WI 100th ANNIVERSARY LIVE 17/09/15
It's the 100th birthday of the British Women's Institute. The centenary of the British women's institute is being marked in Oxfordshire. The county has historic links with the WI, with Denman College near Abingdon established as a centre for courses and education. Charlotte Stacey is at the college.
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Ten Boys Are Left To Live Without Adults For 5 Days | Boys Alone | Real Families
How protective do we really need to be about children? And just how dependant are they on us? What would happen if children were actually left to live alone and together. Ten boys were chosen to live by themselves in a house for 5 days - none of them have met beforehand. A lord of the flies study where 10 boys who previously have not met are set to live together, without adult supervision for five days.
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Comfort Suites Abingdon in Abingdon VA
Reservations: . . .. .. ... . . . . . . .. .. .. Comfort Suites Abingdon 1093 Ole Berry Drive Abingdon VA 24210 Comfort Suites, an Abingdon hotel near the Barter Theatre The Comfort Suites hotel is located just a few miles from many local attractions and businesses, including the Barter Theatre, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol Dragway, Emory & Henry College and Alpha Natural Resources. This Abingdon, VA hotel is less than five miles from the Abingdon Cinemall, home to 12 movie theatres, an indoor miniature golf course and a large arcade. The Virginia Creeper National Recreation Trail provides miles of paths for hiking, biking, jogging, horseback riding and cross-country skiing. South Holston Lake provides more than 7,500 acres for fishing, boating and swimming. During the month of September, folks of all ages will enjoy spending a day at the fun-filled Washington County Fair, offering arts and crafts, livestock shows, a chili cook-off, carnival rides and much more. The second weekend in November plays host to the season's premier shopping event, Mistletoe Market holiday gift mart, featuring dozens of retail merchants from across the Southeast. Abingdon's historic district features buildings dating from the 1700s and offers dozens of specialty shops and galleries. A wide variety of restaurants and cocktail lounges can be found in the surrounding area. Guests of this Abingdon, VA hotel will enjoy superior amenities like free wired and wireless high-speed Internet access, free local calls, indoor heated pool and hot tub, exercise room Enjoy our free hot breakfast featuring eggs, meat, yogurt, fresh fruit, cereal and more, including your choice of hot waffle flavors. If you're leaving early, a Your Suite Success Grab & Go bag is available for the two hours prior to breakfast. Business travelers will appreciate additional conveniences like the hotel's business center. All rooms come equipped with hair dryers, coffee makers, microwaves, refrigerators, irons, ironing boards, two telephones and spacious work desks. Keep your electronic devices charged with the recharge device including AC and USB outlets provided in all guest rooms. Some rooms feature fireplaces and whirlpool bathtubs. On-site laundry facilities are available for guest convenience. Ample parking is provided for cars and buses, and limited truck parking is available.
Clare View HOUSE: Clare Valley views from our Clare Bed and Breakfast I Clare, SA
This videos shows more views from Clare View Accommodation. Our B&B is located on the outskirts of Clare in South Australia. It is a very quiet location and very close to all wineries and restaurants.
Clare View Accommodation has two separate houses available as holiday rental accommodation on the same property (150 meter apart). The Clare View HOUSE (sleeps 8) is a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom Bed and Breakfast and the Clare View COTTAGE (sleeps 4) a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, self contained holiday home.
More about our Clare B&B and the Clare Valley on clareview.com.au
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Only one hour and a half from Adelaide, The Clare View House is a quiet Clare Valley getaway with 360 degrees of amazing views close to all the main attractions, wineries and restaurants in Clare. Located on top of a hill on 27 acres (10.8 hectare), our wheelchair friendly holiday accommodation has by far the best views in the Clare Valley! Please have a look on Clare Valley & Clare View photos for a quick peek.
Pamper yourself in our luxurious, spacious, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house with all the privacy and contents you wish for. Enjoy the complementary bottle of local wine in the spa bath while overlooking the vineyards during sunset. Have a BBQ, cook yourself a meal in the spacious kitchen or have a meal at one of the nearby wonderful restaurants. Only 4 kms away from Clare Town Centre and Spring Gully conservation park, 3 km from Neagles Rock Lookout and 2 kms from Clare Valley Visitor Information Centre. The Clare View House is surrounded by fantastic Clare wineries, which produce great boutique wines with some specializing in fine Riesling. Speaking of Riesling: the popular Riesling Trail leads cyclists along picture perfect heritage & landscapes and of course tasty Clare Valley wines! A day of cycling or hiking can't get any better!
