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Additional forms and information on budget and accounts can be found on the Accounts Payable and Budget Office websites.
This training is available online and is a prerequisite for all other finance module classes. It provides an overview of some of the most commonly used Banner and VandalWeb finance query forms, how they relate to each other, Banner finance terms and how to find and view posted transactions. Vendor history and invoice status data is also included. This class is required for anyone needing query access to the Banner Finance Module and is a prerequisite to ALL subsequent Banner Finance classes. Upon completion, you will have access to Job Submission, which will allow you to print Finance reports. A non-Banner user can request VandalWeb access, which is query only, by emailing their request and Vandal number to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Request and/or register for this training on the Banner Training Portal. This training provides a basic review of Banner finance approval forms and Purchase Order Liquidations. firstname.lastname@example.com.
For employees who have Banner finance access and are responsible for managing budgets. It provides hands on implementation of a budget transfer, how it affects the adjusted budget and available balance, the importance of budget transfers for proper budget management and alleviating NSF documents, and what budgets/funds are allowed budget transfers. Proper use of an expense, revenue and payroll cost transfer and IDG. This class is typically taught in conjunction with Budget Overview.This training is offered upon request by contacting the trainer directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Thomas E. Gamble, Born Feb 15, 1822; Died Jan 17, 1896
1909 - James Arton Hopkins house in Brodhead, Kentucky
2003 year in copyright is from the scan date for the photo. It was actually taken many years before that. Exact date unknown.
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Margaret Ramsey Taylor; mother of John C. Taylor
Emma Jane (Owens) & Emma E. Taylor
Emma Jane, Anna Rose and unknown
Sawtelle, Pacific Branch, Los Angeles, CA; US National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
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Emma Jane Owens Taylor; in Emma & Elmer's front yard
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James Arton Hopkins house in Brodhead, Kentucky in 1909.
John C. Taylor
Front: Emma Jane (Owens), John C. holding Hartford; Back: Susie, Gracie & Emma E.
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You will find this cool and creamy cucumber avocado soup refreshing on a hot summer day. I've been drinking it all weekend and experimenting with it along the way. http://www.elanaspantry.com/cucumber-avocado-gazpacho/
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- 1 small avocado
- 1 cucumber, peeled and de-seeded, plus additional cuke for garnish
- 1 tablespoon onion, minced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon celtic sea salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 cup water
- smoked paprika, to garnish
- 1. Throw avocado, cucumber, onion, oil, lemon juice, vinegar and water in vita-mix.
- 2. Puree on high speed until smooth.
- 3. Blend in salt and chili powder.
- 4. Serve, garnishing with extra cucumber cubes and smoked paprika if desired.
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This is refreshing. Good base from which variations can be made. Easy to make.
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I-Cubs Ride Hot Streak in Nevada
The I-Cubs are off today and on their way home to begin a binge of games in Des Moines over the next six weeks after a junket to Nevada where they cleaned up by going 7-1 in Las Vegas and Reno. Seems like a good time to check up on them.
In the last 10 days the club has raised its team BA about 25 points. While winning eight of their last nine they've pummeled the opposition by a count of 74-26. Chad Tracy didn't play in yesterday's 6-1 getaway win in Reno, but Iowa is 7-0 in his starts since he was demoted in the Castro shuffle. He's hitting a little league-esque .581!
Thomas Diamond was yesterday's winning pitcher. He didn't walk a man in six one-run innings while running his record to 3-0 and now sports a flashy 2.08 ERA for the year. He's only given up more than two earned runs once in eight starts, and then only three, but hasn't stretched out too far yet, logging only 43 total innings. He also bears a striking resemblance to golfer Hal Sutton even though his middle name is Nicklaus [yes, that's how it's spelled].
Jay Jackson threw another scoreless inning yesterday as he preps for a possible role in the Wrigley relief corps. In contrast to the parent club, the I-Cubs' bullpen has compiled an ERA of 2.89 in 123 innings.
Another contrast between the siblings is that Iowa is 17-3 when outhitting their opponent. After last night's mini-sweep of the Rockies the C-Cubs are only 11-9 in that category, another indication of their penchant for wasted opportunity.
Behind the plate Wellington Castillo continues his one-man speed trap for PCL base stealers. He leads the league with a 58% CS rate [10-17].
Micah Hoffpauir finally nudged his BA north of .200 on the road trip, but even when he struggles, he produces. For the year he's managed to drive in 29 runs with only 28 hits. Very soon he'll own the team record for career doubles.
Darwin Barney has gotten hot enough to be hitting just over .300 for the year, but he's fanned 22 times while drawing only five walks. He would seem like a nice accent to a trade package given the talent above and below him in the organization at SS.
Cashner should pitch the Sunday matinee here after winning his first two Triple A starts on the road and I hope to have my first look at him then.
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Does anyone know why Blake Parker never gets mentioned in the conversation about possible Chicago bullpen call-ups? He's been really good as the closer at Iowa. Is his stuff not up to snuff?
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Mike's comments below echo what I heard. Parker, like others, had a chance to make the team out of ST, but didn't get the job done.
Bullpen Reinforcements
Mike: Nice article. The players I am keeping an eye on are the Bullpen Guys; quite obviously, this is an urgent need in Wrigley.
In addition to Jackson, can you comment on BLAKE PARKER and JEFF STEVENS? It appears Parker is still missing bats but also hasn't walked anyone lately, which was his problem initially. And STEVENS is also dealing. Though he failed last year, he has an advantage in that he is already on the 40-man.
Parker or Jackson would require a 40-man move, though the Cubs have several options: 60-Day Guzman, or Outright Hoffpauir, or outright Berg.
If we like Hoff we can re-sign him, I don't think anyone is going to jump on a 30-year old, .207 AAA First Baseman, though I might be wrong.
I don't think Justin Berg is a major-league pitcher. His minor league numbers show that batters always made contact on him, and his peripherals are actually worse than his 6+ ERA. He should go.
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PS, and MITCH ATKINS is also pitching well. Not sure I want him in Wrigley though, he seems very "smoke and mirrors". He just doesn't have good stuff. I give him credit for getting alot of mileage from the pedestrian stuff he does have.
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Agree about Berg. You have to miss a bat once in a while.
I'm impressed that Sandberg has taken this roster and turned it into a team that can have a winning streak--although the pitching is quite good. But they've been scoring runs lately in the usual Iowa manner. Von Joshua's mojo seems to be working again. Everybody is hitting or has started to hit (Adduci, Hoffpauir) except Chris Robinson.
Speaking of pitching, Chris Archer (Daytona) had a good outing yesterday: 6 innings, 2 hits, 0 walks, 10 strikeouts.
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it is impressive how Sandberg and Joshua are hitting and pitching the team to victory...
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You sound like crunch. Are they overpaid, too?
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by baseball standards? No
life standards? probably
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both combined could save you enough over lou and our greek god of batting coaches to buy a high-end reliever.
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I'm not sure I realized Berg was still with the team until I read that.
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He writes a good song, though.
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Submitted by Q-Ball on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 8:27am.
Parker or Jackson would require a 40-man move, though the Cubs have several options: 60-Day Guzman, or Outright Hoffpauir, or outright Berg.
Q-BALL: Blake Parker was added to the Cubs 40-man roster last November. You are right about Jay Jackson not being on the 40, though.
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... plus ESPNU HD and TravelChannel HD. Thanks for the link/info!
draft talk
and a mock draft taking RHP Brett Eibner from Arkansas
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With a name like that, he's got to be a good pitcher. In 1896, that is.
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Time to put away your Tom Gorzalany jersey.
Don't know if this was posted but radio is reporting Marshall will be the 8th inning guy.
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probably not tonight though agains the lefty-heavy Phils, he's gone 3 days in a row.
great news for my fantasy team though...only took Lou a month and a half to realize what everyone could see the first week.
