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In defense of the Hangman; Why the EU's retort misses and kills liberal debate
Boemo Delano Phirinyane
The execution of Patrick Gabaakanye on Wednesday 25th May seems to have reignited the long standing debate on the continued use of capital punishment. The European Union and Human Rights groups expressed massive discontent towards this decision by the Government of Botswana. Though this lash out wasn't only specific to the case of Raselepe, they are still on a campaign to lobby states like Botswana, China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia amongst other which still approve of and use this method of punishment to reconsider its use.
In this article we look at why these countries should not succumb to the pressure by the European Union, Human Rights groups and anyone who shares their sentiments on the abolition of the death penalty, hence in defense of the hangman.
At the core of arguments which advocate for the cessation of capital punishment is the horrifying fact that they seek to portray the murderer as a vulnerable victim which the state keeps on using as a means to an end to teach that it's not moral and right to kill.
Firstly they argue that the death penalty is inhumane and strips the death row candidate of his dignity. Perhaps it's crucial before we unfairly prejudice the Hangman that we look at the actions of the murderer and how they clearly show disregard for the humanity and dignity of the innocent who they kill. Once a man has initiated force against an innocent person, he has in effect declared that he does not live by the principle of individual rights. He does not wish to live amongst men as a rational being, but a predator, to the detriment and destruction of all those around him. Rights stem from man's nature as a rational being, and a man living irrationally has no rights. It is not only prudent for a society to destroy such a harmful animal, but is an act of justice, treating a person according to how they act.
Raselepe as he was respectfully feared had terrorized the villagers in Kweneng for some time with an account of Rape and Murder. The most degrading crimes in the entirety of human existence as they tag along the use of fierce weapons, force and violence which demonstrate lack of respect for the dignity of the victim. When the Hangman finally gets you, or any other death row inmate, he exercises utmost respect and ensures you leave this world in a more dignified way. I would understand these critics if he too used weapons to butcher you until the soul leaves your body, but contrary to the outcry of Him being inhumane, mostly he uses a well knitted rope or lethal injection. Giving the ruthless murderer the dignity he himself does not believe in.
Therefore the idea of dignity being raised in defense of the likes of Raselepe is only a clear indication of portraying the murderer as a victim of circumstances. The graphic pictures of our brothers and sisters being butchered are a reminder embossed on our consciences of what should not be done against our people. The only end game of those playing the Dignity card is that they only seek to obliterate from our memories a cruel occurrence which in its remembrance should teach us to accept the old saying 'an eye for an eye'.
Secondly it's the idea of the State using the wrath of the Hangman to show that killing is wrong and immoral which is illegitimate as the State is using human beings( murderers in this case) as means to an end to demonstrate why we must not kill. Unlike any murderer, the State does not just decide to arbitrarily execute someone; it only does it as a form of punishment having followed due process to give the criminal a day in court as it is enshrined in the constitutions and universal treaties that most subscribe to. To show that states are considerate and value the right to life, that is exactly why there are a select few high profile crimes that can send you to the death chamber, with murder and treason being the most common.
Still within this bracket, we make further considerations hence the idea of murder and manslaughter. To make provisions for cases of self-defense, to recognize that if someone makes deadly advances on your life, you can take theirs to preserve that of the innocent in this case. Therefore the Hangman does not devalue life, but rather affirms the value of the innocent life taken by the criminal.
Crimes are committed against individuals but it is the responsibilities of a neutral body like the state, through its courts to adjudicate and pass on punishment to the guilty. Therefore the Hangman is not used by the state as a tool of oppression unlike murderers who do. Crimes especially grave ones like murder are used in most instances to oppress a specific target or group of people in society. This is proven by the idea of intention and proper planning that first degree murders are given.
When John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators planned the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, there was no other fitting punishment than executing them by the grounds of the old Arsenal Prison except the mastermind John Booth who had been shot and killed during the man hunt.
This argument is often at times pinned on the claim that the death penalty does not in any way deter future cases of murder. I disagree; if that were to be the case then we would probably have double the number of murder cases and with the hangman being busier than he is today. The idea mentioned above of man being rationale beings is applicable here; He makes calculations on the risks of taking away life, which would be the wrath of facing the Hangman. Why isn't a majority of us thinking of committing murder, let alone any form of crime if this was true?
Finally there is the idea that execution is often a severe punishment for the courts to hand out. There is a concept in justice called proportionality which states basically that the reaction should fit the action. (The punishment should commensurate the crime). It is worth noting that without proportionality, death would be an appropriate punishment for all who initiate force. The argument of severity would be valid in so far as people had reason to believe that the hangman is being used too loosely, handed out to mitigate any crime, but that is not the case considering when we feel the need to use it, for capital crimes like murder and treason. Taking proportionality into account, the premeditated murder of an innocent by a criminal justly deserves execution by the state of that criminal. Capital punishment symbolizes the value and importance placed upon maintenance of the sanctity of human life. Any lesser sentence would fail in this duty.
In conclusion of the defense of the Hangman, this is one man who is just there to ensure that justice is served. He does not arbitrarily decide to execute anyone; he makes crucial considerations on who to send to the gutter. The hangman stands and waits outside the court room for those indicted, tried and convicted to ensure that justice isn't buried with the victims.
*Boemo Delano Phirinyane is a social & political commentator and the 2014 Pan-African Universities Debate Champion and SADC Open 2015 Champion.
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The Witch Within: a reading of Witch Light by Susan Fletcher – Reviewed by Gemma Cooke
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Sometimes, rarely, you read a book where the first person narrator seems to be really talking to you. This was the case with Witch Light. At first, this was an uncomfortable meeting. The main character Corrag is the narrator. She has a monotonous voice, that can seem nonsensical at times, but all becomes clearer as you read on. I foundvery yself deliberately disregarding the letters from the man she tells her story to, as they do seem too much of an imposed violation on her tale. The author Susan Fletcher admits in an interview at the back of the novel, that she added him as only Corrag's point of view provided, 'no respite for the reader from her strange voice'. He also brings the reader squarely into the time period, with his tone, an earnest and passionate account of his feelings. His letters would not seem out of place in Dracula. They carry the same kind of foreboding and the sheer weight of his task. The juxtaposition of the two distinct voices does serve the purpose of some kind of balance, if still prejudiced, on both sides.
But a few words on the story. Corrag is based on a real-life person, as are the events at the climax of the novel and Charles Leslie, the Jacobite who unveils the truth in the King's part in the events. The novel is set in Scotland, shortly after King James II fled to France, leaving William of Orange to take his throne. It left two warring factions, the Jacobites who supported James, and those who were loyal to their new King. This is the historical context that the troubled Corrag is caught in, as well as fear of fear itself.
In a time of suspicion and prejudice, Corrag has little chance of ever being accepted in society. She's part of a female blood line, which are thought strange: too knowledgeable in the use of plants for healing and un-Godly. The word 'witch' is never far from the lips of those she meets. She insists on telling the rich man, who comes to hear her eye witness account of the massacre, her whole life story, as then it will live on in him. She is to be burned at the stake for her witchcraft. Charles, a typical God-fearing husband, sees what they see. A child-like, dirty creature who talks wildly and of things he cannot understand.
Fletcher has created in Corrag a character that is both compelling and disturbing in equal measure, as she has a spell-binding way with words, whilst describing the beauty of the Highlands and finding the magic of the natural world seen through her solitude.
The backdrop of the killings is lost behind the tragedy of all the women who were really persecuted for being themselves; be they single, confident, overtly sexual, accomplished or linked to an event that could be seen as an omen or an evil act. Any woman could be accused, which equated to a death sentence. The sad reality of all the women killed as witches haunts the voice of Corrag and makes it stronger. She is caring, sensible, careful and brave. She is also odd, manic and unknown. She inhabits all the mantels of 'woman' that she carries, but never riles at the injustice of the life that she has been given. She only wishes that she could remember it, savour the best parts and perhaps enjoy life for longer.
The novel is a journey of her finding a place, emotionally and physically, where she belongs. She cares nothing of kings and abhors violence. Strange then, that she is accepted by the savage MacDonalds, after travelling from the South. She is dubbed 'English' but never with hate. They recognise her value, through her difference, and see her intention rather than what they impose upon her.
She could be considered bewitching. She wins round the clan and even her interviewer. As such, despite the despicable nature of the massacre, the one person whom one really cares about is Corrag and the unjust end that lies in wait for her after she recounts that fateful day. Once this is told it is all over.
There is light in the dark. Corrag falls in love, knows true friendship and is able to live with herself, as she tried to save them. To know things, to have second-sight, was a sure sign of having links to the devil, but to not use it would be an even greater sin. Folklore also has its place in the story, through the frightening, classic figure of the witch with second sight. Corrag seems normal in comparison.
Other plus-points, include the breathtaking setting, which is nearly a character in its own right, and its wildlife, its offspring. The construction of the phrasing to describe the hills, sheer cliffs and living ranges are intoxicating, imaginatively described and realistic. It made me want to go so that I could stand at the edge, in the throes of the wind, listening to the highlands. That is how Corrag feels all the time, to be that close to nature. Then comes the call to release the inner witch.
This begs the question: is it a woman's novel? There are more than a few strong, masculine characters present; most are soldiers, or warriors, but nearly all feared, and rightly so. As the narrator is so powerful, feminine and fragile, it could well be considered a woman's novel. This does mean to say that it would not offer a male reader anything, at least perhaps a window into the mind of women. It is easy to be drawn into the story; it's well paced and engaging. The characters, especially Corrag are easy to identify with: who hasn't felt strange, unwelcome and unloved at some point in their lives? Witch Light is a novel that whispers to you: 'dare to be who you are'.
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z Didn't Stand During the Super Bowl National Anthem and Made a Statement
By Alyssa Bailey
Beyoncé made her second big statement of awards season by simply not standing up. The singer attended the Super Bowl last night with her daughter Blue Ivy Carter and husband Jay-Z. Blue Ivy, Jay-Z, Beyoncé drew attention for their choice not to stand during the National Anthem. TMZ ran the video of them seated during Demi Lovato's rendition of the song.
Their reps did not immediately respond to AP's request for comment regarding their choice. But some saw it as a statement of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick, a former NFL quarterback, took the knee during the National Anthem in protest against systemic racism in 2016. He lost his position on his team the next year and was not drafted by any other NFL team, despite being a promising player.
In 2017, Kaepernick filed a collusion grievance against the NFL, alleging the organization helped blackball him. He cited that "athletes should not be denied employment based on partisan political provocation." Numerous entertainers, including Jay-Z, came out in support of him. Some, including Rihanna, refused offers to perform the Super Bowl halftime show because they did not want to be complicit in supporting the organization.
As Rihanna told Vogue, "I couldn't dare do that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people. I just couldn't be a sellout. I couldn't be an enabler. There's things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way."
Beyoncé has also praised Kaepernick personally when giving him Sports Illustrated's Muhammad Ali Legacy Award in 2017. "Thank you, Colin Kaepernick, thank you for your selfless heart and your conviction, thank you for your personal sacrifice," she said, via Washington Post. "Colin took action with no fear of consequence or repercussion, only hope to change the world for the better. To change perception, to change the way we treat each other, especially people of color. We're still waiting for the world to catch up."
Alyssa Bailey Senior News and Strategy Editor Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton).
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Q: Doc-type html/w3c breaks css I know this is a question that has likely been asked a thousand times but I cannot understand why this isn't working.
This webpage displays perfectly fine without a doc-type declaration but as soon as I add a doc-type to the page it breaks the css for the navbar.
Some help would be greatly appreciated.
url: http://www2.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ob10/Home.html

