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Q: looking to # 50 being a win using edge case I have a small game and I would like 50 to produce a win but still keep the code as is how would  use an edge case
import random

roll = input('Press Enter to Spin the Wheel or Type Stop!')

while roll == "":
    prize = random.randint(0, 100)
    print ('Youre number is ', prize )
    if prize < 50:
     print ('Sorry, you didnt win. Try again')
    if prize > 50:
     print ('Congratulations! Youre a winner!')

    roll = input('Press Enter to Spin the Wheel or type Stop!')

if roll == 'Stop' or roll=='stop':
    print ('Thank you for playing')
else:
    print ('Well, so long!')

thanks for any help

A: Your conditions are checking for numbers strictly greater and strictly less than 50. You need to change one of them be less strict and allow 50 to count as well:
if prize < 50:
 print ('Sorry, you didnt win. Try again')
if prize >= 50:                 # use >= to test if prize is greater than *or equal* to fifty
 print ('Congratulations! Youre a winner!')

A: You should check if prize is equal to 50:
if prize == 50:
    print ('Congratulations! Youre a winner!')
else:
    print ('Sorry, you didnt win. Try again')

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Many thanks to Natalie Kilgore, she created this artwork just for the ATL LOVE series.
Welcome to the ATL LOVE Series! I've asked a handful of my favorite Atlanta bloggers to give us an-eats-and-treats tour of their favorite Atlanta area neighborhood over the next few weeks.
Today we tour Atlanta's Westside (which is sometimes called West Midtown). The Westside is one of my favorite neighborhoods and I'm so happy to have one of my favorite Atlanta food bloggers - Erika Council of Southern Soufflé - show off her work-hood. Erika is a working mama, who also just moved houses, and yet still some how manages to churn out amazing recipes every week. Her Gin and Ginger cocktail is one of my new favorites. PS Erika has a quick wit and a fabulous eye for photography - you'll love her blog.
Find more of Erika at Southern Soufflé or stalk her on Twitter, like I do.
What you love about your hood: My hood caters to the foodie in me. Some of Atlanta's best restaurants live on this side of town. From the Optimist to Atlanta's best soul food at K & K. With Star Provisions, which is like the Anthropologie of the food world, topping my list of what I love the most. It's a marketplace, a bistro, a bakery and beyond.
Best meeting friends for drinks: JCT Kitchen, Ormsby's, Northside Tavern for some hole in the wall dive bar greatness.
Many thanks to the talented Natalie Kilgore, who's incredible hand drawn illustrations "really tie the series together". You can purchase her work in her etsy shop, Natty Michelle Paperie or follow her blog, Natty Michelle, for her insightful "free-lance ladies" series or peeks into her charming home.
Love all of her picks; they are spot on! I especially love the recommendation for JCT...that's our wedding venue!


Many of you are regular surfing the Internet nowadays. Watching videos on YouTube becomes a habit of the people since Internet data becomes cheap. What if you liked some videos very much and want to watch it again & again? Then must be thinking to download youtube video. Right? But how to download youtube videos online? Well, There are plenty of ways to save youtube videos to your computer or laptop. I know some of you want to download youtube videos to your mobile on SD card or phone memory. Sure, You can save your favorite youtube videos to your mobile or tablet too. The best part is you don't need any application or software to download youtube videos. Yes, You can Download Youtube Video Online easily and quickly. Readout further article to Save Youtube videos at your desired location.
Open YouTube website or app on your device.
Search the video you want to download & copy the video link by right click and then click on "Copy link address".
Paste the link into the text box & click on the green arrow button.
Now, You will see that your desired video load below the text box.
Click on Download MP4 and you will see the drop-down menu with the quality of video opened.
Now, Choose the quality in which you want to download the video and click on that.
That's it! Your Youtube video will starts downloading on your device.
Bonus: If you want to see a preview of the video then you can click on Video. The popup will open and Youtube will start playing.
So, You have successfully downloaded your favorite youtube video with just simple steps. Now, You can play that video in any media player like Windows Media Player, VLC Media Player, KM Player or MX Player for PC & Android. If you wish then you can share that video on different social media like Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Let's look at some of the benefits of using online youtube video downloader.
Here, We have mentioned some of the benefits of using YouTube Video Downloader Online.
Easy & quick downloading of your favorite video.
Just 2 click needed to download youtube video.
After downloading video, you can watch it anytime without any data charges.
Before downloading, you can see the preview of the youtube video.
You can share the video with your friends on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, etc.
Youtube video online downloader works on any devices like Android, iOS, Mac or Windows.
No need of doing anything manually to download youtube videos online.
These are some good benefits of using youtube video downloader online. If you are using Youtube Offline feature and want to share that offline saved video with your friends then you can follow this article – Share Youtube Offline Video. Even you can send your YouTube offline video to PC or Laptop with the same steps given in that article.
How On Demand Apps Change the Face of Ride-Hailing Business?


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Sven Magnus Rodhe, född 20 april 1905 i Undersviks församling, Gävleborgs län, död 12 juli 1968 i Hägersten, var en svensk civilingenjör.

Efter studentexamen i Hudiksvall 1923 studerade han vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan 1924–1928. Han var sedan anställd vid Sveriges Radio AB:s telefontekniska avdelning, Stockholm, 1928–1931, vid Telefon AB LM Ericssons transmissionstekniska avdelning från 1931, där han sedan blev sektionschef. Han företog i tjänsten resor för sistnämnda bolags räkning bland annat till holländska och brittiska industrier 1929–1930. År 1954 blev han överingenjör och chef vid nämnda avdelning på LM Ericsson.

Han var son till kyrkoherde Magnus Rodhe (1875–1920) och Bertha Janson (1875–1959) samt sonson till Bengt Carl Rodhe. Han var gift två gånger, första gången 1930 med Gunhild Franck (född 1906) och andra gången 1944 med Florence Sjögren (1911–2001). I första äktenskapet hade han dottern Ulla Rodhe (1932–2012)), skådespelare och gift med tecknaren Gunnar Frieberg. I andra äktenskapet hade han barnen Magnus (född 1945) och Staffan (född 1946).

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How Do We Get the Instance & Task Information for a Particular Snapshot?
We often get this question in Business Process Manager (BPM) support: "How do we get a list of bpd instances or tasks for a particular snapshot?" When it comes to application and snapshot management, it's a very common question that each BPM system administrator may encounter. Therefore, a tool or method which can be used to simply query and customize the results, is always one of the top requirements we have received from our clients. In this article, we will cover some basic tools and steps that we recommend you use when it's necessary to figure out the number of BPD instances and tasks for a snapshot or a process application.
For all supported BPM versions (from BPM 8.5.0 to BPM 8.6.0), except for the traditional SQL query against to the table LSW_BPD_INSTANCE, we would recommend that you could utilize the function of BPM REST API Tester here as well.
Using BPM REST API Tester, please run the query below under Search API category to find out all the instances and their statuses for a particular snapshot.
Where %2C is ,(comma), %7C is |, and the condition instanceSnapshot followed with the Snapshot name you would like to check.
You will get a detailed list of instances for this particular snapshot including the instance ID, instance Name, instance status as well as the related task assigned to the user you are currently logged in with.
Again it's worth mentioning that this approach can be used from BPM 8.5.0.0 to BPM 8.6.0 no matter which version your environment is. Besides, as the REST API above is actually constructing a database query as we normally do against BPMDB, also there are some offset and size parameters for paging, please use it with extra care for your Production environment in case it might bring up some performance issues when there is a large result.
For BPM 8.5.7 and later versions, you will have one more alternative option to construct your own queries between snapshot, instances, tasks, and processes by customizing your own saved search at BPM Responsive Portal. Since BPM 8.5.7 you can define various saved searches at Portal rather than Process Admin Console we used before. Choose the different search criteria and columns of searching result as shown in the following steps, construct your unique queries using your own new saved search.
Step 1: Create a new Saved Search and Name it.
Step 2: Customize your own query by selecting the Filter Criteria and editing the columns.
Click the "Add" button, and add criterion "Snapshot Equals to 'TestSnapshot'"
Step 3: Save your search result, and you can customize how your result is displaying by selecting the "organization by" and the status of tasks.
Because Portal is mainly served to display and manage tasks for end users, at this point, you could manipulate all of the possible queries related to tasks and BPD. It does not show the instances' information directly, but we could still use it as one of the cross references to figure out which instances belong to the specific snapshot. In addition, the new saved search allows users to construct as much task/process related queries as possible so that it does not limit to a particular snapshot, you could add as much criteria as necessary to come up with the data you need.
Finally, these two methods above can be used for system administrators who need to manage hundreds of process applications, snapshots, BPD instances and processes. And you could always verify the result with your DBA if there is any confusion caused by the query construction and REST API usage.


