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Rashid Khalidi
رشيد إسماعيل خالدي
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Khalidi speaking at the Brooklyn Law School in 2009
Born Rashid Ismail Khalidi
1948 (age 69–70)
New York, NY
Residence New York, NY
Citizenship American
Alma mater Yale University
Oxford University
Known for Histories of nationalism and colonialism in Palestine and the Middle East
Scientific career
Fields History
Institutions University of Chicago
Columbia University
Georgetown University
American University of Beirut

Rashid Ismail Khalidi (Arabic: رشيد خالدي; born 1948) is a Palestinian American historian of the Middle East, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University,[1] and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He also is known for serving as editor of the scholarly journal Journal of Palestine Studies.

Family, education and career

Khalidi was born in New York City, New York. Khalidi is the son of Ismail Khalidi and the nephew of Husayin al-Khalidi.[2] He is the father of playwright Ismail Khalidi and activist/attorney, Dima Khalidi. He grew up in New York City, where his father, a Saudi citizen[2] of Palestinian origins who was born in Jerusalem,[3] worked for the United Nations.[2][4] Khalidi's mother, a Lebanese-American born in the United States, was an interior decorator. Khalidi attended the United Nations International School.[3]

In 1970, Khalidi received a B.A. from Yale University,[5] where he was a member of the Wolf's Head Society.[6] He then received a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974.[1] Between 1976 and 1983, Khalidi "was teaching full time as an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies and Public Administration Dept. at the American University of Beirut, published two books and several articles, and also was a research fellow at the independent Institute for Palestine Studies".[7] He has also taught at the Lebanese University.[5]

Khalidi became politically active in Beirut, where he resided through the 1982 Lebanon War. "I was deeply involved in politics in Beirut" in the 1970s, he said in an interview.[8] Khalidi was cited in the media during this period, sometimes as an official with the Palestinian News Service, Wafa, or directly with the Palestinian Liberation Organization.[9] However, Khalidi has denied that he was a PLO spokesman,[10] stating that he "often spoke to journalists in Beirut, who usually cited me without attribution as a well-informed Palestinian source. If some misidentified me at the time, I am not aware of it."[7] Subsequently sources disagreed as to the nature or existence of Khalidi's official relationship with the organization.[11]

Returning to America, Khalidi spent two years teaching at Columbia University before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1987, where he spent eight years as a professor and director of both the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago.[12] During the Gulf War, while teaching at Chicago, Khalidi emerged "as one of the most influential commentators from within Middle Eastern Studies".[13] In 2003 he joined the faculty of Columbia University, where he currently serves as the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies. He has also taught at Georgetown University.[5]

Khalidi is married to Mona Khalidi, who is the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.[14] He is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, which describes itself as "a national organization of Jews, Christians and Muslims dedicated to dialogue, education and advocacy for peace based on the deepest teachings of the three religious traditions".

He is member of the Board of Sponsors of The Palestine–Israel Journal, a publication founded by Ziad Abuzayyad and Victor Cygielman, prominent Palestinian and Israeli journalists.[15] He is founding trustee of The Center for Palestine Research and Studies.[16] He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In October 2010, Khalidi delivered the annual Edward Said memorial lecture at the Palestine Center in Washington.[17]

Academic work

Khalidi's research covers primarily the history of the modern Middle East. He focuses on the countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, with an eye to the emergence of various national identities and the role played by external powers in their development. He also researches the impact of the press on forming new senses of community, the role of education in the construction of political identity, and in the way narratives have developed over the past centuries in the region.[1][not in citation given] Michael C. Hudson, director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown, describes Khalidi as "preeminent in his field".[18] He served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in 1994 and is currently the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.[19]

Much of Khalidi's scholarly work in the 1990s focused on the historical construction of nationalism in the Arab world. Drawing on the work of theorist Benedict Anderson who described nations as "imagined communities", he does not posit primordial national identities, but argues that these nations have legitimacy and rights. In Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997), he places the emergence of Palestinian national identity in the context of Ottoman and British colonialism as well as the early Zionist effort in the Levant. Palestinian Identity won the Middle East Studies Association's top honor, the Albert Hourani Book Award as best book of 1997.[20]

His dating of the emergence of Palestinian nationalism to the early 20th century and his tracing of its contours provide a rejoinder to Israeli nationalist claims that Palestinians had no collective claims prior to the 1948 creation of Israel. His signature work, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (Columbia University Press, 1997), argues that Arabs living in Palestine began to regard themselves as a distinct people decades before 1948, "and that the struggle against Zionism does not by itself sufficiently explain Palestinian nationalism".[21]

In it, Khalidi also describes the late development, failings and internal divisions within the various elements of the Palestinian nationalist movement.

In Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004), Khalidi takes readers on a historical tour of Western involvement in the Middle East, and argues that these interactions continue to have a colonialist nature that is both morally unacceptable and likely to backfire. Khalidi's book, Sowing Crisis, places the United States approach to the Middle East in historical context. He is sharply critical of U.S. policies during the Cold War, writing that Cold War policies "formulated to oppose the Soviets, consistently undermined democracy and exacerbated tensions in the Middle East".[22]

Khalidi has written, "It may seem hard to believe today, but for decades the United States was in fact a major patron, indeed in some respects the major patron, of earlier incarnations" of radical, militant Islam, in order to use all possible resources in waging the Cold War. He adds, "The Cold War was over, but its tragic sequels, its toxic debris, and its unexploded mines continued to cause great harm, in ways largely unrecognized in American discourse."[23]

Historian and Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren has stated that "Khalidi is mainstream" because "the stream itself has changed. The criteria for scholarship have become very political."[24]

Palestinian Identity

Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997), is Khalidi's most influential and most widely cited book. In Palestinian Identity, Khalidi demonstrates that a Palestinian national consciousness had it origins near the beginning of the twentieth century. Khalidi describes the Arab population of British Mandatory Palestine as having "overlapping identities", with some or many expressing loyalties to villages, regions, a projected nation of Palestine, an alternative of inclusion in a Greater Syria, an Arab national project, as well as to Islam.[25] Nevertheless, Palestinian Identity was the first to demonstrate substantive Palestinian nationalism in the early Mandatory period. Khalidi writes, "Local patriotism could not yet be described as nation-state nationalism."[26]

Khalidi emphasized in his work that the Palestinian identity had been fundamentally fluid and changing, woven from multiple "narratives" due to individual and family experiences. He described the identity as organically developed due to the challenges of peasants forced from their homes due to Zionist immigrant pressure, but with Palestinian nationalism also being far more complex than merely an anti-Zionist reaction. Praise for his book appeared in the journal Foreign Affairs, with reviewer William B. Quandt viewing the work as "a major contribution to historical understanding of Palestinian nationalism."[27]

Khalidi also documents active opposition by the Arab press to Zionism in the 1880s.[28]

Response to The Iron Cage

In a review of Khalidi's The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, for Middle East Policy, Philip Wilcox praised "Khalidi's brilliant inquiry into why Palestinians have failed to win a state of their own" calling the book "a welcome antidote to the propaganda and mythology that still dominate American discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."[29] Writing in The Guardian, Ian Black said the book "brilliantly analyses the structural handicap which hobbled the Palestinians throughout 30 years of British rule".[30] In a review for Salon, Jonathan Shainin wrote that "The Iron Cage is a patient and eloquent work, ranging over the whole of modern Palestinian history from World War I to the death of Yasser Arafat."[31] In Foreign Affairs, L. Carl Brown wrote that "Khalidi's book is no exercise in victimology. He is tough on the British, the Israelis, and the Americans, but he is scarcely less hard-hitting in appraising the Palestinians". He went on to praise the final chapter's "excellent critique" of the development of the PLO's positions towards Israel and the Two-state solution.[32]

