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Steve Farmer is the admissions director at UNC. He says he's seen a significant increase in the number of students requesting access to their admissions files.
"We've never had a request in the admissions office under FERPA in the time that I've been here, at least as I can recall," says Farmer. "We've had about 25 requests this year for students to review the contents of their admissions files."
Students are making their requests under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, also known as FERPA. It grants students the right to see their educational records and protects those records from disclosure to others.
An anonymous newsletter from Stanford University called the Fountain Hopper was published in January outlining the steps necessary for students to request their files. Since then, college students across the nation have taken advantage of the law.
Farmer says the admissions files UNC students receive will likely contain application materials, transcripts, and notes from university personnel, but not letters of recommendation.
"Generally when students apply for admission, they waive the right to see confidential letters of recommendation and other supporting materials that are submitted by the student's school on behalf of the student," explains Farmer. "Because the students waive their FERPA rights and because those recommendations were submitted with the expectation of confidentiality, those generally can't be accessed by students."
Farmer says one of the most surprising documents might be the student's own words.
"For some students, seeing what they submitted when they were 17 or 18 years old might be reassuring or it might be a bit of a shock, depending on how much time has passed," says Farmer.
Currently, UNC admissions department staffers are working on the logistics of filling those requests.
"What we want to make sure we're doing is that we're complying fully with the law and that we're honoring students' rights to see their records. The mechanics of it are a little complicated," says Farmer. "It's also been a little complicated figuring out what exactly in the file is confidential and what's not. We're making good progress and I think we'll be done soon."
The university has 45 days to comply under the federal law.http://chapelboro.com/news/higher-education/unc-students-use-federal-law-to-get-admissions-data/
A noted author and environmentalist will hold a reading Tuesday night on the UNC Campus.
Terry Tempest Williams is an author, environmentalist, and activist. She is also the 2015 Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at UNC.
Williams says, coming from the Western United States, North Carolina is a blast of nature.
"From the mountains, to the piedmont, to the coast, I don't know of any state that has kind of stratigraphy of change," she says. "I have such respect for the history that is here, the arts, [and] the music. I think it's just a stunning place.
"And as a Westerner, it's just extremely exotic. Seeing the dogwood, the forsythia, this is like going to Eden."
Among the issues Williams says she holds near and dear to her heart is the accessibility of clean drinking water. She says she was thrilled to hear about UNC's "Water in Our World" campaign.
"You hear the adage, 'you don't talk about politics or religion.' In the West, you don't talk about water," she says. "It's that controversial, and it's that essential."
Williams speaks not only of clean drinking water globally, but also domestically where she says she has seen fracking leave behind a trail of contaminated water.
"Coming from a state, and a neighboring state of Wyoming, where fracking has been going on for a long time, I can tell you the consequences are not pretty," she says. "I know that it's about jobs, and economies, and cheap energy. But the fact is there's a town in Wyoming called Pavillion, and the simple story is this – they can no longer drink their water."
Williams was a panelist on Monday afternoon for a discussion on the future of water in our world. She says conversation is a key to solving major problems we face as a society.
"I think that we are so polarized, that we have stopped listening to one another," she says. "I think that if we can really have those hard conversations; look each other in the eye and say, 'What concerns you? What do you care about? What binds us together?' rather than what tears us apart.
"Then I think we can come to those essential facts that without water we do not exist."
Williams will also hold a reading at 7:30 Tuesday evening in the auditorium of the Genome Sciences Building.
"I get nervous even thinking about it," she says. "I will be reading new work about America's national parks."
The reading is free and open to the public.
Finally, Williams will be part of a panel discussing the role of naturalist in a world of environmental threats at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon. That panel will meet in Donovan Lounge.http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/unc-distinguished-writer-in-resident-to-hold-reading-of-new-work/
The Senior Associate Athletics Director, and Senior Woman Administrator, at UNC is retiring. The university announced that Dr. Beth Miller will be retiring on July 1.
In a statement, Miller says, "I've been fortunate to be part of the University and the North Carolina athletic department for 40 years and it's been a wonderful experience."
UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunnigham says, "Beginning as a coach and transitioning into an administrative role, Beth has always worked tirelessly to support all of our student-athletes and coaches. She has been a pioneer for women's college athletics both nationally and at UNC. Because of her leadership and guidance, Carolina's Olympic Sports have achieved incredible success with more than 30 national championships."
