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Quality of Electronic Discharge Summaries at Newham University Hospital: An Audit
Syeda M B Kazmi
Cite this article as: BJMP 2008:1(1) 30-32
Syeda M. B. Kazmi
The effectiveness and quality of care for patients is largely dependent on communication between physicians both in secondary care and in primary care. Written communication between secondary and primary care in the form of a discharge summary is vitally important for informing General Practitioners (GPs) and other healthcare professionals of the details regarding patients' admission into hospital, as well as ensuring there is continuity of care in the community. Discharge summaries are often the only form of communication that occurs at the transition between secondary and primary care.
Prior to discharging patients from hospital, a discharge summary (whether this be hand written or typed) is required to be completed. Ideally copies are kept in patient files and given to the patient, as well as forwarding a copy to the GP. Correctly completing all relevant sections on a discharge summary is part of good medical practice, Clinical Governance and hospital/patient documentation.
Historically, discharge summaries have been found to be poorly written, contain inaccurate and ineffective information. Several studies have identified areas which are lacking in discharge summaries when looking at the quality of the discharge summary. These include: inadequacies of medical evaluation, level of experience of the discharge author and accuracy. Subsequently, there has been a general move towards electronic discharge summaries with a standard format.
In April 2005, Newham University Hospital Trust (NUHT) began using the Cerner Millennium Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system. This electronically stores information about a patient, for example discharge summaries, previous blood results, imaging results etc. It is intended that all discharge summaries are typed directly onto this computerized system. The summaries are then available to view by all authorized parties anywhere in the hospital. This system has the advantage of enabling access to portions of a patient's medical record whilst waiting for patients' old notes. Furthermore, more information can be added to the discharge summaries contemporaneously or even after the point of discharge. Table 1. Shows some advantages and disadvantages of EPR vs paper discharge summaries.
Disadvantages of EPR
This study assessed the quality of discharge summaries completed by medical specialties at Newham University Hospital Trust using the EPR system. The aim was to identify any problems and where they are occurring. The information gained would help in addressing any problems identified, to improve the quality of discharge summaries.
I had an in-depth discussion with my supervisor about the feasibility, methodology, data collection, patient confidentiality, ethics and relevance of this audit to the Hospital.
I undertook a thorough literature search in Medline and other internet searches, reviewed the Journals in NUHT Library for similar audits which looked at the quality of discharge summaries.
A sample of 100 Medical (respiratory, endocrine and gastroenterology) and Care of the Elderly (CoE) discharge summaries of patients from NUHT were retrospectively audited. The hospital Audit Department provided me with the names of the last 100 patients who had been discharged from Medicine and CoE during October 2007. These were sequential discharges, not selected at random. We did not analyze any patients from the specialties of Surgery, Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Cardiology or Emergency Medicine.
After obtaining the names, the discharge summaries were analysed and information was collected on the following fields:
Name of Consultant on the discharge summary sheet
Which team the consultant belonged to: Medical, CoE or A&E
If the discharge consultant was correct
If date of admission had been completed
If date of discharge had been completed
If the patient was given a diagnosis
If a follow up appointment was suggested and what type of follow up this was (GP or NUHT or another hospital)
If a follow up appointment had been made
If the discharge summaries had been signed and bleep number provided
This data was then tabulated using simple statistical analysis (mainly descriptive) and the results calculated into a percentage.
The names of the consultants on the discharge summaries were divided into Medical, Care of the Elderly and Accident & Emergency. The medical team was further divided into team A, B and C, according to the specialty they worked under, for example Team A: endocrine, team B: gastroenterology, and team C: respiratory medicine. By dividing the consultants under different teams allowed me to confirm if they were the right consultant. A&E was included into this field as many discharges still have A&E consultants on them despite the patients being admitted to hospital.
This audit did not address the following issues:
1. If the GP is correct
2. If the GP received the summary
3. If the GP made follow up arrangements post discharge
4. The accuracy of the diagnosis
5. If the patient has more than one electronic medical records
The examination of 100 medical records yielded 94 discharge summaries available for audit, leaving 6 medical records with no evidence of a discharge summary.
As mentioned above, the consultants on the discharge summary were divided into the following categories. The number beside them represents how many discharge summaries belonged to each respective team.
Care of the elderly team: 46
Adult medicine: 36
Other: 3
It was found that 57(60.6%) of the discharge summaries contained the correct consultant name. However, on 22(23.4%) of the discharge summaries it was unclear if the discharge consultant was correct.
From the 96 discharge summaries completed, every single summary had an admission date on it, however, only 75(79.8%) of discharge summaries had a discharge date.
Seventy five (79.8%) of discharge summaries had been signed by the author (with their name), but only 71(75.5%) had wrote their bleep number.
Sixty five (69.1%) summaries were identified to have a diagnoses under the heading of acute problems, whereas only 22(23.4%) had only symptoms. The remaining 13 (13.8%) summaries had no diagnosis or symptoms completed.
Finally, when analyzing the discharge summaries regarding follow up arrangements, 91(96.8%) discharge summaries had a follow up suggested, of which 27(29.7%) were to be followed up by GP, 59(64.8%) were to be followed in NUHT and 5 patients were to be followed up at another hospital.
Of the discharge summaries which had follow up arranged in NUHT, only 40(67.8%) patients had a follow up appointment made.
This study supports previous studies, confirming that a new approach to discharge summary completion is required. One of the main problems identified in this summary, was the use of incorrect consultants on the discharge summary. The current method used is clearly not effective; therefore it is important that the author completing the discharge summary ensures that the correct consultant is on the summary.
Changing the Consultant name on the discharge summaries is of great importance because this means that GPs are able to refer patients back to the correct consultants when seeking advice or trying to arrange further follow up with that consultant. Furthermore, it allows the appropriate National Health Service (NHS) funding to be given to the relevant department.
It was unclear in 22 discharge summaries if the discharge Consultant was correct. This was partly due to the fact that several discharge summaries had no author name or bleep number. By documenting your name and bleep number on a discharge summary, is not only accessible to physicians in primary and secondary care, but also to hospital pharmacist, in case they need to contact you when medication needs to be amended.
The second important problem identified in this study, was the lack of follow up appointments made, despite having it requested on the discharge summary. Of the patients that had follow up appointments suggested at NUHT, only 40(67.8%) patients had follow appointments made, which meant that 19(32.2%) patients had no appointment made. The only possible explanations for this may be that I started analyzing the patient summaries and follow up appointments too early post discharged, therefore not allowing enough time for the appointments to be made, or perhaps the appointments are simply not being made.
As this study did not look to see whether follow appointments with GPs had been made, we are unable to comment on this. However, previous studies have shown that follow up appointments are not always made with the GPs post discharge. As a result, the percentage of patients actually receiving a follow up post discharge from hospital may be lower than anticipated.
The third problem this study identified was the lack of discharge dates on the summaries. Having the discharge date on discharge summaries is not only important for hospital doctors but its of vital importance for GPs, as it provides them with information about how long a patient remained in hospital, and the severity of their illness. For example, if a patient was discharged from hospital after 2 days with an Asthma Exacerbation, we can assume that the severity of their exacerbation was not too severe. However, if the same pt remains in hospital for 15 days, this gives us more information about the severity of their exacerbation.
The fourth problem demonstrated in this study, was the infrequent number of diagnoses entered under the acute problems section in the discharge summaries. Only 65 (69.1%) summaries were identified to have a diagnoses, 22(23.4%) summaries had symptoms only. The remaining 13 (13.8%) summaries had no diagnosis or symptoms completed. It is important to document diagnosis or symptoms as it allows accurate medical coding. It is also often difficult to fathom why a patient was admitted to hospital even after reading the entire discharge summary. Furthermore, the benefit of accurate clinical coding is accurate payment for the services provided by the hospital.
The final problem which needs to be addressed is the completion of a discharge summary for all patients that have been admitted to hospital. This study found that 6 medical records showed no evidence of a discharge summary. One possible explanation for this would be if a patient had self discharged from the hospital, and not been formally discharged by a team or if a patient had died. However, in this case it is still important that a discharge summary is completed. A GP will still need to know why a patient was admitted and why they self discharged
It is clear from this study that there needs to be more robust processes put in place to ensure accurate recording of data on the information sent out to General Practitioners. Medical Practitioners completing the summaries should be encouraged to ensure that all fields on the discharge summary are adequately completed in order for us to reap the benefits.
Poor communication in the discharge summaries impacts poorly on patient care and increases the costs to the NHS due to increased rates of readmission into hospital. We can recognize this as a major problem confronting the NHS and so completing discharge summaries in full can help reduce his burden.
A number of recommendations have been identified and include:
The need to raise the awareness of this problem amongst hospital colleagues including Clinical Governance and Audit department with the objective to improve the quality of the summary. The preferred format may be a presentation or advisory email.
For consultants to communicate with junior doctors on a regular basis and go through their discharge summaries, highlighting areas of improvement. This is currently done by some medical teams at NUHT.
For the author of the discharge summary to ensure the correct consultant name is on the discharge summary.
All medical teams should complete a discharge summary regardless if a patient has self discharged or died.
To relay this information back to the ward clerks and ensure that they understand the importance of making follow up appointments as soon as they have been given a discharge summary.
A repeat audit should be performed in 12 months to look for improvements in the data completion.
None declared
The author would like to thank Dr T. O'Shaughnessy, Medical Student Umair Mohammed, Dr David Ward, and the Audit Department for all their help and support
SYEDA M. B. KAZMI, Foundation Year 2 Trainee, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
CORRESPONDENCE: DR S M B Kazmi, 15 Kevelioc Road, Tottenham, London, N17 7PR
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AU Press Releases
AU volleyball team falls to Elmira in Empire 8 Conference finale
ELMIRA, NY — The Alfred University volleyball team lost a 3-0 decision at Elmira Thursday in the Saxons Empire 8 Conference finale.
AU (1-20, 0-7 Empire 8) lost by scores of 25-16, 25-10 and 25-18. AU was paced by junior Chelsea Hall (Grand Island, NY/Grand Island) with eight kills, six digs and a block.
Junior Paige Jensen (Weiser, ID/Weiser) had three kills, six digs, a service aces and a block; junior Janelle Gallipeau (Rochester, NY/Greece Olympia) had eight assists and six digs; and six blocks; and junior Tara Barone (Derby, NY/Lake Shore) had 11 assists and three digs.
Alfred is in action next on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. at home against Keuka.

