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Then plop this independent gal into motherhood and see how she flails. The masculine traits that served women well in career and life immediately clash with the requirements of mothering.
In Women's Moods: What Every Woman Must Know about Hormones, the Brain, and Emotional Health, Deborah Sichel, M.D., and Jeanne Watson Driscoll, M.S., R.N., C.S., say it well: "The postpartum period is an inherently regressive time, when a woman needs to depend on others for care, food and safety. She must be able to relinquish her assertive role and allow others to care for her so she is freed to care for her baby."
Indeed, this is a tall order. Drop that recordbreaking efficiency and your down-to-a-science multi-tasking, because your maximum speed will now be a snail-paced ten miles per hour. You must focus on each infinitesimally tiny miracle of your baby's first months and be present "in the moment," not distracted by the fourteen other tasks you're used to simultaneously managing. For the next year, you will accomplish absolutely nothing except for feeding and diapering. And, despite your usual comprehensive research and thoughtful planning, your child will prove so unpredictable that feeling good about your work, much less that you're on top of it, is out of the question.
In business jargon, Western moms go into parenting with an entirely different "skill set" than that which the job requires. Legend has it we're endowed with the right stuff for motherhood, except that most of us are rusty, having spent the last decade or two working in other arenas than babysitting. The adjustment is so abrupt and so dramatic that it paralyzes many moms, with the exception of a few women I met who had remained especially close to their extended families. These moms had realistic expectations of life with small children because of their longtime exposure to the little menaces.
Why Am I Not Better at This?
Others of us, who expect to conquer motherhood the same way we did the work world or single life, end up asking one painful question: "What the hell is wrong with me?"
Janine, a former elementary school teacher in Oregon, asked this, too. For the first four months of his life, Janine's newborn wailed incessantly from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. She remarks, "When my husband got home from work, he'd get the baby down for a nap very easily, and say to me, 'What's the problem?' And, for weeks, I kept taking the baby to the doctor but they told me the crying was nothing to worry about."
Janine continued, "There was nothing else I could do but hold the baby, try to calm him, and try to calm myself. Meanwhile my three-year-old son watched TV ten hours a day." When she said this, Janine broke down in tears, guilt-ridden about neglecting her oldest.
Janine's littlest one turned out to have a milk allergy, a problem that was easily solved. Once relieved, the baby got much easier to handle, and Janine stopped blaming herself for the enormous strain her family experienced.
A baby's cry pushes an adult's blood pressure up and quickens his or her heart rate, sometimes steeply. Imagine weeks on end in which nervous tension wore at Janine, her baby's screams keeping her shoulders tight to her neck, the pacing and rhythmic jiggling meant to soothe her newborn also making her back and arms ache and the muscles spasm. Then affix a displaced preschooler who wants Mommy to himself, a husband who isn't very empathetic, medical professionals who tell her nothing is wrong, and a claustrophobic house isolating mom from the healing empathy and support she needs. You've got all the ingredients of a deranged, deprived new mommy someone who loves her family so much that she'll suffer and blame herself for the stresses at hand.
I Don't Recognize My Own Body
Compounding problems, few women realize their bodies will not, and may never be, the same after giving birth. I have the misfortune of permanently retaining a pregnant woman's uncanny sense of smell. Five years after giving birth, a whiff of the bathrooms I share with three males at home despite frequent cleaning evokes the aroma of subway stations in most major cities.
Postpartum body changes exceed saggy breasts, rolls of extra stomach skin, or a bigger shoe size. The extreme hair loss a few months after childbirth is maddening. And as sick as you may be of maternity clothes, you may not fit into anything else for some weeks after birth. Over the long term, many moms will be plagued with weight problems and the loss of self-esteem larger sizes can bring.
"I was so excited when I heard that as a new mom, I wouldn't have time to eat," laughs a Las Vegas mother of a six-month-old boy struggling to lose fifteen post-childbirth pounds. "But like all the other phases in life in which I was supposed to be too nervous or too busy to eat, I ate right through it."
As if it hasn't wreaked enough havoc, sleep deprivation also boosts the production of cortisol, a stress hormone that regulates your metabolism of sugar, protein, and fat. Excess cortisol also sends insulin levels soaring, which control blood sugar and fat storage, so that weight loss is more difficult.
Another disappointment? Breast-feeding does not always peel off pounds; sometimes, moms don't shed extra weight till they finish nursing. Other moms can't slim down till they have dedicated hours in which to exercise, hours that are hard to come by during the preschool years.
Am I Dumber Than I Used to Be?
Our brains are not exactly razor sharp in the new mommy stage. Recent findings demonstrate that diminished mental acuity and memory are side effects during, and for several years after, pregnancy. Night after night of interrupted sleep, in which we never achieve the recuperative stage of the rapid eye movement or REM sleep, also make us slow-moving. As more and more mothers of young children continue paid work, our mental function may also be discombobulated by needing to have our heads in two places at once. We mostly say "mommy brain" in jest, but the phenomenon is real: we're not our usual sharp-minded selves.
On Patrick's first visit to my native Kansas City when he was nine months old, my high school friend and I decided enough with Baby van Gogh, it was time for the real thing: a trip to the Nelson Art Gallery. The first setback was a security guard's firm reproach of my baby backpack so that I would quickly develop worn-out arms in addition to museum feet.
Then, after seeing three paintings, tops, Patrick made his chow requirements known, and Diane found a lunch table for us in a lovely fountain-filled courtyard. I remember composing a sentence, getting three words in, readjusting my son so he was comfortable, then realizing I was exposing my breast to the entire metropolitan area. I utterly forgot what I'd been trying to say. Conversation, if you can call it that, went on this way for seven or more disjointed thoughts, before Diane and I settled for quiet admiration of the beautiful room and the mixed greens on our plates. I remember thinking I would never make cogent dialogue again.
Over the long run, though, the ways in which motherhood messes with our brains turns out to be good. Artists with bulging tummies or nursing newborns notice ideas come to them more easily, and that inspiration abounds. A few years into parenthood, moms also become more efficient, and their practice at juggling enormous responsibilities pays off in the end.
Exciting new research studies demonstrate that mothers' brains actually grow, because we're exposed to such enormous new challenges and complexities, and acquire many new talents and skills as a result. The studies suggest that the ways in which our mommy brains stretch, grow, and fire new synapses are eventually a windfall for us. We become bolder, braver, and more efficient in the wake of early motherhood.
Before that recovery occurs, however, many moms feel that a tectonic plate has shifted beneath them. The pressures on mothers have never been more intense, the emotional earthquakes among us never stronger or more numerous. As of yet, only a cadre of medical professionals often women doctors who have experienced the adjustment themselves acknowledge the increasing numbers of angry and utterly depleted new mommies. Indeed, the medical community is not yet addressing the fact that postpartum depression and anxiety are the biggest complications of modern birth.
From What No One Tells the Mom by Marg Stark. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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HGervais wrote:Linda Hamilton joins the cast of Chuck. Oh and Dolph Lundgren & Harry Dean Stanton are making guest appearances.
J.M. Vargas wrote:ORIGINAL DIANA, JANE BADLER, WILL APPEAR IN 2nd SEASON OF ABC'S "V" AS A RECURRING GUEST-STAR: http://www.thewrap.com/television/column-post/jane-badler-lands-recurring-role-v-19939.
J.M. Vargas wrote:TIMOTHY DALTON TO GUEST-STAR ON NBC'S "CHUCK" IN A RECURRING STORY-ARC INVOLVING CHUCK'S MOM (LINDA HAMILTON): http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/nbcs-chuck-adds-a-touch-of-bond-with-timothy-dalton-casting/. Talk about fan service!
