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Electronic prescribing, or e-prescribing as it is commonly called, is the use of an automated data entry system to generate a prescription that is then transmitted through a special network to the pharmacy in such a way that the data goes directly into the pharmacy's computer system. It is not simply e-mailing or electronically faxing a prescription.
The Medicare Part D prescription drug program more formally defines e-prescribing as:
"E-prescribing means the transmission, using electronic media, of prescription or prescription-related information between a prescriber, dispenser, pharmacy benefit manager or health plan, either directly or through an intermediary, including an e-prescribing network. E-prescribing includes, but is not limited to, two way transmissions between the point of care and the dispenser."
For the prescriber, e-prescribing happens when a physician uses a computer or hand held device with software that allows him or her to—with a patient's consent—electronically access information regarding a patient's drug benefit coverage and medication history; electronically transmit the prescription to the patient's choice of pharmacy; and, when the patient runs out of refills, his or her pharmacist can also electronically send a renewal request to the physician's office for approval.
Benefits of E-Prescribing
By eliminating paper, e-prescribing creates a more efficient and safer process for patients to access their medications. This electronic process helps to prevent, and in some cases eliminate, the top reasons for prescription errors—including illegible hand-writing, incorrect dosing, and missed drug/allergy reactions—which improves patient safety and helps to control ever increasing medication costs due to medication errors.
Through electronic prescribing, all health care stakeholders—including providers, patients, pharmacies, and payors/PBMs—expect to see prescription related benefits such as:
Key functionalities of an E-Prescribing System
E-prescribing involves far more than an electronic connection. In order to see an increase in both quality and efficiency that can be attributed to e-prescribing, the system must be capable of performing key functions related to:
The Journey of an E-Script
The journey of an e-script begins when the patient and physician review history and discuss the current issue and treatment options. As the physician electronically writes the prescription, the e-prescribing system connects electronically to Rx Hub to determine whether the patient is eligible for a particular payor. The patient's up-to-date formulary and medication history is then presented to the provider at the point-of-care.
The physician then reviews clinical alerts, formulary, reference, prescription history, eligibility, and prior authorization information with the patient and selects therapy and verifies the patient's preferred pharmacy.
Once the prescription is finalized, the e-script is generated and the physician routs it to the patient's pharmacy of choice. The pharmacist fills the prescription and sends a fill notification to the physician.
If the pharmacy is online and has the ability to accept electronic prescriptions, the two-way connectivity provides for the transmission of new prescriptions, refill authorizations, and denials and change requests between the pharmacy and the provider's office.
What Will This Look Like in My Office?
The Physician:
In order to promote the adoption and use of e-prescribing systems, the "Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008" authorized an e-prescribing incentive program beginning January 1, 2009.
In 2012, this program will provide the opportunity for financial incentives and financial penalties in 2013 and 2014. Eligible professionals who successfully e-prescribe will be eligible to receive an incentive of 1 % of the total estimated allowed charges for professional services covered by Medicare Part B and furnished during 2012. Payment reductions for those who do not successfully meet e-prescribing reporting requirements will be applied in 2013 (1.5 %) and 2014 (2 %).
Eligible professionals for the e-prescribing program in 2012 include:
This could include:
According to CMS, EPs who are unsure whether relevant Part B charges will be at least 10 % of total charges should err on the side of participation.
For more information on securing an electronic prescribing system or verifying that your current system is in compliance, click here.
In order to successfully qualify for the 1 % incentive payment for 2012, providers will need to notify CMS that an e-prescription was generated by submitting the G code G8553 on the claims generated for the eligible visit.
In order to qualify for the incentive, this G code must be reported on 25 eligible encounters during the 2012 calendar year. Eligible encounters are defined as a group of 56 CPT codes, the most relevant for rheumatologists being:
In order to be considered eligible for the e-prescribing incentive, at least 10 % of the rheumatologist's Medicare Part B allowable charges for the year must originate from this set of denominator CPT codes.
The determination of whether an eligible provider is a successful e-prescriber or not is based at the individual NPI level, and is not determined by the participation/success of others in the practice. Click here for further instruction on claims reporting and a sample claim.
CMS issued guidance in November 2010 relating to future penalties for providers who are not successful e-prescribers. The CMS e-Prescribing program includes payment reductions for those who do not meet the e-prescribing program requirements as follows:
CMS established the first six months of 2012 as the "2013 e-Prescribing payment adjustment reporting period." This means that eligible providers must report the e-Prescribing G code on at least 10 claims during the first six months of 2012 in order to avoid the 1.5 %payment adjustment in 2013.(NOTE: That is if the provider did not successfully report on 25 e-Prescribing instances during the 2011 calendar year.)
If the G code does not appear on at least 10 claims during the reporting period (January 1- June 30, 2012), the 2013 pay reduction will apply unless one of the following conditions is met:
Also, CMS plans to determine the 2014 payment penalties based on successful reporting in the 2012 e-prescribing program. This means that providers who do not successfully report 25 unique e-prescribing instances via claims, qualified registry, or EHR system during the 2012 calendar year will see their 2014 Medicare PFS reduced by 2 % .
It is possible that the determinants of the 2014 penalties may be changed in the 2013 Medicare PFS; however, providers who wait for this publication may miss the chance to avoid penalty.
The determination of whether a provider is a successful e-prescriber or not, and therefore whether a payment reduction will be applied, is based at the individual NPI level, and is not determined by the participation/success of others in the practice.
CMS intends to provide interim feedback reports for providers who bill for any of the 56 denominator CPT codes during the first half of 2012. These reports, with anticipated release in the fall of 2012, will provide information related to the 2013 e-prescribing pay adjustment.
You should be aware that there may be additional providers in your practice who are also eligible for the 2012 incentive program.
CMS considers the following practitioners eligible for the 2012 program:
These providers are eligible to collect the 1% e-prescribing incentive payment if they
This also means that these providers are at risk for the application of payment penalties in 2013 and 2014 if one of the following conditions is not met:
By law, eligible professionals cannot collect incentives from both the e-prescribing and CMS EHR (meaningful use) incentive programs. Rheumatologists need to carefully consider which program to focus on for incentive payments. For more information on the CMS EHR incentive program, click here.
Even if a provider is submitting for the EHR incentive program, that provider must also submit e-prescribing claims in the first six months of 2012 to avoid payment penalties in 2013 and 2014.
Individuals can avoid the e-Rx penalty if:
Those participating in the e-prescribing program should implement a system to make certain that the e-prescribing G code is successfully reported to CMS for eligible encounters. This means not only implementing a process that ensures the G code is applied to the claim being submitted, but also reviewing remittance advice (RA) to verify that the G code was received and documented by CMS.
The RA with denial code N365 is your indication that the e-prescribing G code for were passed into the National Claims History (NCH) file for use in calculating incentive/penalty eligibility. The Remark Code message should read: "This procedure code is not payable. It is for reporting/information purposes only." If no remark code is present in the RA, please follow-up with the Carrier/MAC or billing software vendor/clearinghouse.
Note that all claims for eligible encounters where an e-prescription was generated and sent via a qualified system should list the e-prescribing G code, even if the pharmacy was not able to receive the script electronically. CMS states that the use of a pharmacy that cannot receive an electronic prescription does not invalidate an e-prescribing event and the eligible professional would still get credit for electronically prescribing as long as it is reported by listing the e-prescribing G code on the claim.
