This is a Michelin Star 'Story' that I have been wanting to enjoy ever since I moved to Bermondsey. It gets booked up ages in advance – so when we tried to book an anniversary treat in March we ended up with a Tuesday evening treat in June!
But goodness me was it worth the wait.
Don't even get me started on the AMAZING collection of bowls and plates we enjoyed these artworks on. I want them all!
We started with the Foreword named 'Snacks'. Highlights included the rabbit with pickled carrot (served on moss) and the razor clams with champagne snow. So many teeny tasty treats.
Chapter One: Tomato and vanilla, delicious – who knew?!
This was Michelin Star comfort food and we loved it. Warm fresh bread and dripping but with a twist – your table candle, melting away all this time, was made from beef fat and acted as the dripping.
Onion and gin, their most famous dish and a thing of beauty with the dark green apple oil.
Heritage potato mash with asparagus and coal. Creamy rich yummy goodness.
Lobster with lavender, pear and celeriac. I am not sure if I have ever eaten lavender before, mostly associating it with old ladies or soap – turns out floral seafood is great!
Scallops with cucumber and dill ash. Definitely one of my favourite dishes of the night.
Peas and whey with crispy barley. So fresh and tasty I can absolutely understand why eating seasonally is the best way to go.
Herdwick Lamb. This was a highlight for both of us. Lamb done five different ways, all as delicious as each other complimented by beautiful sauces. I would go back just for this.
The beginning of the end was a picnic at the table. The Cornish Blue cheese paired so well with the Gosnells Mead (from Peckham) with its strong honey base. We will definitely be picking some up from Maltby Street Market at the weekend and recreating this at home! It was a fun touch after all the fancy crockery and cutlery to be using fold out camping implements for this course.
Chocolate and lovage took a while for me to get my head around. Imagine chocolate and celery ice cream. After all the weird and wonderful pairings we had eaten so far I decided to ignore my logic, trust them and enjoy it. It absolutely worked, I don't know how or why but it just did.
We finished on a little almond and dill number. The dill 'snow' was amazing with the creamy almond ice cream and toasted almond flakes. Again – doesn't make sense on paper but it tastes incredible. Trust them.
The staff are friendly, knowledgeable and clearly very passionate about the food. For our seating at 7pm we were slightly early (too excited) so the staff to diner ratio seemed quite intense. As the night picked up, however, they were like polite little ninjas darting around clearing and serving – and all absolutely needed.
I would definitely recommend this lovely local restaurant for a treat. The menu is incredibly quirky and a feast for the eyes as well as the mouth. Just be a bit more organised than us and book way in advance.


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The St. Louis Arch and Other Points East
Down The Road with the Original Buffalo Dale
Welcome back. The trip from the far northeast corner of Oklahoma along highway 44 to St. Louis and the internationally known structure known as the "Gateway to the West" or the "Arch of St. Louis" takes six hours. Along the way you pass beautiful mountain scenery, the famous resort town of Branson, Missouri and Six Flags amusement park. Then you see the striking monument that was built in 1963 to celebrate the westward expansion of the United States. At 630 feet this gleaming stainless steel structure is the tallest man made monument in the country.
From the Arch going north, highway 44 becomes highway 70 and the mountainous terrain turns to farmland. The exit ramps lead to small rural communities and mostly $60 a night and up motels for the weary travel until you hit Terre Haute, Indiana, the home of a major federal penitentiary. The prison was constructed in 1938 by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who was responding to the request of the local Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce. At the time, during the Great Depression, the prison was seen as an important source of jobs and other economic stimulus. Since then the prison has grown to become a multi-purpose facility. It includes a rehabilitation wing devoted to improving inmates' reading, writing and math skills along with a trade school. There is a level three care unit which provides medical services to seriously ill prisoners, some of whom are transferred from other parts of the country to be cared for in Terre Haute. Another area of the prison houses "lifers", who are the inmates who will never be released. And then there is death row.
Due to its central location, in 1993 the federal government designated United States Prison (USP) Terre Haute as the facility that would house and ultimately execute those prisoners who have received a death sentence in federal court. There are currently58 inmates in what the government called the "Special Confinement Unit" on death row.
You may have heard of a few of the notorious men who drew their last breath here. Timothy McVeigh who was convicted in 1997 for planning and carrying out the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City which killed 168 people is one example. McVeigh was executed in 2001.
Also executed in 2001 was drug king pin Juan Raul Garza. Garza was convicted of numerous murders and for importing thousands of pounds of marijuana into the United States.
Gulf War veteran Louis Jones Jr. was put to death in 2003 for the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of an enlisted woman at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas. As you can see the list goes on as the men awaiting execution includes a wide range of convicted drug dealers, sex offenders, murderers and terrorists. Although there's plenty of hotels in this area right off I-70 in Terre Haute, Indianapolis is just an hour and a half away and I usually go on.
The Indianapolis area is rich in history from many eras. This was once the home of the Delaware tribe until they were displaced by the government and relocated to other lands. The city was chosen to be the state capital in 1820.
According to the 2010 census, Indianapolis is now the 12th largest city in the country with a thriving arts and sports scene. The Indianapolis 500, the Brickyard 400 and Men's and Women's NCAA Basketball tournaments all take place here along with concerts, exhibitions and a variety of cultural festivals. Definitely a place where I would like to sped more time.
Richmond is the last major town before you leave Indiana as I-70 rolls across the American heartland into Ohio. The next stop for me was Columbus, Ohio which at one point in time was governed by the French. Back in the early 1750s George Washington conducted a survey of the area and that survey led to a struggle for control of the region, sparking the seven year French-Indian war.
From Columbus, I travel on through Wheeling, West Virginia and on to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Then I take a turn north toward I-80 and Lake Erie of Great Lakes fame. I-80 cuts across Pennsylvania and this is where I stopped for my second night on the road.
The vast terrain of Pennsylvania is nothing less than spectacular and well worth a closer look but I've got business in New York City and on the streets of Manhattan where I'll be reporting from next time. Till then, I'll see ya down the road….
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News Release 17-Apr-2019
U-M study: 'Induced' driving miles could overwhelm potential energy-saving benefits of self-driving
ANN ARBOR--The benefits of self-driving cars will likely induce vehicle owners to drive more, and those extra miles could partially or completely offset the potential energy-saving benefits that automation may provide, according to a new University of Michigan study.
In the coming years, self-driving cars are expected to yield significant improvements in safety, traffic flow and energy efficiency. In addition, automation will allow vehicle occupants to make productive use of travel time.
Previous studies have shown that greater fuel efficiency induces some people to travel extra miles, and those added miles can partially offset fuel savings. It's a behavioral change known as the rebound effect.
In addition, the ability to use in-vehicle time productively in a self-driving car--people can work, sleep, watch a movie, read a book--will likely induce even more travel.
Taken together, those two sources of added mileage could partially or completely offset the energy savings provided by autonomous vehicles, according to a team of researchers at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability led by Dow Sustainability Doctoral Fellow Morteza Taiebat.
Conceivably, the added miles could even result in a net increase in energy consumption, a phenomenon known as backfire, according to the U-M researchers. The study published April 17 in the journal Applied Energy.
"The core message of the paper is that the induced travel of self-driving cars presents a stiff challenge to policy goals for reductions in energy use," said co-author Samuel Stolper, assistant professor of environment and sustainability at SEAS.
"Thus, much higher energy efficiency targets are required for self-driving cars," said co-author Ming Xu, associate professor of environment and sustainability at SEAS and associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the College of Engineering.
In the paper, Taiebat and his colleagues used economic theory and U.S. travel survey data to model travel behavior and to forecast the effects of vehicle automation on travel decisions and energy use.
Most previous studies of the energy impact of autonomous vehicles focused exclusively on the fuel-cost component of the price of travel, likely resulting in an overestimation of the environmental benefits of the technology, according to the U-M authors.
In contrast, the study by Taiebat and colleagues looked at both fuel cost and time cost. Their approach adapts standard microeconomic modeling and statistical techniques to account for the value of time.
Traditionally, time spent driving has been viewed as a cost to the driver. But the ability to pursue other activities in an autonomous vehicle is expected to lower this "perceived travel time cost" considerably, which will likely spur additional travel.
The U-M researchers estimated that the induced travel resulting from a 38% reduction in perceived travel time cost would completely eliminate the fuel savings associated with self-driving cars.
"Backfire--a net rise in energy consumption--is a distinct possibility if we don't develop better efficiencies, policies and applications," Taiebat said.
The possibility of backfire, in turn, implies the possibility of net increases in local and global air pollution, the study authors concluded.
In addition, the researchers suggest there's an equity issue that needs to be addressed as autonomous vehicles become a reality. The study found that wealthier households are more likely than others to drive extra miles in autonomous vehicles "and thus stand to experience greater welfare gains."
Support was provided by the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program at the University of Michigan.
Study: Forecasting the Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicles on Energy Use: A Microeconomic Study of Induced Travel and Energy Rebound
Morteza Taiebat
Samuel Stolper
Ming Xu
Applied Energy
Jim Erickson
ericksn@umich.edu
Dow Sustainability Fellows Program at the University of Michigan
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Freightliner of St. Cloud wins dealer award
Jason Cannon (TPS)
Freightliner of St. Cloud was named the 2015 Successful Dealer Award winner Wednesday evening at the CV Outlook in Dallas, Texas.
Founded in 1963, Freightliner of St. Cloud – a finalist for the same award last year – is the largest supplier to the transportation industry in Central Minnesota and the oldest continually-owned truck dealer in the area.
The dealership received high marks from our editors for its involvement in the community, specifically the local chapter of the Boys and Girls Club.
This year, the company received the 2015 Boys & Girls Club Larry Haws Champion of Youth Humanitarian Award. The dealership partnered with the local Boys & Girls Club on an art initiative called Gallery Elite, in which a group of youth used their artistic abilities to create commissioned artwork for the Freightliner of St. Cloud Driver Lounge.
Pictured, from left to right, are Automann USA National Sales Manager Danny Ferrell, Freightliner of St. Cloud CIC Pat Miller and GM Jon Pearson, and Automann USA Vice President Jeev Khanduja.
This partnership gave the youth a look at art as a career opportunity. This partnership, general Manager Jon Pearson says, received local and national press.
"We really look at the Boys and Girls Club as an organization that does a great job with the money they get," Pearson says.
Freightliner of St. Cloud also initiated the founding of an idea exchange with another dealership group. Key personnel from each site meets to discuss issues at their dealerships and work toward solutions.
"We try to solve one problem," Pearson says of the meetings. "It might be one of ours or one of theirs … using Continuous Improvement skills, we sit down and talk about, 'okay. What are you guys doing with this?'"
That has led to the dealership being contacted by other locations that want to start a similar initiative.
"It's one of those things that we learn a lot from each other," Pearson adds. "All the managers leave with a lot of notes."
For the second year, the Successful Dealer Award was sponsored by Automann USA.
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Interested in becoming part of the UHCA community? Read on to learn about all the exciting benefits enjoyed by members.
Save money! Members receive a $10 discount on entry fees. Eight events X $10 savings per event, equals $80 savings. More if you compete in more than one division.
Be heard! Members over the age of 17 have the opportunity to vote on any association motion presented to the general membership.
Compete for year-end awards! Only members (who compete in at least 5 events) are eligible to compete for buckles, prizes and recognition which are presented to the top 10 riders in every division at the annual general membership meeting and banquet.
Make new friends! Join a community of like-minded individuals that value camaraderie, horsemanship, and sportsmanship and that genuinely enjoy spending time with their horses.
Gain a new perspective! Observe your horse transform into a whole new breed of all-around horse while improving responsiveness and acceptance.
Stay informed! As a member, you'll receive UHCA news and updates direct to your inbox. You'll be the first to know about upcoming events, clinics, rule changes and more.
Track your points online! Only members can access the Year-End Point tracking section of the website.
Take the lead! Only members are eligible to serve on the Board of Directors and shape the future of the organization.
Become a host! Only members are allowed to host a UHCA sanctioned event.
There are many fantastic reasons to join UHCA, however, you do not have to be a member to compete in a UHCA Event.
UHCA offers several membership options. Every rider who wishes to complete for year-end awards must have their own membership. Membership includes registration of one horse in one division. Additional horses or additional divisions may be registered for point tracking and year-end awards by paying an additional fee.
(2 adults living in the same household and unlimited youth, age 17 and younger, as of January 1st of competition year in immediate family) Each member of the family can register for 1 horse in 1 division. Each additional horse or division still requires the additional horse or division form and payment.
By contributing a one-time fee of $450, individual receives free annual membership for life and a plaque in addition to the satisfaction of knowing your long-term support will help ensure the UHCA continues to thrive well into the future. Lifetime members will be recognized at the annual membership meeting and awards banquet the initial year of membership. Lifetime members do not pay membership fees in subsequent years and membership includes one horse in one division each year.
Refer to the UHCA Handbook for additional membership benefits and requirements.
UHCA welcomes riders of all levels, providing eight challenge divisions allowing riders to compete against others riding at a similar level.
Join UHCA or renew your membership online using the buttons above or via mail using the forms that can be downloaded below.
To join UHCA or register an additional horse or for an additional division, download the applicable forms below. Type in your information, print, sign and mail with payment to the address listed on the forms.
Save time at the next race by downloading the UHCA Event Registration Form now. Simply type in your information, print, sign, and bring to the race registration table. The form and your information can be saved to your computer and printed again for the future races.
Having trouble downloading forms? You may need to download the latest version of Adobe Reader.
UHCA Events are co-sanctioned with the Extreme Cowboy Association (EXCA) and EXCA members can receive qualifying points. In order to receive EXCA points at a UHCA Event, the rider must be a member of EXCA and pay a $15.00 fee for points transfer. If you are an EXCA member, please include your EXCA membership number and division on the Event Registration Form.
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Flatfoot is common in both children and adults. When this deformity occurs in children, it is referred to as "pediatric flatfoot." Although there are various forms of flatfoot, they all share one characteristic - partial or total collapse of the arch.


