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JOB PURPOSE: The Senior Librarian (SL) supervises the public services staff and shelvers ensuring excellent customer service to library patrons. The SL manages the day to day operations of the Public Services Desk and responds to patron and library issues. The SL leads library initiatives, communications, and promotions.
1. Works with the Library Director and implements a strategic vision and implementation plan for the library's patron experience, communications, social media, and promotions.
2. Manages the Public Services Department. Responsible for leading and directing activities of the Public Services staff and for training all staff in circulation functions according to standard library operating procedures.
3. Responsible for hiring, firing, supervising, organizing, evaluating and encouraging development of direct reports.
4. Creates and maintains staff schedules.
5. Represents and promotes library through social media, written articles and newsletters, and community outreach.
6. Creates, manages, and maintains content for library website, social media, and other web-based platforms.
7. Reviews and recommends digital resources such as ebooks, online foreign language development, and research databases.
8. Provides quality customer service, readers' advisory, new patron orientation and ongoing patron education, and answers reference questions.
9. Assists Director with policy and procedure development.
10. Assists Director with building improvements and issues.
11. Performs duties of the Director when assigned.
12. Performs other duties or assumes other responsibilities as apparent or assigned.
1. Actively supports all efforts to increase cooperation, communication, and collaboration between and among staff, library patrons and volunteers.
2. Acknowledges and accepts the Library's mission, respects the Library's confidentiality regulations and maintains the integrity of the Waukee Public Library.
3. Maintains knowledge of current holdings and library resources, both print and electronic.
4. Continually seeks and participates in opportunities for continuing education and professional growth.
5. Improves the effectiveness and efficiency of all library operations with positive and creative approaches to challenges.
6. Demonstrates sound time-management skills by effectively and efficiently organizing, prioritizing, and completing multiple assignments in a timely manner.
7. Has a professional understanding of librarianship.
8. Understand and internalize the importance of seeking resolution to problems and concerns by bringing them to the direct attention of supervisor in a timely manner.
9. Be attentive to the City's and the Library's standards for customer service, accuracy, quality, efficiency and all City and Library policies and procedures.
10. Represents the City professionally and effectively to the community and library patrons.
1. Bachelor's degree in library science or a related field required, Master of Library and Information Science preferred.
2. Two years of supervisory experience desirable.
3. Iowa State Library Certification Level IV preferred, or ability to obtain this certification within the first two years of employment.
4. Experience in coaching and developing staff and volunteers desired.
5. Demonstrated success in interpersonal and communication skills.
6. Be comfortable working in close proximity to all age categories.
7. Must know how to use Public Access Catalog, electronic resources and other information technology sources to meet typical library needs.
8. Must demonstrate the ability to conduct a reference interview and be able to answer reference questions with authority and tenacity to meet patron needs.
9. Working knowledge of electronic services, Internet tools, social media and library related technology and trends.
10. Required to move or lift up to 25 pounds and occasionally up to 35 pounds.
11. Ability to sit for long periods of time and to maintain focus on projects such as computer screens or detailed paperwork.
12. Be able to effectively communicate orally (in person and over the telephone) and in writing (using electronic and handwritten) in English with other employees, library patrons, and the community.
13. Access to transportation with insurance at required state levels to conduct business throughout the assigned area.
1. Climate-controlled office with hazards typical of that environment, minimal outdoor work is required.
2. Standard work hours must be flexible and include evenings and weekends.
3. To successfully fulfill the essential functions of this position, employee must maintain standard work hours within Waukee Public Library building.
4. There is no residency requirement for this position.
Waukee is part of the Des Moines metropolitan area located 15 minutes west of downtown Des Moines. With a population of approximately 20,000, Waukee is part of rapidly growing Dallas County which has 80,000 residents and is among the nation's fastest growing counties.
Waukee is a friendly community that is especially known for its excellent schools, attracting new residents and development at a strong pace. As the city continues to grow and develop, there is a desire to maintain the sense of a close-knit community.
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Employees consider it a privilege to work for the City of Waukee and hold themselves to high level work ethics and personal standards. A criminal background check will be conducted. Individual will comply with the City's drug testing requirements.


