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Koreatown, written by Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard, is an introduction to the amazing food and culture found in Korean communities throughout America. This book is the product of over two years of research and travel to areas including New York, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Traditional recipes (Pajeon- Scallion Pancake, Japchae- Wok Fried Glass Noodles with Crispy Shiitakes, Bulgogi- Soy Marinated Grilled Rib Eye, Kimchi Jjigae- Kimchi Stew) are included along with a chapter devoted to guest recipes by chefs using Korean ingredients and flavors in nontraditional ways such as the Kimchi Triple-Cream Grilled Cheese, Stuffed Kimchi and Pork Shoulder Lasagna Style, Korean Sloppy Joe, and Red Cabbage Bacon Kimchi.
Deuki Hong started cooking professionally at the age of 15 as a line cook at Centric under Aarón Sánchez, graduated from the Culinary Institute of America, cooked at Momofuku Noodle Bar under David Chang, and has also worked at Jean-Georges. He now runs his own kitchen at Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong in Manhattan's Koreatown. In 2015, he was named on the Zagat 30 Under 30 list.
Matt Rodbard is a food writer in New York City. He is currently a contributing editor at Food Republic and has been featured in Bon Appétit, Men's Journal, Travel + Leisure, and Tasting Table. He is also the author of the Korean Restaurant Guide: New York City.
Chapters are divided based on course: Ingredients and Equipment; Kimchi and Banchan; Rice, Noodles and Dumplings; Barbecue: Grilled, Smoked and Fired; Drinking Food: Pojangmacha; Soups, Stews and Braises; Respect: Guest Recipes; Drinks; and Sweets and Desserts.
The Ingredients and Equipment section provides an overview to products often used in Korean cooking. I love that the authors included their twitter handles (@deukihong and @mattrodbard) in case the readers have any questions about the ingredients or how to prepare the recipes. You will learn all about the three jangs: Gochujang (Spicy Fermented Pepper Paste), Doenjang (Fermented Bean Paste), and Ganjang (Korean Soy Sauce), how to find/pick out the ingredients at the market, store them, and the best uses in cooking. The photo guide to vegetables and herbs is also helpful.
In addition to the over 100 recipes, you will also find interviews by those immersed in the Korean food culture (including Adam Johnson, David Chang, Joe Hahn, and Jonathan Gold), plus a closer look into Koreatown markets and restaurants around the country.
The beautiful photography is provided by Sam Horine and Gabi Porter, with a handful from Matt Rodbard. I love that the photos were captured from over 125 Koreatown bars, markets, grocery stores, and restaurants as opposed to the norm of shooting them in a studio. Many of the dishes include a photo, generally of the finished product.
The names of the recipes are provided in English and Korean (Hangul and Romanization). Each recipe has a headnote with background information and tips.
This book is a great pick whether you are new to Korean cuisine or have already developed a love for the food. There are plenty of recipes to help ease you in to the flavors plus a few for the more adventurous such as Jjampong (Spicy Seafood Noodle Soup), Buldak Bal (Fire Chicken Feet), or Ojingeochae Muchim (Spicy-Sweet Shredded Squid). The recipes are well-written and easy to follow for the average cook with dishes ranging from incredibly simple to a the more complex with many ingredients and longer preparation time. Those who want to learn how to make kimchi will appreciate the in-depth guide with Persian cucumbers, daikon radish, garlic chives or spring onion, bok choy, pineapple, napa cabbage, and water radish. Drink lovers will enjoy the variety of mostly alcoholic offerings. I personally have the Subak Soju (Soju Watermelon Punch) bookmarked for when summer finally rolls around. Having access to an Asian Food Market specializing in Korean food will be helpful in completing the recipes. The authors also include tips on how to reduce the smell of some of the stronger ingredients during storage.
Hodduk (Hotteok), pan-fried pancakes stuffed with a gooey cinnamon nut filling, have been on my bucket list for quite a while. I am so happy I finally made these addictive little pastries. They are popular during the winter as a dessert or street food snack.
Even though the dough has yeast, this particular recipe's rise time isn't long at all. After bringing together the dough, it sits at room temperature for about 20 minutes. I used active dry yeast, so I proofed it for about 10 minutes in the warm water before adding to the remaining ingredients.
I used walnuts for the filling, but pine nuts and peanuts are also popular. Other traditional fillings include red beans or sweet potato.
I placed a pile of filling into the center of a piece of flatten dough, then brought the edges up around it and sealed the dough tightly. I rolled it slightly to smooth, then flattened the dough again in the shape of a pancake. If you have it available, you can also use this special tool: Hanason Hotteok Circle Shape Stainless Steel Spatula 2 PCS Stamp Tool. They are lightly fried in the pan until puffed and golden on each side with a melted, gooey center.
I served them warm with vanilla ice cream. Take care if you eat them straight from the pan. That melted filling will be very very hot.
I also made Sigeumchi Muchim (Soy and Sesame Spinach), Butter Mandu (Butter Dumplings), Seolleongtang (Beef Bone Noodle Soup), and Kalbi Meatballs.
Sigeumchi Muchim is a spinach banchan dish seasoned with soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, and a little sugar and black pepper. It was incredibly easy to make, but packed with flavor. My son always gets a huge kick watching a full pound of spinach shrink during the blanching process too.
Mandu, dumplings, are one of my favorite Korean foods. I had never heard of mixing softened butter, a whopping 1 pound of it, into the pork cabbage filling, but it definitely worked and in a wonderful way. I steamed the dumplings and the richness of the butter dissolved into every bite. They were perfect with a little soy sauce and napa cabbage kimchi. Want the kimchi as a filling? The next page has a recipe for Mukeunji Kimchi Mandu. As a side note: I used premade, previously frozen wrappers for the first time since making my own for a previous cookbook review and may stick to homemade from now on. The freshly made wrappers are just so much easier to fill and fold.
Seolleongtang is a noodle soup with a oxtail bone broth base. This was perfect for the cold temperatures we had last week. The oxtail bones are slowly simmered for 8 hours with kombu (seaweed), ginger, and garlic. Thinly sliced beef and quartered daikon radishes are added to the broth and it is served with cooked rice, thin somen noodles, sea salt, gochugaru (red pepper powder), and sliced scallions. This one was a favorite with my son.
The Kalbi Meatballs come from the Guest Recipes chapter. Daniel Holzman, the chef of New York City's The Meatball Shop, paired beef meatballs with the flavors of Korean barbecue. I love that the meatballs are baked. They are so easy to make and seasoned with honey, sesame oil, vinegar, pear, garlic, onion, ginger, white wine, and soy sauce. I served them with romaine lettuce and rice.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from Blogging for Books in exchange for my honest review. All statements and opinions are my own.
Hodduk (Korean Sweet Fried Pancake)
Adapted from Koreatown: A Cookbook
Serves 4-8
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup rice flour
1 tablespoon instant dry yeast
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 cup milk powder
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup walnuts or pine nuts, roughly chopped
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup honey powder or granulated sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
For serving:
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 pint vanilla ice cream
To make the dough: In a large bowl, combine the all purpose flour, rice flour, yeast, granulated sugar, salt, and milk powder.
Heat the water in the microwave or on the stove until steaming. Remove from heat and allow to cool until about 115 degrees F. Pour over the dry mixture and knead until the dough comes together and is smooth. Cover the bowl with plastic and allow to sit at room temperature until puffy, about 20 minutes.
To make the filling: In a medium bowl, combine the chopped nuts, brown sugar, honey powder, and cinnamon. Divide on a plate into 8 equal piles.
Divide the risen dough into 8 equal pieces. Lightly flour your hands and roll one piece of dough into a ball. Flatten into a pancake and press down in the center to form a cavity the size of a silver dollar. Add a pile of the filling to the center and gently cover with the edges of the dough. Seal the edges together and roll to form into a smooth ball. Pat the ball into a disc, thin enough to fry without breaking the dough open and allowing the filling to escape. Repeat with remaining dough and filling.
In a large frying pan, add oil over medium heat. Place a towel lined plate nearby. Once thoroughly heated, add pancakes sealed-side down in batches without overcrowding. Cook until puffed and golden brown, 2-3 minutes, then flip to cook other side. Once cooked through and golden, remove to the towel lined plate. Repeat with remaining pancakes.
Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.


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The project your about to see is about disabled cats, and the way people think about them. Everyone should change the mind set of dividing cats into categories.
Disabled cats should be treated normally, as much as possible. A cat is still a cat, no matter if the cat lacks an ear, eye, tail or eye.
Kazik is a 5-years-old cat that lost his leg.
Amber is a year and two months old, and she doesn't have one eye.
Ficus is a 5-years-old cat, and he also lost his leg.
