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How Is China's Belt and Road Changing Central Asia?
To what extent does the BRI lead to the expansion of China's institutions and legal norms in Central Asia?
By Roza Nurgozhayeva
Credit: David Parker/CSIS
Since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was announced in 2013, China's expanding economic, geopolitical, and business presence around the world demonstrates its eagerness to play a more significant role in the systems of international governance and law. Central Asia, and Kazakhstan, in particular, have strategic relevance to the BRI. Remarkably, the BRI was launched during Chinese President Xi Jinping's September 2013 visit to Astana, highlighting Kazakhstan's critical transit role in China's pivot to Europe. For Central Asia, BRI projects look highly promising, allowing regional countries to increase connectivity, expand regional trade, and modernize their obsolete transport infrastructure. From China's perspective, the BRI is the way to deliver public goods, promote global connectivity, and portray itself as a responsible stakeholder.
Although the BRI is an ambitious global strategy, it provokes much criticism, especially in liberal countries. Among the highlighted barriers to the BRI's success are geopolitics and policy coordination, investment uncertainty and low transparency, social resistance, and corruption surrounding some projects. Observers have some skepticism about the Chinese model itself, which is considered to ignore liberal values such as democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.
In my article "Rule-Making, Rule-Taking or Rule-Rejecting under the Belt and Road Initiative: A Central Asian Perspective," published by the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law in June, I explore several BRI projects in Kazakhstan and the potential for China's model to shape the legal and institutional landscape in Central Asia. If China claims to be a stakeholder in the international system, what are the implications for the legal systems of the BRI countries and their governance systems? To what extent does the BRI lead to the expansion of China's institutions and legal norms in Central Asia?
Is China a Sufficient Rule-Maker?
The BRI seeks to build a regional community of shared interests and norms, where China desires to contribute to the system of global governance. China aspires to play a greater role by bringing its development model to the international spotlight. For some academics, the BRI represents the evolution of China's role in global governance from being a rule-taker to an active rule-maker. The idea of internet sovereignty provides a good illustration of China's ambition to shape the norms of global governance traditionally driven by the West. Beijing employs the BRI as an avenue to build a network of countries that adhere and adopt its cyber policies, digital standards, and technologies. Increasingly restrictive cybersecurity laws that imitate China's legislation have been passed in Uganda, Tanzania, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Russia, and Kazakhstan.
However, although China desires to see a new distribution of power, it still expects to achieve that goal within existing institutions. Beijing actively engages with the United Nations and other intergovernmental platforms utilizing standard diplomatic negotiations and various bilateral and multilateral dialogues. The country has been updating and expanding its network of bilateral treaties with the host countries to meet the needs of investor protection, judicial cooperation, and dispute resolution.
China's Model in Central Asia
China's model focuses on strengthening economic growth, but it appears to have no real intention to change the governance and political regimes in BRI countries. In contrast to the West, Beijing pays less attention to market reforms, freedom of speech, good governance, and transparency in the region, viewing calls for such principles as potentially harmful and destructive for the current political status quo.
China, being economically more powerful, is one of the most prominent investors and trade partners for Central Asia. This deep economic engagement allows Beijing to put some pressure on Central Asian governments to ally with China's plans and policies. However, these same investment inflows, fuelled by low transparency around BRI projects, contribute to the existing "Chinese threat" sentiment among the population in Central Asia. As a result, despite China's desire to export its development model by promoting the BRI, it is perceived by the local community as inconsistent with civil society, liberal values, and national interests. It raises particular doubts that China's model and legal system would facilitate further institutional progress in the region.
Like China, Central Asian countries, to a large extent, are authoritarian states. They share similar political values and seek to defend themselves from human and civil rights criticisms and the call for political reforms, which they often label as interference in domestic affairs. For Central Asian governments, including Kazakhstan, Beijing and its model of a market economy driven by the state, with weak civil society and the political hegemony of a single ruling party, is a robust reference point that helps to protect the regime's legitimacy. Although the BRI can potentially improve physical infrastructure in Central Asia, it pays less attention to an increasing demand to solve socioeconomic and institutional problems, including better environment, healthcare, education, civil society, equality, and the rule of law.
Despite Chinese investors' concerns about weak regulation and high corruption in Central Asia, some academics argue that the high level of corruption and insufficient checks on the executive branch create fewer democratic constraints for China to achieve its policy goals. To protect its companies and encourage investments along the BRI, the Chinese government prefers to rely on closed-door negotiations and political and financial ties with the host countries' leadership. The success or failure of Chinese investments would affect bilateral political relations and future inflows of capital from China. Since the 1990s, many aspects of China–Kazakhstan relations, including the common border, trade, and oil and gas resources, have been closed to public review. The absence of public disclosure has become one of the main concerns among the Kazakhstani population that gives rise to controversy about the opaque nature of the local government's dealings with China.
Even though China's law considers bribing, including payments to foreign government officials and officials of international public organizations, as a criminal offense, the interpretation of those provisions remains ambiguous. For example, it is unclear whether the norm covers managers of state-owned enterprises or family members of foreign government officials and what jurisdiction prevails: China's or the one where the official exercises authority. Scandals around some BRI projects show that China's anti-corruption laws are far from perfect. China deals with serious corruption problems domestically. Although Beijing devotes its resources to fight corruption, it is doubtful that it will enforce a zero-tolerance corruption policy in the context of dealing with Central Asia.
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China is the most economically, technologically, and politically powerful country among the BRI states. China's political reputation, law, and policies directly affect the BRI, its outcomes, and how it is perceived. The Chinese legal system, with its dimensions of the flexibility of norms and their application, tends to adapt to different contexts and relationships. China seems to apply a similar approach to BRI projects in Central Asia by acclimating to the local context and managing its relations with the leadership on a bilateral basis. The flexibility of the Chinese leadership in approaching the BRI in Kazakhstan implies that legal norms per se are not the primary basis for China to rely upon.
Some Limitations
However, the degree to which the BRI can influence the Central Asian institutional landscape depends on a few factors.
With the BRI, Beijing's presence in Central Asia has been rapidly expanding, replacing Russia as the leading investor. The recent downturn of oil prices and the effect of Western sanctions against Russia have disrupted the Russian economy. The economic stagnation limited Russian investment capacities and, as a result, eroded its economic influence in the region. China, in turn, has been growing its economic and political power in the bilateral relations with Central Asian countries. Furthermore, China has been gradually pursuing its soft power. China has been increasing the number of scholarships for Central Asian students and established more than 20 scientific centers focused on Central Asia studies.
Despite its growing impact, China cannot compete with Russia's institutional, cultural, and legal legacy in the region. China is mindful that other countries, including Russia, have strategic political and economic interests in Kazakhstan and the rest of Central Asia. The presence of different interests and the existing prejudice against China's influence constrain the possible extension of Chinese norms and institutions to Kazakhstan. The study of the BRI projects in Kazakhstan provides a solid basis for the assumption that Beijing does not insist on bringing its legal rules and prefers to operate BRI projects within the local legal framework. The institutional and political landscape existing in Kazakhstan still allows China to protect its interests and fulfill its agenda. However, Kazakhstan does not have enough economic and political standing to be an equal partner for China. Therefore, while the amount of Chinese investments increases and China's presence in the region grows, China can choose to be more forceful in exercising its bargaining power.
How Can the BRI Countries Preserve Their Interests?
Opacity around BRI projects in Kazakhstan feeds into speculations and general anxiety about China's presence. Highly limited information about dealing with China raises the question of whether China embraces the best governance standards or sticks to the existing institutions and norms. It is worth mentioning that China has been making some efforts to improve the transparency and reciprocity of BRI projects. Beijing actively engages its soft power tools to explain the BRI's agenda and goals and reach out to domestic and international communities. China seems to acknowledge the critical role of promoting collaboration and inclusivity, aspiring to higher standards of legal norms and institutions, and enhancing projects' quality.
However, China remains a state capitalism authoritarian model that lacks openness and freedom. It is an open question if China can offer Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries a new system that promotes the rule of law, active civil society, transparency, and accountability of governmental institutions. Instead, China supports the existing institutions and political status quo.
The public, academics, and experts should have a chance to exercise more scrutiny over BRI projects to assess possible risks and minimize corruption. An open and well-informed discussion over the protection of domestic interests, fairness, governance, and business opportunities can build trust and address legitimate concerns over the BRI projects in the country. Better communication and transparency would help China to promote the BRI as a win-win initiative that benefits local communities and the environment, instead of bringing advantage solely to Chinese investors and a small group of the regional political elite.
Roza Nurgozhayeva is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law as well as Vice President-General Counsel at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
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Q: Rancher can't find link when net=host I have a service discovery and a client registering to this server in Rancher.
It goes like this:
eureka-server:
  ports:
  - 8761:8761/tcp
  labels:
    io.rancher.container.pull_image: always
    io.rancher.container.start_once: 'true'
  tty: true
  image: luizkowalski/eureka-server
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  net: host
edge-server:
  ports:
  - 8080:8080/tcp
  labels:
    io.rancher.container.pull_image: always
    io.rancher.container.start_once: 'true'
  tty: true
  image: luizkowalski/edge-server
  links:
  - eureka-server:discovery
  stdin_open: true
  net: host

