“How Stanford grad Nadine Ghosn began making quirky jewellery

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How Stanford grad Nadine Ghosn began making quirky jewellery - South China Morning Post
'We have libraries that are under-utilised - why not revamp them as centres for women in business?' - Telegraph.co.uk
When Del Boy fell through the bar: the story behind Only Fools and Horses’ greatest moment - Telegraph.co.uk

How Stanford grad Nadine Ghosn began making quirky jewellery - South China Morning Post

Posted: 16 Jul 2019 10:00 PM PDT

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Father Carlos Ghosn's travel keepsakes kindled Lebanese-Brazilian's interest in jewels as a child, and a chance encounter years later led her to start designing.

'We have libraries that are under-utilised - why not revamp them as centres for women in business?' - Telegraph.co.uk

Posted: 17 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT

It's 11am on a Thursday at the British Library, and in an upstairs auditorium about a hundred young women (and a handful of men) are listening to a talk. Many hold smartphones aloft to photograph the slides that the speaker - an author called Melissa Addey - is using in her presentation. It is titled "the storytelling business."

The audience want to start their own businesses. Some may already have done so and are seeking to grow them. They have come to hear Addey, who spent 15 years working for Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury's, explain the importance of building a narrative around their brand's identity. "Don't be fake," she warns them. "You need to write the story first, before you write the...

When Del Boy fell through the bar: the story behind Only Fools and Horses’ greatest moment - Telegraph.co.uk

Posted: 17 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST

Cast your mind back to this cushty moment from Only Fools and Horses (it shouldn't be hard, you've probably seen it 50 times by now). Del Boy and Trigger are in a trendy wine bar. Del's there drinking Beaujolais Nouveau – "a '79" he tells the barman – and trying to pull modern Euro birds. It's all part of his newfound yuppie lifestyle. Trigger's there because he's barred from the Nags Head for stealing a pork pie. Del Boy eyes a posh sort across the room and utters the immortal line, "Think we're on a winner here, Trig… play it nice and cool, son, nice and cool, know what I mean?" before going, as he later describes, arse over head through the open bar hatch. Bonnet de douche, as the French say. ...