New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman said of Khalidi's book The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood: "But he makes this more than an exercise in self-pity by refusing to let the Palestinians themselves off the hook. If they indeed live in an iron cage, well, Khalidi says, they helped mold the bars themselves" and asks "When he talks about repressive Israeli measures having been 'sometimes imposed on the pretext of security,' critics are bound to ask: What pretext? How many suicide bombings of cafes and pizza shops does it take before a country has a right to end them by any method that seems to work?" [33] Efraim Karsh said about the same book "One would have hoped that after 80 years of stubborn adherence to the 'one-state solution' and an equally adamant rejection of the 'two-state solution,' which have resulted in Palestinian statelessness, all but the most fanatically self-deluded would grasp the root causes of the Palestinian debacle — not least a historian purporting to redress the 'continuing refusal to look honestly at what has happened in this small land over the past century or so.'"[34]

Public life

Khalidi has written dozens of scholarly articles on Middle East history and politics, as well as op-ed pieces in many U.S. newspapers.[citation needed] He has also been a guest on radio and TV shows including All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, Worldview, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, and Nightline, and has appeared on the BBC, the CBC, France Inter and the Voice of America. He served as president of the American Committee on Jerusalem, now known as the American Task Force on Palestine.[citation needed]

Views on Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Khalidi has written that the establishment of the state of Israel resulted in "the uprooting of the world's oldest and most secure Jewish communities, which had found in the Arab lands a tolerance that, albeit imperfect, was nonexistent in the often genocidal, Jew-hating Christian West." Regarding the proposed two-state solution to the Israel–Palestinian conflict, Khalidi has written that "the now universally applauded two-state solution faces the juggernaut of Israel's actions in the occupied territories over more than forty years, actions that have been expressly designed to make its realization in any meaningful form impossible." However, Khalidi also noted that "there are also flaws in the alternatives, grouped under the rubric of the one-state solution".[35]

He supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.[36]

Regarding American support for Israel, Khalidi stated in an interview, "every other single place on the face of the earth is in support of the Palestinians, yet all of them together aren't a hill of beans compared to the United States and Israel, because the United States and Israel can basically do anything they please. They are the world superpower, they are the regional superpower."[37]

A New York Sun editorial criticized Khalidi for stating that there is a legal right under international law for Palestinians to resist Israeli occupation.[38] For example, in a speech given to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Khalidi said, "[k]illing civilians is a war crime. It's a violation of international law. They are not soldiers. They're civilians, they're unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that's different. That's resistance."[38][39] The Sun editorial argued that by failing to distinguish between Palestinian combatants and noncombatants, Khalidi implies that all Palestinians have this right to resist, which it claimed was incorrect under international law.[38] In an interview discussing this editorial, Khalidi objected to this characterization as incorrect and taken out of the context of his statements on international law.[38]

Khalidi has described discussions of Arab restitution for property confiscated from the Jewish refugees from Middle Eastern and North African countries after the creation of Israel as "insidious", "because the advocates of Jewish refugees are not working to get those legitimate assets back but are in fact trying to cancel out the debt of Israel toward Palestinian refugees".[40]

NYC teacher training program

In 2005 Khalidi's participation in a New York City teacher training program was ended by the city's Schools Chancellor.[41] Chancellor Joel I. Klein issued a statement that "Considering his past statements, Rashid Khalidi should not have been included in a program that provided professional development for [Department of Education] teachers and he won't be participating in the future."[42] Following the decision, Columbia University president Lee Bollinger spoke out on Khalidi's behalf, writing: "The department's decision to dismiss Professor Khalidi from the program was wrong and violates First Amendment principles... The decision was based solely on his purported political views and was made without any consultation and apparently without any review of the facts."[41]

2008 U.S. presidential campaign

Consequent to publication by the Los Angeles Times of an article about Obama's attendance at a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, their relationship became an issue in the campaign.[43] Some opponents of Barack Obama claimed that the relationship between Obama and Khalidi was evidence that Obama would not maintain a pro-Israel foreign policy if elected.[43] When asked, Obama called his own commitment to Israel "unshakeable" and said he does not consult with Khalidi on foreign policy.[44] Opponents of Republican candidate John McCain pointed out that he had served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI) during the 1990s which provided grants worth $500,000 to the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, which was co-founded by Khalidi, for the purpose of polling the views of the Palestinian people.[45]

