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I can't remember how many times I tried to make fried rice back when I started cooking on my own before I learned that cold rice is the key to keep in from sticking together into one lump. It was a great day. Fried rice is a great way to use up extra rice, but I usually try to make a few extra cups so I can make fried rice on Asian night. This recipe has wonderful flavour, and the key is the coconut. Make sure you toast it but don't burn it.
- 1/2 cup raw cashews
- 2/3 cup unsweetened coconut
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 tsp red curry paste (or more to taste)
- 4 cups cooked jasmine rice, cold
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sweet chili sauce
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 cup frozen French cut green beans, thawed
- 2 baby bok choy, thinly sliced
- 3 green onions, sliced
- 1 vegan omelet, rolled and sliced (optional)
- juice of 1 lime
1. Heat a wok over medium heat. Dry fry the cashews and coconut, stirring constantly, for a minute or so, until lightly golden and fragrant. Set aside.
2. Increase heat to med-hi and add oil. Stir fry garlic for 30 seconds, until lightly golden, then add in curry paste and rice and fry for a few mins, until heated through.
3. Add brown sugar, sauces, and vinegar and mix well. Add in beans and bok choy and fry until bok choy is wilted but still nice and green. Add in onions, coconut, and cashews and cook for a few mins more.
4. Mix in omelet slices and lime juice and serve.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Thai Fried Rice
I can't remember how many times I tried to make fried rice back when I started cooking on my own before I learned that cold rice is the key to keep in from sticking together into one lump. It was a great day. Fried rice is a great way to use up extra rice, but I usually try to make a few extra cups so I can make fried rice on Asian night. This recipe has wonderful flavour, and the key is the coconut. Make sure you toast it but don't burn it.
19 comments:
- Sandra said...
Very nice photo and the food seems delicious! Fried rice is yummy. Love your blog, all the best to you and your family!
A fan and vegan from Estonia.
- November 15, 2009 at 9:13 PM
- Trinity (of haiku tofu) said...
That looks awesome! I love making fried rice, but I always use a flavor packet (the SHAME!). Now I can do the respectable thing and make it from scratch.
- November 15, 2009 at 9:20 PM
- yasmin said...
You have an Asian night? I don't know if you've discussed this on your blog before, but it would be nice if you would do a post on meal planning.
- November 15, 2009 at 9:53 PM
- Marissa said...
YUM! I am totally making this ASAP! Sooo perfect!
- November 15, 2009 at 10:21 PM
- Toni said...
I've never had the leftover rice phenomenon. I always have to make rice for the specific purpose of fried rice. Which is fine by me.
This looks great and will be consumed in my home in the next few weeks for sure.
- November 16, 2009 at 1:58 AM
- Oraphan said...
That fried rice looks and sounds absolutely delicious!!! I'm a BIG fan of fried rice but I've never tried something like this before, YUM! I love the idea of adding omelet slices and lime juice before serving, mmmm!!!
- November 16, 2009 at 3:41 AM
- Kate said...
I just tried this out. I altered it a bit to use what I had on hand, almonds instead of cashews, a gree curry sauce instead of the paste, for example. It was pretty darn good. Thanks for giving me something new to try.
Just as soon as some financial stuff get sorted, you have my word that I'll buy your cookbook!
- November 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM
- blissfulbellas said...
Thanks for this! I've been wanting to try fried rice, and the addiction of coconut makes its appeal even stronger.
- November 18, 2009 at 7:37 AM
- Laurie said...
This looks SO good. I haven't had Thai food since I lived in Brantford and was served a giant chunk of chicken in my 'veggie' curry at My Thai. Haven't eaten at a restaurant since, sadly.
I'll have to make a trip downtown and get myself some curry paste so I can make this the right way.
- November 18, 2009 at 3:25 PM
- Claire L said...
Hey VeganDad, I love your blog and check it out all the time for updates. I have a quick question about baking, if you'd be willing to help me out.
I'm a college student who makes all of my bread and tortillas rather than buying them, but I can NEVER get my pita breads to make a pocket. They're still wonderful, and I usually end up just using them as flatbread. How do you make your pita bread so perfect? (I usually use white spelt flour, with a quarter of the flour whole wheat).
- November 19, 2009 at 7:18 AM
- blessedmama said...
Looks absolutely delicious!
- November 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- White Haired Veg said...
My comment has nothing to do with your most recent post, but I just wanted to say: a) how much I enjoy your blog (it's one of those that inspired me to start my own blog - whitehairedveg.blogspot.com), and b) I love the recipe you posted earlier for pumpkin scones. I've been making it a lot lately - so easy and tasty! Keep up the good work!
- November 19, 2009 at 3:23 PM
- Anonymous said...
I made this last night and it was a hit. Simply delicious. Thank you for sharing all these wonderful recipes
- November 20, 2009 at 10:42 AM
- Dairy Free Betty said...
Yumm... That Thai friend rice look soo delicious! I was searching for a recipe for this last night!! Glad I found it!
- November 20, 2009 at 6:17 PM
- Sandra said...
Dude, I made your Creamy Chunky Cauliflower Chowder last night and I just had to say thank you!!! It is so unbelievably delicious, even my cauliflower hating husband LOVES it. "Really? There's no dairy in this? No cream?" I smiled and told him about this Vegan Dad guy I heard about on Crazy Sexy Life. I will be a regular reader of your blog from now on. Thank you, Chef!
- November 21, 2009 at 8:06 PM
- Lauren said...
I have attempted to make fried rice many times but it always ends in a big mushy mess. I do a fare bit of cooking but for some reason I can't seem to get rice right. I have even used cold rice as you suggested. Is it the type of rice that makes the difference?
- November 22, 2009 at 12:52 AM
- cko said...
i just made my own version of this -- it was great.
however, i think in your recipe you don't indicate when to reincorporate the nuts and coconut. i added them at the end to reheat them with the rest of the mixture.
- November 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
I usually use jasmine rice, but basmati makes a non-sticky, foolproof fried rice as well.
- November 25, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Claire L,
The trick is heating the baking sheets that the pitas are baked on. The oven should be at around 450 degrees, with the sheets in it. This will heat both sides of the pita and make it puff up.
