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Is it just me or does it feel like every day is “National Something-Or-Other Day”? This past Wednesday was National Love Your Pet Day and this past Friday was National Walking the Dog Day. Clearly, that meant the pups were getting extra spoiled last week. I doubt they noticed though since they are super spoiled every day. We did a lot with the boys over the weekend including puppy whips at Starbucks and a few nibbles of scrambled eggs for breakfast on Sunday.
For National Walking the Dog Day, I took Wilkins on a long, lazy walk around the neighborhood. I’d have take Tebow too but he’s getting old and he doesn’t like long walks
If you’re getting bored on your dog walks, it may be time to switch up your routine a little bit. It doesn’t matter where you walk, taking the same route every day is guaranteed to get old for both of you. In the spirit of National Walking the Dog Day, here are just a few ideas to help you mix it up and make your daily walk something you both enjoy again.
- Raise money for a local pet rescue
- Take a “Dog’s Choice” walk
- Let your dog check his “
- Double as a training session
- Bring some friends along
1. Raise money for a local pet rescue
I recently downloaded an app called Walk for a Dog and I’ve been obsessed with it. The app allows you to track your dog walks and every walk helps you raise money for the local pet rescue or shelter of your choice. I have my app set up to donate to Stray Paws of St Louis but you can search your local area and choose one close to you so you can support your own community.
It’s been really cold here lately so we haven’t taken many long walks but we’re anxiously watching the weather and taking advantage of any warm day we can. The app is a great motivation to not only take your walks but to squeeze in some extra time or take a longer route.
2. Take a “Dog’s Choice” walk
This is definitely Wilkins’ favorite because it gives him the opportunity to lead our walk and explore any area he wants to explore. I work such long hours some days and because of that, he doesn’t get much mental stimulation during the day. He has toys that are supposed to keep him entertained and they are good for an hour or two but after that, he’s bored and anxious to get outside. The “dog’s choice” walk lets him lead the way. We’ve discovered all kinds of hidden routes and cute neighborhoods just because I let his nose guide our walk.
3. Let your dog check “pee mail”
While you’re out on your walk, allow your dog to stop, sniff around, and check his “
4. Double as a training session
If you have any behavior or tricks you’re working on, fill your pocket up with treats before you head out on your walk so it can double as a training session. Wilkins still has the tendency to pull on his leash or get distracted by other dogs so I like to keep treats on hand during our walks. Occasionally dropping treats next to my foot while we walk keeps him close to me when he’s pulling on his leash. I can also use them to keep his attention on me when he’s distracted by other dogs. You can also stop and take little breaks to work on sit, stay, lay down, give paw, or other tricks.
5. Bring some friends along
Call your neighbors or invite your friend to tag along on your walk if you want to make the experience a lot more social. As a bonus, you’ll also be able to teach your dog to walk alongside other dogs without aggression or distraction. I find that my walks are a lot longer and a lot more fun when I have someone to talk to and Wilkins has a pal to play with. We love to meet up with friends in city neighborhoods where we can also stop at a coffee shop or cafe with an outdoor patio for a mid-walk break and give the pups water and a snack. Hook up with your dog mom friends and schedule a dog walk outing together.
I recently got Wilkins a new bow tie collar and matching leash from Knox Dogwear which is just too, too adorable! He’s so stylish in it and I can’t stop taking pictures of him in his cute little tie during our walks. Use Knox Dogwear coupon code HONEYPINE20 to score 20% off a set for your own pup!

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Each bottle is a cute-sized 3.75ml. Most of the colours are pretty standard, a black, white and an orange. The “special” colour is glow-ink the dark, the blue colour, which glows in the dark. It has to be very dark for this to work, but is kinda cool.
On the back of the pack are some ideas for Halloween nail art, so I took inspiration from this, went down to my local craft store and picked up some thin paint brushes and got to work.
This is kind of similar to a matte polish in consistency, and appearance. It doesn't last too long on the nails, but it is worth it in my opinion. Besides how long can you really have glow in the dark nails for.
I then used I Love Mummy to create the white dots, and used my small paint brush to put black dots in the white circles.
And here we have my “eyes on you” Halloween nail art.

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Luke Bryan Drops New ‘Huntin’, Fishin’, Lovin” Song Before Album Release [Listen]
As fans eagerly anticipate the release of Luke Bryan’s new record Kill the Lights, the star is giving instant access to a few new tracks to anyone who preorders the album. The latest song, “Huntin’, Fishin’, and Lovin’ Every Day," is a laid-back anthem with a bit of western twang any rural-dweller can relate to.
Bryan, an avid outdoorsman, sings about his love for being out under the sky in any capacity — hiking, hunting, fishing, you name it — and dreams about getting paid to do his favorite things. If he did, he explains, he’d be sittin’ pretty.
The country singer released the full song via lyric video, so those holding out ’til release day can still hear the tune and start learning the words before they hear it in concert or (potentially) on the radio.
“Huntin’, Fishin’, and Lovin’ Every Day” joins three other tracks from the album that have been released already as instant downloads with preorders, including the lead-off single “Kick the Dust Up” and its follow-up, the uber-sexy pop-country ballad “Strip It Down.” Bryan took a bit of an unconventional approach in releasing the lyric video for title track “Kill the Lights” by partnering with the dating app Tinder to unveil it to fans — though the star assures us he is still happily married. The song hit iTunes Aug. 3.
Lately, Bryan has been touring the country with an entourage of fellow country stars, including Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett, Randy Houser and Dustin Lynch on his own Kick the Dust Up tour, which runs through October.
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What if dying patients waiting for an organ transplant could receive a custom, lab-grown replacement rather than waiting for a donor organ?
To some, this may sound like science fiction--and in many ways, it still is. But the advances in the field of regenerative medicine that made headlines last week suggest such lab-grown organs may become reality in the future.
One of these advances was Swedish scientists' creation of a custom vein that has carried blood from a little girl's intestines to her liver for a year and counting. In another, a group in Japan successfully implanted lab-grown livers made from human cells into mice--organs that metabolized drugs the way they would in a human.