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Were any of you listening to Rush today? If you weren't and have Rush 24/7, I encourage you to listen.
Two different service people called in and explained exactly what the protocol is when our troops are in danger. It was incredible. These guys both say that there was no way bammy didn't get the message ................they were both well spoken guys, and laid the protocol for such an event out very plainly.
I heard and believe them.
I called Speaker Boehner's office # 202-225-0600
I urge everyone to call and let him know we expect more than a bunch of hearings after the election. I want these people held accountable!


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African American History Forum
Biography of Alice Coachman [Davis]
the first African American woman to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
Alice Coachman (Davis) was the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal and the only American woman to win a gold medal in the 1948 Olympics in London. She was born November 9, 1923 in Albany, Georgia to Fred and Evelyn Jackson Coachman.


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City of Edinburgh fought back to defeat Edinburgh Lions 53-49 to retain basketball's Lothian Cup at Portobello High School on Saturday, while Comets beat Midlothian Saints 49-42 to take the women's cup.
After a very slow start, City had to come back from 15 points down in the first quarter against the Lions who still led their local rivals by seven at half-time.
A 10-0 run in the third quarter put coach Simon Flockhart's team in control.
"The guys really stepped it up in the second half with some solid defence and good patience in offence," declared Flockhart afterwards.
"It was a great team performance and a great way to finish the season after the disappointment of only finishing runners-up (to Boroughmuir Blaze) in the Lothian League first division."
Meanwhile, Edinburgh University women's team will be back playing in the British Universities Northern Premier Division next season.
Nottingham University conceded their play-off game against Edinburgh which was due to have been played at the Pleasance on Saturday.
Edinburgh had already beaten Bradford away while the West Yorkshire team had beaten Nottingham in the three-team play-off.


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text: I have a question to ask, and a method suggestion to pass along. 1. First the question: What's the largest (and smallest for that matter) fragment that bionetters have purified by geneclean and successfully cloned. I'm asking because I wanted (note past tense suggesting less than success in first tries) to subclone large fragments from cosmid clones. My two fragments are slightly smaller and slightly larger than 20 kb, respectively. One came out as a complete smear, the other had less smear, more of a band, but didn't look quite as large as the starting band in the digest. To avoid the obvious suggestions, I'm now trying low-melt agarose (I just love geneclean, and am really dissatisfied with the way low-melt gels run) to get the fragment. I am also looking at figuring out smaller fragments to clone to avoid cloning these. However, this makes me wonder if people have had success with 10-15 kb fragments. Email, or post replies to this newsgroup. I will post a summary. Let me know if you wish to remain anonymous. 2. Now, for the suggestion. This comes partially in response to a question posed a few weeks back about geneclean and ligations. I will clip part of the question below for clarity. The suggestion is a method that has been passed around here in Denver between National Jewish Hospital and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. For the purification of small DNA fragments using geneclean kits: (Because recovery of 200-500 b.p. fragments can be fragment dependent, some work fine whereas others don't) Gel piece in tube. Follow directions for how much NaI to add. Then prior to melting (not sure when is critical) we add 70 ul of 0.5% Acetic Acid per 0.5 ml of NaI solution. This makes the pH approximately 6. Proceed as usual. The solution changes color a little bit (I'm usually using colored tubes, but it appears to turn yellow). The post I'll quote below made me think I should post this tip, however, I do not address the issue of inhibition of ligation and he does not address the issue of fragment recovery. However, if you have better recovery of fragment the ligation may work adequately. > From: Abush at watson.princeton.edu (Andrew Bush) > Subject: geneclean hassles > > I have had variable success with Geneclean and I wanted to find out a) if > this experience is mirrored out there in molecular biology land b) maybe I > am doing something wrong. Is there any step in purifying DNA on glass milk > that is particularly prone to problems? I follow the geneclean protocol > carefully and I have even gone back and read the original paper describing > glass-based purification of DNA (from Vogelstein's lab). > I am generally using this method to purify inserts (fairly small 0.3-2 Kb) > and what I see is a clear reduction in the number of colonies (amp > resistant) in the insert as compared to vector only. I do not see this > effect with inserts purified by Low-melt agarose protocols. So, I assume > that there is some kind of inhibitor in the geneclean preparation. Carol Enderlin enderc at essex.hsc.colorado.edu


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Red Storm Earns First-Ever Sweet 16 Berth
Third-seeded St. John's came away with a 74-70 win over Oklahoma on March 20 to advance to the regional semifinals of the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history.
The game, played on Oklahoma's home court in front of a raucous crowd, was a close contest from tipoff to the final buzzer with the two teams trading leads throughout. The Red Storm (24-9), who turned 19 Oklahoma turnovers into 21 points, held off a late surge by the Sooners to secure the victory.
Junior guard Eugeneia McPherson led all scorers with 21 points, while Shenneika Smith added 18 and two blocked shots. Nadirah McKenith, who hit the winning shot to beat Creighton on Sunday, had 13 points and seven assists.
"I'm just happy that we came away with it. Oklahoma's a great, great program, a traditionally-rich program, and for us to come into their building and be able to pull out a victory was just tremendous," said head coach Kim Barnes Arico. "I'm excited to still be dancing."
The Red Storm will play No. 2 Duke in the third round of the tournament in Fresno, CA, on Saturday.
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As the Utah State Office of Education's Equity in Action Conference gets underway today and tomorrow, Utah Superintendent of Public Instruction Larry K. Shumwway says in a new video address that we have a moral obligation to turn around the state's lowest performing schools.
"We know that all students aren't equal; students come with different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different home situations, different financial circumstances," he says. "But none of those should stand in the way of us ensuring that every child has an equitable opportunity, a fair opportunity, that with the appropriate effort, students can get over the bar that we set for them."
Educators and parents from across the state are meeting today and tomorrow at the University of Utah to discuss educational equity in Utah's schools at the Utah State Office of Education's Equity in Action Conference. "Equity: The Cornerstone of a Quality Education for All," is being held today and tomorrow. The conference focuses on the policies, practices and programs necessary to create equitable and excellent schools. It addresses ways to reduce and eventually eliminate achievement gaps through establishing systemic equity.


