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The Consumer Electronics Association, which puts on the annual International Consumer Electronics Show, says it has a problem with "booth babes."
Not the actual booth babes, the attractive women hired to staff exhibitors' booths and required to dress, for the most part, in scanty and/or provocative attire — including but not limited to short shorts, skimpy tank tops and skin-tight body suits. Or, in one notable case at this year's gathering, a thong, pasties and body paint.
No, the CEA's problem is with the use of the term "booth babes."
"I am offended by anyone calling anyone a 'babe' under any circumstances," says Karen Chupka, senior vice president of International CES & corporate business strategy for the CEA.
"We're in the year 2013 and it's rude," Chupka says after I called to ask about the booth babe situation at this year's show in Las Vegas, which drew more than 150,000 attendees and more than 3,000 exhibitors from around the world earlier this month. "I just don't assume that we should call any woman who is working a booth at the show a 'babe.' The word babe offends me and I'm offended by anyone who uses it."
I admit I paused after hearing that. Shouldn't CEA's outrage be directed, in 2013, at paying women to dress in pasties and other "provocative attire" at what is billed "the world's most important technology event?"
For better or worse, "booth babes" is an industry term to describe women paid, as former Eurogamer.net writer Rab Florence noted, "to stand for hours in painful high heels and skimpy clothes by a corporate body operating under the dated notion that tech products can't be sold without appealing to the worst elements of a perceived demographic." Eurogamer Expo banned booth babes in October and says it won't allow them at the 2013 show.
"We reserve the right for marketers to market themselves," Chupka says. "We have a basic decency policy. People should be covered. But we're not going to get into a situation where we're going to measure how much covering they have, how long their skirt is."
As for the painted women in pasties and thongs, they didn't violate the basic decency policy, says Chupka because it's "art." She adds they weren't technically "naked," as some reporters, seeking to sensationalize this year's booth babes, noted in their stories.
Let me just say I'm not opposed at all to exhibitors' hiring attractive models to pitch their products and help their company stand out from the other hawkers. Travel costs for booth staff makes it necessary for some companies to hire local staff. There's nothing wrong with that.
"It Cheapens Us. It Cheapens All of Us."
The problem is with what they're wearing — and what they represent. As I and many others have noted, a women in a skimpy outfit – or possibly a male model in a Speedo (though I didn't see any) – doesn't help create the "welcoming, comfortable and productive" environment CES says it strives for at a business conference. I can go into a lot of detail about why booth babes are bad, but I think two other writers have already done so eloquently.
"What does the concept of the 'Booth Babe' say about women? It says that women's place at any tech-related event can only be as an attractive decoration to sweeten the event for the men," as former Eurogamer.net writer Florence noted. "It says that women aren't truly welcome in that world, because the moment you objectify something it isn't part of anything. It's just there. It's just something else to be consumed. Fundamentally, it depicts a woman as a product.
What does the concept of the 'Booth Babe' say about men? It says that we objectify women to such an extent that we will think nothing of attractive women just 'being there' while we watch. It says that we are exactly what a corporate entity believes us to be. It makes us a predictable, easily defined and easily manipulated stick-man on a company whiteboard. It cheapens us. It cheapens all of us. It cheapens the event, and everyone at it, male or female.
And consider this from former Gizmodo reporter Mat Honan, who in 2012 chastised CEA President Gary Shapiro for dismissing the booth babe issue as "irrelevant."
"There are two issues at play here," Honan wrote. "First, there's the gender issue. Women are under-represented in the tech sector. And while there are a thousand theories why that is, the one thing that is clear is that they aren't underrepresented in society, and by extension, the marketplace. The argument that says CES should be geared towards men because men buy the most electronics ignores that women like gadgets too. If the industry keeps ignoring women in order to market towards men, it's going to lose sales. If you can create a gadget that women like just as much as men (hello, iPhone) you have a hit on your hands."
