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Rebirth of a Classic
George Sanossian had more than just a round of golf on his mind as he and Greg Hurd prepared to hit their opening tee shots at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club. Sanossian, the club's greens committee chairman, knew that the grand old Westchester County, New York, layout, designed nearly a century ago by the first true American golf course architect, Charles Blair Macdonald, had started to become a bit frayed and outdated in recent years. And he knew that some of the club's board members had been clamoring for renovations to make the course more challenging in the wake of technological changes that had been sweeping through the sport in recent decades. So Sanossian turned to Hurd, the head pro at the North Hempstead Country Club on Long Island who had once worked at Sleepy Hollow, and solicited his input about the issue.
"I asked him what the impact technology had on the game as we were teeing off on No. 1," says Sanossian. "When he got to his ball, he says, 'I'll give you the impact of technology. I'm 50 years old now. When I was 30 years old I could hit my best drive on this hole and it would have been 30 yards behind where it is today.' We realized technology had shortened Sleepy Hollow and we wanted to restore some teeth."
While the course had long enjoyed its status as player-friendly with its moderate length and abidingly wide fairways, the encroachment of trees and member unhappiness with a bunker project in the early 1990s had begun to give cause for thought to those charged with the club's future. Now, so had the technology issue. While not long at 6,570 yards from the tips at par 70, Sleepy Hollow's strength had always been in its par 4s. But now the 448-yard 8th, the 462-yard 12th and the uphill 405-yard 18th were no longer quite so daunting.
Ultimately, Sanossian was asked to oversee a significant renovation effort. Several years later, the resulting changes have toughened up the course and propelled it into the twenty-first century, while still keeping Sleepy Hollow enjoyable for the majority of players who played from the members' tees. The revisions have also cast the course in the mold of what Macdonald might have originally intended. A course, says Gil Hanse, the architect who directed the project, that has been "sympathetically restored."
Across America grand old clubs are undergoing the sometimes agonizing process of bringing their courses up to date. Shrinking greens, collapsing bunkers, spreading trees and rapidly evolving golf club and ball technology are the most frequently cited reasons that a club undertakes a renovation project. The technology question is often paramount in discussions about what to do with classic courses. A wonderful test of golf designed in the 1920s at 6,600 yards is rendered not much more than a pitch and putt when decent amateur players can drive the ball 275 yards. Blunderbuss drivers and perfect-pitch golf balls are turning a heavyweight 450-yard par 4 into a jab-and-juke welterweight.
A prime example would be the Merion Golf Club near Philadelphia, a longtime host to U.S. Opens and other USGA events. The Merion East Course was only 6,544 yards at par 70 when David Graham won the 1981 Open there with a score of 7-under par. At that time, Graham was hitting a persimmon-headed driver. In the modern era of golf driven by technology, Merion East was driven off the Open rota. But renovation work at the start of the twenty-first century added some 400 yards to the course, and that, along with its small, old-fashioned greens, has convinced the USGA to bring the Open back to Merion in 2013.
Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters, is an entirely different animal, one driven by the hunger to challenge the best players in the world. Under the direction of Tom Fazio, the course has been lengthened over the past decade by 600 yards and trees have been planted to squeeze down some driving areas. And Rees Jones has brought change to many old U.S. Open courses such as Oakland Hills, the Black Course at Bethpage State Park and the Country Club of Brookline.
Like these other vaunted courses, Sleepy Hollow appeared ready for a modern makeover. The club dated back to the early twentieth century, when men of great wealth and social stature, led by William Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor IV, contemplated a golf club on land overlooking the Hudson River. Rockefeller and an international banker named Frank A. Vanderlip bought an estate of pronounced grandeur in a town made famous by Washington Irving and his short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The estate, purchased in 1910, had been owned by Margaret Louisa Shepard, a granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt and the widow of Col. Elliott Fitch Shepard, a lawyer who founded the New York State Bar Association. The colonel, who had bought the property in the late nineteenth century, had commissioned iconic architect Stanford White to design his immense manor home, which was surrounded by hundreds of acres that overlooked the river and its magnificent palisades. In the minds of the founders, the manor home would make a grand clubhouse and the grounds a grand golf course.
For most of the twentieth century, the layout delivered by Macdonald and his right-hand man, Seth Raynor, in 1911 (apparently with acrimony and dispute with Mr. Rockefeller), did just that, maintaining its status as one of the most majestic courses in America. But the bunkering and tree concerns, as well as the technology issues that had effectively shortened the course, had become the focus of the board members and committeemen, who felt that a renovation was necessary. And it wasn't only the golf course at Sleepy Hollow that required attention; the clubhouse, tennis courts, pool and shooting facility also needed to be maintained. For Mike Hegarty, the turn of a new century was the appropriate time to consider a wide-ranging plan for capital investment. As a club vice president (he was newly elected as president at the beginning of 2007), Hegarty, along with his peers, felt that the wonderful old golf course wasn't as grand as it once was. "We took the point of view, as trustees of the club we were guardians of the current member experience and also guardians of future member experiences," says Hegarty. "We decided the golf course is the engine that drives the club. It's the primary reason people join the club. We thought we needed to protect the major engine of the club."
But how to do it? What direction to go in? Where would this all lead?
It led to the doorstep of George Sanossian, the greens committee chairman, in 2004. Sanossian, an accountant by profession and thus particular by nature, was charged with assessing the capital needs of the golf course, and those needs would be directly impacted by any decision that would lead to a course renovation. There was a course renovation plan in place, but neither Sanossian nor his committeemen felt that it should be implemented because it "[would have taken] us further away from our classical design heritage, further away from the design concepts of Macdonald," says Sanossian. So they would start from scratch.
"This is a project I didn't campaign for, didn't bark about the need to do it," says Sanossian. "It was a project laid at my feet. Myself and Phil Cuthbertson [a committeeman] said if we were identified with the implementation of that [old] plan, we would have to look for a new place to play golf."
Instead, they looked for a new direction for the golf course. And for that, they looked backwards. Macdonald was the original designer, but the course had been altered in the 1920s when some valuable land containing four of the original holes was sold. While there is no written record, it is believed that local architect Tom Winton may have designed four new holes. In 1930, the club decided to expanded to 27 holes and brought in A. W. Tillinghast, whose reputation was burgeoning after designing such well-regarded championship tracts as Winged Foot and Baltusrol. Tillinghast designed the nine new holes and may have altered some of Macdonald's original holes. To a far lesser extent Robert Trent Jones and subsequently his son Rees did work on the course.
But it was Macdonald's name that rang true, inside the club and out. "It quickly became apparent speaking to outsiders who were able to discern the forest from the trees that our perception of the course as a Macdonald course was correct," says Sanossian. "We were a Macdonald course with a strong Tillinghast influence, but people from the outside said we were a Macdonald course. So we said, Let's follow the Macdonald genre and do things the way Macdonald would have done them."
Sleepy Hollow was going to update itself by backdating itself.
Therein lies the rub. There was no history as to how Macdonald had done things at Sleepy Hollow. There was no written word or course layout or photographic evidence. And part of the club lore was that Macdonald and Rockefeller had a falling outÑaccording to Macdonald, Rockefeller did not want any trees cut down and removed. As a result Macdonald had little to do with the project once he and Raynor had completed the initial routing, instead handing most of the implementation work to his associate. So now what?
Sanossian knew that Macdonald's courses were characterized by features taken from the great courses of Scotland, particularly the Old Course at St Andrews. Macdonald employed penal strategic bunkering with large features, but also provided a way to get around those nasty pits safely. To get a firsthand look at his work, Sanossian, greens committee members and the course superintendent, Tom Leahy, decided to visit the prime examples of Macdonald's work in the New York area. In the fall of 2004, they went to look at National Golf Links in Southampton, New York, considered the first true championship course built in America. The following spring, they visited the Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York. And a year later they visited the Yale University course in New Haven, Connecticut, which made a stunning impact. "At Yale, the scale is immense," says Sanossian. "The bunkers are immense, the greens are immense, the property is huge. It's like a golf course on steroids."
At the time, Gil Hanse was under consideration for doing the work at Sleepy Hollow, and before Sanossian and his crew checked out the Yale course, Hanse had provided insights to the group about what attributes of the Yale course he felt merited particular scrutiny. While he didn't carry the cachet of a Tom Fazio, or of the brothers Rees and Robert Trent Jones Jr., or of a Pete Dye, Hanse did have a portfolio of work that was highly regarded, and he enjoyed a reputation as a hands-on architect and an easy person to work with. Although the greens committee met with two other architects, in the end Hanse was the hands-down choice for the job. But Hanse said that he would do the work only if his good friend George Bahto had significant input.
Bahto was a devout student and historian of Macdonald and had written a book about him, The Evangelist of Golf. There wasn't any detail of Macdonald's work that Bahto wasn't intimately familiar with, earning him the nickname Old MacBahto. In writing his book about Macdonald, Bahto had visited Sleepy Hollow on several occasions. "I just knew there wasn't enough of him there," he says.