Miller served as head volleyball coach and softball coach before transitioning to an administrative position.
She was also recognized by collegeAD.com as one of the top 10 senior woman administrators in the country, earlier this year.http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/unc-senior-associate-ad-retiring/
Former UNC Football player and local golf pro Mike Rubish passed away, on Sunday, at the age of 90.
His family released the following statement:
Mike Rubish, a former UNC football player and local golf professional, passed peacefully Sunday afternoon, March 15, 2015, at his home in Chapel Hill.
Rubish, 90, was born in Weirton, West Virginia, and was the son of Johan and Anna Rubish.
At age 16, Rubish joined the 7th Air Force and served in Hawaii. He was at Hickam Field on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. While there, Rubish roomed with and befriended famed baseball slugger Joe DiMaggio.
After World War II, Rubish chose a football scholarship at UNC over playing baseball for Duke. He was a member of the 1946-49 Tar Heels with Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice and was the team's barefoot kicker. He played for UNC in the 1946 and 1948 Sugar Bowls and the 1949 Cotton Bowl.
The 1950 UNC graduate was drafted by and played for the Washington Redskins, once kicking a 40-yard field goal to defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Rubish left the National Football League to become a professional golfer and got to know Arnold Palmer, whom he once beat in an exhibition match in Pennsylvania. Rubish was a member of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) for more than 60 years, mostly as a Class A teaching pro in Durham. North Carolina. He owned and operated Golf City, a driving range, par 3 course and two miniature golf courses for 26 years.
After running a golf shop near South Square Mall in Durham, Rubish retired and enjoyed playing golf and cards with his many friends.
Rubish is preceded in death by his oldest son, Michael, Jr., and all but one of his 13 siblings.
He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Patsy Andrews Rubish of Carrboro and Chapel Hill; sons Jeff Rubish and his wife Barbara and Drew Rubish and his long-time partner Mary Stewart; five grandchildren, Christopher, Connor and Kathryn Rubish and Kelly and Kimberly Rubish, all of Chapel Hill, and his one surviving sister, Barbara, of Pennsylvania; and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at University Baptist Church on Thursday, March 19, at 2 p.m. followed by a reception on the fifth floor of the Pope Box at UNC's Kenan Stadium. The family welcomes all friends of Mike Rubish, past and present, to attend the celebration of his life. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the University Baptist Church in Chapel Hill.http://chapelboro.com/news/obituaries/former-unc-football-player-and-local-golf-pro-mike-rubish-passes-away/
Former Carolina baseball teammates are joining forces once again to fight childhood cancer.
Former Tar Heel Catcher Chase Jones tells WCHL's Blake Hodge that the fight against childhood cancer is personal for him:
You can donate to help fight childhood cancer here.http://chapelboro.com/news/health/former-tar-heels-helping-fight-childhood-cancer/
UNC graduate programs are very well represented in the 2016 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools" from the US News and World Report.
The new honors for UNC graduate programs includes the school of medicine, public health, nursing, business, law, and education – with specialty areas recognized within each department.
UNC Provost James Dean says the school is quite proud of the rankings.
"We have a lot of very strong graduate programs, and they generally are recognized by the US News rankings," he says. "But you can never take it for granted.
"It's possible that other competitors come in, and you move down. Or that something goes wrong within your own school and you move down."
Dean adds the rankings vary among the different disciplines, from very subjective views to more objective factors.
He says the precedent is for UNC to be involved in the discussion among the top programs in the country.
"I think it's fair to say that we do expect to be recognized. That's because of the quality of the programs," he says. "You get accustomed to being ranked among the top schools in the country, but you're never comfortable.
"You always have to worry about what else you can do, and what other schools might be doing, and what you need to do in order to compete."
Dean says one note he is especially proud of is the breadth of fields the university was recognized for.
"It says that we're a very comprehensive university. We have programs in almost all of the fields that US News ranks," he says. "I think the exception is engineering, and there might be another one.
"It's an expensive business to run graduate schools that comprehensively. And so we're grateful for the support of the people of North Carolina, who have supported the university for so long through their elected representatives."
In recent weeks, the graduate programs at UNC have been under scrutiny after revelations that exceptions were made to allow student-athletes into programs. Dean says he doesn't feel the lingering academic scandal plays any role in the evaluation of graduate programs offered at Carolina.