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it would seem so easy to trade a starting pitcher in this market...
seems to me the move to long relief for Z is a delay tactic since he could be in the rotation in 3-4 days if they wanted him to be on an 80-90 pitch count and be up to normal by 2-3 starts. How much work is really going to get in mop-up duty?
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Bad news, Gorz: Your rotation spot and, as a result, perhaps, your entire Cubs career might ride on your performance tonight. Welcome to CitBank.
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probably no Marshall tonight, leaving Russell and Grab-Ass to face Utley (if he's over the flu), Rollins, Victorino (switch-hitters), Howard and Ibanez
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You don't think Gorzellany goes the distance?
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is there rain in the forecast?
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He's the lefty version of Rich Harden. If he could just get through the first innings in decent shape, he could probably get pretty deep into games. Against the Phillies I expect another five inning, 7K, 4BB outing, though.
16.6 pitchers per inning on the season. Not Madduxian, but not evil bad either. That comes to 116 pitches for seven innings.
He's been lucky on his FB/HR ratio, though. Hopefully that luck continues, at least one more night.
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nothing like the Phillies offense and Citizen Bank Park to test the theory.
He's also been unlucky on his BABIP, so maybe it'll even out a bit.
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That is a helluva' lot of pitchers per inning. Do teams have that many pitchers on a roster?
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I have to admit I'm pretty excited about Diamond and of course Cashner.
Diamond was the top prospect in the Rangers system in 2005, dropping to 3 and 4 the following years before undergoing TJ surgery, which usually isn't more than a speed bump. Problem was he had an ankle injury while rehabbing the arm that delayed him further and for whatever reason the Rangers soured on him.
awesome story from Wikipedia if true
In the fall of 2004, Diamond made a name for himself in an obscure Instructional League game during which he tripped and fell on the mound while attempting a pickoff move. The opposing Oakland A's prospects laughed at Diamond, who then walked off the mound towards the A's dugout and told them that the next person to laugh was going to be wearing a fastball in the temple. Diamond then threw his next pitch three feet behind the hitter at the plate and then delivered nine consecutive strikes to punch out the side.
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oh snap...
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Diamond's peripherals don't look so good this year. His 1.82 SO/BB ratio is not so good, and he will not be too successful in the big leagues if that ratio continues. He is also 27.
UPDATE: Looks like his SO/BB ratio either went up after yesterday, or was misrepresented where I saw it earlier. But still it is only 2.18. That needs to get better.
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I floated you a trade idea btw.
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and i'm thinking about it. its intriguing.
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no rush.
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Looks like Ricketts' Toyota sign will happen, but only if it's more horizontal and less vertical and mounted inside the park. The locals also aren't buying Ricketts' BS about just one sign. They want a comprehensive plan for all future signage, not a piecemeal approach.
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"The locals also aren't buying Ricketts' BS about just one sign."
Screw them!! They don't live in Wrigley Field.
If they don't like it, Ricketts should move the team to Addison and see how those a-holes like their property values then.
Phillies lineup
Victorino CF, Polanco 3B, Utley 2B, Howard 1B, Werth RF, Rollins SS, Ibanez LF, Ruiz C and Moyer
Phillies with a .846 OPS against lefties so far this year, tops in the majors.
Cubs at .783 for 5th best...
Cubs Lineup
Cubs lineup vs. Moyer: riot, castro, lee, byrd, rami, sori, BAKER (RF), soto, gorz.
no Nady, ruh roh
Jeff Stevens at the park, not sure who's going although I'd guess Caridad back to DL or Berg sent down.
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"no Nady, ruh roh"
Is he hurt? Besides, you know, the whole no right arm thing.
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So Lou puts a guy who's played outfield a grand total of 3 times in last 3 years in right against one of the most potent lf lineups in NL?
Because he bats RH?
Just checking.
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Now I'll sleep better.
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Caridad to the DL it is...
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I love batting one of the team's best hitters, and highest OBP guy, right in front of the pitcher.
And Baker? Really? Can't Colvin play right?
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Lou's following Dusty's "Desperate Times Call for Stupid Means" book.
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it'll only be his 3rd start since the last week of april.
they gotta play sometime.
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right field???
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yeah, him over nady and giving either castro or riot a break is an odd one...
still, baker's gotta see some time starting in order to know what pitches still look like...he's no colvin hehe.
7th inning stretch apparently not going away
bunch of quips from radio appearance by Ricketts on the Wriglet Field experience...
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Eloy Jimenez grand slam tonight. Hoping Soler power returns and gets hot but future looks bright in the outfield regardless.
Finished the night 4-5, with two doubles - 32(!) on the season - along with the grand slam. Sick
Meanwhile, out West:
SF is 2-11 since the break, lead over LA is down to one game, and they are running out Cain and Peavy this weekend against the Nats. Challenging times by the Bay.
Thanks for the updates Phil. Too bad about Frazier.
The Cubs have released RHRP Scott Frazier (2013 7th round dfraft pick - Pepperdine).
A Cubs pitching coach told me in Spring Training 2014 that he thought Frazier had the best pure stuff in the organization. Absolutely electric fastball & breaking ball combo. Other pitchers would gather behind the screen just to watch him throw "live" BP. That's how amazing he was.
Got a chance to see Diamondbacks RHSP Zack Greinke (15-day DL - strained oblique) throw a rehab start at Sloan Park Friday night. Four of the first seven AZL Cubs hitters singled and the Cubs did score an unearned run in the bottom of the 1st inning, but then Greinke got serious and struck out five in a row.
ZACK GREINKE: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R (0 ER), 0 BB, 5 K, 4/0 GO/AO, 49 pitches (34 strikes)
Have fun - It may be good for Arrieta to be facing a team that doesn't know him as well as the NL teams. A nice shutout would do wonders for his confidence. He is confident in public but baseball is hard and he could use a boost, I'm sure.
Me too. I'll be at the game tomorrow and would love to see Good Arrieta.
Last few games have been the April version of the Cubs that disappeared completely the past two months.
Hope they can sustain it.
Don't sell yourself short, Judge.
I love this team.
Looks like Mother Nature is trying to call this fight.
Hey! I remember this team!
The key for Heyward's offense: get early leads. Heard a stat on Mike & Mike on the way to work that his avg/power much better this year when the Cubs have the lead. And true to form he gets the two run dinger with Cubs winning 3-0 ...
I'm sorry - I was probably not looking at the correct line, or spot, or...who knows!
I could blame it on the weed, but I stopped smoking many years ago.
Fortunately, I can rely on the rest of you sober and astute folks to bring the correct info forth.
Oh yeah! It just felt like one for some reason.
Agreed. I was not including Fowler or Heyward.
I'm just not a fan of 2016 Coghlan.....
@Dusty Contreras if it's a Lester or Arrieta start. TLS is good PH too. You also forgot about Heyward, assume Fowler is CF.


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Two main options:
Split the work load so they're doing different things. This gets you more processing power but no redundancy. You can control what goes where by domain name.
Use a load balancer on a third system to pass the work to the two processing systems. The advantage here is one server can take over all the work if one goes down. It also allows you to shift the load to one in order to do upgrades. The apache mod_proxy can do a poor man's load balancer while dedicated (and generally expensive) load balancing network hardware is a more reliable and scalable solution.
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Ashley Greene was back in Vancouver yesterday to continue filming Breaking Dawn. She was the latest Twilight star to touch down in Canada, as Kristen Stewart went North recently as well. The cast has been shooting the latest Twilight movie for several months, and we just got a peek at Robert Pattinson dressed as Edward Cullen on set last week. Ashley's break from work allowed her the chance to hang out at home in LA, mark her 24th birthday with a Vegas bash, and go on some dates with her boyfriend, Joe Jonas.


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So, pictures then, below you can see the ASUS Radeon HD 7970 Matrix Platinum, this is a 3GB model graphics card. We expect the product to retail for roughly 'we think' 500 EUR in the launch phase, we hope price will level in a few weeks but that will depend on availability versus demand.