Despite Bahto's extensive knowledge of Macdonald's work, Sleepy Hollow was initially reticent about hiring him as a consultant on the renovation project. "The members of the club who thought that the appropriate way to go was Macdonald and Raynor realized that George was the foremost expert on those two gentlemen, but his architectural experience might have made it more difficult to convince the membership," says Hanse. "They probably thought they needed to bring in someone who had more of a résumé in architecture. I said because of my friendship with George, I will be happy to be involved as long as George was involved in a big way. We needed George because it was the right thing to do because of his knowledge, and because of our workload [at Hanse Design] we needed someone to shoulder the construction supervision."
After Hanse's renovation plans were approved by the greens committee and then by the Sleepy Hollow board, the board members felt it was important to gauge the feelings of the membership. Two club meetings were organized, Hanse's plans were presented, and there would be debate. But there wouldn't be a vote. "I think if the membership had blown back with such ferociousness that it was clear that the board and the green[s] committee were not seeing what the membership saw, I think it would have been reconsidered," says Sanossian. "The board had a mind-set that [the] plan should be approved, but we wanted member buy-in."
There were many questions, but nothing approaching a revolt. Tom Wright, a member for 20 years, was, like his peers, concerned about the tree removal plan. "My fundamental concern had to do with the pragmatic view that it takes 75 years to replace a tree of the size and character that we had at Sleepy Hollow," says Wright. "Each tree had to be taken very seriously."
But that wasn't the only thing that concerned Wright. "This notion of returning it to its C. B. Macdonald roots is somewhat troubling to me because it's impossible to know what Mr. Macdonald intended," notes Wright. "Did he not think trees would grow over 50 years when he thought about Sleepy Hollow as opposed to his property at the National Golf Links? That always concerned me, putting yourself in the head of C. B. Macdonald."
And as for making the course more challenging, Wright wasn't all that sure. "The course is very broadly viewed as fun to play," he says. "You could debate how challenging it is for the best golfers. I don't hear any debate on how challenging it is for the average golfer."
For Brendan O'Rourke, another 20-year member, large-scale change didn't seem at all necessary. "I personally didn't understand the mandate for a drastic change," says O'Rourke. "I felt if we lengthened some tees and fixed some traps, we had a spectacular course."
The plan didn't call for lengthening the course by much and was always mindful of the average player. Hanse's directive was that the toughening of the course would impact the better players who chose to play from the back tees while keeping it enjoyable for the majority of players who played from the members' tees. The major strategic element proposed by Hanse and Bahto was the introduction of severe fairway bunkering in the style of Macdonald and Raynor. Sleepy Hollow had a few fairway bunkers, but players could bomb away off the tees without regard to placement as long as the shots weren't wild enough to end up in the trees. And there would be a new hole, a par-5 12th replacing a long, difficult par 4. In creating a new par 5, the old par-5 15th would be shortened and reduced to a par 4, which is actually how Macdonald had designed the original hole.
"One of the things we thought was that our closing holes should be strong, and 15 was weak as a par 5," says Sanossian. "Macdonald, when he designed punch bowl greens, they were at the end of par 4s, two-shot holes. We wanted to align the 14th green with the 15th tee so you didn't walk 75 yards back up the hill to the 15th tee."
Without any significant member objections, the project got under way in the summer of 2006. Sleepy Hollow is divided into two courses, the 18-hole Upper and the nine-hole Lower. Work had begun on the Lower Course in the spring of 2006, which allowed the membership to see a model of what was to come on the Upper Course. Using a local contractor, Hawkshaw Golf Course Construction, that Hanse had worked with before, construction proceeded on couples of holes at a time. That had a twofold benefit. One, it meant that play was not disrupted substantially, and two, the members could see what would be happening, on a larger scale, on the Upper Course. "If we had given it to them all at once, it would have been too much to handle," says Bahto. "By doing the Lower first, it allowed the members to get used to the style, to make comments on it, and that made it easier to do what we wanted to do with the Upper."
What they would do to the Upper was to follow the strategies that Macdonald employed, the strategies he took directly from his visits to Scotland. "What Macdonald was saying is that if you challenge my hazard successfully off the tee, there will be a reward," says Bahto. "Or you can go around it, but it will be a longer hole with a more difficult approach. At Sleepy there were no strategies off the tee and probably never were. Lacking those Macdonald strategies off [the tee], the course was schizophrenic and lacked identity."
The introduction of significant, severe and identifiable fairway bunkering was crucial. These were sand pits with steep grass faces that would put a penalty on a drive, that would make a good player think about the consequences of a mediocre shot. One of the new bunkers thrusts itself into play on the left side of the par-4 second, another menaces the right side of the par-4 fourth, another pops out from the left on the 13th and still others come from both the left and right on the 14th.
Some of the new bunkers are blind off the tee, an old-world way to create a hazard. On one hand you could criticize a blind bunker as being unfair, but as Ben Hogan once said, "A blind shot is blind only once."
The steep grass-face style of the new bunkering has a practical maintenance purpose. In heavy rainstorms, bunkers with steep sand flashing tend to wash out, as several did at Sleepy Hollow. A bunker renovation at the Country Club of Birmingham wasn't mindful of the Alabama climate and its propensity for gullywashers. The steep sand faces kept washing out, necessitating another project to rebuild the bunkers with steep grass faces.
While Sleepy's new fairway bunkers were being added, all the greenside bunkers were being recast, most significantly at the second hole, the 13th and the dramatic short 16th. At the second a tabletop extension was added to the front right portion of the green. The bunker that now wraps around that daunting pin position is an abyss. The 13th has two gaping bunkers that appear as the nostrils of an inhospitable beast. At the par-3 16th, with its tee commanding an alluring view of the river, the original moat-style bunker has been restored, making for a dramatic postcard.
"Adding the fairway bunkering has brought the most to the golf course," says Hanse. "Also, getting a consistent style of steep grass faces with flat bottoms. The course now has a very distinct look to it, especially in Westchester County where there are no other Macdonald-Raynor courses."
Because the work was done gradually, play was never disrupted significantly. A few temporary tees had to be used, a few drop areas created, but because the greens and fairways weren't being torn up, play could continue. In the process, members could become acclimated to the joys, and perils, of their sympathetically restored course.
"The more you see what they did, the more you fall in love with most of what they did," says O'Rourke. "On the ninth hole they took down a massive amount of trees down the right side. I first saw that in winter and I didn't like it. As the foliage grew back, it showed what a beautiful piece of property we have. The hole is much better now.
"There were a couple of things I wished they wouldn't have changed. I thought the best two holes on the course were the eighth hole and the 12th hole. There were a lot of trees down the right side of number eight that forced your shot to the left, and if you were over on the right you had to learn how to carve a shot around the trees. The 12th was our hardest par 4. The new par 5 will be a good hole, I'm sure. But now we are playing the 15th as a par 4 with a blind second shot. I don't think sacrificing the 12th hole to turn the 15th into a par 4 was good. That's what a few members have said, but we are certainly in the minority. By and large the club is buying into every change."
With the work completed last September, Mike Hegarty, the club president, had a friend over for a round. The man was a 5-handicap at Winged Foot. After playing off a few back tees, which now measure about 6,800 yards with the members' tees at about 6,500 yards, "he said to me, 'This is more golf course from the back than I really want to play right now,'" says Hegarty. Sleepy had awakened.
The course renovation had been part of a long-term plan of capital projects. Members were assessed $10,000 each for capital investment. The golf course renovation cost $2.5 million for 27 holes. You couldn't get Jack Nicklaus on site for that amount of money.
"There is a feeling of tremendous pride," says Sanossian. "Working with Mike Hegarty, who understood what we wanted to accomplish. Working with Tom Leahy, my superintendent, who can be tough to work with but only has the best interests of the club in mind. I saw the brilliance in what Gil was proposing. I saw the restoration of the golf course at Sleepy Hollow to a status where we think we should be. We saw a restoration to a Macdonald look and feel. Gil and George really understood what this was supposed to be like."
Hanse found a symbiosis in working with Sanossian. "George is cautious and very thorough, which is the accountant in him," says Hanse. "Yet when he's convinced something is right, he goes after it, researching it, and he becomes very passionate and engaged with it."
The kind of enthusiasm showed by Sanossian, and mirrored by the board, is vital to any renovation work that clubs might be contemplating. From courses that were crafted in the early part of the twentieth century to those that sprang from the popularity of Arnold Palmer in the '60s to those that arose on the wave crest of the stock market in the 1990s, across the nation clubs are faced with choices. If the membership is concerned about overgrowth, they have to cut. If they are concerned about their green complexes deteriorating, they have to dig. If they are concerned about technology, they have to lengthen.
These decisions don't come easily and certainly not without cost. In almost all clubs the majority of the membership is content with what it has and hesitant to alter a very good thing. But those charged with maintaining the club are also charged with providing for its future. In looking ahead, they might decide that the future lies somewhere in the club's past, just as it did at Sleepy Hollow.
Charles Blair Macdonald walked the land at Sleepy Hollow nearly a century ago, but because of a dispute he had left less than his full imprint on the landscape, and that had become blurred over time. Now his spirit has returned and his imprint has been made by others as devoted as he was. An impassioned past is now the present and the future at Sleepy Hollow.
Jeff Williams is a Cigar Aficionado contributing editor.
Editor's note: Executive editor Gordon Mott is a member of Sleepy Hollow Country Club.
Photographs by Jim Krajicek


