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Add a little spice to your diet while participating in the World Day of Prayer

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 21, 2010 - 3:57pm

Recipes to recognize World Day of Prayer 2010

The food of Cameroon

The food of Cameroon is rich in spices. The staple foods eaten by the people of Cameroon vary from region to region, depending on climate, and what is grown locally.

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Maple Shortbread Cookies just in time for maple syrup season

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 21, 2010 - 3:14pm

Note: Icon viewer Mary Ann Ring provided this timely cookie recipe.

Since the maple tapping season is almost upon us, we are lucky to have a few maple syrup making demonstrations in our area to check out. While you are at the Coldren-Crates Maple festival in Arlington or the Johnny Appleseed Maple Syrup Festival at Teddy Bear Park in Lima (both taking place March 13), pick up some maple syrup and try the maple sugar.

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Game review: American McGee's Alice

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 21, 2010 - 3:06pm

TEH. BEST. GAMES. EVAR.
By Andr'e Swartley

Issue #13
American McGee's Alice
Developer: Rogue Entertainment
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Mac, PC
Rating: M for Mature

Not satisfied with his recent remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton has wrangled Johnny Depp into unflattering makeup yet again, this time to play the Mad Hatter in a new version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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Movie review Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 20, 2010 - 6:47pm

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Movie review
By Kerry Bush

After seeing Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, I wondered if the screenwriter of the movie even read the book the movie was supposedly based on or if he just got a summary from Wikipedia.

Although come to think of it, even Wikipedia with all its editors can give a better synopsis of Rick Riordan's epic novel The Lightning Thief than the screenwriter of this movie did.

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A passion for cats, music and Bluffton University

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 20, 2010 - 6:43am

Except for public schoolteachers and farmers, it is the rare individual who spends her whole working life at the same organization. Rarer still for one to remain at the same institution for 45 years. So at a recent annual President's Dinner at Bluffton University, there was true cause for celebration.

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Who do you want to meet?

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 18, 2010 - 10:06am

Blame this on the Olympics and the fact that Scott Hamilton's voice is prominent during the analyses of the figure skating events. Every time I hear him speak, it makes me wish I were at the Olympics. Not that I want to watch the athletes -- which okay, yeah, I wouldn't mind that -- but mostly because I want to meet him.

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