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Foreword to the NHC Edition
The Battle of Cape Esperance and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands comprise one of a series of twenty-one published and thirteen unpublished Combat Narratives of specific naval campaigns produced by the Publications Branch of the Office of Naval Intelligence during World War II. Selected volumes in this series are being republished by the Naval Historical Center as part of the Navy's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of World War II.
The Combat Narratives were superseded long ago by accounts such as Samuel Eliot Morison's History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II that could be more comprehensive and accurate because of the abundance of American, Allied, and enemy source materials that became available after 1945. But the Combat Narratives continue to be of interest and value since they demonstrate the perceptions of naval operations during the war itself. Because of the contemporary, immediate view offered by these studies, they are well suited for republication in the 1990s as veterans, historians, and the American public turn their attention once again to a war that engulfed much of the world a half century ago.
The Combat Narrative program originated in a directive issued in February 1942 by Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, that instructed the Office of Naval Intelligence to prepare and disseminate these studies. A small team composed primarily of professionally trained writers and historians produced the narratives. The authors based their accounts on research and analysis of the available primary source material, including action reports and war diaries, augmented by interviews with individual participants. Since the narratives were classified Confidential during the war, only a few thousand copies were published at the time, and their distribution was primarily restricted to commissioned officers in the Navy.
Following the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in late August 1942, the naval phase of the Guadalcanal Campaign entered a lull which lasted through September. During that period, a pattern developed that
prevailed throughout much of the remainder of the operation. In daylight, U.S. forces controlled the waters surrounding Guadalcanal while the Japanese controlled them at night. Under cover of darkness, the enemy conducted resupply and reinforcement efforts, dubbed the "Tokyo Express" by the Americans, which involved the sending of troop transports and escorts down "The Slot"--the naval passageway through the Solomon Islands from Bougainville southeast to Guadalcanal. After completing their escort work, the Japanese warships typically bombarded the Marine perimeter on the northern coast of the island, before heading back up "The Slot" towards Bougainville.
Try as they might, the Japanese never succeeded in gaining the upper hand against the Americans, although they came close to doing so on several occasions. During the September lull at sea, the enemy launched a major attack against the Marine perimeter, producing the second major land engagement of the campaign, the Battle of Bloody Ridge, 12-14 September. The Japanese failure to break through the Marine lines and capture Henderson Field, the Americans' vital air base, prompted them to step up the "Tokyo Express" shipment of troops to Guadalcanal and to increase their naval bombardment of the airfield. Their efforts did not go unchallenged as an American cruiser-destroyer force advanced against them on the night of 11 October, precipitating the Battle of Cape Esperance, the first engagement described in this narrative.
Two weeks later, the two foes fought another major naval engagement, the Battle of the Santa Cruz islands, which also is described in this narrative. It was a carrier battle in which the Navy's Hornet and Enterprise locked horns with a powerful Japanese battleship-carrier fleet.
The Office of Naval Intelligence first published this narrative in 1943 without attribution. Administrative records from the period indicate that Ensign Henry V. Poor wrote the account of the Battle of Cape Esperance and that he coauthored the story of the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands along with Lieutenant (jg) Henry A. Mustin and Lieutenant (jg) Cohn G. Jameson. All three were Naval Reserve intelligence officers. Poor was a laywer, diplomat, and author who became Associate Dean of the Yale Law School after the war. Before World War II, Mustin was a journalist with the Washington Evening Star. After the war, he returned to that newspaper and later was associated with the Columbia Broadcasting System, Mutual Broadcasting, and the
Voice of America. Prior to entering the Navy in 1942, Jameson was a free-lance short story writer who had published about 40 stories.
I wish to acknowledge the invaluable editorial and publication assistance offered in undertaking this project by Mrs. Sandra K. Russell, Managing Editor, Naval Aviation News magazine; Commander Roger Zeimet, USNR, Naval Historical Center Reserve Detachment 206; and Dr. William S. Dudley, Senior Historian, Naval Historical Center. We also are grateful to Rear Admiral Kendell M. Pease, Jr., Chief of Information, and Captain Jack Gallant, USNR, Executive Director, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps WW II 50th Anniversary Commemorative Committee, who generously allocated the funds from the Department of the Navy's World War II commemoration program that made this publication possible.
Dean C. Allard
Director of Naval History
Office of Naval Intelligence
Washington, D.C.
1 October, 1943.
Combat Narratives are confidential publications issued under a directive of the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations, for the information of commissioned officers of the U.S. Navy only.
Information printed herein should be guarded (a) in circulation and by custody measures for confidential publications as set forth in Articles 75½ and 76 of Naval Regulations and (b) in avoiding discussion of this material within the hearing of any but commissioned officers. Combat Narratives are not to be removed from the ship or station for which they are provided. Reproduction of this material in any form is not authorized except by specific approval of the Director of Naval Intelligence.
Officers who have participated in the operations recounted herein are invited to forward to the Director of Naval Intelligence, via their commanding officers, accounts of personal experiences and observations which they esteem to have value for historical and instructional purposes. It is hoped that such contributions will increase the value and render ever more authoritative such new editions of these publications as may be promulgated to the service in the future.
When the copies provided have served their purpose, they may be destroyed by burning. However, reports acknowledging receipt or destruction of these publications need not be made.
Rear Admiral, U.S. N.,
Director of Naval Intelligence.
8 January 1943.
Combat Narratives have been prepared by the Publications Branch of the Office of Naval Intelligence for the information of the officers of the United States Navy.
The data on which these studies are based are those official documents which are suitable for a confidential publication. This material has been collated and presented in chronological order.
In perusing these narratives, the reader should bear in mind that while they recount in considerable detail the engagements in which our forces participated, certain underlying aspects of these operations must be kept in a secret category until after the end of the war.
It should be remembered also that the observations of men in battle are sometimes at variance. As a result, the reports of commanding officers may differ although they participated in the same action and shared a common purpose. In general, Combat Narratives represent a reasoned interpretation of these discrepancies. In those instances where views cannot be reconciled, extracts from the conflicting evidence are reprinted.
Thus, an effort has been made to provide accurate and, within the above-mentioned limitations, complete narratives with charts covering raids, combats, joint operations, and battles in which our Fleets have engaged in the current war. It is hoped that these narratives will afford a clear view of what has occurred, and form a basis for a broader understanding which will result in ever more successful operations.
E. J. King
Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, and Chief of Naval Operations.
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'Ed must go' – pundits round on Ofcom chief after failed Beeb DG bid
Fair and balanced? Bit tricky that one, now
Comment For months Ofcom chief Ed Richards was the bookies' favourite to run the BBC, but he hasn't got the job he craved. As decision day approached, the prospect of Richards running the BBC sent the Daily Mail newspaper, which had campaigned hard against him, into near meltdown.
But now Richards returns to a job which requires him to remain impartial about Britain's biggest media company – and it's one that has just rebuffed him. And he also must remain neutral about the Daily Mail. Ofcom's role in regulating the press is likely to expand after the Leveson inquiry, whatever the thin-skinned judge decides. This would present difficulties for a saint, and is surely now impossible for Richards, say critics. The calls for him to resign the Ofcom role are loud and clear.
"Logic suggests that Richards will have to move on," writes Mark Lawson in The Guardian, citing "the oddity of dealing with an external regulator – Ed Richards of Ofcom – who also wanted to be [BBC] director general".
"Now perhaps the compromised Ofcom boss Ed Richards should consider his position," says Sky News political editor Adam Boulton.
This won't be easy. As Blair's media policy adviser, Richards designed the apparatus he now presides over: he wrote the 2003 Communications Bill which abolished Oftel and created the uber-regulator.
There are 380,000 other reasons a year he would be reluctant to move on: that's what the Ofcom chief gets paid in pounds sterling each year, more than twice the salary of the Prime Minister - not bad for someone with limited media experience.
