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So they're monstering Jim Jepps now, are they?
Ms Bennett has been dating Mr Jepps for five years
Right…..
He quit the Socialist Workers Party in around 2003 and later joined the Greens.
So he's an idiot then, SWPers always are.
In one post, seen by MailOnline, he joked that gay sex is not a sin 'unless you do it really well or claim it on expenses'.
A J.O.K.E.
Not a great one, but mildly amusing perhaps.
In 2007, he tackled a news story about demands for music books written by a paedophile to be withdrawn, because the recorder lessons were used to groom victims.
Mr Jepps wrote: 'We can burn these books as a public statement against the author (who is in jail for his crimes) or try to understand that whatever monstrous acts individuals commit they are still complex human beings for all that.
'Good, evil, interesting and banal by turns – not devils who can taint everything they touch with evil.'
Err, yes, like when a SWPer can make an interesting point about the way that humans are complex and that some bits and output can be good, others bad. We all acknowledge this which is why we haven't destroyed all of Eric Gill's work.
According to the Sunday Mirror another posting included: 'New Poll: Sex with pupils – good idea/bad idea? Personally I'm ambivalent and would appreciate any guidance.
'It seems to me the sex offenders register is a sledgehammer to crack a nut sometimes. When you have a teacher who kissed a 17-year-old placed on the same register as Gary Glitter it does make you wonder how useful the list is, no matter how creepy that teacher might be.'
Quite so.
I do wonder sometimes what the Mail would say about me if they found this blog…..
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36 thoughts on "So they're monstering Jim Jepps now, are they?"
Frank Fisher April 20, 2015 at 8:31 am
I doubt the Mail are outraged – just trying to put a little fragmentation into the Green/SNP/Plaid ranks I assume.
Andrew M April 20, 2015 at 8:57 am
Now there's a delicious irony:
Couple met in 2010 after she contacted him to complain about a blogpost
Interested April 20, 2015 at 9:25 am
Jepps wants to control your life so to an extent he's fair game. It's a shame that the Mail doesn't do shades of grey but then Jepps sells badges with the legend "UKIP vermin – Back in the sewer" which suggests that neither does he on some matters.
I personally am tired of watching people take part in a UFC fight while adhering to the Queensbury rules.
They may end up with a slight feeling of moral superiority but they will lose, and in the losing it's looking increasingly like they'll take western civilisation down with them.
So fuck Jepps, and his horse, and his bird, and cry me a river while I apply some resin to the strings of the world's smallest violin.
John Galt April 20, 2015 at 9:39 am
We all acknowledge this which is why we haven't destroyed all of Eric Gill's work.
In fairness to Eric Gill, it was only decades afterwards that he was revealed to be both in an incestuous relationship with his child and a sexual relationship with his dog.
His works, especially at the BBC are both beautiful and also, given what we know of his perversions, very apt. Let them remain where they are to shine down on those who enter the hallowed halls of the BBC for evermore.
Steve April 20, 2015 at 10:02 am
SEX, SCANDIUM, AND SQUIRRELS: Inside the crazy world of UKIP's real-life Auric Goldfinger.
Bloke in Wales April 20, 2015 at 10:23 am
apply some resin to the strings of the world's smallest violin.
Pendantry alert, but the rosin is applied to the violin bow. It gets on the strings too, but only as a secondary effect.
Richard April 20, 2015 at 10:25 am
I vaguely remember a campaign in the Evening Standard, about 15 years ago, to get Eric Gill's art removed from Westminster Cathedral.
Henry Crun April 20, 2015 at 10:59 am
Henceforth Tim Worstall will be known as Auric.
Gunker April 20, 2015 at 11:26 am
@Steve has won the internets for this week
Mr Ecks April 20, 2015 at 11:30 am
A genuine paedo (ie one who actually fiddles little kids as opposed to being accused of fiddling them on zero evidence beyond unsupported claims) altho' evil, is arguably not as evil as a man who wants and acts to bring about universal socialist tyranny. And then decides he also wants human life rolled back to the filth, poverty and misery of ages-happily-gone by. In a sane society these actions would mark Jepps as an evildoer more dangerous than any paedo. They aim to hurt a small number of children. Jepps and his kind want to fuck up the lives of the entire world including all kids everywhere.
CJ Nerd April 20, 2015 at 11:39 am
Or Scandic?
Pogo April 20, 2015 at 11:51 am
"Scandic"…? Sounds like a device used in an STD clinic! 🙂
Runcie Balspune April 20, 2015 at 11:56 am
I suggest Ekabor as a suitable Scandium derived first name.
Gamecock April 20, 2015 at 11:59 am
"it does make you wonder how useful the list is"
Judge to defendant: "We have found you guilty of horrendous crimes against nature. We are going to put your name on a list."
Judge to bailiff: "There, we fixed that problem."
Interested April 20, 2015 at 12:08 pm
@BiW I'll take your word for it – my knowledge of violins is limited to leaving the house whenever my sister picked up hers, many years ago!
Hallowsd Be April 20, 2015 at 1:13 pm
Friend getting married soon told me DJ had a won't play list includes Rolf Harris, Gary Glitter and Oliver's Army by Elvis Costello. He said Micheal Jackson Ok though : no hard evidence.
Ian B April 20, 2015 at 1:29 pm
Gamecock, I think the question here (or there) was whether kissing a 17 year old is an horrendous crime against nature or just kind of, you know, normal.
So Much for Subtlety April 20, 2015 at 2:05 pm
Ian B – "I think the question here (or there) was whether kissing a 17 year old is an horrendous crime against nature or just kind of, you know, normal."
I think Ironman will spare us some time from Comment is Free to tell us all precisely how unacceptably homophobic that question is.
It tells you how screwed modern Britain is that the official Establishment makes a watermelon refugee from the Socialist Workers Party look like a voice of reason.
GlenDorran April 20, 2015 at 2:08 pm
"Oliver's Army by Elvis Costello"
PaulB April 20, 2015 at 2:21 pm
It's not OK for teachers to kiss their pupils. They're supposed to be educating them, not romancing them.
GlenDorran – "???"
Shhh! Don't say anything. He was starting to sound like a half decent DJ.
Interested April 20, 2015 at 2:40 pm
I have to say, for once I agree with PaulB.
Teachers shouldn't really be snogging the kids.
That said, I'd be happy for it to be (post 16) a contractual matter: you will not snog the kids, or you'll be sacked.
I can't quite understand why it should be criminal for a 25-year-old teacher to do stuff with a 17-year-old that is not criminal for a 50-year-old non teacher. The age of consent is the age of consent, to me.
PaulB-
The issue is not about "okay", but whether it's in the against nature category. Like a doctor and patient, or priest and parishioner, etc.
What about, for instance, university lecturer and student? Not entirely unknown.
Interested-
Well, because the Feminists would like to extend "paedophile" to 18. 16 sticks in their craw. So the current legislation is a halfway house to that.
Ian B – "The issue is not about "okay", but whether it's in the against nature category. Like a doctor and patient, or priest and parishioner, etc. What about, for instance, university lecturer and student? Not entirely unknown."
How is any of those against nature? It certainly looks a lot like it is in women's natures to like men in authority over them. Teachers are a natural target of school girls – in part because it is probably safe-ish to do so. They are playing with their teacher. But also because they like men in positions of authority.
Priests are just as much a target of young Catholic women. They play a not-insignificant part in romance literature.
And psychiatrists are taught that it is natural and even inevitable for their female patients to fall in love with them. After all they do sit there and listen to said women complain for hours on end.
We need to ban these things because they are too easy and even inevitable. Not because they are a crime against nature.
SMFS-
You've misunderstood me. I gave those examples as things we consider undesirable, but not against nature.
Hallowed Be April 20, 2015 at 3:29 pm
@Glendorran. it was because of the line "one less white nigger". Yes I shudder too. The DJ just must hear a word and go… you can't have that.
Jack C April 20, 2015 at 3:31 pm
A "breach of trust" may be the better expression.
Teachers and Doctors are in a position to take advantage of pupils and patients. Doctors, don't forget, can even instruct their patients to take their clothes off, an advantage not even enjoyed by the likes of the Rolling Stones.
Bloke in Costa Rica April 20, 2015 at 3:42 pm
So presumably Lil Wayne is right out?
Ljh April 20, 2015 at 4:24 pm
I heard plenty of school gossip from my two adolescent daughters: the more attractive young teachers are often objects of contestation in the brutal battles of female oneupmanship, in an age when boundaries are routinely erased and teachers encourage informality. My girls school possessed but one male teacher, in his late sixties, deaf with angina, anyone younger would have been prey.
@Hallowed Be:
Ah, I thought Mr Costello had fallen into the Yewtree net.
Kraftwerk better watch out: their hate anthem Trans Europe Express is on the hitlist of the gender warriors.
Theophrastus April 20, 2015 at 4:52 pm
Anyone who could regularly wake up beside (let alone pleasure) Natalie Bennett must be desperate or partially sighted. As for Natalie, the history of the company she keeps might suggest she has totalitarian leanings.
@GlenDorran
The wider point being that applies from living doll to the ring cycle you can love the art without loving the artist.
By the way, this appears to have kicked off with Guido Fawkes, the thoroughly-ex libertarian and former organiser of drug-fuelled raves attended by vulnerable underage children.
Does this go some way to explaining the SWPers relaxed attitude to raping their own female members?
Richard April 20, 2015 at 11:47 pm
Hallowed Be, thank you, but I had hoped he was boycotted for his vegetarianism.
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Q: Can we make a table from the nested dictionary with the use of Pandas? Question: How to print student name by maths mark descending?
[
    {
        "name": "student2",
        "age": 30,
        "is_male": False,
        "marks": {"science": 56, "maths": 32, "english": 67},
        "total_marks": 155,
    },
    {
        "name": "student4",
        "age": 28,
        "is male": False,
        "marks": {"science": 78, "maths": 55, "english": 98},
        "total_marks": 230,
    },
    {
        "name": "student3",
        "age": 25,
        "is_male": True,
        "marks": {"science": 89, "maths": 56, "english": 99},
        "total_marks": 244,
    },
    {
        "name": "student1",
        "age": 23,
        "is_male": True,
        "marks": {"science": 95, "maths": 89, "english": 95},
        "total_marks": 279,
    },
]