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Holy carpe! Has it REALLY been an entire YEAR without my posting to this blog? Well, actually it's been 15 months, so yes it has. I am very well aware of the fact that this blog means nothing to anyone other then me. But I should have been downloading my inane and jumbled thoughts, even if it's for my own benefit.
What have I been up to without the benefit of venting about Chicagoland drivers? Without the benefit of 7 year olds re-telling the same joke over and over? Without all the benefits that come along with the mental serenity that comes from shouting at people in this cyberspot who drive badly on the roads, act badly in lines and elsewhere? I've been crazier than Bakes, that's for sure.
I'm not nearly as upending these days by bad drivers. Maybe I have become immune to their evil spells. And evil lane changes. Or more likely, I have been driving far less and haven't raised my blood pressure to the point of boiling over. I also don't recall any significant "waiting in lines" incidents lately. Or maybe my "serenity now" meditation sessions have been working...
Wow, this process is quite boring (for me, and especially you) if I don't have anything to shout about regarding the inanity and stupidity of my fellow man (and woman). Maybe I should go out of my way to find more situations that make me irked and make me need to vent in this blogspace. Pretty sure I won't have to search very far. Which is the bonus (and curse) of living in a big city. Plenty of stupid people to make you mad. Usually, we just call them "tourists". Or a lot of times I just call them "Nancy".
More input as circumstances warrant. Fingers crossed that someone cuts me off in traffic. Or stops randomly in the middle of a major street. Or decides to completely ignore the line winding around the corner at Hot Doug's and struts to the front like they own the place. We can only hope...
To finish the celebration of "The Year Without A Blogpost", I thought I might dig up some other "Year Without..." type things. Here are some of the more interesting ones...
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At sentencing, the trial court rejected Robers argument that he should be credited with the value of the homes he surrendered to the bank he defrauded through false statements on loan applications ordered that he pay the difference between the fraudulent loan he received and the monies recovered through selling the real property. The 2nd circuit affirmed. Resolving a circuit split, the Court affirmed. It held that the plain language of 198 USC 3663A requires that "property" be understood to mean the property actually taken (here loan proceeds) and not the value of collateral surrendered. It held that the statute provides methods to overcome any unfairness of this approach in a given case, allows ease of administration and comports with normal proximate cause principles. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Ginsburg, added a separate concurrence arguing that if the victim holds onto the collateral as an investment, then the defendant should be allowed to show that retention occurred and receive credit in any restitution order for the value of the collateral including any increase in value.
Town invited minsters to open their monthly board meetings with prayer. All the participating ministers for several years were Christian and offered payers including mentions of Jesus Christ. Galloway sued for an order requiring all prayers be nonsectarian. The district court granted judgment to Town. The 2nd circuit reversed. The Court 5(as to historical analysis) -4, with two concurrences and two dissents, reversed. The majority held that legislative prayer is historically understood as not violating the establishment clause and there is no requirement that prayers be devoid of sectarian content unless the pattern of prayer demonstrates denigration of religious minorities, calls for damnation or other approaches which do not contribute to the solemnization of the occasion. Three justices argued that Galloway's claim of pressure to conform to the views expressed in the prayers should be rejected under a fact sensitive analysis of the setting and audience. Here these justices argued that the audience of the prayer is the board and the setting is legislative meeting which is historically regarded as a proper place for solemnizing prayer and would be understood by a well-informed reasonable observer to be only used to solemnize the occasion. These justice also argued that feeling offended does not mean Galloway was coercion to participate. Justice Alito, joined by Scalia added a concurrence arguing that the principle dissent's demand for nonsectarian prayer is contrary to historical practice and in the end all the dissent complains about is the unsophisticated way the Town compiled its list of ministers. He also argued that there is no basis to allow legislative prayers at the federal and state level but not the local level and the practices of the Continental and first Congress demonstrate that legislative prayer was deemed to be consistent with the establishment clause. Justice Thomas, joined in part by Scalia, argued that the establishment clause is a federalism measure which does not grant individual rights and even if it was incorporated into the 14th Amendment there was no violation here as Town did not use actual legal coercion to compel Galloway to participate in the prayer or any religious exercise whatever. Justice Breyer dissented arguing that given Town's religious diversity and failure to craft an inclusive selection process when several easy steps were available to create one, Town's program was unconstitutional. Justice Kagan, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer and Sotomayor, dissented arguing that Town's board meetings differed from state and federal legislative meetings because they are hybrid session with both legislative and adjudicative actions, the prayers are made to the public, not the board, and were relentlessly sectarian. She also argued that Town's program treated nonbelievers differently from believers and thus violated the establishment clause.
Tolan sued Cotton alleging excessive force. The district court granted summary judgment to Cotton and the 5th Circuit affirmed on qualified immunity grounds. The Court, per curium with 2 concurring only in judgment, reversed. The majority held that the 5th Circuit failed to view the fats in the light most favorable to Tolan and thus failed to apply the correct standard of review. The case was remanded for further proceedings. The concurrence argued that this case could turn the Court into just another forum for error correction, but, agreed summary judgment was not proper here because genuine disputes of material facts exist.


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A noted reviewer writing about The Great Gatsby, the new movie version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tedious novel, stated that the word "great" in the title was intended "laconically." I wonder if he really meant that. Laconic means "terse, using few words." It would seem that any one-word description would qualify as laconic. In the context, I'm inclined to think the intended word was ironic ("other than, and especially opposite to, the literal meaning") or possibly sardonic ("derisively mocking, skeptically humorous").
All three words have Greek origins, but from quite different sources. Laconic derives from Laconia, a region of ancient Greece of which Sparta was the capital. Spartan discipline was known for its rigorous austerity—as everyone knows who remembers the story of the boy who stole a fox and then allowed it to gnaw through his stomach rather than confess he was hiding it under his tunic. Austerity was also the hallmark of the speech of the Laconians. They prided themselves on what they thought of as concise wit—but the rival Athenians regarded as abrupt rudeness. Hence, laconic assumed the meaning of "brusque and terse."
Sardonic originated with sardonion, a plant so named because it came from the island of Sardinia, and which the Greeks believed would cause facial contortions resembling derisive laughter in those who consumed it.
Finally, ironic is from the Greek eiron, meaning "one who pretends ignorance," a a term frequently applied to the philosopher Socrates, in describing his method of questioning.
The Bard of Buffalo Bayou is fortunate in that he need not pretend ignorance, of any subject, since it comes quite naturally to him.
Hippocrates and Socrates
Were the best of pals.
They liked to dine and wine well,
And loved both guys and gals.
Socrates would disparage
His shrewish wife, Xanthippe;
Hippocrates shunned marriage,
And often shouted, "Yippee!"
Their history's a mystery,
Here's what we know of both:
Socrates took hemlock,
And Hippocrates an oath.
The loss of her philosopher
Upset the former's wife,
For the latter, 'twas no matter,
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|On Sept. 20, 1905, King Gojong hosted a luncheon for Alice Roosevelt, which served 17 dishes with three different condiments. The Cultural Heritage Administration reenacted the royal banquet food with Shinsegae Chosun Hotel for "The Emperor's Dining Table of the Daehan Empire" exhibition at the Daehan Empire Historical Museum in Deoksu Palace. Courtesy of Cultural Heritage Administration
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Alice Roosevelt, the eldest child of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, was one of the most famous national figures of the early 20th century. She made a goodwill trip to East Asia in 1905 with an 83-member diplomatic delegation and stopped by the Korean Empire, which lasted from 1897 to 1910 when Joseon Kingdom struggled to survive amid opening of ports and contact with Western culture.
In her memoir "Crowded Hours: Reminiscences of Alice Roosevelt Longworth," she described her visit to the Korean Empire, including a royal banquet she attended at Deoksu Palace.
Despite recognizing that "Korea, reluctant and helpless, was sliding into the grasp of Japan," King Gojong tried to give the kid-glove treatment to this American princess as a diplomatic gesture. King Gojong hosted a Korean-style luncheon for Alice, his first luncheon with a woman.
"The Emperor's Dining Table of the Daehan Empire," an exhibition held at the Daehan Empire Historical Museum in Deoksu Palace, gives a glimpse of royal cuisine of the Korean Empire, which were served in both Western and Korean traditional style, and how the country's dining style changed as it went through modernization. This is the second exhibition shedding light on the food, clothing and house of the Korean Empire.
|King Gojong's photo gifted to Alice Roosevelt / Courtesy of Cultural Heritage Administration
"The Emperor and his son, who became the last Emperor, led a furtive existence in their palace alongside our Legation. A few days after we arrived, we lunched with them there in the European part of the building. We were received in an upstairs room, and then the squat Emperor did not give me his arm, but took mine, and together we went in a hurried wobble down a very narrow staircase to an unnoteworthy, smallish dining room," Alice wrote in her book.
