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wheat flours, protein percentages and fortifying flour
EDIT: based on some feedback, I have corrected my original post.
I set out to locate a list of protein levels in common flours, and I found a handy list, reposting for your perusal:
Flour Names & Protein Percentages
- King Arthur Queen Guinevere Cake Flour (8.0%)
- King Arthur Round Table Pastry Flour (9.2%)
- Caputo 00 Extra Blu Flour (9.5%)
- Generic All-Purpose Flour (10.3%)
- King Arthur All-Purpose Flour (11.7%)
- Caputo 00 Pizzeria Flour (12.0%)
- General Mills Harvest King Flour (12.0%)
- Robin Hood All-Purpose Flour (12.0%)
- King Arthur Bread Flour (12.7%)
- Bob's Red Mill Semolina Flour (12.9%)
- Five Roses All-Purpose Flour (13.0%)
- Eagle Mills All-Purpose Flour (13.3%)
- King Arthur Whole Wheat Flour (14.0%)
- King Arthur Whole Wheat Organic Flour (14.0%)
- King Arthur Sir Lancelot Flour (14.2%)
- Arrowhead Mills Vital Wheat Gluten Flour (65.0%)
- Hodgson Mill Vital Wheat Gluten Flour (66.6%)
- Bob's Red Mill Vital Wheat Gluten Flour (75.0%)
- Gillco Vital Wheat Gluten Flour (75.0%)
- King Arthur Vital Wheat Gluten Flour (77.8%)
The reason I was interested in this is because I wanted to find out how much my protein would be boosted by adding vital wheat gluten to my flour.
I usually use KA All Purpose, which has 11.7% protein. To supplement, I planned to use Bob's Red Mill Vital Wheat Gluten Flour.
- 1 cup KA AP flour weighs about 125g. If 11.7% is protein, then there is about 14.63g of protein per cup of this flour
- 1 tbsp of Bobs Red Mill Vital Wheat Gluten weighs about 8.5g. If 75% is protein, then 6.375g of protein per tbsp of this flour.
- 1 cup KA AP + 1 tbsp Bob's Red Mill Vital Wheat Gluten = 21g TOTAL protein
- 21g of protein / 133.5g total ingredient weight = .161, or 15.73% of protein in the flour mixture
You can use this same method to calculate the adjusted protein in your flour.
What's interesting to me is that at the recommended dosage, adding 1 tbsp. of Bob's Red Mill gluten to every 1 cup of KA flour would make an extremely high protein flour, higher than what is typically commercially available. I wonder if it would make it totally unusable & gummy?
Then again, if you had a relatively weak, generic AP flour (9% protein), then 1 tbsp per cup would probably bump you to a very respectable 13.2% protein level, close to that of KA Bread Flour. For those that have actually tried this technique, I wonder if it actually performs in a similar way (e.g., similar to KA Bread flour) or do other flour factors (such as ash content, type of wheat, etc) play more into the overall performance of the flour and resulting bread?


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Location: Chicago and other places
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:49 am
Post subject: Looking for the BEST location for a hotel in Paris
If all goes well with Sally getting her Green Card, I'd like to take her to Paris for 2 weeks in October. That's a safe month for me to be gone from my landscape business as Autumn is looooong in Chicago and it takes 6 weeks or more for the trees to lose their leaves.
This is what I'm trying to achieve: a hotel that makes me WANT to
never leave it, that is in the CENTER of
If someone wanted to come to Chicago for 2 weeks, never rent a car and never go to the suburbs, I'd have 20 hotels that I could recommend. They would always be within 3 blocks of Lake Michigan and it's amazing beaches and bike paths; shopping and dining is excessive to the extreme, and Navy Pier, the Art Institute, and the Museum Campus of Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium are a 15 minute bus ride away.
Maybe it's the fact that Chicago can only grow North and South (because of the Lake) that the best of urban living is within a casual 10 minute stroll.
Is Paris the same way, or am I doomed to be taking buses to see 1/2 to 3/4's of the city???
I am NOT interested in walking an hour to see something (Lazy American, HERE) but if that's what I have to do, I'll pout about it and get "over it".
I was working in Europe for a landscape magazine the months of April/May/June of 2002 and we lived in Inverness, Scotland; Amsterdam; London; and Paris for several weeks, several times. The editor of the magazine who was in charge of the trip was/is an"old school snob" about Europe and basically only let us writers, photographers and landscapers see the things SHE was interested in seeing. I wore out shoes at the Louvre; I saw Notre Dame and Sainte-Chapelle no less than 6 times (at various parts of the day for her to photograph
) and was dragged to dull museum after dull museum during OUR free time. Because it was a working "vacation" related to horticulture, we wasted endless hours taking trains to Versailless and Giverny, where we had the horrid misfortune of being there on the BIGGEST CROWD DAY IN HISTORY!!! They actually closed Giverney because it couldn't hold any more people!
What I
to see and do but we were never let out of her 'covey' of minions was: The Eiffel Tower (to just spend hours gazing at it); the river Seine with boat rides, the Champs-Elysees and the hundreds and hundreds of tiny shops and bistros that litter Paris. I wanted to spend half a day at ONE sidewalk cafe, to wake up late, go to bed early in a wonderful room, and be able to walk out my hotel door and NOT have to trek 8 blocks for a cafe.
