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Plantsman n.s., 10(3): 178 (177-179; figs.). 2011 [Sep 2011]
Family: GESNERIACEAE
Origin and Habitat: China.
- Petrocosmea cryptica cv. Whirlpool J.M.H.Shaw
Petrocosmea cryptica J.M.H.Shaw
Plantsman n.s., 10(3): 178 (177-179; figs.). 2011 [Sep 2011]
Cultivars (1):
- Petrocosmea cryptica cv. Whirlpool J.M.H.Shaw
Description: Petrocosmea cryptica 'Whirlpool', originated in China and has been distributed by Chen Yi (Kaichen Nursery, China) from about 1998. The cultivar 'Whirlpool' is a clone derived from the type collection (G25KC00) and has beautiful yellow veins but the typical species is likely to have plain green leaves. This plants is commonly found in cultivation wrongly labelled Petrocosmea rosettifolia or Petrocosmea G25KC00. The epithet cryptica refers to the identity of this species being hidden during the 10 or more years it has been in cultivation.
Habit: It is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Gesneriaceae, the African violet family. It is remarkable for its neat, tightly imbricate, tile-like rosette of 3 cm ovate leaves, eventually producing offsets. The leaf surfaces have stiff hairs arising from pustulate bases.
Leaves: Green or yellowish-green with paler yellow-green mid and main lateral veins. Leaf-blade shiny and pustulate with long stiff hairs above, greyed green and softly felted below. Petioles with soft wavy hairs.
Inflorescence: Sepals green. Corolla white with pale yellow-green patch in throat.
For more details see: Petrocosmea cryptica
Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Petrocosmea cryptica group
- Petrocosmea cryptica J.M.H.Shaw: has neat, tightly imbricate, rosette of 3 cm ovate, plain green, leaves. The leaf surfaces have stiff hairs arising from pustulate bases. Distribution. China.
- Petrocosmea cryptica cv. Whirlpool J.M.H.Shaw: The cultivar 'Whirlpool' is a clone derived from the type collection (G25KC00) and has beautiful yellow veins.
Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) Julian Shaw "A new species of Petrocosmea: Julian Shaw discovers that a gesneriad that has been in cultivation under the wrong name for more than 10 years is a new species" The Plantsman September 2011 pp 177-179 https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/publications/magazines/the-plantsman/2011-issues/september/Petrocosmea
2) Drew, R (2002) "Sussex Show, October 6th. The Alpine Gardener" 70(1): 82–85
3) Drew, R (2003) "Developing a collection of subalpine gesneriads". The Alpine Gardener 71(3): 297–307
4) Li, Z-Y & Wang, Y-Z (2005) "Plants of Gesneriaceae in China". Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, China
5) Middleton, DJ & Triboun, P (2010) "Two new species of Petrocosmea". Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 38: 42–47
6) Wang, W (1985) "The second revision of Petrocosmea". Acta Bot.Yunnan. 7(1): 49–68
7) Wang, W, Pan, K-Y, Li, Z-Y, Weitzman, AL & Skog, LE (1998) Petrocosmea. In: Flora of China Editorial Committee (eds) "Flora of China" Vol. 18. Science Press, Beijing, & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St Louis
8) Tim Tuttle "Culture of Petrocosmea: My Way" "As distributed to the National Capital Area Chapter of The Gesneriad Society in April 2009
Cultivation and Propagation: Petrocosmea offsets free. Once removed offsets are treated just like cutting until they form roots.
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Five hot topics for London in 2018
For many cultures the start of a new year is a time for reflection on the past few months and for setting resolutions and making predictions about the year to come. In that spirit, the Cities team here at Buro Happold identified what we felt would be the five hot topics for London in 2017.
So how did we do last year and what do we think are the five hot topics for 2018?
Well, we were very concerned last year that Brexit would distract everyone, and that certainly proved to be the case. The snap general election in June, rather than delivering certainty, just fuelled the fires of Brexit confusion. This in turn has led to high-level Government paralysis, with many important, city level decisions still not being made. The absence of a decision on Heathrow is the most obvious example of this, and while we would like to think a decision will come next year, we wouldn't be totally surprised if our December 2018 commentary is still lamenting a lack of a decision on this critical issue.
After all, we said last year that "If Brexit uncertainty does prove to be a big problem in 2017, then at least we can hope these things will be sufficiently resolved…and Brexit uncertainty is not hot topic number one in 2018". Alas, Brexit now looks like it will continue to have a significant impact in 2018 and, therefore, Brexit induced inactivity has to be our number one hot topic for 2018 for London, as it is for all of the UK. Still, life does still go on, even with Brexit, London does have a Mayor, and the city remains vibrant and successful. So, what, on a more positive note, does 2018 hold for the city?
Our second hot topic is air quality, with the challenges remaining high on the agenda for London, and with a Mayor who appears prepared to face-up to the challenge. This brings us to ULEZ (the Ultra Lowe Emission Zone). The ULEZ will start in 2019 in the same area as the congestion charge zone, a proposal that seems to be universally accepted. However, as we predicted last year, Transport for London is also currently consulting on an extension of ULEZ out to the north and south circulars in 2021. This is a significant development and will impact on many ordinary Londoners (around half the population of London lives within this area). Whilst we think everyone will agree in principle that this is needed, we suspect it will reignite the general displeasure of many over the way the purchase of diesel vehicles was being actively promoted by the Government until quite recently. To date, diesel vehicle scrappage schemes have been led by the car makers, but we wouldn't be surprised to see greater central and or local government initiatives coming forward next year.