"The things that happened, happened some time ago. They ended years ago," he says. "And in the case of any implications for our graduate programs, I think that story identified one or two students out of tens of thousands of students that we've had over that period of time.
"It's certainly not anything systematic."
US News has ranked graduate programs annually since 1990.http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/unc-grad-programs-recognized/
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau sheds light on a question many local leaders have been asking for a long time- how do college students affect town and county poverty rates?
Rebecca Tippett is the Director of Carolina Demography at UNC's Carolina Population Center. She says off-campus students significantly inflate local poverty rates.
"In Chapel Hill the poverty rate cuts in half when you exclude them from the population, because the poverty rate among those students is so high, largely just because they're in school full-time and might not need to be working," says Tippett.
When off-campus students are not counted, Chapel Hill's poverty rate falls from 23.7 percent to 11.5 percent. At the county level, the rate drops from 18.8 percent to 14 percent.
The report used data from the 2009-2011 American Community Survey. It examined three groups of students, those living in dorms, those living with family members, and those living off-campus.
Students living in dorms, who account for 11 percent of the total student population nationwide, are never counted in the poverty rate.
Students living with family members account for 63 percent of the total. They are always included in poverty measures, as are the 25 percent of students living off-campus.
The report shows excluding the off-campus population has little impact on state poverty rates, but can make a big difference at the local level.
When it comes to estimating the need for social support services, government officials usually assume students are only temporarily living below the poverty line while they are in school full-time.
But Tippett says that's not always the case. She warns against excluding the student population from discussions of poverty all together.
"I do have some concerns about wanting to remove students from the impoverished population entirely," says Tippett. "I think it many cases, particularly when you're having conversations about the increasing challenge of student debt and the current job market, we do want to keep in mind that just because people are in school they don't all have parental support. They might be trying to work full time and can't make it. I think there are important nuances to this to keep in mind."
Tippett says this is an area where local governments should coordinate with schools and institutions to make sure student needs are met.
"Just because people are students, doesn't mean they don't have needs that are not being met by their work and loan packages," says Tippett. "I think this is a very tricky population and what it points to is the need to coordinate local government and school interaction to address this, to better understand what the student population is; who they are; what their needs are; how that might impact and interplay with the local government."
You can read the full report here.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/census-report-off-campus-student-population-inflates-local-poverty-rates/
The first step in determining the next President of the UNC System was taken by the Board of Governors on Wednesday.
Tom Ross is scheduled to leave that position in January of next year, following a decision by the BOG.
A nine-member nomination committee was unveiled during a conference call. That committee will nominate members to three committees that will be involved in the search process.
Those committees will consist of a leadership statement committee, a screening committee, and a search committee.
The leadership statement portion will involve campus leaders to put forward a description of the qualities the board is looking for in the next University System President.
From there, the screening committee will wade through applications.
The search committee will have the most influence in the process, including hiring a search consultant.
Nominations to each committee will likely come at the next Board of Governor's meeting on April 10 in Greenville, on the campus of East Carolina University.http://chapelboro.com/news/higher-education/bog-takes-1st-step-to-replacing-president-ross/
Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt made a big announcement Monday about Chapel Hill's Northside neighborhood. He spoke at the Hargraves Community Center to an audience of Northside residents, community leaders and local officials.
"UNC Chapel Hill is the new catalyst by providing a $3 million no-interest loan that will be managed by our friends from the Self Help Credit Union to lead the acquisition of properties in the neighborhood," said Kleinschmidt.
The 188-acre Northside neighborhood has historically been the largest African American neighborhood in Chapel Hill. Residents have moved out over the last few decades as developers have bought the properties to rent at a higher price than many families can afford. The landlords often rent houses to students.
Self Help will collaborate with community organizations to buy properties and hold them until they're ready for home ownership or rental housing.
According to a fact sheet from the project partners, in 1980 the U.S. Census found 1,200 black residents living in the neighborhood. In 2010, that number was 690.
That's a 40 percent reduction in the black population over three decades.
Esphur Foster, a 75-year-old Northside resident, spoke on growing up in the neighborhood. She uses the term Potter's Field, which is what Northside used to be called. She talked about one of the characters in the neighborhood, Aunt Lee, who "placed her hands on her high and wide hips with a cigarette dangling from her lips."
