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9-10 September: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
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1901: The first long-distance motor race in the United States began in New York City, ending 5 days and 464 miles later in Buffalo, New York. In these early days of motor racing, the determining factor was not speed or endurance, but reliability. David Bishop's winning Panhard et Levassor only averaged a speed of 15 mph, but managed the entire journey without breaking down – a remarkable feat.
1913: The first Corona Road Races (California, US) were staged on the city's unique circular track. The winner of the main event, a 301.81 mile 'Free-for-all-Race', was Earl Cooper in a Stutz.
1916: The Indianapolis Motor Speedway hosted a day of short racing events termed the "Harvest Classic," composed of three races held at 20, 50 and 100 mile distances.
1923: The Italian Grand Prix, held at Monza, the first race to be designated as the European Grand Prix, was won by Carlo Salamano in a FIAT 805.
1928: Run over 60 laps, the Italian Grand Prix at Monza was won by Louis Chiron driving a Bugatti 37A. It was the 8th Italian Grand Prix. This race was also the VI Grand Prix d'Europe. This race was marred by the death of Emilio Materassi on lap 17, when his car lost control on the main straight at over 120 mph while trying to overtake Giulio Foresti. The car swerved to the left of the track, bounced over a three-metre deep and four-metre wide protection ditch and a fence and crashed into the grandstand, killing him along with 22 spectators. Other sources have stated that 27 spectators were killed overall, but this is unconfirmed. By either estimation this was the worst accident, with respect to the number of lives lost, to occur at a Grand Prix and it is only surpassed by the 1955 Le Mans disaster in the history of motor racing. As a result the Italian Grand Prix was to not be held again until 1931.
1944: Robert Benoist (48) died. The Nazis executed the French Grand Prix motor racing driver and war Pre-World War II racing great, in the Buchenwald concentration camp, for being a French resistance leader.
1945: The first post-World War II auto races were held on the outskirts of Paris, France. The Robert Benoist Cup for cars with engines less than 1.5 litres was won by Gordini in a Simca-Fiat. The Coupe de la Liberation for cars with engines from 1.5-3.0 litres was won by Henri Louveau in a Maserati. The Coupe de la Prisonniers for cars with engines greater than 3 litres was won by Jean-Pierre Wilmille in a Bugatti.
1960: Mickey Thompson, driving the Challenger I at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, US recorded a one-way run of 406.60 mph, becoming the first driver to break the 400 mph barrier although the run was not recognised as a land speed record.
1973: Going into the Italian Grand Prix, Emerson Fittipaldi was faced with the almost impossible task of needing to win the final three races with Jackie Stewart failing to score to take the title. As it happened, Fittipaldi finished second behind team-mate Ronnie Peterson as Stewart coasted home fourth to secure his third and final drivers' title.
1979: South African Jody Scheckter won the Italian Grand Prix for Ferrari, securing his one and only World Drivers Title. The field was slightly larger than normal at Monza with the return to the World Championship of Alfa Romeo which fielded a new 179 ch
Jody Scheckter – 1979 Italian Grand Prix
assis for Bruno Giacomelli and the old 177 for Vittorio Brambilla, back in action for the first time since the crash at Monza the previous season. Ensign decided to give Formula 2 star Marc Surer a run in its car in place of Patrick Gaillard, while Hector Rebaque had his HR100 chassis ready for the first time. Continue Reading →
1984: Monza saw the first all-turbo race in Formula One history after the Tyrrell team was thrown out of the championship for running its cars underweight during the race before topping up its water injection supply tanks with extra water and lead shot to ensure they made the weight. In the race itself, Niki Lauda took advantage of the retirements of Alain Prost and Nelson Piquet to win from Michele Alboreto and Riccardo Patrese.
1990: Ayrton Senna took a pole to flag victory to win the Italian Grand Prix from title rival Alain Prost and Gerhard Berger but the star of the show was Jean Alesi, albeit only for four laps! Having qualified fifth, the Frenchman passed Mansell then Prost at the start before the race was stopped as Derek Warwick turned his Lotus upside-down on the start-finish straight. Once again, Alesi brilliantly overtook Mansell and Prost at the re-start before spinning and the race then became a procession to the finish. But Alesi had shown glimpses of brilliance in his less-powerful Tyrrell.
1990: Dale Earnhardt held off Mark Martin on a restart with three laps left to win the Miller Genuine Draft 400 at Richmond International Raceway, Virginia, US. Earnhardt, who led 173 of the 400 laps on the .75-mile asphalt track, logged the eighth of his nine wins for the season on the way to his fourth championship in NASCAR's top series. Darrell Waltrip, Bill Elliott and Rusty Wallace completed the top five.
2006: Spyker bought Midland F1 Racing, a Formula One team from Russian businessman Alex Shnaider. Spyker paid US$106.6 million for the team which was re-named Spyker MF1 Team for the last three races of the 2006 Formula One season. As part of the deal, the cars had a revised livery for the final three races of 2006.
1900: The Coppa Florio (or Florio Cup) was an automobile race first held in Italy on this day as the Coppa Brescia. It was renamed in 1905 when Vincenzo Florio offered the initial 50,000 Lira prize money and a cup designed by Polak of Paris. The cup was to be awarded to the car maker who gained the most wins in the first seven races, beginning with the race held in 1905. In the event, the first seven races were all won by different manufacturers, but Peugeot won the eighth race in 1925 and thus secured the cup with its second win. However, the competition for the cup continued after Lucien Rosengart, then a director of Peugeot, offered to make it available again. The Brescia race ran along the route Brescia-Cremona-Mantua-Brescia. In 1908, the race used the Circuito di Bologna: Bologna-Castelfranco Emilia-Sant'Agata Bolognese-San Giovanni in Persiceto-Bologna. After 1914, most of the Coppa Florio races were co-organized with the Targa Florio at the Circuito delle Madonie circuit outside Palermo, Sicily, running four or five laps, 108 km each. Only in 1927 did the race move to Saint-Brieuc, in honour of Peugeot's second win in 1925. The race attracted teams from around Europe as well as the 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeams from England and saw such luminaries as Sir Henry Segrave and Jean Chassagne competing.
1911: The last of four Foundation Day Races staged by the Quaker City Motor Club at Faimount Park, Philadelphia, US, was won by Erwin Bergdoll in a Benz.
1932: The Mountain Championship at Brooklands was won by Malcolm Campbell driving a 4 litre V12 Sunbeam Tiger.
VI Gran Premio di Monza – 1933
1933: The Italian Grand Prix held at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, was one of the blackest days in Grand Prix racing history. Since the very beginning of automobile sport there had never been a tragedy of such proportions. Three of Europe's greatest racing drivers had crashed fatally within a few hours of each other at almost the same spot in the South Curve: Campari, the most popular driver, the bulky, amiable Giuseppe, then Mario-Umberto Borzacchini, the great driver and famous friend of Nuvolari and finally Count Stanisłas Czaykowski, winner of the heat 1 race and the 1-hour world record holder.
1950: The first Sandberg Speed Hill Climb was staged at the Sandberg Ranch, north of Los Angeles, California, US.
1961: A crash during the Italian Grand Prix at Monza claimed 16 lives – Formula One's worst tragedy. Wolfgang von Trips (33) and 15 spectators were killed on the second lap of the race at Monza after von Trips tangled with Jim Clark. Ferrari withdrew from racing for the rest of the season. Continue Reading →
1961 Italian Grand Prix
1967: Richard Petty roared to his sixth victory in a row, winning the Capital City 300 at the Virginia State Fairgrounds in Richmond, US. The win was part of an unprecedented 10-race win streak during Petty's remarkable 27-win title season in a Plymouth Belvedere. Dick Hutcherson was second on the half-mile dirt track as the only other car on the lead lap, with Paul Goldsmith third, one lap down.
1967: John Surtees snatched victory in Italy after Jim Clark's epic drive was let down by a fuel pump failure. It was the sixth and final career Grand Prix victory for Surtees, as well as first ever race for the RA300 machine that he drove to the win. This race is considered one of Jim Clark's greatest performances in Formula One.
1972: Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in a Lotus to clinch the world driver's title. Aged only 25 years and 273 days, he became the youngest-ever world motor racing championship.
1978: Niki Lauda won the Italian Grand Prix for Brabham-Alfa Romeo. The race was marred by the death of Ronnie Peterson following an accident at the start of the race. With three races remaining, Mario Andretti (Lotus-Ford) led the World Drivers' Championship by 12 points from his team-mate Ronnie Peterson.
1995: Johnny Herbert took his second win of the season and his career at the Italian Grand Prix.
2000: Contested over 53 laps the Italian Grand Prix was won by Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher after starting from pole position equalling Senna's 41 Grand Prix wins. Mika Hkkinen finished second in a McLaren car with Ralf Schumacher third for the Williams team. Marshall Paulo Gislimberti is sadly killed by flying debris
2006: Kimi Raikonnen started his 100th race, but Michael Schumacher beat him to the win at the Italian Grand Prix. After the race, in the press conference, Michael Schumacher announced his retirement from Formula One. The race was his 90th victory. Three years later however in 2010, Schumacher returned to F1 with Mercedes.
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Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC/USD To Surge Higher?
Bitcoin price maintained its bullish bias above the $1240 support area against the US Dollar, and now BTC/USD is looking to extend gains.
There was a crucial contracting triangle pattern with resistance at $1245 on the hourly chart of BTC/USD (data feed via Kraken), which was broken to ignite an upside move above $1250.
The BTC to USD remained elevated above the $1220 support, and traded above the $1240 level. There was a nice upside wave before the price settled above the $1240 level.
The price first broke the 50% Fib retracement level of the last decline from the $1255 high to $1212 low in order to gain pace. Then, there was a break above a crucial contracting triangle pattern with resistance at $1245 on the hourly chart of BTC/USD.
It resulted in an upside push above $1244 and the 76.4% Fib retracement level of the last decline from the $1255 high to $1212 low. Now, the price is heading higher and remains well above the 100 hourly simple moving average at $1240.
If the price corrects lower, the broken triangle resistance at $1244 may now act as a support and prevent losses. Moreover, the 100 hourly simple moving average at $1242 might also act as a barrier for sellers on the downside.
If the current momentum stays intact, there is a chance of a move towards the 1.236 extension of the last decline from the $1255 high to $1212 low at $1264.
If the BTC buyers take control, there is even a chance of it moving towards the $1280 level in the near term.
The hourly RSI for BTC/USD (data feed via Kraken) is currently well above 50 level, and signaling positive signs and gains.
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Q: I need to parse a string using javacc containing single quotes as part of the string I have defined grammar rules like
TOKEN : { < SINGLE_QUOTE : " ' " > }

