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Someone on Reddit.com posed the question, "What have you always been curious to try?" In reply, many people said they wanted to experiment with exotic varieties of sex and drugs they had never treated themselves to before. Other favorites: eating chocolate-covered bacon; piloting a plane; shoplifting; doing a stand-up comedy routine; hang-gliding and deep-sea diving; exploring the Darknet and the Deep Web; spontaneously taking a trip to a foreign country; turning away from modern society and joining a Buddhist monastery. What would your answer be, Aries? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to explore what you have always been curious to try. The risks will be lower than usual, and the results more likely to be interesting.
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Imagine you're with a team of explorers in Antarctica. You're climbing the 2,000-foot granite spire called Rakekniven that thrusts up out of the ice in Queen Maud Land. The temperature is 10 degrees below zero. There's not a plant or animal in sight. The blinding white emptiness of the wasteland beneath you fills you with desolate reverence, alienated awe, and soaring gratitude. You are far from everything that normally gives you comfort. Why do you feel so good?
Contrary to popular opinion, crime fiction author Arthur Conan Doyle never once had his character Sherlock Holmes utter the statement "Elementary, my dear Watson." For that matter, Humphrey Bogart never actually said "Play it again, Sam" in the film Casablanca. Star Trek's Captain Kirk never used the exact phrase "Beam me up, Scotty." Furthermore I, Rob Brezsny, have never before issued the following prophecy: "Deep sexy darkness and deep sexy brilliance are conspiring to bring you Tauruses intriguing pleasures that will educate the naive part of your soul" -- until now, that is. At this juncture in the ever-twisting plot of your life story, I am most definitely saying just that.
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Breathe more like a wild boar and less like a parakeet. Act more like an unfathomable game with no time limit and less like a puzzle with just a few last pieces missing. Shimmer more like the aurora borealis in the early morning sky and less like a furnace heating a mansion. See more like a panther sees and less like your first teacher. Write more fat messages in the mist on the glass, and speak less about the skinny facts you know by heart. Eat more magic cookies and less brain candy.
Here are some thoughts from Gemini author Fernando Pessoa: "The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd -- the longing for impossible things; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else." Can you relate, Gemini? Have you felt those feelings? Here's the good news: In the coming weeks, you will be more free of them than you have been in a long time. What will instead predominate for you are yearnings for very possible things and contentment with what's actually available to you. (Pessoa's words are from The Book of Disquiet, translated by Alfred Mac Adam.)
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Try this meditation: Imagine that you are the wood and the fire that consumes the wood.
First, focus your awareness on the part of you that is the wood. You may tremble or gasp, feeling the jolt of your solidity disintegrating, your form changing. As you shift your attention to the part of you that is the fire, you may exult in the wild joy of power and liberation.
It may be tempting to favor the fire over the wood, to love the burning more than the being burned. But if you'd like to understand pronoia in its fullness, you've got to appreciate them equally. Can you imagine yourself being the fire and wood simultaneously? Is it possible for you to experience the deep pleasure of their collaboration?
The most important thing you can do in the coming weeks is learn how to take care of yourself better. What? You say you're too busy for that? You have too many appointments and obligations? I disagree. In my astrological opinion, there's one task that must trump all others, and that is get smarter about how you eat, sleep, exercise, relax, heal yourself, and connect with people. I can assure you that there's a lot you don't know about what you really need and the best ways to get what you really need. But you are ripe to become wiser in this subtle, demanding, and glorious art.
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One of life's bounties is its changeableness, which ensures that boredom will never last very long. You may underestimate the intensity of your longing for continual transformation, but the universe doesn't. That's why it provides you with the boundless entertainment of your ever-shifting story. That's why it is always revising the challenges it sends your way, providing your curious soul with a rich variety of unpredictable teachings.
Neuroscientists have turned up evidence that suggests you love this aspect of the universe's behavior. They say that you are literally addicted to learning. At the moment when you grasp a lesson you've been grappling with, your brain experiences a rush of a natural opium-like chemical, boosting your pleasure levels. You crave this experience. You thrive on it.
Naturalist Greg Munson says that many dragonflies are great acrobats. They are the "Cirque du Soleil" performers of the animal kingdom. Not only do they eat in mid-air, they also have sex. While flying, two dragonflies will hook up and bend into a roughly circular formation to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their reproductive organs, thereby forming a "mating pinwheel." I don't expect you to achieve quite that level of virtuosity in your own amorous escapades, Leo. But if you're adventurous, you could very well enjoy experiences that resemble having sex while flying.
The phrase "new roses" can serve as an antidote to neurosis -- as a kind of magical spell. You might invoke it when you're in danger of getting undermined by either your own neurosis or someone else's.
If you notice, for instance, that your subconscious mind is spiraling down into a sour fantasy stirred up by one of your habitual fears, you could mutter a cheerful round of "new roses, new roses, new roses."
If your allies slip into the same compulsive behavior that they tend to get stuck in whenever stress overflows, you could chant "new roses, new roses, new roses" in a tuneful, affectionate tone.
Born under the sign of Virgo, Yuriy Norshteyn is a Russian animator who has won numerous awards. His Tale of Tales was once voted the greatest animated film of all time. But he hasn't finished any new films for quite a while. In fact, he has been working on the same project since 1981, indulging his perfectionism to the max. In 33 years, he has only finished 25 minutes' worth of The Overcoat, which is based on a story by Nikolai Gogol. But I predict that he will complete this labor of love in the next eight months -- just as many of you other Virgos will finally wrap up tasks you have been working on for a long time.
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Thousands of things go right for you every day, beginning the moment you wake up. Through some magic you don't fully understand, you're still breathing and your heart is beating, even though you've been unconscious for many hours. The air is a mix of gases that's just right for your body's needs, as it was before you fell asleep.
You can see! Light of many colors floods into your eyes, registered by nerves that took God or evolution or some process millions of years to perfect. The interesting gift of these vivid hues is made possible by an unimaginably immense globe of fire, the sun, which continually detonates nuclear reactions in order to convert its own body into light and heat and energy for your personal use.
"Every saint has a bee in his halo," said philosopher Elbert Hubbard. Similarly, some Libras have a passive-aggressive streak hidden beneath their harmony-seeking, peace-loving persona. Are you one of them? If so, I invite you to express your darker feelings more forthrightly. You don't have to be mean and insensitive. In fact, it's best if you use tact and diplomacy. Just make sure you reveal the fact that there is indeed a bee in your halo. I bet you will ultimately be pleased with the consequences you stir up through your acts of courageous honesty.
Dear Beauty and Truth Lab: I was wondering if you had any information about Beyonders, people who were born under no star and who are therefore not ruled by the stars. - Wannabe Beyonder
Dear Wannabe: It's impossible to be born under no star. However, we all go through periods when we're relatively free from the authority of the stars we were born under and therefore immune from cosmic compulsion. During these times, we're less susceptible to the whims of fate and the demands of the past and the inertia of karma. Our willpower has more breathing room, and we're more likely to fulfill Einstein's dictum, "Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Many people use the terms "cement" and "concrete" interchangeably, but they are not the same. Cement is powdery stuff that's composed of limestone, gypsum, clay with alumino-silicate, and other ingredients. It's just one of the raw materials that is used to make concrete -- usually no more than 15 percent of the total mass. The rest consists of sand, crushed stone, and water. Let's regard this as a good metaphor for you to keep in mind, Scorpio. If you want to create a durable thing that can last as long as concrete, make sure you don't get overly preoccupied with the "cement" at the expense of the other 85 percent of the stuff you will need.
Of the many things that have gone right for you during your time on Earth, the most crucial was your birth. As you crossed over the threshold, trading the warm dark sanctuary for the bright noisy enigma, you didn't die! It was a difficult act of high magic that involved many people who worked very hard in your behalf. The skills they provided in helping you navigate your rite of passage were in turn made possible by previous generations of threshold-tenders who bequeathed their expertise.
Months before that initiation, a more secret miracle bloomed: Your life began as a single cell, spawned by the explosive fusion of two highly specialized bundles of chromosomes. How could that tiny package of raw material have possibly grown a brain and liver and heart and stomach over a period of a few months? What inscrutable genius guided and oversaw the emergence of your fully formed infant body, that virtuoso creation, from the slimmest of clues?
"Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice," writes Louise Glück in her poem "The Wild Iris." I think that will be a key theme for you in the coming weeks. There's a part of you that is returning from oblivion -- making its way home from the abyss -- and it will be hungry to express itself when it arrives back here in your regularly scheduled life. This dazed part of you may not yet know what exactly it wants to say. But it is fertile with the unruly wisdom it has gathered while wandering. Sooner rather than later, it will discover a way to articulate its raw truths.
You can drink a glass of water. You can spread butter on a slice of toast. You can wash your hair and prune your plants and draw infinity signs on a piece of paper. Your hands work wonderfully well! Their intricate force and sustained grace are amply supported by your heart, which circulates your blood all the way out to replenish the energy of the muscles and nerves in your fingers and palms and wrists. After your blood has delivered its blessings, it finds its way back to your heart to be refreshed. This masterful mystery repeats itself over and over again without you ever having to think about it.
"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness," said American humorist Josh Billings. I propose that we make that your motto in the coming weeks. It's an excellent time to liberate yourself from memories that still cause you pain -- to garner major healing from past anguish and upheaval. And one of the best ways to do that will be to let go of as much blame and rage and hatred as you possibly can. Forgiveness can be your magic spell.
Your imagination may be the best gift you've been given. It's the source of your creative power. If there's a particular experience or object you want to bring into your life, the first thing you've got to do is visualize it. The practical actions you take to manifest your dreams always refer back to the pictures in your mind's eye. And so every goal you fulfill, every quest you carry out, begins as an inner vision. Your imagination is the engine of your destiny. It's the catalyst with which you design your future. Do you know where it comes from? Do you have any idea how powerful it is?
Denmark has been a pioneer in developing the technology to supply its energy needs with wind power. By 2020, it expects to generate half of its electricity from wind turbines. Recently the Danish climate minister also announced his nation's intention to phase out the use of coal as an energy source within ten years. I would love to see you apply this kind of enlightened long-term thinking to your own personal destiny, Aquarius. Now would be an excellent time to brainstorm about the life you want to be living in 2020 and 2025. It's also a perfect moment to outline a master plan for the next ten years, and commit to it.
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years.
May you wake up to salsa music one summer morning and start dancing while you're still half-asleep.
May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses.
May you mix stripes with plaids, floral patterns with checks, and yellowish-green with brownish-purple.
May you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds and one extrasolar planet.
May you put a bumper sticker on your car or bike that says, "My god can kick your god's ass!"
If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."
May you dream of taking a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans.
May you actually kiss the earth now and then.
May you find many good excuses to say, as physicist Niels Bohr once did, "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
Piscean actor Sir Michael Caine has had an illustrious career. He has won two Oscars and been nominated for the award six times in five different decades. But for his appearance in Jaws: The Revenge, he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor. He confessed that his work in that film was not his best, and yet he was happy with how much money he made doing it. "I have never seen the film," he said, "but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific." In accordance with the astrological omens, Pisces, you have permission to engage in a comparable trade-off during the coming months.
Have you ever been loved? I bet you have been loved so much and so deeply that you have become blasé about the enormity of the grace it confers. So let me remind you: To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.
Animals, too: You have been the recipient of their boundless affection. The spirits of allies who've left this world continue to send their tender regards, as well. Do you "believe" in angels and other divine beings? Whether or not you do, I can assure you that there are hordes of them beaming their uncanny consecrations your way. You are awash in torrents of love.