Included with all cards will be a manual and a demo/driver CD, bracket and everything to get your Eyefinity freak on. Also a crossfire bridge is included, obviously. You'll also receive a small VRM heatsink, you can use that should you need to remove the cooler for LN2 cooling.
You'll also receive a set of VGA hotwire cables, allowing you to connected the card towards a compatible ASUS motherboards and regulate and forcefeed voltage onto the GPU.
As you can see ASUS customized the card alright, it's big and heavy at roughly one KG. A recognizable dark/red looking card is what you may expect from them. The 4.3 Billion transistor encounting 28nm Tahiti based GPU core is tied to a whopping 3GB memory.
Now the reference cards are clocked at a 925 MHz core frequency but this PLATINUM model is factory clocked at 1100 MHz for you. The GDDR5 memory normally runs at a default 5.6 Gbps (that's 1400 MHz effective data rate as GDDR5 has a quad data-rate, so effectively that quadruples that number) but for the Platinum that runs at a cool 6600 Gbps. The memory is running on a 384-bit bus.
Here we can see the backside, the card will fit pretty much any chassis as its 27cm in length. A nice backplate is applied. The card screams sturdiness from A to Z.
AMD allows you to opt for the multi-GPU road with Crossfire(X) as an option. You can pair two, three or (if you are loaded) even four cards in one PC and have them do a decent workout (albeit a bit difficult with 3-slot graphics cards :).
The R7970 has a maximum power consumption of give or take 210 Watts, our measurements actually show numbers exactly at that value as we measured 209 Watt under peak gaming load. The board's overall power consumption from idle to load is excellent really, roughly 10 Watt in idle and when the monitor goes into sleep mode just 3 Watt. You will need to hook the card up to your power supply with two 8-pin PCIe PEG connectors. We recommend a 550W power supply to start with, with one card of course.
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@micke156 Thankyou, Felix's name while it was a...
@micke156 Thankyou, Felix's name while it was a struggle to get there, is definitely loved my both DH and myself!
with the names, its not so much that we get turned off, but it lacks a bit of spark...
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thanks for all the suggestions! I think you guys...
thanks for all the suggestions! I think you guys definitely got my naming style, even if i cant figure it out myself!
@micke156 I do really love the idea of another special letter, even though i...
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collecting for Felix's possible brother
hi everyone, i am excited to be back on name berry to find the perfect name for Felix new little brother or sister! At the moment i am just collecting names to show DH as i dont feel like he is...
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collecting for Felix's possible sister
hi everyone, i am excited to be back on name berry to find the perfect name for Felix new little brother or sister! At the moment i am just collecting names to show DH as i dont feel like he is...
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Felix and Sylvie
I am totally crushing on Sylvie as a possible sister to Felix at the moment, I think its such a fun name!
What do you think of it as a sibset, and any suggestions for middle names? Sylvie...
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Theo ? & Rose opinions
I was talking to DH last night and i think we might start TTC for Felix little sibling after his 1st birthday, which means thinking about names again!
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I think i like Florence and Clara best, but you have some great choices :)
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Which would you add to a sibset of Flynn Hawthorne and Willa Marigold?
thanks in advance!
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Thanks for all the suggestions, their are some great ones!
my favourites would have to be Flynn, Dexter, Bram (love) and Wilder for a brother and Viola, Willa, Zelda, Elsie and Luella for sisters!
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First name for middle Zenobia?
Lately i have come to think that Zenobia could be a super spunky middle name, but i have no idea what would work. I love Alice Zenobia which is the name of Tina Fey's daughter, and can;t seem to find...
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Thanks for all the comments and love the combo is...
Thanks for all the comments and love the combo is getting :)
@emsky I still love Milo Emmett but i just can't see me using it due to the chocolate milk brand, no matter how much i love it! ps;...
December 19th, 2013, 12:26 AM
thanks for all the input. I think Jasper Bennett...
thanks for all the input. I think Jasper Bennett is the winner and will replace Milo on my list :)
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I love Maeve! I definitely think Lola, Arlo and...
I love Maeve! I definitely think Lola, Arlo and Ezra would match perfectly.
I would also suggest Felix and Jasper
December 18th, 2013, 08:02 PM
Which Jasper combo to add?
I'm thinking of re-adding Jasper to the list, he is continually on and off the short list but i just can't let go of this gem.
So the question is which Jasper combo should be added;
Jasper Brennan...
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I only have one son, named Felix Rafferty. I...
I only have one son, named Felix Rafferty.
I would love to say that his name has a whole lot of meaning but the truth is we both just really loved the names. Rafferty was my DH favourite throughout...
December 13th, 2013, 03:37 AM
Jude Caspian is awesome! I love Caspian (and...
Jude Caspian is awesome! I love Caspian (and Casper for that matter) but they don't work well with our last name which starts with C- and ends in -n, but it might fit in the middle!
December 13th, 2013, 01:55 AM
Thanks! Jude Avery is super handsome, but all are...
Thanks! Jude Avery is super handsome, but all are great
December 12th, 2013, 11:28 PM
Middle for Jude
As much as i love love the names Jude and Evander, i'm just not feeling them as a combo at the moment. I need a strong 2 -3 syllable middle name for Jude, to balance out the name.
So what would...
December 2nd, 2013, 09:52 PM
Thanks for everyone's comments, ill respond to...
Thanks for everyone's comments, ill respond to each one (well attempt) :P
@dottipanda; they actually sound lovely as a sibset, love them together
@rollo; thanks for all the...
December 2nd, 2013, 05:47 AM
@dottipanda i just realised! now i just feel...
@dottipanda i just realised! now i just feel stupid :P
thanks for both of you for your comments, i see Maxwell Alaric and Juniper Maeve apear to be loved!
December 2nd, 2013, 05:01 AM
Assess my list
I was just wondering what everyone thought of my current names list:
Jude Evander
Maxwell Alaric
Milo Emmett
August Flynn
Theodore Boaz
runners up; Ezra, Rowan, Gideon, Tristan, Casper
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Tiernan Siblings
I really like this name but probably would never use it. Anyway what would you name a sibling to Tiernan, preferably not irish/celtic?
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just for fun, twin to Emmeline?
just for fun, what would you name a twin sister to Emmeline Poet?
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1A unit of weight formerly used by apothecaries, equivalent to 60 grains or one eighth of an ounce.
1.1 (also fluid drachm) A liquid measure formerly used by apothecaries, equivalent to 60 minims or one eighth of a fluid ounce.
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Cook 35 mins
Middle Eastern flavors, delicious and not too sweet.
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- 1 1⁄3 cups blanched slivered almonds
- 8 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 5 teaspoons packed lemon zest, finely minced
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- salt
- Preheat oven to 375°F and butter and flour a 9-inch cake pan with high sides, line bottom with parchment paper.
- Finely grind almonds with 2 tablespoons of sugar in food processor.
- Mix yolks, 2 tablespoons sugar, lemon zest, cinnamon and a pinch of salt in a bowl until thick and smooth.
- Add almond mixture, stir.
- Separately (with clean bowl and beaters) beat egg whites until soft peaks form, then gradually add 4 tablespoons sugar, beating until egg whites are stiff but not dry.
- Fold half of egg whites gently into almond mixture, then add other half and finish folding in gently.
- Transfer to prepared pan.
- Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 30-35 minutes.
- Cool on rack, turn out onto serving platter.
