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Thank you so much for your love, prayers and supportSubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Sun, 2010-11-07 22:13.
I lost my baby girl a year ago today and I miss her greatly each and every day... I love you Tori. You are always in my heart and mind. You are my hero and I am forever grateful for the sacrifice you made. Your presence is constant and we try our best to live by your example. Please continue to guide us until we meet once again.
Thank you to all of you who continue to pray for and support our family. It is all greatly appreciated and needed by all of us.
The Schmanski Family
Happy Birthday!Submitted by Shaid DePalma on Mon, 2010-08-09 10:56.
Today, It's you birthday Angel! I know that you are having fun Dancing with the Angels! MISS you like crazy Tor!
Happy birthday to our beautiful angel Tori!!Submitted by Tim Schmanski on Sun, 2010-08-08 23:00.
Happy birthday to our beautiful angel Tori!! We love and miss you greatly and are doing our best to make it through this first birthday without you... We arrived in Orem very early Monday but at 1am went to to see your wonderful new headstone and of course the sprinklers were running!! We know you were smiling and laughing as we danced around all of the spray with flashlights to admire it :)
We also held a gathering at the cemetery for many friends and family. Please add Tori Schmanski as a Facebook friend to view many of the pictures. I will also post some on the Pray 4 Tori site. as well.
Thank you for checking in on Tori and our family.
With love,
The Schmanski Family
5 Years ago our lives changed foreverSubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Sat, 2010-06-19 22:18.
Today marks the 5 year anniversary of Tori's brain injury and certainly tears were shed once more... But we chose to celebrate our time together as a family and begin our Father's Day with steak and salmon on the BBQ and watching Tori's favorite movie "She's the Man" which just 'happened' to be playing on ABC tonight. We love and miss you greatly Tori and can feel your presence. We look forward to being with you again.
Thank you all for your love and support. It's still very difficult for us all but "one day at a time" is the only mantra we can now follow.
With love,
The Schmanski Family
Tori's Celebration of LifeSubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Tue, 2010-01-05 23:13.
Heaven's not a place that you go when ya die it's the moment in life when ya actually feel ALIVE.
-Tori Schmanski (early 2005)
Thank you for your patience and I have finally included the audio recordings and other items for Tori's Celebration of Life service below. I sincerely apologize for the delay. They have been ready for some time though I haven't in my ability to accumulate and present them for all of you. I tried many weeks ago but struggled greatly and just needed some time and to make it through this difficult holiday season first. We love and miss you so very much Tori...
Pages from Tori's wonderful Memorial Book will hopefully be posted on this page shortly as well.
Thank you all once more for the love, prayers and support for Tori and our family. It is greatly appreciated and we are truly blessed to have all of you in our lives.
Sincerely and forever grateful,
The Schmanski Family
Funeral Program (PDF)
Lyrics (PDF) from the songs played during the service
Tori's poem From Losing You (PDF) that was recited by Whitney and Brendan
Audio Recordings:
Disc 1 Track 1 (2:13) - Bishop Bob Cluff, Family Prayer - Todd Schmanski
Disc 1 Track 2 (39:19) - Bishop Bob Cluff opening, Opening Prayer - Mark Harris, Music 'Victoria' by John Mayer, Eulogy - Chris Dowling , Tribute - Whitney and Brendan, Tribute Song - Dance Company friends 'Praise the King', Tribute - McKenzie Lambright and Kourtney Boyack
Disc 2 Track 1 (38:24) - Tribute - McKenzie Lambright and Kourtney Boyack (cont), Poem - Sandy Schmanski, Speaker - Mark Harris, Music 'Hear you hear me' by Jimmy Eat World, Closing Prayer - Janine Schmanski Kopff, Hymn - 'God be with you till we meet again'
Disc 2 Track 2 (4:10) - Dedication of grave - Mike Newsome
The head panel tree of life (PDF). Inspired by Whitney and Maria from all the things Tori loved, was designed and created by Jakub Steiner.
Here are some select photos from the service as well taken by Eric Ward.
Orem's ways to connect us to where Tori has been laid to restSubmitted by Guy Lunardi on Sun, 2009-12-20 21:38.
What's the weather like?
Orem city daily weather summary on location
What is it like right now?
Webcam view
What were the 24 hours like?
Short time lapse movie of the last 24-hour
All this information is provided by the City of Orem and Weather Underground. Having found myself wandering to their site quite often lately I wanted to share it with all of you. While we all have reasons to visit Orem, UT (great people there), it is sometimes difficult. Right as I am writing this, I am finding myself 7840 miles or 12617 kilometers away from there... The Weather Underground information site provides a way to stay connected. I am sure I am not alone.
So to make it as easy as possible to access, I have placed a widget on the right side of Tori's site for all that information to easily be available to all of us.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Love, -Guy
Thank youSubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Mon, 2009-11-16 23:37.
Thank you for all of the love, support and sympathy our family has received over the past nine days since Tori's passing and we are very grateful for all of those who could attend Tori's viewing, service, dedication and luncheon afterward. We consider all of you as part of our family.
We would also like to especially thank Paul and Sandy Schmanski for everything they have done for Tori and us over the past 4.5 years and for all of the preparation last week for the celebration of Tori's life. We love you both so much!!
To Guy Lunardi, you are and always will be a part of family and your heart, kindness and generosity are boundless. You amaze us continuously and we love you more than you can imagine. Guy also put in so much time and effort in making Tori's life celebration so special.
To Marilyn Hess who has also supported Tori and our family for many years, you are the ultimate example of what a friendship should entail. We love you so much as well and thank you for all you have for us during this very difficult past week.
Pictures, video and audio was taken during Tori's celebration of life and I will be putting together a presentation for all of those who could not attend over the next couple of weeks. It truly was special and I will share the celebration with all of you.
If you wish to see many of the wonderful pictures now please use Facebook and add 'Tori Schmanski' as a friend and I will approve the friendship.
Thank you all once more,
The Schmanski Family
Tim, Maria, Tori, Whitney and Brendan
Tori Schmanski ObituarySubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Mon, 2009-11-09 17:02.
Thank you all for the unbelievable outpouring of love and support for Tori and our family through many channels including the www.pray4tori.com site, Facebook accounts, telephone and email. We are deeply touched, sincerely grateful and truly blessed and our appreciation cannot be described in words.
I finished writing Tori's obituary below at 3am this morning and we have now finalized it through meetings with the our local church, mortuary and the cemetery. Maria and I want to express our deepest sympathies for any parent who has had to go through all of this and bury their child... It truly is a heart wrenching and unnatural process that we wish no parent would have to endure.
Please visit the Facebook Event we have setup for Tori's Funeral and let us know if you are attending: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176428468837&ref=mf. Please spread the word on this event as well. A wonderful tribute was produced for Tori, you can see it here (wmv). A news story on Tori was broadcast on KSL TV here and the following newspaper articles were published as well - Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, Daily Herald.