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A prednisone tapering schedule can be employed by taking a smaller dose of prednisone over a period of time until you finish the medication. It is important to talk to your medical provider before employing the tapering method. I was diagnosed with GCA and PMR, put on 80 mg/day of Prednisone and discharged to the care of a Rheumatologist. In late June I spent a week in the hospital with fatigue, muscle ache and night sweats. The autoimmune symptoms subsided quickly, and my blood tests have returned to normal. I have been tapering the prednisone, and I'm now down to 8mg/day. I also receive monthly infusions of Actemra which is supposed to reduce the need for prednisone. Each time I reduce the prednisone dose, I experience mild headaches, and minor fatigue which subside late in the 4-6 week taper period. I also experience some muscle aches which can be attributed to my exercise program.
Prednisone tapering is a gradual reduction in the dose of this steroid medication to reduce or avoid symptoms of withdrawal. Many physicians, as a rule, taper the drug even if patients will only take it for a few days. This means doses start higher and drop over several days or weeks so the body can adjust to the reduction. Generally, lessening amounts may not be vital for a very short course of this steroid, but this practice is considered a necessary part of therapy if patients have taken prednisone for more than two weeks. One of the biggest concerns in using prednisone is that the body responds in ways that foster dependency on it. This occurs because of a chemical similarity between the manufactured hormone and cortisol, which humans naturally produce. The presence of prednisone sends a signal to the adrenal system to stop making cortisol. Carter Thorne (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) has shared his great prednisone tapering calendar with us to post on Rheum Info! Simply put the date into the first Monday, print it off and give it to your patient. For those who still like to use a “pen and paper”, you can download one our prednisone tapering calendars in PDF format.
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- Caitlyn Jenner is speaking out against President Donald Trump - TMZ
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The war in Afghanistan revealed what weapons America needs. George Bush's new defence budget largely ignores its lessons
Is this really necessary?
IT USED to be a commonplace among conservative opponents of Bill Clinton that his defence policy, like the account he gave of his personal behaviour, was dishonest. On the one hand, the Clinton administration remained committed, at least in theory, to a dozen or so ambitious new multi-billion-dollar weapons-building programmes, without ever quite explaining where it was going to find the money. On the other, it allowed procurement spending to languish, and so saw its ships, aircraft and tanks grow gradually older.
Another school of critics attacked Mr Clinton's policy from a different angle. In cold-war times, they said, the communist challenge imposed a certain discipline on defence-spending choices. If a contractor failed to produce the right things to counter the Soviet threat, the Pentagon would remove its custom. In the 1990s, with no specific threat to guide policy choices, defence-industry lobbyists ran amok, both in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill.
Now that President Bush has announced a $48 billion increase in defence spending for 2003—the biggest annual increase for 20 years—the Pentagon can, at last, claim to be putting its money where its mouth is. Money will be available for building almost all the new weapons dreamed up over the past decade. The Defence Department will press on with the production of three new kinds of tactical fighter aircraft—the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-22 and the (already well advanced)F/A-18—for a total cost of more than $300 billion. Even more controversially, it will proceed with the Crusader, a self-propelled howitzer whose value has often been questioned by radical defence thinkers. Malicious souls cannot help noticing that the Crusader's manufacturer, United Defense, is part-owned by the Carlyle Group, in which some top Republicans, including George Bush senior, are involved.
At a time when the existence of a deadly threat to the United States is not in question, and the increase in total spending is by any standards generous, criticism of the defence budget may appear carping or even unpatriotic. But for backers of a rapid change in America's defence policy—putting greater emphasis on state-of-the-art electronics and less on heavy armour and manpower-intensive weapons—the first defence budget bearing the Bush administration's stamp is a let-down. “They are proposing to spend 12 times more on tactical aircraft than on unmanned ones,” says budget-watcher Steve Kosiak, who called the 2003 plan “rather disappointing” for reformers.
The war in Afghanistan, as critics point out, added weight to their argument that America needs greater ability to project power with deadly accuracy over enormous distances: in other words, more long-range bombers and cruise missiles. Tactical fighter aircraft, which require access to bases on the soil of possibly fickle allies, are likely to be of diminishing importance—so why spend $300 billion on producing three new kinds? The Pentagon's choices seem at odds with the pledge by Mr Bush, as presidential candidate, to skip a whole generation of weapons.
Before September 11th, almost everybody agreed that the Pentagon had some hard nettle-grasping to do. Either it had to cut the armed forces, by eliminating some army divisions or aircraft carriers, or it had to cancel some arms programmes; and, at the minimum, it would have to close some surplus military bases. Now it looks as if the imperative for these hard choices has been taken away.
For supporters of “transformation”, the budget did contain some nuggets of good news. They were pleased by the decision to spend an extra $800m on unmanned aerial vehicles, which proved highly effective in Afghanistan at delivering firepower as well as spotting what was going on below. Nor can anyone object to the $900m earmarked for more Joint Direct Attack Munitions, a cost-effective form of “smart” or satellite-guided ordnance. And, to those who say the Pentagon is incapable of defeating entrenched lobbies, the administration can point to the axing of a sea-based anti-missile programme that was failing to produce the desired results.
But perhaps the biggest consequences of the newly-unveiled budget are yet to come. As well as adding $9 billion to the procurement fund, the 2003 plan sets aside an extra $7 billion for research and development. This vast scientific effort seems certain to widen the gap between American and European military technology to the point where it cannot be closed.
After years of scolding European governments for their failure to spend enough on defence, there is now a new toughness in the Pentagon's message to its NATO allies. Richard Perle, the chairman of the Defence Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon, says Europe's armed forces have already “atrophied to the point of virtual irrelevance”. According to Vago Muradian, a Washington-based observer of the arms industry, America's defence chiefs are all but resigned to the reality that—barring a few pockets of excellence, such as special forces—“Europe's military capability is bankrupt.” And they have given up wasting their breath, and energy, on galvanising feckless European friends. They have a war to fight, and fretting over incompetent allies is too much of a distraction.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Transformation postponed"
From the February 16th 2002 edition
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Snuff Mills is a park in the Stapleton area of north Bristol, also known as Whitwood Mill.There are pleasant walks along the steep wooded banks of the River Frome, for example to Oldbury Court. The park was purchased in 1926 by the Corporation of Bristol as "a pleasure walk for citizens of Bristol" and restored in the 1980s by the Fishponds Local History Society.The park's name originates from one of the millers. His nickname was 'Snuffy Jack' because his smock was always covered in snuff.The park includes an old quarry and a stone mill. The old mill within the park was used for cutting and crushing stone from the many quarries along the Frome Valley during the late 19th century. It contains a waterwheel, egg-ended boiler in its setting and the remains of a vertical steam engine. Despite the name, tobacco snuff was never ground in this mill.Today, Snuff Mills is still a popular site for locals and visitors who come to enjoy the tranquility and natural surroundings. This stretch of the River Frome is also home to some of Bristol's otters.For travelers who use our world travel planner, Bristol holidays become easier to arrange, with trips to the Snuff Mills and other attractions mapped out and timetabled.
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We love walking around the mills on a weekend. There is plenty of parking at each end and a few spots in the middle. We like to go along the water and along to the spot where all the dogs like to swim and play. Always meet new dog owners and families out doing the same thing as us. It can be wetter than you image even when it’s been dry for a few days so if you plan on heading down the bottom path take your walking boots or wellies.
If you are taking a walk along the river Frome, this is a good place to take a break. You can get coffee and tea or an ice cream. Takeaway or inside.
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Directed by James Foley and co-written by Jenni Hendriks,Ted Caplan,Jennifer Kaytin Robinson,Haley Lu Richardson,Barbie Ferreira,Giancarlo Unpregnant, starring Esposito and others, tells the story of a 17-year-old named Veronica who finds out she's pregnant, a discovery that could end her ivy League dreams, so she goes on a life-changing road trip with her best friend
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It’s always tough trying to find a good holiday destination for your family, especially if you have kids of different ages, trying to cater to everyone’s needs can be tricky. So we’ve come up with a Labels4Kids guide to the top 10 child-friendly holiday destinations of 2012 (in no particular order!).
- Staying in the UK- Cornwall
The “Stay-cation” as it has been coined is quite popular for families with younger children that need entertaining, but cant deal with the travel involved with going abroad and if the UK’s going to have any good weather its more than likely going to be down south. The benefits for the kids: Good Beaches, fun pools, camping/ hotels, rafting and adventure activities (not forgetting surfing and body boarding of course!), sports facilities, good food and plenty of Zoo’s/ Aquariums.
Newquay is seen as the bustling capital of Cornwall and is brilliant for kids and teenagers alike. Great for the first holiday away from Mum and Dad.
2. Staying in the UK- Lake District
A great holiday for the active family. Needing a holiday to wear out the kids? Then this is the place for you! Surrounded by lakes and mountains, a variety of accommodation to suit all budgets and a huge range of activities. Spend the day hiking, boating, climbing or whatever else takes your fancy (weather permitting of course!) the Norfolk Broads is a similar holiday, but a bit more gentle than the activities offered in the lake district
Just a short trip across the channel or a short flight if you want to travel further south for a bit more sun is France. From beach holidays to City Breaks France has a lot to offer, this is true for accommodation too. You could cap in Brittany, Cycle in the Vercors mountains, B&B in Provence, Tree house stay in Paris, Cottage in the Dordogne or Eurocamp throughout the country! Great for all ages!
Mainland Spain offers great food and cultural visits (good for the sports fan or the city slicker).Or the small Balearic Islands each offer a different kind of beach getaway. Menorca and Majorca are very relaxed and child friendly with stays in Hotels or self-catered villa apartments right on the beachfront, you can relax and watch the kids play on the beach from the comfort of your own villa. Ibiza is obviously the renowned party Island, but you also have the family part of the island too, good for teenagers and a younger family depending on the part of the island you stay on.
Greece is similar to Spain In that you can visit The Mainland or the Islands surrounding, A good choice of area is essential for a family holiday as some islands are a bit more rowdy than others (Kavos is the top holiday destination for teenage party goers) but your normally safe with villa’s and apartments rather than hotels
as the groups tend to go to hotels. Family friendly companies have a selection of hotels as recommendations. If your family are sun worshipers this is the holiday for you, however it’s a lot hotter here than Spain and if you’re not too keen on the sun it’s not advised
6. South Africa
If you’re looking to go further afield, and if your kids are big fans of the lion king, South Africa might just be the perfect destination. A bit of a long flight, so probably not advisable with small kids, but for an adventure, heat and more animals than you can shake a stick at, a South-African safari is a great idea. Stay in tree house or tent, country lodges or hotels near the beach and book the safari excursions as required. A bit more expensive but some great deals on safari (and water safari) trips whilst you’re there.
Remember to get your personalised bag tags for your suit cases, pick the bright colours so they stand out on the conveyor belt and ID bands for the kids whilst playing on the beach, to make sure they get returned if they wander off! Labels4Kids.com