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Q: Reference an ext.js store in a different c# project I want to create an ext.js store that can be shared across c# projects.  I defined my store in the Services project under Scripts/Store/Hierarchies.js.  The store is named NCS.store.Hierarchies.
Ext.define('NCS.store.Hierarchies', {
requires: [
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In a different c# project I now want to reference this store-
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How do I properly reference this store?  Currently I'm getting a not found error (it's looking in the current c# project url instead of the one that actually contains the store).
> GET
> http://localhost/Orchard/NCS.Reporting.PODS/NCS/store/Hierarchies.js?_dc=1405085182757
> 404 (Not Found)

I think it should be looking
http://localhost/Orchard/NCS.Services.PODS/NCS/store/Hierarchies.js?_dc=1405085182757

Also since it's looking under NCS/store I'm wondering if I need to change the folder layout to match my naming convention.

A: I would consider mapping the folder where the scripts are stored as a virtual directory in IIS so that the web server can serve them in response to web requests.

A: You can use the ExtJs Loader object -
// load up all of our dependencies
Ext.Loader.setConfig({
    enabled: true,
    paths: {
        'NCS': Config.RootUrl + 'Modules/NCS.Services.PODS/Scripts'
    }
});

I need to specify where to find NCS for ExtJS to locate the correct file.  Now that I have the NCS path loaded I can use the code above to reference NCS.store.Hierarchies.

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Cardinals: 5 early offseason trade and free agent targets
By Josh Jacobs
Tyler O'Neill (27) is congratulated by second baseman Tommy Edman (19) and designated hitter Albert Pujols (5) after a walk-off hit by pitch with the bases loaded against the Colorado Rockies during the ninth inning at Busch Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports /
Aug 17, 2022; Arlington, Texas, USA; Oakland Athletics catcher Sean Murphy (12) rounds the bases after hitting a home run against the Texas Rangers during the first inning at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports /
The Oakland Athletics appear to be a long way from the end of their rebuild, and catcher Sean Murphy may be the next in line to go.
The 27-year old has shown a lot of promise in his career and holds a .249/.327/.446 line with 16 HR and 52 RBI for a club with very little talent around him. Playing in 108 games so far this year, Murphy is dependable behind the plate and would provide St. Louis with an excellent player.
Murphy has three years of team control remaining, and with how thin the catcher position is around the league, may require an expensive package to get any deal done. The appeal of trading for Murphy over signing Contreras is he is three years younger and will be significantly cheaper for the next three years.
The catcher does not have much experience when it comes to playoff pushes, but there is nothing in his game that would suggest he could not handle big moments. Murphy may even be viewed as the highest level stop gap the club can find, as it opens up a three year window to identify him or someone else as the long term replacement at catcher.

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9 Songs, 1 Hour 2 Minutes
The Kernis Project: Debussy Jasper String Quartet
String Quartet No. 3 "River": I. Source
By Aaron Jay Kernis
String Quartet No. 3 "River": II. Flow/Surge
String Quartet No. 3 "River": III. Mirrored Surface - Flux - Reflections
String Quartet No. 3 "River": IV. Cavatina
String Quartet No. 3 "River": V. Mouth/Estuary
String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, L. 85: I. Animé et très décidé
By Claude Debussy
String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, L. 85: II. Assez vif et bien rythmé
String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, L. 85: III. Andantino, doucement expressif
String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, L. 85: IV. Très modéré
℗ 2019 Sono Luminus
More By Jasper String Quartet
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The Kernis Project: Schubert


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Juliet Aboagye-Waife Appointed Deputy Director General Of GCAA
Juliet Aboagye-Wiafe
President Akufo-Addo has appointed Juliet Aboagye-Wiafe, a seasoned auditor, as the Ag. Deputy Director General, Finance and Administration of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) effective immediately.
She is the first female to be appointed to occupy the Deputy Director Generals position following the retirement of Abdulia Alhassan who attained the compulsory retiring age of 60 in July.
Ms. Aboagye-Waife has an in-depth knowledge of the Aviation Industry having worked with the Ghana Airports Company Limited( GACL) as the Director of Audit for over 10 years, where she ensured the restructuring of the Audit department to make it more efficient and also helped improved controls , and overall governance processes of GACL.
Prior to joining the Ghana Airports Company in 2010, she worked with Pannel Kerr Forster Charted Accountant as Management Trainee and later joined Ghacem Limited, a member of the Heidelberg Cement Group for 17 years.
Due to her strong auditing background she was made to serve as a member of the Audit Report Implementation Committee(ARIC) in several institutions in Ghana including the Minerals Commission, Ghana Highways Authority, Community Water and Sanitation Agency, Local Government Secretariat , and the Statistical Service of Ghana.
Madam Aboagye-Waife is the immediate past President and council Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Ghana. She is also a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Global)as well as a member of the Association of Airports Internal Auditors (USA).
She served as a Board Member of Servair Ghana Company Limited, an airline catering Company from 2011-2013 and contributed significantly to the establishing a sound financial and administrative system.
She is the chairperson of the Audit Committee of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development as well as a member of the Audit Committee of the Ghana Health Service.
She is also the President of the Women in Aviation International, Ghana Chapter, and a member of the Association of women Accountants Ghana.
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We carry around 1,400 daily checks throughout the production process.
In our factories, every day we carry out numerous tests to ensure the raw materials and the finished product meet our strict criteria for making safe, high-quality pet food.
Based on a set of pre-defined standards, our finished products are evaluated according to a series of physical and sensorial parameters. These include things like checking the size of the kibble, the colour, aroma, and density of the kibble. In addition, we´re looking for any presence of fragmented products, as well as the possibility of cross-contamination. To do this, both physical measuring instruments and sensory means are used, such as vision and smell: our quality assurance team receive specific training in this regard, which is updated every year.
At the end of each day, once all of the various tests are analysed and we have the results, production from the previous day is then released for distribution to our retailers for onward sale. Finished product checks are just a part of more than 1,400 controls performed daily during the entire process. We carry out around 300 tests every day on the raw materials and our packaging materials that enter our manufacturing plants and perform other 1100 checks during the production process and with the finished products.
Does the food I choose for my pet have an impact on their life expectancy?


