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OMB's Metzenbaum leaves behind an invigorated performance culture
Monday - 5/6/2013, 5:56am EDT
Shelley Metzenbaum, whose last day was Friday as the associate director for personnel and performance at the Office of Management and Budget, said in an exit interview one of the major differences is how agencies are using data to improve outcomes.
Shelley Metzenbaum, former associate director for personnel and performance, OMB
It has been Metzenbaum's job to be the Obama administration's activist for performance management over the last four years. She worked closely with Jeff Zients, the deputy director for management and chief performance officer, on the broad performance management strategy. Zients left OMB on May 1, leaving the government without its the two top performance management officials.
Dashboards and stat sessions
Metzenbaum was responsible for the day-to-day performance initiatives, including helping to usher in a new approach that focused on dashboards and "stat" sessions. The stat sessions started small. For instance, TechStat, initially focused on one troubled IT project. The sessions have morphed over time into initiatives such as PortfolioStat, which looks across an agency to find redundant spending. The administration also developed CyberStat, HRStat and AcqStat to analyze agency efforts in each of these areas.
Finally, Metzenbaum helped agencies and bureaus set three-to-eight high priority goals. She also oversaw how they were implemented through data-driven reviews, such as HUDStat, FDATrack and FEMAStat sessions.
"We are seeing some real promising signs," she said. "The use of goals, the use of data, the analysis, the drill downs, we are seeing real promising work going on. We think the Government Accountability Office studies are picking changes in culture. Is it wholesale? No, it takes time."
Combination of past approaches
When the Obama administration came into office in 2009, it created a performance management agenda that combined some ideas from the methods used in both the Clinton and Bush administrations — the 1,000 flowers bloom and top-down approaches — to engage deputy secretaries, but also employees at the program level.
Metzenbaum said getting deputy secretaries to pay close attention to the performance goals started by requiring them to set the high-priority goals and participate in the "stat" sessions. The bottom-up approach included everything from the SAVE Awards, which asked frontline employees for money saving ideas, to participation in how data is analyzed and goals are set.
"I think we've got a phenomenally strong foundation. We are seeing huge attitude changes and huge excitement from people in the agencies starting at the top from deputy secretaries, who can talk about these goals," she said. "We also are seeing it start to happen across the board. We are not seeing everywhere, all the time. What we are trying to do is get the top down, bottoms up and keep learning. We also are seeing agencies use the Employee Viewpoint Survey to really figure where there are strengths, and where there are weaknesses, and learn from each other. They also are learning how to analyze the data."
Metzenbaum said the biggest difference is agency managers are not resisting the need to set and measure goals, but are seeing value in what the approach does for the agency.
"I think we've really changed the mindset. Sometimes, I like to say we reset the mindset where people treated goals and measurements as something they needed to do because it was a requirement, and it went into plans and reports that nobody read, to now really using the data and realizing a goal is really a very powerful, simple and effective shorthand to communicating priorities," she said. "Measurement that is frequent, that is fresh, gives you data and it is not about punishment, but about improvement. We are seeing excitement. We are seeing agencies come together with huge excitement to learn from each other about how to do risk management, how do they analyze data and look for positive outliers."
Expanding the performance conversation
The next step for agencies, Metzenbaum said, is for agencies to use the goals and measurements to engage vendors and the public more broadly.
"I think it's trying to get the incentives structure right when we are working with those delivery partners, whether it's contractors or grantees," she said. "I think it's just a learning curve that we need to move along. We need to learn how to use measurement to learn across delivery partners. There are some areas where we've had terrific progress, but there are a lot of areas where we need to go further."
Metzenbaum wouldn't say what's next for her. She wants to continue working with governments to improve their performance.
"I'm leaving with very mixed emotions. I've loved working at OMB. I've loved working with performance improvement officers, and also the goal leaders across the government and the federal employees who are just phenomenal, and phenomenally committed," she said. "It's time for us to let this foundation we built to take root, and the agencies, OMB and the PIOs are huge leaders in this way and I think I can be very helpful from the outside now."