A: Try:
df = pd.DataFrame(
    [
        {
            "name": "student2",
            "age": 30,
            "is_male": False,
            "marks": {"science": 56, "maths": 32, "english": 67},
            "total_marks": 155,
        },
        {
            "name": "student4",
            "age": 28,
            "is male": False,
            "marks": {"science": 78, "maths": 55, "english": 98},
            "total_marks": 230,
        },
        {
            "name": "student3",
            "age": 25,
            "is_male": True,
            "marks": {"science": 89, "maths": 56, "english": 99},
            "total_marks": 244,
        },
        {
            "name": "student1",
            "age": 23,
            "is_male": True,
            "marks": {"science": 95, "maths": 89, "english": 95},
            "total_marks": 279,
        },
    ]
)

indx = (
    df.explode("marks")
    .query('marks == "maths"')
    .sort_values("total_marks", ascending=False)
    .index
)

#or more simply:

indx = df['marks'].str['maths'].sort_values(ascending=False).index

df.reindex(indx)

Output:
       name  age is_male                                        marks  total_marks is male
3  student1   23    True  {'science': 95, 'maths': 89, 'english': 95}          279     NaN
2  student3   25    True  {'science': 89, 'maths': 56, 'english': 99}          244     NaN
1  student4   28     NaN  {'science': 78, 'maths': 55, 'english': 98}          230   False
0  student2   30   False  {'science': 56, 'maths': 32, 'english': 67}          155     NaN

A: I think the easiest way to do this is to use json_normalize() though there is also nothing wrong with @scott-boston's answer.
import pandas
data = [
    {'name': 'student2', 'age': 30, 'is_male': False, 'marks': {'science': 56, 'maths': 32, 'english': 67}, 'total_marks': 155},
    {'name': 'student4', 'age': 28, 'is male': False, 'marks': {'science': 78, 'maths': 55, 'english': 98}, 'total_marks': 230},
    {'name': 'student3', 'age': 25, 'is_male': True, 'marks': {'science': 89, 'maths': 56, 'english': 99}, 'total_marks': 244},
    {'name': 'student1', 'age': 23, 'is_male': True, 'marks': {'science': 95, 'maths': 89, 'english': 95}, 'total_marks': 279}
]
print(pandas.json_normalize(data).sort_values("marks.maths", ascending=False))

Breaking out the nested dict so you can sort on it.
This gives you:
       name  age is_male  total_marks  marks.science  marks.maths  marks.english is male
3  student1   23    True          279             95           89             95     NaN
2  student3   25    True          244             89           56             99     NaN
1  student4   28     NaN          230             78           55             98   False
0  student2   30   False          155             56           32             67     NaN