A: A doctype is required on all web pages. Without one, you are in "quirks mode" where it's like it was 1999 all over again and you never want to be there. Quirks mode is the incorrect version of the box model which Microsoft and Internet Explorer screwed up years ago. The sole purpose of the doctype is to set your browser into "standards mode".
Activating Browser Modes with Doctype

In the Quirks mode the browsers violate contemporary Web format
  specifications in order to avoid "breaking" pages authored according
  to practices that were prevalent in the late 1990s. Previously,
  different browsers implemented different quirks. In particular, in
  Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9, the Quirks mode is effectively frozen
  IE 5.5, while in other browsers the Quirks mode has been a handful of
  deviations from the Almost Standards mode.

A: The problem that I was having is that in quirks mode some browsers allow for weak typing of html attributes, whereas that is not allowed in standards mode.
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Our third annual Art History Higher Education Conference and Fair was a great success with a superb range of speakers from prestigious curators and renowned academics to young graduates speaking on a range of careers in the arts. Notably Old Dolphin Antonia Marsh who launched the Girls Only gallery. The afternoon fair comprised undergraduates representing 24 university departments, and staff and students from 28 schools and colleges, including many local West London state schools benefitted from face to face chats about university life both academic and social. Our Sixth Form girls helped organise the day and really appreciated the variety and breadth of Art History they encountered.