Our beloved Tori Schmanski passed away Saturday, November 7, 2009 and is now dancing with angels.
Tori was a beautiful and vibrant person who had an incredibly positive and inspirational impact on so many people during her short time with us all. She was very compassionate, a remarkable leader and her wonderful smile and charismatic personality naturally drew others to her. Her life revolved around her friends and family whom she loved so dearly. She will live eternally in the hearts of all she touched.
She was also independent, very intelligent, articulate, athletic and confident in her abilities which allowed her to excel academically and in everything else she pursued including her passion for dance. In addition she enjoyed snowboarding, family vacations, computers and the internet, listening to and writing music, all of her amazing friends and lastly boys much to the dismay of her parents at times... She had an ardent zest for life and celebrated it with each and every moment.
Tori was truly a hero who chose the utmost sacrifice of her life when faced with extreme adversity. True to her character, she always thought of and placed others before herself and we are forever grateful for her courage and unselfish act of love in helping her sister and cousin first and foremost on that tragic Father's Day, June 19, 2005 where Tori sustained an anoxic brain injury that took her livelihood but not her incredible strength, determination and will to live. Tori, thank you so much, you are the ultimate example of how we should all lead our lives and you will forever be in our hearts and souls.
For the thousands of caring and devoted people who have followed Tori's story (www.pray4tori.com) over the past 52 months we would sincerely like to thank you all for the love, prayers and support you have provided for Tori and our family. We are truly blessed and your presence was felt each and every day. Every one of you has made a dramatic impact on our lives. Words cannot really express how eternally grateful, appreciative and thankful we are for everything that has been done for Tori and our family.
We would like to extend a very special thank you to all of those who provided care and support for Tori including her home nurses, therapists and teachers and especially the outstanding and unsurpassed medical staff at the Primary Children's Medical Center and Shriner's Hospital in SLC. All of you are truly angels among us.
Tori is survived by her mother Maria (Harris) and father Tim, siblings Whitney and Brendan as well as her grandparents Paul and Sandy Schmanski, and Rex and Lois Harris of Delta, UT. Additionally Tori is survived by numerous loving aunts, uncles, cousins and incredibly caring and supportive friends. Thank you to 'The Dance Club' girls and families whom we love so much!
A celebration of Tori's life will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, November 13, 2009 at Windsor Stake Center 1600 N 60 E Orem, UT 84057.
The family will receive friends Thursday evening November 12, 2009 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Walker Sanderson Funeral Home 800 N 646 E Orem, UT 84097 and again at the Windsor Stake Center prior to the funeral service on Friday at 9:30 a.m.
Internment will follow the services in the Orem City Cemetery.
Friends can also call on a light luncheon after the service held at the Windsor Stake Center.
In lieu of flowers please donate in Tori's name to the Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City, UT.
Online condolences may be shared www.walkerfamilymortuary.com
We love you Tori and know you are whole so dance, dance, dance once more!!


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Monday, October 05, 2009
Best and Easiest Home-Baked Bread
That is actually the name of the recipe: "Best and Easiest Home-Baked Bread," from Nick Malgieri's How to Bake. It's neither the best nor the easiest bread I've ever made, but it's pretty good and pretty easy, and it does come out of the oven with a fabulously crunchy crust.
The last bread I tried from this cookbook was an Italian ring bread, which was better in concept than in reality, but I was more impressed with this recipe--even though I do think it's gutsy to call one of your recipes "the best."
And it does involve some planning ahead, which kind of takes it out of the "easy" category, I think, although once you've committed yourself to making it, and set aside the requisite number of hours (24, more or less), it requires only short bursts of time and energy.
About 24 hours before you think you might want to eat the bread, you make a simple starter--water, a tiny amount of yeast, and flour. That bubbles away for a few hours (you can slow the activity down by putting it in the refrigerator if that fits your schedule better).
The starter is added to a sponge, made with more water, yeast, and flour--plus the starter--and that also bubbles away for a while. (It's easiest if you mix up the sponge just before you go to bed. In the morning, you can either make the dough immediately or refrigerate it until you're ready for it).
Never let bread be your master! It can almost always be refrigerated if you're not feeling breadish at that very moment.
The final dough stage just consists of the sponge, more flour, and salt.
It's a soft dough, so you may want to knead in a little more flour by hand. Well, of course, you can do it all by hand if you want to, but I'm loyal to my KitchenAid bread hook.
Although it has less than a teaspoon of yeast in it, the dough rises quickly: about an hour in a bowl and less than an hour after it's shaped. You can shape it however you want to, but I used a colander with a towel to help it keep its shape.
Even so, it flattened considerably as soon as I removed it from its colander-mold, so if I'd just done a free-form boule, I think it would have looked like a flatbread.
Jim got all excited when he saw how I'd slashed it because he thought it looked like a sand dollar. I told him I thought a sand dollar only had five lines.
I was afraid he was going to turn on the bread because he wasn't going to be able to find a picture of a sand dollar to compare it to, but he decided he liked it anyway.
The bread was exceptionally good with sour cherry preserves, which I had left over from my cake adventure of the week: Hungarian Jancsi Torta.
(It does look a little bit like a sand dollar).
--from How to Bake, by Nick Malgieri
1 cup warm tap water
1/4 tsp. instant yeast
1 cup unbleached all-purpose or whole wheat flour
3/4 cup warm tap water
1/2 tsp. instant yeast
Risen starter, above
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
The sponge, above
1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 tsp. salt
1. To make the starter, mix water, yeast, and flour in a small bowl. Cover with plastic wrap. Set aside to rise at room temperature and doubled and bubbly--from 2 to 8 hours.
2. For the sponge, mix water, yeast, and starter in a larger bowl until smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise until about triple in volume, 4 to 8 hours, or overnight.
3. For the dough, stir the sponge to deflate it. Stir in the smaller amount of flour and the salt in a mixing bowl. Using the dough hook, knead on low spead for about five minutes. Add the additional flour if the dough is too soft.
4. Turn the dough into an oiled bowl. Cover and let rise about an hour, until doubled. (You can also mix by hand or in a food processor).
5. Shape into a boule, and place, bottom side up, in a colander lined with a floured cotton towel. Sprinkle with cornmeal. Cover with plastic and let rise until doubled, 45 minutes to an hour.
6. Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Put baking stone on middle rack. When the oven and dough are ready, carefully invert onto a baking pan lined with parchment. Quickly slash top of bread. Just before placing bread in oven, put about 1/2 cups of ice cubes into heated pan on bottom rack of oven. Put bread in oven and immediately reduce heat to 450 degrees.
7. Bake for about 20 minutes. Then put bread directly on baking stone and reduce heat to 350 degrees. Bake 20 to 30 minutes longer.
8. Remove bread from oven and cool on rack.
11 comments:
"That is actually the name of the recipe: "Best and Easiest Home-Baked Bread," from Nick Malgieri's How to Bake. It's neither the best nor the easiest bread I've ever made"
That's the perfect way to begin a post. This totally made me LOL. A lot.