"One of the most amazing things was that the ashes never fell from her cigarette as she walked around doing chores and hollering at us," said Foster. "She said as loud as she could, 'Go home, go home, your mammy wants you home sometime.' . . . We scattered like the wind-driven leaves falling from the trees in the fall."
Four organizations will work in partnership on this program called the Northside Neighborhood Initiative. Self Help Credit Union will work with UNC, the town of Chapel Hill, and the Jackson Center for Saving and Making History, which is a grassroots advocacy organization.
The stated goals of the initiative are:
Many UNC faculty members, and citizen across the state, have expressed concern recently with the decision from the Board of Governors to close three centers across the UNC System. UNC Faculty Chair Doctor Bruce Cairns tells WCHL's Blake Hodge that the university's work on poverty will continue despite the decision to close the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at UNC.http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/unc-to-continue-work-on-poverty/

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Floyd Ahl 84 of Bismarck formerly of McClusky died Tuesday August 16, 2011 at the Medcenter One Hospital of Bismarck.
Funeral services will be held at the Calvary United Methodist Church of Bismarck on Saturday August 20, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.
Visitation will be held at the Hertz Funeral Home of McClusky on Friday August 19 from 2:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Burial will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the McClusky City Cemetery. Floyd was born February 11, 1927 at Goodrich, ND and was the son of John and Martha (Schmidt) Ahl and grew up in the Denhoff area. As a young man he worked on his father's farm. He also worked for area farmers. Floyd married Delores Blumhagen on September 16, 1950 in McClusky. They lived and farmed north of Pickardville before moving to the John Davis Ranch south of Denhoff. They moved into McClusky in 1972. He then worked on the McClusky Canal and for Swingen Construction during the 1980's. Floyd also worked as a custodian at the Sheridan County Court House and for the City of McClusky before retiring. They moved to Bismarck in 2008. Floyd was a member of the United Methodist Church of McClusky where he served as head usher for many years. He had been currently attending Calvary United Methodist Church in Bismarck. Floyd enjoyed working with horses, wood working and gardening.
Floyd is survived by his wife, Delores of Bismarck; daughters and sons-in-law, Nancy and Clarence Mertz and Linda and Curtis Mertz all of Bismarck; four grandchildren, Rob (Crystal) Mertz of Bismarck, Raynell Mertz of Fargo, Shayne (Alisha) Mertz of Bismarck; Alisa (Colton) Schulz of Bismarck; five great-grandchildren, Kaitlyn Mertz, Kaylee Mertz, Aaliya Mertz, Serena Mertz, Kyler Schulz; sister, Ruby Leabig of Oakland, CA; two half sisters, Peggy Weible of Minot, Betty Dockter of McClusky; three step-brothers, Merle Zumbaum of Anoka, MN, Edward Zumbaum of Minot, ND, Gary Zumbaum of Montana.
Floyd was preceded in death by his parents; step-mother, Ida Ahl; three infant sisters; two step-brothers, Lester Zumbaum and Dewaine Zumbaum.
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At the beginning of November Van Engelen has a sale, I think bulbs are half price then. (A potential problem is that they might have already sold out of the ones you want).
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If I wait until November will I have to store them in the fridge or will I still be able to plant them that late in the season as long as the ground is not frozen and I can still dig?
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You wouldn't have to store them in a fridge, but I'm not sure if that might be too late to plant in your zone. Late Nov is kinda iffy for frozen soil and planting here in my zone 5/6.
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Few brands have been as effectively and aggressively marketed as Coca-Cola, which was invented in 1886 by John S. Pemberton. Almost from day one, advertising materials, including signs, were produced to trumpet the virtues of the sweet, carbonated beverage. In fact, in his first year of business, Pemberton spent more money on advertising than he took in, producing, among other items, 14 outdoor signs painted on oilcloth and another 45 painted on tin. Today, thanks in part to his early obsession with advertising, Coca-Cola is one of the best-known brand names in the world.
The first metal Coca-Cola signs were lithographed or painted. Known as tackers, these signs were designed to be nailed directly through the metal and onto a wooden wall or fence. Even at this early moment in the company's history, Coca-Cola understood the power of the celebrity endorsement—by the end of the 19th century, the popular opera singer Hilda Clark was pitching the beverage on rectangular and oval signs, made out of everything from paper to metal.