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WHAT: Panel discussion on women in the culinary arts followed by a post-panel networking reception catered by the students of the Steinhardt Food Studies and Food Management Program
WHEN: Tuesday, April 27th, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Paulson Auditorium, Tisch Hall, NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business 40 West 4th St., New York, NY 10012 (between University Pl. and Greene)
WHO: Sylvie Bigar, freelance food and travel writer; her work appears regularly in Food Arts, National Geographic Traveler, Departures, Time Out New York and France Guide
Florence Fabricant, food, restaurant and wine columnist for The New York Times; author of 11 cookbooks: 2007 NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science Alumni/Alumnae Award Winner
Rozanne Gold, first chef to Mayor Ed Koch: international food and restaurant consultant (Rainbow Room and Windows on the World); four-time James Beard award-winning chef; & author of 12 cookbooks
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Going door to door, students of Dakota Wesleyan University's annual Freshman Food Drive hope to stock some shelves.
Every fall, freshmen and transfer students are encouraged to take part in orientation weekend, which is filled with activities to help new students acclimate to the campus, the community and meet new friends. One of those activities is the annual DWU Freshman Food Drive for the Salvation Army Food Pantry. Freshmen and new students will canvass the city for donations. This year's drive will be from noon to 3 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 25, and residents will know the students by their DWU orientation T-shirts.
Last year's food drive was an all-time record of 4,350 pounds, a steady increase from the previous year's 3,994 pounds and 2011's 2,400 pounds.
"The Freshman Food Drive is a tradition at DWU that encourages volunteerism in our students and gives them a realistic look at how a relatively small group of strangers can band together for just a short time and make a profound impact on their community," said Brandon Vetter, campus pastor. "The food drive is about giving back to Mitchell, as well as introducing new DWU students to the university's motto of 'Sacrifice or Service.' We believe in practicing what we preach."
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"The food pantry's needs have never really gone down for quite some time, really since the recession," said Major Linda Jones, of the Salvation Army. "When I first came here seven years ago, we were only servicing 300 people from the pantry, now we serve 600-900. The main reason, I think, that we're not seeing a drop is that people don't have full time jobs; they're trying to do two jobs to make ends meet. A lot of people who come in for assistance are working but they aren't working full time."
The food pantry is about a quarter full and the DWU food drive will fill its shelves for the back-to-school months. The Boy Scouts' fundraiser in October will also be a great help, Jones said. The food pantry has received donations this summer of fresh vegetables and has distributed them as the donations arrived, and Jones said they are grateful for any fresh vegetables people choose to donate.
The food pantry is open from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday-Friday, for donations and donations may be dropped off from 3 to 6 p.m. at the thrift store.
DWU is a private, liberal arts university associated with the Dakotas Conference of the United Methodist Church. For more information about Dakota Wesleyan University and other service learning projects, go to www.dwu.edu.


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On Monday December 17, 2012 from 2pm to 6pm the Shawnee County Department of Emergency Management will be at Shawnee Lake's Reynolds Lodge, Tinman Circle, Topeka, KS, 66605, Topeka, KS, to sell discounted weather radios.
The Midland WR120 "All Hazards Radio" radios will be sold at a price of $7.70 and must be purchased with cash only. The radios will be sold at a first come first serve basis. Purchasers must be able to show they are a resident of Shawnee County at the time of purchase. One radio per address is allowed under the grant guidelines.
The discounted radios are part of the All Hazards Weather Radio Grant program the department has been working since October 2012. This will be the last opportunity to purchase the radios from the department in 2012. There are approximately 150 radios remaining.
The department will also be hosting a Citizens Corps dinner from 7:00 pm to 9:00pm at the same location.
The mission of Citizen Corps is to harness the power of every individual through education, training, and volunteer service to make communities safer, stronger, and better prepared to respond to the threats of terrorism, crime, public health issues, and disasters of all kinds. Volunteer groups associated with Citizens Corps in Shawnee County consist of the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS), Capitol Area Animal Response Team (CAART) and the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).
CERT has been instrumental in the weather radio distribution by volunteering hundreds of hours in setting up, programming and selling the weather radios.
Call the Shawnee County Department of Emergency Management at 785-233-8200 Ext. 4152 or Ext 4153 if you have any questions.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – Suffering a regional setback Wednesday evening at Belmont Abbey, Anderson University wrestling hits the road once again for a key regional dual with King on Saturday beginning at 3 p.m. at King's Student Center Complex.
The Trojans
After earning its first win of the season with a 30-22 victory over Central Florida at the Virginia Duals last weekend, AU was unable to continue its winning ways on Wednesday, falling to Belmont Abbey. Despite the setback, a pair of Trojans added wins to their overall record, highlighted by sophomore Zak Hale's win at 141.
Hale picked up his 11th straight win on the season, moving to 11-3 overall with a second period pin over BAC's Clemente Narviaz. The win by fall was Hale's fourth straight pin, as five of his 11 wins have come by fall.
Joining Hale in the win column against the Crusaders was graduate student Zane Newton who earned his 10th win on the year, moving to 10-5 overall. Newton tallied a narrow 10-9 decision over John Glunt at 157, as the Greenwood, S.C. native is 9-3 at 157 for the year.
Snapping his six-bout winning streak on Wednesday evening, junior Sean Turner looks to bounce back at 149 after losing by fall to Sean Webb. For the year, Turner is 6-2 and is ranked No. 7 regionally in the latest Basford Rankings.
The Tornado
Competing in just three duals prior to Saturday's matchup, King enters Saturday with a 1-2 record with back-to-back setbacks to Coker (23-15) and Limestone (22-21). Prior to the loss, the Tornado earned a 27-14 win over Brewton-Parker in a neutral site dual at Coker. Before their dual schedule, the Tornado placed 14th at the Midwest Classic to close their 2013 schedule.
Leading the way with the most wins on the team (18) is the duo of heavyweight Garrett Fosdyck and Frank Yattoni (149). Despite leading the team in victories, Yattoni dropped a 5-2 decision to Limestone's Melchiesedac LaVargne, while Fosdyck added a first period pin over Jeremiah Parker.
Follow the tandem are junior Chance Smith (149), who sat out against Limestone, and Eldon Valery (184) as they each carry 16 wins on the year. Valery was unable to add on to his win total against Limestone, falling 2-0 to Justin Tribble at 197.
The Series
Saturday's dual marks the first time Anderson and King will square off since the 2005-06 season as AU knocked off the Tornado 36-15 on Feb. 4, 2006.


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When it comes to setting up DRBD and MySQL, is the following possible?