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Gialli e Thriller Gialli Classici
Between the Thames and the Tiber
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Di: Ted Riccardi
Letto da: Simon Prebble
Durata: 9 ore e 20 min
Editore: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson traverse the British Isles and the Italian peninsula in a rousing new series of adventures. After a thrilling jaunt in the Far East, Holmes and Watson return to England to address an inheritance left by one of Watson's relatives in Cornwall, half of which he gave to his dear friend, Sherlock Holmes. Financially secure, the two are now free to spend as much time on Baker Street and the Continent as they please, and the duo find themselves as comfortable in Rome on the banks of the Tiber as the Thames.
As Holmes rationalizes and ratiocinates his way through case after case - from "The Case of Two Bohemes" to "A Singular Event in Tranquebar" - it's all in a day's work, until clues surface that his great nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, might still be alive….
©2011 Ted Riccardi (P)2011 AudioGO
The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Recensioni da Audible.co.uk
Mary Carnegie
Not too bad for Holmes pastiches.
Sometimes slips into Americanisms and ignorance of English (not British, no such thing) law, and narration slipshod on articulation of consonants at times, which can be confusing. Narrator doesn't often sound native English Standard English speaker.


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Oxfam is providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene education in some of the world's poorest countries. In fact, it is one of the things we do best — our solutions are saving lives. Running taps, working toilets, clean, safe drinking water and soap — in Australia, they're things people can take for granted. Yet around the world, millions of poor people get sick or die each day because they must go without these necessities of life. Almost 900 million people in the world do not have access to clean, safe drinking water, while 2.6 billion live without basic sanitation. Across the globe, more than 6,000 people die each day from diseases caused by dirty water — two-thirds are children. (World Health Organisation). Oxfam's water engineers and public health specialists are known internationally for the speed and efficiency with which they can help provide large-scale water supplies, essential sanitation facilities and hygiene improvements, even in the most difficult circumstances. We integrate our water and sanitation solutions with hygiene in an evidence-based practice known as "WASH". The World Health Organisation attributes about 90% of diarrhoeal diseases to poor access to WASH infrastructure.
When disaster strikes, Oxfam acts quickly to saves lives by delivering clean water and sanitation — from simple solutions like distributing buckets, jerry cans, soap and water purification tablets, to building and rehabilitating water supply systems, providing tanks, delivering clean water and constructing toilets. This goes hand-in-hand with educating people about the importance of washing hands, collecting water in clean containers, storing water safely and purifying water for drinking and cooking. "Clean water, sanitation and hygiene promotion are the most important elements in controlling the spread of infectious disease following a humanitarian disaster," says Praphulla Shrestha, Oxfam Australia's Water and Sanitation Technical Advisor. "The first step always involves talking to the people in the camps about how poor hygiene practices can contaminate water supplies and make it unsafe to drink. Then we can start to test the water that people are drinking." Praphulla emphasises that the key to saving lives is to get trained water, sanitation and hygiene experts into the disaster area as quickly as possible. And we have these experts on standby around the world to provide fast, effective and innovative solutions. Oxfam was one of the first aid agencies to use specialised water treatment units that purify vast amounts of water in a very short time — up to 6,000 litres an hour. Other agencies began using similar technologies following Oxfam's example. After Typhoon Kestana flooded large parts of Manila in the Philippines in September 2009, our solutions included building a new prototype "floating" toilet, to help ensure people staying in evacuation centres had adequate sanitation facilities. When Cyclone Nargis devastated areas of Myanmar in 2008, Oxfam helped affected communities build rainwater catchments in just one day, using local materials. One of Oxfam's greatest water innovations is also one of its most simple — the Oxfam bucket, which we distribute to displaced people during emergencies. Winner of a Millennium Design Award, the bucket is designed to be light, durable, and keep water clean and safe. It stacks, is easy to transport, has a tight-fitting lid to keep out the dirt and prevent spillage, and an insertable tap to prevent collected water from being recontaminated. The plastic is UV resistant to prevent algal build-up. Vasantha Nilaweera was one of thousands of displaced people living in temporary camps in Sri Lanka after the 2004 tusnami who experienced Oxfam's comprehensive water response. "Oxfam gave training to everyone in safety and hygiene," Vasantha recalls. "They gave us water filters and we took water from two separate tanks — one for drinking and one for washing. People from Oxfam also came to check the quality of the water."
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In the context of our long-term development work, Oxfam provides water, sanitation and hygiene solutions that are tailored to local needs, conditions and technologies. We drill boreholes, sink wells, install tanks, pumps and tap stands, construct entire gravity-fed water supply systems and small-scale irrigation schemes, build toilets, set up household water treatment solutions, promote the production and use of soap and promote safe hygiene practices in homes and schools.
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When placing blame on another, ask yourself how this is a reflection of you. How are you, deep down, judging yourself?
Within any relationship, energy vampires judge and blame others to keep us off balance (pushing the buttons of the belief we are unworthy) in order to impose their will and control. The ego likes to blame and project onto others. If your self-esteem has become low because of the judging and blaming of another, you are with an energy vampire who is trying to control you.
The energy vampire distracts themselves by focusing on you and wanting YOU to change, because they are not aware of how they need to change by providing love and stability for themselves. So, someone who is being critical and judgmental is just projecting the fact that they are internally being self judgmental and critical.
Take nothing personally by recognizing the deeper deception they are doing within themselves. Before you can heal others, you have to heal yourself. This is a situation that cannot be healed unless you heal yourself.
How to Protect Yourself from the Energy Vampire.
Life is full of ups and downs and it's important to be aware that there are different kinds of people among us. I tend to subscribe to the belief that most people are good but life has handed them challenges designed to recognize, acknowledge, take responsibility for, heal and let go of their beliefs and behaviors rooted in fear. The problems arise when we meet up with an energy vampire. Usually these people, in one way or another, are not taking responsibility for their own energy and they appear to think that the whole world is revolving around them and, at this time, they only care about themselves. They don't care about other's emotions because they seem to be self-involved and these are the kind of people that I refer to as energy vampires. They might be your friends, family members, colleagues.
Take A Deep Breath – If you are in a situation when there are many energy vampires around you (I see many in work situations where you might have to interact with many), or just one energy vampire, take a deep breath, stay detached yet aware, and let them to do their thing. If you are in the presence of the Overly Suspicious Vampire, it is best to NEVER argue with them. Refrain from making eye contact with them. I have found they usually put a lot of emphasis on eye-to-eye contact and this is detrimental to the sensitive person. If you can stay in a state of witness and not allow them to pull you in to their drama, you will be better off. Don't lose your confidence despite their behavior and attitude; don't give them even a single chance to take you down a level. And, lastly, try to change the subject to something pleasant and do not raise your voice. Speak softly to them, otherwise you will have surrendered your innate power, within yourself, to them.
Make Yourself Aware- This is very crucial step to rid yourself from being a victim of energy vampires. For, without having awareness, you can't take the next steps. There are some major signs which can alert awareness about energy vampires. Do you notice when you are in their presence or shortly after leaving them, you feel a lack of motivation? Do you feel depressed? Is there a pattern of headaches, tiredness, weakness, exhaustion, fatigue, fuzzy thinking, sickness? If you feel any of these signs then you are being victimized by an energy vampire. Staying aware of your internal dialogue and feelings is crucial here. Especially if you are in the presence of one of the Zombie-like vampires. These are the vampires you can't quite get validation from, no matter how hard you try or how "good" you are. These people are great teachers in teaching you what your expectations are. Are you one of those who seeks validation from outside yourself? If so, maybe it's time to go within, identify the origin which makes this belief true to you. Work on your own self-worth by learning how to access your own inner compass.