So I have been meaning to come up with a semi sculptural piece as a nod to Robert Indiana.
With Valentine's Day on the horizon I got my chance.
All of us have seen this "LOVE" arrangement at some time or another but do not realize it's Pop Art origins. Indiana continues to build on and explore use of his iconic work. Last year he created a version for Google (search page) to display on Valentine's Day.
Now I didn't tilt my "O" like Indiana as it just didn't work with the canvas as well as the fact that my "O" is quite circular. An oval "O" would tilt better.
Before sculpting I took a piece of cardboard and cut a square that was the size of the letter I wanted. This help me measure as I went along.
Form your letters. use a small amount of water if needed to help smooth out any cracks.
For this project my letters were about 1 cm or 1/2 an inch thick.
Once you have all your letters completed leave them to dry on a paper towel.
Drying time will vary but air dry clay will take about 24 hrs.
Paint your canvas or cardboard substrate.
Paint your clay letters. I wanted mine to have a bandanna type design so I basecoated them in different colors.
Once dry I used a white gel pen and a fine black sharpie to make my designs.
Glue to your canvas or cardboard with tacky glue.
Finally you can add a coat of Mod podge to help seal and really secure those letters to the canvas.
That's it. This project can be easily modified into a paint and paper composition if you are short on time. Pop art is always a hit with the kids and be sure to check out more of Robert Indiana"s work.
So we are still looking at Surrealism in Grade 6. The students did my usual lesson on Magritte last year in Grade 5 but I thought we would try another.
This is my favorite painting of Magritte and always leads to wonderful conversation regarding the symbolism.
Take your wc papers and tape down to your art boards with the green painter's tape.
While the paint is still wet use a kleenex to lift off clouds.
On the second board begin painting your background.
Add some blue, orange and yellow. Leave the top white as well as the bottom.
Add some black now. At the bottom you want to fill in with black for the water but leave that white horizon line.
Go over your sky colors with a black wash including the white at the top.
At the bottom add a few waves in the water with white tempera or gauche.
Turn your cloud paper over and sketch out the flying dove. Now with Grade 6 I will be asking them to create their own Dove. I have included a template (see materials list) for those of you who want it.
Now to make the head look separate from the back wing you may want to use some white pencil crayon or pastel and strategically place a cloudy mist.
Glue into place and let dry with a piece of wax paper put on top of the surface and then a large heavy book placed on top of that.
That's it. Magritte used his cloud landscape in several other paintings that your students may enjoy recreating or coming up with their own compositions that draw upon his work.


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the forgotten one
Adam Durrant
Karnup
10yo Gelding
Dedicated Miss
The Forgotten One Horse Profile
The Forgotten One Breeding
The Forgotten One Owner(s)
Ms R L Durrant
The Forgotten One is a 10yo bay Gelding from Australia trained by Adam Durrant, who is based at Karnup. It is sired by the stallion Blackfriars out of the dam Dedicated Miss.
The Forgotten One has managed to win 6 races in its career so far. On 2nd Sep 2015 at Pinjarra Park, The Forgotten One was ridden by Peter Knuckey and scored its most significant win to date, getting the money in the $12,500 3yo And Up Maiden, defeating Gold Invader.
It has proven a profitable horse for the punters over the journey. If you had backed The Forgotten One throughout its career you'd have achieved a 5 percent return on investment.
The Forgotten One has concluded its racing career, last running on the 17th Sep 2017 at Kalgoorlie.

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@BC » Feature Archive » And on your right . . .
A dozen faculty volunteered to show freshmen around Boston during what turned out to be a mild afternoon on Friday, August 28. They joined the long list of upperclassmen and staff leading "Discover BOSTON" excursions, sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs. This particular tour was led by Joseph Burns (who teaches a freshman topic seminar on "The Role of Law in Society" and is also associate vice provost for undergraduate academic affairs) and co-led by Akua Sarr, who has taught in the African and African diaspora studies program; Sarr is the new vice provost for undergraduate academic affairs. Some two dozen students accompanied them, savoring the sights and the local ice cream. In all, 68 tour groups set off from Boston College with complimentary T-passes this day.
This feature was posted on Thursday, September 10, 2015 and is filed under Boston College Minute.


This collection of stories tells what day-to-day life was like for people under the regime of the Soviet police state. Drawing on events from the 1930s through the 1970s, the book shows how, by accident or design, people became entangled in the workings of Soviet rule. These tales, based on historical records, shine a light on the many tragic, funny, and bizarre aspects of Soviet life.
This study focuses on important aspects of daily life—food, clothing, housing, education, occupational and educational mobility, employment, and the prestige of various occupations—:mainly among poor, urban Soviet families—between 1977 and 1979.
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America offers a new contribution to the literature on institutions and growth through the analysis of historical cases of institutional change and economic growth in Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A study of the political systems of Western Europe, updated to 1992.
These reflections on interrelated issues of concern to Europe and America by five distinguished authors from England, France, Germany, and the United States address complex questions in a post—cold war world.
The author offers insights on Egypt's failed revolution: how it happened and why it did not succeed. Samuel Tadros raises long-unanswered questions about Egypt's revolutionaries, focusing on who they were, where they came from, and much more.
Eric Edelman and Ray Takeyh bring historical context to one of the most underappreciated forces that has shaped modern US foreign policy: American-Iranian relations. They argue that America's flawed reading of Iran's domestic politics has hamstrung decades of US diplomacy, and outline lessons future leaders can learn from America's many missteps since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Robert Service discusses Russia's long and difficult relationship with Islam, within its borders and across the world, from the thirteenth century to the present. He maps Russia's complex and sometimes contradictory interactions with its Muslims, nearby Muslim states, and the Middle East, exploring centuries of Russian territorial expansion, Muslim jihad, the Soviet assault on Islam, the fall of the Soviet Union, and Russia's current bid to reestablish itself as a world power.
Focusing on the critical relationship between Ukraine and Russia, renowned scholar Roman Szporluk chronicles the final two decades in the history of the Soviet Union and presents a story that is often lost in the standard interpretations of the collapse of communism.
The fiction that Russian adults read.
Joshua Teitelbaum evaluates Saudi foreign policy in the Persian Gulf and in the Arab-Israeli peace process and provides a shrewd assessment of the Saudi-U.S. relationship. He debunks the traditional view of Saudi foreign policy that emphasizes the Saudi concern with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and explains how the true concern of Arabia's rulers is the ideological battle that has been opened up by Iran's push into Arab affairs.
Stewart A. Baker, a former Homeland Security official, examines the technologies we love—jet travel, computer networks, and biotech—and finds that they are likely to empower new forms of terrorism unless we change our current course a few degrees and overcome resistance to change from business, foreign governments, and privacy advocates. He draws on his Homeland Security experience to show how that was done in the case of jet travel and border security but concludes that heading off disasters in computer networks and biotech will require a hardheaded recognition that privacy must sometimes yield to security, especially as technology changes the risks to both.