HGervais wrote:People can say what they want about Chuck but no show on TV does better stunt casting.
molly1216 wrote:the new Hawaii 5-0 anyone?
liked the reboot, moves like gangbusters but seriously these guys are like the mormon twins go to paradise..
molly1216 wrote: Detroit 187 - your standard issue cop show. Likable leads, um..um...let me think...oh yeah they bleep out the vulgarities...there you go cutting edge tv for the 21st century. yawn.
what he said.Dunnyman wrote:Hawaii 5.0 Now while I had virtually zero respect for any remake of a great show, they took what would still work (the theme, beautiful scenery, bikini clad babes, McGarret's classic Mercury) and threw out the rest, filling it in with very good actors, built in nerd appeal (Grace Park will get an audience all by her lonesome), a great starting storyline, a terrific villain (James Marsters always delivers), and you have a winner! Additional props for a Jean Smart appearance, (why was McGarret's death such a personal thing, hmm?), great writing, a great little advertisement for the iPhone, and for simply re-recording the theme, as is, and not mucking it up with techno or some other equally annoying addition. It made me wanna break out my own drums to play along!.
J.M. Vargas wrote:FOX CANCELS "LONE STAR" AFTER TWO LOW-RATED EPISODES: http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/its-official-fox-cancels-lone-star/
molly1216 wrote:J.M. Vargas wrote:FOX CANCELS "LONE STAR" AFTER TWO LOW-RATED EPISODES: http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/its-official-fox-cancels-lone-star/
gee....and here the radio ad was telling me it was television's newest HIT series...aw shucks.
J.M. Vargas wrote:^^^ Then you'll be happy to know that FOX ORDERS FULL 22-EPISODE SEASON OF "RAISING HOPE" (first show of the new season to get a full-season order): http://www.thewrap.com/television/column-post/raising-hope-gets-full-season-order-21502.
Dunnyman wrote:Running Wilde, in three episodes, they've already backed away from Arnett being the "funny" guy and let his neighbor be the true lunatic, and it's gotten better quickly. Lots of David Cross can't hurt, and by the way, who has a vodka room? If it's real, I'm appalled, if it's a comic invention for the rich doofus, it's genius.
J.M. Vargas wrote:ABC DEVELOPING LIVE-ACTION ADAPTATION OF "THE INCREDIBLE HULK": http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/abc-developing-incredible-hulk-series/.
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Do Productivity Increases Generate Economic Gains?
Summary: Usability improvements can save time-on-task, but critics argue that this is not the same as saving money. Others worry that productivity gains cause unemployment. Neither is correct: usable design saves money and saves jobs.
For many kinds of design projects, the main argument for a user-centered process is that usability improvements lead to increased productivity. This is true for intranet designs, enterprise software, call centers, transaction processing systems, factory-floor equipment, and any other design where people are paid to perform tasks with a user interface.
(For other types of design, productivity is less important, and benefits such as increased sales, improved customer satisfaction, or fewer support calls are the main arguments for usability. My report on the return on investment from usability has a detailed discussion of these issues and estimates of the expected improvements; this column focuses on productivity-driven design.)
Assessing Gains
There is no doubt that paying more attention to usability in user interface design can make a system easier to learn and faster to use. Still, some people doubt whether such improvements lead to actual monetary gains for the company.
In some cases, the connection is clear. For example, some systems are so complex that users need extensive training courses before they can become qualified operators. Industrial process control rooms are the classic example, but many administrative systems also require training. Typically, design processes that emphasize ease of learning can cut days or even weeks off the training classes. I doubt anyone would dispute that the resulting training budget savings are a direct economic gain from the usability improvements.
Productivity improvements are more difficult to assess. Consider, for example, the design of an intranet's employee directory . In our tests of employees performing tasks on a wide range of intranets in different companies, we found that the time required to find employee contact information differed dramatically:
- 58 seconds on average for intranets with good usability
- 2 minutes and 38 seconds on average for intranets with poor usability
In other words, improving the employee directory's usability from poor to good saved employees an average of 1 minute and 40 seconds each time they looked up a phone number or other contact information.
Arguments Against Productivity
Even people who agree that a redesign might save 1 minute and 40 seconds sometimes argue that this gain isn't worth the required investment in usability.
Their main argument goes as follows: Yes, employees might save a minute or two, but they'll just spend more time at the water cooler. Just because it's faster to look up phone numbers in the employee directory, doesn't mean that people will get any more real work done.
A second counter-argument is that even if employees did do useful work during the time saved by improved usability, you cannot calculate the value of that extra work by simply multiplying the amount of time by the employee's loaded salary. Instead, you'd have to look at the specific accomplishments and value them individually.
Time Saved is Money Earned
If, over the entire history of the universe, we only succeeded in creating a single instance of somebody saving two minutes, it would indeed be hard to argue that much additional work was accomplished during that two minutes. But that's not the case.
In reality, we save a minute here, two minutes there, another minute here, and we do this over and over again. Even small time savings add up.
Consider this: You arrive at the office at 9:00 a.m. and start your first task. Let's say it takes an hour, and you start your second task at 10:00 a.m. This task also takes an hour, and at 11:00 you start the third task, which takes an hour, too. You complete it at noon, and then break for lunch.
Now, lets say that you get a new intranet with sufficient usability improvements to let you perform each of these hour-long tasks two minutes faster. You thus complete task 1 at 9:58, and immediately start task 2, which you complete at 10:56. Finally, you complete task 3 at 11:54. You now have six minutes until your scheduled lunch break. Yes, you might decide to leave early and extend your lunch, but would you do this every day? One day, you might look at your watch, see that it's 11:54, and decide that you just have time to call an important client and resolve an open question. Or complete an expense report so that it's not looming over your head when you return from lunch. Or maybe you even decide to start on task 4, and go to lunch late that day.
Averaged over a lot of people over a lot of days, one or two minutes saved per task adds up to a substantial number of additional tasks being performed.
Companies can realize an economic value from having more tasks completed per unit of staff-time in two possible ways:
- Keep the same number of employees and have them perform more tasks, thus increasing the enterprise's output and collecting the added output's value.
- Reduce the number of employees, and have the same work performed with a lower payroll cost. On average, across a big company, a smaller staff also lets the company close buildings or lease smaller offices, thus reducing overhead costs.
Marginal vs. Average Added Value
As for the second argument against the value of productivity gains: Yes, it is true that the most precise estimate of created value requires that we measure the new work product's monetary value. A well-managed company is already devoting all of its efforts to the most valuable projects, so if time becomes available to do another project, that project must by definition be lower in priority and thus have slightly lower value than the existing projects.
In practice, very few companies see a sharp drop in value when they move from existing high-value activities to those that are awaiting action. In reality, the value declines slowly and steadily along a curve.
Also, for a company to stay in business, the average value of an employee's work must be more than that employee's total cost. That is to say, people must produce value above their loaded salary (which includes overhead, not just take-home salary) or the company will run out of money. Thus, even though the company's next-possible activity would have slightly lower value than its current activities, its value is typically very close to that of the employee's time, since the current activities are valued higher than the employee's time.
To simplify matters, we can reasonably estimate the value of time saved based on the loaded cost of the employee's time. This might be a few percentage points off, but since it's an estimate , it's close enough for all practical purposes.
Does Increased Productivity Create Unemployment?
