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One of them was expanding use of health care savings accounts. Allen said his family and staff use them for medical expenses.
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Asked for his response to a federal study released this week that estimates 50 million to 129 million adults in America under age 65 have pre-existing medical conditions, Allen said health care savings accounts are a good solution to providing medical coverage for this group.
The accounts would free workers from staying in jobs they don't like just to keep health care benefits, he added.
"If you're encouraging individuals to have their own policies from the very beginning with these health savings accounts, then they're covered and they can go from job to job," Allen said.
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Majorcan Vegetable Pizza (Coca de Verduras)
Photo: Becky Luigart-Stayner; Styling: Cindy Barr
Coca is a crust or pastry that may have a sweet or savory topping. This savory coca is an everyday Catalonian dish and would make a tasty main course dish. We used leftover Samfaina topped with ricotta cheese (which is very similar to the fresh cheeses you would find in Catalonia) and sprinkled with kosher salt. You could also top it with greens, pine nuts, and paprika.
Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 1 slice of pizza)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 287
- Calories from fat: 27%
- Fat: 8.5g
- Saturated fat: 2g
- Monounsaturated fat: 4.5g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1g
- Protein: 8.7g
- Carbohydrate: 45.8g
- Fiber: 4.9g
- Cholesterol: 8mg
- Iron: 2.9mg
- Sodium: 540mg
- Calcium: 69mg
- 1/2 Catalonian Crust
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cornmeal
- 3 cups Samfaina
- 1/2 cup (2 ounces) part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1. Preheat oven to 500°.
- 2. Place a baking stone in oven; preheat 30 minutes.
- 3. Gently stretch the Catalonian Crust into a 12-inch circle, and place on the back of a baking sheet sprinkled with cornmeal. Carefully slide the dough onto the preheated stone, using a spatula as a guide. Spread Samfaina evenly over the dough, leaving a 1/2-inch border; top evenly with ricotta cheese. Sprinkle with salt. Bake at 500° for 16 minutes or until crust is golden.
- Wine note: The sweet-savory quality of the ricotta cheese and the boldly seasoned vegetables on this pizza call for a wine that's fresh and crisp, but not oaky. Spain's leading white wine—albariño—is perfect for the job. It's snappy and pure, with just a hint of almond and citrus. Try Nora Albariño 2006 from Rias Baixas, Spain ($13). —Karen MacNeil
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- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Cholesterol, Meatless
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
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Housekeeping on Half-a-million a Year. Emily Harington.
Everybody's. Vol. xiv, p. 497.
The Passing of the Idle Rich. Frederick Townsend Martin. Chap.
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POEM.—Tempora Mutantur.
Poetical Works. John G. Saxe. P. 98.
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A Boston gentleman declares,
By all the gods above, below,
That our degenerate sons and heirs
Must let their Greek and Latin go!
Forbid, O Fate, we loud implore,
A dispensation harsh as that;
What! wipe away the sweets of yore;
The dear "amo, amas, amat?"
The sweetest hour the student knows
Is not when poring over French,
Or twisted in Teutonic throes,
Upon a hard collegiate bench;
'Tis when on roots and kais and gars
He feeds his soul and feels it glow,
Or when his mind transcends the stars
With "Zoa mou, sas agapo!"
So give our bright, ambitious boys
An inkling of these pleasures, too—
A little smattering of the joys
Their dead and buried fathers knew;
And let them sing—while glorying that
Their sires so sang, long years ago—
The songs "amo, amas, amat"
And "Zoa mou, sas agapo!"
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I remember the very day when the schoolmaster gave it to me.... And I remember that the rather stern and aquiline face of our teacher relaxed into mildness for a moment. Both we and our books must have looked very fresh and new to him, though we may all be a little battered now; at least, my New Latin Tutor is. It is a very precious book, and it should be robed in choice Turkey morocco, were not the very covers too much a part of the association to be changed. For between them I gathered the seed-grain of many harvests of delight; through this low archway I first looked upon the immeasurable beauty of words....
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SHOCKING PHOTO: Obamacare and a Seven-Foot Tall Stack of New Regulations
March 11, 2013 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Government, Health, Liberals, Nanny State, Obamacare, President, Progressives, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 8 Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The office of Senator Mitch McConnell, the GOP minority leader in the Senate, has sent out a shocking photo.
This is over 20,000 pages and measures 7′ 2.5″. These are all the Obamacare regulations published in the Federal Register up through last week. Then last Friday they added another 828 pages.
And hidden in this giant stack of intrusive new regulations that seem to grow every month is a major job loss problem.
Douglas Elmendorf, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, said in February of 2011 that Obamacare could cost 800,000 jobs and the Federal Reserve has stated that Obamacare is the reason for "planned layoffs."