Published works

  1. ^ a b c "Department of History: Rashid Khalidi". Columbia University. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  2. ^ a b c "Ismail Khalidi, 52, U.N. Official, Dies". The New York Times. September 6, 1968.
  3. ^ a b Santora, Marc; Elissa Gootman (October 30, 2008). "Political Storm Finds a Columbia Professor". The New York Times. pp. A28. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  4. ^ McCarthy, Andrew C.; Claudia Rosett (November 3, 2008). "In Obama's Hyde Park, It's All in the Family". National Review. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  5. ^ a b c "Rashid Khalidi". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2006-09-10. Retrieved 2006-09-20.
  6. ^ 2006 Phelps Association Directory
  7. ^ a b Romirowsky, Asaf; Jonathan Calt Harris (July 8, 2004). "Arafat minion as professor". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2008-11-23. In reply to our questions, he wrote that between 1976 and 1983, "I was teaching full time as an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies and Public Administration Dept. at the American University of Beirut, published two books and several articles, and also was a research fellow at the independent Institute for Palestine Studies," and says he had no time for anything else. Mr. Khalidi dismisses the allegation that he served as a PLO spokesman, saying, "I often spoke to journalists in Beirut, who usually cited me without attribution as a well-informed Palestinian source. If some misidentified me at the time, I am not aware of it."
  8. ^ Rashid Khalidi on the Middle East: A Conversation, Logos, Fall 2005
  9. ^
    • "Palestinians, People in Crisis, Are Scattered and Divided; The Palestinians First-of a Series", The New York Times, February 19, 1978, Sunday, Page 1, James M. Markham, [1]
    • "Ultimate Goals of the Attack are Assessed Differently from the Two Sides", News Analysis, Thomas Friedman, The New York Times, June 9, 1982
    • "Account of PLO Talks Questioned; Reagan Unaware of Such Contacts, His National Security Aide Declares" by Doyle McManus. Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, Calif.: Feb 20, 1984. p. A10
    • "Lebanon War Hurts Palestinian Cause", Joe Alex Morris Jr., Los Angeles Times September 5, 1976
    • "The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Palestine Liberation Organization", produced in 1979 for Pacifica Radio [2]
  10. ^ Michael D. Shear (2008-10-30). "McCain Again Points to Obama's Associates". The Washington Post. ;Dana Bash and Peter Hamby (2008-10-29). "Palin accuses Obama of ties to second 'radical professor'". CNN.
  11. ^ James Rainey (2008-10-30). "McCain, Palin demand L.A. Times release Obama video". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 12, 2009.
  12. ^ Wolf, Isaac (January 31, 2003). "Khalidi accepts chair offer from Columbia". The Chicago Maroon. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  13. ^ Kramer, Martin, Ivory Towers on Sand, Washington, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001, p. 65
  14. ^ "Mona Khalidi". SIPA Staff. Columbia University. 2006. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
  15. ^ [6]
  16. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 9, 2000. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
  17. ^ Khalidi, Rashid. "The Palestine Question and the U.S. Public Sphere". Palestine Center. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  18. ^ "The Knowledge That Doesn't Equal Power", By Philip Kennicott. The Washington Post, 5/13/2004.
  19. ^ University of California Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine. Journal of Palestine Studies current editorial staff. (retrieved January 25, 2009
  20. ^ Albert Hourani Book Award Recipients, 1991-2005 Archived 2007-08-15 at the Wayback Machine.
  21. ^ or http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2009-March/045483.html Chronicle of Higher Education "Rashid Khalidi's Balancing Act: The Middle-East scholar courts controversy with his Palestinian advocacy" by Evan R. Goldstein March 6, 2009
  22. ^ [7] and [8] Chronicle of Higher Education "Rashid Khalidi's Balancing Act: The Middle-East scholar courts controversy with his Palestinian advocacy" by Evan R. Goldstein March 6, 2009
  23. ^ Khalidi, Rashid. Sowing crisis: the Cold War and American dominance in the Middle East. 2009, page 34
  24. ^ Rashid Khalidi's Balancing Act: The Middle-East scholar courts controversy with his Palestinian advocacy, Evan Goldstein, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 6, 2009 [9]
  25. ^ The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism, Michael Provence, University of Texas Press, 2005, p. 158
  26. ^ Khalidi, Palestinian Identity. p. 32
  27. ^ http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/52996/william-b-quandt/palestinian-identity-the-construction-of-modern-national-conscio
  28. ^ Army of Shadows, Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948, Hillel Cohen University of California Press, 2008, p. 275, n.2
  29. ^ Wilcox, Philip C. (5 April 2007). "Spring 2007". Middle East Policy. 14 (1). doi:10.1111/j.1475-4967.2007.00291.x. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
  30. ^ Black, Ian (2007-02-17). "Divided loyalties: Ian Black wades into the troubled history of the Middle East with four books on Palestine". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
  31. ^ Shainin, Jonathan (2006-12-18). "Nation Building". Salon. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
  32. ^ Brown, L. Carl (January–February 2007). "Palestinian Struggle for Statehood". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
  33. ^ Haberman, Clyde (January 7, 2007). "Stateless". The New York Times Book Review.
  34. ^ http://www.nysun.com/arts/iron-illusions-of-rashid-khalidi/45182/
  35. ^ Palestine: Liberation Deferred by Rashid Khalidi, The Nation, May 8, 2008 (retrieved October 21, 2008
  36. ^ "40 Columbia University professors sign BDS petition". JTA. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  37. ^ "The Crisis of our Times - Nationalism, Identity, and the Future of Israel-Palestine" at the Wayback Machine (archived April 29, 2008), Interview with Rashid Khalidi, North Coast Xpress, Spring 2001. Retrieved on October 21, 2008. Archived from the original
  38. ^ a b c d "Right of Resistance?". The New York Sun. March 14, 2005. Retrieved 2006-09-04.  Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "NYSunRoR" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  39. ^ Note: The ADC transcript of Khalidi's speech has been edited, and has sections missing. Thus, it cannot be used for verification.
  40. ^ Perelman, Marc (April 10, 2008). "Study Estimates Assets of Arab Lands' Jews". The Forward. Retrieved 2008-04-13.
  41. ^ a b Purnick, Joyce (February 28, 2005). "Some Limits on Speech in Classrooms". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
  42. ^ "The Klein Example". The New York Sun. February 18, 2005. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
  43. ^ a b Wallsten, Peter (April 10, 2008). "Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama". Los Angeles Times; Politics. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  44. ^ Obama on the Defensive Before Fla. Jewish Voters, ABC news, May 22, 2008. (retrieved on October 26, 2008.
  45. ^

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Although I must have walked past this building hundreds of times when I lived in Oxford, I never paid it much attention. In those days my mind was on other things and the building didn’t have the blue plaque that it has today, pointing out to passers by that the ‘Oxford Playhouse began here 1923–1938 in the former Big Game Museum built in 1906’.

Big Game Museum?

The Big Game Museum was the brainchild of one Charles Victor Alexander Peel, an old Etonian for whom reducing the wildlife population of Africa seems to have been something of an obsession. Peel was convinced that big game hunting was an excellent activity for a young man, combining adventure with science (the opportunity to discover, record, and collect species) and ‘sport’. He promoted his enthusiasm in several books that chronicled his expeditions in Africa and beyond. Titles such as Somaliland and The Length of Africa: Being an Account of a Journey from Cape Town to Alexandria and Sport in Kenya Colony and On a Collection of Insects and Arachnids Made in 1895 and 1897 in Somaliland and The Polar Bear Hunt give a flavour of what drove him. By the early 1900s he had amassed so many pelts and mounted skeletons that he conceived the idea of housing them in a museum. This building on Oxford’s Woodstock Road was the result.

The big upper windows must have provided a light space in which to display the specimens. Their white frames and scrolling brackets at either end of each large window, together with the scroll patterns in the walls below them, give the building a restrained Arts and Crafts flavour, as do the brick buttresses and the porch. The strip windows lower down are also very much of their time, although presumably the window frames are replacements. From roof finials to brickwork, the building gives the impression of fitness for purpose.

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In addition to being a museum and a theatre, the building has had several other uses, probably the oddest being a miniature golf course. Today it houses the Oxford University Language Centre, which offers courses and resources to those learning languages in Oxford. The Centre has been here since 1992, so its occupation represents one of the longest chapters in the history of this building. How adaptable this robust structure has proved.

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A miniature golf course? What a fabulous history this building has. Very interesting post.

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Joseph Biddulph said...

Sorry, I can't warm to this rather ugly building! Are the gratuitous two-slope buttresses an Oxford speciality - compare the one in the Byzantine Studies building (which appears to be medieval)? The combination of receding roofs + long horizontal windows + some dull brickwork and those over-prominent downpipes!Not worthy of Oxford anyway - even of Cowley or Headington, perhaps?

Philip Wilkinson said...

Well, I find it interesting rather than ugly, but I admit the buttresses are rather odd. Will look out for similar ones when I'm next in Oxford.


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How Abortion Has Weakened Social Security

Published in Family Policy, March-April 2000 on March 15, 2000

Many baby boomers resent what they perceive to be a “raw deal” from Social Security, the “pay-as-you-go” system where roughly each generation of workers pays the retirement benefits for their parent’s generation. While their parents have reaped a generous return on their Social Security taxes, the boomers fear they will receive far lower rates of return on what they have paid into the system. The reason: today more than 3.4 workers support each Social Security beneficiary; when the boomers retire, two workers or fewer are projected to support each beneficiary. Due to these demographic changes, the Social Security Administration predicts that the system will go permanently into the red in 2015, necessitating tax increases, benefit cuts, or both.

