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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Fortune Global Forum 2017
Guangzhou, China
2:30 PM–3:00 PM
CHINA’S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
In nearly four decades, China has shifted from a centrally planned to a market-based economy that is the second-largest in the world. Over the next five years, this nation alone will import
US $8 trillion worth of goods, attract $600 billion of foreign investment, make $750 billion in outbound investment, and send Chinese tourists on 700 million overseas visits. With long-term growth and sustainability in mind, China is now making a critical shift from an investment-driven model to an economic structure boosted by consumer spending. From creating trade initiatives and economic zones to lifting millions from poverty and driving innovation, China’s actions have the potential to shape the course of global business for years to come. Leading global and Chinese experts share important outcomes from the recent convening of the 19th National Congress and what they mean for business leaders looking to grow and capitalize on China’s new demographics.
Wei Sun Christianson, Co-CEO, Asia Pacific, and China CEO, Morgan Stanley
David Daokui Li, Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor of Economics; Director, Center for China in the World Economy, Tsinghua University
Michael Pettis, Professor of Finance, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
Moderator: Clay Chandler, Time Inc.
Photograph by Vivek Prakash/Fortune
Performed by Soerya Soemirat Mangkunegaran Royal Palace (Indonesia) at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre during da:ns Festival 2018.
SN 2014J, M82, M81 and NGC 3077
Róbert Fidrich ("Fidusz"), Budapest, Hungary.
Canon EOS 1000D, 300mm (zoom) telephoto lens, 10x30s stacked images
27 January 2014
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The conditions were perfect for the inaugural joint Mens and Ladies St. Mellion Club Championships held over two glorious days in July.
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SYMPHONY IN BLUES
An Evening With The Guitarlegends Of Blues
Featuring Matt Schofield, Tineke Schoenmaker, Ian Siegal, Ted Oberg, Mick Hup, Julian Sas, Snowy White, Jan Hoving, Ana Popovic
013, Tilburg, Netherlands
13 September 2009
More info about this special event can be read at www.BluesMagazine.nl
Unterwegs zwischen E.rstfeld und Silenen im Kanton Uri in der Schweiz :
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Katholische Kirche St. Albin Silenen
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Die Katholische Kirche St. Albin steht im Dorf Silenen im Urner Reusstal im Kanton Uri in
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Die Kirche St. Albin, deren älteste Spuren wohl ins 7. Jahrhundert zurückgehen, wurde
853 von König Ludwig dem Deutschen dem F.raumünster geschenkt, kam 857 an den
Z.ürcher Priester Berold und 952 durch König Otto I. erneut ans F.raumünster.
Der heutige Bau entstand 1754 - 1756. Das F.raumünster besass in Silenen das Zehnt-
und Patronatsrecht. Die Pfarrei war eine der drei Urner Landespfarreien und umfasste
das mittlere und obere Reusstal bis in die S.chöllenen.
Vom Hochmittelalter an verfügte sie über zahlreiche F.ilialkapellen. Die ab 1.3.0.8 fass-
bare Genosssame Silenen stellte sechs Mitglieder im Rat der Sechziger. Sie kaufte
1.4.2.6 vom F.raumünster das Zehntrecht.
1.4.3.9 verkaufte sie die Zehnten in W.assen und G.öschenen den dortigen Kirchgenossen,
die sich im selben Jahr von der Pfarrei Silenen abkurten. 1.9.0.3 lösten sich auch Gurt-
nellen, A.msteg und B.risten von der M.utterpfarrei.
