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Art Talks Back Poetry Contest Winners
Michigan writers were invited to create original ekphrastic poems based on one of ten selected works of art from the Muskegon Museum of Art's permanent collection in this year's Art Talks Back poetry contest. The competition ran January 24 through March 28, 2019.
2019 Art Talks Back Poetry Contest Winners
1st: CJ Giroux, Saginaw
Poem title: "Viewing Michael Triegel's 'Self Portrait'"
Artwork: Self Portrait by Michael Triegel
2nd: Jane Wheeler, Lowell
Poem title: "The Pitch"
Artwork: Fastball by Albert W. Wein
3rd: Philip Sterling, Lowell
Poem title: "Still Life with Footprints"
Artwork: Footsteps in the Snow by Dale Nichols and "Nature Morte aux Pommes" by Alfred Sisley
Honorable Mentions
Joann C. Odneal, Muskegon
Poem title: "Muscle Hustle for the Fastball"
Artwork: Fastball by Albert W. Wein
Diana Dinverno, Troy
Poem title: "Morningtide"
Artwork: Footsteps in the Snow by Dale Nichols
Janet Bohac, Spring Lake
Poem title: "King of the Seine"
Artwork: Remorquage sur la Seine les Andelys by Maxime Maufra
Deirdre Fagan, Paris (MI)
Poem title: "Notre Amour, Comme une Pomme, Vient de la Terre" *
Artwork: Nature Morte aux Pommes by Alfred Sisley
* "My Love, Like an Apple, Comes from the Earth"
Nicholas Boerema, Muskegon
Poem title: "Human Machine"
Artwork: Demolition in Hyde Park by Tunis Ponsen
The award-winning writers will read their poems and be recognized at a ceremony on April 18 at 6:00 pm.
Cash prizes, Museum memberships, and gift certificates will be awarded to the winning poets.
The Art Talks Back poetry project is underwritten by Michael and Patricia Wade.
First Place award is sponsored by the Poetry Society of Michigan.


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Does Eating Certain Foods Make You Smell Funky?
We live in a competitive world. If you want to have professional, personal or social success, there are things you have to do. For instance, you have to brush your teeth. People are only willing to tolerate so much bad breath before they just plain avoid you.
The same is true of body odor. If they can smell you coming, they're probably going to avoid you, and that just doesn't help anyone get ahead. Hopefully, you know a few hygiene tips to keep your worst odors at bay, but there's a good chance that ignorance is making this battle more difficult than necessary.
The truth is that your diet plays a huge role in how you smell. Understanding what foods do to your natural odor can go a long way in helping you to be anything other than the smelly kid in the room. The truth is that any food at all can have a small impact on how you smell, but the ones on this list tend to be the strongest culprits.
Red Meat
Back during Vietnam, the U.S. Air Force conducted survival training in the Philippines. The pilots in training were released into the wilderness and told to evade capture for as long as possible. No matter how hard they tried, no one lasted more than a couple of days. When they asked the local trackers how they were caught, the answer was always the same thing. They followed the smell.
This is completely real, and it's not limited to a single cross-cultural instance. People from cultures with wildly different diets often can smell each other. It's not always unpleasant, but in the case of this survival training, it was strong enough that the trackers didn't need dogs or special tools. They could just sniff out the guys in training.
For those of you who aren't great at geography, the Philippines are a series of islands. The amount of land available to raise cattle is limited, and it means that red meat is less of a staple in the Filipino diet. That's the secret to the success of those trackers. They didn't eat much red meat, and their targets did.
What does this mean for you? If you go hard on the beef, it's going to change your natural scent. A burger or steak every now and then won't make you repugnant, but when you take the 40 oz. steak challenge, you're going to smell strange the next day.
So if red meat can make you smell funky, the answer is obviously to go vegan, right? Not so much. The truth is that any diet at all is going to impact your personal musk. We're focusing on the foods with the most weight in making you smelly, but everything has a cost. Avoiding meat isn't an answer because a lot of the healthiest vegetables also come with a stench warning. The vegetables that are the worst are called cruciferous veggies. This category includes broccoli, cabbage and mustard. There's a lot more than just those, but if you think about it, you can see how these might be the smelliest veggies around.
The issue with cruciferous foods is that they tend to have a high sulfur content. You might already know that sulfur, on its own, tends to smell like rotten eggs. Well, digesting these vegetables releases that sulfur into your body, and it is often excreted as sweat. Some people literally sweat out a rotten egg smell, and it's because of their diet.
Sadly, that's not the end of the story. Sulfur-rich sweat is a delicacy for skin bacteria. Once you start sweating rotten eggs, the bacteria go into overdrive. That produces a whole extra layer of funk and B.O., so these veggies get you twice.
Spicy Foods
We already mentioned that cultural dietary differences can affect nasal sensitivities. While stereotypes go way too far to make fun of this, there is real science that is worth discussing. Red meat isn't the only dietary staple that can account for varied personal scents. Spices in your food will actually have the most impact.
Now, when you think of spicy foods, you probably go straight to hot peppers. You might consider Mexican-style dishes or strong curry to be the spiciest foods you eat. Those can give you a little smell, but the bigger issue is the spices in the food. Garlic and onion will give you way more funk than peppers.
In fact, you've probably smelled someone's garlic sweat at some point. This is a very real thing. A buildup of spices can reach a point where they leak through the pores. Unfortunately, spices that have been processed by your body smell quite different from aromas in the kitchen. Instead of of rich smell that makes people hungry, garlic sweat and its variants make you smell bad.
Everything you've read up until now can make you smell bad, but to an extent, the funk will be in the nose of the beholder. Alcohol is the one thing you can imbibe that will universally make you stink. There's no doubt about it. You've been around people who drank enough that you can smell it on them. You've probably also identified a friend's hangover just by how they smelled when they stumbled into the room. Here's the wakeup call. You smell just as bad when you get your drink on.
Let's learn a little more science. When the human body metabolizes alcohol, it produces acetic acid. This is yet another substance that can leave your body through sweat glands. That alone isn't too bad, but acetic acid is on a short list of foods that is a culinary delight for skin bacteria. In particular, it feeds the bacteria known for producing the worst kinds of B.O. In every culture known on this earth, alcohol funk is unpleasant. If you're going to party hard, make sure you take a shower the next morning. Maybe have a glass of water first, but don't skimp on the shower.
What's the Cure?
So you can't eat red meat or vegetables, put spices in your food, or drink? How are you supposed to get through life? Well, the answer to managing your diet-controlled funk is simple. It's also the most boring answer in the world: moderation. A burger a week isn't going to make you smell so strongly of red meat that people can't stand to be around you. It still might be enough for a skilled Filipino tracker to find your hiding spot, but it won't make anyone's eyes water. The same goes for your veggies, spices and drinking. If you mix the broccoli with some less-potent greens across the week, you'll mostly be fine. Every once in a while, you might want to go hard on the spices, but in general, you can limit that kind of eating too. As for drinking, there are plenty of reasons to keep that under control. Smelling pleasant is just another on that list.
