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2022-23 Game Thread – Knicks vs. Raptors (MLK Day Game) – Love is Just a Four-Lettered Word?
Post author By Brian Cronin
137 Comments on 2022-23 Game Thread – Knicks vs. Raptors (MLK Day Game) – Love is Just a Four-Lettered Word?
The Knicks are back to having MLK Day matinees at the Garden after getting ripped off in 2020. I always loved these games when I lived in the City. I went to three or four of them over the years. It made me so mad when the Knicks didn't get a game in 2020, so I'm happy that they are back.
Let's keep the winning streak going! My 49-win prediction is still in play!
Let's go, Knicks!
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137 replies on "2022-23 Game Thread – Knicks vs. Raptors (MLK Day Game) – Love is Just a Four-Lettered Word?"
Maxsays:
Let's Go Knicks!
cybersozesays:
Gooooo Knicks!
JK47says:
Let's beat this mediocre Raptors team that always seems to give us matchup problems!
Knicks want another NBA Global Game, Max. Maybe we can be the opponent to the Mavs on the game the NBA is planning to Madrid (because Luka played there for Real Madrid). It's half way for you and for me. 😉
Raven is a Big Black Birdsays:
Stupid random predictions I'll wish I'd not written by the end of the first quarter: big games from Mitch and RJ today.
peppersays:
3 entry passes to mitch already….thibs must be on this blog…
Brunson read KB and made the interior pass to Mitch, but Mitch didn't prove us right.
Toronto's dearth of big men and some Knicks' staffers reading Knickerblogger give Mitch a lot of chances 🙂
@Cyber
That would be nice! 😀
Randle!
Not in Detroit anymore…
ptmilosays:
mitch looks like he's on a unicycle out there
BigBlueALsays:
I'll be pleasantly surprised if the Knicks win today.
Yeah, we need to step up if we want to win this game, it's not going to be a walk in the park like yesterday.
d-marsays:
We look out of sorts today
TNFHsays:
Randle and Mitch have played together for four years and I think 75% of all of Randle's assists to Mitch have occurred in the last 10 minutes
We always seems to forget about Toronto's length and quickness, carelessness and slow thinking are not allowed…
deeefensesays:
>We always seems to forget about Toronto's length and quickness<
When I look at them, I see a VERY good team. I can't figure out why they are underperforming so badly relative to what I would expect, but they always seem to show up against the Knicks.
Hartenstein gets absolutely no respect from the refs on either side of the ball.
I'm calling BS.
Finally they call a foul
Watching that Hart five-minute-long rebound-grab-and-gather for the layup, I think I've finally figured out why Hart seems to struggle out there…
Randle is just abusing defenders these days
randle doing stuff
Randle just made Juancho look very silly
I like this new super fast Randle going for ferocious dunks. 😀
rj with the weirdly deliberate take me handle all quarter
Looks like retirement is treating Kurt Thomas well…
Randle simultaneously looks just as strong as he used to but lighter.. He's doing something right diet and workout wise. Whatever it is, I need it.
The Unbearable Knicksiness of Beingsays:
Some horrible reffing this afternoon…
Well this bench performance means even more minutes for Randle and Brunson.
Bad refs alert…
RJ's trying to single-handedly lose this game…
Is that an amoeba zone defense?
2nd unit of death…
This second unit is rough going
RJ, Deuce, and the bench killing us
That's the highest I've ever seen Hart jump.
Might also be the only time I've ever seen Hart jump…
hart is having a great shift
Toronto has killed us with zone defense for years, we never adapted.
Quickly correctly realizing he's the only guy on the floor with any prayer of scoring in the half court
When you watch the team without Randle and Brunson you wonder how Thibs avoids playing them both 48 minutes
Yeah I don't get why the zone always befuddles us
Barrett sucks
RJ misses so many bunnies and open threes. SMH, as the kids say
Also Deuce is probably not an NBA rotation player. I'd be looking to upgrade the bench PG position if I was running this team
Downtown Doogie Brownsays:
Outcome of today's game notwithstanding, I think the most apropos phrase for the 2022-2023 version of the New York Knicks as currently constructed and playing is this:
"Greater than the sum of its parts."
No superstars. And although there are many things about it that would typically make it seem as if it *shouldn't* be working, well…….it seems to be working.
And that's good 'nuff for me.
Thibs giving Obi lots of minutes this quarter
Look better with rj on the bench…
barnes can't check randle one on one
Clyde is the best!
"I think you and I are going to be the only ones not in trade rumors, Mike" 😀
Randle should DEFINITELY play all 48 minutes.
Run Obi as backup point guard to make JK47 happy.
I love Quentin Grimes.
Toronto imploding at the end of the half thankfully
Grimes is just one of those guys who does everything right. Trying to think of a comp, maybe Iguodala?
RJ's showing a pulse…
A career like Iguodala's for Grimes? I'll take it gladly. 😉
Randle pretending to have a handle when he really doesn't and dribbling and dribbling badly until Toronto just took it away from him was one of the funnier things I've seen this season.
Ops, never mind…
Up 8…momentum…then Randle and Barrett go hero ball to get Toronto back in it..
Despite my making fun of Randle on that play, it's another Randle-Brunson game. Without both of them this isn't even a close game.
In that special way he has, Barrett somehow on his way to his hot garbage 20 point game…
It was an entertaining half, i'm liking it. 🙂
Without both of them this isn't even a close game.
Without Brunson and Randle we'd probably be with the best odds to get Wembanyama.
I agree on Deuce at this stage, but I think we'll see Rose before they give up an asset for backup PG. If they do try to improve the bench scoring and are forced to give something up, I think it will be for a SF.
(Of course that's why I thought it was mistake to take Cam out of the rotation entirely. He has the size, length, can switch, and can score if you ask him to be aggressive. Playing him 10-12 minutes here or there would not be an issue and he might improve further).
This would be one hell of a team if we replaced RJ with a real starting SF, but imagine if we had a real plus two way SF. That could also solve the bench problem. RJ could probably score a little more efficiently against bench players without doing as much damage as he does as a starter.
Will someone please get a rebound!
I'd be willing to give up a 2nd round pick to get someone on the team that would lacerate RJ's finger. haha
I'm an incredibly patient guy when it comes to development or even bad years when I think there's a legitimate excuse, but he's losing me. We need a starting SF. He is not a starting SF.
Every time we take a dumb shot they score, it's a rule.
And now we missed two incredible, but not dumb, shots at the rim…
Brunson and FVV back and fourth. 😀
Sometimes Grimes is too unselfish
Grimes passes up too many open looks from 3pt.
fearing the bench here. gonna need quick to catch fire.
Because it's a back to back, we sat ISM today to rest.
We have 3 starters with the "backup" team? 😀
Those MLK readings by Knicks players are really cool, good job by MSG
We want Sims!
It feels like we get no respect from the refs even at home. Some are obviously close but legit calls, but typically the home team gets a little "benefit" in the calls.
The Knicks Wall
@TheKnicksWall
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A tale as old as time⏰
Owensays:
Big three from IQ. Getting back to being the guy we know and love
Refs doing a good job keeping the Raptors close.
Z--mansays:
This is one physical game. Surprised (pleasantly) that Randle didn't get T'd up there…
Let's finish this!