If you aren't currently e-prescribing, you need to act fast to get a qualified system in place. If you are considering an investment in a full EHR system in the near future or if you would like to take more time to evaluate e-prescribing systems that might be the best long-term fit for your practice, then consider:
These temporary alternatives may to help you gain compliance, qualify for incentives, and avoid penalties. You can find out more about available systems at www.getrxconnected.com.
For more information on the CMS e-prescribing Program please visit the CMS "getting started" page at www.cms.gov/erxincentive.
Payment distribution for the 2009 CMS e-Prescribing Incentive Program began in late September of 2010 and the feedback reports are now available to participating providers. You can access reports through the Physician and other Healthcare Professionals Quality Reporting Portal at www.qualitynet.org/portal/server.pt. Individual EPs may also contact their carriers/Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to request their specific NPI level e-prescribing feedback report. See www.cms.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE0922.pdf
Reports are packaged at the TIN level with individual reporting information for each EP who reported at least one valid e-prescribing code on a claim. Reports include information on reporting rates and incentives earned by individual professionals with summary information reporting success and incentives earned at the practice (TIN) levels.
As a reminder the following must have been met for a provider to successfully qualify for the 2009 e-Prescribing Incentive Program:
Click here for 2010 e-prescribing information.
Click here for 2009 e-prescribing information.
E-prescribing should be implemented with an understanding of both the potential benefits it brings as well and the needs and workflows of your practice. When fully adopted and merged into practice, e-prescribing will enhance patient safety, improve office efficiencies, and increase both provider and patient satisfaction.
Business case for e-prescribing
For the provider looking to adopt an e-prescribing system in clinical practice, the business case for acquiring and implementing the system will vary according to the:
There is no one perfect system that will work for every practice, so it is important to identify your current practice prescribing workflow and needs.
A needs assessment is the core task in establishing your plan and should include the identification of practice requirements ( such as staffing, change management and training, and incentive benefits eligibility), hardware and software needs (such as PDA's, software, and server and security requirements), and infrastructure needs (such as connectivity/interoperability).
Beginning your e-prescribing system selection process with these needs in mind will certainly reduce the time spent securing a system and increase the likelihood that you will find a system that is the right fit for your practice. With the right system, you can expect to realize the potential savings associated with increased practice efficiency handling medication renewal requests and increased prescriber accuracy resulting in fewer call-backs from pharmacies for legibility issues, drug incompatibility or ineligibility.
You should anticipate initial costs to include software licensing fees, hardware, network and internet access and training and technical support. Additional expenses that may add to your complete costs to include temporary decreases in productivity resulting from training and workflow redesign; practice management, lab and other interfaces; customization for practice specialty and other factors; maintenance of system; upgrades; and data conversion (from different practice management system or from stand alone e-prescribing system to EHR).
Several resources have been developed to help providers navigate their way to e-prescribing success. For more information on developing your business case for securing and implementing the right system for your practice, visit the ACR's e-prescribing resources page for links to sites that will help you in creating your customized e-prescribing action plan. These sites will help you narrow the vendor field and provide you with a buying guide that includes questions to ask and functionalities to identify.
Is There Financial Assistance Available to Help Me Secure an E-Prescribing System?
Many incentives and assistance opportunities are available to help physicians in securing an e-prescribing system and to recoup the expense associated with e-prescribing adoption. Active programs include grant and loan programs, reimbursement for utilization, pay for performance, malpractice insurance premium reductions, and health care IT suppliers discounts.
Stand-alone vs. EHR
E-prescribing systems can be implemented as either a stand-alone system, or as a system embedded within an EHR. Stand-alone systems are significantly less costly than full EHRs and do not force your office to change as many of its work patterns (making it much faster to implement), but for your office to see the full benefit of e-prescribing in terms of safety, quality and efficiency, the ultimate goal should be movement toward or integration with an EHR.
Stand-alone systems store and manage patient data specific to the prescribing process. They are available either as a software package downloaded to your office computer, or as an application hosted through the Internet. Stand-alone systems allow providers to order medication electronically, but are limited in decision support as they have limited patient data available. These systems can be enhanced through integration with practice management systems, billing systems, and scheduling software. Without this integration, your practice will face redundant data entry which may slow productivity. Successful implementation of a stand-alone e-prescribing system will require that your practice develop a parallel workflow that makes use of both the e-prescribing system and paper chart.
To maximize patient safety and quality through electronic prescribing, the system should be truly integrated into the practice workflow and should host more information than just patient prescription history. This can only be accomplished through integration with an EHR system, which will combine prescription drug information with immediate access to patient demographics, clinical notes, problem lists, allergies, side effects, lab results and other elements of the patient's medical history.
How do I know what pharmacies in my area are connected for e-prescribing?
Many e-prescribing programs provide you with an up to date list of those pharmacies in your area that have the ability to receive electronic prescriptions. It is important to verify that this list is current so that you are not faxing prescriptions to those pharmacies that are not connected for e-prescribing. Your e-prescribing/EHR software vendor is responsible for maintaining your pharmacy directory and keeping it up to date. Contact your vendor for more information on their processes.
You can also identify the pharmacies that are connected in your area by visiting GetRxConnected or the SureScripts Web site. Both sites will allow you enter your location by state or zip code to view a listing of pharmacies connected for electronic prescribing.
For more information on securing an electronic prescribing system, contact ACR HIT staff at email@example.com.
Do you really know what happens to that prescription after you click "send?"
E-prescribing is the electronic transmission of a prescription to the pharmacy in such a way that the data goes directly into the pharmacy's computer system. In many cases, a physician clicks "send" to disburse prescriptions to the assigned pharmacy, and thinks that he or she is electronically prescribing, but the physician may actually be sending a computer generated fax.
In other practices, the physician who clicks "send" avoids sending the prescription directly altogether and fires it to his or her in office printer to be handed to the patient or manually faxed to the pharmacy.
Why does it matter if I prescribe electronically or via fax?
Sending a computer generated fax prescription, is just that, a faxed prescription. The faxed prescription must then be entered into the pharmacy's computer system manually, increasing the chance for drug error.
Additionally, starting January 1, 2009, CMS, under the "Medicare Modernization Act," will require all Medicare Part D computer generated prescriptions to comply with NCPDP Script standard, and thus be transmitted electronically and not via fax1. Lack in understanding of your system and being unsure as to whether you prescribe electronically does not place you in compliance.
In addition to the safety and efficiency associated with electronic prescribing, two-way connectivity is available with most chain and independent pharmacies. Two-way connectivity can assist in completely automating your prescribing system through fast and efficient communication. New prescriptions will immediately transmit to the pharmacies system and refill requests can be sent directly to your EHR. Some pharmacies even notify you when the patient picks up a prescription and gives a list of medications prescribed by other doctors and filled at that pharmacy.
How do I know if I am properly e-prescribing?
Your e-prescription software or EHR vendor will be able to work with you to confirm that your system is enabled to prescribe electronically to those pharmacies accepting electronic prescriptions. You can also verify whether your practice can establish an e-prescribing connection with pharmacies by visiting GetRxConnected and taking the readiness assessment. This site also contains a list of connected pharmacies by state.
You can also contact your vendor and request your connection to the "Pharmacy Health Information Exchange." Be sure to explain that you want to receive refill requests electronically from local pharmacies, not by fax. You may also want to ask the following questions: Is a system upgrade required? Are there any additional costs involved? What kind of training will be provided? When can I get connected?
