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Here's another great noodles recipe for you this week {from Life is Great}.
Instead of re-posting the steps on my blog (like before), I've decided to let you check out the original recipe {and view more photos of this dish} for yourself.
Be prepared to drool. :-)
So you might have noticed my tiny obsession with soba noodles. It's okay, right? Soba is so healthy + delicious…how can I not be? Well, since I've been wanting to try green tea soba noodles, I found this simple {another 5 easy steps!} recipe.
Green Tea Soba Noodles w/ Wild Mushrooms
1-7 oz pack of green tea soba noodles (cha soba)
1 small bunch of chives, chopped
4 oz mixed wild mushrooms, sliced
1 shallot, finely chopped
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp garlic, grated
1 tsp sriracha
½ tsp sea salt
1. Cook the noodles in boiling salted water, drain and run under cold water, then set aside.
2. In a small bowl, mix a little bit of extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, soy, garlic, sriracha and salt, then set aside.
3. Heat a large pan or wok to medium heat, then add a bit of oil and shallots and cook for 1 minute.
4. Increase the heat to high, add the mushrooms and cook for 2-3 minutes or until browned and tender.
5. Add the noodles and vinaigrette, remove from the heat, toss to combine and top with the chives.
Serve warm or at room temperature. Enjoy!
{Image and recipe from Snails View}
Happy Friday!
If you live in Seattle (or somewhere else in the world) and the weather is still soooo cold in Spring–especially in the morning, here's a hot and comforting noodle soup recipe for you to try this weekend (serves 1):
Udon Noodle Soup w/ Shrimp & Mushrooms
a few shiitake mushrooms
a few bunashimeji mushrooms
3-5 pieces of raw shrimp, peeled
2 nappa (the leaves)
1/4 onion, sliced
cilantro, chopped
green onion, sliced
a few sprigs of shingiku (garland chrysanthemum)
1 pack of udon noodles
dashi (one 4 grams package of dashi flavors 4 cups of water for stock)
4 cups of water
1 egg, beaten (optional)
ichimi pepper flakes
1. To make the stock, add about 1 tablespoon shoyu (adds saltiness) and mirin (adds sweetness) to the water.
Note: adjust the seasoning when you're almost done, because the vegetables will add a lot to your stock. If you like the soup stronger, use a little less water. Or a little more dashi.
2. Add the mushrooms, onions, noodles, nappa and then the shrimps to the stock.
3. When the noodles boil, you can add a beaten egg. Let the egg sit in the pot for 20 to 30 seconds before giving it a light stir.
4. Add your quick cooking greens and stir gently.
5. Taste and adjust the seasoning, then turn off the heat.
***If you want miso flavoring or a miso broth, add the miso after turning off the heat.
Miso: mix about a tablespoon of miso with a little water to make it easier to mix into the broth.
Serve in a bowl and sprinkle some ichimi pepper. Enjoy!
{Image and recipe from FOODjimoto}
Happy Friday, everyone.
If you don't know already…I'm not much of a cook. So I ALWAYS shy away from complicated recipes/dishes with a lot of ingredients. Maybe once I move back in with my mom, she can teach me her amazing cooking skills.
If you're looking for something to make this weekend, try this really simple recipe in 5 easy steps:
Scallion & Ginger Noodles
15 oz dried yellow noodles (cooked from package instructions)
2 tbsp ginger, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 bunch scallions, thinly sliced
3 tbsp soy sauce
½ tsp sea salt
6–8 tbsp peanut oil
1. Heat the oil in a large pan or wok until smoking and remove from the heat.
2. Add in the ginger, garlic and scallions.
3. Give the mixture a quick stir and toss in the noodles.
4. Season the noodles with soy sauce and sea salt.
5. Serve warm (with your choice of toppings–in this case, a sunny-side up egg).*
*Serves 4
{Image and recipe from Angie of seasaltwithfood}
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By the way, today is the last day to make your purchase in my shop and have 30% of the sales go towards AmeriCares to help the Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims!
Parsley & Pesto Soba Noodles
12 oz dried soba noodles
¾ cup italian parsley, roughly chopped
2 tbsp pine nuts, toasted (optional)
2 cloves garlic
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
½ tbsp sesame oil
1 ½ tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp grape seed oil, or other neutral tasting oil
Heat a large pot of water to a boil. Add soba noodles, stir as they soften, and bring water back up to a simmer (not a boil). Simmer for 6-7 minutes or according to package directions. Noodles should still have a slight firmness, and not be mushy. Strain soba and rinse well using the correct water temperature. If serving warm, rinse under hot water, if serving soba at room temperature, rinse under cold water.
While soba cooks, make parsley sauce. Combine parsley, pine nuts, garlic, lemon juice, sesame oil, soy sauce, and grape seed oil in a food processor and blend ingredients together until smooth. Toss noodles with sauce and serve.*
*Serves approx. 4
NOTE: The sauce would also be great for dressing chicken, fish, or on salads. If you have raw pine nuts, to toast, heat a dry pan over medium heat, add pine nuts and toast until golden, shaking the pan frequently to help pine nuts toast evenly. Can be served at warm or at room temperature, depending on your preference. If serving warm, make sauce first.
{Image and recipe from Todd and Diane of White On Rice Couple}
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And please don't forget to continue praying for Japan!
If you like exploring new {noodles} recipes, try making this Vietnamese homemade rice noodle rolls. I've never made them because my aunt just makes them for us instead. =) And they're so good! You can also substitute the pork filling with (minced) shrimp or other types of meat/mushrooms. My aunt usually makes the rolls with fried shallots topped with Vietnamese ham called cha lua, along with fresh herbs. Very simple, but very tasty.
This recipe comes from Luke Nguyen, an acclaimed Vietnamese-Australian chef and owner of Red Lantern in Sydney. I enjoy watching his cooking show, Luke Nguyen's Vietnam, where he travels across the country to explore and cook local Vietnamese cuisine. He is also the co-founder of Little Lantern Foundation, a non-proft organization that helps disadvantaged and under-educated youths in central Vietnam improve their lives through vocational training programs in the restaurant, hospitality and tourism industry.
Rice Noodle Rolls Filled w/ Pork & Wood Ear Mushrooms
4 dried wood ear mushrooms
1 tsp fish sauce
1/2 lb rice flour
1/4 tapioca flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 cloves garlic, minced
4 red asian shallots, diced
1/2 lb minced pork
1/2 tsp sugar
1 lb pork terrine, finely sliced
2 lebanese (short) cucumbers, sliced into batons
1 bunch fresh vietnamese mint, leaves plucked
1 bunch fresh mint, leaves plucked
1/2 lb mung bean sprouts
2 tbsp fried red asian shallots
1 cup fish sauce
2 bird's eye chili, sliced
Put the mushrooms in a bowl, cover with water and soak for 20 minutes, then drain and slice thinly.
To make the batter, combine rice flour, tapioca flour and salt with 2 1/2 cup of cold water. Whisk until the flour dissolves and forms a smooth batter.
Heat a nonstick frying pan over medium heat, then add 2 tbsp oil. Fry the garlic and shallots until fragrant, then add the pork, mushrooms, fish sauce, sugar, and pinch of salt and pepper. Stir-fry for 4 minutes, then transfer to a bowl and set aside.
Brush a round tray with oil and place beside the stove. Heat a large nonstick frying pan over medium heat, and add enough oil to coat the base of the pan. Pour a small ladle-size (2 to 3 tbsp) batter into the pan, turning the pan in a circular motion to cover the base with a thin layer of batter. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for 30 seconds.
Remove the lid and slide the thin noodle sheet onto your oiled tray. Scoop 1 tbsp pork mixture onto the noodle sheet, fold 2 sides in, then fold over to form a roll. Transfer to a plate. Repeat this process using the remaining batter and pork mixture, adding oil to the pan as necessary.
Top the rolls with pork terrine, fresh herbs, bean sprouts, fried shallots, and cucumber. Dress with fish sauce and serve with sliced chili.
{Image and recipe from Cooking Channel: Luke Nguyen}
Happy friday, everyone!