3 Dimensional Shape Wood Puzzle Toys. Puzzled 3D Puzzles are 3 dimensional wooden shape puzzle craft kits that when assembled are wooden toys. These puzzle kits, with their unique visual design concept and shape, help develop 3 dimensional thinking and building skills for children. These puzzles are educational, fun, creative and paintable wooden toys. Kits are made of die-cut wood pieces. Some kits contain small wooden pieces, which may be a choking hazard, and not suitable for younger children. Parental supervision advised.


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namespace Magento\Theme\Test\Unit\Observer;

class ThemeRegistrationObserverTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * @var \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface|\PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $logger;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\Theme\Model\Theme\Registration|\PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $registration;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\Theme\Observer\ThemeRegistrationObserver
     */
    protected $themeObserver;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        $this->registration = $this->getMockBuilder('Magento\Theme\Model\Theme\Registration')
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();
        $this->logger = $this->getMockBuilder('Psr\Log\LoggerInterface')->getMock();

        $objectManagerHelper = new \Magento\Framework\TestFramework\Unit\Helper\ObjectManager($this);
        $this->themeObserver = $objectManagerHelper->getObject(
            'Magento\Theme\Observer\ThemeRegistrationObserver',
            [
                'registration' => $this->registration,
                'logger' => $this->logger,
            ]
        );
    }

    public function testThemeRegistration()
    {
        $pattern = 'some pattern';
        $eventMock = $this->getMockBuilder('Magento\Framework\Event')
            ->setMethods(['getPathPattern'])
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();
        $eventMock->expects($this->any())->method('getPathPattern')->willReturn($pattern);
        $observerMock = $this->getMockBuilder('Magento\Framework\Event\Observer')
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();
        $observerMock->expects($this->any())->method('getEvent')->willReturn($eventMock);
        $this->registration->expects($this->once())
            ->method('register')
            ->with($pattern)
            ->willThrowException(new \Magento\Framework\Exception\LocalizedException(__('exception')));
        $this->logger->expects($this->once())
            ->method('critical');

        /** @var $observerMock \Magento\Framework\Event\Observer */
        $this->themeObserver->execute($observerMock);
    }
}

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NME Blogs
'No Racism, No Sexism, No Homophobia' – Why Afropunk Festival Is So Important
Leonie Cooper Sep 26, 2016 1:10 pm BST
Credit: Andy Hughes/NME
Last weekend Afropunk held its first event in the UK, and if you've not heard of Afropunk, there are many, many reasons why you should. Founded in Brooklyn in 2005 – and taking its name from a 2003 documentary that looked at the black experience in the largely white world of punk – it has since become one of the most important events on the American festival calendar, and its arrival in London couldn't have come soon enough.
At a time when sexism, racism, homophobia and assault are all too common at gig venues and music events, Afropunk's message is loud and clear. "No sexism. No racism. No ableism. No ageism. No homophobia. No fatphobia. No transphobia. No hatefulness," read the massive signs flanking the main stage at Alexandra Place, on which the majestic and mostly naked disco queen Grace Jones headlines at the end of a day which also sees sets from grime MC and NME cover star Lady Leshurr, Mercury Prize winning hip-hop act Young Fathers and neo-soul singer-songwriter SZA.
A celebration of diversity, Afropunk's anti-racism stance seems particularly pertinent in the wake of a recent article written by music publicist and all round excellent person Michelle Kambasha for The Guardian, entitled Why I belong as a black woman in the white world of indie, which detailed the "white micro-aggressions" she constantly faces at gigs. "Feeling safe and accepted is something that should be afforded to everyone, but unfortunately, that's not always the case," Michelle told me of her reasons for writing the piece. "As a black female growing up loving indie and rock music, I can remember the first time I heard about Afropunk – it was a feeling that there were people out there that looked like me. A feeling of validation and vindication, of safety and acceptance."
Afropunk's commitment to anti-sexism is refreshing too, especially following recent Metropolitan Police statistics which revealed that between 2011 and March of this year reports of rape in London clubs, bars and pubs have risen by 136 per cent, while sexual assault in venues in the capital has more than doubled. Kicking against this is Girls Against, a group of teenagers who last year set up a campaign to end sexual harassment at gigs after one of their number was groped by a male crowd member at a Peace gig in Glasgow, but Afropunk is the first major event to actively take a stand against such assaults.
Not only is Afropunk vibrantly political and anti all forms of nastiness, it's also one hell of a good day out, with great, important artists, brilliant music, thought-provoking art and exceptionally decent food. A celebration of individuality, but also of collective power, here's to its imminent return in the UK – and the hope that other festivals, events, venues and gigs, take on board its powerful message.


A chance encounter between our two founders in Egypt back in 1998 led to On the Go Tour's inaugural trip to the land of the Pyramids over Christmas and New Year that year. Propelled by a passion for authentic travel experiences, a lot of hard work and that essential ingredient a bit of good luck along the way, they've since grown into a medium-sized global company, head-quartered in London, UK, with an office in Brisbane, Australia, and represented in Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and the USA.
From humble roots taking intrepid travellers budget-style to Egypt On The Go now enjoy the privilege of taking tens of thousands of customers to over 60 exciting countries around the world on all sorts of budgets. One thing remains, however, and that is thier commitment to authentic and accessible cultural experiences in the very heart of our destinations.
They'd love you to experience a country the way it really is, with people who live there and know it inside out. They know this makes the difference between a great holiday and a truly memorable one. They have carefully sought out English-speaking tour leaders and local guides are passionate about sharing their country with you and believe that they are amongst the best in the business.