One of the ways in which improved usability leads to economic gains is that it increases productivity, which lets companies downsize their staff and still get the same amount of work done. This doesn't sound very happy in a bigger context, however, and some people worry that productivity creates unemployment.
In the 1980s, usability professionals were often faced with protests from unions and other labor representatives who did not relish the prospect of participating in user tests that would result in "better" designs that would in turn get them laid off. In recent years, this has been less of a problem, initially because of the boom years, and currently because there are other sources of unemployment that worry people much more than usability. Still, in some people's minds, concerns remain.
In individual cases, some people might indeed lose their jobs because improved usability led to such high productivity that fewer employees were needed. This is unfortunate, but it is not the representative case.
Basic economics says that the lower the cost of a good, the more that good will be consumed. In the case of usability, higher productivity means lower cost per unit of work produced, because the same person can do more. This again means that more work will be required, not less.
The idea that higher productivity leads to fewer employees comes from the fixed-work hypothesis, which holds that there is a given amount of work that needs to be done in the world. This may be true in a few cases, such as directory assistance: the faster each operator handles each call, the fewer operators will be needed, because the workload is fixed by the number of people who call up to find a phone number. On the other hand, if labor costs can be reduced, the phone company might lower the price of directory assistance, and thus more people might use the service. So, even directory assistance may not be a fixed-work scenario.
In any case, most areas of the economy are certainly not fixed. If things can be done cheaper, there will be more demand. Higher productivity need not lead to unemployment.
On the contrary, unemployment is much more likely to result if we don't improve productivity substantially. Many professional jobs are currently at risk of being relocated from high-salary countries, such as the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia, to cheaper areas. The Internet creates the death of distance and the easy availability of people who are just as smart as people in expensive countries, but make 10% of their salary.
Increased productivity is the only way for high-salary countries to keep their jobs. Thus, usability professionals should not worry that they create unemployment when they improve a design and increase users' productivity. On the contrary, such efforts are exactly what's needed to keep us all in business.
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There's a new mayor in town
Oxnard resident and Councilman Tim Flynn takes over the reins
By Michael Sullivan 01/17/2013
It's the dawn of a new era in Oxnard. Most of the familiar faces that once were the city's beloved and trusted leaders have now moved on or were voted out of office. All the dirty laundry of Oxnard City Hall has hopefully been aired out, now that the district attorney wrapped up its two-year-long investigation and fines have been doled out by the California Fair Political Practices Commission. In essence, out with the old, in with the new, and six-year Councilman Tim Flynn will be leading the way. He sat down with the VCReporter this week to talk about times past, today and tomorrow for Oxnard.
VCReporter: Congratulations again on your win. Now, you were the last one to throw your hat in the ring. Was there some hesitation?
Flynn: I think it was a combination of two things. I think, number one, I tend to be a person who waits until the last minute because I think by waiting — there are advantages and disadvantages to waiting — but by waiting you kind of see what the full field is going to be like because others can jump in at the last minute. And the other thing is, I have to admit I had a lot of apprehensions about running, primarily because I knew that — you know I just had an election two years prior. It's a tremendous effort and then I just had a lot of concerns about finding a balance in my life — being a full-time teacher, being a dad, husband, all that kind of stuff. The other thing is, is that maybe it was a combination of my predecessor's approach and the things that had taken place over the last couple of years, it was a little bit of a turnoff to me. I don't have to be the guy in charge and I don't have to be the guy that says, "You do this and you do that." I don't have to be a military general but I did realize at some point that I just had to do it.
You ran for mayor in 2008. Why did you decide to do that?
Well, I think in 2008 it was a totally different set of circumstances. I felt that anything of value that I had to offer was …. I was basically a persona non grata. I was a minister without portfolio.
It all started over this lot at Oxnard Boulevard and Gonzales Road, and when the then-majority saw that I was adamant about questioning and wanting to have a discourse over city policy, I think they kind of put me into a position that I just had to do it.
Who put you into the position?
I think former Mayor (Tom) Holden, (Andres) Herrera and (Dean) Maulhardt — they kind of consisted of the majority — I felt like not only were they against me but this was just what happens in city government, that the staff was kind of all … it was not a good situation. It was kind of like the Norwegian author of An Enemy of the People. I really felt that way. I felt they, more or less singled me out to be that enemy of the people and so I knew that wasn't the case and I stood for things that I felt were right and I wasn't intimidated and I was going to do it.
It was just an outrage that people could treat you that way. I mean, it is one thing to disagree with people and it's another way that — it is the dignity of a human being. I felt that I wasn't treated particularly well, so that just pushed me into being a fighter. They started this fight and are continuing the fight and I am going to go for it. I'm going to take my gloves off and these guys are going to get it. And if I'm going down, I'm going down with my boots on.
Do you feel like this could be a springboard into following your father into a county supervisor role?
I have to admit I, for whatever reason, I have not found county government to be as intriguing and as challenging and as interesting as city government, especially this city.
Oxnard is probably the most interesting city in the county.
There is no question. The dynamics here are, there is an element here like Dallas. It's exciting. And it is kind of strange that a town like this, literally no one knows what a supervisor is, nobody knows what a state assemblyman is but everybody knows what a mayor is. And they look at a mayor's position completely differently than anything else, which is pretty amazing. There is a cultural element to it. For people, especially from Mexico, the mayor in Mexico is the man. There is no question in a town that that is the guy, that's the go-to man.
Why did you decide to run for City Council in 2004?
I lived in the historic district and there was a building right next to where I lived and the building was in horrible disrepair. It was a former hospital. I remember the hospital in its prime and grandeur days, and the developer was looking to put senior housing there and he couldn't quite get his act together and it just languished. It just laid there and I thought, "You know what? This would not be acceptable in Ventura. This would not be acceptable in Camarillo or Thousand Oaks. Only in Oxnard can you have this type of, just, neglect," and I thought to myself — because I'd actually previously thought about city government — and said, "Wow, it's a thankless job. Why would I even think of that?" So it changed my mind about that. And I decided to throw my hat in the ring. I was also very active in my neighborhood council. In fact, it's funny because when I lived in Ventura, which I did for at least about five years of my life, I started a neighborhood watch. I always had that kind of feeling about working within a neighborhood, and I had that background of public service. I knew at some point I was going to a run for public office — I didn't know which one. It was just, was natural progression.
Next on the agenda is to get another councilmember.
There is going to be a special election. I believe the date is going to be June 4. I didn't see any way around it. With the reputation of this city being an insiders' club, boys' club, cronyism, nepotism, all those things — I felt that there's no way around the special election. No matter who we selected. It could've been the pope and people would have had problems with it. It's just the price you have to pay for transparency.
So you don't think the residents are ready yet, or have moved on from what has happened at City Hall and in regard to the district attorney's investigation?
I think that people are hopeful in the new year. I think the new year is a time of renewal for a lot of people. And I think that people are kind of in a position that they are hopeful and are waiting to be inspired. I think they are ready to move on but you have to have something that moves them along. To answer your question, I would say, until some really good things happen, I think people will be somewhat stuck in knowing that some very bad things happened here in this town. We still have not had that broader discussion about ethics in our government. That is going to be soon — in the next month or two, it will be on the agenda. We will have a facilitator that will lead us through that process. I hope to put through some reforms that are going to deal with such sticky issues as money in politics and then what really does constitute a conflict of interest, even though, in many respects, it's kind of made clear but it's obvious that [some] people just summarily ignored it ….
When you look at the Bell scandal versus what happened here, yes, it's shameful; yes, it's unethical what happened here; but it doesn't seem to be quite on that level.
