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20 May 2019 – Building a Societal Contract for the World, Facilitator: Chris Hoenig, Co-Founder, Citizens Alliance
Scene setting: Anthony Gooch, Director, Public Affairs & Communications, OECD
Discussion leaders
Hossein Derakhshan, Journalist, Research Associate, MIT Media Lab
Natasha Friis Saxberg, Deputy Chairman, Foundation for Social Responsibility
Gabriela Gandel, Executive Director, Impact Hub
M. Yasmina McCarty, Head of Mobile for Development, GSMA
Ida McDonnell, Team Leader, Senior Policy Analyst, Development Directorate, OECD
Manuel Muñiz, Dean of the School of Global and Public Affairs; Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Leadership, IE University, Spain
David Grégoire Van Reybrouc, Cultural Historian, Archaeologist & Author
Friederike Röder, CEO, ONE France
Dennis Snower, President, Global Solutions Initiative
Closing: Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD, OECD Headquarters, Paris.
Photo: OECD / Christian Moutarde
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. (ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably).
With visits now in excess of 18.621 Million to my FLICKR site, used primarily these days as a fun platform to reach friends and family as I have now sold my professional gear and now take a more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to FLICKR, GETTY IMAGES and everyone who drops by.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on May 12th 2017
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This photograph became my 2,495th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Twenty two metres at 08:50am on Saturday April 15th 2017 within Villa Borghese Gardens, a landscaped garden in the naturalistic English manner of Rome, Italy. Containing the Villa Borghese, a museum and biopark with a zoo, these are the third largest gardens in Rome at almost two hundred acres, and built by Flaminio Ponzio in 1605 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese as a party villa.
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Nikon D7200 10mm 1/25s f/14.0 iso250 RAW (14Bit)Size L (6000x4000), Hand held with Nikkor VR Vibration Reduction enabled. Auto focus AF-C with 3D-tracking enabled. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.Auto Active D-lighting.
Nikkor AF-S 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED. Phot-R 77mm UV filter.Nikon MB-D15 Battery grip pack. Nikon EN-EL battery (2). Hoodman H-EYEN22S soft rubber eyecup. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 32GB Class 10 SDHC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. . Nikon GP-1 GPS module.
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LATITUDE: N 41d 54m 53.68s
LONGITUDE: E 12d 29m 34.50s
ALTITUDE: 22.00m
RAW (TIFF) FILE SIZE: 69.00MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) SIZE: 24.79MB
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Nikon D7200 Firmware versions A 1.10 C 1.02 (9/3/17) L 2.015 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.2.4 24/11/2016). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
AFGE signs collective bargaining agreement with Defense Contract Audit Agency officials Thursday, Feb. 6 2014.
CASA VANZO - struttura ricettiva extra alberghiera
Fondazione I.R.P.E.A. - Padova
Progetto: arch. Santelli Nazzareno, Santelli Andrea e Rampado Diego
General Contractor: Tecnoffix Interior
Mazzali ha realizzato gli ambienti notte e studio.
Armadio: modello 900, tamburato con massello di abete, essenza di rovere, verniciatura all’acqua e ingnifuga
Letti e Comodini: multistrato, essenza di rovere, verniciatura all’acqua e ingnifuga
Scrittoi: multistrato, essenza di rovere, verniciatura all’acqua e ingnifuga
Boiserie: multistrato, essenza di rovere, verniciatura all’acqua e ingnifuga
VANZO – extra hotel accommodation
Foundation I.R.P.E.A. - Padova
Design: arch. Nazzareno Santelli, Andrew Santelli and Rampado Diego
General Contractor: Interior Tecnoffix
Mazzali has created the night and study spaces.
Technical card:
Cabinet: Model 900, with honeycomb sandwich panel with solid wood frame, oak, water and fire resistant painting
Beds & Tables: plywood, oak, water and fire resistant painting
Desks: plywood, oak, water painting water and fire resistant painting
Boiserie: plywood, oak, water and fire resistant painting
Tadmur Contracting is the flag ship company of the Tadmur Group of companies. During a short span of time Tadmur became as one of the leaders in the Contracting sector in Qatar. Executed many prestigious projects in Qatar including several Government Schools, Commercial Buildings, Executive Residence Apartments, Stadiums, Qatar Scientific Club, Private Villas, First & Business Class Terminal at Qatar International Airport and the ongoing Library & Research Complex at Qatar University, Student Centre at Qatar Foundation and the recently awarded Barwa Commercial Avenue.