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America is plunging into a fast-worsening and frightening winter bout with Covid-19 that will leave few citizens and communities untouched. But as the highly transmissible Omicron variant roars across the country, the Biden administration is revealing the most tangible signs of a shifting pandemic strategy several weeks in the making. It is preparing a nation exhausted by two years of battling the invisible enemy to live more feasibly alongside it.
The new strain of a virus that had already killed more than 800,000 Americans is forcing quick government course alterations.
President Joe Biden's White House faces a dilemma rooted in increasing evidence that Omicron causes more mild disease than previous variants yet is so contagious that it has the power to cause massive shutdowns in the fundamental mechanics of daily life – by swamping hospitals and closing down shops, schools and transportation. Omicron, it appears, is so virulent that there is simply no way the protocols brought in to fight previous variants can remain in place and allow the country to function in any meaningful way.
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Blizzards of new public health guidance on how long people should isolate after positive tests and when they should get tested risk further confusing a public that has already seen reversals and changes in such information – a downside of the battle against a pathogen that always seems one step ahead of efforts to combat it.
But the evolving administration approach is also one that could eventually point to a sustainable path back to something closer to normality for many Americans once the winter surge abates – a future in which Covid-19 will always be in the background and not eradicated.
A palpable shift in policy toward the virus and public perceptions of its impact are occurring during a holiday season in which many people – including those who made rigorous efforts to avoid it until now – have been infected or seen loved ones or friends test positive. This new pandemic reality comes as Omicron, which is far more infectious, takes over, although the previous Delta wave still has some regions in its grip. But with the public desperate for deliverance from a crisis that has pounded the nation's psyche for parts of three winters, it is looking like economic and societal factors, rather than just epidemiology, are important in shaping the US response to the virus.
This trend is most prominent in a decision by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this week to reduce the period of isolation for those with positive Covid-19 tests from 10 to five days in most circumstances. It's evident in the determination of national and local leaders to avoid politically unpopular lockdowns and to keep schools open.
It's fair to wonder whether Biden's mantra that science alone will dictate policymaking – which encapsulates his symbolic break with former President Donald Trump's negligence on the pandemic – is loosening, though direct comparisons with the ex-President's policy ignore vastly different moments in the pandemic and the vaccines and treatments now available to fight it.
Agonizing choices
Omicron offers some opportunities for leaders to begin to transition the country to a different state of readiness. It also includes agonizing choices.
New York state, for example, saw hospitalizations rise 10% on Wednesday alone. There is alarm, meanwhile, among pediatricians about rising numbers of children needing to be admitted for treatment. Even if only a tiny proportion of everyone infected needs hospital treatment, the huge number of infections – more than 240,000 new reported cases on Tuesday alone – could still seize up the entire medical system, further strain exhausted front-line health workers and cause rising death rates. In isolation, such figures seem to argue for more stringent restrictions to stop the spread of the virus.
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But the fact that for most Americans – especially those who are vaccinated and boosted – Omicron could prove more a nuisance than a serious threat to health has naturally raised the question of whether a new way of tackling the pandemic is needed, at least until a more serious variant comes along. In short, is it time simply for more people to get on with their lives with less disruption?
The government's top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, put it this way to CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday, while explaining the reduction in isolation time for those who test positive and are asymptomatic: "So you either shut down the society, which no one wants to do, or you try and get a situation where you can safely get people back, particularly to critical jobs, without having them be out for a full 10 days, so long as they are without symptoms."
He went on: "I think what people need to understand – there is risk in everything when it comes to SARS-CoV-2. That's just the reality. Some people think if you do this, there is no risk. There's a risk to everything."
Changing the balance of decision making
Perhaps more than at any other time in the pandemic, Omicron has begun to reweight the conundrum voiced by Fauci – recasting the balance between economic, social and societal considerations and the purely medical justifications for sweeping public health guidance.
For instance, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has been explaining the thinking behind the decision to reduce the isolation period for those who test positive, providing they are asymptomatic or their symptoms are resolving and that they wear masks for a subsequent five days.
President Joe Biden participates in a call with the National Governors Association about Covid-19 on Monday, December 27, 2021.
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She told The Washington Post in an interview published Wednesday that the move was "based on the anticipation of a large number of cases might impact societal function." She added: "There were starting to be limitations in society, not just in our health care workforce but in other parts of society. We were seeing infections in many places that we realized this could be a harbinger of many other essential workers we needed."
In a later White House briefing, Walensky insisted that there was strong scientific ground for the move. She said data on Omicron suggests that the greatest transmission of the disease comes one or two days before symptoms develop and two to three days afterward. But she again made clear that the eased guidance was not based on the characteristics of the virus alone, revealing that officials had considered how people who needed to get back to work would behave in practice.
"It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate," Walensky said.
The director did give herself sufficient room to argue that the CDC was still adopting a scientific approach, but considering behavioral trends – rather than just epidemiology – is a clear shift in approach from that advocated by government scientists earlier in the pandemic, and one that's raising concern among some outside observers.
Is Biden following Trump's playbook?
It's fair to ask whether the Biden administration is beginning to prioritize economics over science, just as Democrats once blasted Trump for doing.
As the ex-President agitated in spring 2020 to get Americans back to work, even with high viral rates, he was rightly accused of putting his election-year goals before public health. Members of the Trump administration might be forgiven, therefore, for wondering whether the current President, faced with a tough midterm election year, is attempting something similar.
The issue is steeped in complexity that runs deeper than politics. The new CDC approach has some support from physicians worried about hospitals running short on doctors, nurses and support staff when Omicron hits its peak. But some epidemiologists are concerned that the isolation period is too short and could lead to more infections. Worker advocates like flight attendant unions have warned against forcing people back to work when they are sick.
President Joe Biden participates in the White House COVID-19 Response Team's regular call with the National Governors Association in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Biden is dogged by a testing shortage he had vowed to fix
The isolation issue is not the only one causing political controversy.
Walensky explained to reporters that negative rapid antigen tests were not required at the five-day mark because such methods were not always accurate in showing whether someone could transmit the virus at that point. Yet after Biden admitted this week that his team should have done better in foreseeing a huge shortage in such tests, it would be politically impossible for the CDC to require them when changing the guidance.
Former Trump administration surgeon general Dr. Jerome Adams – who was among officials often accused of putting politics before science or appeasing Trump's goals – criticized the change in guidance on a long Twitter thread Tuesday.
"If it's to keep the economy open, own it. But don't claim science based, yet ignore the most important science (ie value of negative tests + high quality masks)," Adams wrote.
He appears to have a point. Yet the current circumstances of the pandemic are far different from those that prevailed when the former President downplayed its significance, despite knowing how serious it was, in an apparent effort to shield his reelection prospects.
Given that millions of Americans are now vaccinated and boosted, as was not the case in 2020, the comparison between Biden's support for staying open and Trump's for an end to shutdowns doesn't stand up. And while Omicron can still cause serious illness and death, those most at risk have, in most cases, chosen not to protect themselves with vaccines that were not available early last year.
And by all accounts, including in research unveiled by Fauci on Wednesday, the threat posed to most fully vaccinated Americans by Omicron is less serious than from previous strains of the virus. It was one thing for Trump to demand the reopening of the economy after a few weeks of patchy efforts to "stop the spread" when no one was vaccinated. Nearly two years into the pandemic, the societal and economic consequences of the long battle with Covid-19 have multiplied.
And while science may predominantly dictate mitigation measures going forward, a variant that is less lethal is provoking a serious examination of whether broader questions deserve more emphasis in public health decision making.