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Yep, one of my favorite Thai dishes is pad thai. Preferably with tofu or shrimp. And 3 or 4 stars spicy–depending on the restaurant. We had some pad thai takeout the other night in Auburn, and it was actually decent + cheap. I feel like making pad thai is kind of tricky because of the noodles you're working with and the right kind of sauce.
Well, I found a great recipe (below) that seems pretty close to the "right" pad thai you'll get at authentic Thai restaurants. I think I'll share this recipe with my mom as she's been wanting to try making some at home.
Pim's Pad Thai
vegetable oil (for frying)
12 oz. chicken (2 oz. per serving)
4 cloves (10g) minced garlic (about 1/2+ clove per serving)
sauce (see below) (about 1/4 cup per serving)
1 lb. (500g) rice noodles, soaked in warm water to soften (but not too soft)
6 eggs (1 egg per serving)
1 lb. shrimp, peeled and deveined (4-6 shrimp per serving)
1 cup (155g) ground peanuts (1-2 tbsps per serving)
3-4 cups bean sprouts (1/2 cup per serving)
1/2 cup (75g) pickled turnips, chopped (1+ tbsp per serving)
1 cup garlic chives or green onions, chopped (2 tbsps per serving)
more sprouts (garnish)
fresh limes (garnish)
1/2 cup (130g) tamarind paste
1/2 cup (120g) fish sauce
1/3 cup (75g) brown sugar
1 tbsp (9g) chili powder (to taste)
Over a low flame, heat the tamarind, fish sauce, and brown sugar together until the sugar is dissolved. Stir in the chili powder a teaspoon at a time to desired spiciness. Bring the sauce to a simmer. Turn off the heat (keep sauce warm).
The key is to cook up 1-2 servings at a time! Heat 2-3 tablespoons of oil in wok or large frying pan over high heat.
Add 2 ounces of chicken and stir-fry until it is half cooked. Add 1-2 tablespoons of sauce, and a pinch of garlic. Stir around and add about 2 cups of loosely packed (for me, a big handful) of rice noodles plus 1/4 cup of sauce to the pan and stir vigorously until the noodles soften. If it dries out, you can add some water. Push the noodles to the side and crack an egg into the pan. Let the egg cook for 10 seconds and then toss the noodles and egg together in the pan.
Drop 4-6 shrimp, a couple of tablespoons of ground peanuts, a heaping tablespoon of turnip, and 1/2 cup of sprouts into the pan. Stir fry until the shrimp are just cooked (very fast – about a minute).
Toss in the green onions or garlic chives and remove from heat. Serve hot with more sprouts, ground peanuts, and lime wedges for garnish.
{Image and recipe above from use real butter}
{Original recipe from chez pim}
Soba Noodles Salad w/ Roasted Eggplant
Serves 1
1 medium eggplant, diced
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
1 bundle of soba noodles
2 tsp sesame seeds
1 tsp peanut oil
1 garlic clove, crushed
pinch of sea salt
1 tsp minced fresh ginger
2 tsp soya sauce
1 tsp dark brown sugar
1 tsp clear rice wine
1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
1. Place the diced eggplant in a bowl, toss with salt and leave to stand for 15-20 minutes to leach out water and bitterness before roasting. Rinse shortly under cold water, drain and pat dry with paper towel.
2. Preheat the oven to 170C. Put the eggplant on a baking sheet and toss with some sesame oil. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Take the baking sheet out of the oven after 15 minutes and push around the eggplant so that they bake evenly.
3. While the eggplant is baking, heat the sesame seeds in a wide frying pan over medium heat, shaking the pan occasionally. Remove them when they darken and become fragrant, about 2-3 minutes, and let them cool.
4. Cook the soba noodles according to the package directions. Once the noodles are cooked, rinse them under cold water and drain well. Transfer to a medium bowl and toss with 1 tsp of oil to prevent noodles from sticking.
5. With a knife, mash the garlic and salt into a paste. In a small bowl, combine the garlic paste, ginger, soya sauce, sugar and rice wine and whisk until blended.
6. Add the roasted eggplant to the bowl with noodles, combine with the dressing and toasted sesame seeds. Toss well and garnish with chopped cilantro.
{Image and recipe from Šárka of Cook Your Dream}
One of my blog-related goals this year is to have more posts about food at least once a week, especially of noodles dishes since I just love eating them so much.
Here's one for this week. Enjoy!
Kimchi Ramyeon
Serves 2
for soup
3 cups tonkotsu stock
1 tablespoon Korean soy sauce for soup (국간장 – gukganjang)
1 tablespoon Korean chili flakes (고추가루 – gochugaru)
2 teaspoon Korean soybean paste (된장 – doenjang)
1 teaspoon Korean chili paste (고추장 – gochujang)
2 shiitake mushrooms sliced
2 cloves of garlic finely grated
for kimchi stir fry
1 teaspoon sesame oil
2 ounces thinly sliced pork belly
1/2 cup well-fermented kimchi, chopped
2 handful bean spouts
2 teaspoons gochujang
1 teaspoon soy sauce
for black garlic oil
1/4 cup sesame oil
5 cloves of garlic grated
for serving
1 teaspoon cripsy shallots (deep fried minced shallots)
3 scallions (shredded and soaked in a large bowl of ice water for 30 minutes before being drained)
1/2 batch homemade ramen noodles
1. To make the black garlic oil, add the sesame oil into a small saucepan along with the grated garlic. Put the pan over medium low heat and let the garlic cook stirring occasionally until it is very dark brown. When the garlic is very dark, turn the heat down to low and let it cook until it is black. As soon as it hits black, turn off the heat and transfer the hot oil and garlic to a heatproof bowl. Let this mixture cool down completely. Add the cooled oil to a blender or food processor and blitz until there are no visible garlic particles left and the oil is uniformly black. It will taste burnt and slightly bitter, but this is okay as you only add a little bit to each bowl. Put it the oil in a container and refrigerate until you are ready to use it.
2. To make the ramyeon soup, add the tonkotsu stock, gukganjang, gochugaru, doenjang, gochujang, shitake mushrooms and garlic into a saucepan and heat over medium heat. Aside from the mushrooms, you don't really need cook anything in the soup, so after it comes to a simmer turn down the heat until the noodles and kimchi stir-fry are ready.
3. Heat a frying pan over medium high heat. Add the sesame oil and the pork belly and fry until the pork is browned. Add the kimchi and bean sprouts and stir-fry until the bean sprouts are cooked and the kimchi is heated through. Add the gochujang and soy sauce and continue frying until the sauce has coated the kimchi and pork.
4. To serve, put a serving of cooked noodles into 2 bowls. Split the soup between the two bowl. Sprinkle each bowl of ramyeon with the crispy shallots. Top with the kimchi stir-fry. Put a mound of shredded scallions on top, and drizzle a teaspoon of black garlic oil onto each bowl. Eat immediately or the noodles will get soft.
{Image and recipe from Marc Matsumoto of No Recipes}
I have achieved my first resolution for this year already. Yay! The feelings? Accomplished, satisfied and relieved are among many others. I'm sure all you shop/small business owners know and understand exactly how it feels when you just opened your first shop with the things you've designed or made yourself.
It's wonderful.
Also, my new website is up. It's mainly a landing page to my shop and this blog. I may add more features and content to the site later on, so I will keep you up to date!
So how am I going to end this special week, you ask? Well, I think I'm going to celebrate it by having some Korean jajangmyeon (and possibly other delicious noodle dishes) with a couple friends tomorrow. Yum! {For the recipe, try Tastes of Home's via Tastespotting or watch a video instead.}
Have a great weekend, everyone. =)
Two of my favorite things to eat: tofu and noodles.
My first time frying tofu {with flour, garlic and jalapenos}. They're similar to my salt and pepper chicken, sans the salt and pepper. Because I love tofu so much, the dish still tasted good {with or without a sauce like dashi} even though I should have shaken off the excess flour and left the pieces in the frying pan longer to make them crispier.
Next, I made chilled {wide} egg noodles tossed in sesame oil, crab, jalapenos and purple cabbage. The sauce is made from soy sauce, sugar, and chili paste. A bit too spicy because of the chili, but for a 5 minute dish, I'm satisfied!