TOKEN : {  < STRING_LITERAL : " ' "  (~["\n","\r"])*  " ' ">

But I am not able to parse sequences like   're'd' .I need the parser to parse re'd as a string literal.But the parser parses 're' seperately and 'd' seperately for these rules.

A: If you need to lex re'd as STRING_LITERAL token then use the following rule
TOKEN : { < SINGLE_QUOTE : "'" > }
TOKEN : {  < STRING_LITERAL : "'"?  (~["\n","\r"])*  "'"?>

I didn't see the rule for matching "re" separately.
In javacc, definition of your lexical specification STRING_LITERAL is to start with "'" single quot. But your input doesn't have the "'" at starting.
The "?" added in the STRING_LITERAL makes the single quot optional and if present only one. so this will match your input and lex as STRING_LITERAL.

JavaCC decision making rules:

1.) JavaCC will looks for the longest match.
Here in this case even if the input starts with the "'" the possible matches are SINGLE_QUOTE and STRING_LITERAL. the second input character tells which token to choose STRING_LITERAL.
2.) JavaCC takes the the rule declared first in the grammar.
Here if the input is only "'" then it will be lexed as SINGLE_QUOTE even if there is the possible two matches SINGLE_QUOTE and STRING_LITERAL.
Hope this will help you...

A: The following should work:
TOKEN : { < SINGLE_QUOTE : "'" > }
TOKEN : {  < STRING_LITERAL : "'"  (~["\n","\r"])*  "'"> }

This is pretty much what you had, except that I removed some spaces.
Now if there are two on more apostrophes on a line (i.e. without an intervening newline or return) then the first and the last of those apostrophes together with all characters between should be lexed as one STRING_LITERAL token.  That includes all intervening apostrophes.  This is assuming there are no other rules involving apostrophes.  For example, if your file is 're'd' that should lex as one token; likewise 'abc' + 'def' should lex as one token.

