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I promised you soup yesterday. And pictures too. I do want to warn you that there's also a favor I need to ask, but we'll get to that later.
First, let's eat.
Timing's a bit off because this is a soup for a cold night when the first wafts of fireplace fill the brisk air. Instead, today was sunny and nearly 70 degrees here in Boston. One of those open-all-the-doors-and-windows kind of days. But soup I wanted, and soup I made.
This whole thing started with a mushroom wheat berry soup at a favorite cafe. The soup was dark-colored and light-flavored, rich with mushroom-y earthiness. The wheat berries, surpassing barley and farro along the firm and chewy spectrum, gave the soup enough heft to be filling but not so much as to be heavy. And a sprinkle of dill brightened the whole thing up. I was determined to recreate the soup while its aroma and texture and flavor was still fresh in my memory, weather be damned. Which is how we got to where we are today.
I realize that this soup might sound like a certain other soup I made last week, what with the mushrooms and ancient grains and all. But that one was barley soup with mushroom. This one is mushroom soup with wheat berries. (Barley and farro would work well here too.)
Here's what makes this a soup with grains rather than a grain soup: I cooked the grains and the soup separately. If you cook the grains in the soup, you get a starch soup. If you cook the grains in advance (or in parallel) and then drain them of their starchy water, you get a broth with chunks of vegetables, slices of mushrooms, and nuggets of wheat berries.
I'm sure you're probably thinking that it's a pain to pre-cook the wheat berries, but hear me out. Wheat berries take a bit of time to cook, generally at least an hour and often with an overnight soak first (though the brand I used was parboiled and only took about 15 minutes), so it's great to have them on hand when you have a craving. Cook up a big batch and keep some in the fridge for a week or in the freezer for many weeks. (This works particularly well if you recently made some extra space in your freezer by using up those blueberries that you tucked away over the summer). Pull the grains out in the next few days or weeks to top a salad, throw in a soup, or bolster up some vegetables.
While we're on the subject of cooking grains, here's where the favor comes in. I know you were searching for it, skipping past the pictures, scrolling down the text. So I'll repeat it: here's where favor comes in.
Click on the picture of the wheat berries and take a close look. See how they're split? The same thing happens whenever I make barley and farro. I can't seem to figure out how to get those beautiful, smooth little kernels that everyone else seems to achieve with ease. Mine always end up popped open, their fluffy little insides spilling out.
Can anyone tell me the secret to cooking up perfect grains? I have a pantry full of wheat berries, farro, and barley waiting.
Mushroom soup with wheat berries
This soup is adapted from Smitten Kitchen who made it with farro and who adapted it from the New York Times's Marian Burros who made it with barley. Rather than cooking the grains in the soup, I cooked them in advance. As for the best way to cook the wheat berries, well, that's where I need your help. For now, I'm just following the directions on the bag I bought, but hopefully I'll figure this out soon (hint hint).
A few notes on ingredients that you may not have lying around. I used one tablespoon of tomato paste which gives the soup a richer flavor. If you don't feel like opening a can, you can skip it. I keep in my freezer a bag of tablespoon-sized cubes of tomato paste that I froze in an ice cube tray way back when. If you don't have sherry, I've heard that you can replace it with half the amount of cider vinegar. Try it and let me know how it works out. If you don't have a bunch of fresh herbs sitting around, add a few pinches of dry dill. It will be almost as good. Or add your favorite herbs – thyme would work great here.
Makes about 6 cups
– 1/2 C dried or 1 1/2 C cooked wheat berries (or farro, pearled barley, or spelt)
– 1/2 cup dried mushrooms like porcini
– 1 medium onion
– 1 medium carrot
– 2 stalks celery
– 2 cloves garlic
– 1 lb mushrooms (I used 1/2 white button and 1/2 cremini)
– 2 T olive oil
– 1 T tomato paste
– 4 C vegetable (or other) stock
– 1/4 C dry sherry
– Salt and pepper to taste
– handful of parsley (~1/4 C chopped)
– handful of dill (~1/4 C chopped)
Make grains. Follow the directions on your wheat berries package. The brand I bought is parboiled, so it only took about 15 minutes to make. Most recipes, such as this one, suggest first rinsing the grains, then simmering them in water (3:1 ratio) for about an hour. I'll get back to you once I get a good method down.
Soak. Boil 1 1/2 cups of water. Cover dried mushrooms with the water, and set aside for 20 minutes. When the mushrooms have softened, drain them and reserve the liquid (you'll be straining it and then adding it to the soup later). Finely chop the mushrooms.
Chop. Finely chop the onion, carrot, and celery. Slice the fresh mushrooms.
Sauté. Heat the oil in heavy-bottomed deep pot. Sauté onion, celery, and carrot over medium heat until onions begin to color, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, and sauté for 30 seconds. Then add the fresh mushrooms and sauté for 5-10 minutes, until they begin to release liquid. Keep sautéing until the mushrooms reabsorb their liquid. Add the re-hydrated chopped mushrooms and the tomato paste. Strain the reserved mushroom liquid to remove any grit and add it to the pot. I used a coffee filter in a manual drip coffee cone for this. Scrape the bottom of the pan to get up any browned bits that are stuck.
Simmer. Add the vegetable stock and sherry and adjust the heat so the soup comes to a simmer. Simmer for 10 minutes and then add the cooked wheat berries, simmering for just a few more minutes until the grains warm up.
Sprinkle. Chop up the parsley and dill and stir into the soup, reserving a few pinches to garnish each bowl.


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Tradition is good. Family memories. In my bedroom, the chair that Bubbie once rocked me and my sister on.
The hat pins that she used to keep next to her sofa. They were her mother's.
I like holding onto these things. And sometimes too many things (I have a friend who keeps threatening to come to my place with 5 contractor bags and to start the "clean-up" process by discarding something with sentimental value). And while food no doubt creates memory — strong memories — every so often there is the need to recreate new traditions or update old ones..
Growing up, I recall that almost every time my mother entertained she would make what seemed to me to be a quintessential Thanksgiving dinner: turkey, roasted potatoes (or some variation thereof — sweet potatoes, or maybe mashed potatoes), green beans almondine, "dirty" rice with mushrooms and onions, and apple pie or chocolate chip pound cake. Now, I have never made a turkey and this menu is relegated to my mother's kitchen and glass dining room table (having always been assigned to clean the fingerprints off the table before dinner and any food remnants after, I now only buy wood furniture). This menu tastes to me like family coming together.
As much as I like to hold on to tradition, I also try to create some of my own. Anything from a few variations to turning the world upside down. This recipe is about tweaking and in my mind, improving on a classic. It started with some yellow beans that I got from my CSA.
I reinvented my mothers green beans almondine and turned it on its head from methodology to ingredients. Whereas growing up we boiled or steamed green beans (to keep things lower fat) and threw on some sliced or slivered almonds, here I substituted yellow beans for green and sauteed them, toasted some hand-chopped whole hazelnuts, and added lemon juice and a lush slightly sweet drizzle of sweet hazelnut oil.
