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TEN LETTERS TALL: It's easy to have a lot of pride in California for various reasons -- naysayers may want to say nay, but we'll sweetly smile and invite them to come spend a day at Big Sur or the redwoods and then see if their naying has ceased -- and a big reason is the name. It's poetic, it's mellifluous, and it springs from a land of plenty found in a long ago book (thank the early explorers for bestowing the name upon the state). But here's something else nice: It looks really good when it is very, very large. Exhibit A? The ten-letter welcome that was found in front of Disney California Adventure in Anaheim for many years. The C and the A and the L and the I all stood tall and colorful, and if a minute passed without someone posing for a snapshot in front of the sign, well, it was a rare minute, indeed. But with the major redo of the theme park over the last several years, the front got a new look, too. Meaning? The letters came down. But a bit of good news arrived early last summer: Cal Expo in Sacramento would be the worthy beneficiary. And, truly, is there a better place for the iconic, seen-in-a-thousand-photos CALIFORNIA sign thank in front of the place where our state fair takes place?
THE LETTERS GO UP: Now, just over a year after the announcement, the CALIFORNIA sign was been installed on Monday, July 1 in front of the state fair's longtime home. Nice time, too; the installation came just in time for this year's extravaganza, which opens on Friday, July 12. Want to see a peek at the installation and where those letter stand now? You can.

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Are you a newish reader who's not a douchehound? Do you wish you could talk to other Shapelings without our annoying requests that you "stay on topic" and "quit threadjacking" already? Do you want to organize a baby donut party in your town? Do you have a boring office job and need even more ways to waste time? Check out the Shapely Prose community on Ning!
25 thoughts on "Hey, remember this?"
I'm always looking for ways to waste time at work especially since they blocked all IM programs and deleted solitare from the computers. So I work on crosswords , listen to the radio and make my office mate laugh all day.
Already a member of the community and thanks for setting this up.
Have you ever considered putting a permanent link into the sidebar, perhaps below upcoming events? I think that it would bring a lot of people to the forum.
I've been wanting to join this. Much thanks for the reminder.
Is there a ning link on the SP main page? There very well could be and I'm just not seeing it. My middle age eyes…..le sigh
Thanks for posting the link again!
Ning is blocked by the network in my work :( How unkind of them.
Hah I'm setting up a profile now and it's pretty (with corny colors to boot!)
I have a question though, I'm totally ignorant to some of these social websites. What's the point of this? How does it connect us to Shapely Prose? :o
Ack please ignore my question, I feel so dumb now. I looked around (after making my profile) and found the answer. ^_^;
Were there not plans to make an FAQ at some stage? Other than decrypting some of the acronyms and in-jokes that might fox newbies, and pointing to some of the iconic posts, like TFoBT and some by you and Fillyjonk, a link to the Ning site would be great in the site FAQ.
Oops, I typo'd FAT first off – perhaps the FAQ could be labelled FAcTS?
Alas, I can't waste time with Ning at work. Damn net nanny!
Ok, this is an innocent question so don't jump down my throat if I'm misunderstanding this…
At least in my neck of the woods, a "douche hound" is someone who settles for the "skankiest" gal at the bar (one who needs a good douching), because he doesn't have what it takes to land one of the good looking ones. Urban dictionary confirms that definition. So "douche hound" has always been, to me at least, an implicit commodification of women – you're insulting someone by what they can afford. Obviously saying "Hey Jimmy, get a haircut and some new clothes, and you won't have to date fat chicks any more" is offensive not only to Jimmy.
So is this a term we should be using casually? I know I definitely would feel uncomfortable if someone said "Hey, if you're not a hogger, join us on this site".
I was going to suggest a permalink to the forum on the main page of SP but I've been beaten to the punch. :) Also, is A Sarah going in the masthead soon? Or is she just your imaginary friend? :)
I am relatively new to commenting and I do love the idea of interacting and connecting with Shapelings. However, the thought of joining one more social networking site makes me want to gnash my teeth and rend my garments. Sorries.
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I haven't been in awhile (I blame the fact that I got a new computer and it's no longer in my bookmarks toolbar). I need to get back into it. :)
Sorry, fillyjonk, I must have missed the insider definition. Most people use "douche bag" which is a general insult, I don't hear "douche hound" used very much except by frat boys. But every single person I've ever heard use it meant it in the sense of the urban dictionary definition. It might be good to clarify for newcomers, how would you feel if you visited a website and the pejorative term of choice was "hoggers"?
I'm making way too much of this. It's probably one of those words like "gypped" or "scumbag" that offends some people who know the etymology – but the vast majority just take for granted. More important things to worry about, I guess.
I read that as "Shapely Donut" community – I was totally ready to go join that.
I just joined. I have 2 other social network sites, okay three, but 2 main ones, but neither has a lively discussion forum for FA or HEAS, so I signed up! It's hard enough walking this path of great resistance without being able to vent and get advice sometimes. Thanks for reposting the link!
P.S. I don't believe I am any sort of douche, or even an ass hat. May father (in the hospital recovering from heart surgery) told me a good joke though, about the first woman.
The first woman was actually made with 3 breasts, because the other animals had 6, so God thought the woman should have 3. She said the third one just got in the way and was uncomfortable, so God removed the middle one and tossed it under his desk. Some time after this, the woman began noticing other animals with mates and she told God she was lonely and needed companionship. God agreed and said he'd make her a mate. He said, "Now where did I put that useless boob?"
My dad told the long version, but you get the idea.
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Space at these institutions is limited and not every applicant may be accepted. Since nominations are submitted only in January, interested students must submit application materials to the Office of International Programs in the fall of the sophomore year. Students pay Randolph College tuition plus local room and board costs in Northern Ireland.
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This week, Stanford changed its online logo.
Two word version of this post: just no.
Longer version of this post:
The old Stanford font, Sabon, actually looks like something that merits being taken seriously. Why? Consider, if you will, the website fonts for Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Chicago. Eerily similar to Sabon. Why? Because these schools are renowned academic institutions that take themselves seriously.
What does the new Stanford font look more like? Foursquare. Pinterest. Twitter. Words with Friends.
Stanford University is not an app, and should not look like one.
The new Stanford font is inaccurate.
The new Stanford font likewise fails to take Stanford tradition and basic knowledge into account. Sabon was created by a German typographer, and its Teutonic roots dovetail nicely with Stanford's distinctly German motto, "die Luft der Freiheit weht" (the wind of freedom blows). The new font is called "Crimson." CRIMSON. A brief note to Bright, the "design firm" that created our new font, which ostensibly "spent a lot of time" developing it:
OUR COLOR IS CARDINAL. Crimson is Harvard. Get. It. Together.
Mobile apps, schmobile apps.
The argument for this change is that the new font is viewed better on a mobile interface and that Stanford wanted a thicker font to stand up to the pixelated mobile screen environment.
We already have a very "thick" font that would have been perfect for this application: the block Stanford "S." It already exists. It is beautiful, we love it, and it doesn't make me cringe.
And while I'm at it, a basic design note.
