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/*global define */
/*jslint white:true */
define(["jquery", "bluebird"], function ($, Promise) {
"use strict";

function IDServerAPI(url, auth, auth_cb) {

    if (typeof url !== 'string') {
        throw new Error('Service url was not provided');
    }
    this.url = url;
    var _url = url;
    var deprecationWarningSent = false;

    function deprecationWarning() {
        if (!deprecationWarningSent) {
            deprecationWarningSent = true;
            if (!window.console) return;
            console.log(
                "DEPRECATION WARNING: '*_async' method names will be removed",
                "in a future version. Please use the identical methods without",
                "the'_async' suffix.");
        }
    }

    var _auth = auth ? auth : { 'token' : '', 'user_id' : ''};
    var _auth_cb = auth_cb;

    this.kbase_ids_to_external_ids = function (ids, _callback, _errorCallback) {
    return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.kbase_ids_to_external_ids",
        [ids], 1, _callback, _errorCallback);
};

    this.kbase_ids_to_external_ids_async = function (ids, _callback, _error_callback) {
        deprecationWarning();
        return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.kbase_ids_to_external_ids", [ids], 1, _callback, _error_callback);
    };

    this.external_ids_to_kbase_ids = function (external_db, ext_ids, _callback, _errorCallback) {
    return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.external_ids_to_kbase_ids",
        [external_db, ext_ids], 1, _callback, _errorCallback);
};

    this.external_ids_to_kbase_ids_async = function (external_db, ext_ids, _callback, _error_callback) {
        deprecationWarning();
        return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.external_ids_to_kbase_ids", [external_db, ext_ids], 1, _callback, _error_callback);
    };

    this.register_ids = function (prefix, db_name, ids, _callback, _errorCallback) {
    return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.register_ids",
        [prefix, db_name, ids], 1, _callback, _errorCallback);
};

    this.register_ids_async = function (prefix, db_name, ids, _callback, _error_callback) {
        deprecationWarning();
        return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.register_ids", [prefix, db_name, ids], 1, _callback, _error_callback);
    };

    this.allocate_id_range = function (kbase_id_prefix, count, _callback, _errorCallback) {
    return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.allocate_id_range",
        [kbase_id_prefix, count], 1, _callback, _errorCallback);
};

    this.allocate_id_range_async = function (kbase_id_prefix, count, _callback, _error_callback) {
        deprecationWarning();
        return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.allocate_id_range", [kbase_id_prefix, count], 1, _callback, _error_callback);
    };

    this.register_allocated_ids = function (prefix, db_name, assignments, _callback, _errorCallback) {
    return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.register_allocated_ids",
        [prefix, db_name, assignments], 0, _callback, _errorCallback);
};

    this.register_allocated_ids_async = function (prefix, db_name, assignments, _callback, _error_callback) {
        deprecationWarning();
        return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.register_allocated_ids", [prefix, db_name, assignments], 0, _callback, _error_callback);
    };

    this.get_identifier_prefix = function (_callback, _errorCallback) {
    return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.get_identifier_prefix",
        [], 1, _callback, _errorCallback);
};

    this.get_identifier_prefix_async = function (_callback, _error_callback) {
        deprecationWarning();
        return json_call_ajax("IDServerAPI.get_identifier_prefix", [], 1, _callback, _error_callback);
    };

    /*
     * JSON call using jQuery method.
     */
    function json_call_ajax(method, params, numRets, callback, errorCallback) {
        var deferred = $.Deferred();

        if (typeof callback === 'function') {
           deferred.done(callback);
        }

        if (typeof errorCallback === 'function') {
           deferred.fail(errorCallback);
        }

        var rpc = {
            params : params,
            method : method,
            version: "1.1",
            id: String(Math.random()).slice(2),
        };

        var beforeSend = null;
        var token = (_auth_cb && typeof _auth_cb === 'function') ? _auth_cb()
            : (_auth.token ? _auth.token : null);
        if (token !== null) {
            beforeSend = function (xhr) {
                xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization", token);
            }
        }

        var xhr = jQuery.ajax({
            url: _url,
            dataType: "text",
            type: 'POST',
            processData: false,
            data: JSON.stringify(rpc),
            beforeSend: beforeSend,
            success: function (data, status, xhr) {
                var result;
                try {
                    var resp = JSON.parse(data);
                    result = (numRets === 1 ? resp.result[0] : resp.result);
                } catch (err) {
                    deferred.reject({
                        status: 503,
                        error: err,
                        url: _url,
                        resp: data
                    });
                    return;
                }
                deferred.resolve(result);
            },
            error: function (xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                var error;
                if (xhr.responseText) {
                    try {
                        var resp = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
                        error = resp.error;
                    } catch (err) { // Not JSON
                        error = "Unknown error - " + xhr.responseText;
                    }
                } else {
                    error = "Unknown Error";
                }
                deferred.reject({
                    status: 500,
                    error: error
                });
            }
        });

        var promise = deferred.promise();
        promise.xhr = xhr;
        return Promise.resolve(promise);
    }
}

return IDServerAPI;
});

