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What a dilemma! Is this a peach and blueberry cake? Sort of, there is a sort of cake that lines the pan and cups the fruit. Is it a peach and blueberry tart? Kind of, but not in the traditional sense, there is much more filling. Is it a peach and blueberry pie? Definitely not, even if the proportion of filling to cake is more like a deep-dish pie than a tart. There's just one solution. Make it and decide for yourself what this genre-bending summer dessert should be called.
"I suspended disbelief at the baking time ... it was wonderful! " ~ Mireille
"... it came out like a dream. Really delicious ..." ~ LeLo in NoPo
Come early August, there's a brief window when the blueberries are still plentiful and inexpensive and the local peaches are ripe and luscious.
Last summer, there was no getting enough of this country-rustic cake. The peach man at the farmers market took notice, grinning each time I stopped by for another lug.
Cantaloupe, honeydew, grapes, cherries and apricots are one thing. But peaches are heaven you can hold in your hand.
So hurry, don't let this year's peach and blueberry window close without trying this delicious cake. Along with the peach man, your family will soon be grinning.
BROWN SUGAR PEACHESFor a simple summer dessert, mix two tablespoons of brown sugar with a tablespoon of lemon juice. Gently stir in a pound of perfectly ripe sliced peaches, let macerate for about two hours, stirring occasionally. Serve with cream whipped with a bit of almond extract or cinnamon.
Oven time: 1-3/4hours
Serves 10
- 1-1/2 cups (195g) flour
- 1/2 cup (90g) sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick, 113g) butter, diced
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup (90g) sugar
- 2 tablespoons (20g) flour
- 1 tablespoon (8g) cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 pounds (900g) perfectly ripe peaches, peels on, pitted and chopped
- 1 cup blueberries
- Zest from 1 lemon
- Juice from 1/2 lemon (about 1 tablespoon)
CAKE Briefly pulse the dry ingredients (see ALANNA's TIPS) in a food processor (see TIPS). Add the butter and pulse until mixture becomes a coarse meal with some pea-sized lumps of butter. Add egg and vanilla, pulse just until dough forms a ball. With floured hands, press dough, sides first, into a 9-inch springform pan (see TIPS). Refrigerate while mixing the fruit topping.
FRUIT TOPPING Preheat oven to 375F or 350F (see TIPS). Combine dry ingredients (see TIPS) in a large bowl, then stir in the fruit, zest and lemon juice. Spoon fruit topping evenly onto the crust.
BAKE Cover pan loosely with foil. Bake until filling is bubbly and the crust golden, about 1-3/4 hours. (It's not a typo, this cake does indeed bake for nearly two hours. If you like, test the cake after an hour and every 15 minutes thereafter. I find it isn't needed but it might make you feel better to check! Do be sure to cover with foil so the top doesn't burn.) Remove from oven and let rest: not to worry, the fruit filling will firm up as the cake cools.
SERVE Serve at room temperature. Frozen yogurt on the side is excellent, so is a spoonful of softly whipped cream, but really, no topping is needed.
Sugar | In 2008, I accidentally omitted the sugar in the fruit. But it's still plenty sweet and perhaps better if serving, say, for a morning bread, instead of a dessert.
Greasing the pan | To be careful, do grease the pan. I've had no trouble removing the cake from my springform pan, but others have.
Is It Cake? A Tart? A Pie?
You can see, here, that this is "almost" a peach blueberry pie. But somehow, it's still cake. No matter what you call this rustic fruit dessert, it looks and tastes like summer.
FYI, the fruit didn't set up here as much as it usually does. I suspect an hour in the fridge would have made it quite firm but I happen to like the soft, deep flavors of fruit served at room temperature so left it this way.
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This is a fantastic recipe, Alanna!
The problem with this cake??... I think the cooking time is way too long. And I paid great attention to the length of time it called for, thinking at first that it was a typo. But then I read and reread the tips and it said that no, the cooking time was in fact close to 2hrs. I didn't want to disturb it too early in the cooking time, but geesh, there was no fear of that! I think an hour would have been plenty of time.
The filling has great potential. It's the perfect amount of blueberries in proportion to the peaches. Some recipes have too many blueberries and you can hardly tell the peach is even there. However, I think a shorter cooking time would have left the fruit with a brighter taste and appearance.
I ended up scraping the fruit off it and eating it so I wouldn't feel so bad about wasting the rest of it. What a bummer :( I'm scared to try this recipe again...
Please be assured that this recipe has been tested not just once but many times, including as recently as a month ago here in my own kitchen (plus the commenters, plus at least three of my own friends that made/loved the cake).
The baking time IS a long time, but even then, it's always good to watch timing carefully the first time a new recipe is used. I suspect the difference in our results is either in the oven temperature, the pan, what was used to grease the pan, who knows what else? Perhaps even the sweetness of the fruit.
I guess it goes to show that cooking is as much art as science. Still, it does nothing to change your disappointment, for this I am truly sorry.