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I kid you not, I woke up this morning and this came to my head.
This fic will get...disturbing at some points. I'll keep everyone relatively in-character, though I may let some things slip ;)
Rated for later chapters...interesting chapters.
Not Wright/Edgeworth (yuck).
Are there any pairings? Of course, but I'm not telling them to you, my pets.
SUPER Gant! - Chapter 1 - "That's NOT Yogi Bear"
The day started like any other.
Or maybe it did not. Who would have been able to tell on such a sunny, cloudless day, in the middle of the hot July sun? Besides, no one was at work today—it was Saturday! And as such, on a lovely Saturday afternoon, a very typical nuclear family (those still exist?) wandered into a park for a peaceful picnic lunch. Barely waiting to be able to munch down on the yummy sandwiches, salads, and treats that their mother had packed away in the wooden-woven basket, the young brother and sister skipped ahead of their parents and explored random berry bushes and chased squirrels…because chasing squirrels was the cool thing to do when you were like, ten years old.
"Momma, momma, there's a spot right up there on that hill!" the little boy excitedly called back to his parents, pointing to an open spot on a very green and grassy mound of earth, the sun shining on it as though it came from the heavens. Mother, however, simply shook her head and waved her hand dismissively.
"Oh dear, we cannot sit up there, my children. It is so hot, you may burn—here, let us set up our blanket and snacks in the shade provided by our friendly trees," the mother's sweet voice answered, and as she elegantly waved her hand the area she directed the children in seemed to look way better…things always looked better when mothers pointed them out like that.
Mother neatly unfolded the blanket and set it on the grass while the children and father quickly and helpfully began to unload the contents of the basket; of course, mother had to be the one to organize said contents. She instructed the rest of the family to wash up while she began setting out small plates and plastic utensils for their delicious lunch; the father and his two children obeyed and the three of them ran off in search of the water fountain.
Standing in the middle of the cracked, cement path, the lonely stone fountain stood and patiently waited for attention from thirsty travellers or, in this case, dirty hands. The three family members gathered around it and began to splash the cool, clear liquid on their faces and hands, scrubbing and rubbing whatever dirt particles they could get off without the aid of soap.
It was then that they stood, frozen, when observing a sudden flash of emerald green light, which temporarily filled the sky and the entire park—it originated from where their picnic was to be held. They were embraced by panic as they bolted for the picnic area, the children screaming, "Mommy, mommy!" and the father screaming, "Clara!" which would be embarrassing for him later for his wife's name was really "Jane."
Pushing through trees and bushes in a desperate attempt to reach their family member, they found their way back to the blanket to find that mother appeared to be safe, however horror-stricken. She shook madly and the father fell to his knees to hold her and comfort her, rocking back and forth, while the children sat close to her with tears forming in their eyes. "What happened, what happened?!" they all cried at the same time.
"He…he…he came so fast! I could barely see him!" mother stammered and the family's eyes grew wide.
"Who? Who?!" demanded father. Mother pointed at the half-empty picnic basket with a shaky finger.
"I don't know…but he…he was flying, he flew! He flew by so fast, and took our lunch!"
Gasps filled the air, and the afternoon was temporarily ruined for one family as they quickly gathered their things and loaded it back into the car, heading straight for the police department to report this strange happening.
And meanwhile, high up in a tree observing the scene, Damon Gant scarfed down a turkey sandwich he had just acquired.
End of first chapter. Short...but amusing? Oh, but don't go too far away, the adventure is only just beginning!
By the way, I like reviews :) Reviews are good whether you liked the fic or not. Please leave a review as it gives me a reason to think that you actually have a purpose in life(I'm joking, geez, quit crying).