- Set up DRBD on an active MySQL server
- Set up DRBD with no downtime allowed
Unfortunately, it is not possible to do either one.
Once you create
You want DRBD to house MySQL Data. Here is what you must do instead
As shown, stopping mysqld is mandatory.
There is something incredibly tough you can try
STEP 01) Setup DRBD on Separate ServerDB2
As I mentioned earlier, you can house mysql on a DRBD mount.
STEP 02) Setup MySQL Replication
Huh ??? How did MySQL Replication enter the picture
STEP 03) Failover Your Application
In simple English, use the IP address of ServerDB2 in your application instead of ServerDB1
You should wait and make sure you have a low peak time to do this failover
STEP 04) Setup DRBD on Separate ServerDB1
This is an oversimplified description but you can look up the actual code to sync a DRBD pair
Here is my old DRBD download-and-install script
You can go to www.drbd.org to find out the latest version number and update the aforemtioned script
Give it a Try !!!


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What is the Monkeysphere?
"One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic."
-Kevin Federline
What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere.
"What the Hell is the Monkeysphere?"
First, picture a monkey. A monkey dressed like a little pirate, if that helps you. We'll call him Slappy.
Imagine you have Slappy as a pet. Imagine a personality for him. Maybe you and he have little pirate monkey adventures and maybe even join up to fight crime. Think how sad you'd be if Slappy died.
Now, imagine you get four more monkeys. We'll call them Tito, Bubbles, Marcel and ShitTosser. Imagine personalities for each of them now. Maybe one is aggressive, one is affectionate, one is quiet, the other just throws shit all the time. But they're all your personal monkey friends.
Now imagine a hundred monkeys.
Not so easy now, is it? So how many monkeys would you have to own before you couldn't remember their names? At what point, in your mind, do your beloved pets become just a faceless sea of monkey? Even though each one is every bit the monkey Slappy was, there's a certain point where you will no longer really care if one of them dies.
So how many monkeys would it take before you stopped caring?
That's not a rhetorical question. We actually know the number.
"So this whole thing is your crusade against monkey overpopulation? I'll have my monkey castrated this very day!"
Uh, no. It'll become clear in a moment.
You see, monkey experts performed a monkey study a while back, and discovered that the size of the monkey's monkey brain determined the size of the monkey groups the monkeys formed. The bigger the brain, the bigger the little societies they built.
They cut up so many monkey brains, in fact, that they found they could actually take a brain they had never seen before and from it they could accurately predict what size tribes that species of creature formed.
Most monkeys operate in troupes of 50 or so. But somebody slipped them a slightly larger brain and they estimated the ideal group or society for this particular animal was about 150.
That brain, of course, was human. Probably from a homeless man they snatched off the streets.
"So that's the big news? That humans are God's big-budget sequel to the monkey? Who didn't know that?"
It goes much, much deeper than that. Let's try an example.
Famous news talking guy Tim Russert tells a charming story about his father, in his book Big Russ and Me (the title referring to his on-and-off romance with actor Russell Crowe). Russert's dad used to take half an hour to carefully box up any broken glass before taking it to the trash. Why? Because "The trash guy might cut his hands."
That this was such an unusual thing to do illustrates my monkey point. None of us spend much time worrying about the garbage man's welfare even though he performs a crucial role in not forcing us to live in a cave carved from a mountain of our own filth. We don't usually consider his safety or comfort at all and if we do, it's not in the same way we would worry over our best friend or wife or girlfriend or even our dog.
People toss half-full bottles of drain cleaner right into the barrel, without a second thought of what would happen if the trash man got it splattered into his eyes. Why? Because the trash guy exists outside the Monkeysphere.
"There's that word again..."
The Monkeysphere is the group of people who each of us, using our monkeyish brains, are able to conceptualize as people. If the monkey scientists are monkey right, it's physically impossible for this to be a number much larger than 150.
Most of us do not have room in our Monkeysphere for our friendly neighborhood sanitation worker. So, we don't think of him as a person. We think of him as The Thing That Makes The Trash Go Away.
And even if you happen to know and like your particular garbage man, at one point or another we all have limits to our sphere of monkey concern. It's the way our brains are built. We each have a certain circle of people who we think of as people, usually our own friends and family and neighbors, and then maybe some classmates or coworkers or church or suicide cult.
Those who exist outside that core group of a few dozen people are not people to us. They're sort of one-dimensional bit characters.
Remember the first time, as a kid, you met one of your school teachers outside the classroom? Maybe you saw old Miss Puckerson at Taco Bell eating refried beans through a straw, or saw your principal walking out of a dildo shop. Do you remember that surreal feeling you had when you saw these people actually had lives outside the classroom?
I mean, they're not people. They're teachers.
"So? What difference does all this make?"
Oh, not much. It's just the one single reason society doesn't work.
It's like this: which would upset you more, your best friend dying, or a dozen kids across town getting killed because their bus collided with a truck hauling killer bees? Which would hit you harder, your Mom dying, or seeing on the news that 15,000 people died in an earthquake in Iran?
They're all humans and they are all equally dead. But the closer to our Monkeysphere they are, the more it means to us. Just as your death won't mean anything to the Chinese or, for that matter, hardly anyone else more than 100 feet or so from where you're sitting right now.
"Why should I feel bad for them? I don't even know those people!"
Exactly. This is so ingrained that to even suggest you should feel their deaths as deeply as that of your best friend sounds a little ridiculous. We are hard-wired to have a drastic double standard for the people inside our Monkeysphere versus the 99.999% of the world's population who are on the outside.
Think about this the next time you get really pissed off in traffic, when you start throwing finger gestures and wedging your head out of the window to scream, "LEARN TO FUCKING DRIVE, FUCKER!!" Try to imagine acting like that in a smaller group. Like if you're standing in an elevator with two friends and a coworker, and the friend goes to hit a button and accidentally punches the wrong one. Would you lean over, your mouth two inches from her ear, and scream "LEARN TO OPERATE THE FUCKING ELEVATOR BUTTONS, SHITCAMEL!!"
They'd think you'd gone insane. We all go a little insane, though, when we get in a group larger than the Monkeysphere. That's why you get that weird feeling of anonymous invincibility when you're sitting in a large crowd, screaming curses at a football player you'd never dare say to his face.
"Well, I'm nice to strangers. Have you considered that maybe you're just an asshole?"