When moderations isn't on the table, you can strategize around your funk. Find someone who has a similar diet, and you won't smell each other no matter how much you indulge. Sure, strangers are going to give you a wide berth on the streets, but at least you'll be happy.
You can also take the more direct approach. You can shower regularly. When you do, it washes sweat and the things mixed into it away from your skin. That'll get rid of odorous chemicals and starve the bacteria that really make you stink.
Let's recap. What did we learn today? Your favorite foods definitely make you smell funky. You can limit that funk by eating and drinking in moderation. You can steer into the skid and try to hang out with people who smell as funky as you, or you can just shower on a regular basis. Your life is yours to live, but there should be a useful lesson somewhere in there.

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R Tutorial with Rstudio and Data Analysis
This is an R tutorial with Rstudio and the data analysis from an ozone dataset.
R tutorial with Rstudio
Rstudio is an open source software for
R, a programming language for statistical computing.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website has data sets about ozone levels.
I downloaded 2 data sets from their website:
- Hourly ozone levels in the US from 2016. The zip file was 69MB. Uncompressed, the csv file is 2.1GB.
- Daily AQI by county from 2016. The zip file was 1.6MB and the csv file was 26.4MB.
AQI stands for
Air Quality Index. A measure developed by EPA to explain pollution levels to the general public.
Data Visualization
This is the data visualization that we are getting from this R tutorial using Rstudio.
The best time to run outside in San Francisco.
A bit more context about Ozone
To do exploratory data analysis from a data set you need to have a general understanding what the data is about.
- Ozone is a pale blue gas with a bad smell.
- Ozone odour is sharp, smells like chlorine and is measured in parts per billion (ppb).
- Concentrations of 100ppb and above damages respiratory tissues.
- Ozone layer is a portion of the stratosphere. About 20 miles above the ground. At about 100,000 feet.
- The ozone layer prevents UV light from reaching the surface. Which is actually good. But ozone at surface level. Not good.
- Bad ozone is due to fossil fuel burning.
Loading the dataset into Rstudio
- File > New Project
- New Directory
- Empty Project
- Enter name and browse to subdirectory
If you don't have the package
readr you need to install it. It will take about 5 minutes:
> install.packages("readr")
The library
readr is needed to read
rectangular data such as
Then load the library:
> library(readr)
Load the dataset
CSV file with
Load the
CSV file in Rstudio and create an object. The function
read_csv converts the
csv file into a data frame. If you don't specify the types for columns, strange things happen.
For example the data set has a column called
Time.Local, which by default is of type integer. If you run a plot using
Time.Local you will get the time in seconds instead of hours, such as:
3600, representing 1am
7200, representing 2am
and so on...
The column type has to be set to
c character so that
Time.Local can take values like this:
and so on...
Setting the column types depend on the columns.
But how do you set them up if you haven't loaded the data?
The data source should have a description of the data. In this case there is more information about this data set on the EPA website.
Here is the line to load the
CSV into the object
> ozone <- read_csv("ozone_data_2016.csv",
col_types = "ccccinnccccccncnnccccccc")
Get the names of the columns
If you call this function:
names(ozone) you get this result:
> names(ozone)
[1] "State Code" "County Code" "Site Num"
[4] "Parameter Code" "POC" "Latitude"
[7] "Longitude" "Datum" "Parameter Name"
[10] "Date Local" "Time Local" "Date GMT"
[13] "Time GMT" "Sample Measurement" "Units of Measure"
[16] "MDL" "Uncertainty" "Qualifier"
[19] "Method Type" "Method Code" "Method Name"
[22] "State Name" "County Name" "Date of Last Change"
By definition
names is used to get or set the name of an object.
If the object is a dataframe it gets the names of the columns.
Normalize the column names
If you call this function:
make.names(names(ozone)) you get this result:
> make.names(names(ozone))
[1] "State.Code" "County.Code" "Site.Num"
[4] "Parameter.Code" "POC" "Latitude"
[7] "Longitude" "Datum" "Parameter.Name"
[10] "Date.Local" "Time.Local" "Date.GMT"
[13] "Time.GMT" "Sample.Measurement" "Units.of.Measure"
[16] "MDL" "Uncertainty" "Qualifier"
[19] "Method.Type" "Method.Code" "Method.Name"
[22] "State.Name" "County.Name" "Date.of.Last.Change"
By definition
make.names is used to make valid names out of character vectors. The
help page explains that syntactically valid names consist of letters, numbers and dot or underline and start with a letter or the dot but not followed by a number. For instance
.2file is not a valid name.
To normalize the column names, and replace spaces with periods, use:
Replace the names of columns
Finally, this is used to set this conversion back to the
names object:
> names(ozone) <- make.names(names(ozone))
Now, when you call
names(ozone) the spaces are replaced by dots.
> names(ozone)
[1] "State.Code" "County.Code" "Site.Num"
[4] "Parameter.Code" "POC" "Latitude"
[7] "Longitude" "Datum" "Parameter.Name"
[10] "Date.Local" "Time.Local" "Date.GMT"
[13] "Time.GMT" "Sample.Measurement" "Units.of.Measure"
[16] "MDL" "Uncertainty" "Qualifier"
[19] "Method.Type" "Method.Code" "Method.Name"
[22] "State.Name" "County.Name" "Date.of.Last.Change"
Explore the data in Rstudio
Check the number of rows:
> nrow(ozone)
[1] 9124268
Check the number of columns:
> ncol(ozone)
[1] 24
Check the top of the file:
> head(ozone[, c(6:7, 10)])
# A tibble: 6 x 3
Latitude Longitude Date.Local
<dbl> <dbl> <chr>
1 30.5 -87.9 2016-03-01
2 30.5 -87.9 2016-03-01
3 30.5 -87.9 2016-03-01
4 30.5 -87.9 2016-03-01
5 30.5 -87.9 2016-03-01
6 30.5 -87.9 2016-03-01
Check the bottom of the file:
> tail(ozone[, c(6:7, 10)])
# A tibble: 6 x 3
Latitude Longitude Date.Local
<dbl> <dbl> <chr>
1 18.2 -65.9 2016-12-31
2 18.2 -65.9 2016-12-31
3 18.2 -65.9 2016-12-31
4 18.2 -65.9 2016-12-31
5 18.2 -65.9 2016-12-31
6 18.2 -65.9 2016-12-31
Check the number of records for each hour
Using the
table function in Rstudio.
This function "uses the cross classifying factors to build a contingency table of counts at each combination of factor levels".
In this case I know that the ozone levels are measured every hour from midnight to noon to 11pm. I would like to know the number of records for each hour.
This results in:
00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00
369489 373144 359722 358576 363421 385829 386222 384176 381303
09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00
379689 379424 380814 381202 383439 385152 386580 387565
17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00
388252 388576 388656 388650 387492 377278 379617
What does this data mean?
I selected and filtered parts of the data to understand more about it.
Was the data grouped by state? Or was the data grouped by hour?
dplyr for data frames in Rstudio
The next step requires to use the library
dplyr. Which is the next iteration of
plyr, a set of tools for splitting, applying and combining data.
dplyr "provides a flexible grammar of data manipulation…focused on tools for working with data frames".