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THURSDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Two-thirds of preschoolers
in the United States are exposed to more than the maximum two hours
per day of screen time from television, computers, video games and
DVDs recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, a new study
has found.
Researchers from Seattle Children's Research Institute and the
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"A majority of children under the age of 5 years in the United States spend almost 40 hours a week with caregivers other than their parents, and it's important to understand what kind of screen-time exposure children are getting with these other caregivers," study author Dr. Pooja Tandon said in a news release from the journal's publisher.
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This recent run of popularity for Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein comes a little out of nowhere. Doyle's place in music history is certainly assured, having been a fixture for the Misfits. Yet, Doyle never seemed to possess the stature (gargantuan physical size notwithstanding) to float an entire project by himself and appeared more likely to forever be typecast as Jerry Only's monolith of a brother. Yet, Doyle has reunited with Misfits legend Dr. Chud and here we are talking about an album with "Doyle" emblazoned across the top.
The first impression of Doyle's "Abominator" is a "hey, what gives?" moment, and an unfortunate side effect of Doyle's Misfits legacy. The feeling is a product of the fact that the songs on "Abominator" are all over three minutes, which seems unbelievable. Nonetheless, in a backward and probably unintentional way, this helps to prove that Doyle can be an artist of his own accord.
Several trends remain intact, however. There are still the requisite songs about blood, death and carnal relations with dead bodies (in that order.) In particular, "Cemeterysexxx" covers just about all of those topics in bizarro-sweet detail, a twisted tale of love and lust. Campy though it may be (and exceptionally campy at that,) the material doesn't seem as poignant or deliciously sarcastic in 2013. This raises the sort of metaphysical, universalistic questions that metal and punk find themselves facing in this new millennium regarding the nature of theme and validity and context. In any event, that subtext is not a fault of Doyle's songwriting or "Abominator," which accomplishes its goals with ease.
Musically, "Abominator" only bears some resemblance to the punk roots that Doyle is borne from, but does still reflect much of the straightforward rock and roll blues that so characterizes the genre. There is little in the form of virtuosity, but there doesn't need to be; songs like the title track and "Headhunter" provide enough emphasis that the musical message is clear and undisturbed (well, disturbed, but…you get the idea.)
"Abominator" goes through highs (the excellent "Learn to Bleed") and lows ("Valley of Shadows" is a pretty heavy dud,) but finishes strong with "Bloodstains" and "Hope Hell is Warm," two songs helped into an upper echelon by the cranked-to-eleven vocal performance of veteran Alex Story, who howls his words throughout both.
This album plays much in the same vein as another New York/New Jersey metal record this year, A Pale Horse Named Death's "Lay My Soul to Waste." The music is solid and enjoyable, and if APHND has just a little more edge, Doyle has a greater range and is slightly more versatile. Of course, it bears repeating that "Abominator" is also loaded with camp and sardonic, graphic imagery, trading in subtle metaphor for an approach more similar to Misfits-with-Graves era hits like "Dig Up Her Bones."
"Abominator" suffers from no particular fundamental deficiencies and establishes Doyle, and Dr. Chud I suppose, as viable solo artists. It's a fun, if not earth-shattering ride, and worth a few spins to see if it fits you. If there is such a thing as a summer metal album as there used to be in rock (Mungo Jerry, anyone?) this may be it.


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We did try to vote the rotten mess 'out of existence.' Twice.
First, by giving Obama a resounding victory in 2008, and then by giving him another decisive victory, this year.
The problem is that the Repugnicans are all so beholden to the big banks, they have stooped to the unprecedented use of the filibuster, to block any true meaningful reforms.
There is blame to go around in regards to the mortgages that were, one could say ordered, but remember where the direction to give home loans to unqualified buyers came from. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd (both Democrat) came up with the scheme that pushed the banks down the path of insolvency. They wrote out the direction and the majority Democrat Party made it law! GW just signed it and then was crucified by the Democrats when the banks collapsed. GW presided over a majority Democrat Congress the last two years of his 2nd term. The only blame I give him is that he allowed the Democrats to run amok with their SPENDING programs that ran the banks down the tube.