Hackers gained access to 53 million Home Depot customer email addresses in the April security breach.
Home Depot announced yesterday that in addition to the 56 million credit card accounts that were compromised, hackers also gained access to 53 million customer email addresses in the April attack.
The company is warning customers that cyber-criminals can use email addresses to launch phishing attacks, in which they pose as official institutions or businesses and solicit your personal information. Never click on a link from an unverified source and don't respond to emails asking for information such as bank login usernames and passwords, Social Security numbers or credit card accounts.
Home Depot, third-party security experts and law-enforcement agencies have been investigating the data breach for over two months, and have confirmed that hackers used the same invasion techniques leveraged in last Christmas's Target attack.
The Wall Street Journal reports that cyber-criminals stole company login information from a third-party vendor, then jumping into the main internal system by taking advantage of a Microsoft vulnerability. The weakness was later patched, but hackers had already gained access to 7,500 self-checkout lanes. The company believes that the criminals overlooked the 70,000 other registers, because they were labeled with numbers and weren't clearly marked as points of sale.
The hackers managed to stay in Home Depot's system undetected for five months, mostly because they only operated during normal business hours and erased their tracks as they funneled away secure information.
Frank Blake, former Home Depot CEO, says that the company thought it was "well-positioned" to handle attacks, and had even begun a point of sale encryption upgrade that was completed in September.
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The Atlas is a successful newcomer in the SUV market in the USA. More than 36,000 units have already been sold since it was launched on the market last year. This success confirms that Volkswagen has developed precisely the right car for this important segment with the Atlas. In Manhattan, Volkswagen is now demonstrating – with the show cars it is presenting there – how the Atlas model series will not stop with just one model.
The decision has already been made to manufacture the production version of the Atlas Cross Sport at the US plant in Chattanooga (Tennessee) together with the seven-seat Atlas and the Passat. Volkswagen will invest around 340 million US dollars in the new SUV's market launch – in addition to investments of around 900 million US dollars already made to expand the plant for Atlas production.
all-electric driving range of 70 kilometers (NEDC) or 26 miles (EPA). Its high-performance battery can be charged either externally or while driving. A second version of the Atlas Cross Sport has a conventional hybrid drive without an external battery charging function (HEV). This version can also be driven temporarily in an all-electric mode (electric range approx. 2.5 kilometers or 1.5 miles). Both models have all-wheel drive (4MOTION with electric propshaft).
The gasoline powered model has a 3.6 FSI V6. The six-cylinder engine produces 206 kW / 280 PS of power; its maximum torque is 350 Nm. This engine is assisted by two electric motors in both versions. The front motor develops 40 kW and 220 Nm and the rear motor 85 kW and 270 Nm. It is supplied with energy that comes from a compact lithium-ion battery mounted in the transmission tunnel. Its energy capacity – and this is where the PHEV and HEV differ – is either 18.0 kWh (PHEV) or 2.0 kWh (HEV). The total system power of the two drive systems: 265 kW / 360 PS (PHEV) and 231 kW / 314 PS (HEV).
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Published on 30.12.2020 in Vol 3, No 2 (2020): Jul-Dec
Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/24827, first published October 06, 2020 .
Parental Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination for Children Under the Age of 18 Years: Cross-Sectional Online Survey
Authors of this article:
Ke Chun Zhang1, MSc ; Yuan Fang2, PhD ; He Cao1, MSc ; Hongbiao Chen1, MSc ; Tian Hu1, BSc ; Ya Qi Chen1, BSc ; Xiaofeng Zhou1, BSc ; Zixin Wang3, PhD
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Ke Chun Zhang1, MSc ;
Yuan Fang2, PhD ;
He Cao1, MSc ;
Hongbiao Chen1, MSc ;
Tian Hu1, BSc ;
Ya Qi Chen1, BSc ;
Xiaofeng Zhou1, BSc ;
Zixin Wang3, PhD
1Longhua District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China
2Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
3JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Zixin Wang, PhD
JC School of Public Health and Primary Care
Room 508, School of Public Health
Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT
Hong Kong, 666888
Email: wangzx@cuhk.edu.hk
Background: It is expected that COVID-19 vaccines will become available in China by the end of 2020. Vaccinating children against COVID-19 would contribute to the control of the pandemic and the recovery of the global economy. For children under the age of 18 years, parents are usually the decision makers regarding their children's vaccination.
Objective: The goal of this study was to investigate parental acceptability of free COVID-19 vaccination for children under the age of 18 years in China.
Methods: This is a secondary analysis of a cross-sectional, closed online survey among 2053 factory workers in Shenzhen, China, implemented from September 1 to 7, 2020. Participants of the online survey were full-time employees aged 18 years or over who had resumed work in factories in Shenzhen. Factory workers in Shenzhen are required to receive physical examinations once a year. Eligible workers attending six designated physical examination sites were invited to complete an online survey. This study was based on a subsample of those who had at least one child under the age of 18 years (N=1052). After being briefed that COVID-19 vaccines developed by China are likely to be available by the end of 2020, participants were asked about their likelihood of having their children under the age of 18 years take up free COVID-19 vaccination provided by the government, if it existed. Multivariate logistic regression models were fitted to examine the associations of perceptions related to COVID-19 vaccination based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and exposure to information related to COVID-19 through social media with parental acceptability, after controlling for significant background characteristics.
Results: The prevalence of parents' acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for their children was 72.6% (764/1052). After adjusting for significant background characteristics, positive attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 1.70, 95% CI 1.50-1.91), the perception that a family member would support them in having their children take up COVID-19 vaccination (ie, perceived subjective norm) (AOR 4.18, 95% CI 3.21-5.43), and perceived behavioral control to have the children take up COVID-19 vaccination (AOR 1.84, 95% CI 1.49-2.26) were associated with higher parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination. Regarding social media influence, higher exposure to positive information related to COVID-19 vaccination was associated with higher parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination (AOR 1.35, 95% CI 1.17-1.56). Higher exposure to negative information related to COVID-19 vaccination was negatively associated with the dependent variable (AOR 0.85, 95% CI 0.74-0.99).
Conclusions: Parents' acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for their children under 18 years of age was high in China. The TPB is a useful framework to guide the development of future campaigns promoting COVID-19 vaccination targeting parents. Transparency in communicating about the vaccine development process and vaccine safety testing is important. Public health authorities should also address misinformation in a timely manner.
doi:10.2196/24827
parental acceptability; COVID-19 vaccination; children under the age of 18 years; theory of planned behavior; social media influence; China
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic remains out of control [1]. The existing measures to control COVID-19 are detrimental to the global economy [2] and result in significant impairment in physical and psychological well-being [3]. There is a strong need for an effective vaccine to keep COVID-19 under control. Development of COVID-19 vaccines is underway. According to the World Health Organization, as of September 3, 2020, there were 34 and 142 candidate vaccines in clinical and preclinical evaluation, respectively; four Chinese candidate vaccines had entered Phase III clinical trials [4]. According to an official press release on September 15, 2020, safety of these Chinese candidate vaccines was established [5]. The National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China authorized the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines on July 22, 2020 [6]. COVID-19 vaccines were provided to workers, students, and diplomatic personnel who needed to travel abroad, as well as to health care workers and personnel working for pandemic and border control [5]. It is expected that at least one COVID-19 vaccine will become available in China by the end of 2020 [5,7,8].
The United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has proposed a five-phase plan to fairly allocate a COVID-19 vaccine. Health care workers, older adults, and other people with underlying conditions that put them at high risk of severe COVID-19 diseases or death are priority groups to receive the vaccine, followed by essential workers, children, and young adults [9]. Without COVID-19 vaccination, children will likely serve as a reservoir, which would undermine efforts to end the pandemic [10]. Moreover, it is difficult to recover the economy completely before all children can safely return to schools and parents can resume full-time work [10]. According to the aforementioned official press release, health care workers, older adults, and children are considered priority groups to receive COVID-19 vaccination in China [5].
Mathematic modeling suggested that if the COVID-19 vaccine efficacy was 80%, the coverage would have to achieve at least 75% to extinguish the ongoing pandemic [11]. Therefore, a timely understanding of community responses to the forthcoming COVID-19 vaccines are important for policy making and service planning. For children under the age of 18 years, parents are usually the decision makers regarding their children's vaccination. Hence, it is important to understand parents' acceptability of their children's COVID-19 vaccination and related barriers and facilitators. To our knowledge, at least one study investigated parents' acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for their children [12]. This was an online survey conducted in the United Kingdom, which showed that 48.2% of parents or guardians would definitely accept COVID-19 vaccination for their children aged 18 months or under [12]. Belief that COVID-19 vaccination could protect their children and other family members and belief that it would facilitate their return to normal life were major reasons for parents' acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination for their children [12]. Their concerns were around COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness [12]. These factors were considered by this study. We applied the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as the theoretical framework in this study [13]. The TPB postulates that behavioral intention to adopt a health-related behavior (eg, having children take up COVID-19 vaccination) is a strong predictor of actual behavior. In order to form such an intention, one would evaluate the pros and cons of the behavior (ie, positive and negative attitudes), consider whether their significant others would support such behavior (ie, perceived subjective norm), and appraise how much control one has over the behavior (ie, perceived behavioral control) [13]. In recent studies, the TPB has been used successfully to explain vaccination behaviors [14-16].