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'Climate Change': Passing the Paris Parcel Back Again.
John O'Sullivan • 29 Feb, 2020 • 7 Min Read
Boris Johnson received a very early Christmas present this week when the courts told him that Her Majesty's Government could not proceed with its plan to build another runway at Heathrow Airport on the grounds that an extension would clash with its legal commitments on climate change. That may not sound like much of a gift, but the court's ruling saved the Prime Minister from betraying a well-known personal pledge.
As the MP for a constituency in the path of Heathrow, he had told his discontented voters that he would personally lie down in front of the bulldozers rather than let the extension proceed. And though election promises are like pie-crusts, made to be broken, as Lenin remarked, voters tend to remember those promises that directly affect their personal and local interests, especially when they have been expressed with Boris's trademark vivacity.
As a very new Prime Minister, however, he had inherited an established policy of Heathrow expansion that was supported by the Transport ministry and—moreover—in line with his wider economic policy of letting Britain rip in an orgy of borrowing and infrastructure development. He was trapped in the jaws of a dilemma.
Now, with one bound, our Boris was free.
The Court of Appeal had lain down in front of the bulldozers instead, ruling that it was illegal for HMG to approve a third runway without taking its own climate change commitments under the Paris Treaty (subsequently put into UK law) into account. Its judgment is interesting. It attributes HMG's error as follows: "the reason why it was never done is that the secretary of state received legal advice that not only did he not have to take the Paris Agreement into account but that he was legally obliged not to take it into account at all." In particular HMG had not issued a National Planning Statement as it is required to do.
That's quite a mistake.
Ministers were free to appeal the judgment but decided not to do so. It's true they have other options. They could now re-embark on the process of developing the case for Heathrow expansion by consulting with interested parties, holding hearings, and, of course, taking the Paris accords into account. But that process would add at least eighteen months to something that has already taken a decade. It would extend the uncertainty that, like the Brexit uncertainty (still quietly continuing), has so far bedeviled the plans of business and exporters. Above all, it would still not guarantee that any future Heathrow expansion plan would be approved by courts examining its fidelity to the Paris agreement.
Those are the immediate costs of saving Boris's face. So stitch-up or cock-up? My guess is the latter because, as we shall see below, the costs of this judgment go higher and further than Heathrow.
It's customary at this point for those who, like me, deplore the intrusion of the courts into what have hitherto been political decisions to denounce the rise of undemocratic judicial imperialism. And I shall give mild vent to these opinions lower down. But there is no avoiding the fact that in this case the courts have been invited by government and Parliament to intervene. A succession of laws have laid down that government planning and economic decisions must observe the legally-binding obligation to reduce carbon emissions consistent with holding a global temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees between now and the end of the century.
That's the Paris agreement, but Britain had already proposed even more drastic carbon reductions in earlier domestic legislation. The Climate Change Act of 2008—passed with only five brave, honest, and intelligent MPs voting against it, among them the Cambridge science graduate, former deputy prime minister, Lord (Peter) Lilley—laid down that Britain must reduce its carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. And this target was made still more unrealistic by Theresa May's government in 2016 when the 2050 target was raised to 100 per cent of carbon emissions.
Successive governments had kept their fingers crossed and hoped they could argue that these targets are aspirational—and, hey, we made a good faith effort but we just missed again! But if you make such targets legally binding, then both Ministers and the general public must anticipate that the courts may intervene to require their enforcement. An earlier and more deferential generation of British judges might have been more willing to accept ministerial prerogatives on such plainly political matters. But today's judges are more interventionist than those in the past. And, after all, they can reasonably claim that they were invited to ensure that on climate change HMG would keep its word and fulfill its treaty obligations.
Accordingly, it seems that the courts—other things being equal—will now help to impose a zero-carbon policy on the British economy. As Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, "an international public law expert at Leiden University" in the Netherlands, told the Guardian: "For the first time, a court has confirmed that the Paris agreement temperature goal has binding effect. This goal was based on overwhelming evidence about the catastrophic risk of exceeding 1.5 C of warming. Yet some have argued that the goal is aspirational only, leaving governments free to ignore it in practice."
Her judgment seems more authoritative on the law than on science. For activists will certainly mount legal challenges to any future substantial infrastructure or energy exploration projects. The government, other public bodies, and industry will find that many of their legal arguments have been foreclosed by this judgment. All industrial projects will be slowed down; many, perhaps most, will be either abandoned or not proposed in the first place.
Heathrow itself would struggle to meet the requirements of the UK's climate legislation even without the lawyers' mistakes. Its third runway is estimated to likely to bring in 700 more planes a day with a consequent large rise in carbon emissions contrary to the law. But that's true also of the policy now touted as an alternative to another Heathrow runway—namely the expansion of existing British airports, especially Birmingham, to accommodate the rise in passenger and goods traffic that is the aim of Boris's policies of overall economic expansion and the economic "leveling up" of regions outside the South-East.
It would also prevent his other great personal infrastructure project: the HS2 super-railway between London and Birmingham in the next decade and to Scotland and the North later. Indeed, objectors would be able to kill almost any industrial project that increased carbon emissions overall from a small power-station to a massive national industrial program like HS2—kill either by direct prohibition or, more likely, from endless legal delays as in Canada over pipeline construction. When other nations from the US to China are building runways and exploring new energy sources, oblivious to the fact that a British court had outlawed such things (pace Professor Wewerinke-Singh), Britain will be suffering from a historically unique plague: a legally-binding rule of national impoverishment. Such a policy might have been devised by the European Union to make Brexit an apparent failure.
Not surprisingly, HMG is coy about the likely costs of this. Ministers have outsourced the estimates of a zero-carbon economy by 2050 to the Climate Change Committee established under the 2008 legislation which estimates a £50 billion cost for 2050. But the Committee is composed mainly of enthusiasts for climate puritanism, and its estimates have been challenged both within and outside government. An overall review of cost estimates has been made by Harry Wilkinson of the Global Policy Warming Institute which includes a warning from the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, to Prime Minister Theresa May that the cost was likely to be 40 per cent higher, at £70 billion per annum—with households paying an average of £2,400 every year between now and 2050. Ministers have since gone quiet on making estimates about the costs of their policies, but Wilkinson quotes an overall estimate by Andrew Mountford that total costs would probably exceed £3 trillion when the investments needed for decarbonising transport and industry are taken into account.
Cut this estimate in half and it is still staggering!
If this policy continues unchanged, it will prove extraordinarily unpopular with the voters who have been given no warning at all that the idyllic Green future they have been promised (and which they have largely embraced) would come with such a massive bill both in money and in job losses. Only climate zealots from the parliamentary climate committee to Extinction Rebellion will be happy with the outcome—and perhaps only Extinction Rebellion, which actually wants the pre-industrial world of equality in misery that a zero-carbon planetimplies in the absence of major scientific advances such as nuclear fission on which it would be reckless to depend.
More than half of the blame for this extraordinary leap into the carbon-free unknown, however, has to be placed on the politicians—all but the gallant five MPs who rejected such dangerous extremism in 2008. Politicians of all parties in recent years have wanted to appease Green hordes—which in practice meant never seriously challenging their wildest forecasts. Their method of doing so has been to pass "aspirational" laws that mandated massive emission cuts, and even to make modest bows to the Green agenda where it was easy -- as Boris Johnson did when he ruled out "fracking" in the last Tory manifesto because a non-existent industry has few supporters, while ignoring such laws when they obstructed existing policies they considered important such as his infrastructure agenda. That way they could claim to be following environmentalist policies while putting off their actual more painful implementation until another party took power.
As Ross Kemp points out in the Spectator, moreover, this habit of exiling serious policy commitment to enforcement by the courts or semi-independent bodies like the Climate Committee has grown without anyone really thinking through the consequences: "Is the government going to be able to freeze fuel duty in the Budget? That too could be said to be inconsistent with working towards zero emissions. Then again, is Rishi Sunak going to be able to announce any spending increase? I am not a lawyer, but there doesn't seem to me to be any reason why, say, the Taxpayers' Alliance should not go full Gina Miller and take the Chancellor to court on the basis that he has failed to run a surplus – something which was written into George Osborne's Charter for Budgetary Responsibility."
Boris escaped one minor trap when the court decided to declare the expansion of Heathrow illegal, but it placed him and Britain in a much more restraining one when it made his entire policy of infrastructure expansion dependent upon the approval of activist judges. To escape from that trap, he will have to repeal or amend laws that passed overwhelmingly. And that's a bigger battle than Brexit.
John O'Sullivan is editor-at-large of National Review, editor of Australia's Quadrant, and President of the Danube Institute. He has served in the past as associate editor of the London Times, editorial and op-ed editor for Canada's National Post, and special adviser to Margaret Thatcher. He is the author of The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World.
Article tags: Boris Johnson, Heathrow, Paris climate agreement
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Q: The user survey results show where developers live, but it's just a population map The infographic of the SO user survey results was quite intriguing, but one of the charts annoyed me as it showed very little real data. I don't need to be told there are more devolpers in California than in Utah - there are so many fewer residents in Utah that it's obvious. Compare the following two graphs:
Population map:

Survey results:

Can we have a map of the per capita results? I think they would be more interesting and informative.

A: Using the data compiled by Ben Lee, I wrote a program to make this graph:

The two blobs at the bottom are AK and HI; the blob on the right is DC. I did it using this python program:
import sys
from PIL import Image

def floodfill(img, seed, color,state,n):
    im = img.load()
    work = [seed]
    start_color = im[seed]
    while work:
        x, y = work.pop()
        im[x, y] = color
        for dx, dy in ((-1,0), (1,0), (0,-1), (0,1)):
            nx, ny = x + dx, y + dy
            if nx>=0 and ny>=0 and nx<img.size[0] and ny<img.size[1] and im[nx, ny] == start_color:
                work.append((nx, ny))

            n+=1

USA_MAP = Image.open('map.png')#.convert('2')
POINT_STATE = {
'AR':(359,253),'AZ':(133,221),'AL':(425,267),'CA':(10,125),
'CO':(195,186),'CT':(557,113),'DE':(540,162),'FL':(499,334),
'GA':(468,264),'IA':(333,144),'ID':(119,109),'IL':(387,176),
'IN':(421,169),'KS':(292,196),'KY':(422,199),'LA':(354,301),
'MD':(520,157),'MZ':(495,159),'MY':(540,179),'MA':(569,97),
'ME':(575,60),'MI':(425,126),'MJ':(392,78),'MN':(326,80),
'MO':(349,196),'MS':(385,288),'MT':(152,59),'NE':(281,161),
'NC':(524,220),'ND':(269,70),'NM':(195,246),'NJ':(544,134),
'NV':(67,151),'NY':(537,100),'OH':(448,159),'OK':(303,247),
'OR':(70,70),'PA':(503,139),'RI':(569,107),'SC':(494,242),
'SD':(265,108),'TN':(417,232),'TX':(300,300),'UT':(137,183),
'VA':(510,183),'WA':(80,30),'WI':(384,104),'WV':(485,173),'DC':(584,198),
'WY':(190,132),'NH':(560,80),'VT':(545,80),'HI':(177,350),'AK':(83,350)
}
painted_map = USA_MAP#.convert('L')
data = {
'AL': 0.8247215372,'AK': 1.6310745742,'AZ': 2.2453356412,'AR': 0.8090843481,
'CA': 2.4619016031,'CO': 3.3347316844,'CT': 1.8276125579,'DE': 0.6504515721,
'FL': 1.2969544195,'GA': 1.3229434769,'HI': 0.4284409706,'ID': 1.9937363866,
'IL': 1.7605794572,'IN': 1.2470670388,'IA': 1.8757479281,'KS': 1.9292238342,
'KY': 0.7716853969,'LA': 0.561711679,'ME': 1.495956273,'MD': 2.5342745635,
'MA': 4.4578262742,'MI': 1.7100977237,'MN': 3.0311519196,'MS': 0.4663060918,
'MO': 1.7169991329,'MT': 1.3847700743,'NE': 2.3575585578,'NV': 1.081078021,
'NH': 3.1616647398,'NJ': 1.9066320539,'NM': 0.8580864023,'NY': 2.8449067231,
'NC': 1.4680544736,'ND': 1.1368402125,'OH': 1.7396553182,'OK': 0.9382208332,
'OR': 3.3655651409,'PA': 2.1966189351,#'PR': 0.1626698306,
'RI': 3.0291204509,
'SC': 1.0102606493,'SD': 1.1930182794,'TN': 1.2627303143,'TX': 1.2895322073,
'UT': 3.830183133,'VT': 1.2705291827,'VA': 2.769151937,'WA': 4.843451085,
'DC': 6.1760019596,'WV': 0.321504664,'WI': 2.2917594147,'WY': 1.7248193223
}
data['MJ']=data['MI']
data['MY']=data['MI']
data['MZ']=data['MD']
# Normalize data based on the minimum weight being 0+eps and maximum 30.
G=170
n=0
for k, v in data.items():
    print k
    v = (v-data['WV'])/(data['DC']-data['WV'])
    color = v*4
    if color<1:
         R,G,B=255,255,254
    else:
         v=(v-1.0/4)*4.0/3
         R=240
         G=230-int(120*v)
         B=210-int(180*v)
    floodfill(painted_map, POINT_STATE[k], (R,G,B),k,n)
    n+=1
floodfill(painted_map,(0,0),(220,230,250),'up_left',1)
floodfill(painted_map,(0,300),(220,230,250),'down_left',1)
floodfill(painted_map,(300,0),(220,230,250),'up_right',1)
floodfill(painted_map,(575,350),(220,230,250),'down_right',1)
painted_map.save('out.png')
painted_map.show()

A: Here are the per capita results (full data and sources listed below). Update: @Pang has produced a visualization: http://jsfiddle.net/T8m4s/embedded/result/ -- Snapshot here:

Note that California doesn't even make it onto the top 10 (it ranks at 13th place), and New York just barely makes cut for top 10.