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Get Rx Connectedwww.getrxconnected.com
Get Rx Connected is a special resource page that allows prescribers to determine if technologies used within their practices are certified for connectivity to the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, operated by SureScripts.
Through filling out an online response form, prescribers and/or their staff receive instant, customized reports that confirm certification status of technologies used, provide a listing of connected pharmacies in their area, and estimate the value of time they currently spend managing refill requests by fax and phone.
This site will also generate a customized action guide for those practices seeking to adopt e-prescribing technology and includes a listing of certified e-prescribing systems that may meet the individual prescriber's needs, with the option of contacting the vendors directly to obtain a system demonstration.
A Clinician's Guide to E-Prescribingwww.ehealthinitiative.org
A Clinician's Guide to Electronic Prescribing is a "how-to" guide to help clinicians make informed decisions about how and when to transition from paper to electronic prescribing systems.
Developed by the eHealth Initiative—with the strategic guidance of a multi-stakeholder steering group comprised of clinicians, consumers, employers, health plans, and pharmacies, and in partnership with four major medical associations—the guide is designed to meet the needs of two target audiences:
The guide also provides a list of key references and resources readers may consult to help make the transition to e-prescribing as smooth as possible.
Click here for the full prescriber guide.
SureScripts, operator of the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, provides resources and programs to prescribers and pharmacists relating to e-prescribing adoption and utilization.
The tools and communications available include an e-prescribing connectivity guide, SureScripts physician-certified solution provider list, buyers guide, state/national e-prescribing initiatives, and prescriber peer perspectives.
Rx for Successwww.RxSuccess.com
Rx for Success has been developed as a comprehensive area where prescribers can access resources to help with initial, and continue the ongoing implementation of, electronic prescribing. Tools available include:
The National E-Prescribing Patient Safety Initiative www.nationalerx.com
The National E-Prescribing Patient Safety Initiative is a new coalition of the nation's most prominent technology companies and health care organizations dedicated to improving patient safety and reducing harmful medication errors. To accelerate the adoption of electronic prescribing, NEPSI will make web-based electronic prescribing software available free to every physician in America. The NEPSI offering, eRx NOW™, is web-based software from Allscripts.
AMA Electronic Prescribing Toolkitwww.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/20298.html
To help with inquiries that may arise, the AMA created "Understanding the basics of Medicare's electronic prescribing incentive program." This new guide covers the fundamental basics of the program, including such topics as what the program is, incentive amounts for using the program, eligibility criteria to receive incentive payments and reporting and system requirements.
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DEA rule gives providers the option of writing prescriptions for controlled substances electronically.
On June 1, 2010, the "Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances" [Docket No. DEA-218, RIN 1117-AA61] rule became effective providing provide pharmacies, hospitals, and practitioners with the ability to use modern technology for controlled substance prescriptions while maintaining the closed system of controls on controlled substances. The regulations also permit pharmacies to receive, dispense, and archive these electronic prescriptions.
The DEA has been moving in this direction for about 15 years, but the pace has been very slow as controlled substances carry a much higher risk of diversion and requires increased safeguards to prevent misuse and abuse in comparison to non-controlled substances. This risk and previously immature technology slowed progress as the DEA felt that paper prescriptions would be easier to prosecute than electronic prescriptions.
The renewed push for e-prescribing of controlled substances began in 2008 when the agency announced its intention to create an alternative to manual prescriptions. The resulting rule was a step in the right direction, but was widely viewed as too burdensome and inflexible by most stakeholders. As a result, it failed to be adopted by providers and the e-health industry.
More recently, with the February 2009 passage of the HITECH Act which created incentives for increased use of HIT by physicians, pressure on the DEA to develop a reasonable process for e-prescribing controlled substances increased leading to the development of the current interim rule which effectively addresses the diversion issue and facilitates the prosecution of violators while being more responsive to provider and pharmacy burden and workflow issues.
This is welcome news to providers who are currently e-prescribing and will now be able to stream line their prescribing practices by instituting one single electronic prescribing workflow.
To make e-prescribing of controlled substances secure, the new DEA rule requires that physicians provide 2 of the following to log into the system and generate an electronic prescription:
With the new regulations in effect, e-prescribing of controlled substances is permitted in the US, but it could be awhile before we see widespread electronic prescribing of controlled substances. The rule creates new technical demands that must be addressed in order to make the process feasible. Software developers may need a year or more to get up to speed with the programming needed to manage the hard tokens and biometrics in addition to making updates to computer systems that will allow prescribers to transmit scheduled medication orders, intermediary networks to process the prescriptions, and pharmacies to receive them. Pharmacies will also have to reprogram and have their systems certified by an entity approved by the DEA.
Additional legal and policy barriers will need to be tackled in order for these prescriptions to move electronically. CMS will need to issue its own new electronic prescribing standard under Medicare or grant a waiver to its current standards in order to allow physicians to meet the DEA requirements and state Boards of Pharmacy and other state agencies will need to modify any outdated state regulations that are barriers to e-prescribing of controlled substances.
The ACR will work to keep the membership current as the e-health environment matures to facilitate electronic prescribing of controlled substances. Check back frequently for updates and guidance on working with your system vendor, DEA, and local pharmacies on e-prescribing of controlled substances.
Update on Tamper-Resistant Prescription Pads: Micro printing or a printed void pantograph will now satisfy Category 1 copy resistance and enable practices to avoid the high cost of acquiring special tamper-proof prescription paper.
As of October 1, 2008, all fee-for-service Medicaid prescriptions that are either handwritten or printed from an EHR/e-prescribing application will be required to have a minimum of 1 feature from all three Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services categories of tamper-resistant features.
CMS has now clarified those requirements for printed prescriptions generated via EHR or e-prescribing systems and has determined that compliance for these prescriptions within Category 1 (copy resistance) can be achieved without using special paper. Special paper can still be used for printing, but the overall guidance from the NCPDP and CMS to State Medicaid Directors is that copy resistance can be met with using micro printing or a printed void pantograph. These features enable practices to avoid the high cost of acquiring special tamper-proof prescription paper.
Review of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Requirements
By October 1, 2008 handwritten or printed prescriptions must contain a feature within all three categories. While the law specifies the term, "prescription pad," the CMS stated that these requirements also apply to computer-generated prescriptions that are printed using paper inserted into the printer:
Review the updated summary of features that could be used on a tamper-resistant pad/paper in compliance with the CMS guidelines. Click here for sample tamper resistant scripts.
The following exemptions have been defined by the CMS in the letter issued to State Medicaid Directors on August 17, 2007.
The tamper-resistant requirement does not apply to the following:
Although CMS guidance is clear, the enforcement, definition, and interpretation of this legislation have been left up to each individual state and states have the right to issue their own guidance, as long as it is not less restrictive than the CMS guidance. If you or your practice does not meet the exemptions listed above, you must understand your state's interpretation of this law by reviewing the Tamper-Resistant Prescription Pad Security Features Required by States Prior to April 1, 2008 .
Some states may have issued guidance without full comprehension of the changed CMS position, and without understanding the implications of their decision for EHR users. While CMS will attempt to have states understand this clarified guidance, it may be necessary to work with your own state, if its current guidance is not in keeping with the clarified CMS guidance, to help them to revise its guidance.