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Norman Mailer: The American
Feature - 86 min Broadcast - 55 min
An exclusive profile of an extraordinary cultural icon
A provocateur, a rebel, a performer and notorious anarchist, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. Containing never-seen-before material, this shocking documentary goes beyond the Mailer of the bookshelves and bestseller lists to reveal Mailer the social critic, filmmaker, family man and lover, giving a rare and unique insight into the life of a complex, intellectual man and villainous hero.
"Are you all truly idiots, or is it me?" he spits at a studio audience during a TV interview. Never one to mince his words, Norman Mailer was at once a journalist, novelist, poet, filmmaker, political activist, mayoral candidate and hell-raising socialite. Every aspect of his life was prolific and controversial, down to his six wives, nine children and numerous affairs. Even his relationship with the country he loved to write about was full of turmoil. "I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it; I'm repelled by it."
Mailer didn't just write about major US events, he lived them from the frontlines. Yet he was never in any doubt about his motives for throwing himself into the thick of the action, admitting that what he wanted from his stint in the army during the Second World War was to produce the greatest novel written about it. A subversive blending of reality and creativity was something that extended into all corners of his life and art. "He took journalism and made it into this imaginative construct."
One infamous project, his film Maidstone, was shot in a hazy environment of sex, booze, drugs and outrage; "a Norman Mailer fantasy". Struggling to find a climax to the film, Mailer's cinema verite approach took on alarming new proportions. With the cameras rolling and his children looking on, his great antagonist, Rip Torn, attacked Mailer in blind frustration. "He hit me with a hammer, that asshole", Norman shouts at the terrified onlookers, blood streaming from his head. "And then he bit off Rip Torn's ear", recalls his ex-wife, a tone of resignation in her voice. Watching the old footage of the fight, she shakes her head and sighs; "he was mad as a hatter".
A keen boxer, his ex-wives all remember a passionate and charming but aggressive man, constantly on the edge of his temper. For the first time, Adele Morales Mailer, his second wife, talks about her experience of being stabbed by Norman as they hosted a cocktail party. "He said, "don't touch her, let the bitch die". That will be seared in my memory forever." Under enormous pressure to not press charges against her 'genius' husband, Mailer got away with the assault, later justifying it on talk shows by saying that he was curing Adele of cancer.
The man who once announced, "The greatest trouble with this country is that it is insane", came ironically to be widely regarded as an American icon, wildly living out his own definition of his beloved nation. From Marilyn Monroe hiding in her bedroom from him to him head-butting Gore Vidal, from debates and ideas to sex tapes, orgies and drag queens, this fast-paced doc offers a wonderfully revelatory profile of an iconic figure of 20th Century Americana.
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Special Jury Prize, Dallas Film International Festival, 2011
Official Selection - Film Society of Lincoln Center Independents Night, 2011
Best Documentary Jury Award, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
Best Documentary Jury Award, Orlando Film Festival
Best Documentary Gold Award, California Film Awards
Official Selection - Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival, 2011
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CountryUnited States
Running Time86:00
Date1 Dec, 2011
ProducerZooma Zooma
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Joseph Mantegna is the founder and president of Zooma Zooma Corporation. Since 1993, the company has specialized in feature film documentaries, commercials, and music videos. After meeting President Clinton, Mantegna was chosen to direct a film that explores the ongoing search for solutions for AIDS, world hunger, and religious tolerance for his organization, the Clintoln Global Initiative. President Clinton introduced the film on Larry King/CNN.
In 2003 Mantegna produced the film Truth in Advertising, a blunt revelation of the inner thoughts of advertising companies speaking their minds. The film became a viral phenomenon. Other commercials that Mantegna produced included the ground breaking commercial "This is your brain on drugs," which is included in the MoMA Permanent Collection, and other notable campaigns for advertisers such as Nike, Target, Coca‐Cola, Kodak, Sony, Revlon, Chrysler, Volkswagen, McDonalds, Cover Girl, AT&T;, Hershey's, Absolut, etc. Mantegna also produced an antidefamation message for GLAAD with actor/activist Alan Cumming.
In 2008 Mantegna's feature film debut, P‐Town Diaries premiered at Newfest in New York City. The film is an exploration of the lives and history of the art and writing community in Provincetown, MA, and is currently airing on LOGO/Viacom entertainment.
Making The Film
I met Norman Mailer years ago in Provincetown, Massachusetts, at a small barbecue outside my friend's home. I watched in awe as he navigated effortlessly through a field of friends and fans. Norman was anyone and everyone; he could fit into any part of society he so desired. He was an amazing conversationalist; I liked him immediately. As soon as I got home, I jumped on the Internet and read every word I could find on Norman. I decided then to do a documentary on his life. Behind those eyes were the lives of many men, so I set out to find the real Norman Mailer, not the showman, the magician, or the shaman. The man I discovered was incredibly complex; filled with lies, contradictions, and betrayals; yet, also truth and love. Mailer lived and breathed through his writing, and produced a body of work that is unparalleled in its power and influence. He is undeniably our first literary Rock Star!
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Born Jan. 9, 1961 in Glens Falls, Trooper Pratt was the son of the late Ruth M. (Wilsie) and Edward F. Pratt who spent their entire lives here in our South Glens Falls community. Tim graduated from South Glens Falls High School in 1979.
Shortly following his graduation his service to our country began as he joined the United States Air Force at the age of 18. He was honorably discharged in 1986 and went on to continue his life long career as a trooper with the New York State Police beginning on March 30, 1987. The duration of Tim's career was spent patrolling in Troop G, based out of the Wilton Barracks. He was assigned to the Traffic Incident Management (T.I.M.) detail. He was also a proud member of the elite State Police Motorcycle Unit where he recently led the 9/11 Memorial Motorcycle Ride from Albany to New York City.
Trooper Pratt was a member of the American Legion Post 574 and participated in an uncountable number of volunteer events and charities. His most cherished volunteer work was in his annual service to the students of South Glens Falls Marathon Dance as an alumni and member of the very first dance.
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Desires seem like really beneficial things for competitors to have. In principle, desires can push them to buckle down and play out their best. As a general rule, however, desires can feel like a 50-pound weight vest. Prior to rivalries, they make strain to meet the desires, trigger dread of disappointment on the off chance that they don't, and cause antagonism and nervousness. After rivalries, if competitors progress admirably, the best feeling they can assemble is help at maintaining a strategic distance from disappointment. In the event that they didn't progress nicely, competitors feel crushed. You realize you are imparting desires or your competitors are feeling them when they use expressions, for example,
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The Young Tigers and Their Friends
By Walter J. Boyne
The heartfelt phrase "Thanks, that's a save!" was heard more than 500 times during the Vietnam War as hardworking "Young Tiger" crews of KC-135 tankers moved into harm's way, delivering salvation to strike aircraft perilously low on fuel. Ironically, many of those saves were never officially recorded simply because they occurred when the tankers left their normal orbits to enter enemy airspace, in violation of standing instructions.
Any one of the saves was spectacular-particularly to the fighter pilot who was being saved-but what was possibly the most incredible save of the war illustrates the bravery, ingenuity, and persistence of the tanker crews in general.
There was some good fortune as well in the May 31, 1967, Young Tiger mission over the Gulf of Tonkin, when
a KC-135 tanker commanded by Maj. John H. Casteel saved six Navy aircraft with a complex and totally unscheduled refueling. The KC-135's original mission was to refuel two F-104 Starfighters, using the drogue adapter that the probe-equipped F-104s required. Casteel's tanker refueled the two F-104s and was then told of an emergency involving two Navy KA-3 "Whale" tanker aircraft, which also used probes.
The first Whale hooked up, indicating that it had only three minutes' usable fuel. Its systems had malfunctioned, and it could not use fuel it had in its refueling tanks. After transferring 2,300 pounds, the KC-135 then refueled the second KA-3 just as it was notified that two Navy F-8 Crusaders were on scene and short of fuel.
One of the F-8 fighters had only 300 pounds remaining and immediately hooked up with the second Whale even as it was taking on fuel from the KC-135, initiating history's first trilevel refueling. As this was going on, the first KA-3 shared its slender fuel supply with the second Crusader. It then moved into position to refuel again from the KC-135.
So far Casteel and his crew had had a pretty productive day, refueling the F-104s, and saving two KA-3s and two F-8s.
However, the action was not yet complete. Two Navy F-4 Phantoms now arrived on scene, and neither had sufficient fuel to return to their carrier. Already low on fuel itself, the KC-135 turned south toward Da Nang, refueling the two F-4s en route.
When it landed, the KC-135 had less than 10,000 pounds of fuel remaining for its own use. The boom operator, MSgt. Nathan C. Campbell, had earned his pay, saving no fewer than six Navy aircraft. Casteel's crew, including the copilot, Capt. Richard L. Trail, and the navigator, Capt. Dean L. Hoar, received Distinguished Flying Crosses for the action. The crew subsequently was awarded the Mackay Trophy.
These awards validate the generally held view that the crew members of the KC-135 tankers are the forgotten heroes of the Vietnam War. From the Operation Pipe Stem RF-101 reconnaissance missions and the trans-Pacific fighter deployments in 1961 through the Operation Bullet Shot buildup of 1972, the men who flew tankers were the tightly coiled mainspring of Air Force combat operations.
The very first aerial refuelings in support of combat in Southeast Asia occurred on June 9, 1964, when four KC-135s gave prestrike refuelings to eight F-100s. Both tankers and receivers were part of the Yankee Team Tanker Task Force operating out of Clark AB, Philippines, against targets in Laos.
The Stratotankers-a name rarely used by the crews-were true force multipliers, equally vital to B-52 and to tactical fighter operations. Without tankers, the bomber operations from Guam would have been impossible, and the fighter force would have been virtually incapacitated.
The fighters needed the tankers at the beginning of a mission to top off tanks so that more ordnance could be carried over longer ranges. They needed them again for poststrike refueling, filling empty tanks so that strike aircraft, sometimes damaged and leaking fuel, could get home.
When the situation demanded, the tankers went inside the combat area to off-load fuel, even though officially forbidden to do so. Without the tankers, aircrew casualties would have been dramatically, perhaps prohibitively, higher. For these and many other reasons, the KC-135 tankers were key to the whole Vietnam conflict.
It is often overlooked that the Herculean work of the Southeast Asia tanker units was conducted while the majority of Strategic Air Command's refueling assets were dedicated to supporting the Single Integrated Operation Plan for nuclear war. The total burden of refueling activity fell on the KC-135s in 1964, when Tactical Air Command KB-50s and SAC KC-97s were retired. SAC was the single manager for its force of approximately 625 KC-135s, and it was hard-pressed to meet alert requirements, conduct training, support TAC, and sustain operations in SEA.
The hard truth was that, while these 625 tankers were adequate for their role in supporting a nuclear war operation, the number was insufficient to maintain that role and conduct a sustained conventional campaign. USAF compensated for the shortfall with the self-sacrifice of the tanker aircrews who took up the slack with long months of TDY in SEA alternated with extended alert duty when they returned home.
Aircraft Well-Suited