By 1910 the short-lived era of large outdoor oilcloth signs had come to an end. Because these signs wore out quickly (they were no match for the elements), they were systematically replaced by more durable, and expensive, metal ones. Some of these large outdoor signs were similar to the tackers, but others were made of fired enamels that were baked until they created a porcelain surface on a base of iron or steel. Eyelets at the corners and sides were built into the design, since nailing through porcelain would destroy the sign.
The first of these porcelain signs were roughly eight-by-eight feet and got right to the point: "Ice Cold Coca-Cola Sold Here," they proclaimed. The Coke bottle depicted on the sign was straight sided—the company's trademark curved bottle, which resembled the contours of a hobble skirt and was nicknamed "Mae West," was not widely used until 1920.
Some tin signs were embossed, giving the brand's famous logo relief, while others were made of aluminum and coated in celluloid, which was less durable than porcelain but worked fine in interiors such as soda fountains and bars.
An especially popular sign from 1914 featured a model named "Betty." This marked a shift for the company away from high-brow celebrity toward something approaching sex appeal, although the young lady's attire and flirtatious gaze is certainly tame by 21st-century standards. Other signs on cardboard from this period admonished customers to ask for Coca-Cola by its full name, which was an effort by the company to combat competitors trying to capitalize on the parts or even misspellings of the brand's good name.
World War I brought severe sugar shortages, so very few signs were produced during these years, but in the 1920s the Coke advertising machine was in full swing again. One classic sign from this decade is the gas-station sign, which often had a chalk circle or triangle built into the sign so station attendants could write in that day's gas price. Larger signs had what are known as "privilege panels" above the Coca-Cola panel itself. These gave retailers space for signage of their own, in close proximity to the Coca-Cola panel, of course...
The 1920s were also when flange signs first came to prominence. These signs featured stenciled-and-fired enamel artwork on both sides of the sign, with a small right-angle flange at one end so the sign could be attached to a building and read by customers walking in opposite directions.
Another famous vintage Coca-Cola sign shape is the so-called red button, which was made by porcelain sign manufacturer Temco of Nashville, Tennessee, among others. The red button sign shape found its way onto Coca-Cola clocks, metal trays, and calendars, as well as flange signs. Shield signs forced the logo into a triangular shape, while rectangular signs were jazzed up by placing the logo within a fishtail shape.
As with the rest of popular culture, Coca-Cola signs changed with the times. For example, the frames of Coca-Cola signs exhibit distinctively Art Deco touches through the 1930s, while the signs themselves often feature mirrored or reverse-painted black glass. In fact, despite the Depression, the 1930s were a big decade for Coca-Cola signage—in 1934 alone, for example, the company offered 28 different styles of signs to its retailers, plus four versions designed just for coolers.
The 1940s saw the arrival of a new Betty on Coca-Cola signs, but new metal signs were put on hold due to the needs of World War II. Untold numbers of porcelain signs were scrapped for the war effort, which, of course, has led to their current scarcity and popularity among collectors. After the war, porcelain signage fell out of favor for less-expensive alternatives such as aluminum and eventually plastic.
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Absolutely. My girls fell in love with Pippi after listening to the story. They have gone to the library and checked out more Pippi books.
Since the Pippi books are limited, we may listen to another Trixie Beldon book.
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By VyckieQ: What is "Quiverfull?""Quiverfull" is a convenient, though I believe, somewhat unfortunate term which we're using at No Longer Quivering to describe a family lifestyle which is growing in popularity among evangelical Christians ~ particularly those who home educate their children.Quiverfull ~ is the idea that truly godly families will "trust the Lord" with their family planning. Children are viewed as unmitigated blessings ("As arrows in the hand of the mighty man, so are the children of ones youth, happy is the man who hath his quiver full of them") and as such, the couple is willing to have as many children as the Lord chooses to bless them with. Artificia … [Read more...]
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Women's Day at Howard Third Zion
Howard Third Zion Travelers Baptist Church will conduct Women's Day services at 10 a.m. Sunday.
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Ruffin will also be guest speaker for Women's Day services at 3 p.m. Aug. 24 at St. Phillip Baptist Church in Labadieville.
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New wok, things to do with it?
