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Іслам-ходжа (;  1872 —  9 серпня 1913) — державний діяч Хівінського ханства, реформатор і меценат.

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Походив з роду сеїдів. Син Сеїд Ібрагім-ходжи. Народився 1872 року в Хіві. Здобув гарну освіту. Окрім знання Корану і богословських творів, опанував фарсі, туркменською мовою.

Наближеність родини до двору хівінського хана сприяло швидкій кар'єрі Іслам-ходжи. Спочатку був намісником у Хазараспі. 1899 року призначено головним візиром. Згодом очолив рух Прави Джадид (представників баїв, купців, промисловців, що бажали модернізації ханства за перським зразком).

1910 року після смерті Мухаммад Рахім-хана II зберіг свою посаду при наступному володареві — Ісфандіяр-хані. Оскільки останній не відрізнявся особливими здібностями управління державою, вплив у державі Іслам-ходжи ще більше зріс.

З 1907 року декілька разів бував у Санкт-Петербурзі й Москві в складі делегації Хівінського ханства, симпатизував і захоплювався європейською культурою, намагався поширювати сучасну культуру в Хівінському ханстві. З дозволу хана, приймав в ханстві іноземних послів і делегацій з європейських країн. Іслам-ходжа намагався модернізувати Хівінське ханство. Протягом 1908—1909 років сприяв зведенню першої в ханстві електростанції, світських шкіл джадидизму, російської школи, а також сучасних мостів та облаштовуванню шляхів.

У 1910 році зусиллями і коштом Іслам-ходжі було завершено будівництво на південному сході Ічан-Кали (внутрішньому місті Хіви) великого комплексу — медресе Іслам-Ходжі і однойменного мінарету. На власні кошти головного візира було зведено бавовноочисний завод, лікарня на 100 хворих (імені спадкоємця Олексія) і аптека, поштово-телеграфна станція в Дішан-кале (усі в 1912 році), .

В низці своїх публічних виступів Іслам-ходжа закликав проти варварських і руйнівних релігійних звичаїв. Він вимагав також припинення свавілля чиновників і введення адміністративних реформ, які попередили б зростаюче невдоволення селянських мас. Це узгоджувалося з думкою Туркестанського генерал-губернаторства. Ханський уряд змушений був в 1910 році опублікувати маніфест, що обмежував права земельної аристократії та духовенства, що викликав хвилю реакції. Прагнув зменшити податок на землю, щоб полегшити становище селян.

Сприяв розвитку і зародженню в Хорезмі фотографії та кіно, запрошував в Хіву російських і європейських фахівців. Підтримував першого хорезмського фотографа і кінооператора — Худайбергена Деванова.

1913 року при поверненні з палацу хана біля цвинтаря Оглан Адіз-бобо головного візира Іслам-ходжу було вбито. Прихильники реформ вважали винним у змові проти нього самого Ісфандіяр-хана. Невдовзі було вбито сина Іслам-ходжи — Абдусалам-ходжу.

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 История Хорезма / Под ред. И. М. Муминова. — Ташкент, 1976.
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New dramatic research suggests the majority of viewers don't leave the room during commercial breaks — or even change channels.
What are they doing? It may come as a shock to TV marketers that have been told otherwise: Viewers are watching TV commercials.
When researchers embarked on an initiative to upgrade media measurement, the fund-raising process looked reasonably easy. CEOs at the likes of NBC Universal and WPP Group were enthusiastic backers.
But that was before the economic tailspin.
A new study from TiVo and Innerscope Research provides data supporting what advertisers have long suspected: Viewers are less likely to fast-forward through emotionally engaging advertising — provided it's able to grab them in the first few seconds.
In what may be an industry first, a leading research and consulting group has teamed up with a renowned American university to launch a new privately-held media research company that will utilize state-of-the-art methods to track consumer media behavior. The Media Behavior Institute (MBI), was unveiled by Mike Bloxham, director of insight and research at the Center of Media Design at Ball State University during an opening keynote at Wednesday's session of the Advertising Research Foundation's audience measurement conference in New York.
BSU, which is perhaps best known for nearly a century's worth of so-called "Middletown Studies," highly regarded observational research that directly observes how people actually use media, had already been working closely with the private sector, especially Sequent Partners, the research and consulting group formed by former ARF President Jim Spaeth and Marketing Science Institute President Bill Moult, on a variety of industry research initiatives, including a $3.5 million Nielsen-funded Council for Research Excellence study that will employ BSU's observational methods.
In what is likely the most ambitious ethnographic study ever observing how people actually consume media, Nielsen Media Research is funding a highly regarded academic research group with $3.5 million to follow hundreds of people around to see how they use both traditional and emerging video platforms inside and outside their homes. The project, one of the pieces of primary research to be funded by the Nielsen-backed Council For Research Excellence, will be conducted jointly by Muncie, Indiana-based Ball State University's Center for Media Design, and New York-based brand and media metrics consultancy Sequent Partners.
The academic media researchers at Ball State University's Center for Media Design are known for their Midwestern roots on the university's Muncie, IN, campus, but the center this week officially opened a New York research facility to work more closely with big players in the East Coast media community. The facility, which includes state-of-the-art eye-tracking and media usability research technologies, will operate in partnership with Schematic, the full-service digital and design agency recently acquired by WPP Group. The New York research office will also provide BSU students with learning opportunities in the coming years through a variety of research partnerships.
Madison Avenue tends to worry about the impact of remote controls and DVRs, but one of the biggest factors deterring TV viewers from watching their commercials is, well, other people. That's the finding of a first-of-its-kind study observing how people divide their attention while watching prime-time TV.
The study, dubbed "Remotely Interested," which was unveiled recently during MEDIA magazine's Forecast '07 conference in New York, found that the biggest single factor detracting viewers' attention from TV commercials is "people talking to other people." According to the findings, people are talking 21.9 percent of the time they are watching TV commercials, making it the single biggest form of "attention-shifting" from TV commercials.
The second-biggest detractor is "paying attention to other media," which the study found happens 18.3 percent of the time commercials are being aired. The other biggest factors included: Changing channels (6.7 percent of the time), muting the TV volume (4.3 percent), using electronic programming guides (4.1 percent), and leaving the room (2.5 percent).
The research does not reveal how these phenomena impact the attention to TV commercials–or whether some, like talking, may even enhance it–they simply observed and recorded the phenomena.