On March 6, The Hill reported, "The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released an edition of its so-called 'beige book,' that said the 2010 healthcare law is being cited as a reason for layoffs and a slowdown in hiring."
That same day, The Hill also said, "Higher healthcare costs were also reported in the districts of Chicago, and the Kansas City district reported 'changes in health care policy and fiscal uncertainty as reasons for delayed hiring.'"
In a recent report, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors noted:
- "Employers in several Districts cited the unknown effects of the Affordable Care Act as reasons for planned layoffs and reluctance to hire more staff."
- "Fifth District—Richmond: Employers across the District continued to cite the Affordable Care Act and its unknown impacts as reasons for planned layoffs and reluctance to hire more staff."
- "Eleventh District—Dallas: Outlooks were cautious. Some contacts noted concern that client companies are hiring the absolute minimum to get by due to uncertainty about the Affordable Care Act."
Further, several companies have announced that Obamacare is causing them to plan layoffs. Medical giant Styker announced it is cutting 1,170 jobs due to Obamacare. Medical device maker Welch Allyn also announced job cuts.
Sadly, one restauranteur in Virginia has reported that he may lose his entire chain of Dunkin' Donuts because of Obamacare's onerous requirements.
So, Obamacare isn't just a harmless stack of paper. It is causing real world problems.
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Some might be able to make it by combining a combination of online education and brief on campus experiences for things like lab classes. To do a science or engineering degree might involve six or eight weeks a year on campus for labs. Other majors will not require this but the physical universities as they presently exist will have much less on campus activity. The few that adapt will survive and serve the entire population while the rest will disappear.


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"I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy."
— Adele"—(via bjagg)
As you know, K and I have been a home, as a family, for 17 months. By all accounts we have attached REALLY well. My social worker has been "beyond pleased" with how we have attached to one another, he shows most of the signs for healthy attachment and my close circle of friends are amazed at how "well" he's been doing.
But for the past 2 weeks, he has been almost physically attached to me when we are together. He does fine when I drop him off at school. He does fine when I leave him with my parents. He does fine when I leave him with his Auntie. However, when we are home, by ourselves, he is absolutely connected to me. He won't watch a TV show without me sitting with him. And even then, he has to be sitting on me. If I get up to go to the bathroom or to the kitchen, all it takes is around 10 seconds and he is right there asking, "Where did you go! I was looking for you!"
The other day, I was in the garage doing laundry and I couldn't hear him calling me until he was in a complete meltdown screaming for me. I run in to see if he is hurt and he is a blubbering mess asking me where I went! He kept saying, "I was looking for you and I couldn't find you!!!" I know that this is still part of some abandonment issues that he's working out (heck, let's face it, most of us have abandonment issues and we weren't, at one time, orphans!). I also know that this is when I should have the most patience with him… but, sometimes, it drives me crazy and annoys the HECK outta me!!! *Did I mention that it irritates me?
I would LOVE to be able to go to the bathroom without him coming in and sitting at my feet waiting for me. I would love to be able to return a phone call in the evening without him coming in crying, saying, "I thought you left!" I would love to cook dinner for us without him following me around the kitchen with his black stool (that I always trip over at least 5 times). It's usually at that point that I get (beyond) frustrated with him… but it isn't his fault and I know it! I know that this is the time when I need to exercise my patience even more with him. And 92% of the time, I do… *Still doesn't mean that I don't get angry that other 8% of the time!!!
Yet, I love him and this is who he is. I love every aspect of this amazing person whom I call my son! I adore that he is loving. I appreciate his love for life. I, not only love him, I really like who he is. So…I will continue to repeat that "Mommy ALWAYS comes back for K" and reassure him that I am not going anywhere. And continue to repeat, "Mommy loves you FOREVER!"
"Would I rather be feared or loved? Um… Easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me."
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The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
*It is my goal that even when I kvetch, I still have an attitude of gratitude, so each Friday, I want to share at least 5 fantastical things that have happened to me!
PS—these aren't in any particular order!
1. Hanging with friends and boyfriend at the same time!
2. Working out 5 days this week when 4 days was my goal!
3. A vendor friend going to Barcelona and offering to pick up a purse I have been wanting that you can ONLY purchase in Spain!!!!!
4. K telling me he loves me "this" much (arms spread really really really wide!).
5. 49 days until Hawaii!
"Everybody is God's Somebody!"
I am the first person to admit that I am not always as compassionate as I could be. I am sassy and sarcastic. I am snarky and (sometimes) an elitist. I generously admit it. Yet, even having said that, I am passionate (get passionate post link) about a few things and helping people in need is one of them!
Compassion literally means to suffer with. So, when Jesus was "moved with compassion" for His people, he literally suffered with them. And ultimately for them. But this isn't about Jesus nor is it really about me (well that isn't totally true). I recently met a couple who are homeless. I have seen them around the area where I work, and the "wife" is always reading a book. Now this may not strike you as odd or out of the ordinary, but every time I have seen her, she's had a different book (*please remember that I am an English professor, I notice when people are actually reading)!