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by Jasna Koteska
Most persistent readings of the works of Kafka identify Kafka as the author of intimism (Freud's nuclear family) nihilism (everything eventually comes down to the impossible out of the undefined and unfair Law) and pessimism. The study Kafka, humorist suggested that Kafka should be read as a humorist, at least for two reasons: 1) The Kafka distanced himself from the bitter mode that dominated interpretations of his work as pessimistic. Тhe most - entertainin parts of the biography for Kafka of Max Brod are dedicated to describing the humorous, clownish way in which Kafka had read parts of his novel Process to an audience of literary readings in the apartment of Brod in Prague, and the audience responded with "unstoppable laughter." 2) Reading Kafka as a comedian but not as a pessimist, paradoxically, has a long and more credible tradition.
Since in 1934, on the tenth anniversary of the death of Kafka, Walter Benjamin in his study Kafka offers his work to be read in a humorous way. Deleuze and Guattari, following the advice of Benjamin in their study in 1975 'Kafka' talks about "a very joyous laughter" in Kafka, but note that this tip to read Kafka remains almost unnoticed by his critics. Finally, David Foster Wallace, in his text Laughing with Kafka in 1998 wrote about the complexities of humour in Kafka, claiming his humour has a "heroic normal" quality. The study Kafka, humorist of Koteska, testing the guidelines which provided by Benjamin, Deleuze and Guattari and Wallace and trying to interpret the humor in Kafka through some of his most frequent themes: animalism, miniaturization, asceticism; but and: children, food, knife, machines; finally the portrait of Kafka for some of the most famous figures of his time (among other things, his comments of Charlie Chaplin and Benito Mussolini, who surprise the reader with unusual similarity in their descriptions).
1. Kafka in court: "Kilogramme Kafka"
Future fulfils the dreams of the past. We see the example of Kafka - all life built courtroom, and the posthumously entered it. A few months ago, in October 2012, a court in Tel Aviv ruled that the literary legacy of Franz Kafka becomes the property of the National Library in Jerusalem. It was the final, cynical ending, of a long and painful journey of the grandiose author of the 20th century, who, all his life devoted to the study of airless space in the courtroom. How did Kafka end up exactly where хе placed most of his opus - in court?
As is known, Kafka published very little in his life. Since before death, he destroyed most of his works, and other manuscripts delivered to the friend Max Brod with a clear instruction: to destroy them after his death. Instead of fulfilling the covenant, Max Brod preserved the manuscripts and between 1925 and 1927, at first he published the novel Process, Castle and America, and in 1935 collected works of Kafka. When he moved to Palestine in 1939, Brod took with him the rest of the papers and there he kept until his death in 1968. After the death of Brod, the manuscripts inherits his secretary and mistress Esther Hoffe, who in 1988 on public auction sells the handwriting Process for two million dollars. Then it is already clear that Kafka is not only a cult author of modern civilisation but also lucrative commodities market. Esther died in 2007, and tens of the thousands of pages of manuscripts of Kafka, who inherited her two daughters, Eva and Ruth, deposited in private safes in banks in Tel Aviv and Zurich and in 2007 they have offered on public auction and the price is established according to the simple equation: the texts of Kafka will have the same market value, and the cost per manuscript will be determined by the weight of the boxes. This means that the bidder that offers the most money per kilogramme manuscript, will become the new owner of Kafka! The absurd finish of the most brilliant contemporary descriptor of absurd is twofold. Five years ago on the market of goods was offered Kilogramme Kafka for the richest bidder, and at the same time in the battle for possession over Kafka soon include the state of Israel with a request Kafka to be treated as a legacy of the Jewish people. The problem of this solution worked out brilliantly Judith Butler in the text Who Owns Kafka? (2011). Butler, herself Jewish, in the text has questioned the legitimacy of the so-called law of return: to whom actually belongs the cultural heritage of the Jewish diaspora: to the state of Israel or the Diaspora? (Butler, 2011: 3-8) The fact that Kafka all his life stayed away from affiliation, made the right of belonging over posthumous Kafka even more traore.
The dispute over the ownership of Kafka was conducted in front of the family court in Tel Aviv, in front of the only two institutions (family court), whose disclosure Kafka dedicate all his work. Except in Jerusalem for housing the legacy of Kafka between 2007 and 2012, has fought another institution - the German Literature Archive in Marbach, the same archive who in 1988 bought the manuscript Process of the auction house - Sotheby for three and a half million dollars. As a Czech Jew, Kafka spoke a German and Czech language, but from his rich correspondence it is clear that in both languages did not feel comfortable, none of them was quite at home. Although Hannah Arendt praises Kafka as the purest German stylist, and though the Kafka briefly lived in Berlin, Kafka clearly told that he is not feel like part of Germanism (at least not in socially, even in a cultural sense). On the other hand, although he was Cech according to territorially birth and he spoke the Czech language, Kafka did not feel either as a member of the Czech culture (Milena Jasenska in letters to Kafka often corrected his Czech language, just as his fiancée Felice Bauer corrected his German language), and nor quite feel that he belongs to the Jewish tradition. Although in 1911, Kafka once a week, went to the Yiddish theater, he read Kabbalah and discussed in his diaries, then readed Jewish magazines and went to the lectures on Zionism, still in his family Kafka rarely heard Yiddish and the language is treated as East and alienated, while the desire to move to Palestine, unlike Max Brod, who was active Zionists, in Kafka is more fantasy from the other side of the experience than planned activity. And although for Hannah Arendt fact that the language of Kafka is completely cleansed of "stylistic junk" makes the clearest evidence of German, exactly that purity drives Max Brod, Kafka's work to declare for the most typical Jewish document.
Who, then, belongs Kafka? The entire work of Kafka is lament for not hosted in any of the three cultures (Jewish, German, Czech), and Deleuze and Guattari, rightly, of his brilliant study of Kafka, simply titled Kafka (1975) it gave the subtitle to a small literature ( Deleuze and Guattari, 1998: 5-155). Kafka is the author of fundamental alienation, and for the fundamental non-belonging, except eventually to the small (cultures, literature, identities). However, the knower of Kafka is doomed to dispute even with Deleuze and Guattari. Kafka thoroughly does not belong to any small cultures, languages, ideologies, because he just does not want to belong to any subclass of a human; he does not want to belong to any human, and even belongs to himself - his whole project is the idea of destroying biotic, human, even on the most - singular level. Although he was engaged, Kafka has never married. He never owned any personal property and he had not his own apartment. Finally, Kafka did not want to own even his own work, leaving the clear instruction to Max Brod to destroy all his manuscripts after his death.
The project of Kafka refined attempt to kill the human circulation of commodities, goods, love, hatred, objects, meaning ... In this sense, belonging to "A minor literature", which spokes Deleuze and Guattari, is the existence of the minor literatures and cultures "defeated but proud" because Kafka had not had pathetic attitude to his place in culture ( "I'm overwhelmed, I'm small, but I am proud, I exist"). No. And not just because Kafka did not play on the miserable map of pride, but because in Kafka is the final question of existence. He thoroughly explores the idea of a last who will testify that no longer existence, the last one witness that testify that existence no longer exists. To exist as the last, with the idea to leave a testimony of disruption in existence, to justify the non-existence - it is probably the essential message of the work of Kafka. If it's so, the logical question is: why, then, Kafka himself did not destroyed his own manuscripts, when he already was sure that he wanted his own works to disappear with him? Is not it safe, if he really wanted he himself to light his work, making sure that none of him will remain after his death? Whether the transfer of the obligation to Max Brod no longer speak that Kafka least calculating with the possibility Max Brod to reject the application from the dead Kafka and therefore perverse to accomplish precisely his thoroughly desire: "I choose to celebrate me, but even after my death, to glorify me, but only as a commodity - it will be my final victory "? This question placed those who operating with the pragmatic logic that fame or success are factors of one's existence. It Kafka is still too little to understand the complexity of the project called K. For Kafka final gesture of destruction must pass to other (must pass to Max Brod) because only that passage guarantees the continuation of the absurd. The gesture of Kafka for delayed destruction of the manuscripts is the only logical outcome of his work.
Kafka is humorist of the absurd and his last testament to the destruction of meaning must pass to other because if Kafka himself burned his writings, he would close the circle of nonsense, while the work is always in the game to stay possibility absurd to transfer as a minimal message, as a minimal game. In that game, Kafka pledges all his work. And in this sense, the world really touched the absurdity of Kafka, when, turning his work into a commodity altercation in the front of the family court, really confirmed his masterful diagnosis: that civilisation will become only more movingly banal, and more pathologically dangerous that this culture, people and works only increasingly be replaced by items. Kafka ensures that beyond the existence, to the world will direct his own question: Do you not see that I had left my latest toy as evidence of not belonging, and you continue to gnaw who belongs that toy, remaining blind message from my gesture? Certainly, in the gesture of Kafka has a certain arrogance, but it is not the arrogance of the winner, it's the least arrogance of the defeated, the arrogance of the wise from the bottom. The gesture of Kafka is less humour of the director of the circus, and more humour of the clowns who have already pulled makeup.
Kafka is first great civilisation author who clearly states that man and works in the modern world have become objects, elements of nothingness, evidence of non-existence. According to the testimony of Janoah, Kafka said: "We are more object than a living being" (Kafka, 2011a: 128). As it progresses his diaries, so less Kafka himself describes the terms of a human being, less in terms of estranged or dead person, even less in terms of the animal (the decisions of the stories The Metamorphosis or The Burrow). Late Kafka has only one description of himself, he becomes a nice corpse to vultures towns, ham from the perfect supermarket. In the diary Kafka read his fantasy of "broad knife to butcher it quickly and with mechanical regularity cut into me by thin pieces (ham) flying" (Begley, 2008: 56), which Zelda Smith called it "a perfect piece Kafka ... Parma style, pezzi di Kafka "(Smith, 2008: 5).