If you go into the vector drawings for the new logo, the "f" is taller than the "S." I…. Whu-? Why…? No.
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OAKLAND -- By putting Ryan Raburn in the Opening Day lineup against A's right-hander Sonny Gray, Indians manager Terry Francona provided a glimpse into how the utility man might be used this season. Raburn might be graduating from his part-time duties.
"People look at him as a role player," Francona said earlier this week. "I don't know that that necessarily has to be the case. He's got some thump in that bat."
Throughout last season, Raburn was used primarily against left-handed pitching off the bench for Cleveland. He excelled in that role and became an offensive force in his limited plate appearances. At least for the beginning of this year, Raburn appears to have earned more at-bats in the eyes of Francona.
Raburn enjoys knowing he might be in the lineup more often than not.
"I appreciate it," Raburn said. "Everybody wants to play. The more opportunities I get, of course I'm grateful for it. My biggest thing is just being able to contribute and help the ballclub."
Raburn was originally slotted into Tuesday's lineup against the A's as the designated hitter for the second straight game. After that contest was postponed due to rain, Francona altered the order and put Raburn in the fifth spot for Game 1 of Wednesday's split doubleheader as the Tribe's left fielder.
In 86 games for Cleveland last season, the 32-year-old Raburn hit .272 with 16 home runs, 55 RBIs and a team-leading .901 OPS. His 16 home runs were the most in the Major Leagues among hitters with fewer than 300 plate appearances. Against lefty pitching, Raburn posted a 1.020 OPS, which ranked fifth in the American League among batters with at least 100 plate appearances against southpaws.
Even when he has filled a reserve role, Raburn said he tries to prepare like an everyday player.
"I think the best way to do it is accept it when I'm a role guy," Raburn said. "You have to do all the little things that are asked of you. But me and [Mike Aviles] talk about it all the time, that the mentality is we're preparing ourselves to play 162 games."


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Great news, my fellow Big Brother fans. CBS has renewed the summer hit for two more seasons. BB17 will air summer 2015 and BB18 will air summer 2016. As long as she doesn't suffer any programming malfunctions between now and then, Julie Chenbot will continue her duties as host.
This marks the first time ever in Big Brother's sixteen season run that CBS has ordered two seasons in one shot. This, thanks to Big Brother 16's increase in viewers – averaging 7.56 million in the key demo – and increase in ratings over the summer-long nightmare that was Big Brother 15.


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Just found an interesting paper on cultural neuroscience and the extended mind. Some of you might remember the author, Dr Lambros Malafouris, from Seed Magazine's Revolutionary Minds series. I plan on providing a more thorough examination of paper at a later point. In the meantime, check out the abstract:
Cultural neuroscience provides a new approach for understanding the impact of culture on the human brain (and vice versa) opening thus new avenues for cross-disciplinary collaboration with archaeology and anthropology. Finding new meaningful and productive unit of analysis is essential for such collaboration. But what can archaeological preoccupation with material culture and long-term change contribute to this end? In this article, I introduce and discuss the notion of the brain–artefact interface (BAI) as a useful conceptual bridge between neuroplastisty and the extended mind. I argue that a key challenge for archaeology and cultural neuroscience lies in the cross-disciplinary understanding of the processes by which our plastic enculturated brains become constituted within the wider extended networks of non-biological artefacts and cultural practices that delineate the real spatial and temporal boundaries of the human cognitive map.


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Book Tickets: To purchase tickets in person, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire Box Office is open for cash ticket sales from 4pm-6pm on show days only, and 6.30pm-9.30pm please see venue listings for opening times. Tickets are also available from O2 Academy Islington 12pm-4pm, Monday-Saturday and O2 Academy Brixton 2 hours before door times on show days only. Please see venue listings for opening times. Public holidays may vary. Disabled Bookings: Call Box Office Manager on 020 8354 3300 between 10.30am and 5.30pm (Monday-Friday) Age Restrictions: Gigs: The minimum age is 8 unless with written permission from venue management. Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult. Clubs: Strictly over 18s (Photographic ID may be required) About O2 Shepherds Bush Empire was hailed "Best Venue" for the fifth time at the Music Week Awards 2005 and was shortlisted in 2008 and 2009. The O2 Empire has been a live entertainment venue for over 100 years and is a favourite within the industry, often chosen by artists for its extraordinary level of intimacy and historic importance on the touring circuit. With a capacity of 2,000, performers can get up close and personal with their most dedicated fans. Architecturally the venue is stunning, still retaining its original design with the grandeur of its early years. Contact Us Box Office: 0844 477 2000 (24 Hr) Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Tel: 020 8354 3300 For recruitment, visit Academy Music Group For press please email firstname.lastname@example.com For marketing and partnerships please email email@example.com Access The O2 Shepherds Bush Empire is an Edwardian Theatre designed over 100 years ago. It has many different levels and balconies. In Conjunction with Attitude Is Everything we have taken best endeavours to enable access to all customers and are constantly looking to make improvements. Due to licensing requirements and Health & Safety assessments, we regret that the number of wheelchairs admitted per show at this venue is limited and all patrons are treated on a first come first served basis. We recommend that customers with access requirements arrive prior to door opening times. Once performances have started it is likely admittance will not be possible. Please be aware that there is no access to a smoking area once inside.
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Booking Tickets To book tickets for O2 Shepherds Bush Empire: Call the Box Office Manager on 020 8354 3300 between 10am and 6pm (Monday-Friday). Spaces are sold on a first come first served basis. Our venue has a designated area for disabled patrons which can be limited and can sell out on some shows. Bookings not made through the venue cannot be guaranteed access to disabled facilities due to space limitations. You can also contact the box office through text relay by 18002 020 8354 3300 should this be Once you have been in contact with the venue you will be sent a letter of confirmation that should be brought with you when you attend the event. Companion/Carer Ticket The venue offers one free companion ticket which can be booked by contacting the venue directly. These can be limited in availability so please ensure you contact the venue as soon as possible to arrange. Companion/carer ticket holders should be able to meet the needs and assist the person they are accompanying in the event of an emergency. Braille Braille information sheets are available on request please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 020 8354 3300. Arriving at the Venue We recommend arriving at the venue 10-15 minutes prior to the doors opening. The door time will be stated on the tickets or confirmations. Please try to arrive at the venue no later than 60 minutes after the doors open. On arrival please go to the stage door. A member of security will be there to assist. Please be aware that entry to the venue once the performance has started cannot be guaranteed as the accessible entry point is through external doors which need to be opened and a ramp set up which can disturb the performance. Accessible Area & Facilities There are 4 wheelchairs spaces in the stalls area, these are situated three quarters of the way towards the back, on a raised area. Access is through a side door to the building which security will direct customers to and entrance is via a temporary ramp. There is a disabled toilet in the stalls area which is accessed via radar key. Non Wheelchair disabled bookings are usually for level 1. Unless it's a reserved seated show, level 1 is sold as Unreserved seating/standing. There is lift access to level 1 if stairs are not suitable. Please be aware that there is no access to the smoking area once inside the building due to the location of the accessible viewing area, and layout of the building. Bar Service The bars do not have lowered sections. 2 of the wheelchair locations are next to bars where staff can assist the third is a short distance away with level access although there are no lowered counters. Box Office Due to the building age the box office is not accessible and there is no induction loop at present. Security will assist when arriving at the venue from the front of the building. All tickets/confirmations will be sent out prior to the show. Merchandise The main merchandise counter is in the foyer which is not accessible to those who are unable to use stairs. There is a smaller merchandise counter in the stalls area near the viewing platforms which is not of an accessible height and is open most of the time however there are times when this is not in use. Staff are happy to assist with customers who want to purchase merchandise when available. Strobe Lighting & Effects Events may use strobes, stroboscopic lighting, smoke effects & pyrotechnics. On such shows signs are displayed. On shows with a higher than usual amount/level of this effect extra signage is displayed. Transport & Other Local Information The nearest tube stations are Shepherds Bush (Central Line), Goldhawk Road (Hammersmith and City Line). These are not accessible. The over ground line at Shepherds Bush does have a lift for access. For further information please go to www.tfl.gov.uk The nearest car park is situated at Westfield shopping centre which is approximately 10 minutes away. Information on parking here can be found on uk.westfield.com Details of nearby accessible hotels, bars and restaurants can be found on: www.directenquiries.com
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Dear Fan, Student-Athlete, Parent, Recruit or Donor:
Welcome to our website as well as our athletic department. I am the Vice President of Athletics at Lees-McRae College, and I have seen the college from a variety of positions. In July of 1998, I came to Banner Elk, NC as the Sports Information Director as well as the head cross-country coach, and as the years passed my roles have expanded to my current title.