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Dick Nelson was honored for serving 24 years on the Valley City Public School Board Thursday during the board's annual meeting Thursday, July 31. More in Tuesday's Times-Record.
The 40th annual Gaylen Opdahl Golf Tournament was held at the Valley City Country Club on Aug 1, the field of which included golfers from five states and Canada.
Eighty-seven golfers participated in the five-person scramble, and Dick Gulman and Ralph Hooper took the tournament.
Jan Beauchman, Jim Retterath and Nate Zerface shot 18-under-par 54s.
Second place went to Tim Sorenson and Dewey Magnuson.
Dex Manley, Matt Sorenson and Randy Earles shot 15 under par.
First place in the first flight went to Bob Bergan, Doug Bergan and Ken Dodd.
Valley City Town and Country Club held their Men's Day on July 17 as temperatures were on the rise. The Longest Putt of the Day, sponsored by Bank Forward, went to Jamie Wirth. The Pizza Ranch Closest to the Pin contest on Hole 2 was won by Doug Bergan. TJ Hansen claimed the prize on Hole 3 for Closest Shot Outside of 50 Yards, sponsored by the Valley City Town and Country Club. Club veteran Kerry Anderson continued his fine play and won the Closest Second Shot contest on Hole 4, sponsored by Taco John's.
The Barnes County Municipal Airport Authority will be hosting the 2014 Wings and Wheels Airshow Saturday, Sept. 6.
The main aerobatic act will be third-generation pilot Matt Younkin piloting his Twin Beech 18, performing maneuvers never thought possible with such a large transport plane. He will also be performing the "Magic By Moonlight" night show at 9 p.m. that evening.
More in Monday's Times-Record.
Television Station KXJB had a studio in Valley City starting in the 1950s until it was closed in 1963. More in Monday's issue of the Times-Record.
The Valley City Public School board unanimously approved during its annual meeting Thursday to reinstate some of the positions that were cut in April. More in Monday's Times-Record.
Valley City 16U softball's Northern Championship campaign concluded on Friday in Bismarck, N.D., with a five-inning 11-0 loss to Pool A's No. 1 and to-be champion Brookings, S.D. Outlaws and a 9-3 defeat to Pool B's No. 2 Fargo/Moorhead Blaze.
Brookings led 2-0 through an inning, 9-0 after two with the help of a three-RBI swing, and 10-0 through three. Valley City loaded the bases in the fifth but could not convert.
District 6 champion Valley City Babe Ruth's back-and-forth State Tournament concluded Sunday with a 12-6 loss to District 2 champion Carrington after Friday's 7-5 marquee comeback win over host District 2's Sheyenne-New Rockford and Saturday's hitless five-inning 19-2 drubbing at the hands of District 3 kings Park River.
State wraps up with Monday's 1 p.m. championship game or a 3:30 p.m. title match if necessary.
If you're here for the party, don't leave until they throw you out, especially not until you've taken on the eventual Class A State champion and runner-up.
Legion Post 60's clock struck midnight over the weekend as East No. 1 and State Tournament host Wahpeton took Friday's four-inning 10-0 quarterfinal before West No. 4 Velva turned out the lights, 15-1, in Saturday's five-inning consolation semifinal.
I-94 has been cleared after a multi-vehicle accident with injuries Saturday morning. More information will be available in Tuesday's Times-Record.


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"We just got back from one of the culminating training evolutions for units deploying to Afghanistan. We had a lot of down-time between exercises. Forgive the over editing, had to compensate for a camera phone. I've attached a good bit of photos taken with my iPhone from the RIMPAC exercise we were involved with here in the Pacific. It was a hell of a time. A small collection of the training shenanigans that occur Aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The Marines you see in the rocket launcher photos are of my Assault section conducting volley fires on a static (non moving) range on the Big Island. Other photos include training with coalition forces (mostly New Zealand) and flight deck operations aboard the USS Essex. I am stationed on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, I'm an 0351 Assaultman with 1st Bn 3rd Marines Alpha Company Weapons Platoon. A small detachment of my Marines and I were tasked to go to Brunei Darussalam to help their soldiers train in urban combat. These photos tell the story.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The University of Illinois Division of Intercollegiate Athletics (DIA) has announced a slogan contest to help design a t-shirt for the upcoming 2012 Illinois football season. Fighting Illini fans can submit a slogan for the 2012 Illinois football "Loyal-Tee" season t-shirt for a chance to win a pair of season tickets for the 2012 football season and a $125 shopping spree at Gameday Spirit.
Slogan ideas can be submitted online and must be received by April 4, 2012 at Noon. One entry will be chosen as the winner for the 2012 design by a panel of University of Illinois Division of Intercollegiate Athletics (DIA) officials and announced the week of April 9, prior to the annual Orange and Blue Spring Game on April 14.
DIA graphic designers will then create orange short-sleeve t-shirt designs using the winning slogan and fans will have a chance to vote on their favorite design. The chosen design will be worn by the Block I student section and available for purchase by fans at Gameday Spirit Fan Stores and online at FightingIllini.com in early May. Complete contest rules are available here.
The 2012 Fighting Illini will be led by new head coach Tim Beckman, who came to Illinois after three successful seasons at Toledo. Illinois is coming off bowl victories in back-to-back seasons for the first time in school history after victories in the 2010 Texas Bowl and the 2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl against Baylor and UCLA, respectively. The Fighting Illini have seven home games on 2012, starting with the season-opener at Memorial Stadium against Western Michigan in Sept. 1. Season tickets are on sale now.
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I have a 1975 172m with a ram 160 conversion. I am having problems with oil temp red lining during climbs at 200 feet per minute. I have verified the gauge and bled the oil cooler. The 3 inch scat line is new and also the cooler and lines. Does anyone have a solution or know of an stc that might help.
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Hi Bill;
High oil temp can be caused by a number of problems. I had the same issue with my 1978 C-172N. We checked the following:
Vernatherm valve
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Switch to Aeroshell multi-viscosity oil (20W-50)
And finally, the one that fixed the problem:
Installed the Cessna service kit to add a cooling lip
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This all assumes that your engine is in good condition otherwise, as internal problems can also cause overheating, such as excessive blowby past the rings, bearing wear, etc.
Hope this helps.
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Hi Bill,
I have a 1974 172m and also upgraded to a ram 160hp and have 235+ oil temps. I'm looking for a field approval to upgrade to a bigger oil cooler. If anyone here knows of anyone else that has done this it would be a BIG HELP. If I can get it I'll post.
We put a bigger jet in the carb, checked timing, baffles etc. The cowling lip is not approved for this model, though it may help. I've heard there is a field approval for running tandem 8406 oil coolers. I sent mine out to have rebuilt. If iI can't get field approval for the larger 10599 oil cooler I may put 2 8406's in.
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Nose: Quite herbaceous. Green fruit, mint, cucumber, pine, grassy, spearmint. Just loads of green fruit in this one.
Palate: Loads of green things coming out of here! Mint, cucumber, green fruit, grapefruit and just a touch of smoke at the back. Dave Broom got yuzu…I've never heard of yuzu…
Finish: Light, delicate, refreshing and some subtle smoke.
Comments: This is so easy to drink. It's fresh, easy going (almost too easy) and just divine. I wrote delicious at the top and circled it! That's a big thumb up in my world.