Given the link, I should be able to connect to eureka-server using the hostname discovery, like http://discovery:8761/eureka but I'm getting
10/28/2016 2:04:55 PMCaused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: discovery
10/28/2016 2:04:55 PM   at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1280) ~[na:1.8.0_92-internal]
10/28/2016 2:04:55 PM   at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1192) ~[na:1.8.0_92-internal]
10/28/2016 2:04:55 PM   at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1126) ~[na:1.8.0_92-internal]
10/28/2016 2:04:55 PM   at org.apache.http.impl.conn.SystemDefaultDnsResolver.resolve(SystemDefaultDnsResolver.java:45) ~[httpclient-4.5.2.jar!/:4.5.2]
10/28/2016 2:04:55 PM   at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.resolveHostname(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:262) ~[httpclient-4.5.2.jar!/:4.5.2]
10/28/2016 2:04:55 PM   at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:161) ~[httpclient-4.5.2.jar!/:4.5.2]
10/28/2016 2:04:55 PM   at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPoolEntry.open(AbstractPoolEntry.java:144) ~[httpclient-4.5.2.jar!/:4.5.2]

It works when I use the network as managed in Rancher, but as a result, my service discovery expose my internal ips to the load balancer (172.xxx.xxx.xx) and I'm not able to call my registered services
is there any config missing yet?

A: In order to get access to Rancher DNS, which provides the link name resolution, you need the label io.rancher.container.dns:true added to the server with net: host.


