London 4K - Sunset Drive - Central London UK
Thursday evening drive around London. I tried to get all the popular spots in one video. What most people think of London is the West End area where most of this video is filmed. The tour starts on Regent Street, continues through Piccadilly Circus (London's version of New York City's Times Square, through Trafalgar Square, then passing by the British Prime Ministers home at 10 Downing Street along Whitehall and Parliament Streets, next by the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, along the River Thames with views of the famous Coca Cola London Eye, then going back to the Theater District, leading to Oxford Street which is Europe's busiest shopping Street, and ending in the Mayfield neighborhood on luxury Bond Street. Wow. That was a lot of text for a video platform... :)
The West End of London is the largest central business district in the United Kingdom, comparable to Midtown Manhattan in New York City, Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, Shibuya in Tokyo, or the 8th arrondissement in Paris. It is one of the most expensive locations in the world in which to rent office space. While the City of London, or the Square Mile, is the main business and financial district in London, the West End is the main commercial and entertainment centre of the city.
The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End), refers to both a distinct and the wider region of Central London, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.
Activities:
Taking a fairly broad definition of the West End, the area contains the main concentrations of most of London's metropolitan activities apart from financial and many types of legal services, which are concentrated primarily in the City of London. There are major concentrations of the following buildings and activities in the West End:
Art galleries and museums
Company headquarters outside the financial services sector (although London's many hedge funds are based mainly in the West End)
Educational institutions
Embassies
Government buildings (mainly around Whitehall)
Hotels
Institutes, learned societies and think tanks
Legal institutions
Media establishments
Places of entertainment: theatres, cinemas nightclubs, music venues, bars and restaurants
Shops
The annual New Year's Day Parade takes place on the streets of the West End.
Botleigh Grange Hotel, Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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4-star hotel in Southampton with spa, indoor pool
Free WiFi and free parking
This hotel has 56 rooms
Southampton, United Kingdom - 2013
Southampton - Bar Gate, Medieval wall, city hall, cruise ship terminal, shopping center, Winchester
THE SHINING ( FILMING LOCATION ) Kubrick Jack Nicholson
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The Shining is a 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name.
The film stars Jack Nicholson as tormented writer Jack Torrance, Shelley Duvall as his wife, Wendy, and Danny Lloyd as their son, Danny.
The film tells the story of a writer, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), who accepts the job of the winter caretaker at a hotel which always gets snowed in during the winter. While his family looks around the hotel during closing day, the psychic hotel chef discovers the psychic abilities of Jack's son Danny, and Danny's ability to detect ghostly presences in the hotel. In the chef's family, this ability is called shining. When the hotel becomes snowbound, Jack Torrance is driven mad by the ghosts in the hotel, and he tries to murder his wife and son.
Initial response to the film was mixed, and it performed moderately at the box office. Subsequent critical assessment of the film has been more favorable, and it is now viewed as a classic of the horror genre.
The entire film was shot on soundstages at EMI Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, England. The set for the Overlook Hotel was then the largest ever built. It included a full recreation of the exterior of the hotel, as well as the interiors. A few exterior shots by a second unit crew were done at Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon. They are noticeable because the hedge maze is missing. The interiors are based on those of the Ahwahnee hotel in Yosemite National Park.
Disneyworld's Forgotten Magic: WorldKey at EPCOT
To the left of Guest Relations in EPCOT, you can find the last remaining relicts of an attraction/service called WorldKey. This introduced some of the first video conferencing technology ever to be publicly used, and was the ONLY way to make dining reservations for the restaurants of World Showcase throughout the early '80s. Guests would call a reservations specialist, who would show up on the TV screens and help with the reservation. It was very futuristic for the time, but in the end, proved much less efficient than just talking to a real person, so the video screens were removed and this is all that remains.