With the support of staff with high caliber and management with high vision, Tadmur has grown up as the pioneers in Construction field in the State of Qatar.
We are proud to be a part of Tadmur group.
Okay....so this is a very simple candid to be in a wedding set. But I somehow like it for the very same reason!
Meet the twins Amber & Neha, cousins of the bride (and obviously, also of my wife). Until this time, people used to recognize them with the mole on Amber's nose. But from this photograph onwards, they will also be recognizable by their different ways of smiling!
:-)
I caught them on the way here, when they were hurrying to see the bridal make-up.
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CASA VANZO - struttura ricettiva extra alberghiera
Fondazione I.R.P.E.A. - Padova
Progetto: arch. Santelli Nazzareno, Santelli Andrea e Rampado Diego
General Contractor: Tecnoffix Interior
Mazzali ha realizzato gli ambienti notte e studio.
Armadio: modello 900, tamburato con massello di abete, essenza di rovere, verniciatura all’acqua e ingnifuga
Letti e Comodini: multistrato, essenza di rovere, verniciatura all’acqua e ingnifuga
Scrittoi: multistrato, essenza di rovere, verniciatura all’acqua e ingnifuga
Boiserie: multistrato, essenza di rovere, verniciatura all’acqua e ingnifuga
VANZO – extra hotel accommodation
Foundation I.R.P.E.A. - Padova
Design: arch. Nazzareno Santelli, Andrew Santelli and Rampado Diego
General Contractor: Interior Tecnoffix
Mazzali has created the night and study spaces.
Technical card:
Cabinet: Model 900, with honeycomb sandwich panel with solid wood frame, oak, water and fire resistant painting
Beds & Tables: plywood, oak, water and fire resistant painting
Desks: plywood, oak, water painting water and fire resistant painting
Boiserie: plywood, oak, water and fire resistant painting
(DX-2) DENVER, COLORADO, SEP.22
-- COLORADO COMPANY AWARDED NASA CONTRACT--
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has a awarded a study contract to Ball Brothers Research Corporation, Boulder, Colorado to define and determine the engineering requirements for a solar telescope mount to be used on proposed earth-orbiting Apollo Applications manned missions. (SEE AP WIRE STORY) (AF WIREPHOTO) (ba41630ho65)
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AFGE signs collective bargaining agreement with Defense Contract Audit Agency officials Thursday, Feb. 6 2014.
I sure hope this works, after all, taking down one the Republic's most heavily protected bases with a bunch of bounty hunters isn't exactly the best plan but it's what we've got also we're no normal group of bounty hunters, we're the Shadow Hunters the best of the best in our line of work. This all started in Coruscant when we were going our usual business until someone contacted us promising us a lot of credits if I accept and being the gentleman that I am I was inclined to accept. We got 5,000,000 credits when we accepted and we were promised the rest later but that got us all wondering, who would pay such a high price? Whoever he is, he's smart, in order to go undetected by the Republic my client insisted that we go there by escape pods so that we wouldn't attract much attention to ourselves and to the base which we were hired to infiltrate. The base which we are attacking is Sector 09 are better known as The Blackbox. It rest on the desert moon orbiting Coruscul and it's where the Republic keeps it's darkest secrets and most dangerous weapons. From the outside it looks like a normal outpost but if you look at the details then you can notice that it's actually made of extremely tough black mandalorian steel as well that there are no normal clones protecting it but highly a highly trained clone squad. So in order for this to work we have take out the clones without raising any alarms, defuse the state of the art security system and sneak into the heavily guarded hidden labyrinth beneath the outpost so as I said...I sure hope this works. _________________________________ I'm trying out a new storyline following a group of bounty hunters and their stories of adventure across the galaxy
Arrival London took over the contract for route 48 (Walthamstow Central - London Bridge) from Stagecoach from Saturday 25th February; the route is now operated from Ash Grove Garage in South Hackney which is along the route.
Originally earmarked for conventional hybrid buses, it has now been decided that the route will be converted to New Routemaster operation with a scratch fleet of vehicles redeployed from other routes. Five have already been reallocated from route 38, rendered surplus by a frequency reduction, and one of these, LT 238 is seen in Hackney Road approaching the Cambridge Heath Station stop on Tuesday 14th March. A proposal to withdraw route 73 between Oxford Circus and Victoria in the Summer and reduce the overall frequency is expected to release around fifteen more, and until these become available Arriva is using a temporary allocation of diesel Wright Gemini 2-bodied VDL-DB300s.