Chicken drumsticks marinated two ways with: soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, rosemary, and various spices. Crab salad with homemade dressing: vinaigrette, extra virgin olive oil, and sesame oil. Thin spaghetti noodles cooked in butter, garlic, and cilantro.
Just two more weeks and I'll be in Europe for the first time ever. The excitement didn't last long after finding out I'll be going over there for work. But as each week ends and a new one begins, it's slowly bubbling up again as I get closer and closer to departure. Not to mention I will be turning 25 somewhere in mid-air between the US and Ireland..!
One of my all-time favorite dishes to eat is this pesto pasta salad. It's versatile and can be served as a side dish or a meal all its own. I usually have cucumbers, bell peppers, shrimp, cherry tomatoes, chicken,and/or onions. The pesto should be homemade as it will taste better {of course}, but since I don't have a blender I always have to buy it at the store. I usually use rotini pasta, but that's also up to you. Bowtie, penne, or thin spaghetti is also a good substitute.
My own take of Hiyashi chuka {Japanese-style chilled ramen noodles served with lots of toppings}. Instead of using ramen noodles, which I didn't have any, I improvised with thin spaghetti noodles. Not too shabby for a first attempt!
3 tsp rice wine vinegar
2 tsp soy sauce
3 tsp sugar
2 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp chili oil (optional)
Udon noodles soup with chicken and leek dumplings. Greatly disappointed, but then again, I never liked dumplings that much to begin with.
Earlier today I went to check out Pho Big Bowl restaurant that recently opened in Ballard. Everything from the decor and service to the quality of the food reminded me exactly of Pho Than Brothers. In other words, this place is only good for a starving/craving day for pho and you can't make it to the International District, a proper pho place somewhere else, or your mom's pho. I happened to witness the server giving complimentary spring rolls for this one customer to "try" while I had to pay for mine. The reason? Email me if you're really curious and I'll give you a whole schpiel of it.
The only thing peculiar about this place was that they have the "Pho Big Bowl Special" for $19.95. It looks like the size of this, but a tad smaller:
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And the name…where do I begin? Besides lacking originality and all things corny, it's "like an error that slipped through dozens and dozens of proofreaders," said Nam.
I was craving for spring rolls last night and didn't have all the right ingredients, so I made them with whatever I had in the in fridge anyway. The rolls weren't as good, but my craving was satisfied after dinner.
large rice noodles
fresh cilantro
boiled shrimp
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Suddenly, a little child cried out, "But he's not wearing any clothes!" Soon, everyone was laughing and saying loudly, "The emperor isn't wearing any clothes!"
No one has posted on here in a long time, but I think if there was ever a night that deserved a rant, it is tonight.
Today, the Steelers suffered one of the team's most embarrassing losses in a long time. But, it got me wondering, should we all be surprised? This team has blown fourth-quarter leads all season. It has failed to get into the endzone once it gets inside the 20 yard line. Players get stupid personal foul penalties at clutch times. The list goes on and on. The fact is these are all traits of bad teams. So wouldn't that mean that the 2009 Steelers are a bad team?
I use the quote from The Emperor's New Clothes to start this post because I think that's what everyone following the Steelers has been doing this year. We've been talking ourselves into the fact that this team is good when all the evidence says it isn't. Plus, the image of some guy strutting down the street naked was always funny to me. Try to do that now, and you're political career is done, Mr. Emperor. You'll be labeled a pervert while you steal some of Tiger's headlines from TMZ.
I picked the picture from the Post Gazette of a Raider making a catch in front of Ike Taylor because I saw that happen a lot.
As Steelers fans we mock other teams when we see division in the locker room. Yet, two of the Steelers' biggest stars went at in the press over the course of the last week. We make fun of players who lose their heads and cost their teams wins. But I barely heard a peep when James Harrison decided to take a swing at a Bengal to give them a first and ten instead of a third and long. We make fun of meltdowns by coaches, and now we'll have to listen to, as well as dish out the "Unleash Hell" mockery that's going to follow Mike Tomlin for some time.
This Steelers team has lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and now the Oakland Raiders. Those are two of the worst teams in the league. The Raiders had five touchdown passes all season before Sunday. They had three in three drives, in the fourth quarter on Sunday. This Steelers team had trouble putting the Browns away earlier this year. Now they'll play the Browns on a short week. Do I expect the Steelers to lose this Thursday? No, I don't. But I wouldn't be shocked if they do.
This was a rough weekend for Pittsburgh sports. Pitt's heartbreaking loss to Cincinnati. The Penguins lost, and then the Steelers. The Penguins were the only team that didn't have its season hopes dashed.
I like to make fun of fans that take things too seriously. Heck, I love it. But today I found myself agreeing with them. "Fire everyone", I read from one guy commenting on the Post Gazzette. And why not? This team has failed at practically every level. It's my opinion that Bruce Arians is just Roethlisberger's yes man. That's not good. The defense is filled with older guys that have lost a step. Fire Colbert! (That's probably going too far.)
But the guy a lot of people seemed to be the most upset with is Mike Tomlin. Now people used to always shout, "Fire Cowher" after every big loss. I never bought into that, the guy had a great track record and you can't dump a coach who took the team to the playoffs almost every year. But Tomlin doesn't have the track record to lean back on, and a few more seasons like this, and I don't he'll survive the way Cowher did through the Kordell, Tomczak, Kent Graham years.
Am I over reacting? Probably. But this is not how this season should have been. It's so hard to think that the Steelers could fall back into the funk of the late 80's. But it could be on the way very soon. And while Penguins fans will have something else to look forward to, guys like me can't get excited about pitchers and catchers reporting to Bradenton anymore.

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Crossland Construction Company, a major contributor to Governor Brownback and the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, is currently pushing legislation in the Kansas Legislature to limit the wages of Kansas workers on construction projects funded with taxpayer dollars.
The bill, HB 2069, would prohibit any local unit of government from enacting local ordinances that require contractors to pay prevailing wages or anything more than minimum wage on public works projects.
Currently Kansas law does not require prevailing wage to be paid on construction projects that receive taxpayer funds but certain local municipalities such as the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/ Kansas City, KS have instated local policies requiring any project funded with taxpayer money pay prevailing wages to the workers.
Crossland Construction is a major contractor, who's business model is based on public projects. Over the course of the last ten years Crossland Construction has received close to $200 million in government contracts. So, Crossland has pocketed millions in taxpayer dollars, while they openly champion limited government, pushing back workers compensation laws, and lowering workers' wages. We guess limited government is only good if it is limited to Crossland's coffers.
A large amount of this money over the last ten years has found its way to the Kansas Chamber of Commerce's PAC to back the effort to purge the Kansas Senate of moderate Republicans, and advocate for anti-worker policies and candidates. Now, Crossland is calling in favors with the conservative candidates they bought with taxpayer dollars and pushing legislation that will supress wages accross Kansas.
The legislation is a shameless attempt to sacrifice worker's wages so Crossland can suck more from the government trough and use to buy the loyalty of more legislators in future elections.
Call your legislator today. Tell them political paybacks are wrong for Kansas, and tell them to stand up for hardworking Kansas taxpayers.


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Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement Issues First Call for
The newly established Center for Liberal
Education and Civic Engagement, a joint venture between AAC&U and
Campus Compact, invites proposals to its first project, "Journey
Towards Democracy: Voice, Power, and the Public Good." The Center
will focus its grants and activities for 2003-2005 around a common theme:
Journey Towards Democracy: Power, Voice, and the Public Good. The first
Center project invites campuses to organize dialogues on how to put student
learning about democracy and the public good at the center of academic
inquiry. Check the Center's Web
site for information about the project and the call for proposals.
Applications must be postmarked by June 10, 2003.
Brings Together State Legislators and Academic Leaders on General Education
On May 21-22, AAC&U is sponsoring a meeting
as part of the Greater Expectations for Student Transfer Project. The
event is the latest of several meetings in a three-year AAC&U project
working with state systemsprimarily Georgia, Maryland and Utahon
defining the educational purposes of their statewide requirements, making
those purposes clear to the faculty who teach courses that meet those
requirements, and creating advising structures and assessments that help
students understand those purposes. For more information about this Greater
Expectations project, visit www.aacu.org/transfer/index.cfm.