The places we were booked into were from the Dark Ages. NONE had elevators, and after the 4th floor of carrying up cameras, tripods and luggage for yet the 3rd time in a week, can get tiring
. Rooms were uber cramped, bathrooms felt like those in mobile homes where you could pee in the toilet and take a shower simultaneously.
The last thing I want, upon returning to Paris, is to be 1/2 a mile from the nearest ANYTHING!
I want to roll out the door and into the Center of Everything!!!
Is this "do-able" in Paris or is the age of the city working against it where I will be forced to take "trains/planes/and automobiles" to find a decent bookstore or cafe?
Two hotels that look promising to me are the Hilton Paris, with it's balconies overlooking the Eiffel Tower and the Renaissance Paris Vendome. However, when you look at where they claim they are located, you still have to
your butt great distances to hook up with the Seine and the Champs-Elysees.
Looking at maps does me no good, as it's foreign to me and confusing. My friends who have gone to Paris since me are more interested in the stuff in the outlying regious and rent a car, so they're no help.
So, please help me! My first time in Paris wetted my appetite and I want to come back glutted and sated in the beauty of it's people and surroundings without wearing out two pairs of Mephistos!
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Location: israel
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:25 am
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Hello DQ,
Best location in Paris... I'll leave it the Parisians to suggest hotels. But as a non Parisian who lived in Paris 5 years, I thing best location is a very subjective matter. For me best location is around St Germain de Pres, not far from the Buci Market. I lived there for five years. That's my territory. But then, the Marais is a very central location for everything. And then there are the afficionados of the Champs Elisees , etc. ( Maybe the best is to come to paris a lot an try all the arrondissements- each one is typical and differrent)
What I mean, living in the Marais or around the Halles, makes it possible to visit most of the heart of Paris by walking. But though compact, Paris is a big city and bus/metro is convenient, quick and relatively cheap. Unlike London, the metro station are close to one another, busses cross paris from north/slouth and east/west.
In the range of price of the hotels you mentioned, there should be no problem to find a good hotel . Isle St. Louis has some boutique hotels, and definitely, in my opinion, somewhere around the Les halles- Marais, should be the ideal location. Walking distance to the Seine, Marais, Left Side, Louvrem les Champs, and even Montmartre if you want to exercise.
The Tour Eiffel is a little out of the way, but not really.
I would like to suggest something else : if you stay two weeks, maybe an appartment could be an option. I use the Citadines-not so fancy as the Hilton, but equipped with a kitchen and that's a good thing when you stay for a lond period in a city. There are several ones very well placed: the Citadines St. Germain ( Fancy and quite expensive), citadines Louvres and Vendome Opera, Citadines Les Halles ( less fancy but a stunning location). Their site:
citadines.com. Look for special offers, they can be great!The one room appartments are great, though a studio is sufficient and big enough for two people.
Here is the place to compliment you on your very elaborate recipes , detailed explenations and encyclopaedic knowledge .
And because you mention her so often and I feel as I have missed this information ( probably I joined the forum later), who is Sally?
No more war, more two weeks stay in Paris
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:30 am
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P.S. I saw only now your post on 3days etc, including the impressing list of room facilities- of the Hilton Paris deal. If it includes the airfare- it's a gift, but even if840$ is only the room price ( 120S per two?) it's still so cheap, that location is no more so important. It's not central, but it's Hilton and cheap. My post did not take in account yours, and though I stand by my suggestion, I wouldn't miss such an offer.
No more war, more wonderful deals for Paris!
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:09 am
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Good morning!
Paris is only 12km by 9km. It is quite small really. Most of Paris is very flat. The only hilly area is Montmartre. Nothing is far from you in Paris.
There are some really nice areas where you can stay and they are picturesque and close to major things.... but we find they don't have good food options. the cafes are only open during the day, or there is not a lot of variety, or the cafes are all the chain/franchise ones. Some areas are very family orientated, some are more arty, some are very touristique.
You really need to decide what sort of neighbourhood you want. And remember that small is Parisienne. You will not get a large hotel room like you do elsewhere (ie America or Australia). Not without a huge price tag and a huge hike to anywhere affordable. The room is not really important though, so long as it is comfortable and clean. You will be sitting in cafes and soaking in the atmosphere, so you will just want somewhere to rest your weary head at the end of the day.
Simona was absolutely correct in saying that the buses and metro are so convenient. If you buy a carte orange for each of you, you will have unlimited travel within Paris while you are there. It is good for buses and metro and can also be used on the furnicular and the Montmartrabus. The transport services are so good that I quite enjoy taking them.
I live in Montmartre and find it really great for all the things you mention. We have great cafes and restos, a food market a few times a week and a very nice relaxed atmosphere. It is close enough to walk to the Sacre Ceour and sit on the steps in the sunshine, but far away from the tourists. It is accessible by 2 train lines and heaps of buses. I catch the buses quite frequently as it is a great way to sightsee as you go along. You can get a bus from here direct to Trocadero (via the Arch de Triomphe), and I love to get off at the end and wander along near the river looking across to the Tour Eiffel. Buses also go from here to the Champs Eleysee, the River where the tour boats are, heaps of other nice places.
Just up the road is the area of Parc Monceau and Ternes. Ternes has a really nice food market every day and there is a german food shop that does wonderful sausage on a roll with onion and sauerkraut and mustard and .......... I am hungry just thinking about it.