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Palatka FL Real Estate
Palatka is a city in Northeast Florida, located approximately 60 miles south of Jacksonville and 30 miles southwest of St Augustine. 'Palatka' is a contraction of an Indian word meaning 'cow crossing'.
As early as 1655, the Spanish were developing Palatka into the state's principal ranching area to feed the settlers particularly in the St. Augustine. Palatka became the main fording point for the cattle to cross the St Johns River on their way to the slaughterhouse.
When Florida was transferred to the United States in 1821, development of central Florida increased dramatically. Palatka was the southernmost point in the river where large oceangoing vessels could venture.
On January 8, 1853, the City of Palatka was chartered by the State of
Florida. During the 1850s Palatka became the major center for transportation, freight, lumber, citrus and tourism on the St. Johns River. The steamboat traffic on the St. Johns and its tributaries,
particularly the Ocklawaha, secured Palatka's position as the hub of the transportation network into and out of central Florida. 1865 to 1895 marks the golden age of Palatka, a time when Palatka rivaled Jacksonville as the major
port on the St. Johns.
By 1890, Palatka boasted eight first class hotels, the largest of which the Putnam House contained 500 rooms. Winter visitors included President Grover Cleveland and other influential
people. The city's winter residents included many rich industrialists such as James R. Mellon of Pittsburgh, who donated the library to the city.
After the great freeze of 1894-95 which virtually wiped out the citrus industry, Palatka expanded industrially,
especially those dependent upon wood or its byproducts. Wilson Cypress Company became the largest cypress mill in the world producing 80,000 feet of lumber and 60,000 shingles daily. By 1910, Palatka had become a major
industrial center.
Today, Palatka has a small town feel, giving its residents a great quality of life. Home to the annual Azalea Festival in March, the Blue Crab Festival in May, and is known as the "Bass Capital of the World." The river abounds with Largemouth Bass, Speckled Perch, Striped Bass and Catfish. Boating, sailing, swimming and water skiing are also popular activities on the river and lakes located in Putnam County. Nature enthusiasts enjoy hiking along the Florida Trail, which runs through the region. Nearby Ravine Gardens State Park has over 50 varieties and more than 100,000 azalea plants. There is also a very scenic 1.8 mile drive through the park. Two lovely golf courses are located near Palatka and a driving range with batting cages, game machines and golf lessons is also available.
Other fun events include the 42 nautical mile "Mug Race," where sailors race from Palatka to Jacksonville on the St. Johns River.
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Touring Windows Vista - Part 1
Our adventure begins...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 by Zoomba | Discussion: Personal Computing
This is part 1 of a 5 part series offering a look into some of the new features of Windows Vista, slated for release to consumers on January 30th, 2007. These articles will be posted once per week starting at the end of December and leading up to the commercial launch of Vista.
There's been a lot of commotion over Vista. It's all over the press, people are writing about it extensively, and we've covered it in-depth here at WinCustomize through news postings and feature evaluations by some of our developers. Through the forums and our associated blog site, JoeUser, many of you have talked about your personal experiences with the beta and then release candidates made publicly available by Microsoft. Well, Vista has been released to manufacturing, and is available for purchase to business customers. Vista is now "in the wild" so to speak and people are starting to play with what is essentially Vista 1.0. What is out now is likely to be what's available at consumer launch in January of 2007 and likely won't change much until Service Pack 1 comes along in a year or more.
We here at Stardock have access to the RTM build of Vista. Today, I'm going to take some time to write up my experience with the "finished" version of Vista and talk about it from a user perspective. I'm not a developer, and I'm not a guru on the inner workings of the Operating System or computer itself. I'm a power user who spends a lot of time working and playing on my computer. If you're looking for a critique of WPF, the new driver model, or even much in-depth coverage of the new security model to Vista, look elsewhere. This article is about Vista from the viewpoint of a power user.
The entire article spans nearly 20 pages, which is far too long to post all at once. Instead, the larger article has been broken up into five sections, starting with this introduction, and finishing with a general wrap-up and my personal thoughts on Vista after spending a week writing this series. The articles will be posted every Tuesday starting this week and going until Vista hits consumer release at the end of January.
1. Installation
We don't have any DVDs burned at the moment, so I've put the RTM build from MSDN on an external hard drive and connected it to my secondary test machine. This is the box I'll be evaluating Windows Vista on:2. Booting the New OS
Intel Pentium 4HT 3.0GHz
X600 Video Card
On-board sound
It has a "Score" of 3.6 according to the Vista Ratings tool built into the OS. My averages were actually closer to 4, but the score isn't an average. Instead it's the lowest overall score your computer achieves. My lowest was a 3.6 on the Gaming graphics area. Not a surprise considering I'm running with an X600 ATI card. This means I can run glass without any trouble. Not sure how it will work with games though.
The Installation process itself was pretty painless, all I had to do was set my installation type (upgrade versus custom/new) and let it go. I told it a few things like what time of day it was, and what wallpaper I wanted, and I was off and running. The new image-based install system speeds things up substantially.