Previous studies showed that people are actively seeking information about COVID-19 vaccination on social media platforms [17]. Exposure to COVID-19–specific information on social media influenced Chinese factory workers' adoption of personal preventive measures (eg, face mask wearing, hand hygiene, and physical distancing) [18]. Moreover, different content related to COVID-19 may have varying effects on health outcomes [18]. A previous study suggested that TPB-related constructs and subsequent behavior may be shaped by the use of social media [19]. In this study, we investigated the associations between exposure to different content related to COVID-19 vaccination on social media and parental acceptability of having their children vaccinated.
To our knowledge, there have been no studies investigating parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for their children in China. This study investigated parental acceptability of free COVID-19 vaccination for children under the age of 18 years among parents in Shenzhen, China. We examined the effects of factors on their acceptability, including background characteristics, perceptions related to COVID-19 vaccination based on the TPB, and exposure to information related to COVID-19 vaccination through social media.
This is a secondary analysis of a cross-sectional, closed online survey among 2053 factory workers in Shenzhen, China, implemented from September 1 to 7, 2020.
Participants and Data Collection
Participants of the closed online survey were full-time employees of factories in Shenzhen aged 18 years of age or older. This study was conducted in Longhua District of Shenzhen. The majority of factories in Shenzhen are located in Longhua District; there were over 2000 factories and one million factory workers in 2018 in this district. In Shenzhen, factory workers are required to receive physical examinations at designated sites once a year. All six designated sites providing physical examination services to factory workers in Longhua District, including three public hospitals, two private hospitals, and the district Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were chosen as our study sites for recruitment.
To avoid selection bias, the fieldworkers approached all adults attending these sites for physical examinations during the study period. They briefed prospective participants about the study details, confirmed their eligibility, and invited them to join the study. Participants were guaranteed that participation was voluntary, refusal would have no effect on them, the survey would not collect personal contact information or identification, and data would be kept strictly confidential and would only be used for research purposes. Verbal consent was obtained instead of written consent to allow participants to maintain anonymity. We developed an online questionnaire using Questionnaire Star (Changsha Ranxing Information Technology Co), a commonly used online survey platform in China. Quick response (QR) codes were generated to access the online questionnaire. Prospective participants were asked to scan the QR code on-site to complete the survey. Each mobile device was allowed to access the online questionnaire once to avoid duplicate responses. The participants were asked not to disseminate the QR codes that were used to access the survey to other people. The survey had 66 items, approximately 15 items per page for four pages, which took about 15 minutes to complete. The online survey platform performed completeness checks before each questionnaire was submitted. Participants were able to review and change their responses through a back button. In case there was more than one child under the age of 18 years within their household, participants referred to the one whose birthday was closest to the survey date when answering questions [20]. Upon completion of the survey, an electronic coupon of ¥10 (US $1.30) was sent to participants. All data were stored in the server of the online survey platform and were protected by a password. Only the corresponding author had the access to the database.
Out of 2653 eligible factory workers being approached, which included between 60 and 1200 across the study sites, 2053 completed the online survey, which amounted to between 40 and 968 across the study sites. The overall response rate was 77.4% (2053/2653); this ranged from 66.7% to 80.7% at different sites. Main reasons for nonresponse were lack of time and other logistic reasons. This study was based on 1052 participants who had at least one child under the age of 18 years. Ethics approval was obtained from Longhua District CDC (reference No. 2020001).
Development of the Questionnaire
A panel consisting of one CDC staff member, two public health researchers, a health psychologist, a senior factory manager, and a factory worker was formed to develop the questionnaire used in this study. The questionnaire was pilot-tested among 10 factory workers to assess clarity and readability. These 10 workers did not participate in the actual survey. Based on participants' comments, the panel revised and finalized the questionnaire.
Background Characteristics
Participants were asked to report on sociodemographics (ie, age, gender, relationship status, education level, monthly personal income, etc), age of their children, parental history of seasonal influenza vaccination, and whether they had a family member with a history of COVID-19. In addition, participants were asked to report on their frequency of wearing face masks when having close contacts with others in the workplace and in other public settings (ie, public spaces and transportation) in the past month; response categories included every time, often, sometimes, and never. Participants also reported on the frequency of sanitizing their hands using soaps, liquid soaps, and alcohol-based hand rubs after returning from public spaces, touching public installations, and touching equipment, and whether they avoided social and meal gatherings with people who do not live together as well as crowed places in the past month.
Parental Acceptability of Free COVID-19 Vaccination for Children Under the Age of 18 Years
Participants were briefed with the following statement: "COVID-19 vaccines developed by China are likely to become available by the end of 2020." They were then asked about the likelihood of having their children under the age of 18 years take up free COVID-19 vaccination provided by the government, if it existed; response categories included the following: 1 (very unlikely), 2 (unlikely), 3 (neutral), 4 (likely), and 5 (very likely). Parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination was defined as the responses likely or very likely. Such definition has been commonly used in previous studies [20,21].
Perceptions Related to COVID-19 Vaccination Based on the TPB
Two scales were constructed to assess perceptions related to COVID-19 vaccination based on the TPB. These scales were the 3-item Positive Attitude Scale (eg, "COVID-19 vaccination is highly effective in protecting your child from COVID-19") and the 4-item Negative Attitude Scale (eg, "Your child will have severe side effects after receiving COVID-19 vaccination"); response categories were as follows: 1 (disagree), 2 (neutral), and 3 (agree). The Cronbach α values of these two scales were .71 and .64, respectively; single factors were identified by exploratory factor analysis, explaining 64.0% and 56.6% of the total variance, respectively. Perceived subjective norm (ie, "Your family member will support you in having your child take up COVID-19 vaccination") and perceived behavioral control (ie, "Having your child receive COVID-19 vaccination is easy for you if you want them to") were measured by two single items; the response categories were as follows: 1 (disagree), 2 (neutral), and 3 (agree).
Influence of Social Media
Participants were asked to report on the frequency of their exposure to information related to COVID-19 vaccination on social media (ie, WeChat, WeChat Moments, Weibo, TikTok, etc) in the past month; response categories were as follows: 1 (almost none), 2 (seldom), 3 (sometimes), and 4 (always). Such information included (1) positive information related to COVID-19 vaccination (eg, new vaccines entering clinical trials), (2) negative information related to COVID-19 vaccination (eg, concerns about vaccine efficacy, supply, and side effects and about the receipt of vaccines causing COVID-19), (3) testimonials given by participants of the COVID-19 clinical trials, and (4) negative information about vaccine incidents in China (eg, selling problematic vaccines and severe side effects).
Parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination was used as the dependent variable. A univariate logistic regression model first assessed the significance of the association between each of the background characteristics and the dependent variable. Background characteristics with P<.05 in the univariate analysis were adjusted in a multivariate logistic regression model. Principal component analysis with varimax rotation was used to perform explanatory factor analysis. SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 26.0 (IBM Corp), was used for data analysis, with P<.05 considered statistically significant.
Over half of the participants were 40 years old or younger (824/1052, 78.3%), were female (658/1052, 62.5%), were married (1005/1052, 95.5%), did not receive tertiary education (785/1052, 74.6%), had a monthly income level lower than ¥5000 (US $714) (703/1052, 66.8%), and were frontline workers (701/1052, 66.6%). Among the parents, 20.0% (210/1052) had received seasonal influenza vaccination in the past and 0.2% (2/1052) had at least one family member with a history of COVID-19. About half of their children were 0 to 6 years of age (490/1052, 46.6%).
In the past month, 72.1% (759/1052) and 83.1% (874/1052) of participants reported wearing a face mask every time they had close contact with other people in the workplace and in other public settings, respectively. Fewer participants self-reported sanitizing their hands (606/1052, 57.6%), avoiding social and meal gatherings (622/1052, 59.1%), and avoiding crowed places (697/1052, 66.3%) (see Table 1).
Table 1. Background characteristics of the parents.
Characteristics Value (N=1052), n (%)
Age of the parent (years)
18-30 238 (22.6)
>40 228 (21.7)
Male 394 (37.5)
Female 658 (62.5)
Relationships status
Married 1005 (95.5)
Currently single or divorced 43 (4.1)
Having a stable boyfriend or girlfriend 4 (0.4)
Highest education level attained
Junior high school or below 448 (42.6)
Senior high school or equivalent 337 (32.0)
College or university or above 267 (25.4)
Monthly personal income (¥)
<3000 238 (22.6)
3000-4999 465 (44.2)
7000-9999 90 (8.6)
≥10,000 74 (7.0)
Frontline worker 701 (66.6)
Management staff 351 (33.4)
History of seasonal influenza vaccination
No 842 (80.0)
Yes 210 (20.0)
Having at least one family member with a history of COVID-19
No 1050 (99.8)
Yes 2 (0.2)
Age of the child (years)
0-3 314 (29.8)
7-12 373 (35.5)
Personal COVID-19 preventive measures in the past month
Frequency of face mask wearing in public places and on transportation other than the workplace
Every time 874 (83.1)
Often 139 (13.2)
Sometimes 36 (3.4)
Never 3 (0.3)
Frequency of face mask wearing when you have had close contact with other people in the workplace
Self-reported sanitizing of hands, using soaps, liquid soaps, or alcohol-based sanitizer, after returning from public spaces or touching public installations
Sometimes 156 (14.8)
Never 13 (1.2)
Self-reported avoiding of social and meal gatherings with other people who do not live together
Self-reported avoiding of crowed places
Parental Acceptability, Perceptions, and Influences of Social Media Related to COVID-19 Vaccination