So why would you want to do anything that might discourage women from showing up? (And it's abundantly clear that some women certainly are off-put by booth babes.) Why wouldn't you want to know what a key demographic thinks of your product before it goes on sale?"
Why indeed. For the record, I asked Chupka what percentage of CES attendees are men versus women. She tells me it's not a statistic they gather, opting instead to focus on the job titles/roles of showgoers. Again, her line is that most attendees are business professionals.
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If that's true, then why can't CEA adopt a dress code policy for all exhibitor personnel, hired models or not? Let's call it 'business casual.' Too vague? How about a dress code that echoes what the exhibitors expect their employees to wear every day to work back at company headquarters?
Pretty people in everyday clothes are still pretty, after all.
Chupka says that CEA is adding new language to its exhibitor guidelines for the 2014 show that it meant to include in the 2013 rules but that was somehow "overlooked."
The International CES' diverse attendee base should be taken into consideration when choosing your booth talent, to ensure that your presenters are as knowledgeable about your products as possible. We recommend that you also consider how your chosen presenters will most positively reflect your brand to the diverse group of CES attendees. Recent news article show that "booth babes" can reflect poorly on your exhibit, so we ask that you give this thoughtful consideration, to avoid alienating or offending various audience segments.
I consider that a cop out. If at least six teams in the NFL can ban cheerleaders as "props that reinforce objectified sex roles" — and if one of Europe's largest gaming conferences can ban booth babes because they're just "not okay" — why can't the CEA take a decisive stance on this?
Chupka says that despite the numerous news stories calling the show organizers ignorant, outdated or worse for its lack of thoughtfulness on the booth babe issue, the CEA hasn't received "a single formal complaint." News stories, written by journalists and bloggers attending the show, don't count as formal complaints.
Time to change that. You can send an e-mail to Chupka directly (firstname.lastname@example.com) with your formal complaint. I've also started a petition on Change.org asking that the CEA adopt a business dress code policy for CES exhibitors with the aim of banning the use of booth babes at the show. Again, I'm not against spokesmodels. Hire all the pretty people you want. Just dress them as though they actually work at your company.
If you agree, sign on and/or e-mail Chupka. At the very least, we can give the CEA the formal complaints it needs to rethink its stance on booth babes – and to alert them to what's truly offensive about the whole issue.
I agree. Anyone remember COMDEX? That show was a horror for women attendees.
Oh, the humanity. If you call yourself a professional and can't see past the booth babes to do your job then you might try some introspection.
I like looking at attractive women, and I don't care who knows it or what they think about it. In particular, I do not in anyway feel cheapened by it.
As far as the alleged point:
"What does the concept of the 'Booth Babe' say about women? It says that women's place at any tech-related event can only be as an attractive decoration to sweeten the event for the men," as former Eurogamer.net writer Florence noted. "It says that women aren't truly welcome in that world, because the moment you objectify something it isn't part of anything. It's just there. It's just something else to be consumed. Fundamentally, it depicts a woman as a product.
That is just typical pseudo-intellectual, postmodern psychobabble that doesn't even warrant a response.
Just out of curiosity, did anyone bother to survey these women and ask them how THEY feel about the term "booth babe"? I'm guessing not. And why is that? Don't their opinions about it matter more than anyone else's really? And if they're okay with it, then maybe everyone who isn't just needs to lighten up a bit, or failing that, at least realize that part of the price of freedom is occasionally seeing or hearing things that might offend them.
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What a bunch of censorship nazi school marms. GTFO here with your sad insecurities. Censorship is for a$$holes.
If pasties and a thong is art, then "Booth Babe" is literature.
For a myriad of reasons, I would never do business with a company that uses "booth babes". As to the question of why CES is resistant to losing BB's at their show. The simple reason is that BB's = $. CES is a Vegas institution, and Vegas is built on babes. Babes keep the punters happy. CES is also a geek-fest and 80% of geeks are guys. It's all about the money.
you said it 80% are guys. marketing 101 go after the largest segment of your target audience. why arent there no complaints that its in vegas a.k.a "sin city". the show should be in boise,idaho if its just about "the product".
