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Q: Where to place interactive objects in JavaScript? I'm creating a web based application (i.e. JavaScript with jQuery and lots of SVG) where the user interacts with "objects" on the screen (think of DIVs that can be draged around, resized and connected by arraows - like a vector drawing programm or a graphical programming language).
As each "object" contains individual information but is allways belonging to a "class" of elements it's obvious that this application should be programmed by using an OOP approach.
But where do I store the "objects" best?

*

*Should I create a global structure ("registry") with all (JS native) objects and tell them "draw yourself on the DOM"?

*Or should I avoid such a structure and think of the (relevant) DOM nodes as my objects and attach the relevant data as .data() to them?

The first approach is very MVC - but I guess the attachment of all the event handlers will be non trivial.
The second approach will handle the events in a trivial way and it doesn't create a duplicate structure, but I guess the usual OO stuff (like methods) will be more complex.
What do you recomend? I think the answer will be JavaScript and SVG specific as "usual" programming languages don't have such a highly organized output "canvas".

A: In such circumstances in the past (I've hit this about 5 times) I always create OOP in JS (global "classes", non-global data structures as appropriate). Each class typically has a .g property that points to its graphical representation. (And before jQuery's .data I used expando properties on the DOM instances pointing back to the class instance, when event handlers or the like needed to look the other way.)
I too think of this as MVC, but of course it's easy to blur the lines (or hard to keep them separate) when you have a single JS interpreter that is storing your models, acting as controller, and also manipulating the view.
I don't find that adding event handlers is hard under this system: instantiating a new object (in code) is responsible for instantiating its representation in the view, and attaching its own event handlers that trigger instance-based callbacks. This code maps input-specific events (e.g. mousedown) into logical events based on state (e.g. selected). Other code registers to these logical events on the instances.

A: I would use JSON (as an object registry) and keep it all in your script block. You can then easily store and recover the data without parsing.

A: You would probably want to use JSON to define the "objects" you're dealing with.
e.g.
[{
    type: rectangle,
    coordinates: {x: 0, y: 0},
    size: {width: 100, height: 100}
},{
    type: arrow,
    start: {x: 150, y: 150},
    end: {x: 100, y: 100}
}]

This allows you the flexibility to draw the shapes on page load, update the state of the objects as you're manipulating them, and save the state to be loaded again later.
This sets you up to use the MVC pattern as you stated and then you can do feature detection to determine if you're gonna display this as Canvas, SVG, Flash, HTML, etc.

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Aston Martin Stories January 13
Aston Martin reportedly kills Rapide-E electric car program
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After officially launching the "production version" of its first electric car last year, Aston Martin has now reportedly killed its Rapide-E electric car program. expand full story
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Aston Martin launches its first all-electric car; Rapide E, James Bond' next car
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Aston Martin has officially launched the production version of its first all-electric car, the Rapide E, an electric sedan that will also become James Bond's first all-electric vehicle. expand full story
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James Bond's next car will be the all-electric Aston Martin Rapide E
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In the upcoming James Bond movie, Bond will swap out his V8 for the upcoming, limited-edition, all-electric Aston Martin Rapide E, according to a report in British tabloid The Sun.
The decision was apparently pushed for by the film's new director, Cory Joji Fukunaga, who is apparently quite the "tree-hugger."
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Aston Martin is going after Tesla buyers who want more luxury and track performance, says CEO
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Aston Martin confirms 'limited-production' plan for its first all-electric vehicle
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У таксономії співвідношення частот родів і видів описується ранговим розподілом. Він вважається характерним для систематики і отримав назву правила, або закону Вілліса. Однак аналогічні розподіли відомі не тільки в інших областях біології, але й у наукових дисциплінах, далеких від біології. У біології поза галуззю систематики рангові розподіли відомі в екології (Голиков, 1976), морфології (Корона, 1987), молекулярній біології (Apic et all., 2001; Kuznetsov, 2003). Спільним для зазначених випадків є те, що ці розподіли отримані при ранжируванні деяких аспектів різноманіття і стосуються співвідношення обсягів утворених класів.

Див. також
 Зоогеографія

Література
 Кафанов А. И., Суханов В. В. О зависимости между числом и объемом таксонов // Журн. общ. биол. — 1981. — Т. 42, № 3. — С. 345–350.
 Свиридов Л. В. Ключи в биологической систематике: теория и практика. — М.: Изд-во МГУ, 1994. — 224 с.

Ресурси Інтернету
 Поздняков А. А. Значение правила Виллиса для таксономии // Журн. общ. биол. — 2005. — Т. 66, № 4. — С. 326–335.

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The decentralized and unregulated nature of Bitcoin means that without the keys to access his son's digital wallet, hosted by blockchain.info, Moody has no way of accessing any funds. And it's almost impossible to find out whether a person is sitting on peanuts or a fortune, as wallets can contain an unlimited number of unique addresses, or identifiers, with Bitcoins assigned to each. Without knowing every address, it's not possible to locate every piece of currency.
Blockchain.info did not respond to requests for comment on this story.
Moody says entrepreneurial young people, unfamiliar with emerging digital currencies, need to be better educated about the steps needed to be taken to ensure their investments are properly secured, both for themselves and for future heirs.
In the 1990s your digital legacy that might have just meant email accounts, but today extends to passwords, encrypted device backups, photo archives, personal data held by search engines, advertisers and social networks — and now cryptocurrencies.
Issues around inheritance include initial coin offerings, the process of raising money from investors by offering them virtual "tokens" instead of shares. In 2017, about US$3.5 billion was raised worldwide from ICOs, according to data compiled by CoinDesk.
The relatively nascent practice of holding an ICO means legislation is yet to catch up, meaning questions around what happens to a person's rightful tokens when they die are numerous. But following a number of lawsuits, U.S. lawmakers will soon decide whether a token acquired from an ICO will be considered no different to a share bought through an IPO.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said that blockchain technology is "quite promising" but that "the value of Bitcoin oscillates wildly. Of all things, I would not call Bitcoin a currency for this reason." He said the ECB remains "very interested" in the blockchain, which underpins cryptocurrencies.
Some firms are beginning to make provisions. CoinBase is a custodial service, which holds a customer's private keys — the kind that if lost would otherwise render any Bitcoins permanently inaccessible — and as such is able to provide some level of security in the event of a person's death. The company asks for documents such as a death certificate and will in order to transfer the assets.
It's not a solution that some enthusiasts will be keen to use, as the idea of someone else being in custody of Bitcoins is antithetical to decentralized, user-controlled ethos that sparked an interest in the anonymous currency in the first place.
CoinBase declined to comment for this story.
The safekeeping of a private key remains the bottleneck regarding the inheritance of Bitcoins. The startup Ledger SAS, which in January raised 61 million euros (US$75 million) from investors makes electronic Bitcoin wallets. These use USB dongles to store passwords for accessing and spending cryptocurrency. Of course, if your heirs can't find the dongle or don't recognize it for what it is, the problem remains.