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LGBTQ Tour Operator Launches Inaugural Getaway
Volando.us, a tour operator specializing in safe, fun and affordable travel experiences for the LGBTQ+ community, has announced its inaugural trip: Mayan Xcapade. Taking place over Labor Day Weekend, the party begins on Friday, September 3, as two chartered JetBlue flights leave Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and head to Cancun. Upon arrival to the Cancun International Airport (CUN), guests will be whisked away in comfort and style to the TRS Yucatan Hotel at the Grand Palladium in Riviera Maya. Just for this group, Volando.us has secured all 454 suites of this adults-only, five-star, all-inclusive resort, creating a relaxed and discreet environment for participants to live life to its fullest. In addition luxuriously appointed suite accommodations, guests will enjoy all of the following perks and benefits as an inaugural Xcapade attendee: • Nightly parties, including sets by international celebrity DJs Aron, Anne Louise, and Ben Bakson • Unlimited dining and complimentary premium beverages, as well as live dinner shows • Access to the resort's gym and spa with enhanced with Mayan rituals for rejuvenation and renewal • Complimentary Wifi • Non-motorized water sports • A comprehensive program of on-site activities, including yoga, dance classes, cooking lessons, mixology demonstrations, tequila tastings and much more.
Pricing starts from $839 per person (not including airfare), including accommodations, meals and scheduled event activities. Airfare on the private flights is available as an add-on for guests departing from FFL. Guests must adhere to all hotel safety measures and will receive complimentary health insurance from the property.
To celebrate this getaway, the first Xcapade of its kind, Volando.us is giving away one (1) two-person package, including three nights of double occupancy suite accommodations and access to all event activities. Visit https://mayanxcapade.volando.us and enter by June 30, 2021. The drawing will be held and announced on July 1, 2021. Winners will be responsible for their own airfare.
For more information and continued updates, please visit https://mayanxcapade.volando.us.


In Northern India, the travel circuit that is highly popular is Golden Triangle Tour. Northern India's 3 historical and historic cities-Agra, Delhi and Jaipur are covered in this tour. This option serves to be a true delight for the visitors who want to enjoy the glimpse of Indian architecture. The tourist attractions such as Jaipur's Hawa Mahal, Delhi's Red Fort and Agra Taj Mahal are the places that steals the heart of visitors.
The conditions of a dream holiday are fulfilled by this superb travel option that reflects great Indian culture, history, glorious past and tradition. Trip to Agra, New Delhi and Jaipur is included in this imperial and fascinating tour. One can also explore the destinations that are situated nearby such as Ranthambore, Bharatpur, Sariska etc. with the option to extend the tour.
The itineraries offered by us offer these variations as well such as Delhi Agra Jaipur trip with Rajasthan, Udaipur, Khajuraho, Fatehpur Sikri etc. One can therefore select the package that best match his travel requirements. The rate of collection of itineraries are affordable and tourists can enjoy excellent services offered by the dedicated team members.
Several great and splendid tourist destinations are covered in the trip offered by us such as Red Fort, Humayun's Tomb, Jama Masjid, India Gate, Qutub Minar, Akshardham Temple etc. in Delhi, Taj Mahal,Rambagh, Itmad-Ud-Daulah, Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri etc. in Agra and Hawa Mahal, Jantar Mantar, Birla Temple, City Palace, Amber Fort, Nahargarh Fort, Jal Mahal Palace, Jaigarh Fort etc. in Jaipur.
One can cherish the cherishable memories offered by us forever. We are serving in this industry since 1965 and this great experience makes the company able to offer the travelers with excellent services. The English speaking chauffeurs are there in the team that serves as a benefit for the travelers as they need not to face communication issue. The team members are well experienced and aware of the general conditions that might arise during the travel. For this reason, they are able to prevent any kind of unwanted situation.
The travel experience is marvellous and tourists desire to visit again and again to enjoy the wonder of trio circuit. We are here offering wide range of options in the trio trip to the country so that the travelers can select desired option easily and enjoy the voyage without any hassle.