It is a privilege to represent so many different people, coaches, student-athletes, alumni and anyone who has ever been associated with this special place in the mountains. I am looking forward to helping further the development of the athletic department and those who enter its halls.
We will have over 300 student-athletes wear the green and gold uniforms this year, participating in 19 sports. We proudly watch as they strive for excellence both in and out of the classroom.
As a department, we are a close knit group of caring, understanding young men and women committed to making the collegiate student-athlete experience a great one. This is the greatest time in a young person's life as they get a chance to expand their horizons while prepping for the real world.
I can assure you the coaching staff, athletic training staff and administrative staff here in the athletic department will do everything they can to develop your talents, guide you through life, and help give you the tools necessary to be a success. We want you engaged and involved not only on campus, but in the community. Building roots while you are here, will give you the best chance for success.
Banner Elk and Lees-McRae College have been good to me over the years, and I hope you will find our safe, calm and natural environment as appealing.
This is a special and unique place.
As our teams compete in Conference Carolinas, USA Cycling and the US Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association, we hope you will follow their progress. Whether a prospective student-athlete, alum, a fan, or a family member, we appreciate you taking the time to check out our site. We hope you like what you see. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and our photo galleries, live video, etc., we have something for everyone to enjoy.
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Well, not without reason, Ponting was rooted as sure to overtake Tendulkar both in terms of runs and test hundreds. The gap was at one point iirc three hundreds.
But in the last two seasons things have turned on it's head, Tendulkar enjoying his most productive phase in his career since the late 90s and Ponting slipping into a prolonged loss of form.
In the last two months alone, the gap was widened by four hundreds, and the overall gap is 8 hundreds. And with Tendulkar showing no real signs of decline, I feel Ponting looks very unlikely to taking it.
However nothing can be ruled out in test cricket. And for cricket's sake I wish Ponting gives Tendulkar a run because nothing spurs him more than genuine competition. What are your thoughts?


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HP Folio 13 Ultrabook
The Folio 13 is a strong Ultrabook entrant with great battery life.
- Reviewed by Gordon Kelly (for TrustedReviews)
- 15 March 2012
Price as reviewed £849.99
Overall 8/10
Key Features
- Intel Core i5-2467M CPU
- 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 SDRAM
- 13.3in LED-backlit 1366 x 768 display
- 18mm thick, 1.5Kg
- Blacklit keyboard
While we have established Intel's Ultrabook specification is enforced common sense, it is remarkable how many manufacturers have still failed to maximise its potential. Poor touchpads, substandard keyboards and, worst of all, poor TN-panel screens have been notable low points for products designed to bring sex appeal back to the humble laptop. Thankfully HP has been paying more attention in class…
The 'Folio 13' is HP's first Ultrabook and comes to market a number of months behind its rivals. However, out of the box it isn't immediately obvious where the additional time has been spent. The Folio jumps through all Intel's hoops – Sandy Bridge chipset, 18mm maximum thickness, over five hours battery life and hibernation resumption in under seven seconds – but it doesn't have an immediate wow factor. This isn't to say the Folio is ugly, far from it, but the mixture of spirit level straight lines and the colour balance between black and silver lacks the immediate pizzazz of some rivals.
The beauty of the Folio, however, is it is a grower. Look closer and the blacks all match, and HP has used the same brushed aluminium finish everywhere. What's more the build quality is exceptional. The Folio screen hinge is strong yet opens and closes with minimum effort, the isolated keyboard is firm yet tactile with spill resistant, with keys that offer just enough travel to make long typing sessions comfortable.
Furthermore HP has taken time to think about the connectivity, avoiding the frustrating mini ports seen on many rivals and cramming in full size Gigabit Ethernet and HDMI along with one USB 3.0 port, two USB 2.0 ports and a combo headphone/microphone jack. Like a partner with a great personality, such common sense thinking quickly raises the Folio above the sum of its parts.
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When I heard that "Handsome" Johnny Barend had died yesterday, at the age of 82, my thoughts immediately went to his widow, Annie. Over the past few years, I had gotten to know both, and had breakfast with them both back in May.
It was always evident to me that they were still very much in love, even years later.
It broke my heart to see her email: "I don't have much time at the moment, I am letting you know that Johnny passed away yesterday at noon. It was peaceful, I thought he was asleep. He had refused to go to the hospital when his doctor said he needed to go last week."
I quickly called to pass on my condolences. There might be a memorial service down the road, she said, but Johnny, the stubborn fellow that he was, didn't want to end his life in a hospital, and didn't want a funeral.
His death is attributed to natural causes.
To put it simply, the Barend I got to know was nothing like his colourful, flamboyant character that headlined across North America and been an institution in Hawaii.
Instead, he was a quiet, conservative man, who avoided bragging, but when riled, was more than happy to rant about the current state of professional wrestling.
"There's nothing wrong with the wrestling business. It's a nice business. It's the basic promoters, that's what is wrong with it," he vented to me in December 2010, calling out of the blue, having finished -- and enjoyed -- Mick Foley's Countdown to Lockdown.
That phone call about Foley's book proved to me that he trusted me, which really meant a lot. We'd talked off and on since 2006, and I know I have stories in my files that have never seen the light of day, off the record things that he did not mean for publication.
But at the root of it, Johnny he was a man who had found a woman to love for all of his years, content to while away his final years with his dog on a rural location outside of Rochester, NY.
He would ask after old friends when I talked to him, but would rarely call them.