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The former President of Nigeria at the CTBTO
The former President of Nigeria, Oluṣẹgun Mathew Okikiọla Arẹmu Ọbasanjọ, visited the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) on 27 March 2014, where he met with Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo.
Zerbo thanked Ọbasanjọ for his country's support for the work of the organization, noting that the signature and ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) by Nigeria took place during President Ọbasanjọ term.
Zerbo also highlighted the contribution of Ambassador Abdulkadir Bin Rimdap of Nigeria, who repeatedly chaired the Member States' decision-making bodies. He further expressed his appreciation for the technical contribution of experts from Nigeria to building and maintaining the CTBT verification regime. In this regard, he also emphasised the linkage between the CTBT and the African Nuclear Free Zone (Pelindaba Treaty) and the importance of both instruments for African security.
Ọbasanjọ stated that all African States should sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) without delay. He offered to address the issue personally with active and former African heads of state.
Nigeria signed the CTBT in 2000 and ratified in 2001, see country profile. The instrument of ratification carries Ọbasanjọ's signature.


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There... another proof of nature's perfection! How absolutely amazing this photo is. Not just because it is stunningly beautiful but also because you managed the miracle of combining two very frail things of utter elegance: water drops and what they reflect and the art of the traditional Murano glas making. This is mille fleures, indeed! Plus the pink is striking. It is what pop art never managed to become.
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What is the evidence supporting the nebula theory of Solar System formation? (Intermediate)
The standard model for formation of the Solar System is that it formed from a giant interstellar cloud. What is the evidence to support this theory?
Perhaps the most convincing line of evidence supporting this theory are observations of the same process currently happening elsewhere in our Galaxy. It would be strange if our Solar System formed in a different way to every other system in the Galaxy, since physics is supposed to work the same way everywhere. We see stars forming in the depths of giant clouds of gas and dust, and we even see young stars with disks of debris around them, which look just like the debris disk we think the planets formed from.
Other lines of evidence come from simulations of the process. Many astronomers spend most of their time constructing detailed simulations of physical processes in computers. You can put into the simulation details of how the physics should happen and then run it to see what the result is. Current simulations of the formation of a solar system from a cloud of gas work quite well.
Observations of the solar system itself support the theory too. In fact it was these observations which lead to the proposal of the theory in the first place.
1. All the planets orbit the Sun in the same direction. Most of their moons also orbit in that direction, and the planets (and the Sun) rotate in the same direction. This would be expected if they all formed from a disk of debris around the proto-Sun.
2. The planets also have the right characteristics to have formed from a disk of mainly hydrogen around a young, hot Sun. Those planets near the Sun have very little hydrogen in them as the disk would have been too hot for it to condense when they formed. Planets further out are mostly hydrogen, (since that was what was mostly in the disk), and are much more massive because there was so much more material they could be made from.
Finally in this model the Sun is mostly composed of hydrogen. This can also be tested. Observations of the Sun agree incredibly well with what would be expected of a giant ball of mostly hydrogen generating heat by nuclear fusion in the core. The composition can also be measured using helioseismology (the study of 'Sunquakes') and agrees with the theory.
If I have missed any important line of evidence, my apologies, and please let me know.
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In the latest round of stepped-up inspections of mines with a history of safety and health violations and other issues, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) in November issued 250 citations and other actions at 22 mines.
The new special impact inspections began after the April coal mine explosion at the Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch (W.Va.) mine that killed 29 miners.
The mines set for tougher inspections include those with a poor history of complying with previous orders to correct unsafe conditions, or that have specific concerns, such as high numbers of violations or closure orders.
MSHA conducted the November inspections at 12 coal mines, issuing 111 citations for safety violations and 11 orders for immediate correction. At 10 metal/non-metal mines, MSHA inspectors issued 113 citations and 11 orders for immediate action.
This is the season of gift giving and, for millions of us, the present we really need is a job.
We know that American families need jobs. But American businesses also need jobs—rather, they need customers with jobs. When millions of unemployed workers and their families have little money to spend, businesses, big and small, have few customers. Production stalls, hiring is frozen and investments are put on hold. Firms cannot thrive and the economy will not return to health until people can afford to buy the things they need.
The nation also needs jobs—it needs people with jobs who are paying their income taxes, sales taxes and property taxes. Tax revenues have fallen and government budget deficits have exploded because people are not working. To get deficits under control, we must put people back to work, back to earning money and back to paying taxes. Job creation must be our nation's highest priority.
The nation's official jobless rate is 9.8 percent, or nearly one in 10 workers. But the official count only includes people who are actively looking for work. Someone who has given up and stopped looking is not counted. Older workers who have declared themselves "retired" when they had planned to continue working are not counted. Another 9 million people are working part-time when they want full-time work. All together, more than 28 million people, or more than one in six potential workers, are either unemployed or under-employed. This more comprehensive, "real" count is nearly twice the official one.
A federal program to create millions of needed jobs will be costly. But in this very wealthy nation, the money could be found if jobs were our highest priority. Congress could have ended the Bush tax cuts for the 2 percent of taxpayers with the highest incomes, or raised the estate tax to the level it was in previous years. But a Congress that chooses instead to extend these tax breaks for the wealthy cannot honestly claim there is no money for jobs. There is money. But it is funding tax breaks for the rich, not jobs for the unemployed.
There are other potential sources of money for jobs, ways to raise money that also strengthen the economy and close tax loopholes. We could put a tax on financial transactions that would bring in money while also reducing speculation and strengthening the financial system. We could tax capital gains (money made from selling stock and other investments) at the same rate as we tax wages and salaries. We could tax hedge fund managers at least at the same rate as we tax their secretaries.
Working people have a clear choice. We can either beg Santa for jobs (and many of us have already tried that one) or we can come together and demand that our elected officials do what's right for working families, businesses and our nation: Create jobs.
