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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Casey Carey-Brown: What I Know About Motherhood Now That I Am A Lesbian Mom
When did you get her?
Who is the real mom?
Are you the aunt?
Does she have a dad?
We didn't get her. She doesn't have a dad. She has two moms: Mommy and Mama. We are both her real moms. We planned for her. We spent a year trying to conceive her. A year dreaming of her, hoping for her. Through first words, first steps, tantrums, bad dreams, parent teacher conferences, and the agonizing public school lottery, we are her parents.
When we chose to start this little family of ours, we had been legally married here in Massachusetts for five years, but knew that the fight for equality was just beginning. While pregnant, we worried about the second parent adoption and what would happen if we traveled outside of our state and we needed medical care. We worried about what our daughter's teachers and doctors and peers would think of us. We expected to have to defend our little family. We were right. At our daughter's first pediatrician appointment, her doctor asked, "Who is the real mom?" At a grocery store, the cashier wouldn't let it go, "Are you the aunt?"
Lesbian motherhood is a whole new kind of coming out.
The curiosity, the questions, they haven't stopped. Sometimes we find ourselves working the answers into conversation before the questions are asked. I will mention breastfeeding or "when I was pregnant..." in conversation to avoid questions of "Which of you is the real mom?" We both are. Over time, we've realized that most of the questions come from a place of curiosity, not from an attempt to offend us. They just don't know how to say it. Perhaps because saying, "Was one of you pregnant, or did you use another method to create your family?" feels too personal. But asking, "When did you get her?" isn't working either.
As mothers, we are our own worst critics. Lesbian mothers are not exempt from this.
Motherhood is hard. The pressure, the stress, the standards we put on ourselves, and how the judgments of others affect us. We, as mothers, are our worst critics and often struggle in silence. As lesbian parents, this self imposed pressure is even greater. We worry that if we don't do this right, those around us will not only judge our parenting skills, but will judge same-sex parenting altogether. In our neighborhood, we are one of many two mom families, but away from home, that's not always the case. We often feel like we have something to prove. We need to do this right, so the world can see that same-sex parents are good enough.
The world is becoming a better place for same-sex families, one step at a time.
Even with the questions and the additional pressure, we realize our daughter was born in an amazing time. Statistically, more people support marriage equality than don't. Studies show that children of same-sex parents are thriving. The kids are alright. They really are. The voices of hate are still there, but the voices of love and support are getting louder and stronger.
For more posts in our What I Know About Motherhood series, click through the slideshow below.
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach milestone
A?monitoring?station in Hawaii has measured carbon dioxide levels of 400 parts per million, a?concentration?not seen on Earth since the Pleistocene Era.
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EnlargeWorldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday.
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Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station in Hawaii which sets the global benchmark. The last time the worldwide carbon level was probably that high was about 2 million years ago, said Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
That was during the Pleistocene Era. "It was much warmer than it is today," Tans said. "There were forests in Greenland. Sea level was higher, between 10 and 20 meters (33 to 66 feet)."
Other scientists say it may have been 10 million years ago that Earth last encountered this level of carbon dioxide.
The measurement was recorded Thursday. The number 400 has been anticipated by climate scientists and environmental activists for years as a notable indicator, in part because it's a round number ? not because any changes in man-made global warming happen by reaching it.
When measurements of this chief greenhouse gas were first taken in 1958, carbon dioxide was measured at 315. Levels are now growing about 2 parts per million per year. That's 100 times faster than at the end of the Ice Age.
Before the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide levels were around 280 ppm, and they were closer to 200 during the Ice Age. There are natural ups and downs of this greenhouse gas, which comes from volcanoes and decomposing plants and animals. But that's not what has driven current levels so high, Tans said. He said the amount should be even higher, but the world's oceans are absorbing quite a bit, keeping it out of the air.
"What we see today is 100 percent due to human activity," said Tans, a NOAA senior scientist. The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal for electricity and oil for gasoline, has caused the overwhelming bulk of the man-made increase in carbon in the air, scientists say.