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The holiday season has arrived and we are almost at the start of a new year. If some of you are saddened to see 2016 end, rest assured, you are guarantee 2017 is going to be amazing! A global movement is underway on the planet with the advent of the Global Math Project and Scolab is pleased to be a part of that great adventure!
What is the Global Math Project?
In 2015, mathematics specialists from around the world united around a project: engage more than 1 million students, teachers and lovers of mathematics during one special week in 2017! Their objective? To initiate a fundamental paradigm shift in how the world perceives and enjoys mathematics. Intriguing, right?
The first Global Math Week will begin on October 10, 2017 and will be held simultaneously around the world! This edition will be dedicated to the famous "Exploding Dots" popularized by James Tanton, which is already generating wonder and surprise in schools and communities around the world.
James Tanton came to the Scolab office to present "Exploding Dots". Take a look here.
And what about Scolab in all this?
Because the Global Math Project connects fully with our willingness to unleash the joy of learning, Scolab has decided to join the project. As the main collaborator of this project, we power the Exploding dots manipulative and activities map. Like Buzzmath, we put emphasis on a playful and friendly design!
Among the Ambassadors of the Global Math Project are two of our Scolaborators: Sunil Singh, whom you know well, and Simon Lavallée. The latter, part of Scolab's sales team, is one of the mathematics specialists behind the project. Moreover, in the coming weeks, Sunil give you some details about this exciting project here.
I want to join the movement!
The Global Math Week is free and open to all. All you have to do is sign up when the time comes. We will keep you informed of the details as the event unfolds. You can also sign-up now for the Global Math Project newsletter.
I don't know about you, but we are very impatient and excited to see 2017 arrive!


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Advertisements [?]I want you to picture in your mind the scene of the one young man standing in front of a tank in in protest at a square in China. Thousands of people surround the man, an army follows the tank, the world is watching, and there he stands. The tank came to a halt. With it the course of a nation changed. A few days after this incident took place I read that the young protester had been interviewed and revealed that he never felt in danger. He said that it had been ingrained in him since childhood that no Chinese would purposefully harm his brother.
If that had been an American tank driven by a GI in an American city the protester would have been run over. Indeed in our Army there would have been volunteers to drive the tank. To this day we have Air Force Officers stationed in silos with their fingers on the triggers of total destruction who were chosen for their jobs very much because they would not hesitate to annihilate mankind.
1. Unfortunately, I tend to agree.
You think that if armor were deployed on American soil, that tankers would be volunteering to be the first to crush a peaceful citizen? And that an officer would have been eager to order the killing?
I know we're training our troops to do this overseas to threatening foreigners, but I think we're a long way from our own Tianenmen Square. I think.
Their opinions are sad, but they are permitted to have their opinions. Expressing them is not traitorous (note correct overblown epithet).
Whatever, they are still bastards who are for the most part traitorious. Besides he asked, who are we.
...the young protester had been interviewed and revealed that he never felt in danger. He said that it had been ingrained in him since childhood that no Chinese would purposefully harm his brother.
WTF? The protests were against the Chinese government for refusing to extend democratic reforms to people who were routinely arrested, imprisoned, maimed, and killed by Chinese soldiers working for the Chinese government. Hundreds of Chinese people were killed, maimed, or imprisoned and shot shortly after the pic taken taken.
Are these idiots unaware of the massive slave prisons run by the Chinese government for the express purpose of punishing political dissidents? The wholesale slaughter of "minor" racial groups? The ongoing persecution of the Falun Gong? The crushing demographic genocide of Tibetans?
It's DU - where "facts" are usually pulled from thin air.
And so much for the DU policy of not disparaging our troops.
Here's a question for DU.
What would you do to some farmer, or Wal-Mart employee who was out protesting the return of the Fairness doctrine, or a government order to round up hand guns? What if it was a Mormon who felt his religion was under attack? What if it was a Libertarian who's party had been kept off the ballot by the Democrats during the election?
Would you imprison them? Yes, you've said so many times before.
Would run them over? Yes, then blame the victim, you've done it before.
If I'm wrong tell me so; I'll be waiting.
DU, your silence is deafing.
You are correct expressing their opinions does not make them traitors ...... but they ARE traitors none the less.
Not only that, but it is believed he was executed a couple of weeks later. He did not change a thing, but he was indeed a brave soul.


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Peel the jicama and cut into strips. Squeeze half the lime over the jicama. Cut the other half of the lime into wedges. Cut the radishes lengthwise into strips. Halve the jalapeños. Peel and slice the avocado. Rinse, dry, and chop the cilantro. In a dry frying pan over medium heat, warm the Mi Rancho tortillas, about 3 minutes on each side.
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My daughter eventually admitted that she had been having some difficulties with her friend in school, which included excluding her at break times, and comments that were slowly chipping away at her confidence. Seeing Chloe sob like that just broke me as parent. I too was physically bullied in primary school (the same school!) and that was horrible, but as a parent watching your child go through it is just awful. This had originally started in reception and school had been aware of this from the start, but instead of being resolved as there hadn't been any continuation of follow-up once it had been dealt with, it just escalated and the perpetrator had become more manipulative in their approach. I was devastated for her.
The bullying had been happening for a while, but Chloe was a very compliant pupil and didn't want to get anyone in trouble, so she said nothing. The girl would make fun of the way she ran and would say cruel things to her. We had previously enrolled Chloe into some activities that she loved, to make new friends outside of school, yet her confidence had been chipped away so much that her self-esteem was on the floor. Despite a lot of encouragement from us for her to continue, she soon dropped out of the activities that she had loved so much.
I immediately contacted the school again via email so that I would have a record of the conversation, but their response didn't fill me with confidence that they would sort it as they immediately put it down to petty arguments between friends, even though at this point it had been two years of 'petty arguments.' They let Chloe stay inside at lunchtime and arranged for some in-school counselling, but I felt that was just excluding her further rather than dealing with the problem. I volunteered for everything I could in school, just so I could be closer to Chloe, and she would have an opportunity to tell me anything she needed to during the day and to offer her some reassurance, but the bullying didn't stop.
"It all came to a head one night as I tucked her into bed and Chloe told me she couldn't cope anymore and wanted to be in heaven."
It all came to a head one night as I tucked her into bed and Chloe told me she couldn't cope anymore and wanted to be in heaven. It absolutely broke my heart and I knew I had to try and sort this once and for all as I wasn't getting any support from school, so I decided to look externally for places that could help us. School were adamant that the restorative justice meeting that they had had with Chloe and the perpetrator had not brought up any issues, and that they had done what they could. They absolutely weren't understanding that Chloe was fearful of repercussions if she spoke up in front of the perpetrator as they would know that they were having the desired effect. I found out shortly after about Kidscape from a local parent network.
I signed us up to do the ZAP workshop which I can honestly say was a turning point for us. Before the bullying, my daughter was very quiet - but happy, confident and full of fun. Now she was shy and nervous of new people around her. But as we entered the workshop, our nerves soon vanished as Kate, the Kidscape representative, came over to say hello with a big smile and immediately made us feel welcome and comfortable. There were about six other families in the session with children aged up to 16 and while the children stayed with Kate to learn about strategies to help them become more confident and resilient in these situations, us parents went to a separate room next door to share our own experiences with our children, if we wanted to. Our representative, Mira, talked us through the process to work in collaboration with schools to resolve these issues, and the next steps to take if the school wasn't responding. You spend so much time feeling a whole range of emotions when your child is being bullied and like you are constantly hitting a brick wall. This session made me feel empowered as a parent, albeit a few of us were a little emotional. Just to hear the words 'I hear you, and I believe you,' was such a huge relief.
The session lasted about five hours and as time went on, we could hear the children talking more and laughing with one another. During the break Chloe raced over to me saying 'Mummy I've found my voice'. I felt such relief that she was enjoying it and feeling comfortable enough to open up. It was a great workshop and I left with a clear plan as to how we would move forward next.
Sadly, the bullying continued but we felt armoured and Chloe started using her strategies which made the perpetrator see that they were no longer having such an effect. But when we saw my son was being bullied too, I made the decision to take our children out of school. They were both so happy that they were free from this constant upset.
We looked through the reports for other schools in our area and took our children with us to visit, as we felt it was important that they have some say as to where they would like to go. They have now settled into their new school and have a great groups of friends. Chloe has had one small incident since being there, but it was dealt with very quickly and efficiently and the school has been absolutely superb. I wish we had moved them sooner.
Although Chloe isn't bullied now, I know she has learnt much-needed skills from Kidscape to deal with any issues like this in the future. I was so grateful to the charity that I decided to become a volunteer. In this role I have offered advice and guidance to other families like ours and I have helped to deliver ZAP workshops and Online Safety in our local area. It feels great to see other families getting this support and seeing new friendships being made. It's rewarding to see the workshop giving these families and children hope.
"Nothing I do can ever fully repay Kidscape for helping my family and I would 100 per cent recommend all parents and children take part if they are or have been affected by bullying. They needn't feel nervous as Kidscape make it very open and welcoming."
Nothing I do can ever fully repay Kidscape for helping my family and I would 100 per cent recommend all parents and children take part if they are or have been affected by bullying. They needn't feel nervous as Kidscape make it very open and welcoming. I just hope more schools stand by their policies to tackle bullying; no matter how petty the bullying seems to them as adults, as the lasting effect it can have on a child is huge. If they can act quicker and follow up with the target so less families have to go through what we did would be a really positive step forward.
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Vh1's New Show "Miss You Much" Is "Where Are They Now" All Over Again
By Fast Company Staff 1 minute Read
VH1's new series Miss You Much gives viewers the chance to catch up with stars of the late '90s and get an answer to that burning question, Where are they now? Sound familiar? It should–because this new show is a remake of VH1's late-'90s hit Where Are They Now. And where are the Where Are They Now people now? Mostly, right where you'd expect them.
SHELLY TATRO
Then: Where Are They Now executive producer
Now: Miss You Much executive producer
MEREDITH ROSS
Now: Freelance television producer
JAMES CURRERI
Then: Where Are They Now narrator
Now: Casting assistant and actor
A version of this article appears in the September 2012 issue of Fast Company
A version of this article appeared in the September 2012 issue of Fast Company magazine.