I will say one thing — what happened in Bell, believe it or not, financially what happened in Oxnard was far worse than what happened in Bell. What the contrast between Bell and Oxnard was, here it was surreptitious. There was flaunting and I think individuals that thought they wouldn't be called on their decisions and how they were making decisions. In Bell, it was more flagrant and more open — they were openly robbing people.
What happened in Oxnard, that was done under the table.
It was very much under the table. The people that were recipients of tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money — residents had not heard of these people until these things surfaced. And they kept it that way. Again, I can't say only in Oxnard would something like this happen. But it is in a town like Oxnard, which is a post-agrarian community, it's still an agrarian society, that these types of things happen.
I read recently that City Manager Edmund Sotelo, who is currently on paid leave of absence, is considering suing the city.
His contract is set to expire in about a month from now. I think there was some connection between the former mayor and that's the direction he was going to go. That had nothing to do with the City Council. The council had to make a completely separate decision — were we going to renew his contract or, what was going to happen? He was placed on leave but there was never a termination. So basically, in effect, what the City Council decided was not to terminate him but the contract wouldn't be renewed.
Dorina Padilla is the newest councilmember. At 24 years old, she is the youngest to be elected in the city's recent history. Did you know her before?
I did not know her before and I think it was, to me, one of the most phenomenal things that has ever happened in this city and, arguably, in the county of Ventura. It appears that she and a group of very bright, college-educated and motivated people who went out and did the hard-school politics of door knocking and combining their resources. I think out of six who were running for local public office, two made it. One for the school board and Dorina for City Council.
When the Riverpark/Collection development came before the City Council, you weren't necessarily in favor of it but it turned out to be quite an amazing project, one that you recently publicly praised. Has that project changed your perspective on development in the future?
The most important thing to say is that I've never been against development. I've been an advocate of infill development rather than consuming prime agricultural land. My contention was, and still is today, is that even if something can be considered a smart-growth development, if you have huge infrastructure deficiencies, you need to stop and take a deep breath and be a little more deliberate in planning. I think the Collection, in particular, is going to be a tremendous asset to the city and I think it's going to be very appealing, especially to younger people, and it can attract people from neighboring cities that are going to want to go there because it's new, it's exciting and it's dynamic. I think that is a tremendous plus for the city.
What's the next biggest issue for the City Council?
Jobs. I ran on a platform of bringing higher-paying jobs to the city and, in particular, new economy jobs: high-tech, biotech and medical research. How to bring those jobs and attract those jobs to the city — I have already met with Jeff Gorell, who has been working more on his district level with the lieutenant governor on Gold Team California. I really want a Gold Team Oxnard that is going to bring those high-tech and higher-paying jobs here; and at the same time, I just really want to elevate the standard quality of living in the city and also in education.
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Wow! Mayor Flynn, you've got me all jacked up! Let's do it!
It is best wishes to Mayor Flynn but it is an exaggeration for him to say the problems were just brought to light. At the time before he was first elected to office he was told of several. Then he didn't believe it.
In fact the corrupt deals were spoken to many times at public comments during council meetings for a period not less than ten years.
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Like many in the nation, Carolina Thomasson has grappled with insurance glitches as the Affordable Care Act's mandates go into effect.
After welcoming a new baby in September, Thomasson called her health insurance provider, Rocky Mountain Health Care Plans, to add the infant to her plan. She already paid around $800 a month to cover herself, her husband and their two-year-old daughter, and was shocked to learn it'd be another $800 in premiums to add her newborn. When she asked why, her insurer said it was due to new regulations and coverage mandates required by the Affordable Care Act.
"Well, besides being completely hormonal, I freaked out pretty good," Thomasson said. "I was incredibly overwhelmed. I didn't know how we were going to insure our child."
Thomasson said she broke down and cried while speaking with the insurer over the phone.
"I really felt like they were just trying to push us out from their coverage," she said. "They assured me that wasn't the case, that it was because of the new regulations they were adhering to."
Thomasson and her husband are drug and alcohol rehabilitation counselors with a practice in Granby, and are on their own to find health care coverage. Through an insurance broker, the family was able to get a temporary plan until health care reforms officially kick in this January. She said if all goes well, her family will be able to afford long-term insurance that is much less than they paid before.
Even with all her insurance coverage snafus, Thomasson is feeling optimistic about ObamaCare.
"I think it's going to do a lot more good than harm," she said. "We work with a population that's medically under-served, and usually people who can't afford insurance or don't have career jobs offering insurance. I'm incredibly excited for our clients, in some cases, to get insurance for the first time in their adult lives."
Still, as national and local headlines continue to show, bumps along the road to affordable coverage aren't uncommon for individuals and families like Thomasson's. Since its rollout last October, the national and state health insurance exchanges have been plagued with problems, from clunky websites to insurers dropping clients. Grand County Rural Health Network is working to help clear up confusion and offer a smoother ride for county locals.
Website woes
According to Kyle Gateley, a health coverage guide with the Rural Health Network, one of the biggest local barriers is navigating to the right website. Lots of people end up going to the federal government site instead of the local Connect for Health Colorado site, www.connectforhealthco.com.
The federal site, www.healthcare.gov, has been plagued by problems since it launched in October, with many having difficulty even getting the Webpage to load. But Coloradans don't need to worry about using the federal site. When the Affordable Care Act became law, states had the option to set up their own health insurance exchange marketplace, or default to the federal exchange. About 16 states, including Colorado, opted to run their own exchange. The state's exchange is called Connect for Health Colorado, where residents can shop and sign up for insurance to comply with federal law.
While it isn't riddled with the same bugs afflicting the federal site, the Connect for Health Colorado website still isn't a breeze to navigate.
"It's a little like a labyrinth," Gateley said. "If you don't know it well, it's hard to search around. You have to be computer savvy."
One of the biggest hurdles with the website is figuring out how to apply estimated tax credits to premiums.
"So they just look at the raw number and say, 'this is like regular insurance, if not more expensive,'" Gateley said. "But if the tax credit's applied and they're at the right insurance level, it's usually much cheaper."
Those looking for insurance on the exchange website can get an estimate of what tax credits they might receive by entering some basic family and income details. Those credits apply each month to insurance premiums consumers can view by browsing plans on the site.
"There's sticker shock, but a lot of people are getting reverse sticker shock, too," Gateley said. "They see the price without the tax credit, then they see the price with the tax credit and realize it's a good deal."
Avoiding delays
People are also often under-prepared once they begin applying for insurance coverage, which can cause significant delays.
"People get frustrated," said Jen Fanning, executive director of the Rural Health Network. "They want it now, we live in a 'now' kind of society, and this is not a 'now' process."
To qualify for coverage, applicants need to come prepared with sufficient background information, including social security numbers and income for all members of their household. Consumers seeking tax credits must also first apply for Medicaid and be denied.
"So that's the biggest hoop, right off the bat, that people have to jump through," Gateley said.
As part of the new health care law, Colorado expanded its Medicaid coverage to a larger number of low-income families and individuals. Those who qualify pay no premiums for health care. Those making enough to be above Medicaid qualifications, but are still considered low-income, become eligible for the federal credits.
In some cases, the decisions on Medicaid are made instantly, as long as the applicant has collected enough information and entered it correctly. If not, the application goes to paper processing, which can take up to 45 days. Gateley said to avoid long waits it pays to be thorough.
Once an applicant has been approved for tax credits, or decides to forgo applying for them, it still takes about two days to get fully signed up for insurance while the state runs its income verifications.