Sure, you probably don't go out of your way to be mean to strangers. You don't go out of your way to be mean to stray dogs, either.
The problem is that eventually, the needs of you or those within your Monkeysphere will require screwing someone outside it (even if that need is just venting some tension and anger via exaggerated insults). This is why most of us wouldn't dream of stealing money from the pocket of the old lady next door, but don't mind stealing cable, adding a shady exemption on our tax return, or quietly celebrating when they forget to charge us for something at the restaurant.
You may have a list of rationalizations long enough to circle the Earth, but the truth is that in our monkey brains the old woman next door is a human being while the cable company is a big, cold, faceless machine. That the company is, in reality, nothing but a group of people every bit as human as the old lady, or that some kind old ladies actually work there and would lose their jobs if enough cable were stolen, rarely occurs to us.
That's one of the ingenious things about the big-time religions, by the way. The old religious writers knew it was easier to put the screws to a stranger, so they taught us to get a personal idea of a God in our heads who says, "No matter who you hurt, you're really hurting me. Also, I can crush you like a grape." You must admit that if they weren't writing words inspired by the Almighty, they at least understood the Monkeysphere.
It's everywhere. Once you grasp the concept, you can see examples all around you. You'll walk the streets in a daze, like Roddy Piper after putting on his X-ray sunglasses in They Live.
But wait, because this gets much bigger and much, much stranger...
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One of the components of my company's product is a Windows service, written in C#. It's dependent on .NET and on a few other libraries, none especially large. It works perfectly when started normally, but doesn't start automatically when the system is booted, even though we configured it to.
This is because there's a thirty second time limit on service startup: if your service takes more than 30 seconds to load, Windows gets bored and kills it. The usual solution is
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The ACLU recently released a report that Racial Profiling was not only occurring in Gwinnett County, but was prevalent as a result of the 287(g) program. The report is full of false information, false allegations and untruths. While the ACLU indicts this agency and other Gwinnett law enforcement agencies repeatedly as agencies who indulge in racial profiling, they also acknowledge twice in the same report that they don't have enough information to actually know if racial profiling is occurring. The following is our rebuttal to that report issue by issue:
The report begins on page 5.
Page 5:
The ACLU cites the Case of "Juan." They acknowledge pseudonyms are used and not actual names. They state Juan was pulled over by Gwinnett Sheriff's deputies. That is very unlikely. Gwinnett deputies are out serving criminal warrants and civil papers and do not answer calls for service or run traffic stops unless someone is obviously violating the law in front of them. At any rate, there would be a record of the stop and the details if it occurred, but the ACLU never requests such records from the Sheriff's Department or the Police Department. "Juan" was not arrested so he would not have been checked for his immigration status.
ACLU – "Georgia is among those states that have no laws to prohibit racial profiling, as the Georgia General Assembly has rejected repeated attempts to pass such a law. Accordingly, law enforcement personnel throughout Georgia may continue to stop individuals based solely on their race or ethnicity, often without any measure of accountability. This is of particular concern in Gwinnett County, where testimonies affirm that officers disproportionately target people of color for pretextual stops, investigations and enforcement."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – The Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office and the police agencies in Gwinnett all have anti racial profiling policies. We do not tolerate racial profiling under any circumstances and there are procedures in place to deal with any officer who racially profiles. Their statements above are completely untrue and they have no evidence to back up their allegations.
ACLU – States incidents of racial profiling "have been particularly exacerbated" after 287(g) began and that the ACLU is receiving complaints from "drivers, pedestrians, and Gwinnett community members showing that police officers are targeting immigrants and people of color for stops, searches and interrogations."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Absolutely false. Nothing has been reported to us by any citizen. In fact, the ACLU could have easily verified the accuracy of the ten stories being given to them by the 10 people listed under pseudonyms in their report, but they chose not to even attempt to verify those allegations and instead listed them as fact. We will address those cases point by point later in this document.
ACLU – "Legislation aimed at curtailing unauthorized immigration has caused many officers to unlawfully detain Latinos and other minorities… This latter form of discrimination, which targets individuals based on their purported immigration status, is especially problematic in Gwinnett County."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE –No one is targeting anyone related to their supposed immigration status. The ACLU has absolutely No evidence that this is occurring. On the last pages of their own report, they acknowledge that this is very difficult to prove, yet they state it repeatedly as fact. The complaints they allegedly received from citizens have not even been fact checked.
ACLU – The stated purpose of the 287(g) program is to facilitate collaboration between local officers and ICE, so that the local officers have the 'necessary resources and latitude to pursue investigations relating to violent crimes, human smuggling, gang/organized crime activity, sexual-related offenses, narcotics smuggling and money laundering.'
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – That is a misrepresentation of the facts. We already have the legal right to investigate those crimes and pursue those investigations. We do not need 287(g) to do so.
ACLU – "The fundamental problem with placing federal immigration enforcement in the hands of local law enforcement is that local officers are not adequately trained in immigration laws and its enforcement. In fact many officers are not trained at all. As such, local authorities, acting pursuant to 287(g), often identify potential immigration violators based solely on an individual's race and ethnic status."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – First of all, we are not enforcing immigration law. That is up to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Our deputies went through extensive training with ICE to identify jail inmates who are in the United States illegally. Holds on those inmates who are identified are placed under the supervision of ICE and the inmates are turned over to ICE after their charges are adjudicated. Only the trained 287(g) assigned deputies are tasked with identifying individuals in the U.S. illegally. No one is subject to this scrutiny unless they are arrested and brought to the Gwinnett County Jail.
ACLU – "In 287(g) jurisdictions, for example, state or local police with minimal training in immigration law are put on the street with a mandate to arrest 'illegal aliens.'"
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Absolutely false. That does not happen in Gwinnett, period. We are not on the street looking for anyone related to 287(g) and no one is ever asked their status on the street. This agency has never given a mandate to its deputies to arrest illegal aliens and they would have no way of knowing if they were illegal or not in the field.
ACLU – "The predictable and inevitable result is that any person who looks or sounds 'foreign' is more likely to be stopped by the police and more likely to be arrested…when stopped."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Absolutely false and there is absolutely no evidence or corroboration supporting their theory.
ACLU – They state that 287(g) is "widely criticized," and creates distrust.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – That is not true in Gwinnett. The only criticism is coming from groups such as ACLU and ABLE (Atlantans Building Leadership Empowerment), both of whom have put out blatantly false, untruthful and misleading information in order to create hysteria among the immigrant community.