In 2017/2018, the UN Compound in Bangkok established an Environmental Management System (EMS) to systematically reduce the environmental impacts of its facilities and operations and align its in-house management with the SDGs. The EMS follows ISO 14001 standards for environmental management to seek continual improvement of its environmental performance and timely involvement of stakeholders.
Detailed action plans have been developed for each environmental aspect and are currently under implementation to translate our goals into action in the first EMS cycle (2018-2022).
Since 2008: ESCAP has been measuring and reporting on its footprint annually.
August 2017 – March 2018: The UN Bangkok established its Environmental Management System after carrying out an Initial Environmental Review and establishing its governance structure under senior management leadership.
This initiative aims at banning all avoidable single-use waste associated with our onsite catering operations. All single use catering items were replaced with reusable ones. Only in exceptional cases, these were replaced with more sustainable single-use options and charged at an extra fee to promote behavioral change among staff and visitors. This initiative is expected to prevent nearly 9 tons of waste annually by rethinking our way of working.
It's lunch time, let's take a break from pollution too! The UN Compound in Bangkok launched a new energy saving campaign to reduce its footprint by automatically switching off office lights during lunch time. This initiative prevents around 90 tons of CO2 in a year and saves the amount of electricity averagely needed to power 280 households in Thailand.
October/November 2018: Plants with advanced air filtering properties were planted in our gardens and information on their properties made visible to staff and visitors to share greening tips for their homes.
Oct-Dec 2018: In collaboration with the ESCAP Human Resources team, the Environmental Management team has been promoting Flexible Working Arrangements to reduce emissions from staff commuting.
August 2017 – ongoing: The EMS team is helping ESCAP reduce the environmental impacts of its future large onsite construction works through detailed waste prevention and management plans, and supporting the integration of energy efficiency and sustainability features into the project components.
Since 2017 – ongoing: ESCAP has been organizing green meetings to promote best practices among its participants. What are green meetings?
Sustainable menus: Our sustainable menus offer vegetarian and no red meat options to reduce our "foodprint". Locally grown, free-range and pesticide-free products are proposed to support local communities and protect the environment and human health.
Participants awareness: We use our ECO tool to inform each meeting participant of their carbon footprint. This helps raise awareness across the region and promote more sustainable practices.
Nov 2018: ESCAP is climate neutral for 2017 and 2018 by offsetting its facilities and operations emissions through Certified Emissions Reduction projects in the region.
Since 2002, ESCAP has implemented a series of energy efficiency projects that have enabled its headquarters in Bangkok to reduce the UN Compound's total energy consumption by 25 % between 2003 and 2017. This improvement of energy efficiency brought about the decrease of electricity and reduced greenhouse gas emissions from 7,590 to 5,692 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year during the same period.
In 2018, ESCAP established an Environmental Management System (EMS) to streamline and expand its environmental work. EMS sustainability reports will be published annually to provide an overview of ESCAP environmental performance.


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Q: Get data from input in each row of table I am making a table in JavaScript using template literals, so I don't have access to each row of my table. I have a form in which my table is set and I have a number input at the end of each row. Right now, my program is only sending the quantity of the fist object to the console, but I need all of the quantities according to the id so that i can make a total at the end of my shopping cart.
I don't know if I could make a loop that goes through each row and tell me the id, price and quantity but that would be my first instinct. I am still new to JavaScript so I don't really know where to go from here.
Here is my JavaScript code:
//load JSON file
var articles = ""
var txt = ""
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function(){
  if(xmlhttp.status == 200 && xmlhttp.readyState == 4){
    articles = xmlhttp.responseText;

    processArticles(articles);

    var form = document.getElementById('formtable');
    var quantity = document.getElementById('quantity');

    form.onsubmit = function(e) {
     e.preventDefault();
     console.log("HI");
     console.log(quantity.value);
   };
  }
};
xmlhttp.open("GET","../articles.json",true);
xmlhttp.send();

function processArticles(articles) {
  txt = JSON.parse(articles);

  var tableStart = `

Liste des articles

    <form id="formtable">

        ID
        Article
        Prix
        Prix-Retour
        Quantitée maximale
        Projet
        Quantitée

`;

  var tableEnd = `

    <input type="submit">
    </form>`;

  function articlesTemplate(txt) {
    return `

          ${txt.ID}
          ${txt.Article }
          ${txt.Prix}
          ${txt.PrixRetour}
          ${txt.QuantiteeMaximale}
          ${txt.Projet}
          <input type="number" id="quantity" min="1" max="5">

    `;
  }

  let mctxt=txt.filter(value=>
    value.Projet=="mc");
    document.getElementById("tablemc").innerHTML = `
      ${tableStart}
      ${mctxt.map(articlesTemplate).join("")}
      ${tableEnd}
      `;
    ;
}

In my HTML, I just have a div with the id of tablemc.
I want to be able to see the quantity of each item with their id, so that I can make a total amount at the end of my table. Right now, it only sends the quantity of the first item and it doesn't tell me which id it is or what the price of the item is.