I bought Nordic Ware commercial-grade non-stick wok at Costco today for about $25 thinking it might be good for healthy, quick meals now and when I go back to school in the fall.
I love most Asian food but am not a big fan of Chinese for some reason - maybe just too much bad quality from take-out joints. I also need to avoid MSG and additives.
Can anyone suggest some good recipes?
Thanks :)
I like using my wok, and as long as you use a healthy oil and only a bit of it, should be able to create a meal that's both delicious and healthy at the same time. I use canola oil.
One of our favorite recipes:
Chicken and Vegetable Stir Fry
1 lb chicken breast, boneless and skinless - chopped in small pieces
soy sauce
canola oil
2 bags (12 oz) frozen vegetables of your choice
1-1/2 to 2 cups cooked white or brown rice
Start the rice cooking in your favorite manner. Heat up the wok, add a little canola oil to the bottom and heat it up. In the meantime, marinate the raw chicken with a little bit of the soy sauce. When the oil is heated up, cook the chicken breast meat in it. Stir fast and often while it's cooking. When the chicken is cooked thoroughly, move it to a bowl and let it sit.
Add a little more canola oil (not much) and add the 2 bags of frozen vegetables. Add 1 tbsp water and cover. Let them steam - usually 10-15 minutes. When the vegies are thoroughly cooked, add the cooked chicken and stir it all together.
In a gravy shaker, mix 1 tbsp soy sauce and 1/2 tsp cornstarch. Shake. Pour over the chicken and veggie mixture and stir fry.
Serve over white or brown rice.
Types of veggies I've used:
"California Mix"
"Stir Fry Vegetables"
"Stir Fry with Asparagus"
"Oriental Stir Fry with Water Chestnuts"
"Winter Mix"
I vary these by who's eating or what's on sale. My husband doesn't like snap peas in his. I personally don't care.
I think the terms "wok" and non-stick are mutually exclusive. To properly stir fry, that for the vegetables to be quickly cooked and slightly browned but still crisp, you need to have your wok very hot....and a non stick coating doesn't do well getting very hot. In my opinion it's unsafe. Now realize I use non stick fry pans all the time for eggs and to sautee veggies and to saute chicken breasts....but I don't cook at high heat with non stick.
That said...my favorite thing to cook in a wok, you can decide if it's safe in your wok or not, is chicken and vegetables.
For 2...or 2 servings, I slice a whole chicken breast into slices and put it to marinate in..
1T Cornstarch mixed with
1/3 cup water
Let the chicken slices marinate in this while you cut up the rest of the veggies.
1 small sweet yellow onion cut into thin slices
3 big celery ribs cut into 1/8 inch slices
1/4 green pepper, cut into thin slices
1 small zucchini cubed
4 oz button mushrooms, brushed clean
2/3 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
2/3 cup fresh broccoli florets, washed.
Cooking sauce:
1/4 cup dry white wine...or saki or white grape juice
1/2 tsp grated fresh ginger
2 tsps soy sauce...1 T corn starch..
Mix all
Heat your wok for 5 to 8 minutes on high.
Put into it 1 T oil...canola or peanut oil
Add the chicken, toss and cook until no longer pink, about 3 minutes.
Remove chicken to plate, wipe out wok with paper towel and return to fire for 2 or 3 minutes...
Add 2 Tablespoons oil and immediatly add the onions and celery
Toss and cook for 2 minutes and add the broccoli continue to cook gor another 2 minutes and add the zuchinni, cook 1 minute and add the tomatoes and mushrooms, cook and toss for 3 to 4 minutes, return the chicken to the wok, toss and cook 1 minute,,,add the sauce mix, toss and cook until well mixed, turn the fire down to very low, cover and cook 1 minute while you plate the rice....serve over rice.
Linda C
4 tablespoons wine vinegar
4 tablespoons soy sauce
4 teaspoons sugar
14 ounces raw boneless skinned chicken breast, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2 teaspoons oil
3 green onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2-1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 teaspoon minced or grated fresh ginger OR 1/2 teaspoon dried
4 cups cooked rice
Mix together vinegar, soy sauce, and sugar, set aside.
Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet or wok. Toss chicken pieces in cornstarch, then stir fry them 5-7 minutes until cooked.
Remove from pan and add onion, garlic, red pepper, and ginger. Stir fry 15 seconds.