Haricots Jaunes aux Noisettes (Yellow Beans with Hazelnuts)
This recipe can easily be be made with green beans and almonds — just leave out the hazelnut oil (which truth be told can be difficult to find). Haricots jaunes – yellow beans – taste just like haricots verts, the green ones, though to the best of my knowledge haricots verts normally refers to the really skinny green beans. When I did a summer exchange in France (in Mont-près-Chambord in the Loire Valley) during high school, I was taught to choose the skinniest of the bunch while still plump, and to pick les haricots one-by-one rather than just grabbing them by the handful. To this day, I still pick my haricots comme ça. I received these haricots jaunes from my CSA.
I always toast the nuts first for a few reasons. First,this enables a dry roast. Second, it makes it less likely to burn them. Finally, if allows me to make some extra for things like topping chocolate ice cream. Oh, what a perfect dessert. Actually, I'm thinking gelato.
Serves 2-3.
– 1/4-1/3 C hazelnuts
– 1.5 C yellow beans
– 1 shallot
– kosher salt
– 2 t olive oil
– 1 lemon
– 2 t hazelnut oil: I use Philippe Vigean brand (OU; info in Resources tab); La Tourangelle also makes a hazelnut oil, but theirs is not kosher.
Prepare ingredients: Chop hazelnuts. Remove tips from beans. Thinly slice shallot.
Toast hazelnuts: Using the pan you plan to use for the haricots, dry toast the chopped hazelnuts with a few pinches of salt over medium heat until fragrant (5-7 minutes). Remove from pan.
Cook beans: Pour olive oil in pan and heat over medium heat with sliced shallots. Add yellow beans and toss in oil for 2-3 minutes. Add juice of lemon to pan and cover to allow beans to steam another 3-5 minutes (depending on how crunchy you like your beans). Uncover and add toasted hazelnuts (you don't need to use all the nuts) with hazelnut oil, continuing to toss beans in the mixture, adding more salt to taste.
Serve beans immediately. And don't forget the throw any leftover slighty salty toasted hazelnuts on your ice cream.
Some of the toasted hazelnuts fall to the bottom of the plate — I love this part.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
MiM Mailbag: Giving up the baby
Has anyone else had to temporarily give up their children in order to facilitate their career in medicine?
I am a junior general surgery resident a few weeks away from delivering my first child. The pregnancy was a surprise, but I am eagerly awaiting the baby. I wrote "I" rather than "we" on purpose- although I am married, my husband lives in another city, some 1500 miles away, where he is at the top of another incredibly demanding, long-hours, "mistress" profession. We did originally live together in intern year, but with my blessing he accepted his current position and moved away. It was shortly thereafter that we found out about the pregnancy.
I have had a dream pregnancy with absolutely no problems- no morning sickness, no cravings, no complications, a total weight gain of 15 lbs, and no stretch marks! My clinical performance has not been affected and I remain passionately committed to surgery- it is absolutely the right specialty for me.
Here's the problem: I have 4 wks of maternity leave. The baby will come in February, which means I return to work in March. My husband will get a month of paternity leave and spend it in my city, which he will take for the second month of the baby's life. This puts us through to April, but I will have 2.5 months of the academic medical year remaining. The hours of a surgical resident, it goes without saying, are not conducive to single parenting- how on earth could I arrange for nannies/ au pairs / daycares to cover 90hr weeks, weekends, night call, unpredictable hours, etc-- especially on a resident's salary? We have no family within 2000 miles, and no family members can take off 2.5 months to be the primary caregiver. So, we have concluded, the only thing to do is to send the baby away to be cared for by relatives, who will love and adore him and give him the 24hr, unconditional attention I cannot.
This arrangement will only be for those three months. I'm starting my gen surg research years in July, and the lab I'm entering will be in my husband's city. So we will all be reunited and normal again after a few months.
We have received a variety of comments on this arrangement, some of which are meant to be helpful ("don't do anything you will regret forever"; "you should sue your hospital;" "why can't you just take a normal 6 month maternity leave."). Many others are to the effect that I am an unfeeling monster who is a defective female and should never have children in the first place. Most people- especially at work- assumed that I would terminate the pregnancy, and were shocked to learn that was unequivocally not on the table. I won't deny that there has been a lot of guilt (my husband, who is unbelievably excited about being a father, feels a great deal of blame) and concerns about emotionally managing the separation, but we truly believe this is what's right for our family and our unborn son.
I was wondering if any other mothers in medicine have had to make a similar choice, and what their coping strategies were? I know, for example, many foreign-trained residents have to leave their children behind when coming to the States for residency. I would really like to hear some stories from people who have "been there," and not to feel so alone.
Thanks very much for the blog- I really enjoy it and its variety of perspectives, particulalrly the advice from the women in long-hours specialties.
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I'm sorry that your program is forcing you to make such a difficult decision. I can't offer any advice from my own experience; is there a residents' association or a trusted female mentor that you could go to for some advice?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 7:09 AM
You know what... as long as your baby is somewhere that it is loved and cared for, that is all that matters. You will not be a resident forever.ReplyDelete
I had a baby during medical school and have since discovered that we have fertility issues... I am so glad we had him then even though it has changed the direction of my career. If I had had an abortion, we might never have had a single baby. Not that this will happen to you, but you don't know what the future holds.
You have been blessed with a healthy pregnancy and the fact that you have others who are willing to pitch in is wonderful. I think this will be much harder on you and your spouse than you can imagine. But, you will both figure it out.
I agree with Anon. I can't speak to the experiences of other doctors, but my husband works in basic science and tells me that during his post-doc women in his lab would get pregnant and have babies.... and then send them back to their country of origin (often in Asia) to be raised by their grandparents, sometimes for years at a time. It was not that uncommon.ReplyDelete
My husband and I have talked about what we would do if I ended up matching for residency in a different city from him. We're expecting our first child over the next couple of weeks, and we agreed that during residency if that happened, he would become the primary caregiver and the child would live with him. If for some reason he was not able to do this, we would most likely end up sending the child to Italy to live with my husband's parents until whatever crisis here could be resolved. My mother is disabled and my father cares for her, and though my parents have verbally committed to stepping in if necessary, I don't think they could realistically do it. So, while I hope to never be in your situation, my husband and I are fully cognizant that it could happen eventually.
Screw what everyone says. You are making the best decision for your child and for your family. It is a TEMPORARY situation, and I am certain you're not the first person to do it. Think about how other people you know have their relatives move in with them to help during situations like this. What you're doing isn't that different except you'll be moving your child to them. All will be fine in the end. If the commentary bothers you, try to avoid talking about it with other people (not always easy, but sometimes better than getting dumped on).