Stay Calm And Cool- Let them do what they do. It's important not to take on what they are dishing out, even if they are yelling at you, blaming you, or attempting to demotivate. Just stay calm and cool and do not become emotionally reactive, otherwise they will come in with an extra force. Do your best to stay in a state of happiness and confident in this energy. Tip: For the Passive-aggressive type energy vampire - these are the ones who ask for advice but never take it to heart - is to just stop giving them your energy and advice. Detach from the need to help them because these are the ones who expect you to take over and fix them…which, of course, you can't.
Be in Good Company- Instead of wasting your time around energy vampires it is better to find the company of positive, motivated, and energetic people with whom you feel comfortable sharing your views and ideas. One of the best ways I've dealt with the energy vampirism is to join a group of like-minded people. Then, when I felt a need to go in a different direction, I began my own group. The best way to find these kinds of people is through your friends and social media. Once you meet like-minded people in person, it will surely give you a boost. Tip: If you are dealing with an Insecure-type energy vampire, try not to stand directly in front of this person. Do not make eye contact with him or her, if possible. Encourage them with words, but do not offer to do things for them. Remember these individuals live in constant fear of rejection and abandonment. Do not let your pity for them be a basis for you being their next victim.
Make Use Of Crystals/Jewelry- There are many people who don't believe in this kind of stuff but according to studies it is shown that special kinds of pendants, rings or just the stones can detour negative rays. Two that I like are Red Carnelian, Pyrite, or Agate. Any of these stones will help you to protect yourself from the negativity energy vampires project. They can help provide an energetic boundary between you and the person in question.
Hire A Consultant- If you are being victimized by any energy vampire and, if after reading this article, you are not clear on what to do, then I suggest you hire a consultant who is experienced and good at clearing negative energy. In my practice, if you choose to hire me, I will consult with you about your specific case and offer recommendations that will empower you to do this for yourself or, if need be, I will partner with you to dissolve it.
These were some major ways to transcend or protect yourself from energy vampires. it is not really difficult to deal with them if you are willing to make changes within yourself by making solid decisions on an action plan and sticking to it.
Manipulation and movement of different types of negative (or dark) energies and spirits that affect someone's energetic and physical body are called Psychic Manipulations. Some people call it Psychic Attacks. I tend to think the word "attack" is too strong as I choose not to give this manipulation too much power. However, psychic manipulation is a supernatural energy and force. They occur when negative energetic vibrations are sent from one person to another person or place creating a disturbance in the energetic and physical body of the person or place. These occurrences can create harmful effects within the person receiving them and these manipulations are happening more often than ever before because as the veil of spiritual understanding is thinning and, as a result, collectively, we are becoming more empathic, telepathic, and psychically aware.
Sometimes these energetic and physical disturbances are sent without conscious awareness of the person sending them. Others use psychic manipulation intentionally to create harm, often to control, manipulate, or punish the individual.
The good news is that it's extremely difficult for anyone to penetrate an aura that is healthy and strong. An aura is our energetic body that emanates from our physical body that can be weakened by depression, by negative emotions, by the regular use of drugs or alcohol, by smoking, and by a variety of diseases. Fungus, parasites, worms, metal, chemical or atomic poisons can seriously weaken our energetic body. Therefore, it is imperative that we take care to protect our energetic body as much as our physical body in order to repel psychic manipulations by staying strong and healthy.
In another blog post, I talked about Spiritual Cleansing by using the spiritual bath technique (which is my favorite). I do not want to be redundant but Spiritual Cleansing is a great way to cleanse your aura after a psychic attack or manipulation. There are other ways of Spiritual Cleansing that I will speak about in future blog posts, but right now, having the knowledge and using the spiritual bath is sufficient. So, what can you do to protect yourself, overall, from these attacks and manipulations?
"Grounding" is a term used by many psychics, metaphysicians, energy healers, and others of like mind that means staying in your body and rooted with the earth with conviction. Some ways to do this are to listen to an MP3 or CD that helps direct your energy for grounding. Other ways are getting out in nature and turning your attention to being fully present in the moment or using gem stones such as Hematite or Amber. If you like the feel of the gemstones, hold any of these in your right hand or place in a right hand pocket for good protection.
Another way is to sit comfortably with both feet planted on the floor, and if possible, on the earth directly. Imagine a thin cord running from the center of your body or from each ankle down to the center of the earth. Hold this visual until you feel deeply connected to the earth. This is an important beginning to many types of work with other dimensions. You want to connect with the highest energies in other dimensions while staying firmly planted and deeply connected to Mother Earth.
You can use this method to protect yourself, friends, pets, and your home. It is imperative as a first step that you call in special protection for yourself. To protect yourself or someone else with intent, sit in a comfortable chair and close your eyes. Ensure your intention is coming from a place of love for all energies, including the negative psychic energies. Once fully relaxed, connect with the energies of other dimensions and ask for protection from the Universe or Angels so that negative energies cannot find you or others. Establish a cone of white light coming down from the heavens so that the negative energies, entities, spirits can follow this white light up into the Universe. Then ask the Universe or Angels to remove all negative energies, entities, or spirits using the name of the person being protected and ask the Angels of the Universe to move the darkness up into the light so they cannot harm anyone or anything else on this earth. Hold this thought and light for several minutes. You will need to hold this intention and deep concentration for some time for this protection to work.
Afterwards, thank the Universe and the Angels for the help and close down the light.
People jump into fear when they believe they have been psychically manipulated. Fear is a great problem associated with these manipulations since fear tends to magnify the experience of the individual.
With that said, prayer is very powerful and can help a great deal when psychically manipulated. Prayer for strength and courage helps alleviate the fear and then you will be better able to focus on applying a number of the protection suggestions. Positive, affirmative prayer in love strengthens us to address our issues. There are special convents, monasteries, and prayer lines (such as Silent Unity) with people who do nothing but pray each day, all day long. Call one of these and ask them to pray for you or those you are helping, as a special intention. Prayer always needs to be an integral part of the healing process.
Also, Angels and Beings of Light are always there to help guide you. They are there and just need to be asked.
Prayer and meditation is the first, most powerful support for releasing fear associated with psychic manipulations and attacks. It is much easier to clear and protect yourself when the fear is diminished. This, in itself, will help to raise your auric vibration and make it stronger.
You will need to ask an Energy Healer to do this for you because if you have been under psychic attack or manipulation, your chakras will be distorted by these darker energies and they will no longer be working properly. There will also be holes in your aura. Ask the Energy Healer to bring your chakras back to perfect working order, to be sure they are spinning properly at the perfect speed and to close the holes in your aura.
Ask the Energy Healer to remove all hooks, attachments, markings, and any negative energy rays that might have become attached to you.
Lastly, ask the Energy Healer to seal your aura, to eliminate all holes, and to be certain your aura is not leaking any energy. You may be asked to return to your energy healer to check for leakages afterwards.


Campbellfield motor car wrecker Senler Pty Ltd has been convicted of illegally selling cars and fined $5000.
The company pleaded guilty in Melbourne Magistrates' Court on 4 August to 10 counts of breaching the Motor Car Traders Act 1986. The charges followed a Consumer Affairs Victoria investigation.
Senler Pty Ltd admitted to five counts of breaching its licence conditions, which only allow it to trade in motor cars to other licensed motor car traders by offering to sell five cars through online car websites to the general public.
It also failed to inform potential buyers that it was a licensed motor car trader (LMCT) when advertising the cars. Senler Pty Ltd was ordered to pay $1500 in court costs.
The company had its licence suspended in March by notice from the Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria.
In September 2008, Senler Pty Ltd and its director were also convicted in Melbourne Magsitrates' Court of 72 charges which related to the same offences. They were both ordered to pay fines of $3900 and costs of $1100.


