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The Gipsy Kings' Spanish version of "Hotel California" plays at the Definitive Beer Garden as we wait for our food.
In my teens, I made a brief foray into stamp collecting. I retained my small collection, which has made the journey with me to the United States. Here’s a selection of KG5, KE8 and KG6 definitives. Unlike the coinage, the Edward VIII stamps were not considered rare.
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It feels like there’s been an explosion of new films and analogue photography podcasts hit the air this year. It’s hard to keep up sometimes, so a few weeks ago I decided to collect all of the active podcasts together in a podcast list and share them here. The idea being – like...
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Definitive exhibition of Hollywood costume design, Edith Head, at Bendigo Art Gallery in rural Victoria, Australia.
A definitive ranking of every Hannah Montana song
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It’s impossible to deny the pop culture impact of Hannah Montana. What began as a Disney Channel show about a young girl hiding her identity as a…http://bit.ly/1Udfq1R
The Definitive Ranking of All of Oliver Queen's Hairstyles on 'Arrow'
From the humble beginnings of Mop-Haired Oliver to the Politician-Hair Oliver we've got now, Oliver Queen is not afraid to try out new looks. But not all Oliver Queen hairdos are created equal. Here is a...
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When one sees this definitive old country church, often surrounded by sheep, standing off the New Romney to Appledore road, it is hard to believe that it once overlooked a busy wharf at the centre of a thriving port. Back in the 13th century, Romney, as it was then called, was numbered among the original Cinque ports before successive attempts to win land from the sea left it stranded inland. All marshland hereabouts belonged to the Church and, apparently, it was the Church that began the process of turning it into good grazing land.
St. Clement stands on the site of an earlier Saxon church, which it replaced in the 11-12th century. It is one of four churches in Kent dedicated to the saint - a successor of St. Peter in Rome - who was martyred in AD 102. Being early Norman, it consists of an aisle-less nave and chancel, but later enlargements in the 13th and 14th centuries resulted in the addition of north and south chapels, and a south-west tower of rubble with shingled broached spire. One enters through a north porch which is situated directly opposite the old south or ‘procession’ door (now blocked up). This arrangement was for the more convenient passing in and out of the Sunday processions during the Middle Ages. Close to the porch was a much-coveted spot for burial among Romney’s parishioners, bequests for which were included in many of their wills. The reasoning behind this is that it was a source of great comfort to lie close to the path most used by the living.
Inside can be found a marvellous example of a 14th century font. When confronted with it I confess that I couldn’t resist running my hands over the beautiful timeworn stone. It has a square bowl of Purbeck marble on an octagonal stand, with supporting pillars that have different capitals on each, and is thought to be partly fashioned from re-used Norman stone. At the west end of the nave is an 18th century Minstrel’s Gallery, one of the few still to be found among the Romney Marsh churches; box-pews and a Norman arch to the chancel. In the centre of the chancel floor is a ledger stone in memory of a former Rector, John Deffray. It is recorded on the stone that ‘he was a faithful, diligent Rector of this Parish for nearly 48 years. After much delight in doing good, he departed this life, Sept:ye 4th 1738.’
Under the east window of the north chapel stands the original Mensa or altar stone. This was discovered by a workman during the 1929 restorations in use as a step to the north porch. He thought that it was probably a long-lost memorial stone, but, having acquired the vicar’s permission to dig it up, it was found to be a rarely preserved pre-Reformation stone altar table with the five original consecration crosses clearly visible. It was, no doubt, secretly hidden in this way when Edward VI ordered all stone altars to be removed and destroyed in 1550, probably in the hope of reinstating it during a more religiously tolerant time.
The church sustained a great deal of damage during the war and was close to being declared redundant. All available funds for repairs were soon exhausted so work had to stop. Then the Rank Organisation asked to use the church to shoot scenes for their film, “Dr. Syn and the Nightriders of the Marsh” (starring Patrick McGoohan), which was being made on Romney Marsh. They effected some repairs and decorations to the interior and, after filming had ceased, sent a generous cheque to the parish. This, plus grants from the Historic Churches Trust and Friends of Kent Churches, enabled the work to be completed. In April 1968, a four-day Flower Festival of Thanksgiving was held to give thanks for the preservation of this eight-hundred-year-old building, to which I add mine, for I find it unthinkable that this exquisite old structure, that has endured the ravages of eight centuries, might have been lost to future generations for their benefit and appreciation.
A bridge over the River Erewash, in Langley Mill, Derbyshire.