- DocCandyJanuary 4, 2012 at 8:07 AM
I had to go to Officer Training School for a month when my daughter was 3 months old. I was forced to stay in the dorms, so if my husband and baby came with me, they'd have to stay at a separate location. Plus I wouldn't be allowed to see them except on weekends. I was also not allowed to have extra time to pump, so I had to give up breast feeding before I left her.ReplyDelete
It was hard on me emotionally, but we all survived. In hindsight, I should have sought legal counsel to at least be able to pump and ship milk home.
When she was 2 1/2, I was deployed for 3 months. My husband is an OB. We were blessed at that time to have a wonderful babysitter, who was willing to keep her long hours and overnight, and treat her as an extension of her own family.
Again, we survived. My daughter is now 14, and remembers absolutely none of it. She's a good kid. Typical teenager. We're clearly bonded.
If you need to send your child away to a safe and loving environment for a few months...do it. It will be hard emotionally for you, but it will be more stable for you and your child than you running in and out of his life from daycare to work and stressing every time you can't get to him because you're stuck in the hospital. What if he gets sick? Daycare won't keep him. What if the nanny gets sick...who will back her up?
It is OK to focus on your career and get through what you need to do.
Whatever you decide, it will be difficult. People will say stupid things to you. You must be strong, and do what you know in your heart is right for your own family, whatever the decision is. Don't allow others to make you feel bad for your choices.
Best wishes.
Like OMDG, I think this is actually not uncommon among some Asian families. I don't know anyone personally who did it, but I know *of* lots of women who did it. When I was pregnant, my residency director told me about a bunch of former residents who did it. And we're just a PM&R residency, not surgery!ReplyDelete
When I was a pregnant resident with my first baby, my mother (who lives far from me) offered half-seriously to take the baby while I was in residency. I never asked her to do this or wanted it, and as I said, I don't know if she was serious. But then she said, "It will be like Horton and the Egg." If you don't know that story, it's about how Horton the elephant sits on a bird's egg, and then when the bird is born, it sort of looks like an elephant and is loyal to Horton as its mother.
I went into a pregnancy hormone-fueled rage over that suggestion, but really, it's not true at all. Babies don't remember much day to day during their first six months. I've got one that age, and I always say that I think she barely knows who I am. Your baby may get kind of fussy when she returns to your care, but I bet within a few weeks, it will all be fine. It will probably be harder on you than on the baby.
It sounds like you're doing what you need to do to ensure the safe care of your baby.
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 9:57 AM
You are so fortunate to have family memebers help you. I had to move in and alternate my familyReplyDelete
member(s) for years. And even though we all lived together, I have not seen my child(ren) for 36 hours at a time on a regular basis, and other times I was there for an hour before their bedtime. My kids of course remember none of it, and great care they received pays off till this day.
Now we made a decision to send our youngest to Europe to a top music school, since his american teachers did not know what to do with him, he was too good for them. It is hard miss your child every day as it is, yet of course we had endured a lot of well meaning comments and "opinions" stating directly our child will be damaged forever. He lives with his close relatives who he knows, he is well adjusted and happy, he does not need us there he says, And he WANTED to do it.
Every family makes their own decisions, and if it does not please everyone, oh well. I had to tell one of our commenters who worked herself into frenzy, she must be careful with what she says. Negative thoughts tend to come around and go back to the source.
Screw every negative comment. Congratulations on the baby!
I agree with the above sentiment - you know whats best for you. You have this wonderful gift of a baby and loving people willing to take care of him so that you can continue to do your amazing work. You have a timing glitch and a wonderful solution. You will miss him terribly of course, but once your research years start you will have amazing time with your new baby and your husband. Life happens - you've found a great way to make it work. Ignore all negativity, you don't need it.ReplyDelete
Now to some advice from the street - Is it possible to take the extended leave and just stop your research 2.5 months early to make it up. This should actually not interfere with RRC guidelines and since you are a junior resident it would not affect the time when you finish. We had a surgery resident who had to take extended leave and she had to just extend her chief year.
Also, this is random, but as far as a "been there" comment. I have an aunt who was ill and had to send her kids away for a few months to be taken care of by other family members. Everyone survived and it didn't affect her relationship with her children. Its a short term situation with very little likelihood for long tern consequences.
Good luck and congrats on your new baby.
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 10:22 AM
You're in an unfortunate situation, but it sounds like you and your husband have found the best solution for you. I wouldn't second-guess it. Babies (and kids) are resilient. It will be hard for you, but it's not for that long and it will work out fine. Congrats on the pregnancy and good luck.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 10:36 AM
As long as it is just for a couple of months, I don't think it will have much of an impact on baby- he won't remember it and everyone's right, it will be much harder on you than on him.ReplyDelete
What will you do after your research years, though? Will you be in the same city then? Will your schedule be more regular, allowing you to use a more traditional daycare or nanny situation? I know it is very common in some Asian cultures to do this, but I definitely wouldn't continue the pattern of letting someone else parent the baby long-distance for the duration of your residency, especially once he's older.
Congratulations and best wishes on the delivery!
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I was in a somewhat similar situation as a single anesthesia resident. I think you have a solution that you should feel good about, and that is best for everyone involved, given the parameters you laid out.
However, you ARE legally entitled to more time off if you need it, and also to time for pumping when you go back to work if you need it.
My child was conceived "accidentally" in a long-term relationship while I was an anesthesia resident (taking q3 call on some rotations), and her father left me as soon as he found out we were pregnant. I also completed three years of general surgery residency in a grueling program PRIOR to RRC work-hour restrictions, so I am familiar with the kinds of hours and attitudes with which you are dealing.
I, too, had absolutely no family w/i 2000 miles. I definitely had no official "maternity leave". However, I was surprised to learn that even as a resident, one technically acquires "sick days" (even though I am well aware NO resident in surgery or anesthesia training program ever takes them or even knows they have them). But in a situation such as yours, or anyone who has a true medical reason for prolonged "illness" or "disability", one CAN used them for at least a few weeks of paid leave. As a third year resident when my daughter was born, I cobbled together a few weeks vacation I had saved up plus a few weeks of "sick days" acquired over the prior 2.5 years to get about a month of "paid leave". Then, since my daughter was preemie who had special medical needs, I took an additional month of unpaid leave til her needs stabilized. My medical benefits (and therefore, those of my daughter) through my program were protected for up to 90 days of leave, after which I would have lost them all.
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And while NO ONE wants to be viewed as the needy "mother" or even "single mother" who needs time to pump, my daughter NEVER learned to breastfeed and I pumped exclusively for ten months. With no skin-to-skin contact whatsoever (I tried like crazy for 10 weeks, but she never learned at all), the breastfeeding consultants recommended 100 minutes/day of pumping to keep my supply up. I wouldn't have made it so long had I not gone to four pumps at 20min/each per day. The morning and late afternoon sessions were performed with a hands-free bra thing WHILE I WAS DRIVING to&from the hospital, the evening session was right before I went to bed, or I set my alarm for, and I pumped ONE TIME midday or mid-afternoon, usually with a hands-free bra in a call room while writing notes on the computer or eating my lunch, etc etc. If that's all you ask, and you're productive during that time, you ARE legally entitled to this right, and you should feel NO guilt about demanding it. Like you, I didn't miss a step in my clinical or call duties when I was pregnant, postpartum, or the single mom of an infant, and aside from my short leave (I graduated two months late), I think I really eventually earned the respect of my colleagues and program administrators for my work ethic.