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December 8, 2016
Greetings from the world of Getting Well again. The title is what it is because I'm sick and tired of hearing and reading all the opinions on why Trump won and what we might be able to do to bring Clinton into power. Give it up, people: It happened, life would have been absolutely shitty under her, and it will be absolutely shitty for the next four years, in different ways. What I present here is the only headline we need for a while now. Move on.
This is week two of finally being able to actually walk around without keeling over and, of course, it nearly coincided with the first day of snow in Chicago, along with bitterly cold temperatures. I spent a lot of time this past week doing lots and lots of laundry — that phrase "getting out from under a mountain of work" literally translated into, "Get those piles of laundry done before they fall onto the bed and smother you to death." After over a month of illness, I had to make my way through lots of clothing, bedding, and blankets, as well as much overdue scrubbing and mopping and thinking about —- a lot. As I've said before, if you get whatever is going around this season, do yourself a favour and just sleep — for systemic reasons, I wasn't able to do that at the beginning which made it worse and hard to recover from.
But we muddled through, kitty and I, and Frida did not reproach me as I seemed to spend too much time in bed or on the couch, my febrile brain soaking in not much more than all of every season so far of The Walking Dead. Spoilers ahead: I don't have a lot that's particularly intelligent or new to say, except perhaps to note that the placing of women and men of colour as the caretakers (and, in Tyreese's case, literally as the nanny for Judith, who really just needs to turn into a zombie, because that would be cool and fun, to have a baby zombie waddling around leaving no one capable of actually killing her) of White Saviours like Andrea, Deanna, and now Maggie really needs to end. Maggie is not being placed in her potential new role as leader of the pack for any reason other than her whiteness.
For sheer badassery and strategic thinking, either Michonne or Sasha (whose experience of and then return from severe psychological trauma made her stronger) could easily take up the reins. Or, hey, here's a radical thought: Why not an all-female crew of people who are bad-ass together, since the men-folk are either dying all around them or getting beaten up? I'm glad to see Michonne striking out on her own, but I don't see why Sasha needs to define herself as Maggie's caretaker. Enough already: Maggie's in the care of doctors by now, and will be fine. And she is not a natural leader, whether or not she rolls over honking cars with giant tractors (which, I'll admit, gave me an odd sense of satisfaction for reasons beyond any evident in the plot).
I was glad to see the Negan thread finally emerge because the group and the plot so far needed to be shattered — we were all getting a bit too comfortable with the idea that all of our characters might somehow establish dominion and save the world. That being said, I'm not sure how much more I can take of the sheer stress of wondering what Negan will do next, and I'm tired of coiling into a foetal position every time he enters an episode. I'm reaching a point of hopelessness and I'm not sure the show can continue this way. I don't follow the comics, but I gather Negan's character is still going strong there. But it's one thing to have him persist as a comic book character: Watching it all unfold amongst actual corporeal bodies is quite another.
And who knew Father Gabriel would have the best line so far, in response to Spencer: "What you're saying doesn't make you a sinner, but it does make you a tremendous shit."
But, as Andy Warhol put it, via John Cale and Lou Reed in "Work,"
"I think what would Andy have said
He'd probably say you think too much
That's 'cause there's work that you don't want to do
It's work, the most important thing is work
Work, the most important thing is work."
So it's back to work, work, work. I dearly, dearly miss writing for this site, and am eager to get back to my regular routine.
This last week saw the publication of my Baffler piece, "Rights Make Might: The Dystopian Undertow of Hillary Clinton's Elite Feminism." It's about Hillary Clinton, and the rise of gay rights that came alongside a sharp dip (to the point of non-existence) in abortion rights, and more. It was a pleasure to write this, and many thanks to everyone at Baffler, including Chris Lehman who commissioned it; I can't say enough about how much I love the accompanying image.
In case you missed it, my piece on Arianna Huffington's war on sleep, "Killing You Softly with Her Dreams: Arianna Huffington's War on Sleep," has been making the rounds. I loved writing this, fulfilling a longtime ambition of integrating the Alien films into my work (I've done it once before, but briefly, in discussing the Human Rights Campaign, in "HRC, Drones, and Space Aliens").
I decided to stop reading (and giving my precious money to) the New York Times. I gather that subscriptions have increased ten-fold after the election, which is puzzling, given that the paper was not only completely wrong about who would win (as in, spectacularly wrong) but that it violated every journalistic principle of integrity in serving as a public relations firm for Hillary Clinton. I'll have more on what my plans are in terms of supporting other news sources. I wish I could tell you that I only follow Democracy Now these days, but I'm really sick and tired of having entire hour-long shows devoted to personalities like Cornel West. My hunt continues, and I will report back.
One of the biggest problems these days is that people confuse news for opinions, and newspapers and news organisations have fewer incentives to do actual reporting. There's a high cost to pay for that — the largely unexpected win of Trump is actually, I'd argue, a direct result of the fact that too many readers don't even actually know how to evaluate or, really, even read news, in the most basic way.
Meanwhile, liberal and left punditry continues unfettered, and academics — many of whom have been proven to be pompous blowhards whose predictions of a Clinton landslide were just plain wrong but who now want to remind everyone how wrong they are about various aspects of Trump — are now insisting that they are all that stand between us and Doom. As the neoliberal university shrinks and crumbles (sometimes literally, with budgets for maintenance falling) even in its private forms, academics are desperately flailing around to assert their place and there's a great deal of ass-kissing going on, as well as some incredibly arrogant and pretentious liberal smug shittery emerging from the likes of Judith Butler and George Yancy. Academics, contrary to what the latter would have us believe, are not "dangerous" in any form; academia long ago began clamping down on various forms of dissent, and "academic freedom" is largely a myth. In the months ahead, I plan to continue writing about the relationship between academia and its "outside," pointing to the contentious relationships between the two.
Before I go on, though, I want to clarify a few points very quickly. It's assumed in some quarters (trust me, my Sauron-like presence means I know and see all) that my criticism of academia and academics points to a deep-seated anger and envy on my part. One professor, whose (very liberal-conservative) book I reviewed denounced me as someone who was simply angry that I didn't have an academic job. Actually, no: Unless it involves some kind of Chair-ship and, preferably, an actual gold-and-jewel-encrusted chair to sit on, I'm not interested in a regular academic job. I willingly and voluntarily left that quest a long time ago, preferring to fling myself into a very dangerous sort of precacity, so dangerous that I can't even reveal all of its details. I've written about some of this here, in "We Were There, We Are Here, Where Are We?: Notes Toward A Study of Queer Theory in the Neoliberal University."
Academic work is in the DNA of my work; getting my PhD was, I'll always maintain, the best thing I ever did. It's for all those reasons that I actually want academia to be better, and because I think academic research in particular has so much to contribute to the world. It takes longer, and can afford (in a sense, under specific conditions) to take winding, circuitous routes that sometimes end up in dead ends, but it often makes for the most interesting avenues of thought, and it's all the more necessary for that reason. But I also think that academics have no business arguing for their unimpeded ability to engage in, yes, knowledge-production if they're also going to busily scab their labour and make it that much harder for others to produce their work. I've written, often, about the contradictions emerging from academia and academics — I find it especially ironic when "Marxist" professors insist on scabbing their labour while decrying labour and intellectual conditions in their own institutions. More on all that later, but my point is simply that while I don't think academia will save us, there is a lot to be saved in it — but only if its inhabitants engage more fully with the world with integrity and not the kind of pomposity and hypocrisy that is now in evidence.
This is getting long enough, so let's move on to some news and clips.
While I dread the production of bad, bad art meant to be "revolutionary" against Trump, this (proposed) project, a series of floating gold pigs that could hide Trump's name on his Chicago tower, gives me hope. It's cute and funny, without being overwrought. We'll see if it ever comes into existence, but I love the idea.
The supposed ramping up of "hate crimes" (as reported on by groups like the Souther Poverty Law Center, which is taking advantage of the current moment to fill its coffers) will lead to a greater pursuit of hate crime legislation. Against Equality's work has never been more important (our site is being updated).
Remember Trump and Carrier? Its union leader is getting threats for criticising him.
Seattle activists enacted a "Die-in" to protest for safe drug sites.
That strategy is adopted from the days and years of AIDS activism. December 1 was World AIDS Day, and here's Poster Virus, with some thoughts from artists and activists.
A reminder of Drain magazine's special issue on AIDS and Memory.
Ryan Conrad wrote this, on Michael Smith's theatrical production of People Livid with Aids.
This report on how queers protested Trump is a good reminder of activism in the past, but it's replete with the nostalgia and rewriting of AIDS memory and history that prevails right now. Still, an important reminder.
Here's Hamilton Nolan on why "Poverty Doesn't Need Technology. It Needs Politics."
Judith Levine and Erica Meiners wrote this Baffler piece, "Are Sex Offenders Human?"
Ron Glass, "Book" on one of my favourite shows, Firefly, has died.
South Side Weekly's piece on the Pullman Museum, and why it is in fact about labour history, is worth reading.
This piece on Freddie Mercury's years in India has the best baby picture of him.
The next Alien movie will actually feature the monsters, whom I have missed.
A judge has ordered a new trial for Rasmea Odeh.
Few videos can compare to this one of Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares to You."
May the Kitty let you get your presents.
Here's a poem on Chicago and the first snow: "Chicago and December," by W. S. Di Piero.
"On the internet, no one knows you're a kitten."
On a final note: Thank you, a million times, to my growing list of subscribers, donors, and editors who give me the advances I need to survive. Without all that support, I would not have been to get through my many weeks of illness — with it, I was able to order and get food, medications, and more. Many thanks also to the friends who generously went everywhere to get me all of that so I wouldn't be paying delivery prices on top of it all, and who even returned my library books (several giant bags) so that I wouldn't keep accruing fines.
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720 SE Sandy Boulevard
Happy Hour: 4 - 6:30 PM, Monday through Saturday
ALL NIGHT Happy Hour: 5 - midnight, Sunday
I spend the majority of my day trying to convince eighth graders that they can do math. That they can be good at math. And that they can even like math. It's not easy. But it is a lot easier when I supply them with something that makes sense. Something they can see. Something that they know outside of the classroom. Next week, we start our work with transversals. One of the most common examples used to make better sense of transversals--at least to kids in this area--is Sandy Boulevard. Looking from above, Sandy--or at least the majority of it--cuts through the coordinate grid that is NE Portland. At the end of that transversal--on the corner of Stark, Sandy, and 8th Avenue--is the Rum Club. You probably drive by it all the time. Maybe you didn't even know it was there.
Rum Club isn't big but offers big flavors. The Happy Hour food menu--which changes with the seasons--incorporates fresh produce and bold flavors in a way that makes me feel like I'm back on vacation. And not just any vacation, but one that includes long stretches of sand, fresh coconut, and too many mojitos. Even on a rainy Portland afternoon, the mix of Mojo Shrimp Skewers, Ginger Soup, and Homemade Spiced Rum might be enough to keep you from complaining about just how grey the days can be.
Having already stopped for one happy hour before hitting up Rum Club, I was most excited to see a menu with so few fried items. There are no fries on the menu. No fritters, either. Instead, the menu is a long list of items that will fit perfectly into your healthy eating plan (if you've got one). We opted for the Mojo Shrimp Skewers (served on a bed of black beans and avocado), the Roasted Sweet Potato and Ginger Soup, and a bowl of the Tamarind Spiced Nuts.
Toasted with coconut and fresh mint, the bowl of Tamarind Spiced Nuts were a great pick for the table to share. It's a mix of hazelnuts, peanuts, and cashews that are more than just dusted with a little of this and a little of that. These things are quite bold. Not as bold, however, as the soup. If you love ginger, this is one that you've got to get in for before the menus change again.
The Ginger Soup was green in color, had great flavor, and came garnished with green onions and crispy sweet potato strings. At only $4 per bowl, I would have expected a little less soup or a little less attention to detail.
Also at the table was an order of the Mojo Shrimp Skewers. They were served on top of a salad made with black beans, chickpeas, red peppers, scallions, and big chunks of avocado. This was the most expensive item on the food menu but considering the cost of the ingredients, the six dollar price tag made complete sense.
There are a number of discounted drinks available during happy hour, including the daily punch. After much debate, I decided on the Chilcano. It wasn't easy to decide, but the pisco won me over. I'm fairly certain that I haven't found a pisco drink I didn't like. Cocktails at Rum Club range in price from 8 to 14 dollars, but during happy hour you can get a number of the same drinks for under seven bucks.
Food: Meets
Drinks: Meets
Service: Meets
Ambiance: Meets
Value: Meets
Three teachers reviewing Portland's happy hours. Like most teachers, we don't have a lot of money to throw around on fancy dinners, but that doesn't mean that we don't really, really want to. Happy hour gives us the opportunity to try new places and sample new foods without spending much cash.
Saturday, April 05, 2014
Rum Club
Labels: all-night happy hour, outdoor seating, SE, vegetarian friendly
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Pittsburgh Pirates: It's About to Get Interesting isportsweb
Despite being only 4 games under .500, Pirates' fans sense something catastrophic is brewing.
1. Bob Smizik- one of the only Pittsburgh sports writers apparently unfearful of speaking negatively about the Pirates- hammered the team's farm system, arguging that it's far more hype than substance. It's hard to ignore. Outside of SPs Gerritt Cole and Jameson Taillon, the organization's top prospects have struggled significantly [preseason rankings in ( )].
(#3) OF Josh Bell (low-A)- Very young (19) and in his first taste of professional ball, the Pirates' 2011 2nd round pick has a .288 OBP and .691 OPS through 15 games.
(#4) CF Starling Marte (AAA)- Still has plenty of time to recover, but dropped from an .870 OPS at AA Altoona in 2011, to a .743 OPS through 40 games at AAA this year. Marte is the organization's only highly-touted hitter in the upper levels of their system.
(#6) SP Kyle McPherson (AAA)- Has missed the season to date due to shoulder inflammation.
Allie in better times; Image credit blogspot
(#7) C Tony Sanchez (AA)- The future of the former 4th overall pick in the 2009 draft is in serious jeopardy. After finishing 2011 with a .658 OPS, he's now repeating AA Altoona, to the tune of a .699 OPS and 0 home runs through 31 games this year. There's been no improvement, despite Sanchez now being 24 years old, which is on the late side for true AA prospects. (Multiple players chosen after Sanchez are already at the Major League level.) With the Pirates' Major League catching system in full-on trainwreck mode, they desperately need Sanchez to excel.
(#8) OF Robbie Grossman (AA)- The 2011 Pirates' minor league player of the year is struggling to adjust to the AA level. After finishing 2011 with an outstanding .859 OPS at high-A, Grossman has a .659 OPS through 44 games this season.
(#9) SP Stetson Allie (low-A)- Once praised as GM Neal Huntington's "steal" of the 2010 draft, Allie has an unbelievable 8 walks through 0.2 IP on the season. His control has been non-existant.
2. The offense on the Major League club is so bad that it's rivaling historic records for futility at its current pace. The stat-heavy website Fangraphs recently quantified the Pirates' struggles. Some highlights:
*"Their .269 team wOBA is tied for 5th worst since 1900. There are no modern teams ahead of them."
*"Of those teams that have strikeout numbers (the K didn't become an official hitting stat until 1913), the 2012 Pirates currently rank 2nd highest (out of 2164 teams) with a 24.3% strikeout rate."
*"Since 1919, the end of the Deadball Era, the 2012 Pirates rank as the 12th worst offense, scoring only 0.082 runs per plate appearance (the 2012 Padres are 15th with 0.083 R/PA; the 2010 Mariners sit at 28th with 0.086 R/PA)."
3. The Pirates revealed that they would like to send down or release some of the most unproductive hitters from the team, yet there isn't anyone at AAA Indianapolis faring much better. The club recently called up CF Gorkys Hernandez, who had a .698 OPS at AAA, and has only been given 4 MLB at bats since.
***4. Despite all of Huntington and club president Frank Coonelly's talk over the past 5 seasons about "stockpiling depth" and "internal options"…there are no internal options. Offensively, the choices are nonexistant, and while AAA SP like Jeff Locke and Rudy Owens are having nice seasons, most consider them to have the potential of back-of-the-rotation starters. Taillon and Cole (both at high-A) are the next available "top of rotation" prospects in the system.
5. The Pirates spent $4MM ($7.5MM with option) this offseason on C Rod Barajas. He's currently posting a .255 OBP and .649 OPS.
6. The Pirates spent $10.5MM this offseason on a 2-year commitment to SS Clint Barmes. He's currently posting a .206 OBP and .493 OPS. Those numbers almost aren't even possible. That's below what some pitchers would bat over a full season. It was just revealed that manager Clint Hurdle made a strong push to add Barmes this fall, so Hurdle now finds himself in a position where he either has to bench a player he is at least partially responsible for bringing in- costing the club millions- or continue to run him and his .206 OBP out there.
(It should be noted that this author and many fans panned these offseason acquisitions from the start. Unfortunately once again, the fans had better foresight and judgment than the men actually running the Major League ballclub.)
Alvarez; Image credit bleacherreport
7. 3B Pedro Alvarez has continued to struggle after being insterted in the cleanup position, but apparently has such a "fragile psyche" according to columinst John Perrotto that the Pirates won't move him, or even tell him anything negative. So how is he supposed to improve?
***8. The Pirates currently have TWO (2) (dos) players with on base percentages above .300. That's not a misprint. Not batting average- on. base. percentage. And yet, because the pitching staff has been throwing out of their minds, this team has somehow been competitive, despite no offensive support whatsoever. It can't last. Either the offense rebounds to some respectability (less likely), or the pitching staff eventually collapses with the mental and physical wear of knowing they'll receive next to no run support each night (more likely).
9. During a recent interview, GM Huntington was apparently at such a loss for answers that he said the following, which is concurrently honest and utterly depressing:
"We're very aware of what our weakness has been so far this season. However, our options are limited when it comes to helping the lineup. There isn't a whole lot we can do."
Unfortunately Neal, there IS a whole lot that could've been done, but it needed to be happening over the past 5 years while you were on the job as GM.
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Midnight oil-burners and creative insomniacs, rejoice: Adobe now offer 24/7 phone support included as standard in Creative Cloud for teams. Any admins needing technical support out of office hours, or just fancying a chat (don't actually do this – we've tried), can now connect with an Adobe rep to resolve critical issues and minimise creative downtime.
"But haven't we always had access to technical support from Adobe?", we hear you say. Well yes, technically, but Adobe have now introduced the out of hours aspect so you can get support at any time. They've also made the process far simpler, by introducing a new Support tab in the Admin Console, detailing regional phone numbers and generally making the whole thing a little more customer-friendly.
What do I actually get?
IT admins now have access to 24/7 advanced technical support (English only after business hours and weekends though) to enable quick issue resolution and help deploy their Creative Cloud for teams software. The advanced technical support regional phone numbers can be found on the Support tab of the Admin Console. As this level of support is only available to those on a Creative Cloud for teams licence, it's definitely another point in the 'pros' column for anyone still considering making the move to teams from an individual Creative Cloud membership.
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Denville 1/12/2013 01:54 AM GMT (TransWorldNews)
5,000 Inaugural Barack Obama Watches go on Sale
1-21-13: Time to Celebrate with Obama Inaugural Watches
The number of people participating in the 57th Presidential Inauguration is impressive:
2800 groups asked to march in the Inaugural parade
28, 189 people will have a seat on the Inaugural parade route
50,000 volunteers have offered to help out
700,000 are expected to attend the Inauguration
So how come only 5,000 people across the country will be able to buy a 2013 Obama Inaugural watch?
"We planned it that way," said Jack Goldenberg, President, Obama Watches, the company making the 2013 Obama Inaugural Watch. "It wouldn't be a limited edition if we made a million of them."
Obama Watches seems to have cornered the market on presidential timepieces. Since 2008,Obama watches has produced 28 Obama for President and 2 Obama Inaugural watches. The company's watches have some political and historic significance. Three of their watches are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution and several of them may be in the White House. In 2008, Goldenberg handed then-candidate Obama five Obama Watches at the request of the Democratic party.
It all began rather quietly. In 2007, Goldenberg wore a single Obama for President watch he made to a friend's birthday party. "I wasn't planning to make any more," said Goldenberg. "It was just a one-man viral crusade supporting Obama's candidacy." The next day five friends contacted him asking, "Where can I get one of those Obama watches?"
So in 2008, Goldenberg started selling 5 different Obama for President Watches. Many featured photos of the candidate and carried campaign slogans like, "Yes We Can" and "Time for a Change," while others took a more comical approach, like, "Love Your Mama. Vote Obama."
Goldenberg is quick to point out that Obama Watches are not sanctioned by the President's re-election committee. Nevertheless, that's not stopping his customers from ordering watches to wear to the Inauguration and Inaugural Balls.
In 2009, the Inaugural watch was sold in 16 venues throughout DC. The watches sold out before noon leaving some Inaugural attendees disappointed. That's why the 2013 Inaugural watch will only be sold online at the company's Web site, ObamaWatches.com. The watches go on sale on January 14, one week before the Inauguration.
Obama Watches customers are opting to wear one of the company's 29 other Obama Watches to the festivities in the nation's capital. Many are choosing the "Barack Around the Clock" watch to wear with their ball gowns and formal wear. To accommodate various dress styles, the watch has been produced in three different colors.
The "Barack Around the Clock" timepiece features the President with a Mona Lisa-like smile and wearing oversized sunglasses.
ObamaWatches.com leans a little to left when they market their products. All Obama Watches are "Guaranteed to be more accurate than Mitt Romney." During the 2012 campaign, the company had a "Mitt Romney Changed his Mind" Sale every day.
If Inaugural Watches strike a chord with consumers, it won't be the first time Goldenberg has hit marketing pay dirt. He helped launch some of America's best selling icons, including the Happy Meal and Cabbage Patch Kids.
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A group of scientists recently suggested, in a review that appeared in the International Journal of Obesity, that Americans are simply spending too much time talking about how our toxic food environment and our couch potato ways are making us obese. Perhaps there are other reasons that we're plumping up, they proposed. Among their alternate obesity theories: we're not sleeping enough, air pollution messes up our metabolism, we've adapted to air conditioning—and so we don't need to regulate our internal temperatures by ramping up our metabolic rates (thus, burning more calories). At EatingWell, we still believe that eating right and exercising are the ways to manage your weight. To that end, we present you with some excellent ways to exercise without even knowing it—and feel better about turning on the A/C on those sultry days.
Embrace the summer heat—with a hose: Burn calories and make your car look beautiful as you wash, dry and get it (and you) buff.
Tell the teenage kid from down the street that you'll mow your own lawn—and pay him to make some iced tea instead. While you're at it, weed the vegetable garden and toss some new mulch around the perennials out front.
Everyone needs a periodic work break, but instead of e-mailing witty quips to your buddy in the next office, walk to the water cooler to dish about the dude who got kicked off Project Runway last night.
Painting, hammering, hoisting—it's all exercise (some of it moderate to vigorous, we'd say). And don't discount all the walking that you'll do as you wander around the big home-improvement warehouse looking for that specific hinge (or someone who can help you find it).
For a puppy, ideally. You won't be able to sit on the couch for long—unless you don't care about your carpet—or your shoes. Know anyone with a dog? Ask if they'll be heading out on holiday this summer, sans pet. You'll sneak in a week's worth of exercise—and probably earn yourself a nice bottle of wine upon their return.
Pack a picnic—one that requires schlepping a big ice-filled cooler across a field or a park. Bring a ball or a Frisbee for after-eating activities. Try our Healthy Diet Collection for delicious recipe ideas.