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'A Summer Romance's Ryan Paevey Talks the Biggest Challenge of the Hallmark Movie
Mandi Bierly August 16, 2019, 2:00 pm
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Hallmark fans' favorite Mr. Darcy, Ryan Paevey, trades in his suit for a Stetson in A Summer Romance, a sweet "Summer Nights" flick costarring When Calls the Heart's Erin Krakow.
Paevey plays city slicker Richard, a real estate developer from New York with plans to build a resort on the Montana ranch owned by Krakow's capable Sam, who's determined not to sell. When he gets stranded in town while trying to close the deal, she puts him to work, and sparks fly.
Vancouver may double for Bighorn, Montana, in the movie, but Paevey's performance is authentic: He did his own horseback riding, milked his first cow, and split wood — something he'd practiced on enough California camping trips over the years to know the first ax he was handed was "overkill."
The biggest challenge, he insists, came when he and Krakow had to shoot a simple conversation outside the ranch house one evening.
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"She and I are sitting next to each other, having a flirty scene, and the frogs that night were so loud, I couldn't hear her speak," he says. "So we did the whole scene basically by lip-reading each other, and then we dubbed the dialogue in [later]." The ambient noise didn't hinder the first-time pairing's chemistry, though.
And should Hallmark green-light a sequel, Paevey says he's ready: "They let me keep the hat."
A Summer Romance, Movie Premiere, Saturday, August 17, 9/8c, Hallmark Channel


Stabaka is a Sanskrit word. In Sanskrit literature, it is used to signify a cluster of flowers.
In the 'History of Ayurveda' (the ancient Indian traditional system of medicine), the author and well known Ayurveda practitioner, N V Krishnakutty Varier, says that a bunch of flowers arranged as cymose is called Stabaka. Cymose is a type of inflorescence – a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 Chapter 1 Verse 18 contains the word Stabaka.
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Oxfordshire's firefighters promote diversity in new wholetime (fulltime) recruitment campaign
Jo Bowcock
Mick Clarke 1
Oxfordshire's Assistant Chief Fire Officer, and Banbury's fire station manager are determined to improve diversity in the Fire Service. They are fronting its new wholetime (fulltime) recruitment campaign, launched today, Monday 16 March. (Scroll right to play/download audio-file interviews if viewing on a computer. Or if on a mobile phone, scroll to bottom of page)
Oxfordshire's Assistant Chief Fire Officer, Jo Bowcock
Jo Bowcock - Assistant Chief Fire Officer
Oxfordshire's Assistant Chief Fire Officer, Jo Bowcock, shares her vision of a Fire Service that reflects the make-up of Oxfordshire's diverse communities.
"Our staff come from all walks of life, regardless of sex, religion or ethnicity," says Jo.
"What they all have in common is self-reliance, confidence, respect, enthusiasm, team spirit and a willingness to be ready for anything when they are alerted to an emergency."
Jo joined the fire service 17 years ago, in 2003, after graduating from university.
She explains: "After university I was looking for something to challenge me; not necessarily sat behind a desk all day.
"I've always enjoyed being fit and active. I needed something where I could do things that kept me fit, whilst making a difference to the community. A career in the fire service seemed the perfect fit."
Jo's career progression shows what is possible for anyone with ambition and aspirations in senior leadership:
"I joined as a firefighter, moving quickly up the ranks to a supervisory role; then undertaking a variety of middle manager roles, including a national three-year secondment with the National Fire Chiefs Council. And since 2019, I've been Assistant Chief Fire Officer for Oxfordshire."
Making a difference is extremely important to her:
"Knowing you and your team have saved lives or a property; or helped someone to understand a fire risk and they've made the necessary changes. It leaves a real buzz. A fantastic sense of fulfilment."
The Oxfordshire recruitment campaign explains that being a wholetime firefighter is more than a job – it is a varied career. From climbing the management ladder, like Jo, to specialising in a particular area such as community safety, training or fire protection. And being the best firefighter while bringing experience to the watch.
Jo sums up the diversity of the role: "It's much more than putting out fires and cutting people out of cars. It's about inspiring young minds, helping the community, becoming a role model, developing others, educating residents in fire and road safety, keeping them safe, protecting lives and saving people and animals."
Wholetime firefighters need to be able to communicate with a range of different people, especially elderly residents, young adults and school children. They carry out presentations and talks, visit people's homes, talk to them and listen.
Jo's advice to anyone thinking about applying to be a wholetime firefighter is:
"If you're in two-minds on if this is the career for you… give it a go. You'll be supported by a great training programme and a brilliant team. I've never looked back."
Jo continues: "It's really important that we have a mixed skill set. We want to recruit different, not just the stereotypical or what people perceive to be the stereotypical firefighter.
"I'm not your stereotypical firefighter, yet I feel I've contributed a huge amount to the role within the fire and rescue service."
Oxfordshire County Council Fire and Rescue Service is committed to achieving fairness and equality in employment and service delivery. They welcome applicants from all parts of the community, including women, BAME, LGBT+ and people who have certain disabilities.
For more information on becoming a wholetime firefighter, visit: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/wholetimefirefighters
Banbury's fire station manager, Mike Clarke
Mike Clarke - Station Manager
Banbury's fire station manager, Mike Clarke, is proud of the diversity in his team:
"We come from all walks of life, regardless of sex, religion or ethnicity. What we all have in common is self-reliance, confidence, respect, enthusiasm, team spirit and a willingness to be ready for anything when they are alerted to an emergency."
Mike joined the fire service in 1996.
He said: "I wanted a job that was challenging, something that would be different every day, where I couldn't predict what was coming next. I haven't been disappointed."
His career progression shows what is possible for anyone with ambition and leadership aspirations:
"I was a frontline firefighter for about three years, based at Luton fire station, before progressing to Leading Firefighter. Then I was promoted to Sub Officer as a training instructor, responsible for new recruits.
"I became a Station Manager in Bedfordshire before transferring to Oxfordshire a decade ago. Here I've held several positions including Road Safety Manager, promoting casualty reduction schemes like Safe Drive.
"My current role as Station Commander for Banbury, Deddington and Woodstock fire stations began in April 2019."
Making a difference is extremely important to Mike:
"I've sat in a room of young people where you could hear a pin drop; they were consumed by our road safety presentation showing the devastation caused by reckless driving.
"In emergency response we encounter people often at the worst moments of their lives. Firefighters bring the skill, training, compassion and knowledge to quickly move those people from a position of harm to one of safety.
"That's what makes this career so worthwhile. Saving lives; changing lives. Encouraging people to behave responsibly because they now understand the risks and consequences of doing otherwise."
Mike's advice to anyone thinking about applying to be a wholetime firefighter is:
"Do some background research… and then go for it!
"Try and get as much information as you can, either online or from people you know who are involved with the service.
"Make sure you're in good shape physically. We do like people to be fit an active. Our support and training will then build on this."
Mike continues: "It's really important that we have a mixed skill set. We want to recruit different, not just the stereotypical or what people perceive to be the stereotypical firefighter. That is what makes my team at Banbury so special. And that's why I'm supporting this wholetime recruitment campaign."
Firefighters who are women within Oxfordshire County Council Fire and Rescue Service = 7.9%
Firefighters who are BAME within Oxfordshire County Council Fire and Rescue Service = 1.05%
Statistics as of 31 Dec 2019
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Transport in Oxford city centre: Advisory study published
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ANOTHER METHOD FOR ABSORBING THE RAYS OF THE SUN.
If the first method presents difficulties, which can easily be the case, to enable you from acquiring all the necessary things, you may absorb the rays of the sun also in another way, similar to the first one, in order to help a sufferer.
Instead of the violet glass cup, you may also use a ceramic cup or bowl with either a completely black or – even better – a dark blue glaze and in lieu of the mild sugar globules you may use another pure sugar, crumbled to pea-size pieces and also placed in such a way that not one piece is covered by another. This sugar is exposed to the sun during the same time of the day as with the previous method for at least two months and carefully kept overnight and afterward, as earlier described, in a dark container well protected from the influence of the air. The use is the same as with the first kind, the only difference is that the dose must be a little stronger because in the sugar crumbs in the ceramic vessel the sunrays do not concentrate as much as in the other type.
After the patient has taken, during the day, several glasses of sunned water, let him lie down in a good bed where in a few hours he will properly perspire.
When this happens, take 1-3 crumbs of the sunned sugar, dip them into a bead of perspiration and administer it to him. He will then be feeling a slight pressure in his head and stomach and a sickly chill all over his body. This chill will be followed by a light diarrhea, whereupon he will be completely healed.
The described effect may, with some people, last 3 days, with others even up to 7 days, depending on the patient's light or heavy nature.
Following his recovery, the patient should continue on the diet for a few weeks and drink a glass of sunned water from time to time. He will then be completely cured of whatever disease he may have had.
Here it is of importance to note that with illnesses which result from plethora (too much blood) a preceding diet is absolutely essential, as it is prescribed in the best homeopathy.
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DMoss Productions
DMoss Productions, LLC was formed by Dewey Moss is an award-winning director, writer, and producer. His newest work, The Crusade of Connor Stephens premiered at the 2016 Midtown International Theater Festival where it won 7 awards, including Outstanding Production, Best Playwright, and Best Director, and is currently set to open as for a commercial Off Broadway run at the Jerry Orbach Theater, The Theater Center in June 2017. Death of the Persian Prince, another award-winning play, is currently in pre-production for an Off-Broadway run after premiering in two festivals and having a successful run at the historic Duo Theater in NYC. Other projects in development include the musical The Southern Baptist Biddy Band (and their dirty little secret), Mean, and a currently untitled dance musical based on the story of Esther.
Productions (2)
Already closed The Crusade of Connor Stephens NYC: Midtown W
This new drama focuses on a Texas family trying to come to terms with a tragic act of violence.
Already closed Death of the Persian Prince NYC: East Village
This new play about sexual status and cultural identity follows a gay Iranian man who underwent sex reassignment surgery in order to avoid execution, and now lives in New York City as a woman.
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Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
506 reviews | 1000 followers
cannot dance, cannot sing, cannot act....... but love theater location should read Brighton Beach, Brooklyn