Most times when friends from other arrondissements come to our apartment they say how great the area is for food and atmosphere.
There are quite a few really cute hotels in the area as well. I can write down names if you want and post them for you.
By the Way, how did the high tea go for Sally? Did you have a great time? Must go and check out that forum and see if you posted pics...
Feel free to ignore any of this. It is your holiday and you and Sally need to pick what is right for you, and what you want to do is most important. Enjoy!
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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Location: Chicago and other places
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 1:27 pm
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simona: Sally is my partner, who is Scottish and has a work VISA. We're working on obtaining her Green Card so she can travel outside the U.S. We met on the Internet, on a Writer's Forum and have been together for 3 years.
Debbie: I think my landscape season crushed me right around the time of Sally's High Tea Party so I was remiss in not posting an update. Thanks for reminding me, as I must write the complete ending.
Bottom line: The tea party was SO successful, that the next day, Sally's boss came to her and said, 'Was it
idea for Alice's Tea Party? Did you pay for it yourself?" When Sally said "yes" to both questions, her boss cut a check to her to reimburse 100% of all of Sally's expenses for the tea! Now
Now, back to Paris:
simona: I love the idea of renting an apartment! It had never occured to me! Having a kitdhen in Paris would be so nice, as after the first week, I'm going to be bored going out for each meal and would like to come home to prepare a meal.
Unlike lots of tourists, I spend a fairly good amount of time in the room I rent. At my age, I feel I've earned the right to a Jacuzzi, Hot Tub or Swimming Pool at the end of the day. I also like the pampering aspect of a nice hotel. I think both hotels that I looked at had mini-kitchens in their rooms, but I absolutely WILL check out the apartment links!
And thanks, simona, for the sweet note about my posts.
Debbie: It looks like there is NO central location for Paris. Bummer. I guess I'm spoiled by the logistics of 150 year old Chicago and it's condensed lay-out.
Your post was so informative about the areas; what it looks like I need to do is buy a Paris map from Barnes and Noble and put it next to the computer when I read your suggestions. Right now, they are just names with no association. I've heard heaps and heaps about Montmartre, but never knew what or where it was; thanks to you, I now know.
Thank you BOTH for taking the time to answer and if you have any other tidbits to add, I'll appreciate it! And keep your fingers crossed for Sally's Green Card!
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Location: Richmond, VA, usa
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:59 pm
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DQ.....I am envious of ur trip....Oct should be lovely...from my extensive research before my trip last yr (late Oct) and from looking for an apt for my daughter recently I have some web addresses to send along....we dealt with lodgis.com and had a great experience, also parisinsites.com, yourplaceinparis.com, ilparisapartments.com (some nice pics here) , vrbo.com/vacation-rentals.....for general info & hotels...parisvoice.com, maps of restaurants in each area..paris.planresto.fr , and to read reviews of what people think about different hotels...tripadvisor.com (pretty helpful).....My favorite books are by Allistair Sawday....Special Places to Stay Paris....etc....and English publication....nice pics....of course, in an apt, u won't have the hot tub and fancy pools......but u would have a bigger space....there are areas in the 16th that have a view of the Eiffel Tower, or the 7th.....the Latin Quarter (5th) is student oriented), and the 6th (St Germain) is lovely...can be touristy...but not so much in Oct.....the right bank is more $$$$, the Marais is very in now and where the gay population gravitates...really depends on what ur looking for...i can't help with fancy hotels as I've never done that, prefer to spend $$ on food (snort) Sorry to ramble on, but it's my favorite subject!!!!
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:14 pm
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correction ...it's Alastair Sawday books.....www.Sawdays.co.uk.....
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:53 pm
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DQ--I can only reiterate what has been said. I love St-Germain as a fairly central location. But I'm just going to encourage you and Sally to get very sensible walking shoes and WALK!!!! Paris is supremely walkable and being on foot leads you down streets and alleys you won't find otherwise. And heavens knows there are enough cafes etc anywhere int he ciity to stop at and have a break. Dick and I will typically walk 8-10 hours a day in Paris, but we are somewhat exceptions there i suppose. We'll take the very convenient and quick metros when time is an element or if the location is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out, like St. Denis.
Hope the green card comes through nice and easily!
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:37 pm
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Hello DQ
Like you, the hotel room is for me more than just a place to sleep, as you said, at our age comfort is very important. That's why I like the appartments, where I can take my coffe in the morning whenever I want ( and as much as i want), come back for a siesta knowing that the fridge has my favourite drinks and snacks, and Haim ( my dearest husband) his ice cream, chocolate cakes, cream cakes, chocolate bars, fruits ,at discretion. And a nice cup of tea ( reminiscence of the british mandate in Palestine) in the evening. Last winter we had a meeting with friends from California and NY in Paris, and we had the most wonderful meals in the appartments ( we were all of us at Citadines - Les Halles), fresh from the neighbouring Marche . These were the best dinners, with lots of wine and fine food . And normal breakfast with cheese, vegetables, fesh boiled eggs. And as you say, restaurants are tiring if you depend on them every day.
I'll be in Paris for three days at the end of June ( after berlin) and Ill post new discoveries.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:26 pm
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Good afternoon!
What a nice thing for the boss to do. Reimbursing the cost of the tea party was a really lovely gesture. Glad it all worked out well.