The expert developer's intellectual toolkit is filled with coding tips and tricks as well as knowledge of design methodologies, configuration management, and the details of current technologies and development tools. Some developers might have acquired additional intellectual tools related to requirements engineering, maintenance, testing, and quality assurance.
The general, non-software manager's intellectual toolkit contains a completely different set of tools. General managers are trained in how to create budgets, interview prospective employees, conduct performance reviews, and so on.
General project managers are trained to manage scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, and risk.
Effective software project managers have some of the same tools that expert developers, general managers, and project managers use, but they also need tools the others don't have. The shortage of managers skilled in software-specific competencies causes severe problems. Capers Jones points out that poor software project management is associated with cancelled projects, cost and schedule overruns, low quality, missed market opportunities, low morale, and high turnover.
ToolsThe technical manager should have tools for five kinds of software-specific work: estimating, planning, tracking, risk management, and measuring. These tools can consist of actual software, or in many cases, these tools fall into the category of "intellectual tools." Let's take a closer look at the tools in each of the areas.
EstimatingPeople often think of estimating as "guesswork" or "expert judgment," but those views are more an indictment of the current state of the practice than a description of effective cost and schedule setting. Skilled technical managers go through three basic steps to create project planning numbers: first, they estimate the scope of the software; then, they compute the effort needed to build a product of that scope; and finally, they compute a schedule based on the effort estimate.
The best estimates involve little guesswork or expert judgment. In the best case, product attributes are counted rather than estimated to create the scope "estimate." The manager might count marketing requirements, engineering requirements, change requests, web pages, or some other product attribute. The estimator then uses the organization's historical productivity data to compute effort and schedule. A good estimate is counted and computed rather than guessed or judged.
Developers typically don't learn whole-software-project estimation, and general management training certainly doesn't teach it. To add estimation tools to their toolkits, software project managers must develop skills beyond those acquired in the technical trenches. Good resources on estimation include my book Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art, Construx's free estimation tool, Construx Estimate, and Construx's Software Estimation Training.
A software project manager will not learn how to perform any of these activities in a general, non-software management training course, and only the most astute developer will acquire these skills by doing hands-on technical work. Most of these activities are not done on most projects.
Books such as Tom Gilb's Principles of Software Engineering Management, Mike Cohn's Agile Estimation and Planning, and my Rapid Development and Software Project Survival Guide contain good advice on software planning.
If you don't track a project effectively, you can't manage it. You'll have no way of knowing whether your plans are being carried out or whether you need to modify the current plans. Effective tracking lets you detect problems early, while you still have time to take meaningful corrective action.
Typical general-management tracking controls include task lists, status meetings and reports, milestone reviews, budget reports, and management by walking around. These techniques tend to provide poor status visibility on software projects because they tend to track only cost or schedule—if you're not tracking cost, schedule, quality, and functionality, you're not tracking the project. Track any two of these characteristics, and undetected work will shift into the other two areas. If you track only task completion against a schedule (that is, you're tracking only functionality and schedule), unseen work will accumulate in the form of low quality. Developers will do the minimum amount of work necessary to declare a task done. Later in the project, you'll find that work that was reported as "done" is actually incomplete in many major and minor ways, and the project is behind schedule. The visibility you thought you had into functionality and schedule turns out not to be very good because you weren't tracking quality. The same basic argument holds if you're not tracking any one of cost, schedule, quality, or functionality.
Well-run software projects track status in numerous quantitative ways—earned-value, burn down charts, task lists, bug counts and other test metrics—in addition to more common techniques such as milestone reviews and management by walking around. Technical workers typically do not acquire the intellectual tools needed to do this work automatically; they require education and training targeted specifically at the software project manager.
Risk ManagementSoftware projects are assaulted by risks arising from shifting user requirements, bleeding-edge technology, unstable tools, unreliable contractors, inexperienced personnel, and many other sources. "Risk" is a fighting word in much of the business world and isn't uttered aloud unless a project is already in trouble. But a software project manager who doesn't say "risk" at least a dozen times a day probably isn't doing his job. If the technical manager isn't actively managing risk, he isn't managing his project.
The best source of information on risk is Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister's book Waltzing with Bears, and I also address risk management in Rapid Development.
MeasurementOne key to long-term progress in a software organization is collecting historical data to analyze software quality and productivity. Collecting a little historical data for each project can go a long way. If you collect data about effort (staff months), schedule (calendar time), program size in lines of code (or some other measurement), and defect count, you will have the beginning of a solid basis for planning future projects.
Adding Tools to the ToolboxSoftware management skills have at least as much influence on software development success as technical skills do. The Software Engineering Institute has repeatedly observed that organizations that try to put software engineering discipline in place before project management discipline are doomed to fail.
The common practice of promoting skilled technical workers into technical management without providing software-specific management training just turns good programmers into mediocre managers. Good technical managers are made, not born, and the software industry needs to make more of them. Fortunately, the current skills gap is in an area that's relatively easy to correct. Books such as Tom Gilb's Principles of Software Engineering Management (Addison-Wesley), Tom DeMarco's Controlling Software Projects (Yourdon Press), and my Rapid Development (Microsoft Press) contain good advice. You can find project management advice at the Project Management Institute's Web site.


Well done Niall McKenna Liam Casey and Mikey O Connor and the Tipperary U21's who became munster champions last night. Also in photo Denny Whelan John O Connor Betty Casey and Joe & Aileen O Connor .Well done to all!!!


8/16/17 – It's opening day for the Dodge County Fair. Over 50-thousand people are expected to turn out to the fairgrounds outside Beaver Dam over the next five days for the fairs 130th year. The WBEV-WXRO Total Tailgate Takeover Party at Radio Park runs 1pm to 6:30pm today with food, games and activities along with a chance to win VIP seats to the Oak Ridge Boys. The Tailgate Takeover includes a special WBEV Idea Exchange broadcast with Brenda Murphy from 1pm to 4pm offering demonstrations and samples. The first Green and Gold This Week show of the season begins at 4pm with Jesse Nelson and new host Kevin Haugen. The Fairest of the Fair will be crowned on the WTKM stage at 5pm. Music at Radio Park this evening starting at 9:15pm is provided by the Dodge County Musicians Association featuring Elwood and the Eccentrics and the Starkweather Bay Blues Band. This is the first time in recent history that the fair will have three main stage music acts instead of four. The Badger State Tractor Pullers are slated for opening night tonight. Classic country act The Oak Ridge Boys perform Thursday. Pop country duo LOCASH are on tap for Friday and southern rockers 38 Special are on the main stage Saturday night. Free family-friendly activities on tap starting today include pig, duck and goat Races; the Kandu Magic Show; a petting zoo; custom chainsaw carvings and the educational Wild World of Animals show. The admission prices are the same as last year: $7 to get in before 2pm and $10 after that. Season tickets are $35 dollars. Kids age nine and under are free. On the carnival midway today, wristbands are $25 or tickets are 50-cents each from 3pm to 9pm. More information is at www.dodgecountyfairgrounds.com. More information about what is going on at Radio Park is also on our website wbevradio.com.