"We had Korean food, served in Korean dishes and bowls ornamented with the imperial crest. Those I used were afterwards presented to me, and at a farewell audience, the Emperor and Crown Prince each gave me his photograph. They were two rather pathetic, stolid figures with very little imperial existence ahead of them."
During the Korean Empire, Western-style meal courses were served for banquets with foreign guests after the opening of ports. In the very early days of Western banquets, Korean and Western dishes were served together, but soon only Western dishes were provided in European style, thanks to German major-domo Antoinette Sontag, who was in charge of the palace's household affairs.
Isabella Bird Bishop, a British explorer who visited the Korean Peninsula a few times between 1894 and 1897, said she was "entertained in courteous fashion with coffee and cake on arriving" during her visit with King Gojong, and the dinner cooked in foreign style included "soup, fish, quails, wild duck, pheasant, stuffed and rolled beef, vegetables, creams, glace walnuts, fruit, claret, and coffee."
The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) re-created the royal cuisine of the period, including the banquet food served for Roosevelt, with chefs from the Shinsegae Chosun Hotel.
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The menu of the banquet Roosevelt attended is currently in the collection of the New York Public Library and Cho Hyung-hak, executive chef of Westin Chosun Hotel Seoul, supervised the re-creating of the imperial banquet.
At the Sept. 20 luncheon offered by King Gojong for Roosevelt, 17 dishes were served with three different condiments. The recipe and ingredients are based on the 1902 "Gojong Imin Jinyeon Uigwe," which had a list of dishes served for King Gojong's 51st birthday, and cookbooks published around the time using similar ingredients.
The menu begins with "yeolgujatang," or royal hot pot also known as sinseollo, which used a variety of materials such as beef tenderloin, pheasant, abalone, egg, shiitake mushroom and scallion to make it colorful.
"Goldongmyeon" is cold noodles mixed with pepper, perilla seed powder, sesame oil and soy sauce, garnished with beef and egg. Steamed gray mullet, boiled brisket slices, pan-fried fish fillet and boiled-down abalone were also served.
|"Yeolgujatang," or royal hot pot
Dessert included "hangwa," a traditional confectionery, and fresh produce of grapes, pears, persimmons and chestnuts.
"Suksilgwa" was made by boiling various fruits, ginger or nuts in water and then reforming them into original shapes, while "jeonggwa" is crispy and chewy treats made of candied fruit, roots and seeds.
"Though these dishes are plain-colored and look rather simple, they take much manual effort and require high-end ingredients," the chef said.
The exhibit also gives enlightenment on general cuisine of the early 20th century Korea.
William Elliot Griffis' book "Corea, the Hermit Nation" describes Korean eating customs from a Western perspective.
"The meals are served on the floor on low sang, or little tables, one for each guest, sometimes one for a couple. The best table service is of porcelain, and the ordinary sort of earthenware with white metal or copper utensils. ... No knives or forks are used; instead, chopsticks, laid in paper cases, and, what is more common than in China or Japan, spoons are used at every meal," Griffis wrote.


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Stephen Gethin-Jones has completed his Doctorate at the Unviersity of Cardiif in 2012 with a focus on homecare delivery to older housebound adults and he had continued to develop a specialist interest in home care and support services for older adults,with a particular focus on outcome focused care. He also has been involved in the development of services for community care in both the statutory and private sectors. He currently teach on a variety of health and social care degrees at both undergraduate and post graduate level.
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Here's a puzzle for you:
What happens if you plan to build 12,000 new houses in one of the poorest districts in the country (that's had one of the highest council spending cuts of 5.3%) around a shopping centre that is based on people visiting by car.
Then you only plan to create 5,000 jobs. You then designate the shopping centre, full of corporate chains that up sticks when the going gets tough, as the main primary town centre drawing transport and other resources (such as train services from the stations in the towns to the new station in the middle of the fields to serve the new 12,000 houses) away from the three towns of Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs.
This puzzle is laid out in Thanet Council's draft Local Plan that will be up for consultation in the new year.
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Obstruction of the superior vena cava results from mediastinal mass lesions. Features include a plethoric and cyanosed face with periorbital oedema, exophthalmos, conjunctival injection, and venous dilatation in the fundi, distended non-pulsatile neck veins and a positive Pemberton sign.
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Palmar erythema is a non-specific finding characterised by a redness of the palmar skin.
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Shoulder pain radiating down the arm can be a diagnostic dilemma, with causes arising from multiple visceral and musculoskeletal structures.
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SVTs are supraventricular tachycardias, that can be either atrial tachydysrhythmias (such as atrial fibrillation) or atrioventricular tachydysrhythmias. This document concerns the latter.
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Shock is a state of circulatory failure characterised by globally impaired tissue perfusion that is insufficient for needs of the body.
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The home team manager shall be responsible for entering the game score within 24 hours of the completion of the game.
Managers are expected to confirm in advance of each game the location, time, and field; and status of inclement weather, if pending.
Inclement Weather. All efforts should be made to play games safely in inclement weather.
- A minimum two-hour notice is to be provided if a game is cancelled due to weather. Failure to provide proper notice may be grounds for forfeit and the game will not be rescheduled.
- If a two-hour notice is not possible, failure to show up at the field to greet and notify the team of the cancellation shall be grounds for forfeit and the game will NOT be rescheduled.
Game Cancellation Policy for MAJORS, INTERMEDIATE, JUNIOR & SENIOR DIVISIONS
- Cancelled or suspended games due to weather/field conditions or school activities MUST be rescheduled. See section below regarding pitch count for suspended games.
- Games canceled due to player availability, other than school events, shall NOT be rescheduled
- Games cancelled due weather or school events are not required to be rescheduled
- Games cancelled due to player availability, or than school events, shall not be rescheduled
- Teams should play a minimum of 12 games per season
Reschedule Procedure for All Interleague Games
- Rescheduling of games shall be the responsibility of the managers.
- It is the responsibility of the home team manager to provide a field for a rescheduled game.
- The following rescheduled game information must be provided to the District scheduler (firstname.lastname@example.com) to update the District schedule:
- District Schedule Game Number (Located on the district game schedule*)
- Reason for Cancellation or Reschedule
- New Game Date, Time, and Location
- For Suspended Games, view section below for more information
* Note: Keep track of the game number for reporting the reschedule information. Once a game is reported as rained out, the game will be unscheduled, meaning the date/time/location is removed, and the game will no longer be visible on the schedule.
When a game is suspended due to weather (rule 3.10(b)), stopped with tie score or otherwise does not meet Rule 4.10 for a regulation game, the following steps should be followed:
For the PLAYED PORTION of the Original game:
- HOME team manager should contact the District scheduler to report the incomplete game, include original game number/information.
- For Baseball:
- Both managers should enter Pitch Count for the portion of the game PLAYED on the Original game date.
- The game will be adjusted on the District scheduler as "do not count towards team standings."
- The game will remain on the schedule so that pitch count is recorded and tracked on that date.
- For Softball, the game will be "unscheduled" same as rainout.
- Score should NOT be entered at this time.
SCHEDULING the Resumed game:
- Follow the process outlined in "Rescheduling Games" above.
- HOME team manager report the resumed game date, time, and location to District Scheduler, include original game number and identify as resumed game.
- For Baseball: A "new" game will be added to the schedule for the resumed portion of the game. This game will count towards standings.
- For Softball: The original game will be "moved" to the new date/time/location.
PLAYING & SCORING Resumed Game:
- Follow Little League rules related to resuming a suspended game. Click here for brief summary of rules related to resumed games; your league UIC is also a resource for questions or clarifications.
- Upon completion of the resumed game
- Pitch Count Entry for Baseball: Enter pitch count for the resumed game, i.e. the portion of the game played on this date ONLY, into the new/resumed game.
- For Baseball & Softball: Enter the final game score into the new/resumed game.
Why are there two schedules on my Team Connect? One schedule is posted by District 1 and is the MASTER SCHEDULE to be followed by all teams. This schedule is shared between all participating teams in the division via Bonzi Team pages. The District schedule hosts the baseball pitch count record which is shared between all participating teams. It is the responsibility of the HOME team manager to ensure the game date, location and time is accurate, see instructions above.
A second schedule which may appear in your Bonzi team is posted by your league. This occurs when a league opts to use the Stack Sports Umpire scheduling system or the field management system. These items are league specific, and coordinated at the league level, therefore the schedule must be added to their league's Bonzi program.
The two schedules should be the same. If they are not, the HOME TEAM MANAGER should contact District 1 scheduling, the opposing manager, and/or the league scheduler as needed to update the schedules so that all teams and umpires arrive at the same time and place for a game!
Can we play a double header? For major divisions and above - yes. For minor divisions and T-ball - no. Refer to Rule 3.11, 4.13, Reguilation VII(d) and Softball Regulation VI(e) which address double headers.