Boomers rarely consider that what might be a raw deal for their generation is largely self-inflicted. Today’s relatively high worker-to-beneficiary ratio exists for one simple reason: the average retired couple today had more than three children during their child-rearing days. In contrast, the boomer generation is the first to practice abortion. Since the legalization of abortion, those of child-producing age have been mostly boomers. As a result, they are now left with a relatively smaller progeny than their parents. Most of the decline in live births and future taxpaying workers since the late 1960s is due to legal abortions. If not for legal abortions, the ratio of workers to beneficiary would be even higher today, about 3.6 workers for every Social Security beneficiary, instead of the current 3.4; in 2050 the ratio would be 2.7 workers for every beneficiary, instead of the projected 2.0. If the other factors projected by the Social Security actuaries remained constant, the choosing of life over abortion by the boomers would have kept the Social Security system in balance indefinitely–with a large cumulative surplus–without either raising payroll tax rates from current levels or cutting promised benefits. If legal abortion were ended today, it would begin to affect the worker-beneficiary ratio only around 2020. By 2050, however, the ratio would increase by enough to remove about 44 percent of the annual deficit now expected by the Social Security Actuaries.

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An Introduction

This blog started out as a way for me to keep my family informed as to my whereabouts on a motorcycle trip.  It sort of blossomed into more than that as I moved deeper into the trip.  Having never blogged before, or really written anything much for fun (I’m not a strong speller), I wasn’t sure what to expect, and I still kind of don’t know what I have here, but take a read and let me know what you think.  Please keep in mind that most of this is written at night in some random locale after a full day of riding usually in a dingy hotel room or in some dive bar while some bartender is trying to kick me out after they’ve cleaned and let me stay way longer than they should have.  Spelling errors abound as I wrote with speed (and love), so laugh along with the errors…

Why do this on a motorcycle?  Well,  it’s hard to explain, but it’s like no other way of traveling.  Instead of watching through the frame of a window in a climate-controlled canister, you’re IN it.  When it rains, you get wet.  When it’s cold, you ache, and when it’s hot, you sweat.  The smells are real, and sometimes overwhelming but always awakening.  It’s living pure and perfect freedom.  I don’t know of another way to find that. Perhaps this blog will share some of this living.

Each of the trips is best read in order, so the categories on the right are organized by trips.  Once in a category, the oldest post is at the bottom (just in case you’re as unfamiliar about blog structure as I was before rambling on).

And feel free to post comments, questions, and wisecracks!  Hope you enjoy…

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  1. LES CIZEK says:

    • Bradley J Lunsford says:

      Looking forward to it, Les.
      We have made it to Tok, Alaska. Wags is a couple of days behind on the blog. Lots of riding and spotty Internet. We are staying in Fairbanks tonight, so there should be more band width and he can get it updated.

  2. David Rubin says:

    Sounds like EASY RIDER – Part Two. Settle into that saddle and Ride ’em cowboys!

  3. Mom says:

    I tried really hard to save some corned beef for you from our St. Paddy’s Day dinner. I made 4 of them, and after doggy bags were given…all was gone. Until Adam noticed there was a small chunk underneath my colander on the counter. Your Dad was trying his best to save a little for himself. Too funny!
    Looking forward to reading your blog. Also played golf today. Unbelievable weather! I was even sweating.
    Safe travels!
    Love, mom

    • ericgwagner says:

      Mom, your comments are the best. I”m sorry to hear about the corned beef, but I was pretty sure Adam would take care of things in my absence, so I’m not too disappointed. Can’t trust that guy with salty beef, that’s for sure.

      Awesome you guys are getting a chance to play golf – at the end of winter. It’s nicer there than here!

      Love you,

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Constitutional Connections Final Report

constitutionaliconsmallI just hit the e-grants “submit” button for the final report for Constitutional Connections, the TAH grant that brought me to ESD 112 almost 4 years ago.  While 49 pages of evalu-speak might be a little much for anyone, I thought I’d share the final section of the report.  The report is written by Dr. Rick Dills from Portland State University’s Center for Student Success, our third party evaluator.  Beyond his work as evaluator, Rick was a true partner in running the project: he held my hand as I made the switch from classroom teacher to TAH Project Director.

Final Evaluation Question #1: Utilizing your evaluation results, draw conclusions about the success of the project and its impact.  Describe any unanticipated outcomes or benefits from your project and any barriers that you may have encountered.

Three-year trends in the evaluation data for the Constitutional Connections TAH Project indicate that participating teachers have reported significant changes in their historical knowledge, classroom practices, and students’ learning; moreover, trained raters have observed related improvements when evaluating teacher and student work samples. These positive trends are most notable in areas receiving the greatest focus within the Project’s professional development activities: 1) the understanding of Constitutional history; 2) the reading and instructional use of primary source documents; and, 3) the development of historical thinking skills required by Washington’s Classroom Based Assessments (CBA’s), the state’s method for evaluating achievement in history.

From 2006 to 2008, the percentage of elementary, middle, and high school teachers reporting a high level of instructional emphasis on the Constitution increased from 18% to 74% (a difference of 56%); the percentage reporting a high level of student learning in this area increased from 16% to 78% (a difference of 62%). Raters similarly noted that the percentage of teacher work samples showing evidence of emphasis on the Constitution increased from 39% to 78% (a difference of 39%). When raters evaluated student achievement in Year 3 of the Project, the mean rating for “understanding key ideals and principles… in the US Constitution” was at grade level or better for all three instructional levels. Teacher comments and testimonials, from surveys, interviews, and focus groups, underscore this data-based conclusion: a major success of the Project has been to help teachers and students make “constitutional connections,” to infuse the Constitution into US History instruction and to help teachers and students develop an active understanding of  Constitutional principles and issues.

To what might this success and instructional impact be attributed? First, the Project focused narrowly on one arena of US history (the Constitution) – albeit a theme that is woven throughout the history of the nation – and sustained that focus over four years of engaging, high-quality professional development. The Academies, through which teachers gained most of their content knowledge, not only sustained a multi-year focus on the Constitution, but brought both a range of top historians (provided by the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship Program) as well as repeated exposure to a few selected historians. The area of Academy focus also mattered to participating teachers; their initial survey responses indicated that they believed teaching the Constitution was very important, but were not confident that they knew enough to do so, and therefore had not sufficiently emphasized it within their history instruction. The four years of grant-funded Academies and Institutes seem to have closed the gap between teachers’ values and their practices, empowering them to successfully implement Constitutional history within their classrooms.

The patterns in the data related to the instructional use of primary source documents are similar, as are the explanations for Project success. From 2006 to 2008, the percentage of teachers reporting a high level of instructional emphasis on the reading and interpretation of primary source documents increased from 39% to 70% (a difference of 31%); the percentage reporting a high level of student learning in this area increased from 43% to 74% (again a difference of 31%). Raters similarly noted that the percentage of teacher work samples showing evidence of emphasis on primary sources increased by 25%, to 88% in 2008. When raters evaluated student achievement in Year 3 of the Project, the mean rating for “interprets primary sources or case studies” was at grade level or better for all high school students. These successes in changing teacher practices, and apparent impact on student learning, can again be attributed to a consistent, focused  emphasis on using primary sources, as modeled by the historians in Academy presentations and as discussed regularly in history professional learning team (HPLT) meetings. As with the related content emphasis on the Constitution, teachers believed that using primary sources with students was important, but had previously not been fully confident in doing so. Through Project activities, they developed their own skills for reading and interpreting documents, leaned how to teach those skills to students, and discovered that students were surprisingly capable of reading documents as historians do, given appropriate instructional scaffolding.