I wholeheartedly agree that dressing up CES booths with booth babes, and all sex-based advertising, cheapens us; men, women, everyone. "It cheapens all of us." I also personally view it as an insult to my intelligence as a man. A well written article, thank you.
I actually find it offensive that you would bring the honest plight of some of my best friends, women in tech, that have actual issues and even compare the two as the same thing. I don't notice them, mostly since there's been a steady decline of them at car shows, mobile cons, comicons, and other events of the such. Even gun shows.
If these girls want to make a quick buck being objectified by the Oxford shirt circus, they could just as easily go across the street to the AVN Porn Awards which happens during CES (sadly not this year). I don't see why in a place like LV, with a bunch of Sales and Marketing guys roving around you'd be surprised. Don't like it? Don't go. I don't anymore because who wants to watch a 2 hour live event on a Sunday night with some guy waxing poetic about wifi refrigerators. The booth babes and what they're wearing isn't on most minds of those who attend. Tacky sure, but you don't own Samsung, so call it out and move on with life. Create a petition to get the union laborers who set up CES better benefits and immigration policy and we've got an educated conversation.
I always hate skimpy suit, whether its in a game or real life. That just disgraceful (moreso, illogical if it in the form of "armor" for games). I completely agree with your statement "Pretty people in everyday clothes are still pretty, after all."


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Perhaps its not surprising that those who care for Gods creation take environmental issues seriously. But only in recent years have Sunday sermons and other religious services put green topics front and center.
Faith-based Environmental Programs Reflect Spiritual Teachings
Much of the credit for increases in such faith-based environmentalism can go to the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE), which was founded in 1993 to weave the mission of care for Gods creation across all areas of organized religion. NRPE has forged relationships with a diverse group of religious organizations, including the U.S. Catholic Conference, the National Council of Churches of Christ, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and the Evangelical Environmental Network.
These organizations work with NRPE to develop environmental programs that mesh with their own varied spiritual teachings. For instance, some 135,000 congregations--counting Catholic parishes, synagogues, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches and evangelic congregations--have been provided with resource kits on environmental issues, including sermons for clergy, lesson plans for Sunday school teachers, and even conservation tips for church and synagogue building managers.
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Even Evangelical Christians, known for their conservative take on most issues, are going green. The Colorado-based National Association of Evangelicals[ is urging its 30 million members to pursue a biblically balanced agenda to protect the environment alongside fighting poverty. Indeed, it was Evangelical minister, Reverend Jim Ball, who started the influential What Would Jesus Drive? campaign promoting hybrid cars back in 2003. More recently Ball has worked with likeminded Evangelicals to craft a faith-based policy statement on global warming.
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Earth Ministry, an association of 90 churches around Seattle, takes a more hands-on approach. It organizes hikes, book parties, and volunteer support for local agricultural projects, helping to educate thousands of people along the way. Some congregations also conduct church greenings, like replacing church light bulbs with energy-saving compact fluorescents and virgin copier paper with recycled paper.
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What do you do when traffic is backed up and you have to get to a certain spot as quickly as possible? Sometimes the only solution is to get out and start walking. It's often a pain, but you will notice things while walking that you might never have noticed at all. For instance, you might spot a submarine.
I've had to do this more than a few times on behalf of the Daily Telegraph. Traffic on Interstate 77 and Route 460 quickly starts to back up whenever there is a crash. The situation isn't any better on the secondary roads, either. If anything, the predicament is even worse. There often isn't any place to park; at least, no place nearby.
Photographer Eric DiNovo and myself had to brace ourselves when a rock slide north of Bluefield blocked a section of I-77. The state Department of Highways blocked off that section of the interstate and started rerouting traffic when Eric and I reached Exit 1 at John Nash Boulevard. The workers were good enough to let us go through, but we still had to drive past backed-up traffic. Finally, we got as close as we dared go, but it wasn't close enough. It was time to get out and start hiking.