It was my pleasure earlier this year to put him in touch again with "Gentleman" Ed Francis, who was the promoter of the Hawaiian promotion in its heyday. That was a call that he did take.
As for his wrestling career, you'll learn all you need to know from my 2008 story, A visit with 'Handsome' Johnny Barend.
His was one of those stories that I continued to get email about over the years, people who remembered seeing him in Hawaii or on TV or in an arena around the northeast.
Obviously, he was a name that stuck in people's consciousnesses and that would compel them to Google his name.
"I used to watch him in Hawaii as part of the old 50th State Wrestling show," wrote one reader. "I was one of those who couldn't wait to get to the Parkway Arena in Cincinnati on a Friday night to see John and [Magnificent] Maurice," admitted another.
Hopefully they will continue to do so, and get to know the character that Barend was on the TV, but wasn't in real life.
Johnny, I'll miss you.
Greg Oliver is the Producer of SLAM! Wrestling. He can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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August 26th of this year, when the 19th amendment became law, marks the 90th anniversary of women's right to vote. What were Iowa women doing on August 26th, 1920? Some were attending the Iowa State Fair! August 26th was the second day of the 66th annual Iowa State Fair, which was held from August 25th through September 3rd in 1920. Did fair goers in Iowa know about the passage of the 19th amendment when attending the fair? I did not find any mention of women's suffrage or the 19th amendment in the records I went through, but we can see a little bit of what young women were doing in 1920 at the State Fair, and in the years following the passage of the amendment, in the Iowa 4H Records (RS 16/3/4). This collection includes the Iowa 4-H Girls' Clubs Annual Reports. (The finding aid/collection description for this collection is not yet online, but will be shortly.) Perhaps more out of coincidence than anything else, the first annual report for Iowa girls' clubs was produced the same year as the passage of the 19th amendment (1920).
4H, then as now, provides hands-on experiences to help young people reach their full potential and includes opportunities for youth to develop their leadership skills. In the early part of the 20th century 4H was a great way for young women to advance their leadership skills, and learn what they were capable of, in order to more fully take advantage of their newly won right to vote. The 1920 Annual Report of 4-H Girls Club Work is also a wonderful window into the beginnings of 4H clubs. According to the writer of the report, very few if any girls' clubs existed in Iowa on April 1st, 1920, and those which did existed only on a temporary basis, mostly in the spring and summer. The early 4H Girls' Clubs in Iowa were divided into 5 different groups: canning, food study, meal preparation, garment making, and own your own room.
The 1920 Annual Report briefly mentions what the 4H girls did at the 1920 Iowa State Fair. There were:
- 9 canning demonstrations
- 6 garment demonstrations
- 4 meal preparation demonstrations
- 5 food preparation demonstrations
- 6 Own Your Own Room Demonstrations
In addition, the annual report states that "A Boys' and Girls' club Pageant was put on one day of the Fair. The girls' club department had five floats. A float all in while labeled 'The Queen of the Home' headed the girls. One of the mothers all in white sat on her throne. The three girls all in white, the sunshine of the home, holding the reins." Even though this first annual report of 1920 does not contain photographs, our university photograph collection does contain an image of the Queen of the Home float, pictured below.
The Iowa 4H Records also contain the historian books for Iowa 4H Girls' Clubs. The historians books begin in 1921 and contain more detailed information on 4H activities, including the Iowa State Fair.


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Women in the Word
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Living on Love and Cents , My Slice of Sanity, One + One = Four and Flutterbys And Frogs have joined together to bring you Women in the Word Fellowship on Wednesday". I hope you will join us! Once a week we will share about our time in the word and have you share your time "in the word" as well. There is a linky at the end of each post. You do NOT have to post a devotion, scripture or anything unless you want. If you have words of encouragement or a devotion post to link up that would be awesome! If you are a "Woman in the Word" and would like to find other Christian Bloggers –link up! Please grab the button to spread the word about our fellowship! I am looking forward to our fellowship! I hope we can all encourage one another each week!
Now for my weekly "Women in the Word" time!
This week I am focusing on PRAYER! Prayer is so powerful! It is so important to make prayer time with God everyday!
Even Jesus made quiet time time pray- "Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed." Mark 1:34-36.
He instructs us to bring ALL of our worries to him! Nothing is to small! "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." Philippians 4:6.
Sometimes life can be so overwhelming. Rememer you are not in control! God is! We have to pray for his direction and strength! I have had moments when I was so overwhelmed all I could do was pray and then there have been other times where I was so weak I felt like I couldnt pray. That is why we need our christian brothers and sisters to lift us up.
THIS WEEK I WANT TO PRAY FOR YOU! How can I pray for you? Please tell me and I will lift you up this week!
Each week we will spotlight someone who linked to an uplifting scripture/devo/ thoughts etc. from the previous week. This week's spotlight is Heather from Pieces of Me. Please stop by and tell her hello!
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Best Greek
Yanni's Mediterranean Grill and Opa Bar
Yanni's makes Greek chic. In addition to perfected moussaka, spanakopita and souvlaki, this place touts a crisp, blue-and-white dining room that may inspire the briefest delusions of an ocean breeze.
2) Olympia Café
Best Middle Eastern
Sahara Middle Eastern Eatery
1) The food is spice-laden and succulent. 2) The prices are low. 3) The location is close to UNM, which makes this little eatery the perfect place for a between-class/Nob Hill-shopping pit stop.
2) Anatolia Doner Kebab Restaurant
3) Pars Cuisine
Best Italian
Mario's Pizzeria and Ristorante
From build-your-own pizzas to pasta alla carbonara, you love getting your Italian fix at four Albuquerque Mario's locations. How convenient is that?
3) Il Vicino
Best French
Brasserie La Provence
When the waiter asks, "En voulez-vous encore?" Alibi readers simply say, "Oui." Pick up the menu, close your eyes, and point. It's all good at this Nob Hill favorite.
Best Vietnamese
Café Trang
It's a high honor to take home the gold in this category, since Burque is blessed with a bevy of great Vietnamese joints. Order a bánh mì (Vietnamese sandwich), a bowl of pho or an avocado milkshake, and you'll understand why Café Trang beat out the rest.
2) Viet Taste
3) Que Huong
Best Thai
Orchid Thai Cuisine
A once-and-future Alibi readers' favorite (getting the "Best-of" nod from 2004-2007) Orchid Thai is back on top. You may not be able to say Pud Med Ma-Muang Himapan, but you sure can eat it.
3) Thai Vegan
Best Fusion
Pasión Latin Fusion
This new kid on the block has the best empanadas around. And they're not your mama's empanadas. But they're warm, sweet, spicy and sticky. Order anything— you'll like it (especially if it has fried plantains).
3) Cool Water Fusion Restaurant
Best Chinese
Chen's Chinese Food Restaurant
For more than 30 years, Albuquerque has loved Chen's, especially the lunch specials. From the '70s decor to the traditional menu, Alibi readers voted to keep their Chinese food decidedly old-school this year.