ACLU – They state that immigrants and citizens avoid contact with police agencies because they fear they will be targeted on their immigration status. They fear reporting crimes.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – No person reporting a crime is ever checked for their immigration status. No person is checked period unless they are arrested for committing a crime in Gwinnett County. Anyone reporting a crime has nothing to fear. These groups have put out information that has created that fear and perpetuated it in order to polarize and scare people to further their own agendas.
ACLU – Criticizes the Sheriff's Department for not updating their website to identify the number of detainers placed or the crimes involved in those detainers.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – False. The Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office has been in the process of changing over our website to a new design. New materials were not immediately uploaded on the old site because of that changeover. The information was placed on our site and has been on our site despite their statements that as of March 2010, we have not put the information on our website. We also participated in numerous media stories regarding 287(g) and the stats associated with it in December and January. The information has been on our website under our jail stats section and has now been placed very prominently on its own so no one can claim they have to look for it.
ACLU – They also accuse us of not putting out information about how we "potentially deport illegal aliens."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – We do not deport anyone. If they fully understood what they were writing about, they would know that.
ACLU – They state that "our failure to document 287(g) detentions and crimes represents the general lack of transparency in the 287(g) reporting procedures"…They also state that we enter data into ENFORCE and cannot pull data out… "As such, the GCSO does not possess a database for identifying stops and arrests made solely through the use of the 287(g) program."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – The ACLU is confused. We do not have a Task Force on the street, and we do not ever make stops and arrests solely through the use of 287(g). We only have a detention program with 287(g). We do document the number of detainers and the crimes associated with them. Data can be pulled out of the ENFORCE system.
ACLU – They state that we are given "wide discretion to question and detain all detainees who enter the jail, even for traffic and non-immigration related infractions."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Everyone who comes to the jail is here for a non-immigration related infraction. We do not arrest people based on their immigration status. That is an absurd statement and shows the lack of knowledge used in preparing this report. We don't enforce immigration laws. The federal government does. We and other police agencies do enforce traffic and criminal laws.
ACLU – They state even if a "detainee is arrested for a basic traffic violation, such as failing to have the car lights on"…
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – People aren't arrested just for not having their car lights on.
ACLU – States it is "difficult to determine how the officers choose which detainees to interview and also how they decide which detainees are foreign born. The discretion these rules give to the officers, coupled with the program's lack of oversight, easily allow for racial profiling."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – It is not so difficult to determine. Every person is asked the same set of questions, including their birth country. That has repeatedly been reported in the news. Again, the program has tremendous oversight and deputies work under the supervision of an ICE agent. There is no racial profiling or proof of racial profiling despite their efforts to make it so.
ACLU – The next few pages deal with alleged "testimonies" and stops in Gwinnett of people not identified by their proper names. They claim they used a secondary source of records provided by our agency and other police agencies in Gwinnett.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – We will take the "testimonies" of these people on a case by case basis giving great latitude in doing so that the stories are accurate. What the ACLU fails to mention is that their Open Records requests never asked for any documentation related to the specific arrest information, incident reports or police call histories with any of these people. They could have easily checked and verified the validity of the stories had they bothered to do so. As it is, we have had no complaints filed and have no way of knowing who these people are and no way to verify or disprove their stories.
ACLU – "Latino drivers are routinely pulled over for reasons that are not clear and then are arrested or given a citation for a traffic violation, such as driving without a license."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Where are the documented stats on that allegation? Every stop is recorded through each police agency's communications center. Police officers and Sheriff's deputies do not go out on anything they do not call in by radio. It is against all policies and procedures to do so. Again, if a person is pulled over for violating a traffic law and they do not have a driver's license, it is an arrestable offense.
ACLU – "Although complaints have come largely from Latino drivers, Gwinnett County also has large Asian and African immigrant populations, and it is likely that these communities are similarly victimized by this form of racial profiling."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – It is likely – Based on what? This statement has no basis in fact, statistics or any other known factor of validity. It is a ridiculous assumption.
ACLU - States that after 287(g) began complaints continue that immigrants are stopped or arrested on "improper grounds."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Where is the record of the stop or arrest and what are the "improper grounds?" The statement has no basis in fact.
ACLU: Case of "Roberto," an undocumented worker who now avoids driving because he fears police. Roberto and three friends are waiting outside of a church where they were painting for a job. They are outside at 9 p.m. waiting on a ride. A Gwinnett police officer asks them what they are doing. The officers told them they looked suspicious standing near the church. Officers asked where they lived. No one was cited or arrested. Now Roberto does not feel safe and no longer drives.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – A police officer is doing his job and has the right to stop and check someone who looks suspicious. These men were at a church late at night with the church closed. If this occurred, the officer was doing his job by stopping and checking to see what they were doing there and asking them where they lived. Those are standard questions and would have been asked of anyone no matter what their race under those circumstances. By "Roberto's" own admission, nothing happened to him even though he admits to ACLU he is here illegally. He wasn't arrested, cited or checked. If he no longer drives because he doesn't have a driver's license, that is a good thing. No one should be driving without a license.
ACLU – Pedro has an expired tag and is pulled over. He says he is undocumented and was stopped in Duluth at 10 p.m. while driving home from work. He claims he was stopped by Gwinnett Sheriff's deputies for an expired tag. He is asked for his driver's license which he does not have. He is asked other questions, his car is searched without asking and he is arrested. He does not feel he was treated "respectfully" because the officer was "forceful and initially came up to the car with his gun pointed at him." He makes other allegations about the handcuffs. Pedro no longer goes to areas around Norcross and Doraville. He is reluctant to call police because of his immigration status.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – If the stop happened the way he claims, the officer had every right to stop him on the expired tag. He also had every right to ask him for his driver's license, which he did not have so he was arrested. His car would be searched subject to impound because he is under arrest. It is unlikely that a Sheriff's deputy pulled him over, because deputies make a small percentage of traffic stops in Gwinnett. This could easily be verified with the time, date and location of the traffic stop.