In the last decade solar cooling technologies e.g. absorption, adsorption and desiccant evaporative cooling were subject to an increasing interest. In a solar desiccant cooling cycle, solar energy is used to regenerate a desiccant that dehumidifies moist air. The resulting dry air is cooled in a sensible heat regenerator and in an evaporative cooler and then is supplied to the building. By associating different elementary changes to moist air (dehumidification, sensible cooling and evaporative cooling); this technique uses water as a refrigerant and solar energy as a driving potential while electricity is only used in the auxiliaries, so the technique is environmentally-friendly.
The choice of heat rejection solution is often critical to the electrical power consumption of the thermally driven chiller. The possible lowering of the electrical consumption compared to traditional cooling solutions is in many cases the driving force towards utilizing the solar energy for cooling. Therefore the total electrical consumption is crucial. Investigation of realized systems shows that up to 50-60 % of the total electrical consumption is used in the heat rejection system, depending on the type and design of the system.
This report is the result of the work undertaken by one of the working groups set up as part of Task 38 of the Solar Heating and Cooling Programme of the International Energy Agency. The remit of Task 38 was to study Solar Air-conditioning and Refrigeration. The work was split into four sub-tasks and these were further sub-divided into smaller sub-tasks. One such sub-task CI, forming part of the sub-task C on Modelling and Fundamental Analysis, was set up to carry out a survey on new solar cooling developments, a State-of-the-Art report. This report documents the results of that work.
Within the Task 38, the Subtask C was devoted to the Thermodynamic Analysis of solar cooling systems. Out of the many contributions offered by the participants, those ones collected in this Report are the most representative of the research activity carried out by the whole Group in the field of the exergy analysis and its applications to solar cooling. By going through the paper, the Reader can recognize that for detecting the drawbacks of thermodynamic nature of energy engineering systems, the exergy approach is a more useful and powerful tool than energy analysis. Indeed, while the energy approach is based solely on the First Law, exergy analysis is founded on the combination of both the First and Second Law of Thermodynamics, thus offering a wider and more rational basis for investigation.
This chapter shall give a very short description of thermally driven heat pumps especially with respect to the heat rejection sub-system and temperature level. Furthermore different technologies for rejecting the heat to the air are briefly discussed and compared to each other for different climatic conditions.
Numerical simulation offers the possibility to study virtually physical systems and to test rapidly the proposed solutions. Simulation is then the most adapted method to understand the behaviour of a system in order to optimize it. The enhancement and the development of a technology are essentially based on the capacity to simulate accurately its behaviour in order to optimize it. This reality applies to solar cooling technologies. In this report simulation tools used in the solar cooling domains are described. Then the recent development in the components and system models and validation are presented. In part 1 of the report the simulation tools applicable in the domain of solar cooling are presented and the main advantages of each tool are highlighted.
System simulation for planning support. Objective: to identify an appropriate system size with respect to fulfill target values in primary energy savings, solar thermal system exploitation, economics, etc.
Numerical simulation offers the possibility to study virtually physical systems and to test rapidly the proposed solutions. Simulation is then the most adapted method to understand the behaviour of a system in order to optimize it. The enhancement and the development of a technology are essentially based on the capacity to simulate accurately its behaviour in order to optimize it. This reality applies to solar cooling technologies.


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Aubrey Plaza Gave SNL Permission to Get Weird
The show has seemed stuck in a rut lately; this week's host brought some much-needed eccentricity.
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Aubrey Plaza's mischief as an intern began long before she played the sardonic April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation. During college, she briefly served as a page at NBC, where she spent her time sharing fake facts on the tours she led and sneaking off to vomit away her hangovers. Unsurprisingly, Plaza lasted only a few months before being asked to leave, but in her short stint at the network, she got the chance to trail SNL's design department. "I was stalking, lurking in the shadows," she told Jimmy Fallon earlier this week.
When Plaza took the stage last night to host SNL for the first time, she wasn't lurking anymore. During her opening monologue, she gave a fabricated tour of SNL Studio 8H, then joined three of the set designers she'd interned with all those years ago. "When I was showing up an hour late and barely working, did you ever expect to see me hosting the show?" she asked one of them. "Bow to your queen!" she demanded.
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And pay homage SNL did. Allison Jones, the casting director for Parks and Recreation, once purportedly called Plaza "the weirdest girl I ever met," and Plaza's delightfully offbeat vibe came to define the episode. The show leaned into it from the jump, delivering several sketches about weird characters prone to weirder behaviors that gave Plaza an opportunity to play with her talents. During a premise about morning announcements at a Catholic school, she played a nun who'd been accidentally electrocuted in the bath, died for two minutes, and discovered heaven might not exist. The experience left her questioning everything. "I'm going to have sex tonight!" she shouted, widening her eyes in shaky resolve.
In a sketch about a game night, Sasha (Plaza) and her partner, Ian (Mikey Day), ended up horrifying their new neighbors by accidentally revealing their dark history while playing Taboo. Racing to get Ian to guess a secret word correctly, Sasha prompted him by reminding him what she was "on" the night they first met. His guesses—on ketamine, on parole—finally led to the right one: on fire. The effect felt like a throwback to SNL's halcyon days a little more than a decade ago, when Kristen Wiig and Will Forte often pushed the show's sketches in absurd and grotesque directions.
Still, although the show tiptoed up to Plaza's vibe, it stopped short of going too far. SNL has, after all, long aimed to reach and please middle America—something Sarah Sherman has had to navigate since joining the cast last year. Known for body-horror comedy under the name Sarah Squirm, Sherman has found ways to tone down the more extreme side of her humor without forgoing the reasons SNL hired her in the first place. In both Sherman's and Plaza's cases, the compromise works, but one has to wonder what might be possible if the show didn't so fervently pursue middle-of-the-road comedy.
As it nears its 50th anniversary—and as even longtime cast members question its longevity after that milestone—SNL seems to be at an inflection point. Given that so many of the show's most recognizable cast members have recently departed, newer members have the potential to reinvigorate it. With youth often comes experimentation, and it's led to big payoffs in the past, namely the viral power of Digital Shorts.
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But this season has played it safe more often than not, tapping big-name hosts and guest stars to add pizzazz instead of giving its newer cast ample room to try novel things. Last night mined nostalgia in a few predictable ways, including by having Plaza appear as her famed Parks and Recreation character during a "Weekend Update" bit. She was eventually joined by her boss, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), for a moment that sweetly connected the two shows. Poehler took the opportunity to sit in her former anchor chair and deliver a joke. It was a delight, of course, but also a reminder of the past rather than a signal of the future.
Each era of SNL has to find its own voice. In a season bursting with change, the show has struggled with relevancy and originality; it hasn't yet found a way to stand out from earlier eras. But as much as Plaza's turn on the show nodded to the past (her time as a page, beloved old characters), it also hinted at new possibilities.