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Jose Mourinho urged to make controversial change for Manchester United trip to Juventus
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has been advised to drop Nemanja Matic and replace him with Ander Herrera for the trip to Juventus.
We're in action in Turin tonight and it's pretty hard to see us getting a result if we play anything like we did in the 1-0 defeat at Old Trafford a couple of weeks ago.
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Juve outplayed us that night and could have won by a greater margin, so Mourinho could do well to listen to advice from former United star Owen Hargreaves here…
'I like Herrera and I'm not sure why he hasn't played as much considering how important he seemed to be two years ago,' Hargreaves told BT Sport, as quoted by the Daily Star.
'As great as Matic is, he seems to have lost a bit of confidence and he doesn't seem to be at his absolute best.
'Like Pogba, Matic is about 6ft 3in and if they're in control of the ball that's fine but out of possession it's hard for them against the small, quick guys.
'The Dybalas of this world for example, so maybe Herrera would be a good partner because he's a bit more mobile and active out of possession.'
Herrera's fall down the pecking order in recent times is pretty hard to understand, and Matic's recent form does leave much to be desired.
In a high-intensity game like this, we need someone with a bit more bite about him in midfield, while one has to wonder if Matic is simply too slow to compete against opposition of this calibre.
Whatever happens tonight, let's hope we see a team selection that's designed for us to give it our all to come away with a big result!
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Rover Releases Major Update in Open Source iBeacon SDK
Will Schmidt April 14th 2015 6:00 pm
Over the past year, since we last spoke to him, John Coombs has been collecting feedback from marketers and developers who are using his Rover platform to build beacon-based content and experiences into their apps. All of the feedback has gone towards implementing the newest update, which was just announced today.
"From our large retail and loyalty clients, to discovery and event-based apps, you've told us that you wanted even more design flexibility and the opportunity to deliver content at sub-locations or different areas within your venues," reads Rover's press release.
To that end, Coombs and his team have officially rolled out a complete update to the Rover open source SDK and content management tool. With Rover 2.0 (as they're calling it) you can now:
Set up design templates with significant flexibility to fit the look and feel of your app and brand guidelines;
Build a number of "call to actions" into your content, including deep-linking into your app;
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House practice :
a guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House /
Wm. Holmes Brown, Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan.
Brown, Wm. Holmes
Sullivan, John V. , Johnson, Charles W. III.
Washington : U.S. G.P.O : 2011.
United States. > United States. / Congress. > United States. / Congress. / House > United States. / Congress. / House / Rules and practice.
Parliamentary practice > Parliamentary practice / United States.
Shipping list no.: 2012-0194-P.
"112th Congress, 1st session"--Cover.
vi, 1036 p. ; 23 cm.
House practice : a guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House /
Brown, Wm. Holmes (William Holmes)
Procedure in the U.S. House of Representatives, 97th Congress : a summary of the modern precedents and practices of the House, 86th Congress--97th Congress /
Deschler, Lewis.
Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives : including references to provisions of the Constitution and laws, and to decisions of the courts /
Constitution of the U.S., Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives and a Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice of the House of Representatives
Constitution, Jefferson's manual, the rules of the House of Representatives...and a digest and manual of the rules and practice of the House of Representatives...
Voting in the House of Representatives : rules, procedures, precedents, customs and practice : hearing before the Select Committee to Investigate the Voting Irregularities of August 2, 2007, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, October 25, 2007, Washington, DC.
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate the Voting Irregularities of August 2, 2007.
Constitution of the United States, Jefferson's manual, the rules of the House of Representatives of the fifty-third Congress, and a digest and manual of the rules and practice of the House of Representatives of the United States /
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Established in 1947 to celebrate neuroanatomy and now promotes all of neuroscience.
Index of Images from Past Meetings
History and Proceedings
Our complete list of the current Cajal Club leadership are listed below.
Cajal Club Banquet, 2014, Crete, Greece
Click here to view the full list of past Cajal Club presidents.
Cajal Club Banquet, 1952, Rafael Lorente de Nó, center, guest speaker
Carol Mason
President (Nucleolus)
Carol Mason is Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Neuroscience, and Ophthalmology and a member of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute (ZMBBI), at Columbia University. She investigates the development of the pathway from eye to brain, in mice. She is Chair of Interschool Planning at ZMBBI, fostering cross-campus faculty recruitment, mentoring, and scientific interchange. Carol is a member of the National Academies of Medicine and Science, was President of the Society for Neuroscience 2013-2014, and is a current Simons Foundation Fellow.
Email: Cam4@columbia.edu
Mason Dodd Lab
Leah Krubitzer
President Elect (Nissl Body)
Leah Krubitzer is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Her graduate work focused on the evolution of visual cortex in primates, and she extended her research in Australia to include monotremes and marsupials. She has worked on the brains of over 45 different mammals. Her current research focuses on the impact of early experience and how culture impacts brain development. She also examines the evolution of sensory motor networks involved in manual dexterity, reaching and grasping in mammals. She received a MacArthur award for her work on evolution.
UCDavis
Email: lakrubitzer@gmail.com
Krubitzer Lab
Oscar Marin
Past President (Liposfuscin Granule)
Oscar Marin received his PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and later his PhD. He pursued his postdoc training at the Instituto Cajal and the University of California in San Francisco. In 2014 Marín received the Roger de Spoelberch Award for his work on the neurobiology of schizophrenia. In 2017 Marín received the Ramón y Cajal Medal from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, and the Remedios Caro Almela Award in 2019. He is a Professor of Neuroscience at King's College London.
Centre for Developmental Neurobiology & MRC Centre for
Email: oscar.marin@kcl.ac.uk
Marín Lab
PAOLA ARLOTTA
The Arlotta lab seeks to define the molecular rules that shape and retain neuronal diversity in the cerebral cortex, and to model complex human cortical pathology, focusing on the development of new high-throughput in vitro models of human cortical development and neurodevelopmental disease using 3D cerebral organoids.
Chair, Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Email: paola_arlotta@harvard.edu
Arlotta Lab
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Alvarez-Buylla's lab studies the mechanism of adult neurogenesis: neural stem cells, migration and integration. The team is interested in the extent to which new neurons continue to be recruited in the postnatal human brain. They are also investigating how local circuit inhibitory neurons adjust their numbers once they arrive in cortex.
The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Email. abuylla@stemcell.ucsf.edu
Alvarez-Buylla Lab
Sonia Garel
Sonia Garel is a neurobiologist. She currently heads a team at the Institut of Biology of the Ecole Normale Superieure (IBENS) in Paris and is a Professor at the College de France. The general goal of the Garel Lab is to understand how functional forebrain circuits, which enable sensory perception, motor responses and cognition, wired up during development.
Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure
College de France
Email: garel@biologie.ens.fr
Garel Lab
PaTrick HoF
Dr. Hof graduated from the School of Medicine of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and is the Regenstreif Research Professor of Neuroscience of the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Hof has established an international reputation in quantitative approaches to systems neuroscience and brain evolution. His laboratory has extensive expertise in the pathology of neuropsychiatric disorders and uses quantitative, high-resolution, multi-scale microscopy methods to analyze the cellular and molecular events that make the human brain uniquely vulnerable and to identify targets for interventions at the level of specific neuronal populations.
Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute
Email: patrick.hof@mssm.edu
Hof Lab
Dawn Hunter
Website Manager (Golgi Apparatus)
Dawn received her MFA from the University of California, Davis. She has received many awards and grants for her artwork, markedly a Starr Foundation Fellowship to the Royal Academy of Art, London and a Fulbright España Senior Research Fellowship to the Instituto Cajal, Madrid. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
School of Visual Art and Deign, University of South Carolina
Email: dmhunter@email.sc.edu
dawnhunterart.com
Brett Larson
Brett Larson received a B.S. in Finance with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of Iowa, and holds the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification*. Brett's licenses include the FINRA Series 6, 7, 63 and 65.
Manager of the Foundations Endowment
Romano Wealth Management
Email: larsonbrett8@gmail.com
romanowealth.com
PASKO RAKIC
Pasko Rakic, MD, PhD, is Yugoslav-born American neuroscientist who works at Yale University. Rakic's research interests are in developmental neurobiology, particularly cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuronal proliferation, migration and synaptogenesis during development of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex.
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.
Duberg Professor of Neurobiology and Neurology
Yale University School of Medicine
Email: pasko.rakic@yale.edu
Rakic Lab
Charles Ribak
Secretary - Treasurer (Apical Dendrite)
Dr. Ribak is currently Professor Emeritus from the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at UC Irvine where he conducted neuroanatomical research and taught for over 33 years. His research was awarded with a Klingenstein Fellowship, the Michael Prize for Epilepsy Research, a Jacob Javits NIH Award and was elected a Fellow in the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). He was elected President of the Cajal Club in 2000 and served for two years before he was appointed Secretary/Treasurer in 2005, a position he still holds. He has been called the glue that keeps the Club together.
Email: ribak@uci.edu
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John Rubenstein
Photographer (Cone Outer Segment)
John Rubenstein has been at UCSF since 1991 where he has worked on the genetic control of cortex and basal ganglia development.
John L.R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child Psychiatry
Nina Ireland Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology
Department of Psychiatry UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Email: john.rubenstein@ucsf.edu
Rubenstein Lab
Lee A. Shapiro
Board Member (Founding Golgi Apparatus)
Dr. Shapiro received his PhD in neuroscience from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. The Shapiro Lab at Texas A&M University is pursuing research studies involving epilepsy, trauma and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Email: lshapiro@tamu.edu
Texas A&M University Profile
DebbY Silver
Debby Silver earned her PhD in biological chemistry from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her lab aims to elucidate fundamental principles governing cerebral cortex development and contributing to neurodevelopmental pathologies and cortical evolution.
Email: debra.silver@duke.edu
The Silver Lab
Larry Swanson
Archivist/Historian (Alpha Helix)
Larry got his PhD in Neurobiology from the Washington University School of Medicine and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a former Pesident of the Cajal Club and Society for Neuroscience, and Secretary General of the International Brain Research Organization.
University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences
Email: lswanson@usc.edu
larrywswanson.com
Hongkui Zeng
Hongkui Zeng is Executive Vice President and Director of Allen Institute for Brain Science. Her research interests are in understanding cell type diversity and connectivity in the mouse brain-wide circuits and how cell types contribute to circuit function, using large-scale, big and open science approaches.
Allen Institute for Brain Science
Email: HongkuiZ@alleninstitute.org
Allen Institute Profile
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Our mission is to work with business to create a just and sustainable world. We envision a world in which everyone can lead a prosperous and dignified life within the boundaries of the Earth's natural resources.
This special collection features a series of interviews from their annual conferences. There are additional resource on their Website.
BSR President and CEO Aron Cramer delivers opening remarks at the BSR Conference 2012: Fast Forward, reflecting on the progress of sustainability over the past 20 years as well as the opportunities and challenges ahead.