> install.packages("dplyr")
This might ask to restart the
R session before installing. Then try again. Now load the library.
> library(dplyr)
US States in the data set
I wanted to see which states were included in the data set I loaded.
> select(ozone, State.Name) %>% unique
# A tibble: 52 x 1
1 Alabama
2 Alaska
3 Arizona
4 Arkansas
5 California
6 Colorado
7 Connecticut
8 Delaware
9 District Of Columbia
10 Florida
# ... with 42 more rows
Ozone levels in Florida
I filtered the data set to see the ozone levels in Florida on July 9, 2016 at 6am for all counties
> filter(ozone, State.Name == "Florida",
Date.Local == "2016-07-09",
Time.Local == "06:00") %>% select(County.Name,
The result was:
# A tibble: 58 x 2
County.Name Sample.Measurement
<chr> <dbl>
1 Alachua 0.002
2 Baker 0.001
3 Bay 0.017
4 Brevard 0.014
5 Brevard 0.016
6 Broward 0.005
7 Broward 0.004
8 Broward 0.004
9 Broward 0.008
10 Collier 0.004
# ... with 48 more rows
Convert PPM (parts per million) to PPM (per billion)
The sample measurement has units of
ppm (parts per million).
To convert to
ppb (parts per billion) you just move the dot three times to the right.
For instance, the first row that says
0.002 ppm converts to
2 ppb.
I learned that the EPA has an
AQI calculator to convert from ppb to AQI (air quality index).
In the AQI calculator you have a few choices as shown here:
- Select a pollutant: O3 - Ozone (8hr avg) or (1hr avg)
- Units required: ppb
- Enter the concentration
- Calculate
The way to choose between 8hr and 1hr is:
AQI values of
301 or greater are calculated with 1-hr ozone concentrations.
AQI Categories
The EPA has a great website to learn more about the Air Quality Index (AQI).
The AQI is categorized like this:
- 0-50. Good. Green
- 51-100. Moderate. Yellow
- 101-150. Unhealthy for sensitive groups. Orange
- 151-200. Unhealthy. Red
- 201-300. Very unhealthy. Purple
- 301-500. Hazardous. Maroon.
This information was very helpful to understand the data
Very Unhealthy Jefferson county, Alabama
I filtered the data to find ozone measurements above 0.100 ppm (aka 100ppb). Which calculates to an AQI of 187 (Unhealthy).
> filter(ozone, Sample.Measurement > 0.1)
%>% select(State.Name, County.Name, Date.Local,
Time.Local, Sample.Measurement)
# A tibble: 1,407 x 5
State.Name County.Name Date.Local Time.Local Sample.Measurement
. <chr> <chr> <date> <time> <dbl>
1 Alabama Jefferson 2016-02-23 12:00:00 0.346
2 Alabama Jefferson 2016-02-23 13:00:00 0.202
3 Alabama Russell 2016-04-18 14:00:00 0.101
4 Alaska Matanuska 2016-04-08 02:00:00 0.102
5 Arizona Gila 2016-11-26 17:00:00 0.145
6 Arkansas Crittenden 2016-06-10 13:00:00 0.107
7 Arkansas Crittenden 2016-06-10 14:00:00 0.113
8 Arkansas Crittenden 2016-06-10 15:00:00 0.104
9 California Alameda 2016-06-03 15:00:00 0.102
10 California Alameda 2016-07-26 15:00:00 0.102
# ... with 1,575 more rows
This shows that on
February 23, 2016 at noon, there was a measurement of
346ppb in Jefferson county, Alabama.
Converted to AQI results in
276 aka "Very Unhealthy" and very close to "Hazardous", which is described as "Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected."
After a quick Google search I found that Jefferson county is amongst the top most polluted counties in the US.
Exploring the data visualization plots in Rstudio
I know the names of some state counties in Florida. For example, for Miami, I know that the county is called "Miami Dade" but I wasn't sure how they added this value into the data set. If they put "Dade" or "Miami" or what combination of Miami and Dade.
For each state I created vectors with the names of counties. I visualized the vectors into a table and then created a filter for the specific county.
Finally, I plotted
Time vs Sample Measurement.
I created a vector with Florida counties:
> florida.counties <- filter(ozone,
State.Name == "Florida") %>%
select(County.Name) %>% unique
Then created a view:
> View(florida.counties)
On the view I saw they had it as
> ozone.miami.2016 <- filter(ozone,
County.Name == "Miami-Dade") %>%
select(Date.Local, Time.Local,
I filtered by county name and then plotted
Time.Local vs
> plot(ozone.miami.2016$Time.Local,
The output was an error:
Error in plot.window(...) : need finite
'xlim' values
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log)
: NAs introduced by coercion
2: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments
to min; returning Inf
3: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments
to max; returning -Inf
The error says that one of the coordinates is a vector with
I looked up the types for each variable:
> class(ozone.miami.2016$Time.Local)
[1] "character"
> class(ozone.miami.2016$Sample.Measurement)
[1] "numeric"
Time.Local is of type
character and
Sample.Measurement is of type
> head(ozone$Time.Local)
[1] "15:00" "16:00" "17:00" "18:00" "19:00" "20:00"
> head(ozone$Sample.Measurement)
[1] 0.041 0.041 0.042 0.041 0.038 0.038
You cannot plot character vs numeric.
To prove that
Time.Local was a vector with
NAs I used the function
The function
strptime is used to convert between character representations and objects of classes "POSIXlt" and "POSIXct" representing calendar dates and times.
I read more about
POSIXt and it seems to be a complicated topic as described here.
strptime function is used like this:
strptime(x, format, tz = "")
x: An object to be converted: a character vector
for strptime, an object which can be converted to
"POSIXlt" for strftime.
format: A character string. The default for
the format methods is "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S".
tz: A character string specifying the
time zone to be used for the conversion
I ran the
strptime function like this:
> strptime(ozone.miami.2016$Time.Local, '%H:%M:%S')
The result was something like this:
As far as the error saying:
In xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log)
: NAs introduced by coercion
I assume that
plot is trying to make
Time.Local which is a character element into numeric data. And when it fails to do this, it is returning NAs.
Normalizing data in Rstudio
There is a way to plot
Time.Local as a factor.
> plot(factor(ozone.miami.2016$Time.Local),
main = "Best Time to Run in Miami",
xlab = "Hour", ylab = "Ozone level in ppm")
I suffered a bit with lower case and upper case variables.
To get the list of
State.Name I did:
> unique(ozone$State.Name)
[1] "Alabama" "Alaska" "Arizona"
[4] "Arkansas" "California" "Colorado"
[7] "Connecticut" "Delaware" "District Of Columbia"
[10] "Florida" "Georgia"
To get the
County.Name for
District of Columbia I did this but didn't get any results:
> filter(ozone, State.Name == "District of Columbia") %>%
select(County.Name) %>% unique
# A tibble: 0 x 1
# ... with 1 variables: County.Name <chr>
I realized that I didn't use the exact case. Instead of
Of, I used
> filter(ozone, State.Name == "District Of Columbia")
%>% select(County.Name) %>% unique
# A tibble: 1 x 1
1 District of Columbia
I figured that normalizing the data is a pain in the butt.