About The Author: Edith Rasell is on the national staff of the United Church of Christ serving as Minister for Economic Justice in Justice and Witness Ministries. She works with UCC congregations around the country as well as national and international organizations to bring greater economic justice to people in the U.S. and around the world, especially the poor and marginalized. Read more about Edith's work on the UCC Economic Justice home page.
A new global report by the International Labour Office (ILO) provides the latest evidence that failing to get more money into the hands of working people undermines economic recovery. The report shows that throughout 177 countries where data was collected, the growth in real average monthly wages declined from 2.8 percent before the crisis in 2007, to 1.5 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively, in 2008 and 2009.
From a positive frame of view, the report also suggests the economic crisis could provide an opportunity to improve wages in developing countries. One way to do this is through the power of unions.
ILO's report found that low pay is much less prevalent in countries with higher levels of union membership.
Wages are better aligned with productivity in countries where collective bargaining covers more than 30 per cent of employees, and minimum wages reduce inequality in the bottom half of the wage distribution.
"Unions play a vital role in linking wages to productivity growth, so higher union density would help to reduce the incidence of low pay," explained Erin Weir, a senior economist at the International Trade Union Confederation.
Download the global report here.
Progressives know government can be a powerful force for good in people's lives. So it's particularly devastating when the people charged with upholding the public trust — local officials with the potential to improve the lives of their constituents — instead betray the public. The year's most notorious case of municipal corruption occurred in the town of Bell, California, a working-class community outside of Los Angeles. The city's highest ranking officials secretly paid themselves exorbitant salaries and benefits, misappropriated city funds, and gave themselves illicit low-interest loans, according to criminal allegations and reports by the Los Angeles Times. To add insult to injury, the Bell case provided the Right with a pretext to attack the wages and benefits of rank-and-file public workers, suggesting that teachers and sanitation workers (who wouldn't see Bell-style compensation if they worked for a century) were similarly compromised. For destroying public trust and providing yet another revolting example of people at the top abusing their power, the corrupt practices of Bell officials rings out as one of the worst policies of 2010.
It might be enough make Ebenezer Scrooge squirm. In New York City the homeless population has grown to 36,600, up from 33,600 five years ago. At the same time the, city has cut services for the homeless and plans to further reduce funding for the Department of Homeless Services by $19 million over the next 18 months. But when the city announced its plan to charge working homeless families rent for sleeping in city shelters the public outcry was instantaneous. City officials insisted the program was an effort to instill greater responsibility in homeless families. But as one homeless advocate pointed out, "They are taking money… that could otherwise be used to help themselves get out of the shelter system. We're dealing with the poorest people, the people who are the most in need, and we're asking them to pay for a shelter of last resort." Under intense pressure, the city has since changed its stance. Working homeless families are now encouraged to put part of their income into savings. But for attempting to place an even more onerous burden on the poorest of the working poor, New York City's plan to charge homeless families rent finds a home among the worst policies of 2010.
Who Turned Out the Lights in Colorado Springs?
Smacked by the recession, many cities faced revenue shortfalls and tough budget choices in 2010. But few towns resorted the type of draconian service cutbacks seen in Colorado Springs, where residents voted against a property tax increase and the town instead opted to turn off streetlights (although residents who can afford to could choose to reactive their lights); shrink the police department any rely on private taxicabs to help with law enforcement; and leave neighborhood parks to wither (people with time and resources can volunteer to maintain their own local green spaces). "We did have a transit system," the Vice-Mayor told NPR. "That's gone almost completely now." Many commentators denounced Colorado Springs as an object lesson in the consequences of anti-tax extremism, but the city's small-government stance hides an inconvenient truth: a major source of Colorado Springs' economic strength is its reliance on the military and other state and federal public employment to anchor the local labor market. For gutting public services in accordance with a narrow, me-first ideology, Colorado Springs' cuts join our list of the worst policies of 2010.
In January, Kris Kobach will become Kansas' new Secretary of State, but his destructive influence already extends far beyond the borders of the Sunflower State. For the last several years, Kobach has made a cottage industry of advancing harsh city and state anti-immigrant statutes characterized by high municipal costs, significant damage to the local economy, and tremendous potential for discrimination against anyone who "looks" like they might be an unauthorized immigrant. This year, a Kobach-written ordinance was enacted in the town of Fremont, Nebraska, which banned hiring or renting to unauthorized immigrants. Although implementation has been blocked by a lawsuit, the ordinance's divisive impact is already being felt. Many of the city's long-time officials are resigning or retiring, noting that the immigration fight "wears you down." Taxpayers also feel the bite: the town raised property taxes in anticipation of an expensive legal battle. For exemplifying what one local attorney called "the power of fear" as it faced an increase in (predominantly legal) Latino residents, Fremont's anti-immigrant ordinance is one of the worst of 2010.
It's no secret that mega-retailer Wal-Mart desperately wants to get a foothold in urban markets. Similarly well-known is Wal-Mart's dismal record on workers' rights and its devastating impact on small businesses. New Wal-Mart stores have been shown to destroy nearly as many jobs as they create, push other stores out of business, and to drive down wages for workers throughout the entire community. In Chicago, where the retail chain has ambitions to open "several dozen" stores, Wal-Mart's strategy included buying off community leaders with charitable donations and splitting union solidarity by pitting construction unions versus retail unions. But most shamefully, Wal-Mart reneged on an agreement it had made with the unions and city leaders that helped secure City Council approval of its second Chicago store. City Aldermen and labor leaders thought they had an unwritten agreement with Wal-Mart to pay workers 50 cents above minimum wage and to give workers a minimum 40 cent raise after the first year. They thought wrong. The same day that the store was approved, Wal-Mart announced that there was, in fact, no wage deal. To Wal-Mart, for breaking a promise, and to the political leaders who failed to get a binding deal, the approval of Wal-Mart in Chicago is one of this year's worst city policies.
John Petro contributed to this article.
Most workers have seen notices about their right to a minimum wage or safe workplace posted in the company break room or elsewhere on the job. Employers are required to post those notices by federal law.