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The Importance of Being Hannah Arendt
Banality of Evil
Daphne Merkin on a brilliant new film presenting Hannah Arendt in the midst of the Eichmann trial and the 'banality of evil.'
Daphne Merkin
Updated Jul. 11, 2017 10:44PM ET / Published Jun. 04, 2013 4:45AM ET
Zeitgeist Films/Everett
I have never been sure what to make of the phrase "the banality of evil"—whether it is, in fact, a revelatory concept or a catchy but psychologically tone-deaf one-liner. "The mediocrity of evil" might have been truer to what Hannah Arendt was trying to get at in her utter incredulity about Adolf Eichmann's lack of, well, charisma, but it lacks the contemptuous pizzazz of the actual wording. Then again, it was impossible to grow up in a Jewish-identified household in the early '60s in America and be unaware of Arendt's famous—or was it notorious?—formulation, even if that was all you knew of the complex, dense, and not entirely readable account she wrote of the Eichmann trial.
Her report appeared first in five installments in February and March 1963 in The New Yorker, where it was eagerly (and, I would imagine, somewhat horrifiedly) devoured by people like my parents, though I was way too young to actually recall its impact other than as a vague impression of some kind of intellectual stir. My parents were both German Jews, like Arendt, although, very unlike Arendt, they were both religiously observant and ardently Zionist. (My uncle on my mother's side was in fact an assistant to Attorney General Gideon Hausner, who aroused Arendt's disdain from the start.) In later years, I would hear about Arendt from William Jovanovich, her publisher and mine, who was very fond of Arendt—fond enough to fly her up to his summer home in La Malbaie, Canada. Bill's wife, Martha, also seemed to like Arendt, far more than she did Mary McCarthy, another summer guest, of whom she once observed to me: "She ate up all of the fresh raspberries from the garden, leaving none for Bill."
Arendt's reputation as a philosopher of high genius and even higher probity, which rested on writings such as The Origins of Totalitarianism, essays on political thought and her biography of Rahel Varnhagen, never quite recovered from the New Yorker publication or the book which followed in 1963, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. She quickly came under attack, particularly from American Jewish critics like Lionel Abel, Norman Podhoretz, and such once close friends as the philosopher Gershom Scholem, for her strangely, almost effusively dispassionate observations about Eichmann (including her admiration for the stoic way in which he went to his death, declining, as a good Gottgläubiger (disbeliever), to say prayers with a Protestant minister or to wear the black hood that was offered him before his hanging) and for her casting some of the blame for the satanic effectiveness of the Nazi genocide on the Jews themselves in the form of the Judenräte, the Nazi-appointed officials of the ghettos and other beleaguered Jewish communities. "How could the Jews through their own leaders cooperate in their own destruction?" and "Why did they go to their death like lambs to slaughter?" were rhetorical questions she posed almost as an aside a mere three pages into her essay, subtly setting the stage for a callous blame-the-victim line of inquiry, although she only fully took up the issue of what she termed Jewish "cooperation" a third of the way into a 300-page document. "Wherever Jews lived, there were recognized Jewish leaders, and this leadership, almost without exception, cooperated in one way or another, for one reason or another, with the Nazis. The whole truth was that if the Jewish people had really been unorganized and leaderless, there would have been chaos and plenty of misery but the total number of victims would hardly have been between four and a half and six million people."
All these long-gone but still festering matters—Arendt herself, who died in 1975, professed to be unperturbed by the raging controversy, referring to it as "a tempest in a teapot"—are up again for reconsideration with the recent appearance of Margarethe von Trotta's (Rosa Luxemburg, Rosenstrasse) extraordinary film, called, with pleasingly eponymous simplicity, Hannah Arendt. (Such is the media synchronicity of the times we live in that Penguin, which issued a 2006 paperback version of the Eichmann book with a clumsily written and overtly apologist introduction by the estranged Zionist Amos Elon, has managed to rush out copies with incongruous "See the Major Motion Picture HANNAH ARENDT" stickers affixed to them.)
What must be said right off is that von Trotta's biopic, whatever its shortcomings (which for me have mainly to do with its somewhat idealizing approach to Arendt) and whatever details it gets wrong (almost everything to do with the portrait of The New Yorker), has managed to make thrilling cinematic drama out of its protagonist's lifelong engagement with ideas. Rarely have I seen a film in which the image of a woman, thinking, steadily holds the camera the way it does here—whether she is thinking and smoking, thinking and staring into space, thinking and cutting up vegetables, thinking and conversing, or thinking and tapping typewriter keys—without producing restlessness in the viewer. (In a piece by Mary McCarthy called "Saying Goodbye to Hannah" that appeared in The New York Review of Books after Arendt's death, McCarthy lovingly recalls: "Hannah is the only person I have ever watched think. She lay motionless on a sofa or a day bed, arms folded behind her head, eyes shut but occasionally opening to stare upward. This lasted—I don't know—from ten minutes to half an hour. Everyone tiptoed past if we had to come into the room in which she lay oblivious.")
Thanks to a mostly first-rate script by von Trotta and co-writer Pamela Katz, superb direction (von Trotta is particularly gifted at giving vivid life to interior spaces and how people inhabit them), and a virtuoso performance by Barbara Sukowa as Arendt, we experience the evolution of Arendt's theories about the Eichmann trial as they occurred in sparkling and sometimes heated discussions with her doting husband, Heinrich Blücher (persuasively acted by Axel Milberg), and with friends such as McCarthy (a stylish performance by Janet McTeer), the German-Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas (Ulrich Noethen), and the Zionist activist Kurt Blumenfeld (Michael Degen). I might only add that, given this triumph of characterization, it seems a slight pity to me that, in her effort to humanize Arendt—or, perhaps, to feature the Woman behind the Brain—von Trotta found it necessary to depict Arendt as so relentlessly love-struck a wife. It may even have been true that Arendt felt this way about Blücher, whom she nicknamed Stups (he in return called her Klaps), despite his infidelities—certainly her letters to him point to an unusually impassioned union ("Stups, for the love of God, you are my four walls")—but I found it wearying.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Hannah Arendt is the extensive amount of on-screen time von Trotta has decided to devote to archival material from the Eichmann trial and the artful use she has made of it. With the fidgety, grimacing, bespectacled figure of the former Nazi higher-up at its center, seated inside a glass booth, the black-and-white courtroom footage seamlessly unfolds almost as a film within a film, capturing our attention as much as it did Arendt's. (Who, as it turns out, followed large parts of the trial in the pressroom, so as to be able to smoke.)
As we watch the colorless Eichmann (although he was capable, as Arendt noted, of sudden flights of fancy—comparing himself under questioning to a steak being grilled and describing the futility of resistance to the Nazi enterprise as akin to "a drop on a hot stone that evaporates without purpose or success") dodge responsibility for being anything other than a bureaucratic functionary following orders, it is as though we have been transported back more than half a century and are being asked to draw our own conclusions along with Arendt.
I, for one, was less struck by Eichmann's bloodlessness and inability to think, which so disturbed Arendt, than by his infrequent but all the same quite unexpected attempts at self-reflection, howsoever limited. Who would have thought him capable, for instance, when questioned about the conflict between duty and conscience, of referring to a "state of being split, where one could flee from one side to the other?" Listening to him, I wondered for a moment what kind of narrative Arendt would have produced had she been more aware of her own personal conflicts (her status as a deracinated Jew, for one, and unwilling refugee, for another) and less in thrall to her German intellectual heritage, one which emphasized a ruthless and ultimately dangerous purity of thought as epitomized by her teacher and lover, the philosopher Martin Heidegger? Needless to say, Arendt had nothing but scorn for psychoanalysis.
Von Trotta's less deft touches have mostly to do with her depictions of The New Yorker and its ambience. Nicholas Woodeson's William Shawn seems more like a fast-talking deli owner than the painfully shy, recessive editor I remember from my days of working at the magazine's typing pool, and his office looks more like a pawnshop than is warranted. I can't figure out, either, whom the snarky character of Frances is based on, or what her role is supposed to be; I would have pegged her for an assistant, except that in between snapping out lines like "philosophers don't make deadlines" in an unplaceable accent, she allows Shawn to make his own phone calls.
But then again, one might ask, who has ever gotten The New Yorker right on film? Perhaps one day someone will. Meanwhile, we have a movie that reminds us of a time before tweeting and blogging, one in which the old-fashioned life of the mind—the life of "significant contention," as the critic Diana Trilling once called it—has been given a fresh and illuminating purview.