Now: about the childcare situation: You really CAN do it. You really CAN have a live-in nanny or au pair. Yes, I know they say au pairs who come through an agency (with a total cost of about $300/wk) can only work 40hrs/week, but it's way more economical and you may be able find one somehow. Finding a live-in nanny was my primary "job" during my maternity "leave". And the one I found DID clock well over 70-80hrs/week some weeks (fortunately my work hours were no longer on the order of 120hrs/week). Yes, it's expensive, but if s/he lives under your roof and you provide room & board, the monetary "allowance" shouldn't put you back as much as a day-time hourly-paid nanny. I used a lot of my on-call meal benefits as a resident to supplement my fridge. I had to borrow money from family SIMPLY to help cover the nanny expenses (as before I even had my daughter, I had merely a few hundred dollars leftover per month after paying my rent, utilities, and EXORBITANT student loans that had almost all run out of their lifetime limits of deferrals and forbearances by that time), no savings account to speak of, etc etc. It was extremely difficult - and my family didn't have a lot of money to lend me. But it was what I had to do for the remaining 6 months of my residency to get through, and I don't regret a single one of my decisions. I don't know what your husband makes in his "mistress" profession, but I would bet if he is actually brining in anything (unlike me in a position as being a truly single mother with no family around), that should help you pay for a few months of nanny help until you hit your research year. To this day I STILL need live-in help since I STILL take overnight call at least once/week, have very unpredictable and long hours in the OR with surprise add-on cases, etc etc, and I'm on "back-up" call from home quite frequently too. Live-in is the ONLY solution that could possibly work for me and my daughter given my work demands, but she is a wonderfully healthy and happy well-adjusted just-turned-four-year-old, and none-the-worse for having someone else take over her care for many a long night from the time she was an infant.
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And I am VERY mainstream, not an extremist by ANY means, but I felt very good about my decision once I read the BASICS of attachment theory - especially for the bonding when my daughter was a young infant. No, I never co-slept beyond those first weeks of attempting to breastfeed, was not an extremist baby-wearer or anything, but I think if you read some real basics (even those outlined in Dr. Sears' The Baby Book), you may have some fodder to seriously consider if you want to consider other possible solutions to your situation that are VERY VERY doable!
Not to make you feel like your own decision/proposed solution is a bad one. It sounds very feasible and obviously you've heard lots of people have done similar things. However, as one who HAS been there, and who HAS made it, I want to let you know that you CAN keep your baby with you. You CAN have a bit more time off if you want/need it postpartum. You CAN pump even with the demands of your job. And you CAN find live-in help to help you manage long hours and overnight care of your child - ESPECIALLY if you only need it for a few months, and may be able to help pay for it with your husband's or family members' financial assistance.
Good luck!!
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Your decision is SANE and Right.ReplyDelete
A baby needs love and attention - it does not matter where it comes from, as long as it is unconditional.
And babies have this attraction in them, despite the crying, poop, and the throwing up etc, which makes them irresistable - perhaps God's way of ensuring that they are well cared for.
AND, the age of 3-6 months is fairly easy to look after, rather than earlier, when everything is unpredictable or later when there s more recognition on baby's part.
Go ahead, and get it all!
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Please do yourself a favor and don't read anything by Dr. Sears. As a pediatrician, I find his theories offensive and dangerous and not backed up by rigorous research. My parents took care of my twins for the first six months. Babies just need someone who is consistent and loving. Please don't feel guilty. (I know it's easier said than done.)ReplyDelete
- JugglerJanuary 4, 2012 at 6:36 PM
I can't comment on your child care choices, but would suggest as another poster has above that if you can pump and fedex your milk to your baby while they are away it may help you to cope with the separation- a very concrete thing you are doing for your baby on a daily basis while you work through this difficult time. And if you decide to do that i would suggest seeing a lactation consultant before your baby is born to get some good adivce about maintaining supply during a long separation- it can be easier to plan and process the advice if you aren't seeking it in the midst of newborn sleeplessness and about to be separated stress. Good luck, whatever you decide :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 6:36 PM
Maybe I'm the only contrarian voice here - but I could not leave my baby for 3 months. And I didn't. I took an extended leave and stayed home till he was 9 months. I'm so glad I did - it facilitated breastfeeding and that time in his life will never return. If women in medicine don't stand up for our rights to mother, the macho culture of medicine (and surgery in particular) will not improve. If you want to have time with your child, ask your PD for that without guilt. Extending residency is not the worst thing in the world.ReplyDelete
You are not alone. I know of other women physicians who have made similar tough choices. Congratulations on your baby!!!ReplyDelete
I think this arrangement is going to be the hardest on you. Your baby will be fine. One of the worst days of my life was when I realized my daughter (not yet one) preferred my mother in law - who was living with us at the time - to me. Now, almost two years later we have a very strong relationship. It sucked, but we got through it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 8:47 PM
Thanks to everyone who commented-- I really appreciate your time and your candor. It's such a wonderful feeling to have this choice uniformly validated, as nearly everyone around me here has questioned it. My mentor (female, in the subspecialty I hope to enter, with two kids) and program director (female, with a child) have attempted to discourage me-- all the while insisting that there is absolutely no way extended leave will be granted in the absence of medical complications.ReplyDelete
Sure, I have a legal "right" to a minimum of 6 weeks of paid leave, and 12 weeks of FMLA. But I think we all know how the balance of power works in residency. Surgical residencies in particular are already stretched so thin-- we run on a permanent skeleton crew. To take someone (even a junior someone) out of the mix for 3 whole months would basically make everything explode. It's just not the same as the IM residency with 35 residents per year and lots of elective time.
Anyway, as to what happens in 2 years-- lots of 'ifs,' but *if* my husband is still in his same job and *if* my research time as gone well, I am hoping to pick up a residency spot down in my husband's city, even though I have been extremely happy at my current program. His income potential is much higher than mine and I think we should be able to afford the usual childcare options.
Thanks again for all the advice, commiseration and validation. It's much appreciated.
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 9:02 PM
37 years ago, my parents, two FMGs, came to the US for residency but left me behind to be raised by my grandmother, aunts and uncles. I was loved and well taken care of. It probably was a difficult decision for them but after 2 years I moved to the US to join them. Initially, I was reportedly distant with them. After a month, with the help of my grandmother coming over to ease the transition, I warmed up to them. It was a "necessary evil" to send me away but it has had no lasting repercussion on our relationship.ReplyDelete
I agree with most of the other responses. I think you are making the best decision you can based on your circumstances. You should not feel a bit guilty for doing this.ReplyDelete
My biggest concern is for you. I remember being amazed at how powerfully postpartum hormones affected me, against all my usual rationality. You may find yourself extremely emotional when your baby leaves to be with your family, even for only several months. That initial separation will likely be very hard on you. Just be prepared for this, know that it's the hormones, and resist the temptation to change your mind at the last minute.