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I used to have these ideas that Carmen said were crazy, and she would spin her finger around her temple and look up into the air the way people do, to clearly distinguish those crazy people from the normal you and me.
"People who spin their finger around like that are the really crazy ones," I said back to her through a mouthful of curly fries. Everyone knew that you could tell things about people by the gestures they made, by some of their word choices, like people who use the word "cuckoo" or the word "splendid" or "hari-kari."
"Oh really?" she said. We were discussing why along some areas of the thruway the grass was vibrant and well-cared for, and in other areas, there was simply dirt, and I had explained that I thought secret parties were held there, in the nice parts. Carmen slurped her root beer. "Well then, who are these people hosting the parties?"
"You know, the people who go out all the time. The people who are always looking for the newest thing."
I don't know why I told Carmen my ideas at all when she always responded the same way these days, as if I was some musical monkey dancing around and tipping my festive red hat to every passing stranger. She used to respect the genius involved in coming up with new ideas, the fact that thinking outside the box was the only thing that moved civilization forward from one century of wars to another. But she didn't seem to understand thinking outside the box anymore. Lately, she'd been eating lunch a lot with the girls from Pants Place Plus, on the second floor.
"Well, Angela, let me know if you can get an invitation to one of these thruway parties," she said, "I gotta go back to work, it's almost one."
The Fairmont Mall was bleak and empty, having been overshadowed by the Upper Grand Plaza on Route 43 in Bremmerton, with its indoor Ferris wheel and 14 multiplex stadium-seating movie theater, but Carmen's boss at Tic Time was uptight about punctuality anyway. Gotta prepare for that unexpected afternoon rush of customers clamoring for watch batteries.
"Okay. See you on break." I stayed a little longer at Burger King to finish my fries, and then I ordered a chicken sandwich, to take home for dinner later.
Carmen was my only friend in the mall. I'd been working at the Cookie Den ever since I dropped out of the jewelry-making program at Westburg Community College in the '80s, which I guess is a while ago now. In the early '90s, I hung around with Ozzie, from Crown Books, or Peter, from the organ store, but then Ozzie got chronic fatigue and had to quit, and then the organ store went out of business. The mall had gone through a lot of changes, and now it felt lonely and unstable, with crummier and crummier stores coming in and then dropping like flies. It was hard to maintain friendships. But then Carmen came by the Cookie Den wearing a Tic Time name tag and ordered a chocolate brownie.
"Is that a new store in the mall?" I asked, pointing at her name tag.
"Yeah, we're right around the corner, where the Sneaker Barn used to be. We sell watches and watch batteries."
"Oh," I said, "Well, welcome to the mall! Here's your brownie."
I didn't want to be too nice at first, since I had to protect myself. But Carmen started coming by every day at 3:30, and she said that business was pretty good at her store. She wore black most of the time, like me, and her hair was cut short, like mine, and she was chatty and friendly and didn't seem to mind how the giant cookies slowly built up her already large waistline.
"White chocolate macadamia nut!" she cried. "My mother used to make those all the time!"
"Are you serious?" I asked. "Because there are some people at the Cookie Den who think those cookies were invented here." I looked over at my co-worker, Jill.
"The Cookie Den did invent that particular recipe," Jill said, pulling a batch of oatmeal raisin out of the oven and glaring at me. "It is an original recipe."
That day, Carmen and I went to Burger King for lunch and talked for the whole 45 minutes straight, all about our favorite cat breeds and film noir and the Anne Rice books we used to read when in our teens. Even though she was eleven years younger than me, we had so much in common it was scary. Eventually, we were eating lunch together every day, sometimes at Burger King, sometimes pizza, sometimes the yogurt shop when we were feeling healthy. I'm not a homosexual, though I've thought about it, but sometimes I think you can fall in love with a friend. That's what started happening with Carmen.
"Angela, which tattoo should I get, Felix the Cat or Felix Unger?"
"How about Felix Washington?" Felix Washington worked at CVS and had a crush on Carmen. He looked like he was in the eighth grade. "Then we could get some free stuff, like, free gum."
"Yeah, but then I'd have to marry him. Which is probably against the law."
It had been a long time since I felt close to someone. My mother, who lived in Massapequa and listened to radio psychologists, thought I had some kind of disorder — antisocial, something about not making friends. Was it my fault the mall turnover was so high, or that so few interesting people came along?
"Just because I'm not like Louise," I'd say, but of course she'd say that had nothing to do with it. Louise was my sister, eighteen years younger, Mom and Dad's post-vasectomy surprise.
"It's a miracle!" said my dad when they found out, while my mom sat quietly, and then got up and made green beans.
Louise was gregarious now at fifteen, going to parties, having parties, constantly working on her party skills. Lately she'd been staying out all night, which my mother saw as evidence of her outstanding sociability.
"Your mom has some strange ideas about child rearing," said Carmen when I told her all this, back at Corelli's Pizza one day.
"Yeah, but only recently," I said. "They were fine with me."
But lately things were strained with Carmen, and it made me nervous. Besides hanging around with the girls on the second floor, she was wearing different makeup and ordering chef salads. The other day she told me she thought it was weird that I made my lists — things that are terribly sad, things to forget about before too long, things that are definitely not my fault. Things to tuck inside your pocket and tell no one that you have.
"But everyone makes lists," I told her, "some people are just more deliberate than others. You have your lists inside, just like everyone else — things you would never do even for eight million dollars, things you've drastically changed your mind about, things that simultaneously attract and repel you. It's just that some people write their lists down."
"Angela," she said. She dipped her fork into the little plastic container of Light Italian dressing and speared a piece of lettuce.
"What? You think the girls up at Pants Place don't make lists, inside their minds? I would say go ahead, ask them, but they wouldn't have a clue."
"I don't know why you have to criticize them all the time. You don't even know them."
I knew about the girls at Pants Place. They came and went fast in the mall, not cut out for friendships. They were only cut out for pedicures and People magazine and push-up bras. Not cut out for the Cookie Den.
"Angela, why don't you come out with us on Friday? Cherie's boyfriend's band is playing at Haley's Comet."
"You have got to be kidding me." Haley's Comet was an 18-and-older club in Ridgeview. "Carmen, we used to make fun of people who went there."
"Well, Angela, I don't know what to tell you. I'm really having fun, for like the first time in my life. Why don't you come with us? What else are you going to do, stay at home and watch The Big Sleep for the twelfth time?"
"Actually, I'm going to my parents' house anyway. It's my uncle's birthday."
I couldn't go to Haley's Comet. Not in a million years. It was on one of my lists.
"Angela, welcome home!" said my dad, like I'd been away at war. "What's cookin', cookie?"
"What kind did you bring us?" asked my mother from the kitchen. The tiny house smelled like meat loaf.
"Oatmeal fudge and butterscotch." My parents thought I bought the cookies for them, but they were day-old, or two.
"Lord have mercy!" said my dad. "Thank God you work in that cookie store!"
I sat down on the couch, sliding a little on the plastic cover. My dad hardly ever got out of his chair these days.
"Oh, I thought maybe you'd be bringing your friend tonight," said my mother, coming in from the kitchen. "How is your friend, what's her name…"
"Carmen?"
"Oh, yes, yes, Carmen. She's such a sweet girl. And a good eater."
"She's fine."
My dad was watching that millionaire show. "This poor guy got all the way up to sixty four thousand," he said, pointing at a sheepish looking man on screen who'd lost all his sparkle.
"I was thinking about your friend Carmen the other day when I heard a radio program on Yugoslavia," said my mom. "Isn't she from Yugoslavia?"
"No. Carmen's from Milwaukee. And there is no more Yugoslavia, Mom."
"Oh, I must have been thinking of one of Louise's friends. Samuel, what's that friend of Louise's name, the one from Yugoslavia?" She tapped his shoulder.
"The one with the red hair?"
"No, no, that's Ellen. The other one. Oh, he doesn't know. Well anyway," she went on. "She has a very interesting story, this Yugoslavian girl."
"Where is Louise? Is she here?" I asked. My father grunted.
"No, no, you know her. Out and about." My mother touched her hair and went back to the kitchen.
Back in my old bedroom, which was now Louise's bedroom, I looked through some CDs strewn on the unmade bed. I found one by a group called "The Troughs" and put it on. "Nobody telling me what to do. Nobody telling me where to go. Nobody telling me who is who. Nobody telling me noooooo."
I left Louise a note, stuck to the CD: "Louise this is very unoriginal. I hope you left this at home for a reason. Please call me when you get a chance. Love, Angela."
When I got back to Fairmont late that night, I called Carmen. I figured she'd have to be home from Haley's Comet by 11:30, but her machine picked up, so I left her a message. "Hey it's me. My uncle's party was soooo exciting. You wouldn't believe it. How was Haley's Vomit? Call me later, okay?"
But Carmen didn't call that night, or the next day either. I spent Saturday sorting through the mail and ordering things from catalogs, like an adjustable spice rack for the cupboard and a draft guard, one of those long bean bags that you put by the door to keep the heat from slipping out. My mother had given me one for Christmas last year, but it was decorated like a leprechaun, and it scared me, so I gave it to the Salvation Army. But then later I was lying in bed, and I couldn't sleep, feeling guilty for giving it away and thinking about how much fun my mother must have had picking it out with me in mind, so when I found the same exact one in a catalog, I jumped on it and ordered it, just to be safe.
Sundays, Carmen didn't work at the mall, but I did sometimes. Her schedule was much more regular than mine, since her boss was so uptight.
"What do you expect from someone whose whole life is watches?" Carmen would say. Luckily, she was a fairly punctual person, so she never got in trouble. She said she learned it from her mom, a librarian.
Punctuality was never one of my specialties. "I make jewelry," I used to say in my defense, "I'm an artist." But I hadn't made jewelry in a long time, so now I blamed it on cable TV. "What do you expect?" I would tell my co-worker, Jill, on Sunday mornings. "I was busy."
But this Sunday, Jill called in sick, and since I couldn't reach Eric, the boss, or Anthony to sub, I had to get in early and run the shop all by myself, which was extremely hectic. I kept burning the M&M cookies, since they were a little more delicate, and the whole Cookie Den smelled bad — like skunk, somehow.
"What reeks?" Carmen stood behind the counter in line.
"Hey what are you doing here?" I shoveled a few cookies into a bag for the little girl in front of Carmen. "Three-forty please."
"Just shopping. You know, for my trip."
"Oh yeah, Florida."
"I only have three dollars," said the little girl, matter-of-factly. Her two banana barrettes held her hair unevenly.
"Well they cost three-forty," I said.
"Here, here's forty cents," Carmen said, opening her purse, and the little girl turned and left quickly, the soles of her sneakers blinking with lights.
"She always does that, that kid. You fell for it," I told Carmen.
"No, you fell for it. You gave her the cookies before you got her money." She handed me the change. "I'll take one butterscotch and one rum raisin, while you're at it."
I opened another package of Cookie Den bags, since we were running low. "So, how come you didn't call me back?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah. Well, I figured I'd see you. Plus, I've been busy, getting ready for my trip." Carmen was going to Florida to see her grandparents. I met them once last year, when we all went golfing together at Springton Country Club. Carmen's grandmother ordered a Ceasar salad with real anchovies, which I thought was disgusting.
"Well let me know if you want to borrow my travel pillow. It really helps."
Carmen reached over the counter to pay for the cookies, and I noticed she'd had her nails done: big, fake, acrylic arcs. "I don't think I'll need it, but thanks. I can never sleep on planes."
"Yeah, well …me neither. Oh, these are on me," I said, and waved her hand away. "I'll get it."
My mother called. "Angela, your father is nervous. Louise — well, she hasn't been home, for a few days." She sounded funny, like she'd been getting yelled at.
"Don't worry, Mom. I'll come down." As if there was something I could do.
What could I do — zero in on Louise like a honing pigeon? Will her with all my might to come home? I'd tried this before — this intensely focused willing — when my rabbit died, and I was very tardy to school one day and wished for the clock to go backwards, but it didn't work.
Besides, Louise had done this before. It wasn't anything to worry about. She and her friends, they liked to party, it's what they did. And sometimes parties lasted for days at a time, or so I'd heard. I thought of this as I drove down that night, the radio turned off, the lights arched over the road like lonely cranes. Things that other people worry about. Things to just ignore, ignore, ignore.
It was only nine o'clock, so I couldn't expect to see her, but I knew my father shouldn't be concerned. I was sure that if it was later, like one in the morning, and I drove as silently as I could, perhaps with my headlights turned off, I'd see Louise and a bunch of her friends partying like crazy — a big sound system, tiki torches and tents, people dancing endlessly, throwing their heads back and laughing — right next to the thruway on one of those beautiful, well-kept patches of grass.
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Simon liked by many people is an English radio presenter and author who worked for BBC since 1981. He was the presenter of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 between 2010 and 2018. He also presented with Mark Kermode, presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live. He currently presents a revamped drive time show on Radio 2 with Jo Whiley which began on 14 May 2018.
Simon Mayo; Who is the wife of Simon Mayo?
Simon Mayo is blissfully married to Hilary Bird, an American who is also a former researcher, producer, and editor at BBC radio. The couple married on 11 October 1986.
It all started in the year 1982 when he went to Nottingham to buy his first house. He bought a semi-detached Barratt house in a Cul de sac which is known as Camdale Close. And it was in Nottingham when he first met his future wife. The couple really hit off since their first meeting and started dating.
Simon Mayo with his Wife Hilary Bird
The couple has been together for almost 33 years and still, they have so much love and respect for each other and is an inspiration to all of them who do not believe in love.
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The couple is blessed with three children: Natasha Mayo, Ben Mayo, and Joe Mayo. However, their daughter Natasha Mayo is an actress recognized for her work in Break Down 2016.