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Overall, the five books on my reading list were all very interesting and I'm glad I read them. Their usefulness to someone interested in Alaska but not in my specific situation varies, however. I think the most useful single book on the list as a general introduction to Alaska is McPhee. Also good as a general introduction to the Arctic, but not focused on Alaska specifically, is Lopez. For those with a more historical interest in the state, Marshall is great; conversely, for those more interested in the idea of how someone might live "off the grid" in the Alaska wilderness, Proenneke would be a better choice. Finally, Miles is good for those interested in the details of National Park Service history, a small group to be sure but one probably heavily overrepresented among my readership.
I've read a lot more about Alaska than these five books, of course, but I've decided that further discussion of Alaska is probably best suited for a different blog (or possibly more than one). From now on this blog will focus specifically on the prehistory of the Southwest and related issues, although I will of course let my readers here know of any additional blog projects I start on other topics.


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A Powerful Letter to Family Court Judges
When family court perpetuates abuse.
Kimberly Bowers wrote this open letter to Oakland County, Michigan Family Court Judge Lisa Gorcyca. The judge jailed three children for not having a "healthy relationship" with their estranged father. The mother is now under a gag order and has been banned from seeing her children. Details here.
This letter seems to represent the experience that far too many parents have had with our family court system's response to allegations of abuse.
Dear Judge Gorcyca,
You don't know me. Not personally. But I know you. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Mother.
I know the profile of an abuser, and you fit that profile.
In June of 2009, U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, posed this question to the National Summit on the Intersection of Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment, "Do children need a relationship with their fathers even when their fathers have been abusive to them in the past? If so, what does that relationship look like?"
I'll tell you what it looks like, Your Honor. An abuser threatens his victim. He tells her that he'll take his children away if she doesn't submit. In order to break her mentally and physically, an abuser will drag out conflict oftentimes after his victim has already worked hard all day, denying her rest, knowing she'll need to wake early to care for her children, this being the eleventh hour. Abusers thrive on conflict, violence, and abuse. It sustains them. They tell their victim to remain silent about the abuse or suffer the consequences. They isolate their victim from a supportive network of friends and family. The abuser demands love and respect, and if those demands go unmet, then the abuser will take drastic measures to ensure obedience, using their position of privilege and power to manipulate, subdue, and control.
You said you wanted something drastic to happen to fix Maya Tsimhoni's family. You knew full well that a family torn apart by abuse could never be whole again. You knew, but you didn't care. You saw a fat checking account, and like an abuser in the eleventh hour, you dragged out the conflict for years because litigation incurring fees of a half a million dollars or more is of greater value than justice. You thrive on that conflict. It sustains you.
You forced Maya Tsimhoni's children to have lunch with and to maintain a loving relationship with a father whose abuse has been documented. You slammed that gavel down, and when the Tsimhoni children refused to obey, you handcuffed and imprisoned them. And like the abuser who threatens his victim with the loss of her children, you threatened Maya Tsimhoni saying that if she violated your orders, you would imprison her children again.
Abusers isolate their victims, cutting them off from supportive and loving connections like friends and family. You tore children from a loving, primary caretaker and isolated them from each other, imprisoning them all and severing their supportive network in order to break them down and ensure submission.
Silence allows abuse to thrive, and so you put a gag order in place. You also sealed Maya Tsimhoni's response to her abuser's motion for custody. You said you were concerned about the Tsimhoni children's privacy, but one does not place children in handcuffs to ensure their protection. No, you needed to conceal the overreach of the family court and your abuse of power; to hide from the world the human rights violations and child abuse being carried out by those working in family courts who profit financially from abused women and children. Silence hides abuse and this allows for its continuation. I, Mother, am not fooled by your actions.
So while you don't know me Judge Gorcyca, I know you very well. I lived with you for many years. I documented your abuse. I spoke out against your abuse. I protected my children. I fought you for custody. I know your strategy.
I am Mother. I am the 58,000 women a year who have faced your courtroom bias. I am the protective parent fighting for my children. I am the activist effecting legislative change and educating others. And though you steal my voice with your gag order, know that where I am silenced thousands more speak in my place.
We are many. We are united.
And justice will prevail.


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A court in Paris, France has fined Google $65,000 because its search engine's autocomplete feature brings up the French word for "crook" when users type the name of an insurance company.
Google had been sued by insurance company Lyonnaise de Garantie, which was offended by search results including the word "escroc," meaning crook, according to a story posted Tuesday by the Courthouse News Service. "Google had argued that it was not liable since the word, added under Google Suggest, was the result of an automatic algorithm and did not come from human thought," the article states. "A Paris court ruled against Google, however, pointing out that the search engine ignored requests to remove the offending word... In addition to the fine, Google must also remove the term from searches associated with Lyonnaise de Garantie."
A Forbes story says such a ruling is unlikely to occur in the US. But it "sets a bad precedent for Google in Europe. There are quite a few people and companies out there who may have suggestions for their names that could be considered defamatory."


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For months, many people have been wondering who is running the Twitter parody account of The Jets Blog writer Jake Steinberg. This article will contain no accusations. It will only contain evidence compiled by GGN of whom might be behind it. You can decide for yourself whether this is sufficient evidence.
Fake Steiny himself correctly guessed our first piece of evidence. Last Friday, Fake Steiny made an identical Tweet to Rich Cimini at the exact same time. This wasn't a retweet. He used the exact same language, and these were posted within a minute of each other.
Fake Steiny today Tweeted that he did this on purpose to throw people off, and I took the bait. That might be. There might be no connection here. He might have been continuously checking Cimini's Twitter page for some reason and then posted the instant he saw an article. This evidence alone is highly circumstantial.
That's not where this ends, though.
As it turns out, I was not the first to find this. I have learned an extremely reliable source that he noticed this same thing days before I did and posted a quick Tweet of his own saying Cimini was Fake Steiny.
Within minutes, my source was contacted by Fake Steiny asking him to take his Tweet down. He also said, " The Jets don't know who I am and I they are pretty pissed. So I would prefer to keep my identity quiet." He then discussed negative feelings about "other beat writers." Again, this is in reference to a Tweet that said Cimini is Fake Steiny. I have viewed evidence of this exchange, and it is real.
Interesting also is Fake Steiny's behavior after I reached out for contact mentioning the similarities between the Tweets.
He complained that he couldn't believe it was going to end like this.
Before replying to me, however, he reached out to my source.He complained that my source told on him to me. By telling on him, Fake Steiny meant me finding out about his response to the "Cimini is Fake Steiny" Tweet. That's the one when he said the "Cimini is Fake Steiny" Tweet needed to be deleted because he needed to keep his real identity quiet. Again, I have seen evidence of this exchange, and it is real.
Then he went on a Tweeting spree with some of the Tweets you saw in the previous article and changed his Twitter handle to @Jets_f9r49gjro, which is also now gone. You can currently find the handle @Steiny55. 55 is Ricky Sapp's number. Fake Steiny makes fun of Jake Steinberg's support of Ricky Sapp.
Here are two Tweets from today.
What proof does he have? ganggreennation.com/2012/11/25/368…I know what proof he has, because he took the bait.— 55 is my fav # (@steiny55)
I am sorry & never meant to hurt anyone. Pls dont run the story it will hurt innocent ppl. I beg 4 forgiveness. grant this & i will go away.55 is my# (@steiny55)
There you have it. I was set up. He set me up on wild goose chase. He wanted me to find all of this fake evidence and file a false report. Then once I am set to file said false report, he begs me not to stay on the case.
But nothing I have said here is false. I make no accusations. I only present what I have collected and been able to verify. You can judge for yourself.
It is interesting to note the lengths Fake Steiny took today with this confrontation compared to others. Back in September when somebody allegedly went to the Jets and got his true identity wrong he Tweeted:
To the person the turned me in to the Jets there was only one problem. You turned in the wrong person. You are wrong.— 55 is my fav # (@steiny55) September 26, 2012
He did not change his account handle when the wrong person was identified. He did not beg for it not to happen. He did not talk about how unfair it was for that person. He simply laughed.
Why should you care? Why does it matter? After all, it's a parody account that this guy does in his spare time. Well, for starters, the Jets through Bruce Speight have apparently warned the beat reporters to cut it out before, and Fake Steiny laughed it off. He then expressed concern to my source that the Jets would be extremely upset that he's continued to do it.
Furthermore, Fake Steiny has continually mocked his colleagues and an 18-year-old college freshman that just wanted to express support for his friends that play for the Jets. It takes a certain kind of character to do this under the guise of what essentially amounts to an anonymous source.
It's interesting to note that Fake Steiny has been in touch with agent Howard Shatsky. You might remember Shatsky as Kenrick Ellis' former agent who got into a Twitter fight with Cimini after the 2011 NFL Draft for an inflammatory Cimini Tweet.
Fake Steiny, whoever it is, seems to not be a fan of Manish Mehta:
This was a Fake Steiny comment about ESPN's Jane McManus:
And here are some of the things said about Jets players and mocking the 18 year old Steinberg:
For his part, Fake Steiny commented, "This account is not being run by Rich Cimini. Rich in no way has anything to do with this twitter account."
Brian Bassett of The Jets Blog offered the following comment, "I don't possess direct knowledge, but there's evidence it's a member of the press. I'm around the Jets beat very infrequently, but it doesn't take much time to get a sense just how dysfunctional it is as a group -- so much so that someone would waste time making fun of genuinely good people. Even if they try and couch it as 'just in fun,' the person responsible for the account spent a preseason gameday tweeting over 70 times rather than doing their job, that tells me all I care to know."
Jake Steinberg of The Jets Blog said the following, "I understand why parody accounts exist and honesty found some of the Fake Steiny32 tweets witty and amusing. However, why on countless occasions was it necessary to continue to wish ill and demean good people who are training and praying everyday for another shot at the NFL? Why is it necessary to demoralize hard working athletes on the team that are just trying to support their family while he continuing to pursue their lifelong dream? Most importantly, why is it necessary to hide behind a parody twitter account in order to express your true feelings when you have one of the largest forums at your fingertips. Remember, Fake Steiny you are a journalist. You are being paid to freely express your observations and views. #whyhide??"
In our Jets community, it is noteworthy that an 18 year old kid has developed the relationships that Jake Steinberg has, and we are all watching him follow his dreams while he reports the latest on our team. Of course, our desire for this guy to succeed is what makes the anonymous nature of the parody Tweeter interesting, and what makes his actual identity newsworthy. Please note that I have no personal relationship with either writer and that my only goal here is to share information with our Jets community.


