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  1. Wie in der Marina Havelauen 200 Boote eingewintert, repariert und pünktlich zur Saison wieder ins Wasser gebracht werden – ein Blick hinter die Kulissen.
    #AquaMarin #aquamarinboote #Jeanneau #Marex #MarinaHavelauen #Prestige #Werder #Zernsee

    floatmagazin.de/leute/tetris-m

  2. A quotation from Orwell

    A nationalist is one who thinks solely, or mainly, in terms of competitive prestige. He may be a positive or a negative nationalist — that is, he may use his mental energy either in boosting or in denigrating — but at any rate his thoughts always turn on victories, defeats, triumphs and humiliations. He sees history, especially contemporary history, as the endless rise and decline of great power units, and every event that happens seems to him a demonstration that his own side is on the upgrade and some hated rival is on the downgrade.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/45763/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comparison #competition #defeat #ego #face #faction #history #nationalism #prestige #takesides #usvsthem #victory #winning #nationalist

  3. Booker Ervin, The Freedom Book, 1964 on Prestige

    Sixth full-length with Ervin as leader, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1963, for Prestige. Ervin is joined here by Jaki Byard (piano), Richard Davis (bass), and Alan Dawson (who was a drum instructor at Berklee in Boston) (drums).

    My copy—via a private sale—is the 2023 Analogue Productions / Craft Recordings reissue, in the Prestige Stereo Series. It was mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed at QRP on 180g vinyl.

    #1960s #1964 #AlanDawson #AnalogueProductions #BookerErvin #craftRecordings #JakiByard #jazz #KevinGray #Prestige #QualityRecordPressing #Reissue #RichardDavis #RudyVanGelder #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
  4. A quotation from Orwell

    Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved.
       By “patriotism” I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force upon other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally.
       Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/17193/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #aggression #coexistence #competition #defense #nationalism #nationalist #patriot #patriotism #power #powerseeking #prestige #protection

  5. Erika / Prestige : quand la pression commerciale dépasse la structure
    Navires vieillissants.
    Tempêtes sévères.
    Décisions discutables.
    La pression commerciale existe.
    Mais la responsabilité morale des officiers demeure.
    Le double coque améliore la sécurité.
    Mais l’entretien reste déterminant.
    La priorité du Chief Engineer :
    Informer honnêtement le Commandant sur l’état réel du navire.
    👉 superyachtengineers.com/index.
    #SécuritéMaritime #Erika #Prestige #LeadershipMaritime

  6. A quotation from Cicero

    For men ought not to be so elated by the dignity of the affairs which they have undertaken to manage, as to have no regard to their ease; nor ought they to dwell with fondness on any sort of ease which is inconsistent with dignity.
     
    [Neque enim rerum gerendarum dignitate homines ecferri ita convenit ut otio non prospiciant, neque ullum amplexari otium quod abhorreat a dignitate.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 45 / sec. 98 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #prosestio #dignity #indolence #leisure #publicservice #recreation #retirement #sloth #worklifebalance #idleness #laziness #selfimportance #prestige

  7. >#Petition · Stoppen Sie den überteuerten Schriftzug in Stuttgart - Stuttgart, Deutschland · Change.org<

    #PolitischeKommunikation

    Eine #Priorisierung kalter Ignoranz ❓

    Während in ganz #Deutschland im Bereich sozialer Infrastruktur wie Jugendhilfe, Bildung oder Gesundheitswesen Gelder gestrichen werden - auch in #BadenWuerttemberg - sollen in #Stuttgart ernsthaft 470.000,- € fuer einen Schriftzug ausgegeben werden.

    #Prestige versus #Solidaritaet

    share.google/uPCs0iTvuax6qFmXV

  8. A quotation from Shakespeare

    KING RICHARD: You may my glories and my state depose
       But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 201ff (4.1.201-202) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardii #autonomy #emotion #glory #grief #innerself #mourning #power #prestige #remorse

  9. Abandoning these rankings is way overdue, IMHO:

    "The higher-education sector should collectively — and vocally — agree that the current rankings are not fit for purpose."

    nature.com/articles/d41586-025

    Lizzie Gadd @lizziegadd is spot on, as always!

    #rankings #universities #prestige #academicchatter

  10. A quotation from Will Rogers

    And be careful about calling them Common People. Nobody wants to be called Common People, especially common people.

    Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
    Column (1925-06-21), “Weekly Article”

    More info about this quote: wist.info/rogers-will/79606/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #willrogers #commonman #commonpeople #ego #label #ordinarypeople #prestige #selfimage

  11. "The magazine’s politics were what passes for center-left in the United States. […] The operating orthodoxy was that police killings, CIA coups, black site torture, and institutional misogyny were aberrations, deviations from the American norm that would eventually be corrected when the arc of the moral universe, long as it is, finally got around to them."

    by Ismail Ibrahim: bidoun.org/articles/house-arab

    #beliefs #intellectuals #coloniality #elites #prestige #sociality #status #subcultures #socialStatus #liberals #sociology #NYC #NewYorker #TheNewYorker #Manhattan #racism #negrophobia #Bidoun #islamophobia #media #press #journalism #journalists

  12. What Kind of Economists Do We Want? From a One-Track to a Two-Track Mind d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:iuiw
    "In Sweden, and presumably also in most other small European countries, the approach to PhD training in #economics is biased. The system strongly encourages new generations of researchers to focus wholeheartedly on attempting to publish in the #top5 economics journals – despite the fact that the probability of being accepted in those journals is slim. PhD training has become exclusively geared towards producing future academic economists. The fact that highly skilled economists are needed outside the university walls as well is largely disregarded.
    We recommend a #diversification of the #incentive structure. Economics is a #socialScience and must have something to say about the world we live in, but this is becoming increasingly rare. Instead of being problem-driven, our subject has fallen prey to the tyranny of #prestige, where methods tend to be more important than problems. A nuanced, diversified and balanced view of what constitutes a first-rate economist is called for. The educational system must support this rather than forcing students and more advanced researchers to suboptimize by concentrating on research they believe is favored by the editors of the leading journals."
    #publishOrPerish

  13. A quotation from The Bible

       When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host, and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give this person your place,’ and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place.
       “But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
       “For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
     
       [Ἔλεγεν δὲ πρὸς τοὺς κεκλημένους παραβολήν, ἐπέχων πῶς τὰς πρωτοκλισίας ἐξελέγοντο, λέγων πρὸς αὐτούς, Ὅταν κληθῇς ὑπό τινος εἰς γάμους, μὴ κατακλιθῇς εἰς τὴν πρωτοκλισίαν, μήποτε ἐντιμότερός σου ᾖ κεκλημένος ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐλθὼν ὁ σὲ καὶ αὐτὸν καλέσας ἐρεῖ σοι, Δὸς τούτῳ τόπον, καὶ τότε ἄρξῃ μετὰ αἰσχύνης τὸν ἔσχατον τόπον κατέχειν.
       ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν κληθῇς, πορευθεὶς ἀνάπεσε εἰς τὸν ἔσχατον τόπον, ἵνα ὅταν ἔλθῃ ὁ κεκληκώς σε ἐρεῖ σοι, Φίλε, προσανάβηθι ἀνώτερον· τότε ἔσται σοι δόξα ἐνώπιον πάντων τῶν συνανακειμένων σοι.
       ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται, καὶ ὁ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται.]

    The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
    Luke 14: 7-11 (Jesus) [NRSV (2021 ed.)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/13303/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #jesus #firstshallbelast #honor #humbleness #humility #importance #prestige #pride #rank #selfaggrandizing #selfdeprecation #selfglorification #selfimportance #selfpromotion #selfregard #selfserving

  14. Dernière minute , Cinéma

    Klow : l'immense Jean Pierre Talbot reçoit un Ceszar d'honneur pour l'ensemble de son œuvre des mains du président de l'académie cinématographique syldave.

    C'est d'ailleurs ce qui arrive chaque année depuis la sortie de " Tintin et les oranges bleus " , aucun acteur syldave n'arrivant à la cheville de cet immense acteur ! #césars #jeanpierretalbot #meilleuracteur #Syldavie #artsetessais #prestige #recompense #culture #cinema

  15. Did you ever want to be a Lord or a Lady? This is for you.

    Are you a Lord or a Lady?
    Sorry, this is how much your title is actually worth... 🤣

    prestigetitles.co.uk/

    #NobleTitles #Peerage #Prestige