Democrats have the uncanny ability to run up huge deficits and then blame it on the Republicans. Even more amazing is how the Democrats can continue to borrow and spend and even raid the Social Security coffers and still are successful in blaming the Republicans. Yet in all this political gaming a Democrat president can run this country into a hole and come out free of any blame.
Instead of looking at what the country can give you, look at what you can give the country. There have been times when the Republicans have lowered taxes and at the same more Americans had a job. The taxes generated from payroll taxes and the spending that consumers had done did more to raise the government income than any tax hike.
We should push the rich to invest their money into businesses that employ more workers so that more people can afford a home. Tax the rich and they will just move, and then you wonder why our corporations run overseas to make their money. When you keep putting more and more in a jobless, welfare like society there are only two choices; get the rich to create more jobs or tax the hell out anyone who has a job to feed those who don't have one. When there are more jobless than there are those with jobs taxes can only up on all to pay for the jobless. Stop blaming GW and look at what the Democrats have given us.


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You'll never forget this true story! Peg Kehret got polio when she was 10 years old, leaving her unable to walk. Peg needed to leave her family in southern Minnesota, and move to a special place in Minneapolis called The Sheltering Arms Hospital. There she lived with other children who were being treated for polio. Peg eventually recovered and grew up to become a children's author. You won't want to miss this wonderful story of her brave fight against polio.
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The State Board of Regents voted Wednesday to prohibit illegal immigrants from attending any college that has rejected academically qualified applicants for the past two academic years because of a lack of space or other issues.
The vote means Georgia will join South Carolina as the only states banning illegal immigrants from public colleges. South Carolina bans these students from all public colleges, while Georgia's rules will apply to some campuses.
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Before the meeting, about 20 people organized a protest and urged the regents to vote against the ban. The group included students, professors and representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union. They called the ban "un-American" and carried signs that read: "Education not deportation!" and "Board of Regents, do the right thing, please don't ban me!"
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What (if anything) should be done about gender inequality in media or films?
If you've been keeping up with this topic lately, you might have heard that some Swedish cinemas are instituting the Bechdel Test to measure how many women there are in talking roles, not about men, in their films. This is one example of a step taken towards equality in the movie industry, and towards recognizing the gender roles created through media, that are usually unfavorable to women. Only 18% of top movies in 2012 had a female protagonist. Women in movies rarely do anything important by themselves, and there is still the general notion that the greatest thing for a woman is marriage, and when it comes to action, the best she can be is a hardly active, supporting role. Of course, this could all go the other way, when we notice that violent masculinity is also a gender role greatly promoted for men, in addition to little films allowing males to truly express their feelings. Negative gender roles are promoted for both genders, although the lack of women is a grand statement.
On the other hand of this inequality is that films are in fact an art, and there is no reason why art should have to be constrained, and not allowed to reflect how the director sees the world. Maybe film inequality is just a reflection of the ideology of the society we live in.
What do you think? Should anything be done about the gender inequality demonstrated by film or other media? How?
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Dec 5 2013: Film, like all the arts is better at reflecting the world than at changing it. Things tend to change through art when the reflection shows us things that disturb us enough to need to change them. This is why political art is often marginalized in its time.
For that reason, I would like to see a stronger reflection of the feminine in film because it would signal that the very problems you point out are being recognized and change is happening. These things are not, however, only related to the status of women, but to the status of the feminine. In addition to the need for a linear narrative (which is, by the way a masculine trait), the arts require a strong conflict and direct action to resolve the conflict. This tends to lead toward masculine story lines reflecting masculine attitudes and masculine strategies. Even when the heroes are women, there is a bias in favor of women who are capable of acting like men in dealing with the conflicts. The more feminine traits of dealing with conflict through empathy, nurturing, and mutually-beneficial relationships are not seen as having the dramatic impact of car chases, gunfights and explosions. And when the story lines feature women's stories, they tend to focus on competition for men or for status in a masculine world.