The following are websites which we used when moving here.
Good luck with finding a hotel or apartment with what you want. Having been through the market recently I do not think you will find the comforts you want. At least not without a HUGE pricetag. We stayed in hotels quite alot on our trips here before moving to Paris, and have had to stay in hotels since (due to renovation works - Yuck). One thing which I found quite annoying was that the pictures on the websites did not match rooms when you actually got there. My idea of space, cleanliness and comfort was vastly different to what we received. We were also staying in high end places as my husbands company was paying, so it was even more disappointing.
Having said that, there was nothing wrong with the rooms, and they were comfortable and "hotel clean". I just had to tell myself that Paris is nothing like Australia. After seeing a few friends in their apartments and hotel rooms, and living in a tiny apartment now, I am used to it and think it normal. My home in Sydney is going to seem enormous after this!!!!!
If you have a picnic rug you can bask in the sun in one of the Parcs for hours. Lazing in a cafe for half the day is perfectly acceptable also. On tuesday afternoons (after my french lesson) I laze in a cafe for a few hours with a group of girlfriends. We usually only have one coffee/tea/choclate each, but can sit there enjoying the sun and talking for ages without getting the slightest push from the staff. It is quite common for us to all of a sudden realise it is 7pm and our partners will be home soon, and make a mad panicked dash for the buses and metro (lesson finishes at 3pm... ooops).
Whatever you choose and however you go, you will be in Paris with Sally - and really, that is the whole object of the exercise isn't it. The two of you sharing a trip to a place you really want to go to.
If you feel up to a lunch or dinner while here, drop me a PM and we can link up. I have copies of the english language adverts here as well, so if you want I can scan and email to give you an idea of the apartments for lease for short term (holiday lettings) and the hotels. It might help you make up your mind which way you want to go accomodation wise.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:02 pm
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I heartily agree with the apartment rental plan. I have become so spoiled by doing that. You can cook, shop for food, have more room to stretch out, and best of all feel like a native with your own address!
Here are a few apartments I have stayed in.
Isabelle is very friendly and helpful and her apartments are here:
We stayed at the Louvre apartment and the location was great for access to all of the sights.
Also Gerard Cohen is very eager to please and the view is amazing from his apartment, if you don't mind the stairs. We would lie in bed at night and watch the light show the Bateau Mouches made on our ceiling at night!
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:13 pm
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You've probably already been there and back, so am curious how it worked out. In any case, the Champs Elysee and Eiffel tower are in the 7th. There are a lot of business hotels in that area. Like most of the others, I confess that I prefer St Germain in the 6th. I can walk most everywhere, find a cafe and so on. But the metro does make it easy to get around and you rarely have to walk more than a few blocks to and from the station to get anywhere in the city. You also might consider the 1st as well if you are willing to pay a lot for a hotel. Many of the major tourist's sites are near that area.
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November 7, 1861, was a momentous day in the history of emancipation during the American Civil War. On that day, a combined Union naval and army amphibious force captured Port Royal, South Carolina. Roughly halfway between Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, Port Royal Sound was one of the best natural anchorages on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It was an ideal location for the U.S. Navy to establish a base so it could tighten its blockade against the Confederacy.
What was new about Port Royal compared to other areas of the South occupied by Union forces was its exceptionally high concentration of slaves. Port Royal was part of the Sea Islands region of South Carolina and Georgia, an area dominated by large cotton and rice plantations. African Americans greatly outnumbered whites in the Sea Islands, so much so that many slaves in the Sea Islands spoke Gullah, a highly Africanized English dialect that was largely unintelligible to standard English speakers.
Union military leaders were aware of the nature of the Sea Islands and their initial plan for dealing with slavery there was to reassure the region's white population that they did not intend to free their slaves. So Secretary of War Simon Cameron ordered the commander of the army portion of the expeditionary force, Gen. Thomas W. Sherman, to follow strictly the policies formulated during Benjamin Butler's tenure at Fortress Monroe. Which meant seizing slaves as needed to serve the labor needs of Union forces, but keeping scrupulous work records so that loyal owners could later be compensated and their human property restored to them. Cameron's letter to Sherman read:
In conducting military operations within States declared by the proclamation of the President to be in a state of insurrection you will govern yourself so far as persons held to service under the laws of such States are concerned by the principles of the letters addressed by me to Major-General Butler on the 30th of May and the 8th of August, copies of which are herewith furnished to you. As special directions adapted to special circumstances cannot be given much must be referred to your own discretion as commanding general of the expedition. You will, however, in general avail yourself of the services of any persons whether fugitives from labor or not who may offer them to the National Government; you will employ such persons in such services as they may be fitted for either as ordinary employés or if special circumstances seem to require it in any other capacity with such organization in squads, companies or otherwise as you deem most beneficial to the service. This, however, not to mean a general arming of them for military service. You will assure all loyal masters that Congress will provide just compensation to them for the loss of the services of the persons so employed. It is believed that the course thus indicated will best secure the substantial rights of loyal masters and the benefits to the United States of the services of all disposed to support the Government, while it avoids all interference with the social systems or local institutions of every State beyond that which insurrection makes unavoidable and which a restoration of peaceful relations to the Union under the Constitution will immediately remove.