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If you've made it through all the 'Behind the Scenes' posts thanks for reading! Hopefully we helped shed some light on how JibJab's animated projects come to life. More importantly, if you are reading this blog we are guessing that you're a fan and we want to thank you again for watching and sharing our work with your friends and family! We never forget that it's your support that allows us to keep doing what we love and we're eternally grateful for it. Our goal is to keep making stuff that is worthy of your time and makes us all laugh!
Last, but CERTAINLY not least, is a list of all the amazingly talented folks who helped make this project happen!
"Time For Some Campaignin'"
A parody of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
Directed by: Evan & Gregg Spiridellis
Written by: Gregg Spiridellis
Additional writing: Alex Hirsch, Adam Mutterperl, Andy Ochiltree, Evan Spiridellis
Music Producer: John Frizzell
Voice Talent: Jim Meskimen, Su Tien Wong, Gabriel Mann, Melanie Nyema
Storyboards: Alex Hirsch, Evan Spiridellis
Production Design: Ian Worrel
Character Design: Evan Spiridellis
Background Artists: Dave Bergmann, Ian Worrel, Phil Vose, Christian Robinson
Animators: Evan Spiridellis, Kevin Elam, Mike Chiechi, Alex Chechik, Jeff Gill, Amanda Spalinkski
Visual FX: Ethan Metzger, Jeff Gill, Devin Bell, Nate Pacheco
Graphic Design: Will Staehle
Sound Design: Evan & Gregg Spiridellis
Audio Engineer: Frederik Wiedmann
Production Team: Hanh Rohan, Lauren Lloyd, Justin Parpan, Dan Milano, Maureen Tzudiker, Debbie Cornell
Not everyone pictured...


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While Americans are busy enjoying their $1.99 episodes of "No Reservations" and downloads of Disney movies from the iTunes Store, the rest of the world is still waiting for TV shows and movies to come to their local iTunes. The last we've heard about TV shows or movies venturing outside of US soil was in April, when Apple's European VP Pascal Cagni told French newspaper Les Echos that movies would come to iTunes Europe by the end of the year.
Unfortunately, we still don't have news for you about overall European deployment of iTunes movies, but we do have news about the UK. Trusted sources inside the company have told Ars that Apple plans to introduce movies and TV shows to iTunes UK very soon—as in, a couple of weeks. Things are apparently all set up and ready to go, so it's just a matter of flipping the switch after the dull roar has died down about today's Apple event. It is not expected for this to be announced at the event today, but it does remain a very small possibility.
No details were provided on which shows or movies would be available, so we're left to speculate about that. Did someone say "Dr. Who?" If iTunes UK gets movies and TV shows before the end of August, it may not be long before the rest of the continent catches up.


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Design submitted by Andrew from the UK.
Andrew says: Rolo Dex (MK2) is based on a retro mechanical flip alarm clock, but instead of using a mechanical movement it uses an E-ink / LCD touch Screen Flip Clock animation like those on a Smart phone or PC. The wristwatch is available in three Styles (Flip Tiles / Digits): Black / White, White / Black & a limited Edition: Black & White / LED. Each of which is available the various materials Shown.
The display use four large retro Flip tile style & digits: Centre to display the required digits for the various Modes (Two mode indicator tiles Bottom): AL: Alarm, DM: Date (Days / Months), SW: Stop Watch & Time: Default. The Display mode can be change by the scrolling the finger Up to select alternate modes: Z-A or Down to select Modes: Z-A.
People looking for a retro styled wristwatch that has similar clock style to the smartphone / Cell Phone.
Although this design is not revolutionary it is large warm & friendly look to it making it easy to read. Furthermore if the user wishes to alter the display all they need do is press & hold their finger on the bottom half of the flip tile they wish to alter & drag it Up: Decrease or Drag the top half of the tile down to Increase. Also this wristwatch has multiple selectable Color LED Back Light.


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October 21, 2010
When a John Deere 328D skid-steer loader showed up at my farm this spring, I first noticed how easy it was to get into the cab. The full cab enclosure leaves plenty of room for a bigger guy to fit inside. It also helps that the door hinges and swings to the side, which is a change from the previous overhead door system on Deere's skid loader cabs.
Once you sit down and close the door, the sound quality is impressive. Engine noise is minimal inside the cab. I was so impressed that I called someone on my cell phone to get his opinion. Not only could he not hear the engine running at regular idle speed, but he still could not tell the machine was running when I floored it!
Another change Deere made with this series was to add an interlocking seat bar to the operator's station that folds down from overhead and provides a handy armrest while operating the machine. The seat bar is also accompanied by a seat belt, both of which must be engaged for the machine to run.
The cab has a tremendous field of view at the cutting edge of the bucket. I didn't need to move forward in the seat to see where the cutting edge was as I started to scrape a feedlot floor. The suspension seat provided an excellent ride across the roughest terrain.
The cab comes with eight air vents for heating and cooling. All of the vents are adjustable and provide an excellent environment no matter what the weather.
With several of the controls and switches moved to the left and right posts of the door frame, space on the dash directly in front of the driver is now freed up. A handy addition to that space is a rearview mirror. When loading and unloading bales and pallets, I didn't have to crank my head around 180° to see what was behind me. Another big advantage is the large window in the roof, which allows for a great field of view when stacking and retrieving round bales and big square bales.
The 328D I tested was an electrohydraulic (EH) machine with the optional Performance Package. Under normal operations, the left joystick operates the direction of travel of the machine using an ISO pattern. Moving the right joystick forward and back lowers or raises the boom, and moving it side to side dumps or raises the bucket. A switch on the control panel allows you to switch from the ISO pattern to an H pattern.
Another switch allows you to switch to creep mode. The display screen will show the maximum speed you can attain. It can be dialed down in increments of 5% from 100 to 10%, and in increments of 1% for anything below 10%. This is a great feature for training new employees on the machine, or for those jobs where more precision is needed.
Another nice feature of the Performance Package is the ability to select speed settings — from production rate to precision rate — for the boom and bucket. The various rates allow you to perform some tasks more easily if you do them repetitively and still need some degree of finesse.
A foot-operated throttle provides a quick and easy way to change engine speed. A dial on the right side of the door frame allows constant throttle settings.
The skid loader has a huge, 29-gal. fuel tank, which is a big improvement over my current model with a 15-gal. tank and the series II model from the mid-2000s with a 20-gal. tank.
Design changes
Serviceability is easy on the D series skid loaders. Popping the rear access hatch allows you to get complete access to fuel the machine, as well as check the coolant level, without removing any side panels.
Another design change is the V-plenum setup where the fan sits at the back of the machine with the coolers in front of it in a V-pattern. This allows the fan to bring air across the coolers with more space and without the stacked effect of most designs.
The reversing fan switch can be flipped in the cab to one of three positions — off, auto and manual. In the auto position, the fan will automatically reverse every 20 min. of operation for 43 sec. to blow out any dirt and debris lodged in the coolers. The fan drive is also hydraulically driven, so the fan will turn only as fast as required to keep the machine cool, improve fuel efficiency and eliminate a lot of the noise of the fan running all the time.
Engine oil changes are easy with a removable side access door at the rear corner of the machine for the engine oil drain hose. Removing the side panel of the machine allows easy access to the oil filter. Hydraulic oil levels can be checked via a sight glass on the left side of the machine near the hydraulic oil filler cap after the left side panel is removed.
Another new feature of the D series is the auto idle function. If the machine senses no input of any kind for 5 sec., be it boom movements or motion from the joystick controls, the machine will automatically throttle back to idle. As soon as motion resumes, the machine will return to the engine rpm it was at before.
Comfort and convenience
When positioning bulk boxes of seed to unload into a seed tender, I was a bit surprised that I could open the cab door to exit the machine. I was afraid there would be a safety override of some kind that wouldn't allow that to happen.
The combination of options, standard features and new designs makes the John Deere D series skid loader a tremendous machine to operate. Creature comforts like a cup holder, 12v outlet, iPod/cell phone holder and the luxurious cab combine to create an excellent working environment.
For more information, visit http://www.johndeere.com.
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Suicide Brain May Hold Key to Depression
Aug. 3, 2011 — A study that compared the brains of suicide victims to those of people who died suddenly from other causes found key differences in specific brain cells in the white matter of the brain.
The finding lends support to the idea that inflammation within the brain plays a key role in depression, says lead researcher Naguib Mechawar, PhD, of McGill University's Group for Suicide Studies in Montreal.
Mechawar and colleagues have been studying the brains of suicide victims for close to a decade in an effort to better understand why some people with major depression take their own lives.
A major goal has been to identify what is happening at the cellular and molecular level in the brains of people just before they commit suicide, Mechawar tells WebMD.
"We are using different approaches to study the neurobiology of suicide and brain disorder, including comparing the brains of suicides to those of people who died suddenly without any known neurological illness," he says.
Cell Expression Different in Brains of Suicides
In the newly published study, the Canadian research team analyzed the expression of cells known as astrocytes in both the gray and white matter of brains from 10 suicides with established depression and 10 people with no history of depression who died of other causes.
Astrocytes have been shown to be altered in people with depression in several studies.
The researchers identified the cells in a key region of the brain involved in emotion regulation using a century-old staining process known as silver impregnation. They then reconstructed the astrocytes in a 3D model using state-of-the-art computer software, Mechawar says.
Although cell expression was the same in brain gray matter regardless of cause of death, astrocytes were much larger with longer branches in the brain white matter of suicide victims compared to people who died from other causes.
The study was published online today in the Nature Publishing Group journal Neuropsychopharmacology.
Astrocytes Linked to Inflammation
Astrocytes are involved in many aspects of brain function, including immune regulation and inflammation.
The researchers hypothesize that the enlarged, branched astrocytes seen in the brain white matter of the suicides resulted from inflammation.
There is wide support for the idea that inflammation within the brain plays a role in depression.
The newly published study suggests that inflammation associated with depression may be confined to the white matter, but Mechawar says the findings must be confirmed.
"This study supports, but does not prove, the hypothesis that inflammation plays a role in major depression," he says.