Yahoo's new chief executive, Scott Thompson, has his work cut out for him.
Thompson, who started his new job earlier this month, will be doing his first earnings call this afternoon. It can't be a pleasant way to kick off a new gig. Yahoo founder Jerry Yang left the company last week, analysts are estimating the company's earnings at a mere 24 cents per share (a 6.5 percent drop from a year ago), and, according to an analyst quoted by Bloomberg, people are only investing in Yahoo with the hope that it will realize some value by selling off all or part of the company.
Competitively, Yahoo doesn't look nearly as good as some of its rivals. Check out the charts below, compiled by statistics aggregation company Statista: Yahoo's market value has stagnated, while Facebook and Amazon have soared, and Google has remained loftily in the lead. Today, Yahoo's market capitalization is just $19.8 billion. Compare that to $83.8 billion for Amazon, an estimated $100 billion for Facebook (the market cap that many expect it would have if it were to go public today), and $189.6 billion for Google.
But the average visitor to Yahoo contributes only $28.72 to the company's overall value.
There is one area where Yahoo is strong, and that's in comparison with other portals, like AOL and MSN, particularly in the U.S. The last graph here shows unique visitors to a variety of major portals in the U.S. and selected other countries. As you can see, Yahoo's 190 million U.S. visitors give it a strong showing versus MSN's 130 million and AOL's 61 million.
So if Thompson runs into trouble today, we can suggest one fallback position: Hey, at least we're not AOL.