Teachers were additionally motivated to address the use of primary sources by the expectation in most Washington Classroom Based Assessments (CBA’s) that students interpret primary documents in completing a complex CBA task. Not surprisingly then, the data related to the implementation of CBA assessments (Project Objective 4), and the initial successes in this area, parallel the patterns noted in the two previous areas of significant Project impact. Though Washington has expected CBA’s to be fully implemented by 2009, most teachers who entered the Constitutional Connections Project in 2006 had minimal familiarity with what CBA’s required and had done little work to implement them in their classrooms. From 2006 to 2008, however, the percentage of teachers reporting a high level of alignment with CBA expectations increased from 28% to 80% (a difference of 62%). Over that same period, work sample reviewers noted an increase of 45% (from 51% to 96%) in the number of teacher assessment tasks that showed alignment with CBA expectations. That the Project supported teachers in understanding and responding to the challenging demands of Washington’s classroom based assessment system, bringing essentially all teachers to a point where they could meet those demands, is a significant Project success. That it did so while still emphasizing the content of “traditional American history” and connecting teachers’ CBA work to the Constitution is an even greater success. Finally, that teachers came to see CBA’s as “authentic intellectual work” closely related to the real work of historians (rather than as just a state requirement to be complied with) is especially important.

As the preliminary nature of the Year 3 student achievement data attests, it is still too soon to conclude that the Project directly affected student achievement during its three years. Students did show significant growth in many historical knowledge and skill areas from pre- to post-assessment, and almost two-thirds were judged to meet grade level expectations by the end of the year (when only a sixth had demonstrated grade-level skills at the start of the year). These data suggest a possible correlation between increased student learning and the changes noted above in teachers’ practices and perceptions of student achievement, but do not offer empirical proof of effect. This dilemma is one that has posed a challenge (and in some cases a barrier) to achieving the Project’s goals and carrying out an empirically-based evaluation. Unlike many states, Washington does not administer a multiple-choice test to measure students’ achievement in history. Instead, the state has initiated a system based on classroom based assessments and teacher judgment. This system was still being designed during the period of this grant, and in fact the Constitutional Connections teachers were at the vanguard of implementation efforts in the state. There have been no reference points to which student achievement on CBA’s can be compared, no state-level data to show how successful other Washington teachers and students have been in meeting the sophisticated expectations of the CBA tasks. Evaluators, Project leaders, and teachers have been forced to develop their own methods for measuring student achievement within this context.

Having had to do so has also brought some unanticipated outcomes and benefits. First, the Project was able to identify a set of knowledge- and skill-based criteria through which student learning and achievement could be viewed. Using these criteria, the Project developed criterion-referenced tools for reviewing and evaluating student opportunity and performance, which teachers have endorsed as very valuable in the classroom as well. Because measurement of student achievement had to occur through examining work samples, teachers gained tremendously through the experience of both assembling and reviewing collegially (in their HPLT’s) examples of their students’ work. This effect was particularly strong for lead teachers in the Project, who not only facilitated work sample reviews in their HPLT’s but also participated as raters in the semi-annual work sample reviews organized by the Project Evaluator. These teachers in particular were able to sharpen their understanding of what CBA’s expected and what successful student performance looked like, an unexpected benefit to them as lead teachers and a very positive aspect of the Project’s success.

Finally, the Project’s successes (as well as barriers to its success) should be discussed in relation to how it accomplished its goals as well as to what it accomplished in changing teachers’ practices and affecting student learning. While the Academies provided the primary vehicle for delivering content to teachers, the History Professional Learning Teams (HPLT’s), which met eight times each year, formed the Project’s backbone. It was through team discussions that teachers processed and implemented what they were learning about the Constitution, and that they came to understand what their students would need to do to meet CBA expectations. From the start, these teams were both powerful and problematic. While they potentially provided professional networking that had been missing from many teachers’ practices, they also required teachers to participate in professional development outside the school day, on top of work place demands, and, in many cases, at a great distance from their schools (some teams involved teachers from large geographic areas). Because there were so many teachers, from so many different districts, geographic areas, grade levels, and backgrounds, it was not easy to direct or coordinate common professional development experiences. Once teams were turned over to lead teachers selected from their midst, they necessarily developed their own areas of focus, norms, and processes, making quantifying, capturing, and reporting the results of their collegial work challenging. And as a result, the Project had to “measure” student achievement in a diverse range of student outcome areas (drawn from the Washington Grade Level Expectations that teachers elected to target) rather than a single, more focused arena. Nevertheless, survey data and teacher testimonials suggest that the impact of three-year involvement with HPLT’s was in many cases profound. And, as with the content focus on the Constitution, primary source documents, and classroom based assessment, Project leaders learned some valuable lessons that will hopefully translate to other contexts, among them:

  • Participating in collegial teams refreshes and rejuvenates teachers; sustained collegial learning professionalizes their development in a meaningful and powerful way.
  • Teams can be effective across grade levels and teaching assignments, but are strengthened by having similar assignments and/or instructional emphases.
  • Teams can be effective across districts, but geographical distance is challenging.
  • Teams can (and should) be encouraged to find their own paths and focus on what matters most to themselves and their students, but allowing them to do so makes evaluation problematic.
  • Teachers’ practices are significantly affected by engaging in collegial, criterion-based review of student work.
  • Given sustained collegial support, teachers at all levels (as well as their students) are very capable of understanding sophisticated historical content such as Constitutional history and its interpretation through case studies and primary document review.

Overall, the Evaluators conclude that Constitutional Connections was an unusually powerful and effective professional development effort. While it is not possible to assert that student achievement was conclusively improved within its three-year span, there is every indication that the Project will have a positive long-term impact on students’ learning of American History. Clearly, teachers, their knowledge of history, and their instructional practices were changed in lasting ways. Year 4 informants, in the follow-up interviews conducted by the Evaluators, universally indicated that Constitutional Connections was the strongest professional development opportunity in which they have participated during their careers. They also said that the 2008-10 ESD 112  TAH grant, Causes of Conflict, promises to be even better. In one case, a teacher new to the profession said that she had been involved in the Constitutional Connections Project and now Causes of Conflict, and that she had just assumed all teachers were having high quality professional development opportunities like she was. Unfortunately, she found that she was the rare beginning teacher who was truly being inducted into the history teaching profession with very sophisticated support. Her comment was that the Project’s combination of sophisticated historical content and the instructional improvement teachers gained from the focus on classroom based assessment and Lesson Study is very unique in professional development for educators. She said, “How do we promote more of this kind of professional development for all educators instead of the often more trivial stuff we are exposed to?” She and others in the respondent group are concerned that they may never have such a rich opportunity again.

Finally, all respondents indicated, often without being asked, that project director Matt Karlsen’s leadership and experience in managing these projects was outstanding. His direction and ability to attract high quality speakers was cited several times by the grant participants. Virtually all the focus group participants indicated that Matt was always available to respond to their questions and that he utilized group comments to better respond to participant needs. A couple of participants indicated that ESD 112’s experience in facilitating three Teaching American History grants has made them experts in the process and should be acknowledged. The Evaluators would like to echo this acknowledgement of excellence in professional leadership, and commend the Constitutional Connections Project for its lasting impact on teachers, students, and history education in Southwest Washington.

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  1. Great Stuff Matt. It brought back some memories reading the evaluation. C.C. was an amazing program to be a part of. Thank you for all of your hard work.