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Grand Alaskan Adventure with Alaska Cruise
13 days from Anchorage to Vancouver
This Alaska tour is a dream come true for value-minded travelers seeking to experience Alaska's breathtaking scenery and thrilling experiences. You'll start and end your tour in Anchorage with overnights also in Denali National Park and Valdez. In between destinations, you'll have the opportunity to witness scenery unlike anywhere else, with untamed wilderness and exciting wildlife sightings.
A tour highlight is your cruise across the striking Prince William Sound. Witness the three-mile face of the Mears Glacier as you keep your eyes open for marine wildlife, such as otters, seals, and whales, all while you admire stunning glaciers. Another tour highlight is your journey to Talkeetna, a quaint town exemplifying small-town Alaska, from Anchorage, aboard the Alaska Railroad. On this train trip, you'll travel through gorgeous wilderness and understand Alaska's allure. Two nights in Denali National Park gives you the opportunity to explore this amazing park, home to six million acres and North America's highest peak (20,310-foot Denali). Perhaps go for a hike or participate in an optional outing, such as a wilderness tour to seek out grizzly bear, moose, caribou, and more. But that's not all…on this Alaska vacation, you'll witness stunning views as you travel over the top of Thompson Pass, where you'll admire unforgettable scenery, and into Alaska's interior across the Denali Highway. The Denali Highway is a seldom-traveled road through true wilderness with frequent wildlife sightings.
You'll embark on your Alaskan cruise in Whittier and cruise the magnificent Inside Passage. Watch for seals lounging on the calved ice from Hubbard Glacier and orcas (killer whales) that patrol the waters here. Dock in Skagway and imagine the gold prospectors who braved the winters here. Explore its shops and saloons along the wooden walkways of this historic Alaskan town. Sail for Juneau—the Alaskan capital and home to Mendenhall Glacier on the Gastineau Channel. Visit Ketchikan along the rugged Tongass Narrows on the fjords of the Inside Passage with its rich cultural sights of the Native Alaskan cultures. Continue south through the spectacular Inside Passage from Misty Fjords National Monument to famed Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve. It is along this course of true wild beauty that humpback and killer whales may be spotted as well as bald eagles above or brown bears on the shore. Disembark in Vancouver with tales of the Alaskan wilderness to tell.
With magnificent scenery, opportunities to witness wildlife in the natural environment, and awe-inspiring experiences, this Alaska tour is a once-in-a-lifetime vacation!
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This warm-hearted story of a mother's love for her spirited young daughter is told beautifully by Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary.
Ramona Quimby is no longer seven, but not quite eight. She's "seven and a half right now," if you ask her. Not allowed to stay home alone, yet old enough to watch pesky Willa Jean, Ramona wonders when her mother will treat her like her older, more mature sister, Beezus.
But with her parents' unsettling quarrels and some spelling trouble at school, Ramona wonders if growing up is all it's cracked up to be. No matter what, she'll always be her mother's little girl...right?
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Team IBIS
Adam Lubkin
Ken Klein
Chris Butera
Steven Walsh
Carlos Huerta
Raymond Zomerfeld
Buckeye Shopping Plaza Gets Makeover, Primed For Success
A Floridian is helping Cleveland's Buckeye neighborhood bounce back
Dealmaker: Adam R. Lubkin
Commercial Insurance Stabilizes
Grocery-Anchored Shopping Center Duo Sells
How to Acquire Distressed Real Estate Assets
Lenders Try Unloading Troubled Loans
MMG Equity acquires Pinecrest store
New Construction Ushers High Hopes
Oceanfront condo reopens New owners hope the Opus begins filling up
Pair has talent for finding deeply discounted properties
Plans to develop Biscayne Landing project submitted
Rescue Plan
The Land, February 19, 2021
"I don't have to tell you the Buckeye area is a tough area, easily the hardest area I've ever worked in," says Adam Lubkin, whose Ibis Development Group has begun renovating Buckeye Plaza at 11301-11501 Buckeye and calling it The Shoppes of Buckeye. But City Hall, the local community development corporation, and several proprietors have begun reviving the historic neighborhood. Said Lubkin, "It's a very special community."
Ibis owns shopping centers in the eastern U.S., including the Kennywood Shops outside Pittsburgh. "My goal is to take something that's been neglected, overlooked, underserviced, and make it great," said Lubkin. "When I do that, I've noticed that the area around it improves."
The sloping Buckeye Road is near a Rapid line, Shaker Square uphill, and University Circle downhill. It has a great view of downtown a short drive away.
The neighborhood was once a hub of Hungarian Americans, jazz clubs and religious institutions, such as Benedictine High School and St. Andrew Abbey. By 1990, when the plaza opened, the neighborhood was mostly African-American.
In the past couple decades, the plaza and the neighborhood have had their ups and downs, with many vacancies. But lately things are looking up.
At Buckeye Road's eastern end, Edwins Leadership and Restaurant Institute has added a bakery, butcher shop, a cafe, and a chicken coop called Eggwins, all run by ex-felons trained at the institute, plus housing for some of them and a playground for the public. Near the western end, the Opportunity Corridor is due for completion in November. In the middle, Sweet Tee's Kitchen is set to open April 1.
Ward 6 Councilman Blaine A. Griffin said several other investors have arrived. Meanwhile, the city and Burten, Bell, Carr Development are trying to make many storefronts ready for merchants to "plug and play," as Griffin puts it.
A transportation study called Buckeye Road Refresh is underway, and the road is due for repaving next year.
"We have some great corporate citizens bringing their investment and love and passion to Buckeye," said Griffin. "There was a time when Tremont and Ohio City were where Buckeye is now. Now is our time to really make it shine. I think Buckeye has a bright future."
The plaza was bought in 2011 by Slate Asset Management of Toronto, Canada, for $10 million. Ibis bought last January for a net $4.5 million. It stands at 11301-11501 Buckeye Road, with 116,905 square-feet of stores on about 10 acres.
The biggest store occupies about half the structure. It has been a Tops and a Giant Eagle, serving what had been a food desert. It went vacant in February, 2017, and reopened that October as a Simon's Supermarket, part of a local full-service chain.
Lubkin has put in about $600,000 worth of improvements to the plaza and plans about $250,000 more.
He's repainted the main building from a color like brown mustard to a beige called "linen." He's repaving the parking lot. He's created short-term, dedicated parking spaces near Key Bank and Little Caesars. He's added wheelchair ramps.
He's raised powerful lights. He's hewed trees encroaching on the rear driveway. He's redone the landscaping.
He's redone an outbuilding for Ace Cash Express. He's planning a second outbuilding in front of Simon's for a fast food outlet. He's hired Signal 88 security.
He's created a logo with buckeye leaves. He's won city approval for a new sign with the new logo and name.
He says traffic has risen, including by at least 30 percent at Simon's. "You're starting to get people back who have not been there in a very, very long time."
During last summer's protests of police killings of minorities, Villa footwear was vandalized and looted at the plaza and many other locations around the country. At last report, the Buckeye store was set to reopen this month. Also coming soon is a minority-owned agency deploying home healthcare workers.
Last year, Dollar General left Buckeye, but Lubkin said all the other tenants have signed up again, leaving the plaza 85 percent full, with five vacancies in high demand.
"We've received a lot of letters of intent," he said. "We will be 100 percent occupied by the end of the year."
Customers have noticed the improvements. During a shopping trip there last week, Darnell Redd said, "It's real great compared to what it was."
Ron Fullerton said, "It's upgraded. It's nice for the community."
Joe Ashkar has been running Cajun Joe's there since the plaza opened. He said of the improvement, "It's wonderful." He says of Lubkin, "He's here all the time. He's very cordial."
When Lubkin first considered buying the plaza, he called Griffin, who drove him around the neighborhood. Now the two men sing each other's praises.
Said the developer, "He is really one of the good guys I've ever met in government."
Saidthe councilman, "Adam has been a breath of fresh air. He's put in a lot of improvements. He really cares about his property. This investment can really help solidify all the things we're trying to do in the community."
To learn more about plans for Buckeye, visit the Burten, Bell, Carr Inc. website or call 216/341-1455.
Grant Segall is a national-prizewinning reporter who spent 34 years with The Plain Dealer. He has also published freelance articles, fiction, and "John D. Rockefeller: Anointed With Oil" (Oxford University Press).


Calculates scores for each observation and each phase and assigns prediction based on marker pairs indentified by sandbag.
Dictionary of marker pairs. See sandbag() output.
An integer scalar specifying the number of iterations for random sampling to obtain a cycle score.
sample and a additional column with the name of the max scoring category for each sample.
If marker pairs contain only the cell cycle categories G1, S and G2M an additional column pypairs_cc_prediction will be added. Where category S is assigned to samples where G1 and G2M score are below 0.5.


With a delicately spiced, fruity nose, this wine is fresh and nicely rounded with plenty of texture and ripe lemon acidity.
Cave de l'Ormarine is an award-winning co-operative which produces wines from the tiny Pinet de Picpoul appellation in the Hérault. The Ormarine cellar was established in 1922 when winegrowers from Pinet joined forces and formed a winegrowers' association. Its flagship Picpoul wines are fresh and terroir-driven, and hugely influenced by both the Mediterranean Sea and the Etang de Thau, which act as a thermal regulator for the vineyards. Cave de l'Ormarine has made significant investment in its winery, and prides itself on the high standard and traceability of its grapes.
Grown on southern slopes overlooking tidal sea lakes which create a microclimate which moderates weather and encourages cooler breezes to pass through. The piquepoul grape is native to southern France where, even this far south, can yield fruit with high acidity that is perfect for sparkling wines. There are two theories as to the meaning of the word 'piquepoul' – the first translation is 'lip stinger' which is the effect of the high acidity of the grape; the second refers hens ('poul') in the vineyards pecking/lancing ('picque') the low hanging grapes. The soil around this area is chalky with high fossil and quartz content.
Produced using the principles of 'agriculture raisonnée', this has been made with the traditional method. Classified as a 'VMQS', it has undergone a second fermentation in bottle before ageing on its lees for at least 9 months.
Food Match Fantastic with oysters and shellfish as the perfectly pitched acid neutralises the salt and iodine in seafood.


The Ford 9″ axle is a semi-floating, drop-out with a GAWR up to 3600 lbs and is one of the most popular axles in automotive history. Ford began production in 1957 and stopped production in 1986 though many after market companies still produce this rear end.
rd 9″ apart from other high performance and heavy duty solid axles is that access to the differential gears is not through the rear center cover, which is welded to the axle housing, but through the center cover on the pinion side of the axle where the drive shaft connects.
The Ford 9″ has a number of benefits over its competition, here are just a few of them.
In a Ford 9″ swapping gears is supremely easy as it has a removable third member. This is even more important if for dual purpose vehicles.
A Ford 9″ also makes axles easy to install or remove as Ford designed the axle to slide out by yanking four bolts per axle flange for the 28- and 31-spline axles.
An added plus for the Ford 9″ is an internal rear-pinion support that also supports the gear end of the pinion to limit gear deflection under high torque loads.
Ford improved tooth contact in the Ford 9″ by locating its pinion gear lower on the ring gear. This strengthens the rear end assembly but results in a minor loss of power to drive the gears.
A Ford 9″ can save you money if the worst should happen. At some point no matter what axle you buy, that axle will break if you are doing something rough. With a Ford 9″ if the axle breaks inside the housing, the axle retainer keeps the axle in place, where in other types the axle would slide out potentially causing massive sheet metal damage.
The Ford 9″ also has the widest variety of ratios on the market, so no matter what you have chances are excellent a Ford 9″ can work with it. Check out some of the parts we have to go with your Ford 9″ 28 spline, 31 spline, or 35 spline.


Dimitri Boyiatjis is an equity specialist. Dimitri entered the financial markets after completing his BCom degree in South Africa. He has successfully managed numerous trading divisions including London & Dominion Trust, Syfrets and Nedcor Investment Bank. His international experience comprises Head of Sales for Standard Bank London, and as a Global Institutional Equity Trader for Royal Bank of Canada. On his return to South Africa, he took up the position of Head of Trading and Executive Director at Legae Securities.
Dimitri's extensive experience, successful track record in asset management as well as team leadership skills aid in his ability to be CEO of Trident Capital.