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Added Layer To LEDs Improves Output And Lifetime
Open Image (using #TmpD/ia)…
A team from Imperial College London and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have found a new way to boost the amount of light LEDs produce and increase their lifetime. Its done by adding layer of nanoparticles to LED designs.
They report their innovation in the journal Light Science & Applications.
Making light-emitting diode (LED) light sources more efficient and longer-lasting will mean they use less energy, reducing the environmental impact of their electricity use. LEDs are used in a wide range of applications, from traffic lights and backlighting for electronic displays, smartphones, large outdoor screens, and general decorative lighting, to sensing, water purification, and decontamination of infected surfaces.
Illustration of the nanoparticle layer within the LED casing. Image Credit: Imperial College London. Click Image for the largest view.
The team modeled the impact of placing a two-dimensional (single layer) of nanoparticles between the LED chip, which produces the light, and the transparent casing that protects the chip. Although the casing is necessary, it can cause unwanted reflections of the light emitted from the LED chip, meaning not all the light escapes.
They found that adding a layer of finely tuned nanoparticles could reduce these reflections, allowing up to 20 percent more light to be emitted. The reflections also increase the heat inside the device, degrading the LED chip faster, so reducing the reflections could also reduce the heat and increase the lifetime of LED chips.
Co-author Dr Debabrata Sikdar from IIT Guwahati, formerly a European Commission Marie Curie-Sklodowska Fellow at Imperial, commented, "While improvements to the casing have been suggested previously, most make the LED bulkier or more difficult to manufacture, diminishing the economic effect of the improvement. We think that our innovation, based on fundamental theory and the detailed, balanced optimization analysis we performed, could be introduced into existing manufacturing processes with little disruption or added bulk."
Co-author Professor Sir John Pendry, from the Department of Physics at Imperial, said, "The simplicity of the proposed scheme and the clear physics underpinning it should make it robust and, hopefully, easily adaptable to the existing LED manufacturing process. It is obvious that with larger light extraction efficiency, LEDs will provide greater energy savings as well as longer lifetime of the devices. This will definitely have a global impact on the versatile LED-based applications and their multi-billion-dollar market worldwide."
Co-author Professor Alexei Kornyshev, from the Department of Chemistry at Imperial, added, "The predicted effect is a result of development of a systematic theory of various photonic effects related to nanoparticle arrays at interfaces, applied and experimentally tested in the context of earlier reported switchable mirror-windows, tuneable-color mirrors, and optical filters."
The next stage for the research will be manufacturing a prototype LED device with a nanoparticle layer, testing the best configurations predicted by the theory – including the size, shape, material and spacing of the nanoparticles, and how far the layer should be from the LED chip.
The authors believe that the principles used can work along with other existing schemes implemented for enhancing light extraction efficiency of LEDs. The same scheme could also apply to other optical devices where the transmission of light across interfaces is crucial, such as in solar cells.
LEDs have come a very long way in consumer products in the past few years. Another 20 percent will be a huge improvement by itself. With the other ideas coming along and likely this idea prototyping satisfactorily, LEDs are likely soon to be the dominate form of lighting for a very long time to come.


Join the Short's Crew at BG Beverage Center in Bowling Green for an in-store tasting! We'll be sampling some familiar favorites, as well as some fun new beers! Fun starts at 5 pm, don't miss out!
Short's Psydelic Cat Grass Tapping at Woodland's Tavern!
Join the Short's Crew at Woodland's Tavern in Columbus for a very special, same day tapping of our incredibly sought after beer, Psychedelic Cat Grass! We'll be kegging this wonderful IPA and tapping it the same evening, doesn't get any fresher than this! The fun starts around 6 pm, don't miss out!
Short's Psychedellic Cat Grass Tapping at Byne's Pub!
Join the Short's Crew at Byrne's Pub in Columbus for an extremely rare tapping of Psychedelic Cat Grass! We'll be kegging this beer and tapping it the same day, doesn't get any fresher than that! The fun starts around 8 pm, don't miss out!
Join the Short's Crew at Pat & Gracie's Graceland in Columbus for a Brewery of the Month Feature! We'll have several beers on tap, including a fun rare beer! The fun starts at 5 pm, don't miss out!
Matt Shields is the Ohio Sales Representative for Short's and Starcut Ciders. Before joining the Short's team, he worked as a Sales Rep with Cavalier Distributing for 4 1/2 years. His passion for craft beer really began in 2011 while working in a bottle shop in Dayton and he then decided he wanted to pursue a career in the industry. Outside of his passion for craft beer, Matt enjoys spending his time with his wife and two dogs, Brady and Balto. He's a die-hard sports fan (Go Blue!), and also enjoys travelling and spending time with friends and family.


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Online Petition Calls for Ozzy Osbourne To Be Knighted by the Queen of England
Graham Hartmann Published: May 1, 2014
Here's a cause we can all get behind! No matter your political, social or religious views, you surely would love to see Black Sabbath's legendary vocalist to become Sir Ozzy Osbourne.
Actually, Ozzy's official name as a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire would be Sir John Michael Osbourne, MBE. Has a nice ring to it, right? A heavy metal super fan named Helen Maidiotis thinks so, which is why she has launched a petition to have Ozzy Osbourne knighted by the Queen of England.
The petition was actually launched in 2012, but Maidiotis' cause has just began to receive a great deal of attention. Kelly Osbourne, one of Ozzy's daughters has even given the petition her blessing, claiming that "this really needs to happen."
According to a report by the Birmingham Mail, Maidiotis' cause has reached Buckingham Palace! "Our campaign has reached Buckingham Palace," claims Maidiotis, "as a friend of mine had sent off letters explaining about our battle for Ozzy's knighthood - and they have replied positively."
Maidiotis continues, "As Black Sabbath are set to perform at Hyde Park, London, on July 4, it would be a fitting tribute to Ozzy if we were to reach our target in the days following their performance. I have fought long and hard for this along with my followers on The Knighthood Of Ozz Facebook page, and though, at times, I feel like we are not getting anywhere, I am not one for giving up. I intend to see this right through to the end, whatever the outcome."
The campaign's head originally aimed to get Sabbath legends Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward knighted as well, but according to Maidiotis, "David Spooner (who is in charge of honors in the UK) said that it is highly unlikely the whole band would get a knighthood and that I would have a better chance with a single member of the band. So I chose Ozzy Osbourne as he is the voice of Sabbath."
The 'Knight Ozzy Osbourne' petition aims to acquire 5,000 signatures, and it's very near that figure at the time of this posting. Let's help push this thing past the 5K mark! To sign the petition, click here.
Update: Thanks to the press this petition has received the last couple days, it now has more than 6,000 signatures.
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What caused the financial crisis and Great Recession of 20082009? A decade later, economists still don't have a good answer. Of course, the financial bubble in the housing market was the proximate cause, but this begs the question of what inflated the bubble that burst in the first place.
This isn't just an academic exercise for the history books. It's critical that we never repeat the mistakes that liquidated more than $7 trillion of wealth and sent unemployment rates to their highest levels in three decades.
The real estate bubble was certainly exacerbated by half-witted national housing policies that offered low-down-payment mortgages with near 100 percent taxpayer guarantees to non-credit-worthy borrowers. The government made it easy for families to buy homes they couldn't afford. And when the defaults rolled in, the taxpayers picked up the tab. But the role of low interest rates and inflationary monetary policy is under-appreciated.
My colleague Louis Woodhill has crunched the numbers here. Mr. Woodhill finds that from October 2001 to July 2006, the Fed inflated and inflated with artificially low interest rates. See chart. The CRB commodity price index, which includes everything from aluminum to zinc, nearly doubled (up 84 percent). Oil prices more than doubled, to almost $75 a barrel.
This popped the housing bubble for sure, but there was no soft landing. The Fed's shift from inflation to deflation inadvertently crushed the mortgage-backed securities markets. This made the recession that began in December 2007 inevitable. Then, a second course-reversal by the Fed in June 2008 created a severe scarcity of dollars that contributed to the collapse of the real economy.
If the Fed had been watching commodity prices and had held them stable, as Mr. Woodhill and I recommend in a recent Wall Street Journal article, these wild gyrations in prices would have been avoided. A housing correction might still have happened, but the economic carnage would have been limited.
In a March 27 article in the The Wall Street Journal, economics columnist Greg Ip argued that critics of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell — like Mr. Woodhill and I — are wrong to recommend that the Fed keep prices for commodities stable.
Mr. Ip doesn't get it. The financial bubble (which, by the way, the WSJ editorial page where I worked accurately warned of at the time) would have never been allowed to so severely over-inflate if the commodity index had been held stable all along. The Fed would never have gotten itself into a position where it had to financve $1 trillion in bailouts.
The two-decade growth boom from 1983-2000 was characterized by relatively stable commodity prices. Economists now call this period "The Great Moderation," because growth was high and prices flat. That is what the Fed should be attentive to today. Other prices (e.g., consumer, producer and asset prices) should also be closely monitored, but stable prices and a stable economy require stable commodities. When it comes to inflation, commodity prices are the canary in the coal mine because this information is available to policymakers in real time.
If the Fed targets stable prices on top of the pro-growth tax, regulatory, and energy policies the Trump administration has implemented, 3 percent to 4 percent real growth with continued rising wages for workers and low inflation is easily achievable over the next several years at least.