111 Schools
Participating in AAC&U 2003 Summer Institutes
AAC&U has selected 111
colleges and universities to participate in three separate institutes
it sponsors each summer. Teams of faculty and administrators from 23 campuses
will attend the 13th annual Asheville Institute on General Education co-sponsored
and held at the University of North Carolina at Asheville from May 31-June
4; teams from 42 campuses will participate in this year's Greater Expectations
Institute on Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement in Denver,
Colorado from June 25-29; and representatives from 48 campuses will participate
in the third summer institute sponsored by AAC&U's initiative Science
Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER), to
be held at Santa Clara University from August 8-12. For more information
on the summer institutes, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/index.cfm.
AAC&U and the BellSouth Foundation
have partnered in a project called Closing the Gap for College-Going
Minorities Initiative (CGM) designed to help higher education institutions
in the Southeast strengthen academic support for minority undergraduate
students. AAC&U staff Alma Clayton-Pedersen and Heather Wathington
and BellSouth foundation staff conducted site visits in March, meeting
with administrators, staff, and students at the
five participating institutions. In addition to assisting the grantees
to evaluate their projects and to understand their impact on achieving
the institution's overall diversity goals, AAC&U will help coordinate
meetings so the institutions can network and exchange ideas. The campuses
will send two-person teams to the upcoming Greater
Expectations Institute.
Foundation Continues New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative
The Bildner Foundation has approved a second
year of funding in a three-year grant for the New Jersey Campus Diversity
Initiative. AAC&U and the Bildner Foundation have been working with
eight New Jersey colleges in a statewide initiative to reduce prejudice
and promote intergroup dialogue through projects that are likely to have
broad institutional impact. A three-day June institute is planned at Rutgers
University for the forty team representatives from the eight institutions.
For more information on this initiative, visit www.aacu.org/bildner/index.cfm.
National Humanities
Alliance Calls for Action on Proposed Changes to ERIC Clearinghouse
The U.S. Department of Education has issued
a draft plan for a "New ERIC" (Educational Resources Information
Clearinghouse) system. Unless the plan is modified, all 16 clearinghouses
and their services will be eliminated and there will be dramatic change
in the content of the ERIC database. The public has an opportunity to
comment only until May 9, 2003. The National Humanities Alliance (NHA)
is urging NHA members (including AAC&U) to comment to the department
and Congress about the value of the present ERIC system and advantages
to keeping it in place. To provide comment to the Department of Education,
contact Jeff Halstead (fax: 202/708-9817; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com ).
For information on NHA, see www.nhalliance.org.
AAC&U News
Debuts New Member Postings Section
This month, AAC&U News will begin
posting conference announcements, calls for proposals, and job opportunities
at AAC&U member schools in a new section. Visit member
postings to view new postings and for details on how to send an announcement
to be posted by AAC&U.
Living Arts: Comparative and Historical Reflections on Liberal Education
by Sheldon Rothblatt
and Learning Communities: Tools for Integration and Assessment
by Karen K. Oates and Lynn
H. Leavitt
Institute for General Education will
take place May 31-June 4, 2003, in Asheville, NC.
Greater Expectations Institute on Campus Leadership for Student Engagement,
Inclusion, and Achievement will
be held on June 25-29, 2003, in Denver, Colorado.
2003 SENCER Summer Institute will be held at Santa Clara University,
August 8-12.
Liberal Education:
Deepening Knowledge, Pursuing Justice, Taking Action, the ninetieth
AAC&U annual meeting, will be held January 21-24, 2004, at the Grand
Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC
For more information on meetings, visit


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Six wounded soldiers who are currently receiving rehab in Maryland are set to receive a hero's welcome from the Lynbrook Fire Department this weekend.
The wounded warriors are currently receiving rehabilitation and treatment at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. After arriving in Lynbrook on Friday night and receiving a hero's welcome from the firefighters, they will tour the Nassau County Firefighters Museum on Saturday afternoon.
The soldiers will then return to Lynbrook to be special guests at a Community Concert for the Troops from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. in front of Lynbrook's Truck Company 1's firehouse on Earle Avenue, located between Sunrise Highway and Merrick Road.
The cost to the public is a donation of $20, which includes food and two drinks. Numerous prizes and dinners donated by local merchants and others will be raffled. There will also be activities for children and everyone is welcome.
All money raised from the concert will go to Nassau County Firefighters Operation Wounded Warrior, of which the Lynbrook Fire Department is an active participant. NCFF-OWW T-shirts will also be sold at the concert.
"For nearly five years Lynbrook firefighters have supported the efforts of Nassau County Firefighters Operation Wounded Warrior to make the life of our wounded warriors a little better," said Lynbrook Ex-Chief Kevin Bien, Chairman of the event.
On Sunday, Lynbrook firefighters will then take the warriors to New York City to tour the World Trade Center Memorial in lower Manhattan, before traveling back to Walter Reed to continue their rehabilitation.
"We firefighters will continue to do everything we can to support and help our wounded warriors who have given and sacrificed so much for us," said Ex-Captain Steve Grogan, a veteran and Lynbrook Fire Department spokesman. "This weekend is just a small way of thanking them."
Nassau County Firefighters Operation Wounded Warrior was started nearly 10 years ago and raises and spends money on our wounded warriors. Each year, Nassau firefighters travel to hospitals at Walter Reed, Camp Lejuene, and Fort Bragg to personally present Christmas presents to those soldiers and Marines receiving medical care.
Nassau firefighters have also provided bicycles, treadmills and other exercise equipment for local warriors and have assisted wounded veterans here on Long Island and at the VA Hospital in Northport.
Last year, Nassau firefighters gave USMC Captain James Byler of Huntington, who lost both legs in Afghanistan, a new kitchen. Firefighters will be providing the kitchen appliances for six new homes presently being built in Suffolk County by the Long Island Builders Institute.


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Wooded trail, high train trestles, 130 ft waterfall.
Very nice hike through a hardwood forest. About 1/3 of a mile from the trailhead, the trail splits to form the loop. I recommend taking the left trail first, which will get the climb over with so that it is all downhill from there. This loop trail passes by 2 large train trestles that are still operational, but please stay off of the tracks. You will soon pass by an old set of stone steps, these steps lead downhill to remnents of an old spring house near the creek below. This was used as a stopping place for carriages in the 19th century.
After about a mile you will come to the Tioga Falls, which is actually a series of falls, or even a cascade if the water flow is light. From top to bottom, the Falls are about 130 feet high. At this point the trail turns and loops back to the trailhead. The lower portion of the loop follows Tioga Creek, for approximately 1/2 mile. The trail soon reconnects, leading back to the parking area.
From I-65, take the Gene Snyder Freeway (I-265) West exit. Continue west on the Gene Snyder Freeway for approximately 10 miles, and turn left (south) onto 31W. Continue south on 31W for about 8 miles, then turn left at the sign for "Bridges to the Past". Follow this road to the parking lot.
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Alex Wit (56)
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Missy Meier (71)
8 months ago
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still closed
Dewey Collins (88)
11 months ago
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Seems this trail is still closed. Call (502) 624-3629 before you go.
Marea Kinney-Vegan (122)
over 1 year ago
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As of may 19th, closed for Blasting (?). I drove the extra 45 south from my already 2 hour drive to Louisville to see the falls. Epic fail and disappointment to learn it was closed.
Bridget Perkins (89)
over 1 year ago
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I first hiked this when i was in high school and many years later i still love it. It's always nice seeing the waterfall at the end.
Billy Gnagie (213)
over 1 year ago
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still closed, tried to go today. :(
Krista Carbon (66)
almost 2 years ago
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Always a fun time to take a short hike hike to a beautiful little waterfall!
Renee Barrett (166)
almost 2 years ago
16 Completed 3 Reviews
I hiked a few years ago and it was a nice walk but I drove out a few weeks ago and it was closed! wish they would open it again.