At what point does Quickly start getting some 6th man of the year consideration?
I'd assume if he has a big 2nd half he'd at least be in the conversation.
Refs are killing us…
Bo Natemansays:
Holy shit… RJ
holy shot rj
RRRRRRRRRRRRR JJJJJJJJJJJJJ
GAAAAAAHAHHAAAAAAAAAA
BEST PLAY OF HIS CAREER
This team's length is a problem for our smallish guards and SF on both sides. We need some length. Tough loss, but it was a tough game on a B2B after all the minutes some guys played yesterday and were asked to play today. We need bench help.
Why is every god damn game somehow exactly the same
I hate this loss, I hate JB's decision on the last shot, I'm pissed as hell…
Why do I put myself through this?
Worst non call of the game was on RJ's dunk. He got mauled could have won the game right there.
That was like a playoff game. Kudos to both teams.
Correct. 1000 times correct.
The NBA's review of some of these calls and non calls should be interesting tomorrow.
These Raptors scare the crap out of me. I know their record is not that good and there's supposedly some unhappiness in the locker room, but they are way better than their record and a terrible matchup for us if we happen to run into them in the play-in or playoffs. The are too long for us at multiple positions. I expect them to make a big run after the all-star break if they remain healthy.
Our bench was exposed there. We can't expect Randle and Brunson to play 40+ minutes in a street brawl overtime game on a B2B.
Brian Croninsays:
It is crazy how similar all of their games are! I had a meeting and so I had the game on on mute and had to bite my tongue to not react through it all. That was one hell of a dunk by RJ, though! That was tough not to react to.
Most predictable loss ever.
To Z–man's point, may be time to review the bench rotation.
How about having a freakin' bench?!?! There are way too many players on this team who will just never see the court in a competitive game. It's such a waste of roster spots. All in the hopes that someone will suddenly want to trade a first for Cam?
Knicks need to start playing their home games on a neutral site or just play every game on the road cause it's become embarrassing how poor this team plays at MSG.
We can't expect Randle and Brunson to play 40+ minutes in a street brawl overtime game on a B2B.
That's why playing them 40+ against the fucking Pistons was insane.
Funniest thing of the night for me, the italian broadcasting crew lambasting our iso-heavy offense and calling out Thibs over and over all night long… no, I wasn't in the broadcast booth 😀
good decision. 2 seconds at release. two guys back. not enough time to throw the lob (edit: well, maybe) . need to be 70pct on the 2pa to make it even money. nowhere near it.
Yeah, JB's 3 point attempt reminded me of the Butler ECF 3 point attempt last year–a good decision that was widely panned at the time. Think about it this way: you have two good defenders back, no time on the clock, and 2 only gets you to 2OT (when your team is clearly gassed). A relatively open above the break JB 3 gets you the win, and probably goes in >=1/3 times. It was the right choice, and a good look.
Tough L but it shows that we need to rely on our starters less–the difference was energy and fatigue at the end this time round.
Small knock on Jalen : he's missed a fair number of game winners this season.
Our winning coincided with the 9 man rotation, but I don't think that was the entire reason for the success. The media was pushing that narrative. It helped the defense to have Mcbride on the court and shrink it a bit, but I think we overshot and it became a bit unbalanced to remove all of Rose, Cam and Fournier.
With Deuce, Hart, and Obi on the floor (especially with Obi still less than 100%) there's not enough shot creation. Quick and one of the starters can't carry that load every night. It becomes draining for whichever starter is asked to play 40+ minutes even if they are successful some nights.
We all know the downsides of both Cam and Fournier, but no one is asking both of them to play or one of them to play huge minutes. But one of them can play 10 minutes off the bench.
Rose is also a forgotten man. He used to be one of the main engines of the successful bench unit we've had in recent years.
I get trying to ease Deuce into the backup PG role, but he's not really a PG or enough of a weapon on offense for this to work with these teammates. The most obvious solution (absent a trade) is to play Rose 10-15 minutes a night until we find a better long term solution. If not him, then Cam or Fournier should get 10 minutes.
We can go back to 9 or even 8 in the playoffs when there are no B2Bs and everyone is shrinking their lineups.
Tough loss but it's on a b2b, we got a million bad calls, and our guys played their hearts out.
I had no problem with Brunson's last shot. It was a pretty good look.
Yep, doing a playoff rotation in the playoffs makes perfect sense. That, though, also speaks to the classic Thibs knock of "By playing playoff-style basketball for 82 games, there is no second gear when the actual playoffs come."
…while the Raptors seem like the classic "we have a second gear for the playoffs" team.
I'm sensing one of two things will happen. Either we will make some sort of deal or deals involving Rose, Fournier, Cam, and one or two other pieces to bolster the bench, or McBride will be benched in favor of either Rose or Fournier. They might be trying to survive without Rose and Fournier until they can swing a deal, but if Feb 9 comes and goes and they are still on the roster, they have to play in that second unit.
Nicossays:
Brunson's last shot didn't bother me but I thought he got caught up going back and forth with FVV- 29 shots against 2 assists and 4 turnovers definitely didn't help the cause. Also, as well as RJ played in the second half he got worked on the offensive glass by Barnes. I don't know what happened to RJ on the defensive end this year but he's been terrible- fixing that is every bit as important (or at least close) as getting his efficiency up going forward.
While I feel a bit funny defending our bench, because, well, they sucked, our Big Three took 72 shots and hit them at a 38% rate — with RJ Barrett, the guy most of us would have dragged behind the locker room and shot at half time to put him out of our collective misery, having arguably the best statistical game. Which is categorically insane, as many posters here were clearly stating he was actively trying to lose the game single-handedly. I would have written the exact same thing but I was blissfully kept off the site for most of the game (blissfully for you guys) and had to keep my very cranky thoughts to myself.
And Quentin Grimes should not be taking 5 shots a game.
Yeah, this is how i'm feeling too.
Should have known it was going to be a loss when we were up by 10 in the 4th…
Early Birdsays:
Didn't catch the game but seems to be a high correlation between Knicks who played over 40min last night and Knicks who shot significantly below their season TS% today.
Not going to read much into it, sometimes the schedule just sucks.
@Z-Man
I feel the same way, they can try to hold the fort until the trade deadline and then make the changes, but it can be very dangerous.
After WASH we go to ATL and TOR then, closing in on the trade deadline, the schedule gets harder: CLE, BOS, BRK, LAL, MIA, LAC, PHI (feb 5th).
The current bench unit may cost us a lot in those next 10 games and there's a chance we'll burn our main 6-men too.
Maybe thay'll better act sooner than later, oh wait I was forgetting…
I understand trying not to mess with what's working, but we really need to have a better bench. Outside of the starters and IQ everybody should be available to upgrade our bench unit. And even a small trade like sending Fournier, Cam and one of our protected picks (WAS) for good backups at SG and SF would go a long way to stabilize our bench unit. We could then get back to a 10 man rotation, and if the new guys are ok defensively maybe Obi gets better too, because Thibs will let him focus on offense again.
Ay-yep. Hopefully either A. the Knicks avoid the play-in games entirely (in a good way 😉 ) and B. the Raptors don't make the play-in games.
Donnie Walshsays:
The big question now is whether a close, hard fought loss on the back end of a b2b is enough to bring E out of hibernation.