Add vinegar mixture, cashews, chicken, stirring to coat chicken, about 2 minutes. Serve over rice.
I added mushrooms, pea pods, broccoli and water chestnuts!
Check out my Stir-fry "how to" under Cooking Techniques on our FAQ page!
Here is a link that might be useful: Cooking Forum FAQ page - Stir-Fry
To return it or not is up to you. Surely you are aware of all the controversity over the safety of non stick coatings on cookware. The word is they give off fumes when heated to high temperatures. There are even warnings about using non stick cookware if you have a bird near the kitchen.
Now...I am not a fear monger...I have a stack of several sizes of non stick skillets, but I use them for things that don't need high heat, eggs, sauteed onions, mushrooms, frying fish....things that don't need a blazing hot pan.
Check the link posted....scroll to the Cooks Illustrated article and make your own decision.
Linda C
Here is a link that might be useful: About
A non-stick wok is basically a bowl-shaped saute pan that you shouldn't heat hot enough to really stir-fry. Goldgirl, if you have a gas stove, you can pick up a real wok quite cheaply in any Chinatown (if you live close to one) or online...of course you'll have to temper it like you do an iron frypan. However, modern gas stoves really don't allow for the kind of heat classic stir-frying requires, and with an electric, forget it. See, a wok is designed with the idea of flames coming up the sides, creating a large, hot surface that the food (because of the slope) naturally tends to fall off, only to be tossed back up. So, the food is cooked by repeated but relatively brief contact with a very hot surface. This sears in juices and cooks through at the same time.
In a nonstick, or over an inadequate heat source, the searing heat isn't possible, and so juices leach out of the vegetables, creating more of a "steaming" effect, which is what you'd get with a saute pan.
The wok "effect" is more easily achieved with a good, heavy stainless saute pan used with constant "flipping" of the food being cooked over a high heat than with a wok over a modern gas or electric heat.
What LindaC and Rachel said is true, goldgirl. If you are serious about using your wok, you should think about getting a different one, preferably iron or steel with a dome and two handles. Properly seasoned, a wok usually just swishes clean. I have had to deal with some awful messes, though.
That said, I love my wok. It's an ugly mess after all these years, but I use it for more than stir fry. I fill it with oil and fry chicken, french fries, battered mushrooms, onion rings, etc. I don't have a deep-fryer, and the wok works great. Of course, I do use it for stir frying as well, but it is versatile.
I hope you'll enjoy using yours, whatever you decide.
My wok happens to be an electric non-stick - West Bend from probably 20 years back or so. It's the 2nd one I've owned. While the other posters are correct that it doesn't get superbly hot, it does just fine in creating a healthy meal on very little fat. I haven't had a gas stove in years, and I did have one of those stove-top heavy woks when I started using a wok. When we moved to an Aleutian island that had electric stoves (no natural gas to the island, even our furnaces were electric, though some homes were heated by jet fuel), I had no choice- give up the stove top wok and go to an electric.
Mine does just fine.
I also use my wok for deep frying, as well as for making popcorn - I can make huge batches at a time. I like to deep fry empanadas, quesadillas (made with fresh masa), tempura, fish, hush puppies, and panzarotti. On occasion, I also make beignets.
Here's my Pad Thai recipe, which is a traditional stir fry, but is not at all Chinese in flavor. If you don't have tamarind paste, you can substitute tamarind sauce and double the amount of tamarind and halve the amount of water added to it. The paste generally has a better flavor, however.
When I started investigating woks I thought non-stick would be at the top of my list! Then I found out they aren't even recommended. The experts all agree that a steel wok is the best way to go, and actually the thinner hammered ones are what the experts use. If you do a search on woks in Google you will come up with tons of information.
I personally went to a Chinese restaurant that I go to fairly often and talked to there chef. He was really happy that I was asking and explained the whole thing.
By the way, in his kitchen they have woks that are about 3 to 3.5 feet in diameter at the top!!!!


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Raised Beds - what material to make them out of?
I live in the LA area and want to put about 4 4'x12' raised beds in my backyard. I am researching materials - composites like Trex/Weatherboard, Vinyls (e.g. Orcaboard),
and am told even the Trex-like composites can get terminates and the vinyls expensive to ship to LA. I am also hearing stories of redwood getting termites. I want something that will last 5-10 years and pretty simple but durable. Ideas?