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Nutrient Signaling – the evolution of inflammation from dietary fat

We will cover the topic of diet and the evolution of chronic inflammatory diseases later this semester. Meanwhile here is a recent press release from the University of Chicago Press:

Why some fats are worse than others

All dietary fats are not created equal. Some types of fats have been linked to ailments like heart disease and diabetes, while others, like those often found in plants and fish, have well documented health benefits.

So why do our bodies respond so destructively to some fats but not others?

A new hypothesis described in latest issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology suggests the answer may lie in how different fats interact with the microbes in our guts. According to researchers from the University of New Mexico and Northwestern University, some fats may encourage the growth of harmful bacteria in the digestive system. Our bodies have evolved to recognize those fats and launch an immune response to preempt the impeding changes in harmful bacteria. The result is low-level inflammation that, over the long term, causes chronic disease.

Read the entire piece here:

Joe Alcock, Melissa L. Franklin, and Christopher W. Kuzawa, “Nutrient Signaling: Evolutionary Origins of the Immune-Modulating Effects of Dietary Fat.” The Quarterly Review of Biology 87:3 (March 2013).

The premier review journal in biology since 1926, The Quarterly Review of Biology publishes articles in all areas of biology but with a traditional emphasis on evolution, ecology, and organismal biology. QRB papers do not merely summarize a topic, but offer important new ideas, concepts, and syntheses. They often shape the course of future research within a field. In addition, the book review section of the QRB is the most comprehensive in biology.

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Lyrical Fiction Friday | “His Distraction”

So sorry I’m late with this, but I have the flu. And a migraine. And I had to go out for more COFFEE. And my socks don’t match. And a Unicorn ate my first draft. 😀

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This week’s lyric prompt is:

“…I met this girl…she ruined my philosophy…my heart skips a beat when she comes around “

For the rules, click on the lyric above.

My mind was all over the place with this prompt. Of course, that could have been due to ridiculous amounts of cold medicine. But where I finally landed surprised even me.

Blog followers will recognize Jonathan Pratt’s distraction–Lenore ‘Lennie’ Porter from Free, a Novella, a free read on this blog, and the extended versions in ebook and print. Can you say Story tie-in?

As usual, Claire Pratt’s cocktail party was the place to be.

Jonathan Pratt marveled at his sister-in-law’s handiwork as he strolled through the seven-bedroom showplace. Only Claire could take leaves, tree branches, and pumpkins and put an elegant spin on autumn decorations.

He recognized a few of the faces from past parties, and there were several from the old neighborhood. While they were affluent, like him, Vernon and Claire would never forget their roots and where they came from. They were all part of a small group which paid into a fund so the daycare centers and the Boys’ and Girls’ Club in the old neighborhood didn’t have to worry over the paltry few dollars from the national charities.

Leaving the sunken living room, Jon headed for the family room where he knew Vernon had set up two kegs of beer… much to Claire’s dismay.

He had one foot in the doorway of the family room when he saw them. Hannah and Liz. Jon did an about-face so fast, he made himself dizzy. There was nothing wrong with forty-two-year-old Asian-American Hannah Nakuru, who ran her own high-end catering business or forty-year-old African-American Liz Brent, a web designer from Vernon’s firm. But both women admitted to being ready to try marriage again after five failed marriages between them… and the forty-nine-year-old confirmed bachelor had no interest in being a candidate.

He headed toward the dining room and Claire’s elaborate wine bar instead.

A dozen people milled around the room chatting in hushed tones. Jon found his favorite Moscato and reached for a glass.

As he poured, he glanced around the room at the well-heeled group… and froze.

She was across the room next to the window talking with two men.

Her emerald green cocktail dress complimented her caramel skin tone and shapely figure. Her thick, chestnut brown hair was pulled back into a loose, but neat French braid held in place by an ornate hair clamp.

“Whoa, dude!”

Jon looked to the young man next to him who pointed at Jon’s wine glass.

He stopped the pour just before the pale pink vino flowed over the edge of the wine glass… and saved himself a ton of misery. Claire would not have been happy if he ruined her snow-white table covering.

“Hey, thanks, man. Guess I got a little… distracted.”

Staring at a woman in a form-fitting red dress near him, the man tilted his head with a knowing smile. “Yeah, I get distracted too,” and he walked over to introduce himself to the woman in red.

Embarrassed, Jonathan gulped the wine down to a reasonable level. Then, trying to look nonchalant, he strolled to the other side of the table before fixing his gaze on the woman in green.

She was stunning and his jealousy flared as he wondered if she was with either of the men.

He guessed she was near his age, not because she looked older, but her posture and mannerisms spoke of a mature, confident woman comfortable in her own skin.

Averting his eyes, Jon gulped his wine again while his mind raced.

Stop acting like you’ve never seen a woman before! Walk away!

His feet, however, didn’t care for that idea and stayed firmly planted.

Still in a mental battle with himself to leave the room, his brain lost the battle when his eyes were drawn back to his distraction.

She laughed at something one of the men had said and her laughter traveled across the room, wrapping Jon in a tight embrace.

His chest and slacks tightened.

Her laughter was deep and throaty. Warm and soothing. Playful and seductive.

He never wanted it to end.

“Hey, bro? You okay? How much wine have you had?”

Startled, Jon whipped his head around to a grinning Vernon Pratt.

He ducked his head, rubbing the back of his neck.

“No, I’m good. This is my first glass. Think the time zone change is messing with me.”

Vernon gave his shoulder a tight squeeze.

“Okay, man. But don’t overdo it.”

As Vernon looked over the wine selection, Jon figured it was now or never.

“Vern, who’s that?”

He responded while reading a wine label.

“Room full of people, Jonny… could you be more specific?”

“The woman over there… in the green dress.”

Vernon looked up and gazed around the room until he found the ‘green dress.’ He smiled.

“Oh. That’s Lennie.”

Jon frowned. “Lennie?”

“Yes, Lennie. Or rather Lenore Porter. Bobby’s cousin.” Bobby was Robert Pearson, also from the Pratt’s old neighborhood and Vernon’s best friend. Bobby and his wife, Gayle, owned El Encanto, an upscale eatery.

Jonathan’s frown deepened to confusion.

“Wait. We’ve known Bobby since grade school. I thought all his family lived here in Pittsburgh?”

Vernon chuckled. “They did for the most part. Bobby and Lennie are second cousins on his mom’s side. They met once or twice as kids but didn’t get to know each other until Bobby took his mom to Lennie’s mom’s funeral a couple of years ago.”

“She lives here now? And how do you know so much about her?”

“No, she does not live here… just here for the holidays, and, she’s been here several times in the last few months. She has degrees in food sciences and nutrition and ran her own catering business in Minnesota for years. Now she’s a consultant, working with restaurant chefs to incorporate more health-conscious items into restaurant menus. Thanks to her, Bobby and Gayle’s vegan/vegetarian menu is outselling the rest of the regular menu.”

“Sounds like a super smart lady.”

“Good business mind too. El Encanto has been a money-maker from the beginning, but Lennie helped them up their game—streamlining job tasks and increasing staff productivity, raising employee morale, strengthening business relationships with city government—Gayle keeps begging her to move here.”

A faint smile played at the corners of Jon’s mouth. Streamlined job tasks and increased productivity—intelligent and shrewd. Raised employee morale—she knew how to handle people. Works well with city government—she can navigate the political landscape. Jon was impressed

“Vern, introduce me.”