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R. Kelly's daughter speaks out against father following allegations of abuse
Buku Abi (given name Joann Kelly) stands with her father's accusers
Buku Abi (given name Joann Kelly) stands with her father's accusers
Buku Abi (given name Joann Kelly) stands with her father's accusers
After decades of allegations of child pornography, sexual assault and abuse as well as physical and emotional abuse against R&B singer R. Kelly, one docuseries, "Surviving R Kelly," appears to have finally awoken public consciousness on the issue.
John Legend appeared in the documentary to decry the "Ignition" singer and Lady Gaga, who worked with the 52 year-old, publicly apologized and pulled her songs with him from streaming services, while model Cara Delevingne lost 50k followers on her own Instagram for expressing her disgust and anger at the award-winning star.
While R. Kelly's continually denies accusations of wrongdoing, his own daughter has spoken out against him.
Buku Abi (given name Joann Kelly) took to Instagram on Thursday to reveal her perspective. Buku is estranged from her father, but her mother, Kelly's ex-wife Andrea Kelly, detailed her own claims against her ex-husband and father to her children.
The 20-year-old's long message is in support of Kelly's alleged victims, which include her own mother, and explains why, for her own mental health, she has needed to keep quiet about allegations regarding her father's alleged abuse.
Andrea Kelly filed a restraining order against Kelly in 2005 and divorced him in 2009.
Here is Buku's full statement:
"Buku here.
"I just want to say a few things …
"Before I start I just want it to be known that I am speaking from the heart, nothing I say or do not say is to hurt ANY party reading or affected by this.
"To the people that feel I should be speaking up/ against everything that is going to right now. I just want you all to understand that devastated is an understatement for all that I feel currently. I do apologize if my silence to all that is happening comes off as careless. That is my last intention.
"I pray for all the families & women who have been affected by my father's actions. Trust, I have been deeply affected by all of this. However, it has been very difficult to process it all. Let alone gather all the right words to express everything I feel.
"Anyone that knows me personally or has been following me throughout the years knows that I do not have a relationship with my father. Nor do I speak on him or on his behalf. I also am not fond of dealing with my personal issues or personal life experience through social media but, I feel things are starting to get out of hand.
"Unfortunately, for my own personal reasonings (sic) & for all my family has endured in regards to him, his life decisions and his last name, it has been years since my siblings and I have seen and or have spoken to him.
"In regards to my mother, she for the same reasonings (sic) and more, has not seen or have spoken to my father in years. My mother, siblings and I would never condone, support or be a part of ANYTHING negative he has done and or continues to do in his life.
"Going through all I have gone through in my life, I would never want anyone to feel the pain I have felt. Reminders of how terrible my father is, and how we should be speaking up against him, rude comments about my family, fabricating me, my sibling & our mothers 'part', etc. Does not help my family (Me, my sister, my brother and my mother) in our healing process. Nor does it allow a safe space for other victims who are scared to speak up, speak up.
"The same monster you all confronting me about is my father. I am well aware of who and what he is. I grew up in that house. My choice to not speak on him and what he does is for my peace of mine (sic). My emotional state. And for MY healing. I have to do & move in a matter that is best for me.
"I pray for anyone who reads this understands I put nothing but good intent behind each word. It took me nearly 3 days to write this. I just want everyone to know that I do care and I love you all. This is a very difficult subject to speak on … again, I apologize if my words don't come out right…
"To everyone who reached out to my family and I, sending good energy and love..Thank you. You guys really helped push us through this hard time. This past year for my family has been very difficult, all the love and support you all continue to show is why we keep going. You all fuel us. Family, friends, fans, etc … I love you guys to pieces. Your love is appreciated & will always be reciprocated.
For anyone new to my page, I just ask when you come here you bring peace & nothing else.
Love, Buku Abi."


