CHICAGO – This week, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced the winners and finalists of the Performance and Innovation Awards, as part of the 2015 CTBUH Annual Awards. This year's Performance Award winner goes to Chifley Tower in Australia, and the Innovation Award goes to HOLEDECK®.
The CTBUH Awards are an independent review of projects, judged by a prestigious panel of experts. The Awards aspire to provide a more comprehensive and sophisticated view of these important structures, while advocating for improvements in every aspect of performance, including those that have the greatest positive effect on the people who use these buildings and the cities they inhabit.
CTBUH 14th Annual Awards Symposium, to take place at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, on November 12. The Symposium itself will feature an exciting series of presentations from the owners and architects of each building. Winners and Finalists will also be featured in the annual CTBUH Best Tall Buildings Book, published in conjunction with Images Publishing and distributed internationally each year.
Originally completed in 1992, the Chifley Tower's core infrastructure dated back to 1980s technology, and it was steadily falling behind its competitors in terms of its performance. In 2008, Chifley Tower began an overhaul of its key building systems and services to deliver vastly improved performance, energy efficiency, and reliability. The target of this project was for the building to achieve a 4.5 star NABERS Energy Rating, which it was able to meet. In fact, the project realized a savings of 55% in electricity consumption, and reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 55% as well. Chifley Tower was able to achieve this highly complex project in an occupied commercial property over a prolonged period of time, which is a testament to the high standard of project planning and management.
The Innovation Award is focused on one special area of innovation within the design, construction, or operation of the project, not the building overall. This award recognizes a specific area of recent innovation for a tall building application that has been incorporated into the design, or implemented during construction, operation, or refurbishment.
HOLEDECK is a system of voided concrete slabs that can be pierced through their thickness by electrical and plumbing systems, drastically reducing the vertical space needed to house these components. This technology has a multitude of implications for sustainability, especially when it is implemented on the scale of a tall building. By reducing the necessary height of each floor, fewer materials are required to achieve the same floor area as a typical high-rise building. Due to the way that HOLEDECK slabs are designed, the system eliminates the concrete mass that is not working to support shear, thus reducing the overall weight of the structure without compromising its ability to achieve long spans. This results in a reduction of the built volume and concrete consumption, and thus minimizes the carbon footprint of a building project.


In form Nina's Heavenly Delights follows the storyline of the quintessential diasporic dilemma. Nina Shah, a young Indian-Scottish woman runs away on the day of her arranged marriage, unable to reconcile her family's expectations with her apparent lack of choice. Three years later, she returns to attend her father's funeral, and finds herself in the middle of a family crisis. As she sets about restoring her family pride, she reconnects with her past and manages to finally uncover an identity no longer fraught or confused.
When she returns, Nina discovers that her father, who had a gambling problem, bet half the ownership of his restaurant, the New Taj, on the races. After her father's death, The New Taj (now also owned by Mr. Mackinlay whose daughter Lisa looks after it on his behalf) loses much of the clientele loyal to Shah's cooking. As a result, Lisa and Nina's mother decide to sell it off.
Nina, who has been schooled by her father to follow her heart, at least in matters pertaining to cooking, isn't too happy with their decision. She learns that her father had entered the New Taj into a Best of the West curry competition. She decides to set things right by winning the contest and hopes that by doing so, she'll not only restore her family name, but also assuage her guilt of abandoning her family. Lisa, of course, is only too keen to help. While teaching Lisa how to cook a proper Indian cuisine, Nina, a closet lesbian, finds herself falling in love with her. The only problem is Lisa is also dating Nina's brother Kary.
Besides the recipes of Indian delicacies, family secrets too begin to come out into the open, but Nina's sexuality remains the very last to leave the closet.
Director and writer Pratibha Parmar's debut film comes across as a bit over the top with its theatrics and at times conveniently-wrought plot. Nina's drag-queen pal Bobby is either inspired by Bollywood, or is meant to mock it – either ways, she's outlandish. Much could have been done to flesh out Bobby's character and address questions of identity and sexual difference with sensitivity, instead of limiting her role to provide comic relief.
What has been done well though is the film's central partnership of Nina and Lisa. Beautifully enacted by the two leading actresses, Shelley Conn and Laura Fraser, you can't help but marvel at the chemistry of the leading pair. The food metaphors have been imaginatively employed by Parmer, especially while expressing Nina's coming to terms with her own identity. The film also scores in handling interracial relationships; an issue that seems to either get neglected or overly highlighted in other films, with just the right amount of sensitivity.
All in all, the film makes for a light romantic comedy that, while making a serious point about family pressures and alternate sexuality, does so with good humor. None of the typical prove-a-point fare, this movie is not quite like other queer acts such as Fire and Chutney Popcorn, which probably explains why critics on both sides of the Atlantic thrashed it.