Non-Knick related news, but it's still pretty cool to see, is that Kawhi Leonard averaged 36 minutes a game over 4 games last week. It's good for all fans of good basketball to see him back at full strength. Hopefully his injury is behind him and we get a few more great years out of him going forward.
Part of Grimes only taking 5 shots was on him. During the game a couple of us were lamenting that Grimes was passing up too many open 3pt looks. I get that he likes to drive by the close out and it usually leads to him getting into the paint for a layup or a pass off to someone for a layup but I thought today too many times he over did it and it wasn't successful.
That's funny, Al (and likely true) — I was just thinking earlier today that outside of the lob to Mitch, the Grimes drive-by is one of the more get-up-out-of-your-chair plays in the Knicks repertoire, as something exciting almost always happens, good or bad. And it's usually good.
Watching this Griz/Suns game, Jaren Jackson Jr had 5 blocks in the first five minutes of the 4th quarter, four of them while his sub was waiting for a dead ball to check in for him out of mercy. The Suns could not get the ball anywhere even near the cylinder, even 7'8" Bismak Byimbo catching it 1 foot from the rim.
And the Grizzlies, as a team, are growing and gelling together the way the Warriors did. If they are healthy come playoff time, the Griz may be a legitimate championship threat (now, and for years to come).
outlier files: geosays:
today felt like a loss before the game began…
back 2 back, raptors kind of give us trouble, heck, just about every team not named the pistons give us trouble…
we could have won, but just not meant to be…
a couple of games this week where we'll be favored…no doubt the knicks will have us sweating through both…
easy to imagine us losing both…
some games the short rotation doesn't seem to make much sense…with players coming in off a tough game yesterday, probably would have been helpful to have some fresher legs for the fourth…
I know it's the guys out on the court who really matter – thibs though doesn't give me much confidence in close games…
Shortening the rotation was the right move when it was made in the sense that we were getting little-to-nothing from Cam/Fournier/Rose, so we naturally improved a lot when we stopped giving them minutes.
However we're now seeing why no other teams really do this "X, Y, and Z can never, ever play under any circumstances" thing. It puts a lot of pressure on the guys who do play in terms of both minutes and production. Getting so little from Obi/Hart/McBride is killing us. Shortening the rotation to nine is one thing, effectively shortening it to six is quite another. Definitely might want to see if Fournier and Rose have gotten their act together. Not Cam though. #NeverCam
Honestly it's a minor miracle we're as good as we are while lighting so many roster spots, and so much cap space, on fire. It speaks to how much surplus production we're getting from Brunson, Randle, Mitch, Grimes, and Quick.
Of course, I suppose the idea of phasing out McBride's minutes in favor of Fournier and Rose raises some deeper questions about what our goals should be for the season.
Personally, it's hard for me to get excited over lost Deuce Development given that 1) we're substantially better than I thought such that most teams would probably make some kind of tradeoff of this nature and 2) perhaps more importantly, it's sadly getting hard to see a path for Deuce in general. The defense is *very* real, but you really can't play offensive zeros in the current NBA
We're more than halfway thru the season and the Knicks are in the 6th seed and legitimately deserve it, by all metrics they've been one of the 10 best teams in the NBA so far this season. So honestly screw the development of a 2nd rd fringe NBA player, if possible try to add a legit player or 2 to help the bench this season.
Don't care if it's a rent-a-player like Eric Gordon, the front office at this point I think owes it to the current core and coaching staff to help them improve the roster to secure a playoff birth. Nothing crazy is necessary, I'm all for mostly standing pat and seriously reevaluating the roster and it's future after the season. But similar to acquiring Rose 2 seasons ago I'm sure there is a possible trade or 2 that can be done to improve the bench without giving up any legitimate future assets.
Director NYCsays:
Regardless of who our bench players are, – Thibs wont play them.
I don't accept the notion that neither Rose, Cam, Frenchie or Obi are not worthy NBA players of 12-16 minutes against Kevin Knoxy level Detroit players while spotted 15+ points on the 1st game of back to back afternoons.
Its a Thibsian side effect that I have learned to ignore.
Hubert IVsays:
How we are relative to the rest of the league is hard to gauge since, you know, no one else does the whole 6 man rotation in January, you know? If we can get a guy who will be here a long time like OG, great. But we shouldn't give up assets for an Eric Gordon type. If we need this much help when we're treating games against Detroit like game 7, getting a stopgap veteran is a waste of resources.
If we need this much help when we're treating games against Detroit like game 7, getting a stopgap veteran is a waste of resources.
Exactly, my thoughts. Also, Fournier > Gordon, if not same player. Rose is better than both. He just never got in rhythm this year.
Randle is 22nd in the NBA in minutes per game, RJ is 38th and Brunson is 40th. Toronto who apparently is run by a genius GM and head coach have 3 of the top 6 players in minutes per game (Siakam 2nd, OG 3rd, FVV 6th). Several of the best teams have their top 2 players both in the Top 20 in minutes per game. This narrative of Thibs running his best players into the ground compared to other brilliant head coaches is tiresome.
Rose & Fournier have been terrible this year, that's a large part of why they're not playing.
Not sure how Gordon has played but it's hard to be worse than Fournier.
"So honestly screw the development of a 2nd rd fringe NBA player"
Now you're just making me mad. The team was 9-9 when Deuce started getting regular minutes. They're 17-12 since. I bet someone can tell me how the team's defensive standing changed from before Nov 20 to after, but I believe it was a huge shift. (Someone? Anyone?)
All on the back of one little Miles? Ball don't lie.
But goddamn it, I wish he'd score a few buckets now and again…
Walker Kessler had a 20-20 game.
Wasn't available when we would have picked. And we couldn't have used him this year or really any year.
***This narrative of Thibs running his best players into the ground compared to other brilliant head coaches is tiresome.***
As I mentioned above, Kawhi Leonard, for whom load management was basically invented for, and following an 18 month ACL recovery, played 38 minutes three times this week, with two of the games decided by double-digits. The idea that fit adults in their 20s can handle 32 mins but will break if they play 4 minutes longer should be put to rest.
i'm past wanting thibs coaching the knicks, even with the understanding he's the best coach we've had in a very long time, and consistency counts…
we lose waaay too many close games, or so it seems…
Yup stupid of the Knicks to gamble on getting a player who put up a 4.5 BPM in 1200 min for $8M. What were they thinking…
There's something so wrong about how good Lebron is playing for such a middling Lakers team. It's like Jordan on the Wizards, only Lebron is playing so much better, so it is extra painful.
Wanting to trade for Lebron, Brian? 😛
gkhenmansays:
I can't feel sorry for Lebron. He pushed for the Westbrook trade.


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Palestinian Land in East Jerusalem to Be Used for Israeli Landfill Site
Site will lead to removal of 120 Bedouin from area; this is first time since 1991 that private Palestinian land in East Jerusalem has been expropriated.
A Bedouin from the Jahalin tribe on the outskirts of Ma'aleh Adumim.Credit: Reuters
A plan to set up a landfill site in East Jerusalem on some 500 dunams of land, much of it privately owned by Palestinians, has been approved by a Jerusalem planning committee. This will be the first time since 1991 that Palestinian land in East Jerusalem has been expropriated.