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First report of Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IB on Rosmarinus officinalis in the United Kingdom
1 Fera Science Ltd, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK
2 University of Idaho, Parma Research and Extension Center, Idaho, USA
3 University of Idaho, Aberdeen Research and Extension Center, Idaho, USA
Received: 12 Dec 2016; Published: 06 Mar 2017
In 2015, six-month-old rosemary plants (Rosmarinus officinalis), were received by the Fera Plant Clinic for diagnosis. Web blight symptoms were present, including necrotic areas on stems and leaves. To determine the causal agent, plants were washed and symptom-bearing stems and leaves were excised and placed on potato dextrose agar (PDA) containing penicillin and streptomycin. After three days, colonies morphologically resembling Rhizoctonia were transferred onto PDA. After a further seven days, DNA was extracted from the resulting Rhizoctonia isolate using previously described methods (Woodhall et al., 2013). The rDNA ITS region was sequenced (GenBank Accession No. KU216129) and found to have 99% similarity with other AG1-IB sequences present in GenBank.
The pathogenicity of the isolate was confirmed by inoculating R. officinalis plants with fully colonised PDA plugs (10 x 10 mm). Plants were approximately 30 cm high and 6 months old at time of inoculation and grown in 250 ml pots containing compost (John Innes No. 3). Four plants were inoculated with a colonised agar plug placed at the stem base just above the soil line, another four plants were inoculated with a colonised plug placed at approximately half way up the stem, and another four plants were inoculated with two agar plugs, one placed on the underside of a leaf and the second one on top of a different leaf. Stems and leaves of four additional plants were mock inoculated with sterile plugs approximately half way up each plant. Plastic bags were placed on top of each plant which was supported by a cane. Plants were placed in a glasshouse at 21°C, 18h/6h light/dark and watered as required. After ten days, plants were removed from the soil and assessed for the presence of symptoms (Fig. 1). Symptoms were present on all the inoculated plants. The presence of necrotic regions on stem and leaves of each plant was scored as follows: 0 = symptomless, 1 = up to 10% of the assessed region, 2 = between 11 to 25% of the assessed region, 3 = between 26 to 50% of the assessed region, 4 = over 51% of the assessed region (Table 1). Sclerotia were found on the stem bases of four of the twelve inoculated plants (two leaf-inoculated and two stem-inoculated; Fig. 2). No symptoms were present on the leaves of control plants but one stem showed a small lesion. However, this lesion was different in appearance to those on the inoculated plants. Symptoms were significantly greater (p<0.05) in Rhizoctonia-inoculated plants.
Isolations on tap water agar from stem and leaf material from the four inoculated and symptomatic plants was attempted. Rhizoctonia solani AG1-1B (as confirmed by sequencing) was isolated from the symptomatic plants thereby fulfilling Koch's postulates. No Rhizoctonia isolates were recovered from attempted isolations taken from nine separate leaf and stem pieces from the mock-inoculated material, including from the atypical lesion.
Web blight of rosemary caused by R. solani has been reported previously in the United States, India, Brazil, Italy and Korea (Garibaldi et al., 2013; Aktaruzzaman et al., 2015). Here, for the first time we report R. solani AG1-IB as the causal agent of web blight of rosemary in the UK. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of R. solani AG1-IB in the UK and growers should consider its potential impact in rosemary production.
- Aktaruzzaman Md, Joon-Young K, Afroz T, Byung-Sup K, 2015. First report of web blight of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IB in Korea. Mycobiology 43, 170-173. [http://dx.doi.org/10.5941/MYCO.2015.43.2.170]
- Garibaldi A, Bertetti D, Pensa P, Poli A, Gullino ML, 2013. First report of web blight on rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG-1-IA in Italy. Plant Disease 97, 844. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-11-12-1012-PDN]
- Woodhall JW, Adams IP, Peters JC, Harper G, Boonham N, 2013. A new quantitative real-time PCR assay for Rhizoctonia solani AG3-PT and the detection of AGs of Rhizoctonia solani associated with potato in soil and tuber samples in Great Britain. European Journal of Plant Pathology 136, 273-280. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10658-012-0161-8]
To cite this report: Santin Azcona J, Woodhall JW, Perkins K, Henderson D, Barnes AV, Wharton PS, Henry C, 2017. First report of Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IB on Rosmarinus officinalis in the United Kingdom. New Disease Reports 35, 12. [http://dx.doi.org/10.5197/j.2044-0588.2017.035.012]
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We generally don't like to get too close to the judicial system here at IM Central. Too many bad memories, (some of which may still be on the books) but when we saw the headline that read Judge Tells Moms To Learn English, our interest was piqued.
What first drew our interest was the byline: Lebanon, Tennessee. Having traveled extensively in the south, we are aware that, in the first place, they don't speak English in Tennessee. We were once in a grocery store down there and, upon completing our purchase were asked if we "wanted a poke."
You can imagine what ran through our minds. Well, maybe you can't, so we'll tell you. We weren't sure if we were being challenged to a fight, or asked to engage in something kinky.
It turns out a poke is a bag, so you can see our point about English. But back to the story. It turns out Wilson County Judge Barry Tatum has been ordering Mexican immigrant women to learn English, or risk losing their children to protective services. Apparently only English speakers make good mothers. The article says:
"The court specially informs the mother that if she does not make the effort to learn English, she is running the risk of losing any connection — legally, morally and physically — with her daughter forever,"
Fathers, it seems, can speak any language they want. The judge says he does it to help mothers "assimilate" into society. Obviously, if you want to keep your child in his jurisdiction, resistance is futile. And the rest of the collective agrees. Bob Bright (Yeah. we know, but we don't go for the easy joke around here) Bob Bright, who owns a local insurance agency said, "If I were in Mexico, I'd learn to speak Hispanic."
Bob, we're talking about the mothers here. If you were in Mexico, you'd have to learn to speak Herspanic.


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I thought up this poem at the height of the summer season during the days when I used to wait by the roadside near my Paying Guest accommodation in Indiranagar-Bangalore, in the terrible heat for the company vehicle to take me to my office.
One afternoon, a summer's day,
Earth burned in Sun's sway.
All around hung searing heat,
Like devil's fire down beneath
Singeing blew the wing even,
It's soothing succor needed when.
Man and earth alike parched,
Dreary a road life marched.
Oppressive hours when thus spent,
Silent prayers then heavenwards went.
Awhile thereafter the plea answered,
The distant sky silently stirred.
Lo! Afar black clouds loomed,
Heralding them thunder boomed.
Soon those masses hovered above,
Their cool shade prevailing now.
Gentle blew a refreshing breeze,
It's cool embrace bringing ease.
In gay abandon trees danced,
Their gaiety the mood enhanced.
Then sprinkled forth the heavens,
A myriad drops of deliverance.
Steady streams fell all around,
Only theirs, the pervading sound.
Flashes of light played high,
Applauding them, roared the sky.
The scene awash glistened anew,
Fresh scents did now ensue.
Sun's tyranny thus washed away,
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Since things were bubbling nicely today, it's time to start changing the water/flour ratio. I fed the starter with one ounce each of water and flour. I stirred the mixture a few times during the day when I thought about it, and left it on the counter as before. Bubble activity is increasing!
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I have been a horse racing fan and bettor for 50 years. In addition, I have been a race horse owner for over 30 years.
The game has obviously changed considerably over the years as the technology available now allows fans to gamble on the races from virtually anywhere including home, on any electronic device or at an off-track betting facility.
While this has impacted attendance at live venues, people are still betting on the sport as much as ever, just from multiple places. The negative publicity over the unfortunate horse deaths this year has caused some significant harm to the industry, at least in the short term.
Sadly, there are some people with political agendas that are making loud noises about the cruelty to the animals. Most, if not all, of these people have not seen how well these horses are cared for on a daily basis. Believe me, no single horse owner, trainer or jockey wants to see any horse suffer or die as there is never any benefit derived to any of them if a horse is injured or dies. Quite frankly, the opposite is true.
Additionally, the racing industry provides many jobs throughout California as well as tax revenue from the gambling and all the related sales tax and payroll taxes. We had very unusual weather this year in terms of both rain amounts and colder-than-normal temperatures, which likely contributed to this anomaly of horse death rates. I think a much longer period should be analyzed to evaluate the real rate of horse fatalities. Clearly, I strongly hope horse racing will continue in our state forever.
— Dennis Decauwer, Rancho Cucamonga
Safety first? Why didn't they stop racing earlier?
What bothers me is why didn't someone stop racing at Santa Anita in December and January when the horse deaths started occurring?
They got so accustomed to it over the years, they are numb to it when it does happen.
They keep saying they put safety first for the horses but it doesn't look like it waiting until 24 deaths happened.
I know it's all about money, but it doesn't bring the horses who lost their lives back.
If horse deaths continue, I would shut down the track for good. And the same with Del Mar and Los Alamitos should the problem happen there.