I adore you, Marie :-D
Laura, NYC
- Hipsipila said...
Marie, I had been missing your breads!!! This one looks like a possible week end project. I love it when I can see images of the process and the finished breads. But recipe and photographs wouldn't be enough to make one wish to bake, without your comments.
- breadbasketcase said...
I just came home from a long, hard day at work. You have no idea how good that made me feel!
I've been missing my breads too! The cake project has been taking more time than I anticipated--and the job that people actually pay me to do keeps me busy too. And your comment was also very sweet--thank you!
- pinknest said...
It looks like a sand dollar to me. And I I love your dough-pouring shot.
- breadbasketcase said...
I love that shot too! Can you tell I'm still in my Sunday morning robe?
- Melinda said...
You always make me laugh and I adore you even more because there is a picture of you in your bathrobe, Sunday morning, making bread.
You are just keeping it real!
I do not let my dough ever boss me around!
- breadbasketcase said...
You never let anyone boss you around! I just instructed Jim not to take so many pictures of my old boney hands, but now that you've pointed out that keeping it real is a virtue, I'll have to instruct him to zero in on my veins and age spots.
- Doughadear said...
This bread looks quite good. I would imagine that the starter and sponge would give the bread a lot of flavour. I'm going to make this bread soon and I think I will use my banneton.
- breadbasketcase said...
This bread is perfect for a banneton, but for some reason I wanted to shape it using a colander--which is how I used to shape bread before I had my bannetons. Let me know how you like it if you try it.
- Doughadear said...
I finally started a blog, hope you check it out. http://needtoknead.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-first-blog.html
- breadbasketcase said...
How could I resist?


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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Finland's Teemu Selanne capped his international ice hockey career in style, scoring twice while dealing the United States a humiliating 5-0 loss to capture the bronze medal at the Sochi Games on Saturday.
Selanne's goal 87 seconds into the second period opened the floodgates for a Finnish team that overcame a semi-final loss on Saturday to win a medal for the third straight Olympics, following a silver in 2006 and bronze in 2010.
"I have been carrying this jersey with a lot of love and pride and winning this last game like this was a dream come true," Selanne told reporters.
"It's unbelievable. I played my first national team game 26 years ago and if somebody would've told me I was going to win four Olympic medals then, it would've been hard to believe. It is overwhelming for sure."
The defeat was one final insult for a U.S. team that won the silver medal at the 2010 Vancouver Games and arrived in Sochi with hopes of living up their billing as one of the gold medal favorites.
But after a crushing 1-0 loss to the rival Canadians in the later of Friday's two semi-final games, the Americans ran out of gas against a Finnish team that seemed to have more left in the tank as the game went on.
The Americans were flying high in Sochi and everything was going according to script as they reached the semis undefeated and as the highest scoring team of the 12-nation tournament. But that meant little after losing to Canada.
"It was pretty demoralizing," U.S. captain Zach Parise told reporters.
"We had to turn around and realize that there was actually a bronze medal on the line which is still a pretty big deal. But those two efforts were just not acceptable at this point."
Both teams had several scoring chances during the opening period but Finnish goalie Tuukka Rask and U.S. counterpart Jonathan Quick turned aside everything they saw.
Patrick Kane was awarded a penalty shot in the first period after a Finnish defenseman fired part of a broken stick into his path but the puck got away from the forward just as he was about to put a shot on net.
Finland took the Americans by surprise when they made a furious start to the second period to grab a two-goal lead after scoring twice in the first 98 seconds of the frame.
Selanne, who at 43 is the oldest player in the tournament and the Olympics' all-time leading scorer, stormed down the left wing before firing a shot inside the near post.
Jussi Jokinen added another 11 seconds later when he took a pass from Jori Lehtera that he fired into the U.S. net before Quick could get across. Rask made 27 saves for the shutout.
"Whoever gets the first goal in hockey nowadays, that team has a really strong chance to win," said Jokinen. "Being able to get the second goal right after that got us the momentum."
Kane got another penalty shot in the second period after a Finnish player broke the forward's stick in half while trying to stop a scoring opportunity, but his attempt rang off the right post.
"The first one kind of rolled on me, I thought I had him," said Kane. "The second one, I made a good shot, I just hit the post. I had some chances, just didn't really capitalize on any of them. A really frustrating night."
After that, it was all Finland.
Juuso Hietanen added to the Finnish lead six minutes into the third period with a blast from the point that made its way through a maze of players before finding the U.S. net.
Selanne got his second of the game three minutes later on the powerplay while defenseman Olli Maatta also tallied with the man advantage.
Losing to a Finnish team that has captured six medals from the last eight Olympic Games and also arrived in Sochi as one of the favorites, was no comfort to the disappointed U.S. squad.
"I've been saying it all along, we felt like we had a group who could contend for a gold medal, then we had an opportunity to compete for a bronze medal and, before you know it, we're going home empty-handed. The only feeling I have right now is disappointment," said American defenseman Cam Fowler.
"If there's one guy on the planet that I feel happy for, after losing that game, I think it's (Selanne). He's one of the best players to ever live and one of the greatest guys I've ever known. He deserves it."
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- "Miss Brown, please take this box of mice - don't be silly, girl, they won't hurt you - and hand one to each student -"
- —Professor McGonagall instructs Lavender Brown to hand out mice for transfiguration[src]
A mouse is a small mammal belonging to the rodent family. It was used in Transfiguration class as part of the vanishing curriculum.[1]
On 31 July 1991, when Harry Potter met Rubeus Hagrid at the Hut-on-the-Rock, Hagrid mentioned that the pockets of his jacket might have dormice in them when he offered it to Harry as a blanket. Additionally, when Hagrid bent Vernon Dursley's gun and threw it in the corner of the room, Vernon made a noise that was said to be "like a mouse being trodden on."[2]
Mice were a favourite food of owls and Hedwig regularly brought back dead mice after her initial arrival at 4 Privet Drive.[3] Their skeletons were also noted to cover the floor of the Hogwarts Owlery, along with those of the vole, a similar creature.[4]
During the 1991 Christmas feast, Harry Potter opened a Christmas cracker containing several white mice. They quickly scurried off after the cracker was opened, and Harry speculated that they would probably be found and eaten by Mrs Norris.[5] That same year, Professor Minerva McGonagall had her first year students transfigure mice into snuffboxes for their first year exam. Points were given based on the prettiness of the snuffbox, but deducted if it had whiskers.[6]
At around one o'clock on his birthday, 31 July, 1993, Harry Potter scanned the sky for signs of Hedwig, "perhaps soaring back to him with a dead mouse dangling from her beak, expecting praise." Instead, she arrived along with two other owls and bearing a birthday present from Hermione Granger.[7] Later, the morning of the first Gryffindor Quidditch match of the season, against Hufflepuff, Harry caught Crookshanks trying to sneak into the Gryffindor Boys' Dormitory and told him to go chase some mice and leave Scabbers alone.[8]
In 1994, Molly Weasley accidentally picked up a trick wand created by Fred and George Weasley and it turned into a rubber mouse.[9]
In 1995, Harry mistakenly wrote on an essay that Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, was covered in mice. Hermione Granger corrected the mistake, suggesting that Harry had accidentally misheard Professor Sinistra, as Europa is actually covered in ice.[10]
In August 1997, as Harry visited Sirius Black's bedroom in 12 Grimmauld Place, he heard the scurrying of disturbed mice. Later, when he, Ron and Hermione visited Kreacher's den, a dead mouse fell out of it and rolled across the floor.[11]
Known mice
See also
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Mentioned and Ice Mice)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Ice Mice (possibly)[12])
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Ice Mice and Honeydukes Mice Pops)
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 15 (The Hogwarts High Inquisitor)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 4 (The Keeper of the Keys)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 6 (The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 15 (Beauxbatons and Durmstrang)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 12 (The Mirror of Erised)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 16 (Through the Trapdoor)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 1 (Owl Post)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 9 (Grim Defeat)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 6 (The Portkey)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 14 (Percy and Padfoot)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 10 (Kreacher's Tale)
- ↑ As students are seen in Honeydukes, breathing cold air after moving their hand up to the mouth.