I followed the same process to plot Miami, Washington DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Creating Data Visualization in Rstudio
Get a list of States:
Find the County Name. This will give you a table of County names:
florida.counties <- filter(ozone, State.Name == "Florida")
%>% select(County.Name) %>% unique
In this case I found the county for Miami Dade to be
Filter the data and create an object:
ozone.miami.2016 <- filter(ozone, County.Name == "Miami-Dade")
%>% select(Date.Local, Time.Local, Sample.Measurement)
Create a plot with this object and add titles:
ozone.miami.2016$Sample.Measurement, main =
"Best Time to Run in Miami", xlab = "Hour",
ylab = "Ozone level in ppm")
Creating the plot for San Francisco
ca.counties <- filter(ozone, State.Name ==
"California") %>% select(County.Name)
%>% unique
ozone.sf.2016 <- filter(ozone, County.Name ==
"San Francisco") %>% select(Date.Local,
Time.Local, Sample.Measurement)
ozone.sf.2016$Sample.Measurement, main =
"Best Time to Run in San Francisco",
xlab = "Hour", ylab = "Ozone level in ppm")
> summary(ozone.sf.2016$Sample.Measurement)
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
0.00000 0.01600 0.02300 0.02243 0.03100 0.07000
Ozone levels in San Francisco:
- The lowest ozone levels in San Francisco are between 5am and 7am.
- The highest ozone levels are between 12pm and 3pm.


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13 Beloved TV Holiday Specials You Can Stream Right Now
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Viewed frequently enough to kindle an emotional attachment but not so often that they lose their charm, TV holiday specials fill a beloved place in the hearts of viewers. The Grinch and Frosty the Snowman have an almost Santa-like stature in the Christmas pantheon. And several Hanukkah specials and secular tales offers viewers a bit of diversity. Many of the classics are available to stream, along with a few newer favorites. Here are some of the best, along with where to find them.
Special: 'Chanukah'; watch it on Hulu.
Nickelodeon's immensely popular cartoon "Rugrats" offered an unusually informative primer to Hanukkah with this holiday episode focused on the Pickles family, an interfaith household with a Jewish mother. As Grandma Minka reads Tommy and his diaper-clad pals a story about the first Hanukkah, the children imagine themselves as ancient Maccabees, playacting the Jewish fight for religious freedom. Tommy is first excited by the prospect of potato pancakes for dinner, but he slowly comes to recognize the heroism and virtue in the story of Judah and his compatriots. A subplot about a longstanding feud involving Tommy's old-country grandpa sneaks in a goodly number of in-jokes for Jewish viewers.
Jews and gentiles peacefully coexist under one roof in this early highlight from the glossy teen soap opera 'The O.C.' In this episode, the proto-hipster Seth Cohen educates his new houseguest, Ryan, in the ways of his modern-minded family, in which the menorah shares mantle space with the stockings. The series captured the spirit of the mid-'00s with its fashion and musical selections, but the too-cool-for-school dialogue has endured; this episode includes some of the wryest Cohenisms, and offsets them with an earnest celebration of the family as a source of nurturing and acceptance.
Where to watch: Amazon Video
In one of their earliest stop-motion specials, the animators Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass avoided the more folkloric and popular Christmas mascots like Santa and Rudolph and returned to the holiday's roots. Loosely based on the little boy from the popular Christmas carol, Aaron is an orphan who cares for no one and wants only to bang on his drum all day. He slowly learns empathy as he wends his way through the Nativity story, joining the Magi caravan and coming to grips with the deaths of his parents. Emotionally, it's a notch or two more mature than the usual Rankin-Bass production.
Where to watch: Amazon Video
Among the most popular Rankin-Bass specials, this origin story for Santa Claus has all the elements that have made their productions perennial favorites every holiday season, including Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney as the kindly narrator and a young Kris Kringle. And Rankin and Bass's sublimely silly sense of humor was rarely better: Consider the villain Burgermeister Meisterburger, who lords over the city of Sombertown. It also contains their sharpest nugget of wisdom — that toys may be just things, but their ability to inspire joy is a powerful thing.
Where to watch: Netflix
Through one long Christmas Eve power outage, a boozy, hangdog Bill Murray wanders around New York City's Carlyle Hotel spreading merriment and crooning the occasional tune. This hourlong special from Sofia Coppola gets comfortable with the melancholic side of Christmas, but assuages those lonely feelings with a warming display of togetherness in the final number. In it, Murray joins Miley Cyrus and George Clooney in a snowy fantasia for a rendition of "Sleigh Ride"; it's a tidy encapsulation of the special's eclectic guest list and its nostalgic charm.
Where to watch: Netflix
Everyone's favorite washed-up sitcom star who's also a talking horse, BoJack Horseman, sees the world through cynical eyes, and Christmas is no exception: To him, it's all a corporatized, phony cash grab. This stand-alone special condenses the show's signature blend of crushing bleakness and playful, absurdist humor: The series is too unsentimental to fully overturn BoJack's bitter attitude toward the holidays, but when his couch-surfing "roommate" suggests watching an old Christmas episode of the '90s comedy that made the horse a star, an emotion or two shakes loose in BoJack's cold horse heart.
Where to watch: Netflix
Pee-Wee Herman's hyperactive kid show was the perfect venue for some old-fashioned Yuletide cheer — a playful space for the actor-creator Paul Reubens to both embrace and goof on such seasonal standbys as inedible fruitcake and awkward regifting. Reubens's grey-suited man-child added a little camp to the holidays, from its sublimated homoeroticism (a choir of strapping military men perform the opening song-and-dance number) to its guest list full of cult icons, including Joan Rivers, Little Richard and Grace Jones. This program is indeed fit for children — Pee-Wee learns a valuable lesson about being greedy with presents — but it always winks to the knowing adults in the audience.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime
The Rankin-Bass team gave some bit players their moment in the spotlight with this special, sending the elves Jingle and Jangle out into the world with Vixen the Reindeer after Santa decides to take a year off. The posse brings a miraculous snow to a town in the American South and restores the jaded locals' faith in Christmas, a moment of pure Rockwellian homeyness. But the breakout stars were Heat Miser and Snow Miser, bitter rivals and brothers with control over the elements. Their jaunty tune ranks among the catchiest original songs that a Rankin-Bass production ever yielded.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime
Rankin-Bass expanded its wintertime repertoire a touch by moving beyond Christmas to conjure a more broadly mythical fantasy for "Jack Frost." In this special, the titular winter sprite falls for a mortal lass and willingly transforms into a human so that he may court her. But first, he'll have to rescue her from the clutches of Kubla Kraus, the nefarious Cossack king. The animators kept the borscht belt humor coming (Kubla has a smart-alecky ventriloquist dummy for a sidekick and a butler named Fetch-Kvetch) in a fable that fits right in with the bedtime stories of Hans Christian Andersen.
