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Happy 2016 New Years Eve!
Details: giaswizzle.com/2016/12/31/incentive/
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Truth Hair @ Uber
Essenz Footwear @ Shiny Shabby
I thank you all for such nice comments and invites.
It is a great support and incentive to me.
Thank you!!!
Composite created just for fun (no fat shaming here at all!! He's proactively exercising)
Entered in Photoshop Contest Weekly Challenge using the man on the bike starter image.
Won 1st place!!
Man on bike courtesy of Jonas Bengtsson.
Running man from Adobe Stock.
Park background from Pixabay.
Textures by Topaz Studio.
HE>i
NOTW
Sitting here on an otherwise gloomy day, browsing my photo books from previous years. It makes me want to go out and shoot some more!
Incentive INS 2 in Burghead early this morning. Was only 12 deg C. but no wind so a fine cycle over and back.
Rishabh and I love hiking and have hiked several ‘interesting’ trails. More than once, we returned well after the sunset to find our car to be the last one at the trailhead parking lot. We are used to hiking on most terrains and under every lighting conditions.
But this hike was different.
This particular hike was only 4.4 miles round-trip and involved a slender 1050 feet elevation change. The destination was a beautiful alpine lake, which by most accounts on the internet, was picture perfect. That and the promise of lovely wild-flowers on trail-side meadows convinced us to go for it. This was going to be a beautiful hike, we thought.
However, some thoughts have a tendency to garner hope more than reality.
This particular day of ours began at 3am in California and involved flying to Seattle, driving up to the beautiful North Cascades National Park, stopping by the mesmerizing and windy lake Diablo for hours, and then deciding to do this hike on a moment's spur at around 6pm. “The sun doesn’t set till 8:50, we have time”, I thought. We had some dinner with us, which we planned to devour after quickly wrapping up the hike in about three hours.
But the hike turned out more than a ‘quick hike’. 15 hours on the road, high elevation of the trail (starts at 5200 feet), and a bit of rain during the hike asked for a greater toll from Rishabh than I had anticipated. After a bit of an effort, we made it to the pristine destination and enjoyed a lovely snack by the alpine lake. Somewhat unwillingly, rain clouds dissolved away to let the sun peek warmly from behind an inverted curtain of towering granite peaks to our west. As the sky poured buckets of pantone, bittersweet, and cinnabar on itself, the Cutthroat Peak (pictured above), the Whistler Mountain, and the Liberty Bell stood there bathing shamelessly in that beautiful light. It felt peaceful.
Sadly, that peace came at the price of having to hike down to our car in tar dark. Letting our eyes adapt to the moonless darkness, we hiked at half our pace with all the caution. At one point, the trail entered a thick forest where we could hardly see or hear anything, except occasional animal vocalizations that gave our nerves some jitters. We kept talking to each other loudly to keep apprehensions and bears at bay. After hiking an hour in such darkness, we made it back to our car alright at around 10pm.
Somewhat unexpectedly, this hike turned out to be – to put it mildly – quite a memory-maker, but beautiful nonetheless.
The world's great architects and artists descended on the community of Columbus, Indiana to design works that showcased what the possibilities were for thousands of American towns and small cities.
This is the Cummins Irwin Office Building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche.
Americans receive a heap load of spin by world-class spinmeisters. Here, there is incredible treasure and power to incentivize spin but with that there is also much at stake. In the confusing and messy information age, it is often easier and faster to take the colorful spin of the moment that confirms one's biases, sometimes crazily so, rather than ascertain truth. The paradox is that with so much data and information surrounding us, there is even more noise and distraction. Truth is still a hard thing to come by.
We have a culture and a society that values transparency and structural processes as an answer for spin and error. It is buildings such as this where American town and small city developers are encouraged to adopt transparent architectural structures of symmetry and asymmetry in which light illuminates.
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攝影家從沒打算把這世界以其原來的樣子展示給大家看。
Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is.
~ William Leith
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● Non-HDR-processed / Non-GND/ND-filtered
● Black Card Technique 黑卡作品
A golden ticket designed for Samsung and there incentives program, the idea was to create a collage of vector shapes and loveliness that resembled all things Dubai
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Incentive now marked as INS 2, will have to wait and see if it'll be refitted with trawl gear or not.