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Switzerland Svizzera Suissa Swiss Sveitsi Sviss スイス Zwitserland Sveits Szwajcaria
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Mit dem F.ahrr.ad von E.ins.iedeln rund um den S.ihls.ee am Donnerstag den 12. Mai 2011
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Mit dem Z.ug von B.ern über L.uzern - A.rth-G.oldau - B.iberb.rugg nach E.ins.iedeln
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Mit dem F.ahrr.ad rund um den S.ihls.ee
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Mit dem Z.ug von E.ins.iedeln über B.iberb.rugg - A.rth-G.oldau nach E.rstf.eld
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Mit dem F.ahrr.ad von E.rstef.eld bis S.ilenen und zurück nach E.rstf.eld
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Mit dem Z.ug von E.rstf.eld über L.uzern zurück nach B.ern
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BerlinMaidan - Euromaidan Deutschland in Berlin 7.12, 14 Uhr ~ Євромайдан Німеччини в Берліні 7.12, 14:00
There are plenty of baths in old Tbilisi, as there seem to be sulphur springs with healing properties.
This is an older photo. I have flat bars, different wheels (one wore out and the other was stolen), a 48t instead of the 46t here, Shimano 959 SPDs, a better seatpost (this one pictured came out in small pieces), a comfy and light Serfas seat. Lastly, the bike is set up as a single speed with FR (Shimano 105) brakes and a freewheel.
I have the flat bars because I couldn't figure out where to put brake levers on these handlebars because of the numerous hand positions - none of which are good for brake levers. I didn't want the silly cross levers.
As it turns out, working as a messenger in NYC with a single speed is faster than a fixed gear. As the traffic and congestion worsens and the j-walking pedestrians and NYPD become stupider, the need to carve through everything like tight New England single track becomes more apparent.
There is a certain glamor to high speed sprints through one of the busiest cities in the world on a very simple and lightweight bike with no brakes. On many days I miss it but on many days I don't.
At some point I would like a real road fork to improve the handling of this thing with brakes. With a new road fork (Easton carbon if I can) I would love a new stem and bars (Easton XC90 and Monkey Light) as well as a shiny new, red Chris King headset.
It will be hilarious to have such high end parts on a welded, Chinese-made track frame that's been through absolute hell. I figured I should keep the frame as long as it holds together, just as an experiment.
Of course that can change with my finances.
In this photo and the ones near it, I was visiting my long-time friend Stacey in her little apartment "across the street from the Long Island Sound" in Stratford, CT. She was in and out of the hospital in neighboring Bridgeport, CT for a serious blood clot in her leg. I would take the train from Grand Central Terminal to Stratford with my big red messenger bag and my bike. I rode from the train station downtown to her apartment a few miles away. From there I would borrow her car to drive to the hospital if she was there or just visit and help her with things in her apartment.
I took the time to go to the beach (which I miss) and just relax.
Aussicht auf der K.ornhausbrücke in Bern in der Schweiz :
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Kirche St. Peter und Paul Bern ( Gotteshaus katholisch - Baujahr 1858 - 1864 - Kathedralkirche Chiuche church église temple chiesa ) an der Rathausgasse 2 in der Altstadt - Stadt Bern im Berner Mittelland im Kanton Bern der Schweiz
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Die Kirche St. Peter und Paul zu Bern steht in der Rathausgasse 2 in der Stadt - Altstadt Bern
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Die Kirche Sankt Peter und Paul ist ein christkatholisches Kirchengebäude an der Rathaus-
gasse 2 in Bern.
Es wurde 1858 bis 1864 als erste katholische Kirche der Stadt Bern in unmittelbarer Nach-
barschaft zum B.erner R.athaus errichtet. Die Kirche ist das Resultat eines internationalen
Wettbewerbs; die Pläne stammten aus F.rankreich (u. a. von Pierre Joseph Edouard
Deperthes, dem Architekten des R.athauses von P.aris) und der historisierende Stil ahmt
die Formensprache der Romanik und Frühgotik nach.
Der erste Gottesdienst fand am 13. November 1864 statt. 1875 wurde die Kirche im Zuge
des Kulturkampfes christkatholisch. Aus der Jugendstilzeit stammen die Deckenmalereien
und die farbigen Fenster; der Chorraum wurde 1998 neu gestaltet. Das Geläut besteht aus
drei G.locken der Glockengiesserei Rüetschi mit den Schlagtönen d1, f1 und a1.
