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Beignets in Los Angeles
- ttriche Mar 7, 2007 04:48 PM
OK, this is really just a ripoff of the Crabulous thread. There was spawned a sub-thread on beignets in Los Angeles, so deep that it became flattened, and thus I felt the need to re-parent it. So without further ado...
1) Are there good beignets in or near Los Angeles?
2) If so, where?
Someone suggested the Disney concert hall, which intrigues me. If I'd known, I'd have gone and checked out this theory a few hours ago -- I was right down the street!
To plagiarize myself from the other thread, Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen in Downtown Disney. They fry them up very fresh.
Edit: just saw your other post, ttriche, sorry, wish it were in downtown L.A.
I actually think I prefer the beignets at the Jazz Kitchen to Cafe du Monde in New Orleans (!). Anyway it's my breakfast of choice for any Disneyland trips, no mouse ears waffles for me.
re: slacker
I'll second that -- and if you don't want the whole restaurant thing, the downstairs of that building is a cafe with quite good chicory coffee and the same beignets.
If you have a Disney annual pass, bring it -- you get 10% off.
re: Das Ubergeek
Innuresting. My wife works for Disney. Maybe I can dispatch her to this Ralph Brennan's thingy in the park next time she has a meeting down there.
The Gumbo Pot has them, made to order, sometimes good - sometimes just ok. $2.50/4 Beignets. When good they go well with the Cafe au Lait (unlimited refills).
Try the Terrace at the Huntington Ritz Carlton. I was there about 6 months ago and they served excellent made to order beignets during Sunday brunch. Not sure if they have them during lunch or dinner though. You can also get some fancy ones at Grace during donut Wednesdays. I had a cinnamon beignet with cinnamon ice cream last time but I heard they also serve one with bananas foster. Heard that Grand Lux Cafe at the Beverly Center serves fantastic beignets too. Call ahead of time to check for availability and if they don't have it on the menu that day, request it to be made for you.
1401 South Oak Knoll Ave., Pasadena, 626-568-3900
7360 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, 323-934-4400
Grand Lux Cafe
121 N La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, 310-855-1122
re: jackkirby
The beignets are a standard menu item @ the Grand Lux. They are made to order, so it does take about 15 mintues, but they're well worth the wait!
Yes! Grand Luxe Cafe, it comes with three flavors to dip in..
I also like the ones at that jazz restaurant in downtown disney, but I'd really go for the bananas foster flambeed tableside.
the vegan beignets (yes, i said it) at Madeline Bistro in Tarzana are astoundingly good. very very fresh and sinfully delicious.
re: revets2
Finally! An excuse to go to the Hungry Cat!
I will report back with impressions ;-)
thanks! (also thanks to everyone else for the other suggestions to follow up on.)
re: ttriche
Alas, they stopped serving beignets for Sunday brunch as of... TODAY.
The menu pinned up in the window still shows beignets as an item for Sunday brunch, as does their web site. I am seriously considering parenting a new thread solely for the purposes of flaming the Hungry Cat. To say I was pissed off by this false advertising on their part would be an understatement of British proportions.
To their credit, our waitress was very nice and understanding, and the busboy (!) one of the best that I have ever seen. It was difficult to see all of this happening through the fog of bile that occluded my field of vision.
I cracked open John Folse's Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cooking and realized that I could have just made the dough, fried it in my stock pot, and had beignets for about $125 less than the tab at Hungry Cat (for 5 people -- I'm not that much of a wastrel, my wife and I split a BLAT). However, my wife was extremely pleased with the BLAT, which is what their famed lobster roll seems to have morphed into. The bacon was the good stuff and the lobster dominated the sandwich.
I just wish they'd had the goddamn beignets that they advertised!
re: ttriche
Sorry to hear that! That would make my blood boil and my ears steam. And I was looking forward to your review of beignets in L.A....For what it's worth, Cafe du Monde does sell boxes of their beignet mix. We used to make them when I was a kid. Don't know where you would find boxes of it here, but I'm sure perusal of the web will do the trick...
re: hch_nguyen
They actually are a very, very close facsimile to the "real deal" in NOLA... just follow the directions exactly, even if it seems "weird".
re: hch_nguyen
I bought a box of Beignet mix from Cafe du Monde when I went to NOLA in '05 (5 months before you-know-what). After studying the ingredients, I realized it was pretty much the same thing as pancake mix! So I learned to make my own...it's REAL easy. At my last employer, I made Beignets for everyone for Mardi Gras. Just remember they're only good for like 20 minutes after you fry them.
re: Normal Garciaparra
Yeah, I decided the shipping was not worth it, and did the same...
Results attached. I wouldn't recommend doing this often, lest a person become morbidly obese, but god damn are they good when they're hot and puffy.
Under no circumstances would I pay Hungry Cat prices for beignets after doing this at home. You could train a monkey to do it, and they can never be as hot as they are fresh out of the fryer at home.
re: Normal Garciaparra
more like 10 seconds after they're fried.
re: mistertoast
I like Bob's too but do they really make beignets? I haven't seen them on the menu board.
re: mistertoast
i was extremely excited when i saw beignets at bob's since i had heard so many great things about their doughnuts, but had never tried them. being disapointed was an understatement. they were not only cold, but dry and tasteless. i took 1 bite, couldn't believe it, took another, and tossed it in the trashcan. my advise is if you go, make sure they're fresh.
I've seen beignets on the menu at Uncle Darrow's, but I haven't tried them myself.
Uncle Darrow's
2560 South Lincoln Blvd.
Marina Del Rey
Hatfield's makes fabulous beignets. Here's how they're described on the menu:
Sugar and spiced beignets, Venezuelan chocolate fondue, sassafras milkshake shot
The accompaniments are great, but the beignets are so terrific, they stand on their own.
Chowfriend and I had sweet potato beignets served with homemade Cracker Jack (that used pecans instead of peanuts) and a caramel rum sauce the other evening at Lucques. The beignets were light and hot, with a crunchy cinnamon sugar coating. And the unique combination of textures of all caramelly goodness was outstanding! Yum!
The Jazz Kitchen's beignets is the most authentic i've tried so far. Their beignets resembles the taste of those found at Cafe du Monde the most (my wife and I had ate at Cafe du Monde everyday for breakfast when we were at Nawlins'). I've also tried the beignets at the Gumble Pot and at Uncle Darrow's. They were both very bland and the dough was not sweet enough. Although I haven't been there yet, but I checked out Hatfield's menu online and couldn't believe they charge $11 for beignets. That's robbery for such simple food.
re: tonester
I intend no disrespect to anyone on this board. I should probably try the L.A. upscale Beignets. But for me, Beignets are a low key and casual breakfest or late night treat. I've been to Cafe du Monde which is good but my gold standard for both Beignets and Cafe au Lait (and Chocolate Milk for kids) is at Morning Call in Meterie, LA. The food, the ambiance and the great staff! I haven't been since well before Katrina, hope it's still there so my lads can enjoy it sometime.
There is a place called Powderface in Oakland that I have forgotten to try the last 1/2 dozen times that I've been in the area.
As far as L.A. is concerned, the Gumbo Pots Beignets are not great, but usually ok to good and along with the bottomless Cafe au Lait and Farmer's Market scene, ie. the people watching and the browsing of shops at the 'Market' and The Grove - hey it's tasty and fun sometimes. L.A. ain't LA!!!
re: sel
At least on my part, no disrespect taken. I love beignets for brunch because they're such a simple experience -- warm, puffy fried pieces of dough, with powdered sugar, and something to smear on them if you're lucky.