Starting up a PC with Windows Vista seems like it's considerably faster. I was to the logon screen only a few seconds after my monitor had warmed up enough to display an image. This blinding speed however is instantly lost when you actually go to login. It launches into a "Preparing Your Desktop" window that churns for a while as the rest of the OS is loaded.
Once I made it to the desktop I was greeted by the now familiar Windows Welcome Center.First things first, I wanted to see what exactly came in Windows Vista Ultimate, and why I might possibly want to buy this for home use later on. So I go and click on it and I'm presented with an immediate Windows Update. Turns out it wants me to get the latest Windows Defender definitions and apply sound drivers (the only hardware install didn't auto-detect). And I'm greeted with the first of what I assume are many UAC (User Access Control) pop-ups asking me if I'm REALLY sure I want to apply the updates.
At this point I received some error. I'm curious as to what this error is about, since I'm doing what the OS told me to do, so I click on the "details" button to get more information. The message I received was complete gobbledygook, so it's nice to see Microsoft is keeping the long-standing tradition of useless error codes and dialog messages alive and kicking.
3. Exploring the features of Vista Ultimate!
Patches applied, I dig again into the advantages of Vista Ultimate. It talks about cutting-edge programs, innovative services and unique publications that I won't be able to live without. Well, maybe I can't live without it… lets download some!
Whoops, nothing new for Vista Ultimate just yet. I kind of expected this since the consumer release, what Ultimate is targeted at, isn't for another month. But I'm still a little disappointed as I was hoping to have a more complete evaluation of Ultimate. Even the link to learn more about the services and publications doesn't go anywhere aside from the currently unhelpful Windows Vista website.
So what else do I get for using Ultimate? Well, there's Windows Media Center. Now, I don't have a tuner card on this machine, so I'm not entirely sure what I'll be able to do with this just yet. Immediately on opening Media Center it asked me if I wanted to run setup, I just let it do its express setup thing, since I don't have any media on the box I could control with it. Funny thing is several coworkers who are running Windows Media Player 11 were treated with a message asking if they wanted to share their media with my Vista machine. What's odd is my XP box running WMP11 received no such message. Seems kind of arbitrary.
Windows Media Player is another area where it looks like there are placeholders for services that just aren't available yet. Specifically in the "Online Media" tab which looks like it's set to become a storefront and distribution channel for purchased TV shows, movies, music and games through the Live Marketplace. It's all empty at the moment though. This is where you'll hook up an Xbox or Xbox 360 to use your PC as a digital broadcast box for your home entertainment center. If I had a 360 in the office, I would test this feature out, but alas I don't.
Overall, Media Center doesn't have much for me to play with until I load it on a PC with my media collection.
Vista overall is all about the integration between the Operating System and the Windows Live offerings, an attempt to retake the online services market by Microsoft. From Windows I can get Windows Live Search, OneCare, Live Marketplace, as well as Live Messenger, Windows Meeting Space etc.
Funny thing though, components as basic as Live Messenger (the heir to MSN Messenger) are not included with the OS and you're provided with a link in the start menu to download the application.
Come back next week as we begin our journey into the OS itself and begin using it, kicking the tires and peeking under the hood. We'll talk about the new Start Menu, Aero and the Sidebar gadgets.


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As a Creative Director turned real bride, it dawned on me pretty early in the process that planning a wedding isn't so different from the branding work I do every day. In the branding world, we're trying to ensure that there's a certain level of visual cohesiveness at every touchpoint - or a visual strategy if you will. Today I'm going to walk you through those same principles and how to apply them when curating your own wedding style!
It All Starts With an Inspiration Board
Don't worry — I'm not going to deprive you of Pinterest. In fact, consider this your permission slip to go ahead and go wild on the platform. Create a new board, and start pinning anything and everything you love as it relates to your wedding, keeping in mind your personal style and the story that you and your partner want to tell during the big day.
This might show up in a color palette you're drawn to, a feeling that an image evokes, or a specific styling detail that resonates with you that you'd like to see incorporated. One thing to keep in mind as you're going through this step is that you don't need to limit yourself to only pinning wedding-related content. Inspiration can come in many forms, so think about pulling typography samples from a magazine spread that mimics the modern vibe you might be attracted to, color palette inspiration from an interior decor image, and texture references for your tablescape from an outfit detail, for example.
Once I feel like I've pinned a decent number of images that represent a wide range of content, I like to go back through the board, reevaluating the pins and making notes on each photo. We want to eliminate any images that don't feel 100% right, so ask yourself what each image represents for your brand and why you're drawn to it, eliminating it if it doesn't make the cut. For the images that remain, we want to make actual notes in the caption of each photo, noting what you like about it and what it represents in relation to your wedding. It's important in order to capture these thoughts to refer back to and also to communicate them with others who may be involved in some capacity down the line.