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This section describes the process of installing FUDforum on a webserver.
Before proceeding with the installation process, it is recommended that you determine that you have all of the software needed for the operation of FUDforum:
If you find that the software on your server is older than the version needed for proper installation of FUDforum, you can download the needed programs from the web, the URLs are listed below. MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and PHP are Open Source and you can download and use them for free, without paying any fees regardless of whether you use them for commercial or personal use. Oracle also provides a free version of their database called Oracle XE (although not open source), that can be used for installing FUDforum.
To test your PHP setup is pretty simple, create a file called test.php in your web browseable directory into which put the following contents:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
If your PHP is installed correctly this will provide a full page of diagnostic information. If you do not get the diagnostic information your PHP is misconfigured and is not working. If you are running your own web server consider installing PHP (resources at http://www.php.net), if you are using a hosting provider ask them to install PHP, or consider switching to provider that does offer PHP.
Once you get the phpinfo page, things to look for are:
MySQL is one of the database back ends that can be used. A proper MySQL setup is critical to fast performance of the forum. If you do not have MySQL installed, get it from http://www.mysql.com. MySQL is free software released under the GPL licence.
First check your version of MySQL, this can be accomplished in a number of ways, I'll show two.
METHOD 1: Using the MySQL command line client connect to MySQL.
$ mysql -uUSER_NAME -pPASSWORD
You should should get a prompt like
select VERSION();
at the prompt and press enter. You should get a version number that looks something like
mysql> select VERSION(); +-----------+ | VERSION() | +-----------+ | 4.1.2 | +-----------+
METHOD 2: Checking with PHP
The second way to check involves using PHP, again it's quite simple. Just make a version.php file in your web browseable directory and put the following text into it:
<?php mysql_connect("YOUR_SERVER_ADDRESS", "USER_NAME", "PASSWORD"); $result = mysql_query("SELECT VERSION()"); list($mysql_version) = mysql_fetch_row($result); echo "MySQL Version: ".$mysql_version."
\n"; ?>
If your MySQL version is lower than 4.1.2, you need to upgrade to a later release.
FUDforum supports Oracle 9i and higher database releases (older versions might work as well, but will not be supported).
You need to install a local Oracle database on your system (Oracle XE works well). Alternatively, install Oracle's Instant Client Software on your system (a free download from Oracle's TechNet website). Ensure you can connect to the database before attempting to install FUDforum.
Create a version.php file in your web browseable directory and put the following text into it:
<?php $conn = pg_connect("host=localhost user=USER_NAME password=PASSWORD"); $result = pg_query($conn, "SELECT VERSION()"); list($pg_version) = pg_fetch_row($result); echo "PostgreSQL Version: ".$pg_version."
\n"; pg_free_result($result); ?>
If the script works, you should have no problem installing FUDforum on PostgreSQL.
Chose between the following methods to obtain the necessary files to install FUDforum.
The FUDforum installer can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/fudforum/files/. This page will always contain the latest stable version of FUDforum as well as the latest development version if you want to test new features.
You will need a unzip utility to unpack the files. Unzip utilities (like WinZip) are readily available and you should not have any problems decompressing the install script on your system.
Unzip and copy the install.php and fudforum_archive to where you need to install the forum (if not there already).
This is how to build your own install script (only for advanced users). You'll need to obtain FUDforum sources from SVN (subversion). For example:
Checkout FUDforum from SVN:
svn co https://fudforum.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fudforum/trunk fudforum
Once the files are retrieved, run the following commands to generate the file archive:
cd fudforum chmod 755 create_file_archive ./create_file_archive install 1 >> fudforum_archive
Copy the install.php and fudforum_archive to where you need to install the forum.
Note: You will need to have a php binary installed on your system in order to generate the fudforum_archive file. If you already have a php binary in your system, but it is not inside /usr/bin/php, modify the 1st line inside the create_file_archive script to reflect the proper path of the php binary on your system.
Note: If you want a smaller archive and have php compiled with the zlib module, you can pass a 2nd argument to the create_file_archive script, which would compress the archive file. This will result in a file that is approximately 1/3 the size.
Now that you have the FUDforum installation files, install.php and fudforum_archive, copy them into a web browseable directory. It is recommended to copy the files into the web directory where you intend to install the forum.
Choose getween GUI and command line installation.
To begin the installation of the forum, use your browser to access the install.php file.
Once you've accessed the script, you will see the welcome page of the installation wizard, which consists of five steps:
During the 1st step of the FUDforum installation, you get the opportunity to specify where you want the forum's files to be installed, as well as the URL of the forum. The install script will automatically put some default values for the options asked, you can use those values, or you can change them.
|IMPORTANT: If your PHP has safe_mode enabled (unlikely as the PHP team is busy desupported it), you'll see an indicator that it is enabled in red on top of the install wizard. If safe_mode is enabled, you CAN NOT specify the directory where you've placed install.php as Server Root or Forum Data Root.
The Web Directory field allows you to specify the directory path where the forum's browseable files will be stored on your server's hard-drive. You will need to specify the full path to the directory. For example:
*NIX: /home/user/public_html/forum/ Windows: c:\\web\\my website\\forum\\
You need to enter \\ as directory separator on Windows because normally, \ is interpreted as an escape character. Since PHP is smart enough to convert / to \ internally, on Windows, you may want to use / as the directory separator and save yourself the hassle of having to deal with \\.
This is the location on your server's hard-drive where the forum's data files will be stored. It is highly recommended not to keep this directory inside a web browseable directory, since sensitive files such as messages bodies will be stored in it. For example:
*NIX: /home/user/public_html/forum/ Windows: c:\\web\\my website\\forum\\
Securing directory with .htaccess
<Location /> Order Deny,Allow Deny from all </Location>
The directories that you have specified as Forum Data Root and Server Root must exist and the webserver must have the permission to write to those directories before you click on the next link on the install wizard.
On *NIX systems there are several ways you can assign proper permissions to the directories you intend to use. The simplest method is to run command chmod 777 /home/user/directory in your shell account.
If you do not not have a shell account you can assign proper permissions to a directory by using your FTP client.
Changing permissions with CuteFTP:
Changing permissions with WS_FTP:
Enter the URL to your forum. When the forum is installed, visitors will be able to access it by going to this URL. Any files places inside Server Root should be accessible by going to this URL. For example, if you install FUDforum in /dir/html/myforum, your WWW_ROOT should be http://server:port/myforum/.
Turn off this check if you are getting errors pertaining to the Forum URL not matching the Web Directory and are certain that the paths indicated are correct (not recommended!)
Once you've entered all the values, click on the next link to proceed to step #2 of the installation.
Now that the forum's files were successfully decompressed, you will now need to specify the database settings for your forum.
Database Type:
Which database system to use to store the forum's data, MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Database Server:
This is the IP address or a UNIX domain socket that will be used to connect to the database server you intend to use.
Note: For optimal performance, we recommend using UNIX domain sockets.
Database Login:
Login name for your database account.
Database Password:
Password for your database account.
Database Name:
The name of the database, where the forum's data will be stored.
FUDforum SQL Table Prefix:
A alphanumeric string that will be prepended to all FUDforum's table names. This is done to prevent conflicts with your existing tables, which may share same names as the tables used by FUDforum. As well as allow you to install multiple forums into a single SQL database by specifying a different prefix.
By default, this option has a value of "fud30_", if you are not sure, leave this value as is.
Cookies are little bits of information that are stored on the user's computer, which are sent by the browser to the website which set them. Unless otherwise specified, FUDforum uses cookies to track the currently logged in users, thus the user is not required to login every time.
In order for the cookie to be set properly, it needs to have a correct domain specified for which you are sending a cookie. The installation script automatically figures out the most optimal cookie domain based on the URL you've entered in step #1.
If you decide to change this value make sure the domain has no less than two dots (2 x '.') in it, for example:
This is necessary because many browsers will not accept a cookie unless the domain has at least 2 dots in it.
Due to the nature of cookies, cookies cannot be set for IP address' or domains without any dot's in them. In this case, the forum will revert to using URL based sessions to keep track of users. The downside of this, is that after certain period of inactivity, usually 30 minutes, the session will expire and the user will be required to re-login.
In this step you get to choose the language and template set that your forum will use.
Select appropriate values from the list of available languages and template sets or accept the defaults.
These setting are not permanent, and if you so desire, you will be able to change it later once the forum has been installed from the Theme Manager.
The last step of the installer involves the creation of the first administrator account. You will need to enter the administrator's login name, password and the email address into the specified text boxes. For best security, do not use easily guessable login names like "admin" or "administrator".
You will be able to add additional administrators once the forum is installed.
The forum installation has now been completed, if you click on the next button you will be taken to a login form that will allow you to login into the administrator account you've created on step #5
It is of critical importance that you remove the install.php file once the installation process has been completed. Otherwise someone could re-install over the forum you have created.
Starting from FUDforum 3.0.2 the installer can also run in command line mode. This allows hosts and experienced users to perform repeated and/or automated FUDforum installations.
You can run the installer on the command line in interactive or automated mode. For automated installation, create file called install.ini (fud_config.ini in older releases) with the below settings. If this file is not present, or some setting are missing, the script will interactively prompt for them:
; Settings for command line installer WWW_ROOT = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/forum/" SERVER_ROOT = "/home/lampstack/apache2/htdocs/forum/" SERVER_DATA_ROOT = "/home/lampstack/apache2/htdocs/forum/" DBHOST = DBHOST_USER = root DBHOST_PASSWORD = dbpassword DBHOST_DBNAME = fudforum DBHOST_TBL_PREFIX = fud30_ DBHOST_DBTYPE = mysql COOKIE_DOMAIN = 127.0.0.1 LANGUAGE = en TEMPLATE = default ROOT_LOGIN = admin ROOT_PASS = admin ADMIN_EMAIL = "email@example.com"
To start the command line installer, run:
php install.php
Remove the installer, etc.
sudo rm install.php sudo rm uninstall.php sudo rm upgrade.php sudo rm fudforum_archive sudo rm install-final.php
Make the files accessible by apache:
sudo chown -R apache /home/lampstack/apache2/htdocs/forum/
Now you can access it at http://127.0.0.1:8080/forum/


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So you think your iPhone, some computer in the classroom, or the Blackboard online platform is just some neutral tool? In this week's episode of the READ, WRITE, & TEACH digital book club, I was joined by my colleagues Carmen Kynard and Roseanne Gatto so that we could discuss our reading of Adam J. Banks' Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age. It's a book that interests me because as a writer and teacher who hopes to be professionally relevant in the years to come, I believe it's important to be able to speak into digital spaces. Early in the podcast Roseanne points us to these lines where Banks describes one of the goals of his text:
This book looks to scratch, to interrupt, to play a while in the grooves of two records–disciplinary conversations about African American rhetoric and those about multimedia writing–to begin to blend and loop them while posing one question: how can African American rhetorical traditions and practices inform composition's current endeavors to define, theorize, and practice multimedia writing?
Digital Griots is a call to action for every teacher who isn't working to enable students to enter into the digital space in a meaningful way. This is a text that connects the role of the African griot storyteller to the role of the modern day DJ. In this podcast you'll meet my colleague Carmen, who is the director of First Year Writing at St. John's University. Carmen is mentioned several times in Digital Griots, including a reference to her article, "Wanted: Some Black Long Distance [Writers]: Blackboard Flava Flavin and other Afrodigital Experiences in the Classroom."
My fellow composition teacher Roseanne wonders if as a white lady she's got any business bringing a Jay-Z text into the classroom or teaching a hip hop themed course. She also tells a pretty funny story about the time she and her friend went to a Buju Banton concert and were pretty much the only white people there. (don't worry if you don't know Buju's stuff; I didn't either) I'll save the "punch line" to the story for those of you who listen to the podcast. 🙂
Roseanne and Carmen join Banks' in his "playful" challenge of Geoffrey Sirc and Jeff Rice. Banks writes, "And while I see value in both Rice's and Sirc's arguments in favor of the ability to play freely in texts and techniques in the writing classroom, their desire to lift, sample, and loop concepts from black traditions freely for their their mere applicability without concern for the culture or context that produced them, the mixtape as rhetorical practice offers composition pedagogy and digital writing theory far more than a whimsical pursuit of the cool."
Banks' primary objection is stated here: "Now how Rice is able to claim that he "invented" a rhetoric of something, much less a rhetoric of the cool (Rhetoric of Cool 5, 113), given Fab's description and many of the texts he himself cites, I have no idea, though the various traditions he links together in his study of cool help make the book an intriguing one. My playful rib aside…" (118-119). This is a section of the book that Carmen brings into our discussion.
As for myself, Banks' Digital Griots furthers my understanding of what a POWERPLAY literacy can be. Language can be used to access power; of course language can be used to oppress and control. For all the reasons you understand that it's important to read and write, those same reasons can be applied toward an understanding of how important it is for a writing teacher to help others into digital spaces where they can be heard.
If you're a teacher or student, I'd like to hear from you about how technology is or is not being used in your classroom. Do you see technology as a neutral tool that does what you want it to, or do you think that the tool has a lot embedded in it that seeks to direct or influence you? If you're a technology user, especially in a classroom or literacy program, how much of the conversation in Digital Griots is ongoing in the spaces you inhabit?
Thanks to Roger D and C Milli for providing the music!
Some links that might interest you:
- Dr. Adam Banks Website
- DJ Spooky gets some love in Banks' book. Here's his website.
You can link to the podcast here or
you can search "Digital Book Club" on iTunes.
Thanks for reading!