Berthed in Lossie for a couple of days now is Incentive. Rigged for working lobster pots but I believe this was previously fitted for trawls. FR279 can just be made out on top of the wheelhouse but I think it was later CE279 in Rathlin.
Incentive back in the water at Lossie but still waiting for the trip to Burghead. Good luck to Barry with his new boat.
If you've ever been agoraphobic (I have in my lifetime), this artwork might mean something more to you than to others. But even so, some of us may need a little more incentive to get out of our comfort zones than others. What if Nature suddenly came up to your window, larger-than-life and called to you to come out and play, would you do it right away?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobia
This composite began as my photo of an empty room (in my daughter's new home), and it beckoned me to make something of it!! I used these images:
"Jumping Dalina": © Photonimo
www.dreamstime.com/jumping-dalina-rimage802069-resi122770
"Red Lounge Chair": © Eyewave
www.dreamstime.com/red-lounge-chair-rimage1703396-resi122770
"Peacock Butterfly": © Calin Tatu [the whole window scene]
Built for the SWFactions RPG. Original Post and more pictures: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/183995-i...
Far from the turmoil of the Outer Rim, the tropical planet of SELVARIS provides peaceful sanctuary for many Followers of the Force. Various colonies, townships, and fishing villages dot the green-capped mountainous islands, sitting beside coral reefs and flashing cerulean seas teeming with marine life.
Just in case anything threatens the idyllic paradise, the villages incentivize principled mercenary companies, like the Red Moons, to stick around and provide protection. What mercenary is going to turn up their nose to warm sands and crystal-clear waves? Not any I know.
While they're there, maybe the Followers can catch them with a sermon or some meditation time, or at the very least a joyous village feast.
Mom flies into an adjoining tree to entice the chicks from the nest at Greenfield Park in West Allis, Wisconsin. One chick has already left the nest into that adjoining tree.
Elizabeth Mukwimba is a 62-year-old Tanzanian woman who now has solar lighting and electricity in her home at the flick of a switch, thanks to a scheme backed by UK aid.
Elizabeth has had an M-Power solar panel and lights fitted in her home by Off Grid Electric, a private sector company dedicated to providing sustainable, affordable energy to people in developing countries who aren't connected to the electricity grid.
It means that Elizabeth now has lighting at home at night, which means she doesn't have to buy expensive kerosene. The money she's saved already has helped her put a new tin roof on her house. It also means her grandchildren can read and do their homework in the evening.
UK aid, working with the Dutch NGO SNV, is providing support to help Off Grid Electric expand its business to reach more and more people who live in remote, rural areas, through two international partnership programmes - Energising Development (EnDev), and the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund Renewable Energy and Adaptation to Climate Technologies (AECF REACT).
The UK's support to EnDev is a 'results based financing' facility - this provides a financial incentive for companies like Off Grid - meaning they only get access to finance if they meet a given target (increasing the number of people who have access to clean energy) over a fixed period of time. This acts to boost the market returns for private sector companies providing services to poorer consumers, thereby attracting investment and enabling continued market expansion after the project (and financial incentive) ends.
In less than 2 years, Off Grid Electric has installed solar power systems in over 22,000 homes across Tanzania, meaning many more people now have access to cheap, renewable electricity - a vital step forward in a country where less than 14% of the population are connected to the electricity grid.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development.
Some of the new steelwork on the back of Barry's new boat. Net ready to go as well now, just patience required till we beat the Covid-19.
Marina Bay Sands is an integrated resort fronting Marina Bay in Singapore. Developed by Las Vegas Sands (LVS), it is billed as the world's most expensive stand-alone casino property at US$ 5.7 billion, including the cost of the prime land.
Marina Bay Sands is situated on 15.5 hectares of land with the gross floor area of 581,000 square metres. The iconic design has transformed Singapore's skyline and tourism landscape since it opened on 27 April, 2010. The property has a hotel, convention and exhibition facilities, theatres, entertainment venues, retailers, and restaurants.