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Jet Airways employees will be absorbed by other airlines: Jayant Sinha
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The banks have to make decisions in their commercial interest and using their commercial judgement. We have to build a globally competitive economy where the most competitive, most efficient companies thrive and succeed, said Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, in an interview with ETNOW.
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Now that Jet Airways has been grounded, what is going to happen to employees?
We want to make sure that the very capable and talented employees of Jet Airways are absorbed in the aviation ecosystem as quickly as possible and that they have a very good and soft landing. We are very focussed on ensuring good employment prospects for them.
The good news in all of this is the fact that the industry is growing, there is tremendous long-term demand for aviation services and I am very sure that all the talented and capable employees of Jet Airways will find a very good home whether at Jet Airways or in other companies. Of course, this is how markets work. What happens is that people move from less competitive companies to more competitive companies and in India, we have to build a globally competitive economy where the most competitive, most efficient companies thrive and succeed.
But some of these employees have not been paid for the last four months. Why is the government keeping a hands-off approach in this matter?
It is very clear that governments intervene in the economy only when there are systemic risks. This is a well accepted consensus around the world and you have to distinguish between IL&FS which would have led to contagion and a systemic set of issues and Jet Airways which has operated in a very smooth manner within the existing legal and regulatory framework and where there are no systemic risks.
For us, while handling the aviation system the important thing is to ensure that this market disruption moves through the system in a smooth manner and that all the assets and people are absorbed efficiently, without too much friction within the existing legal and regulatory framework. That is what we have done, capacity has come in quite quickly to absorb the Jet Airways capacity that has gone out of the system, fares have remained relatively stable and all the passenger inconvenience, refunds, cancellations we are proceeding on that to ensure that passengers are not inconvenienced in any way.
So markets do work and we have got to let markets work. When governments operate, they have to establish a legal and regulatory framework and within that, the various players have to conduct themselves.
But the gap is pretty glaring, About 20,000 jobs have been lost versus a SpiceJet or some other airlines that will be picking up planes or cabin crew or other staff. There is a huge gap in there?
You are taking a very short-term view. There is a transition process that happens and during the transition process, there are challenges that have to be done but whatever peoples' dues are, it will have to be met in some fashion or the other. But give it some time and you will find that everyone will be very smoothly absorbed. I will take you back to Kingfisher, after Kingfisher's shutdown everybody got absorbed into various other airlines and they continue to have great careers. Just give it some time and you will find that the process of absorption will happen quite smoothly.
There are people who died as well, there are people who could not pay their EMIs?
I feel terrible, I feel very sorry and terrible for that and of course, the goal is to be able to ensure that everybody is protected and everybody is safe, but we live in an open market economy and it is important for each individual to think about the fact that they have to themselves be able to have appropriate protection buffers and so on. Yes, companies do go in and out of business and that is a fact of an open market economy. That is how open economies work. Some companies succeed, some companies do not succeed. We all have to recognise that.
The reason I am asking you this question is because banks first said they will be pumping in Rs 1500 crore, but that money never really came in. Why did the banks develop cold feet? What really changed for them?
The banks have to make decisions in their commercial interest and using their commercial judgement. When I was in the finance ministry, we had a very important conclave in Pune which was back in 2015 and we made it very clear at that point and the honourable finance minister and the honourable prime minister made it very clear that in our government, banks would be free to do what they think is right in their commercial interest. They are responsible to their stakeholders, to their depositors and they should do what they think is commercially the right thing to do.
That is exactly what they are doing as far as Jet Airways is concerned. And we have to let them do that because that is how we create accountability in the system, that is how we reduce the price of risk in the system.
The government needs to establish a legal and regulatory framework and then various players have to conduct themselves accordingly. Otherwise, if there is arbitrary intervention by the authorities, you drive up the price of risk, you create very opaque and arbitrary decision making and then it is very difficult for people to understand how they need to conduct themselves.
You said there will be people who will be absorbed in other airlines and there is no need to worry, things will become better from here on. Precedence says once an airline is shut, it never comes back.
That is a question you have to ask the banks. Those who are bidding for Jet Airways have to take into account the value in Jet Airways. Right now, they have to bid for it and so on. Let the bank-led resolution process unfold. Our job as regulators is to ensure that markets operate well, that there is no arbitrariness in the rules driven process and the rules driven environment that we have set up. That is what we are engaged in.
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What if Christmas cheer only comes to your students at school and not at home?
Kind of sad to think about, but all of those fun coloring sheets you have been doing for morning work, the few lights you have around the door frame, and the simple 3-foot tree at the front of the room, might be all that your students see of Christmas cheer. They won't be getting anything much to celebrate on December 25th. What you are doing the next couple of weeks might be the most fun and exciting things they have experienced all year.
I don't write all this to be a "Debbie Downer". Simply as a parent of two very excited boys and an intervention teacher to some of the less fortunate students in the county, I ask that we try to put on a brave face the next two weeks and spread Christmas cheer with compassion and enthusiasm. This is a challenging hard time and we don't really want to be here. However, let's make the next 2 weeks a celebration of the time we have with our students. Change it up a little and allow students to engage in more fun December themed units and centers. Creating ornaments is totally a standard…right???? Enjoy your next two weeks of school and remember to love on those students as much as you can. You might be the only Christmas hug they get! Merry Christmas friends!