Now when I say homeless—some people automatically assume alcohol, drugs, mental illness… but as we may be learning through this financial downturn—that isn't always the case anymore!!!
Not only that, I see them "carrying" all their belongings around town and my nosey-ness got the best of me. I finally decided to ask them if they wanted some food. I am always hesitant to just offer, out of the blue, simply because it has backfired on me before where a woman got belligerent with me and said, "I don't want food Bi#$%! I want money!" However, since I had seen them a lot lately, I decided to introduce myself. After making initial "Hi my name is…" I found out that her name is Anne and his is name Richard.
I asked them if I could buy them a meal. Anne was hesitant to respond, so I pressed, "No really, can I buy you two some food?" And then things happened swiftly—with food in hand, the conversation started. Now, K and I feed the homeless guys who roam the park near our house on a regular basis, but as stated previously, my fortune for helping the random person hasn't always worked out so well for me. But this was different. This couple, once they warmed up to me, was amazing and in love with each other and caring and completely open about their situation.
While I would love to share the whole encounter with you, I want to keep most of it for my own memory bank. These people taught me so many things in our moments together. I learned more about love and loyalty. I was slapped in the face with a real life example of what not being able to find a job (resumes in hand and really looking) has done to family units. I learned about laughing at situations—because if you don't, you will cry all the time. And finally, I learned about hope—because "if you lose hope that tomorrow will be better—you don't have anything to look forward to!"
*I will use each Tuesday to rat myself out about something! It's all in good fun and I am sure that these "truth-day" revelations won't be things people don't already know about me!
As someone who frequents a Drive Thru or two every now and again, it irks me when people pull up and have NO IDEA what they want. Seriously, it's lunchtime lady! There have been 2 versions of your food options leading up to the point where they ask you what you want. Is this the first time you have EVER been to McDonalds? Really? Don't you know if you want crème and sugar in your coffee? When they ask you if you want fries or apple dippers, it isn't rocket science, y'all! Make a choice. You either know what you want your kid to have or you don't.
But it doesn't end there, does it? No… You don't have your money out, do you? They told you and showed you on the screen how much you owed and you don't have your purse handy, do ya? Do ya? Do ya? (in my Dory voice). Please, please please, please, please be prepared. I know that we all have those days, but oi vey!
The Lighter the Skin, the Shorter the Prison Term?
By: Topher Sanders
Posted: July 5, 2011 at 12:01 AM
A recent study of women convicted of crimes shows that dark-complexioned blacks serve more time in jail.
Colin Powell said it, Sen. Harry Reid hinted at it about President Barack Obama, and black folks have known it for hundreds of years. There are advantages to being a light-skinned black person in the United States.
Research on those advantages isn't new, but with the release of a recent study by Villanova University, the breadth of quantitative studies that examine colorism, or discrimination based on skin tone, continues to increase. From housing opportunities to employment chances to which women have a good shot at getting married, the lighter-is-better dynamic is at play, research shows.
Villanova researchers studied more than 12,000 cases of African-American women imprisoned in North Carolina and found that women with lighter skin tones received more-lenient sentences and served less time than women with darker skin tones.
The researchers found that light-skinned women were sentenced to approximately 12 percent less time behind bars than their darker-skinned counterparts. Women with light skin also served 11 percent less time than darker women.
The study took into account the type of crimes the women committed and each woman's criminal history to generate apples-to-apples comparisons. The work builds on previous studies by Stanford University, the University of Colorado at Boulder and other institutions, which have examined how "black-looking" features and skin tone can impact black men in the criminal-justice arena.
But researchers say this is the first study to look at how colorism affects black women and how long they may spend in jail. Part of the reason may simply come down to how pretty jurors consider a defendant to be, and that being light-skinned and thin (also a factor studied in the research) are seen as more attractive, says Lance Hannon, co-author of the Villanova study.
Racism gets all the headlines, but colorism is just as real and impacting, Hannon explains. How "white" someone is perceived matters. "Colorism is clearly not taken as seriously or is not publicly discussed as much as racism, and yet these effects are pretty strong and the evidence is pretty strong," he says. "It's a very real problem, and people need to pay attention to it more."
Christina Swarns, director of the Criminal Justice Practice for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, says the study's findings are part of a larger problem in how the justice system deals with African Americans. "It is obviously part and parcel of the problem of overincarceration of the African-American community in this country," she says. "There is unquestionably … an association between race and criminality, and I think this study emphasizes how skin color plays an important role in that perception of a link between race and criminality."
William Darity, professor of African-American studies and economics at Duke University and director of the Research Network on Racial & Ethnic Inequality, has studied the impact of skin shade on marriage rates for women and employment for men.