— Cheryl Walker, Hemet
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With last week's 30th anniversary celebration of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in Kansas comes a softening in opinions from some environmentalists toward such facilities due to more immediate concerns over climate change they say is related to the use of coal.
The Wolf Creek plant began commercial operation in 1985 and was a focal point in a debate over the safety and costs of nuclear energy following a major accident at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, the Lawrence Journal-World reported.
As a result of concerns by the public, few plants have been built since Wolf Creek. The most recent was the Watts Bar 1 plant in Tennessee, which opened in 1996.
But Jeffrey Geuther, who teaches nuclear engineering at Kansas State University, said that's about to change soon with a second unit at Watts Bar. He also noted that four other plants are expected to be built in Georgia and South Carolina.
"I think for the environmental-minded folks, carbon dioxide emission is the big issue, and nuclear power is the quickest way to solve that problem," Geuther said.
Larry Erickson, president of the Kansas Natural Resource Council, a group that opposed building Wolf Creek in the 1980s, said attitudes toward nuclear power have shifted, but that there are still plenty of concerns about it.
"Finding good places for nuclear waste continues to be an issue because it is around for a very long time," he said. "I rank nuclear energy above coal because of all of the environmental issues related to coal."
The Wolf Creek plant is jointly owned by Westar Energy, Kansas City Power and Light and the Kansas Electric Power Cooperative.
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" A Pale Green Mermaid Blog "
Fact: Banks are lent money at 1% interest
Question: Is it then ethical to refuse to lend that money back to the public at a reasonable rate? Say 12% ( for all not just the wealthy)
Fact: Jesus had a reason for throwing the money lenders out of the temple ( now I am talking about the human side of Jesus, hey he was a great guy with a lot of great ideas, a companero)
Question: Would Greece be in such trouble if they could have money lent to them at a reasonable rate?
Fact; The BIG banks had to be bailed out because they control 69% of the gross national product meaning, if they were allowed to fail, ie go out of business a year or so ago, the USA would have gone out of business as well. ( they screwed up now Greece and the rest of ua are paying for their financial mistakes because even today they still refuse to take the hit ( lose money through accepting responsibility by readjusting all the predatory mortgage products they sold in the form of bundled derivatives.)
They knew the ponzi like schemes would fall one day, they just wanted to make sure it did not fall on them… as attested to in the recent investigations in the Senate financial reform committee headed by Senator Dodd and Senator Shelby.
This predatory lending climate continues as the effects of residual foreclosures cover the globe, the banks are making more money in fees through foreclosure than they would by readjusting the derivative mortgage products they sold.
Back to Jesus – looking at his actions as an emblem of an age old problem GREED – today CORPORATE GREED.
From Wikipedia below
In this episode, Jesus is stated to have visited the Temple in Jerusalem, Herod's Temple, at which the courtyard is described as being filled with livestock and the tables of the money changers, who changed the standard Greek and Roman money for Jewish and Tyrian money, which were the only coinage that could be used in Temple ceremonies. Creating a whip from some cords, "he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables. But he said to those who sold doves, "Get these out of here! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!"[Jn
In a nutshell he is discussing how and when is it ethical to make a profit. To make money. How far should the people who have power over the masses be allowed to use that power?
When it causes a system to breakdown that then puts pressure and suffering over a worldwide population?
These are the questions we need to ask now and find ways to end this cycle of abuse.
As I see it ,
1. An immediate moratorium on foreclosures – The banks then will have to clean up their mess.
2. At the same time BUST THEM ( the big banks) DOWN.
and start talking to your representatives in the congress, WE DO HAVE THE POWER – it is the power of all our voices joined together.


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There was an alleged June 19 "terrorist attack" at Finsbury Park in London that was allegedly perpetrated by a white man driving a van into a group of Muslims in London.
This is just too perfect, coming after several years of major attacks perpetrated by Muslims all over Europe. Thus now Muslims are running to the media to tell us how afraid they are.
Did you ever notice how most terror attackers get killed or badly injured? Yet this white guy didn't have a scratch on him (see video link below). The van with which he allegedly ran down the Muslims didn't have a scratch on it either, while normally we see clear indications of the incident.
How about the all-too-perfect story line that a Muslim imam (preacher) saved the white attacker from an angry Muslim mob? Do you really believe this? This is absurd. Go to 2:07 of this video. You see the police smiling like actors, wheeling away an "injured" Muslim on a gurney. After that you see the "attacker" being bundled into a police van with not a scratch on him, or any blood. And you see trucks and buses driving past the crime scene. Aren't the streets normally cordoned off after such an incident? After all the police van was sure there…
The photos of this "attack" have none of the look of urgency that you would have if this attack were real. Click through the CNN photos. They all look staged. Look at the cops in these photos. They look like extras on a movie set.
If you don't believe all this, then compare it with the hoax "hate crimes" that we saw over and over after Trump's election, that were blamed on Trump supporters. If these "crimes" had not been exposed as frauds we would continue to believe that they were real. They were not, like the fake arson attack on the black church in Mississippi one week before the election, which was finally traced to a church member. Nikitas3.com labeled that a hoax the minute that I saw it.
On the other side we have seen real violent attacks by Trump haters against Trump supporters, like the shooting of congressman Scalise, along with 200 other incidents including three murders.
This American pattern would precisely fit the pattern of the staged Finsbury Park "terror attack" against Muslims versus real terrorism by Muslims against Europeans.
Look at how the media immediately called Finsbury Park a "terrorist attack" and identified the "white man" who perpetrated it, when they often spend days before calling a real terror attack a terror attack or identifying the perpetrator.
After Finsbury Park, there was an interview with a Muslim mother talking about being afraid for her child. She looked like an actor reading lines. There was not an ounce of passion in her voice. And we can expect the British and globalist media and politicians to milk this "attack" endlessly and point to it over and over as a frightening escalation of violence against "peaceful" Muslims that must be stopped while defending Muslims as "peaceful" people.
Now here is today's editorial about 'hybrid' cars:
'Hybrid' Cars get Black Eye at 24 Hours of Le Mans
Nikitas3.com is a big fan of auto racing. My favorite race is the Indy 500 and a very close second is the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in western France, which is not a race but a spectacle and a modern marvel. Three drivers per team, generally doing stints of 2 to 4 hours, go from 3 (French time) on Saturday afternoon to 3 Sunday. They drive through the night flat out on an 8.45-mile circuit. It is a brutal test of endurance for both cars and drivers, and always at full speed.
This year's race was exciting as always but two out of the six LMP1 "supercars" had to stop for major repairs because of problems with their "hybrid" power systems.
These 'hybrid' cars are being hyped in the passenger car market and have been hyped for 20 years since the Toyota Prius was introduced in 1997. Yet after decades on the market these "hybrid" cars are expensive to buy and thus need a subsidy; they are expensive to repair and can only be fixed by specialized people; and they have a whole extra power train system, which is one more thing to go wrong, as Le Mans proved. These cars also can electrically shock emergency crews trying to save injured passengers, while they save a small amount of energy at high cost and great complexity.
By the way, the Boeing 747 jetliner, which carries almost 600 passengers, is more fuel-efficient than a Toyota Prius. The mathematical proof is further down in this commentary.
"Hybrid" technology is another 'green' hoax, as is the electric car. It is time for governments to end all subsidies for both. If these cars are so great, as their cheerleaders say, then consumers should just buy them for full price. In other words, if you allegedly save so much money on gasoline with these "efficient" cars, then why do they have to be subsidized up to $7,500?
Good question…
'Hybrid' cars, which have both a gasoline engine and electric motors, use advanced technology, while electric cars have been around for more than 100 years. They run only on electric power which they get from plugging into utility power.
The reason that we never have seen electric cars widely sold until recently is because they are inefficient and nobody was making or buying them.
Now the 'greenies' have rigged the tax system to get big subsidies for electric cars like the Tesla and the Chevy Volt. And so we have more electric cars on the road since we always get more of what the government subsidizes.
Unfortunately electric cars are grossly inefficient for one logical and fundamental reason – because they are "the wrong use" for electricity.
Electricity is a highly-refined resource. In other words, if you took the energy content in a gallon of gasoline and converted it into electricity, you would end up with a small amount of a more "refined" energy type (electricity) but at high cost and at the loss of much of the energy in the conversion process.
Imagine an electric car proportionally using two to three times as much energy per mile as an internal combustion car and you get the point.
That is why electricity should be conserved for applications like computers, light bulbs, refrigerators, water pumps, telephones, power tools, etc. for which there is no alternative. Electricity should not be squandered on cars which have today's efficient and clean internal combustion engine to power them.
And while the "greenies" have told us that there are no emissions coming out of the tailpipe of electric cars, these electric cars are actually major polluters; the "emissions" or "pollution" for electric cars occur at the power plants that are fueled by coal or natural gas, which represents about 70% of US electricity production.