One area where we got things slightly wrong was in respect of new Thames crossings. We noted at the end of 2016 that these, especially to the east, were moving up the political agenda. Well, they did make the news, but not in the way we thought. In the Spring on 2017 the new Mayor effectively pulled the plug on the Thames Garden Bridge, citing funding difficulties. Further, while the plans for the new Silvertown Tunnel were considered in a public examination in the Spring of 2017 and the Planning Inspectorate issued a report of recommendation to the Secretary of State in July 2017, a decision on the way forward has been delayed. The new deadline for the decision for this application is May 2018. Again, air quality seems to be the major issue. Despite this, we still feel river crossings should be our third hot topic in 2018, with the Rotherhithe crossing at Canary Wharf, which is being developed as a low level moveable bridge for pedestrians and cyclists, likely to gain significant traction in 2018.
Last year we predicted housing supply and affordability would be one of the victims of Brexit uncertainty, and it is hard to see things changing much in 2018, despite the publication of the new London Plan. Employment faces similar challenges. The recent decisions to move the European Medicine Agency to Amsterdam and the European Banking Authority to Paris with the loss of 1000 jobs are sure to be the first in an exodus of European agencies to the mainland continent, but what still remains unclear is how big the loss of jobs in the city will be. We don't believe there will be much more clarity, or indeed much more activity, on this issue next year. Sadly we feel housing and employment won't even make it into the "luke warm" topic list.
One of the big topics of discussion and debate during the past year, and one that will continue to be a hot topic into 2018, has been autonomous vehicles. In early 2016 promoting the idea of self-driving vehicles was often viewed as slightly cranky. Today, it is a question of simply how quickly they will be hitting our streets, and are we going to be ready for the needed changes in regulatory, planning and behavioural terms? During the course of the past year, we at Buro Happold have been running a series of design sprints across the globe, helping to identify likely challenges and opportunities Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) present. Only recently we staged a follow-up event in London to review the outputs from our work and to consider the impacts on our clients from the public and private sector perspective (key reports may be found here). What we urgently need now is a route map from central and regional Government , in conjunction with the big six power companies, to demonstrate how the growth in electric cars (predicted to be a majority of cars sold by 2030) may be supported – and in doing so, support the move to improve the air quality in our cities, as noted above. So hot topic four is CAVs.
Finally, last year we were concerned that we could be heading for a "perfect storm" of disconnected planning in West London with Heathrow Expansion, aspirations for redevelopment at Old Oak Common and Park Royal, the ongoing HS2 issues around Old Oak Common and Euston, and the impending opening of Crossrail. Brexit inactivity means this position is fundamentally unchanged, but with Crossrail trains starting to run from the east to Paddington in December 2018, and talk of a resolution on Heathrow in the summer of 2018, perhaps 2018 will be the year people finally start to get to grips with this incredibly important area of London. Indeed, we think Crossrail, our fifth and final hot topic, may prove to be the stimulus London needs to restore confidence in its ability to rise above political storms and demonstrate why London is still the greatest city on the planet!

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Open your eyes to AfricaBMJ 2005; 331 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7519.0-g (Published 29 September 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;331:0-g
- Jocalyn Clark, associate editor (jclark{at}bmj.com)
Africa is big, complex, and confounding. The ambivalence of looking towards a future full of promise but uncertainty is captured in our cover image—that of a child shielding his eyes in front of a Malian textile containing eyes wide open. Achieving a successful future is by no means a task for Africa alone, and the BMJ is contributing through this week's theme issue.
But can we do justice to a continent as richly diverse as Africa? We will present this theme issue to the 53 African Union health ministers at a meeting in Botswana—a country with the distinction of being one of the continent's richest yet with a staggering HIV prevalence rate (38%) (p 719). We will also launch the issue at a scientific conference in Durban—a setting bearing little resemblance to the atrocities and poverty invoked by the crises in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. In fact, we can't capture Africa in its multiplicity. Despite over 300 original research submissions we haven't managed the geographical or linguistic spread we would have liked.
Most of the papers submitted were from researchers in South Africa and Nigeria, and individuals working in Africa with primary affiliations in UK and US public health schools. While we proudly publish articles from such diverse places as Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, no articles were received from most African countries.
As our guest editors Jimmy Volmink and Lola Dare assert (p 705), whether this reflects a lack of research capacity or political will the situation is "untenable." For science to contribute to redressing inequalities in health, they argue, all countries must be able to participate in research.
Still, we show an impressive mix of African papers and opinion, representing an eclectic range: the major killers (HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis), emerging threats (cardiovascular disease, diabetes), and persistent but underappreciated conditions (postpartum haemorrhage, gender inequity). Three randomised trials provide new evidence on interventions that have immediate relevance for African communities, without extra costs. Perhaps most strikingly authors remind us that managing human resources (p 710), meeting the millennium development goals (p 755), and combating corruption (p 784) will come from African leadership and innovation.