His mouth gaped open. “What do you mean no? Why not?”

“Did you miss the part about her being Bobby’s cousin?”

“No, but – ”

“He’s like a brother to me too, man. I can’t risk it.”

Jon clicked his tongue. “Excuse me. Exactly what can’t you risk?”

“C’mon, big brother, calm down. I wasn’t trying to upset you. But, even you have to admit… your track record with women…” Vernon’s words trailed off, and he leaned in close to Jonathan, speaking in a near whisper, “Your relationships always have an expiration date.”

His anger flared, but the truth tamped it down just as fast.

Vernon was right. His relationships didn’t last long, but it wasn’t always that way. There were long-term relationships in his past. One he’d hoped would lead to marriage. But, she played him… just like a handful of others after her.

After being used and burned one time too many by money-hungry women, a new Jonathan had emerged. The women he dated were of his choosing, the relationships brief—never lasting more than 3-4 months, and… he never took them to his home.

He thought it ironic and a double standard how women accused men of being users, players, and wanting the milk without buying the cow.  Jonathan Pratt’s experiences were the opposite.

Successful, middle-class, or struggling, Jonathan Pratt had dealt with women from all walks of life. They didn’t necessarily want him, but the things he could give them. Everything from expensive trips to jewels, to even braces for a teen whose father refused to step up—but whose mother was still seeing the deadbeat on the down-low—had been demanded of Jon. The final straw was when he gifted an up-and-coming sports agent with an expensive attaché for her birthday. She was expecting a car.

The successful freelance technical writer and consultant walked away from that dinner and never looked back. Jon became Mr. Love-‘Em-and-Leave-‘Em, not caring what others thought. His way of life worked well for him for over a dozen years and he’d seen no need to change it.

The modern, forward-thinking, independent career women Jon met in his line of work had no problem with his rules, most seeking the same type of encounter.

Now, here was a woman he didn’t know, tugging at his heart and tying him in knots.

“Dude? You sure you’re okay? Maybe you should call it a night.”

Pulled from his thoughts, Jon pleaded with his brother.

“Vernon, introduce me. Please?”

Before the younger Pratt could respond, Claire slid in between the two men. “Introduce you to who?” She glanced from brother to brother before her husband gave the one-word reply.

“C’mon, Claire. Why not?” Jonathan was at his wit’s end.

“She’s a sweetheart, Jonny. And your record with women… well -”

“I cannot believe my own family is treating me like some kind of sexual predator!”

Husband and wife exchanged surprised looks, caught off guard by Jon’s anger.

He scrubbed his hand over his bald head, trying to collect himself.

“Claire, please? I just want to meet her.” He looked over her shoulder, watching Lenore. “There’s… something different about her.”

The sincerity in his voice and eyes sent a tinge of guilt up Claire Pratt’s spine. “Okay, Jonny.”

As if on cue, the men standing with Lenore were called away for picture-taking. She walked over to the table to refill her glass.

“Enjoying yourself, Lennie?”

“Claire, you do know how to throw a party. Everything is wonderful.”

“I’m taking that compliment and running with it, even though half the food is from your recipes.”

“That makes us an unbeatable team.”

The two women laughed and high-fived each other.

Vernon cleared his throat.

“Lennie… Lenore, I don’t believe you’ve met my brother-in-law, Jonathan. He’s in town for the holidays.”

“No, I haven’t.” She extended her right hand and looked up into his face. “It’s a pleasure, Jonathan.”

Lost in her eyes, her touch jolted him back to reality.

“No, Lenore. The pleasure is… all mine.”

The couple stood there, silent and hands still clasped.

“You know, Jonny, Lennie will be joining us for Thanksgiving dinner.” He slipped an arm around his brother’s shoulder and leaned toward Lenore. “But only if she brings her cornbread dressing.”

She stuck out her tongue. “You’re mean and I’m telling Bobby.”

“Won’t help you, sister, he wants it too.”

Jon gave Vernon a side-eye glance. “Cornbread dressing? With giblet gravy?”

Vernon smirked. “Oh, yes.”

Jon considered Lenore. “With chopped hard-boiled eggs?”

Lenore tilted her head. “You know of another kind?”

Jonathan beamed. “Can we have dinner now?”

The two couples laughed but were interrupted by cheers from the living room.

“Swing, Roy! Swing!”

Claire Pratt growled.

“If Roy Cathey has snuck another piñata into my house…” Her voice trailed off as she rushed to the living room.

Vernon chuckled as he backed away to follow his wife. “Excuse me, folks, but I have to go, um… save Roy’s life.” Still laughing, he turned and followed the crowd’s cheers.

Jonathan relaxed, glad to be alone with Lenore. “So, cornbread dressing and giblet gravy. Save me a seat next to you.”

She laughed, and Jonathan rubbed the center of his chest, attempting to calm the erratic beats of his heart.

“Claire told me it was a favorite of Vernon’s.”

“One of mine too. Our mom. It was one of her specialties. The holidays don’t seem right without it.”

“I hope mine is an enjoyable substitute for your mom’s.”

Intelligent, beautiful, modest and humble. Jon wondered if there was a minister on Claire’s guest list.

“How long are you in town for, Lenore?”

“I cannot deal with crowded airports, so I don’t fly back to L.A. until next Tuesday.”

“L.A.?” He frowned, confused. “But when I asked about you, Vern said Minnesota.”

“You asked about me?”

“Um, yeah. Sorry.”

“Don’t be. I’m flattered. I saw you walk by the room earlier and wondered who you were. Although, even with your shaved head and overnight stubble versus Vernon’s head full of curls and clean-shaven face, it’s obvious you two are related.”

“You noticed me?”

“Is that all you got from what I said?”

“Yeah, the important part.”

Their shared laughter was quieter this time as an easy shyness drifted in, making them both avert their eyes.

“Um, to answer your question, I did live in Minnesota. Spent most of my life there. But after losing my parents, and then filing for divorce, I needed a change. My two older boys are stationed at Camp Pendleton and my youngest son is doing his residency at Stanford. California was the obvious choice.”

Divorced, yes! Thank you, Sweet Baby Jesus!

“You’re not going to believe this, but I live in Cali too.”

“No way! Where?”

“Brentwood. You?”

“Hidden Hills.”

“What’s the distance? Twenty miles? In Cali, that’s practically neighbors.”

He couldn’t let her get away. This was Fate at its finest. “Would you like to find a quiet place to talk, Lenore?”

Her smile told him everything before she answered. “I’d like that, Jonathan.”

Before they could exit the dining room, Bobby Pearson rushed in. “There you are, cuzzo! We need you for pictures before some of the peeps head out.” He noticed Jonathan for the first time. “Man, I didn’t know that was you. Love the Isaac Hayes non-hairdo!”  They shared a one-arm man-hug. “I’ll send her right back, Jonny, promise.”

“Make sure you do, Bobby. I’ll wait right on this spot.”

He and Lenore shared a look as she followed her cousin from the room. She held up one finger. “I’ll be right back.”

Jonathan stared after her even though she disappeared into the crowd. He couldn’t remember a time in his life when he felt so at peace. He’d just met Lenore Porter, and she calmed his soul. He didn’t see Hannah and Liz approach until they brushed up on either side of him.

Liz cooed. “You still playing hard-to-get, handsome, or can one of us start planning a wedding?”

