[ Grand Architectural Pleasure : Follow the Lines and be inspired ] @ The Swedbank Central Office Tower, Vilnius, Lithuania
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[ Grand Architectural Pleasure : Follow the Lines and be inspired ] @ The Swedbank Central Office Tower, Vilnius, Lithuania
Image by UggBoy?UggGirl [ PHOTO // WORLD // SENSE ]
Swedbank AB (formerly called FöreningsSparbanken) is a leading Nordic-Baltic banking group with 9.5 million retail customers and 534,000 corporate customers in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In Sweden, the group has 377 branches. In the Baltic countries, it has another 224 branches. Elsewhere, the group is present in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Kaliningrad, Kiev, Luxembourg, Moscow, Marbella, New York, Oslo, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, and Tokyo.
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On 8 September 2006, FöreningsSparbanken AB changed its name to Swedbank AB. The name change took place in the afternoon local time, after the Swedish Companies Registration Office registers the changes in the company’s articles of association. On the same date the subsidiary AB Spintab changed its name to Swedbank Hypotek AB (Swedbank Mortgage AB in English). At the same time, FöreningsSparbanken Jordbrukskredit AB changed its name to Swedbank Jordbrukskredit AB. Other subsidiaries will change their names at later dates.
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The first Swedish saving bank was founded in Gothenburg in 1820. In 1992 a number of local savings banks merged to create Sparbanken Sverige ("Savings Bank Sweden"), which was known simply as Sparbanken ("The Savings Bank"). In 1995 this bank was listed on the stock exchange. In 1997 the bank merged with Föreningsbanken and the names were combined to create FöreningsSparbanken. During the late 2000s global financial crisis, Swedbank accepted government assistance due to its losses from loans made to neighboring Baltic economies.
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Swedbank is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The bank has no clear majority owner, but is mainly owned (7.8%) by Folksam. The second largest owner is a number of local savings banks, controlling 7.6% of the stocks. Also, a number of large financial institutions control small blocks of shares in the bank but none of these exceed 5%. 24% of the shares are owned by foreign individuals and companies.
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For more information and insights into this banking conglomerate please follow the link and save some time for reading this article:
WIKIPEDIA = Swedbank = One Step around the WORLD at A TIME
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
— Bob Hope
sakal published an article on my homemade lenses
Image by DraconianRain
Camera Lens, a different way…
To make good pictures, you need a good camera with good lenses. Such lenses are expensive in India. “What if we make lens at home?” was the question that came to the mind of Pune based Meghana Kulkarni, an architect by profession. Who went ahead and successfully experimented on making lens at home. Today, she is also known for her lens along with photography.
While studying architecture, Meghana, fell in love with Photography. From here her search for lens with special effects started. While searching the internet, she stumbled upon people in foreign countries who made lens at home. She thought, “What if I made those lenses?” This triggered her experimentation with home made lens for “special” effects.
Till date Meghana has made 3-4 special lenses, like a Macro lens for close up photography and a Lens baby. What’s even more special about these lenses is that she made them using stuff easily found at home: paper, cloth, driller and glass from old magnifying glasses. She has also made a pinhole camera using old cameras.
She publishes information abt her experiments on her website too.
Even though she is an architect, photography has become her passion. Some of her photos have also been published in travel magazines. Such magazines are always open to different types of pictures.
Apart from this, she also wants to try film photography and developing.
Errors:
1. I publish information about my experiements on my blog. I don’t have a website… yet
2. I made a pinhole camera out of a sweet shop box and not out of an old camera.
Things I’m unsure about:
1. if a driller is commonly found in every household.
2. If travel magazines really open to different types of photographs.
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Image by nvaughn
Photos of now demolished train stations.
From a scrapbook I found on the street, filled with old Chicago postcards and articles dated from around 1968 or so. It looks like it was some sort of grade school project.
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