Best Indian
Taj Mahal
Readers are attracted to Taj Mahal for the great prices, but it's the no naan-sense food that keeps them coming back. Vegetarians and meat-eaters alike appreciate the variety of authentic Indian selections on Taj's lunch buffet.
2) India Palace Cuisine of India
3) Rasoi: An Indian Kitchen
Best Korean
Korean BBQ House
From beef ribs to spicy squid bulgogi, when you want Korean food, you want barbecue. Luckily, the Korean BBQ House has been serving up its grilled and marinated specialties for more than six years in its Nob Hill location, and you are hooked.
2) Arirang Oriental Market
3) Fu Yuang
Best Japanese
Japanese Kitchen Steakhouse
Dinner and a show? At the Japanese Kitchen, that's just what you get as expert chefs cook dinner right at your table with plenty of live flame. Specialties include teriyaki chicken and teppan shrimp. Or if you feel like putting your dinner completely in the hands of the professionals, order the omakase and let the chef decide the entirety of your meal.
2) Kokoro Japanese Restaurant
Best Mexican
Los Equipales
Land-locked Burqueños celebrate Los Equipales for serving up delicious fare from the coasts of Mexico, as well as central Mexican flavors like pollo en mole. If you haven't been seduced by this sublime food already, get over there, order a fish taco, and soon you'll swear you hear the surf on Silver Avenue.
2) Mariscos La Playa
3) El Norteño
Best Southern Food
Mr. Powdrell's Barbeque House
We would crawl through a briar patch for the sweet southern ecstasy of Powdrell's hickory smoked meats slapped with a side of collard greens and cornbread. Good thing there's no briar patch between here and either of its locations.
3) Pepper's Ole Fashion BBQ
Most Wanted Ethnic Cuisine
There is a gaping injera shaped hole in Albuquerque's culinary heart. We checked if Albuquerque has any sister cities in Ethiopia we could visit in order to convince a chef to move here. Alas, no. You're going to have to drive to Denver to get your fix.
2) Burmese
3) Lebanese


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Sacramento – Today the California Senate Education Committee passed AB 1266 (Ammiano), the School Success and Opportunity Act, a bill that provides crucial support for transgender students, by a vote of 5-2. The bill will ensure that California public schools understand their responsibility for the success and well-being of all students, including transgender students, and will allow transgender students to fully participate in all school activities, programs, and facilities. AB 1266 is authored by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, and is co-authored by Senator Mark Leno, Senator Ricardo Lara and Assemblymember Toni Atkins.
AB 1266 would ensure that students who are transgender have equal access to facilities and activities like sports teams that match their gender.
"All I want to do is go to school and have the same opportunity to succeed as everyone else," said Ashton Lee, a 16-year-old transgender boy from Manteca who came to Sacramento with his mother to testify at the hearing. "I just want to be treated the same as all the other boys, but my school forces me to take P.E. in a class of all girls and live as someone I'm not. Every day in that class leaves me feeling isolated and alone, making it extremely difficult to learn."
The Los Angeles Unified School District, which is the second largest school district in the country and serves more than 670,000 students, successfully implemented a policy virtually identical to AB 1266 in 2005 to ensure that no student is left out.
"Families matter in LAUSD. We've worked with students and families closely to ensure that our policies related to gender identity are successful, welcomed by students, and supported by parents," said Judy Chiasson, Program Coordinator for Human Relations, Diversity and Equity at the Los Angeles Unified School District. "In addition to longstanding policies banning bullying, harassment, and discrimination, LAUSD has had specific policies banning discrimination based on gender identity for nearly a decade. We have firsthand experience recognizing and valuing the diversity of school communities, which ultimately enhances and enriches the lives of all our students."
The Los Angeles Times recently editorialized in support of AB 1266, noting that "discomfort is not a valid reason for discrimination."
"California law already prohibits discrimination in education, but transgender students are still unfairly excluded from physical education, athletic teams, and other school activities and facilities. This exclusion negatively impacts students' ability to succeed in school and graduate with their class," said Melissa Goodman, an attorney with the ACLU of California.
For example, physical education classes help students develop healthy fitness habits and teach values like teamwork and fair competition – and P.E. credits are required, so students cannot graduate without them.
Under AB 1266, California's public schools would be required to respect a transgender student's identity in all school programs, activities, and facilities. The bill will provide guidance to district and school leaders about how to meet their obligations to protect the safety and well-being of all students, including those that are transgender.
The bill is supported by the ACLU of California, Equality California, Gay-Straight Alliance Network, Gender Spectrum, the National Center for Lesbian, Rights, Transgender Law Center, among other organizations.
Learn more:
Parent Testimony: Catherine Lee (June 12, 2013)
Bill Will Ensure the Success and Well-being of Transgender Students (March 4, 2013)


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Day's Best: Rescue of Colorado Springs doctor in Afghanistan
A Colorado Springs doctor who was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan was rescued — thank goodness.
Tragically, Nicolas D. Checque, one of the Navy Seals who was on the rescue mission was killed. We offer our condolences to his family.
SEAL Team Six, elite Navy commandos, rescued Dr. Dilip Joseph, a medical adviser for the nonprofit Morningstar Development. Joseph and two other relief staffers were on their way back from visiting a rural clinic when they were kidnapped.
Joseph was not injured and reportedly will return home soon thanks to the bravery of the special operations forces who freed him from the Taliban.


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Religious Poetry in Vernacular Syriac from Northern Iraq (17th-20th Centuries): An Anthology
The present publication ideally continues the CSCO 589-590, in which 17th-century religious poems in Vernacular Syriac (i.e., Neo-Aramaic or Sureth) were published. It offers the reader a rich anthology and the most complete historical sketch of the dorektha genre, surveying published and unpublished works by Chaldean and Assyrian authors. Texts dating from 1607/08 to 1980 AD are critically edited and translated into English, with linguistic, philological and literary comments: On Repentance by Hormizd of Alqosh (17th cent.); the poetic diptych On the Torments of Hell and On the Delights of the Kingdom by Damynanos of Alqosh, which shows the author's indebtedness to Italian Baroque sermons; On a Famine in the Year 1898 by the poetess Anne of Telkepe, probably the first work by a woman to enter the CSCO; the fascinating and living story of the Hermit Barmalka by Joseph 'Abbaya of Alqosh; On an Attack by the Mongols at Karamlish, in which Thomas Hanna of Karamlish elaborates on classical sources such as Gewargis Warda and Barhebreus; the touching and beautiful elegy On Exile by Yohannan Cholagh, who deals with the Christian emigration from Iraq, a contemporary social problem that is even more pressing today than in 1980, when the poem first appeared in Qala Suryaya.
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Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium: Scriptores Syri, Volume 218
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"This conference is about building and protecting the underlying architecture for the emerging online video medium. But it's also about exploring the future of the internet. As video becomes a preferred mode of communication, it's increasingly important that video devices and content aren't locked down. The open web is still in its infancy, and there are unimaginably cool things coming down the pipeline."
"We need to ensure that creativity is compensated; that the tools for making and watching video are accessible and widely distributed; that the network for delivering video is open to all producers, and that public policy supports massive numbers of people participating in the media. Basic literacy now demands that it's just as easy to make and share video as it is to consume video."