Here is a brilliant prospect of the author, who, decades later, and in our historical time, really finished as kilogramme Kafka sold at auction Kilogramme Kafka for vultures of the city, which markets packed terms offered as food.
2. KAFKA, humorist
When we say that Kafka is humorist of the absurd, the question follows: Is it possible on the occasion of Kafka to talk about any humor? How can about the author of horrible terrifying meaninglessness, to attach any laughter?
Anyone who, like me, undertook to teach Kafka in universities' classrooms know that Kafka is almost impossible to teach. Kafka simply does not work in the classroom. And most charismatic lecturer, equipped with appropriate methodological arsenal, rarely manages to overcome the rejection by which students regularly respond to Kafka, the inability to transfer knowledge kilogramme Kafka on the "next generation." Kafka in my classroom most often caused anxiety, nausea and what specific sliding of meaning in our work as interpreters of literary works. Why is that? The work of Kafka's dramatic break with the logic of each micro-community (in the classroom, in the courtroom, the hospital, at the slaughterhouse) ... Students reject Kafka because they feel that Kafka breaks the social logic of the commons upon which classroom relies. Students intuitively feel that dialogue with Kafka is already some dialogue of the enemies, namely dialogue with someone who wants to set up a break in the dialogue. Kafka sometimes can really cause admiration, but it's always admiration mixed with disgust, admiration for someone, though still part of us, simultaneously is someone who erupted from the human circulation, someone who disputes the classroom. More than any other writer that I know, Kafka causes an interruption in the transfer of knowledge, resistance to Oedipal transmission of the human heritage, from older to younger, briefly - resistance to pedagogical tradition.
However, the acceptance of Kafka in the classroom is possible under one condition. From my humble experience, that is if Kafka in the classroom taught as philosophically meditative humorist. Kafka would not oppose this decision. The most beautiful pages of the biography of Max Brod, Kafka committed to remember when Kafka stopped before readers in Prague's round of Brod, which loudly laughed while he comically read the first chapter of Process. "They," said Max Brod, "laughed with unbridled laughter" (Deleuze and Guattari, 1998: 74). Before his listeners, Kafka performed as Charlie Chaplin, aware that his work can only be received through humour mode. He has performed as a clown who communicates truth in the pause of the battle between man and the lion, between the battle of acrobats and gravity. Kafka read his unfinished sketches as a fun interlude in which to denounce the whole grandiose representation of the world as a break while the circus administration changes mise-en-scene, to strain ropes next acrobat, it arranges decor of oriental East ... and only the lonely clown, whom audience mostly ignored, trying to turn the attention of irked and hungry viewers for blood. Just in that little pause and just a clown have permission to communicate the truth about the essence of things. But that truth is not true desires almost no one from the audience. Kafka was unaware that there in the theatre comedy exists those frightening dimensions of unshaped horror. Writing should be disclosure, writes Kafka, and thus define the theatre:
"In the theater come enemies, not the audience, strength is spent on secondary matters; from it at the end remains only effort, straining, and it is almost never begets quality. ... Therefore I not go to the theater. It's too sad"(Kafka, 2011a: 74).
The Circus, clownish mode in which Kafka had read his own creation in front of friends, paradoxically, is actually the most difficult tone to communicate the essence of things. Children with horror looking at the clownish person. Upset mother extracted weeping babies from the circus tents while clown performing. Thousands of people witnessed the horror that intimate feels of seeing the face of a clown in the condensed mixture of sadness and joy. Adult viewers mostly ignored irritant interlude of clowns. While in the arena, technicians placed the ropes for the next epic struggle of the trainer with the lion, for the next drama of the acrobat with the gravity, circus audience invariably endure the clown only for the award which he knows that will follow later, when they can see magnificent person who overcomes the lion, which tamed the snake, which overcomes gravity ... all subsequent points of the rank of the victory of the man ... in the epic game of the world, namely, man wins just because he learned to play in dishonest way, on unfair terrain and "rigged backdrops." We do not need much wisdom to realise that barehanded man could never beat the free, no-narcotised lion of prairie in an equal fight. While the circus was going great deception of the world, then the only clown has the most difficult task. The only clown with its small, small strokes must testify unto fundamental meaninglessness of the victory (which, if the viewer grasp in all its tragicomic dimension) will disintegrate precisely the meaning of the circus.
The American writer David Foster Wallace, who a few years ago has committed suicide and who was one of the last truly great inheritors of Kafkian's tradition in literature, in the brilliant text Laughing with Kafka (1998), also, pleaded to read Kafka as a humorist. Wallace said the big stories and good jokes have a common feature, are not information, but ex-formation (Wallace, 1998: 23). That good literature and a good joke are a vitality which escapes from signifying chains of information, which in shock effect of understanding happens suddenly, here and now, knowing that later causes paralysis of action. What I have yet to announce when Kafka telling his joke? The simple logic tells us that the easiest way to destroy the joke is to explain after it recounted. The same logic applies to Kafka: how to go further with the interpretation when the text of Kafka is already demystified by the logic of interpretation? Kafka does not work the traditional interpretation of symbols, decoding the 'semantic keys' in the plot and similar techniques which normally use for dismembering of the literary works. How to interpret the joke in Kafka? Kafka disliked literary theorists and critics, not tolerated literary machinery that chokes the text.
Moreover, Kafka stands outside the literary schools of stylistic directions. For various authors we can say that "written as" Kafka. Kafka himself might like to write as Robert Walser (the only author who truly admired). But certainly - can not on occasion Kafka to say: "A-ha, this story of Kafka-like Proust, like the Dostoevsky ...." As the joke can not say that it looks like another joke. The best joke is always singular, and if it is part of a series of similar jokes ( "go bear in the woods ..." or "little Mujo asks the teacher ..." or "Chuck Norris can ..."), then it is over strings of singular jokes they are not "talk" with other such jokes, because the real humor is a matter of first time, the creaking of the material, the resistance of the fabric, novelty that causing disruption of the public order, causing an earthquake in signifying chains, because it is unexpectedness and because it is like nothing before and after them. Likewise the stories of Kafka are singular creations. In them humor is dry; humour not based on a linguistic play or sexual allusion, nor on stylised effort. The characters in Kafka's are not ironic comments on the characters from the previous literature. Kafka's characters are absurd and frightening and sad and singular - his characters exist only in the literary world and come out of nowhere. Therefore, the humor of Kafka is furthest from the humor of sitcoms, for example, just as it is not a humor of blessed riddles and or coarse insinuations, nor is the so-called humor of the situation ( "the husband moved the bed and under saw him, the naked lover") - it is too barbaric for Kafka, but that does not mean that Kafka harbored a subtle humor. Rather, quite the opposite - the humour of Kafka is dry and clean and above all anti (subtle) humour.
to be continued ...
Translated from: http://www.jasnakoteska.blogspot.com/ by Dejan Stojkovski
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The drawdown of Lake Hamilton has brought up some of the usual underwater structure, but good reports are coming from anglers looking for bass.
The Beaver Lake tailwaters are active right now. Our reports indicate great trout action going on, such as near the Houseman access pictured here.
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Authorities of the Nigeria Police, Kano State Command, yesterday paid the sum of N1m insurance claims to the families of two policemen killed by unknown gunmen.
Receiving the money on behalf of her family, 18-year old Binta Ahmed lamented the loss of her father, saying his untimely death brought untold sorrow and pain to her family.
Speaking with reporters after receiving the Insurance claim from the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Zone I, Mr. David Olufemi Omojola, Binta said: “I thank the Almighty Allah and the Nigeria Police for the kind gesture. I am not the only child in the family as I have other brothers and sisters. Since the death of my father, life has never been the same again. But with this gesture, I think we can start something to better our lives, as well as cushion the pains of his absence.
AIG Omojola emphasized that no amount of money can replace human lives like the breadwinners of the family, saying the gesture is to acknowledge the role of those killed while serving their fatherland.
He, however, noted that the money was the insurance claims of the dead policemen, adding that the Police Force has reserved burial expenses, as well as gratuities to their next of kin.
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Effect of Rare-Earth Doping on Structural and Luminescent Properties of Screen-Printed ZnO Films
In the present study the results on effect of doping of screen-printed ZnO films with Sm3+ and/or Ho3+ions are presented. Photoluminescence (PL) and Raman scattering spectra as well as the X-ray diffraction patterns of undoped and doped films are examined in details versus sintering conditions and doping level.
In the PL spectra of undoped ZnO films sintered at 400−700°C, the excitonic emission was observed only, whereas sintering at higher temperatures (up to 1200°C) resulted in the appearance of visible defect-related PL bands peaked at 540−600 nm. The most intensive defect-related emission was found in the films sintered at 1000°C and these latter were doped with rare-earth ions of different concentration in the range of 1·1019− 4·1020 cm-3.
In the PL spectra of the RE-doped films, the corresponding RE emission was observed at low temperatures, but not at room temperature. Since the defect-related PL band caused by intrinsic defects in ZnO overlapped essentially with corresponding Ho and Sm PL bands, the PL bands peaked at about 700 nm due to 4G5/2→6H11/2 transitions in Sm3+ ions were observed only. At the same time, simultaneous codoping with both Sm3+ and Ho3+ ions produced significant decrease in the intensity of the UV and visible defect-related PL bands as well as the increase in the intensity of Sm3+ and Ho3+ PL components. In the PL excitation spectra of the PL band peaked at about 720 nm in addition to excitation caused by ZnO band-to-band absorption and absorption involving intrinsic defects of zinc oxide, a new characteristic absorption band at about 410 nm appeared. The effect of RE doping on the PL and PL excitation spectra is discussed in terms of the formation of RE ions complexes as well as energy transfer from ZnO host to RE ions.