Determining Your Wedding Themes + Details
The next stage is one of my favorites, when I actually start to print out my inspiration images, starting to look for themes, similarities in content, and natural groupings that occur. You'll likely have already started to notice these in the inspiration gathering stage, but now it's time to pinpoint exactly what they are, giving each grouping a name and also jotting down any other tone words and details that feel relevant and help to bring the theme to life.
The main theme that emerged for me after going through this process was what I've started to think of as "enchanted disco forest". Knowing that our wedding is taking place at our family cottage in an outdoor setting, it's important to us that we complement the venue instead of fighting it, while still incorporating that dreamy, whimsical style that I love.
I have a longstanding love affair with disco balls, and alongside the silvery hints that I started to notice in my inspiration, it seemed like a natural detail to incorporate. I love contradictions in styling details, so the idea of incorporating the sparkly, celebratory disco balls in an outdoor setting with a tangle of wild greenery is totally up my alley, and a DIY challenge that I can't wait to take on. Early on in this process, I had also found a set of vintage, hand-painted swan favors that felt like a nod to the enchanted forest theme with their fairytale-worthy quality, so those will also be making an appearance, likely as part of the table design.
A Peek at My Wedding Inspiration from The Vault
Starting to Pull Together the Details
As these details start to take shape, this is also around the time when I start to collect color swatches (if you don't have access to a Pantone book, a quick trip to your local paint store for colour chips will work just fine!) and any other little pieces that will give you a sense of the styling details, colors, textures and finishes you want to include as part of the design for your day. I love ribbons for an inexpensive and flat lay-friendly addition to your inspiration board, and depending on the fabric, they can give you a nice hint of color while also pulling in a texture. Think sheer silk vs. rich velvet or gold trimmed lace vs. a solid pop of color. Other ideas are fabric swatches, like the lace I chose for my dress design, sequins or other embellishment that you're planning to incorporate, or even jewelry and accessories that start to tie together some of your other styling accents.
Keep everything in a folder along with a selection of your final inspiration images, and you'll have an easy-to-reference collection of all the details as they start to come together, ensuring that everything is going to work together and bring your vision to life exactly how you picture it. And if you're one for sharing little hints on social media (guilty!), these little treasures also make for the perfect behind-the-scenes post as you lead up to the big day.
Happy planning!
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1890 Philadelphia (vs. Chicago) Players League Scorecard
Starting Bid - $400, Sold For - $940
Exceedingly rare 1890 Players League fold-over scorecard issued for a game between Philadelphia and Chicago, held in Philadelphia. Players League scorecards are highly prized for their great rarity and historical significance. The Players League was established in 1890 by a group of Major League players who had become dissatisfied with their treatment by team owners. The leader of the movement to form the new league was John Montgomery Ward, one of the top players of his day and president of The Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players. The preceding year Ward led an open revolt against management that resulted in the formation of the renegade league. Unfortunately, financial miscalculations caused The Players League to fold after just one season and most of the players simply returned to their old clubs. The interior preprinted score sheets have been neatly scored in pencil and record a 7-0 victory for Philadelphia. Included among the players listed are Charles Comiskey (who also managed the club), Hugh Duffy, Ned Williamson, Mark Baldwin, Tip O'Neil, Fred Pfeffer, and Jimmy Ryan for Chicago, and Billy Shindle and Phil Knell for Philadelphia. This scorecard is from Philadelphia, and while all Players League programs are rare, this is the only Philadelphia Players League program we have ever seen. The scorecard (5.25 x 8.25 inches) is heavily toned on each cover. A few tiny vintage ink notations appear along the interior, including "Summer 1890." Without regard to the toning, the program is in Excellent to Mint condition. This is an extremely rare relic from this historically important one-year league. Reserve $400. Estimate $800+. SOLD FOR $940
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FCm Travel Solutions is again celebrating a victorious end to the year after being named the World's Leading Travel Management Company as part of the 2014 World Travel Awards.
This is the fourth year in a row that FCm has been named the top global corporate travel management company. The title was announced at the World Travel Awards Gala Ceremony held in Anguilla, an island in the Caribbean.
FCm Travel Solutions Global Leader Gregory Lording said FCm was delighted to be retaining the prestigious title for another year.
"We thought three years in a row to hold onto this global award was impressive, but four consecutive years as World's Leading Travel Management Company is nothing less than outstanding. Huge congratulations to our global network," Gregory said.
"FCm has had quite a few years of strong growth globally across the business.
"We've had strategic expansion of our global network, which now stretches to 92 countries, we've strengthened our technology offering with the launch of our travel risk management program FCm Secure and ClientBank Connect FCm's newest reporting tool, and the brand has also recorded organic client growth across all regions and increased staff numbers to accommodate the growth in client demand.
"The past 12 months have been a very positive journey for FCm and I'm thrilled to be closing the year on a high note with this award."
Gregory said the global award added to the collection of regional awards FCm had won as part of this year's World Travel Awards program.
During 2014 FCm was also named:
Europe's Leading Travel Management Company
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Stanley J. Olsen (1919-2003) was Curator of Zooarchaeology at Arizona State Museum and professor of Anthropology (later Emeritus) at the University of Arizona from 1973–1997.