Asus Q534U is part of ASUSTek Computer Inc. Q-series laptops. The laptop has a 360 degree folding hinge that allows the device to change between laptop and tablet by a simple fold.
Is there a way to change the color of the keyboard backlight on this model?
What keyboard backlight colour do you have now?
This is how to check if your model has the keyboard backlight feature.
I'm only asking because the user manual (taken from this Asus support page) doesn't mention the backlight feature for the keyboard at all.
If you do have the feature, and you have Win 10 installed, try downloading and installing the latest Asus ATK Package drivers. Ensure that you download the correct drivers appropriate to your Win 10 OS version (32-bit or 64-bit.). Also take heed of the Notes: near the top of the page, regarding installation of the drivers.
Press <FN> + < C> keys to cycle through the available backlight colors.
White, Red, Green and Blue are active by default; up to two custom colors can be added to the cycle in the System Setup (BIOS).
Unfortunately, that didn't work. :( But thanks for your answer.
I think that method is for other models, but not mine.
Sorry, I'm just now seeing this. It's okay, thank you for responding.
You need to click FN + Caps Lock!!!
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Q: Filling bar colours with the mean of another continuous variable in ggplot2 histograms I have a dataset at the municipality level. I would like to draw a histogram of a given variable and, at the same time, fill the bars with another continuous variable (using a color gradient). This is because I believe the municipalities with low values of the variable I am plotting the histogram for have very different population size (on average) when comparing with the municipalities that are in the upper end of the distribution.
Using the mtcar data, say I would like to plot the distribution of mpg and fill the bars with a continuous color to represent the mean of the variable wt for each of the histogram bars. I typed the code below but I don't know how to actually make the fill option take the average of wt. I would want a legend to show up with a color gradient so as to inform if the mean value of wt for each histogram bar is low-medium-high in relative terms.
  mtcars %>%
  ggplot(aes(x=mpg, fill=wt)) +
  geom_histogram()

A: It is not a histogram exactly, but was the closest that I could think for your problem
library(tidyverse)

mtcars %>%
  #Create breaks for mpg, where this sequence is just an example
  mutate(mpg_cut = cut(mpg,seq(10,35,5))) %>%
  #Count and mean of wt by mpg_cut
  group_by(mpg_cut) %>%
  summarise(
    n = n(),
    wt = mean(wt)
  ) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x=mpg_cut, fill=wt)) +
  #Bar plot
  geom_col(aes(y = n), width = 1)

A: If you want a genuine histogram you need to transform your data to do this by summarizing it first, and plot with geom_col rather than geom_histogram. The base R function hist will help you here to generate the breaks and midpoints:
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

mtcars %>%
  mutate(mpg = cut(x      = mpg,
                   breaks = hist(mpg, breaks = 0:4 * 10, plot = FALSE)$breaks,
                   labels = hist(mpg, breaks = 0:4 * 10, plot = FALSE)$mids)) %>%
  group_by(mpg) %>%
  summarize(n = n(), wt = mean(wt)) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = as.numeric(as.character(mpg)), y = n, fill = wt)) +
  scale_x_continuous(limits = c(0, 40), name = "mpg") +
  geom_col(width = 10) +
  theme_bw()