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I have to admit, when the Phoenix Coyotes traded Peter Mueller to the Colorado Avalanche for Wojtek Wolski, I thought the Coyotes got the better end of that deal. Mueller had gained a reputation as a problem child with an attitude problem, and I questioned whether he would be able to fit into a tight and successful locker room in Denver.
Turns out, he’s doing just fine according to Adrian Dater of the Denver Post.
Mueller, 21, is kiddingly called “Savior”
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“Like I’ve said, it’s a great situation where you feel like the team
has confidence in you,” Mueller said. “It’s been a good change for me. I
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Mueller has 15 points in 11 games with the Avs, and is two points away from equaling his total with the Coyotes before he was traded. It’s certainly case of a new environment working out perfectly for a troubled player.
I’m not certain whether Mueller will work out in the long run, but it’s great to see a young player with great potential finally find success. I can’t agree with whining your way off a team just because you couldn’t make it work, but the move was beneficial for both teams so it’s just water under the bridge at this point.
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5 North American Winter Olympics Host Cities That Are Worth a Visit
The 2018 Winter Olympics are in South Korea with athletes from a record 92 countries. Even if you weren’t among the 3,000 athletes vying for gold, you can make your own Olympic memories by visiting one of the five North American Winter Olympic host cities. Relive your favorite moments from past Olympics or try your skills on the race tracks and ice rinks where records were set, lifelong dreams came true and immortality was achieved.
Lake Placid, New York (1932 and 1980)
The site of not one, but two Winter Games, Lake Placid’s most famous contribution to Olympic history is serving as the stage for the “Miracle on Ice.” The Soviet “Red Army” hockey team was heavily favored to secure a fifth consecutive title in the 1980 Games but lost to the underdog U.S. team. All Olympic venues are within 8 miles of Main Street and are maintained by the State of New York, so travelers can glide across the “miracle” ice rink, ski and shoot at the biathlon center and follow the trails down Whiteface Mountain, the East Coast’s greatest vertical drop, on one trip.
Guests of Mirror Lake Inn are welcomed with free afternoon tea and cookies by the lobby fireplace, leaving no doubt why this AAA 4-Diamond hotel pulls in accolades from Travel + Leisure and Conde Nast. The inn is one block from Main Street and a 10-minute drive from Whiteface Mountain, near all the Olympic venues.
Squaw Valley, California (1960)
Only two families called Squaw Valley home when the town submitted a bid for the 1960 Games; thanks to the international exposure, today it is one of the largest ski resorts in the U.S. The first games to be televised live, the eighth Winter Olympics were also the first to feature instant replay, metal skis and women’s speed skating. Historic snowfall last winter damaged the Olympic Ice Pavilion beyond repair, leaving Squaw Valley Ski Resort as the only remaining venue from the games. Travelers can still ski the world-class-caliber slopes, tour the Olympic museum and warm up afterward with hot chocolate or toddies in The Village at Squaw Valley.
Keep the cozy, mountain theme going by staying in a fireplace room at the new Lodge at Edgewood, located 90 minutes away in Lake Tahoe. Rooms also feature private terraces and the heated lakefront pool is open year-round.
Calgary, Alberta (1998)
Canada’s inaugural games might be best-remembered for the Cinderella story Jamaican bobsled team that inspired the popular Disney movie “Cool Runnings.” Thirty years later, Jamaica’s women’s team is now taking its shot at Olympic glory, and Calgary has blossomed into the heart of Canada’s winter sports program. Developing elite athletes have flocked here for three decades, utilizing five Olympic venues for their original functions. World championships from skating to skeleton are still held at the stadiums, affording sports fans plenty of opportunities to snag front-row seats for the action. Don’t miss a chance to “feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme” at up to 4Gs on Winsport’s 10-turn bobsled track.
The Hotel Le Germain Calgary is two blocks from Olympic Plaza and within a 20-minute drive of the venues that hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, figure skating competitions and ice hockey.
Salt Lake City, Utah (2002)
Patriotism was at an all-time high for the first Olympics after the 9/11 terror attacks when President Bush opened the Winter Games, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to do so. Americans secured 34 medals, including a sweep of the podium in men’s snowboarding. As one of the most successful Olympics on record, the 2002 Games boasted over two billion viewers and a $40 million surplus, later used to maintain the Games’ venues. Today’s visitors can feel the growing excitement as the city campaigns to host its second Winter Games in 2026, ride professionally piloted bobsleds and join a public skating session at the Utah Olympic Oval, called the “fastest ice on Earth.”
Staying at Little America Hotel puts powder enthusiasts within an hour’s drive of 11 ski resorts. After a day on the slopes, relax in the hotel’s sauna and indoor pool, one of the largest in town.
Vancouver, British Columbia (2010)
Mountain sports for the 2010 Games were held about two hours up the Sea-to-Sky Highway in Whistler Olympic Park. Dramatic views of the ocean and waterfalls give way to the snow-peaked mountains, where First Nations welcomed the world to their territory and the gold medal for both men’s and women’s hockey went to the home team Canadians. Guests can take bobsled lessons, brave the notorious 2,500-foot drop on the Dave Murray Downhill course or snowboard on Cypress Mountain. The Whistler Olympic Plaza, adorned with memorabilia, offers free outdoor public ice skating and outdoor performances.
Guests of the AAA 4-Diamond Nita Lake Lodge can ride complimentary shuttles to Whistler Village and enjoy free ski locker access. Named a “World’s Best” resort by Travel + Leisure, the lodge’s spa offers hot stone massages and yoga classes to soothe muscles after a day on the mountains.
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Vol16 No.3: 677-688
【Title】Seismic vulnerability assessment of urban buildings and traffic networks using fuzzy ordered weighted average
【Author】Yasaman ASADI1; Najmeh Neysani SAMANY1*; Keyvan EZIMAND2
【Addresses】1 Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran 33137-67464, Iran; 2 Remote Sensing and GIS Center, Faculty of Earth Science, University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran 57451-36481, Iran
【Corresponding author】Najmeh Neysani SAMANY
【Citation】Asadi Y, Samany NN, Ezimand K (2019) Seismic vulnerability assessment of urban buildings and traffic networks using fuzzy ordered weighted average. Journal of Mountain Science 16(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-017-4802-4
【Abstract】Urban buildings and urban traffic network are considered as the vital arteries of cities which have particular effects especially after the crisis in the search and rescue operations. The aim of this study is to determine the vulnerability of urban areas especially, buildings and traffic networks using multi-criteria geographic information systems and decision-making methods. As there are many effective criteria on the seismic vulnerability that they have uncertain and vague properties, the method of this paper is applying fuzzy ordered weighted average (OWA) to model the seismic vulnerability of urban buildings and traffic networks in the most optimistic and pessimistic states. The study area is district 6 of Tehran that is affected by the four major faults, and thus will be threatened by the earthquakes. The achieved results illustrated the vulnerability with different degrees of risk levels including very high, high, medium, low and very low. The results show that in the most optimistic case 14% and in the pessimistic case 1% of buildings tolerate in very low vulnerability. The vulnerability of urban street network also indicates that in the optimistic case 12% and in the pessimistic case at most 9% of the area are in appropriate condition and the North and North-East of the study area are more vulnerable than South of it.
【Keywords】Earthquake; Vulnerability Assessment; Urban buildings; Traffic network; Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA); Fuzzy-OWA