The electric car has other major drawbacks. The Chevy Volt has only a 50-mile driving range before it has to be re-charged over a period of 13 hours(!) That makes it largely useless except for small amounts of around-town driving.
So guess what Chevy did to extend the car's range? They put a gasoline engine in the car… you know, like every other car on the road that is not a Volt.
The Tesla electric car has addressed the problem of limited range with a whopping 1,300 lb. battery that gives it 280 miles in range (while the whole Toyota Camry weighs about 3,200 lbs. including engine). Yet that battery is a huge energy waster in its own right; its 1,300 lbs. has to be hauled around every mile that the car travels. It is the weight of three regular auto engines. So the excessive weight of the battery itself is consuming much of the energy stored in the battery.
Only environmentalists could come up with such a self-defeating system…
Meanwhile the manufacture of these batteries is a highly polluting process, but environmentalists have turned a blind eye to that.
On the other hand the gasoline in a full tank of 15 gallons only weighs about 90 lbs. and the car can go up to 500 miles or more, and you can re-fuel in 5 minutes.
So why do environmentalists promote these very un-'green' electric cars?
It is because environmental demagogues like Elon Musk at Tesla get rich on electric automobiles through government subsidies. They also get to act like know-it-alls about electric cars and so they get media power and political power from advocating them.
Now here is the analysis of the Boeing 747 fuel efficiency from a website called science.howstuffworks.com:
A plane like a Boeing 747 uses approximately 1 gallon of fuel (about 4 liters) every second. Over the course of a 10-hour flight, it might burn 36,000 gallons (150,000 liters). According to Boeing's Web site, the 747 burns approximately 5 gallons of fuel per mile (12 liters per kilometer).
This sounds like a tremendously poor miles-per-gallon rating! But consider that a 747 can carry as many as 568 people. Let's call it 500 people to take into account the fact that not all seats on most flights are occupied. A 747 is transporting 500 people 1 mile using 5 gallons of fuel. That means the plane is burning 0.01 gallons per person per mile. In other words, the plane is getting 100 miles per gallon per person! The typical car gets about 25 miles per gallon, so the 747 is much better than a car carrying one person, and compares favorably even if there are four people in the car. Not bad when you consider that the 747 is flying at 550 miles per hour…
And if the 747 is fully loaded its efficiency increases by 14%. These are the types of facts that environmentalists are desperate to keep from us so that they themselves appear to have all of the answers. Meanwhile the Toyota Prius needs a big taxpayer subsidy while getting 50 miles per gallon at 45 miles per hour with a go-kart engine and the world's worst handling. Big deal. Try driving your Prius from New York to London.
Now here is a word about another 'green' fraud. Breitbart.com reported:
The CEO of outdoor clothing giant Patagonia is burnishing her anti-Republican bona fides again, this time saying she intends to pledge her entire company to the "resistance" of President Donald Trump.
Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario recently attacked President Trump for his statements about rolling back President Obama's unusually aggressive campaign of confiscating millions of acres of state lands and claiming them as "national monuments."
"We have to fight like hell to keep every inch of public land," Marcario said in a May article at Huffpost. "I don't have a lot of faith in politics and politicians right now."
In an effort to prevent citizens from retaking possession of their state lands, one of her immediate actions will be to sue the Trump administration for its efforts to scale back Obama's unprecedented land grab.'
This is happening because the 'greenies' have concocted a system whereby taxpayers fund the government acquisition of land. Then the "greenies" use the public land themselves for bird-watching, hiking and camping and do everything in their power to keep out anyone they oppose like snowmobilers, ATVs and hunters, or loggers and oil companies.
They claim that we all want that land "protected" and "unspoiled", which is untrue. We conservatives believe that that land should be 'dual use', for both leisure and for its resources, since it is owned by "all of us" and should therefore benefit all of us, not just the 'greenies'.
Here is a Nikita3.com editorial from March 2016 explaining this whole issue.
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Non reflection of NPA assignment in balance sheet of borrower not misconduct as it was of no relevance either for true and fair view or disclosure
ABCAUS Case Law Citation:
The appellant chartered accountant (CA) was aggrieved by the Report and Order passed by the Disciplinary Committee (DC) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) under Section 21B (3) of the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 (the CA Act) read with Rule 19 (1) of the Chartered Accountants (Procedure of Investigation of Professional and Other Misconduct and Conduct of Cases) Rules, 2007 (Misconduct Rules)
The Disciplinary Committee by the impugned order had held the CA guilty of negligence/ failure to obtain sufficient information under Clauses (7) and (8) of Part-I related to "Professional misconduct in relation to chartered accountants in practice" of the Second Schedule to the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 and awarded punishment of removal of name from the Register of Members for a period of one year and also imposed a fine of Rs. 50,000/-
The chief operating officer (COO) of a Mumbai based company (the Complainant) had filed a complaint in Form-I against the said CA alleging that the complainant was a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) licensed Securitization Company (SR/RC) registered under the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act).
The complainant had acquired the entire debts of a company from Axis Bank. Upon assignment under section 5 of the SARFAESI Act, the IARC has become the secured creditors of the borrower company in place of Axis Bank with respect to cash credit and term loan facilities.
The said cash credit and term loan were recognized as secured liabilities of the borrower company every year in their balance sheet. Since, with the assignment of above debts to IARC, IARC become and therefore was to be shown as the "Secured lender" in place of Axis Bank in the financial statements of the Company for the year 2011 onwards in respect of the entire amount of outstanding. However, in spite of the clear statutory provisions in this regard, the CA ignored the same and had instead chosen to allow misrepresenting IARC's dues at a lower amount and still showing Axis Bank as their secured lender in respect of the various facilities, year after year.
The complainant had thus alleged that the appellant chartered accountant in spite of clearly being in knowledge of facts of the said assignment had misrepresented facts and not disclosed the correct liability of the borrower company with respect to IARC, the disclosure of which was necessary.
The Director (Discipline) formed the Prima Facie Opinion against the appellant CA and placed it before the Disciplinary Committee which finally agreed with the Prima facie Opinion decided to proceed further and ultimately held the Appellant CA guilty of professional misconduct and awarded the impugned punishment.
Before the Appellate Authority the appellant argued that the said technical error in no way affected any right or remedy of the complainant and it was wrong to term the same as material misstatement. No loss whatsoever was caused to the Complainant or to any other person. He further submitted that the true and fair view of the financial statements was also not impaired in any manner. The Appellant has exercised all due care and diligence and cannot be said to be grossly negligent in the conduct of his professional duties and he had obtained sufficient information to warrant the expression of his opinion as given.
The Appellate Authority observed that the appellant, before the Director (Discipline) and subsequently before the Disciplinary Committee had raised all his contentions. However, no suitable rebuttal of the same was given by the Complainant. The Complainant failed to point out as to how the true and fair view was impaired, or how any statutory compliance was violated or how his rights were affected in any manner whatsoever. In fact, the ICAI fairly admitted that there was no charge of impairment of true and fair view of financial statements.
The Appellate Authority opined that the fact of account of borrower company becoming NPA in Axis Bank was also of no relevance for the purpose of audit either for true and fair view or disclosure. Even there was no charge framed on this account.
The Appellate Authority observed that the CA had diligently performed his duties inter-alia when he sent his assistant to Axis Bank to verify the loan amount. The affidavit of said assistant before Disciplinary Committee was not uncontroverted by the Institute or by the Complainant. The examination of Register of Charges maintained by the company was also amounted to proper diligence. Further the borrower company had also confirmed non intimation about the assignment of loan to the appellant which had also not been replied by the Complainant. The verification of pendency of the Charges of Axis Bank against borrower in the records of ROC till date also showed proper and diligent enquiry made by the CA.
Thus the Appellate Authority held that the appellant CA that it may at worst be a technical error and therefore, it could not be said that the due diligence was not exercised or there was any negligence, much less gross negligence.
Regarding the allegation under clause (8) of Part-I of the Second Schedule to the CA Act, the Appellate Authority observed that no case was made out by the Complainant that there was any exception to negate the expression of opinion as no instance was cited by him for the same. Coming to later part of clause as to whether the Appellant had obtained sufficient information to express of an opinion, the Appellant had made various enquiries and obtained the required information and explanations as he considered necessary. No deficiency in the same had been pointed out by the Complainant. Thus there was no substance in this charge.
Accordingly, the Appellate Authority held that the appellant was "Not Guilty" under clause (7) or (8) of Part-I of the Second Schedule to the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 and set aside the order passed by the Disciplinary Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.


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Obituary of Jane P. Frain
Jane P. Frain, 82, Spring City
Jane Frain, 82, widow of Carroll Raymond Frain, passed away Wednesday October 2, 2019 in the Sanatoga Center.