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#ifndef _CSP_PORT_H_
#define _CSP_PORT_H_

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

#include <stdint.h>

#include <csp/csp.h>

/** @brief Port states */
typedef enum {
	PORT_CLOSED = 0,
	PORT_OPEN = 1,
} csp_port_state_t;

/** @brief Port struct */
typedef struct {
	csp_port_state_t state;		 // Port state
	csp_socket_t * socket;		  // New connections are added to this socket's conn queue
} csp_port_t;

/**
 * Init ports array
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int csp_port_init(void);

csp_socket_t * csp_port_get_socket(unsigned int dport);

#ifdef __cplusplus
} /* extern "C" */
#endif

#endif // _CSP_PORT_H_

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Pyrrhon – What Passes For Survival Review
Dan Obstkrieg on September 7, 2017
Release date: August 11th, 2017. Label: Willowtip Records.
So as not to be accused of burying the lede: Pyrrhon's third album What Passes for Survival is another disgusting triumph, equal parts expansive and claustrophobic.
Here, however, are a few stray thoughts from the clutter of my mind:
A character in Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories provides a tidy summary of the generative power of language: "To give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonymity, to pluck it out of the Place of Namelessness, in short to identify it – well, that's a way of bringing the said thing into being" (Rushdie 1990, p. 63). When questioned by a skeptical interlocutor, the character replies, "How much have you seen, eh…? Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And submarines? Huh? Also hailstones, baseballs, pagodas? Goldmines? Kangaroos, Mount Fujiyama, the North Pole? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come?" (ibid.)
In a different time and different place, Charles Dickens describes a fabrication both supernatural and more concrete in A Christmas Carol, as Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghost of his former business partner: "'I wear the chain I forged in life,' replied the Ghost. 'I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?'" (Dickens 1843).
Taken together, what do these two passages illustrate? First, that language constructs reality. With a bit of license, this means that a musical vocabulary constructs a certain kind of reality as well. Second, that this constructed reality offers vicarious access to things not experienced directly. Middle-Earth is not a real place, per se, but Tolkien's limpid mythological prose makes it so, and Summoning's musical vocabulary does much the same. Third? Well, we'll get to Dickens a bit later.
What I'm getting at here, mostly, is that Pyrrhon stresses me out because of how thoroughly their words and sounds create a world.. I mean, sure, plenty of bands playing frantically ugly and desperately angry music aim for a similar effect. But Pyrrhon nails the affect, too. If I try half-listening to it while doing other things, What Passes for Survival reaches in and palpates my heart and lungs; if I give it my full attention, it still demands more. Like much of the most engrossing death metal, Pyrrhon doesn't necessarily defy analysis, but it certainly deflects it; What Passes for Survival is a tactile, experiential, phenomenological album. It reinforces the notion that music, like language, like life, makes marks directly on bodies. As such, for the listener willing to live inside the challenging, clattering animus of these forty-five minutes, the stakes are surprisingly physical.
What Passes for Survival is easily Pyrrhon's most diverse album to date, even if most of its many threads were evident in previous albums (notably 2014's titanic The Mother of Virtues). This means that, stylistically speaking, there's death metal (both chin-stroking and knuckle-dragging), weirdo grind, noise rock, chaotic metalcore, and outre improvisation. It's too pithy a formulation, but it's also not wrong to see Pyrrhon as existing somewhere near the grimy center of a Venn diagram of Suffocation, Starkweather, and Swans. If you have to, I guess you could call it omnivorous death metal.
For all the (deserved and correct) talk about how superlatively and disorientingly heavy Pyrrhon can be, a thing that is sometimes curiously overlooked is just how excellent these guys are at their instruments. The standards for instrumental dexterity in this type of technically demanding music have been raised so high that it's tempting to take them for granted, but the crucial thing for Pyrrhon is not just that these guys can play the hell out of fast, complicated patterns, but that they are consistently doing inventive, thematically appropriate things with those fast, complicated patterns. Colin Marston has given the band a suitably caustic, full-bodied yet ragged production, which does wonders to highlight the dangerous shearing force of every tone and texture.
"Trash Talk Landfill," for example, boasts one of the most satisfyingly off-kilter breakdowns of the album, riding a jittery meter which Steve Schwegler's hyperactive drum fills keep trying to tear apart and throw off-course. Earlier in the song, Erik Malave's and Dylan DiLella's bass and guitar run headlong at each other like the tangled knots of a long-standing argument; each one knows the familiar grooves, but they keep trying new angles at getting the upper hand. Elsewhere, the second half of "The Invisible Hand Holds a Whip" indulges in some great AM-tuner-on-the-fritz soloing while Doug Moore's vocals are phased and panned and otherwise fucked with. The song careens out on Moore's gargled "Our number's up / We all gotta pay," and torques directly into "Goat Mockery Ritual" (note: possible alternate song title "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Internet Forum") with the same intensity of Napalm Death's unremittingly savage recent albums.
Early album highlight "Tennessee" is a different sort of beast for Pyrrhon, spending more of its time stalking and lurking than sprinting and lunging. As the song ticks through its measured dread, the most blown-out doom sections move in a hybrid Swans/Khanate lurch, which only intensifies the eerie echoes of "Strange Fruit" in Moore's evocative lyrics ("Where the land rolls rusted / And kudzu strangles the trees in green"). Malave's bass tumbles and pulls the song forward through relatively free-form inter-verse bridges. This relative restraint gives the song's inevitable, tumultuous climax a heavier weight, as from about 5:30 onward the band dallies in a fit of Gorguts/Cryptopsy acrobatics. Oh, and right at the very end it slams your silly body into dust with a geometrically beautiful fusillade of staccato drum hits and pinch squeals. It is the sort of song for which the only possible reaction is astonishment at how magnificently it hangs together; the sort of song that is the mirror which shows normal death metal songs that they are clowns.
Do you need more convincing? In general, this sort of willfully inaccessible death metal is an all or nothing affair. (Bearing in mind, of course, that death metal writ large is willfully inaccessible from the perspective of literally everyone outside of heavy metal's mottled orbit.) But as the standard party line goes, Pyrrhon has another leg up on the vast majority of other death metal bands because Doug Moore's lyrics are A) good, and B) about something:
To wit:
I can't tell you exactly what all of the songs are about, but Moore's lyrics deserve careful study, both for their meaning and for how they work both with and against the music, sometimes serving as punctuation and others as interruption. "The Happy Victim's Creed" seems, in its way, to be about addiction as well as what motivates it; "Trash Talk Landfill" luxuriates in the ironic task of using words to dissect the sense of futility and endlessness that goes hand in hand with pursuing writing as a vocation; the three-part "Unraveling" is a potpourri of meditations on living in a time that feels riven by so many fundamental collapses, and contains perhaps the finest mission statement for the album as a whole:
"The unraveling scream/
Of the precious shared bonds, /
As we wrench free /
Of their grip on our lives."
Moore's language matters here: it's a scathing indictment, to be sure, but we don't escape as innocent victims with hard times forced unwillingly upon us. "As we wrench free" implicates every last one of us in that scream; we girded it on of our own free will, and of our own free will we wear it. Is its pattern strange to you?
All of which brings us back to Dickens. The grueling, show-stopping twelve-minute album closer "Empty Tenement Spirit" was not, I think, written with Dickens's A Christmas Carol in mind. Neither does it necessarily intend to evoke Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" (certainly Moore finds no prophecy in the song's tenement halls), nor Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," nor Radiohead's "Subterranean Homesick Alien," but folks, as the man says, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Radiohead channels Dylan's unrest into a fantasy of escape:
"Up above, aliens hover, /
Making home movies for the folks back home /
Of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits, /
Drill holes in themselves, and live for their secrets."
What Passes for Survival doesn't offer that easy out, though. (Yorke continues, later, "I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane… Take me on board their beautiful ship…")
In A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Jacob Marley visits Ebenezer Scrooge to deliver a warning, shaking his chains to provide the dramatic impetus for Scrooge's eventual transformation. But the timing matters: Scrooge's visitation happens right at the outset of the story, as a promise that it may not be too late for him to change. The reason any of this is even passably relevant is that Pyrrhon's "Empty Tenement Spirit" concludes (and thus ends the album) with a Neubauten-ish clatter of a heavy chain being whipped repeatedly against some metal object. This is where culture's tangled web of interlocking reference intervenes to draw connections where none were likely intended.
The rattling of Pyrrhon's chains cannot plausibly be said to serve as a warning, because it comes at the very end – not just the very end of the song, but apparently at the very end of society as we know it. Moore's lyrics briefly allude to man-made environmental catastrophe ('the waters we raised") and then slink tangentially through a cityscape devoid of all life, where "[t]he generations echo unlived" and the absent humans are "pinioned fools now spared their sorry fate."
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo" ends with one of the greatest epiphanic lines in all of poetry. It is a jarring and astonishing move, but it follows Dickens in only serving its purpose if delivered at the appropriate time – in advance of whatever sudden catastrophe or gradual, inexorable declination it seeks to forestall:
"for here there is no place
That does not see you. You must change your life."
Moore's final couplet in "Empty Tenement Spirit" is spat with such deformed and contorted pronunciation that it has to be heard to be believed, as the band reenacts the death throes that the song implies are a foregone conclusion:
"What wild spirit could thrive on such pain? /
What primal will would cling to this place?"
What Passes for Survival is disgusting music made by beautiful people, or maybe the other way around. If the message is dire, it may still stop just the tiniest of steps short of utter resignation and fatalism. Earlier I said that Pyrrhon's chains are not Marley's chains because they come only at the end. This is a lie. If you listen carefully to the intro to the album opener "The Happy Victim's Creed," you'll hear a disorienting cut-up assemblage of band rehearsal outtakes, but among those cut-up sounds is the unmistakable harshness of that same heavy chain in "Empty Tenement Spirit."
I don't know if that can be interpreted as fair warning, but because I am inventing the Dickens-Pyrrhon connection wholesale, I claim squatter's rights. What I do know is that most death metal – or, hell, most music of any type – doesn't invite or warrant this type of close consideration. That these ugly sounds which seem so formless and hostile at first encounter should still be sitting with me all these months later, insisting that I listen again to really hear what they were saying, insisting that I answer the questions they are asking, is the mark of a truly exceptional band making the finest work of their still young career.
One of the original illustrations made by John Leech for the 1843 first edition of A Christmas Carol sports the extremely Pyrrhon-ish caption "Ghosts of Departed Usurers," and appears near the following thought from Dickens: "The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever."
If Pyrrhon laments our "grey lives endured with purposeless grace" in "Empty Tenement Spirit," perhaps they're also lamenting the notion of a future (how near or far?) in which we have all lost the power to interfere for good.
But the future, will it come?
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DrChocolate September 7, 2017 at 11:57 pm
This album. This album! Excuse me as I go into full superlative-stupid mood. It's nearly indescribable (but Dan, you did as masterful a job as could be done, you did the album justice). This isn't just superior death metal, this is superior ART.
The musicians are comprabable to the Mingus', Pastorious', Monks', and Miles' of the music world. They sound effortless while performing complexities. The planned sounds improvised and the improvised sounds planned.
The there's esteemed MR alumnus Doug Moore. He may be among the best lyricists working. His words alone convey more disquiet, menace, and distress then shelves of horror novels, metal albums, and thriller blu-rays could ever hope to achieve; and he does so in poetic ways.
Seriously, this album isn't an AOY contender. It's an album of the decade contender. It's a product of this unique time, it's a harbinger of what could come, and I believe it will never show its age. I could not love this album more.
Plus this review is one of the best I've read here. It's abstract, non-linear, and highly literate – just like the album. Well done Dan. It probably helps a ton that the review heavily references A Christmas Carol, one of my favorites, a book I've read more than any other and is nearly perfect in it's story telling. Love this album. Love this review. Love the website. Have I gushed enough? "Give it up already dude." I know, I'm spent.
Zach Duvall September 8, 2017 at 8:46 am
Hi, Doc. I'm glad you're having a good day.
DrChocolate September 8, 2017 at 3:27 pm
Yeah… I might've been in a really good mood last night. I meant every word though.
Joe September 12, 2017 at 8:52 pm
"If you don't like Gorguts, Deathspell Omega and Dillinger Escape Plan then boy are you ever going to hate this."
Dead January 15, 2018 at 6:39 pm
This is an accurate statement, probably. I enjoy Gorguts and Deathspell, but I don't care for DEP – which I'd say is the closest comparison to this band. Maybe that's why I'm unable to care about this album.
It's technically impressive, and weird, and difficult to listen to. I just wish you had to actually write songs for that to warrant attention (even DEP did that a few times). Because there don't seem to be any of them on this album. It's just a hodge-podge of stops and starts and riffs I've heard in a hundred other bands being spliced together under some pretty basic – if thankfully varied – vocals. Where is the magic that everyone else is seeing?
Oh, but at least the solos sound like a broken joke played by a kid who just got his first guitar. That helps really pull the whole thing together.
Still, this review was a great read, as always.
Tate September 24, 2017 at 3:31 am
Thank you for your thoughts, and your context. DM needs Pyrrhon and it needs people, like you, to think about Pyrrhon. Thank you.