Fortunately, the day was clear. Unfortunately, the wind was cold and the hike was up hill. We kept going and I kept wondering if we had made a mistake. Finally, we rounded the bend and saw a huge pile of boulders and debris. The trip was worth the effort.
After talking to the people on the scene and calling in some updates to the Telegraph, we headed back to the car. Eric and I determined that we could have driven a little further and saved some mileage on our legs. As usual, I found myself reporting the latest to the curious and stranded motorists. I explained to more than one person what was going on and when they could hope to get moving again. Cars were able to turn around and leave, but tractor-trailers, recreational vehicles and folks towing trailers couldn't make the turn, so they had to wait.
Then I noticed something on a big flatbed trailer being towed by a large pick-up truck. The thing was long and gray, and I at first thought it was some kind of oil tank. When I got closer, I wondered if it was one of those doomsday bunkers you bury in the ground.
Suddenly, I recognized the thing. I've read books about the Civil War, and I realized where I had seen that shape. It was a submarine. Well, it was a replica of a submarine.
The vessel was a full-scale model of the CSS Hunley, a small submarine built for the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. The sub was the first vessel of its type to sink an enemy ship.
The Hunley was primitive compared to the mighty nuclear submarines sailing the seas today. Instead of harnessing the power of the atom, the Confederate sub harnessed the power of its crew. The seated crew members turned hand cranks to run the propeller. Naturally, men exercising like crazy to make their boat go forward need plenty of air. Modern submarines have sophisticated air plants and environmental controls that let them stay submerged for months at a time. The little Hunley had a snorkel, and I don't think that worked very well. In fact, the sub could barely stay submerged.
I noticed a long pole, or spar, on the replica's bow. That was the point for the ship's torpedo. Today subs fire their torpedoes at targets. In contrast, the Hunley was designed to ram its target ship to make the torpedo explode. Unfortunately, this put the crew dangerously close to the blast. The sub was swamped by the explosion and the entire crew was lost.
The replica's owner, John Dangerfield, said everything on his sub works. Side panels come off so visitors can sit inside and use the controls. The hand cranks for the propeller, the snorkel, and dive planes all work. When kids get a chance to work those cranks, the propeller "spins like crazy," he told me. The replica sub was on its way to a festival in Hurricane. Maybe it could come here someday. The fact we have so many Civil War enthusiasts around our region should make it a hit at any festival or reenactment.
Normally we don't get to see such interesting sights when we hike to and from a crash scene. Most of the time we're trying to keep an eye on the traffic and not end up with an accident of our own. Hiking a highway is something I wouldn't recommend, but I have to admit that being able to do so gives me a chance to notice things I wouldn't otherwise have seen.Until I walked to the rock slide, I never realized that our mountainsides were a tangle of boulders and fallen trees.
I myself and others at the Telegraph have hiked up highways and even up mountains during snow storms and thunderstorms, and those experiences are less than pleasant. However, you might get to see a submarine stuck on the highway. Sometimes the effort brings some unexpected rewards.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Suffer from a bad case of acne? That could disqualify you from joining the Army National Guard. Too many speeding tickets? In today's slimmer, smarter Guard, that could keep you out, too.
Under pressure from the Pentagon to trim its ranks, the Guard has been quietly phasing in new restrictions that make it harder to enlist.
"To get in now, you have to be the cream of the crop," said Sgt. 1st Class Brian Clum, a recruiter in Ohio.
Military officials portray the cutbacks as an effort to trim a Guard force that was bloated from years of successful recruiting, especially during the recession.
But there are suspicions inside the Guard and out that the reductions are part of an effort to shift the burden of fighting overseas onto the active-duty Army and ease the public outcry over the way that Guard units -- part-time soldiers normally called into action during hurricanes and other disasters at home -- have been sent on long, repeated combat tours in Iraq.