ACLU – Filiberto is undocumented. He was stopped going to work and was not informed why he was stopped, but believes it was because he was Latino. He is asked for his license, but does not have one. His car was searched without his permission. He was arrested for no driver's license and his family had to bond him out of jail. This was not his first "traumatic experience" because a few months earlier he had been stopped and arrested for the same thing. "Filiberto is frustrated that this keeps happening to him and that he is 'stopped just because he is Latino.'" He now avoids police
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Most officers do not know the race of the person they are pulling over. They pull someone over because they are acting suspicious or violating traffic laws. From his own statements, he has been arrested twice and this was prior to 287(g) starting for driving without a license. People who do not have valid driver's licenses because they have never been licensed to drive here, may not know all of the traffic laws and therefore are stopped for violating them. When they don't have a license, they go to jail. The same is true for all races of U. S. citizens. There is an easy fix to the problem. Stop committing crimes that are arrestable offenses. If you don't want to be arrested for driving without a license, don't drive. If you don't drive, you can't violate traffic laws and be pulled over. The officer then can't determine that you don't have a license because you are not breaking the law by driving without a license. It is amazing that these groups never say we shouldn't arrest or check U. S. drivers to see if they have a license – which law enforcement officers do all the time. They just think we shouldn't check or arrest persons who might be immigrants. Laws are laws and our officers are sworn to uphold them – U.S. citizen or not.
ACLU – Carlos is undocumented and lives in Gwinnett. Carlos was on his way to church and does not have a license. He is stopped but is not arrested and is only cited with a traffic ticket by an officer. They claim they were asked for their immigration documents, but admit they do not understand English well. Carlos feels he is disrespected. He is "concerned that police can just 'arrest you if you don't have your papers.'"
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Carlos is not arrested and is only cited with a traffic ticket if his story is accurate. Police cannot and do not arrest anyone for not having their papers. Police can and do arrest people for not having a driver's license. Again, Carlos wasn't arrested so where is the profiling they keep making accusations about to get him to jail?
ACLU – Mary Babington witnesses police using excessive force on November 24, 2007 in the City of Doraville. She claims she hears and sees things from both her front and back doors on a DUI stop and that police use excessive force.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – She claims to be a former resident of the City of Doraville, which is in DeKalb County and is not in Gwinnett. If she felt she witnessed excessive police force, why didn't she report it? It is also unclear how she could witness the street and the arrest in the street from both her front and back doors.
ACLU – The following cases are post 287(g). Angelica is arrested at 2:30 a.m. driving home from a party. She was stopped for failing to dim her headlights and they asked for her license. She is undocumented and does not have one. She is arrested. She is checked at the jail and asked to sign many documents that she does not understand. An immigration hold is placed on her. She is awaiting deportation. She has been scared to contact the police in the past.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Angelica is arrested for a valid offense after being stopped for a valid reason. The hold would have been placed on her whether she signed any documents or not. Deputies speak to those who don't understand English in their native language.
ACLU – Mario has a wreck and the other driver calls the police. He claims Gwinnett Sheriff's deputies show up to the accident. He is asked for his license and does not have one. He is arrested and an immigration check is done. He is now facing deportation and his family is wary of police. His wife now only drives when she goes to work and not any other time.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Again, Mario has an accident, does not have a license and is arrested on a valid charge. The police call is valid although it was not likely a sheriff's deputy who arrived. This could easily be checked with the date, time and location information. But why should the ACLU look for facts. His wife should not be driving at all if she is an unlicensed driver because it is against the law.
ACLU – Anton fears the police, is undocumented and unlicensed. He is extorted in a traffic accident by another motorist. He does not report the crime.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Victims of crimes are not checked and have nothing to fear. He was driving unlawfully and in a traffic accident that he says was not his fault. Again, he is breaking the law by driving and because he knows he is breaking the law, he does not want the police called.
ACLU – Woman claims police are running road checks on "Pleasantville" exit on I-85 at DeKalb County line targeting Latino drivers.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – The exit on the county line is Pleasantdale and is in DeKalb County and not Gwinnett. DeKalb does not participate in 287(g).
ACLU – "Aside from 287(g) stops, the GCSO does not have any policies mandating their office to document an individual's race or immigration status when they stop or detain an individual."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – We do not do 287(g) stops. On all traffic citations and arrests, the race is listed. Immigration status would never be listed in the field because it is never checked in the field.
ACLU – "Norcross also has an official anti-racial profiling policy."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – So does the Sheriff's Office and every other police agency in Gwinnett.
ACLU – "This general lack of documentation amongst the Gwinnett city police departments is technically not illegal, as Georgia does not require these departments to document race for all investigatory stops. Yet, without such data, it is difficult to determine whether these officers are making stops and arrests based on a proper basis of reasonable suspicion or probable cause, or on the improper basis of race and ethnicity. Indeed, the testimonies in this report indicate that at least some police officers within Gwinnett have based their decision to stop, detain, or arrest an individual on race and ethnicity, in clear violation of the constitutional and international legal standards."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – By their own admission, they don't have the proper data to determine that racial profiling is occurring yet they have indicted Gwinnett repeatedly for racial profiling. They rely on several unsubstantiated accounts by people who have come forward allegedly to them that they have not even bothered to verify – and two of the incidents by their own information do not even occur in Gwinnett. The information would be simple to verify had they bothered. None of the testimonies prove that any of these people were stopped based on their race.
ACLU – "Specifically, without proper documentation of the stops, detentions and arrests conducted through the use of 287(g), there is no way to ensure that GCSO officers are not engaging in discriminatory practices"…
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – There are no stops, detentions or arrests through 287(g).
ACLU – "If reasonable suspicion exists, an officer can stop a person, ask the person to identify him or herself and ask what the person is doing."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – They have just justified one of their own cases with the man at the church who was waiting for a ride with three others at 9 p.m. at night.
ACLU – If after the stop, there is no information leading to probable cause, the officer must let the person go."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Again, the man at the church was not arrested or cited and was free to go.
ACLU – "The fact that the Justice Department has condemned racial profiling on Fourth and Fourteenth amendment grounds is a positive step in establishing that racial profiling is per se unconstitutional and must be eradicated."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – We couldn't agree more. We also condemn racial profiling and have policies and procedures in place to guard against it.
ACLU – Gwinnett County's racial profiling practices violate two treaties…
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – There is absolutely no evidence of racial profiling and we do not engage in racial profiling. The ACLU is so blinded in promoting their agenda that they ignore all facts while indicting law enforcement with false claims.
ACLU – Gwinnett County "as part of the United States is bound…and prohibited from engaging in discrimination based on race, color or national origin."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – We agree and we do not engage in discrimination.