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Six months on from the UN's landmark 1.5°C report, which urged immediate global action to prevent global warming from rising beyond this dangerous level, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has advised the UK government to go zero-carbon by 2050. The committee's report asserts that the target constitutes the country's "highest possible ambition" and that it is not credible to aim for an earlier date.
We disagree. While the report does challenge the government to step up its climate ambition, our view is that creative carbon accounting and an unwillingness to prioritise the planet's health over economic growth leaves the committee's target lacking the urgency truly required to combat the climate emergency recently declared by even the government itself.
Creative accounting
Before assessing whether 2050 is an appropriate date, its important to unpack exactly how the committee defines net zero. Based on international guidance from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UK's target only includes territorial carbon emissions – those that are emitted directly within the country's borders.
The committee's report highlights that the country's territorial carbon footprint has fallen by 30% from 2008. But as Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg highlighted to parliament, using this figure as a mark of the country's climate leadership amounts to nothing more than creative carbon accounting, glossing over the UK's role in emissions that occur outside its borders.
The UK economy is primarily driven by its service sector, and the value of its imports is roughly triple that of its exports. The production and transport of these imported goods are a direct consequence of the UK's consumption habits, but these emissions aren't counted by the committee because they occur beyond its shores. Including these emissions and excluding emissions from exports to other countries, the UK's carbon footprint is 70% higher than the figure used by the committee.
While territorial emissions have dropped, the UK's consumption-based emissions are closely tied to economic growth.
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Crucially, this alternative definition shows that emissions are still closely tied to the UK's GDP, only notably reducing during the most recent financial crisis and remaining steady in recent years. The CCC does say that it will monitor the UK's consumption-based emissions, and highlights that the country must avoid "offshoring" its territorial emissions by importing more goods. But it stops well short of addressing the fundamental elephant in the room – that to seriously tackle emissions, the UK must move away from an economy that prioritises short-term growth over radical emission reductions.
On the surface, the most glaring omission in past carbon budgets at least appears to have been addressed. Emissions from international aviation and shipping have long been excluded from national targets in favour of international reduction efforts such as the UN's CORSIA or the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme. The committee now argues that "emissions from international aviation and shipping cannot be ignored".
But it only recommends their inclusion in the UK's carbon budget from 2033. This is 14 years too late. UK aviation emissions must not grow in the next decade if it is to prevent the worst effects of global warming. The time to act on aviation and shipping is now.
Highest possible ambition?
Even placing accounting issues aside, the 2050 target is unambitious and gives a false impression that there is time to play with. Lord Deben, chair of the committee, is almost certainly right that Extinction Rebellion's demand that the country reaches net zero by 2025 is physically impossible. Shedding the country's attachment to growth does not on its own lead to a neutral carbon ledger. The massive amounts of investment, innovation and infrastructure required to get there would not take full effect within six years.
But to say that anything earlier than a 2050 target isn't credible is a grave and dangerous mistake. At current levels of emissions, the world will reach 1.5°C of warming in 12 years. Each year that the UK delays radical action, the necessary yearly emissions cuts to hit net zero become greater, making it ever harder to avoid catastrophic warming. Even with immediate action, the world is still pinning hopes on carbon capture and storage technologies that may never work at scale. Working towards an earlier target with steeper emissions cuts would require initial uncomfortable changes, but would massively lower our reliance on these incredibly uncertain technologies.
According to the committee, fossil fuel powered cars should be phased out sooner. 1000 Words/Shutterstock
The report's claim that the 2050 target represents the UK's "highest possible ambition" speaks more to the country's economic priorities than to reality. Ten years ago, the committee wrote that an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050 (against 1990 levels) was at the limit of feasibility.
Now, the committee has changed its mind, stating that net zero can be achieved by the same date, for the same price: 1-2% of GDP. This small percentage is seen as the maximum acceptable cost of mitigating climate change, even in the face of the trillion-pound losses that are forecast if we do not take sufficient action. Is this really all the fate of present and future generations at risk of climate change is worth?
The report does hold some positives. It is unequivocal that current policy is insufficient to achieve even the UK's existing targets and urges a ramping up in actionable efforts. It criticises plans to phase out fossil fuel powered cars by 2040 as too late and too vague, and calls for the government to confront failures to plant enough carbon-absorbing trees and decarbonise heating systems.
But in focusing on what is "feasible" rather than necessary, the committee's trajectories simply do not reflect the radical carbon reductions the UK can make, and will only end the UK's contribution to global warming on paper.
The year 2025 may be an unrealistic target, but missing that by a few years is much less dangerous than hitting a 2050 target comfortably. We need to take every leap we can and fast, even if it is into the dark. As Greta Thunberg says, if your house is on fire, you don't tell people that the fire brigade will be along in a few hours – you act.
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Benchmark Group, Inc., an Engineering and Architectural firm, announced this week that David P. Kimball, P.E., has been named President. Founder and current President, Paul C. Parks, P.E., announced to staff that Kimball has accepted the position effective February 12, 2018. As President, Kimball will assume responsibility for the Rogers-based firm while Parks continues on in the Chairman of the Board position. Kimball will report directly to the Board of Directors.
Benchmark Group has been a fixture of the NWA community and downtown Rogers for the past 40 years. Kimball brings over 30 years of Engineering experience to the position, including 20 years as a Mechanical Engineer at Benchmark Group. In 20 years at Benchmark Group, he has served as Sr. Mechanical Engineer, Project Manager, Manager, Executive, and Board Member. His direct experience in almost every area of Benchmark Group's business, along with his extensive project experience and diverse technical skills, will serve to move Benchmark Group forward.
"I am excited to lead alongside a staff that cares for each other – and cares to do the job right. Our skilled and experienced team at Benchmark Group is dedicated to serve our clients and communities. Our vision is to build on our success in providing quality, efficient, and long-lasting designs," said Kimball.
"David's acceptance of this position has further strengthened my confidence in BG's continued success," Paul Parks.


There is some time between bringing your child home and the adoption becoming final. In foster adoptions, if you are open to legal risk placements, your children could go back to their biological parents or other relatives. In private and international adoptions, the time between placement and finalization is one for a social worker to monitor your progress as a family to ensure that everyone is adjusting well.
Your finalization could take place in court, or you could simply go to your mailbox one day and find your adoption decree. It depends on the type of adoption you've pursued and the state in which you live and in which the child was born.
In private domestic adoption, the period between placement and finalization can be anywhere from one month to one year. Many states require about six months. During this time, you will have at least one, and perhaps as many as six, visits from your home study social worker. When we had our first child, I still cleaned up the house and offered refreshments. When it came to our second child, I just made sure nothing sharp was in plain sight. We had one visit two days after Christmas, when the house still looked like a toy store threw up. I don't even think my son was dressed. Don't stress. These visits are just to check in and make sure no one is going to die.
During the time between placement and finalization of a private adoption, the adoptive parents may have custody of the child, or the child may legally be in the custody of the agency. If you are not using an agency, clearly, the child is in your custody. You make all of the decisions, medical and otherwise, for the child. If the child is in the agency's custody, they may have some authority. When you are searching for an agency, it important to determine what authority, if any, an agency assumes during this time.
Finalizing a foster adoption generally takes much longer than finalizing other types of adoptions. In foster adoption, termination of parental rights may not happen for several months, or even, in extreme cases, years. After a child's parents' rights are terminated, there will be a time period during which the child will remain in the custody of the state. During this time, you may still need to ask permission from the state to travel out of state, cut a child's hair, or make other decisions regarding the child. Again, it is important to learn what you can and cannot do as pre-adoptive parents.
In International Adoption, you will finalize adoption in your child's original country, and may need to re-adopt in your own state. In addition, there are citizenship matters to consider. Effective April 2008, when an international adoption is completed in a country that has ratified the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, children under the age of 18 automatically acquire citizenship when they enter the United States on an IH-3 visa.
When an international adoption is completed in a country that has not ratified the Hague Convention, the adoptive parents must apply to USCIS to obtain an IR-3 visa, which classifies the child as an immigrant and provides the child with US citizenship upon arrival in the US.
For more information about visas and citizenship processes, see the US Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Intercountry Adoption website.
After the child arrives in the US, different states have different laws with respect to recognizing the adoption. Your agency should be able to help you determine the laws in your state. If not, consult a knowledgeable adoption attorney in your state. Even if your state recognizes an international adoption, many adoption professionals recommend that you re-adopt your child in your state. This affords you an extra measure of protection.
After you finalize any adoption, you will apply for a new, amended birth certificate for your child. In many cases, you will also apply for a Social Security number (SSN). You will definitely want to obtain a Social Security card in your child's legal name. But that, I believe, is yet another post.
Congratulations! You have made it through the 10 Easy (?) Steps to Adoption. Now relax and enjoy your forever family.