The Clare View House is the perfect weekend escape for 2 couples with up to four children or a group of friends. Besides small group accommodation it makes a peaceful romantic getaway on a quiet, private and spacious spot in the heart of the Clare Valley. And what about the Clare Valley as a decor for your wedding? Picture perfect!
Just to be clear: when you stay in the Clare View House, the whole house is yours! You don't share it with any other guests, exept the people you are bringing along! 100% privat, quiet and very affordable! Just do the maths and we will see you soon!
All the bedrooms and bathrooms have electrical heating and the living room has a cosy potbelly fireplace for the cooler winter days. The Clare View House has a spacious carport for two cars, a veranda around the whole house and a spacious shaded outdoor area with BBQ facilities. Besides all this there is the absolutely privacy, the million dollar views and wildlife such as kangaroos, kookaburras and lots of other birds.
The Clare View House is new, fully equipped and completely wheelchair accessible. A perfect spot to stay all by yourselves or share it with up to 8 of your friends. Enjoy a great break at a very affordable price! Pets are welcome, prior to negotiation.
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Our Miss Brooks: Connie the Work Horse / Babysitting for Three / Model School Teacher
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
List of works about the Dutch East India Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:07:29 1 Non-fiction
00:07:38 1.1 Books, dissertations and theses
00:07:49 1.1.1 General
00:24:47 1.1.2 Roles in economic, financial and business history
00:44:41 1.1.3 Science, technology, and culture in the VOC World
01:01:53 1.1.4 VOC military and political history
01:06:02 1.1.5 VOC maritime history (VOC in the Age of Exploration)
01:24:44 1.1.6 VOC historiography
01:27:47 1.1.7 VOC people
01:42:03 1.1.8 VOC in Europe
01:47:45 1.1.9 VOC in Africa
02:08:51 1.1.10 VOC in South and West Asia (including the Indian subcontinent)
02:30:42 1.1.11 VOC in Southeast Asia (including the East Indies)
02:44:53 1.1.12 VOC in East Asia
03:09:42 1.2 Journal articles, scholarly papers, essays, and book chapters
03:09:55 1.2.1 General history
03:42:39 1.2.2 Economic, financial and business history
04:35:09 1.2.3 Cultural and social history
05:29:40 1.2.4 Military and political history
05:54:16 1.2.5 Maritime history
06:12:14 2 Fiction
06:13:42 3 Audio
06:14:30 4 Video
06:15:16 5 Seminars and symposiums
06:15:42 6 Documentary
06:16:09 7 Film
06:16:27 8 Music
06:16:40 9 VOC World in visual arts
06:17:01 10 See also
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The Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) is one of the most influential and best expertly researched companies/corporations in history. As an exemplary historical company-state, the VOC had effectively transformed itself from a corporate entity into a state, an empire, or even a world in its own right. The VOC World (i.e. networks of people, places, things, activities, and events associated with the Dutch East India Company) has been the subject of a vast amount of literature that includes both fiction and non-fiction works. VOC World studies is an international multidisciplinary field focused on social, cultural, religious, scientific, technological, economic, financial, business, maritime, military, political, legal, diplomatic activities, institutional organization, and administration of the VOC and its colourful world. Some of the notable VOC historians/scholars include Sinnappah Arasaratnam, Leonard Blussé, Peter Borschberg, Charles Ralph Boxer, Jaap Bruijn, Femme Gaastra, Om Prakash, Günter Schilder, and Nigel Worden.
In terms of global business history, the lessons from the VOC's success and failure are critically important. With a permanent capital base, the VOC was the first permanently organized limited-liability joint-stock company at the dawn of modern capitalism. As an early pioneering model of the modern corporation, the VOC was the first corporation to be ever actually listed on a formal stock exchange. In the early 1600s the VOC became the world's first formally listed public company (or publicly listed company) by widely issuing bonds and shares of stock to the general public. In many respects, modern-day publicly listed multinational corporations (including Forbes Global 2000 companies) are all 'descendants' of the 17th-century VOC business model.
For almost 200 years of its existence (1602–1800), the Company played crucial roles in business, financial, socio-politico-economic, military-political, diplomatic, legal, ethnic, and exploratory maritime history of the world. In the early modern period, the VOC was the driving force behind the rise of corporate-led globalization, corporate power, corporate identity, corporate culture, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, corporate finance, corporate capitalism, and finance capitalism. It was the VOC's institutional innovations and business practices that laid the foundations for the rise of giant global corporations to become a highly significant and formidable socio-politico-economic force of the modern world as we know it today ...