(It's not true that Richards has no media experience. He was a runner for Channel 4 and he served as Controller of Corporate Strategy briefly at the BBC. But that's a blue-sky, Strategy Boutique™ job - you really don't have to touch down on Earth to do it, even for refuelling.)
It's amazing, really, that he has survived for two years. Before taking office, the Conservatives vowed to cut Ofcom down to size - a very small size, involving a few white-coated boffins making technical judgments in a room while the rest of its powers were transferred back to the Ministry of Fun.
The Tories revised this plan, on taking office, to simply getting rid of Richards. But they ended up keeping both. However, there are many across several industries who will seize on the chance to show Richards the door.
Britain now lags far behind its economic competitors in rolling out faster mobile broadband services as the regulator dithered over how 4G should be implemented. This has had two effects. LTE is one way to connect rural areas, so the absence of a wireless option allowed fixed-line broadband operators - which means BT - to drag their feet and request more subsidies. Ofcom tried to please everybody, and ended up pleasing nobody.
El Reg mobile man Bill Ray received a hostile response from the industry when a year ago he suggested the only way to break the impasse was with a "see you in court". Time has proved him correct. Since then Everything Everywhere has made a dash for glory - a short-term monopoly - only to be rebuffed.
It's a pig's ear.
The competitive market in TV services looks equally sickly. Without a US cent of taxpayer's subsidy, Verizon has built out a FTTH (Fiber To The Home) network and is kicking the cable operators from pillar to post. Where's BT Vision? It's the most complained-about service in the UK.
As for radio, everybody knows the travails of DAB – Ofcom again dithered, when the industry needed creative policy making.
And as Labour pointed out earlier this week, Ofcom was given the job of enforcing creators' rights in 2010, but the first measures won't be implemented until 2014. Ofcom can rightly blame BT and TalkTalk for their judicial review, but it's hardly put its skates on since that was cleared. France managed to implement the vastly more ambitious (and complex) freetard-whacking agency Hadopi much more quickly.
None of these fiascos can be blamed on Richards' predecessor, Stephen (now Lord) Carter - Richards has been in the seat since 2006.
For Conservatives, Richards probably blotted his copybook most badly over the BSkyB takeover. Richards threw out years of work on defining 'plurality' in exchange for a redefinition supplied by the hysterical anti-Murdoch agitator, Clare Enders.
Enders had consulted a Professor of English, who rifling through her dictionaries, had found a new meaning of the P-word. Amazingly, Ofcom's spreadsheets and models were discarded and Enders semantic gymnastics were integrated into the heart of Ofcom's BSkyB objection.
Ofcom had always treated BSkyB as Murdoch-owned anyway, for the purposes of regulation. The Tories may be wary of Murdoch, but this was blatant politicking.
Always too timid to get their own man installed, it now looks like they have their chance. ®


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The National Collegiate Athletic Association hit Penn State with a $60 million fine and other sanctions Monday, punishing the school for the coverup of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's sexual assaults of young boys and likely crippling its athletic program for years.
The announcement comes exactly one month after a jury convicted Mr. Sandusky of 45 counts related to the sexual molestation of 10 boys over a 15-year period.
The revelations about the assaults, and the efforts that top university officials made to hush them up, exploded into a scandal that stretched far beyond Sandusky and forced the early retirement of Joe Paterno, the university's beloved football coach who was involved in concealing Sandusky's abusive behavior from authorities, according to an independent investigative report released earlier this month.
Aside from the fine, equal to about one year in gross football revenues, the sanctions include a four-year ban on bowl games and any post-season play, a reduction in the total number of football scholarships from 85 to 65 and, what is perceived as a psychological blow to Mr. Paterno's 46-year, 409-win legacy as college football's winningest coach, a forfeiture of all victories between 1998-2011.
The sanctions, while harsh, could have been worse. Penn State escaped what many perceive to be the NCAA's harshest punishment: the so-called death penalty that involves shutting down the football program altogether for at least one year of play.
During a 45-minute news conference in Indianapolis, NCAA President Mark Emmert stressed repeatedly that his organization's actions were intended to restore order in the often disjointed relationship between the values of higher education and the culture of collegiate athletics that often are based on "the values of hero worship or winning at all costs."
Mr. Emmert said, in debating whether to use the sanction, that the organization assessed the "collateral damage on the innocent" and concluded the penalty would "bring significant, unintended harm to people who had nothing to do with this case."
"Certainly the lesson here is one of maintaining the appropriate balance of our values. Why do we play sports in the first place? If you find yourself in a position where the athletic culture is taking precedent … bad things can occur," he said.
Penn State will be on a five-year probationary period that will involve the appointment of an independent monitor and staff, paid for at the university's expense, that will be tasked with monitoring progress on compliance issues and reporting back to the NCAA and university trustees.
Current or incoming players in the university's football program can transfer without penalty to competing NCAA-affiliated universities and current players on scholarship can remain enrolled and keep their award if they maintain their academic standing.
The fine is to be directed into an endowment for programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims of abuse.
In a statement released shortly after the announcement, Penn State President Rodney Erickson welcomed the sanctions and a third-party monitor because he said it would ensure they would usher the university into "a new chapter."
"We must create a culture in which people are not afraid to speak up, management is not compartmentalized, all are expected to demonstrate the highest ethical standards, and the operating philosophy is open, collegial, and collaborative," he said.
According to the US Department of Education, Penn State's football program generates more than $50 million annually and subsidizes dozens of other sports programs. Mark Conrad, who teaches sports law at Fordham University in New York City, says the sanctions were ultimately "more severe" than the death penalty because they were more comprehensive.
"If they had just issued the death penalty, you can start from scratch but you haven't been hit in the pocketbook severely. [Under the sanctions announced Monday], you're hit in the pocketbook more severely, you lose a lot of wins, and you lose a lot of scholarships," Mr. Conrad says. "When you throw all that in, you clearly are seeing a program that has to transition down to a different level."
The death penalty was used five times in the past, primarily for recruiting violations, which pale in comparison with the crimes involved in the Sandusky case. Frank Shorr, director of the Boston University Sports Institute, says the NCAA didn't go far enough in its sanctions. He believes the early outrage expressed in the rioting at Penn State following Sandusky's arrest and Paterno's early retirement suggest the organization needed to trigger the death penalty to ensure the hysteric sports culture at the university is squelched.
"They should have ceased playing football there for a while," Mr. Shorr says. "What the NCAA has said is 'write a check and all is done'. That's totally meaningless. That has no effect on the people who are sitting in the stands this fall where it'll be business as usual."
The sanctions are notable because of their speed, arriving the same month as a devastating report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh. Penn State's Board of Trustees hired Mr. Freeh to investigate the university's handing of the Sandusky accusations. His report, based on 450 interviews and about 3 million e-mails, concluded that Paterno and top officials willfully concealed reports of the Sandusky abuse as well as breakdowns in the "university's culture, governance, administration, compliance policies and procedures for protecting children."
The NCAA took the unusual step in bypassing its usual policy for investigating possible violations, which can take years. Instead, Emmert said the Freeh report was "vastly more involved and thorough than any investigation" the organization has ever done.
He declined to criticize Paterno directly, saying he wanted to avoid any current criminal investigations and suggested further NCAA penalties against individuals are yet to be determined once those matters are settled.
Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, a former vice president in charge of the campus police, both face charges of perjury and failure to report child abuse. Their trial is expected next year. Both men say they are innocent.


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New Bern's soccer players were hours away from playing the biggest game of their high school careers.
New Bern's soccer players were hours away from playing the biggest game of their high school careers.
The Bears, the road warrior Bears, made it to the NCHSAA 4A state semifinals by winning four games away from home.