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I love this whiskey. It''s floral, green and grapefruit. My only whinge is that it's cheaper in Japan. The mark up by the importers (not this website) is a tad steep after tax.
No ''herbacious'' or ''green'' in my glass - and I hardly detect smoke. Its a straightforward, typically well made Japanese Malt, and definitely VERY enjoyable & easy to drink. Its an entry level malt so a tad firey (8 years old?) No Yuzu, no Shisho, no Cucumber, no floral descriptions etc.
Love the nose - yuzu is there alright. Shisho, white flowers, citrus fruits and a tinge of green peppers. It''s a young one - a bit rough on the entry and less complex, smoky and grippy than the 12 year old but I''d drink this every day just because it''s so prettily made.
Lovely. Tried this on whiskey tasting with some friends, was towards the end of the evening though.... Looking forward to another try. Clean and clear compared to the yamazaki, a little sweek, a little smokey, and a little minty!
Very nice and clean whisky although it can taste a bit young compared to the 12yo (it's a non age statement, made with apparently nothing less than 8 year old whiskies). At less than £40 a bottle and if you don't want to spend more for the excellent 12yo, you can't really go wrong with this.


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Old but fun sci-fi gamemahon | Jan. 17, 2014 | See all mahon's reviews »
Although it's a new release, the game is not really new. It's a good old game, which has simply been just released on Steam. The game is enjoyable even if it shows its age. The visuals are a bit rusty now and so is the sound. But the gameplay remains attractive for a fan of science fiction warfare, huge robots, armored combat suits, and such stuff. The game is also longer than many new releases, so for a fairly low price you are getting quite some fun and gaming time. If for any reason you haven't played Gun Metal back when it was released and are not scared away by its dated appearance, give it a try and have some good sci-fi fun!
Didn't stand the test of timeSganotak | Jan. 17, 2014 | See all Sganotak's reviews »
This is a 10+ year old game so don't expect much from it. It draws inspiration from Transformers as you control a huge mech that can transform to a jet at any time. The story is almost non existent and the game revolves around simple missions where you have to escort friendly units, protect your base or launch assaults at enemy bases. The mech and jet controls are pretty clunky and the targeting system can be unresponsive sometimes, also the game AI is pretty linear and always follows the same patterns. As you progress through the game, you will unlock a lot of new weapons and upgrades for you mech suit,. The weapon variety is very good and it is always fun to experiment with your loadout and try different combinations. Gun Metal was an average game at it's age and now it feels even more dated and hard to get into. However if you are a fan of Transformers and would like to play a game with simple missions, you can consider picking this up at a discounted price


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A Flea Market Album
2007, series of four three-minute videosOne of my greatest finds as an amateur photo collector is this unassuming 1920s photo album discovered at a Brooklyn flea market. The album's spare 10 pages seem to trace a full, yet , emotionally complex life. But whose life is it? The album has no names, dates, locations and no apparent chronology. In the end it is an enigma, a generative story machine, with perhaps more to say about the viewer than its phantom subject. I showed the album to some friends and asked them to tell me what they see.


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THE next weapon in the US army's arsenal could be a laser-guided microwave blaster designed to destroy explosives.
The weapon, called the Multimode Directed Energy Armament System, uses a high-power laser to ionise the air, creating a plasma channel that acts as a waveguide for the stream of microwaves. The device could destroy the electronic fuse of an explosive device or missile, such as a roadside bomb, or immobilise a vehicle by disabling its ignition system.
Further work on the weapon, being developed by the US army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Centre (ARDEC) at the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, could also allow it to be used against people, delivering electric shocks, though Picatinny spokesman Peter Rowland says: "the focus of this programme is on developing a mobile system for anti-materiel purposes".
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NASA images reveal disappearing mangroves worldwideJeremy Hance
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Among the world's most important ecosystems, mangroves are tropical saline-adapted forests that survive in tropical coastlines. These forests serve as nurseries for a variety marine fish, underpinning global fisheries and providing additional food for coastal communities. In addition, they store massive amounts of carbon and act as buffers against marine erosion. Recent studies have even found that mangroves buffer human populations and property against tropical storms. During the devastating 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, regions with mangroves suffered less damage than those without. In all it has been estimated that mangroves provide at least $1.6 billion in ecosystem services annually. Yet despite their importance, less than 7% of the world's mangroves are under legal protection.
Known as a center for rainforest destruction, Indonesia has also lost most of its mangroves (see second image below). From 1982 to 2000, Indonesia has lost over half of its mangrove forests, falling from 4.2 million hectares to 2 million.
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Satellites show mangrove forest loss even worse than estimated
(08/19/2010) New satellite data shows that human actions are wiping out mangrove forests even faster than previous bleak estimates. Conducted by the US Geological Survey and NASA, the researchers found that mangroves comprise 12.3 percent less area than previously estimated. In total, satellites reveal that mangrove forests cover approximately 53,290 square miles (137,760 square kilometers). "Our assessment shows, for the first time, the exact extent and distribution of mangrove forests of the world at 30 meters spatial resolution, the highest resolution ever," said Dr Chandra Giri from USGS.
Slight rise in mangrove forests in Eastern India
(11/29/2010) While mangrove forests are vanishing around the world, the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests is reporting a slight uptick of mangrove forests along the nation's eastern coast. According to a report, mangroves expanded from 4,581 square kilometers in 2005 to 4,639 square kilometers in 2007, an increase of 58 square kilometers.
A fifth of the world's mangroves gone in 30 years
(07/18/2010) A new report by the United Nation Environment Program (UNEP) and the Nature Conservancy has found that mangrove forests are being lost at staggering rates worldwide: since 1980 one fifth of the world's mangroves have been felled.


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I got my revit sand2 pants delivered. I went down a size since I have lost weight. I ordered XL Long. I had been wearing 2XL long revit cayenne pants. My first observation is the size chart is still way off if you dont have a small Euro frame. All my measurements put me into a Large for both jacket and pants. I have some meat in my upper legs and a too much on the ass still but I plan to lose that weight very soon. With liners in they are a little snug in the butt, upper legs and hips. Waist is spot on. One feature I hate (reason for the 4 out of 5) is they did not use stretch panels in the crotch. It makes getting your leg over the bike much harder. With Liners out they fit perfect.
I had planned on selling my cayenne pro pants but I think I will keep them for winter. With the liners in they still fit ok. I think the liner material is much better in the cayenne pro pants in regards to how it feels against your legs.
Besides the stretch panels the pants are great. They are slightly more forgiving fit wise than the sand 1.
Sizing for the jacket says I should be in a Large. I tried on a large and there is no way it will fit. My shoulders are just way too wide. I have kind of a large upper frame with a smallish waist and not a really big chest. Suit jackets have always been hard for me to find. When I am in good shape (almost back there) I wear a 34 waist yet I still have to buy a 44 jacket for my shoulders. A 44 jacket comes with size 38 pants if bought as a pair.
I will add more when the jacket gets here. Currently I have a defender GTX 2XL and it is HUGE on me. It will be for sale shortly.
Not ordered yet but the size chart says Im a large. I have think long hands. I basically have a large version of a girls hand. Will update when I get gloves.
I have had the suit now for a while so here is my thoughts
Besides only having the full zip on the rian liner the jacket is great. Dont bother with the camel back pocket its worthless. You can open it though and get more air flow out the back. When I got mine the revit back armor was back ordered for ever so I just cut down a sastec again. you only have to trim the sides, leght wise it fit fine. Love this jacket.
