<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.3.4">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/feed/snippets.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-05T17:58:04+00:00</updated><id>https://ramvasuthevan.ca/feed/snippets.xml</id><title type="html">Ram’s Personal Website | Snippets</title><subtitle>Built by Ram Vasuthevan with ❤️ on the [shoulders of giants](/acknowledgements.html)</subtitle><entry><title type="html">US Election Vote Share by Race</title><link href="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/us-election-vote-share-by-race" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="US Election Vote Share by Race" /><published>2025-08-23T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-08-23T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/us-election-vote-share-by-race</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/us-election-vote-share-by-race"><![CDATA[<div class="image-container">
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        <p>US election vote share by race for the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections</p>

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<p>Racial polarization in the US presidential election vote share has decreased since 2016.</p>

<p>Democrats have lost voter share among Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters between the 2016 and 2024 presidential elections, but gained voter share among White voters.</p>

<p>Conversely, Trump has gained voter share among Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters between the 2016 and 2024 presidential elections.</p>

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    <img src="/assets/snippets/2025-08-23-us-election-vote-share-by-race/rep-chart.png" alt="US election vote share by race" />
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        <p>US election vote share by race for the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections</p>

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<p>Based on data from the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JczVvbrlxkLiYYiNPSv0TRlWsbvYEihkZrnH1kQXIH8/edit">Pew Research Center</a>:</p>

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th style="text-align: left">Race</th>
      <th style="text-align: left">2016_Dem</th>
      <th style="text-align: left">2016_Rep</th>
      <th style="text-align: right">2020_Dem</th>
      <th style="text-align: right">2020_Rep</th>
      <th style="text-align: right">2024_Dem</th>
      <th style="text-align: right">2024_Rep</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td style="text-align: left">White</td>
      <td style="text-align: left">39</td>
      <td style="text-align: left">54</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">43</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">55</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">43</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">55</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="text-align: left">Black</td>
      <td style="text-align: left">91</td>
      <td style="text-align: left">6</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">92</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">8</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">83</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">15</td>
    </tr>
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      <td style="text-align: left">Hispanic</td>
      <td style="text-align: left">66</td>
      <td style="text-align: left">28</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">61</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">36</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">51</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">48</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="text-align: left">Asian*</td>
      <td style="text-align: left">-</td>
      <td style="text-align: left">-</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">70</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">30</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">57</td>
      <td style="text-align: right">40</td>
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  </tbody>
</table>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="snippets" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[US election vote share by race for the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/assets/snippets/2025-08-23-us-election-vote-share-by-race/dem-chart.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/assets/snippets/2025-08-23-us-election-vote-share-by-race/dem-chart.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">U of T Law School Courses Related to Real Estate</title><link href="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/UofT-Real-Estate" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="U of T Law School Courses Related to Real Estate" /><published>2024-03-20T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-03-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/UofT-Real-Estate</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/UofT-Real-Estate"><![CDATA[<div class="image-container">
    <img src="/assets/snippets/UofT-Real-Estate/Flavellelaw.jpeg" alt="Flavelle House at the Faculty of Law" />
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        <p>Photo of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Toronto_Faculty_of_Law#Flavelle_House">Flavelle House</a> at the Faculty of Law by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flavellelaw.JPG">Chensiyuan/Wikipedia</a></p>

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<p>On the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240217124159/https://www.law.utoronto.ca/academic-programs/course-calendar">2023-2024 U of T Law School Course List</a>, there seems to be 3 course related to real esate:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.law.utoronto.ca/course/2023-2024/blueprints-buildings-legal-issues-in-construction-industry">From Blueprints to Buildings: Legal Issues in the Construction Industry (LAW306H1F)</a>
    <ul>
      <li>Instructor Michael Valo is the co-author of a chapter in “Review of Construction Law: Recent Developments” about Building Information Modeling (Toronto: Carswell, 2012), and of the chapter “Sustainable Construction” in “Modern Legal Landscape of Design Professional Practice” (Toronto: Carswell, 2023).</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://www.law.utoronto.ca/course/2023-2024/real-estate-law">Real Estate Law (LAW275H1F)</a>
    <ul>
      <li>Instructor David Carter is the Co-author of Real Estate Transaction 2nd Edition</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://www.law.utoronto.ca/course/2023-2024/community-planning-problems-in-urban-policy-and-land-use-regulation">Community Planning: Problems in Urban Policy and Land Use Regulation (LAW224H1S)</a>
    <ul>
      <li>Instructor Arnold Weinrib is the Editor-in-Chief of the Land Compensation Reports</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="snippets" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Photo of Flavelle House at the Faculty of Law by Chensiyuan/Wikipedia]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/assets/snippets/UofT-Real-Estate/Flavellelaw.jpeg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/assets/snippets/UofT-Real-Estate/Flavellelaw.jpeg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Large Collections of Free (as in Speech) Images</title><link href="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/Free-Images-Collections" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Large Collections of Free (as in Speech) Images" /><published>2024-03-19T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-03-19T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/Free-Images-Collections</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/Free-Images-Collections"><![CDATA[<div class="image-container">
    <img src="/assets/snippets/Free-Images-Collections/9924-f1244_it0099_cropped.jpeg" alt="Three locomotives in the station at [Old Union Station](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Union_Station_(1873))" />
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        <p>Taken in 1907 by freelance photographer William James (City of Toronto Archives, <a href="https://gencat.eloquent-systems.com/city-of-toronto-archives-m-permalink.html?key=48963">Fonds 1244, Item 99</a>)</p>