Bardia's New Orleans Cafe in DC has lines out the door and down the block every Sunday, because their beignets and crab omelettes and po'boys are, in fact, simple food excellently executed. I think that's a great test of a kitchen -- can you still wow them when there's no froufrou foams and glazes to hide beneath? Not so easy to pull off!
One good point that the waitress did make today at the Hungry Cat is that the beignets are relatively simple -- the attraction was the handmade fresh strawberry compote which they served alongside the beignets. Perhaps that's why the beignets were rotated off.
Needless to say, this got me thinking, and I see a jam pan in my future, along with a box of the Cafe du Monde mix. (Maybe some coffee & chicory for completeness' sake) My mom noted that, at the very least, Surfas stocks the mix; I am hopeful that Bristol Farms or perhaps a cheaper local source will turn up, as well. Folse's dough recipe is pretty simple, so I can pull that off if I have to, but I'm lazy, so I'd rather not!
Next time I visit my friends in the Bay Area I will have to try Powderface, too.
I, too, liked Grand Lux's beignets (I know, the shame of liking a chain) - and also Grace Restaurant's on their Wednesday doughnut nights.
As for savory beignet, I can only un-recommend the lobster beignets at French 75 (and probably also served at its Culinary Adventure siblings) - tasteless duds.
I really like Grand Lux Cafe's beignets since the portion is big enough for several people. You also get three dipping sauces (Red Raspberry, chocolate, and this delicious liquory vanilla one). It's a delicious way to end a meal.
Happy to report that the beignets at Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen express is definitely worth getting. Better than Gumbo Pot (pricier though).
I was a little bit worried since it wasn't made to order, but the batch I got was still very tasty.
One guy prep and fried up an entire batch, and they put them in individual paper bags with powdered sugar on the bottom, and the whole lot under a heatlamp. You have to shake up the bag to get the sugar coated on the beignets.
Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen's beignets at Downtown Disney are the most like the Café du Monde's in New Orleans because they're using the Café du Monde's mix, I do believe. (Boxes of the mix and cans of the coffee-and-chicory blend were prominently displayed at the walk-up counter when I was there, which was a dog's age ago.)
Of course, one can also buy the mix. It's sold at Surfas, I believe, and it also seems to pop up in stores catering to Southeast Asians, I've found. It's rarely more than three dollars a box and dead simple to make. Just add water, I think. The Café du Monde mix really makes the definitive beignet, not very sweet, nice and chewy...
re: Woolsey
I can confirm the Du Monde beignet mix is sold at Surfas. I think it's $6 or $7/package
re: Beignets
FYI, Joan's On Third also has the Du Monde mix for sale.
re: Woolsey
Love the beignets at the Jazz Kitchen! The great part is you don't have to go in Disneyland and they will validate your parking. After stuffing your face you can go to Sephora. Heaven!
re: Oh Robin
how much are the beignets at the jazz kitchen? is it casual, meaning can i swing by for some of the beginets only and maybe a cup of chicory cafe au lait if they actually have it. thanks.
the gumbo pot beignets which i had recently are poor versions of the ones at cafe du monde in new orleans (even though they still use the du monde mix).
re: kevin
It's around $4.5 for a bag of 4, and there's also a bag of 6. It's at the take out place ("express") so it's extremely casual. Sometimes hard to find a seat.
You can get it at the restaurant too, but it's $1 more.
They have the chicory coffee too. I can definitely say that the beignets are better than Gumbo Pot. They actually are soft and pillowly. The last batch at Gumbo Pot was overfried, not proofed enough and was chewy as hell.
re: notmartha
exactly the gumbo pot's were chewy and not puffy (same as proofed???).
anyways, they didn't give off the right impression at all.
4.5 for 4 b's, is of course cafe du monde (where it's 1.60 for three) but that'll have to do for now. thanks.
re: kevin
Yup. Puffy. I suspected the dough at Gumbo Pot wasn't leavened (proof) enough or let out to dry for too long. It used to be decent.
It is on the pricier side, but the beignets are also bigger than the Gumbo Pot. I think the Gumbo Pot is 2-2.5 inches square, the Jazz Kitchen is more like 3.5 inches square. Also downtown disney is not cheap. If you are in the area it's worth stopping by.
Also in the vincity (10-15 minutes drive) in that area is Thai Nakorn, Zankou and Sarkis Pastry.
re: notmartha
The Gumbo Pot is the absolute worst excuse for Louisiana cooking I've ever tasted. (My mother and her side of the family are from Baton Rouge, so I know true Louisiana cooking.) Their étouffée is dark brown and watery, like a soup, where it should be thick and reddish thick and served over rice. The jambalaya is the reddish color and of a wet consistency, like an étouffée. A true Cajun jambalaya would never have tomato in it, though. (An étouffée, being a Creole dish, would have tomato, but their version is totally lacking it.) And all the food is massively overspiced to hide how bad it all is. It tastes like those bad spice blends they sell tourists. I'm surprised the po' boys aren't served on Wonder bread, so it's no shock to read their beignets are flat and rubbery. No one should ever think The Gumbo Pot resembles real Louisiana cooking any more than Taco Bell resembles true Mexican cuisine.
re: notmartha
You know, I don't know if the casual place serves the cafe au lait, but if they have the same as in the sit-down restaurant upstairs, it is absolutely fantastic.
Expensive, yes, but you ARE at Disneyland... and you can park for three hours free, or five hours if you get your ticket validated. (Technically only the sit-down places are supposed to validate, but that's a rule that is widely flouted.)
re: SauceSupreme
Soft shell crabs: awesome!
Beignets: see above. Once you've made them yourself, you'll realize that they're easier to make than doughnuts, and it's hard to justify paying more than a buck or two for three of them.
re: ttriche
Thanks for the recipe in the link.
Yes the ingredients are cheap, but there's the convenice factor of not having to have a mess making the mix, kneading, rolling and frying them up. Plus for those with dietary concerns it's best not to have a big batch! ;)
re: SauceSupreme
Just adding, the beignets are only available on the lunch menu.
Michael's Bar & Grill in Burbank has fresh beignets and their honey butter is excellent! In addition to a regular bar menu they have a cajun menu as well. The cajun food is o.k., not great, but the beginets are wonderful.


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A Yard-Full of Dill
My parents have been trying to grow dill for years. Now that they have committed to getting their garden relandscaped, the dill has finally decided to make an appearance. Landscaping begins at end of the month (too early for cukes for pickle-making in their neck of the woods) and they really want to use as much of it as possible. They're making salmon with dill tonight. Any other recommendations? Anything that will save (preserves or freezables?)
Any and all recommendations welcome -- bonus points for recipes!
Hungarian Mushroom Soup from the old Moosewood Cookbook calls for a substantial amount of dill.
Silver Palate's tomato dill soup (or your own version), made with canned tomatoes, can freeze for later.
re: keslacye
Yes, this works. It's not as tasty as using fresh dill, but it's definitely closer to that than dried dill.
Anyone who grows herbs needs a great book called "Herbs in the Kitchen". Some general useful tips for your dill:
Egg dishes
Use in poaching liquid with parsley
Fresh tomato soup with dill
Dill Mayonaise
Dilled beets, borscht cold or hot
Use in vinaigrette or just sprinkle over salad greens
Russian and Eastern European recipes
re: monavano
Too hot here to grow dill, an herb I miss terribly. Dill is essential for gravlax, fabulous in cooking pot with boiled new potatoes with skins, stunning in a mustard sauce (made like mayo from mustard with oil, salt and a bit of sugar to form a thick emulsion) to eat with cold crab, shrimp, any kind of cold fish. Stuff bellies of whole fish with dill before cooking on the grill, use in a cream sauce for lamb, poaching liquid for whole shrimp, etc. etc. Any Scandinavian recipe in addition to the Russian ones.