The Erewash rises in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, but is partly culverted as it flows south westward from the town. It surfaces definitively to the north of Kirkby Woodhouse and flows roughly westward, under the M1 motorway, and between Pinxton and Selston. It then becomes the approximate county boundary between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, flowing roughly south, between Langley Mill and Eastwood, skirting the east of Ilkeston, where it becomes also the boundary of the Borough of Erewash. The river continues south between Sandiacre and Stapleford until, at Toton, it turns east and flows into the River Trent, at the Attenborough Nature Reserve, near Long Eaton.
It gives its name to the Erewash Valley, which has a rich industrial history, and the local government district and borough of Erewash, which was named after the river when the former borough of Ilkeston and urban district of Long Eaton were united with some of the surrounding rural areas in 1974.
Although the river is not navigable at any part, it is paralleled by the Erewash Canal for much of its length, from (Langley Mill to the River Trent); north of Langley Mill, it was paralleled by the now mostly abandoned Cromford Canal (from the branch to Pinxton).
For such a small river, the Erewash has a surprisingly high literary profile, due almost entirely to D.H. Lawrence, who mentions it several times, and centres a number of works in the Erewash valley. A reference at the beginning of The Rainbow is perhaps the most telling from the geographical point of view:
"The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire."
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AUTO UNION1965 unidad unica por su estado de conservacion desde 0km en la misma flia.
Definitively 50s Space Design Era
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Originating from Czechoslovakia
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The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters.
. . . Enron was thought to epitomize a great New Economy company, with its skyrocketing profits and share price. But that was before Fortune published an article by McLean that asked a seemingly innocent question: How exactly does Enron make money?
From that point on, Enron's house of cards began to crumble. Now, McLean and Elkind have investigated much deeper, to offer the definitive book about the Enron scandal and the fascinating people behind it. Meticulously researched and character driven, Smartest Guys in the Room takes the reader deep into Enron's past-and behind the closed doors of private meetings. Drawing on a wide range of unique sources, the book follows Enron's rise from obscurity to the top of the business world to its disastrous demise. It reveals as never before major characters such as Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow, as well as lesser known players like Cliff Baxter and Rebecca Mark. Smartest Guys in the Room is a story of greed, arrogance, and deceit: a microcosm of all that is wrong with American business today.
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by Lawrence M. Hinman San Diego Union-Tribune, March 31, 2002
There has been no shortage of upsetting things about the Enron scandal: rank and file employees often losing their life savings while high level executives cashed in for millions and received additional millions in bonuses for the stock inflation that eventually brought Enron down; blatant conflicts of interest being quietly overlooked by almost everyone involved; executives who should have known better (and probably did know better) misleading the public through the eleventh hour; the accountants and auditors seeming to be more concerned with shredding documents than shedding light; members of the board of directors receiving lavish gifts from the executives they were charged with overseeing; millions being spent to discourage genuine oversight and meaningful government regulation; and the few warnings that came from within the organization being steadfastly ignored by those in charge.
The harm caused by the Enron/Andersen debacle remains to be calculated. Some of it will be tangible -- the retirement funds lost by Enron employees, the lost jobs, the devalued stock.
Other harms are harder to count, but no less important. Consider the impact on public trust.
Trust is like the glue that holds society together -- without it, we crumble into tiny isolated pieces that collide randomly with one another. In a world without trust, individuals cannot depend on one another; as a result, individuals can only be out for themselves.
Economists have shown that societies where trust is low have stunted economic growth because a robust economy demands that individuals be able to enter into cooperative economic relationships of trust with people who are strangers.
The Enron affair has damaged public trust both directly and indirectly. We have seen the way Enron and Andersen conducted themselves, and our trust in them has obviously been deeply shaken. Even more damaging, however, is the realization that these practices were not aberrations. We have come to realize the way in which executives are rewarded with seven-figure bonuses for inflating the stock value of their company. We have come to realize the Wall Street analysts are often singing the praises of stocks in which they have a strong financial interest, even -- or perhaps especially -- when those stocks are of questionable value. We have come to realize that auditors are often beholden to the companies they are auditing, depending on them for lucrative consulting fees.
The stock market survives on trust, and if the public's trust in the functioning of the market -- stock prices, analysts' reports, and independent audits -- is too deeply eroded, then the market itself will fall.
This damage to public trust occurs, unfortunately, in a climate that has seen significant damage to trust in other areas as well. Trust in Catholic priests has certainly been shaken by the seemingly endless revelations of sexual abuse and the ways in which allegations in this area were handled for years. Trust in physicians, once the most revered nonreligious figure in our society, has declined significantly with the rise of managed care.