Ceres is one of the first newly classified dwarf planets and it is the smallest with a diameter of just 950 km.
It is named after Ceres, the Roman goddess of the harvest and motherly love and it was first discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801.
Since Ceres was first discovered in the main asteroid belt which lies between Mars and Jupiter there has been a lot of debate on how to classify Ceres.
For the first 50 years since its discovery it was known as a planet and was given a planetary symbol. It was only until a number of other similar bodies were found in the same area that the planet definition was disputed and Ceres was then known as an asteroid.
In 2006 when the International Astronomical Union held talks on what actually constitutes a planet, the definition of Ceres changed once again to that of dwarf planet.
Ceres is the largest object that can be found in the asteroid belt between planet Mars and Jupiter and it constitutes 25% of the total mass of everything in the asteroid belt. Even so, it is still very small at 14 times smaller than the tiny Pluto.
Ceres completes an orbit every 4.6 Earth years and completes a full rotation every 9 hours and 4 minutes.
The mass and size of Ceres give the object an almost spherical shape.
It is not usually possible to see Ceres with the naked eye unless the viewing conditions and the eyesight of the viewer are exceptional.
Ceres is believed to have a rocky core with an icy mantle that is 100 km thick. Calculations show that the mantle contains 200 million cubic kilometres of water which is more fresh water than can be found on the entire planet Earth.
The surface on Ceres can be relatively warm when the Sun is located directly overhead. Measurements have been taken which have shown a maximum temperature of -38 degrees Celsius.
It is believed that Ceres does have an atmosphere but it is very weak.
No spacecraft has ever visited Ceres, but the NASA probe Dawn Mission is due to conduct a flyby mission in 2015.
Given that there is a possibility of water ice on Ceres it is feasible that there is some form of life on Ceres.


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Indian American Kavita Trivedi Joins the Inaugural Class of Female Eagle Scouts
COMMUNITY, GENERATION Z
by Anu Ghosh
Eagle Scout is the highest rank someone in Scouts BSA can earn; the process to reach the rank was open only to boys until 2019, when Boy Scouts of America began allowing girls in the organization.
Anu Ghosh
34-year-old Indian American Swati Sharma Named Editor of Vox, a Popular News Website
On the surface, Kavita Trivedi, seems like your average high school kid. But look a little closer, and you'll see that this slip of a girl is smashing glass ceilings under her Converse-clad feet.
On February 8, 2021, Scouts BSA — formerly known as the Boy Scouts —officially inducted its first class of female Eagle Scouts on the recognized "birthday" of the Boy Scouts of America.
Among those in the inaugural Eagle Scout class is 15-year-old Indian American Kavita Trivedi from Troop 56 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Kavita Trivedi talked to American Kahani about what being an Eagle Scout means and the road seldom tread.
Trivedi's happiness comes through the cell phone as she says, "I'm very proud of myself for becoming one of the first group of girls to become an Eagle Scout. I worked really hard for this and I know it's a big step forward for the organization – letting girls in. I feel like I've learned a lot of leadership skills … and I am a strong person. I know how to overcome hurdles, and it shows that I have perseverance."
Kavita Trivedi first heard of scouting when she was in first grade. At the time, Boy Scouts of America wasn't accepting girls, but the Cambridge resident informally joined a local troop, where she learned first aid, rock climbing, and most of all, how to be prepared.
Trivedi says, "A neighbor recommended it to me." Based on the recommendation Trivedi went to a meeting where they were doing bridge making and Pinewood Derby racing, where you built race cars out of wood. "I thought that was interesting as I love hand-on projects."
And from that day, Trivedi was bit by the Scout bug. Now, at 15, her hard work has paid off. Trivedi became a member of the inaugural class of female Eagle Scouts, the highest possible rank for members of Scouts BSA.
In addition to her Eagle Scout project, Trivedi had to earn a total of 21 merit badges to qualify for the award. Merit badges outline a set of requirements to teach Scouts outdoor skills such as her favorite, climbing.
"When I participated in Scouts when I was younger, I kept seeing all the older scouts become Eagle Scouts. And I wanted to become one of them one day. So once girls were allowed into scouting, I started working on the ranks and earning the merit badges. I had set a goal for myself: I wanted to be in the first group of girls."
As to whether she's encountered any pushback or problems being a girl in a traditional "boys club," Trivedi says, "Maybe once or twice, but nothing huge. One time was at a jamboree, and I was told by a couple older men that I wasn't supposed to be there, and I don't belong there. And this was right after the girls were starting to be allowed into Scouts."
She adds sagely, with wisdom beyond her years, "I usually just say 'OK' and move on, because you just have to keep moving forward. You can't let the small things stop you."
As to being a role model for girls to follow in her footsteps, Trivedi, who has a younger sister herself says, "I know there are some girls in the troop that now want to become an Eagle Scout after seeing me become one and they know what an accomplishment it is."
Younger sister Neelu Trivedi, 12, hopes to one day follow her as an Eagle Scout, says Trivedi. "Neelu is very motivated to become an Eagle Scout," a proud big sister said. "I think she's gonna stick with it."
Trivedi who sees the move to make Boy Scouts inclusive as a step in the right direction says, "This move is part of being in a progressive community to be accepting to all. And this is one step closer to it," says Trivedi pointing out that "Girl Scouts, which is a separate organization hasn't done this yet and Boy Scouts moving forward in this direction shows it's ahead and progressing in a way beneficial to all communities."
And if you all think Trivedi is only all about Scouts, think again. Trivedi, a tenth grader at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School runs cross country and she's a member of the International Sustainability and Development Club. "As part of the club we fund raise for an organization that helps people in Tanzania build stoves in their homes so they don't breathe the polluted air," says the avid skier, who loves hitting the slopes with her family.
To become an Eagle Scout, all candidates must complete a project that benefits a school, a religious institution, or their community. Trivedi initially planned to teach a "leave no trace" urban environmental program to children at the local Agassiz Baldwin Community Center in Cambridge.
However, when the COVID-19 pandemic made in-person teaching impossible, Trivedi adapted the curriculum into a 10-video YouTube series produced with her family and sent it to the center.
"I chose to do my project on Leave No Trace in an Urban Environment because I wanted to teach youth the skills I have learned. My initial plan was to create an in-person, hands-on, curriculum for youth at the local community organization," Trivedi shared with American Kahani. "COVID-19 changed my plans, so I ended up working with Scouts, family, and friends to create videos and posting them on YouTube which opens the learning opportunity more broadly."
Trivedi further added, "My project taught me a lot of leadership skills, such as how to have a timeline that you have to stick to, which is challenging, and to make sure it can adjust to what other people need."
3 Indian Americans Among 55 College Sophomores and Juniors Named Udall Scholars
In addition to her Eagle Scout project, Trivedi had to earn a total of 21 merit badges to qualify for the award. Merit badges outline a set of requirements to teach Scouts outdoor skills such as her favorite, climbing. In May, she earned her cycling merit badge by completing a 50-mile ride on the Minuteman Bikeway.
Normally, scouts complete physical tasks like this with their troops for moral support, but since the pandemic prevented Troop 56 — Trivedi's group — from meeting in person, she completed the ride with her parents andyounger sister.
Pravin Trivedi of Shrewsbury is a proud grandfather. Talking to Community Advocate about his granddaughter he said, "My father was a teacher. He was also a scout master. He used to take his troop hiking and camping in the woods. So, imagine my delight and pride when my granddaughter gets to be an Eagle! You cannot get me off the clouds that I have been on for the past few days."
Trivedi's parents are equally proud of her. "They know how hard I worked and what an accomplishment this is."
As to what she wants to do when she grows up, a mature-beyond-her-years Trivedi says, "I think I want to work with my community. I want to help people who don't have the opportunities that some others may have. I want to help them learn how to do things that they might now be able to do within their community."
And when she's not busy being a Scout, Trivedi likes kicking back with friends and enjoys being a teenager.
(Top photo: Kavita Trivedi, 15, right, is part of the first class of girls that become Eagle Scouts this year. Her younger sister, Neelu Trivedi, 12, left, also wants to become an Eagle Scout.)
Anu Ghosh immigrated to the U.S. from India in 1999. Back in India she was a journalist for the Times of India in Pune for 8 years and a graduate from the Symbiosis Institute of Journalism and Communication. In the U.S., she obtained her Masters and PhD. in Communications from The Ohio State University. Go Buckeyes! She has been involved in education for the last 15 years, as a professor at Oglethorpe University and then Georgia State University. She currently teaches Special Education at Oak Grove Elementary. She is also a mom to two precocious girls ages 11 and 6.
Female Eagle Scouts Indian Americans Kavita Trivedi Scouts BSA Top Stories
Anu Ghosh February 16, 2021