(Apologies for the blurring, the photo was taken in poor light but i wanted to include it for topicality).
A contract which governs the conditions of engagement of Bilbo Baggins in the role of a Burglar for Thorin Oakenshield.
This prop replica is created by Daniel Reeve, the same man responsible for the original contract as seen in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
The Festive P&R Sunday service recommenced last week with First winning the contract back from Stagecoach this year.
Notably because of the changes to the P&R services that First have made during 2012, this year the Sunday P&R offers a better service than on the Saturdays as it offers a 20 minute direct service between the two P&R sites compared to a 30 minute indirect service from Kingswells on a Saturday with the 11.
The P&R site at Bridge of Don was still displaying signs telling prospective passengers that the car park is closed on Sundays and the realtime displays have not been updated to include the service so by 2pm only twenty cars had taken up the service, roughly one car per bus.
The buses are still advertising the £3 return fare but the actual fare is subsidised at £1.50 return on a Sunday. While the P&R B10BLEs have had their displays updated for the Sunday service the unbranded B10BLEs have not and were showing the football P&R displays instead.
62171 leaves the AECC for Kingswells empty. The bus carries no branding at the front following front end repairs earlier in the year which improves the front end of the bus which has not had a lick of paint for over seven years.
Aurora Aksnes (born 15.6.1996), is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and record producer. Born in Stavanger and raised in the towns of Høle and Os, she began writing her first songs and learning dance at the age of six. After some of her songs were uploaded online and became popular in Norway, she signed a recording contract with Petroleum Records, Decca and Glassnote Records in 2014. Aurora gained recognition with her debut extended play (EP), Running with the Wolves (2015), which contained the sleeper hit "Runaway". Later that year, she provided the backing track for the John Lewis Christmas advert, singing a cover of the Oasis song "Half the World Away".
Aurora's debut studio album, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (2016) received generally positive reviews, charting in various European countries and earning platinum certification two times in Norway. Her second EP Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1) (2018) was the first part of a two-part album, while the second part was her second studio album, A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) (2019). Her third studio album The Gods We Can Touch was released on 21 January 2022.
Her music is primarily electropop, folk, and art pop with vocals referred to as "ethereal". She only played piano at the beginning of her career, but later involved herself in percussion and other aspects of music production. In addition to her solo work, Aurora has collaborated with and co-written songs for other artists, including Icarus, Askjell, Lena, Travis and the Chemical Brothers. She has also contributed to soundtracks for several films and television series, including Girls, Frozen II and Wolfwalkers.
She calls herself a "forest person" due to being surrounded by nature and her love to "climb trees", and being "isolated and hidden".[15] She has also shown interest in the ocean since she lived close to the sea, and her parents have a sailboat.[15][16] When she attended school, her sisters—Miranda (currently her makeup artist) and Viktoria Aksnes (currently her costume designer)—worried that she might be bullied due to her eccentric personality and style of dress.[17] Contrary to this, Aurora's classmates asked for more time than she was willing to give, and she instead preferred to spend time in the forest.[18] She also claimed that withdrawing into natural spaces gave her time to philosophize and discover the "power" of her own mind.[19] As a child, she was afraid of people who sought to hug her and disliked such a gesture in general: "I used to be terrified of people who wanted to hug me", she said. "I did not like to be hugged as a child. And I used to be terrified of one of my teachers at school, but then I met him a few months ago, and it was really nice. It’s weird how things change."[20]
At age nine, when she had a better handle of the English language, she began writing songs.[13] She has mentioned being influenced at that time by artists like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Enya, and the Chemical Brothers.[24][25]
According to Aurora, the first song she ever finished writing was titled "The Lonely Man".[33] Her first work before embarking on her music career was washing a pizza restaurant using a hose.[33] Songs from her early works were written in this early stage of her life.[34][35] Another of her early compositions was "I Had a Dream", which referred to how hard the world can be.[25][23] Although she considered it a "really long and boring song about world peace" she performed it once at her high school's leaving ceremony. The recording of her song "Puppet" (which was originally made as a Christmas gift for her parents) and a video filmed by a classmate of her school performance were uploaded online without her permission (which made her angry),[13][36] and was quickly discovered by a representative of the agency of Artists Made Management, a Norwegian management company, who invited Aurora to visit their office for a meeting in early 2013.[37][38] Aurora initially denied the proposal: "At first I thought no", she recalls, "but then my mum said I should think about the idea of sharing my music with the world because maybe there's someone out there who desperately needs it. And that could actually be a good thing".[36] In a few hours, both songs received thousands of visits in Norway, which earned Aurora some recognition in her country, in addition to a fan base on Facebook.[38][21][39]
2012–2016: Running with the Wolves and All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend
