").get("Bundle-License");
        if (target != null)
        {
            Clause[] licenses = Parser.parseHeader(target);
            for (int i = 0; licenses != null && i < licenses.length; i++)
            {
                final String name = licenses[i].getName();
                if (!"<<EXTERNAL>>".equals(name))
                {
                    final String link = licenses[i].getAttribute("link");
                    final String path;
                    final String url;
                    if (link == null)
                    {
                        path = name;
                        url = getName(name);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        path = link;
                        url = name;
                    }

                    // skip entry URL is bundle resources, but doesn't exists
                    if (path.indexOf("://") == -1 && null == bundle.getEntry(path))
                        continue;

                    JSONObject entry = new JSONObject();
                    entry.put("path", path);
                    entry.put("url", url);
                    files.append("__res__", entry);
                }
            }
        }
        return files;
    }

    private static final JSONObject findResource( Bundle bundle, String[] patterns ) throws IOException, JSONException
    {
        JSONObject ret = new JSONObject();

        for ( int i = 0; i < patterns.length; i++ )
        {
            Enumeration entries = bundle.findEntries( "/", patterns[i] + "*", true );
            if ( entries != null )
            {
                while ( entries.hasMoreElements() )
                {
                    URL url = ( URL ) entries.nextElement();
                    JSONObject entry = new JSONObject();
                    entry.put( "path", url.getPath() );
                    entry.put( "url", getName( url.getPath() ) );
                    ret.append( "__res__", entry );
                }
            }
        }

        Enumeration entries = bundle.findEntries( "/", "*.jar", true );
        if ( entries != null )
        {
            while ( entries.hasMoreElements() )
            {
                URL url = ( URL ) entries.nextElement();
                final String resName = getName( url.getPath() );

                InputStream ins = null;
                try
                {
                    ins = url.openStream();
                    ZipInputStream zin = new ZipInputStream( ins );
                    for ( ZipEntry zentry = zin.getNextEntry(); zentry != null; zentry = zin.getNextEntry() )
                    {
                        String name = zentry.getName();

                        // ignore directory entries
                        if ( name.endsWith( "/" ) )
                        {
                            continue;
                        }

                        // cut off path and use file name for checking against patterns
                        name = name.substring( name.lastIndexOf( '/' ) + 1 );
                        for ( int i = 0; i < patterns.length; i++ )
                        {
                            if ( name.startsWith( patterns[i] ) )
                            {
                                JSONObject entry = new JSONObject();
                                entry.put( "jar", url.getPath() );
                                entry.put( "path", zentry.getName() );
                                entry.put( "url", getName( name ) );
                                ret.append( resName, entry );
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                finally
                {
                    IOUtils.closeQuietly( ins );
                }

            }
        }

        return ret;
    }

    private boolean sendResource( final PathInfo pathInfo, final HttpServletResponse response ) throws IOException
    {

        final String name = pathInfo.licenseFile.substring( pathInfo.licenseFile.lastIndexOf( '/' ) + 1 );
        boolean isLicense = false;
        for ( int i = 0; !isLicense && i < LICENSE_FILES.length; i++ )
        {
            isLicense = name.startsWith( LICENSE_FILES[i] );
        }

        final Bundle bundle = getBundleContext().getBundle( pathInfo.bundleId );
        if ( bundle == null )
        {
            return false;
        }

        // prepare the response
        WebConsoleUtil.setNoCache( response );
        response.setContentType( "text/plain" );

        if ( pathInfo.innerJar == null )
        {
            final URL resource = bundle.getResource( pathInfo.licenseFile );
            if ( resource != null )
            {
                final InputStream input = resource.openStream();
                try
                {
                    IOUtils.copy( input, response.getWriter() );
                    return true;
                }
                finally
                {
                    IOUtils.closeQuietly( input );
                }
            }
        }
        else
        {
            // license is in a nested JAR
            final URL zipResource = bundle.getResource( pathInfo.innerJar );
            if ( zipResource != null )
            {
                final InputStream input = zipResource.openStream();
                ZipInputStream zin = null;
                try
                {
                    zin = new ZipInputStream( input );
                    for ( ZipEntry zentry = zin.getNextEntry(); zentry != null; zentry = zin.getNextEntry() )
                    {
                        if ( pathInfo.licenseFile.equals( zentry.getName() ) )
                        {
                            IOUtils.copy( zin, response.getWriter() );
                            return true;
                        }
                    }
                }
                finally
                {