Ground Pounder, Direct hits & Shield Guard/Sac Pawn/Sucker!
How long for checking? Re: losing Weapon Platform mid-activation.
Point reduction on war wagon in eBorkas tier.
Can a Warlock casts its own Animus through the Warbeast where the Animus is derived?
Does Runeshaper's Tremor attack roll ignore Cover, Concealment and Elevation?
Do Cover and Shooting Into Melee Penalties Stack?
Boosting counter charge and out of turn actions?
casting "Target friendly model" on self?
Can E Bearka (borka) trample?!?!


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Q: Display images vertically until end of page, then continue horizontally within 100% height responsive div
I am using the following code which displays images vertically within a div that has 100% height and a auto width. I want the images to be displayed vertically until the end of the page and then start displaying horizontally. I want the content div width to be automated based on how many images are displayed but always have the 100% height. At the moment the images are displayed vertically until the page ends and then the rest of the images are hidden in the overflow.
#content {
    min-height: 100%;
    display: table;
    width: auto;
    overflow-y: hidden;
}

#thumbnailgrid {
    overflow-y: hidden;
    height: 100%;
    max-height: 100%;
    width: auto;
}

#thumbnailgrid img {
    width: auto;
    height: 24%;
}

A: Ok this is what I came up to, you might want to modify it a bit to fit your needs because this one doesn't keep track of margins or paddings, but it should help you solve your problem: http://jsfiddle.net/crbmL7sb/4/
To see it working try resizing the result window and clicking on "Run" again. You might want to add a window resize event listener as well.
Here's the HTML:

The Javascript:
var CL = function( vals ) {
    columns = vals.columns;
    var wHeight = $(window).height();
    this.init = function() {
        this.createColumns();
        this.setBodyWidth();
    }

    this.createColumns = function() {
        //loop through all the big columns
        for(var i=0, l=columns.length; i < l; i++) {
            images = $(columns[i]).find("img"); //get all the images in this column
            columnHeight = 0; //set a flag to store the column height
            var newDiv = $("
").addClass("inner"); //create an inner div inside the column
            for (var p=0, n=images.length; p < n; p++) { //loop through all the images in this column
                columnHeight += $(images[p]).height(); //add the height of the current image to the column height flag
                if (columnHeight >= wHeight) { //compare the column height with the window height, if there's NOT enough room for the new image
                    newDiv.appendTo($(columns[i])); //append this column to the big parent div
                    var newDiv = $("
").addClass("inner"); //create a new column
                    columnHeight = $(images[p]).height(); //reset the column height flag
                }
                $(images[p]).appendTo(newDiv); //add the image to the current column
            }
            // THIS IS THE LINE I FORGOT
            newDiv.appendTo($(columns[i]));
        }
    }

    this.setBodyWidth = function() {
        //when moving the images in the appropriate divs is done
        var totWidth = 0;
        $(".inner").each(function() {
           totWidth += $(this).width(); //get the width of all the content
        }) //and set it to the main wrapper to create the horizontal scrollbar
        vals.wrapper.css({
            width: totWidth
        })
    }

    this.init();
}

//You need to somehow preload the images, or this will not work. Maybe add an overlay to cover the page while the images are being loaded and then fade it out. A simple window load even (like I commented out below) should work, but it appears to be broken on jsfiddle.
//$(window).load(function() {
    var cl = new CL({
        columns: $(".single"),
        wrapper: $(".wrapper")
    });
//});