The SEA tanker air and ground crews were able to achieve their decade-long success for a variety of reasons. They had the advantage of a designed-to-purpose tanker, one of the Air Force's great procurement decisions, the KC-135. Although underpowered for operations in the heat and humidity of Southeast Asia, and with performance sometimes limited by the length of available runways, the KC-135s were nonetheless well-suited for their task.
Far more reliable and easier to maintain than their piston-engine predecessors, the KC-135s were equipped with adequate navigation and rendezvous equipment, if not adequate electronic countermeasures gear. Fast, they were sometimes pushed beyond their .90 Mach training limit speed. Because they were pleasant to fly they made the long, demanding missions endurable.
The tanker aircrews, dedicated, disciplined, and well-trained, quickly adapted to radical changes in their operational routine imposed by combat conditions. For years they had serviced individual SAC bombers or TAC fighters on carefully planned simulated combat missions, where all refueling points, altitudes, frequencies, and off-loads were planned well in advance and with extreme care. All that changed in SEA, where the tankers had four primary and many secondary missions.
The first primary mission was to service the saturation bombing missions code-named Arc Light, refueling the formations of B-52s on their 12-hour missions from Guam. (No in-flight refueling was required for bombers from U Tapao, Thailand.) While differing from normal stateside practices in operational procedures, the Arc Light missions were relatively predictable and as routine as in-flight refueling can ever be. One tanker was assigned to one bomber for the inbound portion of the mission; some of the tankers then recycled through Clark AB for any required poststrike refueling.
The second primary mission was Young Tiger, which called for meeting the needs of the tactical aircraft in their raids on targets throughout SEA. The demands of Young Tiger were revolutionary: Tankers had to handle, on an ad hoc basis, dozens of fighters that were sometimes in danger of simultaneous flameouts from fuel starvation. The Young Tiger missions fostered entirely new concepts of flexibility and crew coordination, with the boom operator taking on an important mission management role. Mission planning times were severely reduced, and the conduct of the mission was continually adjusted to meet the current situation.
The third primary mission was more specialized, handling the refueling requirements of reconnaissance aircraft, from RB-47s (phased out by 1966) to SR-71s, the latter requiring dedicated KC-135Qs filled with the special JP-7 fuel used by the Blackbird. The fourth primary mission was to serve as electronic reconnaissance and airborne radio relay communications aircraft. These KC-135s remained on station for long periods but could be used for emergency refueling if required.
Awesome Performance
The sheer number of refuelings and quantities of fuel transferred during the Vietnam War was staggering as indicated in the chart above.
By 1973, after nine years and two months of hard flying, these tankers had flown a total of 911,364 hours during 194,687 sorties. In the same period, they conducted 813,878 in-flight refuelings and off-loaded more than 8 billion pounds of fuel.
It was a titanic effort that went far beyond the mere physical transfer of fuel. The KC-135s permitted the Air Force and Navy to carry out operations with far fewer strike aircraft than otherwise would have been required, just as they allowed the US military to operate from bases as far from combat as Andersen AFB, Guam, and Kadena AB, Japan. They set the pattern for the future air combat operations in the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
Curiously, the very success of the tankers in making a difficult task seem ordinary resulted in their receiving less credit from the Air Force and the public than should have been the case. An analysis of even a routine refueling operation shows manifest hazards. A 313,000-pound aircraft, flying at 26,000+ feet, at 300 knots, and carrying 100,000 pounds of fuel is perhaps not of itself impressive, but put that same aircraft within 40 feet of an even bigger aircraft, weighing 400,000 pounds, join them with a refueling boom, and you have a hazardous situation. Then try doing it at night, in foul weather, under radio silence, and in company with a mass formation of 50 other aircraft doing the same thing within a few square miles, and the hazardous situation becomes genuinely explosive.
Alternatively, have the tanker off-loading fuel to a gaggle of fighters already past the critical fuel state, well inside enemy territory, and vulnerable to MiGs, flak, and SAMs.
In-flight refueling is dynamic, with the airflow at times tending to drive the aircraft apart and at times tending to draw them together. A B-52 refueling with a KC-135 will require forward trim to maintain clearance. As fuel is transferred, the flight characteristics of both aircraft change, requiring constant trim and power adjustments.
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Each receiver aircraft had its own demanding characteristics. The F-4 had a very small receiver receptacle that required boom operator accuracy for boom insertion. A fully loaded F-105 required full power-sometimes using afterburner-to maintain its refueling position. If you add the emotional state of the pilots-just out of combat, worried about their fuel state, anxious to refuel and let their wingman on the boom-to the situations mentioned above, in-flight refueling becomes even more challenging.
As experience was gained, procedures were developed to make the system as safe as possible. On paper, in-flight fuel transfer took place in preplanned refueling areas containing specific points (Air Refueling Control Point-ARCP) for tankers and receivers to rendezvous. Electronic, radio, and visual means were used to effect rendezvous, but in Southeast Asia the intensity of air operations demanded that the Tactical Air Control System using Ground Control Intercept radar be used to track both tanker and receiver. Line of sight radar limitations were alleviated by higher flying tankers acting as relay stations for receivers until contact was established with GCI. The combination of onboard and ground equipment provided aircraft separation, expeditious rendezvous, and continuous control of the airborne refueling resources.
En route to the rendezvous point, the tanker formations flew with 500-foot altitude separation and 1-nautical mile nose-to-nose separation. The distance was maintained by use of search radar.
In the Young Tiger refueling operations, tactical aircraft were refueled along refueling tracks and at "anchor" refueling points that comprised a left-hand racetrack pattern anchored to the ARCP designated for use. The fighters flew shallow turns, receiving the fuel while flying in an elongated orbit. Vertical separation was based on a 500-foot altitude difference between tankers when flown in cell formation; many Young Tiger missions were flown as individual aircraft.
Prestrike and poststrike operations of tactical aircraft were conducted in refueling areas established over the Gulf of Tonkin, South Vietnam, Thailand, and later, over Laos and Cambodia. When large-scale strike operations were being conducted against North Vietnam, integrated refueling cells consisting of tankers, strike, ECM, MiGCAP, and SAM/AAA suppression aircraft were massed in relatively small geographical areas at the same time. The arming of ordnance precluded launching all of the receivers in the strike force at the same time, making it necessary for them to loiter with their tankers. Each aircraft would recycle onto a tanker boom to "top off" until the entire force was assembled and ready to depart. As many as three refueling cells each with three tankers and 15 receivers-54 aircraft total-could be refueling at different altitudes at the same anchor refueling point.
Poststrike refueling for tactical aircraft was less susceptible to preplanning. Tankers reacted to the situation as they found it, giving fuel to those who needed it most first, including Navy aircraft. (There were no scheduled missions to refuel Navy aircraft, and emergency refueling depended upon having compatible refueling equipment.)
The salute "Thanks, that's a save" became one of the most honored of the war, and it was earned by many Young Tiger crews. There were in fact so many saves recorded that it became necessary to have the term formally defined to mean instances when, without emergency refueling, the tactical aircraft would certainly have been lost.
Many, perhaps most, of the saves were not officially recorded because they had been executed "over the fence," that is, inside enemy territory where the tankers were forbidden to go. The tanker crews didn't report such saves because they wanted to avoid the disciplinary actions that would have followed, unjust as such action might have been. The fighter crews didn't report them because they didn't want to jeopardize the tanker crews-and perhaps deter them from making another save under similar forbidden conditions.
Disregarding the danger of being the most valuable-and most vulnerable-of targets, the tanker crews ignored the prohibitions and did what they had to do in order to save the hard-pressed strike aircraft.
The stories of Young Tiger saves are legion. Following are two that typify the bravery and the skill of the tanker crews and the persistence of the fighter pilots who would go to almost any lengths to avoid losing their aircraft to fuel exhaustion.
In May 1967, a KC-135 flown by Maj. Alvin L. Lewis battled through violent thunderstorms to locate two F-105s that were critically short on fuel. Lewis found the F-105s in a clear area, and put his tanker into a 20-degree dive so that he could position himself in front of the first fighter, which had already flamed out. The Thud was gliding earthward, its pilot preparing to eject, when the diving tanker passed in front to a refueling position. All check lists and preliminaries were forgotten as the F-105 hooked up and took on enough fuel to air-start the engine. The tanker transferred a little fuel, then increased its dive angle to 30 degrees to get enough air through the intake of the fighter to spool it up to starting RPM. Lewis then refueled the second F-105, itself now about ready to flame out. Both 105s made it home.
The rules of engagement for the tankers were severe. Tankers were prohibited from flying too far north, from giving more than the allocated fuel to a receiver, or from giving fuel to an unauthorized receiver. The authorities were vigilant, and instances of Article 15s or worse for violation of the rules were not uncommon. Therefore, tanker Aircraft Commander Capt. Herman L. Byrd was stunned on March 8, 1967, when asked by Brigham Control, the GCI station at Udorn, Thailand, if he would go into North Vietnamese territory where four F-105s were reporting a critical fuel state.
Byrd recognized that going would put his aircraft and crew at risk to flak and SAMs–but he was more worried about the possible punitive administrative actions that could follow. He polled his crew and they unanimously decided to go in.
His navigator, Capt. Vernon Byrd (no relation), agreed that he would monitor the vectors from GCI and try to navigate to the F-105s on the safest route, avoiding known anti-aircraft sites. The navigator on Young Tiger crews assumed a critical role. He had the charts plotting enemy air defenses and had to determine the fastest way to get to the target aircraft while circumnavigating the danger points. He also had to calculate the escape route and heading after the join-up and determine how to manage the unscheduled off-load.
The amount of crew coordination required was extreme, with the navigator guiding, the pilot flying, the copilot monitoring the situation and operating the air refueling pumps, and the boom operator conducting the refueling process.
GCI vectored Byrd's tanker into a left turn, just as the Thuds appeared. The fighters had already determined which one needed fuel first, and they slid in without the usual procedures. The No. 3 Thud latched on to the boom for a quick thousand pounds of fuel before disconnecting. The other three 105s did the same, then all four recycled to top off their tanks.
Byrd and his crew had broken all the rules-but they had saved four F-105s from destruction and four pilots from spending the next six years in the Hanoi Hilton.
Thanks to the skill of the tanker crews, the success of the Tactical Air Control System, and the positive influence of the MiGCAP fighters, no KC-135 was lost to enemy action. Only four tankers crashed during the entire war, despite the massive number of sorties and frequency with which tankers went in harm's way over North Vietnam to assist fighters desperately low on fuel. The tanker war in SEA was truly a splendid effort, one that deserves to be remembered.
Gas and Go: Tanker Operations in the Vietnam War
No. of Tankers
Tanker Sorties
Fuel Off-loaded (lbs)
The sheer number of USAF aerial refuelings and the bolume of fuel transferred in flight was truly staggering, as this chart shows.
Walter J. Boyne, former director of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, is a retired Air Force colonel and author. He has written more than 400 articles about aviation topics and 28 books, the most recent of which is Beyond the Wild Blue: A History of the United States Air Force, 19471997. His most recent article for Air Force Magazine, "LeMay," appeared in the March 1998 issue.