Shawn Turillo (120)
over 2 years ago
3 Completed 3 Reviews
nice trail excellent view of waterfall but trail is still closed for construction.
Amanda Keeling (92)
over 2 years ago
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I have hiked this tail three times but as of now it is still closed.


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When you get a tattoo, the area will be completely shaved before it's applied, so at least you're starting off with smooth skin. After a couple days of stubble and bristly skin, the urge to shave can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, at this point, shaving is about as brutal on your tattoo as a weedwacker. The wound is still fresh, and especially if you have any scabbing or raised areas, you run the risk of damaging your artwork by running a razor across it. Chemical hair removers are just as bad if not worse - you never want to put anything like that on a fresh tattoo.
Of course, you can shave the area around the tattoo. Be sure any and all creams, gels and/or hair follicles are cleaned away from the tattoo immediately afterward, and then apply your ointment or lotion as directed by your artist.
So, when is it safe to shave again? Your tattoo will go through several different stages, one of the last being the peeling stage. Once the peeling has finished, your skin will start to regenerate and produce a new protective layer over your tattoo. Once this new layer has appeared, it is usually safe to shave again. Depending on your tattoo and your own body's ability to heal, this can take anywhere from 5-10 days in most cases. Do this simple little skin test to see if it would be safe for you to shave:
Close your eyes and run the tips of your fingers across and around your tattoo. Are there any bumps? Raised areas? Hard scabs? The tattoo should feel the same as the skin around it - if you can tell where the tattoo begins and ends or feel any skin irregularities, you might need to wait a little longer.
Sometimes a tattoo can remain raised slightly for as long as a couple months. This can be very frustrating and itchy to the wearer. In this case, if the tattoo is completely healed with no open sores or scabs, an electric razor is you best option. Even a chemical hair remover would be better than a blade, but be sure to leave it on for the minimum time required to remove the unwanted hair. If you must use a blade razor, exercise extreme caution. Your tattoo is so close to being successfully healed - the last thing you want to do now is open it up.
Once a tattoo is completely healed, you can shave just like normal without worry.


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LeBron James scored 21 points, including the clinching jumper with 13.6 seconds remaining, and Miami knocked off the Atlanta Hawks 95-89 on Friday night for the Heat's fourth straight win. Jeff Teague hit consecutive 3-pointers as the Hawks rallied from a nine-point deficit in the fourth quarter. But Josh Smith, on an awful night, missed two free throws with just over a minute remaining, and James finished off Atlanta after the teams traded turnovers. James muscled away from DeShawn Stevenson, swished a 15-foot jumper and hopped along the sideline in front of the Atlanta crowd. The Heat won without Dwyane Wade, who didn't play because of a cold. Chris Bosh led Miami with 24 points. James added 11 rebounds and nine assists. Teague paced the Hawks with 20 points.
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Bo Kimble to address JU campus on Saturday and serve as women's lacrosse honorary team captain
Former Loyola Marymount star basketball player Bo Kimble will be speaking at Jacksonville University on Saturday on behalf of his nonprofit organization, 44 for Life, which seeks to make automatic external defibrillators widely available and increase awareness and education about heart disease and sudden cardiac arrest.
The event, slated for Saturday at 1:30 p.m., will be at the Davis College of Business and is open to the public. Kimble, who's visit was organized by the JU women's lacrosse team, will then also serve as a Dolphin honorary captain for Sunday's National Lacrosse Conference matchup at D.B. Milne Field against Longwood at noon.
"I am so excited to serve as an honorary game captain on Sunday," Kimble said. "We are grateful for all the positive messages that are being spread regarding our cause to get AEDs in every school nation-wide."
The JU women's lacrosse team will be fundraising for Kimble's 44 for Life foundation on Sunday as well. Fans attending the Longwood contest can make donations (cash or check) or log on to 44forlife.org for additional information.
Kimble, who led the nation in scoring at Loyola Marymount in 1990 by averaging 35.3 points per game, co-founded 44 for Life in memory of teammate Hank Gathers. Gathers collapsed and died of a heart-muscle disorder, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, during the West Coast Conference Tournament in 1990.
Kimble and fiancée Dr. Tamara Goode now travel extensively to provide education about cardiac arrest and prevention while also working to increase access to defibrillators. Part of its mission statement also includes "empowering people to save lives through the implementation of quality training programs in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and AED use; promotion of medical screening; and fundraising and donation in AEDs."
Loyola Marymount's history-making fast-break offense was featured on ESPN's 30-for-30 documentary series, drawing the attention of the JU coaching staff to invite Kimble to campus. The Lions reached the Elite-8 in 1990 and the offense under then-coach Paul Westhead led Division I in scoring in 1988 (110.3 points per game), 1989 (112.5), and 1990 (122.4).
"Watching the 30-for-30 special about Bo and his team at LMU, it became clear that their style of play complemented the types of athletes that we have at Jacksonville University," JU head coach Mindy McCord said. "A coach can draw many parallels between the sports of basketball and women's lacrosse and the types of schools and athletic programs at Loyola Marymount and JU.
"The system was a natural fit and Bo's team-first personality and fearlessness are great mentors for our young team." JU is averaging 13.27 goals per game in starting 7-4 and 2-0 in conference play. Six players have already scored in double figures, led by freshman attacker Morgan Derner's 29 goals. The Dolphins have scored 52 goals in the past three games.
"They are literally running the same system as we used to run at LMU, but in women's lacrosse," Kimble said. "Now I don't know that much about lacrosse, but it's pretty cool to think that our style of play is being used in different sports. If you put in the work and you are faster to the ball than you can do things that your opponents can't."
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On the corner of Union Avenue and Phillips Street, near the chain link fence that borders St. Luke's cemetery is a gravestone that has obviously been repaired. An old marble stone, broken at the bottom, has been attached to a new granite stone. It is the grave of James F. Brown, who died on January 14, 1868, aged 74 years, 3 months and 14 days. People who walk or drive past the cemetery may not have know who James F. Brown is and why his story is so interesting.
His obituary from The Fishkill Standard, in January 18, 1868, tells a little about him:
Mr. James Brown, a colored citizen who has been a resident of this village for nearly forty years, died at his residence on the Verplanck estate, on Tuesday. Mr. Brown was well -known to nearly all our citizens. He was formerly a slave in Maryland, but his master giving him his freedom, he came north, and by industry accumulated funds enough to purchase the freedom of his wife. For about thirty-six years, he has lived with the Verplanck family, first as a coachman, but for the last twenty years as head gardener. He was, as near as we can learn, about 73 years of age. He assisted at the building of the Episcopal Church, Matteawan. Mr. Brown was an old landmark, a prominent man among the colored people, always courteous and deferential, with a good education, probably self-acquired, and his death will be regretted by many.
Brown's wife Julia is believed to be buried with him, although her name is not on the stone. She died in August 1890 and although her age is a mystery, she was probably in her 90s. She told the story of how, as a young girl she had witnessed the British attack on Washington, D. C. She too had been born a slave and her husband paid for her freedom.
Eventually, Brown's stone eventually toppled and broke. The Beacon Historical Society and the Mount Gulian Historic Site located it up on the hill where the Browns are buried. After it was repaired it was reset in its current location.
Brown is noted for the journal he kept from the late 1820s to the 1860s in which he recorded daily events including the weather, planting, purchasing seeds, and births, marriages and deaths of the people in Fishkill Landing.
He also records the comings and goings of his wife, Julia, who he usually refers to as Julia Brown. She worked at various houses throughout the area. often staying for days or weeks. In the summer she would go to Saratoga Springs to cook at one of the hotels.
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Black men had to own property worth $250.00 to vote in New York State. In 1836 Brown purchased property in Fishkill Landing (now Beacon) and was eligible to vote. On November 8, 1837, he recorded in his journal, "James F. Brown voted for the first time."
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"Here Lies Beacon's Most Illustrious Son" reads the headline over the photo of a gravestone in the September 26, 1939, edition of The Beacon News.