Among the parents, the prevalence of parental acceptability of free COVID-19 vaccination was 72.6% (764/1052) (see Table 2). Individual item responses and mean (SD) values of the scales related to parental perceptions of COVID-19 vaccination are presented in Table 2. Among the participants, 69.3% (729/1052) were sometimes or always exposed to positive information related to COVID-19 vaccination in the past month. Among the participants, fewer were sometimes or always exposed to negative information related to COVID-19 vaccination (442/1052, 42.0%) or vaccine incidents in China (298/1052, 28.3%), or were sometimes or always exposed to testimonials given by participants of COVID-19 vaccination clinical trials (283/1052, 26.9%) (see Table 2).
Table 2. Perceptions related to COVID-19 vaccination.
Acceptability and perceptions Value (N=1052),
n (%) or mean (SD)
Parents' acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for their child under the age of 18 years: likelihood of having the child take up free COVID-19 vaccination, n (%)
Very unlikely 19 (1.8)
Unlikely 45 (4.3)
Neutral 224 (21.3)
Likely 361 (34.3)
Very likely 403 (38.3)
Perceptions related to COVID-19 vaccination based on the theory of planned behavior
Positive attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination
Positive Attitude Scalea score, mean (SD) 8.0 (1.2)
COVID-19 vaccination is highly effective in protecting your child from COVID-19 (agree), n (%) 603 (57.3)
Taking up COVID-19 vaccination can contribute to the control of COVID-19 in China (agree), n (%) 896 (85.2)
China will have an adequate supply of COVID-19 vaccine (agree), n (%) 763 (72.5)
Negative attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination
Negative Attitude Scaleb score, mean (SD) 7.7 (1.6)
Your child will have severe side effects after receiving COVID-19 vaccination (agree), n (%) 104 (9.9)
The protection of COVID-19 vaccines will only last for a short time (agree), n (%) 210 (20.0)
Your child is afraid of vaccination (agree), n (%) 216 (20.5)
You do not have time to take your child for COVID-19 vaccination (agree), n (%) 234 (22.2)
Perceived subjective norm related to child's COVID-19 vaccination: your family member would support you in having your child take up COVID-19 vaccination
Response score, mean (SD)c 2.5 (0.6)
Agree, n (%) 542 (51.5)
Perceived behavioral control to have the child take up COVID-19 vaccination: having the child receive COVID-19 vaccination is easy for you if you want them to
Influence of social media related to COVID-19 vaccination
Frequency of exposure to positive information related to COVID-19 vaccination (eg, new vaccines entering clinical trials, promising efficacies of the vaccines, and vaccines will enter the market soon) on social media
Response score, mean (SD)d 2.9 (0.9)
Almost none, n (%) 107 (10.2)
Seldom, n (%) 216 (20.5)
Sometimes, n (%) 420 (39.9)
Always, n (%) 309 (29.4)
Frequency of exposure to negative information related to COVID-19 vaccination (eg, concerns about efficacies and supplies, side effects of the vaccines, and receiving vaccines will cause COVID-19) on social media
Frequency of exposure to testimonials given by participants of the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials on social media
Always, n (%) 98 (9.3)
Frequency of exposure to negative information about other vaccine incidents in China (eg, selling problematic vaccines and severe side effects) on social media
aResponse categories for the 3-item Positive Attitude Scale were as follows: 1 (disagree), 2 (neutral), and 3 (agree). Cronbach α=.71; one factor was identified by exploratory factor analysis, explaining 64.0% of the total variance.
bResponse categories for the 4-item Negative Attitude Scale were as follows: 1 (disagree), 2 (neutral), and 3 (agree). Cronbach α=.64; one factor was identified by exploratory factor analysis, explaining 56.6% of the total variance.
cResponse categories were as follows: 1 (disagree), 2 (neutral), and 3 (agree).
dResponse categories were as follows: 1 (almost none), 2 (seldom), 3 (sometimes), and 4 (always).
Factors Associated With Parental Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination
In the univariate logistic regression analysis, age of the children, self-reported avoiding of social and meal gatherings with other people who do not live together, and self-reported avoiding of crowed places were significantly associated with parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination (see Table 3).
Table 3. Associations between background characteristics and parental acceptability of free COVID-19 vaccination (N=1052).
Characteristics Crude odds ratio (95% CI) P value
18-30 1.0
31-40 1.23 (0.89-1.72) .21
>40 1.35 (0.90-2.03) .14
Male 1.0
Female 0.96 (0.73-1.27) .79
Married 1.0
Currently single or divorced 1.44 (0.68-3.05) .34
Having a stable boyfriend or girlfriend 1.15 (0.12-11.08) .91
Junior high school or below 1.0
Senior high school or equivalent 1.14 (0.83-1.57) .42
College or university or above 0.98 (0.70-1.38) .92
<3000 1.0
3000-4999 0.95 (0.67-1.34) .76
≥10,000 1.26 (0.68-2.32) .46
Frontline worker 1.0
Management staff 0.92 (0.69-1.22) .57
No 1.0
Yes 1.35 (0.94-1.92) .10
Yes N/Aa N/A
4-6 1.26 (0.84-1.91) .26
7-12 1.41 (1.01-1.97) .046
Consistent face mask wearing in public places and on transportation other than the workplace
Consistent face mask wearing when you have close contact with other people in workplace
Sanitizing hands (ie, using soaps, liquid soaps, or alcohol-based sanitizer) every time after returning from public spaces or touching public installations
Yes 1.70 (1.30-2.24) <.001
aN/A: not applicable.
After adjusting for these significant background characteristics, positive attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 1.70, 95% CI 1.50-1.91), perceiving that a family member would support them in having their children take up COVID-19 vaccination (AOR 4.18, 95% CI 3.21-5.43), and perceived behavioral control to have the children receive COVID-19 vaccination (AOR 1.84, 95% CI 1.49-2.26) were associated with higher parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination. Regarding social media influence, higher exposure to positive information related to COVID-19 vaccination was associated with higher parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination (AOR 1.35, 95% CI 1.17-1.56). Higher exposure to negative information related to COVID-19 vaccination was negatively associated with the dependent variable (AOR 0.85, 95% CI 0.74-0.99) (see Table 4).
Table 4. Factors associated with parental acceptability of a free COVID-19 vaccination (N=1052).
Factors AORa (95% CI) P value
Positive Attitude Scale 1.70 (1.50-1.91) <.001
Negative Attitude Scale 0.93 (0.85-1.01) .09
Your family member would support you in having your child take up COVID-19 vaccination (ie, perceived subjective norm) 4.18 (3.21-5.43) <.001
Having your child receive the COVID-19 vaccination is easy for you if you want them to (ie, perceived behavioral control) 1.84 (1.49-2.26) <.001
Frequency of exposure to positive information related to COVID-19 vaccination on social media 1.35 (1.17-1.56) <.001
Frequency of exposure to negative information related to COVID-19 vaccination on social media 0.85 (0.74-0.99) .03
Frequency of exposure to testimonials given by participants of the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials on social media 1.07 (0.94-1.23) .31
Frequency of exposure to negative information about other vaccine incidents in China on social media 0.91 (0.79-1.05) .20
aAOR: adjusted odds ratio; background characteristics with P<.05 in the univariate analysis were adjusted in the multivariate logistic regression models.
This is one of the first studies investigating parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination in China that provides some preliminary data to inform policy making and service planning. About 70% of the Chinese parents accepted COVID-19 vaccination for their children. However, given the gap between acceptability and actual behaviors [22], effective health promotion is needed when COVID-19 vaccines become available in order to achieve high vaccine coverage among children.
Our findings provided empirical insights to inform health promotion development. More attention should be given to parents with younger children and those with lower compliance to physical distancing measures (ie, avoiding social and meal gatherings and crowed places), as they reported lower parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination. Parents with children attending primary or secondary schools (ie, 7-17 years of age) might have more concerns about COVID-19 transmission within schools and, hence, have higher motivation to vaccinate their children against COVID-19. Parents with higher compliance to physical distancing measures may have stronger motivation and self-efficacy to protect themselves and their children, and COVID-19 vaccination is likely to be considered a useful means for protection.
The TPB is a potentially useful framework to guide the development of future programs, as three of four TPB constructs used in this study were significantly associated with parental acceptability in expected directions. It is useful to increase positive attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination, as this was a facilitator. In addition to the beneficial effect for their children (eg, prevent COVID-19 effectively), health communication messages should also emphasize to parents that having their children take up COVID-19 vaccination would result in herd immunization, which could contribute to COVID-19 control. Building up confidence related to vaccine supply may also be a useful strategy. Over half of participants perceived that their family members would support them in having their children take up COVID-19 vaccination. Such perception was also a facilitator. Future health promotion should enhance parents' knowledge of COVID-19 vaccination and encourage them to discuss their children's vaccination with other family members in order to obtain support from these significant others. It is also useful to enhance perceived behavioral control, as this was another facilitator. There is much room for improvement. Multiple strategies may be applied in future COVID-19 vaccination programs, which may include simplification of the procedures to obtain vaccination and school-based vaccination programs. Relatively few participants had concerns related to side effects, duration of vaccine protection, children's apprehension, or other logistical issues. The associations between these concerns and parental acceptability were not statistically significant. Addressing these concerns might not be useful strategies in future promotion campaigns.
Our findings suggested that COVID-19 vaccination triggered intensive responses on social media among Chinese parents, as about 70% of the participants were sometimes or always exposed to information specific to COVID-19 vaccination on different social media platforms. Exposure to content about positive information related to COVID-19 vaccination, such as promising vaccine efficacy, was associated with higher parental acceptability. This is understandable, as this type of information can increase parents' confidence in COVID-19 vaccines and reduce their concerns. Higher exposure to negative information about COVID-19 vaccination was associated with lower parental acceptability. Previous studies showed that people were more likely to absorb negative rather than positive information during a disease outbreak [23]. Although social media is a powerful tool for disseminating information, there are concerns related to inaccurate data, unverified rumors, and even malicious misinformation on these platforms [24]. A global epidemic of misinformation has been spreading through social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might pose challenges for future COVID-19 vaccination programs [25,26]. The findings highlighted the importance of transparency in communicating about the vaccine development process and vaccine safety testing. Public health authorities should also identify and verify misinformation in a timely manner. Studies showed that a major vaccine incident (ie, the Changchun Changsheng vaccine incident) had significantly impaired confidence in vaccines among Chinese people [27]. However, in our study, negative information about these vaccine incidents did not influence parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination.