"We've seen big shifts in network policy, broad transformations in public life, and constant changes in technology. The media is more read/writeable than ever before, but we're far from the full potential of web video: a day when every person on the planet can express their world through moving images. Video will be most powerful as a medium when it's as copy-pastable, accessible, and ubiquitous as text."


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Despite the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December 2009 to achieve its goal of a treaty binding the industrialized world to an economic suicide pact, the "voluntary" agreements are still a threat to the West. The UN is engaged in an effort to use the imagined environmental crisis as the justification for a program of sweeping economic redistribution that would shift trillions of dollars from the industrialized nations to the Third World. The UN is now demanding an "investment" of $1.9 trillion per year in "green technology" to meet the goals that the internationalists have set for the nations of the world. An AFP story entitled "World needs $1.9tn a year for green technology:UN" sets forth the lament of an elite for whom "real money" is measured in tens of trillions of dollars:
"Over the next 40 years, $1.9 trillion (1.31 trillion euros) per year will be needed for incremental investments in green technologies," the UN Economic and Social Affairs body said in its annual survey.
"At least one-half, or $1.1 trillion per year, of the required investments will need to be made in developing countries to meet their rapidly increasing food and energy demands through the application of green technologies," it added. At the moment, "external financing currently available for green technology investments in developing countries is far from sufficient to meet the challenge," it assessed.
Over the last two years, climate change funds managed by World Bank disbursed about $20 billion, a fraction of the sum necessary for developing countries to build up clean energy technologies, sustainable farming techniques and technologies that help cut non-biodegradable waste production. Even though states agreed during a 2009 Copenhagen summit to spend $30 billion over 2010 to 2012 and $100 billion a year by 2020 in transfers to developing countries, these sums have not been realised.
In other words, the costly "feel good" language adopted at Copenhagen — though far from the crushing obligations a treaty would have imposed — still means the World Bank and the United Nations will be playing the role of an international collection agency, metaphorically beating on the doors of various heads of state until they "cough up" the demanded funds.
The cost of "going green" continues its steady upward climb with every new pronouncement from the UN. As reported for The New American in March 2010, the UN plan would eventually cost $45 trillion, with most of that cost coming from the First World:
According to the Earth Summit 2012 website, the goals of the conference will be in line with the Copenhagen agenda: Wrapping economic redistribution in a green mantle.
The United Nations General Assembly agreed to a new Earth Summit in December. The Summit will be in 2012 and will be hosted by Brazil. The themes are the Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, the institutional framework for sustainable development, emerging issues and a review of present commitments.
The term "sustainable" in such a context is usually a buzzword for "governmentally controlled." Although the plan is still wrapped in green, the dream of "poverty eradication" is coming to the fore.
And what will be the cost to the industrialized world for such "poverty eradication"? The inconceivable price tag is already at $45 trillion — and the conference is still years away. The ANI reports:
Documents written in advance of the meeting assume that the goal of the green economic transformation is the same as that of the ill-fated Copenhagen conference: a 50 percent reduction in global carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
That, the paper says, will require a staggering 45 trillion dollars to accomplish. While the Copenhagen agenda was declared dead in December, the green road that leads to enormous cuts in carbon emissions by 2050 will require wealth tranfer [sic] from developed to developing country — same as the Copenhagen summit, according to documents.
Now, the $45 trillion has grown to an even more incomprehensible $76 trillion (based on the proposed 40 years of spending $1.9 trillion per year). Calling such a reckless demand "outrageous" and "unsustainable" still falls short — what is demanded is nothing less than the conversion of much of what remains of the economies of the developed world into a means of funneling wealth to the World Bank, which will, ostensibly, redistribute those funds to the Third World.
The human cost of such redistributionist schemes is regularly ignored. The shaky "science" of anthropogenic global warming is so full of holes than it has lost much of its credibility in the eyes of so many people that it is often perceived to be the pet theory of environmentalist fanatics, scientists who have staked their careers on the theory, and politicians (and others) who stand to profit either financially or politically from the schemes that have been hatched to ameliorate its supposed effects.
The problem for the environmentalists and the internationalists is that panicking nations may no longer be willing to sacrifice their future for the sake of a theory that is steadily unraveling.
The United States has yet to show any significant recovery from its own economic troubles, and the plight of Europe is steadily going from bad to worse. As reported previously for The New American, Portugal's government bonds are now at "junk" status. As Bruce Walker wrote on July 7, the ramifications of the ongoing economic meltdown in Europe may threaten the entire EU:
The effect upon Portugal was immediate — but more ominously, in nearby Spain (the fourth of the so-called "PIGS" nations, the others being Portugal, Italy, and Greece), the stock market dropped 1.5 percent and the amount of interest required by bond purchasers rose. Spain's economy is significantly larger than that of the other PIGS — and only somewhat smaller than the economy of France. Even worse, stocks dropped 2 percent in Italy, affected not only by the ripple of the PIGS but also because spending cuts have not seemed to help its huge national debt.
It would be worse than irresponsible for American and European governments to continue to sacrifice the well-being of their nations to pursue costly "cures" for largely theoretical environmental problems. The plan to divert $76 trillion into "green technologies" ought to be greeted, first, with inquiries into precisely who would profit from such expenditures, and, second, with a resounding rejection of such an obscene effort to loot the economies of the developed world.


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A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered Wells Fargo to pay its bank customers $203 million in restitution for running a scheme deliberately intended to maximize its overdraft fees.
The claim against Wells was brought by a private law firm, but should prompt California Attorney General Jerry Brown to pursue similar litigation against other banks doing business within the state that have employed similar predatory practices.
The AG's office not only can seek restitution for California consumers, but also fines against the profiteering banks that have knowingly and willfully cheated their customers. Those fines could amount to several hundred million dollars, collectively, which the State could use to help close its current budget gap.
According to the 90-page court ruling against Wells Fargo, instead of processing customers' checks in the order in which the bank received them, the bank paid them from largest to smallest. By paying the largest check, whether or not it was the first received, Wells increased the likelihood that multiple smaller checks would incur overdraft fees.
According to the New York Times, Wells Fargo collected nearly $1.8 billion in overdraft fees from its California customers from 2005 to 2007. The bank denies that its practices were unscrupulous.
But United States District Court Judge William Alsop concluded that the "bank's dominant, indeed sole, motive was to maximize the number of overdrafts and squeeze as much as possible" out of its customers.
The class action lawsuit against Wells Fargo was initiated by the San Francisco office of the law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein.
"This is not only an actual victory for Wells Fargo customers," said lead trial attorney Richard Heimann, "but a symbolic victory for consumers throughout the country who are subjected to these kinds of oppressive business practices."
Heimann is to be commended for pursuing the litigation against Wells. But it raises the question as to why it was the private trial lawyer, rather than Attorney General Brown, who took the lead in going after the bad-acting megabank?
But it's not too late for Brown, who currently is running for governor. Wells is not the only bank bilking its customers, according to Heimann.