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Before you dive into the pool this summer, consider this: Health officials are warning that outbreaks of diarrhea caused by swallowing pool water containing parasites have doubled in the last few years.
The parasite, named Cryptosporidium or Crypto, is difficult to kill and caused at least 32 outbreaks in swimming pools or water parks in 2016 compared with just 16 in 2014. It's the most common cause of diarrhea outbreaks linked with swimming facilities because it can survive up to 10 days in chlorinated water, Reuters reported. An infected person can battle symptoms including stomach cramps, watery diarrhea, nausea or vomiting for up to three weeks.
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In 1609, in the reign of Sultan Ahmet I, construction began on a monumental mosque in Istanbul, built facing the Hagia Sophia. It was opened for worship in 1617. I visited in March of this year.
The architecture is based in part on the Hagia Sophia, but externally, I think, it surpasses the church in beauty – perhaps because the Hagia Sophia has been repaired and buttressed many times due to earthquakes, and inside and outside it looks distressed. The mosque is 1000 years younger and in better shape.
I took this photo of the mosque from a restaurant in the top floor of a nearby building. Notice the seagull overhead and the Bosporus in the distance.
The exterior of the Blue Mosque is graced by a cascading half-domes, and the outward harmony is repeated inside. The 20,000 hand-made ceramic tiles feature more than 50 different designs. In addition, there are two hundred stained glass windows. The ceiling and walls are painted with arabesques and calligraphy, and carpets cover the floors, but somehow it all combines to create a feeling of peace and amazing beauty. Some of the artisans went on to work on the Taj Mahal.
Non-Muslim tourists are allowed to enter – women wearing head scarves, and both sexes subject to a dress code – but they must remain behind a railing in the back.
Meanwhile, in the gardens behind the mosque, actors were gathering to film a television show. Residents seemed excited to recognize some of the actors, who in turn were pleased to pose for photos with their fans.
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Nació en Edmonton, Alberta, Canadá, de donde se graduó de la preparatoria en Sherwood Park.

Después de responder a un anuncio en un periódico local, que ofrecía lecciones de actuación, en 2000 decidió trasladarse a Vancouver, donde encontró a un agente y comenzó a trabajar en el campo de la publicidad, mientras que al mismo tiempo, continuó sus estudios con grandes profesores como Brenda Crichlow, Gina Charreli, Larry Moss (profesor Hilary Swank en Million Dollar Baby y Los muchachos no lloran) y Matthew Harrison.

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En 2015 se unió al elenco principal de la segunda temporada de la serie Bitten, donde interpretó al peligroso Aleister VI hasta el final de la segunda temporada ese mismo año.