In fact, while the Pentagon has cut the National Guard by about 9,000 soldiers to 358,200 over the past six months or so, the nearly 549,000-strong active-duty Army is under orders to recruit 70,000 new soldiers by the end of September and 22,000 more in the coming fiscal year as the fighting in Iraq winds down and the war in Afghanistan escalates.
For some recruiters, the shrinking Guard is a source of frustration and envy, particularly because the regular Army is growing.
"We literally turn people away every day that want to serve, and we can't take them," said Lt. Col. Anthony Abbott, recruiting commander for the Georgia Army National Guard. "Sometimes you've got to scratch your head and ask why."
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Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation is introducing the Eaton SmartWire-DT panel wiring solution into the United States. SmartWire-DT is designed to reduce panel wiring complexity, improve system reliability, save installation time, and reduce panel space. It replaces the myriad of wires found in the control circuit with one cable, connecting motor control components to customers' programmable logic controllers (PLCs). It changes the way original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) build control panels.
SmartWire-DT transforms standard motor control components into communication-enabled devices and connects them within the panel as well as in separate distribution panels, or in remote control stations. By connecting control devices using quick connectors, OEMs save time by having less fault prone point-to-point wiring.
Richard Chung, product manager, Eaton, said, "SmartWire-DT is engineered to reduce panel wiring complexity and assembly labor time, speed the startup commissioning processes, and provide extensive run-time diagnostics." It eliminates the time needed to cut, strip, mark, bundle, and check numerous individual wires. Flat cable connections safeguard the control panel from unauthorized wiring changes, helping to protect the craftsmanship and integrity of the control panel. An eight-conductor, flat cable located in the control cabinet connects motor starters, pushbutton actuators, indicator lights, and other components. The SmartWire-DT gateway connects to standard programmable logic controller (PLC) fieldbuses, including Profibus-DP and CANopen.
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NORMAN — J.W. McGuire, 79, of Norman, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, surrounded by his loved ones and the excellent staff at the Norman Veterans Center.
J.W. was born on March 18, 1933, to Vahn and Jurhee McGuire in Crescent. He was married to Doris, his high school sweetheart, in 1952, and they had three children: Diane, Glenda, and Steve.
He was a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Korean War.
J.W. was a businessman. Through the years, with his wife, Doris, they had McGuire Furniture Stores in Purcell and Marlow. He loved fishing, traveling, playing pool and dominos.
J.W. was preceded in death by his parents, Vahn and Jurhee McGuire; his brother-in-law, Chris Donley; his granddaughter, Kelly Gilmore; and many aunts and uncles.
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I read about this in Men's Health yesterday. I think I'm going to try it out, since I know that I snore, no matter what bodyfat I am at. It's pretty damn expensive ($70 + shipping). Anyone heard good news about this thing?
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I agree it looks cool, but I'm skeptical that it would work for me only because I generally don't get along too well with pillows.
Regular pillows - suck.
Extra soft - suck.
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$80 king size memory foam pillows that came with my mattress have been better because they're shaped, but still not working for me.
I hope I'm contributing and not hijacking by asking this: does anyone else generally hate pillows? Ultimately, I find myself using about 3% of the corner of any pillow that I use - max.
I do like the fact that you can tuck your arm under your head with the pillow you linked to. I'd be curious to hear a WBB testimonial. Not sure I trust those on the web. Did M's H research it themselves or was it just an ad?
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Obama's budget includes a limit on how much people can contribute to retirement savings accounts.
What President Barack Obama has planned in his upcoming budget, while not exactly a Cypriot-style, government-based raid on private savings accounts, comes too close for comfort. As widely reported Monday, the Obama budget document – which is already a month late – will include a new proposal to limit the total amount an individual can put aside in tax deferred retirement savings like 401Ks and IRAs to an amount sufficient to generate an annual income in the golden years of less than $250,000 per year.
Why do it? According to a senior administration official, The Hill reported, "wealthy taxpayers can currently 'accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving.'"
