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2015
This year Steve Wells is far more optimistic than ever before of receiving gratitude for this, his latest seasonal offering.
He is hopeful that once his unwitting recipients realise that this could well be the final instalment of his innovative composite festive image their relief and joy will far outweigh their dismay and disappointment of having to display this year’s issue alongside those of previous years.
2015 has yet again seen his artistic endeavours attain new levels of mediocrity, despite semi-retirement affording him additional time for practice and experimentation. However, his photographic work has, surprisingly, finally received some welcome recognition, as his snapshot of a Goldcrest was selected to feature in the inaugural 2016 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust calendar.
This photograph, along with his other less successful images, can be viewed at
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where thankfully skill and expertise in composition, focus, lighting and subject matter are not necessarily pre-requisites for inclusion.
(Copies of the 2016 Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust calendar can be ordered at www.lrwt.org.uk or from the Anglian Water Birdwatching Centre, Rutland Water Nature Reserve. Your £7.50 will help fund wildlife projects across the county, and may help to recruit a far more discerning panel of judges for next year’s calendar).
These workers smile for the camera optimistically. China has been through many hard periods and has always worked together. There are so many worlers sitting woth nothing to do in sharp comparison to the streets which where full a year ago bustling with packages and buyers.
If you come early, all the streets are filled with endless lines of people who make their lively hood through exporting goods. They will flow to work for at least an hour, nonstop with little other activity. A year ago these streets were filled with foreign buyers from all over the world. Now the streets are bare, and many wholesale shops are closed. It is such a contrast that its almost scary. Many of the migrant workers have fled by the millions home early for the Spring festival as jobs were lost. Those who remain are the most desperate. China is attempting to and must focus on emergent markets if it is going to survive this economic slowdown. After many years of double digit growth, a growth forecasted at only 5% is going to cause tremendous stress for the economy. One especially magnified by the very large income gap which has been all but forgotten in the mainstream media. Local Chinese news offers little coverage of these grim scenes in an attempt to maintain domestic consumer confidence. As demand from the west slows, this charade will not be able to last much longer. As if they had a crystal ball, China cracked down on issuing visas for the 2008 Olympic games, and enforced slowdown in many areas of its domestic market. Investors slowed down to a trickle during the games do to the tight visa policies, and now even more so due to the economic crises. This was either a smart or a lucky move. If the economy didn?t slow gradually with the beginning of the Olympics continuing with the current crises; and rather slowed down all at once as within other nations the consequences would be dire.
„2nd European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy“
Berlin, October 10-11, 2013
During the past decades myriad links between culture, creativity and economic practice have become major topics of interdisciplinary debates. No longer restricted to a few sectors, there is a growing consensus that the intersections between these spheres and symbolic and culturally embedded values in particular, pervade the global economy. Indeed, the formerly distinct logics of the cultural and the economic have become increasingly indiscernible. Similarly, the notion of creativity, once used to express exceptional talent, activities and outcomes, is now considered a key component to success in all fields of economic activity. At the same time, the Internet has revolutionized the conditions under which cultural production and distribution as well as creative collaboration can be undertaken. Despite the high degree of uncertainty about future developments, policy makers as well as business managers are highly optimistic, if not enthusiastic, about the ability of symbolic values and creativity to drive sustained economic growth and regional development.
The Second European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy (CCE2), which took place in Berlin (Location: "Tango Loft", Berlin-Wedding) from 10-11th October, took up and continued an international and interdisciplinary debate on these topics. This debate was originally initiated during a workshop in Padua in 2011 and subsequently given an institutional character as a European Network of Excellence during the First European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy (CCE1) in Uppsala in 2012. The aim was to continue these discussions while consolidating the emergent research network through follow-up events. Above all, however, the colloquium brought internationally known scholars from a range of disciplines and institutions in Europe and North America together in an exciting, intense and dynamic meeting aimed at generating not only new networks but new knowledge and approaches.
Still optimistic, but I think it isn't growing very fast. It is possible that a tree needs to grow over time OR SOMETHING.
Taken shortly after 7:00am just west of campus, in the distance you can see the path leading up to SUB.
2022 Optimistic Gargoyle Female Face New York County National Bank Building at 77–79 Eighth Avenue at West 14th Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan New York City – also known as the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building – was built in 1906–07 and was designed by De Lemos & Cordes and Rudolphe L Daus in the Neoclassical style January 15th 01/12/2022 fourteenth St Downtown limestone-clad neo-classical temple with Beaux-Arts touches with Corinthian columns - Now Museum of Illusions
Just saw the liberal economist Paul Krugman
speak at an event hosted by the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs.
Biggest surprise: he thinks everything is
going to be okay. Longer post to follow soon.
Update: Here's that promised post »