In one of Simon's interviews,
"He said that the house was really important for him as he proposed her on one knee in the midnight of the valentine day in 1986."
In 1999 Simon Mayo broke a world record by broadcasting for 37 hours in aid of that year's Comic Relief. This record was broken by Chris Moyles and Dave Vitty on 17 March 2011.
Simon Mayo and Jo Whiley's drivetime show was on every weekday from 5pm-8pm and first aired on May 14, 2018.
However, Simon presented the show on his own for the past eight years and some listeners haven't been impressed with the changes to the hosting dynamic.
One Twitter user likened the pairing of "chocolate and cauliflower."
The BBC acknowledged some "regular listeners are unhappy" but urged listeners to give the pair time, adding: "Every new show needs time to settle down."
How much Salary does Simon Mayo own?
Simon Mayo net worth is stirring as he is enrolled in English Radio Presenter and Author. His salary ranges from £350,000 pounds to £400000. The presenter's previous drive-time program, which finished last week after eight years, attracted about 6 million listeners.
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The wife of Simon Mayo, Hilary Bird net worth looks astonishing as her career is also enrolled in Researcher, Producer, and Editor. Comparing the salary of the employees in the BBC, such as Jeremy Vine, whose earning is £700,000-£748,999 as a BBC presenter her salary must be somewhere around that too. She is also an owner of Hilary Mayo Ceramics Company.
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Simon Mayo 59, was born on 21st September 1958 in Southgate, London.
He is of British nationality.
His Birth sign is Virgo.
His parents are Derek and Jill, both were teachers in school.
Simon Mayo studied at St John's Primary School in Croydon, Surrey, Arden school in Knowle, Solihull School and the University of Warwick in 1980 with a degree in history of politics.
He was the award holder of honorary Doctor Of Letters.
Simon Mayo was interested in radio from his earliest days post-university, he worked for five years for BBC Radio Nottingham before joining the network's Radio.
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The sci-fi indie Creative Control imagines the hipster future
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Benjamin Dickinson
Benjamin Dickinson, Nora Zehetner, Dan Gill, Alexia Rasmussen, Reggie Watts, Gavin McInnes
Select theaters March 11
The central metaphor of Nicholson Baker's 1994 novel The Fermata is the Fold, the narrator's power to freeze time, which he uses more or less exclusively to undress unsuspecting women and jerk off. It's a crude but elastic way to depict the rapid, ceaseless workings of the erotic imagination, and one of Baker's more memorable forays into descriptive mania and purely literary time. The Fermata comes to mind (wordplay unintended, but welcomed) a lot in Benjamin Dickinson's sci-fi indie Creative Control, which combines a satire of corporate hipsterdom with a metaphor for personal alienation and sexual fantasy, without ever completely committing to either. Its version of the Fold is Augmenta, a next-gen augmented reality gadget that falls into the hands of an ad man (Dickinson), who uses it more or less exclusively to develop a digital facsimile of his best friend's girlfriend (which only he can see) and jerk off.
Creative Control is set in "near-future Brooklyn," represented through impeccable open offices and bedrooms lit with roly-poly Ikea Jonisk lamps. Dickinson's pill-popping, carefully bearded David is an executive at an ad agency, where his biggest client is Phalinex, a smokeable anxiety medication whose long list of horrifying side effects begins with "burning toenails." He lives with his yoga teacher girlfriend, Juliette (Nora Zehetner), but pines—at first unconsciously—for struggling fashion designer Sophie (Alexia Rasmussen), who is dating his photographer buddy Wim (Dan Gill). Dickinson and co-writer Micah Bloomberg lace everything with parodic dialogue; this is a world where "You're establishing your brand" passes for encouragement and a woman asks, "How much do you think it costs to lease an electric car?" while her boyfriend fondles her breasts.
People say things like "Augmenta is not Main Street, it's Bedford Avenue," "You've got a boner for the newest face computer," and, "I was wondering why we don't hang out more, and then I realized that last year at the Christmas party, I said something to you that might have come off as racist" with admirably straight faces. Last year's Ex Machina, with which the film shares a few superficial similarities, tackled the Brooklyn bro archetype more vividly, in the form of Oscar Isaac's billionaire recluse character. But at least Creative Control has quantity on its side. It's wall-to-wall with digs at an Urban Outfitter-ized professional culture where "content" has ironically come to signify emptiness, and boasts appearances from the likes of Reggie Watts, Himanshu "Heems" Suri, and Vice co-founder (and former ad agency creative director) Gavin McInnes, who gets a surprisingly substantial amount of screen time as David's supervisor.
Dickinson is a veteran of commercials, and, like his character, directed an ad campaign starring Watts, who plays himself in Creative Control. And this isn't the director's first time examining Brooklynite yuppiedom through the lens of the fantastic. His debut feature, First Winter, depicted the end of the world from the perspective of a yoga retreat, whose participants are suddenly forced to fend for themselves as civilization collapses in the distance. (First Winter's Paul Manza, a real-life yoga instructor with a Friedrich Engels beard, pops up here as Juliette's workplace rival.) That earlier film was shot on grubby, handheld Super 16 mm with long lenses—a look that was as calculated, in certain ways, as Creative Control's digital widescreen, in which everything is rendered in black-and-white except the Augmenta interface, which appears in color. Knowingness is the key ingredient, and that includes knowing how to sell an idea, for lack of a better term.
The style is self-conscious to a fault, rife with long takes, slow-motion shots, and snippets of classical music and A Clockwork Orange-esque synthesizer that announce the movie as Kubrick-worshipping "serious cinema," or a parody of the same. Perhaps it's too funny in spots to not seem like it's in on a joke, and too indulgent for that joke to have much of a bite. Future-corporate trappings aside, the only purpose of Augmenta—which comes in the form of a pair of glasses with clear plastic frames—is to visualize the inside of David's head. Its ability to record and re-mix reality like a sampler stands in for his imagination, and one can't help but take issue with the way Dickinson and Bloomberg equate fantasy with estrangement, given how much of our lives passes entirely in our heads.
Compare with Spike Jonze's Her, set in an equally (though more subtly) satirical future; it treats the romance between Joaquin Phoenix's sad sack and Scarlett Johansson's AI voice as poignantly real, and speculates whether it qualifies as a relationship for other reasons. Augmenta is largely extraneous to the plot of Creative Control, which mostly deals with David's lusting for Sophie while he watches Dan repeatedly cheat on her. Take away the high-tech glasses—which, ironically, don't alter perception so much as represent it—and what you're left with is a meandering millennial relationship drama of indecision; like quite a few movies about commitment-phobic alter egos, it seems reluctant to commit to a point of view, but benefits from an offbeat sci-fi setting. In the end, it all comes down a cautionary tale call to "real life"—a call that the movie will heed, just as soon as it's done with this latest scene of David pretending to fuck a polygonal figure to Vivaldi.
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If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with.
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I am a sixty-year-old father of two grown-up daughters. The events described here concern my younger daughter. They have left an indelible mark on my life, but since I am well aware that ours is not an exceptional case, I have decided to give this testimony in the hope that it will prove helpful to others.
The news that our daughter was a drug addict hit my wife and me especially hard, for just a dozen years earlier, drugs had claimed the life of my younger brother. I never hid the facts concerning his death; on the contrary, everything connected with my brother's death had been the subject of numerous family discussions — as a warning to all. I thought then that my earlier painful experience with drug use would never again touch my family and myself. As it turned out, I was greatly mistaken. At that time we were living in Warsaw, and the neighborhood in which our younger daughter grew up was seriously infected with the drug problem, or should I say disease.
We sought help for her at various clinics and addiction centers, but in each instance the end-result was always the same: our daughter fled the treatment center and returned to the street. Our domestic hell grew steadily worse. Our daughter was in total freefall and entirely without scruple when it came to getting money to pay for her drugs — mainly through theft in the most diverse ways and places.
After considerable effort, we succeeded in securing a place for her in Sister Elvira's Community Cenacolo in Italy. (Such centers now exist in Poland, and many other countries, including USA and the United Kingdom.) Alas, after only three months, our daughter showed up at our doorstep — penniless and with another debt to pay. What is more, she tried to convince us that she was cured, which was manifestly untrue. Hell quickly returned.
Persuaded by our daughter's therapist that we should change neighborhoods, we decided to move out of the city altogether. Providence came to our rescue. With the death of my parents I came into possession of a summer country house outside of Warsaw, which we very quickly turned into an all-year-round dwelling. We moved into it in the middle of the winter (January, 2000). Already before this, we had learned that our daughter was pregnant, a circumstance to which we attached a good deal of hope, since, according to the doctor, the prospect of motherhood could have a beneficial effect on our daughter's cure. Her boyfriend seemed to want to help her in her predicament. Alas, we were cruelly deceived, for he was also a drug addict. To avoid tragic consequences, we had to separate them quickly.
Our granddaughter, Nathalie, was born in May of that year. No doubt we were not alone in seeing her birth as a miraculous event and additional proof of Divine Providence, since, theoretically, a normal, healthy child had no right to be born from such a union.
As it turned out, the change of scenery proved to be only partly beneficial. The problems returned like a boomerang. Within a short space of time, on two occasions, our daughter tried to take her life. On both occasions, doctors saved her in the nick of time.
We sought help wherever we could find it. Even before this, guided by some instinct or perhaps the wisdom of the old Polish proverb, "When in fear, God is dear," we sought help in prayer — in the holy rosary and the chaplet of divine mercy. And so, on bringing my daughter home from the hospital after her second attempt on her life, I prayed. After a great deal of persuasion, I got her to kneel down with me to say the rosary. That was the longest prayer in my life, and I shall never forget it. All through the prayer my daughter rolled around on the floor and screamed like an animal. When we had finished, I asked her what was the matter. She told me that all through the prayer, a pair of shaggy paws had been trying to choke her. The following day the owner of those paws returned. After that he reappeared ever more frequently — sometimes several times a day at various times and in various places. Always he was silent. Once only he spoke to her, saying, "You're not worth anything anyway." Only my daughter saw him. All we saw were her reactions — always of terror. After two weeks the visions stopped, and an amnesia specialist soon convinced her that nothing of the kind had taken place. For me, the conclusions to be drawn from this were obvious. They could be summarized in the following words: "Satan's greatest victory is in convincing people that he does not exist."
At last, we managed to hit upon the right priest. It would take a lengthy conversation with him, and several spiritual retreats, before the cause for our misfortune finally dawned on us. For almost thirty years, my wife and I had lived in an unconsecrated marriage. As a result, we had been deprived of the graces of the sacraments. Only now did we understand the meaning of Christ's words to Saint Faustina: "I speak to you through misfortunes and illness." We were experiencing the objective consequences of sin. Again I received proof of who it was that stood behind our daughter's drug addiction, for every time she tried to go to Confession or receive Holy Communion, she would drop to the ground like a log. I was unable to carry my unconscious daughter out of the church alone. Sometimes two people had to help me carry her out; nor could they understand why she, who was so wasted by her illness, should be so heavy.
It was only after our reconciliation with Christ in the sacrament of Penance and our pledging to live a chaste life that the way toward our daughter's healing, and our own conversion, was opened.
The period after the spiritual retreats was a critical time for us. That was the time our domestic hell reached its apogee: our daughter's constant flights from home, night visits from drug dealers, and finally her leaping out of a window from a height of four and a half meters to the frozen ground below. At that very moment, my wife had been saying the chaplet of divine mercy. Suddenly she heard a cry for help. She ran to the room and, on seeing the open window, immediately guessed what had happened. Preliminary examinations at the hospital showed that she had suffered a cracked spine and a compound fracture of the metatarsal bone. Since the first hospital was unable to help her, she was transferred to another. There, after a case conference, the doctors prepared us for the worst: that our daughter might be wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life. She returned home almost totally encased in plaster. A few days later, with tears in her eyes, she told us that her craving for narcotics had left her. The great changes we saw in her subsequent behavior assured us that this was not another ruse or lie.
Now, seven years after those events, we are absolutely convinced that her cure from drug addiction and the total healing of her spine occurred as a result of a great work of grace. Our daughter is now a happily married mother of three children, and her illness is — we trust — a thing of the past.
In addition, we can thank God that after almost two years of self-imposed celibacy we received the grace of a sacramental marriage, and that our "Sunday faith" has, by His grace, deepened considerably. We nourish it through the sacrament of the Eucharist, participation in monthly spiritual retreats, daily prayer (the rosary and chaplet of divine mercy), fasting, and reading the Scriptures as well as good books and Catholic literature.
Now, after all that has touched my loved ones and myself, I know that every painful experience we encounter has its own spiritual dimension. I am also convinced that nothing in our life happens by chance. But we will never completely understand everything. We are witnessing times when the struggle for our souls is reaching a culminating point.
I earnestly hope that this little statistical misfortune of mine, which was graced with a happy ending, will help others to understand the cause of their problems and to resolve them just as happily. This I wish from the bottom of my heart.
For more information on Sister Elvira Perozzi's treatment center for drug addiction see the Community Cenacolo's English-language website: www.comunitacenacolo.ita