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Mitsubishi Corporation Participates in Laos Wind Farm Project
TOKYO, Jun 16, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) has reached agreement to invest in Impact Energy Asia Development Limited (IEAD), the developer of a 600MW capacity onshore wind farm project in Laos. MC will invest through an intermediate holding company together with a group company of Impact Electrons Siam Co., Ltd. in Thailand. The initiative is being executed through Diamond Generating Asia, Limited (DGA), MC's wholly owned subsidiary in Hong Kong.
Site Location
The onshore wind farm will be located in Sekong and Attapeu Provinces in southern Laos. The wind farm will be the first wind farm in Laos and the largest in South East Asia. By installing a dedicated power transmission line to Vietnam, power from the wind farm is planned to be sold to Vietnam Electricity, a state-owned electric power company in Vietnam, for 25 years.
In Vietnam, in addition to the need for further power supply to support its growing economy, it is crucial to secure a power source in the dry season, when the operating rate of one of Vietnam's main power sources, hydro power generation, is limited. The onshore wind farm is expected to operate at a high rate during the dry season, when hydro power generation is limited, and is expected to contribute to the stabilization of Vietnam's power system while making country's energy mix greener.
The onshore wind farm is being developed as part of a memorandum of understanding on power interchange signed between the Vietnamese and Lao governments in October 2016. If electricity exports from this project are realized, it is expected to be the first cross-border electricity interchange from wind power generation in South East Asia as planned by Lao government.
We will continue to contribute to the realization of a decarbonized society by striving to achieve both a stable supply of electricity in Vietnam and addressing the environmental challenges for the stable society.
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Nashville's mayor, Megan Barry, alongside Bill Peduto of Pittsburgh spoke to the media outside PPG Paints Arena this afternoon to announce the terms of the arrangement.
"As everyone has come to expect over the years, the winning city's mayors always like to have a bit of fun with it and make the losers pay by doing something embarrassing," Barry said. "This year, Bill and I have chosen to take it one step further and really punish the loser."
"Rather than wearing each other's jersey, the one of us unlucky enough to lose will be saddled with the shame of wearing an Avalanche jersey around town for a week."
Peduto said he suggested the idea of tarring and feathering the loser, but Barry took it up a notch with her Colorado suggestion.
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The military's media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), issued a situation update Saturday afternoon to notify that two soldiers had been martyred while returning fire to Indian posts firing across the Line of Control (LoC).
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Earlier, ISPR had reported Indian firing across the LoC, as a result of which two citizens were martyred while two others, including a woman, were injured. Separately, our correspondent reported that a 19-year-old youth, identified as Abdul Ghaffar, was injured in Darra Sher Khan when he was shot at by an Indian sniper from across the LoC.
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Decade-Long Battle Over Hospital Merger Resolved
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(WOMENSENEWS)–It could be any other medical building in a parking lot, flanking a hospital.
But the outpatient surgery center that had its ribbon-cutting ceremony on Feb. 26 in Kingston, N.Y., six feet from Kingston Hospital, is far more than that.
By providing a place where Kingston Hospital could relocate some of its reproductive services the facility has moved abortion politics literally out of the way–a conflict that held up a hospital merger for more than a decade.
It also offers a possible model for other mergers that are being driven by the same state budgetary constraints and raising similar political hackles.
"Hospital mergers are a trend nationwide," said Cynthia Rozenberg, chief planning officer for Health Alliance Planning, an interim name for the consortium now forming to merge two secular hospitals with a religious hospital. "We are only one of many."
Rozenberg said the Foxhall Ambulatory Surgery Center is dedicated to guaranteeing access to reproductive health services. "We are moving abortions and sterilizations to a new center, and offering other services like gynecology and ophthalmology. It is one part of the new relationship between Kingston and Benedictine Hospital."
In 2006 the Berger Commission, a state panel created to review health care in New York state, ruled that Benedictine and Kingston hospitals had to merge to cut costs or one of them would be required to shut down.
"The perfect solution would be to have let Kingston Hospital keep delivering all the services it has over the years," said Lois Uttley, director of the Merger Watch Project, a group that formed when a merger between religious and secular hospitals in Troy, N.Y., resulted in a loss of contraceptive services.
"But this solution preserves key reproductive services within Kingston Hospital. It transfers the rest of them to an ambulatory surgery center immediately adjacent to the hospital."
Groups in Other States Look On
Uttley says that community groups in Michigan, New Mexico, Colorado and Kentucky have been watching the merger in Kingston, a town of 23,000 on the western shore of the Hudson River, 91 miles north of New York City.
Between 1990 and 2001, 170 mergers united Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals, according to Catholics for a Free Choice, a Washington, D.C., advocacy organization. According to the group, reproductive health care was either reduced or eliminated in 50 percent resulting facilities.
The Foxhall center will operate as an independent, separately funded entity. That means Kingston Hospital will not violate Benedictine's religious codes against performing abortions and sterilizations.
Family planning services will continue to be provided at a separate clinic inside Kingston Hospital. Both Kingston and Benedictine distribute emergency contraception within their facilities. Benedictine offers emergency contraception to rape victims, despite Catholic policy that opposes all forms of birth control.
Uttley said Merger Watch's greatest concern now is the financial viability of the Foxhall Center, since it relies on a state grant to survive.
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When construction on Foxhall began in August 2008, anti-choice activists picketed Kingston Hospital's parking lot and sidewalks. On Feb. 26, two anti-choice activists picketed the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
To defuse protest, planners diversified the center's services by including urology and podiatry. That way, protesters would not know which patients are coming and going for which services, making it more difficult to attack and intimidate women seeking abortions.
Jo Shuman is a nurse at a local men's prison and organizer for Health Care STAT, a Kingston-based community organization founded to protect women's health in light of the hospital mergers.
The group began almost 12 years ago, when a hospital merger was first being proposed among Benedictine and two smaller secular facilities, Kingston and Northern Dutchess.
"There were so many implications of the merger," Shuman said. "Many of us got involved because we realized during the women's movement that to really have power, we had to be in control of our bodies. And we were scared that we would lose reproductive health services in our community."
One thing Shuman said she worried about was that a merger would prohibit nurses and doctors at Kingston from counseling patients about safe sex and family planning. That, she said, could have posed a deadly problem if nurses could not talk about condoms to an HIV-positive patient. But in the merger agreement, Kingston Hospital will continue to provide family planning services through its Family Medical Institute clinic.
The compromise is a far cry from 1997, when Kingston, as well as the local Northern Dutchess, agreed to eliminate a range of reproductive services–such as tubal ligation, vasectomy and abortion–in order to merge with Benedictine.
That's when Health Care STAT started getting involved, Shuman said. Merger Watch has provided Health Care STAT with legal resources during the merger negotiations and its staff shared its story with other U.S. communities keeping an eye on similar mergers that put reproductive services at risk.
Administrators Saw No Choice
Had the merger gone through along the lines initially accepted by all the hospitals, community members would have had to travel miles to a small city across the widest portion of the Hudson River for reproductive health programs.
The coalition proposed alternatives, gathered thousands of signatures for a petition to save reproductive services, staged rallies, took out five billboards against the merger and mailed hundreds of letters to newspaper editors.
By September 1998 the Kingston Hospital board announced it would not support any future merger plans that forced the secular hospital to comply with the Catholic ethical and religious directives.
In 2006, the Commission on Healthcare Facilities, a group charged with lowering health costs throughout New York state, ordered Kingston and Benedictine to either merge to cut costs or face the shutdown of one or the other.
The hospitals resumed merger negotiations and at that point Uttley said she was seriously worried. "We were fearful that the hospital that could be left was the Benedictine Hospital. If that were the case, then all reproductive services would have been lost in Kingston."
Benedictine, Kingston and Margaretville Memorial Hospital, a 15-bed, secular hospital, are forming a health-care consortium to be called the Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley. It cannot be completed until Foxhall Ambulatory Surgery Center is up and running, due to requirements negotiated during the merger.
Together, the three hospitals receive about 15,000 admissions a year, according to Merger Watch. In the new consortium, each will promote the programs in which they have the most expertise, and will try to cut costs by avoiding service duplication.
Rebecca Harshbarger is a reporter for Women's eNews, based in New York City.
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Q&A on Commercial Roofing Projects
We know the importance of checking with the Better Business Bureau and investigating a contractor before hiring them for a residential roofing job. (READ Q&A Part 1) But what about commercial roofing projects? Is there as much of a gap in quality in commercial roofing companies that homeowners may suffer from fly-by night operations or storm chasers?
Sam Boak: CEO of Boak & Sons Inc., Austintown: As for commercial roofing companies going out and knocking on doors, trying to get work, usually the newer companies are doing that. The older reputable commercial roofing contractors that have been here for years, we're not. We're waiting for the phone to ring. When you're ready, you'll call us because you've heard our reputation. We tell business people to talk to other business people in our community, and contact your insurance company.
Insurance companies, a lot of them, especially if you're a larger commercial business, have had dealings with roofing contractors and they know what contractors they've had problems with for insuring, or where there's been claims registered against them.