But there is no requirement for employers to post any sort of notice about workers' rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), including the right to form a union. Now, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is proposing a rule that would require employers to post such notices in the workplace.
Every working person in America deserves to know his or her rights… [The rule]…ensures that workers' rights are effectively communicated in the workplace. It is necessary in the face of widespread misunderstanding about the law and many workers' justified fear of exercising their rights under it.
many employees protected by the NLRA are unaware of their rights under the statute. The intended effects of this action are to increase knowledge of the NLRA among employees, to better enable the exercise of rights under the statute, and to promote statutory compliance by employers and unions.
the right to act together to improve wages and working conditions, to form, join and assist a union, to bargain collectively with their employer, and to choose not to do any of these activities. It provides examples of unlawful employer and union conduct and instructs employees how to contact the NLRB with questions or complaints.
When workers know their rights, they can make the best decisions for themselves and their families.
Click here for the proposed rule and here for a fact sheet and more information about the proposed rule from the NLRB.
recession-based uncertainty has encouraged many business leaders to pursue self-serving behaviors at the expense of those that are considered mutually beneficial or supportive of organizational goals.
75% more likely to pursue other job opportunities.
Hochwarter's findings tell me that workplace qualities that some leaders might consider as soft (or at least far down on the totem pole of what they need to worry about day to day), such as trust, respect, and fairness, are not just "nice to do's" – they have a real impact on product/service delivery and quality, and company spending on recruiting and retraining.
This is one of the reasons that Winning Workplaces revised our Top Small Company Workplaces award application for 2011 to take a more in-depth look at how things like rewards/recognition and employee leadership development strategies impact business results. Year after year of our small workplace award program, we see that happier, more highly engaged employees lead to better outcomes, while the opposite lead to a path of lower profitability and competitiveness in the marketplace.
This post is cross-posted on the Winning Workplaces Blog.
About The Author: Mark Harbeke is Director of Content Development for Winning Workplace. He helps write and edit Winning Workplaces' e-newsletter, IDEAS, and provides graphic design and marketing support. Mark holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Drake University.
Politifact, the fact-checking web site of the St. Petersburg Times, announced the biggest lie of 2010. But it doesn't stop there, the NYTimes, FactCheck.org and a number of other experts agree with Politifact's analysis.
The lie? That the government will be taking over health care.
I'll leave it to Politifact to debate the "why." I'm more interested in the "how" and what we can learn from this that will help us to survive today's challenging workplace.
Repetition was probably the one factor that pushed this phrase to the top of the list. In 2010 alone, "government takeover" was mentioned 28 times in the Washington Post, 77 times in Politico and 79 times on CNN. Add to this countless times on a variety of congressional and activist web sites.
Beyond your beliefs about health care, and the politics surrounding, is one simple fact, views can be shaped by a message being said over, and over, and over again.
Which reminds me of a previous blog that I wrote about Google. Remember, Google is not an arbiter of what's true or not true, it's fancy algorithms only can tell you what's popular.
If you've ever locked horns with a nemesis at work, you'll learn this lesson painfully. When someone has a lot of anger and time, they can do a huge amount of mischief at work by simply repeating something over and over again.
Which is why when someone starts spreading a mistruth about you at work, you need to respond to it. Because what could seem outrageous to everyone today, can become a "health care takeover" juggernaut in just a matter of days.
Listen to the grapevine. And take out your pencil to try to erase the parts that aren't true, while you still can.
I'd hope that most of you don't take this as a strategy to get ahead, but rather as insight about the dynamics of how negative messages can resonate. And more importantly, how their damage can be limited.
The experts agree: parental involvement has strong positive effects on students' achievement in school. When parents are engaged with their child's education, attendance improves, grades and test scores go up, and graduation rates rise. But how can school districts involve parents who don't speak English? In Denver, where three in five students are Latino and many have parents with poor English skills, the school system has taken to the radio waves. Through an hour-long weekly program called "Educa" (educate) the Denver Public Schools connect with Spanish-speaking parents about school policies, events, and issues in public education. Parents can also call in with questions about their children's school and the education system. The first-of-its-kind program broadcasts on three popular Spanish-language radio stations and has more than doubled its audience — to 54,200 unique listeners — over just a few months. For engaging immigrant parents in a format that speaks to them, the Denver schools' multicultural outreach efforts come in loud in clear on our list of the best policies of 2010.
Eager for new development and jobs, cities commonly give developers multi-million dollar tax breaks to sweeten the pot and to get shovels in the ground. But when subsidies are given to projects that create low-wage jobs that keep families in poverty, taxpayers get the short end of the stick. Workers making poverty-level wages at publicly subsidized developments must still rely on public assistance like food stamps, Medicaid, or rental assistance. The result is economic dependence more than economic development. To make sure that taxpayer investments would pay off for city residents, Pittsburgh passed a common-sense piece of legislation: if a developer wanted tax breaks for a new development, workers in the new taxpayer-subsidized hotels, supermarkets, or office buildings must be paid the industry-standard prevailing wage. In an affirmation of the law's successful implementation in Pittsburgh, the surrounding Allegheny County quickly adopted a similar law. For ensuring that public tax dollars create good jobs with decent wages, Pittsburgh's prevailing wage law earns a spot on our list of 2010's best public policies.
Treating young offenders like hardened criminals makes no sense — sending a kid in trouble to a juvenile prison greatly increases that young person's chance of becoming an adult offender. Detaining kids also costs more money than community-based programs, which have a much better track record of preventing future criminality. Luckily, New York City is moving to eliminate unnecessary detention for youthful offenders, many of whom would otherwise be locked up while simply awaiting trial. The city is putting more kids into effective community-based alternatives to detention and reserving secure detention for only the most violent youthful offenders. New assessment tools have been developed to determine which youth should be sent to secure detention and which would be better served in the community. The bottom line is that secure detention for youth is now seen as the option of last resort, rather than the default option. For doing what's best for youth, the community, and the taxpayer, New York City's juvenile justice reforms are among this year's best public policies.