Where to watch: Amazon Video
Rankin and Bass laid fair claim to the world of two-dimensional animation as well, and none of those efforts matched this one for sheer ubiquity. The eponymous Christmas song lays out the basics: A magical silk hat brings a snowman to life, who then befriends the children of the town. This special expands on that plot, assigning the kids a mission to relocate Frosty to the North Pole, where seasonal changes won't threaten to dissolve him. The humor is broad and the emotional content gentle; this special should be easily digestible for even the youngest viewers.
Where to watch: Amazon Video, iTunes
Audiences of all ages cherish the overflowing imagination of the ageless verse in this 1966 animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss tale: the roast beast feast, the town square of Whoville, the Grinch's suitably shrunken heart. The longtime Looney Tunes mastermind Chuck Jones brought it all to life on the screen, coding sneakiness into the Grinch's every movement and lighting up Cindy Lou Who's big, watery eyes with the innocence of childhood. The story has a potent simplicity, the art is subtly sophisticated, and Boris Karloff tied it all together with perfect archness as the voice of the narrator and the Grinch. Christmas specials don't get much better.
Where to watch: Amazon Video
Perhaps you can already hear Vince Guaraldi's dejected jazz theme just from reading the title alone. It provides a downbeat counterpoint to a special that begins in a sadder register than most child-focused entertainment, with the eternal sad sack Charlie Brown feeling depressed over the coming holidays. A Christmas pageant, a lopsided twig of a tree and a heartfelt monologue from Linus raise his spirits and remind him that love is the true meaning of Christmas. Charles Schulz's Peanuts comics always contained an undertone of existential woe, and Christmas proves a fine vessel for Charlie Brown's funny little miseries.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime
From the '60s through the early '90s, the comedian Bob Hope gathered America around its TV sets every year to share in some laughs and a little national regrouping around Christmastime. A standout example comes from December 1967, when he went on a U.S.O. tour through Vietnam and Thailand that was recorded, edited and then beamed to the folks back home. These variety programs offered plenty of military jokes, guest comedians and musical performances in the pop and traditional styles of its time. As much as a document as entertainment, this special is a snapshot of America during a pivotal moment in history.


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Fess Parker has died.
He was more than a bit of an American Icon, who started a whole wave of coonskin caps and buckskin outfits with his mid-50's TV portrayal of Davy Crockett, and later, Daniel Boone.
Parker's been living in Santa Barbara where he was apparently a decent winemaker and real-estate developer.
No cause of death was reported.
Fess Parker was 85.
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Certainly an icon, but not just an American icon. I had the experience of a co-working singing the Ballad of Davy Crockett in Macedonian.
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Monday, February 24, 2014
It was a cold winter's day that Sunday. The parking lot to the church was filling up quickly. I noticed as I got out of my car that fellow church members were whispering among themselves as they walked to the church. As I got closer I saw a man leaned up against the wall outside the church. He was almost laying down as if he was asleep. He had on a long trench coat that was almost in shreds and a hat topped his head, pulled down so you could not see his face.
He wore shoes that looked 30 years old, too small for his feet with holes all over them, his toes stuck out. I assumed this man was homeless, and asleep, so I walked on by through the doors of the church. We all fellow shipped for a few minutes, and someone brought up the man laying outside. People snickered and gossiped but no one bothered to ask him to come in, including me.
A few moments later church began. We all waited for the Preacher to take his place and to give us the Word, when the doors to the church opened. In came the homeless man walking down the aisle with his head down. People gasped and whispered and made faces. He made his way down the aisle and up onto the pulpit he took off his hat and coat.
My heart sank.
There stood our preacher...he was the "homeless man." No one said a word. The preacher took his Bible and laid it on the stand. "Folks, I don't think I have to tell you what I am preaching about today." Then he started singing the words to this song. "If I can help somebody as I pass along. If I can cheer somebody with a word or song. If I can show somebody that he's traveling wrong. Then my living shall not be in vain."
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Tuesday 7TH Week in Ordinary Time
February 25, 2014
Tuesday 7TH Week in Ordinary Time
Jas 4: 1-10 / Ps 55:7-8, 9-10a, 10b-11a, 23 / Mk 9: 30-37
Reading: Jas 4: 1-10
What causes these fights and quarrels among you? Is it not your cravings that make war within your own selves? When you long for something you cannot have, you kill for it and when you do not get what you desire, you squabble and fight. The fact is, you do not have what you want because you do not pray for it. You pray for something and you do not get it because you pray with the wrong motive of indulging your pleasures. You adulterers! Don't you know that making friends with the world makes you enemies of God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be the world's friend becomes God's enemy. Can you not see the point of the saying in Scripture: "The longing of the spirit he sent to dwell in us is a jealous longing?" But God has something better to give, and Scripture also says, God opposes the proud but he gives his favor to the humble. Give in, then, to God; resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw close to God and he will come close to you. Clean your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you doubters. Recognize your distress, be miserable and weep. Turn your laughter into tears and your joy into sadness. Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will raise you up.
Gospel: Mk 9: 30-37
After leaving that place, they made their way through Galilee; but Jesus did not want people to know where he was because he was teaching his disciples. And he told them, "The Son of Man will be delivered into human hands. They will kill him, but three days after he has been killed, he will rise." The disciples, however, did not understand these words and they were afraid to ask him what he meant. They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, Jesus asked them, "What were you discussing on the way?" But they did not answer because they had been arguing about who was the greatest. Then he sat down, called the Twelve and said to them, "If someone wants to be first, let him be last of all and servant of all." Then he took a little child, placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it he said to them, "Whoever welcomes a child such as this in my name, welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but the One who sent me."
In our adolescence and adulthood, we may have engaged in a wild and sinful lifestyle in varying degrees. Young people want to enjoy drinking, partying, sexual pleasures, etc. and sometimes commit many grave sins. Many of us realize our errors and reform our lives eventually, as we grow older and wiser. We understand that these sinful acts lead to death, while doing good to one's neighbor brings us happiness.
In the First Reading, St. James says that acts of love can atone for our many sins. Since we know we are sinful, we should not only concentrate on what things we should not do, but instead focus on doing good deeds and charitable acts towards people we know or live with and even people we do not personally know. Rest assured that every day God will give us opportunities to do acts of love towards God and neighbor.
In the gospel, the apostles were arguing about who among them was the greatest. Isn't this a common occurrence in the workplace, in politics, in our homes and even in church organizations? People are always competing with one another and outperforming one another. This is a human weakness which leads to quarrels, divisiveness, hatred, jealousy, etc. But Jesus told them that in order to be great, one must be the servant of all. Does anyone want to be a servant? Many will say no. But that is the path to greatness, says the Lord. The key to this seemingly impossible way of doing has to be LOVE. If we love someone, we are more than willing to serve him. So if we love people, we can be humble in front of them. To serve others is not hard if we have the Spirit of Christ who is the perfect example of a servant-leader. We should enlarge our hearts to love others and realize that when we do so, we are loving Jesus himself.
Prayer Requests:
We pray …
… for a deep and profound respect for life, especially for the unborn.