So if you're asking how does a business owner find out about a roofing contractor, contact your insurance company or insurance agent and run names by them, because they know a lot of what is happening out there and can give you a good read-out.
Do you have horror stories to tell of commercial jobs that have been done poorly?
Boak: Yes. Without naming names, the developer of a shopping plaza in the area hired an-out-town commercial roofing contractor and mid-way through the project, the contractor had received most of the money for the job, and didn't finish the job. We were called in to finish that job and unfortunately it will cost that general contractor probably $100,000.
That happens a lot?
Boak: It's been happening more and more each year.
Would you say it's primarily with out-of-town contractors coming in that cause the problem?
Boak: It's 50/50. It's as many out-of-town roofing ontractors as it is contractors here that keep changing their name, or plan on not being around here in a few years.
What are some of the big commercial jobs you've done locally?
Boak: In the last year or so, we've done the post office in downtown Youngstown. We're presently doing the Mahoning County Courthouse, the city hall annex building next to the courthouse. We've done a lot of work with Youngstown State University. YSU is an excellent customer of ours, and a lot of other new construction is happening as well.
When it comes to commercial projects, there are different types of roofs. Pitch roofs, flat roofs: Why the difference?
Boak: Some is for design, some is for the logistics of where you put the heating and air conditioning units. On a shingled roof or a pitched roof as you would call it, the HVAC units have to be on the side of the building or in the building somehow. Where you build a building with a flat roof, you can put the heating and air-conditioning units on top of the roof, and allow for better accessibility for those types of factors.
What's the advantage beyond the heating and air conditioning unit? Is it cheaper to have a flat roof? Does it depend on how big the building is?
Boak: It's just the logistics of how big that building is. It's the width of the building and the length. You can put a flat roof on if it's wider or longer. You can get better coverage for it in a sense.
How has the roofing business changed in the 30-plus years you've operated Boak & Sons?
If you go back decades ago, you put a roof on and you may get 10 years use of it. That was the length of a warranty years ago.
We did a roof for Sheely's Furniture & Appliance store 27 years ago and it had a 10-year warranty. But Sheely's they just put a new roof on a year ago; they finally replaced it after 27 years. And it wasn't because it was really leaking. They just knew it was time to be prepared for the next 27 years. Now, the warranty that we were able to give Sheely's, the systems have changed, and it was a 20-year roof warranty.
But we have many projects that we roofed 20-25 years ago, that are still in excellent condition.
When you say systems have changed, are you referring to materials?
Boak: Materials and the type of applications, yes. The manufacturers are making better product, but they're also spending more time to teach you how to install it properly if you're that type of contractor. I say that because education comes at a cost. Some companies don't want to pay for that education to train their people properly to put down a roof that should last 20, 25 or even 30 years. They just buy the material from the manufacturer, they put it down, and hopefully the manufacturer will warranty it as they can.
But when the manufacturer comes and inspects the roof, they only see the top side; they can't see underneath. When a problem starts to surface in five or eight years down the road, the manufacturer has a right to say, "We void this warranty, because it was not installed properly at installation time".
What would be situations that would cause something like that?
Boak: We always recommend that you always take the roof off down to the deck, that way you can see. One of the reasons people are replacing a roof is because it may have been leaking. We'll if it's been leaking; it's rotting something whether it's wood or steel, whatever that substrate is, it's rotting that.
If you cover over a roof, you're not seeing how good or bad that substrate is. You need a good substrate to hold the nails, the fasteners, the screws, whatever is holding that roof down. If there's a lot of moisture still in there, it will come up into the roofing system and hamper the value of it.
How do you deal with commercial customers in terms of maintenance?
Boak: We offer maintenance programs where we will visit your facility once or twice a year, depending on the program you want to do, and we will check and repair anything that needs repaired.
Some of it is covered under warranty, some may have minor billing related to it. But we also can give you a plan of what you should look at two years or eight years down the road, to start budgeting for a new roof. Many businesses get caught, and realize they didn't budget for $100,000 this year for a new roof because they needed to buy three tow-motors, for example. And they can't do both.
Your skilled tradesmen, do they all belong to a union?
Boak: Most all of them do. We have ones that are union, and we have some that are nonunion, dependent upon what's needed on the jobs. We've been very blessed because we get the cream of the crop. We have a full benefit package for all of our employees and when they come here, they seem to want to stay. They made a commitment and this is what they want to do and they see the benefit of helping somebody, and that is what these roofers do. They take pride in being able to look at a building and say, "I roofed that building 10 years ago, and it's still standing good."
What certifications do they have?
Boak: All types from the manufacturers. The unions offer classes, and then we work with the unions in reference to drug testing. Since we do a lot of government work, we obviously have to submit names and have them checked to make sure they don't have any arrests or whatever it be that could be a concern.
You're very active with the Builders Association of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Why is that important to you?
Boak: To me, as a business person, when you take from the community, you have to give back. We as business people are obviously asking the people to support us and our business. I want to be involved to see what good construction is, what's bad construction, what's the right way to do stuff. That also allows me to publicize who we are, so I can recruit the best employees.
How do you buy locally in your business?
Boak: Every which way we can. We try to go to local supply houses and even though a national account will have a really good price, we'll go to a local. The bottom line is, especially on a house, if a bundle of shingles costs an extra buck, that only means like an extra $100, $200 on a house. On a house job that's worth $8,000 to $12,000 dollars, that's not going to make or break the deal, but doing locally does.
Boak: It keeps local people in business. When I need something, I can get it right away. I go to a local supply house; I can get that product that day. The driver of the truck who's delivering that product is the same guy who delivers to us all the time. He's not delivering to Pittsburgh today, Cleveland tomorrow, Akron the next day and then Youngstown. It's typically the same people every day that we have contact with.
How are you building your business?
Boak: In part with some new services, like the repairs. We push that because we find it's much needed. We see roofs that were installed by other companies as little as five years ago that are already having major problems. The building owners don't even want to call those people back, so we're out there trying to service them. That's probably one of the fastest growing parts of our business.
The other is just being up front with people to have our customers tell our story. That we did their roof x-number of years ago, they haven't had to call us for repairs, and the roof is still standing good.
The key to all this is we don't subcontract our work out. We sell performance. The people who come out to your house, your commercial office building, or whatever you own, they get a paycheck from Boak and Sons with the payroll taxes taken out of it. There's a difference. Our guys are not paid piece-rate. They're paid hourly.
When you're paid piece-rate, you're in a rush to hurry up and get that job done so you can start your next job. When you're hourly, we pay for the guys to do the job right the first time. If it takes an extra hour to do a job, take the time and do it.
We only have two rules here at the company. One is safety first, and always should be. The second one is just as important: Never ever, ever cut a corner.
Unfortunately over the years we've had some, we thought, very good employees who thought they could cut a corner and would get away with it, and we had to let them go.
How do your give back to the community?
Boak: When we donate money or actual work on a project, we try and see what the needs are, who it affects, how many we can affect, without having personal interest into it. It's something that you get when you're asked to help — a feeling of how many people we help affect. Just like we did the war-vet commercial that was on the Super Bowl. I'm not a veteran, but I'm blessed that there are those people out there that did their job for me.
What final thought would you like to leave with the business community?
Boak: Buyer beware. You need to find out where contractors and construction workers have been working before you hire them. Talk to other guys who have been working with them on job sites, to see if they're worthy.
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The American Association for Gifted Children (AAGC) has been located in the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University since 2001 and continues the mission of the two pioneer educational leaders and founders, Dr. Ruth Strang and Miss Pauline Williamson who believed that "the gifted were the most neglected children in our democracy." AAGC's mission since 2001 is to continue to focus on the highly gifted, but with a new goal to increase opportunities for the most neglected and underserved in gifted programs. These underserved populations include children who have limited English language experiences, economic disadvantages, educational disadvantages, disabilities, or factors that make it difficult to demonstrate potential on traditional identification measures of talented and gifted. They have historically been (and continue to be) underrepresented in gifted programs.
AAGC is an advocacy organization and collaborates with other research groups at Duke and with the Exceptional Children Division of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to carry out the mission and goals of the organization. AAGC is currently collaborating with a new center on Research Education and Development of Youth (REDY) and local school districts to conduct research on a Javits Education Nurturing Program to close the achievement gap and to increase identification of students for gifted programs from underserved groups.
Since coming to Duke University in 1989, AAGC has been affiliated with the Talent Identification Program (TIP), the Center for Child and Family Policy and the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke University.
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In a study called "Nurturing for a Bright Tomorrow," teachers at 16 Wake elementary schools have received intensive training on how to induce students in kindergarten through second grade to think more deeply. The students are taught as if they're all gifted. They're pushed to use complete sentences, think about their answers and then explain them aloud.
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