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Approximately 2,149 suspected and confirmed cases have been reported in Angola, including 277 deaths. The outbreak of yellow fever in Angola poses a threat to the entire world, particularly Asia. There are approximately 100,000 Chinese migrant workers in Angola who could potentially carry the virus home. Immunisation against yellow fever is practically non-existent in China and six unvaccinated workers from China returned from Angola with the virus. Asia is yet to experience a major outbreak of yellow fever, but expanding migration and globalisation make the continent highly susceptible to an epidemic.
If we don’t want to virus to spread, we must reach the countries where people are not vaccinated against yellow fever. We need rapid mobilisation to contain the outbreak in Angola. Increasing links between China and the African continent pose a risk to Asia, where yellow fever is virtually non-existent. The UN and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have already shipped 9 million doses of vaccine to Angola, but that is only enough for about a third of the population. Stocks are rapidly running out as health officials attempt to contain the outbreak in Angola. Drop in oil prices is also damaging Angola’s ability to combat the virus and treat the sick; the health service is free and funded entirely by the state. But the state budget depends entirely on oil. Declining oil prices correlates with a declining social welfare system. Containing the virus and preventing deaths will be even more of a challenge.
Globalisation has meant that people are travelling more than ever, enhancing their ability of picking up a virus and bringing it home. There are numerous reasons for strict border control as more people are migrating for a better quality of life and employment opportunities, but potential health risks are an important factor. The WHO stated that the recent outbreak in urban areas of Democratic Republic of Congo highlights the threat of international spread, especially to Namibia and Zambia where their populations aren’t usually vaccinated against yellow fever. An epidemic has the potential to wipe out the majority of a healthy, working population who create the foundation for economic growth and development. China is emerging as a huge economic superpower with the world’s largest population, predicted to account for 25.6% of global output by 2020. 54% of the total population live in urban areas; yellow fever is easily spread amongst urban areas with large, overcrowded populations.
How is it going to spread to China’s urban population? Migration and trade. China has an increasingly important position in Africa – there is a rising demand from China for Africa’s commodities and emerging economies are becoming more dependent on Africa for their imports. Nigeria, Algeria and Angola are the key oil exporters. China is a key aid donor and provides many concessional loans to African countries – China’s presence in Africa is growing and showing few signs of slowing down. Stronger economic ties means more migration.
If yellow fever spreads through China, it has the potential to reach other parts of Asia. A new challenge for China may be to limit migration to parts of Africa or enhance border control to check for serious health risks. Special attention must be placed on returning migrants from Angola and other potentially endemic areas. Although the risk of establishment of a local cycle of transmission in China is minor due to the current climatic condition, if it starts to spread rapidly from person-to-person it may become a major risk. Climate change experts have also suggested global warming as a cause of outbreaks of yellow fever in unusual destinations; mosquitoes can now survive in conditions where they could not survive several decades ago. The WHO must figure out a way to stretch supplies before it spreads beyond Africa and parts of Asia. A healthy, working population is vital to economic growth, reducing poverty and enhancing development; prioritising health, whether it be through restrictive migration and trade, should be a top priority for middle-income and emerging economies across the South.