                    IOUtils.closeQuietly( zin );
                    IOUtils.closeQuietly( input );
                }
            }
        }

        // throw new ServletException("License file:" + url + " not found!");
        return false;
    }

    // package private for unit testing of the parse method
    static class PathInfo
    {
        final long bundleId;
        final String innerJar;
        final String licenseFile;

        static PathInfo parse( final String pathInfo )
        {
            if ( pathInfo == null || pathInfo.length() == 0 || !pathInfo.startsWith( "/" + LABEL + "/" ) )
            {
                return null;
            }

            // cut off label prefix including slashes around the label
            final String parts = pathInfo.substring( LABEL.length() + 2 );

            int slash = parts.indexOf( '/' );
            if ( slash <= 0 )
            {
                return null;
            }

            final long bundleId;
            try
            {
                bundleId = Long.parseLong( parts.substring( 0, slash ) );
                if ( bundleId < 0 )
                {
                    return null;
                }
            }
            catch ( NumberFormatException nfe )
            {
                // illegal bundle id
                return null;
            }

            final String innerJar;
            int jarSep = parts.indexOf( "!/", slash );
            if ( jarSep < 0 )
            {
                innerJar = null;
            }
            else
            {
                innerJar = parts.substring( slash, jarSep );
                slash = jarSep + 2; // ignore bang-slash
            }

            final String licenseFile = parts.substring( slash );

            return new PathInfo( bundleId, innerJar, licenseFile );
        }

        private PathInfo( final long bundleId, final String innerJar, final String licenseFile )
        {
            this.bundleId = bundleId;
            this.innerJar = innerJar;
            this.licenseFile = licenseFile;
        }
    }
}

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Slated to open in 2020, the 13-story, 180-room hotel is the adaptive reuse of a Historic Core District building built in 1927 that was once the office for the Los Angeles Police Department Vice Squad.
Located at 419 S. Spring St., the hotel will be situated along Gallery Row, one of the city's top arts attractions, and within walking distance to Little Tokyo's shopping boutiques and trendy restaurants.
The hotel will be close to a number of cultural and entertainment options, including Grand Central Market, Museum of Contemporary Art, The STAPLES Center, Dodger Stadium, L.A. Live, and the Regent Theatre DTLA.
"Downtown Los Angeles has experienced major revitalization in the past decade, making Spring Street an ideal location to meet the renewed interest in the growing area. Choice is committed to expanding the Cambria Hotels brand throughout L.A. and this hotel joins the already open Cambria Hotel LAX, with several other new construction hotels in development in Anaheim, Burbank, and Calabasas," Janis Cannon, senior vice president, upscale brands, Choice Hotels, said in a press statement.
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Il Duello tra donne è un dipinto di Jusepe de Ribera, noto come lo Spagnoletto, realizzato a olio su tela 235 × 212 cm. È conservata al Museo del Prado di Madrid.

Il quadro, firmato e datato, venne realizzato a Napoli nel 1636.

Soggetto
Il quadro illustra un presunto episodio avvenuto a Napoli nel 1552: due donne, Isabella de Carazzi e Diambra de Pottinella, si sarebbero affrontate in duello alla presenza del marchese del Vasto per amore di un uomo chiamato Fabio di Zeresola.

Il soggetto del dipinto è stato anche interpretato come allegoria della lotta tra il Vizio e la Virtù.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Dipinti di Jusepe de Ribera
Dipinti a soggetto storico
Dipinti nel Prado


It's already been December for a while now and I am so not ready for Christmas! I have family coming soon from all over the place, presents are not sorted, I still need to buy some bits and pieces to complete my 1950s style outfit that I plan to wear on Christmas day as a little surprise for my Pop, and I have only just began finished week 2 of this study period at uni. You should all feel very sad for me because I actually have an assignment due on Dec 23rd! 😦 But I do have some exciting books that I hope to be able to review this month, plus some very nice Heavenly teas that I have been loving this week.
I wonder how many of these I will be able to make my way through by the end of the month? Stay tuned for some reviews coming soon, because I think I have some very enjoyable reading days coming my way soon!
I'm just going to post a short TBR list for March. I've just begun a new semester of uni which has a fairly heavy work load, so I want to take it a bit easy on myself. I will hopefully be able to sneak a few surprise reviews in, though!