Then, on Tuesday, the day of their soccer match against the top-ranked program in the nation, a gold-medalist Olympian, and one of the best in the world in its craft, gave the Bears a shout out on a social media web site.
Abby Wambach, of U.S. Women's Soccer fame, went to Twitter to wish New Bern's girls' soccer team luck prior to its match against Green Hope.
Wambach, second on the all-time scoring list for the U.S.A. Women's National Soccer Team, reached out and wrote on Twitter, �Good luck to the new bern high school lady bears tonight in their NC state high school semis!! I've never won a state ship. #bebetterthanme.�
It was a classy move by one of the world's greatest and most recognizable female soccer players.
The Bears, the obvious underdogs against a Green Hope squad with eight starters set on playing Division I soccer, put up a fight � losing just 3-1 and holding the Falcons scoreless over the final 43 minutes.
U.S.A. Women's National Team captain Christine Rampone followed up with a tweet of her own � �Congrats to the New Bern Lady Bears Girls' Soccer Team (NC) on a great season! Be proud!�
Imagine the encouragement when the New Bern players read those messages. Not only is the team garnering respect from its opponents from across the state, it's caught the attention of these high-profiled athletes.
New Bern soccer coach Tim Guter's brother, Rick, is a trainer with the U.S.A. Women's National Team.
New Bern's girls' soccer program always has talented players, but it's often over shadowed by the schools in Wilmington, or Raleigh, or even Jacksonville.
In the eastern part of the state, we know what type of program the Bears have � an elite one. Maybe not on the national scale, but in terms of making deep runs in the postseason yearly.
Three times since 2007, the soccer team advanced to the Eastern Regional Finals, also known as the state semifinals, but lost to the No. 1 team in the state and in the country at the time.
In 2007, the Bears lost to Apex, 5-0; in 2011, they fell to Leesville Road, 3-0; on Tuesday, they lost to Green Hope, 3-1.
No matter the outcome of those games, the Bears have consistently been one of the top soccer teams in North Carolina over the past decade or so.
The Bears were clearly at a disadvantage on Tuesday, competing opposite of girls signed to play college soccer at Ohio State, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.
New Bern only had three college signees � Ashley and Shelby Osiecki (Queens University) and Morgan Young (Southern Virginia University).
However, it had six focused seniors with a bunch of playoff experience.
The Bears allowed two goals early before sophomore Kristina Barnett finally got New Bern on the scoreboard late in the first half.
Green Hope took a 3-1 advantage with a goal with three minutes left until halftime. Neither team scored the rest of the way.
The Bears were led by leading goal-scorers Brittany McLawhorn and Sierra Bondurant, along with fellow seniors Shannon Fagan, Young, Ashley Osiecki and Shelby Osiecki.
Underclassmen Rachel Hobbs, Karlie Swindell, River Bondurant, Lindsay Johnson, Mikayla Allen, Zoe Hearne and Keely Klicker all played a major role in the team's success.
Since I've been covering the team, its had star players like Berit Hansen, Katlin Povich, Jillian Reed, Ashley Johnson, Cheney Hemphill, Kara Boggs and Alicia Gustafson, among others.
Many outsiders may not see New Bern's soccer program as one of the best in the state, but the accomplishments are evident that the Bears play at a premiere level.
�For the first time, I�ve heard our program called an elite soccer program,� said Brittany McLawhorn. �I think people realize we should be here. We�ve proven to people we belong here.�
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Join Billy Graham as he shares the challenges of fading strength but still standing strong in his commitment to finishing life well.
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life," said Billy Graham, known by many as God's Ambassador. "I would have never guessed what God had in store for me, and I know that as I am nearing home, He will not forsake me the last mile of the way."
Nearing Home, written by Billy Graham in his nineties, explores the challenges of aging while gleaning foundational truths from Scripture. Billy Graham invites us to journey with him as he considers the golden years while anticipating the hope of being reunited with his wife, Ruth, in his heavenly home that eclipses this world. "When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice," said the author. "Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ."
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. —Acts 20:24 (ESV)
"Explore with me not only the realities of life as we grow older but also the hope and fulfillment and even joy that can be ours once we learn to look at these years from God's point of view and discover His strength to sustain us every day." —BILLY GRAHAM
The New Testament apostles did. They prayed with passion and power ~ and turned their world upside down. We are not all called to be apostles, but we are called to be apostolic people and help establish the work of God in others by our prayers.
In this book, you will discover the principles that made them so effective in their prayer life: a heart perfected in love, a habit of devotion, a deep confidence in God and His Word, and a reliance upon the Holy Spirit. You will also learn how to pray the prayers they prayed ~ the apostolic prayers of the New Testament. These are powerful prayers because they express, not only the hearts of the apostles, but the heart of God:
• Ground-breaking evangelistic prayers that empower the work of the Gospel and prepare hearts to receive it
• Pastoral prayers that build up churches and establish Christians in the faith
• Benedictions that water God's people with the blessings of heaven
• Prayers of thanksgiving that return praise to the "Lord of the Harvest" for what He is doing in His people
• Doxologies that praise God for who He is and declare His glory and goodness
That voice said it again, "Pray to God!" It was more definite this time. I wasn't sure what to do. Praying, for me as a child, had been something I had watched adults doing. It was something fancy and had to be done just so. I tried to remember prayers from my childhood experiences in Sunday school. Prayer was something you memorized. What could I remember from so long ago? Tentatively, I murmured a line, which was a jumble from the Twenty-third Psalm, "The Star-Spangled Banner," the Lord's Prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and "God Bless America," and whatever other churchly sounding phrases came to mind.
"Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. For purple mountain majesty, mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. Deliver us from evil. One nation under God. God Bless America."
To my amazement, the cruel, merciless beings tearing the life out of me were incited to rage by my ragged prayer. It was as if I were throwing boiling oil on them. They screamed at me, "There is no God! Who do you think you're talking to? Nobody can hear you! Now we are really going to hurt you." They spoke in the most obscene language, worse than any blasphemy said on earth. But at the same time, they were backing away.
—From My Descent into Death
Not since Betty Eadie's Embraced by the Light has a personal account of a Near-Death Experience (NDE) been so utterly different from most others—or nearly as compelling
In the thirty years since Raymond Moody's Life After Life appeared, a familiar pattern of NDEs has emerged: suddenly floating over one's own body, usually in a hospital setting, then a sudden hurtling through a tunnel of light toward a presence of love. Not so in Howard Storm's case.
Storm, an avowed atheist, was awaiting emergency surgery when he realized that he was at death's door. Storm found himself out of his own body, looking down on the hospital room scene below. Next, rather than going "toward the light," he found himself being torturously dragged to excruciating realms of darkness and death, where he was physically assaulted by monstrous beings of evil. His description of his pure terror and torture is unnerving in its utter originality and convincing detail.
Finally, drawn away from death and transported to the realm of heaven, Storm met angelic beings as well as the God of Creation. In this fascinating account, Storm tells of his "life review," his conversation with God, even answers to age-old questions such as why the Holocaust was allowed to take place. Storm was sent back to his body with a new knowledge of the purpose of life here on earth. This book is his message of hope.
From Iyanla Vanzant, the star of the hit OWN network series Iyanla: Fix My Life!, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is a program of inspiration and motivation that will help you work through problems and improve your emotional and spiritual health.
Through exercises and readings, Iyanla provides you with the tools to tap into your strengths and make your dreams come true. One Day My Soul Just Opened Up will open your mind, heart, and soul to the truth of your identity as a creative and powerful being.
Hope for the here and now from the multimillion-selling author of 90 Minutes in Heaven.
Millions believe in Heaven. Don Piper's been there. He was pronounced dead after a car accident on January 18, 1989. Ninety minutes later, Piper came back to life with an extraordinary story. His 90 Minutes in Heaven has strengthened the faith of countless people.