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How to Get a Trademark?
The trademarking process in Australia is a multi-step process with various considerations throughout. However, it mainly consists of seeing whether a trademark is the correct type of intellectual property, determining the class of the product, searching for similar trademarks, applying for a trademark and acting on the outcome of that application.
1. Is a trademark the right type of intellectual property for the product or service?
A critical question that must be answered before going ahead to lodge a trademark application is whether what you want to register is, in fact, a trademark.
A common error made in this regard is confusing the type of intellectual property type applicable. For instance, designs have their own separate mark known as a design mark, just as expressions of ideas fall under copyright.
Some other considerations are whether you meet the eligibility requirements to register a trademark. These requirements state that an applicant must either be a company, incorporated association or an individual. They can also be more than one of these. Neither can the applicant be a business or trading name.
2. How do I determine the trademark Class of the Product?
The class of good and services the product falls under must initially be determined before making a trademark application. There are over 45 classes in Australia, and it is vital that the correct class is isolated so as to ensure that the trademark extends to those particular goods and services.
Although Intellectual Property (IP) Australia provides a classification search tool, it is also worthwhile making an assessment of factors such as the nature of business activities, what your customers identify the product/service to be and where you derive your business income from. Of course, this is a case by case analysis, so there will always be individual factors to take into account
3. How to search for trademarks?
IP Australia's trademark search tool will assist an applicant in finding whether a name or logo has previously been registered, if your trademarking will infringe on the rights of another owner and whether there are trademarks that share similar features with yours. It allows you to view if a surname is already registered as a trademark and see images of registered trademarks. There is also the option of saving search preferences and results to return to them at a later point in time.
4. How to apply for a trademark?
You can choose to apply for a trademark either online or via a pre-application service offered called TMT Headstart offered by IP Australia. The latter option is preferable for those who are unsure of the application process. On putting in the pre-application request, you receive feedback from a trademark examiner, on which basis you can decide whether to convert a pre-application to an application or make the amendments suggested by the examiner. This application need not be completed in one session.
Certain requirements must be checked off before and included in an application for a trademark. These are the filing fee, contact details, a description of the goods and services, a list of the applicable classes and a representation of the trademark
5. How to proceed while waiting for and after the application outcome?
The typical processing time for a trademark to be examined is 3-4 months. If successful, confirmation will be received of the trademark registration by post. Following this, the trademark will be advertised as accepted for two months. Once this period has elapsed, the trademark will be registered.
However, if there are some issues with the application and if it comes back with an adverse examiner's report, you have 15 months in which to respond and for the examiner to subsequently evaluate your response.
If this response is rejected, another adverse examiner's report will be issued, and the process will begin anew with the 15 month response period.
In the event that the 15 months lapses, there is the option to apply for an extension if necessary.
Each step in the trademark application process should be carefully considered and checked to ensure all the information and requirements are reasonably satisfied. If you have questions relating to the registration process, call 1300 544 755 to speak to a member of LegalVision's Intellectual Property team.
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All my life, my father was controlling my story. This book freed me from his story and I am now living in my story, says Eve Ensler.
The Vagina Monologues' playwright, Eve Ensler, was in the city to launch her latest book and her campaign that calls for an end to violence against women.
Eve Ensler has spent a major part of her life waiting for an apology. Globally recognised for writing The Vagina Monologues and for her fiery feminist activism, Ensler had borne wounds of child sexual and physical abuse by her own father. "When I was five years old, my father began to sexually abuse me. At 10, I started to resist, and then he became really violent towards me for many years, almost murdering me twice," said Ensler, matter of factly, to a group of journalists at Royal Opera House recently. The apology that she had long fantasised about never came. And thirty-one years ago when her father died, the apology cemented in her world of fantasy, until now.
Written from her father's voice to her, Ensler's latest book, The Apology, is a heart-wrenching but absolute necessity of the time that attempts to serve as a blueprint for sexual abusers to apologise to their survivors. "I have never heard a man, who has committed sexual violence or physical violence, making an apology for what he has done. And when I say an apology, I don't mean 'I am sorry, I hurt you' or 'I am sorry, I have made you feel bad' – that's not an apology," she says. At a time when MeToo movement has opened the dam gates to an outpour of stories, Ensler began to wonder how men are actually going to change if there is no recognition of what they have done. Thus creating a template for other men to follow, The Apology is Ensler's way of healing from the ghosts of the past and the monsters of the present.
At the launch of her 2020's chapter of her campaign that calls for an end of violence against women, One Billion Rising, organised by the city-based NGO Akshara Foundation, Ensler opened up about the architecture of the apology. "The first step for the perpetrator is self-interrogation and self-investigation, and looking into their childhood and seeing what happened that made him the kind of man who is capable of raping, groping, harassing and incest," she says. As just another victim to patriarchy as women, Ensler believes that in childhood, boys are robbed of their tenderness, emotions and their freedom to cry, and when they are awarded power and privilege later in life, a lethal combination is brewed.
"My father was born 15 years later after the last child in the family. He accidentally became the miracle, the adored son. But adoration is not love, adoration is projection of someone idolising you, giving you a mandate. There is no room for doubt, tenderness, vulnerability, you desire for nurture – my father was that," she illustrates. Going on further, she extrapolates that when she was born, her father was overwhelmed by love and tenderness which he didn't know how to process. "Being robbed of how to deal with it, he did is what most men do, he sexualised it and as a result, he sexually abused me," she reveals.
The next step calls for a detailed accounting of what the perpetrator has done to the survivor. "Liberation is in the details, and that detailed accounting puts the perpetrators against what they have done," she says which further allows them to analyse their own intentions. The third step is to feel what the survivor felt – physically and mentally, and the short-term and the long-term impact on the victim. And the final step is to make amends. "To actually take responsibility for your actions and in that process, you will indicate that you are actually becoming a person who is not capable of ever doing what you did," says Ensler.
Even though writing the book might have been one of the toughest things that Ensler have done, she is sure that she has found that solace and closure that she had been searching for all her life. "All my life, my father was controlling my story. This book freed me from his story and I am now living in my story," she concludes.
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"Adulkid": The Accelerating Evolution of Homo Consumens
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The adage that "children will be children" may not hold true in South Korea. Adding to the pressures faced by kids to excel in academics and god knows what else, a new social trend revolves around the concept of "adulkid," aimed at making children look and behave like adults.
At Seoul Fashion Week last fall, children who looked as young as five or six were posing in trendy clothes more suitable for adults. A camera-wielding crowd — "street photographers" who take pictures of fashionable people to post online — encircled them, snapping away for a good while. When the paparazzi had had their fill, mothers stepped in, dragging the kids to another spot where more photographers would gather. The children, though, looked bored and fidgety.
Consumerism provides a big push. A company making waves is Henes, which specializes in "premium kids vehicles." It sells motorized single-passenger toy cars designed to emulate expensive cars for adults. On the company's website the cars range in price from 680,000 to more than 1 million won (approx. 600 to 900 US dollars).
It's a hefty price tag even when compared to similar motorized toy cars for children available on the market. (One fully operational miniature Mercedes-Benz model, manufactured by a different firm, is being sold for a little less than 500,000 won — around 450 USD dollars — online.) Business daily Hankyung reports that Henes enjoys the biggest market share in South Korea for toy cars, despite the cost of its products.
In a market geared more toward girls, beauty salons advertise makeup sessions for minors for special occasions like serving as flower boys and girls and performing in music recitals. One salon claims, "We will transform them into fairytale characters, princesses and princes…with our special children's makeup knowhow." But in the "after" photos the child looks more unnaturally made up than royal. She also doesn't look happy, gazing into the camera with no discernible emotion.
Under special criticism is a site that sells kids' clothes, with a "starter pair of high heels" on offer for little girls. The design isn't especially controversial; it's basically a sparkly mary jane. But the idea that girls as young as four should buy their first heels has raised questions about applying adult standards of beauty, or footwear at least, to children, even if one review claims that the buyer's child "loves it so much!"
Domestic media is largely critical of this trend, explaining it in terms of well-to-do parents' desire to dote on their children. But the practice is embraced by a growing number of parents. According to internet shopping site Auction, owned by eBay Korea, sales of adulkids products on the site are booming. During the first quarter of this year, sales of makeup for children alone jumped 1,200 percent on the site in comparison to the same period last year.
Such adulkids products include makeup boxes with lip gloss and eyeshadow, nail varnish, and hair wax for toddlers. And, of course, miniature convertibles and 4WD vehicles.
Most people want nice things in life, and I suppose children are no exception. But to what extent does the trend reflect children's increasingly complex taste, or something else?
Walking to a subway station from my parents' apartment in southeastern Seoul, I once overheard boys from a nearby elementary school discussing their parents' cars. "My father has a Benz!" "What class is it? A? S?" They were far more attuned to different categories of luxury vehicles than I ever will be. What I wanted to know then was, do they really understand what these differences signify? Or are these adulkids just vessels for grown-up desire and proclivities, pushed to mature faster in a country where childhood has already lost much of its significance?
It's one thing to spoil children; it's quite another to pamper them as though they were adults.
Cover Image: adulkid products available for sale on Auction (courtesy of Auction)
Se-Woong Koo earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University and taught Korean studies at Stanford, Yale, and Ewha Women's University. He has written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera among other publications.