Time to hit the books, or the studio?
Figuring out what you want to do with your life after high school can be extremely difficult. If you've grown up dancing, and have been serious enough about it to consider pursuing dance as a career, then it's time to figure out what you need to do to make it happen. You can of course just dive in and audition for roles or a spot in a company, get an agent, or move to a big city to train and audition. Or, you can go to a post-secondary school to further your training and prepare for your dance career, while getting an education.
Ask yourself what it is you want out of your education. Do you want to teach, do you want to dance professionally? What styles do you want to focus on? There are so many options, so take time to really think about it. Some people want a degree as a back up plan in case their dance career doesn't work out. Some people want the option to study something else while kick starting their dance career (minoring in kinesiology is popular amongst dancers). If a degree sounds like a long term, intimidating plan, look into your diploma options!
Next, you need to determine what you want to get out of the program. Most Canadian schools offer options for ballet, contemporary, or commercial dance. Simon Fraser University, for example, is Contemporary based. You'll study ballet, but the prime focus is on modern techniques such as Graham, Cunningham, and Horton. Ryerson offers a broader curriculum which includes modern, ballet, contemporary, and jazz. University of Regina offers an education degree with a focus on dance, preparing you to teach in public schools. George Brown College aims to prepare you for a career in commercial performance.
We've provided a list of post-secondary dance programs in Canada. Keep in mind that we have only listed Canadian schools, but there are international options, as well! We have also only listed Colleges and Universities. There are many additional professional training programs in Canada, we've just limited our list to those offering post-secondary accreditation.
Your first step will be to check out the websites of the schools you are interested in. Find out when application deadlines and auditions are. It's also worth your time to reach out to current students and alumni: ask them about their experiences, what they love about the program, what they find challenging, and what the audition experience was like. Look up what their alumni are up to. Attend an info session or check out the campus.
In addition to your High School Requirements and the basic application process, dance programs will require an audition. You'll either need to attend an audition (which means travel, staying in a hotel, making sure you have someone to accompany you), or submit a video audition- in which case, you need to make a video. You'll also need headshots, a dance resume, references and/or reference letters, and you should be prepared to answer questions in an interview setting.
I hope this has given you some new information on your options for studying dance at university. There are so many great options out there, so find the one that's right for you. Good luck on your journey!
Cross Training. You've probably heard the term before, but do you know what it means and why it matters to you as a dancer? Well, cross training simply refers to training in a sport or activity other than the one which is your main focus. By doing so, you improve the skills and fitness needed for your main activity. In our case, it means doing activities other than dance to supplement your dance training. We're going to explain why you should cross train, and how you can get started.
Geneen having fun while keeping fit!
Why should you bother with cross training? Well, it's a great way to continue to improve your fitness, gain skills, and reach goals. We all have different natural strengths and weaknesses. No matter how great your teachers are, or how many classes you take, sometimes there are going to be things that you need to focus on in your own time in order to see improvement.
Cross Training can also be a fun way to switch things up. You love to dance, obviously. But sometimes doing an activity without the pressure to reach an elite level can be a welcome change. You don't need to stress about how good you are at your cross training activity: you're doing it to help you dance! Choose something fun, and don't take it too seriously. CoreDance Founder & Director Geneen Georgiev loves keeping her cross training playful, with monkey bar workouts at the beach, and martial arts!
How can you implement cross training into your already busy life? After all, you're already at the studio 5 nights a week, and you have school, friends, and family. Our advice? Just add one session a week, about 1 hour. Involve your friends and family- go for a bike ride, or a Sunday hike!
During holidays and breaks from dance, add more to keep yourself in peak condition. We all need a break from dance (even just a little one) so Christmas, Spring Break, or Summer Vacation are perfect time to add a little something different.
Go for a bike ride with a friend!
So what sort s of cross training are useful for a dancer? Well, that depends on what you want to get out of it.
Do you find that you're struggling with flexibility? Perhaps a yoga class would be perfect for you. Are your teachers telling you that you need to work on your core? Try going to the gym or focusing on strength training at home: standing on a balance board or working with a stability ball can be extremely beneficial in gaining core strength, as well as balance.
Some other suitable choices for dancers include pilates, swimming, biking, hiking, running, aerial silks, and weight training. Figure out what it is that you need to focus on, and find an activity that complements it!
Choose activities that are specific to the style of dance you do, and what you need to improve on. If you want to improve your stamina, focus on cardio like swimming, biking, or running. If you want to increase your flexibility, choose something along the lines of yoga or pilates. If you're looking at overall strength and fitness, hit the gym or add some resistance/weight training at home.
Remember that cross training should be supplemental to your dance training; it shouldn't take over, or cause you to be tired during your dance classes. Keep it fun, and don't over do it!
We've all been there: searching in vain through an unorganized bag, trying to find a missing shoe or 1 more bobby pin. Throwing everything onto the change room floor, desperately sorting through orphaned socks and miscellaneous debris.
But what if- what if your dance bag was organized? Imagine it: you reach into your bag and find that missing shoe? Or a spare bobby pin is actually where you expect it to be?
We're going to help you make this dream a reality.
We've listed the essentials, as well as the "just in case" items that all dancers should have on hand.
1- Hair Supplies. You know you will need these.
Hair ties. Sometimes they just snap, and at least once a week someone will ask to borrow one. Be the girl with thehair ties.
Hair pins. Don't try to make a bun with bobby pins. Use these.
Bobby Pins. Use these to keep your layers out of your eyes.
Hair nets. Keep those flyaways under control.
Resistance Bands. For stretching and strengthening. Great if you need to rehabilitate an injury.
Pinky ball or tennis ball. It's an affordable personal massage therapist that lives in your bag!
Massage Stick. Work through those muscle knots!
3- Warm Up clothes & Extra Layers. Keep warm during those times when you're not moving.
Thick socks. The cuter the better.
Leg warmers. A ballet must have.
Sweat Pants. Throw 'em on between classes.
Long Sleeve Shirt or adorable sweater.
4- Ready-to-go Snacks. You need to have snacks that keep well in your bag, and don't require much preparation.
Water bottle. Hydration is key.
Nuts & dried fruit- Almonds, walnuts & dried fruit are my faves.
5- Dance shoes. Obviously, pack for the classes you take. But if you do ballet 5 days a week, you might as well let those slippers (or an extra pair) live in your bag.
Tip: Store each pair of shoes in a zip lock bag. That way the pairs stay together & are easy to find, & delicate fabrics stay in great shape.
6- Toiletries. Sometimes you head to class straight from school, & you just need to freshen up a bit. Fresh breath is especially important when you're doing partner work, agreed?
7- Miscellaneous. Don't let a blister ruin your day.
8- Extras. Extra clothes. Extra Snacks. Extra Hair Stuff.
We hope this helps you pack the perfect dance bag. Did we miss anything? Comment below to let us know what you would add! Look for our "Performance Bag" edition closer to competition season!
a new dance year brings so much excitement: Seeing your dance friends after a few months apart, wondering what songs your teachers will choose for choreography, amping up to learn the latest "it" move.
However, after two months of vacation, heading back into the studio can come with a few challenges. Here are our Top 5 Tips for easing back in, and making sure that you start your dance year off right!
Maybe you did a summer intensive or two. Maybe you watched a lot of Netflix. However you spent your summer, it's important to remember that your body will need to re-adjust to dancing multiple hours a day. It's better to take it a bit slow than to jump in unprepared and end up with an injury.
Your teachers know what you are capable of, so don't feel like you have to impress them. Start small, and work your way up! Why not drop into a beginner class and refresh your basics?
Once you're feeling back on track and ready to kick it up a notch, set a few dance goals for the year. Try setting a goal for flexibility, technique, and performance. Goals are a great way to measure your progress, and to challenge yourself. Tell a teacher or dance friend so they can help you keep on track.
Take time every evening to do a few gentle stretches at home. Make it a part of your bedtime routine. You already know that it's important to stretch when you're warm, so do it after having a bath, or make sure to do a little cardio first!
You can also strengthen your feet and toes with toe gymnastics: try picking up pencils with your toes, stand on a towel and "gather" it up with your toes, try to lift each of your toes off the floor one at a time. It's harder than it sounds!
It might not hit you right away, but you are going to experience some soreness after the first few days back in class.
The best way to ease the pain? Proper self care.
Use balls to massage the muscles of your feet. My fave: Acuballs. But bouncy balls work, too!
My final tip for getting ready to dance again? Plan a Dance Movie Night with your dance besties. My favourite (and cheesy) picks are "Center Stage," "Save the Last Dance," and of course the entire "Step Up" franchise. Or try something inspirational, such as "First Position" or "Pina".
Good luck, and have a great "Back to Dance" season!
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To Quran, Muslims are the worst Mafia-like Gangsters to Murder and Plunder In the West, when a Muslim lives in the West and commits a heinous crime like murdering, burning and plundering; they call that Mulsim was "radicalleized"! --------------- The West has still been missing a great deal of understanding and gripping the horrible and frightened truth about Islam. -------------------- Islam is not just another idea or belief, but the worst mafia-like gang to muder and plunder, a fascist ideology of terrorism and a satanic cult to control people under tyranny and injustice. To achieve robbery, corruption and depostism; Muslims plunder wealth through spreading out poverty, ignorance, disease and slaughtering freedom, liberty and dignity. --------------------------------- The West has been missing to come into grip with and grasp the reality about describing Islam as a "moderate" or "radical" or how terrorist crimnals have been radicalized? Or which is right are Muslims "radical" by Islam teachings and Quran's instructions? Chapter Nine of Quran has been dedicated for Muslims to "Kill the Infidels wherever you find them". Quran's motto is "Chopping off necks, Decapitating and Beheading". ----------------------- The sad reality is that the more the Muslim becomes devout the more he or she will be radicalized and turns into a tettorist to blow his body and others. Why? The reasons are the tenets of Koran and Islam is terrorist in nature and criminal in word and deed. The criminal founders of terrorist Islam did purge and assassinated each other without exception and are documented in Arabia's history and nothing is new. ----------------- The founders by Muhammad and his gangsters and mobsters have purged and slaughterd each other in cold blood through all stages of Islam's history. Wake up the West and Stand Up against Islam and Quran altogether. Western "Mafia" and Eastern "Communism" are peaceful angels compared to Islam's Terrorism.