When Piper returned to this life, he had a long road back to health, dealing with painful treatments and physical disabilities-the "new normal," as Piper calls it. Still, he had been transformed spiritually and this allowed him not only to cope with his suffering, but to transcend it. Piper found purpose in his pain, he found the message in the mess, and so can anyone else who embraces God's grace in the here and now-as well as the Hereafter.
Don Piper did not return from Heaven alone-he brought the gift of hope back with him. Those who read Heaven Is Real can use what he learned to live the lives God has called them to live.
How to Practice will guide you toward opening your heart, refraining from doing harm, maintaining mental tranquility, and more. Divided into a series of distinct steps that will lead spiritual seekers of all faiths toward enlightenment, this accessible book is a constant and daily companion in the quest to practice morality, meditation, and wisdom. The Dalai Lama shows us how to overcome our everyday obstacles, from feelings of anger and mistrust to jealousy, insecurity, and counterproductive thinking. Imbued with His Holiness' vivacious spirit and sense of playfulness, How to Practice offers the Dalai Lama's own sage and very practical insight into the human psyche and what binds us all together.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In the Meantime, and with nearly a million copies in print, Acts of Faith is an internationally acclaimed resource for spiritual guidance and balance, specially written for people of color.
Acts of Faith is a thoughtful and inspirational book that explores the unique pressures on people of color today with great insight and sensitivity. Each day of the year has a unique inspirational quote or message with it, along with a short essay to assist in reflection and wisdom. These messages are pulled from a great variety of spiritual practices and teachings, to assist spiritual people across faiths and disciplines. This book is invaluable for people of color in search of motivation and support as they journey on their spiritual path.
Many people find the Holy Spirit mysterious, confounding—even controversial. Why is the third person in the Godhead—the one Jesus said would be the believer's ultimate source of truth and comfort—the source of such confusion?
In The God I Never Knew, Robert Morris clearly explains that the Holy Spirit's chief desire is for relationship--to offer us the encouragement and guidance of a trusted friend. This insightful and biblically-based book moves beyond theological jargon, religious tradition, and cultural misconceptions to clarify what the Holy Spirit promises to do in your life:
· Dwell within you
· Be your helper
· Guide you into all truth
· Comfort you
· Pray for you
· Show you things to come
· Never leave you
It's time to experience the Holy Spirit in a fresh, new way—to meet the God you may have never known.
Includes a small group study guide!
But a single person won't lead it.
A single event won't define it.
Our reformation will be a movement of reformers living creatively, compassionately, courageously for the cause of Christ.
This reformation will not be born of a new discovery. It will be the rediscovery of something old, something ancient.
Something primal.
—Mark Batterson, Primal
What would your Christianity look like if it was stripped down to the simplest, rawest, purest faith possible? You would have more, not less. You would have the beginning of a new reformation—in your generation, your church, your own soul. You would have primal Christianity.
This book is an invitation to become part of a reformation movement. It is an invitation to rediscover the compassion, wonder, curiosity, and energy that turned the world upside down two thousand years ago. It is an invitation to be astonished again.
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430) wrote:
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15–19), down to the present episcopate.
And so, lastly, does the very name of Catholic, which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.
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In one moment, with one tearful performance of "Summertime," the nineteen-year-old Fantasia captured the hearts -- and the votes -- of millions of American Idol fans. Her powerful voice and independent style made her an overnight national sensation. But life wasn't always sensational for Fantasia.
At the age of seventeen, despite the promise of her extraordinary voice, Fantasia was in danger of becoming just another sad statistic: an uneducated, unmarried teenage mother living in the projects. But Fantasia had been raised by two strong, influential women: Both her grandmother and mother are preachers, and she was raised with an unshakable faith. In Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, Fantasia speaks -- with a spirit as strong as her voice -- about what it takes to believe in the power of one's self. She turns all that she's learned into uplifting life lessons, including:
• Recognize your gift
• You made your bed, now lie in it
• Give props where props are due
• Like mother, like daughter
• It ain't about the bling
Fantasia keeps it real with her sassy, self-confident style and down-to-earth advice, making readers laugh and cry with her. Life Is Not a Fairy Tale is more than just a celebrity success story. It's a book of revelations that will inspire all readers to reach for their greatest potential.
• It's Time to Believe
• It's Time for Favor
• It's Time for Restoration
• It's Time to Trust
• It's Time to Stretch
Each section consists of readings that elaborate on one of the five ideas. As you travel through each day, you will find new and exciting ways to bring the teachings of It's Your Time into your life. Highlighting key stories from It's Your Time, this devotional also supplies passages and daily thoughts that offer messages of faith, hope, and strength to help you rise above any circumstance so that you can fulfill God's best plan for your life. Joel offers assurance that God does not want you to merely survive challenging times, He wants you to thrive. When you give your life over to Him, God will send opportunities your way so you can soar to new heights of fulfillment. He also reminds you that the bigger your burden, the greater your blessings to come.
It's Your Time
It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and toughest peaks. He'd earned this weekend vacation, and though he met two charming women along the way, by early afternoon he finally found himself in his element: alone, with just the beauty of the natural world all around him.
It was 2:41 P.M. Eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, Aron was climbing down off a wedged boulder when the rock suddenly, and terrifyingly, came loose. Before he could get out of the way, the falling stone pinned his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall.
And so began six days of hell for Aron Ralston. With scant water and little food, no jacket for the painfully cold nights, and the terrible knowledge that he'd told no one where he was headed, he found himself facing a lingering death -- trapped by an 800-pound boulder 100 feet down in the bottom of a canyon. As he eliminated his escape options one by one through the days, Aron faced the full horror of his predicament: By the time any possible search and rescue effort would begin, he'd most probably have died of dehydration, if a flash flood didn't drown him before that.
What does one do in the face of almost certain death? Using the video camera from his pack, Aron began recording his grateful good-byes to his family and friends all over the country, thinking back over a life filled with adventure, and documenting a last will and testament with the hope that someone would find it. (For their part, his family and friends had instigated a major search for Aron, the amazing details of which are also documented here for the first time.) The knowledge of their love kept Aron Ralston alive, until a divine inspiration on Thursday morning solved the riddle of the boulder. Aron then committed the most extreme act imaginable to save himself.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- a brilliantly written, funny, honest, inspiring, and downright astonishing report from the line where death meets life -- will surely take its place in the annals of classic adventure stories.
Joel Osteen nació en Houston, Texas, su vida ha sido dedicada a servir a todas las personas sin importar su ocupación o nivel de socioeconómico. Inició el ministerio televisivo de la iglesia Lakewood Church, donde trabajó junto a su padre, el pastor John Osteen. Durante diecisiete años ha llevado el mensaje positivo de esperanza de Lakewood a más de cien millones de hogares por todo Estados Unidos y a más de ciento cincuenta naciones.
"Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit–An Geadh-Glas, or 'the Wild Goose.' The name hints at mystery. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it's like to follow the Spirit through life. I think the Celtic Christians were on to something….
Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure." --from the introduction
Quit playing it safe and start running toward the roar!
When the image of a man-eating beast travels through the optic nerve and into the visual cortex, the brain sends the body a simple but urgent message: run away! That's what normal people do, but not lion chasers. Rather than seeing a five-hundred-pound problem, they see an opportunity for God to show up and show His power.
Chase the Lion is more than a catch phrase; it's a radically different approach to life. It's only when we stop fearing failure that we can fully seize opportunity by the mane. With grit and gusto, New York Times best-selling author Mark Batterson delivers a bold message to everyone with a big dream.
This is a wake-up call to stop living as if the purpose of life was to simply arrive safely at death. Our dreams should scare us. They should be so big that without God they would be impossible to achieve. Quit running away from what you're afraid of.