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A Blade in the Dark (La Casa con la Scala nel Buio, 1983)
Posted on June 7, 2010 by Keith Brown
"…an engaging and well-crafted murder mystery."
Hired to score a low-budget horror movie, Bruno (Andrea Occhipinti – from Fulci's THE NEW YORK RIPPER) rents an isolated luxury villa for the month. The atmosphere of the place soon gets to him. Going to investigate a noise, he finds a young woman, Katya, who leaps out of the closet at him, frightened (she claims) by a spider. Acting strangely, Katya asks if Bruno is a friend of the previous tenant, Linda, then makes her exit as Bruno answers a phone call from landlord Tony (Michele Soavi – previously seen in director Lamberto Bava's DEMONS). Intrigued, Bruno searches and finds Katya's diary, containing cyptic references to Linda and her "fascinating" secret, in the closet.
Going back to work, Bruno is oblivious to the mayhem outside as an unseen figure attacks Katya with a knife, trapping and dispatching her in the basement. Playing back a tape, Bruno then notices a voice, which he soon isolates as that of Linda. Another noise draws him outside, only for another telephone call to draws him back inside again – just as he was about to find Katya's corpse. Picking up the phone, there is no answer from the other end.
Noticing bloodstains on his trousers, Bruno goes outside again and discovers others in the undergrowth; by this time Katya's body has been removed. Bruno's search of the grounds thus reveals nothing other than the absence of the caretaker from his quarters (later to be found furtively moving a heavy bag of rubbish from the basement and collecting crime clippings from newspapers), along with more telltale marks in the basement. The sound of his music draws Bruno back to the studio room, where he finds his tapes mangled.
Bruno's girlfriend, Giulia, then shows up. Giulia explains that she had tried to phone, but the line went dead. She asks whether Bruno has noticed the strange smell emanating from the pool. He hadn't, but when recounting his encounter with Katya, finds Giulia takes it as a confession of infidelity and angrily departs almost as soon as she had arrived.
Conducting a more thorough search of the house, Bruno finds a locked door in the basement. At this point Tony shows up. He explains that the room contains some of Linda's belongings, but he can have it opened up if Bruno wants her things moved. Before Bruno can ask further questions they are interrupted by yet another phone call. While Tony makes his exit ("I'd better go; I have to change"), Bruno answers. On the other end is a woman, who threatens him. Fortunately it is only Sandra, making a prank call.
Sometime later Angela, a friend of Katya's shows up, and asks if she can use the pool; Linda had always let her do so. Her behaviour is somewhat strange – though Bruno, keen to get on with his work, thinks little of it.
Angela notices a knife at the bottom of the pool. This discovery leads to her murder as an unidentified figure selects a knife from the kitchen and kills Angela in the bathroom. Oblivious to all this, Bruno only later notices the missing knife and a blood-encrusted gash in the bathroom that fits its blade perfectly. This prompts another exploration of the house and the recording of a message in which Bruno summarises the facts of the case thus far, plus his fears that he may be cracking up or targeted as the next victim…
Sandra shows up and suggests the killer likely would not have had the time to remove the bodies. As Bruno has already conducted a number of searches, exhausting almost all other possibilities, attention turns to the locked room containing Linda's things. On hearing the name, Sandra mentions once knowing a Linda herself, although it would surely be too much of a coincidence were she the same person – the kind of thing that could only happen in "a bad movie."
The foregoing is admittedly a somewhat longer plot précis than would be usual. Hopefully it can be forgiven on grounds of giving a good indication of A BLADE IN THE DARK's particular strengths and weaknesses. This is an engaging and well-crafted murder mystery. Bava and his writers play mostly fair with us as far as suspects and red herrings, making it possible to enjoy a repeat viewing after you know the who and the why of the 'done it'. Suspense and shocks are well handled, with the nastiness of the latter perhaps a surprise when you consider A BLADE IN THE DARK's (Italian) television origins.
Unfortunately these also account for some of A BLADE IN THE DARK's weaker aspects. In particular the narrative is rather too extended and rather too episodic: Just how many times does Bruno go exploring only to be distracted at an (in)opportune moment? The murder scenes are also too neatly timed to coincide with what would have been the ends of parts one, two and three, and these scenes are followed, again somewhat obviously, by recapitulations of the story at the points corresponding to the starts of parts two, three and four.
What a precis cannot convey, however, is the sheer assurance of Bava junior's direction. The elegant camera movements as he explores the environments of the house, all surfaces, textures and minute details, are very much in the manner of his mentor Dario Argento – giallo fans will recognise the villa from Tenebre (1983), where it also served as the haunt of a killer – albeit here without quite the same extravangance and ambition. Budgetary and other constraints obviously precluded Louma crane experimentation, for instance.
The De Angelis brothers' effective synthesiser-led score is another asset. Though derivative of Goblin, it gains a certain justification in these self-same terms as being exactly what an early 1980s Italian horror film ought to sound like; again Tenebre provides an obvious point of reference and comparison.
One of the major pleasures of the film for the fan of Italian horror – i.e. the kind of person likely to read this review and to be the main market for the DVD – is what we can term its palimpsestic qualities. This fancy theoretical word is just another way of referring to those traces of other texts (films) whose ghostly presences can be felt, much like the voice on Bruno's tape. Besides Tenebre, we might also mention the likes of 1975's Deep Red (composer turns amateur investigator, the haunted "house of the screaming child"); Antonio Bido's 1977 Watch Me Before I Kill (the composer as investigator, plus his use of sound mixing equipment to isolate the clue-fragment), and Fulci's 1981 The House by the Cemetery (another haunted house, plus the casting of child actor Giovanni Frezza, who here appears in the film-within-the-film).
Again, something similar could be said the similarly self-referential Tenebre. But there is also a key difference. Tenebre's self-consciousness is of a deadly serious sort. Argento seems to have wanted it to function as the ultimate giallo circa 1982, the last definitive word on 20 years of genre production. Coming after this, A BLADE IN THE DARK's game-playing is ironically more akin to that found within the film that started it all, namely Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew too Much (1963) – a film which also functions, not coincidentally, as key intertext for Tenebre via the shared presence of John Saxon and the self-referential importance of giallo literature. In other words A BLADE IN THE DARK is a fun and entertaining film that is not meant to be taken too seriously or dissected in dry quasi-academic terms. That one can do so is a plus, but ultimately less important.
A BLADE IN THE DARK (La Casa con la Scala Nel Buio [House of the Dark Stairway"], 1983). Directed by Lamberto Bava. Written by Elisa Briganti, Dardano Sacchetti. Cast: Andrea Occipinti (a.k.a. Andrew Painter), Anny Papa, Fabiola Toledo, MIchele Soavi, Valeria Cavalli, Stanko Molnar, Lara Lamberti.
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Service to Veterans Is Part Of Lincoln Tech History
Lincoln Technical Institute's original campus opened in 1946 in Newark, NJ as a school where veterans returning from World War II came to train for new careers. Lincoln Tech has expanded since then, now boasting 30 campuses across the country, but its commitment to the nation's brave military men and women has remained a vital part of the school's foundation.
Recognizing Lincoln Tech's dedication to military servicemen and women, as well as their families, Victory Media has named the school to its 2016 list of military-friendly schools. Victory Media is the premier media entity for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, and has recognized Lincoln Tech for service to veterans every year since the list was started in 2009. Inclusion on the list demonstrates Lincoln Tech's commitment to providing a supportive environment and quality education to the men and women who have served the United States of America.
"My experience at Lincoln [was] an unforgettable one," says Lavonia Altnor, a veteran and a recent graduate of Lincoln Tech in Atlanta, GA. "I thank [them] all for collectively mentoring me, educating me, and most of all providing me with all the tools needed to go out into the world to start a brand-new career well prepared. To a veteran, simply being recognized and appreciated for our service means the absolute world to us."
Committed to helping veterans further their education
With a dedicated military admissions team, financial aid specialists and career services representatives, Lincoln Tech offers assistance to veterans at every step of their education. The school's devoted staff is committed to giving veterans the high-quality education they deserve and to helping translate military experience into professional skills for successful civilian careers. When students are ready to put their new professional skills to the test, Lincoln has resources to help them explore job opportunities. Lincoln Tech campuses partner with local employers to provide positions that are well-suited for veterans rejoining the workforce.
Transitioning to civilian life can be difficult, and transitioning to student life at the same time offers even more challenges. With the resources offered at a military-friendly school like Lincoln Tech, making that transition can be a little easier.
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Hartselle woman dies in Florida swimming accident
Published 5:44 pm Wednesday, June 13, 2012
A Hartselle woman has apparently died from injuries she received when she was caught in turbulent waters off the shores of Panama City Beach, Fla.
Sonia Westmoreland, 42, of Hartselle died at 2:38 p.m. in a Florida hospital, according posts from her friends on Facebook. Numerous other Facebook users posted on her page sympathy and condolence messages to the family.
The News-Herald in Panama City, Fla., reported Tuesday that she was pulled from the water Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The dangerous rip currents along the beaches caused the beaches to be closed on Monday.
The newspaper also said Westmoreland dove into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico to rescue her daughter and two other teenage girls.
"According to witnesses, the three teenagers were caught in a rip current, and Westmoreland and Erik Kenzer, a visitor from Washington, went into the water to help the girls. When Kenzer came out of the water with the three girls, he saw Westmoreland floating face down in the water," the newspaper reported.
"After her rescue, an off-duty firefighter/EMT from Gainesville performed CPR until emergency crews arrived. According to the report, Westmoreland's mouth was beginning to turn blue when the ambulance arrived."
No current information is available on her funeral arrangements.
Check www.hartselleenquirer.com for more on this developing story.