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Den har två rader med knappar på höger sida, som spelar tonerna i en diatonisk skala, och rader med vänsterhandsackord för att spela i relaterade tangenter, och en rad med fribasknappar, för att underlätta spelning av basmelodier. Garmosjkorna kan vara av två huvudklasser: unisonorisk, vilket betyder att varje knapp spelar samma ton eller ackord när bälgen expanderas som den gör när den komprimeras, och bisonorisk, där tonen beror på riktningen på dess bälgverk.

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Yesterday we highlighted a big hunt in Star Wars: The Old Republic for a vaunted white crystal. One player had been showing off a silver saber, and dropping cryptic hints as to how it was acquired. It's time to call off the search. Bioware have responded to say that the crystal was gained through a complex exploit, and isn't yet officially part of the game.
"CatchDeathwalker did not obtain the white crystal through legitimate means in the game. Right now, we're removing the crystal from his possession," reads a post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums . A separate comment later in the thread elaborates. "This was not an 'easy exploit'," Bioware say "and not something the average player might 'stumble upon'."
"Right now, it is not possible to legitimately obtain a White Lightsaber Crystal in the game through any gameplay method. In the future, it will be possible to legitimately obtain. When that day comes, we'll let you know so you can go about obtaining the crystal for your characters."
So the white crystal WILL be a high level reward to be added in a future update, which makes sense. White crystals were available as a world boss drop in beta, and the whitesaber model clearly exists, it just isn't available just yet. The hunt for the while crystal has turned out to be a bit of a Bantha chase, but players have still found some weird things out there in the wilds of Hoth and Tatooine. The curious clues involving carefully placed Tauntauns and the Queen of Sands may be part of a different puzzle entirely.