Dropped plans
There has been plenty of unforeseen fallout as insurance companies bring plans into compliance with the Affordable Care Act's "10 Essential Health Benefits." Some old plans didn't include all the coverage mandated by the law. In some cases, adding these essentials to plans caused premiums to skyrocket, like in Thomasson's case. In others, insurers opted to drop inadequate plans altogether.
Even if customers were allowed to keep their old plans, they wouldn't have been in compliance with federal law. Those customers would've had to pay the same penalty as those who opt out of having insurance.
"I think they realized these people with old plans would have to come back and buy more expensive ones anyway," Gateley said. "So it was a good business move from their perspective to drop those people."
The Denver Post reported about 250,000 Coloradans had their insurance policies canceled as the Affordable Care Act went into effect. Some on those canceled policies will find better plans through the insurance exchange, while others will get covered through Medicaid expansion. But it has still caused annoyance and some outrage over a law with reforms that were controversial since its inception.
"Cancellations are happening and are a huge issue. I don't even think it was something the administration foresaw," Gateley said. "It was a huge mistake."
President Obama announced a new policy last Thursday, Nov. 14, that will allow insurance companies to extend these canceled plans for a year, which might at least buy some customers time as they shop for new compliant plans.
Disparate costs
Another issue arising from the health care mandate is the exorbitant costs of coverage in Colorado's mountain communities.
For an individual in her late 30s, for example, plans in Denver range from $186 to $252. In Grand County, they cost between $289 and $328. In Breckenridge, they range from $349 to $437. And in Vail, they cost between $403 and $439.
"Resort communities are higher," Gateley said. "There's less population, there are fewer service providers, and the providers are a little more expensive."
Fanning said insurers are also looking at their insurance pool in mountain communities, which have higher rates of injuries from activities like skiing and mountain biking. Mountain towns might seem riskier to insure, leading to higher premiums.
Gateley and Fanning said the calculations insurers use to come up with premiums are complex, and it's difficult to pinpoint why, exactly, rates soar in the high country.
Colorado's success?
Even with the marketplace snags, Gateley and Fanning said Colorado is experiencing health care successes.
Fanning noted a study by the Colorado Network of Health Alliances that projected by the year 2016, the number of uninsured residents in Grand County will be 1,309. Right now, the number of uninsured in the county is around 5,000, Fanning said.
"So that will be a significant difference, but there still will be uninsured people," she said.
And Gateley pointed to a New York Times article ranking Colorado as fourth in the nation for health insurance plan enrollments. But that study still shows Colorado falling short, at only 58 percent of its target for enrollments by November. Nationwide, enrollments are at 21 percent of targets.
Health coverage guides
The Grand County Rural Health Network board of directors brought on its two health coverage guides, Gateley and Kim Long, to ensure the community was informed in navigating the Affordable Care Act and its mandates. Their services are free and open to the public.
The guides are county locals, but they received specialized instruction on the new health insurance policies and the exchange marketplace to assist individuals, families and businesses as they look for insurance coverage.
As the bugs are worked out and policies change, the guides receive ongoing training to keep pace.
"The information changes on a regular basis. This is a moving target," Fanning said. "The guides are absolutely the most up-to-date on the Colorado marketplace."
The guides are available to help Grand County locals avoid headaches during their scheduled hours at libraries throughout the county. Visitors shouldn't expect to sign up for coverage during those hours. But they'll be able to speed things up by learning about the process and what information they'll need to collect in order to apply.
"There's a lot of legwork individuals need to do," Fanning said. "It expedites things to learn about what the process is, go home and gather all the data and information, then make an appointment with a health coverage guide to sign up."
County residents can schedule individual appointments with the guides to sign up for plans. They can help residents understand what sorts of tax credits or cost-sharing reductions are available based on their income levels. But their goal isn't to force residents to enroll.
Fanning and Gateley said people might forgo insurance and take the tax penalty for a variety of reasons, including financial and political ones. And they support their right to choose.
"We're just trying to get the information out there so people can make informed decisions," Gateley said.
Leia Larsen can be reached at 970-887-3334 ext. 19603.
"People get frustrated. They want it now, we live in a 'now' kind of society, and this is not a 'now' process." Jen Fanning, Grand County Rural Health Network


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The CERULEAN TX Stereo Bluetooth Transmitter from iSkin adds wireless audio functionality to your iPod, first gen iPhone, and even your Mac or PC. The CERULEAN TX connects easily to your device or computer, pairs automatically to your CERULEAN RX-equipped speakers, and lets you enjoy wireless music, movie audio, and gaming audio up to 30 feet away and does it all with plug-n-play simplicity.
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Great price considering what I paid for not too long ago on amazon. The receiver and transmitter works perfectly with my iPhone in my car. If your car doesn't have Bluetooth capability then this product is the way to go. Will be buying one for the wife!
What input is used to get the audio playing through a standard car radio?? As far as playing though a computer, a cheap A2DP BT dongle to the usb port should be sufficient without this added device?
@russwjohns: This can use an ipod dock connection or a 3.5mm line in cable.
@daegwan: So the only thing this device does is give one a "wireless" connection between a device such as an iPod or iPhone and in this case a car stereo if the stereo has an iPod adapter or headphone connection ports. Seems unnecessary for an arm's length wired connection.
Of course it could also be used to connect to a dock-less home stereo "wirelessly".
Got one - coupon worked perfectly. Looking to at BT to a Brookstone ipod speaker in the kitchen.


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Given a vectorspace $V$ (over a field $F$) with a specified basis $b_1, \ldots b_n$ and a set $S \subset V$ with two properties:
1) $S$ is a union of lines through the origin (so for all $s \in S$ we have that $Fs \subset S$)
2) For every affine line line parallel to one of the basis vectors intersects $S$ in exactly one point. (So for every $i \in \{1, \ldots n\}$ and every $v \in V$ we have $|(v + Fb_i) \cap S| = 1$.)
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David Warsofsky has signed a one-year contract with the Bruins, paving the way for the up-and-coming defenseman to get a look at making the NHL roster in training camp.
Warsofsky's deal, however, is a two-way contract, which makes a fourth season in the AHL a possibility, despite general manager Peter Chiarelli's assertion that Warsofsky is "as close to an NHL player as you're going to get from Providence."
The contract will pay Warsofsky, who was a restricted free agent, $600,000 at the NHL level. CapGeek reported it's worth $125,000 in the AHL, a 100 percent raise from the Marshfield native's previous salary.
In 56 games with the Providence Bruins last season, Warsofsky recorded six goals and 26 assists. He made his NHL debut and played six games with the big club, registering his first NHL goal Feb. 8.
Warsofsky is one of nine defensemen considered in the running for seven or eight spots at training camp. One or two will be moved before the Oct. 8 season opener, if not before then. Warsofsky's minimum salary and that he's under team control for two more seasons following this one could make the former Boston University standout an attractive trade option for rivals.
With Warsofsky in the fold, the other restricted free agents left for the Bruins to lock down are Torey Krug, Matt Fraser and Reilly Smith. Krug and Smith are considered entry-level free agents and thus are not allowed to negotiate with other teams.
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Dakota Wesleyan University dedicated a sculpture on Saturday in honor of Dave and Ann Mitchell.
The sculpture, "Beyond Belief," is located within the McGovern Library and the dedication was made prior to DWU's Commencement services Saturday. This unique relief features the celestial cycle and world religions, and it celebrates the fact that all humans are interrelated. Funding for the sculpture was secured through gifts from friends, colleagues and former students of the Mitchells.