*

*Washington DC [8.2%]

*Washington State [4.8%]

*Massachusetts [4.5%]

*Utah [3.8%]

*Oregon [3.4%]

*Colorado [3.3%]

*New Hampshire [3.2%]

*Minnesota [3.0%]

*Rhode Island [3.0%]

*New York [2.8%]

*Virginia [2.8%]

*Maryland [2.5%]

*California [2.5%]

*Nebraska [2.4%]

*Wisconsin [2.3%]

*Arizona [2.2%]

*Pennsylvania [2.2%]

*Idaho [2.0%]

*Kansas [1.9%]

*New Jersey [1.9%]

*Iowa [1.9%]

*Connecticut [1.8%]

*Illinois [1.8%]

*Ohio [1.7%]

*Wyoming [1.7%]

*Missouri [1.7%]

*Michigan [1.7%]

*Alaska [1.6%]

*Maine [1.5%]

*North Carolina [1.5%]

*Montana [1.4%]

*Georgia [1.3%]

*Florida [1.3%]

*Texas [1.3%]

*Vermont [1.3%]

*Tennessee [1.3%]

*Indiana [1.2%]

*South Dakota [1.2%]

*North Dakota [1.1%]

*Nevada [1.1%]

*South Carolina [1.0%]

*Oklahoma [0.9%]

*New Mexico [0.9%]

*Alabama [0.8%]

*Arkansas [0.8%]

*Kentucky [0.8%]

*Delaware [0.7%]

*Louisiana [0.6%]

*Mississippi [0.5%]

*Hawaii [0.4%]

*West Virginia [0.3%]

*Puerto Rico [0.2%]

Note this is 52 items because it includes Washington DC and Puerto Rico -- which, interestingly, rank at the very top and very bottom respectively. My theory on DC is that it is all city so white collar skilled professions will be more common, and my theory on Puerto Rico is the language barrier, Spanish being the dominant official language there.

Raw stack exchange data from https://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=vU4rF_2bPVQaftSo1s69bGGbvMPXp7ktcfSHiDFP_2bM5qw_3d:
Alabama - 20, Alaska - 6, Arizona - 74, Arkansas - 12, California - 471, Colorado - 87, Connecticut - 33, Delaware - 3, Florida - 126, Georgia - 66, Hawaii - 3, Idaho - 16, Illinois - 114, Indiana - 41, Iowa - 29, Kansas - 28, Kentucky - 17, Louisiana - 13, Maine - 10, Maryland - 75, Massachusetts - 149, Michigan - 85, Minnesota - 82, Mississippi - 7, Missouri - 52, Montana - 7, Nebraska - 22, Nevada - 15, New Hampshire - 21, New Jersey - 85, New Mexico - 9, New York - 280, North Carolina - 72, North Dakota - 4, Ohio - 101, Oklahoma - 18, Oregon - 66, Pennsylvania - 141, Puerto Rico - 3, Rhode Island - 16, South Carolina - 24, South Dakota - 5, Tennessee - 41, Texas - 169, Utah - 55, Vermont - 4, Virginia - 114, Washington - 168, Washington DC - 26, West Virginia - 3, Wisconsin - 66, Wyoming - 5

Raw census projection data from http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/totals/2012/tables/NST-EST2012-01.csv:
Alabama - 4822023, Alaska - 731449, Arizona - 6553255, Arkansas - 2949131, California - 38041430, Colorado - 5187582, Connecticut - 3590347, Delaware - 917092, Florida - 19317568, Georgia - 9919945, Hawaii - 1392313, Idaho - 1595728, Illinois - 12875255, Indiana - 6537334, Iowa - 3074186, Kansas - 2885905, Kentucky - 4380415, Louisiana - 4601893, Maine - 1329192, Maryland - 5884563, Massachusetts - 6646144, Michigan - 9883360, Minnesota - 5379139, Mississippi - 2984926, Missouri - 6021988, Montana - 1005141, Nebraska - 1855525, Nevada - 2758931, New Hampshire - 1320718, New Jersey - 8864590, New Mexico - 2085538, New York - 19570261, North Carolina - 9752073, North Dakota - 699628, Ohio - 11544225, Oklahoma - 3814820, Oregon - 3899353, Pennsylvania - 12763536, Rhode Island - 1050292, South Carolina - 4723723, South Dakota - 833354, Tennessee - 6456243, Texas - 26059203, Utah - 2855287, Vermont - 626011, Virginia - 8185867, Washington - 6897012, Washington DC - 632323, West Virginia - 1855413, Wisconsin - 5726398, Wyoming - 576412, Puerto Rico - 3667084

Per-capita * 1,000,000 (i.e. number of SO responses per million state residents):
Alabama - 4.147636790616718, Alaska - 8.202895895681038, Arizona - 11.292098354176666, Arkansas - 4.068995239614653, California - 12.381238034427202, Colorado - 16.770819237170613, Connecticut - 9.191312148937136, Delaware - 3.2712094315510334, Florida - 6.5225601897713, Georgia - 6.653262694500826, Hawaii - 2.1546879185930172, Idaho - 10.026771479851202, Illinois - 8.854193567428373, Indiana - 6.271669766299228, Iowa - 9.43339147338515, Kansas - 9.702329078746528, Kentucky - 3.8809108269421957, Louisiana - 2.8249244387038117, Maine - 7.5233675797025565, Maryland - 12.745211496588617, Massachusetts - 22.419014694836584, Michigan - 8.600314063233556, Minnesota - 15.244075306475628, Mississippi - 2.345116763363648, Missouri - 8.635022188685863, Montana - 6.964197062899633, Nebraska - 11.856482666630738, Nevada - 5.436888418014078, New Hampshire - 15.900442032288499, New Jersey - 9.588711942684322, New Mexico - 4.315433235932407, New York - 14.307422880052544, North Carolina - 7.383045635527954, North Dakota - 5.717324063645251, Ohio - 8.748963226201845, Oklahoma - 4.718440188527899, Oregon - 16.92588488397947, Pennsylvania - 11.04709541305795, Puerto Rico - 0.8180887048128703, Rhode Island - 15.233858774512232, South Carolina - 5.080738222795875, South Dakota - 5.999851203690148, Tennessee - 6.350442509676293, Texas - 6.485232875310883, Utah - 19.262511964646638, Vermont - 6.389664079385186, Virginia - 13.926441756261127, Washington - 24.358374322097742, Washington DC - 41.118225969955226, West Virginia - 1.6168906868713326, Wisconsin - 11.525569825918492, Wyoming - 8.674350985059299

Percentage based on last result set (i.e. percentage of SO respondents normalized to population size):
Alabama - 0.824721537170129, Alaska - 1.6310745742340413, Arizona - 2.2453356411538934, Arkansas - 0.8090843480665424, California - 2.4619016030822145, Colorado - 3.3347316843587764, Connecticut - 1.827612557886197, Delaware - 0.6504515720608812, Florida - 1.2969544194811282, Georgia - 1.322943476877953, Hawaii - 0.4284409706182859, Idaho - 1.9937363865669924, Illinois - 1.7605794571625484, Indiana - 1.2470670387501877, Iowa - 1.8757479281354774, Kansas - 1.9292238341738914, Kentucky - 0.7716853968642833, Louisiana - 0.5617116789849995, Maine - 1.4959562729950668, Maryland - 2.534274563482699, Massachusetts - 4.457826274179643, Michigan - 1.7100977237018886, Minnesota - 3.031151919554754, Mississippi - 0.4663060917725937, Missouri - 1.7169991328706176, Montana - 1.3847700743382283, Nebraska - 2.3575585577735083, Nevada - 1.0810780210241895, New Hampshire - 3.1616647398393933, New Jersey - 1.9066320538825035, New Mexico - 0.8580864023448015, New York - 2.8449067230945992, North Carolina - 1.4680544736474985, North Dakota - 1.1368402124642574, Ohio - 1.7396553181517227, Oklahoma - 0.9382208331577232, Oregon - 3.365565140867746, Pennsylvania - 2.1966189351328276, Puerto Rico - 0.16266983061322227, Rhode Island - 3.0291204509448555, South Carolina - 1.0102606492793207, South Dakota - 1.1930182793955861, Tennessee - 1.262730314317618, Texas - 1.289532207336161, Utah - 3.8301831330026452, Vermont - 1.2705291826596392, Virginia - 2.7691519369578557, Washington - 4.84345108504518, Washington DC - 8.17600195956597, West Virginia - 0.3215046639882644, Wisconsin - 2.291759414685823, Wyoming - 1.7248193223031953

Previous result set sorted by percentage descending:
Washington DC - 8.17600195956597, Washington - 4.84345108504518, Massachusetts - 4.457826274179643, Utah - 3.8301831330026452, Oregon - 3.365565140867746, Colorado - 3.3347316843587764, New Hampshire - 3.1616647398393933, Minnesota - 3.031151919554754, Rhode Island - 3.0291204509448555, New York - 2.8449067230945992, Virginia - 2.7691519369578557, Maryland - 2.534274563482699, California - 2.4619016030822145, Nebraska - 2.3575585577735083, Wisconsin - 2.291759414685823, Arizona - 2.2453356411538934, Pennsylvania - 2.1966189351328276, Idaho - 1.9937363865669924, Kansas - 1.9292238341738914, New Jersey - 1.9066320538825035, Iowa - 1.8757479281354774, Connecticut - 1.827612557886197, Illinois - 1.7605794571625484, Ohio - 1.7396553181517227, Wyoming - 1.7248193223031953, Missouri - 1.7169991328706176, Michigan - 1.7100977237018886, Alaska - 1.6310745742340413, Maine - 1.4959562729950668, North Carolina - 1.4680544736474985, Montana - 1.3847700743382283, Georgia - 1.322943476877953, Florida - 1.2969544194811282, Texas - 1.289532207336161, Vermont - 1.2705291826596392, Tennessee - 1.262730314317618, Indiana - 1.2470670387501877, South Dakota - 1.1930182793955861, North Dakota - 1.1368402124642574, Nevada - 1.0810780210241895, South Carolina - 1.0102606492793207, Oklahoma - 0.9382208331577232, New Mexico - 0.8580864023448015, Alabama - 0.824721537170129, Arkansas - 0.8090843480665424, Kentucky - 0.7716853968642833, Delaware - 0.6504515720608812, Louisiana - 0.5617116789849995, Mississippi - 0.4663060917725937, Hawaii - 0.4284409706182859, West Virginia - 0.3215046639882644, Puerto Rico - 0.16266983061322227