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Review – Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
Umut Ozguc, Jun 20 2017, 1194 views
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
By Reece Jones
London: Verso, 2016
The border is one of the most pressing ethical and political questions of our time. Over the last two decades, 60,000 people have been recorded as either missing or dead along migration routes (IOM, 2016). In 2016 alone, the International Organisation for Migration (2016) reported approximately 4,000 refugee deaths in the Mediterranean and 6,000 worldwide. In the wake of this human tragedy, states have engaged in an orchestrated effort to propagate a narrative of securitisation and frame the contemporary political condition as a 'crisis' of sovereign borders. The hardening of borders through building walls and fences and also through the introduction of increased bureaucratic regulations are now common practices of states that seek to contain this so-called 'mobility crisis'.
Violent Borders offers a critical review of such violent constructions of contemporary border politics. The central premise of the book is that borders are inherently violent constructs. Reece Jones problematises the essentialised view of bounded territories perceived as idealised constitutive and regulatory elements of the modern state system. He argues, in a Foucauldian manner, that the border is a governmental technology that is used to create, discipline and contain an orderly population inside a bounded territory. This governmental technology, however, is not innocent and not a 'natural part of the human world' (5). Rather, it is a politically constructed institution whose very existence produces and preserves the violence that it seeks to prevent.
Jones convincingly shows us throughout the book how the hardening of borders through various security practices produce binary categories of inside/outside, self/other, poor/rich, citizen/non-citizen and friend/enemy. He examines how these binary categories come into being through bordering practices. Borders, Jones writes, 'are not a representation of pre-existing differences between peoples and places; they create those differences' (166). It is this performative function of the border that constitutes its inherent violence. The construction of such differences are the fundamental sources of racism, nationalism and groupism that exclude certain populations from the global mobility regime. To put it differently, the central premise of Violent Borders is to explore the construction and the operation of what Bryan Turner (2007) refers to as 'enclave societies': the creation of a smooth mobility regime for trusted bodies and an 'immobility regime' for undesirable migrants, refugees and other aliens, who are made subjects of different modes of sequestration, exclusion and imprisonment.
Jones presents a complex and multidimensional reading of the concept of violence. Drawing upon the work of Johan Galtung, Jones argues that the violence manifests itself in direct and structural forms. These two different forms of violence, however, are not exclusive of one another; they sustain each other. Jones argues that there may not be evidence of direct (overt) violence. Yet, the violence can still be rooted in the 'structure and shows up as unequal power and consequently unequal life changes' (8). The geo-biopolitical practices that create and sustain borders are the sources of the visible and invisible, direct and indirect, collective and structural forms of violence entrenched in every institution of the modern Westphalian state and the contemporary global mobility regime.
Jones demonstrates the inherently violent nature of the border through many examples. This is, in fact, one of the main strengths of the book, which travels across different times and geographies to demonstrate how juridical, administrative, social, economic and political operations of the border inflict harm on people and destroy ecosystems. In order to shed light on the shifts and the continuities in the construction of bounded territories, Jones also takes a historical approach to some of the case studies that he examines. In doing so, he challenges what Liam O'Down (2010) calls the 'epochal thinking' in border studies that fails to recognise 'the past in the present'. The historical discussion of the Enclosure Movement in Britain and the colonisation of oceans and non-European territories makes the central argument of the book more compelling.
The first half of the book deals with the global migration crisis and the ways in which certain population groups are excluded from the global mobility regime and exposed to different forms of violence. The contemporary criminalisation of the movement and the militarisation of the border are examined in the context of the European Union's external borders, the transformation of the US-Mexico border, the Wall in the West Bank, the enclosures built along India's border with Bangladesh, and Australia's offshore refugee detention network. Jones makes a convincing argument that such practices dispute the narratives of globalisation. In contemporary politics, the border constitutes a space where the state re-articulates and expands its sovereign power in order to capture the movement of the non-citizen who is deemed threatening and dangerous. The criminalisation of movement, deportation of undocumented migrants, construction of walls and fences, and institutionalisation of detention camps are no longer exceptional conventions of statecraft. In all these spaces, asylum seekers, migrants and refugees are subjected to the routine use of state violence and the normalised practices of discipline and control. It is such permanent normalisation of violence that makes the border the most contested site of sovereign power.
The second half of the book explores the proliferation of borders: the fragmented nature of the border that operates within the territory of the state and at sea. In examining different types of boundaries such as the enclosure of private property and natural resources, Jones shows that the border is not only a line separating two sovereign entities, but a global technology that creates conditions for the exploitation of labour and the extraction of the earth's common natural resources. The discussion of the slave-like working conditions in Bangladesh, the global restrictions imposed on the movement of the poor, and the territorialisation of the oceans in the form of exclusive economic zones demonstrates the ways in which the border creates and preserves inequality between the rich and the poor. In this context, the final chapter deals with the question of how such conditions of inequality also disrupt eco-systems. Jones surveys the role of the border in damaging the environment, and he brings forth the 'non-human' dimension of the territorialisation of earth into the analysis. The final chapter examines how the enclosure of commons is in fact 'the tragedy of resource destruction, which occurs when the enclosure of resources is combined with the ideology of extractivism' (147). The territorialisation of common lands and oceans gives the sovereign an exclusive right to exploit natural resources and it limits the global solutions to tackle climate change. Consequently, in the age of anthropocene, Jones invites us to rethink the role of the Westphalian system and its associated regime of capitalist forms of production and 'enclosed extractivism' in perpetuating the effects of climate change.
I read Violent Borders as a political manifesto. It is a timely wake-up call to revisit one of the most taken for granted institutions of modern politics: the border. Jones refuses to accept the contemporary violent conditions of borders. His concluding argument is bold: violent borders are not natural, they are not our final destiny. An alternative world is possible. This alternative, however, only begins with a radical redefinition of the nation state and its territorial borders. Jones ends the book with some proposals for the creation of his conception of an alternative world: he calls for a global movement against borders, and suggests the development of global laws for fair and humane working conditions and the genuine implementation of social safety nets for the poor and the environment. In short, Violent Borders invites us to rethink movement not as a privilege, but as a right for everyone.
Violent Borders is an engaging book that makes an empirical contribution to border studies. It is an essential read for students and scholars of political geography and International Relations. The narrative is enriched with Jones's fieldwork observations and real-life stories of those who are suppressed by the contemporary operation of borders. Jones does not retreat into narrow theoretical or conceptual discussions. With such accessible language, the book also speaks to a general audience with an interest in contemporary politics.
International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Missing Migrants Project
O'Dowd, Liam 'From a 'Borderless World' to a 'World of Borders': 'Bringing History Back In", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28/6 (2010), 1032-50.
Turner, Bryan 'The Enclave Society: Towards a Sociology of Immobility', European Journal of Social Theory, 10/2 (2007), 287-303.
Competing Logics of Security toward Syrian Refugees in Turkey and Lebanon
Interview - Laurence Payot
The Global Compact on Refugees and Latin America
The Cartagena Declaration at 35 and Refugee Protection in Latin America
Interview - Sarah Wolff
Migration Governance: Between Skills Needs and Social Constraints
About The Author ( Umut Ozguc):
Umut Ozguc has a PhD in International Relations and Politics. Her research interests are international political sociology, spatial theory, and critical border and security studies. In particular, she is interested in contemporary wall politics, the global mobility regime, the Israel/Palestine conflict and Australia's offshore detention network. She is currently teaching International Relations at the Australian National University.
Tags: asylum, borders, Extractivism, migration, refugees, violence


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Can you imagine a 15 year-old boy from the big city working as a farm hand on a family farm in the great state of Vermont? Well, that was me 51 years ago.
I had some cousins living in Saint Albans and wanted to be near the family one summer. Since my mother, aunt, uncle, brother and cousin went to the Catskills for the summer, I was bored. Well, I took the train from Grand Central to St. Albans, met my other family and after a few days went to the farm bureau to get a job on a farm.
I arrived on the farm in early June and got right on the job. The next morning I was awakened at 4:30 a.m. by the boss, had a cup of coffee and went to the night pasture with the dogs to get the cows into the barn. While one dog went into the pasture, the other dog stayed with me to assure that the cows would head toward the barn and not the other way.
During the month I was there, I was taught to use a milking machine, to strip cows, to put the tack on the pair of enormous horses we had, hook them to the wagon and drive them by myself, to slop the hogs and feed all the other animals we had. I worked from 4:30 a.m. to about 5:00 p.m. when the herd was returned to the night pasture. I became a pro at this work before I left for a job in the carnival business. I can say that I ate well, and even though this was really hard work, I loved every minute of it. It was quite an experience for me.


Fashion magazine Cosmopolitan released photos and an interview of K-pop boy group Shinee's Key for its November issue.
In the snap taken in San Francisco, the 24-year-old looks chic, gazing at the camera in a stripe turtleneck sweater matched with a black jacket. In another shot, he appears laid-back, donning a simple black jacket and ripped blue jeans, in the first-class cabin of a plane.
"Instead of being constrained by fashion, I care more about the attitude towards fashion. I like to develop my own fashion style," he said.
The full interview and photoshoot is available in the November issue of Cosmopolitan Korea.


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Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg "The Soft Spot"
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Through stop-motion video, sound, sculpture and large-scale installations, Djurberg & Berg create stories that investigate themes of sexuality, lust, submission, fear, loss, jealousy, exploitation and greed.
The artists develop narratives that are at once comical and seductive, erotic and violent and that frequently hint at the absurd. Their surreal, psychologically charged works always deal with human and animalistic desires.
Having collaborated for over a decade, the artists work completely intuitively each in their own medium, without a prewritten script, storyboard or a predetermined plot: Djurberg has developed a distinctive style of filmmaking where she produces elaborate environments and puppets out of clay, plasticene, wire and foam while the musician and composer Berg is in charge of the music. He produces the atmospheric sound and adds the hypnotic music to Djurberg's animations. The combination of suggestive pictorial worlds, sculpture and particular sound is the Swedish duo's trademark.


From the far North West we are propelled to the South East to view the good ship SS Fastnet. Mr Poole was a great man for photographing sea going vessels, the date range here is made for "narrowing" though we have found in the past that these ships can have very long lives themselves.
I bet there is a Dog on board somewhere.
Fastnet 135535 1914 616 Built as Allerton for West Lancashire SS Co, Liverpool, 1916 sold to Russell & Sons, Limerick r/n Monaleen, 1918 purchased by Clyde Shipping r/n Fastnet, 1923 sold to Henry & MacGregor, Leith r/n St. Abb's Head, 1953 scrapped. From - www.mariners-list.com/site_pages.php?page_name=Clyde+Ship... So between 1918 and 1923 . . . ??
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] You are welcome Mary! When I was a child, I always thought ships were going backwards when the smoke went forward. It's complicated.
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Even more complicated as you are upside-down?