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This is a fabulous recipe. I made this recipe x4. It is a very light cake and the flavor is wonderful. I baked it at 325 with industrial ovens on a low fan and it came out perfect.
very good recipe! this was my first experiment in making non-chocolate flourless cake and being a huge almond fan helps greatly. i added 1 tsp of vanilla and almond extract and substituted orange zest for lemon, though - i made this for someone whos not crazy about lemons. then as a topping, i boiled down a bag of frozen berries with a bit of sugar and poured it on top while the cake was still warm (after poking holes in the top) - the result was very old fashioned and homey delicious. i would like try it without a topping as well, maybe adding some rose water to the mix for a totally different taste. thanks for the recipe! :)


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Trouble in Spice World; McCormick Faces Changing Demographics, Changing Tastes
By CONSTANCE L. HAYS
Published: February 20, 1998
SPARKS, Md., Feb. 13— The spice maker McCormick & Company, like many corporations on the cutting edge, has its own Web site. And there, the company hopes, digital visitors will find recipes that will inspire them to cook using McCormick ingredients.
The data base, though, is more like a museum of recipes from the 1950's than a reflection of America at the millennium's cusp. Typical offerings under the ''What's New'' section include cherry cobbler, made with cans of cherry filling, and potato salad that calls for large quantities of mayonnaise. There is little ethnicity to be found, apart from one recipe for Szechuan shrimp and pasta and another for Nacho Supreme.
For more than a century, McCormick's motto has been: Make the best -- someone will buy it. But one question has been coming up with increasing frequency: Just who might that someone be?
This has been a bruising decade for McCormick, which has its world headquarters here in this Baltimore suburb, in a hushed, mahogany-lined office building where flowering herbs are depicted, saint-like, in stained glass. The company still dominates the nation's spice business, with 40 percent of the consumer market held by its own name brand as well as Schilling, Produce Partners and other brands. But troubles abound.
First came a competitor from Australia, Burns, Philp & Company, which in 1992, after buying the Spice Islands and Durkee brands, decided to challenge McCormick's position atop the hill. The resulting battle, in which both companies paid ever-higher up-front ''slotting fees'' to win supermarket shelf space, is referred to as ''the War'' at McCormick, with the same gravity that other people in this region use to refer to an earlier conflict between Confederate and Union soldiers.
''We felt that winning the War was our top priority, because if we didn't win that war we would no longer be No. 1,'' says Charles P. McCormick Jr., the chairman, whose great-uncle, Willoughby M. McCormick, started the business in 1889. Today, McCormick is a $1.8 billion publicly traded company.
McCormick seems to have won the War, at least for now, with Burns, Philp riven by financial woes, but it has bigger, more persistent problems, the central one being the vanishing home cook -- McCormick's main customer. With more women trading in the ladle for the briefcase, sales of staples like nutmeg, cardamom, turmeric and mace have suffered badly. And many home chefs are looking for spicier spices, for dishes from different lands.
''They're really doing everything they can in terms of the fundamentals,'' said Nomi Ghez, a food analyst for Goldman, Sachs, but the consumer spice business ''does not have a lot of growth in it. People cook less and less from scratch. And they are going out more. This is not likely to change.''
How to make more out of less? At McCormick, one answer has been to promote its line of seasoning mixes, which are designed to save time in cooking roasts and other cuts of meat. Advertising has grown, from just $3 million five years ago to an estimated $25 million this year, including television ads for dry sauce mixes, says Robert J. Lawless, the chief executive.
The company also set up its Web site (www.mccormick.com), just as food companies like the Campbell Soup Company have, but a search using ingredients like polenta or sun-dried tomatoes -- which might have been considered avant-garde 10 years ago -- turns up no recipes.
Other food companies have picked up on the Americans' craving for the spicy and the exotic, and the ways in which immigration and a more diverse population have brought many more types of cooking into American homes. ''We found the main change was in how people season things,'' said Sally Peters, director of the consumer food and publications center at Pillsbury, a unit of Diageo P.L.C. As a result of research, she said, Pillsbury discovered that Americans were cooking frequently with new kinds of spices, among them salsa and ''any kind of pepper -- ground pepper, red pepper, chipotle peppers -- as well as Caribbean jerk seasoning.''
McCormick does not appear poised to follow. Mr. Lawless said sales of spicier products, like Indian curry mix, are strong in Canada and Britain, while Mexican-inspired products are sold in regional pockets like Los Angeles, Chicago and Texas. ''We haven't gone into Indian products in the U.S. yet,'' he said. There does not seem to be any immediate plans to do so, either.
As the company spent wildly to win the War, it also had to contend with continual upheaval in the corner office. Mr. Lawless, who stepped in a year ago, is the company's third chief executive in four years. (One predecessor had a fatal heart attack, the other resigned suddenly for health reasons.) Even though he had retired in 1988, Mr. McCormick, an affable man known as Buzz, was called back to steady the boat each time. He says he will retire for good when he turns 70 in May.
During the War, earnings spiraled downward. And just to prove that when it rains, it pours, the price of black pepper -- the single biggest consumer product the company sells -- skyrocketed on commodity markets and has not come down, though the impact on earnings has been slight.


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bitterly opposed the war. their militia was called out, and their militia did stand, too, but it is also true that that militia did not -- the new england militia, with some exceptions, such as the vermont militia that fought up around there, around lake champlain, but by and large, you're right, a lot of the new england militia did not participate very actively in the war of 1812. there was a convention, the hartford convention in which some of them flirted with the idea of leaving the union. it never really got anywhere, but it was really a manifestation of the discontent of the new england states with the war, and you can't blame them. new england was hit hard economically by the war. new england had little to gain by the war, and -- and so you can see why they opposed the war of 1812 up there. >> want to remind our viewers we'll open the phone lines again in half an hour at noon eastern for your calls on the war of 1812.
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we want to thank our guest vince vaise, chief of interpretation at ft. mchenry. thank you for joining us this morning, sir. >> haza. we're next going to go to boston where the "uss constitution" is docked, a veteran of the war of 1812. we're going to take a tour of the "uss constitution" museum. you're watching american history tv. this july 4th, we're highlighting the war of 1812 by centennial, taking an in depth look at the causes and course of the little-known war that bolstered credibility, fostered a new sense the of patriotism, and gave us our national anthem. we continue now with "american artifacts." >> each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country.
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"uss constitution" was launched in had boston in 1797 and named by president george washington for the constitution of the united states. the ship gained fame during the war of 1812, defeating british warships in three sea battles and earning the nickname "old iron sides." american history tv visited the museum in boston, located at the same pier where the ship is docked today. the president ann grimes rand, gave us a tour of some of the museum's exhibits and artifacts, which trace the history of the ship from its construction to its role in the war of 1812 to the present day. >> welcome to the "uss constitution" museum. my name is ann grimes rand. i'm the president of the museum, and i'm pleased to be able to share some of the stories of "constitution's" fascinating career with you. we're here on the first floor of the museum, and the exhibit behind me is about "old ironsides" in war & peace.
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for over 200 years "uss constitution" has been a part of our navy, and if you start here we have a beautiful portrait painted in the 1800s by marshall johnson showing "constitution" with the wind pulling at her sails. she's charging through the water there. a beautiful iconic image of this ship which has become such a wonderful symbol of our country. congress authorized the construction of six ships in 1794 with the naval armament act and "constitution" was one of those first six ships built for our united states navy, and she's still with us today. in this exhibit we actually back up in time to talk about the construction of "constitution" and why did we build the first six ships of our united states navy? so we have to think about boston in an earlier time, and boston was much smaller buildings. think about people carrying all of their provisions on carts drawn by horses. remember, this is the biggest ship that's ever been built in
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boston. when the construction is happening in the 1790s. so we can meet a few of the people who provided the supplies for "constitution." we have the skillins brothers who carved the figurehead of "constitution." when she was first launched, you can see in a close-up of a painting from 1803, we have the oldest known image of "constitution" painted in 1803. you can see hercules standing on the firm rock of independence holding the document, the constitution in his hand because the ship is named for the document that governs our country as she defends our country. so the skillins brothers carved the figurehead. this is a wonderful representation of today of what that figurehead probably looked like. it actually was damaged when "constitution" was sailing in the mediterranean in the early 1800s so we don't have the original figurehead, but this gives you a sense of the prominence and the importance of the document for which the ship is named.