J'lem Evicting Bedouin for Landfill
Israel Gets Grabby About Landfill
The facility for construction waste, slated to be built at the eastern exit of the capital, will require largescale expropriation of land owned by Palestinians in the Shoafat and Issawiya neighborhoods of Jerusalem and eviction of 120 Bedouin living in an encampment between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim. Palestinians from other East Jerusalem neighborhoods say they are concerned about the noise and dust that will result from the establishment of the landfill site in close proximity to their homes.
The plan — approved by the the Jerusalem planning and building committee and prepared by the Jerusalem municipality and the Israel Lands Authority — calls for the site to be set up on the upper section of Nahal Og, near the old road to Ma'aleh Adumim. It will cover 520 dunams (130 acres), most of which is privately owned by Palestinians. The Og dry river bed is to be filled with thousands of tons of construction waste, which will be brought in from the entire Jerusalem area, over the next 20 years. Once it is full, a park is to be built on top of the landfill site.
Palestinian residents of the Shoafat and Issawiya neighborhoods of Jerusalem, who own most of the land for the project, submitted objections to the plan. "For the first time in over 20 years, a massive expropriation is being conducted in East Jerusalem," said Sami Arshid, the lawyer representing the Abu Khdir family of Shoafat, which owns land in the area. "It is all based on the pretext that there is a need to build a site for construction waste. Such sites are usually established outside of cities and not next to houses. This is a dangerous plan, which once again views Palestinian property and land as ownerless," he said.
The Palestinians say they will not benefit from the park that will eventually be built on top of the landfill because of the separation fence which cuts the site off from the Shoafat refugee camp and the neighborhoods of Ras Shehada and Ras Hamis.
Bedouin residents of the village look at Jerusalem municipality's plan for a waste landfill, November 13, 2012.Credit: Emil Salman
The Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights nonprofit organization also objected to the plan on behalf of the residents of the Ras Shehada neighborhood of East Jerusalem, noting that the landfill will be built only a few dozen meters from their homes and is expected to cause serious noise and dust pollution. It may also violate environmental protection regulations.
The entry road to the landfill, which passes only a few meters from homes and businesses, is expected to see about 168 trucks a day.
Both Bimkom and lawyer Arshid announced they plan to appeal the decision in the courts or at the National Planning and Building Council.
Some 120 Bedouin living in an encampment in the area will have to evacuate the site. Most are an offshoot of the Jahalin Bedouin tribe, called Jadua-Kabua.
Jerusalem city council member and right-wing activist Aryeh King also objected to the plan because some of the land at the proposed site is owned by Jews.
The regional planning committee dismissed the majority of the objections, ruling that the landfill is necessary to allow continued construction in Jerusalem and the region and concluded that the plan meets environmental protection regulations. The committee also decided that it cannot take into consideration the needs of people living in the area illegally without building permits. The committee partially accepted the objection concerning the ecological aspects of the plan including the need to save plants in the area before work can start on the site.
Jerusalem city council member Yosef "Pepe" Alalu also criticized the plan, saying that its approval was the first stage on the road to the development of the so-called E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim. Development of that area, a controversial issue between Israel and the American administration, would create a contiguous Israeli strip between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim, and cut off the West Bank from East Jerusalem.
"Of all the places there are in Jerusalem and outside it — and there such [places] — the city found it proper to dump all the waste over the Green Line on private lands. That is how they want the Palestinians to understand us, and believe our intention is to reach an agreement?" said Alalu.
"These areas were almost the last hope of Issawiya and Anatot to rehabilitate the younger generation. One of the ideas that was acceptable to the city was to set up a light industrial area on these lands, which practically doesn't exist in the eastern neighborhoods of the city," said Alalu.

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While I live in the sticks, I am also within an hour of three large (populations over 100,000) cities. There are a plethora of events among them, typically located at public libraries, community colleges, universities, and bookstores. These provide an excellent way to connect with and support your local writers!
Last November, one public library hosted a drop-in fair to celebrate NaNoWriMo. Six local authors were on hand to sell and sign copies of their books. There was a variety of genres from thriller to children's, and attendees were also treated to complimentary snacks and drinks.
On the same day, another city's public library hosted a similar event, this time to help a children's literacy fund. Authors generously donated a proceed of their sales, and the library advertised it as a way to get some holiday shopping done–simultaneously stimulating the local economy, local authors' pocketbooks, and funds for the non-profit.
Every local author event I've gone to has been free for attendees–and often there are free goodies to be had–from refreshments to bookmarks and other book-swag the authors have available. How cool is it to be able to discover local authors, to talk to them about their work, to discuss their processes not only in writing but publishing? Readers, you might find your next favorite, and never underestimate the importance of readers to writers. Without you, who would read our work? For aspiring authors, this is more than just a networking opportunity. Most people are more than happy to share what their path has been like and may be able to offer you hints and advice for your own journey. For example, I took a community education course taught by Joe Chianakas, author of the Rabbit in Red trilogy. He was instrumental in helping me believe that I, too, could travel down the writing and publication path. Thanks, Joe!
Not sure where to find them? Try bookmarking the local college's website, and start following social media sites for your public library. Google searches may help you find locations you didn't even know about. That's how I discovered one of my now-favorite bookstores, Lit Books, and a super-cool Madison book fair called Madtown Author Daze. You'll forge friendships with booksellers and authors alike.
On April 7th, my local Barnes and Noble will have several local authors representing everything from young adult to paranormal, including Joe Chianakas, Sylvia Shults, J.E. Mueller, Sydney Raine, Alana Hitchell, Ron Swan, and Dylan Nelson. UPDATE: I just found out there will be TWO DAYS of local-author-goodness happening! The following will be at Barnes and Noble on Sunday, April 8th: Jason Henderson, Nancy Frantz, Demetria Williams, Anne Peterson, Jessica Peterson, Bridget Nelan, Carrie Lowrance, and Ahaveh Maure.
Readers, have you attended a local author fair? What was the best part? How far would you travel to see your favorite author? What/who would you like to see at one?


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The regular occurrence of things occurring ten times in the scriptures tends to relate to perfection, especially divine completion. Welch approaches this phenomenon through ten topics: perfection, worthiness, consecration, testing, justice, reverence, penitence, atonement, supplication, and ascension into the holy of holies or highest degree of heaven. The significance of the number ten in the ancient world relates to the tenfold occurrences in the Book of Mormon.


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As our country devolves into a 24/7 protest, people are casting their eyes to the stars. They're either hoping for a) an asteroid to hit the planet, b) our alien overlords to save us from catastrophe or c) the chance to flee to Mars to populate (and eventually destroy) another planet.
Life on this beautiful blue marble (or beautiful blue dinner plate if you're a flat-Earther) has had a good run. We've evolved from being hunters/gatherers to being couch potatoes while creating technology that is certain to bring about our impending doom. Do we really need a talking fridge?
But Mars! Oh, the possibilities!
I envision a world where everyone lives in hexagonal domes, speaks in British-accented tones, and wears white flowing robes. That could be a problem. I can't wear white, even when I'm not living on a planet covered in red dust. Every night I would look like a red chimney sweep.
NASA wants to send the first humans to Mars in the 2030s, which creates an interesting predicament. I'll be too old to populate anything, but every planet needs a wise old woman giving cryptic warnings to the younger generation. I could fill that role, assuming I survive the seven-month journey to the Red Planet.