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Isle of Wight tour from the Air
isle of wight , shot from Mavic pro , over the Needles light house and 2.5 mile flight across the solent,
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Filoli Garden - An American Beauty
Music: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Felix Mendelssohn
Filoli is a country house set in 16 acres of formal gardens surrounded by a 654-acre estate, located in Woodside, California, about 25 miles south of San Francisco, at the southern end of Crystal Springs Lake, on the eastern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Filoli is open to the public. The site is both a California Historical Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The 16 acres (6.5 ha) of gardens are structured as a series of formally enclosed spaces framed within brick walls and clipped hedges, which open one from another, providing long axial views, in which profuse naturalized plantings of hardy and annual plants contrast with lawns, brick and gravel paths, formal reflecting pools, framed in walls and clipped hedging in box, holly, laurel and yew (illustration, right) and punctuated by massive terracotta pots and many narrowly columnar Irish yews, originally grown on the estate from cuttings. Filoli is an outstanding example of the Anglo-American gardening style reintroducing Italian formality, that was pioneered at the end of the nineteenth century by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll in British gardens and exemplified in the U.S. by designs of Charles A. Platt and Beatrix Farrand.[10]
The gardens extend southeast of the house running up an easy slope. The sunken garden is the first of four main rooms; the rectangular pool at its center that houses hardy and tropical water lilies is flanked by twin panels of lawn and two olive trees, within the hedge of clipped Japanese yew. The walled garden consists of a series of enclosures, including the rose window design outlined in clipped box
After it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1975, Filoli has been open for public tours. Attractions include self-guided tours, guided tours, and nature hikes. The formal gardens include several areas, including the Wedding Place, especially designed for Berenice Roth's wedding. Lurline and Berenice both had their wedding receptions at Filoli, but Berenice's wedding is the only one that has ever taken place at Filoli. The largest gardens are working gardens for the production of cut flowers for the mansion and for the growing of some vegetables.
A Journey Through London Old and New
This is my EMA for T156 digital film school. This is a travelogue based in London with a theme of Old and New.
Strange Places in Scotland.Exploring The River Ericht, Blairgowrie (part two)
Jag continues his explore of the River Ericht and stumbles upon an old mill...excellent!
Terra Firma's Guy Hands
European businesses are selling for higher multiples because financing has come back, but they are still quite reasonably priced compared to pre-global financial crisis levels, says Guy Hands, chairman and CIO of Terra Firma. The question for buyers is can they deliver the growth to justify these valuations.
“For firms like us, which focus on transforming businesses, it’s a good time,” Hands says. “For firms that are really focused on financial leverage it’s a very risky time because the risk they have is that interest rates go up some time in the future and at the sort of multiples they are playing, to buy, they could be in serious trouble.”
Certainly, more private equity firms are focusing on operational improvements than when Terra Firma set up shop in 1994. For each one of its initial investments new management teams were introduced – in one case the team was changed four times in the first two years, although once the appropriate leadership group was identified it stayed in place for the next 15 years.
In recent years Terra Firma’s focus has moved from recruiting the best managers to ensuring the qualities that underpin good governance permeate an entire organization. “What we find is you sometimes get very good management teams but they are not necessarily good at ingraining culture within the organization,” Hands says. “They are very centrally led and while that can be very effective over a short period of time, over a longer period of time it is less sustainable.”
Hands sees Asia as an attractive market for Terra Firma, but not one in which the firm can call upon significant investment expertise. To this end, the Beijing office that opened in 2011 primarily serves as a platform for interacting with investors and investees that want exposure to Europe as well as means of supporting existing portfolio companies as they look to expand into new markets.
“Culture is incredibly important in everything one does and we would be very vain and conceited to say we have an understanding of the cultures across Asia,” Hands says. “On the other hand, we would be insane not to focus on the fact that the Asian market is going to be the biggest in the world and it’s producing all the growth in the world.”
One consequence of this phenomenon is already visible: an increasing number of Asian buyers are looking to acquire European businesses, creating another exit option for private equity investors. Hands notes that these buyers often make the same mistakes made by European investors when they first entered Asia – focusing more on getting a good valuation than the quality of the assets they are chasing.
“By working with Asian buyers in advance we can get them up to speed on what the quality of what we are selling rather than having them focus on price,” Hands says. “If they just focus on price they find they are outbid by Western buyers.”