Cameron's orders, however, assumed the white population in the vicinity of Port Royal would be around during the Union occupation. The initial landing party from the invasion fleet found something quite different when they entered Beaufort, the only town in the Port Royal area. Naval Lieutenant J. Glendy Sprotson reported to his superior from Beaufort on November 8.
In obedience to your orders I landed in the town of Beaufort, and found the place deserted by every [white] inhabitant with the exception of two, one of whom I was conducted to by the Negroes who were rejoiced to see me crowding down in large numbers and cheering the flag. They told me that their masters had been firing at them and driving them back in the woods to prevent their communicating with United States Forces, and I judged from their manner that would commit any act of retaliation that opportunity offered. They also stated that the Forces, formerly occupying St Phillips Fortifications, with the Beaufort Artillery had retired to Port Royal Ferry, ten miles distant from the town.
Mr. Allen an old inhabitant of the place, but Northern by birth, met me at the entrance to his Store, much agitated and holding a flag of truce in his hand. He Said, and I witnessed its corroboration that the Negroes are perfectly wild, breaking into evry building and destroying or carrying off all portable property, and that the Light Boats had been burned immediately after the Surrender of the Batteries.
Mr. Wilcox, an other resident of the place was said to be in the town, but I did not find him, So brought Mr Allen on board —
An intelligent mulato boy dismounted from a horse he was riding and coming towards me said, "the whole County have left sir and all the soldiers gone to Port Royal Ferry," they did not think that you could do it Sir."
On close inquiry I judged that there must be at Port Royal Ferry at this time, or the time of the Negroes departure from there this morning, about a thousand troops and the Beaufort Artillery.
So when Confederate forces retreated in the face of the northern assault, virtually all of the white inhabitants fled with them. They evidently did not trust that the northern soldiers would protect them from their slaves, who they believed (as was common throughout the South) once freed from slave discipline would embark on an orgy of vengeance.
The Confederate flight from Port Royal left about 10,000 slaves in Union hands. They became contraband-of-war, presumably subject to the Confiscation Act but not formally free either. But effectively from November 7, 1861 forward the black population of Port Royal, South Carolina were no longer were slaves. For a time they would become wards of the federal government and its representatives in what became known as the "Port Royal Experiment," as they contended with well-meaning Northerners over what their freedom would mean in practice, setting precedents that would help chart the course for Reconstruction after the Civil War.
Sources: 1) http://www.simmonsgames.com/research/authors/USWarDept/ORA/OR-S2-V1-C4.html; 2) Ira Berlin, et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series I, Volume I: The Destruction of Slavery. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 115.


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2010 GFS Roadtrip Game 2: Angels at Athletics (6/10/10)
We woke up in the La Quinta Inn's "Oakland Airport Coliseum" hotel on the morning of Thursday, June 10, 2010 ready for a Cook Grandfather-Father-Son Baseball Roadtrip first: our second game at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, which would mark the first time we have attended two games at the same stadium during a roadtrip. Once again, we would be seeing the California Angels of Anaheim, Orange County taking on the Oakland Athletics.
We grabbed some free breakfast in the hotel lobby area, showered up, Tim built a very rudimentary fort…
…and we were off to the Coliseum. Once again the La Quinta shuttle (van) dropped us off at the BART stop. Tim loved driving in the van and made sure to tell numerous people that "we drove here in a van!"
The day before, the outside security person hardly glanced into my big green backpack. Today, the guy must have been a former-TSA agent. He poked, prodded, made me remove 70% of the contents, and then decided the backpack was too big to go into the stadium. I've take this same backpack everywhere (probably to 20 different stadiums), including THIS same stadium. I told the guy I had brought this same backpack into the Coliseum not 12 hours ago and I crammed it into the little measurement box. Finally, the authority figure relented, "I'll let you take it in…this time."
So we were in…
We headed to RF where my dad had noticed a baseball in the gap the night before. I'd brought a rubber band, string, and sharpie with the thought of trying my first ever attempt at the glove trick. The ball was still there. But, I never even rigged up my glove. It would have taken too much effort, I think.
Instead, Tim and I stood in the RF corner right next to the foul pole and watched Jered Weaver play catch with former Mariner Joel Piniero. Weaver was standing right in front of us and, interestingly, he was using two baseballs to play catch. He'd hold one ball in his glove and throw the other. After the throw, he'd transfer the second ball to this throwing hand so he could catch the first ball after Piniero threw it back to him.
Once they finished up their throwing, Weaver tossed one ball into the seats behind him and then turned and tossed the second ball to us.
Thanks, Jered!
After Weaver tossed us the ball, Piniero walked over to the foul line. I called out to Joel and he gave us a wave. I asked if he would take a picture with Tim. He said yes, but first he had to do some running in the OF.
A few minutes later, we got Weaver to autograph the baseball he'd tossed us and pose for a picture with Tim (look for Joel in the background):
I think this is the second time this season that we have gotten a baseball, picture and autograph all from the same player at a game, the first being Billy Wagner, and I think it is really cool. Thinking back, we did this once last season with C&S Hall of Famer Ryan Rowland-Smith. (We also got all three from Jason Phillips last season, but the picture and autograph were at different games).
We moved around the corner to the RF foul seats to get that picture with Weaver. I should mention that this was a 12:35 p.m. day game following a night game. We didn't think there would be any BP, but we were wrong. The A's took BP (the Angels did not).