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we'll take a look at another merchant who is well known. paul revere. most people think of him riding at midnight, a silversmith in boston who is busy during the american revolution warning of the british march, but in this time we're in the 1790s, so he is still here in boston. he's a merchant. he's working with his sons, and they have a bell and cannon foundry, so they are providing things like this brass howitzer. we're not sure if he provided this one, but he provided guns to the specification, and he also provided, if you look at the long piece down here, we have a bolt which is one of the fasteners that would hold the ship together, and when we think of a bolt today, most people think of something only a few inches long, but you've got big pieces of wood that "constitution" is made, and they all have to be held together by a copper fastener like this. we believe this one was probably provided by paul revere base the on the location and where we found it in constitution, so you
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have many different merchants across the city helping to provide the supplies that they needed for "constitution," and if you weren't working on "constitution," certainly someone you knew in the area would have been working on this project because it's the biggest ship that's been built in boston at the time. just across the dock from where she's sitting now we have the coast guard base which is where "constitution" was being built at the time. you can see over here, we can give you a sense what have she looked like once they launched "constitution," and they have got the ship fully built and outfitted. this is called a rigor's model, and it's named that because it focusing on the rigging. all the sales. when you see "constitution" tied up at the pier, she doesn't have her sails up. this gives you a sense of how she can carry up to an acre of canvas. you can see that the black is called standard rigging which supports the mast sections, the white is the running rigging, the lines to control the sails. most of us are familiar with the
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phrase "learnings opens." if you're a sailor that's very important because if you're in the middle of the ocean in the middle of the night and you're going to climb up and step on the yard to up in the yard, you need to know exactly where you're going, and the crewmate will be down on the deck and they need to release the right line at the right time so that you're working together. so it's really important as a sailor on "constitution" to learn the ropes. now when "constitution" was constructed in the north end of boston, her hull grew taller and taller, and when it came time to launch the ship in september of 1797, they put out warnings and warned everyone that when the ship came into boston it would be difficult to estimate how big the waves would be so cautioned people to stand back from the shore line. the first time they launched "constitution" the ship started to slide down the waves but didn't make it all the way into the water. she got stuck so in the shipyard
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they used enormous blocks like the one right up here to try and tug and haul and force "constitution" into the water, but she wasn't ready to go. they had to come back and tried again the next day. that didn't work either. it took another month until they could flatten out the ship ways so that "constitution" could launch into the ocean. on october 21st, 1797, she finally slid into boston harbor. much to the relief of folks working in the ship yard. from the beginning people were worried she might be an unlucky ship. here you can see a bit about "constitution's" construction. she's made all of wood, with frames made out of live oak which is an incredibly dense wood. you can see it grows in the southeastern coastal states, and it has big long branches. you often see spanish moss growing on them, but it's called live oak because it doesn't drop its leaves throughout the year. it's very durable, wonderful wood.
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they sent new england ship builders down there to cut the timber for the ship, and so many of them died they ended up getting the local slaves on the plantations to help cut the wood that they needed for the ship, so you have frames sort of like the rib cage of a person made of live oak and then planking on either side of white oak which grows in this part of the country, a very strong, durable wood. you end up with about 25 inches thick of wood at the ship's water line so that is the real strength in "constitution." it's the wood. it's the live oak. she is not made of iron. she's made all of wood. "uss constitution" earned her first laurels during the barbary wars. she was patrolling off the mediterranean. most people know this from the marine theme song. song "from the halls of montezuma to the shores of tripoli," that's the moment when this was head of the mediterranean squadron and the "uss constitution" is the big
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flagship and the whole squadron was attacking on tripoli because american merchant ships sailing into the mediterranean were stopped and some of our sailors were in prison on the north african coast. used to be common to pay tribute to the north african leaders. sort of like the toll-takers of the mediterranean. most governments did, that britain and france and we can d did that at first. we spent up to one-sixth of our national budget on tribute to the north african coast. finally we decided we didn't want to do that anymore so in 1803 "constitution" is the there as the flagship of the squadron and we were able to negotiate a peace with tripoli and the release of our sailors who were held captive. "uss constitution" earned her greatest laurels during the war of 1812. now, war was declared june 18th, 1812, and "constitution" was in the chesapeake bay. when word came of war against great britain, she went out to see.
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and she had the good fortune to be the first american frigate to meet a british warship at sea. "constitution" had an exciting escape from the british july of 1812, and this painting shows that. "constitution" was sailing up to the new york coast, up to new york from chesapeake bay, and she saw five ships on the horizon, and she thought it was the american squadron that she was supposed to meet. it was sunset so she sailed up towards them, and would you have private signals of the day to signal an american ship. at night you would use a series of lights so "constitution" made the light signals but didn't get the proper signals back from the other ships so instead of sailing directly towards them she sailed off the coast and in the morning it became apparent that it was a british squadron who was sailing to new york to meet the americans instead of the americans "constitution" wanted to meet so now "constitution" was facing five british ships. she tried to outsail them, but it was a very light air day. you can see that in addition to
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her normal sails in the painting here, off to the side are additional sails called stencils so you can add even extra canvas to try to escape from the british. so the british did the same. they sat on their canvas. they tried to launch the row boats rowing away from "constitution" and in fact they constituted their row boats on the ships closest to "constitution." finally lieutenant charles morris suggested hedging. they were off the coast of new jersey which was a shallow coast. they were able to send a small boat out ahead of "constitution" and drop the anchor and the men at the capstan would haul the "constitution" up to the anchor while other men rode it forward. so they can move the ship when by hedging, they could move the ship when there was no wind to stay ahead of the british.
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this was two days of chase with light air and a puff now and then, and when the breeze filled it reached "constitution" first. so she scooted away in the storm before she reached the british. so war was declared against great britain on june 18th in 1812. in july of 1812 "constitution" had the great escape from the british so august 1812 she was still afloat, and she was the first to meet one of those five ships pursuing her. "the guerrier" was heading to halifax for repairs. "constitution" met "guerrier" on august 19th, 1812, and we have put together a diagram from captain hull to help you understand how that battle went. "constitution" met "guerrier" at 3:45. "constitution" is here and clearing for action. you can see that they're getting ready for battle. they shorten the sails. the men go to their guns. they get the shot in the powder all ready.
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they are preparing. at 4:45 "guerrier" is sailing back and forth waiting for constitution to approach and it isn't until the two ships get very close together that captain hull begins to fire. "guerrier" sent shots to test the range, but right here by 6:20 when the two ships came alongside, firing broadside to broadside, all the guns come out the side of the ship andre firing at each other. and hull reports in less than 15 minutes from the time we got alongside, his mast went by the board. that's the last mast of "guerrier." you can see it falling into water here so "guerrier" has lost one of its three masts and now it's dragging in the water sort of like a sea anchor so we thought captain hull thought he could cross the "t" meaning all of his guns would bear on "guerrier" while none of hers would be pointing at "constitution." at 6:30 they try to cross. as the two ships cross they actually collide and here's a
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image that isaac hull commissioned of the battle. this is the moment when the two ships are together that the boarders tried to cross. the first lieutenant of the marines, william bushed, claimed on and asked the captain shall i board her, sir. at that moment he actually is shot by a sharpshooter. in the rigging of the british ships, they would have marines firing at the enemy deck, so he fell to the deck. he's the first marine officer to die this combat in the war of 1812. our first lieutenant, charles morris, then goes to lead the boarding party. he's also shot and wounded and finally the two ships pull apart. as the two ships pull apart, the rigging is tangled and "guerrier" loses her last two masts. so when you look at the final image here, she's left a perfect wreck in the water. she has no more ability to maneuver with no masts and sails. she has to surrender by firing a gun away from "constitution," the signal that the battle is over. so "constitution" has just beaten a british frigate.