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SEC. 1. LIBEL IN ADMIRALTY AGAINST OR IMPLEADER OF UNITED STATES (46 App. U.S.C. 781 (2002)). A libel in personam in admiralty may be brought against the United States, or a petition impleading the United States, for damages caused by a public vessel of the United States, and for compensation for towage and salvage services, including contract salvage, rendered to a public vessel of the United States: Provided, That the cause of action arose after the 6th day of April, 1920
SEC. 2. VENUE OF SUIT; APPLICATION OF PROVISIONS OF THE SUITS IN ADMIRALTY ACT (46 App. U.S.C. 782 (2002)). Such suit shall be brought in the district court of the United States for the district in which the vessel or cargo charged with creating the liability is found within the United States, or if such vessel or cargo be outside the territorial waters of the United States, then in the district court of the United States for the district in which the parties so suing, or any of them, reside or have an office for the transaction of business in the United States; or in case none of such parties reside or have an office for the transaction of business in the United States, and such vessel or cargo be outside the territorial waters of the United States, then in any district court of the United States. Such suits shall be subject to and proceed in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled _An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty, suits for salvage services, and providing for the release of merchant vessels belonging to the United States from arrest and attachment in foreign jurisdictions, and for other purposes,_ approved March 9, 1920, or any amendment thereof, in so far as the same are not inconsistent herewith, except that no interest shall be allowed on any claim up to the time of the rendition of judgment unless upon a contract expressly stipulating for the payment of interest.
SEC. 3. CROSS LIBEL, SET-OFF, OR COUNTERCLAIM (46 App. U.S.C. 783 (2002)).
In the event of the United States filing a libel in rem or in personam in admiralty for damages caused by a privately owned vessel, the owner of such vessel, or his successors in interest, may file a cross libel in personam or claim a set-off or counterclaim against the United States in such suit for and on account of any damages arising out of the same subject matter or cause of action: Provided, That whenever a cross libel is filed for any cause of action for which the original libel is filed by authority of this Act, the respondent in the cross libel shall give security in the usual amount and form to respond to the claim set forth in said cross libel unless the court, for cause shown, shall otherwise direct; and all proceedings on the original libel shall be stayed until such security shall be given.
SEC. 4. SUBPOENAS TO OFFICERS OR MEMBERS OF CREWS (46 App. U.S.C. 784 (2002)). No officer or member of the crew of any public vessel of the United States may be subpoenaed in connection with any suit authorized under this Act without the consent of the Secretary of the department or the head of any independent establishment of the Government having control of the vessel at the time the cause of action arose, or of the master or commanding officer of such vessel at the time of the issuance of such subpoena.
SEC. 5. SUITS BY NATIONALS OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS (46 App. U.S.C. 785 (2002)). No suit may be brought under this Act by a national of any foreign government unless it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court in which suit is brought that said government, under similar circumstances, allows nationals of the United States to sue in its courts.
SEC. 6. ARBITRATION, COMPROMISE, OR SETTLEMENT (46 App. U.S.C. 786 (2002)). The Attorney General of the United States is authorized to arbitrate, compromise, or settle any claim on which a libel or cross libel would lie under the provisions of this Act, and for which a libel or cross libel has actually been filed.
SEC. 7. PAYMENT OF JUDGMENTS OR SETTLEMENTS (46 App. U.S.C. 787 (2002)).
Any final judgment rendered on any libel or cross libel herein authorized, and any settlement had and agreed to under the provisions of section 6 of this Act, shall, upon presentation of a duly authenticated copy thereof, be paid by the proper accounting officer of the United States out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States appropriated therefor by Congress.
SEC. 8. LIEN NOT CREATED AGAINST PUBLIC VESSELS (46 App. U.S.C. 788 (2002)). Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to recognize the existence of or as creating a lien against any public vessel of the United States.
SEC. 9. EXEMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY (46 App. U.S.C. 789 (2002)).
The United States shall be entitled to the benefits of all exemptions and of all limitations of liability accorded by law to the owners, charterers, operators or agents of vessels.
SEC. 10. REPORTS BY ATTORNEY GENERAL (46 App. U.S.C. 790 (2002)). The Attorney General of the United States shall report to the Congress at each session thereof all claims which shall have been settled under this act.
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First, "Ignore you inner editor" makes sense for one style of writing–people who write in a series of drafts, getting down a story and then rewriting and polishing it.
I don't do don't that. I write and rewrite and edit in my head, and then type it out when it's done. My inner editor is the same as my inner writer–it's all part of my process.
Second "Kill your darlings" doesn't refer to characters, it refers to scenes and descriptions. What Steven King was saying is that many times the parts that we are proudest of as writers is what has to be cut because it slows the pace of the story or distracts the reader from the action.
Again, that makes sense for plot driven action novels, but what King would call my darlings is the strength of my prose. I am a stylist, I don't write to get from point A to point B, I write to enjoy the ride. So that one doesn't really work for me, either.
Thanks for your comment. Like I said, ignoring your inner editor can be necessary for some and I understand why some people like to follow it. But I'm glad that other people than me don't like to do it. And thanks for clearing up the Stephen King thing. I'll probably edit the post later. I've heard it misappropriated a little too often, I guess, and I haven't yet read the source material.
This rings incredibly true with me. You've made some very honest insights that writers need to admit sometimes. I've tried the no editing thing and it works to an extent. I find that I can't keep going if I don't fix something that doesn't flow. It's like building a wall. If the foundations are sloppy, I don't even want to keep working on it, let alone finish building a terrible wall and coming back to straighten it up. I think all writing advice should always be taken with caution. They usually make sense, yes, but they shouldn't be treated as absolute rules. That takes all the fun out of writing in the first place!
Thank you for your comment! I think that is a perfect analogy for ignoring the editor – for me, at least. I know that others out there swear by it.
Love, love, love this post. So many great insights here, thanx for sharing. Def agree with the novel/blog thing – it seems impossible to do both well. And also with the editing – if I didn't do a quick edit as I went, I think I'd be re-writing the whole thing from scratch. I have also ditched a manuscript, because I just don't have the craft yet to do the story justice – glad I got on with a better story and didn't waste time trying to 'save' it. Was it Hemmingway who said to take your first 500,000 words and burn them?
Thank you for your comment. That's some harsh advice from Hemmingway, but I wouldn't be surprised with that guy.
Thank you for your comment! Inspiring words to keep me going. Admittedly, I just threw out that draft and started from a different approach. It wasn't too bad, since the first draft wasn't too long yet, and with a rethinking and retooling I have actually written more and had more drive. And I never throw anything out, I'm a work hoarder! Sometimes that comes back to bite me when I take a look at my old work and shake my head at former me. But at least that means I've improved.
Again, thanks for your comment. Good sentiments and optimism all around.