"Dave and Ann have fostered connections and built relationships over the course of their lives," said DWU President Amy Novak during the dedication. "Don Messer, former DWU president and the person who invited the Mitchells to Dakota Wesleyan University, said, 'Committed Christians, they epitomized inclusiveness, social justice, academic excellence, honesty, humility, generosity, environmentalism, ecumenism, and an openness to all people regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or nationality.'
"Whether serving food-insecure individuals at the Love Feast, pursuing justice for those without a voice, supporting students in need of financial assistance or encouraging engagement in the political process as a way to cultivate change, the Mitchells have been leaders on our campus and in our community," Novak continued.
Dave Mitchell has been a professor of business administration and economics at DWU since 1972 and is one of the longest serving professors at the university. Ann Mitchell taught children's literature at DWU from 1973 to 2001; she passed away in July 2012 after a long battle with cancer.
The Mitchells have always been actively involved in the First United Methodist Church and Love Feast in Mitchell, as well as the Democratic Party.
Novak quoted DWU Trustee Kent Millard, who has known the Mitchells for many years, "We are a better university, Mitchell is a better community, and South Dakota is a better state because of the conscientious leadership of Dave and Ann. They are compassionate prophets and visionary leaders."


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The Association of Black Law Students (ABLS) at Rutgers School of Law–Newark will recognize the achievements of Hon. Nia H. Gill '75, who represents the 34th Legislative District in the New Jersey State Senate, and Hon. Dwayne D. Warren '91, Mayor of the City of Orange Township, at the organization's 22nd annual Jazz for Justice evening of dinner and music.
The event will take place on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at The Loft in Montclair beginning at 6:30 pm. Proceeds will support the ABLS Wanda Green Endowed Scholarship, which is intended to benefit a Rutgers Law School student affected by the events of September 11, 2001 or Hurricane Katrina.
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Sen. Gill began her career in government and law as a legislative aide to the late State Senator Wynona Lipman. She served four terms in the New Jersey State Assembly before being elected to the State Senate in 2001. She is Senate president pro tempore, chair of the Commerce Committee, and the first woman and the first African American to sit on the Judiciary Committee. Sen. Gill has sponsored numerous laws – in areas ranging from health insurance to business development to human trafficking – that have provided greater protections and opportunities to New Jersey residents. For her efforts as a state legislator, she was honored in Selma, Alabama as one of the "100 Women in the 20th Century" who have contributed to the struggle for civil rights.
Dwayne Warren began his career as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Keith D. Bloom of the New Jersey Superior Court. He served as an Assistant Prosecutor with the Essex County Prosecutor's Office for several years before entering private practice. He focused his practice on municipal government law, employment law, election law, and civil rights law. A former Municipal Court Judge in the Orange Municipal Court, he was the Orange council's legislative research officer before his election in May 2012 as Mayor of Orange.


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7 Horrifying Historical Origins of Famous Corporate Logos
You don't have to know a damned thing about Greek and Roman mythology to have heard of Pandora or the Trojans -- those characters have been used on company logos and by sports teams for as long as either has existed. After all, nobody holds the copyright on ancient myths. So why make up a new name for your company when you can just call it Cerberus?
A word of advice, though. Before you go sticking a mythological figure on your logo, take a few minutes to look up its story. Otherwise you get some downright hilarious unintentional results. Like ...
#7. The Starbucks Siren
The Symbol Is Used For:
A classy-looking figure to put on the coffee chain's sign and cups.
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We always thought it was Heather Graham holding up two striped bass.
But the Symbol Actually Means:
Obsession, addiction and death.
If you're familiar with the Starbucks logo, it's probably because, statistically, you are inside a Starbucks right now. If you're not familiar with Starbucks, that's because you're a hypothetical person created just so we could give this paragraph a satisfying structure.
Either way, you may not have realized that the woman in their green label with the perky breasts and weird twin-fishtail deal going on is a siren from Greek mythology.
Via Wikimedia Commons
Her crotch has three handlebar mustaches, which means she may have Roosevelt blood.
According to the Starbucks blog, she was chosen as the logo because Starbucks was looking for a nautical theme to capture the spirit of Seattle. Remember that this was back in 1971, when Seattle was known for sailing and seaports instead of grunge rock, rain and hipsters.
In mythology, sirens are consistently seen as a personification of the ocean -- and that's not a good thing. They're brutal sociopaths who murder you by being attractive. According to scholars, they would sing an "irresistibly sweet" song that "lapped both body and soul in[to] a fatal lethargy." Sailors who crossed paths with a siren would become so obsessed that they would crash into the rocks and die.
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Though we like to think they were actually trying to run them over because the sirens played nothing but old Zeppelin covers.
Much in the same way that countless people have been seduced by the lure of overpriced coffee, buying cup after cup until they finally succumb, buying an Apple laptop and spending the rest of their lives at one of those tiny tables, joining the other broken victims.
#6. Versace's Medusa
The Symbol Is Used For:
The logo on a high-end Italian fashion label.
Man, we remember when the "I've fallen into a lake with my leather clothes on" look was huge.
But the Symbol Actually Means:
Vanity and promiscuity will ruin you.
Chances are you're familiar with the name Versace, even if it's only as "that word printed on things I can't afford." Just as iconic is the logo, based on Medusa:
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You should probably avoid trying their clothing on in front of a mirror.
And by Medusa, we mean a woman so hideous that looking upon her turned men into stone.
To Versace's credit, legend has it that Medusa was originally incredibly beautiful, so much so that she seduced the sea god Poseidon. The only problem is that they did the nasty thing inside the temple of Athena, another god who wasn't too happy about it. So Athena punished Medusa with the fangs and the hair-snakes and all that. The point is, this high-priced international fashion house based their logo on a cautionary tale about the dangers of lust and being too attractive.
Honestly, though? We'd still hit that.
Medusa's tale ends with her finally being beheaded. Her head was used as a weapon, since even when severed from her body it was still ugly and dangerous. Also, the blood that spilled from the head turned into poisonous snakes that infested the world. Now go buy some sexy-ass clothes, damn you!
#5. Trojan Condoms
The Symbol Is Used For:
Condoms, presumably to project strength and masculinity.
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Don't forget head. It definitely projects head.
But the Symbol Actually Means:
A container that broke open and released a murderous swarm of warriors.
They might be the most famous example, but the biggest condom company in the U.S. is hardly the only instance of somebody using "Trojan" as their mascot. The University of Southern California uses it as the mascot for their sports teams, and Googling around will reveal lots of companies adopting it for their name and logo. And why not? Trojans were badass warriors. Troy is, after all, the city that withstood an assault from the entirety of Greece for 10 straight years. Strong, resilient, everything you could want in both a football team and something that hugs your boner during sex.
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Makes you want to drag dead bodies behind your chariot like wedding cans.
But ask anyone what they think of when they hear the word "Trojan," and they're going to tell you about the Trojan horse. The most famous part of the Trojan war story. You know, at the end, when Troy lost. You know the story, right? The invaders built a huge wooden horse, their soldiers hid inside of it and the Trojans stupidly wheeled it inside their walls? Then the soldiers sneaked out and murdered everyone?
After all, that's how we get another popular usage of the word "Trojan," the kind of computer virus. It's not called that for its ability to trap semen. Instead, it's a benign-looking download that opens up and releases seven billion animated gifs of dicks onto your hard drive.
"His tail is raising! Unplug the tower!"