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You have probably had one at some stage, or seen them in your local opportunity shop, but the humble crocheted blanket can do more than keep you warm at night. Launceston artist Ralf Haertel has used the colourful knitted pieces to wrap public buildings in the name of art, and quite a lot of fun! After overseeing the Remade 2012' recycled fashion parade at Junction Arts Festival, he is now in Alice Springs to install knitted work on the Court House, working along with local artist Nicki Shonkala.
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In 2010 Ralf Haertel wrapped the Corinthian columns at the fron of launceston's Town Hall with brightly coloured knitted blankets as a part of the national Regional Arts conference, Junction.
Now he is at it again, this time travelling to Alice Springs to take part in the annual Desert Festival with local artist Nicky Shonkola.
Mr Haertel has just finished co-producing the 'Remade 2012' fashion show as a part of this years Junction Arts Festival in Launceston.
He is full of admiration for the community nature of the event that saw fahion designers from across Tasmania creating wearable works using only recycled materials.
In central Alice Springs, the local law courts have had a makeover of crocheted blankets, carefully wrapped and secured around the rough square columns that form part of the brutalist architecture of the building.
Nicky Shonkola has been busy creating knitted blankets in preparation for the event, and Haertel has brought three suitcases of his collection with him for the project.
Shonkola is well known to the town, having been a regular 'yarn bomber' or 'knit grafitti' artist for a number of years.
The Desert Festival, in its 11th year, commenced on August 11th but hits its peak season over the 10 days commencing this Thusday, and involves a unique showcase of local and national music, dance and culture that attracts over 10,000 people.


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Snider leads Pirates past Brewers
Pittsburgh, PA – Travis Snider had a two-run homer among his three hits and the Pittsburgh Pirates downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 7-1, to take the last three of a four-game set from PNC Park.
Snider drove in three and the first of a four-run sixth inning to break the contest open. Andrew McCutchen, Garrett Jones, Neil Walker and Clint Barmes each contributed an RBI to help the Pirates to their sixth win in seven games.
"It was good to see us continue to score, get the game to a comfortable place, its was a good finish for us," said Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle.
Pittsburgh received a second straight strong outing from Francisco Liriano (2-0), who fired 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball. He struck out seven and allowed six hits and three walks.
The struggling Brewers were held to just six hits to take their 12th loss in 14 games. Milwaukee was held to only one run in six of those defeats.
"When you're not scoring runs, it's hard to get motivated," said Brewers manager Ron Roenicke. "We need to grind out some runs."
Hiram Burgos (1-2) was charged with three runs on eight hits over five innings of work to absorb the loss.
Liriano's toughest inning came in the first, but McCutchen helped cushion the blow when he made a spectacular catch against the wall in center to rob an extra base hit and record the second out.
Jean Segura had reached with a single and after stealing second, Liriano served up an RBI single to Lucroy. However, the Pittsburgh lefty didn't allow another run the rest of his start.
The Pirates drew even in the fourth when Pedro Alvarez drew a one-out walk, stole second and came around to score on Barmes' double into left.
After the Brewers stranded runners at the corners in the fifth, the Pirates struck in the bottom half to take the lead. Starling Marte led off the frame with a single and Snider crushed a two-run shot past the seats in right center for a 3-1 Pirates lead.
Pittsburgh then broke the game open an inning later off reliever Alfredo Figaro.
Barmes reached to start the inning on Segura's throwing error and a double from Marte put runners at second and third. Snider, McCutchen, Jones and Walker then each knocked in a run in succession with singles to open up a 7-1 lead.
The Brewers had just one baserunner the rest of the way.
Game Notes
Segura stole his 14th base of the season and added two hits ... It was Snider's first home run of the year ... Pittsburgh had 13 hits and were 5- for-12 with runners in scoring position.


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When the world's largest steamboat returns to Beale Street Landing on March 9, it will have a different look than it did almost a year ago when it came up the river from New Orleans to dock at its Memphis home port for the first time.
When the American Queen Steamboat arrives back in Memphis next month for its cruise season, it will have undergone more than $500,000 in renovations.
(Daily News File Photo: Lance Murphey)
The American Queen has been undergoing more than $500,000 worth of renovations during its scheduled annual lay-up at Bollinger Shipyards in New Orleans.
A new drive shaft for the paddlewheel was installed Tuesday, Feb. 12, and the red paddlewheel itself is being rebuilt.
The renovations within the boat include new woodwork and carpets and reupholstered chairs and other cabin furniture.
"Like anything in the hospitality industry, you can never rest on your laurels," said Tim Rubacky, senior vice president of American Queen Steamboat Co. "You can never sit still."
One of the areas that got a major overhaul was the dining room.
"It's a very grand room to start with but it really had not been touched in the 18-year life of the boat. … It's got a much richer more opulent feel," he said. "At the entrance to the dining room is a spectacular new granite and marble entry way."
Other changes are the result of shifts leaders of the American Queen Steamboat Co., based in Memphis, have noticed in the overnight river cruise market from the debut of the Queen in 1995.
"When this boat was built 18 years ago, the consumer was an entirely different person," Rubacky said. "Eighteen years ago people accepted the fact that you had one place to eat and you ate there at your assigned time. Now, the consumer wants options. They paid good money to be on a vacation and they don't necessarily want to be regimented or dictated to. Giving them more choices is a big part of it."
That means several cafes with fuller menus that are open longer hours, including converting the Queen's popular "Front Porch" into the "Front Porch Café."
The company learned about change and improvisation in its first year back on the river after the overnight cruise industry on the Mississippi collapsed a second time in 2008 and stayed down for the next four years.