Internationally recognized as one of the founding figures of the field of zooarchaeology, Olsen was also a prolific author, publishing over 200 articles, books, and monographs during his career.
His zooarchaeological manuals, still in publication by the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, are among his most widely known contributions. The first of their kind, these works continue to be the primary manuals used by practicing zooarchaeologists, more than forty years after their first publication.
Olsen built a collection of modern comparative skeletal material that is one of the largest of its kind in the United States. Olsen donated the collection ASM when he retired. The zooarchaeology laboratory was named in honor of Professor Olsen in 2004.
The Stanley J. Olsen Zooarchaeology Endowment Fund
The Stanley J. Olsen Zooarchaeology Endowment Fund, in honor of Stan Olsen's contribution to the field of zooarchaeology, provides scholarship support for zooarchaeology students, as well as support for the curation of, and access to, the Stanley J. Olsen Laboratory of Zooarchaeology.
You are invited to help support this endowment by sending a fully tax deductible gift payable to "The University of Arizona Foundation" with "S.J. Olsen Zooarchaeology Endowment Fund" indicated on the memo line to the address below.
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The American War for Independence as a Revolutionary War
Michael A. McDonnell
The American War for Independence lasted eight years. It was one of the longest and bloodiest wars in America's history, and yet it was not such a protracted conflict merely because the might of the British armed forces was brought to bear on the hapless colonials. The many divisions among Americans themselves over whether to fight, what to fight for, and who would do the fighting often had tragic and violent consequences. The Revolutionary War was by any measure the first American civil war. Yet national narratives of the Revolution and even much of the scholarship on the era focus more on simple stories of a contest between the Patriots and the British. Loyalists and other opponents of the Patriots are routinely left out of these narratives, or given short shrift. So, too, are the tens of thousands of ordinary colonists—perhaps a majority of the population—who were disaffected or alienated from either side or who tried to tack between the two main antagonists to make the best of a bad situation. Historians now estimate that as many as three-fifths of the colonial population were neither active Loyalists nor Patriots.
When we take the war seriously and begin to think about narratives that capture the experience of the many, rather than the few, an illuminating picture emerges. The remarkably wide scope of the activities of the disaffected during the war—ranging from nonpayment of taxes to draft dodging and even to armed resistance to protect their neutrality—has to be integrated with older stories of militant Patriots and timid Loyalists. Only then can we understand the profound consequences of disaffection—particularly in creating divisions within the states, increasing levels of violence, prolonging the war, and changing the nature of the political settlements in each state. Indeed, the very divisions among diverse Americans that made the War for Independence so long, bitter, and bloody also explains much of the Revolutionary energy of the period. Though it is not as seamless as traditional narratives of the Revolution would suggest, a more complicated story also helps better explain the many problems the new states and eventually the new nation would face. In making this argument, we may finally suggest ways we can overcome what John Shy long ago noted as the tendency of scholars to separate the 'destructive' War for Independence from the 'constructive' political Revolution.
Death in Colonial North America: Cross-Cultural Encounters
Erik R. Seeman
Death is universal yet is experienced in culturally specific ways. Because of this, when individuals in colonial North America encountered others from different cultural backgrounds, they were curious about how unfamiliar mortuary practices resembled and differed from their own. This curiosity spawned communication across cultural boundaries. The resulting knowledge sometimes facilitated peaceful relations between groups, while at other times it helped one group dominate another.
Colonial North Americans endured disastrously high mortality rates caused by disease, warfare, and labor exploitation. At the same time, death was central to the religions of all residents: Indians, Africans, and Europeans. Deathways thus offer an unmatched way to understand the colonial encounter from the participants' perspectives.
The Enlightenment and America
John M. Dixon
The Enlightenment, a complex cultural phenomenon that lasted approximately from the late seventeenth century until the early nineteenth century, contained a dynamic mix of contrary beliefs and epistemologies. Its intellectual coherence arguably came from its distinctive historical sensibility, which was rooted in the notion that advances in the natural sciences had gifted humankind with an exceptional opportunity in the eighteenth century for self-improvement and societal progress. That unifying historical outlook was flexible and adaptable. Consequently, many aspects of the Enlightenment were left open to negotiation at local and transnational levels. They were debated by the philosophes who met in Europe's coffeehouses, salons, and scientific societies. Equally, they were contested outside of Europe through innumerable cross-cultural exchanges as well as via long-distance intellectual interactions.