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140 Acres Sand Extraction Quarry with Massive Opportunity! (A679)Property ID 1417633Located at Wamuran only 7km from Caboolture and close to Bruce Highway. Extractive Industry License... Estimated Reserves by GroundworksPlus . Sand/Soils/Brickies/Loam/Dec Pebbles/Wash Plant/Screener On 3 deeds of 1 x 60 Acres, 2 x 40 Acres - Total of 140 Acres. Has Town water/Power and all fenced with 4 strand wire and carrying 50 head of cattle currently. Only 1km to D'Agular Highway, 5 mins to Caboolture or 1/2 hour to Brisbane or International Airport. Has Huge 31m x 11m Shed and 19m x 6m Awning to house equipment. 3 year old, 25 square, 4 bedroom ensuite brick "Mancorp" home on same lot with fantastic Glasshouse Mountain Views and scenery. 2 Other lots each of 40 acres available also if required... Good quality standing timber for posts or mulching etc!! Priced to sell quickly now reduced at just $4.75 million !!!!!!!!
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Review: HP eStation All-In-One Printer With An Android Tablet
Short version: part useful application of new technology, part marketing gimmick, the HP eStation is a solid all-in-one printer that uses a wireless Android-powered touchscreen tablet as its primary interface. The printer is about what you'd expect from HP these days, while the tablet presents some interesting new usability options. You certainly shouldn't buy the eStation… Read More