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Lynne Warren
Lynne Warren has been a curator for more than three-decades at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She has specialized in monographic exhibitions, often highlighting artists with a significant relationship to Chicago, and has amassed expertise in the area of Chicago history from 1945 to the present, with an emphasis on artists of the 1960s to the 1990s, as well as expertise in the field of photography. Her solo exhibitions, which often produced the first monograph on the artist, include Kenneth Josephson (1982); Donald Sultan (1987); Robert Heinecken: Photographist (1999); Dan Peterman: Plastic Economies (2004); Chris Ware (2005); and Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character (2011). She has also specialized in exhibitions producing major scholarship, including the nationally traveling Alexander Calder: Form, Balance, Joy (2010) which reexamined Calder's significance in light of a new generation of artists inspired by his art.
Her publications include over 40 exhibition catalogues, as well as contributions to Masterpieces of 20th Century Art, The Art Institute of Chicago (1988); the Encyclopedia of Chicago, Newberry Library, Chicago and the University of Chicago (2004); the Groves Dictionaries Dictionary of Art (1995); The Essential New Art Examiner, Northern Illinois Press, DeKalb (2011); and Support Networks School of the Art Institute of Chicago/Chicago Social Practice History Series (2014). She is also the editor of the three-volume reference book The Encyclopedia of 20th Century Photography (2005).
Educated at the School of the Art Institute (BFA 1976) and the University of Chicago, Warren has taught courses at the University of Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, and The University of Illinois at Chicago, and has lectured throughout the United States.
Alexander Calder, American artist best known for his innovation of the mobile suspended sheet metal and wire assemblies that are activated in space by air currents. Visually fascinating and emotionally engaging, those sculptures—along with his monumental outdoor bolted sheet metal stabiles, which…


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[34] Many 'SmartBus' routes have been released in the late 2000s within an make an effort to make improvements to areas of the technique with improved bus priority and frequencies and span of services hrs much better than most other bus routes at some time. Inspite of its achievements at appreciably growing bus patronage, the service hasn't been expanded and several bus lanes were being taken off.[35][36][37]
Due to the fact Entire world War II Melbourne is now a dispersed, car or truck-oriented metropolis, bringing about a decline in general public transport use.[27] The initial transport designs of city progress remain reflected Melbourne's prewar spots.[27] The Procedure of Melbourne's community transportation technique was privatised by the government in 1999. Under this arrangement, rail and tram operations are contracted to personal companies while the infrastructure remained less than federal government Management.
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13 Conversations About One Thing
The "one thing" that prompts 13 different conversations is happiness, and in this drama from writer-director Jill Sprecher, a superb cast (including John Turturro, Amy Irving, Matthew McConaughey, Clea DuVall and Alan Arkin) circles all the big questions about happiness, how to find it and how to hold onto it. The characters' stories meld in a gorgeously shot and inventively edited style that creates a breathtaking sense of heightened realism.
Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Clea DuVall, Amy Irving, Alan Arkin, Brian Smiar, Frankie Faison, David Connelly, Elizabeth Reaser
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Best known for his stellar acting in the films such as 'The Social Network', 'The Lone Ranger', 'Mine', and 'Call Me by Your Name', Armie Hammer is a remarkable actor from America. He is known for drool-worthy eyes and the killing looks. Here are the complete details about the early life, biography, career, earnings and net worth of Armie Hammer in 2019.
Armie Hammer was born as Armand Douglas Armie Hammer on August 28, 1986, in Santa Monica California. He was born with the silver spoon on his mouth. He is the great-grandson worldwide-known businessman Armand Hammer. His father, Michael Armand Hammer also owns a number of businesses.
His mother, Dru Ann, worked as a bank loan officer. During his childhood, Armie and his family changed their places frequently. Finally, his family settled in Los Angeles where he attended Los Angeles Baptist High School. Following that, he decided to make his career in acting, so he didn't continue his study further. However, he learned acting professionally later on.
The dashing actor is the heartthrob of millions, but he has lost his heart to Elizabeth Chambers. The couple got married in 2010 after dating for years. They're blessed with two kids. Their daughter was born in 2014, and the son was born in 2017. As of now, the couple is happy in its own world, and there is no sign of their separation.
During his school days, Armie had decided to become an actor. In fact, he dropped out of his school just to pursue his acting career. After learning acting professionally, he made his TV debut in 2008 with the TV sitcom 'Arrested Development'. It was a small role, but Armie managed to grab many eyeballs. In 2006, he made his film debut with the film 'Flicka'. He had to wait next two years to achieve the success in the industry. He first gained the success with the film 'Billy: The Early Years'. This film earned him huge critical acclaim as well as public popularity.
He actually rose into popularity after portraying the twin character of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in the blockbuster film 'The Social Network'. He further gained the success with the films 'The Lone Ranger' and 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
His impressive acting has earned him several notable awards. He is the winner of CinemaCon Award, Hollywood Film Award, Palm Springs International Film Award, PFCS Award, Texas Film Award, and Young Hollywood Award. He has also earned some prestigious award nominations including Screen Actors Guild Award.
Though Armie Hammer was born in a business family, he decided to something of his own. Initially, his parents were not pleased with his decision, but today, they're proud of his son's work. So, always listen to your heart.


More is better – that was the motto for voluminous updos in the sixties. Teased or backcombed, hair was big! The beehive and bouffant were especially popular and these looks can be worn again today as half-up styles with loads of volume at the crown. Think: Adele's go-to glamorous look.
Divide a wide section of hair from your forehead.
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Backcomb your hair section by section, beginning at the center back of your head and work towards the top.
Smoothly comb the upper layers of hair loosely over the backcombed area.
For a half-up style, use a hair tie to secure this hair into a ponytail on the lower back of the head – or secure with hairpins.
Alternatively, you can also use a padded hair piece concealed between the upper layer and bottom half of your hair. Secure in place with bobby pins and cover the piece properly with your upper layer of hair.
Take the previously separated wide section from the forehead and tuck it behind your ears. Bangs can be parted in the middle to frame your face.
The headband: This cute styling detail gained popularity in the 60s.
Alongside bows, headbands were a must-have hair accessory in the sixties. Headbands mean your hair is styled out of your face – and out of your way! Behind the headband, the hair should have tons of volume. Make it perfect: Add a sixties flip to finish this retro style.
Tease hair on the top of your head and position the headband one or two finger widths back from the hairline.
Finish by blow-drying the ends of your hair upwards and out with a round brush to get a sixties flip.
Natural, long, undone hair with a headband is back in style.
The end of the 60s heralded the era of hippies. Long waves, wild curls and natural afro hair was styled with headbands or flower crowns. These days, this look is often seen on stylish people at music festivals radiating joie de vivre coolness.
Use haircare products that bring the natural structure of your hair to life.
Forget your hair dryer and let your hair air dry instead. Thanks to innovative products, you can still get a soft, easy-to-comb result without blow-drying.
A texturizing spray or a small amount of styling cream can accentuate your natural look.
Get healthy shine with a lightweight oil spray.
A curl-enhancing mousse increases the bounce of your curls, defines them and minimizes frizz. It also adds shine and makes your curls look wildly wonderful.
Bold, graphical styles beautifully frame the face and emphasize fine facial features.
Short haircuts were a favorite in the sixties and they're on trend again in 2019. Think: Bowl cut and pageboy styles with signature cool, precisely cut bangs.
Apply some styling mousse to roots and blow-dry outwards with a round brush.
Finish with a flexible hairspray to hold natural movement.
For a touch of evening glamor, spritz with shine spray.
Regular trims are a must to maintain the clean lines that characterize bold short hairstyles.
The pixie: A true classic worn by style icons past and present.
The pixie cut is an absolute classic. Why? Versatility! With the sides and back short and the upper hair longer, it can be styled elegantly or edgy. This confident short cut became the trademark of the youth movement in 1960s England. Women who wore it demonstrated independence and strength, and perhaps this is a reason it's as popular now as it was then! In 2019, the pixie cut will be worn undone and natural making it look ultra-relaxed yet feminine.
Apply an air-dry product and let your hair dry naturally.
Accentuate individual sections with a bit of styling balm.
Highlights will add structure and depth.
Baby bangs are the perfect complement to the pixie. The short feathery look is a nod to Mia Farrow's hairstyle in the movie "Rosemary's Baby".
Curtain bangs – a cool and timeless complement to a long bob.
Curtain bangs have a popular hold on beauty bloggers and fashion pros alike. The look features bangs that are parted in the middle – you guessed it, like a curtain! Made famous by style icon Brigitte Bardot, she wore curtain bangs with voluminous half-up hairstyles in the sixties, and loose undone hair in the seventies. Wear these cool bangs today with a long bob, bun or ponytail.
Dry shampoo is the secret to keeping bangs looking fresher for longer. Spray bangs with dry shampoo from underneath.
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SRV Yhtiöt Oyj
SRV's REDI project starts with construction of shopping centre
Espoo, Finalnd, 2015-03-25 06:30 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SRV GROUP PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 25 MARCH 2015 AT 7.30
The SRV-developed REDI project in the metro quarter of Kalasatama, Helsinki will be launched. A EUR 225 million project credit agreement has been signed with a banks syndicate to construct the shopping centre and parking facility parts of the project. The syndicate arranging the project credit facilities consists of Pohjola Bank plc, Nordea Bank Finland Plc and Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen as the mandated lead arrangers, and Danske Bank Plc and Swedbank AB as other lenders in the syndicate.
The capital investment shares of the consortium that will develop the shopping centre and parking facility are divided such that SRV's share is 40%, Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company's share is 30%, LocalTapiola's share is 15%, and the share of OP-Pohjola Group and a fund managed by the Group is 15%. In addition, SRV has granted an unsecured project credit of EUR 15 million for construction. Through the project loan arrangements, the agreement on the investor consortium's joint investment for the implementation of the shopping centre and parking facility, signed earlier on a conditional basis, enters now into effect.
The total value of the shopping centre and parking facility investment is EUR 480 million, of which EUR 240 million will be financed with the owners' capital investments. The rest of the investment will be covered by the now-agreed project credits.
SRV has also signed contracting agreements of around EUR 390 million for the implementation of the shopping centre and parking facility. Construction will commence on a large scale during April 2015. The shopping centre and parking facility is scheduled to open in autumn 2018. SRV is responsible for the design, construction and leasing of the project.
With start of the construction of the shopping centre and parking facility, the other parts of the REDI project will also be launched. SRV plans to build six residential towers as well as office and hotel towers on the top of the shopping centre. The residential towers will consist of 1,200 housing units, of which most will be directed to the consumer market.
The construction of the first two residential towers is expected to begin in 2016, when the construction phase of the shopping centre technically allows this. The first tower is expected to be completed by the end of 2018 and the second tower in 2019, depending on demand. Advance marketing of the housing units will begin in the autumn 2015.
REDI as whole is expected to be completed during 2023 depending on the market situation. Turnover from the shopping centre, parking facility and towers is expected to be over EUR one billion.
Taneli Hassinen
Vice President, Communications
taneli.hassinen@srv.fi
www.srv.fi
This news release was distributed by GlobeNewswire, www.globenewswire.com – a Nasdaq company