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Q: How can I convert this CSV to JSON with Ruby? I am trying to convert a CSV file to JSON using Ruby. I am very, very, green when it comes to working with Ruby (or any language for that matter) so the answers may need to be dumbed down for me. Putting it in JSON seems like the most reasonable solution to me because I understand how to work with JSON when assigning variables equal to the attributes that come in the response. If there is a better way to do it, feel free to teach me.
My CSV is in the following format:
Header1,Header,Header3
ValueX,ValueY,ValueZ

I would like to be able to use the data to say something along the lines of this:
For each ValueX in Row 1 after the headers, check if valueZ is > ValueY. If yes, do this, if no do that. I understand how to do the if statement, just now how to parse out my information into variables/arrays.
Any ideas here?

A: require 'csv'
require 'json'
rows = []
CSV.foreach('a.csv', headers: true, converters: :all) do |row|
  rows << row.to_hash
end
puts rows.to_json
# => [{"Header1":"ValueX","Header":"ValueY","Header3":"ValueZ"}]

A: Here is a first pointer:
require 'csv'
data = CSV.read('your_file.csv', { :col_sep => ',' }

Now you should have the data in data; you can test in irb.
I don't entirely understand the question:
if z > y
  # do this
else
  # do that
end

For JSON, you should be able to do JSON.parse().
I am not sure what target format JSON requires, probably a Hash.
You can populate your hash with the dataset from the CVS:
hash = Hash.new
hash[key_goes_here] = value_here


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El Área Metropolitana de Shreveport – Bossier City, oficialmente Área Estadística Metropolitana de Shreveport – Bossier City LA MSA según la denominación utilizada por la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos; es un Área Estadística Metropolitana centrada en las ciudades Shreveport y Bossier City, estado de Luisiana, Estados Unidos.

Cuenta con una población de 398.604 habitantes según el censo de 2010.

Composición
Las 3 parroquias del área metropolitana y su población según los resultados del censo 2010:
 Bossier – 116.979 habitantes
 Caddo – 254.969 habitantes
 De Soto – 26.656 habitantes

Principales ciudades del área metropolitana
La ciudad más poblada es Shreveport, seguida en cantidad de habitantes por Bossier City, otras comunidades con más de 5.000 habitantes son Mansfield y Red Chute.

Referencias

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The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011