I love dill! One of my favorites is to incorporate it into a roasted chicken. Put a handful of it inside the cavity with a sliced lemon. Then make a compound butter with lots of chopped dill. Stuff this under the skin at the breast and thigh, and run the rest of it over the top of the chicken.
You could make lots of dill compound butter and freeze it. It wil last for a month or two.
I love to add fresh dill to lettuce mixes when making a salad. Any fresh herbs taste great when eating a salad. Dill is my favorite though!
Just made the Barefoot Orzo salad with grilled shrimp and feta and it needed a lot of dill.
I also second the chopping and freezing in ice cube trays - this works great.
Dill freezes well and so does this bread.....
Dilly Casserole Bread
1 package active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water, about 105° to 110°
1 cup cottage cheese (pulse in blender until creamed)
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon minced fresh onion
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 tablespoon dill
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg
2 1/4 to 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
Put yeast in warm water; set aside. Heat cottage cheese to just lukewarm in saucepan. Combine cottage cheese, sugar, minced onion, melted butter, dill, salt, soda, and egg in a large mixing bowl.
Stir in dissolved yeast mixture. Add flour to make a stiff dough; beat well.
Cover and let rise in a warm place for about 1 hour or until it doubles in size. Spoon into a well greased 2-quart round casserole. Let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes or doubles in size. Bake at 350° for 30 to 40 minutes, Brush top of bread with butter. This is wonderful with a bowl of stew.
re: Spoonula
wow, that sounds great, and what a way to use cottage cheese!
re: Spoonula
Is that dill seed or dill weed? My grandma makes a similiar bread that calls for seed.
re: revsharkie
I use weed - my mother uses the seed and we have good luck with both....
oh and don't use ricotta cheese - you need the moisture from the cottage cheese. (....yes, I've already made that mistake thinking I could cut out a step!)
Spicy dilly beans (a green bean pickle) is a good way to use a bunch up and will be a welcome gift for some favored recipients at Christmas. I'm just waiting for mine to get big enough so I'll have a supply.
I have a Vietnamese recipe for fried squid rings with dill. It is an unusual herb in Vietnamese cooking, more used as a garnish but in this case delicious. If you are interested I can post.
re: jackie de
I made these last fall using a recipe I pulled off of epicurious.com. Actually, I pulled the recipe for dill beans off the website and then I threw some dried red chilies into the jars at the same time. Worked like a charm.
re: Candy
Dilly Beans. This is an old recipe. I've been making them for over 30 years. Learned to make them in foods class in college.
Begin by sterilizing 4 pint sized canning jars and their lids.
Bring 2 1/2 C of water to a boil along with 2 1/2 C. white vinegar and add 4 tsp. kosher salt.
Take 2 lbs, very fresh young green beans and tip andm tail them. Then trim to fit upright in pint -sized canning jars. Steam the beans 3 mins and then plunge into an ice bath to stop the cooking. Drain well. Pack the beans into 4 sterilized, hot, canning jars. Place 1 sprig of dill, 1 peeled sliced clove of garlic and 1hot pepper, a red Thai or two or ripe serrano would be good. Pour the hot brine into the jars, wipe the rims to remove and debris, top with the lids gently screw on the bands. Process in a water bath 10 minutes then remove allow to cool, check for seals and store in a cool datk place. If a jar does not seal refrigerate it and wait about 2 weeks before using for good flavor.
I know there are some people who will tell you to remove the bands right after processing. If you were taught that then go ahad. I leave mine on and have never had a problem.
Somewhere along the line I picked up a recipe for a dilled pea salad that's nice and an alternative to the gooey pea-egg-and-cheese nastiness that usually passes for pea salad.
I have no idea where I found the recipe, so this is sort of off the top of my head--but it's a simple enough recipe that I think improvisation is fine. You take a generous ration of fresh or thawed frozen peas and put them in your salad bowl. Then add some of whatever kind of onion you like, red or green or whatever, and a few thinly sliced radishes. For the dressing, a little plain yogurt and light sour cream or mayo (I've about lost my taste for mayo in salad dressings, personally) mixed with plenty of dill weed, a little salt, and freshly ground pepper. I've been known to add some other spices to the dressing, too, although the dill is the star of the show as far as I'm concerned.
re: revsharkie
I make a similar dill dressing in the blender with sour cream, garlic, s and p, and *buttermilk* This is so tangy and delicious, and also sings as a dip, or even as a sauce for crispy chicken (like Nigella's ritzy chicken).
Dill vinegar will save. Fill sterilized canning jars with with dill weed, preferably with some partially developed seeds. Bring some cider vinegar to a simmer and fill jars. Seal.
Dill vinegar is excellent for cole slaw (oil and vinegar type dressing), on cucumbers and in potato salad during the time of year when good dill isn't available from the garden.
re: Eldon Kreider
man I haven't thought about dill vinegar since I was a kid - my grandmother used to make that! thanks for the reminder! it makes the best cole slaw.
re: bite bite
I like making the beans because you are working in small batches and it does not have to be an all day production. Make 4 pts. today, another 4 next week etc. I used to give them to friends as a Christmas gift. With one couple i had to give them each their own jar because they would hide them from each other.
re: bite bite
My husband's fanstastic vegetarian split pea soup:
6 cups vegetable stock or water
5 carrots, slices
2 cups split peas
fresh dill...as much as you like
salt and pepper to taste
Add all ingredients to boiling water and simmer 30-40 minutes
We just made some yesterday to bring for lunch this week. So good.
Try potato leek soup with basil and dill...I think I got the recipe on epicurious. Really good but only uses a couple tbs.


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Vodafone deploys WiMax in Malta
Summary: Fixed WiMax rollout is seen by industry observers as a testbed for a wider deployment by the mobile network operator
Vodafone is deploying a WiMax-based network on the island of Malta, in what is seen as a testbed for wider deployment.
The company announced the Malta network — its first WiMax rollout — on Friday. Offering download speeds of up to 1Mbps, the service follows an "intensive trial period" of the long-range, high-bandwidth wireless technology.
The rollout, in the 3.5GHz frequency, is based on Airspan Networks' HiperMax base stations, which are designed for high-density deployments. Although customers will only be able to access the service from a fixed location, Airspan's equipment is software-upgradeable to the mobile variant of WiMax.
Paul Senior, Airspan's chief technology officer, said the Malta deployment could have wider implications. "Malta is one of Vodafone's classic test markets," he told ZDNet.co.uk. "We understand that there is significant interest in what's being done by Vodafone HQ. Airspan is committed to making it a success and showing that WiMax can support a deployment model that provides a credible service bundle of broadband, fixed telephony and mobile."
But Vodafone played down the significance of the rollout, suggesting that it only formed part of the operator's strategy. "For Malta, they've decided it's the most efficient route to give to their customers, based on a number of factors, such as geographic considerations and the [local] market," a spokesperson for the mobile operator said.
In the UK, the radio spectrum for mobile WiMax could be made available next year when Ofcom auctions radio spectrum in the 2.6GHz range.
However, there is a long-running rivalry between service providers seeking to roll out mobile WiMax and those behind 3G technology, which is more established in western Europe.
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A Bad Day For Nanjing's Street Enforcement Officers
We've documented here that chengguan — China's urban management/street enforcement officers — are not generally favored by the people. You might think it unfair to call them street thugs, but that's the reputation they've built for themselves, and while some chengguan, surely, are decent, it's unfortunate that it will almost always be the bad apples who make the news.
Take these three incidents from Nanjing on Tuesday.
We'll start with the above picture, posted yesterday to Sina Weibo before being picked up by news media. According to most accounts, trouble escalated when a barbecue vendor pulled out a knife and began waving it at chengguan who, presumably, wanted him to vacate the premises. After a small scuffle, the chengguan subdued the man, and an officer stepped on his neck. Just at that instant, a passerby snapped a photo.