n Austin, TX, whose frustrating traffic congestion provided the backdrop for the movie "Office Space," drivers waste an average of one and a half days stuck in traffic every year. Some business leaders pushed for a conventional response to congestion: wider roads and more highways. But the city opted to go down a different path. Recognizing that they could never build enough highways to eliminate traffic congestion, lawmakers instead put a $90 million bond issue on the ballot to improve Austin's existing streets and make them more hospitable to pedestrians and bicycles. According to blogger Austin Contrarian, "Most of Austin's roads outside of the central core were laid when the city was more rural than urban. no sidewalks, no bicycle lanes, no sewers, no street trees. But once rural roads now cut through major population centers." Austin voters approved the bonds on November 2nd. For affirming that transportation investments must include more than just new highway miles, Austin's bond walks straight onto our list of the best policies of 2010.
It's the story of the decade: Ameriquest, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and other banks raked in record profits speculating on mortgages, pushing more and riskier home loans onto borrowers who clearly never had the means to pay them back. Then the house of cards collapsed. Foreclosure rates soared and cities were left to pick up the pieces. Arson, property deterioration, and crime in neighborhoods devastated by foreclosure imposed steep costs on municipalities just as the recession decimated their tax base. So some cities decided to fight back. The 2010 documentary "Cleveland vs. Wall Street" tells the story of one such fight, as the city of Cleveland sued more than twenty major banks for setting off a chain of events with negative consequences "entirely foreseeable by Wall Street." When a federal appeals court rejected the case earlier this year, Cleveland announced it would continue its fight to the Supreme Court. For striving to hold Wall Street accountable for the devastation it wreaked in its neighborhoods, Cleveland's suit wins a place on our best policy of 2010 list.
"We Can't Hire You. You're Overqualified!"
One of my favorite cartoon characters is The Wizard of Id. A few years ago I read one of the Wizard's cartoon strips and it made such a profound impression I cut it out and saved it. Darn! I have misplaced it over the years. However, I can remember the script almost word for word verbatim.
WOW. The wisdom from the Wizard is awesome. Let's dig a little deeper into this issue. Almost everyone can relate to the story. After having an interview, time after time, the candidate is told he/she is overqualified.
When you start to think about this carefully, there is absolutely no intelligence behind the decision to only hire "qualified" people. Why shouldn't every corporation hire talent that is extraordinarily qualified for a position? And in fact, the candidate may possess qualifications way beyond what are necessary.
I have done extensive research on this subject, having conducted thousands of salary negotiations on behalf of my clients over the past 18 years. I have also interviewed countless HR managers, department supervisors and senior executives on this subject.
I have come to the conclusion that the overwhelming real reason is direct supervisors feel intimidated by having staff that may be superior in their talent then that supervisor. The supervisors feel threatened by talented, overqualified, staff persons. They think that the talented persons may make the supervisors look bad, or, may, in fact, cause the supervisors to be fired and take over their jobs. A frightening thought for the supervisors.
Therefore, corporations have policies that, perhaps unconsciously, weed out exceptional talent, hiring only the "qualified" person.
Progressive organizations, and I might add, the most successful organizations, hire the best talent possible. They recognize that the "overqualified" person can probably bring motivation, ideas, efficiencies, wisdom, maturity and competence that is priceless. It is a value proposition that an organization should embrace.
Let's look at some of the "objections" to hiring overqualified people, as shallow as those objections may be.
If a person is overqualified, perhaps, because of the economy, they are willing to work at a lower compensation or job level then they have been accustomed to. Maybe they will only stay for three to six months. But in that period of time they will probably bring more value to the company than the qualified person would bring in three to six years. I would personally take that overqualified person in a heart beat.
Or perhaps the overqualified person has had a great career and has reached a decision that they want to "slow down" a little bit. Maybe they don't want to travel as much and would welcome the opportunity to have regular hours…even spend evenings and weekends with the kids….or grandkids.
Maybe a young college graduate would be perfect for a bank teller job. In today's tough economy, they haven't been able to find another job. Yep, he/she is overqualified for the bank teller position. But that person would probably bring an energy, enthusiasm, and intelligence to the job that would be assets to the bank. And that person could potentially be the future leadership for that bank.
Another example might be the senior executive who cannot find another high level opportunity because of the lack of top positions. So they apply for a job as a regional manager or department head. Time after time they are turned down because they are overqualified. In my humble opinion, they should be hired immediately. The value proposition they could bring to the company in terms of innovation, efficiencies, expertise and maturity might be worth hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars in new revenue, productivity, or cost savings.
Further, I just read a post on a blog by Steven Burningham, a financial services leader. He presents another outstanding perspective on hiring overqualified people.
So what about that intimidated supervisor?
The answer is simple, but the solution can be somewhat more difficult to achieve. A visionary organization should implement training programs to teach supervisors how to manage talented and overqualified executives. They should focus on how to leverage that talent as best as they possibly can. Even if the talent leaves after several months, the company should do everything possible to benefit from their expertise. Perhaps the talented people can be transferred to other positions at higher levels as opportunities present themselves.
So I would like to challenge hiring executives to examine their hiring practices. Do you want an organization that is filled with "Dilbert" clones, or are you willing to seek out exceptional talent that is probably overqualified, but that can invigorate an organization and drive accelerated growth? The answer should be simple, but the majority will take the path of least resistance.
Seek out the best and the brightest. Challenge conventional thinking. Today's tough economy requires that you do so. Don't let talent end up at the competitor's doorstep. Forward thinking, progressive organizations will be the winners.
This article was originally posted on Corporate Warriors.
About The Author: Don Straits founded Corporate Warriors more than 18 years ago, and has dedicated his career to helping people develop strategies to support their careers. If you would like to contact Don for coaching or seminar work, please do so at don@corporatewarriors.com. You can also find his website here.