This is one of the first studies investigating parental acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination in China. It used the TPB as a theoretical framework and the sample size was relatively large. However, it has a number of limitations. First, we only included parents who were factory workers, as this was a secondary analysis. In 2018, 34.3% of Shenzhen's population were factory workers [28]. However, failure to include parents with other occupations or those without full-time work was one major limitation of this study and limited the representativeness of our sample. In addition, participants were recruited in one Chinese city. Generalization should be made cautiously. Second, since the study was anonymous and did not collect participants' identification, we were not able to collect information about those who refused to join the study. Parents who refused to join the study might have different characteristics as compared to study participants. Selection bias might exist. Our response rate was relatively high as compared to other online surveys of similar topics [12]. Third, there was a lack of methodological innovation in this study. The aim of this study was to provide timely information to facilitate the promotion and service planning related to COVID-19 vaccination in China. Fourth, we did not ask about parental acceptability that was conditional on different cost scenarios. It is common for the Chinese government to provide free vaccination to priority groups in order to increase coverage. Since children were considered as one of the priority groups to receive COVID-19 vaccination, it is possible for the government to offer free vaccines to this group. Fifth, data were self-reported and verification was not feasible. Recall bias might exist. Participants might also overreport their acceptability due to social desirability. Moreover, most items and scales used in this study were self-constructed based on those from previous studies on parental acceptability of human papillomavirus vaccination in China [20]. The internal reliabilities of these scales were acceptable, but these scales may require external validation. Furthermore, this was a cross-sectional study and could not establish a causal relationship.
In sum, parents' acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for their children under the age of 18 years was high among Chinese parents. The TPB is a useful framework to guide the development of future campaigns promoting COVID-19 vaccination targeting parents. Enhancing positive attitudes, creating a supportive subjective norm, and increasing parents' perceived behavioral control related to their children's COVID-19 vaccination are potentially useful health promotion strategies. Transparency in communicating about the vaccine development process and vaccine safety testing is important. Public health authorities should also address misinformation in a timely manner.
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AOR: adjusted odds ratio
CDC: Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
QR: quick response
TPB: theory of planned behavior
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Domestic Abusers Often Graduate to Other Violent Crimes. They Also Often Get to Have Guns.
The suspect in the Planned Parenthood shooting had a history of violence against women, a common denominator in numerous high-profile shootings.
By Jennifer Mascia
Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting suspect Robert Lewis Dear appears via video hearing during his first court appearance, where he was told he faces first degree murder charges.
When Robert Lewis Dear opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last week, it was far from his first violent act. The South Carolina native was charged in 1992 with first-degree sexual misconduct after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at knifepoint. In 1997, his then-wife, Pamela Dear, filed a report with police alleging that Dear locked her out of their house and "hit her and pushed her out the window." In 2002, Lynn Roberts, Dear's next-door neighbor in Walterboro, South Carolina, obtained an order of protection after she discovered him leering at her while hiding in her bushes, and "making unwanted advancements" for nearly a year.
While reports indicate that none of the accusations levied against Dear resulted in a conviction, his history is a reminder of a pattern, borne out by high-profile examples and hard data, wherein a domestic abuser graduates to gun violence. And a policy system that often allows abusers to keep their guns when they should be removed.
One 2007 analysis of more than 300,000 ex-convicts by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy found that offenders with domestic violence charges were the most likely of any other group studied to commit another violent felony. Domestic violence felons experienced a recidivism rate for violent felonies of 19 percent, compared to 13.7 percent for offenders with felony assault convictions, for instance.
"Men who commit violence rehearse and perfect it against their families first," Pamela Shifman and Salamishah Tillet wrote in a February op-ed in The New York Times. "Women and children are target practice, and the home is the training ground for these men's later actions."
Some of America's most deadly shootings provide stark examples of that progression. The wife of James Huberty, who killed 21 people at a McDonald's in San Ysidro, California, in 1984, reported him to authorities after a bout of violence resulted in her "messed up" jaw. Six months before he killed nine and wounded four in a General Motors car loan office in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1990, James Pough was served with a temporary injunction by his wife, who accused him of twice putting a shotgun to her head. George Jo Hennard stalked two sisters and their mother in his Belton, Texas, neighborhood four months before he fatally shot 23 people in a Luby's restaurant in 1991.
A similar story emerged during this year's string of high-profile shootings. Before Dear, there was John Houser, who fatally shot two women and injured nine others in a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, in July. In 2008, his wife and daughter filed an order of protection against him after repeated threats and "acts of family violence." Despite that behavior, and a history of mental illness, Houser was able to legally purchase the Hi-Point .40 caliber pistol he used in his rampage.
Domestic Abusers Frequently Get to Keep Their Guns. Here Are the Big Reasons Why.
Federal law bars convicted batterers from buying firearms, but often little is done to separate them from any weapons they already own.
Federal law has provisions meant to keep guns out of the hands of abusers, but only half of states (along with Washington, D.C.) authorize or require courts to order an abuser to surrender their firearms after a domestic violence protective order is issued. Allowing an abuser to remain armed can have deadly consequences. Domestic violence assaults with firearms are 12 times more likely to result in death than assaults without them.
Some states have moved to fill this legal void. California has operated the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS) for nearly a decade, which checks gun owners against databases of convictions, mental health determinations, warrants, and restraining orders. Yet even it has its flaws: A May Los Angeles Times editorial noted that that APPS has a backlog of 16,350 names, even though the legislature approved $24 million in 2013 to hire three dozen additional investigators to clear it.
South Carolina — where Dear lived for at least two decades, and where his criminal record originates — passed a sweeping domestic violence reform law in June, yet the state still does not require domestic abusers to surrender guns or ammunition they already own once they've been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence. A law that would create such a mandate has been stalled in committee since January.
New Jersey, a state with some of the nation's toughest gun laws, also does not require domestic violence offenders to relinquish their firearms. Last month, Governor Chris Christie vetoed a measure that would have closed the gap in state law, but lawmakers are planning an override vote before the legislative session ends on January 11.
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Jesse Brady was born and (mostly) raised in Sudbury, moved away for 14 years, and then moved back. Writing since he was 15,Jesse was a freelance writer and journalist for about a decade and worked in media relations in Ottawa until finding his way back to the North. He currently has several projects in various stages of completion that he hopes to show you one day. Jesse is supported in his endeavours by his wife Colleen and his two awesome children Madeleine and Nicholas.
Manifestos is an off-beat comedy about love lost and revolution. During the G20 summit in Toronto in 2010, Theo's apartment is raided by his ex-girlfriend Kristen and her ragtag group of activists, turned bank-robbers. With riots raging and police hot on their trail, the cracks begin to show in the revolution, while Theo's feelings for Kristen are rekindled. Manifestos is a satire for our modern age.
Cora Eckert is a born-and-raised Sudburian but has never adjusted to the cold. Eckert is an advocate, actor, and playwright. Her most recent written works include the community interactive The Letters Project, spoken word piece How to Be a Good Bisexual, and co-authoring the play #thewatertower (2016, STC). She has previously worked with Pat The Dog Theatre Creation on Conception and the public play reading of Aftercare.
In Conception, we follow three different storylines; a young woman who comes to visit her single mother, heavily pregnant with a child that isn't her own; a man and woman struggling with the concept of sperm donation and male sterility; and, finally, a lesbian couple whose friend and sperm donor sues for custody of the resulting child. An exploration of the possibilities of what a family can be and how it can come to exist in an age where third-party reproductive technology can challenge the idea of a straightforward "nuclear family".
Mansel Robinson has had a dozen plays produced across the country, including several in Sudbury: Deux (Le Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, Théâtre de la Vieille 17); Trains Fantômes (Théâtre Triangle Vital); and Slague (Le Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario). All three plays were translated by Jean Marc Dalpé. As well, Muskeg & Money premiered at North Road Theatre in 2013. Among other awards, Mansel was short-listed for the prestigious Siminovitch Prize for Playwriting in 2011. A long-time resident of Saskatchewan, he now lives in his hometown of Chapleau, with actor and novelist, Pam Bustin.
Three women navigating our chaotic times: a working-class grandmother, Ma, and her two teen-aged granddaughters, Emma and Charlotte. Using monologue, song and direct address, Churn is the story of a troubled young musician drifting dangerously close to suicide and the cousin who is trying to save her life. Hoping to divert Charlotte from her nihilistic trajectory, Emma has come up with a wacky but heartfelt plan of attack: a world-wide pilgrimage to sites of hope and heroism. But now, they have gone missing… and Ma is working overtime to understand and avert this family crisis.