“Sorry, ladies. I’m off the market.”

“Wait, what? That was fast.”

He chucked, talking more to himself than the two divorcees. “I know, right? I just met this woman [girl]. And just being near her changes me. She’s ruined my philosophy altered my thoughts. My heart skips a beat when she’s close by [comes around].”

He shook his head.

“Who knew I had to come back home to find out my heart was twenty miles from my front door?”

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Mona Lisa Smile #FlashFiction

Rainy Day

Flash Fiction: Word prompt – Mona Lisa smile

His chair was empty and cold just like the coffee he hadn’t drank.

She stared at the cup of coffee, unblinking and unmoved, the Mona Lisa smile still gracing her face.

She tried to remember the words he’d said. Something about ‘not working’, ‘better as friends’, and ‘he’d met someone.’

He had said more, but she wasn’t listening.

She was remembering.

When he said he loved her.

When he said she was the one.

When he asked her to marry him and slipped the ring on her finger.

She looked down at her hand, the ring still in place, heavy and laborious.

He told her to keep it and remember the good times.

Good times?

Instead, she remembered when he said he had to work late and turned off his phone.

She remembered him canceling their weekend trip to Vegas because the ‘big project’ at work was past due… and he turned off his phone.

Lastly, she remembered how he canceled their dinner… on her birthday… because of work.

And he turned off his phone.

She’d told all her friends she was spending her birthday with him and refused to sit home alone.

She went out to dinner and saw him… with her.

She didn’t know if it was a casual fling or a new beginning.

It didn’t matter.

It was over.

She went home and waited.

Waited for him to tell her.

Two days.

Five days.

A week.

She emotionally removed herself from the relationship.

She pulled away from his hugs and turned away from his kisses.

She knew she should walk away but she wouldn’t let him off that easy.

He had to say the words.

One day, he looked into her eyes and he saw it.

She knew.

He left quickly… because of work.

Three days later, he called and asked to meet her for coffee.

And he told her… at last.

She never spoke but just sat there before him cloaked in serenity, Mona Lisa smile in place.

He stood to leave, leaning in to kiss her cheek.

She turned away… and he left.

Looking at the two-karat emerald-cut ring on her finger, a wave of sadness passed over her.

Not for herself but for the woman she replaced… and the woman who replaced her.

They were all members of a club by default. There would be no meetings, only dues paid in full. His new woman would pay hers soon enough.

Gathering her things, she stood and placed a ten-dollar-bill on the table for the coffee no one drank.

As an afterthought, she removed the ring and left it on top of the cash.

Heading for the door, she noticed new customers arriving with wet umbrellas and damp jackets.

“It’s really pouring out there,” an older man said as she walked past him.

Her Mona Lisa smile grew. She loved the rain.

She reached to push the door open and felt a tug on her other arm. Turning, her waitress stood next to her, holding out the ring.

“Is this your ring, ma’am?”

She shook her head once and said, “Not anymore,” and stepped out into the cleansing rain.

©2017 Felicia Denise, All Rights Reserved

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New Check Point 21700 Appliance Delivers the Fastest 2U Security Gateway with Market-Leading Security Click here for high-resolution version

SAN CARLOS, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 20, 2013) -  Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. ( NASDAQ : CHKP ), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the launch of its new 21700 Appliance providing market leading security and the fastest performance in a compact 2U chassis. The appliance offers maximum security performance straight out of the box with 78 Gbps of firewall throughput, 25 Gbps of IPS throughput and a 2,922 SecurityPower™ unit (SPU) rating. It also leverages Check Point's award-winning Software Blade Architecture, providing large enterprises and data centers with layers of industry-leading security.

Security gateways must have the ability to integrate multiple technologies, which can create greater strain and demand on network resources -- requiring more bandwidth and processing power. The new 21700 Appliance increases performance and traffic volumes -- delivering the highest power in a 2U form factor.

"The new 21700 security gateway is optimized to deliver multi-layered protection in low-latency, transaction-oriented environments, while boosting firewall performance up to 110 Gbps of throughput," said Gabi Reish, head of product management at Check Point. "It represents a best-in-class security gateway, empowering customers to maintain network performance and expand security functionality, all in one efficient and compact package."

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Dear Tax Talk,
I filed my taxes in April. I tried to e-file, but I couldn't because someone stole my identity. I faxed my paper tax return to the Internal Revenue Service. I was informed my taxes were received. When I called in May, I was informed to give them three months and that someone is being assigned to my case, and I would receive a call and or paperwork. To date I have not received any correspondence or my tax refund. Please help me.
-- Ternelle

Dear Ternelle,
Identity theft is a big problem with financial transactions, and IRS tax refunds are a very tempting target for thieves. The IRS won't discuss what procedures they use to detect theft, but it's obviously not enough when you have your own identity stolen. Not only is it inconvenient, but your refund is forever delayed as well. I think the banks do more to verify your identity than the IRS does before issuing a refund.

I came across the following piece of news the other day from CNN Money.

Identity thieves often use the same address to file hundreds -- and even thousands -- of potentially fraudulent returns, the audit found. The same address in Lansing, Mich., for example, was used on 2,137 tax returns, resulting in more than $3 million in potentially fraudulent refunds, according to the report.

In fact, just five addresses were used to file nearly 5,000 returns -- resulting in a total of $8.1 million in potentially fraudulent refunds.

If you had identity theft on your 2011 tax refund, the IRS should have told you to file Form 14039 to get the ball rolling. If you haven't filled out the form, do so immediately and get it into the IRS. My experience with identity theft is limited, but the case I had took around eight months to resolve. I only found out there was resolution by calling; the IRS never acknowledged the receipt of the Form 14039 or any other indication of errors. The taxpayer wasn't waiting for a refund, so I can't give you any guidelines on what to expect as far as getting your tax refund. Good luck.

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Matching Mommy Monday: Camo

One of the many great things about having a little girl is that we can dress up matchy matchy! I love coordinating our outfits with colors and pattern schemes. Whether we are going out grocery shopping or to church on Sunday. Matching outfits is quickly becoming one of my favorite morning routines.

This month our matching mommy monday is camouflage. I found this look over at Ryleigh Rue.
We both have on our camo leggings. I love wearing camouflage because it has a casual look to it...unless you are going hunting. Lol. It is a pretty simple look for just running errands.

This idea is similar to How We Wore It over at Deidre Emme. I love the whole idea of taking an outfit from a picture and using pieces from your closet to get a similar look.

I would love to have other mommy bloggers join me each month in collaborating their matchy Monday outfits. I would love to see what kind of outfits you come up with based off color, pattern, and textures from a selected picture. Mommy's with boys you can join in too! I would love to see your matchy style with your little dude.

Just a little bit more information about this collaboration.
  1. Matchy Monday will be the last Monday of each month.
  2. Just take pictures of you and your little(s) in your matching outfits and post to your blog.
  3. Tag the other bloggers that are also doing this at the bottom of your post. That way we can all see your wonderful outfits.
  4. I will send out all of the information with who is participating.
  5. Explain why you chose the specific outfits that you did.
  6. Your outfits don't have to match the inspired picture exactly.
  7. Have fun with it!

If you would be interested in collaborating next month (May) click here.

Me: Sandals//Leggings-similar//Tunic-similar//

Averi: Baby Moccs//Leggings//Onesie-Carters//

The Flints ~ XOXO

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