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Preserving the Seeds of Gender Fluidity: Tribal Courts and the Berdache Tradition
Andrew Gilden, Georgetown University Law Center
This Article outlines the particular cultural characteristics giving rise to traditional berdachism, the means by which American policies fostered their decline, and the Navajo tribal courts' re-infusion of these characteristics into contemporary jurisprudence. By tracking the interplay between the traditional values of child autonomy, gender equality, and tribal collectivism, the rise, fall and potential reemergence of the berdache tradition can be analyzed as resulting from shifts in its determinative cultural elements.
Andrew Gilden, Preserving the Seeds of Gender Fluidity: Tribal Courts and the Berdache Tradition, 13 Mich. J. Gender & L. 237 (2007).
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Against all odds, Brooklyn duo Shellshag actually write funny songs. Credit the long-term relationship of chief songwriter John Driver and co-vocalist Jennifer Shagawat. They're a couple that have spent their time together writing songs since 1997. They even constructed the DIY microphone monstrosity depicted on the album cover just so they could face one another during shows. They're a cute and quirky pair, but what makes them click as a musical duo is their totally transparent demeanor. The lo-fi pop songs of Shellshag Forever are honest and direct — extensions of the duo's personality.
Driver writes most of the lyrics, and he's a sappy romantic in the Jonathan Richman mold. "I'll buy us both root beer floats / Take a ride on a banana boat," he sings on opener "Face to Face". He's not gifted as a vocalist, but he makes do, settling into a deep baritone that's reminiscent of Beat Happening's Calvin Johnson.
Driver lets his voice get away from him, which results in some of those funny songs. He sounds ridiculous on "Driving Song", over-enunciating every word (for hilarity's sake) as he gives advice to people in various conflicts, including a nervous teen who phones a girl ("Don't hang up this time") and an individual being coaxed by a preacher ("Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, this man is a liar / Liar liar pants on fire").
Shellshag is just drums, guitar, and the harmonized voices of Driver and Shagawat. But the songs don't require anything else. The band's humble, humorous personality shines through on its fourth LP, and while Shellshag Forever isn't going to define genres or push boundaries, it's a charming record — one that makes you smile.
Essential Tracks: "Face to Face", "Dots in Rhyme"
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If you want to be a tennis betting expert, you've come to the right place. Here at BookieSmash we've got all the tennis betting tips you'll need, whether you're a beginner who is learning how to bet on sport, or an expert who knows all the players. Take a look at our three steps to successful tennis betting.
Perhaps the most important thing to remember when you're looking to try betting on tennis is that you need to know your tennis first. Study a few tournaments if you haven't already done so, and understand the tennis calendar. A good place to start is one of the four biggest and longest tournaments in the calendar, the Grand Slams.
The Australian Open is the first of the year, in January, and although it used to take place on grass, these days it's a hard-court tournament. In the depths of winter it's nice to watch summer happening on the other side of the world, but more importantly, it's usually a hotly-contested tournament. There have been surprise finalists and winners throughout the history of this tournament, and it's a place where champions have to be alert.
Next up comes the French Open, at historic Roland Garros in Paris. This is the Grand Slam tournament that takes place on clay - the red, slow slippery stuff. This is a real specialist surface. It requires absolute concentration from the players, usually for long, attritional matches that can last three hours or more. As such, it's a tough place to win, and only a few players have managed it in recent years, most notably the record-breaking champion Rafael Nadal, who is known to his millions of fans as the "King of Clay".
Only a few weeks later, in June, we have Wimbledon. This is traditionally known as the most important tournament in the tennis calendar, and is the only modern Grand Slam tournament played on grass, a delicate surface that makes the ball move faster, and, at least historically, has benefited serve-volleyers (the players who move fast to the net).
The final Grand Slam of the year is the US Open, in Flushing Meadows, New York City. This is, like the Australian Open, on hard courts, and has diverse winners, as it benefits different kinds of playing styles, and there is no one way to win the tournament. This makes for great action and variety.
And really, before you have a look at tennis betting odds, that's something big to remember: tennis is all about variety. Just when you think you've got the game cracked, something else comes along to change it.
Pretty much all tennis betting picks are based on assumed knowledge: that you'll know all about the players and the tournaments and surfaces. However, on another level, it is assumed you know the rules of the game. For this reason, you need to be aware of how a tennis match is broken up.
Players score points as follows: 15, 30, 40 and then the game is won, unless scores are 40-40, which we call deuce. In this case, a player has to win the next point to get advantage, and then he or she can win the game. The first player to establish a margin of two clear games wins the set (except with 5-5, in which case the score must be 7-5, or 6-6, in which case there is a tiebreak, or, in the final set of a Grand Slam match, the set continues until a margin of two games can be established). A match is best of five sets in a Grand Slam for men, best of three for women, and also for men on regular ATP Tour matches.
Why is this important for you as you learn how to bet on tennis? Well, if you can know the rules of the game, then you can know tennis betting rules.
Tennis betting is broken up along the lines of a tennis match. You can bet on pretty much everything within a match, but it's advisable to watch some games before you begin putting deposits on players. This is because tennis betting, like every other kind of sports betting, is run by bookmakers, or bookies, who select odds based on what they think is the likelihood of something happening.
However, that's not the only consideration that goes into tennis betting odds. There's also the matter of bookies being in a highly-competitive market. Sports betting is an industry growing all the time, particularly in Europe but also in the United States. If you place a bet, you're doing so alongside thousands of other people, and you've got to establish an edge. You can do this through knowledge. Which player is slowest in starting matches? Who comes roaring out of the blocks? If you have an idea of this, you can gain an edge on other bettors who have not considered such a detail.
If you're watching the French Open, and a player who is good on clay is playing one who has never played on the surface before, who is likely to win? The experienced clay-court player, in most cases. If you have a slow, steady, but very fit player, bet on him or her winning in five sets, if that's based on your knowledge of previous matches played. Put your money on your knowledge, and build up your deposit over time, as your confidence increases, and as you are able to back up that confidence with winnings.
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Billboard Exposes Humane Society of the United States for Stiffing Pet Shelters
Washington, DC—Today, HumaneWatch.org, a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom, unveiled a new billboard near Green Bay taking aim at the deceptively named vegan activist group Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Despite its name, HSUS is not affiliated with local humane societies, though most of the public mistakenly thinks otherwise, according to public polling.
The billboard, which is located at Highway 41 south of Creamery Road, reads: "You thought the frozen tundra was cold. What's really cold? The fact that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) only gives 1% of its budget to pet shelters. Give Local!" An image is available here.
According to HSUS's most recent tax return (2012), the organization only made 3 grants to help Wisconsin groups care for pets. The grants totaled a pitiful $2,900, or 0.002% of HSUS's $120 million budget.
"HSUS tricks Americans with deceptive advertising into believing that their donations will be used predominantly to care for cats and dogs," said Will Coggin, CCF's Senior Research Analyst. "However, that money is often used to attack livestock farmers and promote veganism—with the hope of putting Wisconsin's dairy farmers in the breadline."
The billboard comes on the heels of increasing scrutiny of HSUS. In March, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt opened an investigation into HSUS's fundraising. In May, HSUS settled a federal racketeering and bribery lawsuit for up to $15.75 million. And in June, Charity Navigator, the nation's largest charity evaluator, revoked its rating of HSUS and issued a "Donor Advisory" against the group.
"Wisconsinites who care about pets should give to their local shelter directly," continued Coggin. "The only thing HSUS should receive from the Badger State is an official demand that it cease its deceptive actions that harm animal-loving donors and local pet shelters."
Founded in 1996, the Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization devoted to promoting personal responsibility and protecting consumer choices. For more information, visit ConsumerFreedom.com.
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