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People automatically assume that a drunk driving charge will apply only when they’re driving a motor vehicle. That’s not the case in Pennsylvania. This is one state that applies drunk driving laws to individuals who are on bicycles.
Even if the police officer doesn’t charge you with a drunk driving offense for being on your bicycle while you’re impaired, there’s a chance that another charge, such as public drunkenness, might apply. The bottom line is that you should try to find another way home if you’ve been drinking.
How is biking under the influence determined?
Police officers use the same standards to determine if a person on a bike is drunk. Chemical tests and standardized field sobriety tests are useful in these cases. The blood alcohol concentration is used to determine which of the three tiers your case falls into:
- General impairment: .08 to .099 percent
- High BAC: .10 to .159 percent
- Highest BAC: .16 percent and higher
The penalties for drunk biking are the same as for drunk driving so you’re facing a license suspension, fines, and other penalties. These vary depending on whether it’s your first drunk driving charge or a subsequent one.
Anyone who’s facing a drunk biking charge should take it as seriously as a drunk driving charge. These cases come with considerable penalties that can have an impact on the rest of your life. Learn your options so you can make decisions based on what you feel is best for your situation. Having someone on your side who’s familiar with these laws is beneficial so you can determine how each option will impact you.

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Positioned just between Sydney and Canberra, Goulburn is mainly known for its maximum security prison. Today the prison takes the backseat when the NPL state final has managed to attract 562 action thirsty poker players to fight it out for the $31,500 prize pool with a $12,000 Aussie Millions package on top.
Personally I got a terrible start to the day. Summer dust storms in Australia have a tendency to impact air traffic and my flight to Sydney was 2 hours late. I finally managed to make it to Sydney and was picked up by PartyPoker’s Territorial Manager Henrik Nilsson.
Being late we immediately got on the road and started to go through the speech I’m supposed to do. I think I’m good with people one on one, but talking in front of an audience takes me out of my comfort zone.
I read my script to Henrik and spent the rest of the drive practicing my speech, in the end I think it came out ok. I have been so fortunate winning the Aussie Millions so I wanted to give something back to the poker community and decided at the last minute to give any player that signs up through my account within the next 48 hours a $25 free no deposit bonus.
Shuffle Up And Deal
After a quick catch up with organiser Simon Watts and NPL CEO Richard O’Neill I got right into the poker action playing the first tourney with a $70 bounty on my head. This is different from what I’m used to, it’s self dealt and everyone is trying to take you out. For me, playing a lot online and with dealers playing live, I was nervous dealing and managed a misdeal the first two times. My cards were cold and I spent the first 30 min folding.
The only hand I played was with 9-10 off. Everyone limped and I completed in the small blind, big blind checks. Flop A53 rainbow and I decide to lead out with 550 bet into a 300 pot! (?). This sounds silly but truth to be told I mixed up the colours of the chips and got it wrong. I was supposed to bet 150 which make sense to anyone who knows anything about poker. People started giggling at my rookie mistake but the bet got the job done. This is quality poker folks!
Obama Eat Your Heart Out
After an hour it’s time for the first break and I’m entering the stage to deliver my speech, applause and 562 pairs of eyes are looking at me. I finish my speech and later found out that half the room couldn’t hear it due to the sound being too low. I think I did alright and feel like one step closer to a speech that will rival Obama. Well maybe not, but at least Kevin 07.
After the break I’m back in action. My cold streak continues and I’m starting to get frustrated. After been forced to fold a few hands I’m in desperate need to double up and fancy my chances on A2 of clubs from early position. The action gets folded around to the big blind that makes the call with Q8. Not too shabby, roughly 60/40 in my favour. Flop Q89 no clubs and I’m heading for the rails.
I’m comforting myself with a drink and exchange a few bad beat stories with the locals. I must say it’s great to be at a grassroots poker event like this. The action is good, the players are friendly and the atmosphere is more relaxed than the big pro tournaments.
I will play my second tournament for the night and then go back to my room to prep myself for my own Stewart Scott Aussie Millions Highroller Invitational (quite a mouthful) online tourney on Party Poker tomorrow evening at 19:00. It’s a $270 buy in with a $12,000 GTD. This is important to me because all my Aussie poker mates will play it and I want to do well.
Over and out from Goulburn


The Need for an Event-based API in the Cloud
According to William Vambenepe
Events/alerts/notifications have been a central concept in IT management at least since the first SNMP trap was emitted, and probably even long before that. And yet they are curiously absent from all the Cloud management APIs/protocols.
And yet the bulk of cloud management APIs today are based on polling. According to George Reese such polling approach:
... results in an incredibly inefficient use of CPU power... [at] the cloud provider as well as wasted bandwidth on both ends. We certainly do a number of optimizations to make sure we are polling as infrequently as we can get away with... [but] the bottom line remains, however, that most of our calls are wasteful.
To solve this problem, Reese proposed an event-driven API through which "the cloud provider notifies us of changes in resources we care about" He also noted some of the challenges his proposal is going to face:
- An event-driven API demands a level of standardization that just doesn't exist in the cloud world today. You can't have every consumer designing its own callback API, and even supporting a cross-cloud system with every cloud provider defining its own callback protocol is problematic.
- You can't provide data via the callbacks because providing data requires reverse authentication and complicates the entire process.
- In the end, the consumer can't fully trust the callback API. It still needs to make some calls on its own to verify the cloud provider is actually working properly.
Reese proposed some simple solutions to deal with those challenges:
- The introduction of a standardized callback format (should be very simple, something like [consumer-base]/[asset class]/[id])
- Integration of event callbacks into the existing cloud APIs.
Based on his experience with the WS-Notification family of specifications, Vambenepe strongly supports the idea of simple APIs. In his opinion, a cloud-centered eventing protocol can be made simpler by focusing on fewer use cases (cloud scenarios only). The following elements, according to him, can be used as a foundation for a cloud eventing implementation:
- Types of event. The client should be able to specify what kind of resource information he is interested in.
How do you describe the changes you care about? Is there an agreed-upon set of states for the resource and you are only notified on state transitions? Can you indicate the minimum severity level for an event to be emitted?...In Vambenepe’s opinion, WS-Topics represents the best approach to solve these problems.
- Event formats. Cloud events should adhere to a standard event model defining:.
How is the event metadata captured (e.g. time stamp of observation, which may not be the same as the time at which the notification message was sent)? If the event payload is a representation of the new state of the resource, does it indicate what field changes (and what the old value was)?
- Subscription creation. A standard subscription mechanism has to be created, considering the following questions:
Do you get to change what filter the subscription carries? Can you change the delivery endpoint?... Who sets the expiration period? Can the provider set a max duration? Can you renew a subscription...? What if your subscription is being killed because your deliver endpoint is down?... Do you provide a separate... subscription management... endpoint (different from the event delivery endpoint) when you subscribe?
- Delivery mechanism. There are many options for event delivery ranging from permanently opened HTTP connections (similar to COMET long polling) to HTTP callback URL to XMPP, to AMQP, to email.
- Security. Depending on the delivery mechanism, different security implementations might be required.
- Throttling. An eventing implementation should ensure that neither resource, nor consumers are overwhelmed by the amount of the emitted/received event.
As InfoQ has previously reported, asynchronous APIs are very important for cloud computing. Introduction of a full-fledged eventing protocol can solve this problem and more. Hopefully, authors of this specification will learn from WS-Notification and create the one that will be simpler without sacrificing coverage and reach.
Here is what I said about WS-Topics in the blog entry you refer to: "some of this is handled by WS-Topics which I still like conceptually (I co-edited it) but is too complex for the task at hand."
So no, I do NOT think that WS-Topics should be used to classify events for Cloud management APIs. We need something simpler.
Check out the paper : " Towards a common API for publish/subscribe"
WS-Eventing is simple enough
Azure AppFabric has limited pub/sub but I believe that it will get better.
For mobile applications, email may be good fit - especially with 'push' email capabilities (personally I have used windows mobile exchange client + .Net CF and SOAP to good affect).


UMich confidence, expectations and what is really happening in the economy are all headed in different directions. San Francisco housing declines as more people decide to leave the area. Core durable goods decline. The revisions are in for the Q1 GDP, they have now been pushed up to 1.2%. Arizona Governor signs bill which will exempt gold and silver from taxation from the IRS. The deep state pushes the idea of free money for everyone as the system breaks down. China has been using the FIAT system to spend as much as possible before the collapse. Trump is now taking the travel ban to the supreme court. Bannon is back to help out with the Russia collusion hoax. The FBI refuses to give the memo to congress. They are looking into Jarred Kushner’s contacts to see if he colluded with Russia. Trump makes deals in the middle east with China on the OBOR system as the US comes off the petro dollar. Trump heads to the G7 meeting to discuss climate change and North Korea. Duterte says the CIA is trying to assassinate him and that ISIS was sent to his country by the CIA. Russia accuses the US of creating and support the IS in Afghanistan. Italy PM says NATO and Russia need to talk. Russia and China agree on the format for Syria.