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Webinar: Innovative Approaches to Improving the Literacy and Essential Skills of Immigrants (2013)
This document, part of a webinar presented in November 2013, looks at innovative models and best practices for integrating Essential Skills (ES) into a variety of immigrant settlement services.
The webinar brought together representatives of Immigrant Settlement and Integration Services (ISIS) in Nova Scotia; Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) and Bow Valley College, both located in Alberta; and the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES) of Employment and Skills Development Canada, host of the webinar.
The authors note that immigrants make up a significant portion of Canada's labour force and while many employers appreciate the technical skills immigrants bring to the workforce, they are also looking for workers who have "soft skills" such as communication, problem-solving and teamwork. Organizations that serve immigrants can play a central role in communicating how Essential Skills contribute to job success and in helping immigrants address their skills gaps.
The webinar includes an overview of how ISIS has systematically integrated Essential Skills into its settlement services, including labour market language programs, work placements, and pre-employment workshops designed to increase immigrants' employability skills.
The Engineering and Technology Upgrading Program, designed by CCIS in partnership with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, incorporates an ES-based employment preparation training model to provide educated, experienced newcomers with the upgrading they need to find good jobs in Canada. To date, the program has achieved an overall job placement rate of 97 percent.
The final segment of the webinar focuses on Bow Valley College's Success in the Workplace project, as well as its participation in the Association of Canadian Community Colleges' National Literacy and Essential Skills Framework project, which piloted a training program to help immigrant professional workers overcome skills gaps that stood in the way of workplace success.
Bow Valley College
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Immigrant Settlement and Integration Services (ISIS)
Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS)
Multicultural Issues
Practitioner Resources
Bow Valley College, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Immigrant Settlement and Integration Services (ISIS) and Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS). Webinar: Innovative Approaches to Improving the Literacy and Essential Skills of Immigrants 2013. Web. 1 Feb. 2023 <http://en.copian.ca/library/learning/esdc/webinar_innovative_approaches/webinar_innovative_approaches.pdf>
Bow Valley College, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Immigrant Settlement and Integration Services (ISIS) & Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) (2013). Webinar: Innovative Approaches to Improving the Literacy and Essential Skills of Immigrants. Retrieved February 1, 2023, from http://en.copian.ca/library/learning/esdc/webinar_innovative_approaches/webinar_innovative_approaches.pdf
Working Together, Working Well
The changing face of content area teaching
Preparing for Technical Training: Essential Skills for Water/Wastewater Operators, Levels 1 & 2 – Teacher's Guide
Buying a New Computer - Part V
Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States – IZA Discussion Paper No. 6424