Darity says the Villanova study expands previous research and underscores a known truth. "This has been a long-standing issue and problem that all blacks don't face the same type or degree of discrimination," he says.
Treating people differently because of the lightness or darkness of their skin isn't exclusive to whites. As an example, Darity cites his research, which found that there are "real" disadvantages for darker-skinned black women when it comes to their chances of getting married.
"And one would have to say that's to a large degree the consequence of preferences on the part of black men," he says. That same preference for lighter-skinned black women over darker-skinned black women is true for white men, Darity adds.
But there has been recent movement by the government to take colorism more seriously, Hannon says. He pointed to a 2008 initiative by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that explicitly considers colorism. Hannon also notes that because the Civil Rights Act refers to "color" and not simply race, the door is open for litigation around colorism, which could also push the policy dial.
Darity believes that the benefits of light skin have to be addressed to cause change. "There are clear social and pecuniary benefits to being lighter-skinned in America," Darity says. "Unless we eliminate those benefits, this will go on, because the advantages are real."
Topher Sanders is a newspaper reporter living in Jacksonville, Fla., with his wife and son.
Sherbet push up Popsicle. One Hippo bib—trashed. Two hands—dripping orange stuff. Superhero pajamas—saturated. Face—yeah, pretty disgusting. Black pleather couches—orange, wet and sticky. 48 baby wipes—worth every penny! Laughing hysterically with Mommy because it tastes so good—Priceless!
*It is my goal that even when I kvetch, I still have an attitude of gratitude, so each Friday, I want to share at least 5 fantastical things that have happened to me!
PS—these aren't in any particular order!
1. Days off with my kid that aren't the weekend!!!
2. Opportunity knocking and me answering the door!!!
3. Free Slurpee on 7.11! Thank you!
4. Massive construction around work—lots of tractors and big trucks! It's heaven sent for K every morning on the way to school
5. 55 days until Hawaii!
"Open your mouth only if what you have to say is more beautiful than silence."
— Arabic Proverb"—(via bjagg)
Scene: Driving home from church at a stop light, next to an ambulance. I roll K's window down because he LOVES anything with a siren and lights!
K: Hi there! Is that your ambalamps?
Ambulance Driver (AD): Yes it is! How are you buddy?
K: I'm fine! Can I drive your ambalamps right now?
AD: Not today buddy. Is that your Mommy?
K: Yeah! She doesn't have a husband.
AD: Oh, is that right? (Looking at me then back to him) Does she want one? (looking back at me!)
*Thankfully the light turned green and I sped off, with my son yelling, "Bye! See you later!"
*I will use each Tuesday to rat myself out about something! It's all in good fun and I am sure that these "truth-day" revelations won't be things people don't already know about me!
My mom has always said, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!" Clearly she didn't invent this saying, and I usually don't adhere to it, but today, I shall do just that… I got nothin' folks! There are so many things that I could talk about, but… I will leave them alone for now!
The assignment was to show how their lives have changed since starting college. This particular student has "complained" more than once about how difficult it's been to change his whole life around. He has also stated that he REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wants to be married… Um. Ok. Good luck with that!
Before College (all days that end in "Y") consist of drinking, playing video games, working and hangin' with his Mom.
After College (all days that end in "Y") consist of consist of drinking, playing video games, working and hangin' with his Mom. On Thursday he exercises. On Sunday, he goes to church.
*No mention of doing schoolwork!
It seems as if lately, I have been reading a lot of GREAT facebook statuses from my friends. Because of this, I wanted to post a few of them as they come in. I think I could write a whole lot about this one, but I will leave it for now!!!
"If you ever run out of things to pray for, just watch an episode of Toddlers & Tiaras."
6 AM on a Friday morning.
K: Mommy, can I go outside and play?
Me ( half asleep): Sure baby! (K silently walks downstairs. I can hear him open the back door to play in the back yard. I get up, open the slider up here, so I can hear him and get in the shower. Fast forward 35 minutes). Baby, it's time to come up and get dressed for school.
K: Mommy, can I bring my train wiff me?
Me: How about 1 train car.
K: How about 4?
Me: How about 2?
K: How about 3?
Me: How about 2?
K: Mommy, how about 2!
(He comes upstairs and is completely naked!) *Good thing it's summer time!
*It is my goal that even when I kvetch, I still have an attitude of gratitude, so each Friday, I want to share at least 5 fantastical things that have happened to me!
1. PTO!!! Enjoyed the 4th!!!
2. My son's laugh! This week has been a doosey at work and it seems like K knows that I need more of his laugh this week! And I have gotten it! So blessed!
3. Dinner with Genevieve. We have gone to church together for years and it's been a blessing to "make" a new friend and get to hang out!