Marina Bay Sands was one of two winning proposals for Singapore's first integrated resorts, the other being the Resorts World Sentosa, which incorporates Universal Studios Theme Park. The two resorts aimed to meet Singapore's economic and tourism objectives, and have 30-year casino licenses, exclusively for the first ten years.
Bidders were assessed based on four criteria:
tourism appeal and contribution
architectural concept and design
development investment
strength of the consortium and partners
On 27 May, 2006, Las Vegas Sands (LVS) was declared as the winner to develop the Marina Bay site in the prime new business district of Marina South. LVS highlighted its forte in Meetings, Incentives, Conferencing, Exhibitions (MICE). LVS's founder Sheldon Adelson is a pioneer in Las Vegas and the key to his early business success.[3] In the Design Evaluation portion of the tender, a panel of local and international architects commended Sands' design as superior to other bids in terms of pedestrian circulation and layout, and it also fit in with the Marina Bay landscape best. They liked that the hotel towers were set back from the waterfront to open up expansive views of the city and the entire Marina Bay, making the skyline for Singapore's downtown more attractive and distinctive.Construction of the property commenced in early 2007 and was expected to be completed by 2009.
Singapore Tourism Board highlighted Sands' line-up of six celebrity chefs, such as Tetsuya Wakuda, Wolfgang Puck, Daniel Boulud and Mario Batali.
LVS submitted its winning bid on its own. Its original partner City Developments Limited (CDL), with a proposed 15% equity stake, pulled out of the partnership in the second phase of the tender process. CDL's CEO, Kwek Leng Beng said his company's pullout was a combination of factors – such as difficulties in getting numerous companies he owns to comply in time, as well as reluctance of some parties to disclose certain private information in probity checks required by the Singapore government. However, Kwek was retained as an advisor for Sands' bid.
Las Vegas Sands initially committed to invest S$3.85 billion in the project, not including the fixed S$1.2 billion cost of the 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m2) site itself. With the escalating costs of materials, such as sand and steel, and labour shortages owing to other major infrastructure and property development in the country, Sheldon Adelson placed the total cost of the development at S$8 billion as of July 2009.
Las Vegas Sands declared the undertaking as "one of the world's most challenging construction projects and certainly the most expensive stand-alone integrated resort property ever built". It expects the casino to generate at least $1 billion in annual profit. Two months after the initial phased opening, the casino attracts around 25,000 visitors daily, about a third being Singaporeans and permanent residents who pay a $100 daily entry levy or $2,000 for annual unlimited access. Half a million gamblers passed through the casino in June 2010. In the third quarter of 2012, the revenues of the Marina Bay Sands fell almost 28 per cent from a year earlier.
For the economy, Marina Bay Sands is projected to stimulate an addition of $2.7 billion or 0.8% to Singapore's Gross Domestic Product by 2015, employing 10,000 people directly and 20,000 jobs being created in other industries.
Moshe Safdie was approached to lead the design on this massive project. Taking inspiration from the form of card decks, led to the unique design of the three hotel towers. Other key structures of the property include the 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) ArtScience Museum, The Shoppes, Expo and Convention center and the casino. During the resort's planning and construction phases, feng shui consultants, the late Master Chong Swan Lek and Master Louisa Ong-Lee were consulted in regards to divination.
The engineering for the project was headed by Arup and Parsons Brinkerhoff (MEP/ELV). Arup had originally worked on prestigious projects such as the Beijing National Aquatics Centre and the Sydney Opera House. In spite of their experience in constructing challenging designs, the Marina Bay Sands project was described as the 'most difficult to carry out in the whole world' due to the amount of integration of the varied and advanced technologies needed to complete the project.
The extensive background music system was installed by Singapore based contractor Electronics & Engineering Pte Ltd
The Marina Bay Sands hotel has three 55-story towers with 2,561 luxury rooms and suites, which is capped by the Sands SkyPark, which offers 360-degree views of Singapore's skyline. The SkyPark is home to restaurants, gardens, a 150-metre vanishing edge and the world's largest public cantilever housing an observation deck. This architectural marvel stands at the height of 200 metres and boasts 12,400 square metres of space. Dining options at the Skypark include local celebrity chef restaurant, Sky on 57 (by Justin Quek), restaurant and nightclub KU DÉ TA, and executive club lounge The Club at Marina Bay Sands.