During that time, European river cruises in particular were booming. Mississippi and other U.S. river cruises had been a small but select market.
"They sailed American river cruises," Rubacky said. "They didn't sail on European river cruises and they didn't sail on ocean going ships. You never found people who had taken ocean cruises or overseas river cruises on board the American Queen or her then consorts. It really has opened up a whole new market. It really is ripe for growth."
–Tim Rubacky Senior vice president, American Queen Steamboat Co.
Last summer saw the Mississippi River below Memphis at near record low levels. That meant the American Queen had a couple of unplanned and extended stays in Memphis as the company offered passengers the option of taking a bus to Vicksburg, where the river was too low for boat travel, or remaining in Memphis longer.
"You literally go with the flow," Rubacky said. "We added new ports. We threw deck parties. We even did surprise ports of call and I think the guests really enjoyed that."
The American Queen and several other overnight riverboats spent the low river days on the Mississippi River at Memphis tied up on the west side of Mud Island or at the Cobblestones.
The Beale Street Landing slab that was in place last April for the arrival of the American Queen will be back in place by the Queen's arrival in March after more work on the landing during the 2012 low river levels.
The sales offices and store for Memphis Riverboats daily excursions will move into their space at the landing by March 1. Passengers on the excursion boats will buy their tickets as well as merchandise from the boats there before boarding the boats at the foot of the Cobblestones.
The landing restaurant is tentatively set for an April opening, said Dorchelle Spence, Riverfront Development Corp. vice president.
Meanwhile, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. is one of 41 mayors who have formed what amounts to their own political caucus built around the location of all of the cities along the Mississippi River.
The Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative plans to push this spring in Congress for additional federal funding of river-related items.
"Right now there is no dedicated appropriation out of Congress for dredging the Mississippi," Wharton said this week at the Memphis Rotary Club. "If we need to dredge we have to go hat in hand and ask. That is something we should not have to do. … We hope to achieve a funding source that will keep the Mississippi River navigable year round."
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Grade school basketball squads from around the area were in the spotlight most of last week at Norwood Fontbonne Academy, as the school presented its 40th annual Snowball Tournament on January 2-6. It's no wonder the event has stayed around so long; from the awards ceremonies to the concession stand, the NFA community runs this 16-team competition much better than most high schools manage a four-team tourney.
Norwood's own girls team made it to the championship game on Sunday, when they fell to Lafayette Hill's St. Philip Neri School, 31-28. The boys from St. Philip defeated NFA in the semifinals to earn an appearance in the other title bout, but here St. Luke's, from Glenside, came out on top by a score of 55-38.
Installments of a shooting contest were held at halftime of every game, as well. In the foul shooting competition, St. Philip's Laurel Suchsland was the girls champion and the winner for the boys was Noel Franczyk of St. Genevieve's in Flourtown. The top three-point shooter among the girls was Erin Moran of St. Philip's, while the boys' contest ended in a tie between Justin Anderson of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and yet another St. Philip's athlete, Sean Simon.
On Wednesday, the day after New Year's, the Snowball started rolling with the first two games in the boys' bracket. On Norwood's brand new gym floor, Andorra's Immacuate Heart of Mary School (IHM) overcame St. Gen's, 56-46, and St. Luke's rolled to a 56-11 victory over Holy Rosary School, from Plymouth Meeting.
The boys from Springside Chestnut Hill went into action the following evening, losing a nailbiter to St. Philip's, 57-55. It was the first loss for SCH, but it was only the fourth outing for the Blue Devils, who were a little short on game experience compared to many of their rivals.
St. Philip came back from a 45-40 deficit with five minutes left to play, led by a 28-point performance by Sean Simon, while Cole McCabe finished with 18 for SCH.
Next up was the first girls contest of the 2013 Snowball, and here St. Philip romped to a 25-5 halftime lead before putting up a 41-17 final score against IHM. The roster for St. Philip, a CYO team, includes a pair of eighth-graders who also play for Norwood, Cara Celano and Audrey Hinchey. Laurel Suchsland scored a game-high 13 points in the team's opening victory.
The next game was a seesaw battle, with the St. Gen's girls overcoming an early deficit to lead 20-15 at the half, but then ultimately losing to resilient Conshohocken Catholic, 45-43. Conshy's Maddie Ramin, who scored the winning lay-up with half-a-minute to go, rang up 28 points for the victors, and St. Gen's got 19 from Molly Dugan.
Kicking off Friday's schedule, the Holy Rosary girls got past St. Luke's, 29-24. Shannon Sabia, sister of former Mount St. Joseph hoops and hockey standout Jen Sabia, scored 10 points for the winners.
After this the two Norwood teams swung into action, both winning easily. The girls started out against neighborhood rival SCH, bolting to a 17-4 lead in the first quarter on the way to a 53-28 triumph. Norwood center Chloe Burns poured in 27 points and Celano added 11 for the Bears, while the Lions were led by a 22-point effort by guard Mo'ne Davis, only a sixth-grader.
Against the Conshy Catholic boys, Norwood amassed a 26-4 advantage by the end of the opening period, and continued on to a final reckoning of 63-24. A well-balanced performance on offense by the tourney hosts included 13 points by Joseph Buzad, 10 by Matthew Quirk (a seventh-grader), and eight apiece from Michael Kelly and Cole Storm.
The teams that came out on the short end of first-round contests each got to play a second time in consolation games scheduled for Saturday. In the two boys' games in this bracket, St. Gen's jolted Holy Rosary, 66-21, and SCH conquered Conshohocken Catholic, 64-33. On the girls' side, it was St. Gen over IHM, 37-19, and SCH shading St. Luke's, 30-28.
The extensive agenda for Saturday also encompassed the semifinal bouts in the main draw, starting with a 55-42 victory for the St. Luke boys against IHM. Colin Flach ponied up 18 points for the winners, who got another 18 from Aidan Rich, while IHM's Tyler Zwicharowski scored 13 in a losing cause. Advancing to face St. Luke in the finals were the lads of St. Philip, who got out to a 20-4 lead in the first quarter against the NFA Bears, and won the contest 54-38.
St. Philip had the gap up to 19 points several times before Norwood made some modest rallies, but the lead stayed in double figures the rest of the way for the Saints. Ronan Higgins, whose older brother Tom is a senior at Springside Chestnut Hill ('13), had a dozen points for the winners, and right behind was Luca Amoroso with 11. The Bears were led by Storm, with 12 points, and by Kelly, who netted his six points with a pair of three-point field goals.
The St. Philip girls also won in their semifinal match-up. Celano had 16 points and Alison Nowak scored nine for the victorious Saints as they prevailed 45-31 against Conshy Catholic, who received 11 points from Ramin.
Doing double-duty, Celano posted 11 points for the Norwood team in the other semifinal. Burns collected 10 points and eighth-grade classmate Grace Gelone had eight for the Bears, who scored the first 23 points of the affair and then coasted to a 36-16 win over Holy Rosary. Sabrina Forti, who got Holy Rosary on the board with 80 seconds remaining in the first half, finished with a dozen points.