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Thread: San Soo Goes to War
7/09/2007 5:47pm, #11
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I remember seeing the school a while ago but it isn't there anymore. Did it close?
7/10/2007 12:56pm, #12
I likely confused this with another SS acronym Kung Fu San shou seems likely.
7/10/2007 6:33pm, #13
Yes, likely. The San Soo people are the shitty kenpo clone claiming that their grand master Jimmy Woo's uncle killed barehanded the Japanese karate (or was it Judo?) instructor of the regiment occupying their village during WW2 and was gunned down for it.
Very down-to-earth, believable story, you see.
7/11/2007 1:37am, #14
I would also be interested in people who have had experiences over there not just with Iraqi police, but also in h2h situations.
Mei Hua?


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The Voice Premiere Recap: Christina Grimmie Joins Adam Levine's Team on The Voice Premiere
|Christina Grimmie featured above.
Six seasons in and the The Voice certainly isn't hurting for talent. In a new preview of the Season 6 premiere, hitting NBC Monday, Feb. 24, aspiring artist Christina Grimmie takes to the stage with a stunning cover of Miley Cyrus' hit "Wrecking Ball," sparking a war amongst all four coaches.
Returning coaches Shakira and Usher turn for the songstress almost immediately, with mainstay Adam Levine following suit. Blake Shelton, however, holds out for quite a bit, despite Usher's urging otherwise. He doesn't remain entirely unmoved, though, finally turning, ensuring a four-way battle to be Grimmie's coach.
Without much hesitation, Christina Grimmie ended up joining Team Adam after all.
Watch Grimmie's audition below:


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Family Pet Hospital Of Stone Oak
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Motel 6
The front desk was really helpful and kind. She point us to the right directions. If we had questions or concerns she know how to answer it all. Thank you for all the loving you could give a person and our family during our stay here at the inn.
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Dr. Dar & staff are wonderful ! They have taken great care of me in the past 8 years of me being a patient. Always very kind & professional all having great big smiles on their faces at all time which make the visit even better. Thanks for your service !!
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I got great service since I stepped in their office. The staff was very nice and helpful. This was my first time coming here and I'm definitely going to be back and not going anywhere else.


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The Strokes, reportedly in the process of recording the follow-up to 2013's Comedown Machine, have called upon their fans to help them search for guitarist Nick Valensi's "beloved" orange Epiphone Riviera guitar. According to the band, the guitar went missing after it was shipped from New York City to Los Angeles. "We ask that you join us in keeping an eye out for it," the band wrote in a statement on their official site. "It goes without saying how bummed he is that it's gone missing."
The Strokes also noted the distinguishing features of Valensi's 1995 Epiphone Riviera: "The pic guard has been removed. The headstock plate has an 'E' Epiphone logo on it. Trapezoidal 'mother-of-pearl' inlays on the neck. It's been modified with P-94 pick ups and trapeze tailpiece." As for the guitar case, it features metal edges and butterfly latches, has a crack on the bottom and is covered with fragile stickers.
The band is asking fans to keep an eye on pawn shops and eBay in case the guitar surfaces and to contact them if anyone spots the instrument. "We deeply appreciate the extra eyes and ears," the Strokes added.
In December, it was revealed that the Strokes – in Monterrey, Mexico to headline the Live Out Festival – also dropped by the city's Victoria Records studios to lay down some tracks for their upcoming sixth studio album.


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Kit change for Millers
Rotherham United's Official Site has reported that the Millers will play in the black away kit at home on Saturday against Barnsley in the pre-season friendly.
This is because Barnsley have not yet received their away kit and, as a gesture of goodwill, the club have said that Barnsley can play in their red and white strip.
Ahh, now aren't we nice!