Chase the lion!
Change the world!
What is your five-hundred-pound dream?
In this highly anticipated sequel to his best-selling In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, Mark Batterson invites lion chasers everywhere to chase dreams so impossible that victory demands we face our fears, defy the odds, and hold tight to God.
These are the kind of dreams that will make you a bigger person and the world a better place.
Based upon 2 Samuel 23, Chase the Lion tells the true story of an ancient warrior named Benaiah who chased a lion into a pit on a snowy day—and then killed it. For most people, that situation wouldn't just be a problem…it would be the last problem they ever faced. For Benaiah, it was an opportunity to step into his destiny. After defeating the lion, he landed his dream job as King David's bodyguard and eventually became commander-in-chief of Israel's army under King Solomon.
Written in a way that both challenges and encourages, this revolutionary book will help unleash the faith and courage you need to identify, chase, and catch the five-hundred-pound dreams in your life.
Laurie's dreams had been shattered before she came to work at Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch—the ranch of rescued dreams—where broken horses and broken children encounter healing every day. In an attempt to soothe her aching soul, Laurie reached out to save a dog in need. And she soon began to realize that the dog was rescuing her.
An inspiring true story told through the engaging voice of Kim Meeder, Blind Hope reveals poignant life lessons Laurie experienced from her ailing, yet courageous canine friend. Despite the blindness of her dog—and her own heart—Laurie uncovered what she really needed most: authentic love, unconditional trust, and true acceptance, faults and all.
As Laurie and her dog, Mia, both learned to follow the lead of a master they couldn't see, Laurie discovered the transforming power of God's grace even for imperfect and selfish people—and she experienced a greater love than she had ever known.
"Love is a bridge that stands firm through difficulties and connects one heart directly to another, not because of how it looks, but because of what it is."
—Kim Meeder, Blind Hope
"An astounding memoir—haunting and touching, courageous and wise."—Jeremy Schaap, bestselling author, Emmy award-winning journalist, ESPN
In 1996, R.A. Dickey was the Texas Rangers' much-heralded No. 1 draft choice. Then, a routine physical revealed that his right elbow was missing its ulnar collateral ligament, and his lifelong dream—along with his $810,000 signing bonus—was ripped away. Yet, despite twice being consigned to baseball's scrap heap, Dickey battled back. Sustained by his Christian faith, the love of his wife and children, and a relentless quest for self-awareness, Dickey is now the starting pitcher for the Toronoto Blue Jays (he was previously a star pitcher for the New York Mets) and one of the National League's premier players, as well as the winner of the 2012 Cy Young award.
In Wherever I Wind Up, Dickey eloquently shares his quintessentially American tale of overcoming extraordinary odds to achieve a game, a career, and a life unlike any other.
John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for "soul friend," the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the universal themes of friendship, solitude, love, and death as:Light is generous The human heart is never completely born Love as ancient recognitionThe body is the angel of the soul Solitude is luminous Beauty likes neglected places The passionate heart never ages To benatural is to be holy Silence is the sister of the divine Death as an invitation to freedom
Relationship decisions come down to five crucial components, according to Bishop Jakes:
Research: gathering information and collecting data
Roadwork: removing obstacles and clearing the path
Rewards: listing choices and imagining their consequences
Revelation: narrowing your options and making your selection
Rearview: looking back and adjusting as necessary to stay on course
Making Great Decisions Reflections collects the words that ground Before You Do in biblical teachings, making this book an essential keepsake, to carry with you in moments when inspiration and encouragement are needed.
"As a scholar and storyteller extraordinaire, Deepak Chopra portrays a morally courageous yet highly human messenger of God." —Irshad Manji, Director, Moral Courage Project, New York University
From the New York Times bestselling author of Buddha and Jesus comes the page-turning and soul-stirring story of Muhammad. Deepak Chopra—easily one of the most influential spiritual leaders in the world today—delivers this stunning, sincere, and highly accessible portrait of the Prophet of Islam. Chopra's Muhammad is an outstanding resource for everyone who thinks they should know more about the man who inspired the world's fastest-growing religion.
Few gnomic collections in the world's literary history present sounder wisdom more tersely expressed than the Havamal. Like the Book of Proverbs it occasionally rises to lofty heights of poetry. If it presents the worldly wisdom of a violent race, it also shows noble ideals of loyalty, truth, and unfaltering courage.
Over time other poems were added to the original content dealing with wisdom which seemed, by their nature, to imply that the speaker was Odin. Thus a catalogue of runes, or charms, was tacked on, and also a set of proverbs. Here and there bits of verse crept in; and of course the loose structure of the poem made it easy for any reciter to insert new stanzas almost at will. This curious miscellany is what we now have as the Havamal
Five separate elements are pretty clearly recognizable: (1) the Havamal proper (stanzas 1-80), a collection of proverbs and counsels for the conduct of life; (2) the Loddfafnismol (stanzas 111-138), a collection somewhat similar to the first, but specifically addressed to a certain Loddfafnir; (3) the Ljothatal (stanzas 147-165), a collection of charms; (4) the lovestory of Odin and Billing's daughter (stanzas 96-102); (5) the story of how Odin got the mead of poetry from the maiden Gunnloth (stanzas 103-110). There is also a brief passage (stanzas 139-146) telling how Odin won the runes, this passage being a natural introduction to the Ljothatal, and doubtless brought into the poem for that reason.
33% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
"Melody Beattie gives you the tools to discover the magnificence and splendor of your being." –Deepak Chopra, author of Jesus and Buddha
Pam Rosewell Moore, Corrie's constant companion for the last seven years of her life, shares never-before-published insights on this incredible servant of God, offering readers lessons on living a faithful life by exploring what made "Tante" (Aunt) Corrie into the wonderful example of faith that she was. More than a biography, this is an intimate inside look at a remarkable soul that helps readers to be more effective in their own Christian walks.
Tender, heartbreaking, and eye-opening, this expanded edition of the New York Times bestseller offers more incredible windows into the world beyond and life after death.
An uplifting masterwork of comfort and compassion exploring the ultimate questions of existence and transcendence.
Nothing has riveted humanity's interest more, nor has anything been more frightening or awe-inspiring, than the finality of death. In Home with God, the last installment of his bestselling Conversations with God series, Neale Donald Walsch asks the questions that everyone has longed to ask and receives the answers readers have all been waiting for. Through his profound and personal dialogue with God, Walsch explores the process by which all human beings must end their days here on Earth and begin their new life in God's Kingdom -- to which all eventually return, regardless of their earthly deeds. An astonishing and spiritual work, Home with God offers hope, comfort, and surprising revelations for all humankind.


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Roger Williams Park & Zoo
Roger Williams Park was established in the 1800s after a family member of Providence-founder Roger Williams willed the land to the city. The urban park today is a familiar gathering place for Providence locals and a must-see destination for visitors to Rhode Island. Many of Rhode Island's top attractions are located at Roger Williams Park. The Museum of Natural History & Planetarium is the only such facility in Rhode Island. At the Roger Williams Zoo, visitors can observe thousands of animals, including rare and endangered species. Carousel Village, with its carousel, bounce house, and playground is a dream come true for young children. Enjoy canoeing, paddle boating, and kayaking on the various lakes at Roger Williams Park. The marble-constructed Temple to Music is an iconic landmark of Roger Williams Park. Fun festivals, concerts, and other special events are held here throughout the year.


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|Pattonville residents asked to vote on Prop K next Tuesday
|Thursday, March 30, 2017
The Pattonville Board of Education is asking voters to go to the polls on Tuesday, April 4, to vote on Proposition K, Pattonville's proposed $23 million zero tax rate increase bond issue. Approval of the bond issue will not increase the district's tax rate. To find out more, visit the Prop K website at http://www.psdr3.org/PropK.