So how do the people view this incident? The officer was obviously acting in self-defense, right?
The top comment on this Sina Weibo post:
Lin家的carrie: Chenguan are equivalent to Japanese Devils.
I'm going to cherry-pick a bit, but these three comments are all from the first page:
红胡子的老人0213: This is China's specialty, no reason to be surprised.
时装_礼服: Using them [chengguan], we're sure to take back the Huangyan Islands.
星光灿灿1990: SB chengguan. [SB is "stupid cunt"]
Of course, some netizens do point out that using a knife to resist law enforcement is probably not the best move. But the tone leans toward sympathy for the vendor. There is a sense that the weakest among us, society's disenfranchised and voiceless, deserve better. It's a sentiment that runs through the comment sections of many such stories here, often accompanied with anger. People don't like to see others trampled upon, and fair or not, the image of a street merchant lying on the ground with a foot to his neck reinforces every negative perception of authority figures in this country.
According to Jiangsu News (video), the offending chengguan, surnamed Chen, has been suspended and docked bonus pay.
Source: Beijing Cream


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'Tiyanjane' is a Chichewa word meaning 'Let us come together'Linking hospital & community to support people with HIV & AIDS
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EMMS International has provided funds for staff and volunteer training and for the hosting of Malawi's first Palliative Care conference. Much of the funding was raised by the trekkers on our sponsored Sinai Trek in 2006.
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Day 7 – Tuesday June 21
Roberto Rubio, an economist, is the head of the second
largest think tank in El Salvador. We hear a little of his background, of how
he was the political spokesperson in Europe for the FMLN and he returned to the
country after the civil war. He talks about the current political situation and
how El Salvador is poised between democracy and not…He equates the recent act
of the Assembly requiring unanimous decisions from the Constitutional chamber
of the Supreme Court as a coup d'état (the first we have heard that concept
used here). It is quite an interesting viewpoint.
We ask 'What would you do if you were the economic
minister?' He goes on to elaborate on several ideas he would implement.
Obviously, his think tank has been working on many problems for the past 19
years and he has a wealth of ideas to implement. Bottom line: he would set
forth a strong vision for the country and explain to the people why ideas such
as tax reform need to take place, where the money would go, and what it might
do for the country.
Our second speaker has cancelled as he fell and broke his
elbow in two places. Instead, we drive by the
U.S. embassy which is a huge complex in San Salvador. As I pull out my
camera, I am told "Don't take any pictures, they'll arrest you!" Wow. OK, I
won't take pictures – I'll go to Google earth and check it out…
We take a long busride into the countryside. It begins
raining and I think "Uh-oh, I don't have any rain gear with me." But neither
does anybody else. It is supposed to rain in the late afternoon or at night,
not mid-morning. But it stops raining about 10 minutes before our destination
which is the gravesite of the four churchwomen who were abducted, raped, and
murdered by the military on December 2, 1980. A monument and chapel have been
built at the site and we hold a memorial service for them and all of the
martyrs of the war.
We continue on the road to a place outside the town of Zuatelecuo,
Los Marinitos. We join a meeting where community leaders of the surrounding
villages gather each Tuesday afternoon. People arrive by bus, on bicycle and
horseback. They discuss the latest projects, the one of most immediate concern
is changing the bed of the local river. It is only by accident that the
villagers have found out about this (amazing how some things never change) and
they have demanded that their voices be heard. It is possible that the river
project will flood several villager's lands and the people are demanded more
discussion and study of the issue before the town proceeds.
We are given coconuts to drink from, the tops and bottoms of
the outer green husks have been lopped off, a hole to drink from cut into the
hard shell at the top, and the hole is covered by a slice of the husk to keep
insects from getting in. We drink from the coconuts during the meeting as the
day is hot and humid – much hotter than San Salvador. As we are leaving, we
notice a computer with a make-shift antennae grabbing signals for the Internet.
It is remarkable what the locals can do to connect to the modern world.
We get on the bus and begin the long ride back to our hotel.
I start dreaming of the pupuseria that we had gone to several nights before. I
find out others are interested in going, too, and we are all excited when we
hear that, indeed, it is to the pupuseria we are to have dinner.
Day 6 – Monday June 20
We meet in the hotel to listen to Margarita who lived in El
Salvador in the early days of the civil war. She told us of the persecution by
the right-wing party and of their attempt to capture her, even though her
family had ties to the military. She fled to Mexico with her children to escape
the war, but one winter holiday, her children begged her to let them go home
for a week or two to visit their friends. She relented and after only a day,
her two oldest children were 'disappeared.' For three days she had no word and
lived in agony that she would never see her children again. There was an
international effort to free her children, and her family used their
connections to intervene. After three days, one child was released, but the
other was sent to prison – her only crime was that she was related to someone
who had been close to Archbishop Romero. She appealed to a U.S. Senator who was
visiting both Mexico and El Salvador, and, after he visited the child in
prison, he (apparently) intervened and the child was released.
The experience destroyed the family unit – she underwent a
divorce and the children have had a rocky relationship with their mother ever
We watch a documentary on Jean Donovan, a lay church worker,
who was murdered along with three nuns. They were picked up by the military,
raped, shot execution style, then buried in a mass grave. The incident became
international news, and although the lowly soldiers who carried out the crime
were eventually convicted, the higher-ups who ordered the killings were never
prosecuted. Father Paul Schindler, who is in the documentary, visits with us
and gives more background and details of the incident. A number of people in
the group are quite moved…
After lunch at the hotel, we go back to the neighborhood
where we had attended Mass the day before and visit Fe y Alegria. We are met by
a Sister of the Sisters of Charity. From their website, "Fe y Alegria is a 'Movement
for Integral Popular Education and Social Development' whose activities are
directed to the most impoverished and excluded sectors of the population, in
order to empower them in their personal development and their participation in
Fe y Alegria is a school where students can be in a safe
environment. We see students in their uniforms hanging around before classes
start and we move into a classroom for a talk. Unfortunately, the area has just
been fumigated, a music lesson is starting a few feet outside the door, and we
move to another classroom. We hear stories of hope as well as a story of
tragedy. Of kids who begin an ascent out of poverty, and of a star student who
was killed by gang violence. We are told of the building of a wing of the
school and how, almost by divine providence, funds become available.
Our last stop of the day is with Rick Jones at Catholic
Relief Services. He has a wealth of information about present day El Salvador
and what he sees as many of its problems. He lists as his top five issues: a)
the economy (unemployment); b) violence; c) emigration (to the U.S.) as
splitting apart families; d) global warming; and e) health care. It is
insightful and articulates what we have been trying to define during our stay.
The problems can seem insurmountable, but there are people like Rick who are
fighting a daily battle to make people's lives better all over Central and
South America.
Before heading out for our first trip to the countryside, we
stop at Pollo Campero (your companion chicken!) and have lunch. It is a large
KFC-like place with lots of fried food. There are lots of service staff in the
place – I have noticed that many places, including the supermarket, have what
we would consider an over abundance of help. But the Salvadorans are not
looking for efficiency but rather full employment. In the supermarket, there
were two people in every aisle ready to assist you!