The fear of missing out goes back to our childhood. Most adults still agree missing out is the worst. It even has a hashtag (#FOMO). Yet each year, billions of dollars are wasted in the United States. And that's just the beginning.
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Your Vacation Days: Half of Americans don't use all their vacation days each year. In 2016 alone, 662 million vacation days went unused according to the U.S. Travel Association's Project Time Off. Research has proven that taking vacation days has a therapeutic effect on your body. Vacation days lead to less stress, better mental and physical health, and a decreased chance of burning out. Not to mention that vacation days, even for a staycation, are just fun!
Your Groceries: It is estimated that up to 40% of food in the United States gets tossed out after it's harvested. And if you are a typical family of four, it means you are wasting up to $2,275 a year! The USDA is committed to reducing food waste by 50% by 2030. But you can make a difference now! Cut down on wasted food by giving your leftovers a fresh taste with a new recipe. Keeping a detailed shopping list of what's in your refrigerator and cupboards will help make sure you buy only what you need. It will also save you money – something we can all get on board with!
Your "Me Time": The old saying "use it or lose it" is all about you. And as you might expect, exercising your body and mind benefit each other. Research has shown that exercising daily can improve cognitive abilities. The interesting thing about exercising your brain is that you can do it with things you enjoy. Taking a daily walk, reading, playing card games and even visiting a museum helps. The key is to always be an active participant. Asking questions, repeating facts, and truly taking-in the experience is great for your brain. So get out there and enjoy!


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Q: Is there a solution to apply method .collapse('show') to a node list from Bootstrap 4.6.x using JavaScript? I am trying to apply the Bootstrap method of .collapse('show') to a node list of elements but I'm facing an issue in console.log: (Uncaught TypeError: findEl[i].collapse is not a function).
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completion of the nearby Princess Tower. 5 Elite Residence 381 metres (1,250 ft) The Address the blvd 370 metres (1,210 ft) Almas Tower 360 metres (1,180 ft) Tallest office building in the city. Dubai Marina neighborhood and the, business Bay district. 1 Contents Tallest building edit This list ranks completed and topped out Dubai skyscrapers that stand at least 200 metres (656 ft) tall, based on standard height measurement.
Raskaus homoseksuaaliseen ja ruskea vuoto kuvake isot meis See also edit References edit Specific General External links edit. Despite Dubai's recent major skyscraper boom, there are only seven buildings on the list. As of 2012, 363 new skyscrapers are under construction in Dubai; additionally, there are over 640 active high-rise developments that have been proposed for construction in the city.