So what we're saying is that "Trojan" was probably not the best choice of words for something you're trying to convince a woman to put inside her body. Unless the goal was to convince her it was safe, before ...
Ah, never mind.
#4. The Volkswagen Phaeton
The Symbol Is Used For:
A line of luxury sedans.
But the Symbol Actually Means:
A reckless teen who almost destroyed the world with his shitty driving.
Motor companies tend to name their cars based on what rolls nicely off the tongue. Either it's a meaningless, simple word (Ford Escort, Honda Civic) or it's one that invokes thoughts of speed and danger, like "viper" or "mustang." So Volkswagen probably just thought "Phaeton" was a cool word. After all, it sounds like a weapon out of Star Trek or something.
Or every dance crew ever formed.
They presumably did not know that the story of Phaeton from Greek mythology is the tale of a headstrong young man who, when he came of age, asked to borrow his father's chariot. When his father said, "Sure, whatever," Phaeton went out, had some fun and almost crashed it before Zeus killed him with a lightning bolt. We all have a similar story from our youth.
Phaeton was the son of Apollo, the god who carried the sun across the sky, so his "chariot" he was borrowing was also towing the sun around. So maybe that was the idea, that this car is so badass that you'll feel like you're driving a chariot hauling the massive, burning sun behind you?
Or Matthew Perry, which is pretty much the same load.
But that just makes the story worse, since crashing his chariot meant crashing the sun into the Earth. So Volkswagen named their luxury sedan after a near-apocalyptic drunk driving incident. One that was only avoided because someone murdered the driver before he could do any further damage.


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text: Dominick Lightner, 6, of Hookstown, Pa., pets the police dog Odin on Friday at the annual Cool Kids All American Fun Days at Chester City Park. Odin, a 4-year-old German shepherd, was there with his handler, Hancock County Sheriff's Deputy Eric Cline. The event is sponsored by First Choice America Community Federal Credit Union. -- Stephen Huba


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Creativity, innovation and ideation. Is there something in the brain that makes the brain think that way, as opposed to "normal baseline". What triggers creative thought in humans?
This is a part answer to your question.
The three-factor anatomical model of human idea generation and creative drive presented in "frontotemporal and dopaminergic control of idea generation and creative drive" (Flaherty, 2005) focus on interactions in and between the temporal lobes, frontal lobes, and the limbic system.
Increase in the quantity of idea generation, at times at the expense of quality is associated with changes in the temporal lobe. Conversely, frontal lobe deficits may decrease the quantity of ideas generated, largely due to judgements of an idea's worth. The authors assert that interaction between the two mainly affects verbal and some non-verbal creativity . Further,
The authors emphasise that creative drive is not the same as skill, and that the 3-factor model is an alternative to the left and right brain hemisphere skills based model.


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WEIRTON - The first community arts gallery in the region, Summit Gallery, will open April 4 in Weirton, thanks to the combined efforts of the Hancock County Arts Council and the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau.
A reception celebrating the regional art community and the four opening artists will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. April 4 at the Gallery, which is located in the CVB offices at 3393 Main St., Weirton. Following the grand opening, Summit Gallery will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.
"The Hancock County Arts Council's mission when we first met approximately five years ago was to develop and encourage an appreciation for the arts in Hancock County," said Nancy Wright, HCAC chair. "Today, the council, along with (CVB Executive Director) Danny Greathouse and the CVB, has made it a reality for local artists to display their work in this beautiful facility of the Summit Gallery."
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ON DISPLAY — This original artwork by Mary Ann Reese of Weirton will be part of the local artwork on display at the Summit Gallery located in the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau at 3393 Main St. in Weirton beginning April 4. -- Contributed
The opening exhibit will highlight the works of four regional artists: Mary Ann Reese of Weirton, Greg Starr of Follansbee, Diana Holcombe of Smithfield and Deb Strunk of Follansbee. Each of the artists chosen for the inaugural installation will exhibit original works ranging from wildlife and exotic animal paintings to abstract works and acrylic-paint pieces inspired by the Arizona desert. The artists will be present at the April 4 opening reception.
Under the guidance of the HCAC, the installations at Summit Gallery will change each quarter, primarily showcasing works from noted Tri-State Area artists in a variety of mediums. Each new grouping of artist and artworks will be celebrated with an evening artists' reception.
The original vision for the gallery was conceived by Greathouse. In preparation for the gallery opening, Greathouse and the CVB had a structural and painting renovation of the office space done, inviting Kenneth L. Morgan, chair and professor of fine arts and curator of permanent art collections at Bethany College, to advise on wall colors and display options.
"We need to invest in ways to bring visitors to the Top of West Virginia," Greathouse said. " Summit Gallery will draw (visitors to the CVB) along with the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center, and visitors now have two must-stops in downtown Weirton before lunch or dinner at area restaurants."
Created in 2008, the Hancock County Arts Council sponsors a number of art events, including the annual Holiday Home Tour in November, the New Cumberland Fall River Fest in September, and, as a part of the Homer Laughlin Tent Sale, a Children's Plate Painting Event that draws approximately 250 children each year.
The HCAC also works with the Hancock County Courier to offer "Poets Out Loud," which encourages local poets and artists to publish their works to share them with the public.
The HCAC meets monthly. Anyone interested in promoting the arts is welcome to attend.


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Crown Prince Salman chairs Cabinet session (3/4/13)
March 4, 2013
Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz began the Cabinet meeting this afternoon at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh with a review of the latest Arab, regional and international developments. The Cabinet noted the outcome of the Friends of Syria Conference held in Rome last week, reiterating the Kingdom's appeal to the international community to provide the political and material support required by the Syrian people to defend themselves.
The ministers were also briefed on the 126th session of the Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, held on Sunday in Riyadh. They lauded the final statement issued by the delegates, which called for the strengthening of GCC integration and cooperation. Then, the Cabinet reviewed the works of the recent International Conference of the Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna. During that meeting, the Kingdom's representative called for an alliance of civilizations to be forged based on respect for different religions and civilizations, as well as the promotion of justice, equality and dignity.
Finally, the Cabinet was briefed on the 22nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The Kingdom's speech at that event emphasized the importance of tackling ethnic and religious violence and promoting moderation and tolerance between religions and cultures, as exemplified by the opening of the King Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna.
On the domestic front, the Cabinet commended Crown Prince Salman's inauguration of the Exhibition of Historical Photos in Saudi Newspapers. It characterized the Crown Prince's support as consistent with his role in preserving the national heritage of the Kingdom and his respect for the role of the press in forming cultural identity.
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English is not my first language, so I'm not sure what you commonly call one of these:
I'm trying to choose between blackboard, white blackboard, or maybe just 'slate'.
English is not my first language, so I'm not sure what you commonly call one of these:
I'm trying to choose between blackboard, white blackboard, or maybe just 'slate'.
That is quite simply a whiteboard.
Blackboard can be defined as:
Whiteboard can be defined as:
I most often hear these referred to as dry erase boards.
That is, quite naturally, called whiteboard, Bierce does not have an entry for the word but it would probably be:
I refer to it as simply a whiteboard.
Also in common use is the generic term "the board", since most rooms only have a single whiteboard or chalkboard so there is no need to disambiguate between them.
For instance: "Student, please go write the answer on the board."
"Blackboard," has a nice archaic ring to it. I started in elementary school with blackboards, then they turned green, and we still called them blackboards. Now they're white, but to me it will stay a blackboard no matter what color it is.
"White blackboard," I've never heard used, except by sarcastic teens mocking my age.