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Who says? It is true that some people use retirement savings plans as a form of tax avoidance, but tax avoidance was, the last time anyone checked, still legal. Major corporations that have the imprimatur of approval from the Obama administration like General Electric and General Motors do it all the time.
What the White House may propose is not a matter of fairness, as the president and his allies are sure to cast it, but one that strikes at the heart of the right to keep for ourselves the product of our hard work.
To Obama, that idea that some may have saved more than others for their retirement is unfair, So is the idea, apparently, that some people make more than others. It's class envy at its most ugly, designed to appeal to the more than 40 percent of Americans who pay no income tax and who voted for the president in 2012.
It is not a legitimate function of government to determine when a person has saved enough for retirement. "Enough" is a nebulous word just like "rich." If a cap is in the offing in the near term, can confiscation, a la Cyprus, be far behind?
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The savings rate in the United States is already the lowest of any industrialized country in the world. The president's plan will only make that worse and drive people away from defined contribution retirement plans back into defined benefit plans of the sort that threaten to bankrupt California, New York, Illinois and other blue states. Instead, the budget bureaucrats that infest the White House these days are looking around for large piles of money that, in their view, are under-taxed so that the taxes on them can be raised in order to meet their objective of taking the tax burden to 25 percent of U.S. GDP.
The social welfare state that Obama seeks is defined by an insatiable appetite for more revenue. Obamacare is expensive. The infrastructure trust fund he wants to establish is expensive. His whole agenda, as evidenced by the last four years, is expensive – more expensive than America can afford, now and into the future.
Not to put too fine a timely point on it, but Obama wants to remake America into what Britain was before Margaret Thatcher arrived on the scene: A nearly-bankrupt former global superpower whose best days were apparently behind it. Too bad he didn't make that clear during the last presidential campaign, but, if he had, the results would have most assuredly been different.


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Les Miserables is justifiably known as one of the great musicals of the last quarter century. Now, the 25th anniversary staging has landed in Des Moines.
The musical's greatest strength lies in two characters: Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert. Valjean's struggles, both with himself and others as he transforms himself from a bitter ex-criminal to an admirable and responsible citizen make him the story's hero.
But, in order for a hero to be truly great, there must be a great villian. And Javert is one of the best, for his actions are not driven by malice but by his fidelity to law.
Javert (Andrew Varela) is a spiritual ancestor of Sgt. Joe Friday. His focus on just the facts means only two things matter. One: Jean Valjean was convicted and paroled. Two: Valjean has broken his parole. Thus Valjean is his prey out of duty.
As Javert is driven by duty, so too is Valjean (Peter Lockyear). He seeks redemption in pardoning others and ransoming their lives as a bishop once ransomed his. He arrives too late to do this for Fantine (Betsy Morgan), but rescues her daughter Cosette. He saves Marius () from death in a failed insurrection out of love for Cosette and, in doing so, prevents the revolutionaries from killing Javert.
The cuts necessary to bring an epic book to the stage reduce the detail to many of the characters. The women, Fantine in particular, are sharply reduced in depth. The exception is Eponine, daughter of the loathsome Thernardiers. Her love for Marius and her nobility (a quality completely absent from her parents) is truly moving. And Lauren Wiley performs the role well.
The central characters all deliver their songs well, using both power and tenderness. It is rarely more in evidence than in "I Dreamed a Dream," or "Bring Him Home."
While the music is the driving force for the story, it is easy to forget how important acting skills are for this production. This cast does that extremely well. Minor gestures or an emotion flashing across the face convey much between lyrics.
The use of paintings by Victor Hugo, the book's author, as backdrops works better than one might expect. They pair well with technical tricks that scroll the image to give the illusion of movement. And it adds an almost indefinable veracity to the specifcially French setting of the performance.
In all, the 25th anniversary of Les Miserables will not disappoint longtime fans. And newcomers will find themselves engaged in one of the great stories of world literature. It runs at the Des Moines Civic Center through October 7.