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BT Legal's transformation
by Chris Fowler
General Counsel UK Commercial
at BT
Chris Fowler, General Counsel UK Commercial of BT Legal, speaks about transforming BT Legal's approach to delivering legal services.
At BT our business has had to address the same challenges and exploit the opportunities that the legal industry as a whole is grappling with today, such as:
The commoditisation of traditional revenue streams.
The movement away from variable usage-based pricing to fixed output-based pricing.
New technology and the ability to exploit data.
Lower barriers to entry, leading to new entrants that don't have the cost base of established providers.
BT business has had to take a fundamental look at itself and challenge established norms. In the same way, BT Legal has also had to do likewise.
The transformation journey
In undergoing this transformation process, we had to be clear about our purpose from the very beginning, which is "to enable and protect value for BT". To achieve this, we needed to give ourselves space to design some core principles to help us stay on the right path. We took a good look at our core and non-core competencies, skills, priorities, career development opportunities, use of third parties and technology utilisation, and made some interesting discoveries.
As BT's broader business was downsizing, we realised that our team was, in many instances, doing tasks that had previously been done by others in the BT business, executing lower level repeatable tasks or were spending a disproportionate time on drafting bespoke documents and were paying external advisers on a traditional hourly basis to manage overflows.
What did we do differently?
When presented with these facts, we addressed the need for a transformation through structural change; our approach to external resources; and management of change.
With the support and agreement of our internal clients, we prioritised customer-facing activities at the expense of high-volume document churn. We adopted a shared services model in many of our core delivery functions and encouraged our lawyers to think more about "what" they did as opposed to "who" they did it for.
We brought our transactional lawyers together under central management and created playbooks to drive a consistent way of working, and facilitated greater collaboration and knowledge sharing.
We established a front-door system to ensure that all requests from the BT business for legal support could be independently triaged so that we could prioritise complex work and route this to BT Legal and route low complexity/high volume drafting tasks to our LPOs (legal process outsourcers) to manage. We also moved some of the resource from our headquarters in London and located key individuals in high growth markets, such as the US and Asia, to be closer to BT's customers.
We also triaged the work we sent out to our external advisors, expanding the range of service providers we used, from LPOs, to new providers (such as Axiom, Halebury, Obelisk and NewGalexy), in addition to traditional law firms. I wouldn't underestimate the time and mind-set shift required to implement this approach. We have had to invest significant time in playbooks, audit processes, complexity definitions and service levels that we could never have anticipated at the outset. But this investment pays back in the end as service providers are then able to be more productive; they spend less time referring matters back to BT Legal for guidance and BT Legal isn't bogged down with repeat queries.
From an operational perspective, technology has been key to the successful implementation of these initiatives. For example, we are currently using our sharepoint technology to automate governance approvals on transactions (through pre-defined workflows) whereas previously it was done through exchange of emails and manual production of word templates.
This now enables us to obtain approvals within minutes instead of days, and makes us more agile to do business with. This has only been possible because we invested time in collecting transaction data which ensured that governance was only introduced into the system where it added value. We did this by analysing the historical data on previous approvals, rather than taking a subjective approach based on assumptions.
Another key factor is reporting. We have had to move away from narrative based reports to KPIs (key performance indicators), such as the percentage of work requests being taken out by the front-door, the hours our internal team is recording on those things that matter to us (spending time on customer activities) and the number and complexity of matters they are working on.
We have had to become leaner with a sharper operational focus; moving away from a hero culture to building a sustainable business. We focussed on making sure that we can quickly identify and resource those areas that are running hot.
We are spending more time on performance management to ensure that BT Legal has the necessary skills to successfully deal with and influence external parties. As management structures become flatter, we look for ways to retain and grow key staff by introducing a culture of continuous improvement, and giving our people meaningful jobs with a degree of autonomy.
And the journey continues…
In a world where the telecoms industry is undergoing constant change, cost transformation remains a key priority. These changes have enabled BT Legal to deliver more with fewer people; and the legal team is staffed with people who are more highly skilled and tightly focused on the top priorities for BT.
If we hadn't transformed ourselves, it is likely that change could have been imposed on us, so we have managed to control our own destiny and make a virtue out of a necessity. Our annual commercial spend in the UK is 75% lower than it was in 2010 because we no longer use traditional law firms for overflow work. The front-door approach, which we use to manage demand, has become more automated and now refers 68% of all work requests (as opposed to 30% at launch) to our third party suppliers, allowing us to focus BT Legal on matters that are really important to BT and its customers.
The savings we have made on the commercial side have enabled us to invest in growth areas such as data protection, Asia, compliance, anti-corruption and bribery, and human rights, all of which are higher on the risk landscape than previously.
The transformation process is a continuous improvement journey; we are still actively looking at the data we are collecting to identify the bottlenecks in our business and cycle times, and are proactively suggesting improvements to drive business benefit, such as tackling our customer terms' negotiating process. But that's another story.
The full version of this article will be published on practicallaw.com in November 2015 as part of The Inside View series.
BT Chris Fowler
Related topics: Legal department management
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Sorry, I can't, it's Football Season.
I get that I sound crazy.
Really. When people suggest we go to the Oyster Festival and I say, "Sure, the Redskins play at 8:30 that night and the Panthers are off."
Or when people ask about a birthday party and I say, "No, that's NC State weekend. We'll be at Clemson."
I know when I say, "Yeah, we got lucky," when talking about the win, grouping myself with the team that took the field, as if I were one of them, I sound crazy.
Seeing myself as part of something bigger, Redskins Nation, Clemson World, the Panthers faithful, could be noble.
Or it could just be fucking crazy.
Who plans their schedule around football? (Friends don't let friends get married during football season.)
Who tells stories with the time marker whichever game had most recently been played, eschewing days, dates, and years for the milestones of football? (We ran that ½ marathon the first time Pittsburgh played at Death Valley. Grandma's funeral was in 2015 because Clemson played at Syracuse that year.)
I get that it's crazy. And if I didn't get it, the people around me during non-football events would let me know.
Last weekend we went to Hollie's first USS swim meet. USS is the round-year swimming league governed by the United States Swimming Association. It's the big leagues for rec swimming in contrast with summer league and YMCA lessons. The meet fell on a Clemson bye week. Score.
Navy played at 3:30 and Hollie's race was over by 2:30 so we left the meet and went to the bar. Of course we did. It's football season and that's what we do.
When outlining the plan for the other swim team moms, I said, "Oh, we're only here for her race and then we're leaving to watch the Navy game." I must have said it 100 times. I felt like I was on repeat. No one had any doubt that's where we were going as soon as Hollie got out of the water.
So, yeah, I sound crazy.
Except, maybe, to other football people. To other people who know football the way I do. The way it connects me to my dad in Philadelphia while we text frantically about Navy's punts, passes, and throws. How it connects me to Tami, Court, and Jilly on our group text throughout the Clemson game. How it connects me to Kristen in Virginia while we lament how bad the NFC East really is.
Football doesn't just make me part of something bigger. It makes me part of a family. A broken, dramatic, sometimes hopeful and sometimes irate family, but a family nonetheless.
There's the onsite Clemson tailgate family, strangers in a parking lot except for those seven times a year. The Death Valley family cheering to 111 decibels of "do something right for fuck's sake!" (Commonly heard as "Let's go, Tigers!") And the actual blood-relatives family who come to use my Papa's season tickets every game.
There's the bigger ACC family and the pride we feel in those conference-promoting commercials. The college fandom family that tunes in for every second of Game Day and cheers or boos Corso's pick.
There's the even bigger NFL fandom and the 24-hour, 7-day-a-week NFL Network sport-and-athlete worship machine. The jerseys and the terrible towels and the face painters and the fantasy league players.
So, yeah, it's something bigger. It's a tribe.
And it makes me sound crazy, I know, but I want to be part of it. I want to prioritize it. I want it to matter to me and my kid. And it does. She doesn't always like it, but she gets it.
So for those who don't, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I can't come to your Sunday afternoon whatever-suchness you're planning. I'm sorry I won't be attending the State Fair or church or a girls' weekend or a movie night. Try me in February. Right now it's football season.
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Labels: Clemson football, football season, friends, Navy football, regret, time