"Slate," would confuse Americans, and, I belive, is not techincally correct since a "slate" is an individual item that one writes on, like a tablet, not something that is big enough to nail to the wall and show the room; that would be a big chunk of rock indeed.
So, if you want to be accurate, "dry erase board." But accuracy is boring and ugly.
The dry-erase boards are called simply "whiteboards" or I've heard "greaseboards."
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I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett, and he doesn't use chapters (mostly). Are there any other authors who tend to not use traditional chapters or chapters at all in novels?
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I read an interesting novel by Lionel Shriver called We Need to Talk About Kevin. This book didn't have any paragraphs at all, it was a series of letters written from the main character to her husband.
Although this sort of technique doesn't work for the vast majority of novels, it can be a good way to keep your readers reading. Short blurbs of information (like letters or journal entries or even just short paragraphs) are a good way to make you lose track of time when you're nose deep in a good book. It also makes it easy to stop reading when need be, without the pressure of getting to the end of the chapter in a hurry.
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald consists of a handful of paragraphs, each of 50 or so pages. Many sentences are several pages long. This suits well the fluid and urgent first-person relation of the story.
The effect of not having chapters on a novel can, as the three books above show, be various. In some cases it will slow the book down. In other cases it will grip the reader and keep them turning the pages. As long as your prose, plot, and characters fit your reasoning for the unique pacing a book without chapters provides, it can be a great decision.
David Gerrold has always shied away from numbering chapters; he just puts in a section break and keeps writing. Of particular note are his books When HARLIE Was One, The Man Who Folded Himself and The Flying Sorcerers, his collaboration with Larry Niven; all of these have no numbered or named chapters, just chunks of text.
Another is Alternatives to Sex. It has chapters, but they're not what you'd consider traditional chapters -- much shorter and they broken by the shape and pace of the narrative.
Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion has a very interesting use of chapters, some only one paragraph in length. It is laid out with lots of white space. It's a great book, too.


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Okay, so I have a goal, and I'm unsure of the best steps to take to get there.
- Set up a Linux VM in VirtualBox (Host: Windows Server 2008 R2)
- Setup Bacula in a Linux environment
- Get Bacula to backup to a NAS device (preferably a Drobo as it's less expensive for us than other NAS solutions appear to be and we don't have time to build something like FreeNAS / ZFS)
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- Created VirtualBox VM of Ubuntu Server (Maverick) as the guest
- Installed KDE on Ubuntu
- Updated packages, etc.
- Installed Bacula -- no configuration, etc.
Steps that need to be taken, to my knowledge:
- Install and run Bacula Administration Tool (bat)
- Configure Bacula (either via bat or .conf files) -- backup to USB external HDD (to test backups, schedules, clients, etc.)
- Re-configure Bacula storage daemon to backup to a network-attached Drobo device (i.e. Drobo FS)
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- I see the following errors in the terminal and the bat tool when it starts -- why?
Terminal output:
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-sean" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
(1893) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Opening cache "/var/tmp/kdecache-sean/icon-cache.kcache" page size is 4096
(1893) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Attached to cache, determining if it must be initialized
(1893) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Cache fully initialized -- attached to memory mapping
(1893) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: 7323648 bytes available out of 10485760
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/sean/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
And on the console I receive: "bat: ABORTING due to ERROR in console/console.cpp:155 Failed to connect to localhost-dir for populateLists"
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This seems to me like bacula-dir isn't started? No configuration has been done, and I certainly don't pretend to know how to start Bacula properly.
I've tried consulting the documentation, to no avail for this particular implementation.
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I've been using Ubuntu (now, Lubuntu) for a number of years now. It is a great tribute, in a way, to the distro that I have't learned much- it just works.
My problem is this: sometimes, when I post, an answer is posted which I can implement easily. At others, the answer consists of multiple lines of code and instruction which leave me bewildered. Often, my attempt to solve a problem this way fails-obviously, I am doing something wrong.
Can anyone recommend a kind of Ubuntu for beginners who want to learn more?
The documentation is very clear indeed.
Other stuff, I just don't understand yet.
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What is the best approach to reusing the same layout for numerous tables, paragraphs etc. which share the same structure but different content? Is the best method to use custom commands/macros?
As David Carlisle and Leo Liu have already pointed out, if you anticipate spending significant amounts of time in the future writing papers using LaTeX, it's definitely an excellent idea to create customized macros, say to standardize the layout and other formatting-related issues of your papers. Indeed, TeX and LaTeX are very much designed to make this possible.
Naturally, there's no single "best" approach to creating such a collection of macros. The macros are there to serve your needs, and what works for you needn't work for others (and vice versa). Some general guidelines do apply though, I think:
Separately, be prepared to provide some ex ante flexibility regarding the LaTeX packages that should be loaded and any custom code that should be executed by your package. Not all LaTeX packages should be loaded always (see below for an example). With some planning ahead, it's straightforward to disable parts of your package by setting a single option; that's much easier, and substantially less error-prone, than having to comment out various instructions on a case-by-case basis (which might be called a form of "ex post" flexibility, I suppose).
Happy TeXing!
As a general rule it is a good idea to put macros and settings in a package so they can be reused. That is essentially the main point of TeX being a macro language.
One thing to consider though is any other non TeX systems whith which the document sources are going to be used. TeX itself (and extensions such as e-tex, xetex, luatex) are very consistently implemented and any TeX macros will work the way on any system. However increasingly people convert TeX sources to other formats. Conversion to HTML and e-books for example, or MathJax dynamically interpreting TeX-like markup in a web page. Most of these systems do not understand the full TeX language, and so the more you use interesting features in your definitions, the harder it is to use the sources in non-TeX systems.
An extreme example is the plain TeX file http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/plain/contrib/misc/xii.tex Many TeX-to-something translators fail to understand that file at all. (Some do, tex4ht and latexml for example.)
I wasn't sure how to provide this information, but using Mico's answer I set up a couple
This may be obvious to more experienced users, but after declaring options in a package, you have to add a


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Women Vets Criticize Fox Pundit's 'Breathtakingly Offensive' Claim That Women Should 'Expect' Sexual Assault
Now, Trotta is facing some backlash. Kayla Williams, a former sergeant and Arabic linguist in the 101st Airborne Division who also served in Iraq, told ThinkProgress that the "level of ignorance" in Trotta's comments is "astounding":
Trotta's implication that women "in close contact" with men should "expect" to be sexually assaulted is breathtakingly offensive, as is her baffling reference to women "who are now being raped too much." Frankly, I don't even know how to respond to someone who holds such a low opinion of those who risk their lives in defense of our country every day.
And Anu Bhagwati, Executive Director of the Service Women's Action Network and herself a former Marine captain, also issued this statement, noting that Trotta's disturbing comments are based on a series of myths about men and women serving together in the military:
It has become a desperate but popular myth among commentators recently that women's presence in the military necessarily means they will get raped. First, the mere presence of women in the workplace does not turn men into rapists. Second, the majority of victims of military rape over time have been men. In fact, half of the Military Sexual Trauma patients being treated at Veterans Affairs hospitals today are men.
Bhagwati adds that the issue isn't men and women serving together, it's the "broken" U.S. military justice system which currently offers "few deterrents to rapists or the commanders who protect them. Serial predators can largely expect to enjoy full military careers without ever being punished for the violent crimes they commit."
Media Matters reports that Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) called Trotta's comments "shameful" and "abhorrent." "Contrary to Trotta's comments, being a victim of rape or sexual assault is not in the job description of a US Service Member," Speier said.


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