And don't mind what anyone else thinks of YOUR decision about what is best for YOUR family!
I am sorry you are having to make this decision. It is not an easy one.ReplyDelete
I had twins at the end of my first year of medical school. I had to leave them and my husband for a month during my 3rd year clerkships while I studies to pass Step 1. My mom and inlaws stepped in and became the primary caregivers while my husband worked full-time. Because of my extended medical school track, I had 10 months off between graduation and starting residency, at which time I had baby #3. She was 4 months old when I started residency. My residency was in a different state and we had a terrible time securing housing due to the mortgage crisis (trying to get a home loan on a resident salary with student loans was almost impossible) and when it was moving day, we didn't have anywhere to live! My husband and I moved into a 1 bedroom apartment and left our 3 kids behind with our families (the twins age 4 and the baby 4 months). They didn't join us for another 6 weeks. It was absolutely the most stressful time, however I knew they were ok because they were in a loving environment and it was only temporary.
I am currently in my 3rd year of residency and baby #4 is now 4 months old.
I have received many unwelcome comments over the years regarding my choices to have a family during training, which I have chosen to ignore them. You HAVE to do what is best for YOUR family, and only you and your husband can decide what that is.
I wish you luck. You can do it!
and CONGRATS on having a baby!
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Last comment - do not worry about YOU. Baby AND you will be fine. I loved a comment from a grown (obviously also doctor=successfully raised)ReplyDelete
"abandoned" child. Families that are closer together raise better offspring. I was raised by grandparents and saw my parents on the weekends only due to better school system in my granparents neighbourhood. The best thing that happened to me in my whole life. I was as close to my grandparents as to my parents. And I owe all my life success to my grandmother who was a professional and worked full time till 70 yo.
What surprises me is such stories cause righteous anger among "tradinonal parents". But I know some families who sent their kids to boardng schools so they can lead socially comfortable life style and entertain actively. And those parents do not get as much disapproval from public.
Congratulations on your baby :DReplyDelete
You've found a solution that works for your family, and don't need to apologize for it. I don't *remember* this myself, but my grandmother loved to tell stories: as a baby, I was sent to live with my grandparents for a short period of time, and it was the best solution given the situation.
When people ask, you can simply say that your parents are looking forward to being grandparent, and will be taking care of the baby for you. No more details are really needed. Your coworkers are most likely wanting to know if they'll have to cover your shifts, and don't need details about where the childcare will occur. Your husband's coworkers can simply be told that the grandparents will be taking care of the baby and you're both looking forward to the time when your entire family will be reunited in the same city.
Best of luck! Congratulations!
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 5:34 PM
I would like to echo the support from others. I know a woman from China who left her son to be realised for a few years while she was doing her PhD. He is now grown up and in medical school. It is not a choice I would make but do what works for you. Do not feel bad. You are just trying your best. We don't hear about all the different solutions because I think most people just quietly get on with their lives the best they can - the critics are always the loudest.ReplyDelete
Enjoy your baby - it is a gorgeous time.
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 5:35 PM
PS typo I mean "raised".ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 5:57 PM
Perhaps this is an indicator of how much my medical training has warped my tiny mind, but I think your solution sounds like a perfectly reasonable one.ReplyDelete
You are lucky to have a loving, supportive family, and there is no one you can better trust to take care of your little one. (My life plan is actually to import my parents to wherever I end up for fellowship to "raise my children for me" -- we joke about it, but it's a dead serious plan -- because I can't imagine more perfect childcare.)
You will be able to continue on with your training, Junior or Juniorette will be the object of lavish attention from people who think he/she is perfect in every way AND are not sleep deprived, and your relatives will feel closer to you and your baby for the rest of their lives after those short 2.5 months.
Congratulations to you and your husband for making it work -- and pretty brilliantly, in my opinion!
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 9:10 PM
You have found the perfect solution :-) yay ...ReplyDelete
I have 2 kids and am a attending - surgical and am married to yet another one.
In the middle of my residency i had a surprise pregnany and surprise Twins :-) My mom came here for the delivery from India , stayed 9 weeks, adn tookt he babies back with her, we went there about 3 weeks before they turned 1 , celebrated their b'day and brought them and my mom back to the US, my mom left after about 2 months by which time they were well adjusted in day-care and to us and we to them , they are in med school now and don't remember a thing. I would gladly do the same if i was needed to for them ..( unfortunately they are both boys , i would have loved a girl) but didn't dare try the baby thing again.
- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2012 at 11:41 PM
Your predicament is very similar to mine. I became pregnant with my first baby while an orthopedic surgery intern. My husband is a cards fellow in another city halfway across the U.S. So, after having the baby and facing a lot of discrimination from my program, I had to send my baby away to another country to be looked after by his grandparents. We missed our baby a lot but its impossible to look after an infant being a single parent and a resident in a grueling specialty. On the plus side, my baby has bonded very strongly with his grandparents.
- AnonymousJanuary 9, 2012 at 10:12 PM
I had a baby my last year of medical school and got a mere two weeks off for it. I was fortunate enough to have my parents retired and close by and my partner with job flexibility to make it work. It was tough but wow, nothing compared to yours.ReplyDelete
You are trying to make the best decision for your family. Screw anyone who thinks they have the right to judge you for it. It will be horribly hard for you but it will not hurt your baby. It will be with people that love it and can give it plenty of attention and in the grand scheme of things it is only a short amount of time and may bless your child and the relatives that care for it for that time a much closer releationship than they would
Be strong and keep your eyes on the prize and on the calendar and most of all remember you are not hurting your baby, you are not a bad mother.
I think you are setting a great example to your child of
what a woman can be.
Good luck.
- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2012 at 11:51 AM
First, congratulations! Having your kid(s) is going to be the best thing you ever do (medicine included). Good for you for keeping your baby in the first place. The culture of medicine (and lots of other workplaces) is never going to support you in your family life. You need to be able to stand up for what you want and what you believe, and others will fall into line. They will probably even admire you.ReplyDelete
As for the child-care issues - no kidding, it's terribly tough in some residencies. But your baby will be fine and will love you no matter who looks after him/her in the early months. They are so small - they really just need love and food and they will be just fine. Two weeks after you get your baby back, he or she will have forgotten life was any other way. Try not to worry! It's going to be great.