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First day of summer arrives, yet fall is just around the corner!
First day of summer arrives, yet fall is just around the corner!
Autumn rambles of my mind… And summer is just here on my doorstep.
Well, we hit the first day of summer and as every year, I have roughly, the same thoughts.
First: the spring which was longer and colder than I like (it always is) has me thinking that we will have a great fall foliage season. (just an early prediction and it applies to this year also)
Second: With the summer solstice's arrival, we're on a downward spiral to fall with the days getting shorter every day.
Third: The transition from summer to fall is always a bittersweet occasion where I embrace each morning noting the cooler temperatures by the steam rising off my coffee. I also realize that these mornings are numbered and before long I'll be forced inside to look out on November's bare trees.
Fourth: Even though Il know that this day will soon warm up. I also know that in only a few weeks the days will warm up less and less.
Fifth: As we roll into September, I'll be fighting the cat for a sunny spot on the carpet to warm my toes up on…
Do you lose things? I lost an entire bandstand!
I drive a lot of miles through New England fall foliage and I come across many neat places by accident. Over the years I "found" a bandstand surrounded by maples that in early morning light looks great because of the morning sun makes the leaves glow. Someone asked where it was recently and I couldn't for the life of me pinpoint its location. I mean I can tell you the dates I photographed it and even the time of day..
(Thank God for digital brains in our cameras). If you want to know where this is, read the last paragraph…
My solution for this problem resulted in several purchases.
First I use a digital audio recorder to babble into during my drives. (Remember hands free babbling) Second, I now use a couple of tracking devices. One is a GPS tracking device (I-gotU) that I sync with my camera's clock and as I go through the day, it keeps track of my route and puts my pictures on the route where I take them. Next as of this spring I started using Everytrail software on my Android phone. Tell me in the comments if you're interested in these software trackers and I'll do a post on them.
Jeff "Foliage" Folger
Want a little something to start your fall foliage craving Check out this video on You tube
Bandstand found in Sharon:
I was travelling to the Quechee balloon festival and due to traffic I went past the Quechee exit to the Sharon exit. I got off 89 in Sharon VT and headed south on route 132 and a second later I found my bandstand next to the Sharon Congregational church and across from the Sharon Trading post.. (Always a nice stop when you've been on the road for a while)
Are you starting to look for ideas for your autumn fall travels? Then stay with me here as I spin my stories of fall travels of scenic New England. If you are a facebook-aholic try my New England Fall Foliage page.
I, of course am never far away and you can find me prowling the foliage forum . If you have an immediate need you can reach me at jeff.foliage at gmail.com and I will do my best to answer but since I don't have anyone to answer my emails your wait time for an answer will vary.
Either way, I look forward to chatting with all of you this season!
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Jeff Foliage
but people call me Jeff Foliage.
I have several pages that I write blogs for such as: http://www.4cornersnewengland.com/
My most popular blog is for Leaf peepers: Jeff Foliage.com.
I live in Salem, Massachusetts and work as a blogger and Travel Photographer. I'm also the founder of the New England Photography Guild.
Feel free to visit me on my blogs and see what life in New England is like.
I started with Yankee Magazine as their first blogger on everything fall foliage. Now I blog on my own blog on my favorite subject, telling leaf peepers where the fall foliage is showing up in New England and helping them (to some extent) plan their fall foliage vacations.
Latest posts by Jeff Foliage (see all)
- Fall Foliage Forecast update & Feb Winner! - February 18, 2018
- Comment to win-February - February 14, 2018
- Old Barns in Autumn - February 7, 2018


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Brad and I are SUPER excited to announce a geekling will be joining the ForTheYum family in 2014!
Blueberry Streusel Muffins
I've always had a thing for blueberries.
When I was little, my family would go out to Souplantation for dinner once a month. And while there was plenty of food to eat, the only thing I ever wanted were their blueberry muffins. Oh the blueberry muffins. Soft, fluffy, and just warm enough to melt your {sweet honey whipped} butter.
Even though it's long past blueberry season, I had a serious craving for these muffins as soon as I saw our local grocer having a sale on these tiny indigo gems. It didn't take me long to fill the kitchen with muffins that I had to
send to church send to work eat with Riker's help (because some people in this house still hate blueberries…). It also didn't take me too long before I realized everything is better with a crumbly sugary topping of streusel.
If you ever find yourself with excess fresh blueberries, I highly suggest whipping up a batch of these delicious muffins!
Blueberry Streusel MuffinsMakes 12 large or 18 cupcake-sized muffins — Recipe adapted from Rhonda Bracey
for the muffins…
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 cup melted butter or margarine
1.5 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
for the streusel…
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup cold butter
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
Preheat oven to 400F and spray muffin tins with nonstick spray or use liners. In a small bowl, beat eggs, milk and butter. In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and the 2 tablespoons of sugar. In a third bowl, mix together the blueberries with the remaining sugar and flour. In a ramekin, combine cinnamon, flour, and sugar. Cut in the butter until the mixture looks like coarse sand. Set aside.
Stir the liquid ingredients in the small bowl into the dry ingredients in the large bowl. Gently fold the blueberry mixture in to the 'cake' mixture in the large bowl. Fill muffin cups and top with streusel (how much you use is your call… but the more, the tastier!). Bake at 400F (200C) for approximately 20 minutes.
Remove from oven and let rest in the pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack. Enjoy warm with plenty of whipped honey butter!
Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Meat Sauce
…with FIRE-ROASTED tomatoes, but that title was too long and obnoxious to fit up there.
I've been playing with spaghetti squash for a few weeks now and honestly, it's a thing of beauty. Stringy, mild flavored, and highly versatile. Topped with sauce or tossed with pesto, this squash holds its shape and brings a light flavor to the table. And, it's a squash so it's gluten free and has WAY fewer carbs than traditional spaghetti.
I challenge you to find a more filling, hearty cold-weather meal!
Shrimp Fried Coconut Rice
This fried rice is off the hook!
We've got snow peas, carrots, spring onions, and shrimp, all tossed together with coconut rice. Ohmahgah. I can't even tell you how badly I wanted to faceplant myself into the pot while this fried. I'm still convinced it would have been the best facial ever. The coconut rice gives off an ethereal scent, and contrasts really well with shrimp and brings a light tropical flair to this meal.
On a side note, am I the only one who's never tried snow peas until today? Sadly I'm a little ashamed to admit I didn't like them, but it's not the last time I'm going to try them in a recipe! Anyone have any great ideas for using snow peas? Because I kinda have a whole bag to use… Oops!
Shrimp Fried Coconut Rice
Serves 2 as a meal, 4 as a side
1lb shrimp
1/4 cup baby carrots, thinly sliced
1 handful of snow peas, rinsed
1 Tablespoon soy sauce
1 Tablespoon Mirin
2 cups coconut basmati rice
1 Tablespoon olive oil
2 spring onions, thinly sliced
In a small bowl, combine soy sauce and Mirin. Add shrimp and toss to coat. Let marinate while you prep the other ingredients. When stir-frying, it's important to have all your ingredients ready to go ahead of time. Carrots and onions chopped. Peas washed. Line it all up so you just toss and stir your way to glory.
In a heavy bottomed, high-sided pot (or a wok, if you're fancy!), heat olive oil over high heat until shimmering. Add in carrots and stir for 30 seconds.
Add shrimp and stir to heat through until outside is nearly all pink, about 30-45 seconds. Don't worry about them not being completely pink right now – we have more cooking to do!
Add in snow peas and stir for 30 seconds. Then add in rice. Toss and stir vigorously for about 2 minutes to combine and heat through evenly.
Remove from heat, toss in spring onions, and plate!
Coconut Basmati Rice
I consider cooking rice to be a true test of a chef.
None of this Iron Chef, Throwdown, Chopped business… No, anyone can figure out something to cook using eel or duck feet (hint: the deep fryer is never wrong!). But making perfect rice is a whole other game.
It wasn't until I met my husband that I discovered all rice wasn't created equal. Until then I'd only made Minute Rice in the microwave. I had never even heard the word basmati. Color me embarrassed!
4 years later I'm nowhere near a master chef, but I can rock a mean pot of basmati rice, and after this post you will too.
Coconut Basmati Rice
Makes about 2 cups cooked
1 cup Basmati rice
1 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup water
Measure out 1 cup of rice and place it in a fine mesh strainer. Rinse with cold water until the water runs clear. Starch = sticky rice. The reason you're rinsing the rice before it cooks is to get the extra starch off and ensure the finished product is as fluffy as possible.
Place rinsed rice in a heavy bottomed pot and add 1 cup of coconut milk and 1/2 cup of water. If you want to make plain rice, use 1 1/2 cups of water instead.
Place pan on stove burner and turn heat to high. Give the pot a stir a few times and then stop and wait for the pot to boil. Stirring the rice too often while waiting for it to boil restricts the air movement between grains, resulting in a sticky mass of rice. Stop stirring as soon as the liquid begins to steam and just watch and wait. It's worth it, I promise!
Give the pot a quick shake when the liquid is at a rolling boil. Turn the heat to low, place the lid on the pot, and walk away fro 20 minutes. Don't even think about touching that pot. Go watch an episode of Portlandia or take a constitutional.
Welcome back! The timer's gone off, right? Good. Turn the burner off and remove the lid from your pot. Beautiful rice!
Give your rice a fluff before enjoying alongside some stir fried veggies or your favorite curry!
Or you can save this for something even more mind blowing… COCONUT SHRIMP FRIED RICE. Come back next week for that recipe!
The secret to fried rice is cold, day old rice. Heck, five day old rice works great too so don't worry about making this too far in advance. We always have a bowl of cold rice in our fridge just for the possibility of frying it up on our fridge clean-out nights!
If you're planning to save this rice for a stir fry, whip out a parchment lined baking sheet and lay the rice down in a thin layer. Pop it in the refrigerator for an hour to cool off before putting it in an air tight container for up to a week.
Maple Glazed Poppy Seed Muffins
You guys. These muffins. Oh these muffins.
Growing up we use to make a weekly trip to our local wholesale store to get eggs, tortilla chips, chicken, paper goods (toilet/tissue/towels), and whatever the latest book or movie release was. It was a tradition I loved for one reason, and one reason only.
I was that round kid you loved to hate, who wandered between sample booths grabbing a smorgasbord of goodies ranging between granola, sandwich bites, cheese, cake, chicken fingers, and of course MUFFINS.
I was also that kid who knew if you touched all the samples they'd make you eat them. What, like that's a punishment? HA!
All the poppy seed muffins are be long to meh!
These poppy seed muffins are super similar in taste to the Costco kind, with one major upgrade. A glaze. Everything is better with a glaze. Especially if that glaze is made with maple syrup!
Made in miniature form, these muffins are transportable so you can pop them any time of day! Store at room temperature in an air-tight bin for up to 3 days.
Maple Glazed Poppy Seed Muffins
Makes 48 mini muffins – Adapted from Fat Girl Trapped in a Skinny Body
2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup milk
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tbsp. poppy seeds
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp almond extract
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 cup powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 24 mini muffins tins with paper liners.
Mix together the eggs, sugar, butter, and almond extract until well blended.
In large bowl, combine flour, poppy seeds, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the flour mixture and the milk alternately to the wet mixture. Mix until everything's wet. Don't worry about small lumps in the batter!
Pour batter into prepared muffin tins. Fill them 2/3 full.
Bake 10-15 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan for about 5 min. Then remove from pan and finish cooling on a wire rack.
While the muffins cool, combine maple syrup and powdered sugar in a small bowl. Stir until no lumps remain. Dip tops of cooled muffins in the glaze and return to cooling rack to set or serve immediately. Store after glaze is completely set.
Caramel Apple Brickle Dip
It's apple season, ya'll!
I love this time of year. Light sweaters, dark jeans, BOOTS.
When the weather starts to crisp up, our local orchards start picking apples. They are hands down, the most amazing fruit on the face of the earth. I could put away a bushel a week without any trouble.
Other people in this family need a little more convincing to eat an apple. Which is how this dip was created! That and I had some Heath bits from a cupcake extravaganza that I was looking to use up and it's not like the hubby is going to turn down a sweet snack :)
Frozen Yogurt Dog Treats
Our puppy graduated from obedience school!
Look at those faces! I love my boys :) SO PROUD
Because this is solidly the most exciting day of our lives as a family, I had to make a treat for our little monster. Something sweet but nutritious. And of course made with peanut butter (side note: anyone else's dog do back flips for nut butter? just us? okay…)
These froyo treats are made with banana, organic peanut butter, carob chips, honey, and Greek yogurt. All natural, all healthy, and all COMPLETELY doggie safe!
Congratulations Riker! We love you to pieces and are so proud and thankful to have you as part of our family :)
Heirloom Tomato Salsa
I don't know about you guys, but my garden has exploded.
I haven't been great about posting garden updates, but let me just say this… My black thumb is completely gone. I'm a full-on farmer now! No joke, I even have overalls and a hat to prove it (don't judge! the pockets are amaaaaazing).
We started our garden the same weekend as our regional plant expo, so of course we got some hard-to-find goodies. My favorite (and the most prolific) of which is the gigantic, red Mortgage Lifter heirloom tomato. And it lives up to its name more and more each day.
Being the only one in our tiny family that willingly eats sliced, raw tomatoes, I had to find another way to convince the hubs to eat these babies up! Enter salsa. Not just any salsa though. No, it's got its fancypants on!
Citrusy Sorbet Mocktail
It's been H-O-T
Seriously. I can't be the only one dying in this heat, right? I know it's summer but what gives!
Thankfully we have this mocktail to cool us down. It's bright, it's light, and best of all you don't have to give up your keys to drink it!