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<p>Here are large collections of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre">free (as in speech)</a> images:</p>
<ul>
  <li>The <a href="https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-35160611:18e551780cd:-7b83&amp;TemplateProcessID=6000_3355&amp;CMD_(SearchRequest)[12]=&amp;PromptID=&amp;ParamID=&amp;RequesterType=SearchTemplate&amp;browseData=1&amp;bCachable=1&amp;Keyword=0&amp;POI30_51522=119">City of Toronto Archives</a> has 275k images, a large number of which are free</li>
  <li>The Art Institute of Chicago API has <a href="https://www.artic.edu/terms#:~:text=certain%20images%20of%20works%20in%20the%20collection%20believed%20to%20be%20in%20the%20public%20domain%20or%20to%20which%20the%20museum%20otherwise%20waives%20any%20copyright%20it%20might%20have%20been%20made%20available%20by%20aic%20under%20the%20creative%20commons%20zero%20(cc0)%20license.">public domain</a> <a href="https://api.artic.edu/docs/#images">images</a>. See <a href="https://api.artic.edu/docs/#data-dumps">Data Dump</a></li>
  <li>Metropolitan Museum of Art has 375k photos under CC0 (Via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/#:~:text=Metropolitan%20Museum%20of,greater%20collaboration%20possible.">CC0</a>)</li>
  <li>The Art Institute of Chicago API follows the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), other places that might also have freely available images</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Editor’s Note: I initially intended <a href="/snippets">Snippets</a> for posts which were never updated. I don’t know if I’ll update this post if I find another large free image repository.</strong></p>

<p><strong>A <a href="https://github.com/RamVasuthevan/Personal-Website/pull/307">public digital garden</a> will be the correct spot for a post like this. Maybe <a href="/snippets">Snippets</a> can be a spot for pages to be initially planted and then if they are repeatedly updated and grow, they can he transplanted somewhere else.</strong></p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="snippets" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Taken in 1907 by freelance photographer William James (City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 99)]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/assets/snippets/Free-Images-Collections/Photo_of_Interchanged_by_Willem_de_Kooning.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/assets/snippets/Free-Images-Collections/Photo_of_Interchanged_by_Willem_de_Kooning.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Interchange (de Kooning) no longer on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago</title><link href="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/Interchange-Not-On-Loan" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Interchange (de Kooning) no longer on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago" /><published>2024-02-12T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-02-12T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/Interchange-No%20Longer-on-Loan</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/snippets/Interchange-Not-On-Loan"><![CDATA[<div class="image-container">
    <img src="/assets/snippets/Interchange-No Longer-on-Loan/Photo_of_Interchanged_by_Willem_de_Kooning.jpg" alt="Photo of Interchange by Willem de Kooning taken by Andrew Cho" />
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        <p>Photo of Interchange by Willem de Kooning taken by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_Interchanged_by_Willem_de_Kooning.jpg">Andrew Cho/Wikipedia</a></p>

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<p>As of 2024-02-08, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interchange_(de_Kooning)&amp;oldid=1189302823">Wikipedia page for Interchange (de Kooning)</a> stated:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Private collection of Kenneth C. Griffin. Currently loaned to and displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago</p>
</blockquote>

<p>But, the Art Institute of Chicago’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240210102154/https://www.artic.edu/collection?artist_ids=Willem%20de%20Kooning">website</a> does not contain Interchange.</p>

<p>I emailed the AIC asking if Interchange was still on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago; on 2024-02-09, they replied that it was not.</p>

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    <img src="/assets/snippets/Interchange-No Longer-on-Loan/Gmail-email-from-AIC.jpg" alt="Screenshot of an email thread stating that Interchange is no longer on loan to the AIC" />
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        <p>Screenshot of an email thread stating that Interchange is no longer on loan to the AIC</p>

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<p>After doing all of this, I realized Interchange no longer being on display at the AIC, was mentioned in <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/12/mega-billionaire-ken-griffin-has-moved-his-masterpieces-to-the-beach">Vanity Fair</a></p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="snippets" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Photo of Interchange by Willem de Kooning taken by Andrew Cho/Wikipedia]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/assets/snippets/Interchange-No%20Longer-on-Loan/Photo_of_Interchanged_by_Willem_de_Kooning.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://ramvasuthevan.ca/assets/snippets/Interchange-No%20Longer-on-Loan/Photo_of_Interchanged_by_Willem_de_Kooning.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry></feed>