This year's Spring Orchestra Concert on April 18 brought the middle and upper schools orchestras together on stage at the Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater in San Jose, delighting the audience with traditional, classical and modern selections.
A trio of grade 6 groups, led by director Dave Hart, performed first. Grade 6 Winds first played the traditional Irish folk tune "Danny Boy," followed by "Let It Go" from the 2013 Disney film "Frozen," with both pieces arranged by the students of the ensemble.
A special treat that evening was a series of performances by the middle school chamber groups. The first was an all-grade 7 ensemble comprising Christie Chen on alto saxophone, Arushee Bhoja and Connie Xu on guitar, Donna Boucher on flute and Sonal Muthal on violin. Grade 7 students Arthur Oung on cello and Tiffany Wong on harp were the second group to perform, and the grade 8 duo of Justin Au on flute and Andrew Semenza on piano played third.
The Harker School Orchestra, directed by Chris Florio, fresh off of winning a Gold Award at the Chicago International Music Festival, headlined the evening, playing works from Wagner, Shostakovich and Mozart. A highlight was the West Coast premiere of Jeremy Van Buskirk's "… such as I am you shall be," which the orchestra played for the first time in Chicago.


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Declaração Balfour é uma carta de 2 de novembro de 1917 do então secretário britânico dos Assuntos Estrangeiros, Arthur James Balfour, dirigida ao Lionel Walter Rothschild, Barão Rothschild, líder da comunidade judaica do Reino Unido, para ser transmitida à Federação Sionista da Grã-Bretanha. A carta se refere à intenção do governo britânico de facilitar o estabelecimento do Lar Nacional Judeu na Palestina, caso a Inglaterra conseguisse derrotar o Império Otomano, que, até então, dominava aquela região.