… for all the prayer intentions in the MTQ Dailyprayer Diary.
… for families who are in need of healing.
… for world peace and reconciliation.
… for thanksgiving
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Finally, we pray for one another, for those who have asked our prayers and for those who need our prayers the most.
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Once Again Someone Did Beyoncé Wrong & Butchered Her Wax Figure
Can someone please explain to us why this has happened?
According to the curators of the wax museum in Niagara Falls, this is Beyoncé. 🧐🧐🧐 pic.twitter.com/jrhd1J1qlI
— Ama Scriver (@amascriver) February 11, 2018
Today we have been subjected to UTTER blasphemy when a picture surfaced showing a wax figure in a Niagra Falls museum that dares to claim iteself as Beyoncé. BICHHHH WHERE?
Whoever created this figure must have been drunk and defs not in love with Queen B because we are struggling to find any resemblance to the Grammy winner.
The hair ain't it, the face ain't it, the body ain't it and you better believe that $2 store Mardi Gras outfit ain't it either.
This isn't the first time a wax museum has totally done Bey wrong. Remember these?
Theory: Beyoncé wax figure makers have never seen Beyoncé pic.twitter.com/KpjWugXBrI
— zander (@finah) February 13, 2018
It's truly offensive. After all she's done for us this is how we repay her?
Y'all better pack those budget candle sticks away and dedicate 2K18 to doing better. For Beyoncé, and for all of us.
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A pleasure to sing Mrs Whittaker down the aisle in the registry office. Then back to their family home to celebrate in Essex. Felt like i was at my own family wedding. So well looked after x
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The number of new technologies entering the construction market is radily expanding. Some of these new products (and old ones for that matter) work fairly well, some make big promises but little impact, some actually make matters worse and some…… will revolutionize the industry. 4D scheduling and planning is one technology that has been around for a few years and its impact is growing dramatically. 4D is being used on all types of construction around the world and its value is driven by transparency and cooperation. If you haven't dug into the details yet, you should, and soon. Here are some things you should consider when evaluating 4D products.
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This is Dead Island… a paradise to die for…
Game Of The Year Edition
Terror. Violence. Madness. Bedlam. A holiday paradise gone mad. A tropical island turns into total chaos after a mysterious zombie outbreak. Cut off from the rest of the world, the player's only chance to survive is to fight to the death and find a way to escape from the island.
Dead Island combines first-person action with a heavy focus on melee combat, character development and customization of a vast array of weapons. All of these gameplay features are presented in a dark story inspired by classic zombie movies with a gritty and engrossing campaign that can be played with up to four players in co-op mode.
Set in an open world tropical island, hordes of different festering zombies await players around every corner while they embark on a variety of thrilling missions through the holiday resort. With firearms and ammunition being scarce the player must rely on utilizing found items as weapons for self-defense and fight off zombie hordes in intense melee combat. A diverse range of items can be collected and will later serve to transform the player's ordinary makeshift weapons into serious instruments of destruction.
Game Of The Yeat Edition Includes:
Dead Island game
Bloodbath Arena
Ryder White
The Ripper (Weapon Blueprint)
Release name: Dead.Island.Game.Of.The.Year.Edition
Size: 9.30 GB (9,990,421,503 bytes)
1.Unzip 2.Install 3.Move all contents from crack folder to game folder 4.Play
Installed, moved stuff from "crack" to game-folder. —> d3dx9_43.dll is missing. Redownloaded, reinstalled windows. Still the same. Somebody knows how to fix trhis?
Torrent plz 🙁
question: how come when i go to install the game it comes up with steam and asking for a activation code!?? cant even get as far as putting the crack files in the game DIR as it wont install fully without a activation code??
anyone can help me? :angel:
How can we get Bloodbath Arena to work? i went to the loby from the door at the first tunnel from the lighthouse but it just exits the game to the menu. Did anyone managed to get it to work? Do we need to download something else to get it to work? 🙁 Any helpful answer is welcomed. The game is great, too bad this is the only thing that doesn't work.
JumboFiles or Torrents please :S !
it happens mostly when you have all weapon slots in use(you holding too much weapons) sometimes weapon drop itself, but rarely(in my situation).
Just spent 2 hours playing this game. Its good but i got a very annoying issue : my charracter ramdomly drops weapon even though i didnt press backspace :angry: . Anyone face the same problem with me :shocked:
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Arena only working with normal version, because it needs to connect online, it's impossible to connect few hundred ppl with same nick 🙂
I cant Donwload PART10 from uploaded, can i use the EXABIT part10 to unzip the game? thx a lot
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In 1998, I wrote a copyrighted mapuicrsnt called A Badge of Deception. There are over 30 distinct similarities of Righteous Kill, to my mapuicrsnt. The biggest difference is that the writer of Righteous Kill, took out all of the parts of the story that keeps it flowing with character development. He also added the silly poems that were left behind after each murder, and the bad video confession theme. I think that in an effort to change the mapuicrsnt in some minor ways, made the screenplay stupid to anyone with a half of brain and an ounce of intellect. The Copyright Infringement case will be filed in the LA Federal Court during the first week of November 2008.


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The Supply Chain Economy determines the extent companies can feasibly create new products that lead to greater innovation and output. This source of innovation is often ignored in traditional innovation measurements that are based on patent filings. According to a paper in a working paper by Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills from MIT and the Harvard School of Business by changing the framework that focuses on the suppliers of goods and services that support business and government we can realize new levels of innovation by providing access to labor, buyers and capital (Mills & Delgado, 2018).
Re-categorizing the economy to supply chain from business-to-consumers a different picture of innovation emerges. Supply chain industries are unique form of development that results in economic competitiveness and high paying job growth in a sector that employees 37% of the labor market (Delgado & Mills, 2016).
Why might this be important? Government numbers are often outdated and overlook important sources of new development. When thinking of economic clusters, the supply chain becomes an essential part of how these industries share services and resources. Categorizing them appropriately leads to new ways of seeing and enhancing real value that turns into economic growth.
Appropriately measuring the supply chain leads to policy improvements that includes giving them greater access to labor, buyers and capital:
-Labor: Supply chain traded services earn more income and rely more heavily on STEM knowledge than business-to-consumer traded services. As companies work together they lead to greater development of a stronger talent pool.
-Access to Buyers: Clustering businesses together creates strong buyer-supplier networks that can lead to mutual development. Creating collaboration between industries, government and supportive institutions (i.e. higher education) can transform into regional development.
-Access to Capital: Ensuring that companies have access to financial capital to reduce shocks and speed up development can lead to growth. The same methodology may be applied to other forms of capital needed by other industries within the cluster.
The authors indicated that partnerships with government, business, and other stakeholders leads to greater innovation, growth, and higher paying jobs. The changing of the metrics opens up a new paradigm to see the benefits of developing the supply chain network for advance manufacturing and growth. Continuous adjustment and development creates a more competitive environment where cutting edge products and services penetrate global markets.