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Schools Out > Biphobia, Bullying, Culture, Education, Hate Crime, Homophobia, Human Rights, Law Commission, Transphobia, Violence > Schools OUT UK's submission to the Law Commission on hate crime
Schools OUT UK's submission to the Law Commission on hate crime
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Schools OUT UK submission to the Law Commission on hate crime
1 Schools OUT UK
Schools OUT UK is an education charity that began life as The Gay Teachers Association in 1974. Our overarching goal is to make our schools and educational institutions safe spaces for our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) communities as teachers, lecturers and trainers; as pupils and students; as parents; as teaching and learning support staff; as site-officers, catering and cleaning staff; and as headteachers, managers and governors. There is no other organisation that supports such a wide community in attaining such a wide, yet simple overarching goal.
Our over-arching aim is to make our schools safe and inclusive for everyone. To do this we need:
To provide both a formal and informal support network for all people who want to raise the issue of homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and heterosexism in education.
To campaign on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans issues as they affect education and those in education.
To research, debate and stimulate curriculum development on LGBT issues.
To work towards unison between teacher and lecturer unions and other professional stakeholders in education
To promote equality, safety, and visibility in education for LGBT people and all the protected characteristics
As part of this goal, we recognise the need to be inclusive and to recognise the needs and rights of all the characteristics listed as protected under the Equality Act of 2010. We also recognise the need to make LGBT people visible in our schools and in the wider community.
Schools OUT UK takes part in research, debate and curriculum development on LGBT people and issues. We deal with the Department for Education, OFSTED, The Equality and Human Rights Commission, local authorities and academies, teaching and other trade unions and any other stakeholders in the education process when and where relevant.
Schools OUT UK founded LGBT+ History Month an annual event held in February and The Classroom a website with over 70 free lesson plans that usualise LGBT issues across the curriculum for all ages . We are affiliated to OUTing the Past an international festival of LGBT+ History and Pride in Education
2.1 LGBT+ people face high levels of violence and abuse driven by hostility. Home Office figures show that anti-LGBT+ hate crime has, for the second year running, risen at twice the rate of other forms of hate crime. In the most recent data, reported hate crime has grown by 8%, while hate crimes against LGB people have risen 19% in the same period, and transphobic hate crimes grew by 16%[1]. Updating legal protections to ensure diverse LGBT+ people can expect dignity, respect and safety is desperately needed and long overdue. Galop welcomes the Law Commission proposals and makes the following suggestions:
2.2 Adopt a single legal approach across all hate crime strands for ordinary criminal offences, stirring up offences and football chanting offences.
2.3 Establish a statutory duty requiring the creation of a Hate Crime Commissioner role to drive best practice in policy and victim support.
2.4 Redefine the current definition of 'transgender identity' hate to include trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming and intersex people.
2.5 Extend the current definition of 'sexual orientation' hate to include ace people (asexual and aromantic).
2.6 Create a single Hate Crime Act containing all relevant legislation to remedy the confusing and dispersed pieces of legislation as they stand. By focussing on the perpetrators motive rather than the victim's identity
2.7 Extend the hate crime legal test from 'hostility' to 'hostility or prejudice' as a means of making the legislation more relevant to the forms of abuse faced by deaf and disabled people.
We provisionally propose that aggravated offences should apply to all five of the current characteristics equally, and any further characteristics that are added. Do you agree?
3.1 SCHOOLS OUT UK strongly supports this proposal. The current two-tier system of hate crime laws give lesser protections to LGBT+ and disabled people targeted compared with laws focused on BAME people and people of faith. The law should censure all forms of hate crime equally. The current legal framework sends a signal that some groups are less worthy of protection than others, undermining the confidence of LGBT+ and disabled victims in the law.
By specifying the protected groups as listed in the Equality Act an important link is made and we are clear as to our motives. We believe that when the law 'specifies' protected groups it should also describe them as 'not exclusive'. In the future other groups may need protection when they become the target of hate crime. Then Law would not require revision to expand its remit.
We believe that it is crucial that no hierarchy of protected characteristics is implied or applied.
We strongly encourage the use of language that does not blame the victim when describing a hate crime.
So "He was attacked because he is black," becomes "He was attacked by a person who displayed a hatred of people of colour, as he perceived them."
Not catchy, but accurate.
We would prefer that the hate crime was identified by the motive and or intentions of the perpetrator rather than by the identity of the victim.
Thus, the law would be much more encompassing and flexible and meet the shifting landscape of hate. However given the unlikeliness of this happening we give you our thoughts in the current frame work
3.2 A key issue is the disparity in sentencing maxima. As an example, there is a six month maximum sentence for common assault demonstrating or motivated by disability or anti-LGBT+ hostility, while the same offence would have a two year maximum for race or faith hate crime.
3.3 Only enabling recognition of the hate element within disability and anti-LGBT+ offences through sentence uplift rather than acknowledging it as a core part of an aggravated offence means it is often not properly documented on the criminal records of offenders. That prevents courts, prisons and probation services from identifying and challenging the prejudice driving repeat offender's behaviour.
3.4 Lastly, race and faith aggravated offences are indictable offences, while LGBT+ and disability hate crimes are not. The primary disparity this creates is the six month time limit for a case to be heard after the offence complained of. No such limit exists for race and faith hate crime, creating confusion among investigating police officers leading to numerous cases we have supported becoming 'timed out'. The difference in trial venue (Crown Court for indictable offences and Magistrates for those that are not) is a further gap leaving LGBT+ and disabled people without the additional support and protections afforded to Crown Court witnesses.
3.5 SCHOOLS OUT UK supports the proposal to contain all hate crime provisions within a single Hate Crime Act to remedy the confusing and disparate legislative framework that currently exists.
We provisionally propose that the current legal position – where the commission of a hate crime can be satisfied through proof that the defendant demonstrated hostility towards a protected characteristic of the victim – should be maintained. Do you agree?
3.6 SCHOOLS OUT UK supports the proposal to retain demonstration as a limb by which an offence can be established as hate crime. Due to the difficulty in proving the thoughts and feelings driving an offender's actions, motivation is a necessary but difficult to utilise option within the hate crime legal test. For that reason, the vast majority of successful hate crime prosecutions are secured on the basis of demonstrating hostility through words or behaviours. The provisions enabling demonstration to be used in this way is a core component of what makes the UK a global leader in responding to hate crime. In contrast, we are aware of many overseas cases supported by our international partners where clear anti-LGBT+ language was used as part of a violent act, but courts were not able to prove it to be hate crime because demonstration was not a permissible means of proving the hate element in their jurisdiction. Removing that option from criminal courts in England & Wales would be a significant backward step in securing an effective response for victims of hate crime.
We invite consultees' views as to whether the current motivation test should be amended so that it asks whether the crime was motivated by hostility or prejudice towards the protected characteristic
3.7 SCHOOLS OUT UK supports the Law Commission proposal to extend the legal test from 'hostility' to 'hostility or prejudice' as a means of making the test more relevant to the forms of abuse that deaf and disabled people face. In our view 'prejudice' is an accurate description of the mental element driving hate crime offending and it is a concept that is generally well understood among the public, criminal justice professions, the judiciary and jurors.
We also consider some further refinements of the definitions currently used Including "asexuality" within the definition of sexual orientation.
4.1 SCHOOLS OUT UK supports refining the definition of sexual orientation. Hate crime law currently defines sexual orientation as 'attraction towards persons of the same sex, the opposite sex or persons of both sexes'. We propose adding 'or neither sex' in order to explicitly protect the growing number of ace people (asexual and aromatic) from violence and abuse driven by hostility toward their sexual orientation. Additionally, we propose altering 'or persons of both sexes' to 'or persons of multiple sexes' to more accurately account for the sexual orientation of pansexual and bisexual people, while also acknowledging the existence of non-binary people.
4.2 Ace communities as a sub-community within the LGBT+ umbrella include both asexual people who experience little or no sexual attraction and aromantic people who experience little or no romantic attraction. The consultation paper invites views on defining sexual orientation in a manner that includes only asexual people, however the existing definition draws on the concept of 'attraction' without specifying what form of attraction. This means it inherently includes a range of forms of attraction, including both sexual and romantic. Therefore nuancing the existing definition to include asexual people will inevitably also extended those protections to aromantic people.
We also consider some further refinements to the transgender definition to make explicit reference to people who are transgender, non-binary, cross-dressing or intersex.
4.3 We support updating the definition of 'transgender identity' hate to include trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming and intersex people. Language around gender identity and the demographic composition of trans communities has rapidly changed in recent years, outpacing the current definition and making it impractical to utilise.
4.4 Trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming and intersex people face high levels of violence and abuse driven by transphobia[2]. The current definition explicitly includes only a small proportion of these people targeted by transphobic offences. This is mediated somewhat by provisions allowing sentence uplift of offences targeting those mistakenly perceived by the offender as falling within the definition for this form of hate crime. Despite this, it is overdue for each of these groups to be formally recognised within hate crime protections for those facing transphobic offences.
4.5 Current legislation relating to sentence uplift defines transgender identity as "being transsexual, or undergoing, proposing to undergo or having undergone a process or part of a process of gender reassignment" (Section 146(6) of the CJA 2003). A definition reliant on the gender recognition (GRC) process is highly problematic. Many trans people are unable to access the process or do not wish to. The recent government consultation on reform of the Gender Recognition Act contrasts approximately 300 GRA applications received each year with the much larger UK trans population estimates of between 200,000 and 500,000 people. This makes it clear that any revised definition should abandon reliance on the GRA as a defining factor.
4.5 We propose an alternative definition that follows the existing model of disability and transgender identity by simply listing the protected groups; namely 'trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming and intersex people'. In formulating a definition it would be advisable to use the word 'trans' and avoid the words 'transsexual' and 'transgender' as they have come to hold negative connotations for trans communities in the same way that using the word 'homosexual' has come to feel outdated and offensive. Similarly, we advise against using the label 'cross dresser' and instead use 'gender non-conforming'. However see above our view to move to be more inclusive.
Should a Hate Crime Commissioner be introduced in England and Wales?
5.1 SCHOOLS OUT UK supports the establishment of a statutory duty requiring the creation of a Hate Crime Commissioner role. The equivalent role for domestic abuse has been incredibly helpful in supporting domestic abuse support services and driving forward policy in that area. Against a background of rising levels of hate crime[3], victims and the services supporting them would benefit immeasurably from such support. If such a person was given powers to extend the list of victims if we continue to go down that road that would be very useful.
We provisionally propose that the current protections for discussion of religion and sexual orientation should apply to the new offence of stirring up hatred; similar protections be given in respect of transgender identity, sex/gender and disability. Do you agree and if so what should these cover?
6.1 SCHOOLS OUT UK supports the proposal to create parity between stirring up offences across all protected characteristics. At present the sexual orientation stirring up offence is weak compared to other strands. No stirring up offence exists for transphobia at all, despite trans people facing high levels of social hostility and attacks that would arguably meet the stirring up legal threshold. Despite the use of stirring up offences being rare, their existence sends an important message to society and acts to shape the behaviour of hate groups who are often careful to stay within the law.
We provisionally propose that the offence in section 3 of the Football (Offences) Act 1991 should be extended to cover chanting based on sexual orientation. Do you agree?
6.2 SCHOOLS OUT UK supports extending the football chanting offence to sexual orientation hatred. Homophobic behaviours by offenders within football supporting contexts creates a clear opportunity for such an offence to be utilised. However, in line with the principle of parity between strands outlined above, we propose extending this offence to all hate crime strands (transphobia, faith, disability and any new strands added). We believe this will future-proof the offence by ensuring it remains relevant and avoid it needing to be updated soon after its creation.
We provisionally propose that the criteria that should be considered for the addition of any further characteristics into hate crime laws should be demonstrable need, additional harm and suitability. Do you agree?
7.1 The points set out by the consultation document gathered from Hate Studies literature collectively form a comprehensive and accurate hate crime definition. In contrast, we hesitantly support the three criteria proposed above given the need for a clear and defensible means of deciding whether a particular strand should be included or not. However, our responses below are based on a definition that takes a macro-societal viewpoint of what hate crime is, rather than technical legal responses to it. That view can be summarised in defining hate crime as 'violence and abuse against marginalised social groups as a means of keeping them marginalised'.
7.2 This definition draws on the following by Barbara Perry[4]. "Hate crime … involves acts of violence and intimidation, usually directed towards already stigmatised and marginalised groups. As such, it is a mechanism of power and oppression, intended to reaffirm the precarious hierarchies that characterise a given social order. It attempts to re-create simultaneously the threatened (real or imagined) hegemony of the perpetrator's group and the 'appropriate' subordinate identity of the victim's group. It is a means of marking both the Self and the Other in such a way as to re-establish their 'proper' relative positions, as given and reproduced by broader ideologies and patterns of social and political inequality." See above our desire to focus on the perpetrators motives.
Summary Consultation Question 2 Should the characteristic of "sex or gender" be added to the characteristics protected by hate crime laws?
7.3 Given the prevalence of misogyny as a driving factor in offending against women as a means of enforcing patriarchal power systems, this would appear to fit the definition outlined above as a potential additional strand.
7.4 Despite the above, we are concerned about the prospect of carve outs for sexual and domestic violence offences for this potential strand. A core principle of anti-hate crime work is that hate crime encompasses all offences driven by that form of hostility, from verbal abuse all the way up to murder. We understand and support the arguments made in favour of the carve outs, but we also believe that implementing them would undermine the effectiveness of efforts made to address existing stands by leaving anti-hate crime work open to attacks at a policy a media level from those characterising hate crime as 'minor' or expressions of offensive but legitimate free speech.
[1] Hate Crime, England and Wales, 2019/20, Home Office https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2019-to-2020.
[2] Bradley, C. (2020) Transphobic Hate Crime Report 2020, London: Galop http://www.galop.org.uk/transphobic-hate-crime-report-2020/
[4] Perry, B. (2001). In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes. (Routledge).