Aurora self-released the song "Puppet" as her debut single in December 2012 under her birth name.[40] Aurora then set about working on her songwriting for around a year before giving her "first proper live performance" at Nabovarsel Minifestival in Bergen. About similar performances to that one she said: "I don’t think I was born to be an entertainer, I used to really be afraid of playing live on-stage. Obviously it’s terrifying! But now I’ve learned to, and I’ve learned to not focus on myself, cause it’s not about me. Now I only think about giving everyone the best experience. A magic moment."[20][41] Her second single, "Awakening", followed in March 2014, which became the first one released under the stage name Aurora.[42] Her third single "Under Stars" was the first one signed to her labels Glassnote Records and Decca Records, released in November 2014. Both songs established her as a "Promising Artist" of 2015 and attracted the attention of critics in Europe and the United States, especially for the artist's voice. Her next single "Runaway" was released in February 2015, which gained attention from singers Katy Perry and Troye Sivan.
Her next single, "Running with the Wolves" was released in April 2015, and its music video was released two months later. The song gained attention from BBC Radio station.[49] It was released alongside the announcement of the release of her debut EP Running with the Wolves.[50] Released in May 2015 on digital platforms, the EP received positive reviews from online music blogs and national press. To promote the EP, she appeared at summer festivals such as Way Out West, Wilderness, and Green Man Festival. Aurora's next single, "Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)", was released in September 2015 and has received continued support in the national press, on national radio, and popular online music blogs.[51] Aurora also performed at the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Concert,[52] saying that she and her family "have been following it from the living room at home for many years", and "it is an incredibly beautiful thing to be a part of."[53] Her presentation was praised by the concert's host Jay Leno.[54] She has played a sold-out headline show in London and supported Of Monsters and Men at Brixton Academy in November 2015.[55] Aurora recorded a cover of the Oasis song "Half the World Away" for the 2015 John Lewis Christmas advert.[56] Her next single, titled "Conqueror", was released in January 2016, and a music video was released the following month. Before the single release, the song appeared in the soundtrack of the videogame FIFA 16.[57]
In early 2016, Aurora featured on British band Icarus' song "Home" and released a cover of David Bowie's "Life on Mars" for the HBO Girls television series.[58][59][60] After a prolific start with her first musical productions, she released her debut album All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend in March 2016,[61] receiving generally positive reviews from critics. After releasing the album, Aurora embarked on an international concert tour beginning in Australia that lasted more than a year.[62]
On 14 March 2016, Aurora made her American television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing "Conqueror", which was later performed on Conan.[63] On 25 July 2016 she performed her cover of "Life on Mars" on The Howard Stern Show. The following night on 26 July, she performed "I Went Too Far" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which was later released as the album's fifth single. The album's sixth and final single "Winter Bird" was released on 20 December. Aurora became the first in a series of emerging artists to partner with YouTube for a creative content distribution program,[64] she also starred in her own short documentary directed by Isaac Ravishankara and produced by The Fader, titled "Nothing is Eternal."[65]
2017–2019: Infections of a Different Kind and A Different Kind of Human[edit]
When All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend debuted, Aurora said that it was "the first album of many" she was planning to release.[66] As of 12 May 2016, after coming back from her European tour, the singer announced that she was ready to begin writing and producing more material, which will form her second studio album. She stated in a Facebook event that she has fifteen demo songs and has written a thousand songs/poems. Her next project consisted of covering the song "Scarborough Fair" for the Brazilian telenovela Deus Salve o Rei and filming the opening sequence for it.[67] Between April and August 2018, the singer released two singles, "Queendom" and "Forgotten Love",[68][69] which would be included in the first half of a two-part album divided into "steps".[70] Aurora recorded the album during her stay in France in January of that year, and the production included the producers Askjell Solstrand, Roy Kerr and Tim Bran, with Aurora herself also involved in this aspect.[15] Some of that new material was anticipated in live performances, including festivals like Lollapalooza and Coachella.[71][72]
While maintaining some of the themes and stories of the previous album, this production would mark the first time that Aurora has incorporated themes of politics and sexuality into her music.[73] Most of the new inspiration came from the interaction that she had with her fans during her first tour.[74] The music video for "Queendom" saw its release in May 2018, which presented themes of inclusivity and empowerment of "the underdog", particularly her LGBT fans. In the video, Aurora kisses one of her female dancers to convey that "every type of love is accepted and embraced" in her "queendom".[75]
On 28 September 2018, the singer released the first half of her second album on EP format,[70] under the title Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1). The EP features eight songs,[76] and the title itself comes from the eighth track included on it, which Aurora declared as "the most important song I've ever written".[77] A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) followed on 7 June 2019, with lead singles "Animal" and "The River".