Die Kirche Sankt Peter und Paul ist Pfarrkirche der christkatholischen Kirchgemeinde Bern
und dient gleichzeitig dem christkatholischen Bischof der Schweiz als K.athedralkirche. Zu
den Namen der bisherigen Bischöfe siehe Liste der Schweizer Christkatholischen Bischöfe.
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B.urgentour durch den K.anton B.asel am Donnerstag den 29. Oktober 2009
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Mit dem Z.ug von B.ern über O.lten nach L.äufelfingen im Kanton B.asel L.andschaft
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Weiterfahrt mit dem F.ahrrrad L.äufelfingen ( B.L - 566m ) - R.uine H.omburg ( B.L - 640m )
- B.uckten ( B.L - 520m ) - R.ümligen ( B.L - 480m ) - S.chöffleten ( B.L - 447m ) -
R.ünenberg ( B.L - 604m ) - K.ilchberg ( B.L - 571m ) - Z.eglingen ( B.L - 530m ) - E.ital
( B.L - 470m ) - T.echnau ( B.L - 445m ) - B.esuch der R.uine der B.urg Ö.denburg -
B.esuch der R.uine der B.urg S.cheidegg - S.cheideck ( B.L - 566m ) - G.elterkinden
( B.L - 403m ) - B.esuch des S.chloss E.benrain und der K.irche in S.issach
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Weiterfahrt mit dem Z.ug nach P.ratteln
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P.ratteln B.ahnhof ( B.L - 288m ) - B.esuch S.chloss P.ratteln - B.esuch der B.urg -
R.uine V.ordere W.artenberg bei M.uttenz - M.uttenz ( B.L - 281m )
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Da nächster Z.ug ein I.C.E gewesen wäre ( F.ahrradverlad leider nicht möglich ) noch eine
S.tadtrundfahrt mit dem F.ahrrad durch B.asel angehängt und anschliessend mit einem I.C
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Varkala is a coastal town and municipality in Thiruvananthapuram district situated in the Indian state of Kerala. It is located 50 kilometers north-west of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum).
Varkala is the only place in southern Kerala where cliffs are found adjacent to the Arabian Sea.These tertiary sedimentary formation cliffs are a unique geological feature on the otherwise flat Kerala coast, and is known among geologists as Varkala Formation and a geological monument as declared by the Geological Survey of India.
It is an perfect place to spend an evening and enjoy beautiful sunset.
Sightseeing at Lake Samsonvale, Queensland, Australia late 2025. Screen grab from TV. Approx location.
SICK follows a patient as she negotiates the absurdities of a day in hospital, revealing her wildest imaginings and darkest thoughts as medication, boredom and illness give wings to her flights of fancy.
Through the eyes pf a clown, SICK explores the experience of being hospitalised, exposing the tedious and the ridiculous in the long hours between treatments, ward rounds, meal times and visiting hours. Sick shows the secret life of the patient; the private routines, the imposed rules, the distractions, the daydreams, the delusions and the worries.
SICK is inspired by the time director Martin Danziger has spent in hospital following a diagnosis of cancer in 2007, and in a professional capacity as a Clowndoctor. The show has been developed in collaboration with NHS and patient groups, including NHS Community Engagement, Yorkhill Young People’s Service, Maggies, Macmillan Cancer Support and Taktent. Workshops and long-term residencies have given patients of all ages and conditions a chance to feed anecdotes, experiences and individual accounts into the show.
Photo by Segissement Clement
In The Shadow of Wounded Knee: Life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
An unkept park in the village of Pine Ridge, littered with beer cans. There are few, if any, public spaces that are taken care of in Pine Ridge. There are also no libraries.