#### Published in
Flora, Jena 67: 283 (1884)

#### Original name
Pertusaria pertusella Müll. Arg.

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An exploration of the potential mechanisms and translational potential of five medicinal plants for applications in Alzheimer's disease
Taner Shakir, Ahmed Y Coulibaly, Patrick G Kehoe
Dementia Research Groups
Bristol Neuroscience
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, and represents a vast worldwide socio-economic burden, and in the absence of a current cure, effective therapeutic strategies are still needed. Cholinergic and cerebral blood flow deficits, excessive levels of oxidative stress, neuroinflammation and glutamate excitatory mechanisms are all believed to contribute to the development and progression of the disease. Scoparia dulcis, Catharanthus roseus, Sesamum indicum, Erythrina senegalensis and Vigna unguiculata represent five plants that have been used as traditional medicines for the treatment of AD in certain cultures. Review of the scientific literature was conducted to explore the properties of these plants that might be beneficial and explain what would be perceived by many to be largely anecdotal evidence of their benefit. All plants were found to possess varying levels of anti-oxidant capability. Scoparia dulcis was also found to potentiate nerve growth factor-like effects upon cell lines. Catharanthus roseus appears to inhibit acetylcholinesterase with relatively high potency, while Sesamum indicum demonstrated the strongest antioxidant ability. Comparisons with currently used plant derived therapeutics illustrate how these plants may be likely to have some therapeutic benefits in AD. The evidence presented also highlights how appropriate dietary supplementation with some of these plants in various cultural settings might have effects analogous or complementary to the so-called protective Mediterranean diet. However, prior to embarking on making any formal recommendations to this end, further rigorous evaluation is needed to better elucidate the breadth and potential toxicological aspects of medicinal properties harboured by these plants. This would be vital to ensuring a more informed and safe delivery of preparations of these plants if they were to be considered as a form of dietary supplementation and where appropriate, how these might interact with more formally established therapies in relation to AD.
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Watergate Street is put up for auction to the highest bidder
AN HISTORICAL painting of Chester will go under the hammer next month depicting the Watergate Street area of the city.
From viewing the painting it is easy to see how the street has hardly changed and how many features, including stone steps and wooden rows, remain today.
The painting, by artist Louise Rayner, will be put up for auction by Christie's on Thursday, November 20 at their base in King Street, London. The painting is expected to fetch between £12,000 and £18,000.
Rayner lived in Chester from 1870 until 1910 and some of her most detailed and colourful watercolours depict the cathedral and its environs.
One of the most ornate buildings in Watergate Street was named 'God's Providence House', as it was the only house left untouched by the plague.
The intriguing poster (lower left of the painting), with its inscription No -tice/West Cheshire Election/1881/Vote for Tollemache relates to the parliamentary elections held in that year.
The Tollemaches were a long-established Cheshire family. Records suggest that the Hon. Wilbraham Tollemache and Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, Bart, represented West Cheshire throughout the 1870s, and J. Tollemache of Dorfold replaced Sir Philip upon the latter's death in 1881.
The electoral poster is presumably canvassing support for J. Tollemache, the eventual victor.
A comparable view of Watergate Street sold at Christie's in 1994 for £20,125.