On 12 April 2019, Aurora contributed with co-writing and vocals in the songs "Eve of Destruction", "Bango", and "The Universe Sent Me" for the Chemical Brothers' ninth album No Geography.[78] On 4 November 2019, the soundtrack to the Disney film Frozen II was released, with Aurora providing backing vocals on the song "Into the Unknown". On 9 February 2020, she performed the song on stage as part of the 92nd Academy Awards alongside Idina Menzel and nine singers that dubbed the song in their respective languages.[79] She released her solo version of "Into the Unknown" as a standalone single on 3 March 2020.[80]
Aurora released the single "Exist for Love" in May 2020, which was presented as her first love song ever with a self-directed music video.[81] The song was made during the COVID-19 lockdown in collaboration with Isobel Waller-Bridge, who composed the string arrangements.[81] It was the first glimpse into what she described as "a new era" in her career, with the upcoming release of a new album.[82] Under the musical direction of Gaute Tønder, she recorded the title track of the Christmas miniseries Stjernestøv [no] for Norwegian public broadcaster NRK; such contribution was made known in mid-November of the same year.[83] She also provided her vocals on the songs "Vinterens Gåte" and "Det Ev Ei Rosa Sprunge" (Norwegian version of the German song "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"), from the album Juleroser by Herborg Kråkevik, in which the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and other Norwegian artists.[84] She also re-recorded her track "Running with the Wolves" for the animated fantasy and adventure film Wolfwalkers.[85]
In early 2021, she released five compilation EPs in celebration of her song "Runaway" receiving over 100 million streams on Spotify: For the Humans Who Take Long Walks in the Forest, Music for the Free Spirits, Stories, For the Metal People and Music for the Fellow Witches Out There throughout February.[86] On 7 July 2021, Aurora released the single "Cure for Me" as the lead single for the forthcoming album.[87] On 14 October, "Giving in to the Love" was released as the album's third single, and The Gods We Can Touch was announced for release on 21 January 2022.[88] Aurora featured in Sub Urban's song "Paramour", released on 19 November as a single for the latter's upcoming debut album.[89] She also released the song "Midas Touch for the soundtrack of the third season of the Amazon Prime Video Hanna series. To promote The Gods We Can Touch, she announced a concert tour throughout the United States and Europe (with Sub Urban, Sei Selina and Metteson as supporting acts) in 2022.[90] "Heathens" was released on 3 December 2021 as the album's fourth single, and a virtual concert film was announced, which released exclusively to Moment House on 25 January 2022, a week later after the album's release.[91][92] A collaborative event with the video game Sky: Children of the Light was released on 17 October 2022, which included a virtual concert that premiered on 8 December after The Game Awards 2022 and reoccurred from 9 December until 2 January 2023.
Isolated studio shot of a businessman's hands pointing to the end of a blank page ready for your copy.
Guess what? It worked, after following the holomap for what seemed hours we finally arrived at the vault that we wanted. We had passed many scout since the alarms went off and they are all on high alert. The vault wAS just down the corridor and, as always, it was the most heavily guarded one out of all them, with two stationary guards and doors thicker than usual. this is where I set my plan in motion. "We'll need to take down the guards quickly so Muri Traan hit them with a flash-bomb and we take them out. Then Krall you highjack a ship, we'll need a quick escape because we will need to get the heck out of here." This is our only hope of getting the bounty
Retired at 3½ years old - the dealer who bought this batch of buses was too greedy so never managed to resell most of them
Operational Contract Support Joint Exercise 2016 provides training across the spectrum of OCS readiness from requirements and development of warfighter staff integration and synchronization through contract execution supporting the Joint Force Commander. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder/Released)