And a little bit of CSS
img {
    display: block;
}

.inner {
    float: left;
}

img {
    border: 4px solid white;
}

* {
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

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India lifts Blackberry ban threat
Move comes after smartphone's maker agreed under pressure to give "lawful access" to encrypted data.
The banning of Blackberry services in India would severely hurt many companies that rely on securing client data [AFP]
India's government says it has withdrawn its threat to ban Blackberry services for at least two months after the smartphone's maker agreed under pressure to give security officials "lawful access" to encrypted data.
The country's interior ministry, which wants real time access to corporate emails and instant messaging, said on Sunday it would review Research in Motion (Rim)'s, the Canadian makers of the device, proposals over the next 60 days.
It remains unclear precisely what concessions, if any, Rim agreed to in order to avert the ban, which would hit about one million Blackberry users in the country.
"Rim have made certain proposals for lawful access by law enforcement agencies and these would be operationalized immediately," the ministry said in statement.
"The feasibility of the solutions offered would be assessed thereafter."
Security fears
Security concerns flared after it was discovered that perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people, used mobile and satellite phones to co-ordinate the three-day rampage.
G K Pillai, an interior ministry secretary, met officials from the department of telecommunications, the intelligence bureau and the national technical research organisation, which deals with cyberintelligence, on Monday to discuss the phone's security issues.
India had given Rim until August 31 to address its concerns over security or face having its services suspended.
Rim had been reluctant to agree to New Delhi's demands for real-time access to encrypted corporate email, saying previously it is technically impossible to provide in any country.
The company uses powerful codes to scramble or encrypt email messages as they travel between a Blackberry devices and a computer known as a Blackberry Enterprise Server that is designed to secure those emails.
Striking the balance
Indian officials say they are not eager to ban the Blackberry, but are also not willing to compromise on national security.
Fears that the Commonwealth Games, a major sporting event to be held in New Delhi in October, could be a target for attacks have added pressure on the ministry to step up surveillance.
Striking the right balance between national security and corporate privacy is especially important to Indian outsourcing companies eager to secure client data.
"India is termed an outsourcing hub for the US and Europe, so data security is a primary issue. If there is any data leakage, we lose business,'' said Chetan Samant, a manager at a software association.
Blackberry's reputation is built around confidentiality and any move to undermine that under pressure from governments could severely hurt the phone's popularity.
Discussions in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Lebanon and India, over whether to ban Blackberry services sent Rim's share price to a 16-month low on Friday.

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The Steampunk guitar comes from the mind of Olaf Diegel, who also has customizable guitars on Cubify. Below are his Atom and Spider designs.
And it's not just electric guitars getting the 3D printed makeovers; Scott Summit designed a printable acoustic guitar and had it produced by 3D Systems. He thought it would break under the pressure of stringing, but was pleasantly surprised by the warm, rich tone. Now, he sees promise in affecting the tone and acoustics through printing various internal cavities.
Of course the printing of a "Stradivarius" violin is my favorite printed instrument. Listen to how good it sounds!
Amit Zoran designed this functional flute at MIT Media Lab. It's not perfect, but it's proof of concept. The Shakuhachi Flute below is more functional and available for purchase through Shapeways.
This trumpet doesn't sound so shabby either.
And mouthpieces can be printed for any brass instrument, as well as for woodwinds.
Olaf Diegel also designed a printable keyboard and drum set to complete the band. And this music box is customizable to play any tune.
If you'd rather not print an instrument, just use the 3D printer itself as an instrument by controlling the speed of the stepper motors!