There is, of course, a significant amount of independent film making that is able to deal with important real-world conflict from a feminine perspective; but these films are still seen as niche-films, not suited to general audience distribution. Mainstream film goes where the blockbuster money is; and as long as that reflects our masculinized cultural norm, then it will be based in a masculine perspective most of the time.
What's to be done? Work for gender equality everywhere; work to value the feminine everywhere; keep the change happening.
Dec 6 2013: If you associate popularised media from the past and today with masculinity, and then propose that masculine portrayal is the issue, then you exclude the possibility that the components of that media are correct and should be used ("masculine story lines, masculine attitudes, masculine strategies"). This is a problem as it promotes an opposition and exclusion as opposed to negotiation and intertwinement. When discussing sensitive topics it would be logical not to make assumptions such as linearity being a "masculine trait". You make the case that feminine characteristics are not capable in dealing with conflict or inducing intrigue, when that is simply not the case. There are many films in which the "masculine trait" results in a negative outcome, and the "feminine" results in a positive resolution. It can be equally damaging to portray men and women in this way but there is a reason why only a minor percentage of the population notice it. Sensitivity, people's perceptions and opinion differ around the world, no matter what you do, someone will be offended by it; there is a line that needs to be drawn to protect freedom of expression.
By all means i support equal rights but it seems that i am in opposition to a common view, hence my view will not be favoured by many, however let me leave you with one of my favourite quotes; an excellent representation of the texas sharpshooter logical fallacy.
"All the different angles that when occupied make all the other angles seem outrageously wrong, that every facet glitter clear and bright, brandishing its sword like a figure in a stained glass scene." - Dona Nobis Pacem
Dec 6 2013: It was not my intention to pass judgment as to the correctness of anything. "Masculine" and "feminine" traits are determined culturally, reinforced through a myriad of constant cultural messages, are part of our determination of cultural norms, and are highly influential in the development of gender identity within the culture. While many of gender-assigned traits probably originated with observations of biological differences between men and women, the place where biology and acculturation intersect isn't clear. Some things are pretty clear, however. All humans express all the traits of masculinity and femininity in differing proportions. Masculine/feminine does not equal male/female or men/women. Our culture identifies traits such as linear thinking; focus on informational content of messages; the use of physical force for the resolution of conflict, and conversely, the use of logic in problem solving; sexual freedom; and stoicism as masculine traits. Nurturing; a focus on the emotional content of messages; the use of negotiation, compromise and accommodation in dealing with conflicts and the use of emotional reasoning and intuition in problem solving; either sexual restraint or promiscuity; sensitivity to one relationships with others; and emotional vulnerability are seen as feminine traits.
Filmmakers know these things and, like much of our culture generally, have a bias toward the masculine. Much is made about lead females such as Katniss in "The Hunger Games," but the film, it can be argued, emphasizes the well-developed masculine traits of the central character, whose most dangerous adversaries are also masculine. Strongly feminine films, such as "The Hours," are often critically acclaimed, but they are in the minority of American films, even of films with strong female leads.
Both masculine and feminine traits offer ways of dealing with conflict successfully, even dramatically. Our cultural bias is toward the masculine.
Dec 8 2013: But I disagree that our genderic traits are only developed by cultural reinforcements. There ARE some basic biological differences, including in brains, between the genders. Take for example the nurturing. We see among the animals that by vast majority, within the animals, the female takes care of the offsprings rather than the male. Among the animals there's no cultural reinforcements but only natural tendencies. However, the humanity's mistake is that we have tried to push ahead those natural genderic differences by cultural compulsions and thus unethically reinforced those natural genderic differences.
Nevertheless, many studies show some basic natural differences, including in brains, between the genders, and that those differences do typify certain genderic behaviors, as given below:
"10 Gender Differences Backed Up by Science"
"It's not sexist to accept that biology affects behavior":
"Gender-Specific Differences Found In Human Brain":
Book: "The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain" (read the Book Description little below):
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