America—whether it is understood expansively as the two full continents and neighboring islands within the Western Hemisphere or, in a more limited way, as the territory that now constitutes the United States—played an especially prominent role in the Enlightenment. The New World's abundance of plants, animals, and indigenous peoples fascinated early modern natural historians and social theorists, stimulated scientific activity, and challenged traditional beliefs. By the eighteenth century, the Western Hemisphere was an important site for empirical science and also for the intersection of different cultures of knowledge. At the same time, European conceptions of the New World as an undeveloped region inhabited by primitive savages problematized Enlightenment theories of universal progress. Comparisons of Native Americans to Africans, Asians, and Europeans led to speculation about the existence of separate human species or races. Similarly, the prevalence and profitability of American slavery fueled new and increasingly scientific conceptions of race. Eighteenth-century analyses of human differences complicated contemporary assertions that all men possessed basic natural rights. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the American Revolution focused international attention on man's innate entitlement to life, liberty, and happiness. Yet, in a manner that typified the contradictions and paradoxes of the Enlightenment, the founders of the United States opted to preserve slavery and social inequality after winning political freedom from Britain.
Frontier Politics, Providentialism, and "Hobbism" in Bacon's Rebellion
Alexander B. Haskell
Bacon's Rebellion (1676–1677) was an uprising in the Virginia colony that its participants experienced as both a civil breakdown and a period of intense cosmic disorder. Although Thomas Hobbes had introduced his theory of state sovereignty a quarter century earlier, the secularizing connotations of his highly naturalized conceptualization of power had yet to make major inroads on a post-Reformation culture that was only gradually shifting from Renaissance providentialism to Enlightenment rationalism. Instead, the period witnessed a complicated interplay of providential beliefs and Hobbist doctrines. In the aftermath of the English civil war (1642–1651), this mingling of ideologies had prompted the Puritans' own experimentation with Hobbes's ideas, often in tandem with a Platonic spiritualism that was quite at odds with Hobbes's own philosophical skepticism. The Restoration of 1660 had given an additional boost to Hobbism as his ideas won a number of prominent adherents in Charles II's government.
The intermingling of providentialism and Hobbism gave Bacon's Rebellion its particular aura of heightened drama and frightening uncertainty. In the months before the uprising, the outbreak of a war on the colony's frontier with the Doeg and Susquehannock peoples elicited fears in the frontier counties of a momentous showdown between faithful planters and God's enemies. In contrast, Governor Sir William Berkeley's establishmentarian Protestantism encouraged him to see the frontiersmen's vigilantism as impious, and the government's more measured response to the conflict as inherently godlier because tied to time-tested hierarchies and institutions. Greatly complicating this already confusing scene, the colony also confronted a further destabilizing force in the form of the new Hobbist politics emerging from the other side of the ocean. In addition to a number of alarming policies emanating from Charles II's court in the 1670s that sought to enhance the English state's supremacy over the colonies, Hobbes's doctrines also informed the young Nathaniel Bacon Jr.'s stated rationale for leading frontiersmen against local Indian communities without Berkeley's authorization. Drawing on the Hobbes-influenced civil war-era writings of his relation the Presbyterian lawyer Nathaniel Bacon, the younger Bacon made the protection of the colony's Christian brotherhood a moral priority that outweighed even the preservation of existing civil relations and public institutions.
While Berkeley's antagonism toward this Hobbesian argument led him to lash out forcibly against Bacon as a singularly great threat to Virginia's commonwealth, it was ordinary Virginians who most consequentially resisted Bacon's strange doctrines. Yet a division persisted. Whereas the interior counties firmly rejected Bacon's Hobbism in favor of the colony's more traditional bonds to God and king, the frontier counties remained more open to a Hobbesian politics that promised their protection.
Indigenous Politics in Pontiac's War
Andrew Sturtevant
Although often attributed to the Odawa ogima, or headman, Pontiac, the conflict that bears his name was the work of a large and complicated network of Native people in the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, and Mississippi Valley. Together Native Americans from this wide swath of North America identified their collective dissatisfaction of British Indian policy and, through careful negotiation and discussion, formulated a religious and political ideology that advocated for the Britons' removal. In 1763, these diverse peoples carried off a successful military campaign that demonstrated Native sovereignty and power in these areas. Although falling short of its original goal of displacing the British, the coalition compelled the British Empire to change its policies and to show, outwardly at least, respect for Native peoples. Many of the peoples involved in the struggle would wage another such pan-Indian campaign against the United States a generation later.
In many ways, the anti-British campaign of 1761–1766 mirrored another anti-imperial campaign that followed a decade later. Like the American Revolution, the anti-British advocates of Pontiac's War developed an ideology that specifically critiqued not only British policy but often questioned imperialism altogether, built an unstable and delicate coalition of diverse and sometimes antagonistic peoples, and sought to assert the participants' independence from the British. However, the participants in Pontiac's War were sovereign and autonomous indigenous nations, only recently and nominally allied to the British Empire, not British colonists, as in the American Revolution. Together these anti-British activists mounted a serious challenge to the British presence in the trans-Appalachian West and forced the British Empire to accede to many of their demands.