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Truth Teller
As a young cancer patient she felt alone, the decision to share her story found a world of support.
Sleika Jaouad is living her dream. At 25 she was an Emmy Award–winning New York Times columnist living in Manhattan with her rescue dog, Oscar. A fearless storyteller, her work as a journalist has seen her enter into intense, terrifying realms to shine light on the experience of life in a war zone; it has conveyed the physical trauma of that place; it has described the heartbreak of watching those she has come to know and love die; it has offered up surprising pictures of joy and light that appear amid the rubble. Most important, Suleika's work has fulfilled the higher purpose of journalism by sharing the truth of those who otherwise may not have a voice.
But the front lines of Suleika's reporting are not those she dreamed of as an aspiring foreign correspondent, and the dream she has been living over the past four years has at times been a nightmare. The lines of the revolution she describes have not been drawn by insurgents or desperate governments; the weapons are not the mortars or chemicals or bullets she may have thought she would be describing in the writing she imagined doing. The revolution this young woman brings to life for her readers is being fought within her own body and in the bodies and the lives of other young people diagnosed with cancer.
At age 22, less than a year after graduating from Princeton, Suleika was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and a rare blood disorder called myelodysplastic syndrome. She has undergone three years of chemotherapy, a harrowing Phase II clinical trial, and a lifesaving bone marrow transplant. She has shared much of her journey through her New York Times Well column, "Life, Interrupted," and in the video series that accompanies the column. In so doing she has become a very public face of the adolescent and young adult cancer experience, bringing much-needed attention to the challenges that young adults face as they navigate a diagnosis, treatment, and the related psychosocial issues.
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When she describes her decision to report publicly on her experience with cancer, she relates a particularly dark point in her treatment when she came across a quote by journalist Amy Goodman: "The responsibility of a journalist is to travel where the silence is." Digesting those words, Suleika says, "was my 'aha moment.' Although I couldn't have a normal nine-to-five job like my friends, let alone travel abroad to report on any foreign revolutions, I could report from the front lines of my hospital room on the revolution taking place inside of me. I became determined to put the spotlight on a group of people who are too often enshrouded in silence: young adults with cancer."
After Suleika initially started her own blog, one of her former journalism professors sent a sample of her writing to Tara Parker-Pope, editor of the Well blog at the New York Times, and suddenly Suleika's platform expanded exponentially. Her first column was published during the second day of her bone marrow transplant. Within hours of the article's being posted, Suleika received hundreds of e-mails from other patients, opening up an entire universe of support.
"The feeling of connectedness that I suddenly had with this vibrant online and offline community was life changing," she says. "I even got an e-mail from a young man on the same transplant floor; we were never able to meet because we were both in isolation, but knowing that there was some one else on the same floor who was my age and going through the same thing gave me a strength I can't really describe in words."
The impact of her decision to share her experience continues to reverberate both personally and professionally. "When I found out I had cancer, I found not only my voice but an incredible community of people I was able to connect with and speak to daily through social media and in person; some of my best girlfriends are young women with cancer whom I've met through Twitter or in the comments section of my column. There's this entire world that exists online of patients and doctors and advocates who are there for each other to offer support and guidance."
Suleika says that the opportunity to connect and to "respond to adversity by becoming an educator and an advocate" inspires her to continue to be open about her story. Having experienced firsthand what it means to not identify with anyone she sees in the hospital waiting room, to feel ripped from the independence of a life just launching, to struggle to find her place as an adult in her childhood home, she is hopeful that in sharing her own journey she can ease the burden for other young people facing a diagnosis and offer practical insight that can have a real impact. In particular, she says, she hopes she can emphasize the value for young patients of becoming informed and learning to advocate for their own health.
She learned early on that the silence and the isolation that can define the young adult experience can have serious consequences—not only on patients' emotional well-being but on their treatment and survivorship. After her diagnosis, when she was told she would need to begin treatment immediately, she went home and Googled the treatments she was set to begin: "I saw that one of the most common side effects was infertility," she says. "That shocked me because as wonderful and brilliant as my treatment team was, nobody had mentioned the possibility of infertility to me. It felt like a major breach of trust because, at 22, I hadn't had the opportunity to even begin to figure out whether or not I wanted a family one day." To be potentially robbed of the possibility of having biological children at a time when the future already felt so uncertain was a blow. After discussing the issue with her doctors the next day and expressing her feelings, she was able to undergo fertility preservation treatments. But the "what if" of that experience continues to haunt her and underline the way young adults' needs and concerns so often fall through the cracks.
In addition to continuing to promote the importance of self-advocacy, Suleika encourages young adults to pay equal attention to emotional self-care. "I wish I had known that, as important as it is to go to your appointments and to remember to take your medication, taking care of your emotional health is crucial," she says. "Too often the emphasis on emotional health gets lost in the frenzy of the diagnosis and treatment." Whether it is finding a support group or a therapist or another patient who can help you process the experience, Suleika says, working through the emotional impact of the diagnosis and treatment is critical. "Figuring out who you are and what you want to do as a young person is hard enough as is— with or without cancer."
Part of what makes Suleika's work so compelling and relatable is the "with or without cancer" experience of young adulthood that she shares. She is a young woman with cancer, but she is also just a 25-year-old making her way professionally, in her relationships, in her city. While her column and her other work reflect the challenges of her diagnosis, they also reveal her humor and the joy she takes in her friendships, her love for travel and fashion, and her puppy. Her candor tells us that there is no question that life with cancer is uncertain and difficult and painful, but it is also rich and happy and funny and full of joy.
Figuring out who she is and what she wants to do with her life is something Suleika herself continues to explore. "Daydreaming about the future is an interesting thing for anyone with cancer because it's a place of both hope and uncertainty," she says. Today, while she is excited to be launching new projects—she is currently at work on her first book, travels frequently as a motivational speaker and advocate, and is the consultant on a new ABC television show Chasing Life about a young woman with cancer—she is also very aware of the more basic, profound accomplishments of feeling well and moving through each day.
"I feel incredibly grateful and lucky to be able to do the work I do," she says. "I'm not sure what the future holds, to be honest. The truth is that we all have 'life, interrupted' moments, whether you're dealing with a sick parent, a financial crisis, or a bad breakup. Cancer probably won't be the last of my 'life, interrupted' moments, but I've learned that the most important thing is to figure out how to cope with the interruptions, learn from them, and carry that wisdom forward and grow beyond them—and that's something I'd like to help other young people do, whatever their own personal interruption may be."
As Suleika describes her desire to help other young adults who are facing challenges—and her own ongoing journey to work through her experiences—the intensity of her feeling is clear: Her voice is shaky at times, and she takes a few long pauses, gathering herself carefully before she speaks, wanting to share what is true to her in this moment. She is not telling anyone that she has it all figured out—that she has a plan or a method or a mantra that will make it all better. What she is saying is that she is committed to being in the messy middle of it, to shining a light, to being of service—a voice for the voiceless.
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Robin Roberts shares the story of her cancer journey
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Survivors "pay it forward" to other cancer patients by sharing their experiences, information and support.
Cancer's Glamour Girl
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Women share their stories, experience and tips for breast reconstruction.
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Living Well in the Present
Living and thriving through the blessings of exercise and family. Lung cancer survivor Karen Arscott shares her journey.
Katie Couric Colon Cancer Advocate
An interview with Katie Couric about her personal story and commitment to Stand Up to Cancer and colon cancer advocacy.
Never Lose Hope in the Face of Cancer
A young survivor describes her determination in the face of cancer.