A carta foi escrita usando-se nos seguintes termos:

"Caro Lord Rothschild,Tenho o grande prazer de endereçar a V. Sa., em nome do governo de Sua Majestade, a seguinte declaração de simpatia quanto às aspirações sionistas, declaração submetida ao gabinete e por ele aprovada:`O governo de Sua Majestade encara favoravelmente o estabelecimento, na Palestina, de um Lar Nacional para o Povo Judeu, e empregará todos os seus esforços no sentido de facilitar a realização desse objetivo, entendendo-se claramente que nada será feito que possa atentar contra os direitos civis e religiosos das coletividades não-judaicas existentes na Palestina, nem contra os direitos e o estatuto político de que gozam os judeus em qualquer outro país.´
Desde já, declaro-me extremamente grato a V. Sa. pela gentileza de encaminhar esta declaração ao conhecimento da Federação Sionista.                                          Arthur James Balfour."

O texto da carta foi publicado na imprensa uma semana depois, em 9 de novembro de 1917. A Declaração Balfour foi posteriormente incorporada ao Tratado de Sèvres, que selou a paz com o Império Otomano, e também ao documento que instituiu o Mandato Britânico da Palestina. O documento original encontra-se na Biblioteca Britânica.

A França e a Itália, aliadas de Londres na Primeira Guerra Mundial ratificam espontaneamente a Declaração Balfour, prevenindo-se de deixar o Oriente sob administração exclusiva do Império Britânico. Os Estados Unidos endossaram a Declaração em setembro de 1922.

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Primeira Guerra Mundial
História de Israel
História judaica
Sionismo
História da Palestina
Conflito israelo-árabe
Documentos históricos
Governo do Reino Unido
1917 nas relações internacionais
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Sick of your current job? This process may help.
Sitting in the same job getting annual 1-3% raises might be good for some, but for others it is a source of insanity.
One of the struggles with becoming an adult is seeing your obligations increase.
You get a mortgage, car payments, student loans and more. Then you add children to the mix and the list keeps adding up. Those obligations force you to stay with the job you have because you depend on the income to make all the payments.
So your company kind of has you in a place where they can keep you. It's difficult to leave a company.
And on the other side, some companies are really great to work for. You don't want to leave because you enjoy your co-workers and the people throughout the organization.
But if you want to make more money and do something different, something better you have to make some changes.
An option you have is to take a new job within the same company. It might be a job that gets posted on the company website, but the better option might be to create the job yourself.
The key word to this step is curiosity.
What makes you curious. Something you're curious about is something you would look into and research in your spare time, for no compensation. If you're looking into something for compensation only, at least initially, you may be curious about it, but not necessarily.
At the last company I worked for my job was managing catalog businesses. It was great. I enjoyed it. But in my free time I would read about online marketing especially things like SEO and content marketing. It became obvious to me that I was curious about these things. I enjoyed doing them. I even started blogging every night on a personal website. I guess writing became a passion too.
You're not looking for job openings.
You're looking at people that have their own companies or people at other companies that do something related to what you enjoy. You'll likely find new companies, startups that have appealing jobs for what you're interested in depending on what that is.
But you should also look at comparable companies to yours. This is especially necessary if you're looking at a relatively new field, which online marketing was and still kind of is even today.
This will be important later when you go to your boss or bosses to discuss your desires. Seeing that their competition is doing something can be very compelling.
It's also good to look at the actual people doing the jobs. You can learn a little about their lives. It's a little glimpse, but it should give you some insight as to whether it's something you really want to do.
By now you'll have a lot of information about your job. The next step is to create a plan on how this job will make your company money.
Executives might be smart people, but they're fairly simple people. They see through all the BS going on in a business and get things down to what really matters – sales and profit.
Every job at a company helps the company make profit. The salary paid for that job has to be less than the company will make as a result of the work done by the person holding the job. If that's not the case, the job will eventually be eliminated.
It may not always be possible to figure out exactly how your new job is going to make money and your boss might not expect it especially if it's a brand new field. But your boss will want to see the potential.
Create a step-by-step process for doing the tasks involved in your job and how they result in profit. Include all the details throughout the progression of the job over a few years.
Now that your plan is set you're not ready to share it with your boss. You're going to take it one step further to almost guarantee that your boss will give you the job when you have a discussion.
Take your plan and start doing the work. You'll obviously need to get your regular work done and this time can get busy. And who has time for more work when we're already doing regular work and handling things at home?
Something crazy often happens when you're excited about something like a new job – time appears.
When you're excited about something you'll do your other work more efficiently. You'll have the drive to get it done so you have time to work on what you really care about.
I can't explain the science, but it happens.
Start working on your plan. Don't implement it for your company. You don't want to start rolling out new products or anything like that. But you can get all the planning and research ready. You can get it to the point where you're ready to go.
For example, if you want to be the blogger at your company you don't need to launch the blog, but you can write blog posts that will be published once the blog is approved and ready to launch. You can also find the platform and theme.
Now that you have the plan and have started the work you can schedule a time to meet with your boss. Make sure he or she has plenty of time for the discussion. This can be difficult, but you want to make sure they don't have to run out to another meeting as you're making your pitch.
Another tricky aspect of this is how your boss feels about your time. Some bosses still want to control the work you're doing. When you tell them, "I've been working on something in my free time…" they might immediately think of something they think you should have been doing instead.
Start by sharing articles and information about the comparable companies. You can snap your boss into the right frame of mind with this information. Once they realize the topic is important (and they might already before you meet) you don't have to worry as much about backlash.
Talk through your research on the topic. Move into the discussion about the jobs the other companies have and finally move into the discussion about the potential for a job like that at your company.
You can share the work you've already done and that will push them over the edge.
If all goes well they'll be ready to hire you, but they'll have to discuss it with HR. That's fine. But make sure they schedule the meeting.
It might take a while after this meeting for the job to become reality (they might have to hire someone to do your old job), but you should be on your way to a job you love and hopefully one that pays more. In fact, make sure you bring information on salaries for the people doing the job you want at comparable companies.
Transitioning to new companies can be difficult for a number of reasons. You have to learn new systems. You have to possibly move. And it's risky especially if you're with a stable company.
A better option is to build a job for yourself at your current company. Follow the steps above and you can do just that. You'll be doing something you love, hopefully making more money and staying within a company you like and appreciate.
The first step is finding something you love.