We are grateful to the UK Department for International Development, Wellcome Trust, and the Health Foundation, who will help us distribute print copies throughout the continent. Online access to theme issue will be free, forever, for all—not just those in Africa, most of whom already have free access to bmj.com.
We hope this theme issue encourages greater dialogue and collaboration between doctors and researchers in the North and the South. It's a call to see the promise and potential of Africa, not just the struggle and suffering.
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By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on May 9, 2019
After the failed coup attempt by Leopoldo López and Juan Guaidó at the Altamira distributor in Caracas, without the Bolivarian military needing to fire a shot to deactivate it, some hegemonic media have been forced to explain the causes of the disaster. It should be noted that more than three months after his self-proclamation, not a single one of the so called interim president's initiatives has been successful, despite the fact that Washington directs each of his steps and he enjoys the full and complete support of the corporate media. The term civic-military rebellion for the failed skirmish that was coined by CNN in Spanish, is very comical, but nevertheless was picked up and pedaled by media outlets of the U.S. war propaganda apparatus.
The greatest failure of the coup plan, personally supervised by John Bolton and Elliott Abrams in real time, consisted in the meager response of the military – most of whom were deceived -, the absence of opponents despite the call made very early by the self-proclaimed president and also the fact that the Bolivarian National Armed Force kept its cohesion intact by not over reacting, contrary to what the White House, López and Guaidó expected. Without it, the goal of achieving the number of deaths in the fiasco, necessary to provoke a U.S. military intervention could not be achieved. Much less achieve the desired overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro.
Let's read some pearls from the hegemonic media, unequivocally committed to the Venezuelan opposition and to the U.S. plan to overthrow Maduro. This one from El País in Madrid: "what was seen on Saturday in the streets of Caracas is the umpteenth example of a strategy that seems to have lost momentum despite the upheavals of the last few days. The action called by Guaidó for his followers to concentrate in the barracks and in the military bases with the purpose of convincing the uniforms to change sides had a merely symbolic result," as El País was able to prove in the surroundings of the La Carlota air base and in the General Command of the Bolivarian National Guard, it only gathered hundreds of people who handed a document to some members of the armed forces.
Another one from Clarín of Buenos Aires: "About 10 hours after Juan Guaidó's announcement about the 'liberation' of opposition leader Leopoldo López, little has changed in Nicolás Maduro's Venezuela; neither battalions full of jaded soldiers joining the popular rebellion, nor were the streets filled with opponents willing to reach the Miraflores Palace to put an end to what the head of Parliament and 'president in charge' calls 'usurpation', and much less, the falling of the Chavista regime. But here is another article written by Pablo Bifi as if this is a new discovery, "Military support for Maduro is key, but not the only leg that allows him to remain in power. It is undeniable that still, and in spite of the disarray of the economy that hits Chavistas and anti-Chavistas alike, the regime enjoys respectable support in sectors of society that live off the dream of the Bolivarian Revolution."
The reason is that the revolution has deep roots in Venezuelan history and culture: Bolivarian, African, indigenous, peasant and worker struggles. It was cultivated with care by Hugo Chávez and his followers. The magisterium that the commander carried out from his weekly program Hello President, in his speeches and with the example of his life remained firmly rooted in the hearts and minds of Venezuelans. We cannot forget the practice of empowering the masses not only with the vote, but also with their influence in deciding the direction of the transformations. That is why Venezuela resists and why Trump and his puppets fail. Betrayals, like that of the head of Bolivarian intelligence, are not new in times of revolution nor do they change the destiny of any liberating enterprise.
What does a lot of damage to the heroic people that resists in Venezuela, like the people of Cuba, is the economic war, the so-called sanctions. That is their objective; to punish the people mercilessly in order to force them to rebel against the government. This is confirmed by the recent statement on the cases of Venezuela, Cuba and Iran by Idriss Jazairy, special rapporteur of the United Nations, on the impact of unilateral sanctions on human rights. Political differences between governments should never be resolved by inducing economic or humanitarian disasters on the population… resorting to such economic measures, for political purposes, violates human rights and international law, since they can precipitate humanitarian catastrophes of great proportions. It is time for the broadest and most generous solidarity with the peoples being subjected to Washington's economic punishment. In particular, solidarity with Venezuela, where the empire urgently needs to put an end to utopia.
Source: La Jornada, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau


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Shades Of Summer 2013
I'm often looking for inspiration on Pinterest for my next illustrations. And what I love most to draw is fashion illustrations. So this time I found this amazing fashion photography from Fashion Gone Rogue that I had to draw!
Shades of Summer 2013
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Photographers: Pablo Estévez & Javier Belloso
Stylists: Javier Lozoya & Gema Martín
Model: Tanya Katysheva
Make-up Artist & Hair Stylist: Marina Alejandre
Miniskirt & Leather Dress: Gabriel Segui
Bodysuit: Wolford
Belt: Miguel Palacio
Socks: Calzedonia
Sandals: Jimmy Choo
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