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However, I too was concerned about the number of vacines at once. Check the "Green Vaccine" schedule and talk with your doctor.
RE: getting fewer vaccines at a time, that honestly doesn't make any sense. Getting more vaccines at once doesn't increase a child's chance of a fever or any other reaction. There's really no reason to think fewer vaccines are somehow better. What you will accomplish by one of these "alternative" vaccine schedules is 1) making sure your child is more vulnerable, for longer, to these diseases making a comeback (measles, mumps, pertussis) and 2) making sure your poor child is even more scared of the doctor's office, by making more trips with more ouchies that will be remembered. It makes my job much more difficult while a child is unprotected and also terrified of me, so I can't get a decent exam.
There are no-- zero, none, zilch, zero-- health authorities in any country anywhere in the world that support these oddball, made-up schedules. This isn't a joke, people. The diseases are coming back. Delaying or avoiding or skipping vaccines is exactly like driving with your child out of a safety seat. Why would you take that chance?
SIL's son was diagnosed autistic (very late at almost 4 because of a substandard pedi she replaced) and she never thought to blame vaccines. Upon looking back at his behavior as an infant, she and MIL now realize he was displaying symptoms as young as a few months old, they just didn't know what to look for and they pedi didn't really show much concern on him being behind certain developmental milestones like language. MIL was obsessed with making sure DS was interacting with her when she visited when he was 2 months old for that reason.
I'm doing the normal vaccine schedule with DS and did so with DD. Research has shown no reason not to follow it, but if you don't, I do urge you to find a schedule you like to prevent your child from catching some of those horrible diseases.
I think giving a child 10 or more viruses in one visit is way too many at a time, I am NOT against vaccines at all and believe that they all have their place, my daughter is so young she will never remember going to the doctor more than once for shots. For her 2 month check up she got her DTAP, and the liquid medicine (don't remember this one's name) and we went back 2 weeks later and got her the Hep B and the Pnemunoccal. My Doctor is very happy that I am getting her shots and sees no reason to not do her vaccines this way. I have to say that as a Doctor you are very close minded, Children won't rembember this issue when they get older and a lot of Parents cause their children to be terrified of shots, and they teach them that they are something to be afraid of, however this is not the case, even when my daughter gets older she will be told that while it hurts for a moment to get the shot in the long run it is best for her. Please remember that "fear of " is generally something that is a learned behavior not something that is natural. Maybe the parents that have children that are "afraid" of the doctors office is because their parents have made it more of a punishment. I don't think delaying a shot by 2 weeks is going to give her any greater exposure than waiting 2 months of her life to be able to get the DTaP.
My youngest son was born at 30 weeks. His physican modifed his vaccine schedule.
I did this at his advice, not mine.
More: http://blogs.webmd.com/childrens-health/2011/03/vaccine-concerns-were-on-the-same-side.html
I mean, lets get real. Getting vaccines isn't the most pleasurable experience... nobody actually WANTS to get poked with a needle, no matter how old you are. You just learn to better cope with the discomfort of it as you get older and you are actually able to rationalize that the sonner you get it over with the better. But if you are able to reason with your young child that the benefits of vaccines outweighs the pain associated with them, then bless you. But I believe children tend to live in the moment and aren't able to rationalize the "bigger picture".
Anyway... back to the issue at hand. I can understand the delayed schedule for certain high risk children, but if your child doesn't have any health issues that might warrant a delayed schedule, I would say to go by the recommended schedule and get your child vaccinated.
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By Eric Sandweiss
Route 66 is more famous and less necessary than ever. Gray-haired couples on motorcycles cruise past its boarded-up motels. Families stop at themed rest areas to eat at picnic stands shaped to resemble the iconic roadside attractions that the decommissioned highway no longer supports. Historic markers draw curious travelers off the interstate and onto meandering two-lane roads that peter out in quiet small-town Main Streets.