To help the Skypark withstand the natural motion of the towers caused by wind, engineers designed and constructed four movement joints beneath the main pools, each possessing a unique range of motion. The total range of motion is 500 millimetres (19.68 inches). In addition to wind, the hotel towers are also subject to settlement in the earth over time, hence custom jack legs were built and installed to allow for future adjustment at more than 500 points beneath the pool system. This jacking system is important primarily to ensure the infinity edge of the pool continues to function properly.[citation needed]
Connected to the hotel towers are the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands Casino and The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands.
The Sands Expo and Convention Centre has more than 120,000 square metres or 1.3 million square feet of meeting space, making it one of the largest and most flexible locations in Asia. It is also the biggest MICE (Meeting, Incentives, Conference and Exhibitions) facility in Singapore, and the ballroom is the largest in Southeast Asia, capable of hosting up to 11,000 delegates. The Sands Expo and Convention Centre has five floors of exhibition and convention space, with up to 2,000 exhibition booths and 250 meeting rooms. It has hosted events ranging from banquets, theater-style conventions, to exhibitions and roadshows.
Located near the Sands Expo and Convention Centre is the Marina Bay Sands Casino. Spanning 15,000 square metres over four levels of gaming, the casino features over 600 gaming tables and 1,500 slot machines along with two noodle bars, The Nest and Tong Dim, and local Chinese eatery, Fatt Choi Express.
Another attraction found at Marina Bay Sands is The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. With close to 800,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands is Singapore's first large-scale luxury shopping mall in the Central Business District with boutiques such as Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Cartier and Prada. Other luxury stores include Salon by Surrender, Gucci, Hermès, Emporio Armani, Chopard, REDValentino, Dior, Dunhill, Vertu, Miu Miu, Saint Laurent Paris, Salvatore Ferragamo, Montblanc, Blancpain, and an Hermès Watch Boutique. Also housed within the Shoppes are the five of the six Celebrity Chef Restaurants – Cut (by Wolfgang Puck), Waku Ghin (by Tetsuya Wakuda), Pizzeria and Osteria Mozza (by Mario Batali), Guy Savoy (by Guy Savoy), and DB Bistro Moderne (by Daniel Boulud).
Other attractions within The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands include a canal which runs through the length of the Shoppes, in the same style as the Venetian in Las Vegas, two Crystal Pavilions, one housing renowned nightclubs – Avalon and Pangaea and the other the world's largest Louis Vuitton boutique. An indoor skating rink (synthetic ice) measuring 6,500 square feet (600 m2) as well as the MasterCard Theatres, compromising of the Sands Theatre and Grand Theatre which seat 1,680 people and 2,155 people respectively can also be found at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands.
The MasterCard Theatres has played host to many international acts and plays since its opening, with Broadway smash musicals like The Lion King, Wicked, Annie, and The Phantom of the Opera. Other acts such as Cirque Éloize and A. R. Rahman's Jai Ho, located in the latter during their world tours.
Visitors to the Event Plaza at The Shoppes can enjoy the nightly Wonder Full show, a 13-minute light and water show featuring lasers, lights, water movements and graphics, set against the backdrop of Marina Bay Sands.
Marina Bay Sands is also home to the ArtScience Museum, With a form reminiscent of the lotus, the ArtScience Museum has been called "The Welcoming Hand of Singapore". It features an adjustable roof waterfall which uses rainwater collected when the roof is sealed in the day.
The resort also features an Art Path designed by Moshe Safdie, incorporating 11 installations by five artists including Zheng Chongbin, Antony Gormley, and Sol LeWitt. The 11 art installations were commissioned to integrate seamlessly with Moshe Safdie's iconic architecture. These art installations form the largest art commissions ever completed as part of an integrated architectual proccess