Infrastructure: Streets, Roads, and Highways
Peter Norton
By serving travelers and commerce, roads and streets unite people and foster economic growth. But as they develop, roads and streets also disrupt old patterns, upset balances of power, and isolate some as they serve others. The consequent disagreements leave historical records documenting social struggles that might otherwise be overlooked. For long-distance travel in America before the middle of the 20th century, roads were generally poor alternatives, resorted to when superior means of travel, such as river and coastal vessels, canal boats, or railroads were unavailable. Most roads were unpaved, unmarked, and vulnerable to the effects of weather. Before the railroads, for travelers willing to pay the toll, rare turnpikes and plank roads could be much better. Even in towns, unpaved streets were common until the late 19th century, and persisted into the 20th. In the late 19th century, rapid urban growth, rural free delivery of the mails, and finally the proliferation of electric railways and bicycling contributed to growing pressure for better roads and streets. After 1910, the spread of the automobile accelerated the trend, but only with great controversy, especially in cities. Partly in response to the controversy, advocates of the automobile organized to promote state and county motor highways funded substantially by gasoline taxes; such roads were intended primarily for motor vehicles. In the 1950s, massive federal funds accelerated the trend; by then, motor vehicles were the primary transportation mode for both long and short distances. The consequences have been controversial, and alternatives have been attracting growing interest.
King Philip's War, 1675–1678
Lisa T. Brooks
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Please check back later for the full article.
King Philip's War was both a colonial war and an indigenous resistance movement, which broke out in the summer of 1675 in the Wampanoag country and in Plymouth colony, but quickly spread throughout the coastal and interior native homelands and New England. Losses per capita were greater than any other war in American history. While sometimes regarded as a singular moment of conquest in the birth of New England, it also was known as the "first Indian war," a conflict over land and jurisdiction among New England colonists and native nations that continued not only until the first Treaty of Casco Bay, which ended the war in 1678, but through nearly one hundred years of warfare and diplomacy, in which native people in the Northeast sought to adapt to colonization and draw settlers into indigenous protocols and networks. Indeed, in many ways, the war itself was a result of the failure of New England colonists to engage successfully and appropriately with the longstanding protocols of indigenous nations, as well as the steadily increasing demands for more and more land, threatening native subsistence and survival.
A Military History of the American Revolution, 1754–1783
Stephen Conway
The military history of the American Revolution is more than the history of the War of Independence. The Revolution itself had important military causes. The experience of the Seven Years' War (which started in 1754 in North America) conditioned British attitudes to the colonies after that conflict was over. From 1764, the British Parliament tried to raise taxes in America to pay for a new permanent military garrison. British politicians resisted colonial objections to parliamentary taxation at least partly because they feared that if the Americans established their right not to be taxed by Westminster, Parliament's right to regulate colonial overseas trade would then be challenged. If the Americans broke out of the system of trade regulation, British ministers, MPs, and peers worried, then the Royal Navy would be seriously weakened.
The War of Independence, which began in 1775, was not the great American triumph that most accounts suggest. The British army faced a difficult task in suppressing a rebellion three thousand miles from Britain itself. French intervention on the American side in 1778 (followed by the Spanish in 1779, and the Dutch in 1780) made the task still more difficult. In the end, the war in America was won by the French as much as by the Americans. But in the wider imperial conflict, affecting the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, West Africa, and South Asia, the British fared much better. Even in its American dimension, the outcome was less clear cut than we usually imagine. The British, the nominal losers, retained great influence in the independent United States, which in economic terms remained in an essentially dependent relationship with the former mother country.
Print, the Press, and the American Revolution
Robert G. Parkinson
According to David Ramsay, one of the first historians of the American Revolution, "in establishing American independence, the pen and press had merit equal to that of the sword." Because of the unstable and fragile notions of unity among the thirteen American colonies, print acted as a binding agent that mitigated the chances that the colonies would not support one another when war with Britain broke out in 1775.
Two major types of print dealt with the political process of the American Revolution: pamphlets and newspapers. Pamphlets were one of the most important conveyors of ideas during the imperial crisis. Often written by elites under pseudonyms and published by booksellers, they have long been held by historians as the lifeblood of the American Revolution. There were also three dozen newspaper printers in the American mainland colonies at the start of the Revolution, each producing a four-page issue every week. These weekly papers, or one-sheet broadsides that appeared in American cities even more frequently, were the most important communication avenue to keep colonists informed of events hundreds of miles away. Because of the structure of the newspaper business in the 18th century, the stories that appeared in each paper were "exchanged" from other papers in different cities, creating a uniform effect akin to a modern news wire. The exchange system allowed for the same story to appear across North America, and it provided the Revolutionaries with a method to shore up that fragile sense of unity. It is difficult to imagine American independence—as a popular idea let alone a possible policy decision—without understanding how print worked in colonial America in the mid-18th century.
The Puritans
Sarah Rivett
The Puritans were a group of people loosely defined through their shared adherence to the reformed theological tradition, largely following the work of John Calvin. Beginning in the 16th century, the Puritan movement took root in specific regional locales throughout Germany, Scotland, the Low Countries, and England. Following Queen Elizabeth's settlement of 1559, which mandated conformity with the Church of England, the church's authority splintered further as Protestants clashed with the episcopal polity, or church hierarchy. Religious conflict intensified from the 1580s through the end of James I's reign, through repeated appeals to antiquity and patristics (writings from early Christian fathers) as pleas for further reform. Religious tension and persecution under the repressive regime of Archbishop Laud caused Puritans to leave England in search of new lands and communities.