Standing right in front of us in RF was an Oakland Athletic. I had no clue who he is. I don't bring a roster to games (and if I review a roster before a game it is generally just to see if any former Mariners are on the team). But I have a secret weapon — a Canon PowerShot SX200IS with 12 x optical zoom and (48 x total zoom) — and that often times is all that it takes…
…"Hello, Mr. Brad Ziegler." (note: the inset zoomed in picture is a different picture than the main picture).
No one else around seemed to know that it was Ziegler. No one had said his name when he'd shagged balls nearby. Once I figured out who it was and he shagged another baseball (about 40-50 feet from the foul line), I called how, "Hey, Brad Zeigler! Zeeeeegs!" That tipped everyone off in the section and when Ziegler looked over EVERYONE (well, not me, Tim or my Dad) started yelling his name. Ziegler looked discouraged by the yelling and started to turn back toward "the bucket." Just then, Tim called out:
Ziegler quickly swiveled back toward the stands: "Who said "ball please!?" And he started walking toward the seats with the baseball. I pointed at Tim. Then, a kid about 4-5 rows further out in the outfield yelled, "I did!" Ziegler veered to his left and started heading to that little liar kid.
"He did!" I said, as I pointed at Tim. Then some random other guy pointed at Tim and shouted out, "THIS LITTLE KID DID!"
Ziegler changed course again. He approached Tim.
ZIEGLER: "You said 'ball please'?"
TIM: "Yes."
Ziegler gives the ball to Tim.
Thanks, Brad! (And thanks to the "random other guy" for the assist).
It was a great lesson for Tim. I told him (and have told him numerous times since then) that he got that baseball because he said "please" and it has had a very powerful impact on Tim. He's saying please a lot all of a sudden!
Soon, Joel Piniero headed over our way. Do you know about the photo scavenger hunt on mygameballs.com? If not, click here. We're having fun trying to collect some of the scavenger hunt photos and Joel was kind enough to help us out with a 5-pointer — Tim fist bumping a player:
Yes, Tim's fist bump is a little unorthodox, but he's only 4 years old after all. He's a seasoned high fiver, but his fist bumping still needs some work.
Anyway, it was awesome to see Joel. I really liked him as Mariner and was sad to see him go. He was also kind enough to sign the Brad Ziegler "ball please" ball for Tim…and another baseball for my Dad (but not the one he'd just thrown my Dad the day before).
Ahh…a couple things I forgot to mention:
First, between our Weaver picture and getting the Ziegler baseball, someone hit a high foul pop fly down the 1B line. I ran over a couple seats away from the field and positioned myself for a big bounce over everyone in the first two rows. And I would have got the ball too had it not bounced directly into a 30-year old'ish guy's nose. The guy was going for the ball and it cleaned his clock. His nose opened up like a faucet. It wasn't pretty.
Third, also while we were waiting for Piniero, some fan decked out in Angels gear came down to the bullpen and (with Joel Piniero standing about 30 feet to his right) asked the guys in the bullpen, "Do you know when Joel Piniero is going to be out here?" Everyone said no. Then numerous Angels started asking their teammates really loudly, "Do you know when Joel Piniero is going to be out here?" Everyone said no. Then one of them yells to Joel, "Hey, do you know when Joel Piniero is going to be out here?" Joel looks all around…nope, he had no clue either when Joel Piniero would be out there. This never stopped while we were out there and the guy never figured out that Joel was standing right there.
Okay, after the picture with Joel, we decided to go check out our seats…
…I got us some excellent seats in the first row (well, third row because of the on field seats) in Section 125 by third base. They were looking really nice, except that the fence gave them very little leg room.
Side note, on the way over to our seats, we walked through the rows of empty seats all the way from the RF corner. That's pretty standard during BP, right? Well, as we circled around home plate we were in about the third row above the dugout when an usher stopped us. After yesterday's "you gotta eat in your own seats 40 minutes before the game" incident, I was ready for anything. She didn't dissappoint. She told me we couldn't walk through the rows. If we wanted to get from Section 120 Row 3 to Section 125 Row 1, we would have to walk up to the cross aisle behind row 20 and walk behind the 99% empty seating sections and then walk down the aisle at section 125. Okay.
Next, we decided to head over to left field. Oddly, there was no one there. Literally, other than an usher, there was no one else in foul territory down the line (which was very odd because there were a bunch of people in RF foul territory). There were a bunch of people in LF homerun territory and this guy…
…was taking care of everybody. Right as we walked up to the wall in LF foul territory, this guy got a baseball and threw it to someone in homerun territory. Immediately, another ball came, and after spotting Tim he threw it to us. Three more balls came to LF within the next 3 minutes and this guy was all over the field shagging everything and he gave every one of those five baseballs to people in the seats. Very cool.
I had no clue who he was. So I did my zoom trick. No name on the glove. But he did have a number: 48 (click on the picture to the right to make it larger if you can't see the 48 stitched on the glove). According to the A's website this generous guy's name is Michael Wuertz.
Thanks, Michael!
Soon, BP came to an end.
I wanted to do some more exploring, and so did Tim and my Dad. On our way out of the field level, I took the following picture of the A's bullpen…
If that scene doesn't shout "Major League bullpen" I just don't know what does (hopefully you can read the sarcasm in that statement).