If approved, the bond issue will fund repair and improvement projects at every school in the district to address four main issues:
The facilities plan includes projects at all schools in the district. A school by school list of projects can be found online at http://www.psdr3.org/newsinfo/pdf/FacilitiesPlan2017.pdf.
Creating an early childhood center at Briar Crest will free up classroom space at Pattonville's elementary schools and enable the district to maintain lower elementary class sizes. Pattonville's early childhood program has classrooms in most elementary schools and the Pattonville Learning Center. Over the last few years, the program has grown, requiring more classroom space. Briar Crest closed in 2012 due to budget constraints and elementary students were redistricted into existing buildings. Approval of the bond issue will enable 14 preschool classrooms currently housed throughout the district to move into Briar Crest, along with the Parents as Teachers program and early childhood administrative staff. Renovations at Briar Crest will provide 14 classrooms designed for the specific needs of preschool children with the ability to add five more classrooms. Pattonville's early childhood program is paid for by a combination of state/federal funds and parent tuition and provides services for students ages 3 through 5, including those with disabilities.
Pattonville has the capacity to issue up to $23 million in bonds without raising its debt service tax rate to complete projects in the facilities plan. As promised to voters during bond issues in 2006 and 2010, Pattonville has maintained its debt service levy - the portion of its tax rate that can only be used for paying off bond issue debt - at 49 cents per $100 of assessed value.
More on funding the bond issue
What is a bond issue?
Typically, school districts use bond issues to fund large and long-range construction, maintenance or repair projects that would be too costly to cover with existing budget funds. In a bond issue, a school district borrows money by issuing promissory notes that it will repay its investors. In a zero tax rate increase bond issue, a school district is able to fund repayment of the bonds through its existing budget, without raising its tax rate that is devoted to paying down debts (debt service levy).
What is a zero tax rate increase bond issue?
A zero tax rate increase bond issue works much like a home equity loan, where a homeowner who pays down his or her debt can spend up to his or her credit limit again for new projects without paying more in his or her monthly loan payment.
How can we complete these projects without raising taxes?
Bonds are low-interest loans the district pays back using funds from its debt service levy. Funds from the debt service levy cannot be used to pay for salaries, classroom supplies or other routine, budgeted items that support teaching and learning in the classroom. Pattonville can borrow up to $23 million in bond funds without raising the debt service levy used to repay the financing. This is the same situation that occurred when Pattonville voters approved zero tax rate increase bond issues in 2006 and 2010 to complete repairs and improvements to schools in the district. Pattonville committed to keeping its debt service levy at 49 cents when voters approved these bond issues, and the district has kept this promise despite being legally able to adjust the rate due to decreases in property values. With the new bond issue on the April 4 election ballot, Pattonville will be able to complete the projects in a new facilities plan using its same existing levy.


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BRADFORD'S historic Playhouse theatre has been sold in a deal which will secure the future of the building.
The building had been in the hands of liquidators Clough & Co, which had been considering auctioning the building until a sale was agreed with theatre enthusiast Colin Fine.
The retired IT worker, 58, of Shipley, arrived in Bradford in 1991 to study at the university and his interest in theatre developed while he was there.
His decision to purchase the building means it will remain a theatre into the future, creating an opportunity for the management team to bid for outside funding.
Mr Fine said: "The decision of the liquidators to put the building up for sale has given me an opportunity to play a new part in preserving the Playhouse and letting it develop.
"I am delighted to have bought the building to ensure that the Playhouse is in the hands of somebody who wishes nothing more than it should continue as a theatre, a resource to the people of Bradford and a memorial to Priestley and others.
"I am not in this for investment in the financial sense but if everything failed I would still have the building.
"I hope it goes on being a theatre for years to come and as long as it is, I hope to support it. As well as being passionate about the theatre, I am interested in local history and the buildings of Bradford. To be able to play a significant part in preserving something is something I am really pleased to be able to do."
The management team have been running the 290 seat venue, which had J B Priestley as president from 1932 until his death in 1984, for the last two years with support from a 'friends' group.
It had been on the theatres at risk register until 2013 and has had a turbulent history which has included two fires and closures.
However, its future now appears secure and chairman of the Friends of Bradford Playhouse, Megan Murray, said: "This is indeed fantastic news, it means the Playhouse will continue to be part of Bradford's cultural offering in the future."
The first step in the theatre's future will be to get emergency works done to the building, with management working towards getting more funding.
If successful, that should allow improvements to the facilities for companies, groups and audiences who use the theatre.
Clare Gadsby, director of Takeover Events & Theatre Ltd, said: ""We are thrilled that we now have the chance to programme artistically long term.
"However, there is still a long road to travel in terms of regenerating the building so it can continue to offer an affordable artistic space to local arts groups and professional touring companies."
Campaigners trying to save the building had been given fresh hope recently when Bradford Council supported an emergency application to list the building as a community asset, meaning greater opportunities for those seeking to keep the building available for public use.


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A warning to the Bills not to reach for a quarterback in the draft.
Defense is where the money goes for the Dolphins.
TE Jake Ballard should be ready to compete for a job with the Patriots this offseason.
The Jets are looking for a quarterback in a bad year to be looking for a quarterback.
Ravens K Justin Tucker and WR Anquan Boldin played bubble soccer with Jimmy Fallon.
Bengals DT Domata Peko is serving as the chair of a March of Dimes Walk in April.
Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer doesn't think the Browns have to worry about Jimmy Haslam being an uninvolved owner.
A vote for the Steelers to find their way to selecting LB Manti Te'o in the draft.
The Texans put together a video of the best work by their tight ends this year.
Setting the safety market in free agency for the Colts.
Defensive line coach Todd Wash was rebuffed in his first attempt to join Gus Bradley in leaving the Seahawks for the Jaguars.
The Titans haven't decided whether to tender an offer to C Fernando Velasco.
Jeff Legwold of the Denver Post turns in his report card for the Broncos season.
There's no obvious quarterback choice for the Chiefs in the draft.
A call for the Raiders to reunite with S Charles Woodson.
The Chargers have options to fill the need at left tackle.
Cowboys running backs coach Gary Brown said the team wants "to shine some things up" with DeMarco Murray.
A New Jersey firefighters union is raising money to build 26 playgrounds in honor of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, including a football themed one in honor of Giants and Victor Cruz-fan Jack Pinto.
S Patrick Chung could be of interest to the Eagles as a free agent.
A look at combine cornerbacks that could interest the Redskins.
Bears quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh says it's too early to make his evaluation of QB Jay Cutler.
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Romulo Yanes
- Yield
- Makes 8 servings
- Active Time
- 30 min
- Total Time
- 2 hrs (includes cooling)
- For cakes
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened, plus 1 1/2 tablespoons, melted
- 3/4 cup matzo cake flour plus additional for dusting
- 2/3 cup plus 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 large eggs, separated, at room temperature for 30 minutes
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
- For syrup
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 (4- by 1-inch) strip fresh lemon zest
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
- 8 large fresh basil sprigs
- For whipped cream
- 1 cup chilled heavy cream
- Garnish: small fresh basil leaves
- Special Equipment
- a muffin pan with 12 (1/2-cup) muffin cups
- Make cakes:
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly brush 8 muffin cups with some of melted butter and chill 2 minutes, then butter again and chill 1 minute more. Dust cups with matzo cake flour, knocking out excess.
- Beat together softened butter, 2/3 cup sugar, and 1/8 teaspoon salt in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, then add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating until well blended. Beat in lemon juice and 2 teaspoons zest until combined. Add flour and mix at low speed until just combined.