Hi AZ . . . .so glad you are starting out on the Let's Draw journey! It's just magical!!
I am at the end and don't want it to be the last day, :'( I'd like it to go on and on. . . .it's that kind of a course.
The very first thing you will learn is that it's not, remember NOT, cheating to trace the outline of something on to your paper and go from there! Nolan will teach you all sorts of ways to transfer images to your paper, tracing is only one of the ways.
Don't be shy to show us your drawings, you will probably think they are worse than they really are so just get them out here and let us see them. There are some really talented artists here who will give you lots of help, but if you don't show us your drawings, they can't help you. Me. . . . I just run around being silly. . . .(http://www.pic4ever.com/images/84.gif) ask Sarah!
PSS: What's your name, or what can we call you?
Great, LauraL great! Keep on drawin'!!!
:gl2: with your drawing and you will find our tutors very helpful. I've been drawing since 1989 and this course has taught me bundles.
:2funny: I'm from Arizona hence my username. I still haven't received my email, but I took a photo of the realistic eye I drew from the YouTube video. I'll post it for you. I didn't spend much time at all on it, maybe 5 - 10 minutes max while I viewed the video.
Wow! You conquered photo posting with no problem at all! Well.maybe one little problem. But I'll lie down when I look at it. ;) Five to ten minutes??? I can't get my pencil and paper ready in five to ten minutes. :tickedoff: WE'VE GOT ANOTHER SPEEDY ONE HERE!!!!! :run: Well done. You are ready! Now if that darn email would just come.
:wave: Lauralee, huh? That's a very pretty name! I think I'll call you that. :) I was just being silly! As you can see, I'm not alone. We're just a very happy bunch here, having fun and learning lots.
You did very well on the eye. You'll do fantastic work in the drawing course, I just know it.
We give constructive feedback here, so be prepared. It's all given in a friendly manner and with the aim of being of help.
Having said that, I hope you don't mind if I tell you one thing you could do to improve your eye drawing. The iris should be perfectly round. I see yours has a 'U' shape. Other than that, I think your eye looks very well done.
P.S. I'm not the expert here! I've been wrong before. I always let Nolan or Dennis have the last word. We are so blessed learn from them.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you do in the drawing course. I amazed myself and I've been so impressed with the progress of everyone who has been working through it.
??? Still no email. I guess I won't be able to start until Monday. See you all later.
Lauralee, I think if you go to the PBTV and then your unlocked classes, you will find the drawing course there. Just click on it and you should be good to go. I may be a little off here, but I think that was one of the changes made.
I know about the rounding of the eye. It was a quick sketch and I didn't have an eraser. No I don't have access or any classes waiting for me. I'm ready for a refund sadly. I'm asked to either pay for the class or enter a serial number from the email I recieved. No staff has answered anything from me, going on 2 days other than my welcome post. :-\ I'm pretty bummed.
You are now officially in the race. Don't you worry about anything, you have a lot of friends here to help you through should you need any advice with any of the projects.
But even more important Nolan and Dennis are always watching and ready to help you through.
:heeha: LauraL you are in!!!! Now, girl, we are waiting for some drawings!
:welcome: to the course Lauralee :) . We can't wait to see your drawings.
Normal. . . ??? this bunch of "pencil artists" normal. . . . :2funny: :2funny: :2funny: I don't think so!!!
I was able to go to Office Max and got all the grids printed for .70 per copy. Wasn't too bad. How dare Staples be closed until noon. :D It's nice out so I'm taking my laptop into the back yard and watch the videos and stuff.
:2funny: Please someone tell me they didn't do so hot on some of these strokes on their first round.
I would like to assure you that I was sure I was doomed when I tried them! :'( But believe me, when they aren't just sitting alone on a piece of paper, they look just fine. Give them each a try for familiarity (hmmmmm, I should go back to that. Not sure i remember all my strokes and hand positions) and then move to your next step. You could keep practicing them a little at a time as you move along.
:2funny: Well I actually finished doing it once. I decided I could just copy the lines by pencil and do it that way instead of trying to take laptop back in and print it out. :2funny: Mistake! :'( So tomorrow I'm going to re-do it. It was funny with me trying to figure it out, but I think maybe that I know it a little I should be able to do it better for the next go. :2funny: Maybe I'll be brave enough and post my original one with my next one. Has to be a huge difference.
:heeha: :clap: :clap: :clap: Good for you LauraL, good for you!! :flowers: I found some of those stgrokes to be quite difficult until I started practicing them. . . . now they are just natural as can be. My favorite is the cross hatch! Love doing that one.
I found some of those stgrokes to be quite difficult until I started practicing them. . . .
Oh--he's pretty cute. Haven't had anyone wink at me for a long time. ;) I'm winking back, will he notice???
So sorry Lauralee. . .
It appears that the nuts have hi-jacked your thread and gone off on a silly session! You must excuse their bad behavior for they are like small children and get bored very easily.
You see Sarah started it by picking on poor Roxy and then Val got into the middle of it and encouraged Sarah. Then Dorothy had to stick her oar in and stir the pot, so to speak! So then poor little old Roxy had to go get some outside help. There you have it in a nut shell.
Lauralee have you started the first exercise yet? I found it very interesting the way you can create highlights by erasing. I'm sure you will love it.
I agree with the erasing highlights thing. It's very useful. I can't count how many times I've used that knowledge since the first exercise.
I've done the strokes exercise. I've just made it through day 2. Have had a very bad headache the past 2 days so haven't gotten anything else. I'm planning tomorrow for the day to move on today 3.
It's strange I've looked all over this town for a 24 inch clear ruler and everyone is out. :thumbdown: Hopefully I won't need it anytime soon.
I still haven't found one, except a little one at the yarn shop. I hope it's accurate. No you won't need it for a while. Rest up from that :crazy2: .
Well I have both steel rulers and the smaller clear one. I found the clear small one at the dollar store. A pack of 3 for a buck. LOL I put it up to the steel one and measures correctly so lucked out.
Well, I would. . . . except then, you would miss out on all that sweat & tears. . . . and I couldn't deprive you of that, no,no,no!
:'( trying to load the forum and to get my video's and pdf's downloaded today is horrible. Taking too long. It's not my computer as I can load other websites without any problem. Probably too many people trying to access their stuff and get it downloaded.
That's too bad Lauralee. . . . everything's been working just fine for me up here in Maritime Canada!
Well I managed to get everything downloaded. Whew that was a lot of work. Took over 1 hour to download the last video. :crazy2: Felt like going batty.
Do you have the Internet class??? Nolan has made it so that it stays in our Paintbasket stuff indefinitely, so I don't download at all. I just watch. Of course, I know nothing about the other formats. Oof. Sounds like more work than the assignments.
Lauralee I have just finished the outdoor still life and I can tell you that each project is better than the other. I love this course. I know you are going to enjoy it.
:help: I'm having issues with pencils I think aren't that great. One pencil the graphite is broken all the way through and others are broken in some places but not others. What brand pencils do you use? I have already spent way more money on these pencils and hate to spend a ton more. It's not the sharpener as I have a good one of those, it's the stupid pencils. :'( The pencils also seem to be very harsh on the paper and I end up having to redo what I've already done because of it.
I use Fabre Castel, and there great. I also hear Derwent and Steadtler Mars Lumograph are good too.
Well, that's not good Lauralee. It's hard enough wrestling with the lessons let alone having to tame your pencils as well :fight: . I use Staedtler Mars Lumograph. I'm pretty happy with them. They are readily available and seem to be of good quality.
Ya, art is an expensive hobby; but once you get started all the money you spent is worth it.
Yeah I know. Being on SSI makes money even tighter than I wished. I hate having to waste the money on pencils and can't really use it for something like the work in the class. If I'm just doodling I can bare with them, but not the lessons.
Oh shoot. Pencil problems are the worst. The leads are broken??? I have had that with colored pencils, I guess. How frustrating. Just try to move forward with them through the starting exercises if you can stand it. Or even take a standard pencil to do some of your shading. At Amazon some brands of pencils like the Caran dAche Grafwoods are sold as individual pencils. A good 2B pencil would get you through a lot of your shading. They are very good. There is a forum topic about brands of pencils here somewhere. That is how I finally settled on mine. Then I struggled with paper, too. Oh it's a picnic to begin with! But it all gets better, and when you get to that point, the supplies that you have and like will last a long time.
I dont have a job, so It realy bites when I waste my money on something. Just a couple of weeks ago I went to by some drawing paper, I found what I thought was a nice 11x 14 spiral bound drawing paper notebook. So when I got out to the car I opened it up just to find that the paper I had bought was very cheap quality and had litle brown spots all over the paper; probably only 35-40 percent is actulay useable.
Ouch! I've been through the mill with pencils as well. I use Derwent Graphic for my serious work. I know, it's all serious...when I couldn't get any decent pencils I had some sent to me. They were a different brand and have had nothing but problems with hardspots in the leads. I still use them for sketching and some of the lessons. I still have four sets to get through. Too expensive to bin them....makes me really appreciate my Derwents!!
Sorry to hear you are having problems with your pencils, Lauralee. I had a few problems too. I finally settled on Derwent. I did read an article about pencils. I learned that you should never "drum" your pencils on the table.. you know, as you hold it between your two fingers, tapping it up and down usually while you are talking, thinking, etc. This can break the lead/graphite inside the pencil as can dropping them too. I'm not implying that you do this, but just a reminder to try never to. I know the "drumming" thing can become a habit.. at least for me anyway. You can also get pencil extenders which allows you to use pretty much all of your pencil as it gets shorter and shorter. Good luck on your selection. I hate those hard ones that are suppose to be soft!!
So sorry to hear of your pencil problems Lauralee. . . . .it's a real bummer when that sort of stuff happens! But I can tell you from experience that you can go ahead and draw even if all you have is a "store pencil"!
The point is, Lauralee. . . it really doesn't matter what pencil you use, just pick one up and "Let's Draw!!!
Sorry about your Derwents, too, Rox... I suppose any brand is not always perfect.
Don't know what it is Dainne, some of them have those hard bits, and others are just fine. It was the 2H's that were the worst, so I bought another one from Michaels and this one is okay. . . . can't figure it out.
Next time I have a few extra $$, I'll spring for some Staedtler Lumograph. . . oh yummmm. . . . . .
Oh my gosh, Rox... I just looked at my pencil collection, and I have thoseStaedtler Lumograph! I actually used them on the barn.. probably the fish too. I didn't even realize the name on them.. Unless I have my glasses on, I can't always see the name clearly. I bought these a while back... but I don't remember where. I really didn't know much about the different brands, but was familiar with Derwent. I know I used them some, but now that I think about it, the Staedtlers were the ones I used most on the two recent drawings! So they are considered premium?? I don't even remember how much I paid for them... a set of 6 or 8 pencils in a metal box. I'll have to compare them a little closer with the Derwent as I continue to use them.
Hi Lauralee, I used whatever I have in the pencil case. I have Steadtler reds and Steadtler blue. I don't know what there are called but over the years I've collected so many different types of pencils.
When I first started to draw I had no idea about brands and picked one a 2B, 4B and 6B and I did all my drawings with these 3 pencils. It's only since I did this course that I learned about the 2H etc.
That is true Nolan. Out of all the different pencils I've used over the years I have never had any problems with the Steadtler blue.
Yay!!!! Congrats on your Staedtler Blue :clap: .
Yep, I'm going to do what lessons I can. I have a full free day tomorrow. :yippee: :D My fingers going to be all over the place.
My poor fisherman is falling asleep as he ain't getting any fish. :2funny: I couldn't get him right for some reason. I did use one of the messed up pencils...well that one ain't messed up too badly. I also used my 2B. Please be nice. :2funny: I'm happy to at least got something done now.
:twothumbs: Looks Great Butterfly, nice job on the reflections. A nice touch with the birds. :clap: . Mabey hes kissing his pole because its expensive and its his favorite fishing pole.
Great job Lauralee :clap: :clap: :clap: . The reflections are well done :) .
First sorry for the purple color on paper. It's white, but had leaning against laptop when took picture. I'm not liking the shadowing on the bottom. It looks flat. What would you do to fix it? Also not sure about the ball...go ahead please tell me what I need to do to fix this lesson. Not just the shadow on the bottom.
Okay, Here she goes! Off and running. You are doing fine, Lauralee. Your ball is nice and round and roly-poly! Not easy. I would say that though you don't want too much shadow on the front side, you could just round it out a little bit. Then just soften out the line at the farthest right of the shadow as if it were just going to blend into the table and you'll be fine. The landscape looks good.
Thanks Sarah. I've erased, drew, erased, drew...back and forth. :tongue: I'll work on it tomorrow and post it hopefully.
Hi everyone. Sorry been MIA. Had a fall and bruised my hip bone so couldn't do much. I have been drawing today. :) My scanner isn't the greatest so it doesn't show everything right. I'll have to see what I can do to fix it. If I take pictures it shows up purple so I'll figure it out. For now this is it. When I re-sized these, it changed things as well.
My Erasing a Landscape. I do have shading under the boat that doesn't show up in the picture.
Your first tree is the very best kind of 'pitiful' ( it is NOT pitiful) tree to have at the beginning of the Let's Draw class, because if you really learn to observe and to draw what you really see, not what your left brain says you see, you will have a terrific record of progress. This is just exactly what Nolan and Dennis want to see right now. Don't worry about getting proportions right or perspective right. The class will give you all kinds of tricks and tools to do that correctly. All you have to worry about is taking the time to train your artist's eye and learn what your pencils can do! Oh this is going to be a great ride! I hope your hip is on the mend!
It's great to see you have been drawing and getting started on the course. Your tree is not pitiful, it's actually kinda cute in it's own way! What is important is that this is the marker that you measure against to show how far you can go with this course.
It really was funny. :2funny: You should have seen her yapping at him. Too funny.