- Mom of 2 (aged 6mo and 2.8yrs, both during IM / pulmonary residency)
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2012 at 1:28 PM
That is an outrage. It is frankly unbelievable you've slaved in school for as long as you have to create better opportunities for yourself. You are an ASSET to the community and these are your only options?!?! The MALE DOMINATED medical community needs to do better in terms of our valuable FEMALE physicians. Yep, I said it folks, this is SEXISM in all it's glory! I do hope everything works out for you dear!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2012 at 8:48 PM
I cannot speak from the point of view of being a mother or a doctor - I can, however, speak as a child who had to be raised by my grandmother for various periods of time while my mother worked and supported the family.ReplyDelete
While I was a baby and until the age of probably 5 I had to be sent to live with my grandmother for sometimes months at a time because my mother could not attend to me due to her hectic schedule. All I remember from those times spent apart was great admiration for my mother, the amazing attention I got from my grandmother, and knowing that both loved me very much. I did not feel insecure about it then, nor do I now, and I am thankful that my mother did what she did. She was able to concentrate on her job more peacefully, and I got to spend time with my wonderful grandmother who spent every moment of the day with me, making sure I was well fed, reading with me, going outside with me, etc. I still remember those days with joy, and do not feel any more distance between my mother and I - if anything, I love her even more now, knowing how hard she worked to provide for me as I was growing up, and how difficult it was for her to spend time apart. I am really thankful my mother did what she did, because otherwise I would have witnessed many more stressful situations at home.
This turned out to be sort of a long post, but basically what I am trying to say is - from the point of view of a child who has been through this, I think it is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. I don't remember being apart as a baby at all. And as a toddler I did not feel any separation anxiety, or resentment - was just happy I would get to spend time with my grandmother, and knew that in time I would get to come home again. I only have good memories of those days.Replies
Make the transition as smooth as possible. That the baby can get used to the new people in his life and get used to be with you afterwards. Its not good to change one day to the next day the person who is only there for him. But when you overlap the times, it is better.In my country they say its the best for the baby to be with the mom 24/7 for the first year of life, but of course thats an unrealistic ideal and no on in the States would be able to do that. I think the most important thing is just to change the care person as less as possible and to make the transfer smooth, to make the baby used to the new person or back to you.Delete
I do know kids who grew up the first years at their grandparents, only seing their parents on the weekends and they are perfectly fine.Delete


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I found this photograph in a tin I brought from my mum and dad. There are loads of photographs – some old and others more recent. I know some of the people, can guess at a few of the others and have no idea about the majority.
I have on my "to do" list getting my mum to go through the photographs and trying to put more names to faces.
Anyway, this particular photograph falls in to the category of "I have no idea who they are".
I thought that I had struck lucky when I turned the photograph over and saw an inscription on the back. Then I read "This is us leaving the church after the wedding" – well I think I could have made quite a good stab at that myself. I just wanted to shout why didn't you sign it "with love …." or something.
I am guessing that the period is sometime in the 1920's. Is the bride's dress and head ware a bit "flapperish"? It looks like it to me.
So, whoever you are I hope you enjoyed your wedding day and had a happy life together. I might find out more about you in the future.


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Evening Reading
Other than Walking Dead volumes and reading Y: The Last Man from start to finish again, I haven't paid a lot of attention to the world of comics. When it comes to these super hero/villain franchises, where do I even start?
I mean this in the sense of the last half decade, so there's no need to throw me recommendations to read Batman: Year One. In recent history, what comic books have captured your attention? I did get that free one month of Marvel's digital subscription when I bought my own copy of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Any recommendations?
One important thing: Make sure to read this Chatty thread where we reveal some actual details for something I have affectionately coined NewShackCity.


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It's still not official, but the evidence that Microsoft is bringing Office to the iPad and iPhone is growing in abundance. At this point, it seems to be an inevitability that Redmond will release Office apps for iOS in some form in early 2013, with Android apps following soon after.
In so doing, the company stands a good chance of cementing the role of the iPad as a business tool, eroding the advantages of Windows Phone 8 and undermining the entire value proposition of Windows RT. It will also hole Microsoft's argument that the iPad is "just" for content consumption below the waterline. The upside of Office on iOS? That's harder to fathom.
According to the Verge, Office for iOS will ship as a set of free apps (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—OneNote is already available for iOS) that will allow viewing of their respective document types. Limited creation and editing will be enabled through purchase of an Office 365 subscription.
Should this come to pass, Microsoft will not just be banging a nail into the coffin of Windows RT and, by extension, its Surface tablet. It'll be digging the grave, tossing in the body, and then unloading a few tons of concrete into the hole to ensure that there's no risk of reanimation.
Making the unique... less unique
Windows RT's unique selling point is that it comes with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. It offers (almost) full fidelity reproduction and editing of Office documents. To achieve this, Microsoft has been forced to make enormous compromises: the Office apps in Windows RT offer only minimal concessions to touch-based usability. They remain apps that are essentially keyboard and mouse-centric, and accordingly, Microsoft has made its keyboard and touchpad accessory for Surface a core part of the product's branding and marketing.
On Windows Phone, likewise, the integrated Office support is one of the features that Microsoft touts as a key advantage over the competition. Windows Phone's Office support is a lot more rudimentary than that of Windows RT, enabling partial viewing and on-the-go editing of Office documents, but the application is reasonably attuned to the limitations imposed by the smartphone form factor.
There's a large class of users that don't care about Office at all. There are a number of users who care about Office so much that the version in Windows RT, or any potential version for iOS, will never be good enough. But there are also a bunch of users somewhere in between; people writing essays for their homework in Word, people balancing their checkbooks or running their home business in Excel, office workers making the finishing touches to a presentation in PowerPoint—for whom Office for iPad (or Office for Windows RT) might be more than enough—and who might well decide to forego a PC purchase entirely if their tablet can do the job.
In creating Office for iOS, Microsoft is one-upping its own platforms. On the iPad, Microsoft can't rely on the presence of keyboard accessories as crutches to make up for user interface inadequacies. As such, we can be confident that Office on iPad will be "touch native" in a way that Office 2013 isn't. While users of Windows will be forced to use mouse-oriented software even if they merely want to read documents, iPad users will be able to revel in the luxury of an application that's built for, and designed around, touch navigation.
It's highly unlikely that Office on iPad will offer full-featured editing to Office 365-enabled users, but conversely, it's all but guaranteed that the editing capabilities that it does support will be entirely comfortable for touch users.
This means that Microsoft will be doing for iOS something that it's refused to do for its very own platform: offering a proper touch-enabled version of Office. Indeed, Microsoft will be doing what we advocated it do for Windows: create full fidelity viewers with limited, fully touch-capable editors.
Windows Phone's situation is not quite the same. That operating system already has proper touch versions of Office, so Microsoft will not be enabling competing platforms in quite the same way as it is in the tablet space. Nonetheless, Windows Phone's Office support is a unique selling point—one that will be eliminated if Microsoft offers Office for iOS and Android.
Granted, in both of these cases the Microsoft products will retain an edge. Windows RT and Surface will still have the near-full Office if you want it, and neither Windows RT nor Windows Phone require an Office 365 subscription to enable any functionality. If you need everything that Office can do, Windows is your only option. But if you just need a bit of what Office can do, you'll be able to look elsewhere.