The AG can – and should – go after several other banks, which have raked in billions of dollars in overdraft fees here in California, and which have employed the same predatory practices as Wells Fargo.


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Two of the most influential market prognosticators today — Pimco's Bill Gross and Goldman Sachs's Jim O'Neill — both warned clients over the weekend of the perils of the coming "fiscal cliff," when tax increases and spending cuts kick in at the end of the year.
"U.S. fiscal cliff (is) deeper than advertised," said Gross, whose firm oversees $1.9 trillion, in a tweet. "It's a Grand Canyon. Washington will defer entitlement cuts & raise revenues only marginally."
O'Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, warned clients in a note that market momentum was quickly turning down on fears of policy gridlock.
"The world and the U.S.'s own people need Washington, D.C. to be sensible," wrote O'Neill. "We had a rehearsal of life without a fiscal package in August 2011, and it wasn't very pleasant."
The S&P 500 fell more than 2 percent last week after President Obama won re-election, the Democrats retained control of the Senate and Republicans held a majority in the House -- the exact same political make-up before the election. (Read more: 'Cliff' Fears Give Stocks Worst Week Since June)
In a previous note, "I feared about the consequences of the status quo," said O'Neill. "It seemed to me that this was not a good outcome for early or detailed progress on fiscal issues."
O'Neill and Gross are among the latest influential investors or organizations to give dire warnings about the fiscal cliff coming in January. Former President Bush's tax cuts are set to expire and then automatic spending cuts linked to last summer's debt ceiling showdown are set to be enacted in a combined action that could cost the economy $600 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. (Read more: Ding! Traders Get Ready for 'Fiscal Cliff,' Round 1)
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Florida Military Records
This entry was originally written by the Florida Pioneer Descendants Certification Program Committee of the Florida State Genealogical Society, Inc. for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The Florida Department of Military Affairs, St. Francis Barracks, 82 Marine Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084 dma.myflorida.com has produced an ongoing series of approximately 150 'Special Archives Publications' distributed to a limited number of depositories in Florida and elsewhere. Selected volumes will be noted in the discussions below, but researchers are encouraged to query the director at the above address regarding a list of pertinent titles or see a list online by Anne Futch through the 'Archives FTP site' at www.rootsweb.com/~flgenweb.
The Revolutionary War. Since Florida remained loyal to the Crown during the war, there are few Revolutionary War military records in Florida repositories. In fact, Florida served as a haven for southern loyalists when its English settlers invited loyalists from other states (especially South Carolina and Georgia) to move to Florida. Several skirmishes took place along the Georgia-Florida border and at Pensacola; later, many soldiers moved to Florida with their families, applied for pensions, and were buried here.
- Fritot, Jessie Robinson. Pension Records of Soldiers of the Revolution Who Removed to Florida. Jacksonville, Fla.: Jacksonville Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1946.
- Wright, J. Leitch. Florida in the American Revolution. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1975.
More current information on soldiers buried or ever living in Florida can be found in:
- Cooper, Pamela J. 'Revolutionary Soldiers in Florida,' The Florida Genealogist 24 (Jul/Sept 2001): 94.
- Patriots Who Died and/or Are Buried in Florida. Sons of the American Revolution, Florida Chapter www.sar.org/pat_idx/FL-Patriots/index.htm.
Excellent resources for identifying many of the Loyalist men who went to Florida for asylum and filed claims are:
- Siebert, Wilbur Henry. Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785: The most important documents pertaining thereto. Reprint. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972.
- Dwyer, Clifford S. Index to Series 1 of American Loyalist Claims. Athens, Ga.: Iberian, 1990.
- _____ and J. R. Jones. Index to Series 2 of American Loyalist Claims. DeFuniak Springs, Fla.: Ram Pub., 1986.
The actual records associated with the above two indexes are on microfilm.
War of 1812. The War of 1812 occurred before the U.S. acquired Florida. The East Florida Papers, 1737'1858, include references to military activities during this period. See:
- Florida War of 1812 Pension Project at http://usgwarchives.net/pensions/1812/index.htm
- James G. Cusick's, The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2003).
- "The Patriot War Papers and Patriot War Claims 1812-1846." Manuscript found at Saint Augustine Historical Society, 271 Charlotte street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Indian Wars (1817'18, 1835'42, 1855'58). Many of the following records can be found at major libraries throughout Florida and at the Florida State Archives. There is no state index, but participants are included in the master Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During Indian Wars and Disturbances, 1815'1858. See also:
Compiled Service Records of Volunteers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Florida During the Florida Indian Wars, 1835'1858.
Original Florida Territorial Muster Rolls, 1826'1849. Includes a few original muster rolls from the Second Seminole War.
Seminole War Muster Rolls of Florida Militia, 1836'1841, 1856'1858.
Florida Militia Muster Rolls; Seminole Indian Wars. 10 vols. Florida Department of Military Affairs, Historical Services Division. Indexed online by Aurie Morrison (search by title).
In 1903 the Florida Board of State Institutions published an unindexed and somewhat flawed volume entitled Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil, and Spanish-American Wars. (1903; reprinted, Macclenny, Fla.: Richard J. Ferry, 1983) and digitized at Florida State Library website under Florida History and Materials http://diglib.lib.fsu.edu. The P. K. Yonge Library has an index to the Civil War section compiled by the WPA, but the volume's chief usefulness is as a lead to original source materials.
A database called the Florida War Death List, 1836-42 is searchable at Ancestry.com.
The Mexican War (1846'48). Florida had recently been through the Second Seminole War and had been a state just over a year when the war with Mexico began, yet the five-company quota assigned to Florida was quickly filled. Very little attention has thus far been paid to the new state's part in the Mexican War, but one excellent account, including rosters of the five companies, is T. Frederick Davis, 'Florida's Part in the War with Mexico,' Florida Historical Quarterly 20 (1942): 235-59. The full article can be found online at http://palmm.fcla.edu/fh/. In addition to general military sources for all states, see Mexican War Muster Rolls of Florida Independent Companies, 1847'1848, at the Florida State Archives.
Civil War. Florida seceded from the Union on 10 January 1861, remained an independent nation until 22 April 1865, and ended the Civil War with the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi not captured and occupied by federal forces. More than 16,000 Floridians served in the Civil War (15,000 Confederate and 1,290 Union).
Several volumes of the special publications of the Florida Department of Military Affairs pertain to Union and Confederate soldiers from Florida. The Florida State Archives and many other libraries in Florida have the National Archives microfilm indexes to the Union and Confederate soldiers Service and Pension indexes. See also:
Biographical Rosters of Florida's Confederate and Union Soldiers, 1861'65. 6 vols. Compiled by David W. Hartman & David Coles. Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1995.
Confederate Records. Florida granted pensions to Confederate veterans and their widows under laws passed in 1885, 1887, and 1889. The Florida State Archives has a collection of some 14,000 approved and denied pension applications from 1885 to 1954, also available at the FHL. They are now available online at http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/barm/PensionFiles.html. The files are indexed by both veterans' and widows' names.