Two U.S. soldiers walk in to Pollo Campero as we are
leaving, startling many of us. I ask what they are doing in El Salvador, since
U.S. army personnel have not been stationed in the country for years. They are
support staff for a group of U.S. Special Forces that are competing in a 'Pan-American'
competition. Evidently, many countries in the Americas have sent soldiers to
this competition and this year it is being held for two weeks in June in El
We take a 50 minute ride into the countryside where we meet
Vladimir, the FMLN guerrilla we saw in the documentary Enemies of War. The bus stops on the road and we hike up a short
way to the small adobe brick house Vladimir has built. He lives there with his
children and grandchildren, his wife having passed away from cancer shortly
after the documentary was filmed in 1994. He regales us with stories of when he
had to go to the capital to get documents and pretending he was not a
guerrilla. The time with Vladimir is all too brief – many of us feel that we
could have stayed all day and into the evening listening to the stories he has
to tell.
Day 5 – Sunday June 19
It is our earliest day yet – be ready for the bus at 7:30am.
We drive to a very poor community in San Salvador where we are going to hear
Sunday mass. We pass through many neighborhoods and head down a steep incline,
through winding, narrowing streets. We
cross a one lane bridge across a river and the bus backs up a narrow street and
stops in front of a house. A woman emerges and will take us to where the mass
is being held. Walking through the town reminds me of some of the villages in
Tuscany with the houses closely packed along twisting walkways, though the
houses in Tuscany are much nicer.
The mass has started and is being held in the middle of a
main street of the area. It is somewhat of a carnival atmosphere all morning
long. People are walking by with baskets on their heads with goods to sell,
futbol players heading off to play. Roosters crowing, someone trying to start
their car over and over again. People dressed in their Sunday best arrive at a
house next door for services of another denomination – I cannot believe how
many people they must have packed into that little house next to the 'church'
holding the mass.
The priest, Father Luis, asks us to introduce ourselves to
the crowd of perhaps 150. Belinda, whose parents came from Mexico and is fluent
in Spanish, tells the congregation where we are from. People get up and give us
their chairs to sit on, though many of us prefer to stand in the shade across
the street. Bob translates the homily as we listen with our earpieces. Off in
the distance we see a drum corps walking towards us with their instruments.
They stop in front of us and line up in the street. They are introduced as a
community group formed by the church to help students stay on the straight and
narrow. And then they play for the crowd – I feel like I am back in college
listening to the band as they march out onto the field. They are pretty good –
considering they were formed only two months ago!
After the service we go inside the storefront church and
talk with Father Luis and the students from the drum corps. We ask questions
about life in the community, their hopes, dreams, and aspirations. The first
one tells us he wants to get out of there, to build a better life away from poverty.
Another tells a moving story of how his best friend was murdered simply for
being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of how he did not find out about
the killing until after the funeral was held and is still grieving. But the
Mass and the whole morning experience is one of joy and exuberance and is a
highlight of our trip.
We arrive back at the Hotel Alicante to watch a documentary
filmed just before the FMLN offensive of November 1989. The film follows a
guerrilla leader of the FMLN as she and her group both plan for the offensive
and keep moving to avoid the Salvadoran army. What is remarkable is not just
the documentary, but we hear a little of Maria Serrano's (her nom de guerre)
story since then. During the film she mentions several times that after the war
she is going to go back to school – it is her lifelong dream. After the peace
accords in 1992, she went back to school and became a teacher. In 1997, the
FMLN party begged her to run for an assembly seat and she won. But she was not
happy in the post and saw the corruption of the political process up close. She
left politics to return to teaching, but several years ago she was named the
Vice-Governor of her province. Then earlier this year, she was appointed to the
President's cabinet and is now the Minister of the Interior for El Salvador.
And we get to speak with her on Tuesday as part of the immersion… pretty cool!
After lunch at the hotel we listen to a Justice of the
Supreme Court , Sidney Blanco, who was elected in 2009. What makes his election
so significant is that there were four people elected that year who are honest
and incorruptible, and all four were put into the Constitutional chamber of the
Supreme Court. That is, they rule on the constitutionality of laws in El
Salvador. There are other chambers that rule on civil, criminal, and administrative
laws. Sidney Blanco was an Assistant Attorney General in the late 1980's and was
involved in seeking justice for those Jesuits who were murdered in November
1989. When it became clear that the then-Attorney General wasn't going to
pursue the case, he quit and became the legal counsel for the Jesuits. His
reputation in the country is spotless.
He and his other honest colleagues have made a number of
rulings over the past two years that have really angered the ruling parties, so
much so that the Assembly passed a (unconstitutional) law two weeks ago that
stated that all rulings must be unanimous (there are five justices in the
constitutional chamber one of the justices who has been there before is of the
old school – hmmmm, shall we say less than honest? ) so the four new justices
would be stymied. The country is in an uproar over this law (though the
constitutional justices have ruled it invalid), the people have been protesting
in the streets (helped by Facebook and Twitter!), and the party that passed the
law in the assembly is now furiously backtracking as the people know that their
rights are being taken away and they know who is responsible. We could be living during a true turning
point in the history of the Salvadoran people.
We dine at Chevys, though not the chain from the U.S. Some
of us drink margaritas…the food is ok but the price is right (very reasonable).
Day 4 – Saturday June 18
Day started early – we are on the bus at 8am and off to
Hospital Rosario, a free public hospital where the poor of San Salvador go for
treatment. We are met by Dr. Virginia Rodriguez who is head of surgery at the
hospital and she takes us on a tour of the wards. The hospital opened in 1902
and has survived the four major Salvadoran earthquakes of the 20th
century. I ask if I can take pictures and the doctor says yes – she doesn't
impose any restrictions on taking pictures of the wards or people. I think this
is a bit odd, but I am willing to take pictures.
The hospital is clean, but like most hospitals in lesser
developed countries, people are crowded into open wards. There may be 40 or 50
people all lying on beds next to each other in some of the wards as hospital
staff move among them. There is essentially no privacy for anyone except there
are curtains that can be drawn between beds in some of the wards. The concept
of a private room doesn't exist at this hospital. I realize why I can take
pictures with impunity. Everyone sees everyone else – literally dozens and
dozens of people could go by a bed in a
day. The intake area is filled with people on gurneys and on chairs. Yet we are
told that, because this is a Saturday, relatively few people are there. Dr.
Rodriguez tells us it is usually really crowded with patients, and I think,
'This isn't crowded?' But I refuse to
take any pictures in the intake ward. I feel it is too intrusive – an invasion
of privacy and a line I will not cross. I can take a distance shot of a ward
with people on beds, but the intake ward is too close, too personal.
The hospital reminds me I am in another country, one that is
in the developing world, and I am both impressed at the incredible dedication of
the nurses and doctors and appalled at the lack of health care facilities. The
hospital is strapped for funds and cannot hire as many doctors or nurses as
they need, nor do they have enough beds for the patients.
Day 3 – Friday June 17
We stay at the hotel for our first speaker. Don Lito has come from a remote town and it has
taken him 4 hours to get here by walking and bus. His is a story that is
gripping – he tells of growing up in a society that cheats its poorest workers.
How thousands of people would work 12 hour days in the coffee plantations, the
atrocious living conditions, and be cheated by the owners of their pay.
He tells of the violence of the police and National Guard as
a way of life in the country. And he talks about events in his town leading up
to the civil war. The intimidation, the outright lies that the government
perpetrates on these people. Don Lito is
a spellbinding storyteller and his history is told in the book Don Lito of El Salvador by Maria Lopez
After listening to Don Lito, we have 1 ½ hours before we are
to eat at the UCA. Why such a long break? Well, when it takes 4 hours to get to
the big city, you must take advantage of it and go shopping. Bob is taking Don
Lito to the market and stores and will meet up at the UCA.
John Koeplin and I go for a walk through the neighborhood,
past the UCA, and down to the main boulevard. We pass five or six places with
armed guards – men with semi-automatic rifles slung over their shoulders (our
hotel has a 24-hour guard, too). The day is quite pleasant as there is a
tropical storm forming off the coast and keeping the temperatures down. We meet
up with the group and go to lunch at the UCA cafeteria. Several of us are
struck at how it feels like we are in a high school. The seating is on benches
and tables with a covered seating area. There are many young people – younger
than at USF. We realize that high school ends at 11th grade so many
of the students at the UCA are 17, possibly even 16 years old.