We were off to the upper deck. The true upper deck. The 300 level, which is only open in three sections right behind home plate. First, we had to figure out how to get up there.
It was pretty empty in the concourse as we made our way to the 300 level seats…
…but at long last, we made it:
You see that cement wall behind Tim? Guess what is over it? Well, for one thing, off in the distance: San Francisco:
(Hopefully you can tell that is three pictures put together. The bottom picture is the real picture. The middle is a zoomed in version of the bottom picture, and the top picture is zoomed in even further).
But we weren't up here just to look over the wall. We were here to check out the view of the ballpark from the 300 level. Here is the view from the last row in Section 318 of the Coliseum:
Here are Tim and my Dad with the lovely green tarp behind them:
The 300 level steps are really steep and they have no hand rails:
And usher (who didn't even demand to see our tickets) was kind enough to take our picture:
And then I got a panorama from the cross aisle across the front of Section 316:
We still had some time before the game started, so we headed back to the Stomper Fun Zone…
Finally, the game was about to start. We went to the fan assistance booth on our way to our seats to ask where we could find ice cream helmets. The jumbo helmet last night was cool, but we wanted individual sized A's ice cream helmets today. We were told to go to Section 130. But when we arrived one of the guys at the ice cream place informed us that they were OUT OF ICE CREAM HEMLETS! Instead, he offered us little styrofoam bowls that looked like they'd hold about 2 table spoons of ice cream.
Frustrated by this development, we suffered through our still delicious ice cream cones:
Okay, Tim doesn't look like he's suffering. But there are no individual sized A's ice cream helmets in our collection today so the delicousness of the cones was bittersweet.
Finally, the A's took the field…
…and this was our view from Section 125, Row 1, seats 3-5:
The A's called on Trevor Cahill…
…and he was a dandy on this day. So was his defense:
The Angels called on Ervin Santana…
…who looked like he weighs about 75 pounds. He wasn't terrible, but he wasn't on par with Cahill on this day.
As usual, the guys in the bleachers had their A's flags moving in a slow downward waving motion:
The A's provided most of the offense at this game, but this is the only picture I took of an A's batter…
…and the only reason I took the picture (of Gabe Gross) is because he was sporting number 18…a fine number.
There was no scoring in the first three innings, so I took some random shots of Tim and my Dad:
You might notice they are both looking back at me. I decided to sit in row 2, which was totally empty, because foul balls were flying all around us. Sadly, we would glove none of them.
Finally, the A's got the scoring started in the bottom of the 4th inning when Ryan Sweeney hit an RBI double and then scored on a single by Gabe Gross (not in that at bat shown above).
It seemed like A's relievers were walking back-and-forth in front of us all day…
…maybe they were visiting in the little boys' room. Their bullpen, of course, does not have its own little boys' room. Hey, did you notice who was in that back-and-forth picture? No, not 2009 Rookie of the Year, Andrew Bailey, I mean my "ball please" Brad Ziegler.
Tim amused himself by making me take a series of funny face shots and extreme-funny-face close ups…
…this would become a trend on this roadtrip.
So would this…
…."take a picture of me exploding this peanut!"
The Angels finally got on the board in the fifth inning when Juan Rivera hit this double to deep LCF…
…and then he scored on this bloop single…
The sun was beating down hot (but humidity free) and was tiring out Tim…
…finally he agreed to take off his under shirt and go with short sleaves. It was a good move. He pepped up almost immediately.
Not comfortable with a one-run lead, the A's tacked on three more runs in the bottom of the fifth inning on singles by Daric Barton, Kurt Suzuki and Kevin Kooooooooouzmanoff.
Torii Hunter grounded out harmlessly in the sixth…
…Trevor Cahill was cruising. The A's offense tacked on another run in the 7th on a sacrifice fly by Jack Cust.
In the ninth, Cahill turned the ball over to Andrew Bailey…
…who went one, two, three with this swing by Hideki Matsui…
…resulting in the final out of the game (a pop out to 3B).
This was a fun game in some great seats. We had an usher take out picture before heading out:
The day was still early and our next game was just over 24-hours and about 400 miles away. Instead of starting a long drive in the evening, we drove only about 40 miles south to San Jose where we dined at In-N-Out Burger…
…and Tim finally got his picture with a palm tree!
All around, it was an excellent day. And we were looking forward to another one the next day at Dodger Stadium, which would be Tim's 20th MLB stadium.
2010 Fan Stats:
10 Games
12 Teams (Mariners, Orioles, Blue Jays, Red Sox, Angels and Athletics; Phillies, Pirates, Braves, Mets, Brewers and Nationals)
9 Ice Cream Helmets (Orioles (3), Phillies, Pirates (2), Mets, Athletics & Nationals)
25 Baseballs (2 Mariners, 3 Brewers, 3 Nationals, 2 Blue Jays, 4 Umpires, 1 Phillies, 1 Mets, 4 Braves, 1 Orioles, 3 Athletics, 1 Angels)
6 Stadiums (Camden Yards, Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park, Citi Field, PNC Park, Oakland-Alameda County Stadium)
9 Player Photos (Ryan Rowland-Smith, Mike Cameron, Joel Piniero, Frank Catalanotto, Billy Wagner, Jeff Suppan, Tommy Hanson, Jered Weaver and Scott Olsen)
6 Autographs (Daisuke Matsuzaka, Joel Piniero, Frank Catalanotto (2), Billy Wagner (2), Jeff Suppan, Tommy Hanson, Jered Weaver and Scott Olsen)
4 Kids Run The Bases (Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park, Citi Field, PNC Park)


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Here we go, people, let's kick off our "Worst of"s with the "Worst Supporting Actor" category. These were the actors who weren't in the lead role (thank God), but managed to make you wince anyways. The worst supporting actors of 2012. In spite of their limited screen time, these five made sure you knew just how awful they were…
Click through to see who earned this dubious distinction this year!