Back to school means back to brown bagging it, but this autumn the brown bag comes in a variety of eco-friendly options.
Green foodies, or groodies – and any of us who perpetually intend to take our lunch rather than buy it - can choose from an array of colourful, stylish reusable bags and totes to transport their gourmet lunch goodies to school or work.
Try our new Munchlers – insulated, soft-sided lunch boxes that unzip into a placemat, all in the shape of a zoo animal. Choose from Benny the tiger, Boo the pink panda or Meadow, the green rabbit. Great for ages 3+ through elementary school.
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The options are out there. Now, it's up to us. Think about buying green bags rather than brown.
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Minuscule 281 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 295 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.
It has full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 249 parchment leaves (), with lacunae (Matthew 28:11-20; Luke 1:1-9). The text is written in one column per page, in 22-23 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the  (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their  (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (to Matthew and Luke), but without references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).

It contains the Eusebian tables, subscriptions to John, lectionary markings – for liturgical reading – were added by a later hand.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.

History

The manuscript was presented to the monastery "Deiparae Hieracis" by the eremite monk Meletius.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).
It was examined and described by Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 88) at Paris.

See also

 List of New Testament minuscules
 Biblical manuscript
 Textual criticism

References

Further reading

Greek New Testament minuscules
12th-century biblical manuscripts
Bibliothèque nationale de France collections


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Creating a New Path Through Music
By: Miranda Hanus December, 2018
Engage - Volume 8, Issue 2 Fall 2018
Arts First Nations Indigenous
Indigenous identity music
This past February, 11 high school students stood on a snowy hillside near their First Nation community. They were gathered to perform in a music video for a song they wrote, sang, and rapped – as a team.
Invited by the Treaty 4 Education Alliance – with funding support from SaskCulture's Aboriginal Arts and Culture Leadership fund (AACL) – two music producers and their travelling studio, worked with 22 high school students from two southern Saskatchewan First Nation communities – Kawacatoose First Nation and Ochapowace Nation - to write and record songs.
David Hodges is the director and co-founder of N'we Jinan, (James Bay Cree for "We live here"). Since 2014, the non-profit mobile studio has travelled to over 40 First Nation and Native American communities across North America.
"Creating the song is a way to take a negative and turn it into something positive … that you're moving and striving for something better." ~ David Hodges
Hodges says the project is about empowering youth to express themselves through music. His previous work with Cree youth in Quebec inspired him to focus on identity. "Whether it's your culture, your values or your beliefs, your hardships or your dreams, those kinds of things," he says.
"What does it mean to be from your community? What does it mean to be part of your culture and those traditional values that you have as a First Nations youth. Art is a great way to facilitate this conversation about what is important to you (as youth)."
Hodges adds the project involves building trust and trusting the process. The project arrives in the community and the students have four days to work together to write a song, with music and lyrics, record the song in studio, and shoot a music video. Hodges says, "The students don't realize that by the end of the four days, they've performed 20 – 25 tasks to create the end product."
For example, students from the Kawacatoose First Nation created the song, Many Paths. The relatable lyrics, and at times, heavy subject matter, helped to boost the video's YouTube views to over 30,000. "We never really know which song is really going to speak to the public. People really connected with the song." Hodges says the video's popularity went beyond his expectations.
Many students really connected with the project. One such youth was Ochapowace student, Leighton Delorme, an athlete who plays football, softball and hockey.
Encouraged by his teacher, Delorme says making the videos was an "awesome" experience. "I really enjoyed myself, trying out something new, instead of just playing sports." In turn, he felt like he also encouraged his classmates to try something new. He adds that his favourite part was recording the music video Thunderbird.
Hodges said the group discusses the struggles and challenges shared by the youth, as well as the future. "Creating the song is a way to take a negative and turn it into something positive … that you're moving and striving for something better."
The Many Paths and Thunderbird videos can be seen on N'we Jinan's YouTube channel.


If you are not sure of your rights in a car accident that you have experienced, you must consult the best lawyer possible. You can rest assured that the insurance company will have lawyers to represent them.
Your claim is very important and you should not take it for granted especially if you have encountered a serious injury in a car accident. Claims vary differently depending on the type of injuries sustained. Severe injuries include: losing an arm, fractured bones or losing any part of the body.
If you have been hospitalized for a long period of time, you are entitled to a higher compensation. If you are unable to work because of disabilities you may be eligible for a lifelong compensation. The compensation of disabled person will include the beneficiaries of the victim. He will also get the income he earns in a year.
Sometimes, being handicapped allows for the full compensation in filing for a claim. In order to get the compensation, you must choose the best lawyer who will not take advantage of you and your rights as a victim. Sometimes, the law takes advantage of the disabled person and of those who are not aware of the rules.
Claims and compensation will consider the nature and the duration of injuries. If you have recovered from the injuries in days, you will get a smaller compensation compared to severe injuries which might take a month or longer in the hospital to heal. You should not worry about the expenses because you will rightfully get your compensation as long as the case is adjudicated. Pain, suffering, and disability is measured in determining a rightful compensation.
In considering your car's insurance, make sure that you know what your insurance covers. Dealing with the accident requires investigation to know who is at fault, and to find out if the other party is required to give compensation to the victim. An accident lawyer is perfect for this situation. You might not be familiar with the rules of filing for a claim, but a lawyer will be.
The law requires car insurance intended for public use. So it is better to find out if your car is insured and the consequences that you may face should you have an accident. It is important to make sure that the statements that you are going to give to your insurance company are correct so that the claim will be handled accordingly.
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AIDS Commission targets 2.6m people for HIV testing in 2018
Amb. Dr Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi – Director General, Ghana AIDS Commission
The Ghana AIDS Commission, as part of its activities for this year, will target 2.6million people for HIV testing services, the Finance Committee report on the 2018 Programme Bases Budget Estimates of the Office of Government Machinery, has revealed.
The report further states that the Commission will continue to co-ordinate and manage the decentralized multi sectoral responses to HIV and AIDS.
It will test about 1,184,573 pregnant women for HIV, as well as, target 30,000 adults and 1,694 children for anti-retroviral treatment.
The Commission will also distribute 65,563,873 male condoms and 1,351,227 female condoms.
To achieve their programme of activities, the Commission was allocated GH₵31m for the 2018 fiscal year.
The Commission collaborates and works closely with a wide-range of organizations including development partners, in carrying out its mandate of management and co-ordination of HIV and AIDS activities in the country. It provides funding support to Ministries, Departments, Agencies (MDAs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), private sector enterprises, faith-based organizations (FBOs) and other civil society organizations to undertake HIV and AIDS activities in the country.
They also provide effective and efficient leadership in the coordination of all programmes and activities of all stakeholders (MDAs, Private Sector, Development Partners and Civil Society) in the Fight against HIV and AIDS through advocacy, joint planning, monitoring and evaluation for the eventual elimination of the disease and undertake HIV and AIDS activities in the country.
The Ghana AIDS Commission is a supra-ministerial and multi-sectoral body established under the Chairmanship of H. E the President of the Republic of Ghana by Act 613, 2002 of Parliament. Its mandate is to provide support, guidance and leadership for the national response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic.
President Akufo-Addo in April last year, re-constituted a 19-member governing board of the Ghana AIDS Commission, and charged the members to use their resourcefulness to mobilise the requisite resources for the prosecution of the commission's "ambitious" five-year national HIV and AIDS strategic plan.
Ambassador Dr. Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi, former Ghana's High Commissioner to Sierra Leone (2005 to 2009), was appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to act as Director General of Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) with effect from April 25, 2017.
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