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This is one of many reasons why I am marching tomorrow for March for Our Lives. No mother or child should have to have this discussion. Starts at 10 am at Cal Anderson Park.
Director Community Meetings
Burke (please note that the time was improperly noted on the district website and Director Burke updated it at the Board meeting): 3:30-5:30 pm at Greenwood branch library.
Pinkham - 3-4:30 pm at Northgate branch library
Disturbing news: school staffs received notification from the district yesterday that the district is now going to enforce Board Policy 6810 and teachers and staff are to remove all personal items that require power. These would include microwaves, fridges, space heaters and any type of lighting, particularly hanging lighting.
One parent at Soup for Teachers had this additional information.
I had a conversation with our school custodian after xmas break. He said the fire marshall had inspected all the schools and that is also when the energy audit was done. 2 separate things. According to our custodian, the fire code specifies nothing within 18 inches of the ceiling and no extension cords. Lights and small appliances are ok as long as they are not on extension cords.
The energy audit was done separately by a team from SPS. I'm thinking we could request the report from the energy audit but I don't know who to request it from.
I will ask the district about the energy audit and this issue in general. I do know that for many teachers having a mini-fridge and/or microwave saves them time in not having to go to the teachers' lounge for lunch. As well, the ability to not have to depend just on the overhead lighting helps with students with sensory issues.
We should change the laws so that our local community assets like schools, hospitals, fire and police dept and community centers, libraries do NOT have to pay for OUR PUBLIC utilities! We the people OWN these resources and it's stupid to do the paperwork shuffle.
The school board needs to pay attention to EDUCATION not things pulled in outlets.
I just don't understand the purpose of having a school board if they can't see the BIG PICTURE!
Growing tired
Benjamin Leis said...
Policy 6810 for those who are interested:
https://www.seattleschools.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_543/File/District/Departments/School%20Board/Policies/Series%206000/6810.pdf
"It is the policy of the Seattle School Board that the District wisely manage the use
of natural resources and maintain programs that support conservation of energy
and other natural resources. The goal of this policy is to create and maintain
sustainable, healthy school environments through a long-term resource
management plan.
Seattle Public Schools will model environmental stewardship by instituting a
resource conservation management plan, to:
 Reduce the use of energy, water, and other natural resources and
encourage recycling
 Educate students, teachers, and staff about the importance of conserving
 Lessen environmental damage attributable to natural resources
consumption."
Its a bit bizarre to interpret this as meaning no personal electric appliances of any sort in the classroom.
Outsider said...
Maybe the teachers have started mining bitcoins using SPS electricity. (Don't laugh.)
This is pretty ridiculous. I could see asking that all personal items plugged in be Energy Star appliances and LED/CFL lights within 2-3 years, but requiring immediate removal of all personal electronics is kind of stupid.
If the fire marshal says no extension cords, then no extension cords.
Why would anyone who knows anything about AC power think extension cords are a hazard. If true they would not have a UL certifacation and BTW every AV cart has an extension cord. Extension cords do not use power or increase the power consumption of devices connected. Overloaded circuits will generate heat so my guess is teachers have been using small gage extension cords to suppy power strips.
They should just supply teachers with powerstrips with the appropriate lenght of cord.
Gee Whiz
Director Harris says she is looking into this.
What happened with the meet/greet of Superintendent Candidates?
- Just Curious
It's this Thursday at JSCEE; will be televised as well. Finalists announced on Monday. This has been put up here and at the district website.
Anybody who can make it should try to go to the march today. Check out what this district is doing - giving their kids at least some empowerment with baskets of large rocks in each classroom to throw at gun shooters.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/24/us/pennsylvania-school-students-armed-rocks-trnd/index.html
Let's tell the NRA we love our kids more than they love guns.
Thank you I appreciate your condescending and pretentious manner..
Not strident in the least.
Oak, I appreciate your common sense statement which I don't find strident but, if you are a human being, should be true.
Kids before guns. Every single time.
March on-You have no idea what you are talking about, obviously. Autism is not the problem. Please educate yourself. -TeacherMom
@Teachermom, really and you know this how? Are you suggesting that the Florida shooter was not autistic? Are suggesting that the Newtown shooter was not autistic? Or perhaps you are suggesting that because the evidence does show that both shooters are/were autistic that autism had no bearing on the shooters motivation for killing?
Please explain.
March on
As terrible as it may sound, it's true that two of the worst mass school shootings in the world were perpetuated by boys with autism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_massacres_by_death_toll
With that said I don't believe anyone can definitively prove that autism caused either shooter to act out.
The Florida shooting is extremely disturbing due to the vast amount of data showing the shooters intentions to kill others up to 14 months before the actual event. Any reasonable person would have acted to stop the shooter after the first threat was posted.
Of all the evidence I've read or listened to it's the 911 call that reports the shooter has started to buy real guns and is making death threats that for me questions the motivations of every single level of government. Who ignores these types of threats?
Just facts
I'm suggesting that correlation does not equal causation. The vast majority of school shootings were done by white males-should we stop them from accessing guns? And, yes, I am saying that autism is not a motivation for killing. I doubt you know many autistic people; if you did you would see that they are not, as a group, more violent that the rest of the population. -TeacherMom
I'm the parent of the sweetest autistic boy ever. I know hundreds of autistic people of all ages and functioning levels. I'm a strong advocate for people with autism in the community. I know that they are way more likely than others to be victims, and that they aren't more "violent". But, I have never met a single person with ASD who should own a gun. Ever. And yes, quite a few are downright dangerous and more than 3 who have made similar threats against schools. There is plenty of evidence that some people with autism actually do pose a greater risk of these type of mass shootings than average. Let's use common sense. Poor impulse control, poor judgement and decision making, obsessiveness (as in obsessions with guns), comorbid depression, social isolation, abnormal and reduced social relatedness, victimization, are all diagnostic hallmarks of ASD. Those traits don't mix with guns.