Matthew Fox – "Alex Cross"
Fox plays a villain who's fascinated by inflicting pain on others. Including the audience. Best known for his television work, Fox takes his wild-eyed brand of thespian stylings to the big screen in order to create a laughable character who's supposed to be psychotic. He winds up comedic, however. A shaved head and a blank look do not a great villain make. At least he was good for a laugh.
Eugene Levy – "Medea's Witness Protection"
Eugene Levy makes us wonder why anyone ever thought he was funny in the first place. He was a stand out in a tsunami of terrible… Seriously, if your performance makes Madea look funny in comparison, you know you're awful. Levy makes shocked faces of disbelief through about 90% of his role, and the other 10% of the time he simply looks perplexed. Thankfully he redeems himself with all of the romantic chemistry he fosters with Denise Richards.
Dennis Quaid – "Playing for Keeps"
Quaid shows up looking haggard, tired and hung over, but thankfully his role only calls for him to act like an obnoxious ass. I'm not sure what could have been made of the role by even a great performance, but Quaid brings "unlikable, egotistical jerk" to life a little too easily. Grating, irritating, and annoying, Quaid begins the film as a bribing suck-up and ends as jealous enemy. Along the way, you'll think, "Ughck".
Vince Vaughn – "The Watch"
I'd call him out for being lazy here, but he obviously don't give a #%&$. Vaughn can barely hide his contempt for the film, his role, his lines, you… "Hahaha!" You can actually feel his disinterest in the part. "Get me out of here" is the subtext behind each and every line of mailed in dialogue he utters. To top it all off, he plays his standard, abrasive, obnoxious asshole character, so there's a ton of pain to be had.
Bruce Willis – "The Cold Light of Day"
Willis barely even bothers to smirk in this masterpiece no-show performance. He plays a father who's secretly been a CIA agent who winds up embroiling his family in violent conspiracy, but the big secret involved is what the cost of his gracing this movie with his name was. It's patently obvious that there was no acting involved for him. His character even gets killed off early. Oops. SPOILER.
Well, there you have it, folks. The five actors who brought their movie down, even though it wasn't their film! They managed to botch things up from a supporting role!
What do YOU think? Anyone I let off the hook? Am I being unfair to any of these
stumble bums fine actors?
Let me hear it! Sound off in the comments below!


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Set in the early 1970s against the specter of the Manson girls, when the peace and love movement begins to turn ugly, this is the story of a runaway teenager's disappearance and her sister's quest to discover the truth. It's 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. As Lucy's default caretaker for most of their lives, Charlotte's youth has been marked by the burden of responsibility, but never more so than when Lucy's dream of a rural paradise turns into nightmare. With gorgeous prose and indelible characters, Cruel Beautiful World examines the intricate, infinitesimal distance between seduction and love, loyalty and duty, and what happens when you're responsible for things you can't fix.
As soon as I started Cruel Beautiful World, I knew I had something very special in my hands. Caroline Leavitt had me at the first paragraph. The writing was beautiful and evocative, focusing on the small moments and gradually letting us know all the characters: Iris, Charlotte and Lucy. This is not a book full of action or twists and turns. Instead, this is similar to Miller's Valley in the sense that they're both novels about life, making you love the characters as if you had known them forever.
It's impossible not to fall in love with the women of this book. Especially Iris. I adored the novel's structure, pretty unique for what we usually read nowadays: loooong chapters (at first I thought there wouldn't be any) revolving around just one character. Their past and their reasons, their feelings. This was especially satisfying when you read another chapter and you could see different events from various perspectives. I've always enjoyed that.
The plot… well, let's say it's simply about life. Lucy runs away from home with her high-school teacher and her family worries. Then we get to know about her new life in the country, her relationship with William, Charlotte's life at uni and Iris past and connection to both sisters. It wasn't predictable because it didn't follow a traditional pattern, and I found that super refreshing.
Even though it's 1969 and the Manson murders are briefly mentioned, the book doesn't really focus on that, although you can feel the "era" by the way the characters talk and behave. Small details, like the clothing and the hair styling. Idealistic teachers. Communes. I really wished I could travel back in time and experience at least a day in that decade.
There were some delightful surprises along the way and my heart broke in various scenes. I was so captivated by the book and its characters that I couldn't stop thinking about them. Don't you love when that happens? That you don't even realize you're reading a book because it feels like the story is playing in your mind. The details were so vivid I could picture everything, especially Iris and Lucy's storylines.
In my opinion, the final part was the weakest one, mostly because some of the story was left open to interpretation and I guess I wanted a bit more closure. But I adored this book anyway. Cruel Beautiful World was a beautiful, moving book that I wished had been longer. I deeply recommend it to everyone.
Algonquin Books, 2016
I received a copy of this e-book in exchange for an honest review.