Providing Office on iOS and Android does more than just diminish Microsoft's own competitive advantage; it also negates some of Microsoft's marketing tactics against those platforms, by bolstering the credibility of iOS and Android as productive business tools.
The positioning of the iPad as a pure consumption device has never entirely rung true—there are various apps that allow document creation and editing, among other things, on the platform. Nonetheless, when talking about the decisions that went into the design of the Surface tablet, former President of Windows and Windows Live Steven Sinofsky nonetheless positioned the iPad as a device designed predominantly for consumption of media; Surface, in contrast, with Office and its keyboard covers, was a much more rounded device that had first class support for traditional productivity applications.
We see this reflected in much of the marketing material around Surface. The first thing mentioned in this 90 second Surface promo video? Surface is for "your way of working." You can "do more" with Surface, and that means you can use it to "create" and use it for business.
That whole marketing angle evaporates if you can say exactly the same thing of an iPad. It means that you no longer need a PC for work; your creation and business can be performed on the iPad.
Office for Mac isn't the same
Microsoft producing Office for a competing platform is not unprecedented. Office has an OS X version, after all. One might argue that Office for OS X is harmless, and that Office for iOS will equally be harmless. But there are important differences between the two.
Windows is dissimilar from OS X in some ways that are extremely important to the enterprise. Windows, with Active Directory domains, Group Policies, and the System Center suite, is extremely easy to centrally manage and control. Microsoft makes sure to support old Windows versions with security fixes available for a decade or more after the original release. Windows networking remains reliable even when using different versions of the operating system. To a significant degree, the business world depends on these capabilities.
OS X is much weaker in this regard. Yes, it can authenticate against an Active Directory domain, but it doesn't integrate neatly with Windows-based management tools. It can access Windows fileshares, as long as you're willing to overlook things not quite working correctly all the time. Apple will offer security updates for the previous version of the operating system, but you're out of luck if you want any assistance for a ten-year-old OS X version. Even a five-year-old one is on shaky ground.
Microsoft can afford to support Office on OS X—and by all accounts make a healthy profit from doing so—because Apple is steadfastly unwilling to make OS X a suitable platform for use on the corporate desktop. Windows doesn't need Office as its unique selling point in the fight against OS X. As long as Apple's happy for OS X to be little more than a consumer play, Office on OS X doesn't threaten Windows.
The world of mobile devices is a very different place. Not only is Windows not a major player in this space, it's also not best of breed in this space. Sure, an iPad can't join a Windows domain. But nor can a Windows RT tablet such as Surface. The most common system used to secure and manage tablets and smartphones is Microsoft's ActiveSync, but this is not only supported by iOS, it's actually better-supported under iOS than it is Windows Phone: iOS provides richer, finer-grained support for ActiveSync policies than Microsoft's own platform.
Apple may be happy to carve out a small niche on the desktop, but it's not doing so in the mobile space, and that difference justifies a different approach. Against the mobile competition, Windows needs every advantage Microsoft can give it.
Why do it?
The dangers of producing Office for iOS and Android are significant. The Windows PC stands a good chance of being marginalized: even its role on the corporate desktop could decline as the iPad grows in capabilities. Office remains an important product, especially for business users, and at the moment, it's a big plus that Windows offers and other platforms can't match. Offering Office on iOS can only hurt Windows.
That might still be worth doing if it helped Microsoft's other big cash cow; Office itself. Microsoft would certainly sell a few Office 365 subscriptions off the back of Office for iOS, though it's hard to gauge just how many it would sell.
It is the case that Office has some competition on these mobile platforms. In the absence of Office for iOS, a number of competing products have materialized. Apple's iWork apps are the best known, but there are others, such as Bytesquare and (Google-owned) Quickoffice. All offer some degree of Office compatibility, all are out-and-out touch applications, all cost a handful of dollars. iWork, at $9.99 per app, is the most expensive.
None of these apps offer full fidelity support for Office documents, and none of them can do everything that Office can do, but for many users they may well be good enough. So there are certainly threats to Office. But it's hard to believe that any of these threats are as big as the threat to Windows and the PC. Office is still the gold standard for office productivity. Shipping Office for iOS to boost Office, at the expense of Windows and Windows Phone, is backwards.
Will Apple save Microsoft from itself?
In spite of these risks, the rumors and leaks are hard to ignore. It seems that Microsoft really does want to produce an Office for iOS. If Apple has its way, however, there's a chance Microsoft might never ship it.
Per AllThingsD, Apple has just rejected Microsoft's latest update to its SkyDrive app for iOS. Why? Because the updated SkyDrive app sells subscriptions to buy more storage, and Microsoft doesn't give Apple a 30 percent cut of those sales or use Apple's purchasing infrastructure. That's against the rules of Apple's App Store, and AllThingsD reports that Apple's refusing to back down and give Microsoft a concession.
According to sources speaking to AllThingsD, Microsoft's concern isn't SkyDrive per se, but Office 365. The Office apps, like the SkyDrive update, will offer the ability to purchase an Office 365 subscription, and it's this revenue that Microsoft doesn't want to give up.
Apple takes a hard line against apps offering alternative routes to in-app purchases. Apps using the Dropbox SDK were once rejected after Dropbox inadvertently left a link on its pages that allowed the purchase of more storage. A similar approach would leave Microsoft with no ability at all to offer Office 365 upsells from within its Office for iOS apps.
Take away the ability to flog Office 365 subscriptions from the apps, you take away much of the point of Office for iOS. Microsoft could change its strategy and make Office a straightforward paid app, but this runs contrary to the company's broader goal, which is converting all Office users to subscribers. It's also not clear that the iOS App Store would sustain up-front pricing at a level that would make up for the damage done to Windows. Windows licenses are estimated to net Microsoft about $35, Windows RT licenses around $85. If iOS Office were to price match the iWork apps ($30 for the set, of which Microsoft would receive $21) it'd still fall a long way short of the lost Windows revenue, let alone Windows RT. Every user defecting from Windows and Office to iPad and Office would represent lost revenue for Redmond.
Another option would be to remove the editing capabilities entirely, and leave the Office apps as free viewers. Doing this would not only preserve the advantages of Windows RT and Windows Phone, but might also take some of the wind out of the Office competitors' sails, as anyone wanting to view Office documents would probably pick Microsoft's apps in preference to third-party options.
Apple has no particular reason to back down and cut Microsoft a deal. It's not as if the iPad is suffering on the market; it certainly doesn't need Office. The best thing for Redmond is Cupertino sticking to its guns. But if it does relent, it'll free Microsoft to press ahead with its dangerously destructive plans. Microsoft may want to get its own way on the App Store. It should hope it doesn't.