4. A very kind note from Gisela thanking me for being positive. It really made me happy that, without knowing it, I have been helpful to her… That's a very cool thing!
5. 64 days until Hawaii!
"Have you ever noticed that Rolls Royce and Bentley don't have commercials? REASON: They know the value of their product that brings customers to them. LESSON: When you know your value, you don't have to beg people to be your mate, to spend time with you or love you. Be confident in who GOD made you… to be. Everyone can't afford the luxury of your friendship."
This wasn't written by me, but she SOOOOO speaks to my life!
For once, the barista at Starbucks didn't recognize me. He shouldn't. I'm there only about once a month. The thing is, he remembers me. Well, not me so much as us. This is one of those things that come with being the white mother of a black child. Comments, questions, stares—those I expected. The strange experience of just being visible—not so much. I didn't realize how invisible I was until I wasn't anymore.
For our first outing as a family of four, we attended a local Harvest Festival. The park pathways were crowded with people, so Matthew and I took the lead, with my husband, David, and three-year-old Cameron trailing a few feet behind. I was filled with pride in my newborn, strapped snugly to my chest in a carrier, and noticed only the few nods and impersonal smiles I would get anywhere. When we got home, I remarked, "Wow, I think I was expecting more of a reaction. No one seemed fazed by us." David laughed. "Sharon," he said, "if only you could have seen it from where I was! People were tripping left and right from turning to get a look after you passed!" We had definitely been noticed.
Multiracial families don't always blend in
I quickly realized that we were not just noticed, we were remembered. By my second trip to Kroger with Matthew, the cashier was greeting us like old friends. This cashier had, for years, rung up my purchases, while fair-skinned, blue-eyed Cameron sat in the cart, never once showing a glimmer of recognition. But after showing up twice with Matthew, suddenly, we were unforgettable.
Someone who recognizes us stops me nearly every day. Parents from Cameron's school, kids from soccer class, neighbors, baggers, baristas, librarians. They all greet us with a familiar "hi!" that tells me I'm supposed to know them. (I usually don't.) When I asked a Caucasian friend if she had ever experienced this while out with her African-American daughter, she looked startled. Ella is her only child. "I thought that's just how people act when you have a baby!" she said. Sure, babies get attention, but brown-skinned babies with peachy-skinned mamas make heads turn. It's a different kind of attention.
I don't know how I feel about being so visible. It's not good, it's not bad. It's not that people are staring, snickering, or whispering. It is simply a constant sense of being that I've never had before.
Looking at race, looking within
When I tell others about our daily experience as a multiracial family, many express surprise, disbelief, or even defensiveness. "I don't even notice color," they say. The idea that my family is conspicuous because of our racial differences makes them uncomfortable. They mistakenly believe that to not be racist means to not see race. But ignoring Matthew's race doesn't impress me.
The idea of "colorblindness" is unrealistic, but, worse than that, it is dismissive. It implies that his race is unmentionable, and his non-whiteness is a flaw to be overcome. Far from being admirable, colorblindness suggests that racism can be solved by pretending it doesn't exist, instead of working to overcome our own prejudices and those entrenched in our society and institutions. And why should race alone, and not other parts of our identity, be ignored? Imagine that someone expressed surprise that you were a female. "Oh!" they'd exclaim. "I'm not sexist. I don't even notice gender!" Women shouldn't have to lack gender to gain respect. I don't want my gender to be ignored; I want it to be seen as one of the things that make me who I am.
No, it isn't seeing race that makes someone racist. What makes someone racist is drawing conclusions about a person based on his race. That's why I was offended when a shoe salesman pointed to Matthew and said, "Oh, I can just tell, he's gonna be a linebacker!" Maybe the comment wouldn't have bothered me if Matthew were a hefty toddler, tossing sneakers across the shoe store and tackling his brother. Aside from skin color, what made the salesman think "football" when he saw my tiny, tenth-percentile infant in his stroller, quietly paging through The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
Maybe I seem hard to please, offended when race is ignored, as well as when it's not. But it's actually pretty simple. I want Matthew to be seen for who he is. I don't want him to live in a society that diminishes him by not seeing his race, nor do I want him to be reduced to a stereotype. I want him to be proud that he is smart and funny and strong and good and black. I want him to live in a society that recognizes, appreciates, and respects all racial identities.
Visible as a starting point
Recently, a mother at the park admired Matthew. "His skin color is so beautiful!" she said. Tears sprang to my eyes as I realized that, although I have been told how cute Matthew's dimples are and how darling his smile is, no one has ever complimented his skin. His gorgeous, rich, deep-brown skin. I felt oddly grateful to this mother for seeing Matthew's skin and realizing that it is beautiful and OK—no, more than OK—to say so.