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Barbers shave their customers outside their shop due to a power cut in Beirut, Lebanon, August 20, 2021....
Barbers shave their customers outside their shop due to power cut in Beirut, Lebanon
Barbers shave their customers outside their shop due to a power cut in Beirut, Lebanon, August 20, 2021. Picture taken August 20, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
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Muslim pilgrim queue to get their heads shaved, on the second day of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice,...
Mina, Saudi Arabia
Annual Haj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca
Muslim pilgrim queue to get their heads shaved, on the second day of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, after throwing stones at a pillar symbolising Satan during the annual Haj pilgrimage, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 20, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri
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Muslim pilgrim shave their heads on the second day of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, after throwing...
Muslim pilgrim shave their heads on the second day of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, after throwing stones at a pillar symbolising Satan during the annual Haj pilgrimage, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 20, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri
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A Muslim pilgrim gets his head shaved on the second day of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, after...
A Muslim pilgrim gets his head shaved on the second day of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, after throwing stones at a pillar symbolising Satan during the annual Haj pilgrimage, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 20, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri
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A veterinarian shaves hairballs from a stray dog at the "Doggies of Santa Lucia" shelter, run by the...
ZUMPANGO DE OCAMPO, Mexico
Street dogs find new homes after being rescued by Mexican Army
A veterinarian shaves hairballs from a stray dog at the "Doggies of Santa Lucia" shelter, run by the Mexican army at an unoccupied kindergarten building, which was created after the Mexico City's new airport architects and workers noticed a large amount of stray dogs wandering near the construction site, in Zumpango de Ocampo, Mexico July 14, 2021. Picture taken July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Toya Sarno Jordan
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An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier shaves near a checkpoint recaptured from the Taliban, in the Alishing...
ALISHING, Afghanistan
Afghan soldiers recapture checkpoint from the Taliban, in Alishing district of Laghman province
An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier shaves near a checkpoint recaptured from the Taliban, in the Alishing district of Laghman province, Afghanistan July 8, 2021. REUTERS/Parwiz
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Alex De Francesco shaves the back of Matt Pinto's neck at the Baby Point Barbershop during the stage...
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Toronto
Alex De Francesco shaves the back of Matt Pinto's neck at the Baby Point Barbershop during the stage two reopening from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 30, 2021. REUTERS/Alex Filipe
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Abram Horn, aged 3, enjoys shaved ice with his brother Ephraim Horn, aged 5, and his father Trevor Horn...
U.S. Pacific Northwest faces heat wave
Abram Horn, aged 3, enjoys shaved ice with his brother Ephraim Horn, aged 5, and his father Trevor Horn during a heat wave in Seattle, Washington, U.S., June 26, 2021. REUTERS/Karen Ducey
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Abram Horn, aged 3, enjoys shaved ice during a heat wave in Seattle, Washington, U.S., June 26, 2021....
Abram Horn, aged 3, enjoys shaved ice during a heat wave in Seattle, Washington, U.S., June 26, 2021. REUTERS/Karen Ducey
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Laura Griffin, PHD student in Wildlife, Ecology and Behaviour at University College Dublin (UCD) leads...
Newborn fallow deer fawn tagging underway at the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland
Laura Griffin, PHD student in Wildlife, Ecology and Behaviour at University College Dublin (UCD) leads the Zoology students as she shaves off a fawn hair sample to test for cortisol to measure stress, during their fawn tagging programme where they catch, weigh, sample DNA, measure and tag fawns as part of the annual June stocktake of each of the Phoenix Park's newborn fallow deer fawns which number on average at 100 born each year, in Dublin, Ireland June 22, 2021. Picture taken June 22, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
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Cayan Hakiki shaves in front of a mirror at their home in Ankara, Turkey June 16, 2021. Picture taken...
Cayan Hakiki shaves in front of a mirror at their home in Ankara
Cayan Hakiki shaves in front of a mirror at their home in Ankara, Turkey June 16, 2021. Picture taken June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan REFILE - CORRECTING PRONOUN
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A nurse shaves a patient suffering from COVID-19 at the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Intensive Care...
Darmstadt, Germany
Patients are treated at the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ICU in Darmstadt
A nurse shaves a patient suffering from COVID-19 at the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the "Klinikum Darmstadt" clinic in Darmstadt, Germany, May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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An anti-government protester has his head shaved during a demonstration at the criminal court in Bangkok,...
Demonstration at the criminal court in Bangkok
An anti-government protester has his head shaved during a demonstration at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand April 30, 2021. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
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Anti-government protesters have their heads shaved during a demonstration at the criminal court in Bangkok,...
Anti-government protesters have their heads shaved during a demonstration at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand April 30, 2021. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
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An anti-government demonstrator shows the three-finger salute as he is having his hair shaved during...
Anti-government demonstrator shows three-finger salute in Bangkok
An anti-government demonstrator shows the three-finger salute as he is having his hair shaved during a protest calling authorities to release seven activists including Parit "Penguin" Chiwarak and Anon Numpa charged with the lese majeste law at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand April 30, 2021. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
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Street-side barber shaves a man outside the office of the Free Confederation of Chadian Workers (CLTT)...
N'djamena, Chad
Street-side barber shaves a man in N'djamena
Street-side barber shaves a man outside the office of the Free Confederation of Chadian Workers (CLTT) in N'djamena, Chad April 26, 2021. Picture taken April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
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A South Korea university student who got her head shaved, protests against Japan?s decision to release...
South Korean university students protest in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul
A South Korea university student who got her head shaved, protests against Japan?s decision to release contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, in front of policemen protecting the Japanese embassy, in Seoul, South Korea, April 20, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Hong-ji


CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - April 23, 2008) - Mexican Silver Mines Ltd. ("Mexican Silver Mines") (TSX VENTURE:MSM)(WKN:A0MSLE)(FRANKFURT:MS2) announces that effective April 22, 2008, the Company granted 415,000 incentive stock options exercisable at $0.45 cents per share for five years from the date of issuance. Of these, 200,000 options were granted to Jim Glass who has recently been appointed as Director of Mexican Silver Mines and 215,000 were issued to employees of the Company.
Mexican Silver Mines also announces that on April 22, 2008, the exercise price of 200,000 stock options held by Brian Farrell, the Chief Financial Officer of Mexican Silver, was amended from $1.10 per common share to the exercise price of $0.45 per common share. These options initially had an exercise price of $1.85 per share (see news release dated October 1, 2007). In addition, the exercise price of 225,000 stock options held by consultants of the Corporation was amended from $1.25 per common share to the exercise price of $0.45 per common share. The amendment to the exercise price of these stock options is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange and, in the case of the amendment to the exercise price of Brian Farrell's options, the majority of disinterested shareholders entitled to vote at the next shareholders' meeting of Mexican Silver Mines. The amendments will not become effective until such approvals have been obtained.