The Florida Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home records are kept at the Jacksonville Public Library in three binders and are completely indexed. Microfilmed records and index to Confederate Soldiers in Florida are available at both the National Archives and FHL.
See also Virgil D. White, Register of Florida CSA Pension Applications (Waynesboro, Tenn: National Historical Publishing Co., 1989).
Union Records. Union sources also include microfilmed service records and an index for those who served from Florida, which is available at both the National Archives and the FHL. See also:
The Roster of Union Soldiers, 1861'1865. (Florida, vol. 19) Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing. Co., 1997.
Bibliographical sources that may be helpful include:
Davis, William Watson. The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida. Reprint. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1964.
Florida State Genealogical Society. Census Department of the South, November 1864: For Jacksonville, Fernandina, and St. Augustine, Florida. Ordered by the Department of the South, Hilton Head, South Carolina. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2002.
Schmidt, Lewis G. The Civil War in Florida: A Military History. 4 vols. Allentown, Penn.: L.G. Schmidt, 1989'92.
Taylor, Paul. Discovering the Civil War in Florida: A Reader and Guide. Sarasota, Fla.: Pineapple Press, 2001.
FamilySearch.org has a variety of collections available for free online:
- Florida, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Florida, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers
The Spanish-American War. Most of the Florida volunteers in the infantry units of what John Hay called this 'splendid little war' moved smartly about the state, into and out of training camps and guard detachments, but never left it. Several hundred of them are listed, with capsule unit histories, in part 3 of Soldiers of Florida (see section on Indian Wars above). The section is unindexed but can serve to alert researchers to further resources. A thirteen-reel National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication (M1087), Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served in the Florida Infantry During the War with Spain, is generally more reliable, and access to the records is facilitated by a 126-roll index (M871). The Florida Department of Military Affairs Special Publication No. 3 is Mobilization Lists, Florida State Troops and Naval Militia, Spanish-American War, 1898'1899. The Florida Historical Society has an extensive collection. See also:
Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil, and Spanish-American Wars. Macclenny, Fla.: R.J. Ferry, 1983.
World War I. Sources at the Florida State Archives include:
Summary of Florida Veterans of World War I, 1925. This series contains a summary of the citizens of Florida who served in the armed forces of the United States during World War I from 1916 to 1920. It lists the name, race, period served, the branch served in, ranks attained, those killed or wounded, and any awards or citations earned.
Soldiers and Sailors Discharge Records. These records contain the individual's name, race, rank, serial number, reason for discharge, birthplace, age at time of enlistment, occupation, and physical description. The enlistment record, usually included with the discharge record, gives the length of service, prior service, marital status, arms and horsemanship qualifications, advancement, battles, decorations and honors, leaves of absence, physical condition, and character evaluation. The Florida State Archives has these papers on microfilm for twenty-eight counties, with microfilm copies at the FHL. Search by the individual county. See also:
The Florida State Archives, Florida Memory Project has the World War I Service Cards online at www.floridamemory.com/Collections/WWI.
World War I Navy card roster of Floridians, 1925 are at Florida State Archives and FHL.
Florida Department of Military Affairs. Florida Veterans of the First World War All Services, 1917'1919. Special Archives Publication Nos. 21-29.
World War II.
The Florida World War II Memorial www.floridawwii.com/sites.asp lists historic sites and research collections if they are available.
World War II Casualty Card Files, 1950. This Florida State Archives series contains cards that were assembled by the Military Department and used as a central file to track the military casualties from Florida during World War II.
Florida Department of Military Affairs. Special Archives Publication Nos. 15, 19, 59-62, 119, 133, 135-137.
Later Conflicts. Names of military personnel who died or are missing in action in the Korean War and Vietnam are available online through the USGenWeb archives (see page 16) for Florida.
Militia. Florida has had a militia since its earliest territorial days. When voters lined up to register for the young state's first election, every able-bodied man over twenty and under forty-five was enrolled in the militia before being allowed to vote; only age and infirmity excused the prospective voter from his military obligation.
Home guard (state militia) units were under state command during the Civil War, and their personnel and other records were never provided to Confederate officials. Most of the records that survived the war were placed in the State Arsenal, which has recently transferred them and other treasures to the Florida State Archives. Including records as early as the 1820s, as well as muster rolls from the Second Seminole, Mexican, and Civil Wars, this new acquisition constitutes a major source for Florida researchers. Later records include documents of the Florida Militia, Florida State Troops, and Florida National Guard (1870'1917). See Robert Hawk, Florida's Army: Militia/State Troops/National Guard, 1565'1985 (Englewood, Fla.: Pineapple Press, 1986).


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The first series of the Northeast Monsoon Grand Prix 2013 came to a rousing finish on Saturday, 16th February at Changi Beach Park. Much to the delight of the organisers, the regatta welcomed a whooping 50 participants - 39 windsurfers and 11 Laser Radial sailors - more than double the number as compared to the Southwest Monsoon Grand Prix 2012! The first race of the regatta commenced at around 1pm and the participants got off to a very light start, coupled with passing showers. But the unfriendly weather conditions did not deter the fleet from racing well and having a whale of a time.
Thankfully, the winds soon picked up and participants were treated with consistently strong breeze of approximately 8 - 12 knots throughout the rest of the day; allowing both the windsurfers and laser radial sailors to complete over 30 races within a mere five hours. This year, the regatta saw the inclusion of the Champion of Champions category, which definitely served to take things up a notch. The races were particularly exciting; leaving spectators and supporters in beads of perspiration as they watched the close action happening right before them. The Champion of Champions segment is when the combined Top 4 of each individual category, such as the best four of the Laser Radial Youth & Senior, and the best four of the RS:One 7.8 Youth & Senior, face off in a final round to determine the Champion of Champions. Indeed, the first series of the Northeast Monsoon Grand Prix 2013 has successfully lived up to, or rather, exceeded the high expectations of the participants, some of whom have taken part in last year's Southwest Monsoon Grand Prix 2012 - all in all, the consensus was that it was a very successful regatta.
For those of you who have missed out on all the fun and action that took place last week, fret not, as there is still the upcoming Series 2 of the Northeast Monsoon Grand Prix 2013, which will be happening on the 3 March 2013 (Sunday) at Bay East Garden (Gardens by the Bay next to Costa Rhu and Marina Bay Golf Course).RESULTS
RS:One 7.8 Youth Category (19 yrs and under) 1st - Audrey Yong 2nd - Klinsmann Ang 3rd - Nicholas Wee
RS:One 7.8 Senior Category ( 20years and above) 1st - Joshua Choo 2nd - Shaun Pow 3rd – Aaron See -
RS:One 7.8 Champion of Champions 1st - Joshua Choo 2nd - Klinsmann Ang 3rd - Merrick Phang
RS:One 4.0 Open Category
1st - Reynold Chan 2nd - Hong Shi Ying 3rd - Merry Tan
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Laser Radial Senior Category (20years and above)
1st – Anthony Kiong
2nd – Tobias Baur
3rd – Tan Soon Chung
Laser Radial Champion of Champions
1st –Ryan Lo
2nd – Jevyn Ong
3rd – Anthony Kiong
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