At the end of the Ice Age it took 7,000 years for carbon dioxide levels to rise by 80 parts per million, Tans said. Because of burning of fossil fuels, such as oil and coal, carbon dioxide levels have gone up by the same amount in just 55 years.
Carbon dioxide traps heat just like in a greenhouse and most of it stays in the air for a century, some lasts for thousands of years scientists say.
The speed of the change is the big worry, said Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann. If carbon dioxide levels go up 100 parts per million over thousands or millions of years, plants and animals can adapt. But that can't be done at the speed it is now happening.
Last year, regional monitors briefly hit 400 ppm in the Arctic. But those monitoring stations aren't seen as a world mark like the one at Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Generally carbon levels peak in May then fall slightly, so the yearly average is usually a few parts per million lower than May levels.
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U.S. report quantifies risk of listeria in deli foods
By Toni Clarke
(Reuters) - Some simple safety techniques for food handling and preparation could help delicatessens and other food stores cut the risk of customers developing the potentially deadly foodborne illness of listeriosis, according to a U.S. government report released on Friday.
The report by the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, recommended strict control of temperature during refrigeration, better cleaning and sanitizing of food contact surfaces and wearing gloves while serving customers.
The report analyzed the risk of illness associated with listeria monocytogenes, or L. monocytogenes pathogen, from food prepared and sold in delicatessens and other retail food stores.
L. monocytogenes is a pathogen that has long been of concern to public health officials. The CDC estimates that it causes about 1,600 illnesses, 1,500 hospitalizations, and 260 deaths a year. Though relatively rare compared with other major foodborne illnesses, it has a fatality rate of about 16 percent, compared with just 0.5 percent for Salmonella or Escherichia coli.
Investigators simulated the retail deli environment and evaluated how certain sanitary and food handling practices could influence the risk of developing listeriosis from ready-to-eat foods that are sliced, prepared or packaged in retail grocery delis.
They found that employing basic practices that prevent growth of the bacteria dramatically reduced the predicted risk of listeriosis.
Some of the main sources of L. monocytogenes are the slicer for deli meats and cheeses and salad utensils for the deli salads. These can lead to cross-contamination of other foods. Controlling cross-contamination at these points reduced the predicted risk of listeriosis, according to the report.
The study "improves our understanding of L. monocytogenes in the retail deli and should encourage improvements to retail food safety practices and mitigation strategies," the report notes, adding that additional data would be useful to further explore how more specific retail practices and conditions such as equipment design, impact the risk of listeriosis.
(Reporting By Toni Clarke in Washington; Editing by David Gregorio)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-report-quantifies-risk-listeria-deli-foods-224821218.html
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With paid channels, is Google silently moving towards a whatsapp ...
Internet will diminish the intermediaries. Sounds crass academic but it holds true when garnished with various disruptive technologies. Take TVs for example. Google has already been trying to get into the biz with Google TV but it seems the momentum has picked up just now. With Google kick starting subscription based YouTube channels, can internet become the sole source of multimedia entertainment?
It is not ready but incubating
Apple has tried its best to make TV viewing more organized and enjoyable however it has not been truly revolutionary. The device connected the internet with the TV and offered online services drawn from sources such as Netflix etc. Google also followed the same model and offered a device made by Sony along with other manufacturers integrating Google TV app in their sets as well. But till date, the TV and the internet could not marry. The TV entertainment biz has its own business model. Moreover transmitting HD content over the internet has not become mainstream as yet. Although we do have HD buttons on online video sites but streaming HD videos live over internet still remains a fancy.
Disruption and integration
Internet speed is increasing and will probably reach a point where HD video streaming will not be an issue. Experiments with 5g are already on and experts speculate a possible speed of 1gbps is well within reach. This cannot be marked as something whimsical as 6 years back when Steve jobs was launching the iPhone, he promised 3g enabled versions in the coming generations. 3g mobile internet was a big thing back in 2007 but today carriers are convincing customers for 4g.