ACLU – "Because Gwinnett's law enforcement officers propagate racial profiling…
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Where is the evidence of that in this report? There is none because it is not happening. They continue making these statements without any basis in fact.
ACLU – "Racial profiling by law enforcement was already prevalent in Gwinnett even prior to the implementation of 287(g), as the first set of testimonies above demonstrates. The second set of interviews shows that this form of racial profiling has continued after the program's implementation. Together, these interviews indicate that law enforcement in Gwinnett have abused their power, both given through 287(g) and generally, by engaging in racial profiling and human rights violations targeting the community. Given the testimonies detailing racial profiling practices in this report, it is clear that many Latino community members in Gwinnett have been stopped without probable cause or reasonable suspicion."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – There is absolutely no evidence to substantiate those claims. They did not even attempt to verify the allegations from documents that could have easily been obtained. Their own subsequent statements state they do not have the data to prove that racial profiling is happening or if the stops are legitimate on the 10 people they spoke to.
ACLU – They state the 287(g) program "must end in Gwinnett. This program has merely exacerbated racial profiling concerns."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – There is absolutely no evidence of that and they cannot substantiate their claims.
ACLU – They state "roadblocks" in Gwinnett "appear to have become more prevalent after 287(g) was implemented."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Where is there evidence of that? They have not produced one shred of evidence that roadblocks are even occurring except for one woman's statement about a roadblock in DeKalb County, much less that they have increased. They are big on using words like it likely is occurring or it appears to be happening without any substantiated facts.
ACLU – They ask for a law prohibiting racial profiling and state without this law, "Gwinnett county (sic) and city police officers are not mandated to train their officers regarding racial profiling."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – We already train our officers regarding racial profiling and our own policies and procedures prohibit it.
ACLU – The "Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department is required to maintain a comprehensive record of all arrestees detailing their race, age, gender and other characteristics. This information must be available by the Sheriff's Department to the public."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – We do and it is.
ACLU – They state that our online data regarding inmates does not state an inmate's race. They state that they received a more detailed database under Open Records which lists race, but they don't know why we don't produce the inmates' race online.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Our online data contains the inmate's picture, which in almost all cases would clearly show race. We are not required to produce any of these records online to the public, but we do as a courtesy to the public.
ACLU – They state five states mandate that officers are disciplined for racial profiling.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – The policies of the Gwinnett Sheriff's Office dictates the same if a deputy is found to have been involved in racial profiling.
ACLU – They claim 287(g) is a tool to arrest Latinos who commit minor traffic violations and that they receive harsh punishments for minor infractions.
GWINNET SHERIFF'S OFFICE – They are punished for the crime they committed the same as anyone else. If they are deported, it is because they violated federal laws by coming here illegally and that is done by the federal government not by police or deputies.
ACLU – They claim citizens are scared to contact police.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Much of this hysteria is coming from groups like the ACLU and ABLE who are not interested in putting out factual information, but in creating hysteria to further their own causes. The truth is no victim of a crime ever has anything to fear by contacting police. The only ones who have anything to fear are those people who are breaking the law and are arrested.
ACLU – Again, they claim we will continue to violate federal and international laws by racially profiling.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Again, we do not tolerate racial profiling and have policies in place against it.
ACLU – Calls for ICE to end the 287(g) program with the Gwinnett Sheriff's Office stating it lacks the proper oversight mechanisms and allows for abuse of power.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – The program is overseen by ICE and there is no abuse of power.
ACLU – Gwinnett SO should end the program with ICE. The program has "dramatically decreased community safety through diminishing trust between Gwinnett enforcement and immigrants.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – The only groups doing that are the ACLU, ABLE and a few others who are creating hysteria and printing and publishing lies in their reports and online that they know are not factual.
ACLU – Members of the Gwinnett community have requested meetings with the Sheriff's Office and have received no response.
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Not true.
ACLU – By passing anti-racial profiling legislation, it adds a level of accountability and oversight to the policies of Gwinnett law enforcement
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – That accountability is already there and in place in our policies.
ACLU – Law enforcement agencies should document all investigatory stops. Without this information, "it is difficult to tell which individuals are being stopped and why the officers chose to stop them."
GWINNETT SHERIFF'S OFFICE – Law enforcement agencies do have documentation on all police stops through radio communication and call histories as well as on citations and the jail docket. Further, if it is difficult to tell what is going on in these stops, then how can the ACLU's report state it is occurring and prevalent when their own report states it is difficult to tell. Which is it?
This report by the ACLU is slanderous and attempts to convict the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office through lies and innuendo. If this is the best that can be done by this organization, I suggest the group should find more capable members to promote disbanding enforcement of the immigration laws of the United States. This was truly a pitiful attempt.
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I like images that are beautiful, but slightly off, even slightly off-putting. Both of the series that I submitted are meant to be beautiful images of things that can be difficult to look at; they're meant to tweak the viewer a bit, make them laugh at the ridiculousness or cross their arms in disapproval. If I can get a reaction out of an audience, whether negative or positive, I feel like I've at least made a tiny ripple in my little corner of the cosmos... I guess the less sophisticated response would be that I like to reach out yank, just a little bit, on peoples' chains.
Sally Mann's images of decomposing bodies in Tennessee, Diane Arbus' work and some of Joel-Peter Witkin's compositions. I started off my photography career studying portraiture in Cartier-Bresson and Dorothea Lange monographs that I checked out of the local library. Strong coffee, good wine, photo books, Poe, Kafka, Richard Ford, Mary McCarthy, JD Salinger, Seinfeld.
Describe your process for creating a new piece.
I'll get an itch about something--fashion, plastic surgery, age, marriage, death--and then try to figure out how I can photograph that abstract concept in a way that would be compelling for me to execute, would allow me to express a feeling about the topic, and would be interesting for other people to look at. One of the series I'd like to do next has to do with marriage. Yes I'm married. I'm pretty sure the series will not have a happy ending. I'm pretty sure my marriage will.
The process for the meat/fashion was going to a carniceria or grocery store and staring at the meat, then buying what I thought had the potential to be beautiful and sewing it together over the kitchen sink to make some sort of clothing. I went through a lot of paper towels and cleanser... I also love to just go outside and wander around with a camera and shoot whatever makes me laugh, or stop and look, or feel sad or wistful.
Day job?
Luckily for me, freelance photographer-- for newspapers, magazines and productions. So far the assignments have been a little tamer than 'Offal Taste' and the 'women and body image' series, but I have high hopes!