This is Akona's most versatile and popular bag. The standard by which all other bags are judged, because of its heavy-duty wheels and dual pull #10 Delrin zipper around the main compartment opening with heavy-duty bronze corrosion resistant sliders.
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When purchasing a park home, it is just like buying a normal house. Like any regular property, you do not have to share communal spaces or worry about an invasion of privacy, you control what goes on in your home.
Unlike assisted living facilities, you can come and go whenever you please and enjoy the life of your new local area. Stroll around the countryside, visit the local town and villages and have access to a wide variety of local amenities.
If you are downsizing to move into one of our park homes for sale, then we can offer you a part exchange promise. We will take on the responsibility of selling your old home at 100% market value and giving you the extra cash once you have purchased a park home. You can truly live the retirement of luxury with the extra money from your old home.
So, if you are looking for an easier, relaxed lifestyle with the freedom to do as you please, then our park homes for sale are the perfect solution. You can view the current properties we have available here or speak to a member of our team on 0800 690 6060 for more information or to book a viewing.
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What system configuration do I need for the JV34-260 printer?
The RIP software "RasterLinkPro5 SG" comes with the main unit. In addition to the JV34-260 main unit, you need a personal computer for RIP and a USB2.0 cable.
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Мирко Себић (Нови Сад, 23. јул 1962) српски је уредник, новинар, филозоф, есејиста и критичар. Бави се филозофијом медија, студијама културе и социјалном критиком.

Биографија
Основну и средњу Педагошку школу завршио у Новом Саду. Дипломирао је на Филозофском факултету у Новом Саду 1988. године на групи за Филозофију и социологију са темом из филозофије морала: "О могућности етичког оправдања насиља као средства". Живи у Новом Саду.

Каријера
Од 1988. године радио је као хонорарни сарадник Информативног програма ТВ Нови Сад – Редакције за културу. Уже области којима се бавио су филм, филмска критика и књижевно-научна продукција. 1990. године примљен је у стални радни однос у ТВ Нови Сад. Од 1991. до 1993. године радио је као уредник у Културно-уметничком програму ТВ Нови Сад. У оквиру НС ПЛУС програма, поред многих емисија, уредио је и ауторски осмислио и реализовао ТВ серијал "Ембрионална ТВ" (посвећен видео уметности) и "Голи ручак" (посвећен друштвеној критици и алтернативној култури). Због критичког садржаја емисије "Голи ручак", 1993. године онемогућено му је да ради на ТВ Нови Сад. Од 1993. до данас сарађује са многим независним, дневним и недељним листовима у Србији и региону и том приликом континуирано објављује новинарске прилоге свих жанрова. 1994. почео је редовну сарадњу са независним грађанским недељником "Независни", који је излазио у Новом Саду (1992–2002). Исте године постаје уредник културне рубрике тог недељника. 1994. године оснива Агенцију "Апостроф", која се бави промотивним активностима из области културе. Најзначајнији продукција ове органзације је ауторски пројекат "Сутон Града" у коме учествују Богдан Богдановић, Горанка Матић, Раша Тодосијевић и многи други. 1995. и 1996. године, уз помоћ Фонда за отворено друштво организује низ промотивних и едукативних трибина, скупова и изложби које су посвећене промовисању толеранције и интеркултуралне сарадње; покреће едицију књига "Друга Европа" у којој као уредник потписује многа издања а између осталих и избор текстова мађарског писца Ђерђа Конрада која излази у књизи "Идентитет и хистерија". Као продуцент, 1996. године организује први међународни видео самит посвећен родној перспективи "Видео медеја" и први фестивал алтернативне музике "Интерзон". Од 1997. до 1999. године ради као главни и одговорни уредник независног грађанског недељника "Независни". Од 1999. до 2002. године, руководи као оснивач, власник и главни уредник регионалним недељником "Булевар", који се бавио политичким и културним темама Војводине. У јануару 2003. године постаје директор Издавачке установе "Мисао" и обнавља излажење деведестих година угашене војвођанске ревије за образовање "Мисао", која излази до децембра 2008. На позицији главног уредника потписује педесет бројева нове серије месечне ревије "Мисао" и бројне књиге из области критичке педагогије и филозофије образовања. У октобру 2006. године са групом истомишљеника и колега оснива Фонд за развој истраживачког новинарства и нових медија (ФОРИН) који се бави активним притупом променама у медијској култури. У децембру 2007. године покренуо је научно стручни часопис "МИОКО" (медији и околина) који се бави теоријом, праксом и филозофијом медија. У јулу 2009. године покреће и уређује магазин за савремену културу Војводине "Нова мисао" на чијем је челу као уредник до данас. 2010. године са колегама из Подгорице, Дубровника и Мостара покреће међународни научно-стручни часопис под називом "Медијска култура". Откад је, 2016. године, Издавачка установа "Мисао", у којој је био директор и главни уредник, припојена Заводу за културу Војводине (од 2019. Културни центар Војводине "Милош Црњански"), Мирко Себић је запослен као уредник за издавачку делатност.

Дела

Објавио је више научних радова из области филозофије медија и учествовао на више међународних скупова о медијским темама. Есејима, приказима, интервјуима, преводима заступљен је у часописима: Писац (1990), Мисао (2006), Нова мисао, Интеркултуралност (2012), Нова ријеч (2013).

Ауторске књиге
Аутор је двеју књига филозофских есеја:

 Hotel "Panonija", Ljubitelji knjige, Novi Sad 2007. COBISS.SR-ID - 221039367
 Manifesti ravnice: sonata o prekoračenju: quasi una fantasia, Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad 2014. COBISS.SR-ID - 282609159

Коаутор

 Vreme rasnih pasa: analiza i sistematizacija umetničkog stvaralaštva Karolja Vičeka, Playground produkcija – Zavod za kulturu Vojvodine – Zavod za kulturu vojvođanskih Mađara, Novi Sad – Senta, 2011. COBISS.SR-ID - 260551175

Превод

 Džon Daram Piters, Govorenje u vetar, sa Sonjom Sič, Civilni forum, Nikšić 2020.