The newspaper referred to James Kent, former Chancellor of New York and Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court, whose modest gravestone lay fallen over somewhere in the oldest section of St. Luke's Cemetery in Beacon.
Kent, however was not one of Beacon's sons. He was born in Dutchess County, in Fredericksburg, which is now part of Putnam County and did practice law in Poughkeepsie, but he had little association with Beacon other than being buried here. His interment in our city came about when his son, William Kent, had the chancellor's body removed from Marble Cemetery in Manhattan and moved to Beacon.
According to an article in the April 1873 edition of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
"Then, pious hands prepared a fitter resting place for him in the retired and beautiful cemetery attached to St. Luke's Church, in the village of Matteawan."
The article contains a further description of the grave as a
"… large white marble slab resting at four corners on four upright marble posts."
The grave toppled from the posts sometime before 1939 and while the grave has been uncovered, there are, so far, no signs of the posts. The Beacon Historical Society plans to restore this grave.
James Kent had an illustrious career. He served as Chancellor of New York State, the highest judicial position in the state, from 1814 – 1823. He was the first law professor of Columbia University. Kent County, Michigan is named after him, because he represented the Michigan Territory in its dispute with Ohio.
He is known for his Commentaries on American Law, which generations of American law students studied and which is still available on Amazon. Scholarships are still given in his name, and scholarly articles written about him and his writings. ITT Chicago-Kent College of Law is named after him.
In the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, statues represent eight categories of knowledge. Chancellor Kent represents law.
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Beacon Cemetery brochures are now available at the Howland Cultural Center and the Beacon Welcome Center.
The Cemetery Committee will soon start several projects to restore and preserve our cemeteries. If you are interested in helping join us at our next meeting:
Thursday, June 27, 2013
6:30 p.m.
Howland Public Library
313 Main Street, Beacon
If you cannot attend the meeting, but would like to help, please complete this form:
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Join us on June 8, 2013 on a walking tour of St. Luke's Cemetery.
There will be two tours:
2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
But first, stop at the Howland Cultural Center at 477 Main Street. At the Centennial Exhibit you will learn about many of Beacon's notable citizens who are buried in St. Luke's and other cemeteries in Beacon.
View the short video about the cemeteries and pick up the Cemetery Trail Brochure.
After touring St. Luke's, check out the other cemeteries in Beacon.
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United States cricket governing body wants top-flight league in America – ESPN
You can't get us excited about soccer, and you're going to try cricket on us? Even the English know that cricket is boring.
United States cricket governing body wants top-flight league in America – ESPN
You can't get us excited about soccer, and you're going to try cricket on us? Even the English know that cricket is boring.
So says a dome-boosting group. I don't see any news on AL.com. Found this:
Dome Money Released To BJCC|ABC 33/40 News
But nothing about actually starting construction.
Graffiti found on Tuscaloosa buildings | NBC13.com
Oh, no! Do you think it could be the work of… juvenile delinquents?!?!?!?
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I didn't vote for him.
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In honeymoon scuba death, Australia doesn't want to be new Aruba, Alabama attorney general says – al.com
"On my word, unleash Nancy Grace!"
Calera, Alabaster and Helena among the best 100 places to live, according to Money magazine – al.com
There really aren't very many good places to live. Alabaster, really?
Gary Farber on the latest Nixon tape dump and manipulating the Vietnam conflict. Republicans have been running around for over thirty years now claiming that Democrats, or "liberals", had betrayed South Vietnam. As I've written before, the problem is that these people seem to think that just because we could have achieved a tactical victory in Vietnam that we should have, that the tactical victory (which would have held the United States up to worldwide opprobrium — Westmoreland wanted to use nuclear weapons! — and cost far more than it would have gained) would have nonetheless have been worth it. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
At any rate, McNamara and Johnson were fully aware in 1968 that the war was unwinnable by any realistic means; Nixon, of course, was well aware as well when his turn came. He was just trying to put off the inevitable in order to protect himself. And, as it turned out, he was lying even more than was usual for him. Tricky Dick was getting Congress to threaten to cut off funding for the South Vietnamese regime in order to pressure them into a peace deal — while keeping his own hands clean. And then former Nixonites like Cheney and Rumsfeld could go out and claim that the Democrats stabbed South Vietnam and the US Army in the back. Neat trick. See Der Dolchstoßlegende.
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Joyce DeWitt Arrested on Suspicion of DUI at The Insider
COP: Ma'am, would you step out of the car, please.
JOYCE DEWITT: Do you know who I am?!?!?
COP: No, who are you? Are you somebody?
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Scrub Island, Tortola, BVI hotel review Visited: July 2010
Posted by remcheer32
I'm stuck at this half star service heck hole. The people who work here prey upon their wealthy guests, they charge $50 for entrees and $60 for continental breakfast! The place is on an island where there is nothing else, and you're absolutely trapped. That is, unless you want to get messed over by the locals to be able to leave...paying $500 to go out on a boat anywhere.
Have you ever had a sandwich from a gas station? I just waited one hour and payed $20 (not including tip or tax) for one. Oh, and even more surprising was the $4 glass of iced tea. No one told me and kept refilling my glass. When the bill came, I paid $32 for crappy iced tea.
And that was my first day.
It's not about the money. It's the principle. I've been all around the world, and have eaten great food - from street cars to famous chefs' restaurants. But this place was made to trap tourists and take advantage of them. There was no grocery store, and no food options except over priced Village Inn food. Also, the service was scary it was so bad.
The worst is how on the web site, they have all kinds of stuff on there about the activities that they have here. We got here, and there was no such thing of any of them!
I would say research. However, what I'm going to say is don't ever come to Scrub Island. Go anywhere else. Actually, stay home before you come here.
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Scrub Island, Tortola, BVI hotel review Visited: July 2010
Posted by dnixon
I am biased in favor of the resort since I got married on the top of Little Scrub in October 2000.
This was my first time back since they started building the $160M+ resort that just opened in February 2010.
Our first day on the island, we took the free ferry to Trellis Bay and got $10 cab ride to super market in Road Town and stocked up on food. For the rest of the day, the kids were off to the pools with water slide and hot tub. The frozen drinks at the pool bar were expensive, but delicious.
When they tired of the pools, the kids took the few steps down to the beach and spent the next few hours digging and building forts in the sand and taking the ocean kayaks out to see both parts of Scrub and adjacent islands. Marina Cay was a short paddle to visit Pussers.
The islands are very steep, so a walk to anywhere will challenge your legs. So if you enjoy that burning sensation in your calves, have at it! The islands are connected by an isthmus with a rough road to take you down to the North Beaches and out toward the tip of Big Scrub.
On the way back from Big Scrub we stopped on the South Beach to collect shells.
I recommend the deep tissue massage at the spa, Dive BVI, the hotel boutique and the gym. I was impressed with the warmth and professionalism of the entire hotel staff.
There is a public PC for guest use in the customer center, too.
We had two meals in the main dining room. They were expensive, but delicious and well served.
When this project is done, it will be spectacular.
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"El Mirador de Iznájar" is found 5km from the village of Iznájar, surrounded by olive grove and holm oaks in the Natural Park "La Subbética Cordobesa".
It is a huge 'Cortijo Andalus" with two traditional whitewashed houses each with its own private swimming pool overlooking the lake of Iznájar.
El Mirador I has private swimming pool, terrace with two barbecues and breathtaking lake views, porch, large and sunny living room, kitchen, 1 double bedroom, three twin bedrooms and three bathrooms.
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The Times: Harding 'will be missed' as editor
Harding paid tribute to staff and praised the paper's investigative journalism, campaigns and foreign reporting. He will be missed.
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This isn't any more "steampunk" than the comic series it originated in, but damn if she doesn't look amazing. Well done!
Captain America looks like a true American.
I hope that DC realizes that this is a good reason to give us some Steampunk JLA.
Her costum is great, but I just love the background. The Captain America, the Hydra agents and what looks like a Joker...
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Or I really wanted to start off another thread, but on time this time with more participation, but work/life interfered once again. The game is already 1/3 of the way through the second quarter, with the Lynx looking sharp after the exhausting series against the Storm, and the Sparks looking like they missed the plane. Cheer our ladies on as they hopefully show the the Westcoasters what it takes to be champions! The Lynx have been playing great team defense and outhustling LA to every open ball. Let's go Lynx!