What the authors did not specifically state is that by creating a more competitive environment that improves the innovative capacity of many businesses, it will make a difference in profit margins and manufacturing capacity within the U.S. While low-cost labor input countries are limited on technology, the U.S. may be able to draw back manufacturing with better manufacturing environment that makes new manufacturing industries profitable again. Such viewpoints should be part of the government tools to regenerate a leading production economy.
Delgado, M. & Mills, K. (2018). The Supply Chain Economy: A New Framework for Understanding Innovation and Services. Harvard Business School. Retrieved http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-071_b7268529-3131-4053-9e4c-5b06c3e86e81.pdf
Delgado, M. & Mills, K. (2016). A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Supply Chain Industries in Performance. Harvard Business School. http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Paper_SupplyChain_MD_KM_05-23-2016_ac3f26a0-6022-4bf0-a719-39a6b4b4450e.pdf


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Hosts South Korea defeated Iran in straight sets as the Asian Women's Volleyball Championships opened in Seoul.
The Koreans, who have never won the event but have finished as runners-up seven times, came through 25-17, 25-9, 25-14 in the Pool A encounter.
They won bronze at the last edition of the tournament in 2017 and will be hoping for better as they play host for the first time.
In Pool B, Tokyo 2020 Olympic hosts and four-time winners Japan powered past India in straight sets, 25-12, 25-14, 25-8.
There was also a victory in the 1988 Olympic host city for Kazakhstan, who saw off Australia 25-19, 25-20, 25-21.
Pool C saw two-time winners Thailand come from behind to defeat Chinese Taipei 20-25, 25-13, 25-22, 25-20.
In Pool D record winners China, who are bidding for a 14th title, eased home against Sri Lanka as the reigning Olympic champions recorded a 25-11, 25-9, 25-12 victory.
Group play will continue in Seoul tomorrow, with matches taking place across the Jamsil Arena and Jamsil Students' Gymnasium venues.
Eight teams will advance from the event to the Tokyo 2020 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament, although Japan, as hosts, and China, through this month's Intercontinental Qualifier, have already booked their spots at the Games.
The final in Seoul will take place on August 25.


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We adopted our "Baby Marla" (Pretzel) this Summer. She was the hyper little fire ball we were looking for! She loves to play tag with our boys and will chew on their toes when they do homework until they play with her.
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I am proud to introduce myself as the new president of Sonoma County Farm Bureau. Fifteen years ago my friend and neighbor John Bucher got me involved with the Sonoma County Farm Bureau. I joined the board and never expected that I would eventually be elected to the presidency. I have seen a lot of changes in our County and at the Farm Bureau over the years, but I believe the best years are still ahead of us. We will have our hands full but Farm Bureau has a great staff led by Tim Tesconi, an engaged board of directors, and a community that supports us and understands the many benefits of agriculture here in Sonoma County.
First, let me thank Tito Sasaki for his last two years serving as our president. He had his hands full and handled the job very well. Luckily for all of us, Tito will continue to be on the board and involved, especially, with pending local groundwater regulations. Thank you Tito, I will be depending on you for the wisdom you have gained over last two years.
When I think back to the Farm Bureau organization I joined 15 years ago, I think of the crab feed we hosted at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building. The Crab Feed, which gets bigger and better every year, moved to the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in 2005. This year we were recognized by Press Democrat readers as Sonoma County's Best Crab Feed.
I think of the great but small staff Farm Bureau had when I joined the board 15 years ago and how our organization's staff, programs and outreach have expanded to what they are today. Like our crops, Farm Bureau has grown stronger and is doing more to represent its members. From the more than $80,000 in agriculture scholarships we give out annually to the different safety and educational workshops we offer throughout the year, the organization looks totally different than the one I joined. Farm Bureau's continued growth and influence is amazing to me.
Meanwhile, we continue to work on important issues politically around the county. Last year we had a lot on our plate with the county and state elections and long-running issues like the Riparian Corridor Ordinance. But next year will be even busier. We will continue to work on the pending groundwater management plans for Sonoma County. Additionally, the county will be drafting a new well ordinance and, of course, Russian River Watershed landowners will need to comply with new frost water regulations. We can't forget about agricultural discharge waivers being required from both Regional Water Boards – all amid a sea of other regulatory challenges. For all of this, Farm Bureau has been and will be at the table to fight for our members so they can continue to farm in the future.
As I write this column I think of all that we will be working on in 2015 and watch the rain fall on the land, promising a fresh, new year. The future is bright for agriculture in Sonoma County, even with all the work and challenges ahead. We have always managed and persevered. It's what farmers do and it's what Farm Bureau will continue to do.
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Bluebeam looks back on the greenest stories of the year
It's Earth Day, and we here at Bluebeam are celebrating different ways of being green. We do advocate for going paperless, after all.
Over the past year, we've noticed some positive trends in AEC: people are thinking more about how to reduce waste, conserve precious resources, and repurpose materials in ingenious ways. Here are five of our favorite green stories from the last year:
Designing for the Design District
Reclaimed wood experts Mission Bell and David Baker Architects used 10,000 feet of wood they salvaged from the old San Francisco Train Depot to transform history into a stunning new apartment building.
Hope on Alvarado
Architecture firm KGTY are retrofitting shipping containers to build 84 units of affordable housing in downtown LA. "If you can deliver a building six months sooner, that's six months less that people need to be homeless. There's definitely something there," said Keith Labus, architect for the project.
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The age of ridesharing has forced designers and owners to ask tough questions about many things, including the future of the parking garage. Now some ingenious AEC leaders, including Andy Cohen, Co-CEO of architecture firm Gensler, have audacious ideas about how parking structures can enjoy a glorious and useful second life.
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Using the principals of inclusive design, seeking consultation and feedback from users can benefit all members of our society, regardless of ability, age, disability and culture.
- How accessible is your service, organisation or workplace?
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- Have you and your staff had diversity and awareness training that would improve understanding and knowledge of the communication and access to information needs of people with dual sensory loss?
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The Real Reason for the Increase in Medical Exemptions
I don't think anyone really wants to consider the real reasons children need medical exemptions. It's easier to create a false narrative and blame a group of people, than to take actual responsibility. The word I'm looking for is: scapegoat.
Scapegoat /ˈskāpˌɡōt/ 1. a person (or group of persons) who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others.
The reason why children need medical exemptions is much more nuanced and complex than the claim of 'fraudulent doctors.' It has to do with the state of children's health, and that is much harder to process.
A Misplaced Public Health Crisis
Despite California boasting the 5th largest economy in the world, the health outcomes of the children who live here are dismal compared to our economic peers. California's Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is 4.3 deaths per 1,000 live births, which puts us behind at least 36 other nations, including all of Europe (Sweden, Norway, Iceland, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, etc) as well as Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Israel, Ireland, Slovenia, Taiwan, and many more.
Some individual counties within California have IMR's on par with developing nations: 8.1 per 1,000 lives births for Fresno County, 6.4 for San Bernardino County, 7.4 for Mendocino County, 7.6 for Yuba County.
Not only that, but the racial disparity of California's IMR is not something to be ignored: In 2018, African American infants had 9.55 deaths per 1,000 live births, whereas white infants were at 3.75 per 1,000 live births. In 2015, the figures were 9.35, and 3.92, respectively.