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britain has been queen of the seas for as long as anybody remembers. britain always wins sea battles, but here "uss constitution" fought the battle and they saw cannonballs bounce off of her side and a sailor cried her sides are made of iron, a joke because she's a fully wooden ship, but she earned the nickname "old ironsides." when "constitution" returned to boston after the victory over the british in the war of 1812 the city exploded. it was such a surprise that an american frigate beach a british frigate and captain isaac hull who you see in this portrait by gilbert stewart was welcomed as a hero. by the time he set foot on shore, there was a parade ready to lead him up state street and the crew was greeted with ceremonial dinners, a trip to the theater. it was an explosion in the city. it was such a wonderful surprise. isaac hull came home to the hero's welcome and then he stayed ashore because of a death in the family.
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he had personal matters to care for so william bainbridge was serving as the commandant here in the charlestown navy yard, so he and hull switched commands. bainbridge took "constitution" in and went back to sea, and then he was the one who was captain when "constitution" earned her next laurels over "hms java." in this area we take a look at the battle against "java" way was much longer, a much more difficult battle than the "guerrier" battle, and as you walk down you can see william bainbridge is in command. we're off the coast of south america now, and during this battle the enemy shot actually hits "constitution's" wheel so you can see the wheel is shattered. at about the same time captain bainbridge himself is injured, but he stays in command, and to steer "constitution," they formed a human chain to relay the orders from the quarter deck where the captain and the shattered wheel was down below to men pulling on the ropes to
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adjust the ship's tiller, so it was amazing that they were able to continue to steer constitution that way, but they did. and if you take a close look, we have a wonderful battle diagram here. we keep it behind doors so that the light doesn't fade it because it's 200 years old, but this was from a sailor who served on "constitution," and he was injured in the battle but this wonderful diagram was found in his attic in marblehead. so you can follow "java" is in red and "constitution" is in blue, and it follows the track as the ships are firing broadside to broadside, broadside to broadside, and then in the third position you see "java" there, the red ship crossing "constitution's" stern, when the wheels was firing away. then the two ships come together again, split apart, and in this meeting "java" loses her foremast, so now she is hampered. they come together again, and in the end of this battle "java,"
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again has lost most of her mast, just a stump remains, so "constitution" becomes the victor and goes off for repairs and then "java" surrenders. "constitution" has gotten two victories during the first six months of the war of 1812, along with another u.s. frigate. so three times, britain, queen of the seas, has lost to the americans. it was a real surprise in great britain. remember, they are focused on the napoleonic wars and fighting france. there's a world war that's really the focus of their attention but here on this shore our american navy is now proud. we've stood up for ourselves. the british focused a little more attention. they say you can't engage one of these american ships. they realize we build bigger, stronger ships than a typical frigate so they said you can't take on an american ship unless you have superior force, two-on-one, and there was a blockade on the atlantic coast. so much of the action of the war of 1812 moves inland to the lakes.
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that's not "constitution's" story. she's here on the coast. but eventually, toward the end of the war, she does escape the blockade and meets the british one more time. this is a wonderful portrait of william bainbridge actually painted by william bainbridge. the daughter of charles wilson peel. there's a wonderful story with this portrait because it was owned by a family in maryland. they took a floral painting from the wall to be cleaned and the conservatory said which painting do you want kpleened. it was sealed behind another canvas. our best guest is during the civil war, when a portrait of a northern officer might not be appreciated. we think it was hidden for over 100 years. no dirt. no trauma. when they pulled it out, you
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have a beautiful portrait. you can see the ready cheeks of the captain. you'll notice they have a pale forehead. they were wearing hats. that very pale complexion and the red here. "constitution" final battle was against two smaller ships. it was a very lighter battle. we have an image here that shows you this is one of those wonderful artifacts. you can see the crack there. it was a lighter battle. so little air. at times they would just stop the fighting to wait for the smoke to clear. in command was captain charles stewart who you see in an image just above. we also have portrait coin that he received. the captain would receive a gold coin after the victory and there would be silver copies for the officers and bronze for the crew. the way he got that victory during this battle one of the
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smaller british ships thought they could come a stern of "constitution." all the guns would fire on "constitution." captain stewart realized with the wind coming across the side of the ship, he could back down. that's very unusual in sailing. we let our visitors try that on our model here. if you adjust the yards which hold the sails bit to the back, the ship moves backwards. in stead of coming a stern, the ship turned right into "constitution"'s broadside here. through this great feat of maneuvering, "constitution" was able to capture two smaller british ships. the british said you can't take on an american ship unless you have superior force. while the gun power was about comparable to "constitution"'s, she was able to split them and capture both during this final battle in the war of 1812.
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we also have a wonderful portrait here of the sailing master. that would be a person who might be an experienced merchant captain and advise the captain. that's just one of those wonderful portraits for the war of 1812 era where you can see him there with his telescope under his arm and the stormy sea behind him. constitution earned her laurels during the war of 1812 and not only the ship captain, but also the ship herself became a symbol. by the war of 1812 a newspaper said let us keep old ironsides at home and she has become a symbol of the nation and more than it was just a fighting ship and a national symbol appears in the press. constitution herself as well as her captains are represented on things like liverpool pitchers. these pitchers were popular at the time and made in england.
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england was able to capitalize on their own losses by selling images to the american market. isaac hull here was the captain during the first victorious battle. up top is constitution fighting the cyan and levant. this beautiful jug features constitution herself. "uss constitution" came out with a great record, but she was only a single ship among the mighty british navy. the real significance of the victories was the feeling throughout the nation that we could stand up for ourselves. this was an unpopular war when declared. the ship built here in boston got those victories and emerged undefeated and it began to rally the country with the war effort and they were not a part of britain again, we were more of a
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nation and constitution had defended the constitution for which it was named. following the war of 1812 the constitution had different assignments and served as flagship in the 1820s, but in 1830 the ship was under repair and there were fears that constitution might not be properly repaired. there was a notice in the newspaper that constitution would be scrapped because it would be too much money to repair her. that wasn't really true. the government had asked how much it would cost to repair constitution, but when that notice hit the press a student here in boston, oliver wendell holmes wrote a poem about constitution and starts "old ironsides," long has it waived on high and many and i has danced to see that banner in the sky. it goes on to tell the story of constitution saying this
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wonderfulship shouldn't be scrapped and at least give it a proper burial at sea. we produced newspapers up and down the country so there was a rallying for constitution. people said she must be saved and the navy, in fact, did allocate the funds to save constitution. you can see this image of constitution as the poem described her that if she were to be scrapped instead of scrapping her, said set every thread bear sail and give her to the god of storm, the lightning and the gale. throughout the 1800s constitution served actively in the united states navy. you would have expected this ship to have lasted 15 to 20 years. so launched in 1797. she had her victories during the war of 1812, but she continued in service. the only image of her under sail was 1881. this is off the capes of virginia and she is serving as a training vessel and they would serve on this famous frigate each though the navy is make the
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transition to steam. sailors would still climb aloft and set sail. the naval board looked and decided that she was getting too old and too weak and they shouldn't be sailing her anymore. so they lowered the ship's masts. you can see her with the mast is in sections and they've taken them down in the new york navy yard, but the time she celebrated her 100th birthday she's actually been roofed over, people are shocked when they see this, instead of destroying an old ship i like to think of adaptive reuse. they built a barn over the deck. she was being used as a receiving ship so if you were between assignments you might be stationed on constitution for a
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period, but that's not how the nation wanted to see her when with it was her 100th birthday. they brought her back to boston and the governor had a ball aboard the barn there and they had patriotic rallies and they had parades and all to raise attention from the need to repair constitution and subsequently they were able to do that. you can see here how constitution in 1907 and the ship's masts, the barn is removed and the masts are raised again. you can see that on this august 1907 issue of the use companion. that was the start of the restoration and then she really needed more work so there was a national fund-raising campaign. schoolchildren learned about constitution in the 1920s and contributed her pennies and this was a part of the fund-raising campaign to restore constitution and that brought her into the
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dry dock just in front of the museum. our building which is now the museum building which is now the office for the reconstruction of the u.s. frigate constitution and when they removed wood from the ship they made souvenirs and sold those to make them pay for the restoration of constitution. after this tremendous restoration to say thank you to the american people who had contributed to constitution's repairs the ship was towed around the country from 1931 to 1934 in the midst of the great depression, old ironsides, the symbol of our nation's strength was towed from boston up the coast to maine. she was towed all along the east coast, down along the gulf coast and even through the panama canal all of the way up the west coast to washington state and then back home. so she visited 76 different ports, over 4.5 million people got to see constitution in their home port during this time when our nation so needed something
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Amish Cook: Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Familyby Elizabeth Coblentz, Kevin Williams
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Ten years ago, aspiring newspaper editor Kevin Williams convinced Elizabeth Coblentz, an Old Order Amish wife and mother, to write a weekly cooking column called ÄúThe Amish Cook.Äù Each week Elizabeth shares a family recipe and discusses daily life on her Indiana farm, spent with her husband, Ben, and their eight children and 32
Ten years ago, aspiring newspaper editor Kevin Williams convinced Elizabeth Coblentz, an Old Order Amish wife and mother, to write a weekly cooking column called ÄúThe Amish Cook.Äù Each week Elizabeth shares a family recipe and discusses daily life on her Indiana farm, spent with her husband, Ben, and their eight children and 32 grandchildren. THE AMISH COOK, a full-color cookbook based on Elizabeth's columns, compiles more than 75 traditional Amish recipes, photographs of the Coblentz farm, practical gardening tips, cherished family tales, and firsthand accounts of traditional Amish events like corn-husking bees and barn raisings. A truly unique collaboration between a simple Amish grandmother and a modern-day newspaperman, THE AMISH COOK is a poignant and authentic look at a disappearing way of life.Ä¢ ÄúThe Amish CookÄù column is syndicated in more than 100 newspapers nationwide.Ä¢ Elizabeth wrote THE AMISH COOK in longhand by the light of a kerosene lamp.Ä¢ Elizabeth has been a writer for the Amish newspaper, The Budget, for 40 years.