While they might have turned the world on its head with their catchy-as-you-like grunge anthems, Nirvana only actually recorded 102 songs in their short but phenomenally influential time together. From debut album Bleach – rugged, flawed, a mere $450 in the making but with its own indisputable charm – to the chart-busting Nevermind, those 100-odd songs went on to change music as we know it.
But what is the best Nirvana song of all time? We have a few ideas, but there's only a few of us and plenty of you, so we're going to defer to the wisdom of herds and place the final decision on your hands.
Sick of seeing Smells Like Teen Spirit at the top of every single list like this, or would you fight tooth and nail to protect its rightful place as the world's eternal number one? We're handing the power over to you. Each of Nirvana's 102 songs are included in the list below, so scan it thoroughly and use your vote wisely.


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In December 1997, during the 21st annual meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in Naples (December 1-6, 1997), the property: "Villa Romana del Casale di Piazza Armerina", in the Province of Enna entered the World Heritage List.
Geographical coordinates: N37 21 57.996 E14 20 3.012
Inscribed property area: 8.92 ha
Area of the buffer zone: 10 ha
Criteria for the assessment of Outstanding Universal Value
The Committee has decided to register the Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina on the basis of criteria (I) (II) (III).
Criterio I: to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius;
Criterio II: o exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design;
Criterio III: to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared;
Declaration of outstanding universal value
"The Committee decided to include the area on the basis of criteria (I) (II) (III) considering that the Villa del Casale in Piazza Armerina is a sublime example of a luxurious Roman villa, which graphically illustrates the prevalence of social and economic conditions of its time. The mosaics that decorate it are exceptional for their artistic quality and novelty of breadth".
Justification for Inscription
The Villa Romana del Casale is unique. No structures exist elsewhere that fully reflect not only the ancient way of life, but also a complex economic system that constitutes a significant moment of union between different cultures of the Mediterranean basin (North African and Roman)."
Reference website: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/832
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We grow up dreaming of falling in love at first sight because it's the most romantic event that could ever occur. Most fairytales and romantic movies are based on this idea. What is the likelihood that you will live such a special event in your life? Like most movie scenes, love at first sight is fictional.


Rachel Staples and Brock Eurchuk with a photo of their son Elliot.
The B.C. Coroners Service will hold an inquest into the illicit-drug overdose death of Oak Bay teen Elliot Cleveland Eurchuk beginning June 17.
Elliot, 16, was found in his bedroom on April 20, 2018, dead from a combination of cocaine, fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine.
The inquest has been called to review the circumstances of his death and for a jury to make recommendations that may prevent deaths in similar circumstances, the coroners service said Tuesday.
"I see it as being a very painful process for me and [wife] Rachel and my family, but I see it as an opportunity for positive change," said Brock Eurchuk, Elliot's father.
Elliot's mother, Rachel Staples, said she was happy there would be an inquest, but disappointed it took so long.
"I will be there every second," she said.
Presiding coroner Michael Egilson, chairman of the Child Death Review Unit for Office of the Chief Coroner, and a five-person jury will hear from witnesses under oath to determine the facts surrounding the death.
Egilson is a former employee of the B.C. Children's Commission and has worked in youth and family services throughout his career. Egilson said Tuesday he cannot comment on the inquest at this time.
The inquest is scheduled for at least a week but could go two weeks, said Andy Watson, a spokesman for the coroners service.
The inquest is a fact-finding, not fault-finding, probe.
Staples, a dentist, and Eurchuk, a businessman, have been lobbying for an inquest since their son's death.
They say painkillers, including fentanyl prescribed before and after surgery for sports-related injuries, led to an addiction that their son fed with street drugs.
The Oak Bay teen's death occurred in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic. The B.C. Coroners Service says 1,489 people in B.C. died of illicit-drug overdoses last year, about the same number of deaths were seen in 2017.
An average of four people a day die of illicit-drug overdoses, more than from suicides, homicides and vehicle deaths combined.
Elliot's parents have argued that a probe is needed to prevent future deaths of this kind.
They said they asked physicians to prescribe alternatives to highly addictive opioids for their son after surgery.
Staples also wants wait times for diagnostic tests and surgery improved. Elliot, in agonizing pain, waited five months for a diagnostic MRI for a sports-related injury and more months for corrective surgery, she said.
Later, Elliot's parents begged physicians to give them access to their son's medical information, including lab test results that would have confirmed he was taking street drugs.
They want an overhaul of the B.C. Infants Act, which says anyone under the age of 19 can consent to their own medical care if a health-care provider agrees with the treatment and assesses the patient as competent to understand the risks and benefits.
Under the Infants Act, Elliot was able to dictate his own prescribed drug regime and to bar his parents from seeing his medical record and test results.
Elliot was expelled from school rather than counselled for an addiction and discharged from hospital despite having overdosed in his bed there days earlier.
"There's not a day, not an hour that goes by that I don't review the decisions I made, the road I took, question what if I had done this, or that," Eurchuk said.
The public inquest starts at 9:30 a.m. on June 17 in the Dispute Resolution Room in the University of Victoria's Fraser Building.


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Rule, Britannia! ist ein patriotisches Lied des englischen Komponisten Thomas Augustine Arne (1710–1778) und der Texter James Thomson und David Mallet. Es hat seinen Ursprung als Schlussgesang des Bühnenstücks Alfred, einer Masque von 1740.

Das Lied gilt als "inoffizielle Nationalhymne" von Großbritannien – offizielle Nationalhymne dieses und einiger anderer Commonwealth-Staaten ist God Save the King – und gehört zum festen Repertoire der Londoner Last Night of the Proms, bei der das populäre Arrangement von Malcolm Sargent gespielt wird.

Geschichte
Das Libretto von Alfred und somit auch der Text von Rule, Britannia! wurde von James Thomson und David Mallet geschrieben – man kann heute nicht mehr herausfinden, wer was genau geschrieben hat – und wurde erstmals am 1. August 1740 auf dem Landsitz des Prince of Wales Friedrich Ludwig von Hannover in Cliveden (Buckinghamshire) aufgeführt. Der Originaltitel des Lieds ist A grand ode in honour of Great Britain/ When Britain first at heav'n's command.

Während die ersten drei der heute bekannten sechs Verse aus der Masque of Alfred stammen, wurden die anderen drei von Lord Bolingbroke 1755 für Mallets Masque of Britannia hinzugefügt.

Zum Zeitpunkt der Uraufführung teilte sich die britische Marine die Vorherrschaft auf See noch mit Franzosen und Niederländern. Punktuell operierten außerdem Barbaresken-Korsaren, die bei ihren Piraterie-Raubzügen, auch in Hafenstädten auf den britischen Inseln, Menschen als Sklaven nach Nordafrika verschleppten, was die Textzeile Britons never will be slaves inspirierte.

Im Pariser Frieden 1763 erhielt Großbritannien einen Großteil der französischen Kolonien in Nordamerika. Zwar gingen nach dem Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg die Dreizehn Kolonien verloren (damit endete das Erste Britische Weltreich), aber 1805 besiegte Großbritannien Napoleon in der Schlacht von Trafalgar, und 1806 bis 1814 trotzte Großbritannien der von Napoleon verhängten Kontinentalsperre. Großbritannien erschloss sich neue Absatzmärkte (insbesondere in Nordamerika) – wieder zeigte sich die Bedeutung der Seefahrt. Nach Napoleons Ende begann Großbritanniens "imperiales Jahrhundert" (1815–1914). Beim Wiener Kongress wurden einige Kolonien getauscht.

Nach dem Sieg über Frankreich hatte Großbritannien keine ernstzunehmenden Rivalen mehr (mit Ausnahme des Russischen Reiches in Zentralasien). Die auf See uneingeschränkt dominierenden Briten übernahmen die Rolle eines "Weltpolizisten", eine später als "Pax Britannica" bezeichnete Staatsdoktrin. Die Außenpolitik war vom Prinzip der "splendid isolation" geprägt: Andere Mächte waren durch Konflikte in Europa gebunden, während die Briten sich heraushielten und durch die Konzentration auf den Handel ihre Vormachtstellung noch weiter ausbauten. Großbritannien beeinflusste dank der führenden Position in der Weltwirtschaft auch die Innenpolitik zahlreicher nominell unabhängiger Staaten; dazu gehörten China, Argentinien und Siam, die auch "informelles Empire" genannt werden.

Später beschützte die Seeflotte Britannien vor einer Reihe von "haughty tyrants" (hochmütigen Tyrannen) und "foreign strokes" (ausländischen Schlägen), wie im Lied beschrieben.