So even though being so noticeable, so unrelentingly remembered, feels strange, it's normal. Of course, people see that we don't match. How could they not? We notice differences and, hopefully, we learn to look deeper. I want Matthew's first-grade teacher, his best friend's dad, and his classmates to know him as more than the black kid with the white family. There is more to me, more to Matthew, and so much more to our family than what's visible.
We're Family First
These days, I sometimes forget that people see us any differently until, inevitably, someone asks, "Is he adopted?" or "Where's he from?" I don't look at Matthew and think "adopted." I think about how adorable his giggle is, how tough it is to keep him out of trouble—and a million things other than how he came to be our son. Paradoxically, I am thinking about adoption almost never, and all the time.
Here's the stuff that is "all the time": I think about Matthew's birthmom every single day. Each day, I tell Matthew how much he is loved by Mommy, by Daddy, by Cameron, by Grandma and Grandpa, and by his birthmom. I tell Matthew his adoption story and I think of how that story will someday become a conversation, and how that conversation will grow over time. I think about how to be the best mom I can be, to both of my boys, ever conscious that, in our family, that includes how we talk about adoption and race. I think about how to teach others about adoption and multiracial families, how to answer their questions, how to kindly correct their missteps, how to advocate for Matthew.
So, while adoption has changed our family in so many ways and it will always be a part of our daily life, it doesn't define our family.
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Pack Pack (back pack—he knows how to say Back pack, but doesn't like it. Could also be an ice pack)
Hot Dog (Goofy from Disneyland)
Motor man (anyone riding a motor bike/motorcycle)
Oc-puss (octopus)
Uncle Rasper (Uncle Jasper)
Tofu-pole (telephone pole)
Miss O-Wanda (Miss Yolanda)
Squito (Mosquito)
Hippo-Waterus (I bet you can guess what this is)
Linleyland Waffle (Churros that ONLY from Disneyland)
My taco (the sponge for my foundation)
Train Truck (the Metro-link trucks that rides on the tracks)
Scorpy (scorpion)
Spider Rab (spider web)
Stink ray (sting ray)
*I will use each Tuesday to rat myself out about something! It's all in good fun and I am sure that these "truth-day" revelations won't be things people don't already know about me!
I despise shaving my legs. Let me clarify—it isn't that I "like" having hair on my legs, it's just that I really don't like taking the time to shave 2 or 3 times a week; I just can't be bothered withit. I long for winter when I rarely wear a skirt (and let's not get confused, I don't wear skirts all that often anyway) or when the demand (due to sunshine) is such that you feel peer pressured into shaving your legs more often than not.
Sadly, there is shame associated with this because I don't dare go to the nail salon without shaving my legs when I get my pedicure. When I get a massage, I try to be diligent about having clean shaven legs. Oh yes, I do all of this because I don't want these people to think less of me, not because I have hairy legs (or maybe these are one in the same!). Who knows… what I do know is that I loathe shaving my legs…
Since K has been home, he has been struggling with the idea that he actually has things. He constantly asks me, "Is this mine Mommy?" and I am always reassuring him (when it is, in fact, him), "Yes Konjo! It's yours! You get to keep it!" Lately, he has been adding a new twist to things. He's added a follow up question, "Who bought it?" Obviously, most things, I have bought (or my parents have). But he wants to know about specific things, like a shirt (like I can remember who bought it or gave it to us), or a matchbox car ("Um, there are 5 in a package, but you wouldn't know that son, because I only gave you one of them and hid the rest because you already have too many cars to begin with!"). After I explain/tell him who bought it, he usually responds the same way, "I say thank you, Mommy!" He always wants to make sure that he says thank you—even if it's not to their face.
While I try to communicate to him that we can share our things and that at any given moment, we could just give our things away to someone who might need them more, I also want him to have a sense of belonging; a sense of security. I want him to know that his bed is his. His clothes are his. His shoes are his. His favorite "wagon" is his. His light saber is his. His police truck, ambulance, and fire truck are most certainly his! And most importantly—his Mama is his…forever!!!


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CMS in all its glory
By Hamish Johnston at CERN
Today I had the immense good fortune of seeing the insides of the CMS detector at CERN.
The huge detector was pulled open and I could see all the various layers that are used to track the vast numbers of particles that are produced when protons collide at the Large Hadron Collider.
Unlike earlier photos of the detector that were taken when it was being built, the beamline is still intact as it passes through the CMS – a plain black conduit suspended many metres above the floor. You can see the beamline poking out from the centre of the detector in the photo on the right.
Imperial College's Jim Virdee was our tour guide, and he told us how several military technologies from the former Soviet Union have been put to good use in the detector. These include brass shell casings that were melted down to make components for the detector.