In the girls' championship game on Sunday morning, Celano and Hinchey were playing for Norwood, and not St. Philip's. This gave other players for the Saints a chance to step up, and they did. Not scoring a field goal until almost 11 minutes had gone by, the Bears were fortunate to only be down 8-5 at halftime.
Norwood came out smoking in the second half, with transition lay-ups by Celano and Georgia Powell, and then a three-pointer by Celano that had the hosts ahead 12-8. St. Philip recaptured the lead thanks to their point guard Angela Gervasi and shooting guard Sophie Kolkka, who didn't score in the first half but then netted 12 and nine points, respectively, after the break.
Norwood's Gelone also came on after the intermission, when she chalked up all of her seven points in the game. St. Philip's appeared to have the victory on ice with a 29-25 lead inside of 10 seconds remaining, but Gelone heaved up a successful three-pointer from just a few steps past midcourt. The Bears had to foul right away through, and Gervasi made good on a pair of free throws for a 31-28 win.
Celano had 10 points, Burns and Powell each finished with five, and Hinchey had one for Norwood, while St. Philip's backed up Gervasi and Kolkka with three points apiece from Nowak and Cate McCreavy, and two each from Moran and Suchsland.
As the boys' final got underway, St. Luke's rode nine points from Flach (a guard) and seven points from center Aidan Rich (a formidable post player) to a 23-8 advantage at the quarter. St. Philip's, which had won an earlier duel between the teams, never really got back in contention, missing a number of foul shots that could've helped that happen.
The Saints were back within 11 in the middle of the second period, but St. Luke's pulled away again to go up 42-19 early in the third quarter. St. Philip's made up some ground in the final period, when both teams had their reserves on the floor.
Flach and Rich deposited 20 and 12 points, respectively, for the winners, who also marked down eight points for Christian Surdykowski, seven for Owen Pighini, and six for Charlie Alcorn. Shane Flaherty posted St. Philip's team high of 13 points, and the Saints received seven from Amoroso and four from Higgins. The runner-up team also got three points apiece from Simon and Owen Rocks, and two points each from Owen Leahy, Vincent Martina, Andrew Morris, and Joe Stoberl.


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They are my heroes and my inspiration – a kid (or a ravenous family) in one hand, a laptop and Blackberry in the other, a rolling pin and a spatula somewhere in between, and the checkbook's on her (or his!) head. In stilettos (or those long, narrow man-shoes…I love those, boys!) or sneakers. The guys and gals of the Daring Bakers 🙂
They are the reason I am here doing this month's challenge…because who wouldn't want to be part of that fantastic bunch of people? Well, that and the fact that I love bread. And I know this challenge is not laminated nor is it dauntingly multi-step, but it's a challenge even so, especially for someone like me: It's vegan. And gluten-free.
The powers that be have blessed (cursed) me with the ability to eat anything that is not locked up in a vault. Animal, vegetable, mineral…I love it all! Vegetarian food has always been, to me, like some exotic cuisine…delicious to eat, a challenge to cook well, but not something I eat every day. Gluten-free is more a mystery…as I am only just learning about it, so I still get confused what is and what's not.
That being said I did have a point in my favor…remember my hot as a sauna kitchen? Perfect for anything yeasted and in need of proofing!
I followed the recipe for the Lavash as is, and you can find it at Natalie's Gluten A Go Go or Shel's Musings From the Fishbowl. These were the rules:
"You have so much freedom! You can make the Lavash Crackers either with all purpose wheat flour or you can try making them gluten free. You may use any variety of spices/seeds/salt to top the crackers. All dips/spreads/relishes/salsas must be vegan and gluten free."
Ok…so I could use all purpose wheat flour…not gluten-free, but something that I've definitely got stashed in the pantry. I used sesame seeds to top the bread. For the rest of the steps, I followed the Gluten Free dough process because it worked better for me – you see, the gluten free version had you rolling the dough between two sheets of parchment (which is how I like to roll dough) instead of misting the counter with spray oil (which I find too messy). I didn't get to roll my dough as thin as I'd wanted though, so my crackers were not as paper-thin and "snap-able" as I'd wished. They were not bad for an initial attempt however, and went well with the dip which we served to some friends we had over for dinner.
Oh! Didn't I mention the dip? Part of the challenge was making a gluten-free, vegan dip to go with the lavash. Now this was more of a challenge for me because I was doing this from scratch – no friendly vegan/gluten-free recipe telling me if I was on the right track. So if something is amiss please let me know!
Chickpea and Roasted Capsicum Dip
1 400-gram can chickpeas, drained
2 red bell peppers, de-seeded, roasted and peeled
4 cloves garlic, roasted and peeled
1/4 cup parsley leaves
Juice from half a lemon
1/2 teaspoon baharat (an Arabic spice mix, there are many blends depending on country or region…use any you like or make your own), or to taste
Sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper
Olive oil
– Drain chickpeas and set aside. You may want to save some of the chickpea water to thin out the dip if needed….though I didn't.
– Roast the peppers and garlic. I cut them in quarters, remove all the seeds, and then lay them skin side up on a baking tray lined with parchment. Place the garlic cloves (remove most the outer peel but leave the last layers on) in a square of foil, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with a pinch of salt, close foil over garlic to make a little pouch, and place on the baking tray with the peppers. Place in a 200C oven until the pepper's skin is black and blistered in place. Take the peppers out, place in a bowl, and cover with cling wrap. Leave to cool slightly. Take your garlic our and poke with the tip of a knife to see if it's soft. If it's not, return to the oven to roast some more until soft. When the peppers are cool enough to handle, gently peel off skin (it will come off easily at this point) and set aside. When the garlic is soft, squeeze out of skins and set aside. This can both be done ahead of time.
– In a food processor place chickpeas, roasted red pepper, roasted garlic, parsley, lemon juice, baharat, salt and pepper, and pulse until chopped up finely and mixed thoroughly. Add a couple of glugs of olive oil (depends on your taste and how smooth or chunky you like the dip) and pulse again. Taste and adjust seasoning, and pulse until you reach your desired consistency. If it's still too thick you can add some of the chickpea liquid, although I didn't.
– Spread on a shallow bowl and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil to serve.
I loved the challenge of cooking vegan and gluten-free. A different challenge from the usual, but a challenge still…and one that gives us a little glimpse into the lives of our friends who enjoy different eating habits, which makes it even more meaningful and fun in my book 🙂Note: In case you are wondering why there are only three crackers in the photo, it's because we finished pretty much everything the night before and it was too dark to take a picture then!


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The Spanish cargo ship Luno was heading to port to load up its typical charge of fertilizer this week when it suddenly lost engine power, casting it adrift. It was soon swept into a jetty on the coast of southwestern France, where the relentless pounding of the waves on the ship against the rocks finally took its toll. It's not every day that you see anything that's 300 feet long get completely torn in two.