We wander over the UCA bookstore. It reminds me of a small
town independent bookstore. There are no shirts, mugs, or any other kind of
merchandise we have come to associate with a North American university
bookstore. We head up the hill and go to the museum of the martyrs which is
built next door to the house where the 6 Jesuits and their housekeeper and her
daughter were assassinated. We listen to Father Jon Sobrino, SJ, the one
surviving member of the Jesuit community of that time. He escaped being killed
as he was in Thailand giving a talk. We then wander through the museum itself
and then outside the house where the priests were murdered. It was quite
moving, and chilling…
On The wall in the chapel where the priests are buried is a
poem which was part of a memorial service marking the 20th
anniversary of their deaths. Bob translated the poem for us and broke down when
he reached the list of names of the priests. It struck me then how intimately
tied to the events Bob was. He may not have been a participant, but as a
reporter, he was an observer of all the violence, chaos, injustice, and
brutality of the war. I wanted to go up to him and hold him…
We go to the office of the president of the UCA, he is known
as the 'Rector' of the university. The rector spends about 45 minutes telling
us about the current state of the university. He is a young Jesuit and is feeling
a bit overwhelmed in his new position – he has been rector for only 5 months.
We take a group photo and then head back to the hotel.
Before dinner we have a reflection/discussion. We are asked
to tell the group about the one image that has most impacted us during our
first two days in El Salvador. Some mention the squatter community we visited
on the first day, some about the horrors of war, the images of torture and
murder that were painted for us by our speakers. I mention seeing Bob break
down as he is reading the poem, as his emotion brings home to me for the first
time the human impact of the war. Hearing the retelling of the stories I have
maintained some emotional distance. The people who speak to us have survived
and are Bobrally healthy. But every day we have been hearing more and more
about Bob's observations of El Salvador over the past 31 years, and the layers
are peeling away like on onion. His breaking down in the chapel showed some of
the first true emotions on our trip and I was deeply affected…
We go to dinner at a Pupuseria next door to the Universidad
Albert Einstein. Pupusas are hand-made thick corn tortilla stuffed with
something such as cheese, vegetables, beans, and combinations of these. They
are delicious.
We leave and stop at a Mister Donut (the El Salvador
franchises of Dunkin' Donuts). I eat a cheese crepe, though I ordered one with
chorizo. I am not going to send it back.
After lunch, we go to the hospitalito where Archbishop Oscar Romero lived the last few years
of his life and was assassinated by the right wing military and upper class
establishment. We are met by Eva, a woman who is a nun and who had known
Romero, both when he was a parish priest and the archbishop. She told a story
of how the nuns went out into the countryside and brought some education to the
people. The people wanted to learn how to read and write, to understand the
origins of the Bible. The nuns taught them to read, but also taught them to
have skills other than subsistence farming. The women learned to sew and
cooperatives were set up where some bought the cloth, others sewed, and still
others sold the finished products. The men in the village were a bit jealous
and wanted to learn a skill, too. The nun asked what they wanted to do. Well,
they said, we see big things called cars. How about learning a skill to work on
them? So they taught them welding skills and some mechanic work, so when the
men went into the city of San Miguel, they could claim to have a skill and be
After an hour talk we tour the chapel and Romero's house. The
house is simple, just as Romero wanted it. The nuns built it for him but it had
to be simple or he would refuse to live in it. Two bedrooms, a sitting room,
and a bath. I take pictures as I realize I am the unofficial photographer of
the trip. I am the only one with a decent camera (most take pictures with their
smart phones) and I will put the pictures onto CDs for the group.
We return to the hotel and listen to a student, Efraim, who
has received scholarships from his rural community and the Jesuit foundation at
UCA. He tells his story of his family moving from his village in the early days
of the civil war to avoid the death squads. Of losing his mother soon after he
was born, his father leaving to marry another woman and raise a different
family, and being raised by his
grandparents. He tells of his botched
medical procedure when he was two – a doctor severing some nerves in his hip
which will ultimately lead to his losing his left leg before he is 30. He puts
our parent and grandparents stories to shame (you know, the ones where they had
to walk miles through the snow to get to school) as he recounts his 3 ½ hour
walks each way to a school in another community. And that is in the dry season.
When the rains make the river he needs to cross impassable at the usual place,
he must walk an additional ½ hour to a bus which takes another 30 minutes to
get to the school. And only if the bus is running and hasn't broken down.
Otherwise, he had to walk the rest of the way himself.
His school only goes to the 9th grade and he
stops school for two years. Then a neighboring community opens up a high school
and he finishes high school. His community decides to give him a scholarship to
go to college – he goes but after two years he realizes that it is too easy and
isn't what he wants. He transfers to UCA and the Jesuits give him a scholarship
for room and board. He has struggled with some of his courses, he loses his leg
and now has a prosthesis. But now, as he is nearing 30 years old, he will
finish college this year.
Day 2 – Thursday June 16
Slept well – a good 8 hours. Got ready and went downstairs
at 7am and moved to the patio with my computer. I figure 1 ½ hours of work
before the immersion day begins. I answer some email – uh-oh – a student says
they cannot see the homework assignments I set up the day before. I try to
check the course website to find out what is going on. The Internet connection
is soooo slow and I feel I am back in the 1990's with a 56K modem. But the
assignments are there but I did not set one up correctly for the students to
upload their assignments. I fix the assignment on both class websites and email
the students the corrections.
We get on the bus at 8:45am and head down the hill to the
University of Central America, UCA, pronounced 'ooka' by the locals. We go into
a nice brick building and I am struck by how pretty it is inside, with an
atrium-style courtyard and breezeway. We go into a small classroom that barely
fits the 13 of us to watch the documentary Enemies
of War. The film brings to life some
of the people and images we read about prior to our trip, and we will meet some
of the people interviewed. The film includes the story and struggle of a
typical campesino (peasant) and his
family who fled the death squads and fought the rebels. Parts of the movie
brought tears to my eyes – it was moving and graphic, showing the dead
unsanitized as is usually the case back home.
We leave UCA and drive about 35 minutes to a squatters camp
called Oscar Romero. There we find a community of 75 families who are trying to
make a subsistence living on a few acres of land. We are regaled by several
leaders of the community of their tale of woe. Having lost everything in the
earthquakes of 2001, over 200 families take over a piece of government land.
They hear that the government will help build houses for landowners who lost
their homes in the earthquake. But there's the rub – they lost their homes but
did not own the land. So they took over some government land in the hopes of
getting help. The story that emerges is one of corrupt government bureaucrats
and ever changing requirements. A large cement company is buys an adjacent
parcel of land for several dollars, yet the same government agency tells these
people that it will cost them over $8000. Evidently, the agency thinks they
will never come up with the money, but a foundation helps them and they come up
with the money. Surprise, surprise! The land is no longer for sale but is being
deeded to another government entity. After years of battles with agencies and
government committees, the group, now down to 75 families, buys the land. But
their troubles don't stop there. Now the government is refusing to supply the community
with clean drinking water and children die of dysentery and other water-borne
I leave with a greater understanding of how a nation such as
ours that is governed by the rule of law makes life and living so much easier.