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Our Dog Coats are made from upcycled Denim Jeans and Fleece Jackets, which can be made in any size to suit your Dogs breed.
A major part of our Business ethos here at The Eco Dog Design Company is all about the "ECO".
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Born in Whitby on 7 February 1834, he was the younger child and only son of William Pannett (d.1July 1858), who had come to work in Whitby from Littlehampton in Sussex and who soon after marrying Alice Elliott became a hairdresser. At the age of 12 Robert was apprenticed and then articled to Thomas Broderick Simpson, a solicitor, after having attended a private school run by Ralph Gibson.
On Simpson's retirement Pannett was assigned to Bell, Broderick & Gray, qualified at Lincoln's Inn to be admitted as a solicitor in November 1858, becoming a partner of Gray in Whitby. He became very active in public affairs, first on the Town Improvement Commission from1863 (being its clerk from 1866), then from 1872 a member of its successor, the District Local Board, until Whitby became an Urban District Council in 1894. On the North Riding County Council coming into being in 1888, he was elected as a Liberal for Whitby West Ward until 1908 when he was elected to the aldermanic bench, being Chairman of the Technical Instruction Committee. On the opening of the County Hall at Northallerton in 1906 he established a library and became its librarian. Other offices held were as a magistrate from 1903, Chairman of the Whitby Water Company from 1899 to 1915, and a director of the Whitby & North Yorkshire Building Society.
Pannett, who never married, was a generous benefactor to the town and supported numerous charitable causes, including the cottage hospital, the Trust for the Blind, the Charity Organisation Society and the Choral Society. From 1861 he was a member of the Literary and Philosophical Society, serving on its committee, and in his will left money to purchase land for a public park, where the Pannett Art Gallery and Museum was opened in 1928. A member of Brunswick WM chapel, he organized its Sunday School library, gave the 'Brunswick Room' as a school hall in 1892 and left money for the installation of a pipe organ.
Pannett retired from his legal practice in 1896 and died on 22 July 1920,

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The king of the turn up teams up with the king of EDM for a new party-themed video for "Rage The Night Away."
"Punk Rap, that’s EDM," Waka said about his dance music ventures. "People didn’t understand what I was saying, now they do. I see a lot of my students, I’m like the principal, I’m here to talk. The King of Rap EDM is me."


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Hello Readers & Writers,
Welcome to the third installment of the Now What? series, featuring Ana Franco who will discuss how she knew her agent was right for her and what you can keep an eye out for yourself when you have an offer of representation.
It’s true. There tons and tons of amazing literary agents out there.
So how do you know who is the perfect match for you?
It’s easy! You ask questions.
What I suggest, first and foremost, is to ask to chat with the agent’s clients. Not only those that write in your genre, but clients in general. Clients that are still revising with the agent, clients on submission, clients that have sold books before.
A Note: Always make sure to ask to read the agent’s contract before signing anything. That’s one thing my agent told me when I mentioned I’d like to notify other agents of my offer of rep. Ask to read their contracts. Always.)
After chatting with my then-future-agent’s clients, I knew there was a huge chance he was “The One.” His style of representation suited me. For example, my agent writes small edit letters, leaves comments on my manuscript, and corrects my grammar.
There are, however, different sorts of agents. Some are faster to read, some slower. Some write edit letters, some don’t.
Same with how they approach editors—some will pitch via email, some will have lunch with the editors, some will pitch only 4-6 editors at once, some 20+. There’s no “right” or “wrong” way of agenting—just what suits you. And these are all very important points to consider before accepting or declining an offer of representation.
Having all of this information as well as knowing my agent’s representation style were huge factors in helping me decide what to do, but I still wanted to think some more.
There’s something about receiving your first offer of representation that people rarely talk about, though. After you ask for the two weeks to notify other agents and think before making a decision, your emotions will be all over the place. It’s a happy moment—we all wait for it to happen—but it’s also so, so stressful.
With me, the process went like this:
- I woke up in the middle of the night because I desperately needed to pee. When I checked my phone to see the time, I saw I had an email. And it had the words “offer of representation” in it.
- Cue some freaking out, reading the email a million times.
- And then I couldn’t sleep. I was awake for hours, trying to process that this was, in fact, real. I had dreamed of that moment so many times, I had to make sure.
- When I finally felt like myself again, I emailed the agent and we set up a call.
- I cried for hours before the call.
- After it, I cried again.
- And it kept going, I kept crying for days.
This is very normal, though it scared me a lot! People don’t talk about how stressful this experience is, how game changing everything about it is. I cried so, so much. For a while, I was afraid this meant I wasn’t happy. But then I realized (my therapist did, to be honest) that I was happy. But I was also a nervous wreck because this was something new, and I’m scared of changes.
But you know what happened later, when I understood what my emotions were telling me? I was happy! I was so, so happy! I’d be laughing at absolutely nothing all the time, babbling to strangers about how lucky I was feeling. See what I meant before? This messes with our emotions.
When I was finally calm, I grew anxious while I waited for other agents to read my manuscript and decide if they’d offer as well. Once again, after a lot of thinking…I realized that I was anxious because I didn’t really want other offers. Now, don’t take this the wrong way. Everyone loves multiple offers! They make us feel validated, like we’re “real writers.” And humans love to have others fighting over them. But I knew, deep down, that I wouldn’t want to accept another agent’s offer.
So I took the next logical step: I withdrew my manuscript from other agents after waiting just one week and accepted the offer from the original agent. I have a friend who once said something along the lines of “when I got my first offer, before I spoke to the agent on the phone, I knew I’d ask for two weeks if we didn’t click. But if we did, I’d ask for only one week.” Sometimes I wonder what would’ve happened if I had waited, but it doesn’t matter. Not then, and not now. Especially not now. I’ve been with my agent for a little over a year, and I know that I made the right choice. I don’t regret anything I did, and that’s how I know for sure that my agent is the right one for me. Of course, hearing the horror stories about bad agents out there makes me feel extra good about my choice.
What I hope you’ll take away from this is that asking questions is essential, but always follow your gut. And remember: each journey is different. There’s no right or wrong experience.
Ana Franco is represented by Chris Kepner from the Kepner Agency. Aside from reading and writing, she loves story-driven video games, Starbucks, and cats. She also firmly believes The Walking Dead and Toy Story tell the same story. Ana lives in Brazil with her family and a bunch of spoiled cats.
Previous Posts in this Series:
Three Myths and Two Truths About Getting An Agent
By Tammy Oja
How To Communicate with Your Agent
By Alexandra Overy

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Michelle returns and joins Logan, Ben and Michael to recap the sixth Amazing Race 27 episode. In this episode:
- We learn what passes for Halloween music in the UK.
- Michelle says some more innuendo.
- We explain why two of us will never badmouth Justin’s enthusiasm.
- We give some Roadblock judge-style side-eye to some of the French pronunciation skills this week.
- We celebrate the return of some of our favourite Canadian racers as we talk about how Canada would have tackled the stunt plane Roadblock.
- Ben tells us what happened when he went to Paris.
- We learn what office tool Australia is lacking.
- Logan finds out about drop bears (and you can learn where they live for real!).
- We notice some monogrammed hats.
- We cast a team as the stars of a re-release of Pretty Fly for a White Guy.
- And find out which team are “the embodiment of ‘could be worse’”.


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ITHACA, N.Y.—Despite a rather unforgiving forecast, plenty of people showed up for the annual Ithaca Porchfest community event Sunday, with dozens of musical artists performing from housefronts throughout the Fall Creek neighborhood.
While the weather threatened to turn untenable for most of the afternoon, the rain mostly held off and the streets were filled as usual. Porchfest routinely features musical performances and surrounding festivities, though this year the festival also added a market for locally produced art and more.
All photos are courtesy of Casey Martin for The Ithaca Voice. Use the arrows on either side of the photo to navigate the photos.


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Chickeney, salty, creamy. It’s delicious chicken salt mayo & it’s guaranteed to make you feel proudly Australian.
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|Fat total (g)||6.4||9||31.9|
|Saturated Fat (g)||less than 1||3||3.9|
Water, sunflower oil [antioxidant (320)], sugar, white vinegar, free range whole egg, maize thickener (1442), salt, crushed garlic [food acid (330)], spices, vegetable gums (412, 415 from soy), roasted garlic, onion, food acid (330), natural flavour.
Contains egg and soy as indicated in bold type.
*Percentage Daily Intakes are based on an average adult diet of 8700kJ. Your daily intakes may be higher or lower depending on your energy needs.
No artificial colours, flavours or preservatives.
Made in Australia with local and imported ingredients

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