In the midst of this; Google which is already overflowing with highly valuable video content on YouTube, will likely to monetize all valuable content and this is what it has began. The paid subscription channels listed by Google contain professional content and users are likely to subscribe for them. These channels that are passive as of now might get a boost in future and can feature live and on demand content at regular internet data rates. Infact the channels offered by YouTube under subscription contain quality content across categories like entertainment, educational and various other categories.
This can surely change the entire business model of the TV entertainment industry where technology giants like Google will be facilitating the entire industry and make it synonymous to what Skype has done to landline calls and whatsapp has done to messages. If that happens then another world of android app development for TVs and other multimedia devices will open up.
The streamlining has begun and now it?s just a matter of time when multimedia content from TV and video streaming sites integrate to a single mode of access.
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Background noise in the operating room can impair surgical team communication
May 10, 2013 ? Ambient background noise -- whether it is the sound of loud surgical equipment, talkative team members, or music -- is a patient and surgical safety factor that can affect auditory processing among surgeons and the members of their team in the operating room (OR), according to a new study that appears in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The findings are the first to demonstrate that a surgeon's ability to understand spoken words in the OR is directly affected by noise in the environment.
"The operating room is a very fast-paced, high-demand, all senses running on all cylinders type of environment," said study coauthor Matthew Bush, MD, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington. "To minimize errors of communication, it is essential that we consider very carefully the listening environment we are promoting in the OR."
To assess the effects of ambient noise on communication in the OR, the researchers created a noise environment similar to that of an OR and tested 15 surgeons with one to 30 years of operating experience. The surgeons' ability to understand and repeat words was tested using the Speech In Noise Test-Revised (SPIN-R) under four different listening conditions typical of OR environments. These conditions included quiet, filtered noise through a surgical mask and background noise both with and without music. Subjects were tested in two situations: engaged in a specific surgical task and task free.
The study showed a significant decrease in speech comprehension with the presence of background noise when the words were unpredictable. In addition, the surgeons demonstrated considerably poorer speech comprehension in the presence of music compared with a quiet environment or one with OR noise present. However, the addition of music became a significant barrier to speech comprehension only when the surgeon was engaged in a task.
The researchers concluded that OR noise can cause a decrease in auditory processing, particularly in the presence of music. Further, the ability to understand what is being said becomes even more difficult when the conversations carry critical information that is unpredictable.
Currently, miscommunication is one of the most frequently cited causes of preventable medical errors. For this reason, there is a growing interest in identifying overlooked variables that can lead to communication breakdowns among health care professionals.
Therefore, these study results have important implications in the real world because surgical teams carry on critical conversations during surgical procedures that often include discussions about medications and dosing as well as the blood supply that should be on hand. Because some of these details might sound similar, clear communication is crucial to avoiding medical errors (ie: a request for the drug heparin might be heard as Hespan).
"Our main goal is to increase awareness that operating room noise does affect communication and that we should foster the best environment in which we can communicate better," Dr. Bush explained. "This effort means that the surgical team needs to work diligently to create the safest environment possible, and that step may mean either turning the music off or down, or limiting background conversations or other things in the environment that could lead to communication errors and medical mistakes."
In future studies, the researchers plan to look at a larger population of surgeons, especially those who are hearing impaired, as well as other operating team members such as anesthesiologists and nurses.
"I think it's important to demonstrate the effect of environmental operating noise on communication on a variety of different players in the operating room setting," Dr. Bush said. "Another step from here is to not only see how noise affects our understanding of speech, but how it affects our tasks, how it affects our ability to perform surgical procedures efficiently and effectively. That is a different stage and different study design completely, but these questions are all ahead of us as we investigate the effects of environmental sound on operating room communication."
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/6CS4nT0oZZY/130510124558.htm
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