Even in xl the pants are tight in the crotch with the liners in. They could fix this by putting in stretch panels but that costs more money. Lines out they are perfect. i'm going to keep my cayenne pro 2xl long pants for winter though. They fit good with all the liners in and the liner material is softer. Only going to use them when its super cold and I never plan to take out the liners. They are wayy too big on me with the liners out.
The size chart says I an a large but the Med I tried on fit. I always by gloves as small as I can because they stretch. I tried on a xl and it was SUPER big. I have a large version of a women's hand. its sad.
Very happy with my revit stuff.
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The new reissues feature some of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' earliest collaborations. Richards says that he and Jagger still rely on spontaneity every time they sit down to write new material for the Stones: "Mick and I, sometimes just before we start making an album, say 'Well, what kind of album do we wanna make?' (Laughs) and I say, 'Mick, a Rolling Stones album (laughs).' It's about as far as I can narrow it down. It's really a matter of surprising yourself as about what's coming out. I mean, if I knew everything that was to be played, it'd probably sound as dead, as dead as a door nail, y'know?"
Highlight on the new HDtracks Stones reissues are:
- Out Of Our Heads: "I'm Free," "Heart of Stone," "She Said Yeah," "Mercy, Mercy," "That's How Strong My Love Is," "Hitch Hike," "Gotta Get Away," and "Cry To Me."
- Aftermath: "Mother's Little Helper," "Under My Thumb," "Out Of Time," "I Am Waiting," "Lady Jane," "Stupid Girl," and "What To Do."
- Between The Buttons: "Back Street Girl," "Yesterday's Papers," "My Obsession," "Connection," "She Smiled Sweetly," "Miss Amanda Jones," and "Something Happened To Me Yesterday."
- Beggars Banquet: "Sympathy For The Devil," "No Expectations," "Parachute Woman," "Stray Cat Blues," "Street Fighting Man," "Prodigal Son," and "Salt Of The Earth."
- Earlier this year, the band released the first batch of reissues: The Rolling Stones (UK version); The Rolling Stones No.2; 12 X 5; Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (UK version); Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (US version); Out Of Our Heads (US version); December's Children; Aftermath (US version) and Let It Bleed.
- Among the albums still pending releasing in the series are: Between The Buttons (US version), The Rolling Stones Singles Collection, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, Their Satanic Majesties Request, The Rolling Stones/ England's Newest Hit Makers, Hot Rocks 1964-1971, More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies), The Rolling Stones Now!, Got Live If You Want It!, Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (UK version), Metamorphosis, Flowers — and a compilation of three UK EPs: The Rolling Stones, Five By Five and Got Live If You Want It!.
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Thursday, 01 May 2014
Favorite Childhood Foods
Writing this blog has its ups and downs. There are times when I am dry – not an idea in my head, nothing I want to write.
Other times, the future-topics list is so long that the problem becomes choosing. That's what I have now – certainly nothing to complain about.
But yesterday, as I was eeny, meeny, miney, moeing the list, I saw Wednesday's story from Mark Bittman, the lead food writer at The New York Times:
"The comfort food of others rarely appeals to us; it's our own that matters. I know people who drool at the sight of a bowl of rice, who cannot possibly resist it and, almost needless to say, many people feel the same way about pasta...
"Last weekend I chatted with a third-generation Irishman whose wife is a vegetarian and does the cooking; he sneaks out once a week for meat, potatoes and gravy.
"My younger daughter seeks comfort in white beans with garlic, oil and greens, which I often made for her when she came home from school during a particularly poignant period of our lives.
"Your environment teaches you what comfort food is."
While reminiscing about how childhood Sunday mornings with bagels, lox and cream cheese persist as an adult craving, Bittman then turns his essay into a lament about unhealthy food traditions:
"...when childhood food preferences are formed around foodlike substances that were invented in the last 50 years by scientists and marketers looking to develop 'food' that appeals to that same comfort-craving part of your brain — without any consideration of tradition or quality — that's a bad situation."
There's no arguing against that but let's ignore Bittman's high-minded food fit for today and anyway, a whole lot of our homemade childhood favorites aren't much healthier than a bacon double cheeseburger.
Like, for example, macaroni and cheese – at least the way I make it."
For most of my life, it was a homely, homemade dish that has, in recent years become a staple of supermarket deli departments and shows up even on the menus of a few higher end restaurants. That's cheating. If you don't make it yourself the way mom did, it's not worth eating.
Although Bittman's lox and cream cheese on a bagel is on my list of comfort food too, the one always at the top of my list is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And no, you really don't know what you're talking about if you call it a "PB&J." (That's a modern innovation of the awful American need to reduce every phrase in the English language to an acronym.)
You gotta say the whole thing – peanut butter and jelly sandwich – and you can't use that nasty stuff that combines the peanut butter and jelly in a one jar. Wrong.
But that's just me.
I don't indulge in any of these three favorites often anymore but when I'm feeling down or blue or tired of living now and then, there's nothing like a big bowl of macaroni and cheese (homemade, my recipe), lox on a bagel or peanut butter and jelly – foods that have been making me feel good since before I can remember.
What about you? Our palates may become more sophisticated when we grow up but I'm betting that most of you, like me, go for the simple pleasures from childhood when you need a little TLC.
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When I am under stress I find myself buying a bag of Brach's Mandarin Orange Slices. I can still remember sitting in my mother's lap and her reaching into her side table drawer and giving me one of her orange slices. We kids were not allowed to touch her bag of Brach's and the only time I got a piece is when I needed to be rocked in her lap. Oh, yes, this qualifies big time as a comfort food for me.
In spite of having parents who were ahead of their time gastronomically (think Sunday morning kippers, or perhaps broiled kidneys, or the family dinner staple, Coq au Vin), my Oklahoma roots still kick in. Iced tea with mint from the garden, fried chicken, and mashed potatoes with cream gravy.
By the way, our family version of PB&J was a sandwich of peanut butter, mayonnaise and crispy iceberg lettuce. Don't knock it till you've tried it.
I wouldn't think of knocking it, Marty. A peanut butter and jelly is not what it is for me without the mayonnaise too but I discovered that part as an adult.
One of the most long-lasting gifts my mother gave us was the association of comfort with grilled chicken and broccoli.
Warm potato soup usually does the trick. I love the thick and creamy kind with little tiny bits of ham. This is what I go to when I need to curl up in my favorite chair and pretty much shut out the world for whatever reason. A comforting drink is warm tea sweetened with actual sugar. This is to drink while reading a good book and basically retreating from the world. I'm not anti-social, but I do have times that I get overwhelmed and need my comfort foods to help me regain my equilibrium. Thank-you Ronni for another great blog and conversation this morning! I'm enjoying it as always.
My favorite childhood food was, as it is today, pizza, and I'm not particular about what kind it is. It can be hot and fresh from a pizzeria or cold and stiff from the box the next morning. In a pinch I will even eat a reheated frozen pizza. Deep dish Chicago style or thin crust New York pizza, it's all the same to me. I have made "emergency" pizzas out of English muffins, American cheese and ketchup. When you got that pizza Jones, it must be satiated. If I were ever in a position to have to order a last meal, it would be pizza with mushrooms and anchovies. "Go ahead warden, pull the switch, I'm done.