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Q: How to send DELETE request to node with button and jquery? I have a web page that's showing a "ressource" (aka just one entry from a mongodb collection), and on that web page I want to have a button "delete" that will send a "delete" request to the server to the correct route.
The router works (so when I use an external program to send a delete request, the entry is deleted), but I want to the same with a link.
Apparently, after doing some research, I would need to use an ajax function to do that, as in this post. The problem is that I can't make it work (probably because I just started using jquery), it seems nothing happens when I click on the button. But if I try a simple alert(), it works ('#delete').on('click',function(){ alert('clicked')}); .
So
Here's the basic html :

$('#delete').on('click', function() {
  alert('click');
  //here would be the code to send the DELETE request ?
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Storystrap Template</title>
  <meta name="generator" content="Bootply" />
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
  <!-- bower:css -->
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/lib/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/lib/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css" />
  <!--endbower-->
  <!-- bower:js -->
  <script src="/lib/jquery/dist/jquery.js"></script>
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="/lib/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
  <script src="/js/printplugin.min.js"></script>

  <!--inject:js-->
  <script src="/js/app.js"></script>
  <script src="/js/modernizr-custom-touch.js"></script>

</head>

<body>
  <button class="delete" data-target="/" data-method="DELETE" data-disabled="true">Delete Ressource</button>
</body>

</html>

And here is the route code in node.js (this code works if I manually send a DELETE request), the id is supposed to be in the link of the page
ressourcesRouter.route('/ressources/t/:ressourcesId')
// permet d'afficher UNE ressource spécifique
    .get(function(req,res){

        var returnRessource = req.ressource.toJSON();

        res.render('ressourceView', {
                    title: 'Ressources',
                    ressource: returnRessource
                });

    })
    .delete(function(req,res){
        req.ressource.remove(function(err){
            if(err)
                res.status(500).send(err);
            else{
                res.status(204).send('Removed');
                console.log('ressource supprimée');
            }
        });
    });

Could you help me out to figure the ajax code needed ? or is there another way ?
Don't hesitate to ask for more code if needed, I'll be as reactive as possible to answer you quickly.
Best regards.

A: Take a look at the jQuery ajax docs: http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/
$.ajax({
  url: '/ressources/t/123',
  method: 'DELETE',
  data: yourdata
})
  .done(function( data ) {
    console.log(data);
  });

A: <script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){

    $('table#delTable td a.delete_link').click(function()
    {
        if (confirm("Are you sure you want to delete this row?"))
        {
            var id = $(this).parent().parent().attr('id');
            var data = 'id=' + id ;
            var parent = $(this).parent().parent();

            $.ajax(
            {
                   type: "POST",
                   url: '../scripts/delete_link.php',
                   data: 'link=' + $(this).attr('data_link') + '&topic_pk=' + $(this).attr('data_topic') + '&topic_introduction=' + $(this).attr('data_introduction'),
                   cache: false,

                   success: function()
                   {
                    parent.fadeOut('fast', function() {$(this).remove();});
                   }
             });
        }
    });
});

 </script> just look at this. it can solution your problem. Dont Forget your datatable's name