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Particle physics comes alive on a tablet
By Hamish Johnston
The physicist and best-selling author Frank Close has joined forces with Michael Marten – founder of the Science Photo Library (SPL) – and CERN Courier editor Christine Sutton to create a new app about particle physics. Called The Particles, the app is billed as an introduction to the Standard Model and is aimed at a wide audience that includes professional physicists, students and even amateur enthusiasts.
Spot-on the Standard Model
By Hamish Johnston
"Beyond any reasonable doubt, it is a Higgs boson, and here we examine the extent to which its couplings resemble those of the single Higgs boson of the Standard Model."
That's taken from the abstract of a new paper by John Ellis and Tevong You of King's College London. Ellis, of course, has been associated with CERN for decades and if he says it's a Higgs that's good enough for me!
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy
By Hamish Johnston
If you are a fan of astronomy and the comedian David Mitchell, the Open University has a treat for you. Mitchell and the OU have made a series of 12 short animated videos about the physics of the cosmos.
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Much ado about the LHC
Rolf-Dieter Heuer talking to journalists at the Royal Society, London.
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By Tushna Commissariat
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has had its share of good and bad press over the past few years. Controversy and rumours abounded when the machine was switched on in September 2008. The mood then turned quickly to disappointment when its magnets failed and finally to euphoria when the first beams collided at 7 TeV in March 2010.
This week, a meeting to discuss the LHC and all things related was held at the Royal Society in London. The "Physics at the High Energy Frontier – the Large Hadron Collider Project" meeting took place on 16–17 May and saw leading lights of the project come together to discuss the collider and its future.
I was at the meeting for the second day, when a press briefing was held where CERN director Rolf-Dieter Heuer, plus Fabiola Gianotti and Guido Tonelli of the ATLAS and CMS experiments respectively, answered all of the questions that the Higgs-hungry reporters could throw at them!
The three speakers described how the collider has "surpassed all expectations" – experimental and computational. Talking about how the LHC is the very essence of global co-operation, Tonelli stressed that "no country could have done it as a stand-alone". Heuer boasted that every year about 1000 students get their PhDs thanks to the LHC, while just the ATLAS experiment involves about 3000 researchers.
Explaining how things work at the LHC, Tonelli said, "We [experimental scientists] try to test the theory without prejudice. We ask our friends the theorists to come up with something that we can observe." The collider has already produced the top quark in Europe for the first time and now it is poised to begin a regime of "new physics", to look for supersymmetry (SUSY), multiple dimensions, matter–antimatter disparity and, of course, the Higgs boson.
The Higgs…or something else?
"We will have an answer to the Shakespeare question for the Higgs – 'To be or not to be' – by the end of 2012" declared a confident Heuer. While he did show a great deal of enthusiasm about discovering the Higgs, Heuer was also keen to point out that not finding the particle would be a great result in itself. "Not finding [the Higgs] when it does not exist is a success," he exclaimed. "If it does not exist, we need to find something else that takes up the job of the Higgs and gives mass to elementary particles," he added.
The LHC will run until the end of 2012 without any major breaks and Heuer is confident that it will decide the fate of the Higgs by the end of this run. "Physics will not be the same after 2012." declared Tonelli. "It will change the view of the world."
Not amused
One of the first questions, asked by BBC reporter Pallab Ghosh, was about the recent "leak" of an unconfirmed sighting of the Higgs by ATLAS. A sighting that was later denied by a paper released by the ATLAS team and in interviews with physicists on various media channels.
"Unfortunately we live in a world of WikiLeaks, so it leaked!" said a grinning Gianotti. On a more serious note, she explained that such leaked results have not undergone the scientific scrutiny that is necessary, and hence are almost always insubstantial.
"The CERN management was not amused by the leak" said Heuer. He went on to ask journalists not to believe leaked results in the future. "Don't trust it on first sight" he said. Although Heuer's displeasure was clear, the leak did put the LHC back in the public eye after a few quiet months. Also, the media interest did provide the public with a rare insight into the vetting process that all scientific discoveries undergo. So perhaps the CERN management should lighten up and enjoy the renewed interest in the LHC!
Rolf-Dieter Heuer giving a talk about the future of the LHC at the Royal Society, London. (Courtesy: Tushna Commissariat)
Bumps and jumps
When asked about the Higgs-like 'bumps' seen at other experiments like the Tevatron and CERN's Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP) the panel had mixed replies. The Tevatron bump was dismissed by Gianotti and Tonelli, as they both explained that it was too small, statistically speaking, and was only seen by one of the Tevatron's two detectors. Would the LHC have a look for the Tevatron signal? "No", was their reply.
However, "interesting events" seen at 115 GeV by the LEP just before its closure in 2000 are of interest to them. While Heuer did say that it is very difficult to determine if it was anything more than a "hint", the LHC will be looking for the Higgs at that energy soon.