Just like pain...everyone seems to have a different tolerance.
If you are not too picky....I say use whatever you have or can get free or reasonable.
Using the search feature at the top of the forum you will find enuff to cause total confusion. I linked MY fav below.
I recently saw someone on Craigslist who had excess Trex from a deck project but that was in CT. It may be worth a shot if that is what you want.
I do NOT see how any composite could get termites. Might leach something else into the soil but termites? Kinda curious where you heard that?
Just plain would wood (ha) give you 5-8 yrs, I am sure.
Good Luck in whatever YOU choose.
Here is a link that might be useful: Borders for Bed Gardening
I agree. Decent wood should last you a few years. Otherwise you can use concrete cinder blocks. Go to a supplier and if you want to save money, you can ask if they have slightly damaged ones. They often sell these at a good discount and you don't lose functionality.
If money is no object, you can look in deck material made from recycled plastics which will last a lifetime.
Over the years I've done uncontained dirt mounds, 2 by X wood of several types, large rocks, standard concrete blocks, RR ties, landscape timbers, used tires, discarded water heaters laid on side, and a few other items. They all worked, more or less.
For the last few years I've gone to poured in place concrete. Strong (no need to be careful with the shovel), permanent, not that expensive, and where called for they can be dressed up to look nice.
A 4" thick, 12 to 14" high wall is about $2 a running foot, say $65 for a 4 by 12 bed, for the plain jane type.
I use cedar. Pests don't bother it and it takes a long time (10 years or more depending on climate) to rot to the point it loses structural integrity.
If you want to stay away from wood entirely due to termite concerns then use the synthetic deck material or cinder blocks or poured concrete as pls8xx suggested.
Personally I like the idea of cinder blocks. They can be painted to look nice and the small 'pockets' can be used to grow drought tolerant plants as an added bonus. They will last pretty much forever.
For what it is worth, my first raised beds I made about 5 years ago I went on an ultra cheap way. I used 1/4 inch plywood cut to 12 in. with 2x4 every 4 feet sunk into the ground. I later found out that every 2 ft worked better. They lasted 5 years. This year I did them with 2x10. They should last a bit longer, but were really expensive. I think when I redo them next time I am going to spring for concrete block and do it once and for all. It will last forever that way.
to add to my previous post I don't believe composite materials would get termites. I think you got bum info there. Cedar and redwood are unlikely to get them either, but composite materials simply lack any food for them so I consider it extremely unlikely. Get a second opinion if composite material is what you wish to go with.
I worked for a lumber yard for a few years while completing my last degree. Trex or other similar composits contain wood pulp, and although I don't believe termites will be that interested, it does have a tendency to mold pretty bad. They even sell a cleaner specifically for the composite wood decking to remove it. I had this happen personally. I went with 100% PVC decking that was on clearance in the bargain area of a Menards. The store manager made me a great deal since I took it all off his hands. Then I cut it up and burried it 1/2 way into the ground so about 3" is exposed. I also used it for the path between by beds. All in all, I was impressed. The decking was by Royal products I believe.
I use stacked broken concrete, old sidewalk material is nice to use-- it's usually flat on both sides easy to break into usaeable pieces, has a consistant thickness, as it ages it takes on an appearance similar to field stone and tends to stay in place. you can use construction adhesive to hold it in place, or just dry stack it. i've got one wall thats about 2 foot tall-- thats all the more i'll dry stack it, about 40 foot long and about 1 foot deep. i've seen it used as retaining wall material stacked about 12 foot tall. its usually very cheap(=free) and you are recycling. soil tends to wash thru it if it's spaced too far apart, or you can line it with landscaping fabric. seems to last forever
I was desperate to find something VERY cheap. I found 1X1 concrete blocks (for patios), but they were still over my budget. On a whim, I stopped at our local Restore (Habitat for Humanity). Browsing the shelves, I came across all sizes and colors of ceramic tile. When I discovered the price was only $.25 (yes, twenty-five cents!!) apiece, I decided to give it a try. I plan to double them up, staggering the tiles on the inside of the bed. Burying them half way up still leaves plenty sticking out of the ground. I will use rebar stakes to reinforce the corners. They are not in the ground yet, and this may be a flop, but the price was right!!


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