The possibility of relocating to the planet of war has become an animated discussion in our home.
Me: Would you want to live on Mars?
Me: Wouldn't you be afraid we'd die on the way there?
Hubbie: Wait. You're going, too?
Seven months is a long time to give someone the silent treatment.
Describing the flight to Mars, NASA uses magical terms like "transfer orbit" and "astronomical position" which I've learned are NOT part of the Kama Sutra. Voyagers traveling to Mars could lose fingernails, have spinal fractures and vision problems, and there's always the chance you'll upchuck in your spacesuit and suffocate after blocking the air system with your intergalactic vomit. So, there's that.
Once we land, we'll spend a lot of time cleaning up abandoned movie sets that Abbott and Costello, Matt Damon and Santa Claus basically trashed during filming. But once that's done, then what do we do?
I guess people will build greenhouses and grow food. I won't be on that crew because I can't even grow mold. Others will install solar panels. Solar companies are already training door-to-door salesmen for the Mars market.
There will be a team working on communications so we can keep up with our favorite Netflix shows and hopefully someone will open a really good Mexican restaurant.
Space enthusiasts have wanted off-Earth colonization for decades. There's been discussion about creating a city on the moon, but scientists feared people would treat it like a giant bounce-house and not get anything accomplished. Plus, one day on the moon is equal to one month on Earth. And you thought an 8-hour workday was bad.
Venus was never an option. With skin-melting temperatures, acid rain and a super-dense atmosphere, Venus was too much like Alabama in August. However, nights on Venus can last up to 120 days. Maybe then I could actually get eight hours of sleep.
What if once we get settled, we find a prehistoric Statue of Liberty, buried in the red clay? We'll discover that billions of years ago, people left Mars to travel to Earth because idiots were destroying the Red Planet. Like one of those giant leaps for mankind, only backwards.
There's no chance of me relocating to another planet. But I can still stare at the stars and watch Mars twinkle in the distance. I just hope it's not flat like Earth.


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I've been playing Words With Friends, and it's helping me further shape my ideas of what I want Scrabble to be.
It eventually occurred to me that I don't like the bonus squares. Their presence leads me to focus on placing high-scoring letters on letter-bonus squares, and any words at all on word-bonus squares. When a short and boring word hits a triple word score square, it can score far more points than a longer and/or more interesting word.
So I started thinking about getting a physical Scrabble board on which I can just ignore the bonus squares.
And then I realized/remembered that I actually don't like Scrabble's letter-based scoring system much even without the bonus squares.
For me, what makes come-up-with-words games fun is coming up with unusual and neat words. And such words don't necessarily contain less-common letters.
For example, I just played WRIT in a Words With Friends game. It scored 9 points, and that was only because the R was on a triple letter score; otherwise it would've been 7. WRIT is a neat word, and one that doesn't come up very often in modern usage unless you're a lawyer, but it's common enough that I imagine most people have heard it. In my ideal system, that should score a lot more than an ordinary word like, say, MEN played on a triple word score (which scores 21 points).
Then again, I suppose in my really ideal scoring system, there's no actual scoring at all per se (so maybe what I really need is a Syzygy or Bananagrams set: no board, just tiles without numbers). Instead, you just get whuffie from the other players for coming up with cool words.
Or quasi-words. I've written before about my philosophy of Scrabble and my proposed house rules, and I've talked about some variants I like, as well as a fun game of plausible-fantasy-words quasi-Scrabble, but I haven't focused much on one specific option for what counts as a word: allowing anything that all players agree is a word, including foreign words and proper nouns. For example, I suspect most of my friends know the meaning of the word "gracias," even though it's not an English word; why not allow it in Scrabble?
There are certain standard/default parameters for most American word games and puzzles: no foreign words, no proper nouns, no acronyms, etc. And in most contexts I'm pretty happy with those rules. But I think it would be fun to relax them, at least sometimes, for Scrabble.
While I'm here, I may as well include links to other past Scrabble-related entries: I pledge thee my trogs, The Big Snit, Vardibidian on MFQ.
I've been enjoying Hanging With Friends because the cool word element doesn't actually penalize you, there. You don't get to build interesting words on top of those from previous rounds, but I do like the challenge of coming up with the most interesting word possible from my random tile selection each round.
With that said, I have fond memories of one particularly wild "anything goes" Scrabble game played decades ago, in which my best friend's mother turned "FOYGELE" (explained by whoever played it as "a bird, in Yiddish, with an accent") into "WOASTERFOYGELE" (explained by her as "a bird bred to be put in the oven, with an even worse accent").


This couple planned their wedding on a budget of €2500 and it's gorgeous!
Camila had three bouquets but her pom-pom one is our fave!
Camila and Lucas planned their wedding on a budget of $3000, which is roughly €2500, and that is no mean feat. What's most important on a wedding day is that the day is jam-packed full of love, but you can't argue with the fact they managed to squeeze in a tonne of gorgeous details, despite their spending being limited.
Camila sums up their story super short and sweet - it all began with "one night, one beer, one talk. One kiss, one bed, two lives… Now, one."
The pair are originally from São Paulo in Brazil, but got married in Berkshire in the UK. They visited two venues, and were looking for something to hold a small, intimate and super simple wedding day. They wanted "A small wedding, in a small town, with good friends" and that is what they found in Lock, Stock and Barrel, a pub in Newbury, Berkshire. They didn't have to lift a finger once they booked - "It was all responsibility of the Pub and we liked the result very much," she says.
Planning was smooth sailing for the pair, though the hardest part for them was asking their families to travel to celebrate their wedding with them. "The most difficult thing was making my family cross the ocean to stay together during the wedding," says Camila.
Their advice for other couples planning a wedding is to focus on what matters. They sum up their day, saying it was "just simplicity and love. No rush, no big stuff." They kept their day focussed on what was important to them, and it simplified the planning hugely.


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Dexter's Beat Laboratory Vol. 22
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dance, edm, found, happy, hea, No, personal, winter
Dexter's Beat Laboratory is a weekly collection songs from DA music editor and staff writer Robyn Dexter. With a taste that can only be described as eclectic — to say nothing a name that lends itself to punnery — DA is happy to present a selection tracks personally curated by Dexter for your listening pleasure.
Over the past few weeks, the United States has been racked with harsh winter conditions. As cruel as winter can be, there are some songs make the perfect soundtrack for the more serene, peaceful side the season. Ennja's latest release, "Mirrors" is such a song. With glistening vocals and a minimalist, ambient pattern, the nearly 7-minute song is an ethereal journey that encompasses the sounds the season in an impeccable manner.
has been on a roll lately, releasing a fiery cover just last month and following it up with a fresh flip 's "Young Dumb & Broke." He's transformed the R&B track into an EDM-friendly future bass remix that's more lighthearted than its foundation track. "I] wanted to throw it back to some that OG StéLouse sound I was doing back in '14-'15," the producer explains.
promised his fans a big 2018, and he wasn't kidding. Just four days into the new year, he unleashed a powerful remix 's iconic "Rage Valley." It kicks f with pure bass madness that's rings true to the song's name. Halfway through, Crystalize steps back, then builds to something even more intriguing: a shimmery, synth-laden, downtempo pattern that's bursting with creativity and passion. The second half the song is by far my favorite, and it makes me wish I had more than a minute and a half it.