- Beat whites with remaining 1/8 teaspoon salt in another bowl with cleaned beaters until they hold soft peaks. Add 2 tablespoons sugar, a little at a time, beating, then beat until whites just hold stiff peaks. Stir one fourth of whites into yolk mixture to lighten, then fold in remaining whites gently but thoroughly. Spoon batter into 8 prepared muffin cups.
- Blend remaining 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon zest with your fingertips and sprinkle over batter, then bake until cakes are puffed, edges are golden, and a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool cakes in pan on a rack 15 minutes, then lift out cakes carefully (tops will break easily) and cool completely on rack.
- Make syrup:
- Bring all syrup ingredients to a boil, covered, in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, then remove lid and boil 10 minutes. Pour syrup through a sieve into a bowl, pressing on and then discarding solids. Cool to room temperature.
- Assemble dessert:
- Beat cream in a bowl with cleaned beaters until it just holds stiff peaks.
- Spoon 1/4 cup syrup into each of 8 shallow bowls and top with cakes. Spoon whipped cream on top of cakes.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories533
- Carbohydrates70 g(23%)
- Fat27 g(42%)
- Protein5 g(10%)
- Saturated Fat16 g(81%)
- Sodium149 mg(6%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber1 g(2%)
- Monounsaturated Fat8 g
- Cholesterol150 mg(50%)


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Jon Savage | WIG210 | Released: 18/10/08
For Dreams Come True Jon Savage has tuned his acutely discerning ears into the febrile rhythms, low end frequencies and street level sense of fun rippling through early eighties electro. The result is a definitive compilation of 12" mixes and vocal cuts of some of Electro's most hedonistic and breathless tracks. To make it explicit, just listen to "Class Action's Weekend" (track 2):
"It's party time tonight"
In the eighties, at the start of that still not quite understood decade, in the early hours of downtown Manhattan, the combined steam of the subway, the peak temperature of the clubs after midnight, and the heat of the moment configured to produce a new kind of rhythm and a new kind of sound. As Savage indicates in Dreams Come True's accompanying sleeve notes, by the end of the Seventies, disco had become orthodox and misunderstood. The combination of worldwide commercial success for its poppier end, and the resultant redneck backlash, meant the clubs and their clientele determined to refresh the soundtrack to their after dark activities.
Filtering European futurism (Kraftwerk, Georgio Moroder) with the Bronx awareness of Afrikaa Bambaata Djs like Arthur Baker, Jellybean, Larry Levan, Francois K and John Robie ran a late adolescent rush through the circuit board to produce these spare, insistent turned-on tracks.
Running through the album (and especially on track 8: "Dirty Talk" and track 9: "Jump Back") is a delight in the crisp sensuality of the Linn Drum. Bedroom and backroom producers freed the drum machine from the security guard utopia of the major label recording studio and reinvented it as a magically dirty beatbox. The perfect instrument for programming underground pleasure.
Make no mistake about the degree of hedonism and sensuality these tracks are in search of. As Debbie Deb indicates clearly (When I Hear Music track 4) the music is just the entry point to what's on offer. Deliberately dumb and erotic "Love Ride" (track 5) reaches for a feeling that predicts the imminent arrival of MDMA. Ecstasy would unlock, amplify and, in the creation of house music – speed all this up.
Many of these tracks crossed the Atlantic courtesy of the Street Sounds compilation at about the same time MacDonald's took up residence in the UK's high street - meaning bodypoppinng and fast food made a nicely grubby counterpoint to the Live Aid generation and their yachts. And isn't the point of street music surely exactly that? Electro's impact was made overt by Factory's decision to open the Hacienda and in New Order's run of singles from Confusion to True Faith. Francois K even got to remix "This Charming Man". And in Madonna's early singles and the Pet Shop Boys entire catalogue Electro not only went mainstream but global.
Dreams Come True is the sound of an urban utopia high on possibilities and extremely horny. Next time you're thinking of going out start by putting on this CD. Luxuriate in the directness and heat of these tracks and wonder what might lie ahead.
WIGCD210 | Out nowAdd to cart: £10.99
- 01. Situation - Yazoo
- 02. Weekend - Class Action
- 03. Get Wet - C-Bank
- 04. When I Hear The Music - Debbie Deb
- 05. Love Ride - Nuance & Vikki Love
- 06. Think Fast - Pamela Joy
- 07. Lisa's Coming - The Latin Rascals
- 08. Dirty Talk (European Connection) - Klein & MBO
- 09. Jump Back (Set Me Free) Club Mix - Dhar Braxton
- 10. Bye Bye (Long Vocal) - Janice
- 11. Silent Morning - Noel


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Of course, the gay crowd loves them some pasty faced pretty boys who suck also, with that in mind may I present, "Twinklight". Hmm, sounds like an ad ... if you're looking for a low calorie version of a Twink, try Twinklight!
Be that as it may, you can read more about this opus at its myspace page HERE.
7 comments:
- Vince Liaguno said...
Nothing will ever top SAVING RYAN'S PRIVATES when it comes to gay porn plays on feature films!
Or HANNAH DOES HER SISTERS for the one or two straight guys out there. (echo, echo)
- September 12, 2009 at 7:39 AM
- Pax Romano said...
Or Edward Penishands, and my fave, Panting at the Opera!
- September 12, 2009 at 8:37 AM
- The Great Tyrant said...
'Twinklight' - fk'n genius!
- September 13, 2009 at 7:00 AM
- BJ-C said...
LMFAO Hahaha. How did I miss this?! At least this boy is attractive. PS: my personal favorite is Playmate of the Apes...just saying haha.
- September 13, 2009 at 9:33 AM
- JoeS said...
I love that they chose someone that looks a bit like Robbo as well. Excellent!
- September 13, 2009 at 12:13 PM
- Jeanette said...
I love the connections between horror and pron...I smell a post topic
- September 13, 2009 at 4:01 PM
- B-Sol said...
I never realized there were so many horror porn sendups until now, Pax!! Of course, porn spoofs are nothing new. Some fave titles include Jurassic Pork, Crocodile Blondee, On Golden Blonde, A Time to Thrill, and of course, Riding Miss Daisy...
- September 19, 2009 at 9:59 PM


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Opera troupe workshops adaptation of William Kennedy's 'Roscoe'
The souls peopling William Kennedy novels have always had an operatic streak about them: tragically flawed, larger than life, haunted by death (or dead already). And they have issues If, as W.H. Auden observed, opera is "an imitation of human willfulness," then the classic Kennedy protagonist is prime meat for operatic adaptation.
Consider Roscoe Conway, the complex and fleshy political insider at the heart of "Roscoe," a new opera scheduled for an Opera Saratoga workshop performance at 2 p.m. Sunday at Skidmore College. Adapted from the Kennedy novel by Albany composer Evan Mack and Tennessee-based librettist Joshua McGuire, the opera is about half-written: Only the 80-minute Act I will be performed in Sunday's unstaged concert rendering, sung by members of the company's Young Artist Program. "It's quite wonderful. It's thrilling to listen to it, and to hear these voices when they start taking off," Kennedy said. Opera struck him as a "very good form for Roscoe himself. As an individual, he has kind of an operatic life, and he is a creature of extreme habits and proclivities. And he reaches great heights as a politician and as a human being, and he has a great rise and fall of his emotions."
That said, Kennedy noted, "It's totally new to me. I've never been involved in opera in any way whatever. I mean, I was an usher at 'Aida' when it played the Palace in 1943 ... but I don't think being an usher qualifies as a serious involvement."
At a rehearsal Saturday morning at Skidmore's Zankel Music Center, Mack sat alongside conductor Laurie Rogers and director Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill as the cast ran through a chunk from the start of the opera. Baritone Mitchell Hutchings, singing Roscoe, squared off against the chorus in a jazzy ricochet riffing on the old Democratic machine.
"An improbable city of political wizards!" he sang, and the chorus replied: "Al-ba-ny!"