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11-Year-Old Transgender Boy Dances in NY Bar as Men Throw Dollar Bills at Him
Videos appear online on young Desmond Napoles heavily sexualized in New York gay bar
Video footage has captured an 11-year-old transgender boy dancing in a sexual manner on the stage of a New York gay bar, dressed in full drag, while grown men threw dollar bills at him, according to reports.
Smartphone-filmed video has emerged from inside the bar – that normally bans the uses of phones and recording devices – that appears to show the heavily sexualized child performing for adults.
The footage was reportedly captured on December 1 and shows Desmond Napoles dressed in drag, dancing on the stage of a gay bar in Brooklyn, NY, called 3 Dollar Bill.
The child, who also goes by the name "Desmond is Amazing," was dressed as a Gwen Stefani-lookalike — full drag makeup, a blonde wig, and a female crop top — as he bounced around onstage to the song "Like a Girl" by No Doubt.
While most children his age are at home in bed late on a Saturday night, the young boy is instead seen collecting dollar bills from male adults who were watching as he performed for them, and were also seen "throwing money" at him as he danced provocatively.
Although YouTube and Facebook-owned Instagram have failed to remove the videos at the time of press, we felt the nature of the footage – which shows a clear case of public child abuse – was far too obscene to include in this article.
According to the Daily Wire, the performance, first flagged by YouTuber Yosef Ozia, was promoted on Eventbrite by 3 Dollar Bill.
"Only in New York… a nightclub that makes you go WHOA!!!," reads the promotion.
"FEATURING: Upcoming Legend from Television and the Runway: DESMOND IS AMAZING!!! PERFORMING LIVE! … This stage, this dance floor, this house… is ours as long as we protect it."
The promotional ad notes that 3 Dollar Bill bar is "queer owned & operated and we foster a safe space from love. We respect all human persons as long as those human persons are also respectful to the ones around them."
"I left after seeing a child dance on stage for money at nighttime. This was on Saturday night and I have been feeling disturbed ever since," wrote a one-star reviewer of 3 Dollar Bill on December 3 via Yelp.
Other reviewers on Yelp noted that the club has a no cell phone policy, as highlighted by Dangerous.com.
"The club has a weird no cell phone policy, but we we [sic] wanted to have a good night, so we went along with it," said one reviewer.
"The club put our phones in these locked sleeves, which we could tire around the club.
"Upon entry, they stamped our hands and write our phone check/cost check numbers in our wrists in permanent marker."
Another said, "They also make you put your phone into a locked magnet pouch at the door, so it can't be used while there. You can slip it into your pocket but can't get in the pouch."
Though many have been outraged at Desmond's parents because of the clearly over-sexual nature in which the child has appeared publicly, the media have been relentlessly promoting the "inspirational" "drag kid."
Left-wing site The Daily Beast gushed over Desmond and his progressive parents in a disturbing piece from February, titled, "RuPaul Loves 'Drag Kid' Desmond. You Will Too. Fiercely."
In June, the TODAY Show promoted the over-sexualized child: "Meet the 10-year-old 'drag kid' taking over social media with inspiring message," reads the caption to a video interview with Desmond.
"It is really amazing being in the spotlight because I get so much support and I'm an inspiration to so many people, which is one of my number one goals," Desmond told The Daily Beast.
"I like all the fame, and helping the LGBT community fight for our rights."
Desmond was also a special guest at BuzzFeed's 2nd Annual "Queer Prom" for LGBTQ+ youth in June this year.
When Desmond was just six years old, he was featured in a music video with drag queen and Season Six winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Jinkx Monsoon.
As a fourth-grader, the child was used to advance the LGBT agenda, giving a speech at New York City's Pride in 2017.
Though Desmond told The Daily Beast the Napoles family takes no money from his drag endeavors, it appears the parents are jumping into the for-profit territory (if they have not already).
Desmond's "current projects" are listed on DesmondIsAmazing.com, such as a clothing line exclusively for "drag kids" called Haus of Amazing.
The boy is also working on a magazine called The Amaziest Magazine, "targeted at LGBTQ youth" and "preparing to launch a new video series on his YouTube channel called 'Let's Get Amazingly Real with Desmond is Amazing."
Under "future projects," DesmondIsAmazing.com says the boy plans on launching a makeup line for drag kids.
Site visitors are asked to complete a form for "all bookings or inquiries," though under "representation" the site reads "none."
Earlier this year, Neon Nettle reported on the same child when he announced he is founding the world's first dating site for transgender children.
Desmond, who was 10 at the time, revealed he is launching the new website that aims to "encourage" kids to switch genders in an "online drag club."
He promised his website would be a "no-parent zone" designed to invite "gender-fluid," and "trans-curious" minors into an "encouraging and safe online community for drag kids to connect with each other."
According to a promotional flyer for the new site, it has been "established exclusively for kids who are doing amazing drag."
The site's admin will approve all applicants manually and block access from parents or children who sign up using their "offensive" born gender to ensure the "drag kids" feel "safe to express themselves."
[RELATED] 10-Year-Old Transgender Boy is Starting a Dating Website for Trans Children