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Typically when a woman experiences difficulty with breastfeeding she's told to keep working at it because she's probably just doing it wrong. After all, it's what her body is meant to do. But our bodies are meant to do a lot of things—like produce insulin, eat peanuts, or get pregnant—that they sometimes can't. Why do doctors, nurses, and lactation consultants believe so whole-heartedly in the infallibility of breastfeeding?
While it's great that breastfeeding has shaken the stigma attached to it for most of the 20th century—before its health benefits were recognized and the practice was considered to be something for women who couldn't afford formula or condensed milk—the pendulum has seemingly swung in the opposite direction. With public policy being created to restrict new mothers' access to formula, the pressure to breastfeed is very real and very prominent. The intention is to encourage a "breast is best" mentality. But the result is that women who are unable to breastfeed, due to extreme pain or the inability to produce enough milk, feel like failures who aren't able to provide "the best" for their newborns.
But instead of creating initiatives to educate new mothers about the benefits of breast milk, perhaps efforts would be better spent on helping them with the process of breastfeeding. Lactation consultants simply aren't cutting it. They can't run diagnostic tests or write prescriptions. What's needed is scientific research to understand the physiology of why some women might have problems.
In a piece for Time that questions whether the medical community is failing breastfeeding mothers, writer Lisa Selin Davis points out that "lactation is probably the only bodily function for which modern medicine has almost no training, protocol or knowledge."
What do doctors learn about breast-feeding in medical school? "We learned that it's what's best for baby," said my own pediatrician. "But that's it." They're introduced to evidence that prolonged breast-feeding reduces the possibilities of obesity, SIDS and allergies, but the science of it, what's happening at the anatomical level? Not so much.
"It's an hour, or a half a day, and [students] don't remember anything," says Dr. Todd Wolynn, a Pittsburgh pediatrician and executive director of the Breastfeeding Center of Pittsburgh. There were years, he says, when there was literally nothing said about breast-feeding at all.
Part of the problem is generational. Many of the leaders in the medical field today were in training themselves at a time when breastfeeding was not the norm. So, without being proactive about putting measures in place to educate doctors about breastfeeding, it might be awhile before any real improvement in training practices is seen. As it stands, there are only 88 doctors in the entire world who are fellows of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, an "organization of physicians dedicated to the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding and human lactation."
But even Dr. Wolynn, who is a certified lactation consultant and ABM member, believes that "very few women really can't breastfeed," citing that it's a "normal mammalian function" as evidence. Getting a boner is also a "normal mammalian function." However, there are enough men with erectile dysfunction to warrant a competitive billion-dollar global market dedicated to its treatment.
Here's a sad statistic:
Within the database of federally funded medical research, there are 70 studies on erectile dysfunction; there are 10 on lactation failure.
So why isn't breastfeeding given the same kind of attention as ED? The answer is probably money. ED is a recognized disorder for which the diagnosis and treatment (like Viagra) is covered by insurance. Lactation dysfunction, however, "doesn't even exist as a diagnosis," so there is no health insurance code that doctors can bill.
One step in the right direction is that when the Affordable Health Care Act kicked in on August 1, health insurance companies were instructed to provide "comprehensive lactation support and counseling, by a trained provider during pregnancy and/or in the postpartum period, and costs for renting breastfeeding equipment."
But as many as five percent of all women have medical conditions that prevent or seriously hinder lactation (hypoplasia, thyroid problems, hormonal imbalances, insufficient glandular tissue, among others) and the lack of medical interventions and understanding sucks harder than a double electric breast pump.
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Is the Medical Community Failing Breastfeeding Moms? [Time]


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Judge Michael Ciungan will be the chief judge of the 25th District Court (Lincoln Park) and 26th District Court (Ecorse and River Rouge) through March 31, 2012, under an order issued yesterday by the Michigan Supreme Court.
And beginning April 1, 2012, he'll preside as chief judge of the 25th District Court through December 31, 2013.
Why the two-week dual appointment? At the end of the month, the 26th District Court will close its doors.
It's all part of a court consolidation plan, 2011 PA 300, signed into law late last year by Gov. Rick Snyder.
Ciungan currently serves as the only judge of the 26th District. As of April 1, the 26th District will be consolidated with the 25th District. Ciungan's colleagues on the the newly consolidated 25th District Court will be the current 25th District judges, David Bajorek and David Zelenak.
Ciungan, 60, has served as a district court judge for 26 years.


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(feat. mr. maygreen, trife da god)
[intro: ghostface killah (mr. maygreen)]
aiyo, what up party people (yeah, my name's on the guest list)
this is the wallabee kingpin in the building (as mr. maygreen… good evening…)
right about now, i'm about to show you how good we are (i'm in the club, i'm)
[chorus: mr. maygreen]
(good), i look so, (good), the car look
(good), i'm in the hood, and i'm okkkkkk
(good), the jewels look, (good), the girls look
(good), they all from around the wayyyyy
(good), hey there, (good), look at you
(good), me, i'm just p-ssing byyyyyyy
(good), look at her, (good), time out
(good), i think i'll give the game a tryyyyy
[ghostface killah]
aiyo, my rose was good, plus my face was good
the way i wear my jeans up over my boots is hood
and my cash is good, the gr-ss, spread it out, over the hash is good
the grasp who be hypecast is good
that's the bird that f-cked the game up
cut the head off lames and platinum n-gg-z, your boy done came up
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chilling, in the staircase, surrounded by killings
with bank rolls, bang those, bang your main hoes
you was in love with the p-ssy, it ain't the same though
cuz i'm good, she's good, so you should be good
hit her with the stiff one, she callin' me wood
and we don't love those hoes, with they flat b-tts caked up
and tipped up toes, need an ill plastic surgeon to fix they nose
cuz they sh-t is too fat like an adidas sole
don't even touch my gold, i'm good
[hook: mr. maygreen]
i know you heard it a thousand times
not quite like my design
you say that's what you looking for
gator boots walk through the door, now
[bridge: ghostface killah (mr. maygreen)]
(good) theodore's good, (good), my team is good
(good) my robes is good, (i'm so good)
(good) my moms is good, (good), my style is good
(good) my queen is good, yeah, come on, (i'm so good)
(good) the days is good, (good), babies is good
(good) wifes is good… uh-huh
(good) the hood is good, (good), god is good
(good) everything is good, come on, let's go
[ghostface killah]
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feel that? you'se a nasty girl
big b-tt, slim gut, i'll crash your world
it's not polite to bend over in starkey face
sheer lace, fat -ss, got want me to taste that
lodi dodi, with a c-ke shaped body
and my jewels hang low like my b-lls in the potty
and i dare ya'll to try to rob me
theodore u, we got the army
a-town to mariner's harby
wild west, now born, go hard, g.
killa hill, stapletown, port rich' kids
pack heat, like i was pulling out biscuits
[trife da god]
when we on the block bubbling rocks, watching for cops
holding glocks in and out of the spots, (it's all good)
when we overseas, getting that cheese, whipping the hottest v's
blowin' exotic trees, playa, (it's all good)
when i'm in the whip, sunk in the six, drunk off the liqs
pull up, stunting, fronting for chicks, (it's all good)
when we on stage getting them grammy's, sn-tching them panties
jetskiing off the sh-r-s of miami, (it's all good)
[interlude: ghostface killah]
yeah… told ya'll before, another theodore production
this is how we go in the 06 to 07, come on, come on
Letras aleatórias
- pochill - original > pochill
- donnie barbossa - picture perfect > donnie barbossa
- krizz kaliko - happyish > krizz kaliko
- roupa nova - estado de graca > roupa nova
- kittchen - berlin > kittchen
- naomi alligator - lowblow > naomi alligator
- tawobi - bobby brown > tawobi
- luke christopher - i think i love her > luke christopher
- john strand - tänk om (remix) > john strand
- flut - regen > flut