It's been 14 years since 's "Ecstasy" came out, but passing time hasn't stopped producers all persuasions from modernizing the track in their own way. The latest such artists are "8-bit rogue" duo . Their revival "Ecstasy" uses the original's vocals to draw the listener in before building into a formidable melodic drop. Its harmonized layers synths lay the groundwork for a rework that's glitchy and computerized, while still maintaining the emotive power the root song.
is in for a huge year. Just watch. The g-house guru has been cranking out a steady stream top-notch songs for a few years now, making appearances on 's imprint and kicking it into high gear the past few months with originals like "" and "Assassin." He tells the work that went into his latest, "Count On Me," on SoundCloud. "This song has been over a year in the making with over 10 different versions worked during that time. This final record is one that is a crossover record with Kaleena's beautiful vocals, but a dark and driving drop that has the potential to be a dance floor killer."


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Pitsea woman jailed for 850 nuisance calls to 999
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Image caption Tracey Ford's calls to the ambulance service cost about £22,000, a court heard
A woman has been jailed for making more than 850 nuisance calls to 999.
Tracey Ford, of High Barrets, Pitsea, Essex, verbally abused call handlers.
The 48-year-old was "often intoxicated" while making the calls from a phone box near her home and her mobile, Basildon Magistrates Court heard.
Ford was jailed for 12 weeks after previously being found guilty of three counts of persistently using the public communication network to cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety.
She was also ordered to pay £200 to the ambulance and police service.
The court heard Ford was reported to police by her neighbours who heard her "shouting and swearing down the phone at all hours".
Essex Police said she made 407 calls to the force and 466 calls to the East of England Ambulance Service.
The calls to the ambulance service cost about £22,000 while the police control room had to block her number, the court heard.
'Aggressive'
Prosecutor Sam Doyle said Ford was "aggressive" during the calls.
Ms Doyle described the 48-year-old as "somebody who willingly and persistently misuses the 999 system".
In a police interview Ford said she called the police as officers "didn't do anything" about a break-in at her home.
The prosecution said Ford believed it was her "right to use the service" as she had "paid tax during her previous work as a taxi driver".
Mitigating, Alexander Deacon said Ford had stopped making the calls and had "learned her lesson".
Ford has also been given a five-year criminal behaviour order which means she must get a third party to contact emergency services when reporting minor crime or illness.
The order also bans her from using offensive or abusive language in calls.
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Pottery work and wooden sculptures by Earl Washington on display in Foster-Tanner.
The Artists in Bloom Festival is hosted by FAMU's Visual Arts Program. As a part of this festival, Earl Washington: Unlimited Expressions of Life is being displayed in the Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery from through March 29.
Washington is a FAMU graduate and a practicing artist skilled in various crafts. His main specialty is ceramics and raku, but he also does photography, collages and calligraphy.
His pottery work, wooden sculptures, and more are all on display on both floors of the gallery. One of his oldest and favorite pieces is a ceramic jean jacket that he created almost 40 years ago.
The Class of '78 alumnus has been a practicing artist since he was about 16 years old, and has been in many art shows and exhibits, including a national black art show.
Washington does his best to ensure his pieces are affordable and is willing to work with customers on pricing.
"If I priced my art based on how long it took me to create, no one would be able to afford it. You have to think about what people can afford, and how much you're willing to accept for it. I charge people thinking about how much I would want to buy it for," Washington said.
Washington took a hiatus from creating his artwork to do brick masonry and supervise construction to ensure he could take care of his family. After many years of working, he went back to his art after retirement and decided he wasn't going to do any show before coming back to FAMU and having an art show at his alma mater.
"One of my main goals in life was to come back to FAMU and have a one-man show, thank God Dr. (Valencia) Matthews was able to make that happen. When somebody gives you a chance you're just so appreciative," said Washington.
Matthews, dean of the College of Social Sciences, Arts and the Humanities, recognized Washington's talent from his photography work for their college's 2014 reunion. Matthews works with Washington's wife and heard more about his artistic talent from her, so she decided to reach out and see if he would be interested in showcasing his work in the gallery.
"Him being a graduate of the program, I thought it would be really great for him to come back and do an exhibition. I think it's really important for us to support and showcase our graduates. Oftentimes we go outside of the community when there are people right here doing amazing things that a lot of people don't get to see," Matthews said.
Matthews purchased multiple pieces from the gallery.
"They were just stunning and beautiful, they caught my eye and spoke to my heart. The colors, the shapes, they just spoke to me," Matthews said.


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Harman Vietor and his "Forte ex Piano"
A Coelestin d'Amour or Forte ex Piano by Harman Vietor dated 1767
While Johannes Zumpe is considered to be the first maker and inventor of the English square piano (the earliest surviving examples are dated 1766) another maker, Harman Bernard Vietor, was probably making a form of square piano from about 1761. Vietor called his instrument a "Coelestin d' Amour" or a "Forte ex Piano" and he claimed to be the inventor. Vietor's business was at 19 Mercer Street, Longacre , Soho, London and in 1766 he moved to 32 Porter Street, Newport Market, St. Ann's, Soho.
The Coelestin d'Amour or Forte ex Piano by Harman Vietor. Note that the hands stops are fitted to the front of the case rather than inside the left-hand compartment.
According to Rimbault, (The Pianoforte, its origin, progress and construction, 1860), Vietor was a German, already resident in London in 1760 and that he made several important improvements to the pianoforte prior to the arrival Americus Backers. (Americus Backers along with John Broadwood and Robert Stodart developed the English grand action.) An example of Vietor's Forte ex Piano has survived and is dated 1767. It is a primitive instrument, and even more so than the early instruments by Zumpe. It uses a form of English single action. There are two sets of hammers and either set is engaged by a stop on the front of the case. One set of hammers has buff leather pads and the other set are wood only.
The Coelestin d'Amour or Forte ex Piano by Harman Vietor. Note the absence of any dampers and and two hammers for each note.
Vietor's Forte ex Piano is not fitted with dampers and this suggests that the preference at that time was for a washy sound where the limited resonance of the vibrating strings continued for a short while. There is also a buff stop. The key levers are rack guided at the rear similar to the early square pianos by Zumpe.
Vietor also sold second-hand musical instruments from his shop in Porter Street. An advertisement that appeared in the Daily Advertiser on 16th May 1768 read: "To the admirers of music. To be disposed of the following curious musical instruments. Two fine toned upright harpsichords of four stops in mahogany cases, one of new rectangular construction with four front doors, the other in the form of a bookcase with a writing desk and six drawers underneath very nicely made with ornaments. A very strong sound double bass with wheel machines of four strings, made in Italy. Two well-tuned David's or German harps with seven pedals. Two violins, one of Jacobus Stainer and one Cremonien with a tenor of Stainer. To be seen at Mr. Vietor's in Porter Street, St. Anns Soho".
The Coelestin d' Amour or Forte ex Piano by Harman Vietor showing the soundboard and bridge
In 1769 Vietor advertised a large fortepiano with pedal for "shift and movement" in a mahogany harpsichord case. This could be an early English grand piano and therefore it would pre-date the earliest extant example by Americus Backers of 1772. Vietor was also an organist at the Lutheran church, and a teacher of the harpsichord. The instruments by Vietor failed to find favour with the public in contrast to those by Zumpe and by 1772 Vietor had vacated the premises at 32 Porter Street.