We all know that mathematics can be a difficult concept to teach (or learn!)– it does not matter if you are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or even Hearing…. Math can be abstract and difficult to visualize through classroom lecture/discussion.
Lucky for Deaf/Hard of Hearing students– in a classroom where sign language is used– math can be very exciting and easy to follow as the instructor can express many different concepts in a visual way…. The two following links that was developed by Rochester Institute of Technology has been very helpful for many teachers who teach math at their school.


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Babble 2.5.0 will be released the next few days. This release is mainly for Commands. A lot of the planned features for commands for 3.0.0 have been backported to 2.5.0, to help fix several issues. mainly cause of confusion when it came to permissions or "quirks" in the previous system that would allow some of the "moderator" commands to be used by everyone or groups that weren't a moderator.
Custom Commands/included commands and aliases have all been merged.
Permissions are now handled per Command (including any added commands).
Custom Commands of the basic type found in previous versions can be created, along with more advanced form ones, like the included commands. there will be new guides to explain how to do either.
you will still be able to add your own custom commands. there will be 2 types you have a choice from. Basic, basic works identically to the way the custom commands from previous versions, and advanced. Advanced are php based ones, designed to do more advanced things, all of the included commands are of this type. I will make guides for both of these types, to better explain how they are to be used, and what options are available to you.
Aliases still exist in this version, but they are now included with the commands. Instaed of one HUGE list of available commands, with their stacks all visible. The Aliases have their own tab within the command.
Help has its own tab now inside the command, and will be using translatable, so you can customize the commands help per language you have installed.
This is a much needed improvement for babble, hopefully it is a welcomed change . let me know what you think or if you have any questions.