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A few days ago, I attended the funeral of a long-time family friend. It was a lovely service, for all that death was involved, but it stuck out in my mind because of something the preacher said. Much of the information on our tombstone is beyond our control, our name, our dates of birth and death. But we weren't there to discuss those things; we were there to talk about the one thing we could control: the life represented by the dash connecting the start of our life and its end.
That dash encompasses a lot of ground. It defines who we are, much more so than our dates of birth and death. Yet many genealogists reduce their ancestors' lives to those two dates, with little regard for what happened in between save for the birth of their progeny, specifically the connecting ancestor. In the rush to push lineages as far back in time as possible, the very things that made our ancestors who and what they were are lost: the day-to-day activities, their religious affiliation, the labor of their hands and heart, the nature of their character. They are no longer vibrant individuals woven integrally into a thriving network of family, friends, and neighbors, but a name on a piece of paper with two small dates attached.
Ignoring the connecting dash, the largest portion of an ancestor's life, can lead to a loss of identity which can, in turn, foment a serious crisis in one's research. The inability to define an ancestor as an individual, an individual who was a thriving member of his or her community, is one of the primary causes of brick walls, from the ancestor with a common name, to the one who seems to appear out of thin air, to the grandmother whose maiden name is missing.
As genealogists it is our duty to remember not the sweeping spans of history, the movements, the wars, the politics, but the individuals who lived that history. Our ancestors were a part of the past, but they were not defined solely by history's grand moments. They loved and lost, toiled and worshipped, fought and bled, daily and in a quiet way that history has long forgotten. And yes, they were born and they died, but that is not the sole function of a human being, nor is it our sole capability. That little connecting dash between the dates on a tombstone is what makes us who we are. Forgetting that, we lose not only our past but ourselves, for who will remember us when we are gone and little remains of our lives but a stone monument faded with time?


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A growing majority of the American public thinks that the world's temperature is rising, according to the latest telephone survey conducted by the Associated Press and German market research group GfK. When asked whether the world's temperature has been increasing over the last century, 78 percent of respondents thought that this probably had been the case, up from 75 percent when the same question was posed in 2009. Falling in the midst of the e-mail controversy at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit and following a number of harsh winters, the 2009 figure marked a 15-year low. More dramatic is the swing in certainty. Among those who think global warming has occurred, 57 percent describe themselves as either extremely or very sure, compared to 43 percent in 2009.
Despite these numbers, there is still a core group who refuses to accept the extensive evidence that the world has gotten warmer. The proportion of those who believed warming had probably not been happening was 18 percent, down from 22 percent. And their belief is getting shakier: their certainty was down to 31 percent from 52 percent in 2009.
Another significant change since 2009 is among the 32 percent of respondents (up from 30 percent) who have little to no trust in scientists on environmental matters. Among this group, 61 percent now believe global temperatures have increased over the last century, up from 47 percent.
Support for government action on global warming is also up, with 57 percent of respondents believing the US government should do "a great deal" or "quite a bit," compared to 52 percent in 2009.
Though the number of Americans who think the globe is warming appears to be growing, the total falls short of a 2006 peak when, within a year of Hurricane Katrina, AP polling indicated that 85 percent thought world temperatures were increasing. Belief has fluctuated between 70 and 85 percent since polling began.
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I am working as a Software Engineer at Google. I received a PhD in Computer Science from the Software Composition Group of the University of Bern. I am an active open-source developer.
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DOVER — A New Durham woman accused of starving a young boy will begin her trial in Strafford County Superior Court Tuesday morning.
Christina Thomas, 33, of 214 Birch Hill Road, New Durham, was indicted in December 2011 on one count of first-degree assault, alleging she failed to provide proper nutrition to the victim, now 9 years old, between August 2006 and April 2010, while acting as his primary caregiver.
According to court documents, the boy and his mother, Thomas' longtime friend, were living with Thomas and her mother, Peggy Starr, 54, of 265 Kings Highway, New Durham, when the alleged abuse occurred.
Thomas was first indicted on an assault charge in the case in February 2011, but that charge was dismissed later that year after her defense attorney submitted a motion to dismiss, citing improper wording in indictment papers.
A Strafford County Superior Court upheld the motion and dismissed the case. Then, the Strafford County attorney's office came back with another indictment presented before a grand jury.
In early 2012, Thomas was also facing charges of criminal threatening after allegedly holding a knife to the boy's mother's throat in 2008. She was also charged with three misdemeanor simple assault charges alleging she struck the boy's mother in the face twice and shoved her face into a cake pan.
With her waiver of arraignment last January, Thomas has been out on $10,000 personal recognizance bail. She was ordered to have no contact with her alleged victims or children under the age of 16.
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Detection of a gross or very large leak in the Evaporative Emission System.
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The Evaporative Emission System is designed to prevent gasoline vapors from escaping into the atmosphere, and is built around a series of valves, rubber hoses, and a charcoal canister meant to collect vapors as they build up. These vapors are then systematically sent to the engine to be burned off. The computer regularly checks for leaks within this system, either by pumping in air, or by pulling a vacuum, and measuring the time it takes to reach a certain level. When a leak is detected the computer will command the check engine light on and set a P0440, which designates a problem in the system, and another code, such as P0455, to describe the size of leak.
What causes a P0455 code?
These are not very size-able leaks, even though the language suggests otherwise. The computer will turn on the check engine light for a leak as little as .020", and will set the P0455 for anything.040" or greater. Remember that most of this system sits underneath the car commonly next to the gas tank, so it is exposed to the elements, especially the road grime and wetness that gets kicked up by the tires. The rubber hose will dry up and crack over time creating these small leaks, sand and moisture will get into the system and either rust up or jam the valves, and the gas tank and in particular the filler neck will just plain rust for ones made out of metal. These leaks will happen and it's not your fault.
What is the severity of a P0455 code?
Minor (unless the car is noticeably running poorly). In other words there is no immediate reason the car will break down and leave you stranded.
What repair(s) are needed to resolve a P0455 code?
The gross leak P0455 is much easier to diagnose than smaller leaks in the system, so in some cases the diagnosis will be not be as long or costly. Outside of the gas cap not being on, the most common headaches here are the valves that open and close (they get stuck), the charcoal canister (gets a size-able crack), or the filler neck (rusts through).
What will it cost to resolve a P0445 code?
- Estimated diagnostic cost = $100
- Estimated part(s)+ labor cost = $25-600 (pending the type of repair needed)
Most shops will charge a diagnostic fee usually around $100. Unlike the smaller leaks which can require more diagnosing, the gross leak is found during that first phase. Because these leaks go beyond small pin holes in rubber hoses, the repairs can get costly. A missing gas cap might cost you $25, but to change a vent valve or purge valve, the price can run around $200 to $300 dollars, depending if the parts are available through the part store or the dealership. A charcoal canister will run $400 to $600 for repair depending on where it is located. To replace a filler neck the cost can run from $300 to $400.
Keep in mind, pricing will vary by location and your vehicle make and model. Save time and money by using Openbay to compare pricing and book an appointment with a service center in your area.
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