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Food Porn: Mike's Subs
Whenever we drive somewhere, Alli and myself are always on the look out for a restaurant that just catches our eye. Living downtown, I've passed Mike's Subs countless times and kept telling myself it looked promising.
Mike's Subs is located in the heart of Kenmore and I'm sure for many people in the area, it's a place they go to regularly for take-out. The building itself has been serving subs since the mid 50's but the current ownership has been there since 1981. The small and narrow dining "hall" isn't that fancy, so this is place isn't planning on winning over customers by interior design. To be honest, this place is really a take-out restaurant, there is seating for maybe 10 customers at once (from what we could see) but if you are ordering a sub from Mike's you are most likely taking it to go. We grabbed their Groupon deal a week ago and decided now was the time to finally try out some of their food, so we ordered a couple subs and brought them back to our house. Here's what we thought….
Quick Info:
- Restaurant Type: Sub Shop
- Cuisine: Deli/Sandwiches
- Location: Kenmore
- Prices: Subs: $5-9
We only live about 10 minutes away from Mike's, so by the time we got back to our house the food was still warm and fresh. Alli decided to go with a Buffalo staple, a Chicken Finger sub (far bottom) while I ordered their Steak Hoagie Deluxe (below). My steak hoagie was absolutely loaded with peppers, lettuce and onions; the roll wasn't toasted (I forgot to ask) so it started to fall apart as I tried eating it. The entire meal was pretty messy and after a couple bites it went from a hands-on meal to "eating with a fork". The steak itself was pretty tender and the cheese was gooey, overall a quality sub. They really over loaded the sub with lettuce and the pepper to steak ratio was a little high for my liking, but otherwise I was satisfied.
Along with the subs we also decided to order their Pizza Logs and Fries combo (pictured in gallery). Both of the items were clearly frozen/pre-made; while the pizza logs were fairly standard, the fries were very crispy. The only complaint would be the size of the serving, in the box were a small handful of the fries (not exactly enough to share with two people).
I wasn't exactly blown away by how good their subs were, their rolls and steak/chicken fingers are pretty similiar to many other local restaurants. Their menu is pretty large and has a wide selection of subs, burgers, wraps and even desserts so if you find yourself in the Kenmore area and are in the mood for a sub, I guess I could recommend stopping in for a quick bite to eat. The prices are affordable and the subs are definitely loaded, so you'll get your money's worth. But is there anything that unique about the place? Aside from their really informative website (where you can even order online), not really.
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JERUSALEM (May. 28)
A Rothschild Prizes Foundation, which will award annually three 5, 000-pound prizes to encourage science, the largest cash prizes offered in Israel, has been established by the Rothschild family, it was announced today.
Prizes this year will be awarded for outstanding original works in mathematics, and social sciences. In 1960 the awards will be in agriculture, biological science and the humanizes. In 1961, the fields will be chemistry, Jewish studies and physics.
The Foundation, established by James de Rothschild's widow and Baron Edmond Rothschild, will have a board of Israel scientists and educators, headed by Yigael Yadin, former Israel Army Chief of Staff, and including Ambassador Eliahu Elath, which will choose candidates.


text: it's time to say a huge "thank you" to all you guys who've put up with my bitching about my newly restored left foot! I'm happy to report that, thanks to Dr. Tony Kim in Wenatchee, I'm now able to really put some power into it, and am seriously working out each day on the trails here in Leavenworth. I can now ride a fully flat ski with full effort. Got zero endurance at this point, but the form, timing and balance has returned: I'm a happy camper!! When I'm babbling on about skiing, this video is what I'm talking about. No, I'm NOT Petter Northug, but for maybe 50 meters, I can ski like that!!


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Newspaper article The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia)
Modest Growth Forecast; Melbourne Institute Says Economy to Trend at 2.5%
Article excerpt
LATEST research from the Melbourne Institute suggests the economy will look like it's chugging along at a reasonable clip by the end of the March quarter.
The institute is predicting annual growth at around the economy's annual trend rate, which is usually seen at 3.25%.
However, this will be more to do with a statistical distortion rather than the economy finding a second wind.
aWe expect activity to remain modest ... our forward indicators all point to moderate growth,a the Melbourne Institute says in its monthly bulletin of economic trends, released yesterday.
It is forecasting gross domestic product growth of 0.6% in the March quarter, only a minor acceleration from the tepid 0.4% growth in the December quarter.
However, because the 0.3% GDP contraction record in the March quarter of last year a following the Queensland floods a will drop out of the equation, there will be a spike above 3% in the annual rate from a mere 2. …