On the Great Plains, hidden away on little traveled back roads, is the place formerly known as American Prisoner of War Camp Number 334. It is now known as the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). They are the tribe that suffered the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre, in December of 1890, in which over one hundred unarmed women and children were killed. Since that day Wounded Knee, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, have been a symbol of the wrongs inflicted on Native Americans by the descendants of Europeans. Pine Ridge is the quintessential example of the failures of the reservation system, with staggering statistics on everything from violent crime to education.
Sadly, Pine Ridge continues to be the setting for an ongoing massacre within the tribe. Gangs on the reservation are out of control, and the violence they live by grips even the smallest villages. Unemployment on the reservation fluctuates between 85-90 percent. Recent reports vary but many point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year. The housing office is unable to afford to build new structures, and existing structures are falling apart. Many are homeless, and those with homes are packed into rotting buildings with up to 5 families. Frequently, grandparents are raising their grandchildren because their own children have succumbed to alcoholism, domestic violence, and general apathy. Making life even more grim, fifty percent of the population over 40 suffers from diabetes and the life expectancy for men is a mere 48 years.
Common Crane
The common crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes.
A medium-sized species, it is the only crane commonly found in Europe besides the demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo). Along with the sandhill (Grus canadensis) and demoiselle cranes and the brolga (Grus rubicunda), it is one of only four crane species not currently classified as threatened with extinction or conservation dependent on the species level.
The common crane is a large, stately bird and a medium-sized crane. It is 100–130 cm (39–51 in) long with a 180–240 cm (71–94 in) wingspan. The body weight can range from 3 to 6.1 kg (6.6 to 13.4 lb), with the nominate subspecies averaging around 5.4 kg (12 lb) and the eastern subspecies (G. g. lilfordi) averaging 4.6 kg (10 lb). Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 50.7–60.8 cm (20.0–23.9 in) long, the tarsus is 20.1–25.2 cm (7.9–9.9 in) and the exposed culmen is 9.5–11.6 cm (3.7–4.6 in).
This species is slate-grey overall. The forehead and lores are blackish with a bare red crown and a white streak extending from behind the eyes to the upper back. The overall colour is darkest on the back and rump and palest on the breast and wings. The primaries, the tips of secondaries, the alula, the tip of the tail, and the edges of upper tail coverts are all black and the greater coverts droop into explosive plumes. This combination of colouration ultimately distinguishes it from similar species in Asia, like the hooded (G. monacha) and black-necked cranes (G. nigricollis). The juvenile has yellowish-brown tips to its body feathers and lacks the drooping wing feathers and the bright neck pattern of the adult, and has a fully feathered crown. Every two years, before migration, the adult common crane undergoes a complete moult, remaining flightless for six weeks, until the new feathers grow.
It has a loud trumpeting call, given in flight and display. The call is piercing and can be heard from a considerable distance. It has a dancing display, leaping with wings uplifted.
This species is found in the northern parts of Europe and Asia. Formerly the species was spread as far west as Ireland, but about 200 years ago, it became extinct there. However, it has since started to return to Ireland naturally and there are now plans to help it return to Ireland on a greater scale. The common crane is an uncommon breeder in southern Europe, smaller numbers breeding in Greece, former-Yugoslavia, Romania, Denmark and Germany. Larger breeding populations can be found in Scandinavia, especially Finland and Sweden. The heart of the breeding population for the species is in Russia, however, where possibly up to 100,000 cranes of this species can be found seasonally. In Russia, it is distributed as a breeder from the Ukraine region to the Chukchi Peninsula. The breeding population extends as far south as Manchuria but almost the entire Asian breeding population is restricted to Russia.
The species is a long distance migrant predominantly wintering in northern Africa. Autumn migration is from August to October and spring migration is in March through May. Important staging areas occur anywhere from Sweden and Germany to China (with a large one around the Caspian Sea) and many thousand cranes can be seen in one day in the Autumn. Some birds winter in southern Europe, including Portugal, Spain and France. Most eastern common cranes winter in the river valleys of Sudan, Ethiopia, Tunisia and Eritrea with smaller numbers in Turkey, northern Israel, Iraq and parts of Iran. The third major wintering region is in the northern half of Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan. Minimal wintering also occurs in Burma, Vietnam and Thailand. Lastly, they winter in eastern China, where they are often the most common crane (outnumbering black-necked cranes ten-to-one). Migrating flocks fly in a "V" formation.