No Guns
Ok teachermom
I think it's significant that two of the worst school shooting events where committed by people from a very small group, less than 1.2% of the population and I absolutely believe autism played a role in both the Newtown and the Florida shootings.
Now back to the subject of the march.
Consider this ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege
Seems to me that your side ( I assuming you're a liberal) want's to let anyone and everyone in to the US, so just taking Beslan in to consideration can you understand why many people might want to be armed. I suppose you don't believe in the reality of the attacks already committed by Islamist here in the US?
We are very lucky a Beslan type event hasn't happened in the US. No, I don't trust our government to protect my family because relaying on the government sure didn't work in Florida.
I've always wondered if there was any evidence around ASD and these incidents. I found several studies that seem to lean towards a connection but they might be flawed.
"The research examined a population of 239 killers who had murdered at least three people since 1985, when there was a dramatic increase in the recognition of autism. Of that number, 133 of the mass killers did not appear to suffer from any neurological disorder, but a "significant proportion" did: 28 percent had "definite, highly probable or possible" autism, while 21 percent had sustained a "definite or suspected head injury." And of those 106 killers, more than half experienced some "psychological stressor" such as physical or sexual abuse."
I don't think possible is a good substitute for absolute. It also should be noted that there seems to be a almost vigilante effort by various groups to destroy anyone attempting to study any links between ASD and mass murders.
It's strange that no one seems interested in why Cruz would want to shoot his classmates. Could they have possibly brought this one by bulling and harassment?
--JB
1) Do not post wild accusations against one group of people based on a very few incidents. I note that with one comment, the link was broken.
2) Cruz seems to be an example of a perfect storm of issues. He had issues with his own family, he had issues at school, both with classmates and staff. He had recently become an orphan which I would have thought would been a signal at his school. He was clearly on the radar of many people and yet no one could quite get to the point of truly getting him help.
Would it have mattered if the FBI had followed thru? Maybe but it is hard to know.
But knowing autism, I believe it had little to do with it. Mental illness probably did.
Very few incidents? Dylan Klebold, Adam Lanza, Nick Cruz, Cho Sung Hui, Eric Harris...
Here's the reality. Autistic people are over represented as gun victims. Autistic people are less likely than others to be violent or to be perpetrators in the 38,000+ annual fatalities due to guns. BUT in the relatively narrow case of "mass shootings ", research has demonstrated that Autistic people are conservatively 8 times more likely than others to be responsible for these incidents, usually with comorbid complications. Personally I know of at least 5 threats, several very recent. That's just me. Are they just kids talking? Probably. Do we arrest people for threats or violent ideologies? No we don't. Think Trump.
The href doesn't seem to work. Here's a piece of evidence. Pretty easy to look up yourself with google also.
No Guns, you clearly did not read the entire article and noted citations.
"Crucially though, the majority of mass/serial killers with ASD who were included in our review also had experienced other psychosocial risk factors for criminal behavior (e.g., physical or sexual abuse), suggesting that it is usually a complex combination.
"However, despite media speculation, surveys suggest that individuals with ASDs may be no more likely than the general population to engage in violent crime, and in fact, may be less likely (Mouridsen, Rich, Isager, & Nedergaard.)
And, in the discussion in this research, only Lanza had been professionally diagnosed with autism. There is a spectrum of autism so many, many people could be called "autistic" but that does mot make them violent or killers.
Feb 18, 2018 - Lynda Cruz, his adoptive mother who died from pneumonia in November 2017, told mental health investigators in 2016 that her son suffered from ADHD, depression and autism but insisted he received his necessary medication as prescribed, according to the report. She told investigators at the time that ...
Lanza and Cruz was/is autistic this is not debatable.
Data shows 2 of the top 5 worst US school shootings ranked by the number of fatalities were committed by autistic boys.
For a group representing less than 1.5% of the population they committed 40% of the worst school attacks in US history.
It appears (as pointed out) it's most likely not a simple case where autism was the driver for the events, but surly it could be the catalysis.
Clearly I did read the article, and have plenty of personal experience. Right. Autism is a big spectrum. Is anyone doubting it? Most people with Autism are nonviolent. But many people with Autism have comorbid conditions. Yes, some of those comorbid conditions IN ADDITION to Autism result in mass shootings, conservatively at a rate of 8 times more often than those without Autism.
Right, as I said above. People with Autism are LESS likely in general to be involved with gun violence. Think about the much more prevalent gun crimes, robbery, gang violence. These crimes require a degree of planning, social competence, premeditation, not normally associated with Autism. This isn't a ding on Autism, but simply common sense.
Truly, nobody needs a gun to have a good life. Most especially, people with Autism don't need guns. That is beyond obvious.
When you interact with populations of autistic children there will the children that you must walk on egg shells around. Other students quickly learn to not trigger these students and sadly as they get older want less and less interaction with the autistic young adults. Does this rejection fuel the outburst seen in older students with autism?
Just Facts, those may be "facts" but they do not point to autistic people being more violent. Sorry.
JB, that might be but again, there are mental health issues (which autism is not) plus family environment that are more likely to be the triggers.
Owler said...
Did Burke and Pinkham have their scheduled meetings?
Owner, can't speak for Pinkham but Burke did. I attended part of it the discussion I heard was around safety and space issues at RESMS. I'll note that Burke was at the March for our Lives March in the morning ( as were Harris, Mack and Geary).
Thanks. I had hoped to make it specifically to hear about the space issues at RESMS, but I had a conflict. I hope it's a topic you'll have time to do a write-up; the lack of information from the district is frustrating.
Another Name said...
My child's teacher made hot chocolate and pancakes on an electric skillet for her students, That was 10 years ago. He still remembers those moments.
What are the space issues at RESMS?
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Rand Corp, CA, July 1964, Memorandum RM-4179-NIH; 14 pages, illus. equations.
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