| Gardens of Andalusia
WITH winter seemingly over, it is time to think about how best to make your garden or patio stand out during the coming months: something to impress your visitors. Before you so much as buy a seed or plant, I suggest you take a tour of some of the finest gardens on view throughout Andaluca for inspiration. Not all of them charge an entrance fee and those that do are a bargain. It is possible to view the Generalife Gardens in Granada without also paying to see the Alhambra palace itself. Entrance fee to the gardens alone is just five euros a horticultural bargain. Generalife, Granada As with so many of the gardens open to the public throughout Spain, water is the driving force in the Generalife. The water stairway, known as the Staircase of the Lions, leads to the uppermost part of the Generalife.
This Earbud's for You
Most iPod users merely tolerate the earbud microphones that ship with their music players. In this round up of earbud replacements, high-end models from Shure and Denon delivered the best audio quality; those on a budget could do worse than buy the JVC Marshmallow, the $20 top pick in the bargain category. Free Ringtones: Download free ringtones from top artists to your cell phone. .
Japan Festival combines aspects of country's culture
The fourth annual KU Japan Festival offers an array of activities and prizes that relate to Japanese culture. This year, participants will use Sucia cards, installed with wireless chips, to get into Sunday evening's dinner event. By Lindsey Parker Wednesday, March 28, 2007 .
Educator Spotlight
Achievement: Donnelly, 27, was awarded a scholarship to study the Spanish language and Mexican culture in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The scholarship was awarded by the Cemanahuac Educational Community in Cuernavaca, and the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Donnelly will study in Mexico for two weeks this summer while living with a Mexican family. The scholarship is one of several awarded to Donnelly, who previously has studied Latino culture in Spain and Mexico. Last year, Donnelly won a scholarship sponsored by the Embassy of Spain and the Northeast Conference to study for three weeks at the University of Salamanca in Spain. In 2003, Donnelly was one of 28 teachers chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend a six-week seminar in Oaxaca, Mexico, where Donnelly studied the integration of culture and art into a classroom curriculum.
Grace Christian School aims for well-rounded Christian education
Grace Christian School takes God's word and teaches students with it for the glory of God and "an academically excellent education." GCS Headmaster Tom Dickson stated, "Nothing else is more important to the teachers and staff than the education of our students at Grace being based on the truth of God's Word as absolute truth. The Bible says a great deal about Christian education." And since its foundation in 1978, Grace Christian School has stuck to Christian education's basic principles of biblical authority, biblical worldview, and parental responsibility. Dickson noted that the staff of Grace Christian School believes the Bible is absolutely authoritative and teaches students a Biblical worldview that integrates the Bible's teaching into every area of life, including work, entertainment, social experiences, family relationships, and especially education.
NORML Event Packs Park for Pot
A crowd of marijuana users and supporters spent the day after 4/20 in an appropriate fashion - coming together at this weekend's Joint Rolling Contest to hear live music, learn about the fight for the legalization of pot, and, well, roll joints. After the previously scheduled date for the event had to be postponed earlier this year because of rain, the UCSB chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws was finally able to host its third annual Joint Rolling Contest Saturday afternoon at Anisq' Oyo' park. A MC, in addition to a large collection of bongs, pipes and even medicinal marijuana were all on site, creating an atmosphere at the park that many attendees said was decidedly "chill." Popular pro-marijuana anthems such as "I Got 5 on It" by The Luniz, "Smoke Two Joints" by Sublime and "Weed Song" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony filled the air - as did smoke from the burning blunts of medicinal and recreational pot users present at Anisq' Oyo'.
Instrument of his own future
When Joel Fafard comes to the Blue Chair tonight, he brings with him an easygoing, small-town personality to complement a finger-picking guitar style that's as sophisticated as European classical solo violin. Springier, mind you. But brilliantly put together. And p.s. - for the record - don't take "small town" as a jab. We would do well in this metro-hopeful to hold onto similar rustic charm, vanishing like buried hourglass sand. The Fafard name, coincidentally, has helped us do so. Joel's dad Joe has created several of the best public and decidedly farm-themed works living in steel on our streets. His creatures echo the steers and horses that once raised dust on Jasper Ave. But we'll return to this later. Getting back to Joel, he lists off Bruce Cockburn, Richard Thompson and Bela Fleck as his inspirations, but in him I always hear my favourite guitar player, John Fahey - mostly in terms of wrist-twisting effort and potential.
Former student killed in Virginia tragedy
Calls and e-mails flooded the offices on Joe Brown Hall's second floor Tuesday as former German students and faculty learned a member of the University community was one of the Virginia Tech massacre victims.
Colleagues of University alumnus Christopher Jamie Bishop described him as friendly and enthusiastic.
Bishop, a German professor, was among the first shot and killed when the Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui entered his introductory German class Monday morning and opened fire.
Erin Sheehan, one of the Virginia Tech students in Bishop's class, told reporters only four people in the roughly 25-person class walked out of the room. Everyone else was injured or dead.
Bishop graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University with a bachelor's degree in German studies in 1993 and with a master's degree in German linguistics in 1998.
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