The 12-man crew was evacuated, according to The Telegraph,
before the great rip occurred edit: crazily enough, it turns out the evacuation was still ongoing during the tear, according to the AP. The rescue was hampered by 70-mile an hour winds, but somehow the only injury was a broken nose.
Luckily for them, the environment, and humanity's collective guilt, the ship was mostly empty before it crashed, with just a small amount of fuel oil leaking out.
Seeing the immense force of the waves breaking this ship's back, then smashing it against the jetty like someone breaking a twig over their knee gives you a whole lot of respect for the ocean. Because, holy crap.


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Hate to come on seemingly only when I need info but I know ya'll understand. SO, here's my problem: did the big "no no" and strained while on the can. . . now by lower back is screaming at me. . . syrinx is from C-3 conus (all the way down) and have not had this happen yet. . . don't know if I popped a hole in it, just strained it, or have a kidney infection (am on antibiotics for strep throat 3rd day now). If I sit perfectly still and take all pain meds, am OK. When I move, even to get up and down, get terrible pain shooting only in the lower back: waist down, and seems to stop at hips. . . no shooting pains which is good, but OMG the pain in lower back is the worst I've ever had. Suggestions? Comments, other than I am a dumbshit (every pun intended) or what? Takes my breath away. Does not hurt to go to the bathroom, but did this last night and have been in max pain, albeit small area relatively, since. Hoping to hear "it will pass" but what if I popped it: how would I know the difference? To make things perfect, have my Social Security phonecon tomorrow at 11am. . . this time my doctor wrote a very stern and descriptive letter, including "she will need an electric wheelchair soon", and "extensive" SM, etc. Loosing my hands, can't wring out clothes, etc. Still manage to paint on happy face every day but don't know why: figure if I look better I'll feel better, who am I fooling? So anyone done this, please give me guidance. Just saw my main doc and NS last week; both agreed I've worsened but should be holding my own for awhile, then I blew it. Just don't know how bad. Thx for any input.
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Explanations of hadiths regarding the End Times by Mr. Adnan Oktar
Our Prophet (saas) says; "A star that lights up the Moon will be born from the East." How can a star light up the moon? This means it will be a very bright and shiny star, or else a star cannot light up the Moon. This is something said to make it more understandable. It means to say that the star is so bright that it almost lights up the Moon. What was the basic characteristic of the comet Lulin? It is the brightest one of the comets that has ever come so far; it is very bright and radiant. "That star will be bent after it is born," he says. None of the stars ever bend, all comets go straight forward. They have a tail and they go straight forward. "So that both tails of the comet come closer." It takes the form of the crescent. What is the characteristic of the comet Lulin? It has two tails and it is in the shape of a crescent. It is almost like a circle; that is what the comet Lulin looks like. Look at how perfectly our Prophet (saas) explained the brightness of the star.
The hadiths also state that there will be lots of sink holes in the End Times. Yesterday I was looking at the television, and I saw that a whole neighborhood, all the houses were all sinking in an instant. In his hadiths, our Prophet (saas) says; "There will be an increase in the number of sink holes." That is also a portent of the appearance of Mahdi (pbuh).
Our Prophet (saas) says ; "Wait until an individual who will be called the Mahdi (pbuh) appears from my Ahl Al-Bayt. If you live to see him, abide by him and be one of those who attain guidance." That means Mahdi (pbuh) is a person who will be instrumental in people's attaining guidance. What will he do then? How will a person attain guidance? With the facts leading to faith, with miracles of the Qur'an. That means Mahdi (pbuh) will not be talking about the Islamic Laws. Maybe he also talks about the Islamic Laws as well, but how can one lead to guidance? It is by making one believe in God: So that means Mahdi (pbuh) will know the artistry of making people believe in God, he will know the art of making people love God. How is this done? He will be talking about the miracles of the Qur'an, he will be talking about the facts leading to faith, about the miracles of our Prophet (saas), about the wonders behind the matter and thus be instrumental in people's attaining faith. And the name Mahdi (pbuh) comes from this, Mahdi (pbuh) means the one who is instrumental in people's attaining faith.
Our Prophet (saas) says; "His [Hazrat Mahdi's (pbuh)] caliphate will be valid on humans and djinn." That means he will be the caliph of both djinn and humans, just like the Prophet Solomon (pbuh).
As you know, the Prophet Solomon (pbuh) imprisoned thousands of djinn inside his ring. He had a red, ruby ring, a very fine beautiful ring on his finger and the Prophet Solomon's sign was embedded on that ring, that Star of David. And there were thousands of djinn inside that ring; he makes them do whatever he likes. When they were done with their duties, the djinn used to get inside that ring and stay there, they were imprisoned there. In the verse, God says that they were chained to each other. He even had irreligious djinn under his command. The verse calls them "satans" and those are irreligious djinn. Through the djinn, he gives lightness to the matter. For instance let us assume that there is a stone weighing three tons or a giant piece of stone weighing two thousand tons. We do not know what kind of science this is, that is the Wisdom of God, we do not know how, but they make them weigh as if they are two hundred kilograms, their whole weight is lifted and that giant piece of stone becomes as light as a bird and people can easily lift them and carry them as if they are made of cardboard. When they leave it on the ground, the stone compacts the soil because of their weight. As the Wisdom of God, they possess information which makes them lose the power of gravity on them. For instance, they possess a knowledge which allows them to cut stones like a blade. Those stones are there in Israel now. People say, "This cannot be done with any tool." It is not possible to carry it. The stones of the foundation of the Prayer House of Prophet Solomon (pbuh) were brought from another place, they were brought there from 50-100 km away, these stones do not belong to that location and it is not possible to carry them. They are meters long, they have no end to it. They are meters long, they have no end. And the whole knowledge lies in that red ruby ring, that science is not known; I mean that is a science God conceals and may be it is knowledge inside the hidden knowledge.
I am saying that the ruby ring that belongs to the Prophet Solomon (pbuh) will be found; that is one. The ark of the Prophet Solomon (pbuh) -the Holy Ark- the ark that the Prophet Moses (pbuh) was put in, the wooden ark that he was placed in when he was a baby- as you know, his mother placed him in an ark and left him on the river and that ark was covered with gold and became the holy ark of the Prophet Solomon (pbuh). That Holy Ark will be found. There will be Manna in a bottle in that ark. I am saying this now because when it is found you will all be amazed, so you cannot say you haven't said that to us, you said it later on. Look, I am saying this ten years before it happens; you will see this. Manna, some belongings of the Prophet Moses (pbuh), a piece of his staff and some pieces of the broken tablets, the pieces of the tablets the Ten Commandments were engraved on and many other holy relics will be inside that ark, and that ark will be found. And all the Jews who see this will instantly come to believe him.
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SAN JOSE — Sharks general manager Doug Wilson said center Logan Couture had successful surgery Wednesday on his injured hand and is expected to make a full recovery. No timetable was set for his return, but it was previously estimated that he would be out of the lineup for three to four weeks. Dr. Arthur Ting performed the surgery.