Референце

Спољашње везе

 Privođen bivši glavni urednik "Bulevara"
 Sonata o prekoračenju
 Mirko Sebić: Kratka istorija Kineske četvrti
 Sebić: Kvazivjerski politički marketing SPC
 SLOBODNO MIŠLJENJE SE NE MOŽE UGASITI
 KulturLica - 10. epizoda - Mirko Sebić, glavni urednik časopisa ,,Nova Misao"
 Kada se postavi pitanje, to sve menja
 Urednik "Nova misao"
 "Nova misao" i novi koncept

Новосађани

Српски филозофи
Српски новинари
Српски књижевници
Уредници
Рођени 1962.
Културни центар Војводине "Милош Црњански"

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DAP includes N'ganj, Gazipur cities, areas of Keraniganj
By Staff Correspondent
Published : 20 Nov 2021 10:10 PM | Updated : 23 Nov 2021 12:49 PM
The three adjoining cities Dhaka, Narayanganj and Gazipur and some areas of Keraniganj are being connected with Dhaka in the Detailed Area Plan (DAP). With this, the new area of the plan will be 1528 square kilometers.
The plan was presented in the final draft of DAP in a seminar on Saturday in the capital's Hotel Pan Pacific Sonargaon.
According to the 2011 BBS survey and the DAP plan, about 15.5 million people are currently living in Dhaka. By 2035, that could reach about 26 million.
Dhaka, Gazipur, and Narayanganj are being added as three city corporations and five municipalities as per the boundaries and extent of areas under RAJUK included in the plan. These are Savar, Tarabo, Kaliganj (partial), Sonargaon (partial) and Kanchan (partial). It will also include 69 union councils of three districts.
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Ashraful Islam, project director of DAP, said that plans were prepared considering the stage at which Dhaka can go in 2035. In the plan, the maximum height of any building has been determined in light of the width of the road so that no area is overcrowded.
"We have given priority to neighbourhoods having walking opportunities for people to travel and to use the waterway. DAP puts a lot of importance in giving priority to the environment," he said.
The PD further stated that this year's plan has been taken keeping in mind the prescribed principles. National and international high-level policies and plans have also been taken into consideration while formulating the targets. For example, UN Sustainable Development Goals, Perspective Plan 2021, Seventh Five Year Plan, RAJUK Strategic Plan, etc.
The four main goals of the plan: universal investment freedom, improved living standards, tolerant cities, conservation, and revitalization of the ecosystem, were discussed in the seminar.
LGRD Minister Tajul Islam said that in addition to various initiatives to make Dhaka modern, attractive and livable, the plan aims to create an eco-friendly city by constructing several large, water-centric and eco-parks, playground recreation centers and ring roads.
"If the residential areas, where industrial mills have already been set up, are environment friendly and do not cause any suffering to the people then the area will be considered as a mixed area. Not only that, online based business will be encouraged in these areas," said the minister.
He added that in order to finalize the DAP, views shared in the seminar will be considered. The suggestions and opinions will enrich the plan.
"It is possible to implement the philosophy of Bangabandhu and execute the goals and objectives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina if all the talented people of the country are united by utilizing their talents," said the minister.
According to the DAP land-use proposal, 60 pc of the 1528 sq km area of the city has been identified. It includes residential area 4.36 pc, mixed use area (residential head) 32.50 pc, mixed use area (residential-commercial) 0.45 pc, commercial area 0.16 pc, mixed use area (commercial head) 1.43 pc, mixed use area (industrial head) 7.90 pc, institutional area 4.01 pc, heavy industrial area 1.63 pc, transport communication (existing) 5.25 pc, transport communication (proposed) 2.35 pc, agricultural area 29.22 pc, reservoirs 7.95 pc, forests 1.41 pc and open space 1.38 pc.
Financial adviser to the PM, Salman F Rahman, Narayanganj City Corporation mayor Selina Hayat Ivy, city planner Professor Nazrul Islam, engineer Monurul Huda, Deputy Secretary Dr Sultan Mahmud, architect Iqbal Habib, Khandaker Rakibur Rahman and many others spoke at the seminar.
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Does Content Marketing Have a Ghostwriting Problem?
At the end of movies about the CIA, there's often some takeaway about the thankless life of an intelligence officer. I was watching Argo this weekend, and sure enough, after all the diplomats were saved from Iran, Tony Mendez—the hero played by Ben Affleck—is notified he received an award from the President. Only he never actually gets the award, because, as his boss tells him in a parking lot, nobody can know about his mission.
Then it hit me: That's the life of a content marketing ghostwriter.
Sure, you need to strip away all the danger and heroism and patriotism, but the function of doing a job without any recognition is identical.
I haven't seen the marriage proposals, but the hate aimed at Westervelt was on full display. Most of it focused on why it's stupid to think about ghostwriting content in terms of morality, sentimentality, and pride. Check out some LinkedIn condescension from one writer. (Sample: "If you want to be an ink-stained wrench in a dying industry, knock yourself out.") Or catch up on some Twitter beef from Pando Editorial Director Paul Carr.
Here we have both sides of the debate, and you can tell we're dealing in extremes, because there's a lot of cursing and insults flying around. Even Westervelt comments on how "f*cked up the media is today," noting how publishers, desperate for content, are incentivized to take free ghostwritten articles from CEOs, while CEOs are incentivized to crank out ghostwritten content, and journalists are incentivized to take their money and write for them.
As journalists, should we write for big money and no credit? Little money and total credit? Or should we hold expensive seminars to teach CEOs how to write well?
I don't know what the right answer is. But the wrong answer is to pretend there isn't a content marketing thought leadership problem.
As a freelance writer and an editor, I'm always aware of the split between my "honorable" journalistic projects and the "strictly business" content marketing projects. I empathize with Westervelt; making good money to ghostwrite articles for another company doesn't upset me, but there's something uneasy about the whole process when someone who didn't do the work gets the byline.
Now that content marketing has been around long enough for trends to cement, we're getting close to a thought leadership bubble. Too much of it has become farce. The widespread publishing of ghostwritten posts from marketing leaders will continue to cheapen the impact that comes from the leaders who regularly put in the time and effort to pen their own insightful work. To me, that point seems inarguable.
Google, in the spirit of keeping the Internet free of clutter, has echoed this idea by penalizing some guest blogging network in search rankings to prevent readers from accessing spammy content that all sounds the same.
Right now, writers relying on income from ghostwriting thought leadership pieces only have two options: Take the money and learn to accept someone else taking credit for your work, or turn away from nice content marketing paychecks to chase bylined journalism. Clearly, there are strong feelings on both sides of the fence. The book industry seems to have found a fairly respectable solution when divvying up credit to leaders and ghostwriters by promoting popular figures on the covers with large fonts and the wordsmiths who actually write the books with smaller typeface. Would it be possible for publishers to do the same when running a ghostwritten article?
It's easy to understand why some of these ghostwriters, hidden in their apartments and co-working spaces, are upset about attribution and appreciation. The irony with the Argo analogy is people now know about Mendez's mission because of the movie. But it's Ben Affleck, the white male movie star, who gets most of the credit for someone else's story. As I'm sure some would say, a thankless job nobody knows about is still better than no job at all, even if you never get a movie made about your accomplishments.


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Q: Creating a table of points for a 3D Plot Suppose $X$ can take integer values from 0 to 10. Suppose further that $Y$ is continuous from 0 to 1. Finally, let us define $Z = X\,Y$.
I now want to create a table that contains values of $Z$ by incrementing $Y$ from 0 to 1 in steps of 0.01 and $X$ from 0 to 10 in steps of 1. The purpose is to draw a 3D plot.
This example is a boiled-down version of a problem I am working on.

A: The easy way to make your table is:
pts = Table[{x, y, x y}, {x, 0, 10}, {y, 0, 1, .1}] // Catenate;

Then you can plot it like so:
ListPlot3D[pts]

Note that I decreased the granularity of the y data to 0.1; For plotting, finer granularity doesn't really result in any improvement.