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Q: Как найти второе значение арксинуса? Функция asin() в STL возвращают одно значение. Если взглянуть на таблицу синусов то можно заметить что одно значение синуса соответствует двум разным углам, например значение 0.5 соответствует углам 30 и 150 градусов. Функция возвращает значение 30 градусов в радианах. Каким образом можно получить второй угол для этого синуса? Аналогичный вопрос касается функции acos(). Вопросы конечно более математические, но может кто-нибудь сталкивался?
A: Вообще то это вопрос для 7-8 класса. Функция asin работает для диапазона -90 .. 90 (на самом то деле -PI/2 .. PI/2, но это и так понятно, дальше я все пишу в градусах - так легче). Для синуса парный угол посчитать легко - (180 - значение). Для косинуса - просто знак поменять (функция возвращает в диапазоне 0..180). Все другие значения можно получить, прибавляя/вычитая 360 нужное кол-во раз.
A: для арксинуса таким "вторым" углом будет Пи - alpha, а для арккосинуса 2Пи - alpha. Где alpha - это "первый" угол


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Francis Bacon Essay
Beginning on the early 1950s, despite the dominance of Abstract Expressionism in both the United States and Europe, there were recurring waves of insistence on a return to the figure, a new naturalism of naturalistic fantasy. Crucial to the new figuration were Alberto Giacometti and Jean Dubuffet. The only other figurative Expressionist powerful enough to be compared with Giacometti and Dubuffet were British. Chief among these was the Irish-born Francis Bacon, one of the artistic giants of his time.
Bacon has been called the greatest poet of the second half of the 20th century and even those who deeply dislike his work find it memorable and horribly impressive. He is an artist obsessed by the horror of existence and the terrible vulnerability of being. He professed to see no hope, and yet his very life is a denial of such despair, because creativity can never really come without some belief in the meaning of what is created. Certain images recur again and again in Bacon's paintings, and the best known is that of the screaming pope, after Velazquez's great portrait of Pope Innocent X.
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Bacon refused to study Velazquez's portrait, preferring instead to paint from his memory of that painting's authoritarian majesty. Here, he shows the pope, father of the Catholic Church, both enthroned and imprisioned by his position. Bacon's relationship with his father was a very stormy one, and perhaps he has used some of the fear and hatred to conjure up this ghostly vision of a screaming pope, his face frozen in a rictus of anguish. The pope is pushed down to the bottom half of the canvas and squashed low in the chair. Around him, bacon has built the suggestion of a cage or cell.
He has marked him out with an arrow, as if this clenched and tortured image was an exhibit in the artist's chamber of horrors. Bacon has also drawn from another famous image, Rembrant's great Carcass of Beef, and his hung the animal's flayed and bloody flesh on either side of this human animal. Rembrant painted his carcass with reverence; Bacon sees these carcasses as raw meat – the pope as he will be – dangles them, almost insouciantly, behind the papal chair. Bacon's portraits are just as unique as when he uses paintings of the past as the basis of his work, and transforms these in terms of his own inward vision of torment.
He insisted on painting portraits only of his friends, and Lucien Freud was one of his closest. He insisted too that he did not want to paint his subjects from life, but from photographs, and the absence of the actual person set him free to mold and deform with a wild virtuosity. Here, he seems to have painted the portrait, and then, perhaps with his figure or thumb, smeared out the features of the face; yet, despite this arrogance with paint and feature, enough significant traces remain to recognize the face of the sitter.
In the late 1940s and the 1950s there was a deliberate and concerted attempt to reintroduce subject matter figures, most frequently in a macabre effect. Along with Giacometti and Dubuffet, Frances Bacon was a major contributor to the postwar European figuration and fantasy movement. His devotion to the monstrous, the deformed. or the diseased has been variously interpreted as a reaction to the plight of the world and humanity. His paintings reveal his superb qualities as a pure painter and his obsessive sense of tradition.
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Beginning on the early 1950s, despite the dominance of Abstract Expressionism in both the United States and Europe, there were recurring waves of insistence on a return to the figure, a new naturalism of naturalistic fantasy. Crucial to the new figuration were Alberto Giacometti and Jean Dubuffet. The only other figurative Expressionist powerful enough to be compared with Giacometti and Dubuffet were British. Chief among these was the Irish-born Francis Bacon, one of the artistic giants of his t


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Judge Greta Stirling Friedman was elected judge of LaPorte County Superior Court No. 4 in November 2014, after serving seven years as magistrate in that court. During her time as magistrate, Friedman served as a member of the Board of Managers of the Indiana Judges' Association. As magistrate, she was instrumental in helping set up LaPorte County's Problem-Solving (Drugs/DUI) Court. She's a member of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals and is a graduate of Indiana's Graduate Program for Judges and the Indiana Judicial College. Friedman furthered her education at the National Judicial College with courses in DWI and 4th Amendment search and seizure issues. She is a former member of the Indiana Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and a member of the Indiana Judicial Probation Committee.
Before being named magistrate in 2008, Friedman worked in private practice and had jury trial experience in both state and federal courts. Prior to her time in private practice, she spent around six years as an attorney with the Legal Services Program of Northern Indiana with a practice focus on issues affecting older adults. During her time on the bench, Friedman received a Distinctive Recognition Award for outstanding achievement in the field of justice from the LaPorte County Drug Free Partnership. A native of LaPorte, Friedman earned her undergraduate degree from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and her law degree from Valparaiso University Law School in 1984.
Friedman has been significantly involved in community service in LaPorte County, including serving as past president and co-founding board member of Stepping Stone Domestic Violence Shelter in Michigan City. She's a past president of LaPorte Service League and was named by then-Indiana Gov. Frank O'Bannon to chair the Indiana Film Commission. She is married to LaPorte attorney Shaw Friedman. They have two children.


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This article, by Justin Baiocchi, was originally published in The Northern Daily Leader on 28 February 2015.
One of the tricks which every parent soon learns is the art of distraction. It works wonders with small children: "No Jack, you can't have another bucket of ice cream; here, play with mummy's iPhone instead" or "No Kate, give me back the chainsaw; here, play with mummy's reading glasses instead". Of course the distraction technique has been around forever and it's not just parents who make use of it, politicians love it too: "No, we can't do anything about the state of the economy, but here, let's invade this small peaceful nation next door instead". Or, "No, we can't fix the health system, but here, let's host the Olympic Games instead." They must think we're all just a bunch of two year-olds, unable to focus on more than one topic at a time (the really scary thing is that it obviously works or it wouldn't be used as often as it is).
As you would expect, the distraction technique exists within the finance industry too. Companies like to present their profit results before taking into account the impact of one-off events. As in, "We had a great year; profits grew by 20%!" It sounds wonderful, until you realise that there was also a 'one-off' $2 billion write-down of assets, which would have caused profits to fall by 100%. But because it's a one-off, it doesn't count (watch where companies focus on 'underlying' profitability – that's distraction in action). Invariably the company seems to have 'one-off' events like this occurring every year, which make you question just how rare this type of event really is. The other distraction technique is to focus on an unrelated achievement. The one most companies opt for is in occupational health and safety (OH&S). It's not to underplay the importance of safety at work, but I've lost track of the number of times I've read a company's annual report which begins with a two-page spread trumpeting the fact that there were zero deaths at the workplace that year, and after only that comes the admission that management blew any potential profits on bottles of 1959 Grange and Mont Blanc pens. To make it worse, the business in question would be an accounting or law firm, where the most serious workplace injury is likely to be a nasty paper-cut. Distraction in action.
In a way, the distraction technique is just a small part of the larger world of spin. If you have a tough message to sell, don't tell the truth, just put a favourable spin on it. After all, we live in a world where unwanted employees are 'invited to be successful somewhere else'; where broken promises are simply 'recalibrating expectations'; and where nobody ever fails, it's just a case of 'deferred success'.
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