Couture, who will begin his rehabilitation immediately, said earlier this week that the injury occurred three or four weeks ago, and the idea was to get it taken care of now rather than it be a bigger problem later.
"I wasn't practicing, had to numb it for games," Couture said. "It just got to the point where I couldn't do that for the entire season. We figured we wanted to be back for the end of the year, so we timed it this way."
The surgery was timed to the Olympic break, he added, because that provides an extra three weeks to heal if necessary.
Through 43 games, Couture has 14 goals and 35 points.
Staff writer David Pollak contributed to this story.


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LONDON (Reuters) - After a series of films on the Iraq war flopped at the box office, a biting political satire about British and U.S. officials concocting dubious evidence to justify invasion hopes that humor can do the trick.
"In the Loop" is a fictional comedy starring James Gandolfini, but the character of Malcolm Tucker, an aggressive, acid-tongued "spin doctor" to the British prime minister, bears clear comparison to the real-life Alastair Campbell.
Campbell served under Tony Blair and helped prepare for public consumption the intelligence that was used to justify war in Iraq.
The cast of British and U.S. politicians caught up in a tussle between supporters and opponents of war in an unspecified Middle Eastern country is also designed to be close enough to the truth to make audiences think.
"My professional and natural reaction to all these things is to go for comedy," said Scottish director Armando Iannucci, who was angered by what he felt was a misleading campaign by the British government to join the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
"That doesn't mean to say when you do a comedy about a topic you are lightening that topic or you are making less of it," he told Reuters in an interview to promote the movie.
"If anything, I find that comedy helps you analyze it in more ways. There were lots of straight dramas about Iraq in the last year or so and I think people found them fairly heavy going and a bit of a turn off ... and I wanted to do something that felt a little bit more timeless but also human."
Movies related to the war in Iraq include those set in the conflict zone ("Redacted," "The Hurt Locker") and those dealing with people's lives back home ("In the Valley of Elah," "Grace is Gone"). Most were largely ignored by U.S. audiences.
In the Loop ranges from satire — a hapless junior minister is torn between what is right and what is best for his career — to slapstick farce as Tucker races around Washington desperately cobbling together "intelligence" proving the case for war.
Political double-speak is sent up as the minister Simon Foster (played by Tom Hollander) seeks to keep his options open with comments like: "To walk the road of peace sometimes we need to be ready to climb the mountain of conflict."
Much humor derives from Tucker's expletive-ridden tirades against the minister and anyone else who dares get in his way.
Gandolfini plays a general who opposes an invasion but changes his tune when war looks inevitable.
There is also a cameo role for Steve Coogan, one of Foster's constituents who badgers him at inopportune moments about his mother's garden wall which is about to fall down.
Critics have praised the film, which hits British cinemas on April 17, although some wonder whether the rapid-fire speech and Tucker's Scottish accent may dent its commercial potential.
"Maybe the best thing about this hilarious, superb, black comedy is its use of language, veering from elaborate schoolboy profanity to exquisite wordplay and sublime parody of government doublethink," Damon Wise said in the Times.
Campbell was asked by the BBC to review the film, which is a spinoff of the TV series "The Thick of It," and wrote that he struggled to stay awake and was "too bored to be offended."
Iannucci took it as a compliment.
"He says he was bored and I just wonder, is that because he's seen it all before? I would far rather Alastair Campbell was bored into a stupor than anyone else really. I think that's a good thing, a good thing if he's rendered inactive."
(Editing by Paul Casciato)
To read more about our entertainment news, visit our blog "Fan Fare" online at blogs.reuters.com/fanfare


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X de-X-cessioned it.
Y Yawned at it.
Z found it for sale at the Newberry Book Fair and, after giving it due consideration, came to the decision to pay Zero.


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I don't have much pithy commentary to add to this one—just watch it, and rejoice.
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Feel free to discuss water, jumping, or whatever else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good chatting, one and all.


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The hottest Christmas gift of 1969, for many people, wasn't the Slinky, the Nerf Ball or even Avon's cameo soap on a rope; it was "Abbey Road," the last album recorded by The Beatles. Released in the United States the previous October, the album had spent 11 weeks at number one before being displaced by "Let It Bleed," by The Rolling Stones. By the third week in December, though, Christmas shoppers had once again made "Abbey Road" the top-selling album in America. The album's cover, a photograph of the group at a zebra crossing in London, has become a nearly universally recognized icon of the Fab Four and their era.
I can assure you that "Abbey Road" was not on my mind when I picked the photograph for this week's cover. In fact, it was a couple of days before I even noticed the similarity; I was just looking for something unconventional. You should know that the cover photo is not intentionally evocative of the Beatles' album cover, nor has it been staged in any way. The shepherds and the Magi are actors, part of a live-human nativity scene that was organized outside the U.S. Supreme Court building this month. A Christian group had organized the event to demonstrate that such displays are protected by the First Amendment.
That said, you won't find anything in this issue of America about that important yet impossibly tedious constitutional debate. Strangely enough, the contents of this Christmas issue have more in common with "Abbey Road." Like many, Richie Unterberger, the pop music critic and historian, regards "Abbey Road" as one of the greatest albums of all time. The work was actually a miracle of sorts. By 1969 Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr were barely on speaking terms and rarely worked together. At times, they were even recording their musical parts separately. Yet "Abbey Road," says Unterberger, is the group's "most tightly constructed" work and contains "some of their most intricate melodies, harmonies, and instrumental arrangements."
So a group, one plagued by scandal, internal conflict, divergent personalities, some mutual contempt and even a bit of greed, managed in "one of their most unified efforts" to effect a great artistic triumph. Sound familiar? It should; it could describe the experience of the American church in 2012. In spite of everything—the partisan feuds, the lingering effects of scandal, the crisis of belief—the church got on with her work; the work of evangelizing, the work of healing, the work of justice. Amid all the in-fighting and the acrimony, new hearts were won for Christ, souls were nourished, the hungry were fed, the naked were clothed, the sick were cared for. It was beautiful.
Still, the Lord calls us to more than unified action; he calls us to a union of hearts and minds as well. As our editorial puts it this week, "The one whose birth is celebrated at Christmas makes specific pleas for unity." It is not enough simply to work together, to respect one another; we must forgive; we must love one another. Please don't write the editors of America if that last bit strikes you as naïve; take it up with the Lord. He's the one who said it first. He's also the only one who can ultimately make it happen; the unity we seek begins and ends with the one who united himself to us. The unity we seek is unity in truth, the babe in Mary's arms, that tiny, fragile human body in which truth became incarnate.
As everyone knows, The Beatles broke up just a year after "Abbey Road." The church in the United States faces no such fate. Apart from the fact that there is much more hope than there is despair, we have the promise of the Incarnate One: "I will be with you always to the end of the age." Count that as our greatest gift this Christmas.