Low back pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal diseases. In the vast majority of cases, low back pain will resolve within 4-6 weeks. You may need further evaluation by a specialist if your pain lasts for longer than 4-6 weeks and/or is uncontrolled by anti-inflammatories and muscle relaxants and/or does not improve with physical therapy. Warning signs for possible nerve or spinal cord compression are numbness/tingling in one or both legs, weakness in one or both legs, severe pain in one or both legs, bowel or bladder incontinence. If you are experiencing any of these symptoms you may need earlier referral to a specialist.
Common causes include strained muscles, herniated discs, spinal stenosis, arthritis of the spine, degenerative disc disease, and vertebral compression fractures. Drs. Noles and Hirsch will carefully take your history, physical examination, and order x-ray/CT scan/MRI. This will lead us to diagnose the source or sources of your low back pain.
At Spine and Pain Specialists, our goal is to reduce your low back pain and improve your function so that you experience an increase in your quality of life. Call our office to schedule an appointment in either our Bossier or Shreveport locations with Drs. Noles, Hirsch, Munjampalli, Germany or Abney.


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Q: NHibernate LinqToHqlGenerator for Oracle full text index 'Containing' keyword I'm using two different databases with Nhibernate, for Sql Server I solved reading this post
It works fine with Sql Server, instead Oracle has a different syntax:
Contains("a", "b")>0

I don't know how to do that in this piece of code
    public override HqlTreeNode BuildHql(MethodInfo method,
      System.Linq.Expressions.Expression targetObject,
      ReadOnlyCollection<System.Linq.Expressions.Expression> arguments,
      HqlTreeBuilder treeBuilder, IHqlExpressionVisitor visitor)
    {

        HqlExpression[] args = new HqlExpression[2] {
            visitor.Visit(arguments[0]).AsExpression(),
            visitor.Visit(arguments[1]).AsExpression()
        };

        return treeBuilder.BooleanMethodCall("contains", args);
    }

The problem is I can't understand how to add >0 after the expression.
Thanks in advance

A: It was simplier than I thought, using the builder solved in this way
public override HqlTreeNode BuildHql(MethodInfo method,
          System.Linq.Expressions.Expression targetObject,
          ReadOnlyCollection<System.Linq.Expressions.Expression> arguments,
          HqlTreeBuilder treeBuilder, IHqlExpressionVisitor visitor)        {           HqlExpression[] args = new HqlExpression[2] {
                visitor.Visit(arguments[0]).AsExpression(),
                visitor.Visit(arguments[1]).AsExpression()          };

            return treeBuilder.GreaterThan(treeBuilder.MethodCall("contains", args), treeBuilder.Constant(0));      }


I'm re-doing one of my domains with textpattern or wordpress. I considered drupal, but to be honest, I want something with a little stronger 3rd party support. There are several features & functionalities missing in drupal which I need. For a site from scratch or one with content generated from within drupal, all is well. For those working with 3rd party apps already, well, it may or may not work (or even be available).
easy support for 3rd party scripting from flickr, youtube, blogger, other rss, etc.
On this domain, I have been using expression engine (ee) for years for a blog software. However, I am now ready to dump ee, due to its cost and licensing restrictions. Actually, I started out with greymatter (opensource) then migrated to MT (movable type) and then migrated to ee. So, some of my data has already been through 3 migrations.
I know wordpress can do this. Textpattern seems to be an option too. So, an interesting experiment.
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How China gets counter terrorism wrong
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China is getting a lot of headline attention these days in Canada and elsewhere. Most of this coverage revolves around Chinese attempts to have its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) buy up Western companies. Some of these deals have been cancelled by Western authorities over security concerns. The bottom line seems to be we in the West do not want to follow Chinese business practices. Another pattern we might want to avoid is Chinese counter terrorism approaches.
Each nation has its own way of dealing with terrorism. Some have chosen an overwhelmingly military response (e.g. Russia). Others prefer to use softer approaches (e.g. Denmark). Still others combine law enforcement/security intelligence-led strategy with religious re-indoctrination (e.g. Singapore). No one response can necessarily be exported to another country without taking into consideration local characteristics, cultures, histories and scale of problem issues.
The PRC, however, seems to be getting this challenge completely wrong. Government officials have settled on the creation of 're-education' camps for their Uyghur Muslim citizens concentrated largely in the northwest province of Xinjiang. In these camps Muslims – perhaps as many as one million – are housed in prison-like structures and are internment centres for all intents and purposes. The government claims that it is responding to a serious security threat from Islamist extremists, who happen to come from within the Uyghur population and is engaged in 'improving the conditions of its people'.
In fairness, Uyghur extremism is real. I discussed the threat in my third book (The Lesser Jihads: Bringing the Islamist extremist fight to the world): a number of serious terrorist attacks have been perpetrated by Chinese citizens who are indeed from the Uyghur ethno-religious group. In addition, a significant number of Uyghur extremists left the PRC to join Islamic State and other terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria and security officials, just like their counterparts elsewhere, will have to figure out what to do with the returnees. One Uyghur-created terrorist group, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), is tied to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Among the aforementioned attacks are:
In June 2103 27 people were killed by knife-wielding assailants in Shanshan county;
Three people were killed and 79 injured in knife attacks at an Urumqi train station in April 2014;
At least 31 people were killed and over 90 injured when a car drove into a market in Urumqi and extremists tossed explosives in May 2014;
In July 2014 a knife-wielding gang attacked a police station in Yarkant, killing 96;
Bomb blasts outside police stations and in a market in Luntai county killed 50 in September 2014.
Still, the PRC response to jam hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs into these camps is wrong. Yes, there are Uyghur extremists, but not hundreds of thousands of them. There is credible reporting that authorities are cracking down on Muslim dress and beards as well. This is no way to manage a relatively small terrorist problem. Alienating normal citizens is a recipe for more terrorism, not less.
The PRC has raised alarm in the West over other issues such as its infamous 'nine-dash line' in the South China Sea (and concomitant build-up of reefs that can be used for military purposes) and its insistence that Taiwan is part of China and not a separate republic. To this we might want to add its counter terrorism strategy.
We in the West need to tell the PRC that its approach is counter-productive. We should support China in condemning real terrorist attacks by real terrorists that target innocent civilians. But at the same time we should tell the PRC that there are better ways to win 'hearts and minds' than interning whole populations. The offer to help create effective CVE (countering violent extremism) programs is made. It is time for China to choose wisely.
By Phil Gurski
Phil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. and Programme Director for the Security, Economics and Technology (SET) hub at the University of Ottawa's Professional Development Institute (PDI). Phil is a 32-year veteran of CSE and CSIS and the author of five books on terrorism.
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Want to keep your face looking young? People try various cosmetics and surgeries to look young, and an alternative and easy way is to do facial exercises or facial yoga that will keep your face muscles toned. It is said that there are over 50 muscles in the face, and regular exercising them will tone them, just like other muscles in the body. Exercising them will keep your facial muscles toned and improved blood circulation to the face, resulting in younger face, jaws, cheeks, and eyes. These exercises produce a natural facelift, reducing wrinkles and sagging skin. It will slow the aging process while giving you a bright complexion and glowing skin.
Do facial exercises help? Many people think that facial exercises and facial yoga are very helpful in skin toning. Since facial muscles are seldom used but are similar to other muscles in the body, they must be used regularly, otherwise they begin to sag. Such exercises improve blood circulation and bring oxygen to facial tissues, thereby making them glowing and healthy. That is why facial yoga is indeed a good idea.
Usually facial muscles are neglected during out workouts. Exercises of the face improve blood circulation, making jawbones and cheeks prominent and reducing the excess fat in the face. It is a way of getting rid of problems relating to double chin, sagging skin and wrinkles. I will describe here some easy facial exercises for men and women that can be done in just a few minutes every day.
Here are some simple face exercises that you can easily do at home with great benefits.
1. Smile: One of the simplest facial exercises is smiling. Make sure your smile is wide and generous, showing your teeth. Bring your face to smile and back to the starting point slowly, and do the smiling again, stopping at different stages of your smile. Do this exercise several times. You can also apply pressure to your smile by using fingers to resists the muscle movement and work the muscles in your face. Stop at various stages of your smile and hold each position for 10 seconds.
2. Puffing the Cheeks: Puff out your cheeks and shift the air in your mouth from one cheek to the other, 5 times. Then release air slowly. Repeat the exercise a few times.
3. Stick Your Tongue Out: Stick your tongue out as far as it will go, and hold this pose for 60 seconds. Repeat 3 times.
4. Look Up: Look up and make an expression of kissing. Hold the pose for about five seconds before coming back to normal. Repeat about ten times. Another variation that you can try is to stick out your tongue while looking up. This will strengthen the muscles in the neck.
5. Widen your eyes: This is another easy exercise. Open your eyes as wide as possible, pulling your skin back. You can use your hands to pull your skin, then release it slowly. This exercise is extremely helpful to reduce crow's feet, or lines around the eyes.
These are some simple exercises and they can be done in a few minutes every day. But you must do them regularly. Devote a few minutes daily for them and you will begin to see positive results in about two weeks. Next I will describe face toning.
Apart from the above, you can do some face toning exercises that will help you reduce wrinkles on your face. These exercises will keep your face toned and help you get a glowing face.
Forehead Exercises: There are several forehead toning exercises you can do. Try this for facial toning: Use your index finger to pull on your forehead and apply pressure on it. Move the eyebrows so that they strengthen the muscles in the forehead. Repeat about ten times. This exercise is very helpful in smoothening lines on your forehead and eye puffiness.
You can also do brow lifts. Use your fingers to raise your eyebrows. Gently push the skin down with your fingers, then push your brows up and down. Do this for about 10 times.
Facial exercises are of great help in toning your facial muscles. At the same time, take steps to protect your face from the sun, such as always using a sunscreen while going out. Eat green vegetables and avoid stress. Just a routine of 20 minutes every day will make your face look healthier. You will get the results after about two weeks.
I have described some easy exercises here. Do see a specialist for more facial exercises and facial yoga. Doing them will keep your face energized and healthy.