Colliding linearly
The International Liner Collider – a possible successor to the LHC – is another project that Heuer is excited about. He feels that CERN, with the LEP and now the LHC under its belt, would be the perfect host for the collider. "I think CERN has huge potential, not only on the human side, but on its experience side. We have all the instruments. So I see CERN in a very good position." he said.
But what about the money? "If you have an excellent science case, you will get the money. Don't ask for the money until you have the science figured out." he said. He pointed out that, compared to the US, in Europe the politics of funding are more stable and for that reason CERN would be a better host.
Right: prototype microwave cavity for the ILC, illuminated for a "Science Night" in Hamburg. (Courtesy: DESY)
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By Tushna Commissariat
Looks like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle physics lab had an interesting few days last week, just before everybody left for Easter, and the Internet is now abuzz with rumours of an impending discovery.
But before we get into any of the highly interesting and debatable stuff, let's look at one thing that has definitely happened at the LHC.
Around midnight on Friday 22 April, the LHC set a new world record for beam intensity when it collided beams with a luminosity of 4.67 × 1032 cm–2s–1. This was significantly more than the previous luminosity record of 4.024 × 1032 cm–2s–1 held by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron collider in 2010.
This new beam intensity was achieved after two weeks of planning and readying the collider. The machine is now moving into a phase of continuous physics scheduled to last until the end of the year when, after a short technical stop, the machine will resume running for 2012.
"Beam intensity is key to the success of the LHC, so this is a very important step," said CERN director Rolf-Dieter Heuer in a statement. "Higher intensity means more data, and more data means greater discovery potential."
But didn't I read all about some record being broken by the LHC last year, you ask? Yes, but that was the LHC accelerating its proton beams to 3.5 TeV each, leading to later collisions at 7 TeV. Now it is the beam intensity or the "luminosity" that is record breaking. Luminosity gives a measure of how many collisions are happening in a particle accelerator. So the higher the luminosity, the more particles are likely to collide which is necessary while looking for rare particles like the infamous Higgs boson.
"There's a great deal of excitement at CERN today," said CERN's director for research and scientific computing, Sergio Bertolucci, "and a tangible feeling that we're on the threshold of new discovery."
Well, it looks like Bertolucci spoke a tad too soon, as on the same day a leaked memo posted by an anonymous commenter on mathematician Peter Woit's blog, claimed that certain researchers at the ATLAS experiment at CERN had seen firm evidence for the Higgs particle in recent data.
The memo, though not official by any means, was authored by four ATLAS members who claimed to have seen an excess number of photons produced at energy of 115 GeV that could be caused by the decay of the Higgs particle into photons.
Surprisingly, only a few websites and blogs mentioned the news for the first day or so, before slowly more people seemed to notice this juicy story of physics, Higgs and betrayal!
On 25 April, Nature reported on its blog, an official statement from ATLAS spokeswoman Fabiola Gianotti. Gianotti said "Only official ATLAS results, i.e. results that have undergone all the necessary scientific checks by the collaboration, should be taken seriously." She went on to say that signals of the kind reported in the memo show up often during data analysis and are later falsified after more detailed scrutiny.
But the damage had already been done as physicists and others began to comment on the legitimacy of the claim made in the memo and the ethics of such an internal memo being posted and talked about online.
As people began to look deeper into the memo, interesting facts began to creep up.
Tommaso Dorigo, from the University of Padova in Italy wrote an initial post on his blog A Quantum Diaries Survivor that turned into a debate and eventually a bet! His post was sceptical from the start and he gave his reasons for why he was sure it as nothing more than a blip in the data, then went on to explain in more detail what other data already exists.
After that, a regular reader of his blog pointed out that the authors of the ATLAS study are actually physicists from Wisconsin, and include a Professor Wu, "who was among those less happy of the decommissioning of LEP [the Large Electron-Positron Collider] at the time when they were claiming a possible Higgs signal at 115 GeV. So maybe these guys have been looking for some confirmation of the 115 GeV Higgs all along".
Woit too was quick to distance himself from the memo saying that "it should be made clear that, while members of ATLAS work here at Columbia, I have no connection at all to them, and they had nothing to do with this. The source of the abstract posted here anonymously as a comment is completely unknown to me."
As more people debated and commented over the memo, Dorigo came back to say that he would bet anyone who "has a name and a reputation in particle physics (this is a necessary specification, because I need to be sure that the person taking the bet will honour it) that the signal is not due to Higgs boson decays" and then updated that comment by saying that if he is wrong he would pay $1000 but that if he is right he would be given only $500.
Meanwhile, Channel 4 conducted an interview with Jon Butterworth, a particle physics professor at University College London, who also works at ATLAS. He went on to say the same thing; that nothing would be definitive until it was scrutinized by CERN officially (look above).
So at the end of the day, it looks like the world is going to have to wait a while longer before Higgs boson gets its official post in the Standard Model hall of fame.
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