There's an awful lot of jargon, shorthand and buzzwords which make it quicker for politicians, lobbyists, political journalists etc. to talk to each other but don't necessarily make sense "in the real world".
Here's a "dictionary" you can use to make sense of some of this gobbledegook which may crop up on Senedd Home from time to time.
Act – A Bill that's been passed by the Senedd and given Royal Assent, becoming law (promulgation).
Affirmative procedure – Where the National Assembly has to vote to decide whether a piece of secondary legislation/regulations becomes law.
Amendment – A proposed change to a Bill, whether by the Welsh Government, a committee or an individual Assembly Member. Amendments can be accepted or rejected.
National Assembly/Assembly – The body responsible for making laws, scrutinising the Welsh Government and scrutinising devolved policies. It's made up of 60 directly-elected Assembly Members (AMs).
Assembly Commission – The body responsible for running the National Assembly itself, including providing staff. They're not the same as the Welsh Government.
Backbencher – Any AM who isn't a member of the Welsh Government, Assembly Commission, a whip or leader of their party group.
Barnett consequential – An additional amount of money that's supposed to (but isn't always) added to the Welsh budget when the UK Government increases spending or starts a new project that solely benefits England. Similarly to how the Barnett Formula works, Wales receives a population-based share.
Barnett Formula – The maths formula used to work out how much money Wales should be given by the UK Treasury based on population. Wales receives an equivalent of around 5.7% of money spent in England (on services that are devolved) because Wales had around 5.7% of England's population.
Bill – A formal draft version of a new law which starts the process of scrutiny and amendments by the Senedd.
Stage One – A committee decides whether a proposed new law and its general principles are a good idea.
Stage Two – If a Bill passes Stage One and (where applicable) a financial resolution vote, a committee looks at the Bill line-by-line and proposes amendments.
Stage Three – The Assembly as a whole looks at the Bill in more detail and proposes further amendments.
Report Stage – If the Member in Charge agrees, this additional scrutiny stage takes place between stages 3 & 4 and gives AMs another chance to make amendments.
Stage Four – The Assembly votes whether to make the final version of a Bill an Act.
Block grant – The total amount of money the Welsh Government receives each year from the UK Treasury to spend on devolved services.
"Bubble" – An institution or group of people who are isolated from the realities of everyday life because they only come into contact with people like themselves, or situations ordinary people will never experience (i.e. "The Westminster Bubble", "The (Cardiff) Bay Bubble").
Cabinet Secretary/Minister – AMs, usually but not always from the ruling party, appointed to the cabinet with the responsibility for a government department or policy area (portfolio).
"Cardiff Bay" – Shorthand for the National Assembly of Wales and AMs.
"Cathays Park" – Shorthand for the Welsh Government and civil service in Wales.
Civil Service/Civil Servant – Politically impartial staff hired to help and advise the government on how to make their policies work in reality.
Coalition – A formal agreement between two or more parties to form the Welsh Government. This has happened three times in Wales: 2001-2003 (Labour-Lib Dem), 2007-2011 (Labour-Plaid Cymru) and 2016-Present (Labour-Lib Dem).
Committee – A body made up of AMs from every party who looks at new laws and policy areas in more detail, publishing reports that make comments/recommendations on changes.
Confidence & Supply – An agreement between two or more parties which would see an opposition party/parties vote with the government on budgets and on votes of no confidence.
Confidence Vote/Vote of no confidence – A vote where AMs (or MPs in Westminster) decide whether a Cabinet Secretary or the government as a whole are no longer fit for office and should either resign or call a new election.
Consolidated fund – A "bank account" held by the UK Treasury for the Welsh Government and National Assembly.
Counsel General – The most senior legal adviser to the Welsh Government and member of the cabinet. They don't need to be an AM.
Cross-party group – An unofficial non-political body established by AMs with members from all political parties which deal with, or raise awareness of, a specific issue or cause.
Deputy Minister – A deputy to a Minister who is responsible for a specific policy area but doesn't attend all cabinet meetings.
Devolution settlement – The agreement between the Welsh and UK governments over what powers and taxes should be devolved and what should remain under the control of Westminster.
Due diligence – A detailed "double checking" of a policy, carried out by civil servants, to determine whether the government have made the right choice or not. Policies that fail due diligence are usually scrapped and when due diligence isn't done properly, millions of pounds might be wasted causing a scandal.
Explanatory Memorandum – A detailed paper published alongside Bills which sets out the arguments for a new law, alternative options (and why the preferred options were chosen) and saying how much the law would cost.
Fair funding – A proposed funding agreement that would replace the Barnett Formula with a new formula based on a nation or region's relative needs. For example, rural areas and those with large numbers of people who are sick or old, generally need more money to provide public services than wealthier areas.
Financial Resolution – If a new Bill will change the Welsh budget, the Assembly must vote within 6 months of a Bill passing Stage One to allow those changes to take place. If the Assembly votes against a financial resolution, the Bill is rejected.
First Minister – The person who's in charge of the Welsh Government in the same way the Prime Minister is in charge of the UK Government.
"Fleet Street" – Shorthand for the UK newspaper business and the UK media bubble.
Funding floor – An agreement between the UK and Welsh governments, signed in 2015 and lasting until 2020, that means the Welsh block grant will remain 15% higher (115%) than per-head spending in England (100%).
Green Paper – An early consultation to gather ideas and thoughts before a new law or policy change is developed further into a white paper.
Laid/Laid document – A paper, report, Bill etc. that's been published and made available to Assembly Members, the media and the public.
Leader of the House/Trefnydd – An AM from the ruling party who's responsible for arranging government debates, motions etc. in the Senedd.
Leader of the Opposition – The leader of the largest opposition party in the Assembly.
Llywydd (English: Presiding Officer/Speaker) – The AM elected to chair meetings of the National Assembly via Standing Orders and lead the Assembly Commission.
Member's Bill – A proposed Bill which has been introduced by a backbench AM (from any party) following a ballot/drawing of lots.
Member in Charge – The AM responsible for a new Bill, usually they're a Welsh Government minister but includes backbenchers if the Bill is a Member's Bill.
Ministerial Code – A set of rules which govern the professional behaviour of Ministers and Deputy Ministers. Breaches of the Ministerial Code are usually serious affairs and could lead to a Minister/Deputy Minister getting the sack.
Motion/Motion for debate – A topic picked by a Cabinet Secretary, an opposition party, committee or backbench member(s) to debate in the Senedd chamber. It's usually a statement the Senedd is asked to vote for or against and can be amended, with votes taken on each amendment.
Negative procedure – Where a piece of secondary legislation becomes law automatically unless the National Assembly objects.
"On record"/"On the record" – Anything said that's officially recorded or counts as a public statement, not a private conversation. The opposite is "off the record".
Opposition – All AMs who are not members of the ruling party (or ruling coalition when there's more than one party in the Welsh Government).
Portfolio – A specific policy area, or areas, a Minister is responsible for, or for which an opposition AM is responsible for scrutinising.
Public services – Services provided by a government and funded via taxes (i.e. schools, hospitals, police, fire service, military, social services).
Recess – Periods when the National Assembly or UK Parliament don't hold meetings….but this doesn't mean AMs/MPs are "on holiday".
Reserved powers – Powers over policy areas that are kept by the UK Government and UK Parliament and are not the responsibility of Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland (i.e. defence policy, currency).
Royal Assent – Permission from the monarch for a Bill to become an Act. It's nothing more than a ceremonial formality, though the monarch does have the power to reject a Bill – which hasn't happened since 1708.
Secondary Legislation – Regulations, orders and directives which decide how laws are applied in real life.
Senedd – Welsh word for "Parliament" which can also refer to the Assembly building or the Assembly as a whole.
Shadow Cabinet/Shadow Minister – AMs from the largest opposition party responsible for scrutinising a government Minister by "shadowing" them.
Standing Orders – The rules for National Assembly meetings, making laws and AMs' behaviour.
Sustainable/Sustainability – A principle of maintaining something at a certain rate or level, whether that's natural resources of public services. When politicians say something is "unsustainable" they usually mean a service can't be maintained as it is anymore.
Wales Audit Office/Auditor General – The independent body/watchdog responsible for ensuring public bodies and governments are making the best use of taxpayers' money. The body is led by the Auditor General. Criticisms from the Wales Audit Office are usually taken very seriously.
Welsh Government – The body responsible for running devolved public services, headed by the First Minister.
"Westminster" – Shorthand for the UK Parliament and MPs, including the House of Commons and House of Lords.
Whip – An AM responsible for making sure their party group votes a particular way and generally behaves themselves. The ruling party has a Chief Whip who's also a member of the cabinet and usually doesn't take part in Senedd debates.
"Whitehall" – Shorthand for the UK Government and UK Government departments.
White Paper – A detailed outline of an idea for a new law or policy change.


"MY SHIP IS DEAD!!!" (in Nuzlockes).
"Newton, I demand an explanation!" (when I see something that defies the laws of gravity).
If you have trouble with something in the plot, use a JTTW reference.
If you have a problem with a name for a girl, name her either Emma or Jade.
Seriously, if you have female Chinese character, Jade is a great name. If you don't use it then use Something-Red (the Alice of China) or just a Chinese flower like Plum (Plum is good because Plums blossom in winter and you can use it for a Tomboy).
BehindTheName is a good site.
Giver of Lame Names: Sometimes.
Meaningful Name:I love Journey to the West.
Smart People Wear Glasses: Yep.
And then they are those films without pages in This Very Wiki.
And The Big Bang Theory.
I also wrote Classical Power.
My current avatar is Poseidon from Overly Sarcastic Productions.
Emmet from The LEGO Movie.
Charmaleon from Lil Char and the Gang.
Loki from Overly Sarcastic Productions.
Asian girl that looked something like this (o_0) Her name is AA or Auth for me (short for Author Avatar). I may or not may use her again.
Sandy from Journey to the West as shown in Overly Sarcastic Productions.
Threads I've started: Which one of your avatars is reacting to the statement above?
Inspired by DrNoPuma, I have started a Sandbox. It's here. JTT Wlover.


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	                get = ac.params.getFromUrl(),
	                post = ac.params.getFromBody(),
	                route = ac.params.getFromRoute(),
	                all = ac.params.getAll();

	                dataOut = {
	                    desc: "Merged Parameters Test",
	                    name: merged.name,
	                    thing: merged.likes,
	                    paramGroup: [
	                        {
	                            desc: "merged params",
	                            params: paramArrayBuilder(merged)
	                        },
	                        {
	                            desc: "get params",
	                            params: paramArrayBuilder(get)
	                        },
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	                            desc: "post params",
	                            params: paramArrayBuilder(post)
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