She was born November 16, 1936 in Oaks to the late William Pierce and Mabel (Bortman). One of six children, Jane was a life long member of the Spring City community. She graduated from Spring City High School class of 1954 as Salutatorian, which she continued to be the chair of many reunions. She loved the Spring City Community and was a member, and dedicated supporter of the Spring City Women's Library Club; and was president of the Women's Club of Spring City for two terms and recently was designated Honorary Member. Jane was employed by Pottstown Hospital as director of Volunteer Services for 21 years and was a member of the PMMC Auxiliary. In addition, she was chair for the PMMC auxiliary "Daffodil Days". She loved to travel. Her passions included working with her hands doing sewing and cross stitching. It was not uncommon for her to win many fair blue ribbons. She made many quilted items and attended many craft shows under the name "Christmas Stichery." She sang in the Green Tree Church of the Brethren Church choir, where she was a member for many years. She had a passion for music including annual retreats to Music in the Mountains.
Jane leaves behind her daughters: Vickie Biggerstaff, wife of Peter of Birdsboro, Julie Evans, wife of Frank of Spring City, and Connie Herring of Royersford, Brothers: William Pierce, Ron Pierce, and sister, Sandy Browder, 8 Grandchildren, and 4 Great-Great Grandchildren. Jane is preceded in death by her sisters: Shirley Rentchler and Ellen Atkins.
A Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 AM Thursday October 10, 2019 in the R. Strunk Funeral Home, 400 Main Street, Phoenixville with Rev. Rodney O'Donnell officiating.
Friends are invited to visit with the family at the Funeral Home from 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM Thursday, October 10 prior to the service at R. Strunk Funeral Home.
Burial will be immediately following in the East Vincent United Church Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made in her name to The Spring City Women's Library Club, Attn: Linda Klaus, President, 345 Ridge Ave. Spring City, PA 19475
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Taipei, Taiwan, January 23, 2018
PharmaEngine's (TWO: 4162) partner, Nanobiotix (Euronext: NANO), presented a first readout of intermediate data on the safety and feasibility in its phase I/II trial evaluating NBTXR3 in liver cancers, including primary (Hepatocellular, HCC) and liver metastasis from other tumors.
For further information view Nanobiotix's press release or visit the abstract on ASCO GI website:
NBTXR3, the lead project of the NanoXray pipeline of Nanobiotix, is a nanoparticle formulation of hafnium oxide crystals for the local treatment of tumors to enhance the efficacy of radiotherapy. In August 2012, PharmaEngine licensed the development and commercialization rights of NBTXR3 in the Asia-Pacific region from Nanobiotix.In 2014, Nanobiotix presented the pilot study results for NBTXR3 in patients with soft tissue sarcomas at ASCO, which showed a good safety profile and positive signs of efficacy. Then the preliminary pilot studyresults in head and neck cancerpatients (without receiving chemotherapy) and liver cancer patients presented at ASCO 2017and ASCO GI 2018,respectively, also showedpromisingsigns of anti-tumoreffect.
There are other indications being developed for NBTXR3 by Nanobiotix and PharmaEngine. These includehead and neck cancer in patients receiving chemotherapy (Phase I/II, PharmaEngine), rectal cancer (Phase I/II, PharmaEngine), liver cancer (Phase I/II, Nanobiotix)andprostate cancer (Phase I/II, Nanobiotix). NBTXR3 has been classified as a class III medical device in many European and certain Asian countries. Learn more here.
PharmaEngine, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan with a wholly owned subsidiary, PharmaEngine Europe Sarl in Paris, France. PharmaEngine focuses on the development of new medications for the treatment of cancer and Asian prevalent diseases. PharmaEngine has three ongoing projects: ONIVYDE® has received regulatory approvals in 37 countries; PEP503 (NBTXR3) is in a global pivotal trial of soft tissue sarcoma, and patient recruitment has been completed; and PEP06 is in preclinical development. Get to know more here.
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Drug research experts agree with banning sniffer dogs at festivals
The presence of sniffer dogs at festivals has been shown to lead to panicked consumption of substances outside the venue, thus increasing the likelihood of overdoses.
The study by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre also describes attend away from cannabis use and towards ecstasy and methamphetamine use by festival goers in an attempt to conceal their substances from sniffer dogs.
Read more here and check out this comprehensive guide to sniffer dogs, your rights, safety.
Youth AOD workers have a long history of providing a presence at festivals and events to proactively reduce the harms of substance use amongst young people without increasing panicked behaviour.


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Tomorrow is the last day of the Holiday Mini Challenge. I am hoping my number will be:
PG1: Log calories 13 days. (2)
PG2: Start a circa recipe file book.
As you can see, I did not reach my goals. The CE ended up being more difficult than I anticipated. I had no idea once my guests left I would sample the sweets. I thought I was stronger than that. I guess I have the strength to not buy the junk but sit it in front of me and I need a taste. Sad it did not taste particular good. I am not a sweet person. I do not care for sweets much. Just one more thing I have learned about myself that I need to work on.
I achieved my RT. That is not too hard for me. I am beginning to like working out a bit more.
My CT boomed. My cousin flaked on me one too many times. No excuse. I could have gotten on the treadmill. I should have gotten on the treadmill, especially since I had the time blocked out. I could have gone to the park with lots and lots of people and walked in relative safety. This also will be something I work on. If she cancels, still walk!
My PG1, ugh, what can I say. I started and it just was boring and to all time consuming. Pulling labels and walking back and forth. I need to see if I can find someone smart enough to fix my laptop and then I can take the laptop to the kitchen. Anyone know how to fix a Toshiba Laptop. It just shuts off whenever it wants. Sometimes it will run all day long and other times I cannot get it to stay on for 10 minutes. I even bought one of those fans for it to sit on (which by the way is a pain in my you know what). I am thinking until I work that out I need to jot down what food I eat in a little notebook I can carry with me. I like how dedicated godeacs is posting his daily. If it was not for the site going down I think he would have not missed one single day. I hope he can get back into the grove again. I know it is hard once you stop something.
PG2, successful. I love the circa concept. I loved it so much I purchased another book. I will use one for basics and one I will only put in recipes I will be eating for my Challenges. I hope that as time allows I will log the calories etc. This will be easier to load into Calorie King. One more step to doing what I wish to do. I was told once I get a huge database that it would be faster. I am more familiar with the program now, which helps.
Therefore, this mini challenge has taught me a lot. I am glad I did it. It prepared me for the next 52DC. I know I need to re‑evaluate my goals for the 52DC so I am successful.
Speaking of the 52DC, they MH people have decided we have to postpone it for six weeks. It will start in February. I am going to do my own 31DC. I need to step it up and have no time to wait on them. I want to work hard so when the 52DC starts I am already kicking butt.
As some of you know, my house is torn apart. It is still not done and looks like I may not get it done for another month. What can you do? The price you pay for barter work. I had so hoped to have it done, as I wanted to start my new year with specific things. Some of which I cannot do. I am going to beg them to get my office and bedroom done first. I cannot function living out of boxes. When I packed, it was only supposed to be for two weeks so I did not mark the boxes and I am having a hard time finding things, which is cutting into my time. I cannot wait for it to be done. It will be beautiful! I will work hard to make myself beautiful too.
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I wish my house was done but you take want you have and work with that.
This is what I thought I could do for the 31DC. 31 days you ask. It will run from January 7th (the day the 52DC was supposed to start) until Friday the 6th of February. This will give me four days rest before the 52DC starts on the 11th of February. The challenge ends on April 3rd which is my birthday and I want it to be sweet. No more excuses. I just need to "get out there an MOVE IT!!!! As lazedays always says. <!–[if supportFields]> <![endif]–><!–[if supportFields]><![endif]–>
On Wednesday, I will walk/hike with my cousin. If she flakes, I will go to the park or walk on the treadmill. On Thursdays, I will use the Bowflex and do my uppers. Fridays we sometimes go and do something fun. We either hike or just walk or go to a Garden or Museum. We get in about 2‑3 miles. If we do not do anything on Friday, I will walk on the treadmill. Saturday I will do the Lower on the Bowflex as that is more time consuming. Sunday is my day of rest. If I feel up to it, I may do something extra but I do not want to pencil it in. Monday is a horrific day at work for me so I will be absolutely doing nothing but work. Tuesdays I thought I would play. Maybe do free weights or maybe do a TV workout. I hear the TV workouts are great. Like being in a class. That is it.
My 31DC Goals are:
CE: 0/58/62 (I want to stay strong on the CE so I made this number high.)
RT: 8/31 (This works out to 2 X a week.)
CT: 8/31 (This works out to be 2 X a week also.)
My PG goals are:
PG1: To reach all the above goals. To not slack off. To just get up and move it. No excuses. I am responsible for myself. How bad do I want this!