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Sandia LabNews | https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2017/10/13/sunny-side-up/
BY KRISTEN MEUB
New fractal-like concentrating solar power receivers are better at absorbing sunlight
Sandia engineers have developed new fractal-like, concentrating solar power receivers for small- to medium-scale use that are up to 20 percent more effective at absorbing sunlight than current technology.
The receivers were designed and studied as part of a Laboratory Directed Research and Development project and are also being applied to Sandia's work for the Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States (SERIIUS).
SERIIUS is a five-year project co-led by the Indian Institute of Science and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, sponsored by DOE and the government of India, that aims to develop and improve cost-effective solar technology for both countries by addressing the barriers and challenges of each market. Sandia has led the group's research in concentrating solar power, focusing on scalable systems.
While most concentrating solar power facilities throughout the world are large in size, Sandia engineer Cliff Ho says India is interested in developing 1 megawatt or smaller facilities that could provide the appropriate amount of power for a small village or community. Improving the efficiency of these smaller receiver designs is a key step toward making that goal a reality.
Trapping and absorbing reflected light
Sandia engineers developed and tested the new receivers at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility, studying their ability to withstand high temperatures and pressures while absorbing sunlight as heat that can be stored or transferred to a power cycle to generate electricity. At Sandia's facility, rows of mirror-like heliostats are aimed at a 200-foot-tall tower with a central receiver installed at the top. The heliostats reflect and concentrate the sunlight on the receiver, which absorbs the sunlight's heat and transfers it to gas flowing through the receiver's paneling. The gas can then be used in a conventional power plant cycle to produce electricity or used with a storage system to be saved for on-demand electricity production when the sun is not shining.
Brayton power cycle — The heat from Concetrating Solar Power would be used to heat the supercritical CO2 to desired temperatures (700 C), replacing the burning of fossil fuels.
Conventional receiver designs usually feature a flat panel of tubes or tubes arranged in a cylinder. These designs can absorb about 80 to 90 percent of the concentrated sunlight directed at them when considering reflections and heat loss, but Cliff says design improvements to make the receivers even more efficient are needed to help reduce the cost of concentrating solar power and improve scalability.
"When light is reflected off of a flat surface, it's gone," Cliff says. "On a flat receiver design, 5 percent or more of the concentrated sunlight reflects away. So we configured the panels of tubes in a radial or louvered pattern that traps the light at different scales. We wanted the light to reflect, and then reflect again toward the interior of the receiver and get absorbed, sort of like the walls of a sound-proof room."
Previous research on making solar receivers more efficient has focused on special coatings that are applied to the receiver. However, many of these coatings are susceptible to breaking down over time, which reduces both the ability of the receiver to absorb sunlight and the potential lifetime for the solar receiver itself while increasing costs due to reapplication and repair. Sandia's new fractal-like receiver designs have increased solar absorption efficiency without the need for special coatings.
Cliff and the research team developed and tested multiple prototype fractal-like receiver designs scaled in size to work at small- and medium-scale concentrating solar facilities and found the designs that work best for each application.
"India has different market drivers than the US," Cliff says. "The competition for renewable energy there is diesel generators, which create a lot of pollution and are extremely expensive. It gives us a little more flexibility to create a smaller concentrating solar power system that will work for their needs."
Testing first 3-D 'printed' solar receivers
The team pioneered the use of an additive manufacturing technique called powder-bed fusion to print their small-scale receiver designs from Iconel 718, a high-temperature nickel alloy. Cliff says this novel printing technique provided a cost-effective way to test multiple fractal designs at a small scale and could be used in the future to print entire sections of larger solar receivers.
"Additive manufacturing enabled us to generate complex geometries for the receiver tubes in a small-scale prototype," Cliff says. "Fabricating these complex geometries using traditional methods such as extrusion, casting, or welding would have been difficult."
The new designs work with conventional heat-transfer fluids for concentrating solar power, including molten salts and steam, but they can also use other media for heat transfer and storage.
Interest in US and India
Sandia is currently evaluating the receivers' performance with different gases by flowing air, carbon dioxide, and helium through the receiver tubes with the ultimate goal of pairing the new receiver designs with supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton cycles. The term "supercritical" describes the semi-liquid state of carbon dioxide when it is heated above its normal critical temperature and pressure, and a Brayton cycle functions by using the hot, pressurized sCO2 to spin a turbine, much like a jet engine, which spins a generator for electricity production.
Cliff says both the US and India are interested in pursuing supercritical carbon dioxide to develop the next generation of concentrating solar power technology because it can reach greater efficiencies with smaller footprints.
"The goal of concentrating solar power and SERIIUS is to develop efficient, cost-effective solar-driven electricity production with energy storage," Cliff says. "The use of a solarized supercritical carbon-dioxide Brayton cycle would increase efficiencies, reduce space requirements, and reduce costs associated with current large-scale concentrating solar power systems."
The smaller footprint and cost would help enable the possibility of small-scale (1–10 megawatt) supercritical carbon-dioxide Brayton cycle-based concentrating solar power plants, Cliff says, making concentrating solar power more competitive with other types of renewable energy.
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Carmangay Outreach School sent two teams to a five team basketball tournament February 25th in Arrowwood. The large majority of our Grade 7-10 students participated in a fantastic day of competition, sportsmanship, and meeting new friends. Carmangay II finished the tournament with a perfect record of 4 wins and 0 losses. Carmangay I completed the event with a record of 3 wins and 1 loss. Other schools that participated from throughout the Palliser Division were Arrowwoood, Milo, and Brant Christian. Our staff and students would like to extend a huge thank you to Mr. Neville and his staff for hosting us, and putting on such a wonderful event. Mrs. Harrington, Ms. Dejong, Ms. Rempel, and Mr. Jack were very proud of our students for their hard work during our basketball unit, and for the tremendous improvements in their skills and fundamentals that they made.


Disclosure: I was compensated a Keurig® Coffee Maker to review but all opinions are my own.
Whether you call your favorite warm drink hot chocolate or hot cocoa, December 13th is the day to make your favorite variety of this yummy drink this winter season. Happy Hot Chocolate Day (National Hot Cocoa Day) is the perfect time to try new warm drink recipes, but it's also perfect to find new ways to create your hot brew. I'm excited to pair with Keurig® to review their Keurig® K250 Coffee Maker brewing system.
I love coffee and tea and I always have a coffee maker ready for when guests come over! I was excited to see Keurig 2.0 Brewing Technology® can make hot chocolate, apple cider, and even my favorite teas! Take a look at how versatile the brewing system is and how you can celebrate Hot Chocolate Day too!
My daughter loves hot cocoa but I've never been a fan of the powder mixes as it seems like the powder never dissolves correctly. I either get the bubbles of mix at the top or I get the thick residue at the bottom of my cup. What I love up the Keurig® coffee maker is the K-cup pods that mix everything for you, so every cup comes out perfectly mixed, ready to drink.
This Hot Chocolate Day Enjoy your Favorite Hot Cocoa!
Whether you like yours with marshmallows, peppermint candies, or a shot of your favorite liqueur, celebrate this December 13th and the rest of the cold weather season with a Keurig® coffee maker. I loved being able to make hot cocoa for me and my daughter, and my hubby could have tea, and my in-laws could have apple cider and coffee. All in about 5 minutes!
Do you have a Keurig® coffee maker? Tell me what your favorite hot beverages are and how you will celebrate Hot Cocoa Day!
For more of our favorite drink recipes on Stagetecture, take a look at our archives.


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One of the guiding principles in the world of philanthropy is that people give to people, not to things – the people who move or inspire them in some way to take action to make the world a better place. Philadelphia philanthropists Robert HD '13 and Penny Fox HD '13, who last year had the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection at Drexel University's Westphal College of Media Arts & Design named after them in recognition of their significant unrestricted support of the University, are shining examples of this principle in action.
"We're big John Fry boosters," says Mr. Fox, speaking of his and his wife's support of Drexel's president. Mr. Fox, chairman and CEO of R.A.F. Industries, Inc., and Mrs. Fox, a trustee on several arts, culture and education boards in the Philadelphia area, have known President Fry for several years. They have been impressed and inspired by his accomplishments, and in particular, by his leadership of Drexel University.
Through their support of Drexel, Mr. and Mrs. Fox are helping the University not only provide increased access to the internationally recognized costume collection to Drexel's students, but also to the wider community. Their gift will help make it possible for the University to, among other things, provide a greater number of educational events focused on the collection – one of the oldest in the United States – which until recently was accessible only by private appointment.
Since its formation in the late 1890s, the mission of the historic costume collection, which has pieces dating as far back as the 1700s, has been to educate and inspire, while also providing a significant resource for an ever-expanding community of historians, scholars, artists and designers. Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Fox's incredible generosity, the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection will be able to continue to build on its mission for generations to come.