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namespace GingerORM\Repository;

use Cl\Test\DoctrineTestCase;
/**
 * Test class for ConnectorElementRepository.
 * Generated by PHPUnit on 2013-04-08 at 18:57:59.
 */
class ConnectorElementRepositoryTest extends DoctrineTestCase
{
    /**
     * @var ConnectorElementRepository
     */
    protected $object;

    /**
     * Sets up the fixture, for example, opens a network connection.
     * This method is called before a test is executed.
     */
    protected function setUp()
    {
        $this->createEntitySchema('GingerORM\Entity\ConnectorElement');
        $this->object = $this->getTestEntityManager()->getRepository('GingerORM\Entity\ConnectorElement');
        $this->object->setServiceLocator(self::getApplication()->getServiceManager());
    }

    /**
     * @covers GingerORM\Repository\ConnectorElementRepository::registerMapper
     */
    public function testRegisterMapper()
    {
        $mapperId = $this->object->registerMapper('testmodule', 'testmapper', 'MockObject\Mapper', '/testmapper');

        $mapper = $this->object->getMapper($mapperId);

        $this->assertInstanceOf('MockObject\Mapper', $mapper);
        $this->assertEquals($mapperId, $mapper->getId());
        $this->assertEquals('testmapper', $mapper->getName());
        $this->assertEquals('/testmapper', $mapper->getLink());
    }

    /**
     * @covers GingerORM\Repository\ConnectorElementRepository::registerSource
     */
    public function testRegisterSource()
    {
        $sourceId = $this->object->registerSource('testmodule', 'testsource', 'MockObject\Source', '/testsource');

        $source = $this->object->getSource($sourceId);

        $this->assertInstanceOf('MockObject\Source', $source);
        $this->assertEquals($sourceId, $source->getId());
        $this->assertEquals('testsource', $source->getName());
        $this->assertEquals('/testsource', $source->getLink());
    }

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     * @covers GingerORM\Repository\ConnectorElementRepository::registerTarget
     */
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    {
        $targetId = $this->object->registerTarget('testmodule', 'testtarget', 'MockObject\Target', '/testtarget');

        $target = $this->object->getTarget($targetId);

        $this->assertInstanceOf('MockObject\Target', $target);
        $this->assertEquals($targetId, $target->getId());
        $this->assertEquals('testtarget', $target->getName());
        $this->assertEquals('/testtarget', $target->getLink());
    }

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     * @expectedException Ginger\Model\Connector\Exception\ElementNameExistException
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        $targetId = $this->object->registerTarget('testmodule', 'testtarget', 'MockObject\Target', '/testtarget');
        $targetId = $this->object->registerTarget('testmodule', 'testtarget', 'MockObject\Target', '/testtarget');
    }

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     */
    public function testSourcetNameExistException()
    {
        $sourceId = $this->object->registerSource('testmodule', 'testsource', 'MockObject\Source', '/testsource');
        $sourceId = $this->object->registerSource('testmodule', 'testsource', 'MockObject\Source', '/testsource');
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException Ginger\Model\Connector\Exception\ElementNameExistException
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    public function testMappertNameExistException()
    {
        $mapperId = $this->object->registerMapper('testmodule', 'testmapper', 'MockObject\Mapper', '/testmapper');
        $mapperId = $this->object->registerMapper('testmodule', 'testmapper', 'MockObject\Mapper', '/testmapper');
    }

    public function testSetServiceLocator()
    {
        $sourceId = $this->object->registerSource('testmodule', 'testsource', 'MockObject\Source', '/testsource');
        $source = $this->object->getSource($sourceId);

        $this->assertInstanceOf('Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceLocatorInterface', $source->getServiceLocator());
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    {
        $sourceId = $this->object->registerSource('testmodule', 'testsource', 'MockObject\Source', '/testsource');
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        $this->assertInstanceOf('MockObject\Source', $source);

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}

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