My comfort food: thick soup and warm-from-the-oven bread. Oh, and perogies, made with potato and onion with butter.
Sheesh- I hate to admit it, but I have so many comfort foods! Grilled cheese w/tomato, my mother's creole spaghetti, macaroni & cheese, my father's dill seed bread and just about any homemade soup. One of the reasons I walk every day is to be able to eat anything I want.
I called my mother a "Bad Mother" once when we ran out of peanut butter. Peanut butter and jelly will always be a comfort food, but was the bread always so gummy? Pepperidge Farms Very Thin wheat is the only way I'll eat it now, and best enjoyed with a champagne chaser.
Baked custard ~~ (eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla and a sprinkle of nutmeg). Second best: French toast with maple syrup.
My favorite was a lunch that my mother would put in a brown paper bag for me to take to school. It was a tuna salad sandwich, a hard boiled egg, and a bag of Fritoes. I can't think why I never got food poisoning from the tuna salad as we lived in a warm climate and at that time there was no air conditioning much less coolers for kids lunches.
Okay, southern roots showing: cornbread and milk. Most southerners like their cornbread crumbled in with buttermilk, but I always liked regular milk.
Unfortunately I've never been able to cook the particularly moist, crumbly cornbread my grandmother did, but that combination always felt soothing since it was her favorite.
Buttered toast dipped into hot chocolate. And an old-fashioned juicy, flavorful hamburger, though not enjoyed for past 10 years, and it's the only meat dish I sometimes crave.
When we were sick it was always Mom's "milk toast" - hot buttered toast torn up and covered with warm milk and sugar. And now "any day I need a little boost" it is grilled cheese and almost any soup (growing up it was Campbell's chicken noodle). In the late 40's and 50's "prepared" foods like canned soup were in most pantries. We thought these items were wonderful as we could have any type of soup any time we wanted without adult supervision or help.
Peanut butter sandwiches dipped in tomato soup, macaroni and cheese (I even ate the Kraft variety when I was in my twenties in my first apartment), and tapioca pudding.
BLTs. But thereby hangs a tale. I have been a vegetarian for many years now. I also still eat fish, which makes me a vegetarian who strays. But years ago someone asked me what I missed most, and I said BLTs. And her resolute response was: well, when you find one somewhere that you think is probably very good, eat it. I did my own survey, asked vegetarian friends what they most missed, and the great majority said - yes - BLTs. So one day on a trip I saw what looked like the best possible BLT, fresh, not hothouse tomatoes; not iceberg lettuce, maybe it was a spring mix; and incredibly crisp-looking bacon.
I ate it. And ever since I will do that if the circumstances seem to merit it.
So there.
Tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich for me. Or, oddly, fried chicken. If I'm sick, it's the former. If I'm in a funk, then the latter.
My Pennssylvania Dutch mother's cracker pudding, made with crushed up Saltines,eggs, sugar and milk. The ultimate comfort food.
Now it's a BALT - a BLT with avocado, Hellman's mayonnaise and crisp real bacon. On whole wheat toast. I had it for lunch every day when I lived in Mexico for a month.
Florence, I've often wondered the same thing. Growing up we had to buy hot lunches unless we made our own. My favorite was "baloney" and mayo. Now I toss anything that may have sat out for a little too long. Lest you think the processed meat was bad, Mom's version of mac and cheese was made with Velveeta! Still long for it even though I won't buy it because I know better. Sometimes it's almost irresistible though. Favorite treat was crumbled graham crackers folded into whipped cream (from our cows) made with vanilla and sugar. Fun to think about Ronni!
Potatoes in any form; preferably scalloped with lots of cheese. And two of my comfort foods have been mentioned by others. Tapioca pudding and milk toast. Those are comfort foods to me as they were the first foods I ate after being sick. And I was sick quite often as a child.
Toasted cheddar cheese sandwiches along side Campbell's tomato soup with cream in it. We always had that after the Christmas tree hunt along with hot homemade chocolate. And fresh bread hot out of the oven dripping with butter. Mom's homemade tapioca pudding when we were sick.
Have already read some of my favorites in other comments here ... but have some to add to the list: Hot milk toast (no sugar, just butter, salt and a little pepper); coffee over toast (lots of butter, no sugar, thank you!); Mom's homemade potato soup (no meat, it was still the Depression); cottage pudding (1-egg cake with chocolate syrup over it); peanut butter and banana sandwich with butter (still love peanut butter, never could stand jelly on it); peanut butter sandwich dipped in Ovaltine! As I said, I was raised in the Depression - mid-1930s through WWI rationing. We HAD to eat simple food, most of which we raised ourselves or squirrels and rabbits that Dad shot.
Ooops -- that was WWII in my previous post, not WWI.
A bowl of pastina with a dab of butter, a dash of milk, and a generous dollop of grated parmigiano reggiano cheese. Eaten with a spoon....slowly.
Somebody else mentioned potatoes, which I crave in any form. My favorite, though, is hot crispy tater tots from a Sonic drive-in. (No, the frozen Ore-Idas are not the same.) And McDonald's french fries did it for me for years, until the government made them take the beef fat out of their recipe and ruined them. Also, from childhood, Kraft macaroni and cheese (aka "Kraft dinner" at our house). Back in the day you could buy separate cans of the "cheese" and add lots more to taste. For years, as an adult, my go-to comfort food was Sara Lee Cherry Cheesecake, but it's often hard to find. Everybody stocks the strawberry, but I like the cherry.
In the "olden" days when we did not eat meat on Fridays, my Italian GM would make fried bread when we got home from school. We used olive oil, then she let us use butter & on special occasions, powdered sugar to sprinkle/drizzle over the very warm bread. Pure love. :) Dee
Crumpets - don't know if there is an American equivalent. Toasted till the top is crispy then lashings of butter that dribbles down into the crumpet and all over you when you bite into it.
My other all-time comfort favourite is very strong cocoa with sugar.
Does anybody else remember Hemo? It was a powdered something you added to cold milk to make chocolate milk. Like ovaltine but better. i liked the layer of chocolate on top that resisted stirring in.
My grandmother made the best fried chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, fresh corn and fantastic thick gravy. And biscuits. Light fluffy biscuits with melted butter. After the meal was over we'd take whatever remaining biscuits (or white bread if the biscuits were gone) and ladle gravy over the top..Gravy Bread. No wonder that my entire family carried around extra pounds and had hypertension!
Now I'm a vegetarian but there are times when I drool at the thought of Nana's chicken and gravy.
However, it took me 2 years to lose the extra 150 lbs I had on my body at age 50 and I did it following a vegetarian diet. I'd rather dream about chicken than carry the fat around! If I'd have continued to eat the way I grew up eating, I doubt I would have reached todays healthier 71.
I'm babysitting my 9 year old grand daughter today-she's sick. After I read the blog and read aloud some of the comments to her, I asked what her comfort food was.
She was raised vegetarian-my whole family pretty much is now. She drinks soy milk but hates soy cheese...
Her comfort food: Pacific's Roasted Tomato soup and a Tillamook sharp cheddar grilled cheese sandwich. Second is homemade lentil soup and my biscuits from Nanas recipe Third favorite "A really good big salad with pumpkin seeds-no dressing". OK she's weird-has never been to a fast food drive thru, had a hamburger or fried chicken (gross, she says). The girl is a real athlete-gymnastics, dance, running and disgustingly healthy.