When trust disappears from our lives, those lives are diminished and, at best, we try to do everything ourselves, refusing to rely on those who should be more knowledgeable than us.
In the face of these dangers, there are two things we can do. One has to do with better rules, the other with better people.
First, we need better rules, not just for corporations, but for analysts and auditors as well. . . . But better rules are not the concern of Congress alone. Numerous professional organizations, including accountants and auditors and analysts as well as investment businesses, have codes of professional ethics that purportedly govern the behavior of their members. These codes need to be strengthened, publicly proclaimed, and enforced by the professional organizations themselves. Finally, corporations themselves need to strengthen and enforce their own codes of ethics. That means more than simply having a nice- sounding code of ethics posted on the corporate Web site. It means a commitment to enforcement, and that in turn means budgetary commitments for ethics training, corporate ethics officers, ombudsmen, and other things that can guarantee the effective implementation of a code of ethics. The Enron board waived its own code of ethics at one point to allow its own chief financial officer to manage the limited partnerships that would eventually be the undoing of Enron.
Second, we need better people, and we need to support those people when they step forward. The tragedy is that Sept. 11 was marked by countless heroes, individuals who risked (and often lost) their lives in efforts to save others. The Enron collapse had almost no heroes. . . . One cannot help but wonder why there were not more people willing to stand up for what is right. Part of the answer to that question is to be found in the formative years before individuals enter the corporate world.
Good business practices stem from a combination of good rules and good people, and the process of formation of good people begins far earlier than the point at which they join the fast track of major corporations.
. . . This process of character formation needs to begin early in life, in schools, in families, in the media, and in civic organizations. Parents who give clear moral messages to their children need to have their messages reinforced by schools, by sports teams, by youth organizations, by movies and the popular press.
It is a task to which all of us can contribute.
Définitivement un autre de mes genres préférés, et j'adore cette espèce en particulier, Restrepia cuprea vue de profil.en culture á la maison. Une espèce endémique de Colombie et menacée d'extinction dans son habitat naturel malheureusement.
Definitivamente uno de mis géneros preferidos, y me encanta en particular esta especie, Restrepia cuprea vista de perfil en cultivo en casa. Una especie endémica de Colombia y lastimosamente amenazada de extinción en su hábitat natural.
Definitive proof that we did get further than the pool of our all-inclusive hotel whilst in Turkey recently..... We were wishing we hadn't when we got lost in the hills trying to find Priene but once we arrived and found we had these picturesque ruins almost to ourselves we were glad we'd ventured out.
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Definitive version of my second tatoo... Ain't this dragon looking great ? It was done at Euro Tribal, Bastille, Paris, France... Thanks to the artist who did it : Willem.
Définitivement un bel et surprenant être vivant ! Philodendron verrucosum exposant tous ses contrastes dans une forêt de brouillard de rêve dans le département du Valle del Cauca, Colombie. Si vous essayez d'obtenir des plantes de cette famille, assurez vous qu'elles ne sont pas prélevées illégalement car c'est un gros business depuis qu'elles sont devenues célèbres et recherchées...
Definitivamente esta especie es un ser vivo bello y sorprendente ! Philodendron verrucosum exponiendo todos sus contrastes en un bosque de niebla de ensueño en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Si trata de obtener plantas de esta familia, asegúrese que no es extraída ilegalmente porque es un negocio jugoso desde que estas se han vuelto famosas y buscadas...
2600 x 2600 pixel image designed to work as wallpaper on most iOS devices.
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"The Art of Deduction: Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes"
A world premiere by Derek Davidson
Comissioned by Weathervane Playhouse
Live on stage at Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, Ohio, from March 3 to 13, 2011
Direction and Fight Choreography by John Davis
The Man Who Created Light to Overcome Darkness
Though Betty Jean Lifton has written the definitive English-language biography of Janusz Korczak in the form of her excellent The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak, Adir Cohen here offers an in-depth and insightful portrait of the Polish educator who devoted his life - and ultimately perished for his love of children. He thoroughly covers this beloved children's advocate's philosophy of life and learning, as well as how his writings and practices reflect the man, his thoughts, and his personal, ethical, and religious values.