PG2: I would really like to get my circa files bigger. When the 52DC starts, I do not want to think. I just want to start with a bang and push for 100% CE again. I want to try new things. I want to get back into cooking more.
Although this is not a goal, I really would like to try new vegetables. I would like to do research on how to prepare them. I bet there are many veggies I know nothing about. They are probably delicious to me and I am missing out. Does anyone have any favorites of your own?
The boys are supposed to come Friday night and leave on Sunday. I will try to leave them alone on Sunday so I can go to the Farmers Market and get some fresh veggies to start my challenge on Wednesday. If not, the grocery store will be fine.
Okay, everyone. Thank you all for all your support and motivation. You are all truly amazing. I am the one that needs to lose the weight. Seeing how all of you were there at one time and where you are today is truly amazing. You work everyday and never give up. You are an inspiration to me. I will make you all proud. I will not stop. 2009 is my year. I will reach my ultimate goal. I will take it slow. I will learn along the way. I will try new things until I get it right.
Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2009 is a fantastic year!


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Detoxification is defined as the process of removing toxic substances from the body. Because there are over 80,000 chemicals registered for use in the united states. 80,000!!!!! It's common to be exposed to over 100 chemicals before you even leave your house in the morning. Xenobiotics are substances that are foreign to the body, aka not produced by the body and therefore not expected to be in the body. Our cells dedicate a large amount of ATP, our chemical energy, towards the process of removing these foreign substances. Removal of toxic build up from our bodies will greatly enhance our organs ability to better absorb nutrients, perform basic biological functions, and stimulate the healing process.
Goals of a Detox
Reduce Toxic Load
Fairly simple math: Decrease toxins in and Increase toxins out
Support Organs of Detoxification
Stimulate specific pathways in the body to support elimination
Repair and Heal Gut
About 3/4th of our immune system cells are located in the gut
Combat Oxidative Stress
Anti-oxidants fight oxidative stress in the body
Increase Energy Levels
Upon completion most people find their energy is sky high
Catch Potential Food Sensitivies
Better understand how food influences mental and physical being
Body burden is defined as the total amount of a chemical present in the body. It's crazy that we have a term designated towards the amount of chemicals in our bodies. Most people have no idea how toxic our world really is. Toxic load takes into account different factors for each individual such as current state of health, duration of exposures, and our genetics. Healthier individuals are able to tolerate a higher toxic load. Hence why it's a good idea to support our detoxification processes in the body.
Organ Systems Involved
Our main organ of detoxification is the the liver. Other organs of detoxification include the intestines, kidneys, lungs, and our skin.
Promotes elimination from pathways
- GI tract/Liver/Gall bladder
- Kidney/Bladder
- Lungs/respiration
- Skin/lymphatics
- Psychological: mental and emotional
Largest gland in human body. Numerous digestive, metabolic, and detoxification roles. Liver cells detoxify pharmaceuticals, xenobiotics, and alcohol. Liver cells also degrade hormones and process many nutrients.
It's one of the first organs that receives blood from the intestines via the portal vein. Remove amino acids, fatty acids, and glucose from the blood and are stored for later use. Livers phagocytic cells eliminate bacteria that have escaped the intestinal tract and into the blood stream. We will take a deep dive into the detoxification pathways later on.
First area in body where xenobiotics are exposed. Intestines provide a physical barrier to these compounds. Assuming there is no increased intestinal permeability aka leaky gut which allows xenobiotics to skip intestinal detoxification and enter the circulation too early. Having a healthy gut allows the chyme to move through the intestines and for these compounds to be presented to the immune system. The blood is delivered to the liver via the portal vein.
The kidneys main functions are to remove waste from blood, balance body fluids, and form urine. It's through the production of urine that the nephrons act as filters that clean our blood.
The glomerular capsule contains cells called podocytes which wrap around the capillaries. The blood is filtered here which retains larger molecules as smaller molecules such as water, salt, amino acids, and glucose continue along the process of urine formation (filtrate).
The skin
The Integumentary System aka the skin also plays a role in detoxification. First is acts as protection for our internal environment. It houses pain receptors to alert the nervous system of any injuries. Acidic secretions occur which have an anti-bacterial action. The integumentary system can stimulate or inhibit sweat glands which ultimately allows blood from capillary beds to radiate heat through the skin. Sweating is an important component of any detoxification program.
The Science
As you can see, this is a very complex detoxification system. Unfortunately, my hand drawing doesn't do it justice. The simple version of this complex process allows for the liver to detoxify toxic materials via 2 major pathways, Phase 1 and Phase 2. What goes through these phases: drugs, pollutants, xenobiotics, bilirubin, androgens, estrogens, mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, fatty acid derivatives, retinoids, and bile acids.
The liver has a high concentration of an enzyme called cytochrome P450. CP450 essentially is responsible for metabolism of xenobiotics, steroids, bile acids, fatty acids, and carcinogens. This enzyme is considered to be part of Phase 1 liver detoxification. Phase 2 detoxification focuses on conjugation pathways.
As you can see, this is a very complex detoxification system. Unfortunately, my hand drawing doesn't do it justice. The simple version of this complex process allows for the liver to detoxify toxic materials via 2 major pathways, Phase 1 and Phase 2. The liver has a high concentration of an enzyme called cytochrome P450. CP450 essentially is responsible for metabolism of xenobiotics, steroids, bile acids, fatty acids, and carcinogens. This enzyme is considered to be part of Phase 1 liver detoxification. Phase two detoxification involves different mechanisms resulting in conjugation. Conjugation just means the joining of two molecules.
Phase 1 & Phase 2
Cytochrome P450 (phase 1) converts fat-loving (lipophilic) toxins into more water soluble (hydrophilic) intermediates. A series of conjugation enzymes (phase 2) attach certain molecules to the intermediates which results in excretion from the body.
Phase 1 (cytochrome P450 enzymes)
Oxidation, reduction, or hydrolysis reactions occur based on the structure of the xenobiotic. The main objective of this phase is to change the structure of the toxin so we can prepare it for phase 2 and elimination. The main reactions involve the following groups.
- -OH (Hydroxyl group)
- -COOH (carboxyl group)
- -NH2 (Amino group)
Takes a nonpolar lipid-soluble toxin and via the above mention reactions turns the toxin into a more polar and less lipid-soluble state (aka intermediary metabolites). This step enables the pathway to continue down the conjugation pathway (phase 2).
Phase 2 (Conjugation)
The intermediates produced from phase 1 detoxification combine with glucuronic acid, sulfuric acid, glutathione, or other amino acids. This step reduces toxicity of intermediates by converting it into a polar and water soluble product. These are now excreted via stools are urine. If phase 2 is inhibited these intermediates damage proteins, lipids, and DNA.
Other conjugation pathways
- Amino Acid Conjugation: usually glycine, taurine, glutamine
- Methylation: CH3
- Acetylation: CH3-CO
- Glutathione conjugation
After Phase 1
Cytochrome P450 enzymatic reactions result in production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Free radicals that contain oxygen are called reactive oxygen species
Free radical = an atom or molecule that has one or more unpaired electrons. This imbalance leads to high reactivity which can result in damage to tissues. Anti-oxidants in the diet can help combat oxidative stress.
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Yesterday's Budget was generally well received. Share prices in the UK did well, especially those of investment and financial services companies, as the Chancellor's strategy was seen as being savings- and investment-friendly.
However, money&Co.'s CEO, Nicola Horlick, feels that "progress with the ISA inclusion has been slow". The government, at least if it has a Tory hue, is set for further consulatation over the summer.
Nicola however welcomed the Budget's overall tax reforms: "The announcement that the first £1,000 of interest from investments will be tax free is helpful as that should apply to the loans on the Money&Co. site, and means that the early tranches of capital committed to our platform ahould effectively generate a tax-free return."
Meanwhile, the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has hailed Nicola's recent speech as an "inspirational address". The "was one of the highlights of a Birmingham Chamber 'Women in Business' conference, which attracted an audience of more than 70 delegates.
"Nicola Horlick (pictured), an investment fund manager who earned her label for juggling her high-flying career in the City with the demands of bringing up a family, is co-founder and chief executive of Money & Co, a crowdfunding service connecting lenders and investors with finance-seeking businesses.
"Nicola shared her experiences and insights into the world of finance by tracing her entrepreneurial roots from the time she launched her first business."
*** Money&Co.'s latest loan offering now has 66 per cent of its target achieved, with over £20,000 committed yesterday. The B-rated loan from the soft furnishings manufacturer is currently offering an indicative yield of over 10 per cent. The average yield achieved by Money&Co. lenders across all offerings is currently 8.83 per cent.
It is very important that lenders appreciate that, while we vet loan offerings very carefully, lending carries risk. Please read the risk warnings on our Home page, and in our Frequently Asked Questions. See also this video, which explains more about lending, including the potential benefits of spreading capital across a range of loans to lower risk.