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Gus Poyet insists he will not beat himself up over Sunderland's defeat against Hull.
The Black Cats were forced to play for almost the entire game with 10 men, after Wes Brown was sent off for a professional foul inside the first four minutes.
And the Tigers took full advantage, with goals either side of half-time from Shane Long and Nikica Jelavic earning them a 2-0 victory.
"It's a difficult game to analyse," said Poyet.
"Everything was set to have a great afternoon, and then after three minutes it became really difficult.
"Normally in these games down at the bottom, it is very tight – there is not a lot between the two teams.
"But playing for 85 minutes with one player less makes it even more difficult.
"I'm not going to kill myself analysing this game because it is not worth it."
Brown's early dismissal was the pivotal moment, as his last-ditch sliding tackle on Long saw him miss the ball but send the man crashing to the ground just outside the penalty area.
With no covering defender and Long bearing down on goal, referee Mike Jones had no option but to produce the red card and that meant Poyet had to tear up his gameplan and sacrifice wide man Fabio Borini to bring on centre-back Santiago Vergini to plug the gap in defence.
Poyet said: "I don't like games with what I call massive 'accidents'. I don't like them.
"I like a normal game of football, 11v11, played with tactics and then you see if you are good enough to go on and win it.
"When these things happen, it is unexpected and everything changes."
This was Brown's third sending-off this season, although his red card at Stoke in November was later rescinded. But there was no doubt about this dismissal, and Poyet confirmed there would be no appeal.
Brown will serve a two-match ban, which will keep him out of Wednesday's trip to Manchester City and next Saturday's FA Cup fifth-round tie against Southampton at the Stadium of Light.
Sunderland had gone into the game having won back-to-back games against Stoke and Newcastle that had lifted them clear of the relegation zone, and Poyet says his side must not let this defeat knock their confidence as they prepare to take on City at the Etihad Stadium.
He said: "We have to erase this.
"We were good before 3pm yesterday, we were getting better and we were a difficult team to play against.
"This game won't affect anything that we were doing before."
England boss Roy Hodgson was in the crowd yesterday to run the rule over in-form winger Adam Johnson, crowned the Premier League Player of the Month for January.
Brown's dismissal meant Johnson did not have the chance to shine, but Poyet hopes Hodgson will be back.
"I'm sure that Roy knows a lot about football, and he will know that Adam had to play in a different position because it was needed for the team," he said. "He tried his best.
"But maybe he [Hodgson] will come back another day and see him play in a normal game."
Meanwhile, when asked whether this victory was sweet as he made his first return to Wearside since he was sacked in November 2011, Steve Bruce said: "It's no sweeter than winning anywhere, believe me.
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Officials from some school districts outside Muncie say they've talked with numerous students and parents about transferring since the Nov. 18 vote to turn Muncie Southside High School into a middle school. Muncie Central will be the district's only high school.
Cowan Community Schools superintendent Dennis Chambers tells The Star Press about 15 Muncie students have started the process to transfer in January, but some grades in the Cowan schools can't accept more students.
The Monroe Central and Delaware Community schools say they've each talked with about two dozen Muncie students about transfers.
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the guardian Fri 03 October 2008
The Cluny Museum in Paris has probably the best medieval collection in Europe - illustrated manuscripts, church ornaments and tapestries, including the famous Lady with the Unicorn. By the time of the revolution, there were only five monks left in the great Burgundian monastery of Cluny, but it had once been a European power, centre of a monastic system that stretched from Scotland to Poland. In its great days - the 11th century, the core of Tom Holland's book - it had vast economic weight because the monks were far ahead with agriculture, but for the poor put-upon peasantry, it also meant a point of warmth in a very cold world. As the feudal system began to develop, local lords built their castles and sent out their chain-mailed retainers to exact dues and services, drove the peasants into debt, and turned them into serfs. The monks, whose monastery was itself constructed on castle lines, gave them protection. Well-intentioned people left land and money to the Cluniacs, and they became quite rich. The popes in Rome developed a bureaucratic system, and the church was powerful enough to defy rulers.
This is not an era that is easy for an outsider to understand, and "medieval" is not a compliment in any language. There is a splendid book, Régine Pernoud's Pour en Finir avec le Moyen Age, which explains that to understand the middle ages, you have to appreciate that, for them, faith had the same role as physical health does for us. The points for comparison make an amusing party game, what with jogging as penitence and persecution of those modern heretics, smokers. The first millennium, 1000 AD, provides Holland with a good starting point. Various exaltés, their heads stuffed with the Book of Revelation, predicted the end of the world. They died of disappointment.
Holland mentions the millennium scare of 1000 AD, but moves on: the essential dates are 1054, 1066, 1071 and 1077. The book ends with 1095, when the first crusade was proclaimed and Europe moved into the high middle ages: the age of the great cathedrals, when her supremacy in machinery, weaponry, the management of credit and much else got under way. Religion was central to this, and there is even a plausible theory that it led to the invention of clocks, because monks had so many rituals to perform. It is perfectly right for Holland to claim a great deal for the 11th century, of which his book is a splendid, highly coloured canvas.
The central drama, which opens the book, is the battle between a papacy and a German imperialism that were both developing fast. Canossa (1077) has entered the world's vocabulary: a German emperor, Henry IV, standing in the snow, barefoot and penitent, outside an Apennine rock-fortress, begging a pope for forgiveness. The pope kept him waiting because he did not quite know what to do (which had been Henry's intention). If he forgave, he let down his German allies; if he did not, he abandoned his own Christian doctrine. But at bottom, there was a question of great significance for the future: should church and state be separate? Emperor and pope had been fighting over who had the right to nominate bishops. Often enough, Germans would arrive with an army in Rome and - sometimes with the support, sometimes not, of Roman aristocrats manipulating mobs - would sit their own Leo or Clement on the rickety papal throne. But as the Cluniac system grew in importance, so did popes, with a sense of their own role as heirs of St Peter. Gregory VII was one such, and, as a German himself, he could play Germans. He was also dealing with a Christianity beginning to re-define itself, and in 1057 there was a battle in Milan as to who should be bishop. Milan was home to a version of what we might now call "bazaar Islam". A reformist movement, the Patarenes, attacked priests for marrying: they wanted celibacy, and one possessed Cardinal, Pier Damiani, attacked women as "tidbits of the devil ... stuff of sin". A fight with Henry IV followed as to who had the right to nominate the Milan bishop, and it spread into Germany, which at the time was in a semi-permanent state of civil war. Holland is very good at sorting out this central question of German history, which led towards the thirty years war and the country's failure to develop as a nation state. Back and forth the battle went, with excommunications, enlistments of thug-allies, family treacheries, until Henry IV decided to go to Canossa. In the short term, Gregory won, but he had been deceived: Henry advanced again, and Gregory died in exile. I have a bone to pick with Holland at this point. I do not think that he understands sex. Damiani was one of those fanatics - by nature a hermit, and a vegetarian - who advanced priestly chastity, an absurdity with no biblical backing; and the Patarene heresy was eventually taken up by the Cathars, who refused to eat anything that was the product of the sexual act.
Alain Besançon writes of the Cathars that they had "an intellectual hatred of creation". At the bottom of all this is a view of the world as hopelessly sinful which edges into the great theological question of the day: how far Jesus Christ was a man. The British do not really like questions of this sort, arguing that they are really to do with bureaucratic machinations. That is certainly Holland's view when he talks about the great schism of 1054 that divided the Latin from the Orthodox church: in Constantinople, priests married, a long-term consequence of which may even be that, whereas Latin Christianity is now going the way of the old Nestorians, Orthodoxy flourishes.
Holland is weaker on the Orthodox world than he is elsewhere. He is very good indeed, however, on the spread of the Normans, third-generation Vikings, who, in the mid-11th century, constructed a network from Iceland to the Black Sea, the centrepiece of which was post-Hastings Anglo-Normandy. They nearly took over France, and maybe the central question underlying Holland's book is: if they had succeeded, would France have become England? Many Frenchmen might like the idea, poor souls.