This entry was posted in Articles on February 1, 2013 by Graham.
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Auburn Hills, MI (July 14, 2009) – Guardian Industries has expanded its one-of-a-kind product by offering its patented ShowerGuard technology in a new acid-etched substrate manufactured by Guardian called ShowerGuard SatinDeco. This new product combines the durability and low maintenance of ShowerGuard with the distinctive beauty of a soft diffused privacy glass.
Guardian's ShowerGuard is the first and only shower glass with protection that never needs to be reapplied. The surface of the glass is sealed through a patented ion-beam process during manufacturing, so it resists the corrosion and discoloration caused by constant exposure to heat, humidity, hard water, soaps and harsh cleaners. It is also eco-friendly, because it requires less cleaning materials and maintains its original like-new appearance for years.
Unlike spray-on or wipe-on treatments that eventually wear off, the protection provided by Guardian ShowerGuard glass is part of the glass itself, so it never needs to be reapplied.
Advancements in science and innovation through Guardian's Science & Technology Center enabled the company to combine ShowerGuard with SatinDeco, a beautiful, distinctive privacy glass that is manufactured using the acid-etching process. In this process, acid is applied to the glass surface, actually dissolving part of the glass. The result is a smooth, flat surface that disperses light and transforms transparent float glass into translucent glass.
SatinDeco is available in 10mm and 12mm on Guardian clear float glass and backed by Guardian's limited 10-year Consumer Warranty.
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There has been some sort of mild plague going around our town for the last few weeks and Betsy's office has been hit pretty hard with it. It was only a matter of time before one of us woke up sniffling and aching.
I was lucky enough to avoid the sickness this time around but it sure did smack Bets right upside the head.
So I did what I do best when dealing with a sickness: Make soup.
This time around I happened to find these tiny little star-shaped pastas in the grocery store that sent me flying back to my childhood when my mom would always make me chicken and stars soup when I was sick.
So this is my homemade take on Chicken and Stars soup. It's soothing and healing and will get you back on your feet again for sure.
This homemade version is comfort food in a bowl. Homemade chicken soup with stars pasta is an instant cure for most sicknesses!
1) Chop chicken into pieces and add the carcass pieces and wings to a large sturdy pot over high heat with a drizzle of oil. Let the chicken pieces brown well over high heat for about 8 minutes. Turn the chicken every few minutes to make it browns evenly.
2) Add your other stock ingredients (including other chicken parts) except the water to the heavy pot and let them all sautee for a few minutes. Try to scrape up any stuck-on bits.
3) Add the water to your pot and make sure you have enough water to barely cover the ingredients. Bring to a simmer and turn the heat down to medium. Simmer the stock on medium, partially covered, for about 60-75 minutes.
4) Remove all the chicken pieces from the stock and let them cool briefly.
5) Strain the warm stock into a large bowl. If there's a lot of fat on the surface of the stock, try to spoon off some of it. It's okay though to have a small layer of fat on the stock for this recipe.
6) Once chicken is cool enough to handle, remove skin from chicken and shred it into bite-sized pieces.
7) In your same large pot, add a new drizzle of olive oil over medium-high heat. Then add all your diced veggies. Sautee for a few minutes until they start to soften. Add fresh thyme and a pinch of salt and pepper.
8) Add stock back to pot and bring to a simmer.
9) Once soup is simmering, stir in stars pasta and cook until al dente, about 9-10 minutes.
10) Finally stir in shredded chicken and season with salt and pepper.
11) Serve soup with crackers or crusty bread.
I do occasionally take shortcuts and use store-bought stock for some dishes, but there's absolutely no question that the best way to make a good soup is to make a good stock. It does add at least 90 minutes onto your preparation time (unless you have some frozen), but there's just no debating that it takes homemade soup to another level.
I like to use a whole chicken when I make chicken soup so there's a mix of white and dark meat. I like to chop up the chicken before cooking the stock which just makes it a bit easier to work with and gives you an opportunity to brown some of the meat.
Use any pieces you want.
If you're intimidated by cutting up your own chicken, this video is one of the best I've seen at showing the process. It's really not that hard and after you do two or three, you'll get really fast at it.
Besides chicken and water, there's a pretty standard list of vegetables that you'll need to make a good stock. I wrote down a recipe, but it should be a guide. The good news about making stock is it's a pretty flexible thing. Feel free to use more or less of the veggies depending on what you have and also don't worry about chopping them up.
I just kind of quarter all of my vegetables.
To make the stock (and soup), I like to use a big heavy dutch oven. Add a drizzle of oil to the pan over high heat and then add just your chicken carcass and wings to the pot. That's probably all that will be able to fit in a nice layer in the pan. If you can fit more chicken pieces, feel free to add them.
Let those chicken pieces cook for about 4-5 minutes per side until they are nice and browned. Some bits might get stuck to the pan and that's just fine. The browned bits will give the stock a really deep flavor.
After your chicken has browned for a few minutes, you can add all your other veggies, herbs, and seasonings.
Let these guys cook for a few minutes and try to scrape up any bits stuck to the pan.
Then add any other chicken pieces to the pot and cover the whole thing with water. You want to cover everything by about an inch or so. This will probably work out to 10-12 cups of water.
Bring this all to a simmer and let it simmer and turn your heat down to medium. Let the stock simmer, partially covered, for about 75 minutes. Check on it every 20-30 minutes and if there's a lot of foam on the surface, just scoop it off with a spoon.
One reason why it really makes sense to make your own stock if you're making homemade chicken soup is because you have to cook the chicken anyway. Making the stock accomplishes that for you!
Once your stock is cooked, just pull out your chicken pieces, let them cool for 5-10 minutes, and then shred them up. Try to remove as much fat and stuff as possible and just shred the chicken into bite-sized bits.
For that delicious stock that's been simmering, I recommend straining it with a strainer to remove any tiny bits of vegetable or whatever.
If there's a lot of oil on your stock, try to spoon off some of it. A little bit definitely won't hurt the soup at all.
This was my strained and finished stock that I used for my Chicken and Stars soup.
For the actual soup, take your time dicing up some veggies so they are roughly the same size. You don't need a ton of vegetables to make a good soup at this point.
Half an onion, a few ribs of celery, a carrot or two, and a clove of garlic should do the trick.
And, of course, you'll need some stars. You could obviously use noodles or whatever, but I just think these are fun.
I didn't even bother washing out my pot from making the stock. I just added a new drizzle of olive oil, set the pot over medium-high heat, and added all my veggies to it.
Cook the veggies for a few minutes until they start to soften and then add the thyme and all the stock. Bring that all to a simmer and then add your stars.
A Note on Over-starring. I actually added the full 16 ounces of stars to my soup because they looked so tiny! Like any pasta though, they swell! I think my version ended up a bit star-heavy! Six to eight ounces of the star pasta should be enough.
The stars will need to cook for about 9-10 minutes and then you can stir in your shredded chicken and season the soup with salt and pepper.
Done deal. Really not too much work.
I really like soup like this with crackers, but I know that super-crusty bread is also a hit. Any way you scoop it, this is just a good bowl of soup.