Clearly, we have major problems, but higher vaccination rates and compliance does not translate into fewer infant deaths, or better health outcomes.
Let's Look at the Facts
- California has the 6th highest vaccination coverage in the United States.
- California also has the 3rd lowest total exemption rate in the country.
- New York's exemption rate of 1.1% didn't prevent the biggest measles outbreak in decades–so are we sure that low exemption rates correlate with ZERO outbreaks when we have evidence of the opposite?
- From 2011 to 2018, the percent of students in California enrolled in Special Education has increased 19% (from a rate of 10.5% in 2011, to 11.3% in 2014, to 12.5% in 2018).
- Overall statewide student enrollment declined 0.8% from 2014-15 to 2017-18 (as more students are opting for homeschooling).
- The counties with higher than average rates of medical exemptions also have higher rates of students enrolled in Special Education.
- For example, Calaveras County has a higher than average rate of ME and Conditional Entrants that is consistent with a higher than average Special Education enrollment of 21%–state average is 12%.
- School districts throughout the state range from 1.7% to 23.4% Special Education enrollment, which is positively associated with observable fluctuations in medical exemptions by district.
- Children with medical conditions, especially conditions brought on by vaccination, will seek out medical exemptions to future vaccinations. These are special needs children. They are students with disabilities. They are students who can't safely be vaccinated further.
Are the Kids Really Alright?
On the whole, American children are 70% more likely to die before adulthood than kids in other comparably wealthy countries.
In the last several decades, we have collectively witnessed an involution in the health of our nation's children.
Acute febrile illnesses like Chickenpox (only a few European countries even vaccinate for this) have been replaced by life-long chronic conditions such as auto immune conditions, autism, food allergies, hyper immune disorders, asthma and epilepsy, and childhood cancer–all conditions that we don't have adequate answers for.
Some people look for answers in genetics, or the hygiene hypothesis. Some people think it may stem from a lackluster microbiome due to many factors like antibiotic use, cesarean delivery, pesticide use, GMOs, and vaccination. Yes, vaccination.
Why should vaccination be off the table? Why would ANYTHING be off the table, when we clearly haven't identified the cause(s)?
- From 2010 to 2015, a current epilepsy diagnosis in children increased 13%.
- From 2000 to 2015, an autism diagnosis increased 150%.
- From 1997 to 2011, the prevalence of food allergy in children increased 50%.
- From 2007 to 2016 insurance claims with diagnosis of anaphylactic food reactions climbed 377%.
- From 2001 to 2011, the number of Americans with asthma increased 28%.
- The biggest increase in asthma was for African American children who experienced a 50% increase in asthma diagnosis from 2001 to 2009.
- From 2000-2016, a diagnosis of childhood cancer has increased 22.9%.
- In 2018, VAERS received 49,116 vaccine injury reports, the most reports ever filed in the history of VAERS, of those 9,491 were children under 18 years old, and of those, 326 were "Death", "Life Threatening" or "Permanent Disability".
- From 2000 to 2018, VAERS reports increased 278%. And it is considered to only capture 1% of true vaccine injuries.
This is the urgent problem that needs our attention. This is the Public Health concern. This is what we should have outrage over. This is the reason for the increase in students in Special Education. This is why families get medical exemptions. This is why families are asking questions, including questions about the CDC vaccine schedule. And exactly who are these ACIP members?
We don't need to punish doctors for genuinely 'doing no harm' or parents for genuinely protecting their children. We are failing parents by not listening to their concerns. By not recording their children's vaccine reactions. By not reporting them to VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. What we need accountability: in our drug companies; in our government agencies who are supposed to be monitoring them.
Are Vaccines Safe?
To answer this question, we need the data. We need the science. What did the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report from 2013 have to say?
"No studies have compared the differences in health outcomes that some stakeholders questioned between entirely unimmunized populations of children and fully immunized children. Experts who addressed the committee pointed not to a body of evidence that had been overlooked but rather to the fact that existing research has not been designed to test the entire immunization schedule."
Institute of Medicine. 2013. The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence, and Future Studies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13563.
What we want to know is: Is the CDC recommended vaccine schedule safe? And to properly answer that question, we would need a fully unvaccinated control group. The unvaccinated kids who are often the butt of pro-vax memes. Suddenly, they become a crucial component in vaccine safety research. We need these unvaccinated children in order to see clearly the physiological and neurological effects of long-term exposure to vaccines.
What Studies Do We Have?
1. Association Between Estimated Cumulative Vaccine Antigen Exposure Through the First 23 Months of Life and Non–Vaccine Targeted Infections From 24 Through 47 Months of Age, Glanz J, et al. JAMA. 2018; 319(9):906-913.
Notes: Comparing health outcomes for different ranges of antigen exposure. The lowest antigen exposure reference group is 0-198 antigens. So, no unvaccinated group.
Notes: 5 case-control and 5 cohort studies. Studies were included that looked at either MMR vaccination, cumulative mercury (Hg) or cumulative thimerosal dosage from vaccinations. No individual study had an unvaccinated control reference group.
3. Patterns of childhood immunization and all-cause mortality. Natalie L. McCarthy, et al. 2017
Full study here —–> McCarthy, et al
Notes: Study compares mortality rates between children following the ACIP recommended vaccine schedule against children considered "undervaccinated" which are children missing at least one dose. Curiously, 3.3% of the "undervaccinated" group received no vaccines but they are not examined distinctly from the "undervaccinated" group. So, no unvaccinated reference group.
4. Prenatal and Infant Exposure to Thimerosal From Vaccines and Immunoglobulins and Risk of Autism. ,
Notes: This study wanted to examine the relationships between prenatal and infant ethylmercury exposure from thimerosal-containing vaccines and or immunoglobulin preparations and ASD, but it forgot to include unvaccinated kids. No unvaccinated reference group.
5. Increasing Exposure to Antibody-Stimulating Proteins and Polysaccharides in Vaccines Is Not Associated with Risk of Autism. DeStefano, et al. 2013.
Notes: They tried to evaluate the association between autism and the level of immunologic stimulation received from vaccines administered during the first 2 years of life, but forgot to keep the ZERO exposure group all by itself. The reference groups are: 0-25 antigens, 0-125 antigens, and 0-311 antigens. And then for an even more sensitive analysis, their reference group for a single day exposure was 0-25 antigens, 0-25 antigens, and 0-100 antigens (compared to kids with 3000-6258 antigens). Sadly, this was another missed opportunity. No unvaccinated reference group.
6. Number of antigens in early childhood vaccines and neuropsychological outcomes at age 7-10 years. Iqbal S, et al. 2013
Full Study —-> Iqbal, et al
Notes: They used a publicly available dataset to evaluate the association between antibody-stimulating proteins and polysaccharides from early childhood vaccines and neuropsychological outcomes at age 7-10 years. Lowest exposure reference group is <100. So, no unvaccinated group.
7. On-time Vaccine Receipt in the First Year Does Not Adversely Affect Neuropsychological Outcomes. Michael J. Smith 2010
Full Study —–> Smith, et al