Best thing that happened to you this week?
I booked two days out of town with a friend for next week. I'm desperately in need of some mental regrouping.
Tools of the trade?
Professional: Canon Mark 2, 1ds, Hasselblad H2. Personal: hasselblad, lomo, Mamiya 7 all with film. And Hasselbad H2 or equivalent.
I'm working on two more series for my website (one mentioned above), and looking to scare up more commercial/editorial jobs. I'm also planning on continuing and expanding both the raw meat series and the body image series, the latter possibly for a book.
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Nintendo and Sega had their success in the UK but less so in certain places on the continent. I'm not sure if that was due to price (they could differ wildly from nation to nation) or they just couldn't get a decent foothold in other countries on the continent for other reasons or the people just preferred basic computers.
As much as I loved my consoles and I had my NES at about 4 or 5, I was brought up with Commodore systems from the age of 2 and would fall in love with the Amiga from roughly the age of 13. Those systems always appeared to be the preferred choice to me, my friends and the countless books, magazines dedicated to those platforms.
I've always and probably wrongly sensed a different attitude between us and you folks across the pond. 'Playing Nintendo' wasn't coined as the phrase to refer to general video game playing here as I believe it had in the States, with Nintendo being the preferred choice over Sega. That's most likely due to the marketing machine and many times it's from a movie or TV show where a video game is either in the scene or referred to and 'playing Nintendo' or 'playing Sega' were the terms used for what they were up to. Reality may have been a whole lot diffrrent.


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Macia Monasterio de los Basilios Hotel is a comfortable and charming 3 stars hotel situated next to the Genil River, on the border between Paseo del Violon and the Salon Gardens, near to the congress palace. It is 18 kilometres from the airport.
The Macia Monasterio de Los Basilios is located in a monastery of the same name, which was built in the early 1600s on the remnants of an earlier Muslim convent. It has a cloister with garden. Other facilities include a restaurant, internet access, laundry service, dry cleaning service, social and television lounges, reception and function rooms. The reception rooms are housed in the 17th century monastery, whilst the bedrooms are found in the former seminary.


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The Pratt Community College Lady Beavers traveled to Garden City Saturday for conference match against Garden City while the men went the other direction to take on Hesston.
Both squads came away with wins, the women posting a 1-0 victory while the men prevailed 3-1.
With the rain falling and the temperatures in the low 30's, Pratt dominated play at Garden City. Many goal scoring chances were squandered as the Broncbusters were able to hang on in a scoreless 1st half.
Early in the second half, Lauren Randall chipped a free kick over the outstretched arms of the Garden City goalkeeper to provide the game's only goal.
Donna Nickolay was able to record her 4th clean sheet of the season.
Head coach Jerrid Schicke was pleased with the outcome if not the performance of his Lady Beavers.
"Although we did not play well today, it was good to see the team work together to preserve the clean sheet. If we play to our potential, we could earn our way into the top seven spots and finish this year with a playoff run," Schicke said.
This win puts Pratt back in a tie for 8th place with 4 conference games remaining.
The PCC women are now 4-10 on the year (4-5 in the Jayhawk West.)
The Beaver men's soccer team travelled to play Hesston in a non conference game on Saturday .
On a cold and windy night, the Beavers took control from the outset and went close on several occasions .
Finally Dom Swindler gave the Beavers the 1-0 lead with a great header on a cross from Gordy MacNab .
Nik Bohne scored a second goal , to put the Beavers 2-0 ahead with just minutes left in the 1 st half .
However after some sloppy defense from PCC, Hesston pulled a goal back to make it 2-1 going into the half time break.
The second half was more of the same with the Beavers in control , and soon after the break Gordy MacNab slotted home a penalty kick after Braulio Morales was fouled in the penalty area to give the Beavers a 3-1 lead.
With the Beavers in complete control , Dillon Eichelberger and Luis Soto were given some time in the nets. Also Nick Willis played his first minutes of the season.
This 3-1 victory leaves the Beavers at 7-5 on the season (2-4 conference.)
Both the men's and women's teams return to action at home against Barton County on Wednesday. Barton County's men are nationally ranked.
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WELLSBURG - A Wellsburg man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in jail for entering a Hooverson Heights home and striking the elderly couple there in his attempt to rob them in May 2011.
Aaron M. Hartley, 21, of Wellsburg received the sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree robbery.
First Judicial Circuit Court Judge Ronald Wilson ordered that Hartley serve 10 years for each count and that his attorney not seek a modification of his sentence until after he had served the first 10, paid restitution of $500 for medical bills and the elderly couple whom he assaulted have died.
The latter condition was prompted by a request by the couple, both 87, that he not be eligible for parole while they are alive.
Brooke County Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Barki III, who had sought a 60-year sentence for Hartley, said the woman has had nightmares about the incident.
Barki said Hartley knocked on the door of the couple's Elaine Avenue home, initially claiming his vehicle had broken down before demanding money from the woman while bearing a gun and pushing her down.
When the woman's husband approached Hartley, he again demanded money and struck him in the head with the gun, causing him to fall to the floor, the prosecutor said.
On Friday Kurelac cried as he apologized to the victims, their family and the court, saying he was "extremely sorry." He said since his arrest, he has turned from drugs, is expecting a baby girl he would like to support and is studying for the GED examination.
His attorney, Patricia Kurelac, said Hartley became addicted to drugs at an early age when a family member shared pain medication with him but was never violent until the May 2011 incident.
She said since being placed under house arrest, while his case was pending, he tested negative for drug use on more than one occasion, which can't always be said of others in such situations.
Barki said Hartley's background is unfortunate but the court should consider his actions on that day, the rough treatment received by the victims and its emotional impact on them.
"He deserves every one of the 60 years that we are asking the court to impose," Barki said, adding the sentence would send a message to others.
"The community needs to know crimes like these won't be tolerated," he said.
Wilson said his role as a judge is not to send a message to the community but to determine the appropriate sentence for the charges at hand. He called for Hartley to be placed under house arrest until Feb. 4, at which time he is to begin his sentence at the Northern Regional Jail.
He added, "He will be permitted to witness the birth of his child."
Wilson also advised Kurelac she may seek an appeal to decide the matter of whether Hartley may be charged with robbery twice for each victim at the home, a question he raised earlier.
Following the hearing, Barki said similar cases have been appealed to the state Supreme Court but without success.