Betsy ate this Chicken and Stars soup for a few meals (I did too just to ward off the germs) and she was feeling much better after about 24 hours!
I take full credit for her recovery.
Can you make stock with chicken that's already cooked? I have some leftover (still on bones) to make some chicken soup with, but wasn't sure if I could do that.
Oh definitely. Using a raw chicken just makes it a bit easier, but if you have a leftover roast chicken, that works great. In that case, pick off all the meat and just use the bones to make the stock. The meat won't give much flavor if it's already cooked.
You can roast just the bones or carcass with some root veggies for a few minutes if you want a really deep colored stock or just add them all to a stockpot. Cover everything with water and bring it to a simmer.
You'll need to cook them for much longer… try like 3-4 hours, but you should end up with a really great stock still.
Love chicken and star soup! My Mom would make this or minestrone during the winter. Beef barley too.
This looks great! I might make with rice for a GF version. Hope you stay healthy and everyone gets better soon!
I keep a tupperware in the freezer and put my veggy scraps in it (onion tops, carrot peals, mushroom stems, even corn husks). Then, when I need a good stock I don't have to worry hitting the grocery. Plus, my stock always has some really complex flavors.
I may be far away but I'm pretty sure that I have got the plague too. I haven't seen stars in soup since I was a little girl, I wonder if I could find any in my locale?
Oh, my (chicken and) stars, how this brings back those sick days home from school as a kid! Good on you for avoiding the plague so far; hopefully this helps continue that trend.
Love the chicken and stars and so does every kid. Sometimes childhood foods are the best and putting it all right back in pan is great idea.
This soup looks great! I won't wait to get sick to make it.What if I wanted to make a consume? How do I make that "raft" to clarify? Do I need sheets of gelatin or is that all too much rigamarole? You're right about the pasta getting bigger. Even the leftovers in the fridge, Those noodles just keep growing in size.
Of course I meant Consomme. I wish to consume some consomme.
I cannot find pasta stars. Will Acini Di PePe work?
hey nick, how much store bought (gasp!) chicken stock should i use? i'm not going to have time to make my own.
Hey Hilary! Two quarts should do the trick. Good luck!
I MADE A POT OF CHICKEN BROTH TONIGHT FOR A SOUP I MAKE FOR CHRISTMAS. SINCE CHRISTMAS IS A WEEK AWAY, CAN I JUST FREEZE TGE BROTH AND THAW IT LATER WHEN NEEDED, OR WILL IT LOSE ITS FLAVOR FROM FREEZING. AND SECONDLY, CAN I FREEZE THE SHREDDED CHICKEN WITH IT (THE BROTH) OR SHOULD I FREEZE IT SEPARATELY?
Broth and shredded chicken will both freeze fine. You can definitely freeze them and use them later without an issue. I would transfer them from the freezer to the fridge the day before to let them start to thaw slowly. They probably won't thaw all the way, but will start the process. Good luck.


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Passive-believing-machines... Modern Men can, do and must believe - whatever we *choose* to believe
It is the special and unprecedented feature of these times that Men choose what to believe.
It is evident that Modern Men believe whatever they want to believe - and having made that decision they simply rationalize it - effortlessly explaining-away whatever threatens that belief.
This means that each person is wholly responsible for what he believes, and what he does not believe; in a way that was not the case in the past.
For example; someone who says 'I would like to be a Christian, but I can't believe it' is wrong - he has chosen not to believe in Christianity, just as he has chosen to believe vast quantities of arbitrary and incoherent lies and nonsense.
We are all like this, we are all (pretty much) in the same boat, we are all rationalizers.
Nobody (and I mean nobody) nowadays genuinely derives their beliefs from evidence, observation and common sense. In the past that was possible, but not any more.
Belief is always chosen; but what distinguishes people is whether they are intuitive heart-thinkers or passive-believing-machines.
There are no other alternatives.
It is our primary choice whether to give primacy to the thinking of the heart; or else to try, and fail, to base belief upon impossible and obsolete, rationalistic 'brain-thinking'.
The vast majority of Men pretend to base their belief on brain-thinking, and the consequence is that they become incapable of brain-thinking - because that is not a viable option. It is one of the most striking aspects of modern life that Men cannot think.
Sometimes this seems like a sheer incapacity, sometimes it seems like a phobia of thinking, sometimes it seems like a dishonest calculation - perhaps for purposes of manipulation. But the fact is they cannot think - and this inability applies to financiers, scientists and philosophers every bit as much as to politicians, celebrities and the uneducated masses.
Men have developed through the centuries, and we in the West reached a point when we became detached from spontaneous, unconscious knowledge, based on personal observation and common sense. For example; Men began to able able to doubt the reality God; then later men reached a state that (whether they liked it or not) they lost a belief in God. From that point, faith became an active choice only.
This was ordained by God as a part of our destiny, so that Men could, for the first time, become believers wholly by their own free personal decision. Men had become unable to perceive the spiritual in life, and no longer passively absorbed it from nature and society - and this was needed in order that there was no compulsion.
But on what grounds could Men then believe in God, once they had become detached from the world of the spirit, once there was no compulsion from observation and common sense?
The divine intent, Man's destiny, was that the time had come when Men should undergo a transformation in the basis of their choices; from the external to the internal; from brain-thinking to heart-thinking.
This transformation was superficially observable in the movement of thought termed Romanticism - with its origins evident in the likes of Herder, Goethe and Novalis in Germany; or Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth in England.
Now - because this is a developmental transformation - it is non-optional; it is like adolescence: it happens - unless prevented by some pathology.
And if the transformation does not happen, then there is pathology. And that is what we see.
The transformation did not happen, it was (almost wholly) refused - and therefore what we observe is a mass pathology of thinking. People refuse to think from the heart, and have lost the capacity to think with the brain.
People who refuse heart-thinking (and that is all of us, for much of the time - but for most of us: all the time) have mostly become passive-believing-machines; mere conduits for external influence; believing... whatever happens to be going through their minds at present. .
We constantly, but dishonestly, try to rationalize these current belief by reference to old head-thinking criteria such as evidence, logic, knowledge - facts and figures. But observation of people over time reveals that this is a fake; and their beliefs are incoherent, inconsistent, meaningless and purposeless.
Hence people are pervasively dishonest, but have become cognitively incapable of detecting their own gross dishonesty.
But - Men are all sinners; and to become a heart-thinker entails swimming against a rising tide of evil rationalization. So even someone who - like myself - tries his best to practice heart-thinking end-up tries to rationalize beliefs with 'evidence' and 'facts' and 'logic' in a way that is misleading at best, but ultimately dishonest, by its denial of the true origins of these beliefs.
As usual, we try and will usually fail, and will continually fail - so the first necessity is to recognize and repent our failures; and to return again and again to heart-thinking.
Posted by Bruce Charlton at Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Grey said...
David Earle said...
Beginners guide to heart-thinking, Step 1: Put down your phone.
@Islanti - True, that would help get started - but there are many steps to follow that one!
We should not underestimate that taking such a major step in the development of human consciousness is (and should be) a major challenge for the whole of our mortal life on earth.
@BC Absolutely. I'm often reading and re-reading these topics related to heart-thinking and final participation. The links you provided in this article are helpful in getting closer to "getting it" and correcting my thinking.
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