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Rep. Steve King represents the conservative bluffs of western and northwestern Iowa. He has personally shepherded the Republican Party's would-be presidents around his state. He hasn't endorsed any of them yet, but he sees Herman Cain fighting off a scandal, and it gets his blood pumping hot.
"Where's the Anita Hill?" he said. "This is an Anita Hill issue, and from what I see, without substance, this shouldn't have been a story."
King is not the only conservative saying this. Three days into a scandal that's collecting mass and speed like some fast-rolling lava floe, a third woman and a Republican consultant have emerged with more allegations of "very uncomfortable" 1990s-era Cain harassment. Yet Republicans are not abandoning Cain. The people who stand to gain if Cain implodes are mostly quiet about the stories. The rest of the conservative movement has risen up in anger at the media for even covering this stuff. On Wednesday, as Cain bounced from suburban Virginia to Capitol Hill, dodging TV cameras and pissed-off reporters, it was basically impossible to find a Republican who wanted to pile on.
As of Wednesday there are three main arguments being mounted in Cain's defense. Let's count them down, from flimsiest to Most Likely To Succeed.
Argument No. 1: Why, This Is All Just Racist
Cain has had an on-again, off-again relationship with the "race card." He hates it, and he thinks no one should use it. Months ago, I was in a tiny scrum with Cain (boy, those days are over) when a British reporter wanted to know whether the mostly white GOP could ever support him. "Am I black?" joked Cain. He couldn't care less!
But when Cain has been in trouble, he's searched under the couch cushions to find the card, brush it off, and shove it in the other guy's face. After Cain joked that legislation should top out at three pages, and Jon Stewart made fun of this, Sean Hannity asked the candidate why. "Because I'm black," said Cain. This was after he predicted that he, just like Clarence Thomas, could be the victim of a "high-tech lynching." On Fox News on Tuesday, Charles Krauthammer asked Cain if race had anything to do with this story. "I believe the answer is yes," he said. The next day, his campaign sent out a fundraising update to supporters, quoting Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, who'd been defending Cain on the grounds of left-wing racism. The Super PAC Americans for Herman Cain gave up altogether on subtlety and titled one of its fundraising e-mails: "First Clarence Thomas, Now Herman Cain."
To understand this defense, you have to understand something about conservatives: They think Democrats use it all the time. Why shouldn't Cain spit it right back at them? It's only fair. And then they think harder on it, and realize that they hate it when Democrats do this. After the Washington Post's conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin saw Cain talk to Krauthammer, she attacked "Cain's noxious racial politics." Ron Christie, an African-American Republican strategist who materializes on cable news in times like these, describes just how icky it feels.
"On the one hand, some of the commentary (think Karen Finney) has been vitriolic because Cain is black and a conservative," he said, referring to one of the spats in the cableverse. "As to the nature of the allegations themselves? Hard to say. I don't like the race card being played by the left or the right, and I think both sides have tried to do so to exploit a perceived political advantage."
Effectiveness level: Risky, with high chance of backfire.
Argument No. 2: You Can't Trust the Liberal Media
On Wednesday afternoon, Cain did a quick Q&A with Republican members of Congress working on health care. Rep. Michael Burgess, who called the meeting, ribbed the press for showing up with questions about the scandal: "I have every belief you're going to look into this as carefully as you looked into President Obama's college grades." After the meeting, the Republicans were unanimous: Cain should ignore the scandal and keep talking like this.
"He was on message, and that's as it should be," said Rep. Andy Harris, a freshman from Maryland. "What we ought to be concentrating on is not wasting that time paying attention to issues other than the economy and how we're going to get out of this mess we're in."
That's what Newt Gingrich is saying, too. Shame on the media for asking about this! "He's out there trying to help a country that's in desperate trouble," Gingrich said. "And he has gotten more coverage over the last few days over gossip." If Gingrich had wanted to, he could have looked at some right-wing blogs, which have taken this ball and spiked it. (Speaking of which: Did you know that one of the Politico reporters behind the scoop is sort of vaguely connected to George Soros?)
It's fun, and it's familiar, but how does it help Cain? This isn't a case of a media outlet formulating a story out of nothing. This was a story that multiple organizations had heard inklings about, that Politico did the work on, and that its reporters backed up with primary documents.
Effectiveness level: Limited, because the media isn't the problem.
Argument No. 3: There's No Such Thing as Sexual Harassment
This one took a while to come out. It's a hard conversation to start. Conservatives don't like to admit it. But hell, time to say it: They just don't think that the stuff Cain was accused of was all that bad. Sexual harassment claims are overblown. When he says the charges are false, they believe him. The lawyer and pundit Kurt Schlichter summed it up in a widely circulated op-ed: "In the world of sexual-harassment law, the accusations are bad enough."
As they gripped and grabbed with Cain on Wednesday, Republicans said the same thing. Maybe the women in question were a little bit nutty, or a little bit—hey, you know the rest. "It's unfortunate," said Rep. Glenn Thompson after the health care meeting. "But during campaign time there are certain individuals who will raise half-truths and mis-portray things. Sometimes they do that because they're desperate in their own campaigns. I guess I'm not surprised this type of thing is brought forward."
Steve King, among Cain's most vocal defenders, took me back to his days running his construction company and working with the Iowa Land Improvement Contractors' Association. Sexual harassment training was a pain, an insult. After he and colleagues had to watch a 45-minute how-not-to video, he stood up and said, "I am insulted that you would burn up our time with something that could be replaced by the two words 'common courtesy.'" The only woman in the room, he said, applauded.
"It's a terrible concept," said King, "to define an action by the perception of the perceived victim."
Let's say that Cain has bungled away the nondisclosure agreements that the National Restaurant Association put away in the 1990s. The women in question come out and speak. At that point it'll be their word against his. All those doubts about the very idea of sexual harassment settlements, all those doubts about whether this stuff can be trusted—that will come in handy.
Effectiveness level: It's the best he's got.


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10 Hot Products To See At Oracle OpenWorld 2012
Rick Whiting
10 Hot Products To See At Oracle OpenWorld 2012
Seeing all there is to see at Oracle OpenWorld isn't easy. Getting in and out of the keynotes and sessions, moving between Moscone North, South and West (not to mention the Hilton where the JavaOne conference is happening), finding your way around the exhibition floors -- even squeezing in time to eat -- isn't easy. Not when you're doing all that along with more than 50,000 other attendees.
So, we've done a little pre-OOW legwork and identified 10 new hardware and software products that we think are worth checking out. With close to 400 partner exhibits at the show, there are bound to be some unexpected surprises on the expo show floor. But, this list should give you a start in making your "gotta see" list.


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Friday, December 4, 2009
How I Spent My Maternity Leave
I spent most of my time being Mom - doing activities with the kids, thinking about their diets, their sleeping habits, organizing their toys and arranging play dates (most of which I could barely find time for in my juggling act prior to leave).
Over and above being Mom, I seemed to have gone through various phases during my leave:
The first couple months I spent in a post-partum state. Sleepy, emotionally labile, sensitive about my weight and just trying to establish new coping mechanisms with three kids. Fortunately, that phase seemed to go by quickly.
The next two months, while my baby was temporarily sleeping through the night, I spent most of my time on me - I worked out every morning, read a book, started a global health blog, established a presence on twitter, got involved in some volunteer work...yes, a busy couple of months.
The next phase was in the fall, flu season started and the baby stopped sleeping through the night. I spent at least one month again sleepy and this time driving to doctor's appointments or vaccine appointments all of which seemed to be inefficiently staggered.
Last month, I focused on doing research on schools (since my eldest will start kindergarten next academic year). I'm trying to determine my answer to public vs, private school and get to know the options in my area. I had been meaning to do this for the last year and I finally made this a priority.
Finally, in the home stretch, I am now interviewing for a full-time nanny. I've met at least a dozen ladies from all walks of life and have yet to find the right match. This process has taken much more time that I anticipated and after spending the last 7 months with my little one, I'm much more attached than I expected.
After deliberately neglecting my medical journals for the last few months, it's now time to dust them off and get reaquainted with the medical world. I'm nervous about all that I must have forgotten and all the patient follow-up that always follows me home. Yet, I'm excited to start being a doctor again - having spent so much time on myself, it will be nice to focus on my patients.
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Ah! Rather than day in the life, it's month in the life of maternity leave. Thanks for sharing your journey! Sleep is such a dominant theme. Better the journals get dusty than the kids. Glad you accomplished so much and that you see the excitement of returning to medicine. Wonder how it'll be different for you returning the 3rd time around. After my first, I "knew" I'd have one more maternity leave, but after my second (I only have two), it felt weird going back without "knowing" I'd ever have another.ReplyDelete
I am jealous. You are making me think of having a third child so I can take some time off - now that I am out of residency. I had both of mine in the midst of training, and reading your post makes me feel like I missed out on connections that can be made in the first year of life.ReplyDelete
I have a friend that had her third after training, and took time off, like yourself. She said, "I never really knew what I was missing."
Good for you, for not missing out. I'm still playing catch-up. My kids are doing great, and I know I can't just wallow in regret, but my goodness. You just described pure doctor-mom bliss!
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Great post today. It's great that being a physician is just a small part of what defines you and your life. I try to live my life to that theme as well.
Great writing. I'll be back for more. If you get a chance, check out my new blog site! thanks
Thanks fellow Mom's - I'm glad you enjoyed the post and I highly recommend some time off from being doctor - I'm convinced it will make me a better physician and mom. Maternity leave is an easy excuse to take this time to renew the balance in life. The bigger challenge is to figure out how to do this on an on-going basis.ReplyDelete