The book starts out with Korczak's background and early childhood, both of which were formative in his declaration of his desire to change the world, first as a doctor and later as an educator. The new orphanage at 92 Krochmalna (Warsaw, Poland) is discussed, as is the life of the orphans there. Cohen also chronicles Korczak's later years - his visits to Kibbutz Ein Harod in Palestine and the increasingly difficult life for Jews under the ominous dark clouds of the rise of Nazism - culminating with the hell that was the Warsaw Ghetto. The primary sources are How to Love a Child and The Ghetto Dairy.
The second chapter explores Korczak's religious life. Though Korczak was not a member of a temple or other religious institution, Cohen portrays him as a man with an intense religious longing an acute seeker of perfect justice and ideal moral values and behavior. He postulated that one's perception of God is highly personal, especially as God lies within the soul of each living person, which includes every child. Jewish ritual was a very important part of life at the orphanage, but prayers were always kept in silence, allowing each child and teacher to express or her religious belief individually.
The third chapter discusses his early work in children's camps and how, though intense reflection, sought to learn from his mistakes as a new teacher. Korczak himself discussed these experiences in a separate chapter of How to Love a Child and how listening to the voice within would become central to his ways as an educator.
Chapter 4 covers the orphanage as "a home and house of education." Korczak sought to discern three elements in the orphanage, namely fulfilling children's immediate biological needs and protection from outside dangers; ensuring and environment in which each child will be able to develop his or her physical, social, academic, and spiritual talents (with the Alderian concept that each child is unique, with his or her similarly unique background which must be taken into consideration)
Chapter 5 goes into internalizing the father and mother as role models in building the personality of the child. Cohen also discusses the Children's court, with its focus on education through forgiveness rather than punishment, and the importance of communication through the children's newspapers and bulletin board, as detailed in How to Love a Child. This theme is explored further in Chapter 10. Also central to Korczak's philosophy was that one should not preach but, rather, express a generous (and forgiving) attitude, that corporal punishment in any of its manifestations is wrong, and that learning right from wrong is more important than any academic matter. In short, children must be viewed as persons worthy of respect who should be accorded full human rights.
In Chapter 6, Cohen discusses the importance Korczak placed on child's play as a moment that belonged entirely to the child, a time in which he or she could realize childhood dreams, especially those they were not sure adults were willing to take seriously.
How Korczak incorporated his background in medicine in his teaching is the topic of Chapter 7, mainly in that he did his best to educate the child but realized he had little control in the child's ultimate outcome beyond the positive moral values he sought to instill. He went on to show how "to do no harm," or "to touch without burdening" in Chapter 8. The educator is obliged to know the secret of giving, the secret of surrender, the secret of devotion. Moreover, the educator must learn from his mistakes and extend that privilege to his students. Korczak was very much a progressive educator, in the manner of John Dewey, whereby children are encouraged to learn from experience and free activity rather than being handed orders from above; here Chapter 9 is in a way an extension of Chapter 7, in that children are encouraged to take advantage of life's opportunities now rather than prepare for some nebulous future. Moreover, children should be encourage to explore and search for new learning rather than rely on material handed down. In addition, Cohen reports that Korczak warned against following a single school of thought in teaching, something that corresponds to his warning not to rely on books - especially a single book - on child rearing.
The remainder of the book explores Korczak's writings. The Drawing Room Kid exposes the hypocrisy and decadence of the Polish bourgeoisie, especially in their attitudes toward the poor. Published in 1925, When I Shall Be Little Again, is Korczak's description how he is able to relate to children on their terms, first imagining himself being little among the adults in his life and then himself as the adult and his peers as children, a feat of literary philosophy that has never been replicated with the skill that Korczak has shown. Korczak also devoted special attention to the relationships among the children, both their compassion and their malice (and how the two polar opposites could seemingly coexist). He has succeeded in showing both how adults view children and how children view adults. In The Senate of Madmen, Korczak explores insanity in multiple manifestations, including his autobiographical memory of his own father, who died in an institution. Cohen quotes other authors' commentary on how this work is also a metaphor for the madness of institutions in society. Cohen's chapter on the Ghetto Diary is surprisingly short, but it does a good job in exploring Korczak's attempt to find meaning in the face of death - what it will mean to him, his orphans, the Jewish people, and humanity overall. This remarkable short book is deep on reflection, almost an abbreviated autobiography. Finally, Cohen explores Korczak's two-part masterpiece of children's fairy tale fiction, King Matt and King Matt and the Desert Island, how these remarkable books have enchanted children and adults who can empathize with children for decades. Unlike most fairy tales, there is no happy ending, except for hope; perhaps that is where happiness ultimately lies. That was certainly true of Korczak himself, as Adir Cohen's superb study so aptly shows.