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- 11/28/2002
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The Amish CookRecollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family
By Elizabeth Coblentz with Kevin Williams
Ten Speed PressCopyright © 2002 Kevin L. Williams, Oasis Newsfeatures, Inc.
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IntroductionA weathered, calloused hand directs a plastic ballpoint pen across a piece of lined notebook paper, stringing simple sentences into poignant recollections. It's the plastic pen that seems slightly out of place, as a black-bonnet clad woman writes by the warm glow of a kerosene lamp. If the pen were a quill, this scene would conjure another century, perhaps a pioneer prairie home in 1850s America or a rustic kitchen in seventeenth-century Switzerland. As I stand by the stove to warm myself, the woman slowly writes, spinning tales from a bygone era, of quilting bees, big family breakfasts, barn raisings, and church dinners.
In the adjoining room, someone is singing a vaguely haunting tune, something between a song and a chant. I can't understand the words, which are sung in Swiss, but I know that I'm listening to a sound from another time and place. Surveying the simple yet comfortable surroundings, I have to remind myself that this is neither the nineteenth century nor a remote Swiss village. This is the year 2001, in the heart of Midwestern Indiana, and the Amish woman writing quietly at her well-worn desk is Elizabeth Coblentz, anunexpected heroine known to thousands of adoring readers across the United States as the Amish Cook.
Since one fateful day in July 1991, when I happened upon the Coblentz's weathered two-story clapboard farmhouse, Elizabeth and I have been partners in an unprecedented writer-editor relationship. Every week Elizabeth sends me the handwritten text for "The Amish Cook," a recipe column that currently appears in more than ninety newspapers across the country. Her uncomplicated descriptions of daily life and meals in an Old Order Amish community come to me by mail because the doctrines of Elizabeth's religion forbid her from owning a telephone, or using a fax machine or computer. I type up Elizabeth's words, make sure the recipes are complete, then publish them for the world to enjoy. With all the modern methods of communication closed to us, the production of a weekly column has been nothing short of a monumental challenge. However, the positive feedback we've received from Elizabeth's numerous fans has made the unusual working arrangement more than worth it.
How It All Began
I was standing in the cluttered but comfortable kitchen of an Amish woman named Catherine Eicher when the idea of an Amish cookery column was born. This was in Reading, Michigan, the land of the Amish, where little changes-ever. Creaking barns tucked into the folds of rolling wheat fields lend a timelessness to this land. In an America where mobility has turned family trees into a tangle of untraceable lineage, the Amish family roots sunk into the soil over a hundred years ago have held fast.
As a junior in an Ohio high school I was assigned a class research project. Each student had to select an item out of the newspaper and write a research paper on it. A small article in USA Today captured my interest. It was about a giant chemical corporation seeking a permit to build an incinerator on prime Amish farmland outside of Mansfield, Ohio. I had held a mild interest in the Amish since my teens, when my parents and I stopped at a roadside cheese stand in Adams County, Ohio. My Dad explained that the bearded man selling homemade cheese out of a buggy was part of a religious group that lives very much like the early American pioneers.
That class assignment started a journey that continues to this day. I submitted my paper to the Ohio state legislature and it became the basis for my first published work: a magazine article in Environmental Action magazine. My local newspaper did a story about my article and then offered me a journalism internship for the summer. Soon alter, I took an assignment with a Michigan publication to write a story about the state's growing Amish population, which is how I eventually found myself in Catherine Eicher's kitchen.
I had been exploring the tiny grids of criss-crossing country roads when I met Mrs. Either, a stout, friendly woman who was cultivating tomatoes, radishes, and rhubarb. She invited me into her kitchen, where kettles and copper pots dangled from hooks in the ceiling and the ever-present smell of rhubarb drifted through the room on a scant breeze. Mrs. Eicher had a small stack of handwritten cookbooks that she sold for a couple of dollars. Mother's Favorite Recipes had a blue cardboard cover with flowers on the front, and someone had photocopied the pages and stapled them into book form. I bought one and took it home.
The vision of Catherine Eicher's world-and the charm of that cookbook-stayed with me as I returned to Ohio to write my magazine article. It was 1991, the start of the Internet boom and the last decade of the century. The Amish had stirred something within me. Although they seem anachronistic, they are also vaguely reassuring, a touchstone to a lost era. For me, the Amish represent a living link between a simpler time and today's more chaotic world. They represent one of the last remnants of an agrarian America. I figured that if I had this yearning for something meaningful, then others might be looking for it as well. And just like that, "The Amish Cook" column began to solidify in my mind. Before long, I was headed back to Catherine Eicher's on a mission to persuade her to write a newspaper column.
Searching for the Amish Cook
Leaving at dawn dressed in my best suit, I hit the road for the four-hour trip to Michigan. I figured I'd quickly talk Mrs. Eicher into writing the weekly column, then grab some lunch and make it home by early evening.
When I arrived, Mrs. Eicher gave me a friendly greeting, recognizing me as the young journalist who had visited her a few weeks before. I pitched the idea to her: "I was wondering if you would like to write a weekly newspaper column about your life?" She politely declined. She was too busy with cooking, cleaning, and canning to write such a column.
Undeterred, I stopped by the homes of some of the other Amish women I had met while on assignment for the magazine. All greeted me with polite, but suspicious stares. The Amish are wary of outsiders, whom they refer to as "English" or "Yankees," and I probably appeared to be another huckster trying to lure them into a scheme. Needless to say, they all turned me down as well.