My how time changes things.
Mom fixed mac 'n cheese Friday nights, alternating with Tuna noodle casserole. I still go for the mac 'n cheese once in a while if I'm feeling icky and don't want to cook, only I jazz it up with tomatoes and chilis. Peanut butter and home made jam or jelly was a staple. I can't keep peanut butter in the house because I binge on it with apple slices or as a peanut butter and sweet onion sandwich on whole wheat. Cream of tomato soup with toasted cheese sandwich, another old favorite I've not indulged in lately. There's some serious food sinning ahead, I think.
My grandmother made the best fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits and gravy. I dream about them sometimes but these days, my chicken is grilled, no potatoes, biscuits or gravy - got to watch the diabetes numbers. Still, when it's a rainy day in my soul, I love tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. Plus a lot of the food items mentioned above.
This has been my favorite blog and comment posting since I began reading your website in late March. It brings back so many wonderful memories of my grandmothers' and my mother's cooking and baking. Thank you!
Mayonnaise (Hellmann's)then and now on most everything and now I will give it a try with peanut butter another favorite then and now.
I'm comforted by a sandwich made with lean ham slices on rye or wheat bread coated with cranberry sauce. It's a family joke that I measure the success of an Easter or Christmas dinner by how many sandwiches can be produced from the leftovers.
Mine is what could be best described as a mixed up shepherd's pie to which my mum gave the unappealing name of Dry Hash. Mince the left over lamb from a roast and a couple of onions. Mix with mashed potatoes (don't layer it as in the pie). Cook in the oven. Eat with tomato sauce (that's ketchup to Americans) and it has to be White Crow brand (still around, fortunately). I only have this about once a year these days as I seldom cook a lamb roast.
I grew up with Southern comfort foods---fried chicken, cream gravy, cornbread (no sugar), mustard greens with hot sauce, banana cream pie. But I haven't eaten any of these things in so many years that I've forgotten how to crave them. Now my go-to comfort food is an unhealthy dinner of Top Ramen oriental flavor with maybe a chopped boiled egg, for one reason: there's virtually no preparation involved, so all the comfort comes from just nestling in with the bowl and not having to cook. My mother would turn over in her grave. Of course when I really want to comfort myself and I have enough clothes on to answer the door, I order in: sesame chicken and garlic eggplant from the best Chinese restaurant within two miles of my home.
What I remember craving was raisin bread toast and watching the butter melt. Then later, when I used to visit my mother, it was her homemade chopped liver with hard boiled eggs. No more. Having been a vegetarian for 13 years, it doesn't even interest me. My comforts now are good ice cream (when the weather is warm enough) or an evening glass of wine.
Reading the comments has been especially entertaining for me today. I'm happily surprised by the number of us who have become vegetarians in our 'Golden Years'. Cool Beans for us.
I'm doing internet dating (it's pretty much a drag, honestly) and had to turn down a date to 5PM dinner at "Old Country Buffet". First-thats too early for me to eat and second, it may be inexpensive but the food is not that good and it's quite limited when it comes to vegetarian options. He looses!
Thanks Ronnie for a fun blog post today. Your neighbor
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I am totally with Celia as far as childhood comfort foods go! But now I head - or send my husband- to our favorite neighborhood Chinese place for their "Wor Won Ton a Soup", seafood in a chicken stock and soothing especially when you have a rotten cold! But I am surprised no one mentioned chocolate as a comfort food, DOVE, especially!
Very yummy topic. My mom, who was not a good cook, fed me creamed tuna on toast. I had legs like strings. I have the opposite problem now. My German grandfather taught me to like Jewish rye bread. My all time favorite is Mary See's chocolate.
Peanut butter must be Skippy chucky.
Crusty sourdough bread and good sharp cheddar. Yum!
Pickle and mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder bread. Yummm!
Many of the aforementioned are favorites of mine, but my all time comfort food is the Finnish pasty my mother made when we were growing up. Though it's originally from Cornwall, the Finnish miners in the UP of Michigan took them to the mines for lunch. I now occasionally make one at her request, but they're not as good as her's--I don't have her pie crust knack.
Made with ground beef, chopped potatoes & onions, in a pie crust, smothered with butter, though my husband has the nerve to use catsup!
Spam Hawaiian! That's sliced Spam, fried, with a ring of canned pineapple on top. Fast. Easy. Yummy. The whole house smells like our home did sixty years ago whenever I make it. Very comforting and full of memories for me.
Nana--My church in Kalamazoo sells several thousand pasties every year at its bazaar. Big drawing card.
The hardest thing for me to forego as a 12-year vegetarian was homemade chicken noodle soup. My German-born mother made excellent soups and still does. As a lapsed vegetarian, the first thing I went back to was homemade chicken noodle soup.
Macaroni and cheese, lox and bagel, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are also my long-time favorites that I relish occasionally. Dark chocolate is not so much a comfort food as a special treat for me.
Thanks for a fun post that prompted us all to share.
Mom's Meat Loaf, real French Onion Soup, spaghetti Carbonara and Sushi. Now that's comfort
The "milk toast" that several have mentioned was called "graveyard stew" by my grandparents; supposedly you would eat it only if you were so ill you were headed to the graveyard! (not a comfort food, in my case)
I was brought up on a working farm and we killed our own pigs. My grandma would make sausage and my absolutely favorite childhood food is certainly not on my food list now unfortunately.
She would fry sausage patties, then using a little of the fat, make a milk gravy with flour and scrape all the tiny pork bits into it. It would then be served over he prize winning buttermilk biscuits.
Thinking of this meal makes me remember the smell of strong coffee, feel the chill in the air, smells of the wood burning stove fires, the sound of many crows in the corn fields, and my grandmother's voice saying grace before breakfast
the famous food of the famous bee,with a red costume. FRIED CHICKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN.
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June 23, 2006 2:53 PM PDT
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Airfone's parent company, Verizon Communications, plans to focus its efforts more on its core business, said Jim Pilcher, a spokesman for Verizon Airfone.
Verizon, the second-largest phone company in the U.S., is in the midst of a multibillion-dollar upgrade to its network to compete better with cable. Verizon's new Fios network extends fiber-optic cable directly to homes. Using these new fiber connections, Verizon plans to offer high-speed Internet access, phone service and television.
Verizon acquired Airfone back in 2000 from GTE. The air-to-ground phone system, which first began about 21 years ago, is installed in about 1,000 planes operated by Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and US Airways. Pilcher said the company will work with the airlines to figure out how to remove the phones and other equipment from the planes.
Due to its high price tag, the Airfone service has never been popular. The service costs 69 cents per minute for Verizon Wireless customers, or 10 cents a minute for a $10 fee per month. But for people who are not Verizon Wireless subscribers, the prices are much higher. For domestic calls it costs $3.99 to connect the call and $4.99 for each additional minute. International calls require a connection fee of $5.99 and $5.99 for each minute of calling.
Verizon Airfone had been a favorite to win the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 800MHz spectrum, but it dropped out of the bidding early.
A company called AirCell ended up winning a license to use the spectrum currently being used by Airfone. Earlier this month, AirCell said it plans to use its radio spectrum license to offer "affordable" wireless broadband service based on Wi-Fi standards aboard commercial airplanes.
Verizon's license would have expired in 2010, but because of the auction, the company would have had to relinquish its part of the spectrum within two years of when AirCell receives its own license.
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