How do you bring a concept such as the rule of law to entire peoples who have
entirely different traditions. Latin American nations such as El Salvador have
over 400 years of corruption, brutality, and a division of classes. Might makes
right, and I do not have any simple answers…
The hotel is the Alicante. It is like a nice motel – with
three stories and built somewhat like a rabbit warren. Stairs go off in
different directions and the room numbering system – wait, I am not sure there
is a numbering system. The hotel may have undergone various stages of building
and when new sections were added, the room numbering continued where it had
left off. It is cute and has a very nice courtyard and smallish pool.
Mike, Bob, and I sit in the patio to have lunch. I have a
chicken sandwich and try the local Pilsener beer – not bad! Afterward I go to
my room and post homework assignments for my classes, and then take a siesta. I
had gotten only two hours sleep the night before, and after an hour sleep I
wake up groggy. I go downstairs and Mike and I order dinner in the dining room
before Bob shows up. We eat hurriedly
and then we head back to the airport in our rented bus to pick up the
rest of the group. The first arrivals have just emerged from customs and we
greet them. Bats are flying around, eating the insects that are attracted to
the bright lights of the terminal. After about 20 minutes, the rest of the
group shows up from another flight. We get on the bus and return to the hotel.
We are in the early stages of getting to know one another,
so there is small talk on the bus. When we arrive back at the hotel, people
check in and there is some amusement over trying to find rooms since there is
no relationship to the room number and its location in the hotel. The porter is
extremely helpful and brings bags and people to their rooms. There is only one of him and 10 of us, so
after several people give up trying to find their rooms on their own, the
porter comes to their rescue.
We gather back in the dining room for sandwiches as the new
arrivals have not eaten. I pass on the sandwiches but do indulge in the fries!
We are told about the next day's tentative itinerary, what time to meet in the
morning, and then it is off to our rooms. I go back to my room pretty tired and
then go to sleep.
Day 1 – Wednesday June 15
Arrived at the San Salvador airport at 11:15am. Went through
customs easily and waited for my bags. As always, after seeing lots of bags go
by that were not mine, I have a little apprehension that my bag did not make
it. But the bag arrives and I leave the terminal.
I see a throng of locals crowding around the barricades that
have been put up – they await the arrival of their loved ones. A blast of hot,
humid air greets me as I try to find the people who will pick me up. Taxi drivers
are shouting at me, trying to get a fare as they see my look of bewilderment.
But it is a look that tells of my initial confusion and discomfort of trying to
find my way to the front of the terminal. Just as I get to the curb, I hear my
name called – Mike and Bob have just pulled up in Bob's old,
desert yellow Jeep.


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As a family caregiver to a senior with arthritis symptoms home care software may not be one of the first tools that comes to mind when you think about managing your loved ones arthritis. Medication, exercise routines, an in-home elder care assistance all seem like logical courses of care, but you may be surprised to learn how much of a positive impact home care software can have on managing care for a senior with arthritis.
The benefits of using home care software primarily stem from choosing to work with a home care agency that utilizes a robust home care software system, such as ClearCare, to facilitate administration of their agency. For example:
1. Home care software helps track arthritis symptoms and diagnoses:
A full service home care software, like ClearCare, allows home care administrators to track a client's arthritis symptoms in an assessment form within their the home care system. With information stored in once central place, family members can be assured that home care providers are aware of their loved ones' needs without having to rifle through paper files that are often looked at once and stored in cabinets for months to come.
2. Caregivers know to modify tasks thanks to care log task tracking:
Home care software, like ClearCare, allows home care schedulers to note specific modified tasks to assist in the management of arthritis symptoms. Notes to incorporate light exercise, prep meals for after the caregiver has left, or dress the client in clothing without buttons are never lost when they're kept within home care software and available to caregivers via mobile care logs on a tablet, or telephony call-in.
3. Care plans are available for instant update:
As physicians and primary care providers work to find the best course of care for a senior with arthritis symptoms, medication or exercise regimens may change. A home care software capable of producing paperless care logs, like ClearCare, allows care logs to be quickly updated to note new medication reminders, or exercise plans. Conversely, paper care plans could take days to update as they make their way from an agency's office and back into the field.
By working with a home care provider using a robust home care software, like ClearCare, family caregivers will be granted the peace of mind that comes along with knowing an elderly loved one is receiving coordinated care required to thrive with arthritis symptoms.
ClearCare is a San Francisco-based software company that offers the world's first front- and back-office solution for private duty home care agencies. ClearCare's web and mobile platform for scheduling, integrated telephony, two-way caregiver messaging, and marketing makes the business of home care administration intuitive, efficient, and paper-free. With a number of home care systems on the market, over a thousand local and national home care companies have chosen ClearCare's best-of-breed system for its innovation, ease of use, and point-of-care transparency. As customers attest, the results include more efficient operations, lower administrative costs, growth in new clients and referrals, increased profits, lower turnover, and higher quality care.


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With its nutty, tart topping, this cake will bring smiles as soon as you turn it out of the pan. —Anne Thompson, Grand Rapids, Michigan
8 Servings
Prep: 30 min. Bake: 40 min. + cooling
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup butter, cubed
1 cup chopped fresh
frozen cranberries, thawed
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 teaspoon
McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
In a small saucepan, combine brown sugar and butter. Cook and stir
over medium heat until butter is melted. Transfer to a greased 9-in.
round baking pan. Sprinkle with cranberries and pecans.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add
eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in
orange juice and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder,
cinnamon, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately
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Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near
the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before inverting
onto a serving plate. Serve warm. Yield: 8 servings.
Nutritional Facts:
1 slice equals 530 calories, 30 g fat (16 g saturated fat), 122 mg cholesterol, 332 mg sodium, 59 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 6 g protein.
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Play the Shoe Stylist: 'Caracole' courts by Faith Solo
It's Friday again, and just to keep you busy over the weekend, here's your Play the Shoe Stylist shoe for this week!
These 'Caracole' shoes by Faith Solo are rather punchy, with their red, black and yellow colour mix, but what would you wear with them? That's your challenge for this week: put together an outfit to wear with these and send it to us by 9am on Tuesday, so we can include it in our roundup. You'll find the rules of the game here - have fun!


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It's that time of year again: Outside it's bitterly cold, black-icy, and dark, so very dark, at 4:30 p.m. Right about now, Seasonal Affective Disorder should be kicking in, but I couldn't be happier. I love me some winter, and I bet your guy does too. Meanwhile, women wonder what it is about this frozen hellscape that inspires pure joy in their men. How can guys smile in weather that, with prolonged exposure, could potentially cause you to lose a toe? Winter is the Season of Man, when we are forced to reckon with our most primal adversary, Mother Nature. It's a time of intermittent exercise, carbo-loading, and infrequent grooming--and this is a glorious thing. Let me explain why.
We're not sweating all the time.
I am convinced that dudes' internal body temperature runs about 10 degrees warmer than women's. In the summer, I'm fine in nothing but a pair of running shorts, but at a certain point I can't take anything else off, and I'm still sweaty. This is the male condition for a good six months out of the year: overheated and uncomfortable. Winter is a relief because you can remove a layer of clothing and not end up naked. The clothes for guys in the winter are also manly: Boots make you look tall, bomber jackets make you feel like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, and knit beanies hide the fact that you are in that awkward stage of balding between thinning hair and cool cueball, like Patrick Stewart (just fall out already, dammit). Everything makes you look well-proportioned, meaning I always appear more in shape even when I haven't worked out in weeks.
Nothing makes a man happier than building a fire for his family. Armed only with incendiary devices like lighters and matches, newspaper, and dried wood, you have taken your loved ones from cold to warm; you have made something that provides comfort to them as they update Facebook and drink their hot chocolate and text their friends. What a primal sense of accomplishment we get from fire-building! It is our last real connection to our cavemen ancestors, who, little-known fact, also occasionally used those starter logs.
We are proud to help our fellow men.