At my last stop a middle aged Amish man with a long salt-and-pepper colored beard gave me a small wire-bound cookbook written by an Indiana Amish woman. It was approaching noon and I had no Amish columnist, so I turned my car around and headed two hours south, to the remote Indiana town where the cookbook's author lived. I went to the address I had been given, only to be told that the woman had left the Amish order and moved to Virginia. Strike two.
Feeling disheartened, I decided to give the effort one more hour, then call it quits and head home. I stopped at Amish bakeries and dry goods stores in this rural Indiana outpost, hoping to find a woman who would become the columnist I envisioned when I first saw Mother's Favorite Recipes. The same polite, but standoffish refusals greeted me until I spotted two Amish women standing in a driveway and took the chance of turning in.
Meeting the Coblentzes
The Coblentz home is surrounded by pastureland on three sides and a small forest on the fourth. A few apple trees litter the lawn with sweet fruit during the summer. It's an area that has changed little since Swiss settlers began tilling the land here over a century ago. On that midsummer day, I was touched by the sense of history that seemed to permeate the land. I wish I could remember what exactly I said to Elizabeth during that chance first meeting. Her daughters laugh when recalling that day, describing me as "very nervous."
As I stood in Elizabeth's driveway and described to her my vision for a column, I couldn't have known that Elizabeth was already a writer, having contributed letters to The Budget for the past forty years. The Budget is a subscription newspaper based in Sugarcreek, Ohio, which is circulated throughout Amish communities nationwide. Without telephones or email, the Amish rely on The Budget to find out news of their friends and families. Writers known as scribes report the news from their communities, chronicling births, deaths, weddings, and anything else of interest. My vision for a column was one that incorporated the same down-home, pioneering spirit as The Budget.
Verena and Susan, who were outside in the driveway saying good-bye to Leah after her visit, got a laugh when Kevin first visited us on that warm day in July. We could tell he was nervous. He greeted us with a hearty "Veegates," the traditional Pennsylvania German greeting. He asked me about writing a column, and I guess I thought I would give the task a try. I had been writing for The Budget since I was age sixteen, so this seemed natural. I never thought the column would be in so many papers. I feel unworthy of all the attention from it. It isn't always easy to think of what to write, so I just put my thoughts down on paper.
Finding a Home for the Amish Cook
After I received Elizabeth's first handwritten column, I put together a crude marketing packet and approached newspaper editors in an attempt to sell the column. One editor in Mansfield, Ohio, looked at my business card and said "Ha, you're an editor? Is your girlfriend your assistant editor? Is this a class assignment?" Another editor, with the Journal-News in Hamilton, Ohio, thoughtfully listened to my pitch and studied "The Amish Cook" promotional brochure. I thought that my salesmanship had finally broken through until he whipped out a red pen and began circling spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. He was right-but I was humiliated. (For the record, Mansfield and Hamilton added "The Amish Cook" to their newspapers eight years after that awkward first visit.)
Our original plan for the first column Elizabeth wrote was to simply call the column "The Amish Cook" without Elizabeth's name attached. However, the newspaper editors quickly rejected that idea, so we used Elizabeth's whole name. If I had to do it over again, I would have created a pen name. While I work hard to preserve Elizabeth's privacy, her celebrity does occasionally cause problems that a typical Amish woman wouldn't experience. Sometimes autograph seekers come to her home, and some show up expecting to be fed a home-cooked meal. Like most Amish women, Elizabeth prefers her anonymity.
I started mailing sales packets later that summer, which was the time between my freshman and sophomore years in college. One of these packets caught the eye of Mike Hilfrink, managing editor of the Quincy Herald-Whig in Quincy, Illinois. "What made the column unique is that it wasn't just a recipe column. Every week, you got a peek into Amish life and values," Hilfrink told Business Week magazine in a 1997 interview.
He decided to try "The Amish Cook," and we had made our first sale. Soon a tiny newspaper in Indiana also subscribed, bringing our total to two newspapers. Today, "The Amish Cook" is in more than a hundred newspapers from coast to coast.
Hard to believe it's been over ten years since Kevin first came here and this column began. How time takes way. The girls always say that Kevin is just like a brother to them, they always say that.
Florists and Carrier Pigeons
Over the past ten years I've had to come up with some creative ways to communicate with Elizabeth. Most editors can pick up the phone and call their columnists if they have a question, say, about how much sugar goes into a Snickerdoodle recipe or what kind of pepper to use in an Amish goulash recipe. I haven't had that luxury. Without phones or electricity, quick methods of communication just aren't possible with the Amish. However, with a combination of long drives, overnight mail, and other creative means, I've managed to communicate with Elizabeth pretty effectively. One time I called a florist and had a basket of daisies sent to Elizabeth. On the card, I included a message that read "Is it light or dark corn syrup?" The note made for a puzzled florist, but the message got through.
Another time I was inspired by the tales of generals during World War II using carrier pigeons to take messages to the front lines. When I consulted an expert on the possibility of doing the same to communicate with Elizabeth, he said "It's a great idea, except for this to work, you would need to have a colony at her place and at yours." Living in an apartment complex at the time, I envisioned a colony of carrier pigeons on my balcony. I tried to come up with a persuasive pitch to my landlord or an explanation to neighbors about their splattered cars. Nothing seemed plausible, so I abandoned the idea.
When Elizabeth and I set out to produce this cookbook, I knew we'd face a whole new set of unique challenges. One time a draft of our Ten Speed Press editor's revisions blew off Elizabeth's buggy as she drove to her daughter's house, scattering the pages across a soybean field. Most of the manuscript was retrieved, but some farmer in rural Indiana probably ended up harvesting a few chapters.
Most of the book was written and edited through the mail. I sent Elizabeth assignments and she completed them and sent them back. Sometimes she wouldn't provide quite enough detail, so I would have to mail her to tell her to send me revisions. This constant snail-mailing stretched the work out over a period of two years. Eventually I realized that some modern technology would be needed if we wanted the book released in this century.
I ended up renting a hotel suite not far from Elizabeth's home. I carted my computer to the hotel, then brought Elizabeth and her daughters Susan and Verena there for the day. Since I was going to be away from home for a few days, I also brought my dog, Kira, with me.
So Elizabeth wouldn't come in contact with my computer, a possible violation of her religious beliefs, she sat in a chair near me while I sat at my keyboard. I asked her questions interview-style, and she supplied the answers for the book. Because Elizabeth's column is very popular in the town we were in, I used a private entrance to the hotel so no one would see her arrive. Anyone who used the back stairwell at the Holiday Inn Express in Celina, Ohio, would have thought it a strange sight to run into me carrying a German Shepherd and a computer, followed by three Amish women.
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This cookbook is the culmination of a decade's worth of hard work.
Excerpted from The Amish Cook by Elizabeth Coblentz with Kevin Williams Copyright © 2002 by Kevin L. Williams, Oasis Newsfeatures, Inc.
Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Meet the Author
KEVIN WILLIAMS is the founder of Oasis NewsFeatures, Inc., and the editor of "The Amish Cook" column. He lives in Middletown, Ohio.
A widower, ELIZABETH COBLENTZ lived in a 40-year-old, clapboard farmhouse with two of her daughters in Midwestern Indiana.
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Landscape-Print Mini Skirt
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Balenciaga Canard and Emeraude (blue and green) Landscape-print polished cotton mini skirt.
Style # 503432135
- From the Pre-Fall 2014 Collection
- Slight A-line, set-on waistband, darts at front and back, full-length pleat at back
- 15.5" long
- Back zip
- Lined
- Available in Canard (blue)/Emeraude (green)
- Cotton; lining: acetate/silk
- Dry clean
- Made in Italy
Pioneer of the cocoon coat, balloon skirt and high-low hem, Cristóbal Balenciaga's eponymous house was founded in Paris in 1919. A favorite on the red carpet and passionately followed by fashion insiders, Balenciaga continues to pioneer architectural shapes, custom fabrics and luxe leather accessories.
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