It is a rare visitor to Japan and Korea, mostly blown over from the Chinese wintering population, and is a rare vagrant to western North America, where birds are occasionally seen with flocks of migrating sandhill cranes.
In Europe, the common crane predominantly breeds in boreal and taiga forest and mixed forests, from an elevation of sea-level to 2,200 m (7,200 ft). In northern climes, it breeds in treeless moors, on bogs, or on dwarf heather habitats, usually where small lakes or pools are also found. In Sweden, breeders are usually found in small, swampy openings amongst pine forests, while in Germany, marshy wetlands are used. Breeding habitat used in Russia are similar, though they can be found nesting in less likely habitat such as steppe and even semi-desert, so long as water is near. Primarily, the largest number of common cranes are found breeding in wooded swamps, bogs and wetlands and seem to require quiet, peaceful environs with minimal human interference. They occur at low density as breeders even where common, typically ranging from 1 to 5 pairs per 100 km2 (39 sq mi).
In winter, this species moves to flooded areas, shallow sheltered bays, and swampy meadows. During the flightless moulting period there is a need for shallow waters or high reed cover for concealment. Later, after the migration period, the birds winter regularly in open country, often on cultivated lands and sometimes also in savanna-like areas, for example on the Iberian Peninsula.
The global population is 600,000 (2014 estimate) with the vast majority nesting in Russia and Scandinavia. In some areas the breeding population appears to be increasing, such as in Sweden, whereas on the fringes of its range, it is often becoming rare to non-existent. In Great Britain, the common crane became extirpated in the 17th century, but a tiny population now breeds again in the Norfolk Broads and is slowly increasing and a reintroduction has been underway since 2010 for the Somerset levels. In Ireland, it died out as a breeding species in the 18th century, but a flock of about 30 appeared in County Cork in November 2011, and a smaller flock a year later. It was additionally extirpated as a breeder from Austria around 1900, from Hungary by 1952 and from Spain by 1954. The recovering German breeding population of 8,000 pairs is still also a fraction of the size of the large numbers that once bred in the country. Poland has 15,000 breeding pairs, 50 pairs breed in the Czech Republic and 2009 was the first confirmed breeding in Slovakia.
The main threat to the species, and the primary reason for its decline in the Western Palearctic, comes from habitat loss and degradation, as a result of dam construction, urbanisation, agricultural expansion, and drainage of wetlands. Although it has adapted to human settlement in many areas, nest disturbance, continuing changes in land use, and collision with utility lines are still potential problems. Further threats may include persecution due to crop damage, pesticide poisoning, egg collection, and hunting. The common crane is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
A zoomed in shot of a chandelier by Dale Chihuly, seen at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. Cobalt blue, of course, seen best in the large or largest view. This may look pretty dark on your monitor, yet for me, it is awesome on a 24" MAC.
For those of you that know me well, of course I had to post a cobalt blue image from a great outing with flickr friends this afternoon and evening. Thanks for your companionship, my friends. For those that know me the best, the title of this image is particularly important for I've made a vow I intend to keep...
3383 St. Marien Kirche in Uelzen - Dreischiffige, gotische Hallenkirche, 1292 geweiht / Kirchturm von 1400. © www.christoph-bellin.de
Die Hansestadt UELZEN liegt im nordöstlichen Niedersachsen und gehört zur Metropolregion Hamburg. Die Stadt liegt am Rand der Lüneburger Heide - die Altstadt ist von Fachwerkgebäuden und norddeutscher Backsteingotik geprägt. Auf einer Fläche von 135 km² leben ca. 35 000 Einwohner.