John Steinbeck's 1938 Dust Bowl novel, The Grapes of Wrath, helped to turn this thin strip of graded concrete from a numbered piece of federal property into a character in the American family romance. Just as important to this transformation are the early depictions of the road left by its uncelebrated travelers, including the novelist's first cousin by marriage, photographer Charles Cushman.
I-44 Conway Welcome Center, Conway, MO. Photos by Eric Sandweiss
From the 1930s through the 1950s, Cushman often traveled back and forth along the same route as the Joads, not in an overladen truck but in shiny late-model Ford coupes. While Steinbeck typed up his impressions along the way, Cushman did his thinking with a camera. He recorded sporadically rather than systematically, offering occasional glimpses rather than a coherent narrative. (For that bigger picture, one has to look at his entire work — three decades of picture-taking carried out across a half-million driving miles).
Cushman never, to my knowledge, climbed atop a Harley. He certainly never sported a gray pony tail, but he was among those (including, eventually, cousin John himself in the late road narrative, Travels with Charley) who saw travel along the US highways as an occasion for pleasure and discovery in its own right. Lacking his cousin's early passion for social critique, or the artistic sensibility of a Robert Frank (who traveled many of the same routes in the 1950s) Cushman stopped here and there as the mood struck him, much as holiday and leisure travelers have done before and since.
Traveling Cushman's route west in the past week, I am struck both by how full and how fragmented our view of the American roadscape has become. Route 66 exists so completely in our literary memories, our imaginations, our online search options, that even the faintest of efforts can serve to satisfy the curiosity that took a man of his generation many years to settle. As with every other aspect of our networked world, such access cuts both ways. While access to information democratizes our ability to fashion a coherent picture of the landscape, it furthers the atomization of our social and spatial selves. Locked in our homes, we open Google Maps for a 360-degree view of any square foot of the highway. On our GPS devices and our Mapquest searches, we break down the full experience of travel into a million randomly ranked impressions; "continue west 734.5 miles" takes up less space in our brains than "south 37 feet to unmarked intersection, take a soft right onto eastbound access road." We know everything and we know nothing about the spaces through which we move.
El Vado Motel, Central Ave. (US Highway 66), Albuquerque, NM. Photos by Eric Sandweiss.
Today's Route 66 is broken into pieces and symbols, shorn of its practical functions even as it is elevated in its "imageability." To an extent I have to blame not just Steinbeck but Charles Cushman and the millions like him — men and women who accepted the challenge that car companies, chambers of commerce, and camera manufacturers across America laid before them. "See the USA" and appreciate the road — as I am on my own drive this month — not for what it enables us to accomplish as a society, but for what it allows us to experience as individuals.
Eric Sandweiss is Carmony Professor of History at Indiana University. He is the author of The Day in Its Color: Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing America, co-author of Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco (winner of Western History Association's Kerr prize for best illustrated book), and author of St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape. Read his previous blog post "Charles Cushman and the discovery of Old World color."
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[...] Telegraph Hill from the Embarcadero. Source: Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection, Indiana University.Telegraph Hill from the Embarcadero, 2006. Photo by Eric Sandweiss. Like most Americans of his day, Charles Cushman was neither preservationist nor modernist. He enjoyed pieces of both past and present, using his camera to assemble a picture of his "day in its color," and seldom peering incisively into the shadows of class or race inequality or environmental degradation that lay beneath its surface. Cushman does not ask that we rush to his side in defense of these sites of imminent change, but neither do his pictures suggest confidence that something better awaits. His job (and his real job, at that) was to predict where the market was headed, not to take it there. Eric Sandweiss is Carmony Professor of History at Indiana University. He is the author of The Day in Its Color: Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing America, co-author of Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco (winner of Western History Association's Kerr prize for best illustrated book), and author of St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape. Eric's next and last appearance will be a book talk at Left Bank Books in Saint Louis, MO on June 21 at 7:00 p.m. Read his previous blog posts "Charles Cushman and the discovery of Old World color" and "Bits and Pieces of the Mother Road." [...]