Norman Stone's World War One: A Short History is published by Penguin.
Observer review
the observer Sat 27 September 2008
Interviews with classics professors in newspapers went out of fashion roughly around the same time as liberty bodices and national service. Yet mirabile dictu, what should have been featured some weeks ago in the Review section of The Observer if not an interview with a classics professor? To be sure, Mary Beard has always made for good copy. In her ability to make a complex subject accessible to non-specialists, not to mention her occasional aptitude for controversy, she is the closest that her discipline has to a Richard Dawkins. Even so, she is only primus inter pares
This autumn, a whole legion of books by heavyweight classicists will be advancing on bookshops. In addition to Beard's study of Pompeii, enthusiasts for ancient history can enjoy biographies of Philip II of Macedonia, Julius Caesar and Attila. Most unexpected of all is a dense yet wholly gripping analysis by Robin Lane Fox of the Greek dark ages, a period that even specialists have always regarded as intimidatingly obscure. Something rather startling is evidently going on: publishers seem to believe that classical scholarship may actually sell.
For the practitioners of a discipline that has long been beleaguered by charges of irrelevance and snobbery, this is a heady thought. Even in the Fifties, when a knowledge of Latin and Greek was still held to be the defining mark of the nation's educational elite, the perceived pointlessness of studying dead languages was proving toxic. In How to be Topp, one of Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle's tetralogy of satires about life in a Fifties prep school, the gloriously disaffected Molesworth advised that a Latin lesson could always be brought to a grinding halt by the simple expedient of asking: 'What is the use of Latin, sir?' He went on to describe the result. 'Master clutches the board ruber but he knos he is beaten this one always rouses the mob.'
Molesworth was right. Over the past few decades, classicists have suffered a rout on the scale of the Roman defeat at Cannae. A discipline that once enjoyed an Olympian status in the curriculum has been struggling for survival. In the state system, where the carnage has been particularly severe, a bare 15 per cent of secondary schools offer Latin. No surprise, then, that it has ended up more thoroughly the preserve of the privately educated than it was even in Molesworth's time. Hardly the perfect background, you might think, for a sudden explosion of interest in the ancient world.
And yet that is exactly what it has provided. The virtual eradication of classical subjects from the state system has left whole swaths of the population educationally disenfranchised: cut off from a knowledge of civilisations that remain no less the bedrock of our own, no less peopled with remarkable figures and famous names, no less fascinating, terrifying and strange than they had ever been. People are not stupid - they know when they are missing out on something interesting and important. If the education system fails to give it to them, then it can hardly be held surprising that they will look for it elsewhere, in works of popular history, perhaps, and in other media as well.
It is surely no coincidence that Gladiator, the film that effectively served to fuel the recent obsession with the ancient world, should have been released in 2000, a generation after the final collapse of classical studies in most schools. Maximus's heroics gave people a taste of what had been lost. Nor did it take long for Gladiator to reveal a quality not normally associated with sword-and-sandal fests: prescience. Watch it again now and it seems to display something of the quality of the best science fiction, a portrait of a world that is as weirdly familiar as it is strange, as much about the future as the past. Citizens fed on dazzling entertainments; armies striking at an elusive foreign foe; the hi-tech delivery of weapons of fire. Here, as with Blade Runner, was a mirror being held up to the future.
One year on from Gladiator's release and the American response to 9/11 ensured that the comparison of the classical superpower to the modern was transformed into a cliche. The image of George Bush wearing an imperial laurel wreath became a staple of caricatures everywhere. The rise and fall of the Roman empire began to seem not just ancient history, but a theme of pressing immediacy. Even now, with American hegemony looking more frayed than it did at the time of the Iraq War, the world of the classical past continues to cast an eerie shadow. As the critical response to the current exhibition on Hadrian at the British Museum has served to suggest, we find it hard now to look at a Roman and not identify in him something of ourselves.
There is nothing new about this. In the Renaissance, when classics as an educational discipline had its birth, Machiavelli had no doubts as to the abiding relevance of the lessons of the Greek and Roman past. 'Prudent men are wont to say,' he wrote, 'and this not rashly or without good ground, that he who would foresee what has to be should reflect on what has been, for everything that happens in the world at any time has a genuine resemblance to what happened in ancient times.' Such a claim, prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, might have appeared outlandish, but now, with the Cold War ended and long-suppressed identities and hatreds emerging from the melting permafrost, it appears a good deal less so.
Whether in the Balkans or Georgia, not to mention in the former Roman province of Judaea, the origins of modern conflicts often have very ancient roots indeed. Even in Britain, where the increasingly diverse nature of our society has prompted endless tortured musings on the nature of 'British values', the political and moral ambiguities of classical history suddenly seem possessed of a wholly new relevance. Issues of citizenship, after all - for good and bad - lay at the very heart of the Greek and Roman experience. As in the Renaissance, so now: classical scholarship is coming to seem bizarrely cutting edge.
All of which serves to raise a tantalising possibility: that the very devastation to which the discipline has been subjected might end up providing the necessary context for its revival. Perhaps, like any outmoded brand, classics needed to go through a decontamination process. Certainly, it seems now to have purged itself of many of its more rebarbative associations: the fust of chalkdust, the hint of canes and cold showers.
Molesworth, describing the desperate flannelling of a classics teacher put on the spot, imagined him protesting: 'Er latin gives you not only the history of Rome but er [hapy inspiration] its culture, it er tells you about interesting men like J Caesar, hannibal, livy, Romulus remus and er lars porsena of clusium.' To Molesworth's classmates, such names would have been a reminder of ink-spattered textbooks and lectures on the vital importance of a stiff upper lip; children today are likeliest to have heard of them from computer games or glossy TV dramas.
And if that does inspire some students to contemplate the study of a dead language at school, then at least they will no longer find the educational establishment standing in their way. As Will Griffiths, the director of the Cambridge School Classics Project, puts it: 'When we talk to schools about the possibility of offering Latin, we encounter interest and excitement, not hostility.'
Perhaps, then, just perhaps, the rash of books on classical subjects currently appearing in the review pages is indeed the reflection of a broader trend. Certainly, the discipline does appear to have stopped flat-lining. In 2000, there were a mere 150 non-selective state schools in England offering Latin; now there are more than 500.
All of which may be so much whistling in the wind. Enthusiasts for classics, like supporters of the England football team, are forever hailing new dawns and invariably end up disappointed. Nevertheless, like a phalanx of scarred and combat-hardened hoplites, classicists remain, at the very least, on the field of battle. Later this year, for instance, an £8m appeal, 'Classics for All', will be launched, with the stated ambition of making classics 'available and sustainable in all state schools'. What prospect there is of raising such a sum in the teeth of a recession remains to be seen, but the organisers of the appeal are no more likely to be daunted by that reflection than the Athenians were by the sight of the enemy on the plain of Marathon. 'Ignis aurum probat': 'It is fire that truly puts gold to the test'.
Five to read: new classical titles
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard (Profile)
Whirlwind tour of the lost town, punctuated with cheerful myth-busting by the provocative Beard.
Travelling Heroes by Robin Lane Fox (Allen Lane)
Engaging guide to the lives of the Greeks in 800BC, the age of Homer.
Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington (Yale)
Biography of formidable military commander, better known as Alexander the Great's father.
Attila the Hun by Christopher Kelly (Bodley Head)
Keenly argued account of the rapacious warlord's assault on the Roman Empire.
Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman (JR Books)
Caesar's life was lived on epic scale, as this detailed biography reveals.


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Dougherty County - Phoebe Putney Hospital wants to spread its arms a little more, by opening a clinic in Southeast Albany. But this is not a normal walk in clinic.
The hospital wants to rezone this land on U.S. 19 South to build an occupational health center to serve businesses across South Georgia. The clinic would offer pre-employment physicals and drug screens. And, rehabilitate people hurt on the job.
County commissioners must agree to rezone the 30-acre plot owned by Cecil Musgrove before Phoebe Putney can build the 20,000 square foot clinic.
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