A: z[x_, y_]: = x*y

data3d = Join@@Table[{x, y, z[x, y]}, {x, 0, 10, 1}, {y, 0, 1, 0.01}];

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Our human constitutions are to a substantial degree, determined by genetics we inherit from our antecedents and the dietary habits of and foods available to one's forbears have substantial influence on an individual's healthy eating model today.
According to new research published this month in the journal Cell Metabolism, the burgeoning middle classes in and from developing countries are more susceptible than western Caucasians to obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in today's changing environment. An international team of scientists from the University of Sydney's NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre in Sydney Australia, and the National Centre for Cell Science, KEM Hospital, the DYP Medical College the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) , the National Toxicology Center — all at Pune, India, the Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the Manipal Institute of Regenerative Medicine at Manipal University in Bangalore, India, have determined that this may be a result of the sort of nutrition upon which this demographic's ancestors subsisted.
Findings detailed in the Cell Metabolism paper titled Multigenerational Undernutrition Increases Susceptibility to Obesity and Diabetes that Is Not Reversed after Dietary Recuperation (Cell Metabolism, 2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2015.06.008), coauthored by Anandwardhan A. Hardikar, Sarang N. Satoor, Mahesh S. Karandikar, Mugdha V. Joglekar, Amrutesh S. Puranik, Wilson Wong, Sandeep Kumar, Amita Limaye, Dattatray S. Bhat, Andrzej S. Januszewski, Malati R. Umrani, Amaresh K. Ranjan, Kishori Apte, Pranav Yajnik, Ramesh R. Bhonde, Sanjeev Galande, Anthony C. Keech, Alicia J. Jenkins, and Chittaranjan S. Yajnik, could explain projections that by 2030 more than 70 percent of cases of type 2 diabetes globally will be suffered by individuals from developing countries.
The coauthors note that people in developing countries have faced multigenerational undernutrition, and are currently undergoing major lifestyle changes, contributing to an epidemic of metabolic diseases, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Using a Wistar rat model of undernutrition over 50 generations, the researchers demonstrate that undernourished rats exhibit low birth-weight, high visceral adiposity (DXA/MRI), and insulin resistance (hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamps), compared to age-/gender-matched control rats. The scientists also found that undernourished rats also have higher circulating insulin, homocysteine, endotoxin and leptin levels, lower adiponectin, vitamin B12 and folate levels, and eight-fold increased susceptibility to Streptozotocin-induced diabetes compared to control rats.
And importantly, the research shows that these metabolic abnormalities are not reversed after two generations of unrestricted access to highly nutritious commercial chow (nutrient recuperation), the paper noting that altered epigenetic signatures in insulin-2 gene promoter region of undernourished rats are not reversed by nutrient recuperation. "Instead," the coauthors observe, "this newly prosperous population favoured storage of the excess nutrients as fat leading to increased obesity, cardiovascular disease and metabolic risk for diabetes when compared to their 'developed world' counterparts," a genetic hangover to chronic undernutrition over many generations that may contribute to persistent detrimental metabolic profiles in similar multigenerational undernourished human populations.
The scientists note that several previous studies have reported that a high-fat diet does obesity, observing that this latest research demonstrates that eating what has come to be regarded as 'normal' middle class diets can make susceptible animals obese if their ancestors had been undernourished for several generations.
A University of Sydney release notes that unsurprisingly, increasing economic prosperity in developing countries has been accompanied by a sudden increase in people's caloric intake. However the epigenetic makeup of these populations whereby changing environmental factors that might be expected to alter how people's genes are expressed, has not compensated for these rapid dietary changes. THe bodies of people living in or hailing from countries that have endured centuries of chronic undernutrition are still genetically "programmed" to anticipate and prepare for undernourishment; so they store fat in a manner that makes them more prone to obesity and its resulting diseases than are populations accustomed to several generations of a 'normal' diet.
This scenario was recreated in a 12-year study of two groups of rats by Associate Professor and Australian Future Fellow (ARC) Anandwardhan A. Hardikar's team at the University of Sydney in collaboration with research colleagues overseas. The first group of subject rats was undernourished for 50 generations, then put on a normal diet for two generations. The second (control) group maintained a normal diet for 52 generations. At the end of the study it was found that when the descendants of the first group were exposed to a normal diet, this did not reverse the epigenetic modifications made by their undernourished forebears, and these rats were eight times more likely to develop diabetes and multiple metabolic defects when compared to the control group.
"Their adverse metabolic state was not reversed by two generations of nutrient recuperation through a normal diet," says Associate Professor Hardikar. "Instead this newly prosperous population favoured storage of the excess nutrients as fat leading to increased obesity, cardiovascular disease and metabolic risk for diabetes when compared to their 'developed world' counterparts." Dr. Hardikar also notes that lower Vitamin B12 levels in the undernourished rats could also be an indicator of this trend: "Human studies from Ranjan Yajnik's group at KEM Hospital in Pune, India have demonstrated that low circulating B12 and high folate levels are associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes."
Observing that with increasing migration of populations from developing to affluent countries, there is a need to identify factors that minimize their risk of diabetes and obesity, Associate Professor Hardikar says that "Hopefully further research in understanding their gut microbes, which are major producers of Vitamin B12 in our body, and/or dietary supplementation with Vitamin B12 and other micronutrients, could reduce the risk of metabolic diseases in the coming generations."
Associate Professor Hardikar is an Australian Future Fellow (ARC) and Group leader, Diabetes and Islet Biology at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney.
Research at Dr. Hardikar's lab is focused on understanding islet cell biology, specifically related to development, differentiation and death of human pancreatic beta cells. His team works with cadaveric human pancreatic islets as well as biliary duct and gallbladder-derived cells to gather information that would help them understand development of insulin-producing cells. Present research projects involve applying this information to differentiation of human pancreatic progenitor cells. In addition to these studies, other projects in the lab are focused on understanding the epigenetic modifications in insulin-producing cells in a unique model of multigeneration undernutrition. These studies involve understanding the influence of diet, micronutrients, intrautetine programming and gut microbiota in development of central adiposity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
Established in 1988, the University of Sydney's NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre (CTC) now has a diverse group of 150 researchers, who have earned an outstanding reputation for contributing to major advances in clinical care via our high-quality collaborative clinical trials research.
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Lamont Deploys Guard Troops to D.C.
January 12, 2021 | Weston Today
At the request of United States National Guard officials, Governor Ned Lamont today authorized the deployment of more than 100 members of the Connecticut National Guard to Washington, D.C. to aid and facilitate the peaceful transition of presidential power.
The deployment includes members of the Connecticut National Guard's Military Police and two patrol dog teams that are dual-trained for police activities and explosives detection.
The state's Air Guard has also placed C-130H aircraft and crews on alert status, which are capable of moving personnel throughout the country if needed.
"The State of Connecticut stands ready to help ensure the peaceful transition of power and protect our democracy," Governor Lamont said. "May God bless our brave men and women in uniform, and the United States of America."
The governor emphasized that the deployment of these Connecticut National Guard members will not impact the state's ongoing efforts to contain and combat the Covid-19 virus.


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Betting Guides 101 Cricket Betting: How to bet on Cricket Games How to bet on the man of the match in cricket?
Betting Guides 101
Cricket Betting: How to bet on Cricket Games
How to bet on the man of the match in cricket?
Sam Morshead
Interestingly, a man of the match betting markets are becoming more and more popular in cricket.
First of all, it should be noted that these markets present a much better chance of success for the gambler in the shorter formats of the game, where players in set positions are much more likely to make an impact on proceedings.
Opening batsmen, for instance, regularly win the award more times than any other position over the course of a season – primarily because they have the best chance to make an impression.
Secondly, punters should recognize that the vast majority of a man of the match winners come from the winning side. While some smaller teams' star players – such as Rashid Khan of Afghanistan – will appear on face value to provide excellent value in these markets, an objectively lesser performance from a member of the opposition is likely to nab the award in the eventuality that Afghanistan lose.
With the exception of one or two superhuman superstars such as Virat Kohli of India, you'll generally expect to see 6.0 or better on these markets. For someone like Khan playing against India, that could be 15.0 or higher.
When making an assessment on who is likely to win the award in any particular game, it would be prudent to check a player's recent form, their form against the opposition on the day and their record on the ground at which the match is being played.
A useful cheat to this market is to bet on more than one player from the same team (specifically the side you expect to win the game in question) or, given the size of the odds available on man of the match awards, bet on more than one player from either side.