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Category Archives: Shared Governance
Board Governance, Shared Governance
April 18, 2016 sslocke	Leave a comment
This spring my Nonprofit Management course assigned a research project on critical trends facing the nonprofit sector. There is nothing more critical than governance. The success of Sweet Briar College surviving a closure attempt by its former board provides ample inspiration for research on governance.
As an elected member of the University of Maryland Senate, I have a new appreciation for shared governance. I chair the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the University Senate. As a staff member, I have never been engaged in shared governance until now. It is quite amazing sitting alongside students (undergraduate, graduate and post-gradate); faculty (tenured and professional track); staff (hourly, professsional and managerial); and ex-officio members from key departments. This spring, we worked on four new policies for the University including a policy on Nondiscrimination, Sexual Harassment, and Disability. Our original policy will have to wait until next semester for action, but it is very important (a policy on students who change their name or gender and need consistency with University databases). Shared governance works extremely well at the University of Maryland and I can see how it would benefit any institution.
I chose to focus my research paper on shared governance as it is a topic very near and dear to many stakeholders of Sweet Briar College. The attempted closure of Sweet Briar College resulted in multiple law suits seeking to stop the closure. The mediation brokered by the Virginia Attorney General allowed each party to the suit to appoint three members of the new Sweet Briar College board. Students, alumnae, faculty and the Commonwealth of Virginia suit (funded by alumnae) were able to appoint new members. This new board ushers in a new era of governance at Sweet Briar College more inclusive than past boards. The new board of Sweet Briar has expressed a commitment to engaging stakeholders.
This annotated bibliography and research paper focuses on best practices for shared governance examining the key stakeholders responsible for the saving of Sweet Briar College: Students, faculty, staff, community, and the founder.
My abstract follows:
Higher education is in crisis. In March, 2015, the President and Board of Sweet Briar College, whose symbol is a rose, attempted to close the 100-year-old institution in rural Virginia. Stakeholders revolted, filed suits and ultimately control of the College was handed to a new board. The circumstances faced by Sweet Briar are not unique and point to trends in higher education. The suits filed and the saving of Sweet Briar provide examples of engaged stakeholders fighting for their rights. This paper examines each stakeholder's role in the attempted closure and examples from other institutions practicing shared governance. Shared governance can be a path through crisis. References provide trend data on higher education and examples of shared governance at other institutions. Sources also provide glimpses into the trends of higher education faced by governing boards and stakeholders, including where there are breakdowns in communication and governance. Reference sources highlight stakeholder groups including student, faculty, staff (administrators and support), alumni and the wider community. Sweet Briar College must reinvent itself and its governance. Lessons learned from other institutions can be considered for the future. The collective voices represented in shared governance yields more roses than briars.
Annotated Bibliography: Saving the Rose – Stakeholder Engagement at Sweet briar College
Research Paper: Roses Emerge from the Briars — Stakeholder Engagement after the Attempted Closure and Resurrection of Sweet Briar College
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With conflict stopped, Israeli military touts successes
The relentless pace of the Israeli airstrike on Gaza gave the country's military time to make a significant dent in the offensive capability of Hamas, the Israeli military said.
Over the eight day conflict, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) looked to deplete some of the estimated 12,000 rockets Hamas has in its arsenal and destroy tunnels that are said to be used to smuggle weapons.
"We are very satisfied with the achievements that we have had in this operation," Israel Defense Force spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich said on CNN's 'Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.'
The operation was not without human cost. Nearly 150 Palestinian and Israelis, though mostly Palestinians, were killed and many more were injured.
But the IDF said the operation allowed it to accomplish "its pre-determined objectives for Operation Pillar of Defense, and has inflicted severe damage to Hamas and its military capabilities," according to a media release sent soon after the cease-fire took effect on Wednesday.
The military gains were a factor in Israel agreeing to stop the airstrikes, according to the IDF.
"These operational achievements provided the underlying framework for this evening's cease-fire agreement," the IDF release said.
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Watching Israel's missile defense
All eyes are on Israel's missile defense systems as the country's Iron Dome missiles have intercepted about 85 percent of the Hamas rockets fired at civilians.
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The Obama administration is stressing that the aim in talking to all parties is for a "de-escalation" of the fighting between Israel and Hamas. But while administration officials talk about trying to stop the fighting, they are assiduously avoiding using the term "cease-fire."
At a press conference Tuesday in Cambodia, National Security Council spokesman Ben Rhodes said he was not refraining from using the term, but then he refrained from using the term:
REPORTER: Ben, you keep using the phrase "de-escalate the situation." Are you avoiding using the word "cease-fire"?
RHODES: No, I mean, there are many ways that you can achieve the goal of a de-escalation. Again, what our bottom line is, is an end to rocket fire. We're open to any number of ideas for achieving that goal. We've discussed any number of ideas for accomplishing that goal. But it's going to have to begin with a reduction of tensions and space created for the situation to calm. So we'll be discussing going forward, as we have been over the last several days, what are the various ways in which we can accomplish that goal.
At the State Department briefing on Tuesday, spokeswoman Victoria Nuland also emphasized de-escalation over cease-fire, saying there are many ways to lessen the violence: FULL POST
Post by: CNN's Adam Levine, CNN's Jamie Crawford
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DigitalGlobe image of Yarmouk Military Depot shows before and after images of an industrial complex in Khartoum, Sudan that was rocked by explosions last month.
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Just after midnight on October 24, a series of loud explosions shook a neighborhood on the southern outskirts of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Within minutes, flames shooting skyward illuminated the area, and the Yarmouk Industrial Complex was consumed by fire.
Witnesses said they heard planes in the area, and a subsequent analysis of satellite images revealed six large craters "each approximately 16 meters [52 feet] wide ... and consistent with craters created by air-delivered munitions," according to the Satellite Sentinel Project, a non-governmental organization that analyzed DigitalGlobe imagery.
As the smoke cleared the next day, Sudanese officials blamed Israel for the airstrike, which destroyed a large part of the complex, including an ammunition plant and some 40 shipping containers.
The Satellite Sentinel Project said: "Nothing remains of the 60-meter [197-foot] building, which appears to have been pulverized in the blast."
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CNN Poll: 57% of Americans say Israeli attacks in Gaza are justified
A majority of Americans say that Israel's current military strikes against Gaza are justified, according to a new national survey.
A CNN/ORC International poll released Monday indicates that 57% of the public says Israel is justified in taking military action in Gaza against Hamas, with one in four saying the attacks are unjustified.
The fighting began last week with rocket attacks into Israel from Gaza, to which Israel responded with an aerial offensive. Palestinian emergency services said Monday that nearly 100 people have been killed in Gaza, with around 750 injured. The Israel Defense Forces said three people in Israel have been killed, with nearly 70 injured.
The fighting has raised fears of a widening conflict, and the possibility of a repeat of Israel's 2008 invasion of Gaza following similar rocket attacks by Hamas into Israel.
"Although most Americans think the Israeli actions are justified, there are key segments of the public who don't necessarily feel that way," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Only four in ten Democrats think the Israeli actions in Gaza are justified, compared to 74% of Republicans and 59% of independents. Support for Israel's military action is 13 points higher among men than among women, and 15 points higher among older Americans than among younger Americans."
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Israel puts trust in Iron Dome
By Michael Martinez
Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system is figuring prominently in the unfolding aerial conflict with Hamas' military wing in Gaza.
Iron Dome is being credited with protecting Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities by blocking some of the rockets fired from Gaza.
Over the past three days, 737 rockets from Gaza were fired upon Israel: 492 landed, but 245 were intercepted by the system, Israel Defense Forces said Saturday.
The name Iron Dome evokes an image of a protective bubble over a city. In practice, Iron Dome is a defense against short-range rockets and mortar shells: the system targets incoming rockets and fires an interceptor missile to destroy them midair.
Each battery has a firing-control radar to identify targets and a portable missile launcher. The system is easily transportable, with just a few hours needed to relocate and set up.
The missile is highly maneuverable. It is three meters, or almost 10 feet, long; has a diameter of about six inches; and weighs 90 kilograms, or 198 pounds, according to the security analysis group IHS Jane's.
The warhead is believed to carry 11 kilograms, or 24 pounds, of high explosives, IHS Jane's said. Its range is from 4 kilometers to 70 kilometers - or 2.5 miles to 43 miles.