When the Pilgrims and Puritans migrated to North America in 1620 and 1630, respectively, they did so with the intention of contesting the power of the crown to mandate religious uniformity. They believed in a Calvinist-based religion that espoused a separation of church and state, but that also privileged the spiritual authority of the individual to such a degree as to leave no clear signposts about how the disparate individuals practicing these faiths should form communities. Puritan congregations in New England allowed laymen as well as women new forms of spiritual self-discovery as they orally translated the evidence of grace recorded upon their souls into communal knowledge and a corporate identity that fashioned itself as a spiritual beacon to the world. Missionary encounters soon redefined Puritan faith, theology, and pious practices. Puritan identity in 17th century North America reconstituted itself through a particular confluence of interaction with foreign landscapes, native tribes, Africans, and new models of community and social interaction.
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Intervale Capital ("Intervale"), an energy-focused private equity firm, has made an equity investment in Aegis Chemical Solutions, LLC ("Aegis"), an oilfield chemicals and water treatment business headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas. Aegis provides oil and gas production chemicals and chlorine dioxide treatment services to customers in major oilfield markets, with a particular focus on the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. The transaction merges Aegis with Mid-Chem, Inc., a Midland, Texas-based production chemicals business, and positions Intervale as the majority owner of Aegis.
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Intervale Capital is an energy-focused private equity firm, with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an office in Houston, Texas. Intervale invests exclusively in middle-market oilfield services and manufacturing companies and related technologies. The firm has more than $650 million under management and is currently investing from its second fund.
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Intervale Capital
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A recent Rasmussen poll tells us that American voters have little confidence in our K-12 schools. A mere 18 percent believe that most high school graduates have the skills needed for college. (Sixty-one percent believe they don't have the skills and 21 percent aren't sure).
Lacking the skills to succeed in college is a big-time problem for both the individual and society. In fact, it's problem enough to threaten a nation. High school graduates who aren't prepared for college also aren't prepared for the workplace, personal responsibility, civic duties or any of the other challenges they'll face in this increasingly fast paced, complicated, competitive, technological world.
To be fair, the perception that our schools are failing is hardly new. The annual PDK/Gallup poll tells us that in 2012 only 19 percent of the public gave our public schools a grade of A or B. Twenty years ago the number was 18 percent.
Is this lack of confidence in our K-12 schools deserved? What do the numbers tell us? And where do the solutions lie?
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It's big: 55 million students; 130,000 schools; 3.8 million teachers; and a budget of more than $500 billion per year.
It's run by committee: policy is dictated by all levels of government; influenced by still more (unions, think tanks, foundations, and businesses); and paid for by many (federal government/8 percent, states/46 percent, localities/37 percent, and private sources/9 percent).
It's complicated: educational opportunities and attainment are not self-contained, they're closely tied to factors such as socioeconomic status, gender, culture, and race.
Given this set up, it's tough to measure success or whether schools are getting better or worse. We receive mixed messages. On the one hand our high school graduation rate has increased by 5 percent since 2006 and we're on track to have a 90 percent rate by 2020. On the other hand, our 15 year olds have a lower average math literacy rate than 17 other countries. While the public has little confidence in our schools generally, more than three quarters give a grade of A or B to the school their oldest child attends.
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NAEP has four student achievement levels: 'advanced ' for 'superior performance '; 'proficient ' for 'solid academic performance; ' 'basic ' for partial mastery; below basic for below partial mastery.
We need all students to be proficient or better.
So what does NAEP tell us about our nation's eighth-graders? Brace yourself for the bad news. In math, in 2011, 18 percent of our eighth-graders were below basic, 42 percent were basic, 33 percent were proficient and 7 percent were advanced. In reading, the results are even worse: 24 percent below basic, 42 basic, 31 proficient and 3 percent advanced.
This is pretty damning evidence.
When it comes to solutions, the bad news is that there is no consensus on how to proceed. We're divided into opposing camps.
Every major issue in school reform - whether it be school closings, charter schools, vouchers, teacher hiring and firing, school control, teacher evaluations, testing, curriculum, or tracking - is hotly debated and brutally divisive.
The good news is that we know effective schools are possible. Just look at other countries to see the dream in action; to see effective education for an ever-changing world; to see students with a competitive advantage in the international race for leadership and success.
It's time for the application of some unbiased horse-sense, long identified with successful American leaders in all phases of life. A small number of bright lights from business and industry and from public and private education should dispassionately dissect the facts and render a reasoned path for tangible change, reform, and correction.
Whether we succeed or fail is a matter of commitment. The answers exist but do we have the will?
Timing is critical for the United States, the sooner the better for all its concerned citizens and entities.
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