I shovel out all the elderly neighbors on my block, and there are guys down the street who take care of the folks at their end. Every able-bodied dude has his territory to look after. There was a point a few snowy winters ago when I was shoveling out five houses, including my own. I would go out first thing in the morning and wouldn't trudge back until noon, chilled to the bone and soaking wet. I enjoy it. There are so few opportunities that the modern world provides for men to be useful to their neighbors, situations in which a strong back and patience and hard work can be measured in tangible results. I could offer to mow their lawns in the summer, but since I've never heard of anyone being trapped in their home by the tall grasses of August, I pass on that.


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This week, I'm back on the food-truck beat, checking out Go! Gyro! Go! (@GoGyroGo; 314-496-3970) and Feed Me Banh Mi (@FeedMeTruck; 314-299-2900). The stretch of North Broadway south of Olive Street is an acutely bland corridor of downtown, fifty shades of gray and then some. There looms the Feder ... More >>
The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank (one of 12 such regional banks in our nation) does cool stuff sometimes. One of its missions is to "disseminate economic research that is useful to a wide range of audiences, including the general public." Hence this simple video primer on the crisis in Greece, and ... More >>
In this week's feature story, "Step Right Up," RFT Music Editor Annie Zaleski describes how the Americans with Disabilities Act has affected her life. Zaleski was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a toddler and was entering fifth grade when President George H.W. Bush signed the legislation into law.T ... More >>
James Bullard: Bullish on Fed's latest plan.The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis poked his head out of his granite bunker on Broadway and Locust yesterday to predict at least six to twelve months of recession. That's how long James Bullard believes it will take before the market ... More >>
You have a weekend, then a short week, and before you know it, you'll be in line outside the electronics store at 4 a.m. waiting to get flat-screen TV at deep, deeeep discount. So please, enjoy this final weekend before holiday madness descends on all of us. Here are ten options for weekend fun for ... More >>
The St. Louis FedWhen did it all begin? This financial mess we're in? And what were the major events that have defined it? A new timeline feature available on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis helps answer that. The voyage begins in late February 2007 when Freddie Mac announ ... More >>
Bill JakobIn the course of reporting "Hornswoggled," this week's feature story about the con man Bill Jakob, RFT obtained a transcription of a sworn deposition that Jakob gave earlier this year as part of a $7.25 million civil rights lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court.Federal investigators warne ... More >>
Read Arkansas Business much?Didn't think so. That's what Unreal's here for! Speaking yesterday in Little Rock, Julie Stackhouse, a senior VP with the St. Louis Federal Reserve, saw a hint of blue financial sky amid the gray.Isn't it nice to be reassured (again) that THIS ISN'T AS BAD AS THE GREAT DE ... More >>
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Unreal looks into the future and sees... debt and tennis shoes. Plus: a bat house for sale and a Benz full of beer.
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Wrong Hiv Positive Test Results
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Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center Discontinues Use of OraQuick Oral HIV Test After False-Positive ResultsThe Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center on Thursday announced it is discontinuing use of OraSure Technologies ' oral OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV 1/2 Antibody Test after the center reported 13 false-positive test results in November, the Los Angeles... Read more »
Lab Tests for Herpes Often Give Wrong ResultsA recent survey of laboratories performing herpes simplex virus (HSV) testing found many used blood tests that often give false results. In a proficiency examination of HSV testing, the College of American Pathologists sent 172 participating labs a... Read more »
HIV-Positive People Not Obtaining Test Results, Receiving Appropriate Counseling, Studies SayMany HIV-positive people do not return to obtain the results of HIV tests and many other HIV-positive individuals who are aware of their HIV-positive status do not receive adequate counseling regarding reducing the risk of HIV transmission,... Read more »
Six Testing Sites Discontinue Use of OraQuick Oral HIV Test as FDA, CDC Investigate False-Positive ResultsAt least six testing sites in San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles earlier this month discontinued use of OraSure Technologies ' oral OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV 1/2 Antibody Test, as CDC and FDA investigate reports of an abnormal number of... Read more »
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Okay, let me get to the point. Sting, Stevie Nicks, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and Bruce Springsteen were my choices for the 5 Best Solo Artists of the 80's. The Boss was number one, perhaps the name has something to do with it. Apparently he was "The Boss of Me." I am most curious to know who you think I missed on this list. I am standing by! Tomorrow join me at 4 for the best "Dynamic Duos" on Rock Guitar. By the Way, It's 3 days in a row on The List for the guy who occupies the top spot!
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Dan, ec has to be the artist who is on the list for the 3rd day in a row. As for who I think you missed on today's list? Nobody. I think you were spot on! I enjoy this feature a lot. Have a great day.
Dan! You missed my favorite band of all time... U2!!! Helloooo... Joshua Tree rocked! I would take Stevie Nicks or Phil Collins off the list and replace it with the SuperRockGroup of all time... U2. Love your show.
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Your Laptop May Be Toasting Your Testicles
Well, they're not. Even with one of those laptop cooling pads between your netbook and your nethers, your boys can quickly rise in temperature without you feeling it, according to new research published this month in Fertility and Sterility. In what must have been one of the more delicate studies undertaken for the annals of urological health, researchers strapped thermometers to the scrota of 29 subjects, each of whom then held a laptop on his knees. Within ten minutes, testicular temperatures began to rise, reaching a 2.5 degree Celsius increase within an hour.
The potential problem with warm testicles is, of course, temperature-sensitive sperm going infertile. Although the study, led by State University of New York at Stony Brook's Dr. Yefim Sheynkin, did not correlate sperm counts with laptop heat exposure, earlier research has demonstrated that even a one degree Celsius increase in the scrotum is enough to damage sperm. But Sheynkin was quick to point out to Reuters Health, "I wouldn't say that if someone starts to use laptops they will become infertile." He noted, though, that frequent laptop use doesn't give your scrotum the chance to cool, which could possibly lead to reproductive problems.
The answer? Well, there really isn't one, outside of putting your laptop on your desk. Even when the study's participants sat wide-legged with a broad laptop pad, their nether temperatures began to rise within 30 minutes. "No matter what you do, even with the legs spread wide apart, the temperature is still going to be higher than what we call safe," Sheynkin said. But, if you're determined to use your laptop and still try to procreate one day, just give the boys a cool-down break every now and then, suggests urologist Dr. James F. Smith of the University of California, San Francisco. Sage advice for your stones, we think.


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For visitors, the music scene is legendary; nearly 200 venues offer rock, blues, jazz, hip hop, punk or Latino shows nightly. The Broken Spoke, known as "the last true Texas dance hall," features great country acts - and guests can also take a Texas Two-Step lesson. The Continental Club has showcased blues, rock and folk music since 1957, earning it the title, "Granddaddy of Austin music venues." Antone's, Austin's "home of the blues," is where Stevie Ray Vaughan cut his proverbial teeth. Newer stages like those at The Mohawk and Club DeVille showcase local acts alongside big-name touring artists. Where to begin? Check out the following list to get started.
Swift's Attic, located in the heart of downtown Austin on the city's famous Congress Avenue, and occupying a second floor space above the legendary Elephant Room, brings forth style and dimension... MORE >


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It was comparatively easy, though admittedly a gustatory hardship, to follow Pope Gregory's dictate about abstaining from flesh and dairy products, but neither Gregory nor anyone else for that matter could stop hens from laying.
While the weeks of Lent dragged on, daily layings produced mountains of eggs. As a result, the stockpiled ovum became a key feature of the Easter feast. Before the great day, people colored and decorated eggs in their spare time. On Easter morning, everyone ate a huge portion of eggs for luck. During the day, egg hunts and egg-rolling contests kept the children amused while the women prepared a feast.