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Q: Div wont stop scrolling with Page Using my code at:
http://jsfiddle.net/Pd7nm/
I want the sidebar to stop scrolling with the page at a certain point but it just keeps on going. I have tried multiple things and its not working.
This is the Javascript Method thingy
 var windw = this;
$.fn.followTo = function ( pos ) {
var $this = this,
    $window = $(windw);

$window.scroll(function(e){
    if ($window.scrollTop() > pos) {
        $this.css({
            position: 'absolute',
            top: pos
        });
    } else {
        $this.css({
            position: 'fixed',
            top: 0
        });
    }
});
};

$('#side').followTo(250);

A: Updated JQuery Fiddle is here
$(window).scroll(function() {
    var height = $(window).scrollTop();
    if(height>250){
        $(".sidebar").css({"position":"fixed","top":0});
    }
});

A: See This demos I have removed in "br" tag
Demos - jsfiddle.net/Nu3eu/1/


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Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
Home > Journals > MBELR > Vol. 9 > Iss. 2 (2020)
The Proxy Problem: Using Nonprofits to Solve Misaligned Incentives in the Proxy Voting Process
Leah Duncan, University of Michigan Law School
Proxy advisory firms and their influence on the proxy voting process have recently become the subject of great attention for the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") among other constituencies. A glance at recent proxy season recaps and reports, many of which devote space to discussing proxy advisory firm recommendations, reveal the significance of this influence on institutional voting. As Sagiv Edelman puts it, "proxy advisory firms exist at the nexus of some of the most high-profile corporate law discussions—most notably, the shareholder voting process, which has recently been the subject of much scholarly and legal debate." The SEC has responded by announcing that it intends to reform the regulations, or lack thereof, surrounding proxy advisory firms.
Recently, the SEC issued proposed amendments to Exchange Act Rule 14(a)-1 which would effectively codify their earlier interpretation of solicitation under this rule. The proposed amendment would "condition the availability of certain existing exemptions from the information and filing requirements . . . for proxy voting advice businesses upon compliance with additional disclosures and procedural requirements." Furthermore, the amendments would clarify when a lack of disclosure of certain information in proxy voting advice compromises the accuracy of the advice and misleads within the meaning of the rule. The SEC believes that these extra requirements will "help ensure that investors who use proxy voting advice receive more accurate, transparent, and complete information on which to make their voting decisions." Based on this proposal, it is apparent that the SEC is intent on rectifying some of the problems of transparency and conflicts of interest associated with proxy advisory firms.
Given the increasing influence of proxy advisory firms, the misalignment of incentives between proxy firms and the institutional shareholders who use proxy firm services is troubling. This Note identifies inherent problems and concerns with proxy advisory firms and offers solutions to these issues with a focus on eliminating conflicts of interest. Using Henry Hansmann's theory of ownership, this Note argues that nonprofit ownership of proxy advisory firms eliminates both information asymmetry and conflicts of interest inherent to the current ownership structure.
Part I provides a brief overview of the problems and concerns associated with proxy advisory firms. Part II suggests two potential solutions: that Rule 206(4)-6 of the Investment Adviser Act of 1940 should be repealed or alternatively, that nonprofit ownership through investment company associations is a more effective way for investment management companies to comply with their fiduciary duties. Because profit incentive has created conflicts of interest that lead to proxy advice that may not always be in the best interest of investment manager clients, nonprofit ownership promotes transparency that allows parties who rely on the advice to make more independent decisions. Part III argues that nonprofit ownership is the most viable alternative to the status quo.
Leah Duncan, The Proxy Problem: Using Nonprofits to Solve Misaligned Incentives in the Proxy Voting Process, 9 Mich. Bus. & Entrepreneurial L. Rev. 235 (2020).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mbelr/vol9/iss2/4
Nonprofit Organizations Law Commons, Securities Law Commons
https://doi.org/10.36639/mbelr.9.2.proxy
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