"Splendid nobodies!" he sang, and the chorus replied: "Al-ba-ny!"
"Underrated scoundrels!" he sang, and the chorus replied: "Al-ba-ny!"
For Opera Saratoga, "Roscoe" was a gimme. "The fact that a local composer based this on a novel by a very well-known local writer with a local history — in as much as it deals with Albany from the 1940s political scene — it's hard to pass up," said Curtis Tucker, the company's general director. "It's just a lot of local connections. So it just seemed to be a really good fit."
It fit Kennedy, too. "It seemed like a good idea, and I was glad to do it," said the novelist, who's seen his works adapted into other forms. The Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ironweed" became a 1987 film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Both "Roscoe" and "Legs" became musical works by composer Kevin Beavers — the former a violin concerto, the latter a tone poem — performed by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Mack and McGuire collaborated on an earlier opera, "The Secret of Luca," which premiered this spring in Fresno, Calif. That, too, was adapted from a book — a 1956 novel by Italian author-politician Ignazio Silone. "Roscoe" came to be when Mack, smitten with Kennedy's universe of scoundrels and nobodies, turned to the 2002 novel based on Albany's colorful and convoluted history. He liked its love story, its socio-political underpinnings, its humor. "Not everything has to be so damned serious, you know? And 'Roscoe' — I picked it up and read it, and it just jumped off the page."
He reached out to the New York State Writers Institute. "And a couple hours later, my cellphone rings. 'Evan Mack, it's Bill Kennedy.' You know, I just dropped the phone!"
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Where: Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall, Zankel Music Center, Skidmore College, 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga Springs
When: 2 p.m. Sunday, June 8.
Tickets: $25
Info: 584-6018; operasaratoga.org
That was about a year ago. Since then, composer and librettist have met with Kennedy in two-scene chunks, gathering at his home in Averill Park or — once — at his digs on 67 Dove St., the building where gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond was shot as he slept off a night of partying in 1931. Mack had just written a Legs-related aria for the opera, and "It was wild. Here I am, singing to Bill Kennedy 'The Ballad of Legs Diamond' in the room where Legs Diamond was killed. ... It was really cool. It was mind-blowing." But no ghost appeared. "It did not. I kept looking around, hoping it would pop out any minute, but it didn't happen."
Was that night surreal for Kennedy, too? "The whole thing is kind of hitting me as a surreal experience. Because you know, you have to imagine somebody singing with great verve and power of these mundane events — like being killed in bed in your underwear."
And while Kennedy minimized his role in the opera's creation ("The only thing I'm doing is sort of touching up the language here and there"), McGuire described his input as "wonderful — not only as an education in craft for me, as a writer, but also an education in the world of Albany history. I mean, the guy knows everything It's freaky."
In Mack and McGuire's vision, the first act includes a balcony of the dead where spectral presences interact with the living. The bouncing among the living, the dead and the eras they occupy — rooted on V-J Day in 1945, and flashing back from there — also allows for a variety of musical idioms, Mack said.
Felix, for instance. Roscoe's father. His life and musical influences hark back to the late 1800s, "so he's more of a Gilbert and Sullivan kind of guy. And Elisha — he's another dead character — he's clearly traced in the jazz genre. And they talk about him babbling a lot of the time, so to me that meant scat-singing."
The breathing and the not-anymore were both audible at Saturday's rehearsal, where the jazzy exchanges continued between Roscoe and others. After one such snippet with one such character, Mack was asked to confirm his status. Is he dead?
"Yeah," he said. "He's dead. He's dead."
Mancinelli-Cahill nodded. "So Roscoe's having a conversation with the dead guy," she said, restating the fact with unvarnished calm. This is Kennedy, after all. Confabs with the incorporeal are business as usual.
And then all of them, both the living and the dead, went back to singing.
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Spiro teams split final games at H.B. Stewart Classic with Ozark
GREENWOOD, Ark. — The Spiro Bulldogs basketball team took advantage of the fact that the Hillbillies from Ozark, Ark., did not have their complete team when it came to Friday afternoon's game in the H.B. Stewart Classic, since the Hillbillies played for a state football title on Saturday.The Bulldogs proved too much for the depleted Hillbillies to post a 67-41 victory.However, the Lady Hillbillies were able to get a win for Ozark, which downed the Spiro Lady Bulldogs 57-40.


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PASADENA, Calif. - It's an all-American, once-every-four-years tradition: the inauguration of a president. On Monday, Jan. 21, the Red Planet will join the traditional red-white-and-blue pageantry when a life-size model of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity appears in the inaugural parade after President Barack Obama takes the oath of office.
The rover model will be accompanied by engineers and scientists from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory representing Curiosity and the Mars Science Laboratory, the spacecraft that transported the rover to a safe landing on the Martian surface last August:
- Richard Cook-project manager (from JPL)
- Bobak Ferdowsi-flight director (from JPL)
- Dave Lavery - program executive (from NASA Headquarters)
- Michael Meyer - program Scientist (from NASA Headquarters)
- Jennifer Trosper-mission manager (from JPL)
- Ashwin Vasavada, Deputy Project Scientist (from JPL)
In addition, current and former NASA astronauts will appear in the parade, along with a model of Orion, the multi-purpose capsule that will take astronauts farther into space than ever before.
A full schedule of NASA-related events for Inauguration Day and the weekend leading up to it is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/news/inauguration.html .
For more information about Curiosity, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl . Follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at: http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosityVeronica McGregor 818-354-9452


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Hello! Happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend! We sure did but busy! Saturday we went to Ariel's swimming lesson than rushed to the Santa Parade. We parked very far and walked a long way, thank goodness for a sit and stand stroller (like a double but better for older kids) We were at the end of the parade route but it was so much less crowded so that was nice. Than we walked to the Forks (which is where the two rivers meet and a tourist location in our downtown) and watched fireworks! One good thing about it getting dark so much earlier is that fireworks are at a good time of 7:30 for little kids! Than the long walk back to the car! One good thing about the long walk is that there was no traffic once we got the car. We heard a lot of horror stories of friends who took the bus (standing out with 3 kids waiting for the bus just to have it drive by as it's full!) and other such stories so I am glad that we couldn't go to the start of the parade route!
Today I have a baby card to share. I have made a lot more baby cards lately but have even more that need to be made! I also have a lot of cards that I need to catch up on the share!
It's a very simple card, I don't know why but it seems that working with PTI stamps bring out the CAS girl in me! Although I really like it since babies are so new and fresh! I am currently waiting for a really good friend to have her baby, she is a few days overdue. She doesn't know what she is having, and she has two boys already!
Yesterday we spent the day at my parents. Chad had an open house basically the street over from their house and we needed them to babysit the kids that evening since we had Chad's Christmas party for work! My parents wanted to buy Ariel skates and a helmet as part of her birthday present so my dad, Ariel and I went shopping for that. While shopping we saw that they had really small skates that would fit Carter so my dad bought that and a helmet for him. And it's a good thing we did. When we got home I asked him if he wanted to try them on since you play hockey with them. Carter sits right in my lap and doesn't wiggle or make a noise as I put them on. The guy at the store told us to let him walk around the house on the carpet in them so he learns not to walk bow legged like a deer. I put the skates and helmet on and he stands right up and starts to walk like it's nothing! He fell a bit but quickly got the hang of it and walked around the house for a while. I went to take them off and he freaked out! Cried hockey for a while. This morning the first thing he does is bring me the hockey skates and tells me hockey! I have since hidden them as I don't need any more holes in my walls! I really see myself becoming a hockey mom, he is only 2 years old and loves it so much already? Ariel on the other hand is total opposite and told me that she is going to dance on ice! I think this week we will be taking the kids skating! I'll make sure to share some photos!