Right now, I'm working on plans for a community dinner at CasaRock. Our little church does them from time to time. The kind Vicar Paul asks who might like to host an evening of good food and great conversation, and sign-up sheets are placed on the table that serves as foyer and guest registry and whatever else is needed on any given Sunday. Worship services in an elementary school cafeteria mean that communion is served each week amidst signs encouraging kids to clean up after themselves, and food pantry contributions are collected in the "nut-free zone" to the right of the front doors. There is no special lighting, no comfortable seat cushions for the lunch tables turned into benches—but there is a nice coffee bar for everyone who attends, set up by volunteers who are quick to offer a napkin and a smile, served up with a piece of homemade pumpkin bread. And special gatherings beyond Sunday happen in homes. I think that's a very good thing.
I know you think it's no surprise that I raised my hand without hesitation when he asked who might host a dinner. With an entire section dedicated to #kitchentherapy, it's pretty much a dead giveaway there's something about preparing and serving food that resonates deep within my soul. There are always lessons to be learned, there is always grace to be lavished and hope to shine brightly there.
Some folks even say hospitality is a spiritual gift.
I think there are most certainly gifts that are divinely inspired – mine are exhortation, leadership, and wisdom (though I question the last one quite often when I can't find my glasses while they're sitting on my face or I freak out that my phone has gone missing while I'm talking to someone on it). But I believe hospitality isn't one of those gifts for any of us. Rather, it's a discipline to be practiced by each and every one of us. It's sprinkled all throughout scripture – in Romans 12, we are told to be kind to everyone and extend hospitality to strangers, and in Hebrews 13, it says that our hospitality may even be brightening the day of angels. Hospitality goes far beyond hanging out with friends. It means caring for strangers, refugees, widows, orphans, wayfaring travelers in need of a little kindness.
It even means treating our enemies with kindness. Yes, even our enemies.
Hospitality isn't something only some of us are divinely equipped to do. No, hospitality is at its essence a reflection of the personality of Jesus. Maybe that's why 1 Peter 4:8-9 likens being hospitable with loving well – and we are encouraged to extend hospitality without complaining about it.
Trust me, I'm still working on the whole hospitality thing. Laying down my life as a welcome mat for others grinds away the sharp barbs of control and smooths the rough edges of privilege and entitlement. Even the simple act of saying "yes" to a potluck is a lesson in the making, because it means I can't force the outcome. And for a girl who stares down perfection and anxiety on a regular basis, simply trusting God to indeed work all things together for good (including a dinner filled with folks and food I might not know) is a much-needed thing.
Hospitality is a potluck. It is a safe place to sleep, or some clean clothes to wear. Hospitality is a kind word or a genuine smile on a hard day, a little spare change to make the journey easier, a warrior prayer. Hospitality is at its best when it's shared without discrimination, and it shows its muscles most when it is lavished on souls who don't expect it.
So right now, I'm working on plans for a community dinner at CasaRock. And while I might be pondering recipes and figuring out how to set the table for probably 12 or maybe 15, I'm praying that I let go and hospitality be the host. What are ways you practice hospitality, or have seen it lived out in lives around you? I'd love to know.
We're in this together, you know. And I am for you. CasaRock is always open. There's good food and free wifi, and snuggles from Pearl.
And what would #KitchenTherapy be without a couple of recipes? Here are two that are cause for celebration. One is a modern take on an ancient Lenten tradition, and the other is chocolate (chocolate needs no explanation). Both are delightful.
Preheat the oven to 325 F. Prepare your baking dish by lightly buttering it (a 2-quart 9X12 dish is best). Go ahead and make sure your ½ pound of butter is melted and cooling.
Beat eggs and sugar on medium-high speed until very thick and fluffy. While they're beating, sift all the dry ingredients together and set aside. When your eggs and sugar are ready, reduce the mixer speed to low and add the vanilla and dry ingredients, mixing ONLY until combined. Slowly pour in the butter and mix again ONLY until combined.
Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish, and place that dish in a larger baking pan. Add VERY hot tap water to the larger pan until it comes halfway up the outside of your baking dish, and bake for exactly one hour. Trust me. Ina says one hour, and she speaks truth. The result will be a crispy crust and a pudding like center. Dust with powdered sugar and serve with ice cream and fresh fruit. Show hospitality by letting others enjoy your brownie pudding too.
Semnel cake is an ancient tradition during Lenten season – the 40 days leading up to Easter. At the midpoint in Lent, young maidens would prepare a rich fruit cake for their mothers to represent the hope and joy that the season of reflection and sacrifice would ultimately bring. To this day, in the UK, Mother's Day is celebrated at the midpoint of Lent. Now, a REAL Semnel cake is fruitcake covered in almond paste and adorned with 12 marzipan balls representing the disciples. My goddaughter Sylvia and I decided that the cake needed a modern-day makeover. We did well. You'll do well to make this cake, even if it's not Easter or Mother's Day.
Prepare one 8-inch round cake pan, or two 6-inch round cake pans by buttering and then dusting with flour.
In a medium bowl, sift together the dry ingredients and set aside. Using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and almond paste on high speed until smooth, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low and add vanilla, then slowly pour in confectioners' sugar. Mix until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Raise speed to high and add the egg yolks and whole eggs, one at a time. Reduce speed to medium, add the sour cream and dry ingredients and mix ONLY until combined.
Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan(s) and smooth the surface with a spatula. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the cake is golden and pulls away from the sides of the pan. Remove from pans and let cool on a wire rack.
Decorate the cooled cake with almond paste that's been rolled to ¼" and cut to fit only the top of the cake. Flute the edges to make it a bit fancy. Make 12 small almond paste balls to adorn the top of the cake. If you've got a kitchen torch, you may "toast" the almond paste a bit for fun.
Serve with fresh fruit and this amazing raspberry sauce.
What desserts do you make for celebrations? Share the recipes with me – I'd love to try them!
I'd love to stay in touch with you – and if you'd like to receive a #LittleLoveLetter from me each month, just subscribe to the website and you'll be a pen pal. I like that idea.
Oh, and hey, I'd love to pray for you. Send a message my way or leave a comment and let me know how I might lift you up and hold you close.
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Why We Need to Keep it Simple – plus #kitchentherapy and SOUPS FOR YOU!


Bright, fresh hops perk up the nose with earthiness, lush grass and juicy tangerine in a tantalizing bouquet. Rich toasted bread initiates a round, smooth sip while setting the stage for juicy orange hop notes that sing through the swallow. Bitterness rolls into a clean, dry finish for a pleasantly quaffable brew.
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