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Aliculastrum cylindricum (Helbling, 1779) [Bulla]
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Aliculastrum cylindricum is a common Indo-West Pacific species, it is charactyerized by a translucent to opaque-white, spindle-shaped shell with prominent striations at both ends, but without striations in the middle of the shell.
This specimen was identified by Clay Carlson and Patty Jo Hoff as Atys cylindrica at the Sea Slug Forum, thanks!
Very similar is Atys debilis Pease, 1860 which differs by a narrower shell posteriorly and was described and known for a long time only from Hawaii.
In a recent (26 September 2011) email wrote Clay Carlson: "The major criteria appears to be the slight posterior hook/extension of the last whorl of the shell."
Wikipedia lists more than 50 species of Atys, and there are 13 species of Atys in IPN, pages 22 - 25
I really don't know how to distinguish them.
Aliculastrum cylindricum is in IPN as Atys cylindricus, many websites of shell-collectors use the name Aliculastrum cylindricum, many websites and UW-guides use the name Atys cylindrica, A. cylindricus is because of the gender ending wrong.
in a recent (26 September 2011) email wrote Clay Carlson: "Aliculastrum is fine for the genus."
According to WoRMS is Aliculastrum cylindricum as of 20 August 2015 the accepted name.
This species was posted on 18 April 2003 at these websites as Atys cylindrica (Helbling, 1779) [Bulla], changed on 27 September 2011 into
Aliculastrum cylindricum (Helbling, 1779) [Bulla].
All species of the genera Aliculastrum and Atys are herbivorous, related to Haminoea and Phanerophthalmus. At present most species are tropical and have heavy well-calcified shells. In most cases the true foot is short and the shell extends a considerable distance beyond its posterior end. It is possible when more of the many tropical species are studied that they will be placed in other genera.
Gosliner, Terrence M., David W. Behrens & Ángel Valdés. 2008. Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and Sea Slugs. Sea Challengers Natural History Books.
Gig Harbor, Washington. 426 pp.,
More information on Aliculastrum cylindricum as Atys cylindrica are on Bill Rudman's Sea Slug Forum!
Köhler, E. (2016), published 18 February 2017, Aliculastrum cylindricum (Helbling, 1779)
available from https://www.Philippine-Sea-Slugs.com/Cephalaspidea/Aliculastrum_cylindricum.htm


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