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Clicked this lovely view when coming from Office to Hotel during recent business trip to Lund. Love the feel of it, perhaps to be used in some management presentations :)
...after 2whole days of wear. 1 coat OPI I Think in Pink from the PINK collection. This pink is really a thin/liquidy formula, so you'd have to probably use 3 or more coats to get the color that's actually in the bottle. I kinda was disappointed, but it's a good base for a pinkish french. I used China Glaze White on White for the tips and also for the Konad flower print. There's a CG Rich & Famous flower too and I added glitter specs in the center of each flower :)
The beautiful curse of #youthfulness. Being naive or having #faith. Being reckless or being #brave. You cannot understand it until you do, and you cannot feel it the way you used to.
La hermosa maldición de la #juventud. Ser ingenuo o tener #fe. Ser imprudente o valiente. No puedes comprenderlo hasta que lo haces, y no puede sentirlo como solías hacerlo.
BTO Educational ♥ Think Tank Umbria 2011
Todi, Palazzo della Vignola
29 e 30 Aprile 2011
Think Tank su:
Strategia e Turismo: dalla formulazione all'implementazione
Regione Umbria in collaborazione con Sandro Formica, Ph.D
Professore Associato di Strategia e Pianificazione del Turismo Florida International University, Miami
Torna in Umbria, sempre nella coerente cornice di Todi, il Think Tank [serbatoio di pensiero], a qualche mese di distanza dall'ultima tappa di Novembre 2010.
Il Think Tank è il format perfetto che ha l'obiettivo di creare il contesto ideale per l'elaborazione di strategie territoriali guardando verso il futuro del turismo, riunendo i portatori d'interesse pubblici e privati, contaminandoli con persone "neutre", ovvero non direttamente coinvolte, ma disponibili a portare il proprio contributo di esperienza.
Le persone che partecipano ad un Think Tank offrono e ricevono: contribuiscono con la propria partecipazione, ricevono un'esperienza di alta qualità.
La merce di scambio è appunto questa.
21 May 2019 - OECD Forum: Future of Work: Financing
Moderator: Jason Karaian, Global Finance and Economics Editor, Quartz
Scene setting: Scott Frisch, EVP & Chief Operating Officer, AARP
Speakers: Jee Eun Cho, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Operations, Cigna Korea, Aart de Geus, Chairman and CEO, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Colm Harmon, Vice Provost (Academic Performance) and Professor of Economics, University of Sydney; Australia; Research Fellow, Global Labor Organization, Antonella Mei-Pochtler, Special Advisor to the Austrian Federal Chancellor; Director, Think Austria, Susan Weinstock, Vice-President, Financial Resiliency Programming, AARP
Closing:
Stefano Scarpetta, Director, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
Photo : © Hervé Cortinat / OECD
Philippians 4:4-9 (KJV)
4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations
On our last 15 km this snake suddenly popped up from water in front of car and would t move, I guess he was after those frogs.
Even they produce a mild venom, these snakes pose no danger to humans.They are also immune to the venom of the snakes it feeds upon.
Attempted an HDR - 12 images overall. I am not too kicked about the result but thought I'd post it nonetheless.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Wear it again Wednesday .. Think PINK!!!
From the group administrator... Jill.
"I don't think there are many of us that don't know someone - a friend, relative, co-worker that may have struggled with this terrible disease. October is normally Breast Cancer Awareness month... so please let your girls don their PINKS in honor of all the brave women that fight and live with this disease every day, as well as those that may have lost their fight... we remember...
*THINK PINK! "
My photo is a little late, but better late than never. :)
I think this is taken from the same distance as the last picture (SI1625), but with zoom turned on.
Andy, Clint, Greg, Nicole, Ryan, Shannon, Svetlana.
sitting, standing.
Assateague, Maryland.
August 8, 2009.
Pic by Christie.
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It took over 2 years, and a physical trip to New Jersey, but we finally got the pictures the 8's took!