Verwendung des Liedes
Rule, Britannia! wird – wie die patriotischen Stücke Land of Hope and Glory und Jerusalem – traditionell von der BBC während der Last Night of the Proms (Abschlussveranstaltung der Promenadenkonzerte) aufgeführt und gewöhnlich von einem Gaststar gesungen, darunter auch schon von Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson, Della Jones, Gwyneth Jones, Kiri Te Kanawa, Jonas Kaufmann und Felicity Lott. Nachdem jedoch in vergangenen Jahren das Mitsingen des Liedes und anderer patriotischer Werke und das intensive Fähnchenschwingen des Publikums wiederholt als Sehnsucht nach imperialer Größe und Vergangenheit kritisiert wurden, so auch von Leonard Slatkin, wurde es einige Jahre nur noch in gekürzter Form aufgeführt. Im Jahr 2020 sollten die die beiden inoffiziellen Hymnen, "Rule, Britannia" und "Land of Hope and Glory", bei den Proms nur instrumental zum Besten gegeben werden, worüber sich Briten, die sich als Patrioten fühlen, empören und der BBC vorwerfen, sich politischer Korrektheit zu beugen.
Durch diese Proteste und durch den neuen Direktor Tim Davie wurden sie dann aber doch gesungen.  1994 wurde das Lied bei der Last Night of the Proms in der Londoner Royal Albert Hall von Bryn Terfel – dem bekannten walisischen Bassbariton – gesungen, der dabei die dritte Strophe zur allgemeinen Überraschung auf walisisch sang (siehe Weblinks). Dies tat er auch, als er das Lied 2008 erstmals wieder in der traditionellen Form aufführte.

Englische Fußballfans singen den Refrain jeweils bei Spielen der Nationalmannschaft.

In den späten 1990er Jahren bezeichnete das Wortspiel Cool Britannia ein wiederbelebtes und jugendliches Vereinigtes Königreich, das die britischen Medien durch die Wahl der New Labour-Regierung von Tony Blair entstehen sahen.

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Gesungene Fassung
Gesungen wird der 2. Vers und der 3. Vers jeder Strophe doppelt, teilweise in veränderter Form:

Englisch

When Britain first at Heav'n's command
Arose from out the azure main;
Arose, arose, arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter, the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sang this strain;

|:Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never will be slaves.:|

The nations not so blest as thee,
Must in their turns to tyrants fall,
Must in their turns to tyrants fall;
While thou shalt flourish, shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.

|:Chorus:|
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Im Gegensatz zum ursprünglichen Text, bei dem im Refrain nur ein langgezogenes "never" gesungen wird, ist es heute auch üblich, drei schnelle "never, never, never" zu singen, auch wurde im Refrain will zu shall. Der Refrain ist daher meist Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves! / Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

Weitere Verwendung des Liedes
 Die heutzutage verwendete Melodie ist Thema eines Satzes von Variationen über das englische Volkslied "Rule Britannia" für Klavier (D-Dur) WoO 79 von Ludwig van Beethoven. Auch sein Orchesterwerk Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht von Vitoria beginnt – nach einem Trommelwirbel – mit "Rule Britannia".
 Richard Wagner bearbeitete das Thema "Rule Britannia" in der Ouvertüre für Orchester in D-Dur (WWV 42) von 1837.
 Im Film In 80 Tagen um die Welt ertönen jeweils während der Szenen auf See verschiedene Variationen von "Rule Britannia".
 Im James-Bond-Film Der Hauch des Todes hat 007 einen Schlüsselanhänger, der Betäubungsgas versprüht, wenn "Rule Britannia" gepfiffen wird.
 In dem Film Das Mädchen Irma la Douce (1963) erklingt "Rule Britannia" immer dann, wenn Lord X auftaucht, um Irma einen nächtlichen Besuch abzustatten.
 Im Film Mörder ahoi! (1964) lieferte Margaret Rutherford als Miss Marple eine Interpretation des Liedes. Ihre Original-Stimme ist auch in der deutschen Fassung auf der DVD des Films zu hören.
 Im Film Charlie staubt Millionen ab (1969) kommt das Lied mehrmals in instrumentaler Form vor.
 Der Liedtitel wurde von Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) als Romantitel Rule Britannia verwendet.
 Der Punch veröffentlichte während des amerikanischen Sezessionskriegs eine Parodie Rule Slaveownia, eine Satire auf die Konföderation:

 Gelegentlich wird der Liedtitel mit "Waive, Britannia – Britannia waives the rules" () persifliert.
 Mel Brooks verwendet die Melodie in einigen seiner Filme, wenn es eine Anspielung auf England oder Großbritannien gibt, etwa in Sein oder Nichtsein (1983), wenn die Hauptfiguren in London ankommen oder in Robin Hood – Helden in Strumpfhosen, wenn Robin Hood an der Küste Englands ankommt.
 In den PC-Computerspielen Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny, Ultima VI: The False Prophet, Ultima VII: The Black Gate und Ultima IX: Ascension (produziert von Origin Systems und später Electronic Arts) wird Rule Britannia immer beim Betreten des Schlosses von Lord British gespielt.
 Im Animationsfilm Cars 2 von Pixar wird eine Instrumentalversion des Stückes gespielt, als Lightning McQueen und Hook den Buckingham Palace betreten, um zu Hooks Ritterschlags-Zeremonie zu gelangen, und Hook versucht, die berühmten Wachen aus der Fassung zu bringen.
 Der frühere britische Wrestler David Boy Smith alias The British Bulldog verwendete das Lied in den 1990er Jahren während seiner Zeit in der US-amerikanischen World Wrestling Federation als Einzugsmusik.
 Im Film Meuterei auf der Bounty von 1935 ertönt Rule Britannia in der Abschlusssequenz.
 Im Film Meuterei auf der Bounty von 1962 ertönt die Hymne instrumental in der Szene des Ablegens und der Rückkehr Fletcher Christians vom Schiff auf die Insel Tahiti
 Im Film Basil, der große Mäusedetektiv von 1986 ertönt die Hymne instrumental in der Szene, in der die Königin der Mäuse zum ersten Mal erscheint.
 In der Netflix-Serie The Crown wird Rule Britannia in der 4. Staffel gesungen aus Freude über den Sieg im Falklandkrieg.
 Im Punk-Kult-Film Jubilee performed Amyl Nitrate in der Eingangsszene zu Rule Britannia.

Literatur
 Thomas Augustine Arne: Alfred. Musica Britannica Bd. XLVII; hrsg. von Alexander Scott; London: Stainer & Bell, 1981, ISBN 0-85249-476-9 (Partitur, Urtext).
 Peter Padfield: Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981; ISBN 0-7100-0774-4 (Dokumentation, englisch).
 Daphne du Maurier: Rule Britannia; London: Virago Press, 2004; ISBN 1-84408-063-3. Erste Auflage: London: Victor Gollancz, 1972 (Roman, englisch).

Weblinks

 Pianoversion (9 kB, Midi-Datei)
 Orchesterversion des Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiments (121 kB, MP3-Datei)
 BBC Symphony Orchestra, Last Night of the Proms, Live 1994, Interpret Bryn Terfel (4:27 min, ca. 4 MB, MP3-Datei)
 Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Variationen über das englische Volkslied "Rule Britannia" für Klavier (D-Dur) WoO 79
 Rule Britannia beim Last Night of the Prom 2010 auf der offiziellen BBC YouTube-Seite mit Renée Fleming (Variation)
 Rule Britannia beim Last Night of the Prom 2011 auf der offiziellen BBC YouTube-Seite mit Susan Bullock.

Einzelnachweise

Hymne
Regionalhymne
Musik (England)
Nationales Symbol (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Neologismus der 1740er-Jahre

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Silence Is Not Golden. Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Tells Joe Biden It's Time For Answers Regarding Tony Bobulinski.
By Cory Williams • Oct. 29, 2020 • News Flash, Headlines, Wall Street • 4,437 Views
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden waves as he arrives at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
The allegations against Joe and Hunter Biden continue to live in the news cycle of at least some media outlets, and news organizations finally appear to be recognizing the mountain of allegations as something Joe Biden needs to address.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board is the latest to call on Joe Biden to deal with the allegations made by Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden's former business partner. "Joe Biden is asking voters to elect him on the strength of his character, honesty and judgment – which is why Mr. Biden owes a response to new allegations about his son Hunter's business deals," the board wrote following Bobulinski's interview on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
The Democrats have found themselves in the precarious position of now having to defend Biden for the very things they spent four years accusing Trump of doing. The editorial board at the Wall Street Journal pointed out the hypocrisy by the Biden camp and the media in their messaging and said it's time to supply some answers.
"The Bobulinski material suggests the Chinese engaged Hunter not for his financial prowess, but for his connections and influence," the board concluded.
"Nearly all of the press is ignoring this story, and Mr. Biden's strategy is to ignore it as well and run out the election clock. But Mr. Bobulinski's evidence is too detailed and credible to go away. Much of the campaign against Donald Trump as a threat to U.S. security has concerned his personal business interests, especially with foreigners.
"Mr. Biden should want to contrast himself by explaining his role in assisting Hunter's business, and his rationale for doing so."
It's also important to point out that the information supplied by Tony Bobulinski is completely separate from the information contained on what was allegedly Hunter Biden's laptop. Two different sources of information that both seem like matters the former vice president would want to clear up if they are in fact just "malarky," as he has claimed.


You would think most people know not to post pictures of their credit cards, or to announce they're going on vacation. Apparently not.
Social media is all about transparency. It's about sharing and being your authentic self. Uh-huh.
Well, there are some things you should probably keep to yourself.
If you post your Klout score, you're clearly overcompensating for something.
Do you have any more suggestions? Add them in the comments below.
Kevin Magee is chairman and chief idea officer at Smashing Pixels, where a version of this article originally appeared. This story first appeared on Ragan.com in October 2012.


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